It's certainly good to be here. It's certainly good to be back here. It's been a while since I preached in this bullpit. It's been a long time. I came to Georgia 38 years ago. And the only three people I knew in Georgia, I brought them with me. That's my wife and my two daughters. All of you. I didn't know anybody else. And when I got down here, I've been down here maybe a little while. Somebody said, have you ever found Gordon Buchanan? And I didn't know after I found him, I wasn't looking for him. But biggest mistake I ever made. when I went looking for Gordon Buchanan. But anyway, I did find him. My life has never been the same. Well, I did find Brother Gordon and then somebody contacted me and they said, have you ever found Brother David West? And so I went and I found Brother David West. And then a little later on, somebody said, have you ever found Brother Tom Solosi? And so I went and I found Brother Tom Solosi. And we ate with Brother Tom. And Brother Tom tried to feed my wife rattlesnake. And she wouldn't eat another bite at his table. I tell you, I'm glad to see after all these years, you know, we've got these young preachers here in Georgia now. You know, Brother Lewis and Brother Tom and Brother Dougie. And I'm thankful for that. I tell you. You know, sad to say we still got Brother Gordon. But at any rate, now, My sister Tara told me to say these things about you. But anyway, it's good to have these young preachers. It's good to have them and good that they're in Georgia. And we, you know, Sovereign Grace Landmark Missionary Baptists have grown the last 38 years here in Georgia. It's a wonderful thing. Turn with me, if you would, to Jeremiah, the sixth chapter, and I want to read a couple of verses here. Jeremiah 6, and I want to read verse 14 and 15. He says, They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among them. I'm sorry, let me say that. They shall fall among them that fall at the time that I will visit them. They shall be cast down, saith the Lord." Now, the title of my message today, and I'm going to be using some numbers, and I'm going to leave it up to you to try to prove me wrong on it, because you'll have to go and start doing some investigating. I've titled this message today, That's the Way It Was 2,626 Years Ago. That's the way it was as he spoke here. I mean, you can read Isaiah. You can read Jeremiah. You can read any of those prophets, and that's the way it was. That's what they spoke of. They spoke of the fact that People sinned and they sinned openly. And I'm talking about God's people. Sinned and they sinned openly. They cared not of what anybody thought about their sin. So that's the way it was 2,626 years ago. Now, I don't know altogether how things were 2,626 years ago. But I can imagine they were about the same as they are today. I don't know how much different it is today, honestly. You know, men lived in those days. Men sinned. Men died. Some went to heaven and some went to hell. That's the way it was. 2,626 years ago, according to this text I just read to you. Now, my message today is about a modern culture and not necessarily about a church. Now, you know, I know we've heard two or three, almost three messages, I guess, concerning church and sin that's in churches. And as Brother Lewis said a few minutes ago, You know, I'm not pointing out anyone as far as the way things are now, but the fact is, you know, I want to preach against this culture in which we live. Now, I know some people says, you know, that we're going to be destroyed from within and Brother Frank, I preached a message like that in 1967. I predicted in 1967, first of all, the United States would be eventually destroyed from within. And I also preached that the Lord's churches would eventually be destroyed from within if we keep letting things go on. Brother Robbie and I were talking last night. And, you know, out of all the churches that, somebody mentioned about the book that tells about the churches, the directory, and did you know out of those churches that's left in that directory, most of them have gone the other way. It's sad. It really is. It hurts me. As I said down in Eller Grove, last Saturday I've been pastoring 47 years as of last Saturday. And this coming May, I'll be preaching 48 years. And I want to tell you, I've seen a great change. And I don't blame it. I don't necessarily blame it on preachers not preaching the truth, people not believing the truth. But I blame it on this culture in which we live. I don't know. Culture started changing in the 60s. Some of you are not old enough to know that. But the culture started changing in the 60s. I tell you, from the day From the day that they had Woodstock, I don't know how many of you remember that, up in New York, when all the young people, long-haired and free-living and free-loving and everything, when they all gathered together in Woodstock there in New York, and they rolled around naked in the mud and everything, let me tell you, from that day forward, the culture changed. It changed. And now, I don't know what the culture was like back in this day. I mean, I know what they say the people were like. I know Isaiah preached for approximately 65 years and there wasn't a soul listening to him. Not one soul. Jeremiah preached approximately 60 years. And he cried his way into his grave because no one would listen to him. And certainly Ezekiel, if you go through Ezekiel, God told him, God said, you're going to go to stiff-necked people and they're going to look at you funny, as people do me sometimes. They're going to look at you funny, and they're going to think that you're oddball and something like that. And they're going to stiffen their necks against you, and they're not going to listen to you either. Now, we cry and go on today because sometimes we don't have people listen to us. I'm going to say this right now. I do have a few people that listen to me. I do. And that's the reason I said I'm not going to try to indict anybody today. Because I do have a few people that listen to me. And I do have a few people that have listened to me in the past. But these men preached in a time when people didn't listen. And certainly, you know, the culture today is what's destroying us. We have to live like this. You know, we come to the point to where grandmothers and grandfathers, which I'm one of them, that lived in the 60s, you know, we were young and we lived in the 60s. And so we have, we've learned that, well, this is the way they lived in the 60s. Well, this is what I have to teach my children. Well, you know, those children are in their 40s now. And they're teaching their children the same thing that they thought they had to teach their children. And then we get them in church. And then you have to preach this culture out of them before you can preach anything into them. You really do. As I said, my message is about a modern culture, not a church. It will only apply to any who might be in the church who chooses to follow the modern culture rather than follow the world. You know, I have so many people, I know my people have heard me say this many times. I have so many people tell me, they'll say, well, you know we're living in the 21st century. Hoo-poo, I didn't know that. My goodness, they revealed something to me that I didn't know. That we're living in the 21st century. And they tell me, they say, well, you talk like and you act like and you believe like we're living way back there when there was a bunch of fanatics for religion. Well, let me tell you, that's where we are today. You know, we live in a modernistic, liberalistic, socialistic, and religious ecumenicist culture. And all of that deducts down to a godless and wicked generation. That's what it goes down to. Concerning the text that I used today, during the days of Jeremiah's ministry, the culture wasn't much different. People thought they had to live as culture dictated. And so they thought they had to worship the same gods that the people worshipped. And they thought they had to follow the same things that the world followed in that day. And they got themselves in trouble. They began to desecrate the Lord's day. And by desecrating the Lord's day, God sent them into captivity. The reason that God sent them into captivity was because they did not hold the Sabbath up and keep it holy. And we got today something that's just amazing today. And that is what people do and will do and will stay out of church for on the Lord's Day. Drop of a hat. Drop of a hat. They don't care. Drop of a hat. They'll stay out of the Lord's Church. And it doesn't bother them one bit. They think a ball game is more important. They think a job is more important. There's no job important enough to keep me out of the Lord's house. Never did. Never did. I worked for a company 31 years. And they would tell me, they'll say, I want you to work this Sunday. I said, no, you don't want me to work this Sunday. Get somebody else. Yeah. But the fact is, people will drop the Lord's day. They'll just ignore the Lord's day for anything. Jeremiah was sent to a people who were God's people who refused to follow God. And he knew, and Jeremiah knew it before God sent him. Because God told him they would not listen to him. He knew that. And old Ezekiel was sent to the cemetery. Now what if some of you brethren, what if God came to one of you brethren today and said, I want you to go out there and preach in the cemetery? Sometimes I think I'm preaching in it. Sometimes I think that I'm looking out at the cemetery because most people look pretty dead. It's amazing. They do. I saw a sign one time in an office building. They said, if you don't believe in the resurrection, stay around here till 5 o'clock. And you'll see what the resurrection is. It's the same way in churches today. If you don't believe in the resurrection, just wait until 12 o'clock when it's time for you to stop preaching. They'll resurrect. And they'll get on out of there. Sometimes they have to punch their maid or somebody like that and wake them up and say, it's time to go. But they'll go. There were terrible times when God's people refused to follow their God. Even in the days of Jeremiah, they didn't speak about those who were not God's children. For Jeremiah knew, as I know today, those who are not God's people will not follow the God of heaven, just like Brother just preached to us. Those who reprobate, they're not going to follow God, because they reprobate from the faith. You've got people today that, you know, they're just not going to follow God. They're not going to do it. It makes no difference who preaches. how he preaches, he cannot change the people who will not follow him. And this is who it is. We're going to start a meeting in hopes of having a revival tomorrow. And Brother Jason Schultz is coming. I've already talked to Brother Jason. I said, Brother Jason, I hope and pray you can wake them all up. But I said, if you can't, I said, don't you go home sad. Because you did what you're supposed to do. He came and preached. Now we come to a time, 226 years later, and God is still sending true men of God to preach to a people who claim to be God's people, and many times he gets the same attention as Jeremiah did when he preached. Oh, we can say the times are different. Oh, Brother Paul, the times are different. Well, I'm going to show you whether or not the times are different. We can say men have changed, and they have. We can say, oh, you know, men have changed, but they have. We can say that modern times dictate what we believe about God, and they do. However, we cannot say God has changed one iota. God has not changed one iota. God did not change in 612 B.C. and has not in 2014 A.D. How was it 2,626 years ago today? How was it? Well, God was the same. God was the same. God did not change anything about Himself. 2400 years ago, God said, for I am the Lord, I change not. Malachi 3.10 or 3.6. God doesn't change to satisfy the rich, neither the poor, nor any in between. He doesn't change. God is as sovereign today as He was 2,626 years ago. Turn with me to Psalms 115, if you would, and we'll try to get as much of this in as we can. Psalms 115, in verse 3, He says, But our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased. Yeah, and also in Psalms 135, few pages over, in Psalms 135 in verse 6, he says, Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven and in earth and in the seas and all deep places. Also in verse 13, Says the name, O Lord, endureth forever, and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations." God has not changed. He remains the same. David said the preceding that I just read to you, David said that nearly 4,000 years ago. I'm preaching the same thing to you today. I know that it doesn't go very far, but it's still the truth. God is the father of all of his children, chosen before the foundation of the world. They say today, God is the father of all men. I'll tell you, I hear that so much. God is the father of all men, all men, their brothers and sisters in the Lord. That's not true. There's no truth to that. None whatsoever. I mean, you know, it's amazing how people can stand up and preach that. It's all untrue. Yes, man has changed, but the Father has not changed. Not at all. Christ was the same back then. Folks, let me tell you, I don't have a spot of antinomian blood in me. Not one speck. I don't have one speck of Armenian blood in me. You better not say I have. Because I'm going to get upset with you. Don't accuse me of being an Armenian. Don't ever do that. Christ has not changed anything about Himself. The Apostle Paul preached over 2,000 years ago. Jesus Christ is saying yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13.8. He is still saving all who will come to Him. He came to the earth for one purpose, to save those given Him by the Father and to establish a church where He meets with them every Lord's Day. That's what He did when He came here. That was His purpose for coming. He hasn't changed. The preceding has not changed. It's because you hear people say things are different today. Yes, they are different because man has changed. But the Father and the Son have not changed. Number three, the Holy Spirit has not changed. You have people today say, well, the Holy Spirit wasn't even in the Old Testament. Don't tell me it wasn't. I'm going to show you here. Solomon spoke. Look in Psalm 72. Back over there. I turned away from Psalms like I normally do. But go back to Psalm 72 and I want to show you something. Psalm 72 and verse 17. His name shall endure forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun and men shall be blessed in him. All nations shall call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be His glorious name forever, and let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen." Solomon spoke those words 3,500 years ago. The Shekinah glory filling the whole earth. 3,505 years ago, The Shekinah glory filled the temple. Let me tell you, you know, they say, well, the Holy Spirit was not the same in the Old Testament as He is today. But He is. It's not changed. Nothing has changed. It's still the same Holy Spirit. 1,977 years ago, the Shekinah glory filled the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sure did. On the day of Pentecost, it filled the Lord's church in Acts 2, verses 1-4. Today, the same shekinah glory is filling God's children and Landmark Baptist Church, and Memorial Heights Baptist Church, and Eller Grove Baptist Church. And you pastor, don't you? Up in, what's the name of it? Medthor Baptist. Medthor Baptist. I can never think of that name. Medthor Baptist. That ain't changed a lick, has it? Men today preach a different spirit, which is not the Holy Spirit. Why? Man has changed, but not the Holy Spirit. Salvation has not changed, not changed one drop. I told you there's not a drop of antinomian blood in me. I believe the Old Testament saints were saved just exactly the way I was saved. I believe they saved looking for something to happen, and it happened, and I'm saved because I look back and I believe it happened. Yes, sir. It hasn't changed. 3,262 years ago. Now, y'all can check behind me on these numbers if you want to. 3,262 years ago, Jonah declared salvation of the Lord. 3,262 years ago, Jonah was made by God to go and preach to a city called Nineveh. He preached 40 days, and Nineveh was to be overthrown. He spoke only eight words. And God used it to save a whole city. Eight words! You know, we preached our messages. And nothing is accomplished. Sure we do. We get up and we think, us preachers think, if we don't preach as long as Charles Spurgeon, we're nothing. Well, you ain't going to preach as long as Charles Spurgeon because nobody's going to sit and listen to you. Charles Spurgeon never preached a message under three hours. I was telling somebody here a while back, They used to have Bible conferences in Charles Ferdinand's day. They would have it for a whole week. He only allowed his preachers to preach 30 minutes. That's right. But he preached 30 minutes in between every one of them. That's right. He preached a 30-minute message in between every speaker they had for a week. I mean, people sit through that. I have people complain because we have too many preachers, they say. Well, let me tell you something, folks. Salvation has not changed. Jonah's message had the hen of blood in it, and the whole city repented and covered. That is a picture of the blood of covering sin themselves with sackcloth. You know, the word covered In the Hebrew, it means to hide oneself. And that's what they did. They covered themselves with sackcloth as a picture that the blood of Jesus Christ had covered them. That's the beauty of it. That's something just like the song you sung, Brother Bubba. Nothing has changed, for in salvation today, one must repent and his sins be covered, that is, hid by the blood of Christ. You might say to me today, my favorite Armenian preacher doesn't preach it like that. He has a more loving way of preaching. He believes that God loves all men and all men have an opportunity to be saved. Some might say today, my church believes it is too cruel to preach the shedding of the blood of salvation. Did you know that the New Methodist hymnals have the word blood taken out of it? That's right. Go pick up a new Methodist hymnal and try to find blood in it. Same way with the repertoire of messages that the Methodist preachers are to preach today. They're not to mention blood. We live in a culture today that says that's not politically correct. Political correctness has destroyed us today. It has destroyed us, it's destroyed churches. You know, we come today, I tell you, I've had people be critical of me over the years because they tell me, they'll say, you shouldn't say things like that. I'm telling you, everybody knows my voice. I was over at the motel this morning, and I was the first one down there this morning. I got down there at six o'clock. get a cup of coffee and the lady was behind the thing over there. And I spoke to her when I went down and she said, are you Mr. Jackson? I said, I am. I said, how do you know I'm Mr. Jackson? She said, I talked to you on the phone yesterday and I know that voice. You know, they know it. They know it. What's wrong with the way people preach salvation today? Man has changed, the salvation has not. Number five, heaven and hell has not changed. Heaven and hell has not changed. 4,467 years ago, Abraham said, the Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house and from the land of my kin, which spake unto me. Nearly 6,000 years ago, Job said, it is as high as heaven. What canst thou do deeper than hell? And what canst thou know? Heaven and hell has not changed. Heaven and hell has not changed. My paper has. Yes, even Job spoke of two places called heaven and hell. Sure did, 6,000 years ago. 3098 years ago, Isaiah spoke of God and said he looked down from heaven. When we saw what he saw was the sanctuary of the Lord had been trodden down. That's what he saw. 3098 years ago. When God looked down from heaven 3098 years ago, he saw that The sanctuary had been trodden down. You'll say, how do you know that? Turn to Isaiah 63. I'm going to tell you how I know it. Isaiah 63. I preach from a different Bible than I carry with me. I have a hard time turning the pages. But Isaiah 63 in verse 15. It says, Look down from heaven, and behold, from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory, where is thy zeal and thy strength? The sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me are they restrained? Doubtless thou our Father through Abraham. Be ignorant of us in Israel. Acknowledge us not. Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer. Thy name is from everlasting. O Lord, why hast Thou made us to err from the ways and harden our hearts from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants' sake the tribes of Thine inheritance. The people of thy holiness have possessed it, but a little while our adversaries have trodden down the sanctuary." God looked down, what did he see? He saw the sanctuary destroyed. What does he see today? God help us preachers that we can keep it up, hold it up. God help us preachers that we can lift him up. And keep it like that. God help us preachers that we can preach into a people a strong truth that they will uphold the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because I'm afraid God is looking down today and he's seeing a lot of them have been trodden down by a bunch of Armenian pseudo-Baptist preachers. It's sad. It really is. You talk these two brethren right here. I came right from the same area they did, and I'm ashamed to say it, but I did. I came from the same area they came from. Yeah, I know there's a bunch of them. I've told our people, I said, we've dwelled a bunch of sound churches. I mean, you could go anywhere up there and find sound churches, but you can't do it now. You can't. That's sad. Do you believe the Lord is looking down upon the sanctuary of the Lord right now? What does He see? He sees those who trod and underfoot the blood, as the brother just said, trod and underfoot the blood of His dear Son, and the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. I tell you, the blood of Christ is thrown under the bus today, and the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is thrown under the bus today. I don't care what you think it is, it's thrown under the bus. Now I want to say two more things before closing. It's 36 minutes right now. I want to say two more things in closing. The truly saved still go to heaven. Boy, that's a blessing, isn't it? That's wonderful to know. I'm going on 71 years old, and I tell you, buddy, I'm living in my last few maybe days, maybe years. Well, you're further along than I am, Gordon. You might not make it tomorrow. The truly saved still go to heaven. I don't care if you are in the ICU. The truly lost still go to hell. Some might tell you all men go to heaven. Some might tell you no men go to hell. But man has changed and not God. Thank you very much.