The Number of Man 666

By Lin Brown Preached on: Sunday, August 22, 2010

Grace Particular Baptist Church 5725 Imperial Lakes Blvd Mulberry, FL 33860 Website: Online Sermons: www.graceparticularbaptist.org www.sermonaudio.com/graceparticular

Sometimes when I finish a message I know I haven't finished a message. And last week when I came to the last verse of our chapter in Revelation I realized that I have some ground that I needed to go back over this Sunday. As we come together this morning I want us to try to put away our prejudices, put away what we have heard in our past life, put away what we hear on the TV today, put away what we have read in popular books today and try to sobering apprehend what the Bible means when it talks about the kingdom of antichrist and the symbol of antichrist, the person of antichrist and the mark of antichrist. As we come to Revelation 13 let us look starting at verse 11. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.1 Turn over to chapter 14 and look at verse nine.

Revelation 13:11-18. Page 1 of 14

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.2 We have been told over and over in our generation that we can get a hold of prophecy and we can understand prophecy and we can predict when anything and everything is going to come about in Gods economy. We have had popular books. We have popular speakers. We have the mass evangelist all telling us that we can control our understanding of prophecy. But I was somewhat amused and stricken when Charles Alexander said, Prophecy is liquid and is always flowing and you can never get your hand firmly upon it. And I stopped and I thought about that. Am I trying to bottle up prophecy and be able to tell you exactly what God is going to do in his predestined purposes? When I come to the book of Revelation, I come and I understand how absolutely timeless these things are, how we are not able to put them in a bottle, how we are no to confine them between this historic period and this historic period, how we are not to bottle them in under this system and that system, how all of this flows throughout the history of man, how the kingdom of Satan goes right along with the kingdom of God, how the kingdom of Satan is always changing while the kingdom of God changes not, how all the time Satan is altering his plan to deceive as many as possible that he can even if it were possible to deceive the very elect. Now as we come to this reading of chapter 13 and chapter 14 about this mark, we realize that this is something that goes past the idea of an economic restriction. Today masses of Christians fear a number being given whereby they are able to trade in the economy of the world, a number, 666, attached and stamped upon human beings without which they cant buy groceries, they cant buy the necessities of life. How shallow that is. How absolutely simple that is compared to what this really is. You know, when Cain transgressed the law of God he received a mark. And that mark is the mark that we have right here before us, the mark of unregenerate fallen man is this great mark of being a sinner unsavable. You say, God saves all sinners. No, he doesnt. He saves sinners, but he saves elect sinners. He saves chosen sinners. Everybody who is a sinner is not going to be saved.

Revelation 14:9-10. Page 2 of 14

But Christ Jesus came into the world to save his people. Yes. Remember that always. He came into this world to save his people from their sin. It is his people who sinned that are going to be saved. But what about the rest of them? Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.3 So this great mark that we have before us is the mark of reprobation. It is the mark of being a total subject of Satans kingdom. But we had over in Revelation that this beast is one that is revived. I was thinking about that, too. And I was thinking about how all of the popularity says that this is either the fallen Roman church in which it is revived under a new Roman Church. Or it is a fallen Roman Empire in which it is revived under the Roman Catholic Church in its beginning. And I thought again how shallow this is, because we do not realize when we do not understand fully the import of a parallel kingdom with the kingdom of God and a changing kingdom with the kingdom of God. Satan is the prince of the power of the air. He has a kingdom and a hierarchy. He has his subjects. And all under the auspices of he who puts his foot upon the sea and the land, the one who rules in his absolute sovereignty all of the nations, as we look at this, I want us to take it slow and to understand and to fully assimilate what is being spoken here about this great mark in this changeable kingdom. Before Calvary Satan ruled the day. Before Calvary heathenism ruled the day. Before Calvary paganism ruled the day. But when Christ died on the cross and he said, It is finished,4 he issued a death blow to that kingdom. That kingdom couldnt triumph any longer. The paganism of the Gentiles was falling nation by nation by nation and would continue to fall throughout history to the gospel coming in and paganism being turned against. And so Satan, being the wily one that he is said, What can I do now? What can I do now? I have to do something? I am evil. I am bent on being evil and I must invent a new evil. Do you know what he invented? He invented that which we have with us today. He invented a false Christianity, not just the Roman Catholic false Christianity, but a false Christianity based on signs and wonders and miracles. He invented a religion that would feed upon sensationalism and that would feed upon physical things and would feed upon sensual things and would feed upon those things that are contrary to spirit and truth, because the Father seeketh such to worship him who worship him in Spirit and in truth.
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John 8:44. John 19:30. Page 3 of 14

So Satan departs all of worship to God now away from spirit and truth and into the sensual, into the spectacular, into the emotional, into the things that captivate mans mind and pulls him away from seeing the invisible God. He pulls him away from faith. This is the deadly wound now healed. This is the coming forth of the worship of the beast in his absoluteness. Now listen. Look at this. Verse 18 of chapter 13. Here is wisdom.5 Here is not the figuring out of what day it is, what date it is, what time it is, what event it is, but here is wisdom in understanding what the Bible has to say which is what? Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of... man6 Of a man? The antichrist is not a man. The antichrist is not a system. The antichrist is spiritual hierarchy in its ascendency in its rulership in the place of Christ. So is the Catholic Church antichrist? Yes and no. Is the pope antichrist? Yes and no. He is not all there is of it and we make a terrible mistake in thinking that he is because we ignore all of the others that are out there. And we have this great false gospel before us today that rules the day. Most of us dont fear Catholicism. We dont think we are subject to it. And those who are, are very recognizable. While we can see them, we can know them. We know who they are. They are people carrying around rosaries and saying crucifixes and saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers in traditional ritualism. But there are others. There is that, as Charles Alexander called them, Protestant antichrist. And they are the worst antichrist of all. They are those who go in... who are wolves in sheeps clothing who come with you with the mouth of the lamb. They are saying, Come and join us. Come and worship with us. Come and bow down before the image that we have created of Christ. He is not the real Christ, but he is what we think Christ is. Brother Paul and I were talking this week and he was talking about someone who said, Well, that is your opinion of Christ. Most people are worshiping Christ on their opinion, of who they think he is and are so fulfilling, if you will, this mark of the beast, this great witness of the Scriptures, of taking the number of man, the imperfectness of man.

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Revelation 13:18. Ibid. Page 4 of 14

How many today talk about their great preacher or talk about the one they listen to on TV or the one they listen to on radio? How many of them talk about the man? This is taking the number of man for the worship of man. Many say today, Never man spake like this man.7 Have you heard so and so speak? Oh, he is a true speaker of God. I dont want any of you going away talking about how great I am. I dont want any of you going away singing my merits if you could. I dont want you to do that. Why? Because I dont want you to bear the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast worships man. The mark of the beast worships the glory of man, worships the splendor of man, worships the magnitude of man, whoever that man is. We fight and we squabble about calling ourselves Calvinists because we dont want to be too closely associated with Calvin or dont with great trepidation want to be too associated with Bunyan or any of the great men of the faith, because they are great men of the faith. But that is what they are. They are men of faith and we must be, too. We must have our faith in the living God. We must worship the living God. We must worship him that is revealed in Christ Jesus or we will bear this mark of the beast. We will be under the mark of the beast who always elicits and enjoins worship of himself. This is not an economic mark. This one that they cant buy or sell, churches are filled with people who cant buy and sell and barter in grace, who are bonded to grace, who are fed all of this garbage that comes out of the mouth of the false prophet and whose minds are saturated and filled with it all, who cant find grace anywhere because of the mouth of the false prophet. Part of this message today is to warn you against and to tell you to beware of the power of the false prophet, because he is there to point you to the great antichrist, not a man who is to come on history, but a great being that is in the family of man, in the family of fallen man. Antichrist is, in reality, Satan in all of his power in exercise against Christ wherever he is found. And this great mark that he has is those who worship him in deference to worshiping Christ. They may go by the name of church. They may go by the name of Christian when, in essence, they are really antichrist and their point and their bent is to get you to worship a false Christ. You say, Well, you know, we come here and we listen to the right sermons on SermonAudio and we are not going to be overcome by that. Well, I hope that is the truth. I hope that is the case. I hope your heart is not entangled. In the mesh and in the entanglement of the deception that is going on in all of religion since the cross. Men will say, Here is Christ over here. And another will say, Here is Christ over there. And others say, Well, he is out in the country. And then another one is, He is in the inner city.
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John 7:46. Page 5 of 14

The truth is, Christ can be anywhere and everywhere, but only where the truth is preached, only where the truth is believed, only where the truth is accepted. For he absences himself from all those other places that are called in Scripture the synagogues of Satan. Oh, as we look at this we are awe struck by the power of deceptive religion. Many today fight the truth in the name of the truth. I will never forget when we lived in Barto. We had this lady and her children that wanted to hear the truth and we went in their house and instructed them and the father came home and he listened and he forbade them to ever hear us speak again. Forbade them ever to hear the truth again. In other words he said to his family, I want you to take the mark of the beast. I want you to be stamped with it and stop of your ears and never hear the truth again. No, he didnt say it was the truth. He said what he believed the truth in the Nazarene church was the truth. He said that was the truth and what we had was a lie. If what we have is a lie and all the others is truth, then that is a situation, isnt it? But that is not the case and that is not the way it is, because all of the masses worship the beast. All of the masses go down his path and fall down and say, Who is like unto him? Who is like unto this great power? And so this mark of the beast is so easily spoken of as being an economic restriction. It is so much more than that. For it is the mark of reprobation. It is one of which there is no remedy. The children of God, as we will find out when we come to chapter 14, are the sealed ones. They are sealed with the Holy Ghost. They bear the mark of the Holy Ghost. It is not something that is stamped upon us physically. It is something that is imprinted upon us spiritually. We dont bear the mark of the Holy Ghost because we dress properly. We dont bear the mark of the Holy Ghost because we talk in holier terms than other people. The Holy Ghost is resident within the people of God and, as such, lives out the path of righteousness for his names sake and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ every chance he gets. Those who have the mark of the beast glorify man, glorify Satan, glorify wickedness, glorify death, because they all bear the mark of the wicked one. Yes, they are liars and deceivers and murderers and thieves. They rob people of all their spiritual blessings that they can get from them in their words and in their actions. Oh, what a mass of wickedness we have before us, what a horrible thing we have. And certainly in Revelation chapter 14 as we read those words that they who do so, that they who have this mark are not just people who have economic restrictions. But they are the
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ones who are going to drink of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation. And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.8 Dear ones, this is serious, serious, serious business. Some in these bastions of Satan will be snatched from the fires. And they will come out of the fires. Later on in Revelation we are told, Babylon is fallen.9 Come out of her, my people.10 Babylon is a fallen system. The mark of the beast is a fallen system. The kingdom of the beast is a fallen system. It is not something that is coming in the future. It is something that is present here and now. Its subjects are here and now. Its victims are here and now. Is that all that is here and now? No. Jesus said right in the midst of that is the kingdom of God. For the kingdom of God is in your midst, in the midst of this great kingdom of Satan. It is the kingdom of God and it is recalling and it is bringing in all of his elect people into the safety of the fold. That is what Revelation 14 is all about. As we come to verse one I hope you now understand this mark of the beast and you dont dread taking it unless you dread being reprobate. And you dont dread having it unless you dread being damned forever. And I looked.11 Wow. John is told in the end of Revelation 13, Let him that hath understanding understand this mark of the beast. And then he said, I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Fathers name written in their foreheads.12 From the masses of mankind, from the darkness of the kingdom of the beast, from the image of the 666 Johns vision now turns through it, not just away from the darkness, but through the darkness to the Lamb standing safely on Mount Zion.
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Revelation 14:10-11. Revelation 14:8. 10 Revelation 18:4. 11 Revelation 14:1. 12 Ibid. Page 7 of 14

And with him an hundred forty and four thousand.13 Remember, dear ones, simply put and clearly put, the 144,000 are the election of grace from number one to the end, the perfect number of the election of grace. Satan has even invented his 144,000. There are 144,000 sealed witnesses of Jehovahs Witness that go out and sell the Watchtower for a mere pittance that will deceive and lie and damn many souls who wont go to their churches, but they will come to their houses. Over and over we are told the 144,000 witnesses belong to that synagogue of Satan to rob, once again, the truth of God, that the 144,000 having their fathers name written on their foreheads are the 144,000 perfect number known unto God of his elect, telling us there is a limited number of the elect. We cant count from one to 144,000 and say that is all there is. But this is a perfect number and this tells us that the election of grace is a perfect election, not a one is going to be lost, not a one will perish. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.14 I dont know what that song is musically speaking. If I were to pick out one it would be Amazing Grace. But it is not just a musical song. It is the message in which they are saved by, saved by grace, saved by his mercy. They sang the glories of the Redeemer. They sang the glories of Christ Jesus. This is a new song. This is a blessed song. To be able to sing his praises in the presence of the holy angels, in the presence of the four beasts and the four and twenty elders. Verse three is a glorious picture of finished salvation, a glorious picture of all the elect being in, of the Church from the foundation of the world being finished and in the presence of the Savior, in the presence of the holy angels, in the presence of the elders of the Church from Old Testament to New Testament, in the presence of the four beasts, in the presence of the fullness of the Spirit, in the presence of the seven fold Spirit. Who would not want to be counted in that number? Who would be so foolish as to say, I will take the word, the mark of the beast? And back to that again. In taking so is an identifying with the beast and his kingdom. And what is the beasts kingdom, but the world?
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Ibid. Revelation 14:2-3. Page 8 of 14

Why does John in his epistle tell us to not love the world? Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.15 Today we are allured and we are drawn to the world, love the worlds philosophy, love the worlds provision, love the worlds advice, love the worlds counsel, love the worlds beauty, love the worlds colors, love all the things that are in the world and love the world itself. Love the things that make up the attitude of the world, the lusts of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. Is that you? Do you love those things more than you love what we have here in verse three? Do you say, Let me stay down here longer and not go there where all is so sublimely peaceful and so gloriously brilliant and so clear and pure, all worship focused on God and Christ the Lamb, Christ seated and seated in the throne of God? And that song that they sing will be all about the glory of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. These are they which were not defiled with women.16 False religion is pictured here for us as the fallen harlot woman. And these 144,000 are those who are not tainted with fallen religion. They are not victims of fallen religion. Over and over we have in the Old Testament the warning about the wayward eyes of the fallen woman and to not deliver ourselves into her clutches. Well, that is not just talking about human flesh and blood. That is talking about the allurement of paganism and the allurement of heathenism and the allurement of false Christianity, Evangelical false Christianity, Protestant false Christianity. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.17 Alexander also reminded us that being before the throne of God is being in the presence of judgment. The throne of God is a throne of judgment, of right and wrong and what a blessing it is for the child of God to be before that throne without fault. Remember what Romans chapter eight and verse one said. There is no condemnation.

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1 John 2:15. Revelation 14:4. 17 Revelation 14:4-5. Page 9 of 14

There is no judgment for the child of God. God does not bring you before his throne to condemn you. And they are without fault before the throne.18 What a glorious picture this is of the finished church. What a marvelous thing of full salvation, full and free, not being overcome with falsehood, not being overcome with deception, not being overcome with the allurement of false religion in the guise of the baubles of the world. There was a term mentioned in the last sermon that you may not be too familiar with, show religion, showy religion. Isnt that what we have in our day and age so prevalent, showy religion. We will put on a show for you. You will be entertained and you will worship the mark of the beast. You will worship the beast. You will take his mark. You will glory in that which we have created. It is a dangerous time, dear ones. Mega churches grow up. Great edifices grow up. Great excitement grows up. Why our town became so dubiously known as the town that had a great revival just a short while back. And that man ended up being an adulterer and fornicator and everything else. And that revival is no more to be seen. I wonder what happened to the people that went to it, that experienced it. Did they drink down the wrath of Gods indignation? Were they susceptible to the wrath of God poured out upon them? Are they just going back to where they were? Well, if they went back to where they were, they went back to the world. They went back to the worlds churches. They went back to the kingdom of the beast. But the elect are not like that. They are without fault before the throne of God, before the throne of God. What a blessed place to be without fault. What a blessed place to be in the very presence of the holiness of God without fault. That is where Gods people are. That is where I want to be. I dont want to be in the devils crowd, do you? It is convenient to be there. It is comfortable to be there. We read over in Hebrews about those who have no chastisement. They are illegitimate born sons of God. They are not sons of God at all. They are sons of the devil. But chastisement isnt fun. Chastisement isnt convenient. Chastisement isnt comfortable. All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.19 But wait a minute. I dont want to suffer persecution.

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Revelation 14:5. 2 Timothy 3:12. Page 10 of 14

Then dont live godly in Christ Jesus and dont be in Christ Jesus and love the world and take the mark of the beast and follow after the lies and the deceptions of the false prophet and you wont. You wont. But I would rather suffer persecution with the people of God and go to hell and flowery beds of ease and comfort with the devils crowd. You see, God has appointed one to the place and one to the other. One will bear the mark of the Holy Spirit and one will bear the mark of the beast. And I would do all that I can and that is very little. I would prevail upon Christ as much as I can and that is with the grace given unto me and I am not being the number of those who worship the beast and the number of his name. Revelation is a very sobering book. As I told you last week and I will tell you once again and I will tell you every time I preach on it, it is a book of contrasts. It is a book of those who are blessed in the Lord and those who are cursed out of it. It is a book of those who are under the power and deception of Satan and those who are in the revelation of Christ. And as such it is to me one of the blessed books we could ever take in hand. It is very hard to wade through only simply and absolutely because of the deceptive lies that have been put out about it. If there had been no Dispensationalism, if there had been no Futurism, if there had been no popular literature, if there were no popular preachers today, we could pick up this book and we could see spiritual realities. But our minds have been so clouded by the voice of the false prophet and the lies and the deceptions of the beast out of the pit that we run to the physical and we are robbed of the glories and the majesty of this book. As I told you last week, when we come to the 13th chapter we are moving into the real spiritual imagery of the book. From here on it is going to be compounded upon compounded. And if we have not the mind of Christ in going back to the first thing I said, if we are trying to bottle up prophecy and gain some fleshly understanding of it, some physical apprehension of it, we are going to miss it. And we are not going to see it. We are not going to understand it. We are not going to have that wisdom that is necessary to understand it. When we come to this book, we must come to this book with spiritual desire because this is a revealed book into the spiritual realities of everything that is going on in time and space. We dont see it. We cant put a physical handle on it. I was often stricken by the fact that when you try to nail Revelation down physically it just slips right through your hands. When you try to get physical realities out of the some of the things that are said, it becomes absolutely meaningless gibberish and a garble of confusion.

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But, oh, the blessing when you come to it and you see the spiritual realities of what it is saying. And it is that which is important, isnt it, that the spiritual supersedes the physical. Would it? It would be meaningless and really purposeless. Again, quoting Alexander, that if all this was physical, we could get a handle on it. We could know when it was going to do and we could spare ourselves from it. Ah, but alas, it isnt. It is spiritual, unseen and overtakes us when we least think that it is coming. I am sure and I have quoted many times, I am sure that it is going to be a terrible, terrible picture on the last day of judgment. Do you know why? Because on that day the religious will know whose kingdom they lived in and whose kingdom they served and what mark they have borne. In that day when Christ says to them, who say to him, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, we went to church. Lord, Lord, we read our Bible. Lord, Lord, we didnt believe a word of it, by the way, but we read it. Lord, Lord, we did good things. And he says unto them, Depart from me. I never knew you. Oh, I am convinced there is going to be weeping and gnashing and snarling and growling like that on that day like there has never been. But that is reenacted every time a lost person dies. Every time a lost person dies and he reaches the throne he hears, Depart from me. I never knew you. You didnt have a relationship with me. Can you imagine people living all of their lives in self deception thinking they had a relationship with Christ that never did because he never had one with them? Why, I own Christ. He is mine. They are out there saying, Praise the Lord. Just trust Jesus. They are going to hear, Depart from me. The great evangelist who has had masses come down before them are going to hear on that day, Depart from me. I never knew you. I never made one convert. What did you do? You compass sea and land and you made them two fold the child of hell that you are. Is that really going to happen? Oh, yeah. It is really going to. For broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many go that way. The masses that go down that road...

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I think of going down that road to destruction. And I think of riding down a road or even a highway in which previously an earthquake has wiped away the bridge and you are speeding down in a state and you come to this bridge, but it is not there and it is not there and you go right over. That is what the masses are doing. They are running down the great interstate of free will, the great interstate of trust in themselves, of sensationalism and emotionalism and they are going to go right off the precipice into I never knew you. Go to hell for eternity. You say, But, preacher, these are hard words. Yeah, but they are soft words and they are soft words for the elect. You are going to be on the mount with me. You are going to be standing without fault before my Fathers throne. You are going to be safe forever and ever. As we come to the eighth verse, I wanted to get to this one because it is just so very important. Verse six, I mean. And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.20 Before we get to the fall of Babel, we get to the everlasting gospel. Arent you glad it is? It is an everlasting gospel. And do you know what? It is only one gospel, only one. We dont have a gospel of Gods grace and a gospel of mans free will. We dont have a gospel of Arminianism and a gospel of Gods grace. We dont have a gospel of sensationalism and a gospel of Gods grace. Paul said, If anybody comes bringing you any other gospel than that which I have preached, let him be accursed. The gospel of Gods grace is the everlasting gospel and it is the only gospel. And how could it not be? How could the good news of grace not be good news? If I am told something I have to do, that is not good news to me. I am going to fail. If I am told something I have to be, that is not good news to me because I wont be it. If I am told something that God has done for me that I could not do for myself and that has presented me faultless before his throne, I am rejoicing, dear ones. I am thankful, dear ones. I praise him, dear ones. That is what heaven is made up of, people who cant do what they should be and dont do what they should do, but have been made so by the blood of the Lamb.

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Revelation 14:6-7. Page 13 of 14

Oh, what a great and glorious gospel this is. This gospel is a gospel that comes from heaven, dear ones. I didnt invent this gospel. Those who preach the gospel of the grace of God didnt invent it. It didnt begin with Calvin or Augustine or even Paul, by the way. But Paul received it from heaven, too. And everybody who receives the gospel of Gods grace must receive it from heaven because that is where it comes from. How glorious is that message, that everlasting gospel to be preached here. And that gospel entitles those who hear it to fear God. We were talking about it today on the way to church, people who dont fear God. That is everybody who is not of the election of grace. But the elect fear God. They fear him in such that they dont presume upon him. They fear him in such that they go to him in deep awe and respect that they are coming to a holy God, to a God who could destroy in a moment, in just the bat of his eye. And give glory to him. Give glory to him. It wasnt the invention of man that said that the chief purpose of man is to glorify God. God demands his glory. And those who are his chosen will give glory to him, even in the midst of judgment. If you are not willing to give glory to God in judgment, in his wrath being outpoured, then you wont be in this number, because this number shouts Hallelujah when God sends people to hell and says, Just and right and glorious is thy name for thou hast done justly and rightly in their damnation. And they are they, oh, and I love these words, too. And they are they which worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters. Do you know what? There is not an Evolutionist in the batch. They are all Creationists. They all worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters. This is his Church. This is his people. This is his blood bought multitude and no man can number, but God knows the number of every one of them. He not only knows the number, he knows the name and he knows who you are. Great and glorious God, we come to you this day and we ask that thou, the revealer of truth will reveal in our hearts on which side we stand now so that we might not be surprised in that day. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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