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00:38:20All right, let's take our Bibles this morning and open to Genesis chapter number five.
00:38:39Genesis chapter number five, just a few verses there and hold your place in Genesis chapter
00:38:47five and flip over to Matthew chapter number one.
00:38:53We're going to be reading from the first book of the Old Testament and then just one verse
00:39:00from the New Testament, the first book of our New Testament, Genesis chapter number
00:39:05five and verse number one.
00:39:10This is the book.
00:39:12Now if you mark in your Bible, some people do, some people don't, but if you mark in
00:39:16your Bible, I want you to take note of how the Holy Spirit puts this down.
00:39:23This is the book.
00:39:26Don't forget though, this is the book of the generations, plural, of Adam and the day that
00:39:33God created man and the likeness of God made he him.
00:39:38Male and female created he them and blessed them, called their name Adam in the day that
00:39:42they were created.
00:39:44And Adam lived 130 years and begot a son in his own likeness after his image and called
00:39:51his name Seth.
00:39:53And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were 800 years and he begot sons and daughters.
00:39:59Verse number five, five being the number of death in chapter five, verse number five and
00:40:04all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and your Bible says, and he died.
00:40:14Matthew chapter number one, notice the same wording.
00:40:19It begins the book of the generation, singular, of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son
00:40:29of Abraham.
00:40:30My father, as I bow in your presence, Lord, I ask that you would have me behind the cross.
00:40:36As brother Tony taught in Sunday school, there's nothing good about me, my father.
00:40:41There's not a thing good about me.
00:40:42The only good thing about me is the one that lives inside of me.
00:40:47And I pray you'd have the old man behind the cross.
00:40:50And I pray you'd speak and use the inner man, my father.
00:40:53Lord, I pray that you would take this word, this message that you've laid upon my heart
00:40:59in such a heavy, heavy burden, a message that's kept me from sleep.
00:41:04My father, now I get to deliver my soul.
00:41:07I pray you'd give me the liberty to do so, for I ask it in Jesus' name.
00:41:12For his sake I pray, amen.
00:41:15You may be seated.
00:41:17And the first book of our Old Testament, you'll notice the expression, the generations.
00:41:27What it's talking about in Genesis chapter number five is the family registry of Adam,
00:41:34the first man, the first man, Adam.
00:41:37And you have the family registry.
00:41:40We had an old Bible in our family.
00:41:42I don't know what happened to it.
00:41:44It was at my granny's house.
00:41:45It was at my sister's house, back at my granny's house.
00:41:48But a lot of people have those old Bibles.
00:41:52And they would record a family registry.
00:41:56And I remember as a teenager getting a hold of that thing and reading it
00:42:01and going down through there and seeing who McKinn folks were.
00:42:04Some of them I was proud of.
00:42:06And some of them, well, we won't even go there.
00:42:11But the Holy Spirit uses this expression, the book, the book of the generations, the book.
00:42:19Now in Genesis chapter 10, it talks about the generations of Noah.
00:42:24And in chapter 37 of Genesis, it talks about the generations of Jacob.
00:42:29But it says, though the Holy Spirit of God only recognizes two genealogies
00:42:36to be recorded in a book.
00:42:38Think about that.
00:42:41Recognizes only two genealogies that are to be recorded in the book.
00:42:48The first being that of the family of Adam.
00:42:51Now don't let me say this, unless you was born in a test tube
00:42:55or if my papaw told me in the woods one day they found me swimming around in stump water.
00:43:02You know, when you're young, anything your papaw says, you believe it, don't you?
00:43:06And, you know, my mom would get on to him all the time.
00:43:09She told him one time, she told my papaw, she said,
00:43:11you know, he's stupid and he'll believe anything you tell him.
00:43:15And one day out in the woods squirrel hunting with him,
00:43:17he pointed out some stump water.
00:43:19And that's where we found you, swimming around in that stump water.
00:43:22Boy, you're talking about going back to school, you know, after that and thinking,
00:43:26wow, man, what a start I got, you know, they found me in stump water.
00:43:31Unless you are a clone, unless you was made like the government's trying to do
00:43:36from a test tube, you belong in this first book.
00:43:41Everybody sitting here is in this book.
00:43:44That's the book of your natural birth.
00:43:47Those that are born of water.
00:43:49It's not talking about baptism.
00:43:51It's talking about a physical, natural birth.
00:43:54If you're here, you're listening, whether in this building or after a live stream,
00:43:59you're in Adam's book.
00:44:01You're there.
00:44:02We're all in that book.
00:44:03You're in there.
00:44:05Now, there's three things that I want you to notice about Adam's book,
00:44:10Adam's family, Adam's registry.
00:44:13There's some things that's associated with it, and we're all in there.
00:44:18Number one, sin is associated with Adam's book.
00:44:22Genesis chapter number three, sin came.
00:44:26Adam and Eve fell.
00:44:27Sin passed down upon all men.
00:44:30By the first man, Adam sinned.
00:44:32Sin, therefore, was passed upon all men in that all have sinned.
00:44:38So we were born into sin.
00:44:41As Brother Tony taught in Sunday school, those under the age of accountability,
00:44:46if something should happen to them, even though they were born into sin,
00:44:50they'll be with the Lord.
00:44:52But after you get past that age of accountability, where you know what sin is,
00:44:59you were born, you was placed in Adam's family registry.
00:45:03Wow, and you find out that sin is associated with that one.
00:45:07All the descendants, Ephesians chapter number two, that's us.
00:45:12We're right here.
00:45:12Can you see the book?
00:45:14Everybody's name in this building is in this book.
00:45:18All the descendants of Adam died.
00:45:24Adam's book is associated with sin.
00:45:27Adam's book is associated with death.
00:45:30Verse number five said, and he died.
00:45:35And in Genesis chapter number five, every three verses, somebody dies.
00:45:43Now something, the Holy Spirit wants us to know that sin and death
00:45:49is associated with Adam's book.
00:45:52Every third verse till you get to Enoch.
00:45:56And it's amazing how the Holy Spirit of God in the very first book in your Bible
00:46:00gives you a picture of the church many years later.
00:46:05Enoch was a was not.
00:46:10NASA don't have none of them.
00:46:11They got astronauts, but Enoch was a was not.
00:46:14The Bible said, and Enoch was not, for God took him.
00:46:19Before you get to Enoch, every third verse in Genesis chapter,
00:46:24after Adam dies in verse number five, somebody dies.
00:46:28Sin is associated with Adam's book.
00:46:31We're all in it.
00:46:33You too, preacher?
00:46:34Oh, man, you better know I'm in there.
00:46:37Everyone born of water, everyone born of woman is in this book.
00:46:43And this is a book of sin.
00:46:45It's a book of death.
00:46:47If your name's in that book and it never changes, you're going to die.
00:46:51No way of getting out of it.
00:46:54But not only that, the third thing that's associated with it,
00:46:58you'll find it in the last chapter of Genesis.
00:47:00There's 50 chapters in the book of Genesis.
00:47:03Chapter 15, verse 26 says this.
00:47:07So Joseph died and was bombed and bombed,
00:47:12and he was buried in a coffin in Egypt.
00:47:19That's the best you can hope for if you're in this book,
00:47:23is a hole in the ground.
00:47:25It's going to wind up in a coffin in Egypt.
00:47:29All of a man's accolades, all of his pomp and glory,
00:47:35all of his money, houses, and riches,
00:47:38if your name never leaves this book,
00:47:41it's all going to end up in a coffin in Egypt.
00:47:45Boy, that's not very uplifting, is it?
00:47:48That makes some people mad when you tell them
00:47:51that all that they have acquired in this life,
00:47:54all of their education, and I'm all for education,
00:47:58all of their riches and their glory and their pomp and their cars,
00:48:02all of their vacation homes and lake homes,
00:48:05hey, it's all going to wind up in the same place.
00:48:09It's all going to be reduced to a coffin in Egypt
00:48:13when your name is in the first book.
00:48:16Wow.
00:48:17Now, preacher, can't you do something about that?
00:48:19I mean, that's pretty rough business.
00:48:22You're telling me that my name is in this book.
00:48:24It is.
00:48:26And that in this book, there's nothing but sin, death,
00:48:32and a coffin in Egypt.
00:48:33That's the best you can hope for.
00:48:36You'll never rise above those three things.
00:48:40But then the Bible takes us to Matthew chapter number one.
00:48:44And lo and behold, it talks about the generation,
00:48:47because there's just one body,
00:48:50the generation of Jesus Christ.
00:48:54Wow. What's that about, preacher?
00:48:55There were two atoms.
00:48:58The created atom, the Bible calls the first atom.
00:49:02The Bible refers to the Son of God as the last atom.
00:49:06The second man, the last atom.
00:49:09What's the difference?
00:49:11The first atom was made in the likeness of God.
00:49:16The last atom was the image of God.
00:49:20Big difference.
00:49:22First atom, made in the likeness and the image of God.
00:49:26The last atom was the image of God.
00:49:302 Corinthians 4, 4.
00:49:32Hebrews 1, 3.
00:49:33They said in John chapter 14, show us the Father.
00:49:37Show us the Father.
00:49:39The Lord Jesus Christ said,
00:49:41if you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
00:49:44Amen.
00:49:45I and my Father are one.
00:49:48Now you got some decisions to make this morning.
00:49:51Nope, not me.
00:49:52I just got trapped here.
00:49:53No, no, you.
00:49:54The providential will of God,
00:49:56when he was wearing me out with this message,
00:49:57he saw you.
00:49:59He saw you.
00:50:01The choir helped me to sing a song a couple of weeks ago.
00:50:04Two coats.
00:50:06Remember that?
00:50:07Two coats were before me, one old and one new.
00:50:11I could have either, so what must I do?
00:50:14The first coat was ugly, all tattered and torn.
00:50:17The other, a new coat, had never been worn.
00:50:21So this morning, there's two books before you.
00:50:26Two books before you.
00:50:28The book of the first Adam.
00:50:31The first Adam, made in the likeness of God,
00:50:34lost that image.
00:50:36Amen.
00:50:37And when his son Seth was born,
00:50:39he was born in the image of Adam.
00:50:41Adam lost something.
00:50:42He lost his glory.
00:50:44He lost the image that God gave him.
00:50:46But then you've got the last Adam.
00:50:50That wasn't made in the image of God.
00:50:53He was the express image of God.
00:50:57Wow, two books.
00:50:59You gotta make a decision.
00:51:05The book of the last Adam is associated with life,
00:51:11not death.
00:51:14When you look in Matthew chapter number one,
00:51:17death's not mentioned.
00:51:20Even though we know they all died,
00:51:23the word death is not mentioned as it is in Adam's book.
00:51:26But rather in verse 18, you'll find a birth
00:51:30mentioned in the family registry of the last Adam.
00:51:35Death not mentioned.
00:51:37My, my, my.
00:51:38Associated with life.
00:51:40The Bible said in John 11, 26,
00:51:42whosoever liveth and believeth in me, though he were dead,
00:51:45he shall never die.
00:51:47Let me explain something to you.
00:51:50Let me explain something right here.
00:51:51I wish that I could tell you.
00:51:54I wish I could get up here and tell you.
00:51:57I can tell you this.
00:51:59If you die, and we're all gonna die,
00:52:02but listen to me, if you die,
00:52:04and the only name, the only book that records your name
00:52:07is Adam's book, you're going to a Christless eternity.
00:52:12There's no purgatory.
00:52:15There's no in between.
00:52:17Your name is in this book,
00:52:19and it's the only book it's in when you die.
00:52:22All you've got to look forward to is a coffin in Egypt.
00:52:27That's it.
00:52:30And the pit of the dam awaits you.
00:52:35I wish I could stand up here this morning and tell you
00:52:39that those that's in the registry of the last Adam,
00:52:45well, you're gonna die too.
00:52:48You're just gonna shed the body of the first one.
00:52:51But there's another one waiting for you.
00:52:53I wish I could stand up here and tell you
00:52:58that because your name is in this registry,
00:53:01that when your time to die comes, you'll not suffer.
00:53:07I've been preaching to people for over 45 years.
00:53:11I've seen many little ones come into this world,
00:53:13and I've seen many older ones, teenagers,
00:53:15and they leave it.
00:53:17And if I stood up here and told you
00:53:19that when your time to go comes,
00:53:21that you won't suffer, you won't feel any pain,
00:53:24I'd be lying to you.
00:53:27Lost or saved, you're still trapped in Adam's body.
00:53:31And you may leave here in pain.
00:53:34You may leave here with pain wracking your body
00:53:38as I watched my daddy leave.
00:53:41But, but,
00:53:42but, something happens in this book
00:53:47that doesn't happen in this book.
00:53:50Oh yeah, because I've been in there.
00:53:54I watched my precious daddy suffer.
00:53:57I watched him cry out in pain.
00:54:00I watched as he took a steady drip of morphine,
00:54:03and it wouldn't touch the pain.
00:54:06But, ha, when he heard the call,
00:54:09how many still with me, raise your little hand.
00:54:12When he heard the call, everything changed.
00:54:17It all changed.
00:54:19The struggling, when he took his last breath,
00:54:23he'd already had his name put
00:54:25in the book of the second Adam, the last Adam.
00:54:28The second man, the last Adam.
00:54:30And the Bible says to be absent from the Lord
00:54:35is to be present.
00:54:37There's no time element there.
00:54:39To be absent from one is to be present with the other.
00:54:43No time.
00:54:44Can I show you something the Lord showed me?
00:54:46I'm gonna show you anyway, so you might as well say yeah.
00:54:50In Joshua, who was the type of the Lord,
00:54:53in Joshua chapter number three,
00:54:55Joshua brings the children of Israel up
00:54:58to the river Jordan.
00:55:01And the Bible said during that time of season
00:55:03that Jordan had overflowed its banks.
00:55:07It was a raging river.
00:55:11Jordan is always associated with death.
00:55:14We sing songs about crossing chilly Jordan.
00:55:18Now, the Lord brought Joshua up,
00:55:21and in chapter three, about verse number four,
00:55:24somewhere around in there, he said,
00:55:26Joshua, you've never been this way before.
00:55:33You've never been down this path before.
00:55:37Joshua concurred.
00:55:40But he said, I'm gonna send somebody in front of you
00:55:43that has been down that path before.
00:55:47And he instructed Joshua to have the priest
00:55:50to carry the Ark of the Covenant,
00:55:52which was a symbol of the presence of God himself
00:55:55in the midst of his people.
00:55:57We all know that's in there.
00:55:59We all know that one's in there.
00:56:00You say, preacher, something we ain't never heard, preacher.
00:56:02Well, fasten your seatbelt.
00:56:04And so they were to follow the Ark of the Covenant.
00:56:08And when the Ark of the Covenant
00:56:10got in the middle of that raging sea of death,
00:56:13it stood still.
00:56:16And the Levites held it there on their shoulders
00:56:19until everybody crossed over safely.
00:56:22But what so many people fail to notice is this.
00:56:26Do you know after they crossed over death,
00:56:30they got on the other side into Gilgal?
00:56:34Your Bible will tell you in Joshua chapter four
00:56:37in verse 19 that they come up out of the Jordan River
00:56:42on the 10th day of the first month.
00:56:46Does that ring a bell with anybody?
00:56:49The 10th day of the first month?
00:56:51Does that ring a bell?
00:56:53If you know your Bible,
00:56:54you know that was the beginning of Passover.
00:56:59The beginning of Passover.
00:57:01Why did the Bible, why did the Holy Spirit note that for us?
00:57:06After they crossed over death, on the other side,
00:57:11they came up on the 10th day,
00:57:12and the Bible plainly tells you in chapter five
00:57:15in verse number 10, there's that number of death again.
00:57:18In chapter five in verse number 10,
00:57:19that on the 14th day on Passover,
00:57:23they offered the Passover lamb.
00:57:26There's a preacher that knows what it's like
00:57:28to be up here and be dry.
00:57:29Thank you, Andy.
00:57:31I was gonna get Tony's, but I don't know.
00:57:33You're my brother in Christ, but I don't.
00:57:39Think about this.
00:57:42Think about this one.
00:57:44The Lord said, you've never been this way before.
00:57:47You've never walked this path before, Joshua.
00:57:50Yeah, well, yeah, you got me there, Lord, that's for sure.
00:57:53I've never done it.
00:57:54He said, I'm gonna send something before you that has.
00:57:59And he sends over the Ark of the Covenant,
00:58:00and they walk across on dry ground,
00:58:02but when they get on the other side, it's Passover.
00:58:05And on the 14th, they offered and sacrificed
00:58:08a Passover lamb.
00:58:11See, it wasn't just the Ark of the Covenant
00:58:15that crossed over Jordan with them.
00:58:18They crossed Jordan with the lamb.
00:58:22You ever seen that before?
00:58:24You ever seen that?
00:58:25They had a lamb with them,
00:58:28and they wanted to be chosen as the Passover lamb.
00:58:30So what are you saying, preacher?
00:58:32Here's what I'm saying.
00:58:33You got your name in this book.
00:58:34I'm not gonna promise you
00:58:36that you're not gonna leave this world screaming in pain,
00:58:39but I will promise you this.
00:58:42When the Holy Ghost of God brings you down to Jordan,
00:58:45when it's time to cross,
00:58:48there'll be somebody waiting for you
00:58:50that's already crossed in front of you,
00:58:53and there'll be no pain.
00:58:55Whoo!
00:58:56There'll be no fear.
00:58:58I've seen it time and time again.
00:59:01A dear sister over at Breakville Nursing Home,
00:59:05God bless her little memory,
00:59:07she said, I gotta go now, preacher.
00:59:10She said, I'm getting a little weak,
00:59:12and I gotta go, because they're here.
00:59:16They're here.
00:59:17She didn't have to tell me who she's talking about.
00:59:20I know who she was seeing.
00:59:22The lamb was waiting for her
00:59:26to lead her across.
00:59:27Whoo!
00:59:28Let me drop another little bomb on you.
00:59:31You remember when Jesus began his public ministry,
00:59:33and he stepped forward and asked to be baptized of John?
00:59:36And John said, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:59:38If there's any baptizing going on,
00:59:39I need to be baptized by you.
00:59:42And the Lord Jesus said,
00:59:43suffice it to be true for now, John.
00:59:47And he walked out in the middle of the Jordan River,
00:59:51and a voice was heard from heaven that said,
00:59:53this is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased.
00:59:57Boy, if you'll do some geographical studies.
01:00:03You know where that spot is?
01:00:06Yes, sir, right where Joshua took him across
01:00:11with the Ark of the Covenant and the Passover lamb.
01:00:14You think I'm scared to death?
01:00:16I don't wanna die.
01:00:17I don't know how I'm gonna leave it.
01:00:19I'm not looking, but I ain't scared.
01:00:22Amen, because the lamb is crossed in front of me.
01:00:27Amen, he's already made the way.
01:00:30That's what you got to look forward to
01:00:32if you get your name transferred over
01:00:34to the last Adam's book.
01:00:36No death, but life.
01:00:38The first book, all it has is a coffin.
01:00:42You say, you know what happens?
01:00:44All of my people are buried in Pollards.
01:00:46That's up in Sevier County, Pollards Hill.
01:00:49That's where my daddy, my mama,
01:00:51my grandfather, my grandmother, my little baby sister,
01:00:55my cousins, my aunts, uncles are all buried at Pollards.
01:01:00I've got a stone up there.
01:01:03It's got my initials on it.
01:01:05Shannon's got a stone, it's got her initials on it.
01:01:08They're beside the road as you come back out.
01:01:10And when we went up there,
01:01:11Shannon said, I want them stones reversed.
01:01:16You got to understand, she's a Whitaker, Roger.
01:01:20And I said, do what?
01:01:23She said, I want those stones reversed.
01:01:26I said, why, honey?
01:01:27She said, I ain't being next to this road.
01:01:32One of them's right next to the road.
01:01:35The other's beside it.
01:01:37I said, okay, I'll tell the Russell boys
01:01:39to make sure they come up here.
01:01:41Swap them around for you.
01:01:43I want to show you something.
01:01:46If this is all you know.
01:01:48I was up at Pollards sometime back, Roger,
01:01:50and these fellas was in front of this grave
01:01:55and they was talking about this guy.
01:01:56I didn't know him.
01:01:57I'd never seen the name.
01:01:58I'd never heard of him before.
01:02:00They was talking about what a wonderful man he was,
01:02:02how much he had.
01:02:04One of them said, you know, he had three homes.
01:02:07You're kidding, no.
01:02:09No, he had one up here in Kodak.
01:02:12Then he had a lake home somewhere up on Douglas.
01:02:14And then he had a vacation home down in Florida somewhere,
01:02:17down around Destin somewhere.
01:02:19They was talking about it.
01:02:19I said, well, that's good.
01:02:20I mean, you know, I got no problem with that, you know.
01:02:25I don't mind telling you,
01:02:26I live on one acre up in Union County
01:02:28in a 28 by 48 double-wide.
01:02:32And tickled to death to be there.
01:02:34Amen.
01:02:35Don't got me a place.
01:02:36I'm not gonna go there.
01:02:38Nothing wrong with any of that.
01:02:41But one of them said to the other one,
01:02:43he said, do you know, did you ever talk to him?
01:02:45Did you know whether or not he was saved and knew the Lord?
01:02:50And that fellow said, no.
01:02:53We talked about a lot of things.
01:02:54We never talked about that.
01:02:57And I stood there for a minute
01:02:59in front of my daddy's grave and my mama's grave.
01:03:02They didn't have nothing as far as this world's concerned.
01:03:06But, oh, I knew where they were
01:03:07because their names had been transferred
01:03:10from Adam's registry to the last Adam's registry.
01:03:17I knew where they were.
01:03:19And I thought to myself, buddy, I don't know you,
01:03:23but I don't know that you knew the Lord or not.
01:03:25I wouldn't trade places with all that you had
01:03:28for nothing in the world.
01:03:31Because somebody should have told you long ago,
01:03:34because somebody should have told you long ago,
01:03:36it's all gonna end up in a hole in the ground.
01:03:41That's it.
01:03:42He's, man, that's depressing, preacher.
01:03:43I mean, sin, death, a coffin in Egypt,
01:03:47that's the best you can hope for.
01:03:50But over here, you've got life.
01:03:52He that liveth and believeth in me,
01:03:54though he were, yet shall he live.
01:03:57Over here, you got somebody
01:03:59that's gonna be waiting for you
01:04:01when your time to cross Jordan comes up.
01:04:04My, my, my.
01:04:05Boy, and now the Lord showed me this.
01:04:07If you ever have been studying your Bible
01:04:09and the Lord opened something up
01:04:11and you just have a series of many spells
01:04:13and you get all Bab-Decostal.
01:04:18How many knows what I'm talking about?
01:04:20And you think, oh, Lord, if the Baptists see me do that,
01:04:22they'd run me out.
01:04:24I got to looking at that word coffin.
01:04:27And I got to looking at the Hebrew word
01:04:30that was translated coffin.
01:04:33Everybody knows what a coffin is.
01:04:35A coffin had six sides.
01:04:38Somebody told me the other day,
01:04:39you can still order a coffin.
01:04:41Now, I don't know, I'll have to talk
01:04:43with Brother Sean down there and see if that's true.
01:04:45I don't know if that's true.
01:04:46But somebody said, you can still be buried in a coffin
01:04:49if you prefer six sides over four.
01:04:52Who cares?
01:04:53What's wrong with a cardboard box?
01:04:57Man, I ain't there.
01:04:59Don't spend your money on flowers.
01:05:02But that word coffin, oh.
01:05:07I sure, it's only found one time.
01:05:10One time.
01:05:12And so I looked up the word that it was translated from.
01:05:16And lo and behold, I found out that it's in there again
01:05:19in 2 Kings chapter number 12.
01:05:22But the same word there is translated chest.
01:05:27Same word called a coffin in Adam's book.
01:05:34In 2 Kings chapter 12, verse nine and 10,
01:05:39it's called a chest.
01:05:41Well, what was that all about, preacher?
01:05:43Well, I'll tell you.
01:05:44I'm glad you asked me.
01:05:47But the priest took a box.
01:05:51Same word that was translated coffin.
01:05:56Bored a hole in the top of it.
01:05:59Set it inside the house of God.
01:06:02And as they come in the house of God,
01:06:05they drop their money, their valuables,
01:06:07everything that was of value,
01:06:09they put in that chest as a freewill offering
01:06:14to help keep up the house of God.
01:06:18Same word, same word.
01:06:20Look it up.
01:06:22Coffin here, chest here.
01:06:25You'll also find it run down to the word coffer.
01:06:30You ever heard of the word coffer?
01:06:33I believe our songbook tells us on that song,
01:06:36I'm a Child of the King.
01:06:38Doesn't it say something about his coffers are full,
01:06:40he has riches untold?
01:06:44Stay with me.
01:06:45Some of you are looking a little pale.
01:06:47Do this.
01:06:49Take a deep breath.
01:06:51Okay, you're gonna be okay.
01:06:52Just give me a few more minutes.
01:06:53You're looking a little green around the gills.
01:06:5615th century Italy during the Renaissance.
01:07:00It's amazing how many things you find in history
01:07:02and tradition come from the word of God.
01:07:06The Italians got a hold of that
01:07:09and they started what they called a wedding chest
01:07:14or a, what do they call that?
01:07:16You know, when your daughter gets married,
01:07:18thankful I just had a son.
01:07:20Yeah, what's it called?
01:07:21Dowry.
01:07:22Dowry, that's what it's called.
01:07:24They called it a dowry box.
01:07:27That's what they called it in the 15th century.
01:07:29It made it to America in the 18th century.
01:07:33How many's ever heard of a hope chest?
01:07:36Now, I'll raise them high because I'm shocked.
01:07:37I mean, you have heard, you know what I'm talking about.
01:07:41My papa worked with wood.
01:07:44Anybody that worked with wood,
01:07:45they usually carried some battle scars
01:07:49and papa would whack his finger off,
01:07:51this one right here,
01:07:53right there at the first knuckle.
01:07:55Now, this was a mountain man.
01:07:57He didn't believe in doctors.
01:07:58He called them saw bones.
01:08:00I mean, he's hanging with me on that one.
01:08:02Never referred to him as a doctor.
01:08:04And man, that thing healed back
01:08:06and it was the ugliest looking finger
01:08:08you've ever laid eyes on, man.
01:08:10I'm telling you, that thing come down to that first
01:08:12where he cut that thing off
01:08:14and mammy said he just went in there
01:08:16and he got a cloth
01:08:17and he went out there and dipped it in kerosene
01:08:18and he wrapped it around his finger
01:08:20and taped it and just kept working.
01:08:23And boy, I'm telling you what, it didn't heal pretty.
01:08:27I mean, his finger came down and had a big knob
01:08:29right on the end of it.
01:08:31But it was perfect for a little feller
01:08:34because he'd take me fishing
01:08:35and walk across them slick rocks
01:08:37and he'd stick that old hand down.
01:08:39He'd say, grab a hold, boy.
01:08:41Man, I'd get a death grip on that finger.
01:08:44You couldn't slide off.
01:08:45All you could do is slide down to that bob.
01:08:48And so I didn't have to worry about him
01:08:50losing me along the way.
01:08:51Perfect finger for a pipe owl right there.
01:08:54No, Haley, I'm not cutting mine off, I'm sorry.
01:08:58Perfect finger for a pipe owl.
01:09:01I walked into his shop one day.
01:09:04Boy, I'm telling you, if somebody's working with cedar,
01:09:05you know it real quick, don't you?
01:09:07You know anything about wood?
01:09:09Boy, cedar's got a smell to it.
01:09:12And I walked in pipe owl's shop.
01:09:14I was coming up on my teenage years
01:09:17and I started sniffing.
01:09:18I said, pipe owl, what are you working on?
01:09:22He said, I'm building a hope chest for your cousin.
01:09:26First time I'd ever heard that.
01:09:29I said, a what?
01:09:30A hope chest for your cousin?
01:09:33I said, what's she hoping for?
01:09:37Hope chest for what?
01:09:39And he said, boy, since she's been given a ring
01:09:44and she's engaged and they've already set a date
01:09:50and they would take this box,
01:09:5415th century Italians, I had one up on us,
01:09:58and made it to America in the 18th century.
01:10:01And a bride-to-be would take that box,
01:10:05usually made of cedar,
01:10:07and would set it at the foot of her bed.
01:10:11And every day, she'd put something valuable in there
01:10:16that meant something to her,
01:10:18awaiting the wedding day
01:10:21when she could open it up for her new home.
01:10:24I remember, and I won't call her name,
01:10:26but I remember I wanted to see this thing in action.
01:10:30Pipe owl told me about it, I watched him build it.
01:10:33But I went to the house where my cousins were
01:10:36and I said, yeah, there's it.
01:10:37And I told her, I said, I watched pipe owl build it.
01:10:40I said, what did you put in that thing?
01:10:43She opened it up and started showing me some things,
01:10:45didn't mean nothing to me.
01:10:46One was a little doll,
01:10:49just a little ugly looking cloth doll.
01:10:52And I called her, I said, what in the world?
01:10:55She said, this is something that's precious to me.
01:10:58My grandmother made this for me
01:10:59when I was just a little girl, it's precious.
01:11:02And man, I stood there
01:11:04and some of the things she'd put in there,
01:11:06boy, I'm telling you, my eyes were starting to leak
01:11:10because it was things that wouldn't be valuable
01:11:12to nobody else, but it was valuable to her.
01:11:15And people gave them money back then
01:11:18to help with their wedding.
01:11:20And she showed me cans of money
01:11:22that she'd put in that hope chest.
01:11:25And a ring, she showed me her ring.
01:11:28That was the down payment on a future wife.
01:11:32Well, they've been a down payment given for us too,
01:11:34but you don't wanna hear about that, do you?
01:11:37No, we have the down payment,
01:11:38the earnest of the Holy Ghost of God
01:11:40that sealed us to the day of redemption.
01:11:43And the day of the wedding,
01:11:46they opened up that hope chest
01:11:49and man, the whole family would join
01:11:51and they'd watch as things was taken out of this hope chest
01:11:54to put into the new home.
01:11:57Get to the bottom of it, preacher, we're getting tired.
01:11:58Okay, here it is.
01:12:00Hope begins the day that you pass from death unto life.
01:12:06If you've never got to that point yet,
01:12:09you have no hope.
01:12:11If you've never passed from death to life,
01:12:14you've got a coffin in Egypt to look forward to,
01:12:17and that's it.
01:12:18And then the pin of the down.
01:12:20Man, what a story.
01:12:22But the day you pass from death unto life,
01:12:25a hope began in here.
01:12:27Amen.
01:12:29You quit thinking about a casket
01:12:33and a hole in the ground,
01:12:35and you started thinking about laying treasures up
01:12:38for somewhere over there.
01:12:41Listen to me.
01:12:42Water put you in this one.
01:12:47Blood took your name out of that one.
01:12:53And the Holy Ghost of God put your name in this one.
01:12:57Amen.
01:12:58And listen to me.
01:13:01Water put you in that one.
01:13:03Blood called you out of it.
01:13:05The Holy Spirit of God put you in this one.
01:13:08And Romans chapter eight, nothing can get you out of it.
01:13:13Nothing.
01:13:14Nothing above heaven, below heaven.
01:13:17Hot breath, nothing can get you out of that book.
01:13:23Oh my goodness.
01:13:27We've been told of a wedding day
01:13:30in Revelation chapter number 19.
01:13:34A wedding day's coming.
01:13:36A marriage supper's coming.
01:13:38If your name is in this book day after day,
01:13:40you know what you're doing?
01:13:42You're putting stuff away in your hope chest.
01:13:45You know what Brother Lucas is doing up there
01:13:47in Palmyra, Missouri right now,
01:13:49preaching for a friend of mine?
01:13:50You know what he's doing?
01:13:51He's loading up his hope chest.
01:13:54That boy ain't up there looking for a coffin.
01:13:56He's loading up his hope chest.
01:13:59Now you listen to me.
01:14:01Every time you think about a brother or sister in Christ
01:14:04in this church or any church that's going through
01:14:06a hard time, and the Holy Spirit lays it up on your heart
01:14:10to pick the phone up and make a phone call.
01:14:13Just wanted you to know I'm thinking about you.
01:14:15Praying for you.
01:14:17We miss you.
01:14:18You know what you've just done?
01:14:20Do you have any idea what you just went and done?
01:14:24You went over to your hope chest and you opened it up.
01:14:30And you placed something in there that's eternal.
01:14:33If you give a drinking of water in his name,
01:14:36you'll not lose your reward.
01:14:38Every time you get on your knees
01:14:41and you pray for your pastor and his family,
01:14:43you know what you're doing?
01:14:45You're putting things away in your hope chest.
01:14:50Sadly, as Brother Tony taught this morning,
01:14:52there's gonna be some folks that make it to the other side,
01:14:54but they ain't gonna have nothing in their thing
01:14:55in their hope chest.
01:14:57Nothing.
01:14:59Every time you street preach, brother,
01:15:02I don't have to tell you that.
01:15:03Every time you go to Carm, you know what you're doing?
01:15:07You know what he's doing?
01:15:10He's loading up that hope chest.
01:15:12Why would he do that?
01:15:13Because he's heard about a wedding.
01:15:16Amen.
01:15:17You ain't heard about it?
01:15:19You know, some of you looking at me like,
01:15:20wedding, what's he talking about?
01:15:22I'm already married.
01:15:24I'm talking about the marriage supper of the Lamb.
01:15:28Where the Lamb of God marries his bride, amen.
01:15:33Woo.
01:15:34And we're moving to a brand new house.
01:15:37When we get there, there's gonna be some hope chest
01:15:39that's gonna be opened.
01:15:41And everything in there is gonna be laid at his feet.
01:15:45Two books are before you.
01:15:48One death and one life.
01:15:50You say, well, I'll choose next week.
01:15:52You may not be here next week.
01:15:55You're not promised the next breath of air.
01:15:58God sent you here.
01:16:00Maybe you're thinking, well, he can't see me.
01:16:02I'm watching over the internet.
01:16:03No, but there's another one can see you.
01:16:06I knew you'd hear this message.
01:16:08It's not the messenger.
01:16:10I'm nothing.
01:16:10I should be in hell with the gate locked.
01:16:13It's not the messenger, it's the message.
01:16:16Two books.
01:16:17The Holy Spirit wanted two books.
01:16:21Two family registers.
01:16:23The first item, which has sin, death, and a coffin.
01:16:29And the other of the last item,
01:16:32that has a life, everlasting, eternal life.
01:16:36Amen.
01:16:38And with a promise that you'll never die.
01:16:42You'll never die.
01:16:44Oh, your flesh will.
01:16:46But buddy, I tell you, if you've ever been in a room
01:16:49when the saint of God leaves,
01:16:51it's like nothing you've ever seen.
01:16:53I watched my little sister.
01:16:55She went to church here.
01:16:56Many of you knew my sister.
01:16:58A lot of folks didn't know that Sharon was my sister
01:17:02until she passed away.
01:17:04We done all of our talking at home.
01:17:07That's where me and my sister communed together.
01:17:10And I watched her suffer.
01:17:13I watched her, four years younger than me,
01:17:16with that oxygen mask on her little face,
01:17:18begging for mercy.
01:17:22Well, you try that one on, buddy.
01:17:24See how the devil works you over with it.
01:17:26Yeah.
01:17:28You know, I wanted so bad to say,
01:17:29Lord, can't you hear her?
01:17:33I can hear her fine from where I'm sitting.
01:17:36But can't you hear her begging for mercy?
01:17:40Lord, can you not hear her?
01:17:43I might as well say that it was in my heart.
01:17:46I can hear her.
01:17:48Won't you deliver her from this pain?
01:17:52But I remember sitting in her room
01:17:56with all the tubes gone, everything gone.
01:18:00She was just peaceful.
01:18:02They said she'll pass soon.
01:18:05I sat there, and all of a sudden,
01:18:08her two little arms went up.
01:18:12They went up toward heaven, and she was doing this.
01:18:16My pastor, Brother Lawson, was sitting beside me,
01:18:21and he said, Brother, she's reaching.
01:18:26She's reaching for somebody.
01:18:33That's why I'm leaving here.
01:18:34How are you leaving?
01:18:36That's why I'm leaving here.
01:18:37I don't know how you're leaving.
01:18:38I know how I'm leaving.
01:18:40And he said, she's reaching for something
01:18:43or somebody that we can't see.
01:18:47And we both knew who she was reaching for.
01:18:50The lamb had showed up.
01:18:53She had her name in the second Adam's book,
01:18:58and then there was a peace.
01:19:00When a saint of God, when that last breath
01:19:05goes out, man, there's a peace.
01:19:08There's a sense of a presence in a room
01:19:11that unless you've experienced it,
01:19:13you can't explain it to nobody.
01:19:17No, that's how I'm leaving.
01:19:21I've also watched them leave
01:19:23that only had their name in Adam's book,
01:19:26and I won't even talk about that one.
01:19:29There's one I still, at 70 years old, have nightmares over.
01:19:33I watched a man leave, and the only book
01:19:36he had his name in was Adam's,
01:19:39and I watched him die and go to hell.
01:19:40My father, I thank you, Lord, for the truth
01:19:44of the precious, blessed, righteous, infallible,
01:19:47inerrant word of the living God.
01:19:51I'm so thankful for the day that my name
01:19:57was transferred.
01:20:00I still have Adam's nature.
01:20:01I still drag his old body around,
01:20:05but my name got called out of water by the blood
01:20:09and got birthed into the body of the last Adam.
01:20:13I don't know how much time I've got.
01:20:15I don't know how I'll leave here.
01:20:16I don't have a clue, but I do know this.
01:20:20I do know that I'm looking for more
01:20:23than just a coffin in Egypt.
01:20:25I'm not looking for a place over here
01:20:27at Lynnhurst or at Pollard's Hill.
01:20:30Long before my body fills a coffin,
01:20:34my soul will be with you.
01:20:36To be absent is to be present.
01:20:40Lord, I pray you'd speak to hearts.
01:20:41Holy Ghost, I've done all that I've been called to do.
01:20:44This is as far as I can go.
01:20:46I can't go any farther.
01:20:48And I pray you'd take the precious word of God,
01:20:50and I pray, Lord, that you would press it home
01:20:54into the hearts of the people.
01:20:56And if there'd be anybody here this morning
01:20:59that does not know of an absolute surety
01:21:03that they're listed in the family registry
01:21:07of the last Adam,
01:21:09I pray on the very first verse,
01:21:12I pray that you'd give them the courage
01:21:15to stand up and come to this altar.
01:21:18Lord, if they'll just stand up and take the first step,
01:21:22you'll take the rest of them.
01:21:24Lord, I ask you to do it,
01:21:26and I ask you to do it in Jesus' name.
01:21:28Amen, amen.
01:21:29Amen.
01:21:32♪ Oh, just as I am without one plea ♪
01:21:37♪ Oh, just as I am without one plea ♪
01:21:54♪ But that thy blood was shed for me ♪
01:22:00♪ Was shed for me ♪
01:22:04♪ And that thou bidst me come to thee ♪
01:22:12Time's running out, folks.
01:22:13I don't have to tell you that.
01:22:15♪ Of God I come to thee ♪
01:22:17I don't tell you that.
01:22:19You don't have to know anything at all
01:22:20about the Bible to look around,
01:22:23read the news, see what's happening.
01:22:27I'm telling you, this country is going down.
01:22:29It's going down fast.
01:22:32You're looking for a big national revival?
01:22:34Somebody lied to you.
01:22:38Somebody told you a story somewhere.
01:22:41There may be a revival here, a revival there,
01:22:44but as a whole, I believe America's crossed a line.
01:22:49Amen, I believe that.
01:22:52You still love it?
01:22:53If I didn't love it, I'd leave it.
01:22:55Yeah, I love it.
01:22:56I love it enough to still fight for it,
01:22:58to fight for what it used to be.
01:23:03There's gonna be a national revival.
01:23:04The Bible said men will wax worse and worse and worse,
01:23:09and you keep this in mind,
01:23:10all they've got to look forward to
01:23:12and the best they can do
01:23:13is a hole in the ground in a coffin.
01:23:16Time's running out, it's running out.
01:23:20♪ Receive well-dwelt welcome heart ♪
01:23:26♪ Declare its relief because thy promise I believe ♪
01:23:41♪ O Lamb of God, I come, I come ♪
01:23:46♪ O Lamb of God, I come, I come ♪
01:23:54Thank you, C.S., I appreciate your attention.
01:23:57I hope you take the message to heart.
01:24:00There's not a third book, first Adam, the last Adam.
01:24:08I'll tell you this when we go home,
01:24:10I heard this young man at a tent meeting one night
01:24:13and he said, he went to his wife,
01:24:17his wife, his wife,
01:24:20tell his preacher,
01:24:22the evangelist was there, he said,
01:24:25I came here with my girlfriend,
01:24:26I want the least bit interested in your God,
01:24:31so don't come over here mentioning his name to me,
01:24:35not interested.
01:24:38His girlfriend and her family came back the next night,
01:24:40but he didn't make it.
01:24:43that tent meeting the fourth night, but he didn't come with them.
01:24:47The fifth night they were making funeral arrangements for a young man that died and went to hell.
01:24:53God's not trying to peddle some second-rate junk iron.
01:24:56He's talking about the blood of his precious son.
01:25:00You don't want it?
01:25:02Somebody does.
01:25:04You turn your back on it, you think God won't drop you into a burning pit, you're a fool.
01:25:10A man at the jail told me one time, Brother Tony, he said God wouldn't send anybody to
01:25:14hell.
01:25:15And I said, let me tell you something.
01:25:17He took his son, put your sins on his son, and hung him on a cross in nakedness.
01:25:23Oh, we'd like to show a loincloth, but they hung there and there's shame.
01:25:29And he watched his son die in agony, and you say no to that, he'll have no problem lifting
01:25:36the lid of the pit and dropping you, burning and screaming into it.
01:25:41Amen.
01:25:42Amen.
01:25:43All right.
01:25:44All hearts and minds clear, we'll meet here at 6 o'clock for the evening service.
01:25:50Thank you for your attention.
01:25:51Pray for the service tonight.
01:25:52And some of you looking green around the gill, you're going to say, oh, are you preaching
01:25:58again tonight?
01:25:59Surely not.
01:26:00No.
01:26:01No, you'll get a break.
01:26:02Amen.
01:26:03Yeah.
01:26:04Church doors will be open at 5, if anybody wants to come to the prayer room.
01:26:11All right.
01:26:12Let's stand up, we'll be dismissed.
01:26:16And you know me, I have a crazy way of doing it.
01:26:21Crazy way.
01:26:22I do this because Mama used to say, did you move them?
01:26:26And I could say, I had them shot in the house down.
01:26:31My mama was here.
01:26:32She'd say, he's telling you the truth.
01:26:33Okay.
01:26:34She said, everything to half a breath.
01:26:35Praise you, Lord.
01:26:36That's what it says.
01:26:37Now, make sure you qualify.
01:26:38Look at me.
01:26:39Some of you, I'm a little worried about.
01:26:40You struggled on that one.
01:26:41Okay.
01:26:42We're going to do this.
01:26:43And they lifted their hands toward heaven and said, praise the Lord.
01:26:44I want you to say it loud enough to where they get some 911 calls and that cop comes
01:26:45flying off the hill to see what's going on.
01:26:46You ready?
01:26:47You ready?
01:26:48And they lifted their hands toward heaven and said, praise the Lord.
01:26:49I want you to say it loud enough to where they get some 911 calls and that cop comes
01:26:50flying off the hill to see what's going on.
01:26:51You ready?
01:26:52You ready?
01:26:53And they lifted their hands toward heaven and said, praise the Lord.
01:26:55That's a good one.
01:26:58God bless you.
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