I appreciate those who work in our sound and
media. It's not always an easy job. Amen. Brethren,
we appreciate you. Thank you so much. No stones
can be cast in any direction because if I went
back there, it would be bad. I am thankful for
the Lord who gives and gives talents. Amen. So
thank you, brethren, and just keep it working,
and it'll be just fine. Amen. If you have your
Bibles, and I trust you do, turn with me to Psalm
119. I'm going to read one verse there, and then
we're going to read out of Isaiah 40, and we're
going to read verse 8. Psalm 119, 89, and Psalm
40 in verse 8. Amen. God's good, isn't he? Hallelujah.
One thing I have determined. You think we need
to preach all six pages or just two or three?
I'm sorry, there's seven. We could be a while.
I think the Lord, I don't think, I know. I know
the Lord is mindful of us. Amen. There's a lot
to be praying about in the kingdom today. You
know, we've all got our own dilemmas and situations.
I was reminded of another again this morning,
Pastor Gan from the Prospect Church. Well, looky
here. Don't hold this against me. That was my
page holder opening my Bible while I was studying.
I'm sorry. That could have got dangerous in a
little while. An open blade. Well, it is a two
-edged sword. But I forgot and left my pocket
knife laying there. I'm sorry. Could have been
a nine. Psalm 119, verse 89 reads, Forever, O
Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. In my margin
it reads, stands firm. Isaiah 40, verse 8 reads,
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the
word of our God shall stand forever. Just for
a little while, I think the Lord, I hope this
blesses you, but I actually think this is for
me today. I want to preach to us concerning the
immutable. Anchor. The immutable anchor. Now,
some of you say, well, what's that mean? Well,
that word immutable. Unchanging over time. Or
unable to be changed. Forever, oh Lord, thy word
is established. Forever. It's immutable. You
can't change it. And it doesn't vary. It will
never change. The grass withers, right? The flower
fades. But the word of our God shall stand forever.
His word is not fleeting. Man, I feel our help
showing up today. His word is not fleeting. Amen.
It's not variable. It is stable. And if we ever
need stability, we need it today. Father, I love
you. Add the richness of your grace to our heart
and life this morning. Lord, that liberty that
makes it easy to preach, that's where your spirit
resides. And we're here to glorify you this morning,
Lord, and you alone. But as we glorify you and
we declare this unchanging word, speak to the
hearts and minds of your people. Empower us all
today with the richness of your grace. In Christ's
name. And the church said, amen. Tell your neighbor,
it's immutable. Immutable. With everything that
is going on in our culture and in our society,
we do see things shaking. We do see things very
unstable. Amen. Highly volatile around the world.
Truly, we're living out those latter scriptures
of that 24th chapter of Matthew's gospel. Those
last days, nations are rising, wars all across
the landscape, and the intensity of the demonic
warfare that's going on in the heavens is increasing
as well. Amen. Not only are men's hearts being
stirred and calls to rise up, but I believe there
is a battle in the spiritual realm taking place
as well. The enemy knows that his time is drawing
near to its end, that his free reign is going
to be over. Amen. And I don't know about you,
but that really does excite me. And in the process
of trying to live through, you know, we have
to live through these things, right? We have
to live through and beyond the effects of war,
and they are great. Amen. There may be even those
in this room today who still suffer from some
of those effects emotionally. Psychologically,
spiritually, we fight those battles daily, amen,
because there's an unleashing of the enemy against
all of humanity. He is just unleashed, and he's
trying his very best to steal, kill, and to destroy
everyone and everything because he knows what
his destiny is. You do realize that, right? That's
the reason the enemy is so intently trying to
set against us. I know what's helping me right
now is that I am reminded that God is still God,
and that God is still in charge, and that God
is still in control, that the throne of eternity
has not been moved by the will of man, nor the
whims of man, nor the power -hungerness of man,
nor the strive for fame. God still sits high
above it all, and he is still exalted above the
heavens, and he's still exalted above... No matter
what transpires in the, when you start coming
from heaven downward, you see just how small
a fear that you and I, a sphere that we live
in. It's a very small order. And when you see
how God sits above it all and how that he is
concerned even with what's going on in my and
your sphere of life, he is very concerned. And
I am reminded today that the word of God is unchanging.
Hallelujah. else around me is changing, when
everything in our culture and society is moving
and changing. Even in the church world today,
if you will, it is evolving. I don't necessarily
like everything that it's evolving into and growing
into because we have to be careful that we grow
beyond what God has for us, amen? And we have
to take very close care that we guard the things
of the Lord and that the things that are being
moved. around us should not move us amen and
I know how hard trust me I know how hard it is
to say that and I don't just say that on a whim
but you and I can remain anchored in the hope
of the word of God when everything around you
is shaking and everything in our society and
culture seems to be coming down around us one
thing I do know is that God is still sitting
above it all. And one thing I am concerned about
is this, knowing that my concern toward him remains
immutable as his is toward me, that I remain
unchanged in my faith, that I remain unmoved
in my faith and the stability that I have in
God's grace and the sufficiency that meets me
every single day of my life. It is a reminder
to me that all I have to do is simply stop. and
lift up my eyes and join with the word and begin
to declare, O Lord, that thou wouldst come down
and let your glory one more time cover and fill
this earth. I need it, amen. I long for it and
I'm yearning. And the immutable anchor of our
life is the word of God. When we understand that,
that miracles are not ceased today, that God
still works his mighty deeds among humanity,
God can. bring healing and wholeness to our life
this very day. God can change our circumstances
this very day. God can perform a miracle in our
life right now. Hallelujah. Because the Word
of God, when it is read and when it is studied,
gives us one variable that we must hold to, and
that is that the Word never changes. Amen. My
life goes up and down. My faith goes up and down.
But one thing that doesn't move in me, me is
the throne of God upon my heart. It remains sure.
He remains firm. My God, if I could get a good
grip on him as he's got on me, hallelujah, life
would even get more better and more better and
more better no matter though all hell assail
me. I shall not be moved. Hallelujah. Why become
we? We are the tree that becomes planted by the
rivers of the living water. 2 Timothy 2 and 15,
study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing
the word of truth. That immutable word of God
in our life, that unchanging stable factor, when
we understand it to its core. Psalm 107 verse
20 declares that his word heals us. He sent his
word and healed them, and not only healed them,
but there's always a, you get a bonus with God,
amen. When you go over and you read in James
where it said, if any sick among you, let him
call on the elders of the church, anointing them
with oil and praying a prayer of faith, and they
shall be healed, and the bonus, if they've committed
any sins, they shall be forgiven unto them. He
sent his word, and he healed them, and he delivered
them from all their destructions. Aren't you
glad that the Lord gives? you the bonus every
time you come to him. The word will make us free
according to John 8, 32. And you shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you free, not
set you free. A lot of times we'll quote it there.
Oh, the word will set you free. No, the word
of God will make you free. Lord, I begin to think
about that. He begins to make things happen.
He don't just sit. He don't just break a chain.
He comes in. and transforms, and he makes me
free. He creates me free if necessary. He enters
into my situation by the accordance and the power
of his word, and he comes into my dilemma, and
he makes me free. Why? Because of the established
truth, and he is truth, and his word is true.
Jesus declared it of himself. I am the way and
the truth. And aren't you so glad that truth
enters in and makes you free? I'm glad to know
the devil don't want to let me go, but he has
no choice in the matter. Hallelujah. He makes
me free. He comes in and forces the enemy away.
If God arises within us and he is the hope within
us, then the enemies that are against us shall
scatter. according to Psalm 119 and 130. It becomes
a light and a lamp. A light to the path and a
lamp to your feet. Amen. According to John 20
and 31, he'll bear witness. The word, this immutable
word, bears witness. These things are written.
that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the Son of God. Hallelujah. The Word will produce
faith in our heart and life. Have you ever gotten
to a place where your faith level's been going
low? Your faith's been draining. You've had so
much against you that your faith seems to be
diminishing, and you begin to worry about yourself
and your faith. Well, don't do that. Get in the
Word. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God. When you begin to feel weak
in faith, just get in the word. Why? It's like
plugging in a hybrid to an outlet. Hallelujah.
You plug in and you've got a direct connection
to the source of your power and the source of
your strength. Hallelujah. And you get charged.
Hallelujah. It gets you built up. It provides
strength for your life. According to 2 Timothy
3, 15 through 17, it'll cause one to be wise.
In 2 Timothy, Paul writes to him in that second
letter, and he says, preach the word. Preach
the word. Be instant in season. Reprove, rebuke
with all own suffering, but preach the word.
According to Jeremiah 15 and 16, it causes the
heart to rejoice. James 1 and 18, it'll cause
one to be regenerated. The Word of God is no
dead letter. You understand that, right? The
Word of God is not some dead letter. But as the
Word of the living God, it cannot itself fail
to be living. Why? Oh, how did John record it
in John 1? In the beginning was. The Word, and
the Word was God, the Word was with God, and
the same was in the beginning. Skip down to verse
14, and the Word was made flesh. You go to the
end of every gospel, and you'll see the crucifixion
of the Christ, but you'll also not be left at
Calvary's hill. It'll walk you through, amen,
an empty tomb scene, and it'll take you to the
next 40 days, and after those 40 days, it'll
introduce you into Acts 1, that while they are
yet assembled and they are talking, While they
were talking, he began to ascend into the heavens.
And as he is gone before their very eyes on that
40th day, the angel stood beside him and said,
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye here gazing?
This same Jesus in like manner. Here I am trying
to describe to us this morning this living word.
And he sits at the right hand of the Father forever
and ever. ways remain living as the living word
it continues through each age immutable with
compelling relevance late in the 19th century
Gypsy Smith the British evangelist man who said
he had received no inspiration from the Bible
was speaking to him Told him, said, I've not
received anything inspirational from the Bible.
He said that he had gone through it many times
to no avail. And he told him in response, he
said, well, if you'll let it go through you one
time, it will make the biggest difference in
your life. You let it go through you once. Then
you will tell a different story. I'm here to
declare to you and I today it doesn't matter
the hardships of life and you think you've been
in the Bible, but let the Bible get in you. Amen.
I've been in there and I've found no relief.
Well, let it. get in your heart and relief finds
itself towards you. Amen. If you'll let the word
of God in and the power of its existence in your
life, the living nature of the word that calls
you to rise up, it falls into the category of
Hebrews 4 and 12. For the word of God is quick
and powerful and sharper than any two -edged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow
and is a discerner of them that have its intent.
of the heart. For the word of God is quick means
it's alive. The word of God is living. The word
of God, the Bible, unlike any other book. The
brag of the congressional library of Congress
is that there's nothing written that they don't
have at least a copy of. 178 million written
items. Over 500 miles of bookshelves in distance.
Collection includes over 38 .6 million books
and other printed materials, 3 .6 million recordings,
15 .7 million photographs, 5 .8 million maps.
78 .3 million manuscripts. Yet among all those
millions of volumes, there's none alive but one.
There's none living but one. There's not one
literary article that you can read that will
have a transforming effect on your life. You
can read Longfellow. You can read any of the
poets, and it may stir you for a moment. But
when you get in to read the Psalms. It begins
to transform your life. Hallelujah. It's the
only written literature that is alive and well.
Over 1 ,500 years in expanse by 40 different
authors, but yet by one divine inspiration. It
was breathed upon old men in days gone by. By
the Holy Spirit, he breathed on him. And the
word of God was transcribed to you and I. I don't
know about you, but I am so grateful. Even as
archaeology is. beginning to confirm. They thought
they had some of the oldest scrolls and then
they found those old clay jars in those Qumran
hills and they dug them up and they began to
go through them and what they have found is the
accuracy one more time confirmed. I don't know
about you, but it makes my heart happy. You get
a newer copy, but when you find the older copy,
it's still the same. Hallelujah! It lets me know
that the word of God is consistent throughout
the ages and that the spirit of God still inspires,
renews, refresh, restores, and delivers. Any
who will dare to read it. The word of God is
not only a living word. It's quick. It's alive.
But it's a powerful word. Amen. Living and powerful.
That word. Powerful, translated from the Greek,
is the word used for which we get our energy
and energetic. The word literally means at work.
Woo, the word is at work. Not just at work, but
powerfully at work. Amen. There's no other creative
literary around than the word of God. In the
beginning. Amen. Aren't you glad that he was
there? His word reveals to us the power, the
energy of his being at work. Charles Swindle
once said this, news articles may inform us,
novels may inspire us, poetry may enrapture us,
but only the living, active word of God can transform
us. There's just some times in life when I just
need a reminder to know that what we're doing,
we're not doing in vain. Aren't you? It helps
me to know that the life that I'm living out
day in and day out is not in vain. But it's by
design. It's by design. The steps of a good man
are ordered. Amen? We may step sometimes. Like
Brother Stephen, I stepped into the bathroom
there just a minute ago, and he was wiping off
his shoes. I said, if you're doing a shine. He
said, oh, I stepped in some mud. Don't want to
track it in. Sometimes in life, even on the designed
pathway, we step in a little mud. Huh? We slip,
we slide. Don't we? I said it was designed. I
didn't say it was totally just divine. Because
a designed pathway leads you to Calvary. But
it doesn't leave you at Calvary. The steps of
a good man are ordered of the Lord. We are walking
out the designed pathway for our life. But what
has comforted my heart to know is every step
I pick up my foot and put down in faith, it is
held by faith. Why? Because he is faithful who
has promised. Amen. So every day that you live,
every day you get up, it doesn't mean there's
not some mud along the way. You're going to step
in some mud along your way. But you know what
happens to the mud? We talked about it a little
bit ago. He'll pick us up out of the mud. I reclaim.
He'll put us on the rock. He'll establish our
going. Why? Because that's his word and the promise
of God to you and I no matter what transpires.
It's wonderful by design itself the word. There's
so many descriptions throughout scripture. You
can hold within one hand a hammer and pick one
up another hand. You've got a sword. That two
-edged sword of Hebrews 4 and 12, the hammer
of Jeremiah 23 and 29, breaks into pieces the
resistant heart. Jeremiah 23, 29, and 20 and
9 declares it's a fire. It's a refiner's fire,
but it's also a passion that burns within the
depths of one's soul. In the midst of despair,
in the midst of disgust, you may be standing
in a mud puddle of life and you want to pout
and sit down on the stump. But the longer you
sit, if the word of God's in you, it begins to
burn, burn, burn. Amen. And you're standing there
and then you leap to your feet and you begin
to declare, it's like fire shut up in my bones.
How can I hold my peace? I'll speak thus saith
the Lord as the spirit moves on me. I'll proclaim
the word of the living God. Hold on. is a little
inspiration. Amen. And life is the inspiring
factor. I get it every single day. I'm inspired
to trust. I'm inspired to believe. I'm inspired
to keep going. I'm inspired to praise him. I'm
inspired to pray to him. My Lord, I'm inspired
to proclaim his everlasting goodness and the
forever comfort of his word that wraps the bosom
of my soul because when I would hush, it begins
to break. to the occasion, to know that by design.
Whoo! Well, hallelujah. Mm. The wonder of its
power. The Word of God has a power to change.
It's the only thing that has the power to change.
Change what? Lives. It has the power to pick
a drunkard up out of a gutter and put him behind
a pulpit. Huh? It has the power to take sinners
and transform them into saints. To take a lying
tongue to be converted and yielded to be a tongue
of prophetic utterance. Woo! Power to restore
broken images. Broken vessels. Hallelujah. It
has the power to give hope to a murderer on murder's
row. Yes, they may have to pay the consequence
of society. That's the law. But there is one.
If on whom they are drawn and fall and cry out,
he will hear their cry. Amen. And deliver their
soul. Hence where the word begins to give comfort
even to a... A sinner on murder's row who's been
transformed by the power of the living God. He
can also know there is therefore now no condemnation.
Yes, he's condemned by society and rightly so.
If heinous crimes have been committed, he has
to pay the price. But one thing he can go in
with is the hope of knowing that that's the last
of his punishment. If he's redeemed by love divine.
If his sins are washed away and he's totally
converted. trusting in God for his everlasting
soul. He may die consequent as a murderer in
this world, but he can open his eyes in a realm
of glory knowing that he had been forgiven. Oh,
it's not just the murderer forgiven. It's the
adulterer. It's the fornicator. Amen. It's those
who are caught up in the bondage of an LGBTQ
lifestyle that has been delivered. It doesn't
matter the sin. We quit categorizing that. It's
not that. We've missed the mark. We've missed
the mark. But one thing I know is through the
promises in the living word of God, all those
that call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. For we are saved by grace through faith.
Well, hallelujah. Woo. Isaiah 55 and 11. So shall
my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth.
It shall not return unto me void. But it shall
accomplish that which I please. I am so glad
it's not your pleasure or mine. I'm glad it's
his pleasure. Which I please. And it, what is
it? The declaration of his voice. That's what
it is. His word, whatever he sends it out, it'll
prosper in the thing. There's our tie to a new
thing. That object that you choose not to or
cannot have a descriptive or rather not have
a descriptive on. Whatever thing that he so chooses
and pleases, it'll prosper in your life. Aren't
you glad? It's going to prosper where into he
sends it. Someone once asked old Charles Spurgeon
one time if he was prepared to defend the word
of God. To which Spurgeon replied, I would as
soon try to defend a lion. God's word doesn't
need defending, just preach it. Let it out of
its cage and it will defend itself. You don't
have to defend the word. Just let it out. Unloose
it. That's the reason that the three occasions
in the wilderness that the devil come up to Jesus.
Not an imp, not a demonic force, but old slew
foot himself showed up tempting the Lord. It
is written. I think we really need to take in
deep what that means. It is written. And how
the enemy is refuted by what is written here.
The living word. And is put to flight. Amen.
The wonder of its message. Again, 1500 years,
40 authors. They all begin to point toward the
preeminence of the Messiah. Who is Jesus the
Christ. I don't know that I have time nor the
energy to do what I'm about to embark on, but
we're going to try. In order to see the landscape
of the preeminence of Christ, you must see him
in the revelation of the entirety of the book.
He is there. He is there. Those Old Testament
volumes hold within him the types and the shadows.
Twenty -odd books of the New Testament give you
the revelation of everything that was typed and
shadowed out. It's the Christ. Amen? In Genesis,
he is that 315 seed of the woman. Exodus, he
is the Passover lamb. Amen? He is. It's his blood.
Leviticus, he is our high priest. Amen? In Numbers,
he is the star of Jacob. In Deuteronomy, he is
the rock. In Joshua, he is the champion of the
Lord's host, and yet it is his blast from his
voice that the walls of Jericho fall flat. They
don't fall inward. They fall outward. Come on,
somebody. I read a little archaeological discovery
on that the other day, and it amazed them that
the walls of Jericho had actually fallen out.
Why? It just made a ramp and a rampart for God's
army to get in. That's why. Hallelujah! When
we begin to think about the revelation, he is
the captain of the host of the Lord's army. Amen.
In Judges, he is the sword of Gideon, but he's
also the strength of Samson. My God. Hey! When
we begin to see the Lord, it's through his strength.
In Judges, the sword of Gideon. In Ruth, he is
the kinsman redeemer, and I am so glad. Amen.
Because there are days when I want to cry like
Naomi. Oh, don't call me Naomi anymore. Call
me Mara for my life. Life has grown bitter. But
don't call me that. Call me blessed. Hallelujah.
Because I know that my Redeemer lives when we
see him throughout. He is the seed of David,
but he's the voice that still calls the prophet.
Hallelujah. And he is the laser force that guides
the stone of David, who each of us have to face
down our own Goliath. He is with you in the kings,
the Lord God of Israel. In Chronicles, the king
of kings and Lord of lords. And Ezra, he is the
Lord of heaven and the Lord of the earth. In
Nehemiah, he is the restorer of broken down lives.
He is the one who is empowered to raise the gate.
and to open up access into the glory of God for
each of our life. When we see in Esther, oh,
we've just heard a little about Esther's celebration.
He is the God of providence. Hallelujah. He's
watching over our life. In Job, he is the redeemer
that lives forevermore. Though the skin worms
devour this whole body, yet with these eyes I
shall see him. Hallelujah. We hear that declaration
in knowing that his redeemer forever lives. In
the Psalms, the king of glory. The shepherd on
the hillside. Hallelujah. In Proverbs, he is
the wisdom of God. In Ecclesiastes, he is the
creator. In the Song of Solomon, he's altogether
lovely. He's the rose of Sharon and the lily
of the valley. And he is more fair than the breast
of the turtle dove. Hallelujah. He is the one
who loves our soul. Isaiah, he is the wonderful
counselor, the mighty God, the Prince of Peace,
the everlasting Father. And yes, firmly upon
his shoulders is the government of the world.
He has broad soldiers to hold it up. Amen. Jeremiah,
yeah, he is the Lord of our righteousness. Lamentation,
he is the weeping prophet. But yet his mercy
is new every morning. Amen. And Ezekiel, he is
the power that drives the wheel within the wheel.
And the radiance of the glory. And Daniel, he's
the pillow in the cave where the lions are licking
their chops. But he's also the fourth man that
walks within the realms of the fiery furnace.
Who is there to lead you, guide you, deliver
you, empower you, and give you hope in a hopeless
situation. And Hosea, he is the Lord God. And
Joel, he is the hope of his people who becomes
the baptizer in the Holy Ghost and fire. And
Amos, he is the God of hosts. And Obadiah, he
is the destroyer of the proud. And Jonah, he
is the God of the second chance. Amen? And Micah,
he's the God that pardons. And Nahum, he is the...
avenging God and Habakkuk he is the everlasting
glorious God who is the glory of the temple that
is to come which is greater than the former that
might not have done a lot for you but that one
hit me really good matter of fact he is the revelation
of the vision that was written plainly In Zephaniah,
he is the king of Israel. In Haggai, he is the
desire of all nations. In Zechariah, he is the
one pierced in the house of his friends. In Malachi,
he is the lord of remembrance, but he's also
the keeper of the windows of grace. What does
that mean? That means he's the one that opens
the window from whom all good things come. Prove
me, says the Lord. Prove me. me and see if I
won't open up the windows of heaven and pour
you out blessing which you are unable to get.
That's him, the tender and the keeper of the
window of heaven. Matthew, he's the revelation
of the four -faced beast. In Matthew, he is the
lion, the king of the Jews. In Mark, he is the
ox, the servant. In Luke he is the son of man
and therefore the face of the four -faced beast.
In John he is the eternal. Therefore he is the
expanse of the winged eagle that is sawn with
the other three faces. He is the lion. He is
the ox servant. He is the son of man. And he
is risen with healing. In his wings. And he is
the one that causes you and I to mount up with
him on wings of eagles. We can run. We can walk.
We're not going to faint. You're not going to
grow weary. Why? Because we wait. We wait. We
wait. We wait upon the Lord. In Acts, he is the
ascended Lord. It is he who baptizes in the Holy
Ghost. Remember what John would say? Behold the
Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the
world. Truly indeed, I baptize you with water,
but he that's coming after me is mightier than
I, whose shoes I'm not even worthy to latch.
And he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost. Y
'all had to pardon me this morning. I thought
I could make it with these breeches without my
spenders, so I took them off right before I left.
That was a mistake. These fit pretty good, and
I thought I was going to be in good shape. Not
so. In Romans, I've become conscious now because
I don't normally have to do this. In the book
of Romans, he is the Lord of our righteousness.
In Romans, he reveals who gets in and who don't.
There's a list. There's a list. There's a list.
And if you've committed any of these things,
you shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven.
It's righteousness. And we are not made righteous
nowhere nearby the law. Can't do it, won't do
it, couldn't do it then, and can't do it now.
So if you're trying to dwell in the law, get
out of that. Because if you're going to try to
keep one part, you've got to keep it all. And
you can't keep it because you don't have access
to a red heifer and some ashes and all that other
stuff. And you couldn't do it anyway unless you're
of Levi's family. In Corinthians, he is the sufficiency
of grace in our everyday life. But he's also
the personification of love as revealed in Galatians.
He is our liberator, but he's also the manifestation
of the fruit which comes from above. Love, joy,
peace, and on. In Ephesians, he is the head of
the church, but he also becomes the armament
of the believer. If I get started there, we're
done. Let me move on. Philippians, he is our
strength. Colossians, he is the preeminent one.
He is the fullness of the Godhead. In Thessalonians,
he is the coming Christ. Timothy, he is the mediator
between God and man. Titus, he is the great God
and Savior. Hebrews, he's the captain of our
salvation. James, great physician. And Peter,
the unblemished lamb. John, he becomes our advocate.
And Jude, he is the Lord that cometh with 10
,000. Of his saints. And what's to say about
the revelator? He is the alpha. He is the omega.
He's the beginning and the end. He was, is, and
is to come. It is he who stands. Whose blood.
So vesture. Had been presented. It is he who
becomes the light of the city. That John saw
coming down. That's the revelation of the Christ.
That's who he is. That's the wonder of this word.
The wonder of its promises. The promises of God
of salvation. Stand with me. I'm closing. The
promise of forgiveness of sins. The promise of
eternal life. The promise of heaven. The promise
of Jesus' very own coming again. And the ultimate
promise of hope. The word of God is all about
hope. In and to a hopeless world. The immutable
anchor. The word of God. The son of God. So the
next time the adversarial winds of this life
almost have you blown over and uprooted, hang
on to his word. Because his word will hang on
to you. I know looking around sometimes we scratch
our head, or I do. And I don't know about what
you've been praying, but I find myself just joining
with that little prayer of old John on Padmas.
Even so, Lord, come quickly. Come quickly. Get
us out of this mess. Till the storm passes by.
Passes over. Keep me safe till the storm passes
by. Simple question. Anybody in a storm? Anybody
in a storm? He's got you. Amen, he's got you.
If you're in a storm, come and let's pray it
away together. I heard a song one time that really
touched me. It said, sometimes he calms the storm
and then sometimes he calms me. Either way, there's
a calm. Till the storm passes over. There's no
more. Oh, hold me fast. Let me stand in the.
Keep me safe. Till the storm. He passes by. Heavenly
Father, we stand today. Would you just lift your
hands this way, would you? Father, over each
of us as we stand here today. The all -stabilizing
power of your word in your hand. Keep us safe.
Keep us safe. Keep us safe in the hollow of your
hand. Keep us safe, oh Lord. Hold us fast. The
thunder's rumbling and the waves are raging high
and life's tossed up and life's in a turmoil.
But I know, God, you are mindful of each of us.
I know that you are mindful of each of us, Lord.
I know it. I know it. I know you are. And to
know that from glory you know the small sphere
of my life. Lord, you're mindful of it. Every
trouble, every trial, every problem, every effect,
you, oh Lord, are mindful. Thank you for your
word today. Thank you for your word this morning,
oh God. I just need a reminder every now and
then that you've got me, that you've got me,
that you've got me, that you've got me. You've
got us in your hand, oh Lord. You've got us in
your hand. You are healer. You are healer. You
are deliverer.