Easter Monday Evening Convention 1988 — Ian Paisley

And as our heads are bowed and our eyes are closed, we're going to sing that little invitation to the Spirit of God. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.

Break me, melt me, fill me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. We're glad to have our brother, the Reverend Mark Rithold, the minister of the Independent Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, who's visiting with us and was with us last year and preached for us.

And he'll be preaching in some of our churches and preaching here on Wednesday week at our own church. We're delighted he's here. He's going to lead us in prayer. I'm going to ask the Reverend Alec Chambers, a minister of Antrim, to come to the pulpit and join with us in the opening prayers tonight.

Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Amen.

Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.

May God help us all to pray. Brother Chambers.

Our gracious God and our loving Father in heaven, we do rejoice this evening again in the opportunity given to us to gather together in this way and to come into thy presence. Oh God, we bless thee tonight that while we stand upon the earth, yet we rejoice that we can touch the throne of heavenly grace.

Oh God, how we thank thee for the many times in thy word that Lord, thou dost assure us that when we call upon thee, thou dost hear us. Lord, we draw nigh tonight knowing that thou dost bend down thine ear to hear our prayers.

Lord, we thank thee that tonight we come before thee, not in our own merits or in our own name or in our own strength, but we thank thee Lord that we come in the blessed name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lord, we thank thee tonight that we have commenced this meeting by singing of the blood. And oh God, we come tonight to rejoice again in thy presence in the blood of Christ. Lord, we thank thee that there is power in the blood of the Lamb.

Oh God, we rejoice tonight that we've been singing a wonderful testimony hymn that Lord, we're not trusting in ourselves or in our good works or in anything that we have done. But Lord, tonight our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.

Lord, we rejoice tonight that we're building on the solid rock, even the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Father, we come to bless thee for thy love and mercy. Oh God, when we look back and realize that we were in nature's darkness, but Lord, we thank thee that thou didst look upon us in mercy and in grace.

And we thank thee Lord for that blessed day when the light of the glorious gospel shone into our hearts. Lord, we're glad tonight that we're numbered with the redeemed. We're glad tonight that we're counted in among the people of God.

Lord, we rejoice in all thy grace. We come Lord before thee on behalf of this meeting. Lord, we thank thee that we have known thy presence in these convention services already. We give thee thanks, oh God, for what has been done.

We say to God be the glory, great things he hath done. We thank thee Lord for people who have been saved. We thank thee Lord for backsliders who have been restored. We bless thee, oh God, for hearts and lives touched by thy hand.

But Lord, we come and we realize that we need a fresh touch again tonight. Oh Lord, we need thee to come. Lord, we cannot rest upon our past blessings. Oh, we pray for a moving tonight of thy Holy Spirit in this meeting.

We pray for a mighty visitation from heaven. Oh God, we pray that tonight as this convention comes to a conclusion, we pray Lord that it may be a time of special blessing. Lord, we thank thee that we believe tonight in revival.

We thank thee Lord, we believe that thou canst move in our midst. And oh God, we need, we need it in our hearts, we need it in our churches, we need it in our province. Oh God, we thank thee that we can look back and we can remember what thou hast done in the past.

We can recall times of spiritual refreshing. Oh God, we pray that thou wouldst do it in our day. Lord, we cry from our hearts tonight with the psalmist of old, wilt thou not revive us again that thy people may rejoice in thee?

Oh Lord, come and bless in these dark and evil and sinful days. We pray that thou wouldst move again. Lord, we pray, come and speak to our hearts, come and visit us tonight. We pray for all who will take part in this meeting, those who will sing, bless their ministry to us.

And Lord, especially we pray that thou wouldst remember those who have the responsibility of opening to us the word of God. Lord, fill them with thy power, lay liberally to their hand and grant that tonight we may be greatly blessed and encouraged and built up by the preaching of thy word.

So hear and answer prayer, for we ask in Jesus' name, amen.

Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on this place tonight. Amen. On every heart. Lord, how we pray that we might meet thee in this hour. And may we not go forth from this place tonight without having done business with thee.

We're so thankful that we can gather once again in the name of our precious Savior. We're thankful that we can come cleansed by the blood of Calvary. Lord, we pray that the Holy Spirit might so fill us that we will go forth from this place in this, from this last meeting of this convention, that our lives might be a blessing to those with whom we have contact.

We're thankful tonight for your word. Oh, Father, we pray that thou wouldst bless those who come to preach to us. We pray that thou wouldst anoint them from on high, that thou wouldst give them insights and understanding that will minister to the hearts of this people.

Lord, I pray that you'll help our brother Bill and give him strength tonight. Touch his body and quicken him. Lord, we pray for thy special anointing upon his ministry tonight. And for brother Giler. Oh, Father, how we pray that we might hear from heaven, that this might be truly a time of anointing and refreshing in the midst of thy people.

Our Father, we're thankful tonight that the Lord Jesus Christ is the one that we lift up. And may he be the preeminent one. And may men and women, boys and girls, see Jesus only. Father, how thankful tonight we are that you've given us this message.

We say with the Apostle Paul that Christ and his cross might be preached. And Lord, we're thankful tonight that that's the message. Lord, and then open the other scriptures that flow from that salvation that we have in him, that our hearts might be strengthened in our Christian lives.

Father, bless each one. There are those who've come here tonight that are sad and weary, carrying the burdens of the day. We pray that thou wouldst meet them. Lord, we pray that if there are those here tonight who know not the Savior, that they will turn unto him and come to know him whom to know aright is truly life everlasting.

Father, have your way. Minister in this place. We wait upon thee. We come at the beginning of this service asking for thy help. And Lord, how I pray that you'll bless every portion of the service. Our Father, send forth the showers of blessings.

May they fall. May there be an abundance of rain. May we truly know that we have met with thee this hour. Thank you, our Father. Thank you for thy goodness to us and for thy good working in our hearts.

We'll praise thee now and forevermore for all that thou hast done, for all that thou art doing, and for all that thou wilt do for us as we yield and surrender our lives unto thee. We pray these prayers asking these blessings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen. Amen. Amen. And everybody said, Amen. God bless you, brethren. Thank you. Dr. Rod Bell now is going to minister the Word of God to us. Dr. Bell, could I just say how great a thing it has been for us all to have our brother with us for this convention once again.

When I first went to Bob Jones University, Dr. Bell was just finishing his career as a student in the university. He heard me preach a very famous series of lectures on the Reformers. In fact, as we were singing that hymn tonight, his oath, his covenant, and his blood, I said to these brethren with a Methodist on the left and a Baptist on the right and a Bible-centered man in the middle, I said to them, I'm glad to see you're singing good covenant theology.

Amen. Say amen to that. Amen. You know what I preached tonight. Amen. So, it has been a delight. Then he said, Dr. Jones said, there's a young man who started a church in Virginia Beach and he wants you to preach.

I said, what is he like? He said, he's just like you. He's a shouter. Well, I said, I'll feel perfectly at home with him. We came and we shouted in the airport and they were glad to get us out of the airport.

When we were coming along the road, we cleaned up every apostate church on the road, every one of them. Then he said, you know, they threatened me, if I have your preaching, they'll blow the place up.

But he says, I'll put a big Baptist deacon with a shotgun on every corner and we'll repair, repel boulders. But they didn't do that. They waited until I went away. And then a man went out one night and he took a gun and he blew every window out of the church.

The first time the Baptist had fresh air. And I want to tell you, I want to tell you it did them good because they were stronger than ever. And he said, you have to come back again. Never blew the windows out a second time.

And we have had some tremendous meetings and I went to India with them and we had a powerful experience in India because we couldn't get into a decent hotel and they put us into this fleabag hotel and we had a long, long journey from London.

We had quite an experience in London because when we went into the VIP lounge, these two police officers came in and they went over to Dr. Bell and they said, are you naked? And he looked at them and he says, no, I've got my clothes on.

And I said, I know what it is, they think you're my minder. And they're asking you, do you carry a gun? Now I said, brethren, I just want to tell you two policemen, I'm going to educate you. If I wanted a preacher to mind me, I wouldn't invite a Baptist to do it because Baptists are very good at sticking knives in other people's backs.

So I wouldn't have that. Of course, he agreed with that for many a Baptist has tried to put a knife in his. But we got to India and we went to this fleabag hotel and I want to tell you, fleas are of the devil.

Amen. Because those fleas had breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper of fundamentalist blood. I tell you, they really sucked us. And round the corner, our friend, Dr. Jones, he was in a five-star hotel and here were poor Baptist preachers, been bitten to death by fleas.

There's only two things come from the dust of the earth. Mr. Nicholson used to say, and that is a big Irish flea and mankind. So you're a full cousin of a flea. So you don't need to have any pride in you because the Bible says that fleas in Egypt were made of the dust of the ground.

So you're a full cousin of a flea. So you needn't have any pride about it. Dr. Bell and me have prayed together and we have preached together and won souls together and knelt by bounds beside sinners as they wept their way to Calvary.

We've had some fights together and our brother has got himself into a lot of trouble. There was one Baptist preacher and he said anybody that would preach with Paisley is a backslider. Anybody that would preach with Paisley is a reprobate.

And I preached a sermon once on soul winning and that sermon blessed the soul of Dr. Bell. And one time he was preaching at a great conference and he was using the line that I used in that sermon. And this old Baptist fellow came up and he said that was a great sermon.

And he said, I was really thrilled, I got my soul blessed. And Brother Bell looked at him and he says, I'm glad you got blessed. You know whose sermon that was? That was Paisley's sermon. So he got his own back on him.

Amen. That's the sort of man Brother Bell is. So thank God for him. He rings a true bell for Jesus. God bless you brother, you can ring a way now. I'm going to be a humble Baptist preacher and not say one word in rebuttal.

I will be silent. I just wanted to let the folk at the Easter convention know the reason why I'm wearing a collar. I'm not a free Presbyterian. I preached at Bob Jones University last week at the Bible conference.

And there was about 6 ,000 people there, maybe, and students and visitors and faculty. And I had my collar on and I tried to preach in the collar and I thought, well, maybe I will tell them why I'm wearing this collar.

And I said, I want you to know that a lady hit me in the rear and everybody started laughing. I didn't know what I'd said wrong. I didn't know I said anything wrong, but I said, she'd hit me in the rear.

I said, the rear end of my car. And she did. Well, it was a woman. I don't say that she was a lady. She was a woman. And she was drunk and she really walloped me. So, but I'm a hundred percent better.

I'll tell you a good pulpit sweat does wonderful wonders for you. And I thank God. Now, listen, I'm going to leave the convention this year again, having a greater desire, number one, to pray, a greater desire, number two, to study God's word, and number three, to love Him more dearly.

That's the way I leave this convention every time I'm here. And I want to go on record that Ian Paisley is my friend and we stand shoulder to shoulder. I don't stand behind him. You know, I got a lot of folks that say, I stand behind you, Brother Bell.

Yeah, whenever the fire gets hot, there's a four behind me. I can't find them. But I want to stand shoulder to shoulder with our dear brother in the battle of the fundamentals of the faith. We see eyeball to eyeball on that and we're standing together.

And don't you ever worry, we'll be there. If I ever, he ever needs me, I'll be here. And if I ever need him, he'll be there. The way things are going, I've been in court for 10 years trying to keep my school open and trying to keep our government from controlling our school.

Now you pray, and if we lose, we've lost every case, every court, and we've kept appealing. We have to appeal one more, that would be the U .S. Supreme Court. And if we lose, everybody in America loses that case.

If they hear it, if they don't, well, you'll have to visit this back to Bedford with bunion. That's just the way it is. Let's bow our head for a word of prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Dr. Paisley.

We thank Thee for the Free Presbyterian Movement. We thank Thee for their love for the Savior, the love for the book. And our Father, we thank Thee for the leadership that Thou has given God's man, not only in this Providence, in the United Kingdom, and in Europe, but around the world, the fundamentalists, yay, Presbyterian, Baptist, free fundamental Methodist, Bible-centered men, men who are fundamentalists, look to this man for leadership.

Lord, we thank Thee, we pray daily for him, and Lord, churches around the world pray for this man. And our Father, I pray that You'll help Ulster not to take him for granted. Lord, I ask You to help God's people to pray for Thy servant and pray for this great movement that magnifies the Savior.

And dear Lord, if the Free Presbyterian Movement ever stops magnifying the Savior, close it down. Lord, let it become just an old mothball, an empty shell. Lord, close it down. And if the fundamental Baptists, independent Baptists in our country ever get to the place that they don't magnify the Savior and stand for the infallible, blow it up, Lord.

Lord, help us that we might bring business. Oh God, we ask You to fill us with the Holy Ghost tonight. Thou has promised and we accept that filling by faith in Jesus' name. Amen. The wise men came from the east to Jerusalem and they said, Where is he that is born the King of the Jews?

Where is he that is born the King of the Jews? The scholars, some of them said Bethlehem. And then I remember a time when the Greeks had hungry hearts and they came to the Passover and they said, Sir, we would see Jesus.

All the festivity and all of the folly and frivolity, we would see Jesus. A few years ago I made up my mind that that's the job of every child of God, that our lives might be so in tune with Him that we would see Jesus and know Him in such a personal, intimate relationship that people would see Christ in our life.

And I said, Dear Lord, every time I preach, I'm going to take a text, I'll make a beeline to Calvary. If you have your Bibles, I want you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 34. Exodus chapter 34. Many times as people in our country go to our churches and say we would see Jesus.

Where is he that is born the King of the Jews? They see relics, they see rubbish, they see religion, and they don't see Jesus. Oh, help us whenever they come to church that our people who have hungry hearts might see Jesus.

God, help us to be like the Yeshutamite in chapter 3 of the Song of Solomon. God, help us whenever she came to the watchman upon the wall. She was troubled and her heart was hungry and she got up off of her bed and she went and she looked for Him and she said, I must find Him whom my soul loveth.

She came to those watchmen on the wall who were the preachers and she said to the preachers, Have you seen Him whom my soul loveth? Have you seen Him whom my soul loveth? Hey, listen to me. Should not every Sunday morning, every Sunday night and every Wednesday night our people have the right to come to us and say to us, Have you, preacher, seen Him whom my soul loveth?

Preachers, have you seen Him whom my soul loveth? My heart, preacher, is hungry today. I don't want relics. I don't want rubbish. I don't want religion. I want to see Him whom my soul loveth. Now let's look at this.

In Exodus chapter 34 in verse 11,. And God spake unto Moses face to face, As a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turneth again unto the camp, And said, but... And he turned again unto the camp. But his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed out of the tabernacle.

And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people. Thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name. And thou hast also found grace in my sight.

Now therefore I pray thee, If I have found grace in thy sight, Show me now thy way, That I may know thee, That I may find grace in thy sight, And consider this nation is thy people. He said, I cannot...

It cannot be said, Lord, That we are peculiar people and highly favored, Unless you go with us. In verse 14. Then he said, My presence shall go with thee, And I will give thee rest. Verse 15. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, Carry us not thence.

He said, Lord, if you don't go with me, I don't want to go. I want your presence More than I want anything of the else. And Lord, if you don't go with me, And you're not in my life, And your presence is not in my life, I don't want to go.

Now watch. For wherein shall it be known, Here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? So shall we be separated, I and thy people, From all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

And the Lord said unto him, Moses, I will do this saying, Also that thou hast spoken, For thou hast found grace in my sight, And I know thee by name. And he said, I beseech thee, Show me thy glory. O the hunger of Moses, Show me thy glory.

And he said,. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, And I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, And will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, And will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.

And he said, Thou canst not see my face, For thou shalt no man see my face and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, And thou shalt stand upon a rock, Underlined, And it shall come to pass, While my glory pass by, That I will put in a cleft to the rock, And I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by.

And I will take away my hand, And thou shalt see my hundred parts, But my face shall not be seen. I preached a series of messages in my church on the feet of Jesus, the hands of Jesus, the bones of Jesus, the eyes of Jesus, the crown of thorns of Jesus, the robe of Jesus, the lips of Jesus, and I preached a series of messages on the face of Jesus.

I want you to notice, Moses did not ask to see his face, but he asked to see his glory. When I began to study for my message, I thought about Moses not asking to see the face of the Lord. He said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.

And then I turned to that familiar passage in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 6. For God, whom commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

My friends, Moses wanted to see his glory. Moses did not get to see. The Lord said, you can't see my face. I want you to know that the glory of God is shown in the face of Jesus. That's what our dear pastor said tonight.

Moses, show me thy glory. John said to the revelator in John, Revelation 1, verse 16, he turned and he saw the resurrected glorified Christ in all of his glory. And what did he say? His countenance shined as the strength of the sun.

And then he fell as a dead man. Then you remember the story? How the apostle Paul on the road to Damascus, what did he do? The apostle Paul on the road to Damascus, he was looked at, he saw a bright light and he fell as a dead man and was stricken blind.

Isaiah, the Bible says, in the year the king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. And Isaiah said, woe is me, for I'm a man of unclean lips. And he was stricken. I want to speak to you tonight on the face of Jesus.

Don't turn to all the Scriptures, just mark them. And I'm going to just give you some Scriptures and you'll mark them if you would please. Now, the face of Jesus. The face is one of the most expressive portions of the human body.

The face is the index to our character and our personality. It's the mirror of the changing emotions of our soul. It reveals our identity. There's not two identical twins. There's not two Rod Bells. And some of the people in Virginia Beach said amen.

There's not two Ian Paisleys. And thousands say amen. But it's that face that reveals our identity, reveals our person. It reveals love. It reveals anger. It reveals hate. It reveals tenderness. It reveals emotion.

It reveals, our countenance reveals what we really are inside. And the modern pictures that we have in the average art museums of our Lord are no more than artist's conception and personally I find most of them repulsive.

My Lord was not an effeminate looking type hippie. My Lord was a man. He was all man. And when Pilate who had seen mighty gladiators fight and had seen the gladiators in the arena, he saw the punishment that our Lord was taking and he said behold the man.

What a man, literally. What a man. My Lord was a man. Perfect man. All man. But the face reveals who we are and what we are. Let's look at the face of Jesus from the sacred pages of God's infallible book and let's see what we can learn about it in the time that we have allotted.

Number one, the face of Jesus was a sacred face. It was a sacred face, a holy face because 2 Corinthians says in the face of Jesus is the knowledge of the glory of God. The glory of God was in the face of Jesus.

My friends, I want you to know whenever you blaspheme Jesus and you talk about Jesus and whenever you run Jesus down you're talking about the heavenly Father. You're talking about God. He's God in the flesh.

I don't know about you but my righteous indignation gets stirred up whenever the apostates in our country and the modernists and the liberals and the communists begin to run down Jesus. They have the Jesus Christ superstar.

A play or some kind of a hippie rock concert. Wicked and godly. I took my church in the soaking rain with placards and marched around the Colosseum and said, blaspheme! Jesus Christ was God and whenever you meet Jesus Christ and you become to him on repentant ground, my friends, I want you to know you know you've met God.

God. 1 John 1, 4, it says, that in him was life and the life was in the light of men. Exodus 33, 20 says, The incarnate Son of God. That privilege. God was going to manifest himself and reveal himself in the incarnation and that privilege was the Son of God.

He was going to manifest his glory. 1 Corinthians 10, verse 14. Don't turn. And all drank that same spiritual drink for all they that drank that drink, that spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ.

Listen. In the Old Testament, Christ, every Old Testament type points to Christ. In the Old Testament, Christ is concealed. In the New Testament, he's revealed. And here we see the resurrected, glorified Christ in the rock.

Notice. The rock. And what did the Lord say? He said that rock was Christ. Mark it down. That rock was Christ. And where did he tell Moses to stand and he would reveal his glory to him? By the rock. Where did he tell Moses in Exodus chapter 17 to stand whenever he would smite the rock?

On the rock. Stand on the rock. And he stood on the rock and Moses smote the rock. And my friends, the Bible says that water just shat. I looked up these two words. Then in Numbers, in Numbers chapter 20 verses 7 through 12, again they began to murmur.

They had no water to drink. And the Lord told Moses to what? Speak to the rock. Now there's two different Hebrew words here for rock. In Exodus chapter 17, when he said speak to the rock, this word for rock means a low submerged rock, not a small stone, but a mammoth rock, most of it covered with earth and it's embedded, because you could only see a small portion of it, and it's embedded in an uncomfortable environment around it.

And he told Moses, you stand on that rock and smite it. And that rock was Christ. But the other rock in Numbers chapter 20 is a different rock and it means a high, lofty, towering rock with majestic strength.

And he said speak to it. Don't strike it. Speak to it. And I want to say this, when Moses struck that high and lofty rock, that's the reason he didn't enter into the promised land. My friends, he was to be spoken to.

He was not to be crucified again afresh. And every time that the blasphemous mass is offered, they're trying to smite the rock again. And my friends, the judgment for apostasy is that they'll not enter in.

Judgment. Oh, listen. That rock was Christ. There's only three kinds of rocks, igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. But there's over thousands of types of rock. But all rocks are made up of one of these three.

An igneous rock is made by molten fire and that's a picture of God the Father. The sedimentary rock is made by the water and the wind that breaks down into sediments and that's a picture of the Holy Spirit.

And then there is the metamorphic rock. Metaphor, moored, comes from the change of form. He took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man. It's a picture of the Trinity. All three rocks, and no one rock has just one of those.

All of them have the different three, different types of rocks in them. And I want to say to you that that rock in the wilderness was my Lord. Said, speak to Him. That's a picture of His high intercessory work.

Speak to Him. And that rock, the holy rock, the Holy One that was in the Holy Face, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

And we beheld His glory full of grace and truth. Not only was it a holy rock, but it was a humble rock. He fashioned Himself and became a man. He's going to reveal the glory of God, the incarnation through the virgin birth.

He humbled Himself and fashioned as a man and humbled Himself to become obedient even unto the death of the cross. Not only do we see the sacred face, but let's look. The face of Jesus was a stern face.

I Peter 3, 12 says, For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

You may call it excuses and you may call it a weakness, but God calls it sin. And we want you to know those that do a wickedness, God says the face of the Lord is against them. He has a stern face. Genesis 19, 13.

The angel said to Lot, Because the cry of them is wax great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy this city. Leviticus 17, 10. I will set my face against them. Psalm 34, 16.

The face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. I want you to know all the wickedness and all the filth and all the murder and all the idolatry and all the debauchery has taken place.

I want you to know that the face of the Lord is against them. Jeremiah 16, 17 says, For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face. They are not hid from my face. You may think when the blinds are pulled and the curtain drops down and night is there that no one sees, but God said it's not hid from my face.

I see hid from mine eyes and my face, the face of Jesus, the sacred face, a stern face, but it's a sympathetic face. Luke 19, 41. And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophet and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often thou wouldst have gathered thy hens together, chicks, children together, even as a hen doth gather her chicks under her wings, and you would not.

John 35 says,. And Jesus wept. Thank God, Jesus, could we. God delivers from dry eyes, stony wills, and stubborn hearts. God delivers from people who can't shed tears. God delivers from those who will not weep over so.

I wet my bed, my pillow of tears, and my bed sheets were wet. And I said, Oh, God, I can't live if Mom and Dad doesn't get saved. Jesus wept. Even though he knew Lazarus' death was for the glory of God, he still wept.

Even though he knew he was going to resurrect him in just a little while, he still wept. Even though he knew they was going to make fun of him, he still wept. He wept. And they said, He was Lazarus' friend.

Wouldn't you like for the enemies of God to say that about you, that you were Jesus' friend? He wept. God help us. Jesus had a sympathetic face. Next, the face of Jesus was a steadfast face. Luke 9, 41 says,.

And it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up. He steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. Listen, he didn't come to live an exemplary life so we could follow in his steps necessarily.

Before the foundation of the world there was a lamb slain in the mind of God. And he was born to die. And he said, I delight to do thy will, O God. And he set his face like flint towards Jerusalem. It was a committed face.

Mark 16, 21,. From the time forth began Jesus to show unto disciples how that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things. And the elders of the chief priests and the scribes to kill him, he knew what he was walking into.

Isaiah 50, verse 7 says, I set my face like what? Like flint. It was a steadfast faith. John 3, 11 says that it was a courageous, he was courageous. 311, Verily, verily, I say unto you, we speak what we do and you receive not our witnesses.

And then number five, the face of Jesus was a shining face. Daniel in Daniel 10, 6, Daniel's vision, he said,. The body also was like the burl and his face as the appearance of lightning and his eyes the lamp of fire.

Psalm 31, 16,. Thy face to shine upon thy servants. Matthew, let me say if his face shines upon his servants, you can't walk in darkness. Listen, Matthew 17, 2,. And was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sun.

Oh, thanks be unto God. He has a shining face. His face was a shining, luminous face lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ unto them and the image of God should shine unto them. And I said if you meet Jesus, you've met God, my friends.

For the glory of God is revealed in the face of Jesus. Paul said we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed, we are perplexed, yet not despair. Why could he say that? He had met Jesus. He'd seen the glory of God.

And then, my friends, the face of Jesus is a submissive face. Luke 22, 61, and Matthew 26, 39, it says when he went a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed and said, If it be possible, let this cup pass from me nevertheless, not as I will, but as I will.

Dear brethren, you know what we need to do? Jesus says, what could you not watch with me one hour? When I read that, I said, oh, blessed name of the Lord, I'll watch with you one hour. I'll watch with you one hour.