Ep. 18 - David Miller: Encourager w/ Ed Romine | The Wrath of an Unpropitiated Lord
In this episode of the Line Upon Line Podcast, Mark Williams is joined by Bro. Ed Romine for part one of an interview about his friendship with Bro. David Miller. Ed shares how they met, how their shared disabilities strengthened their bond, and how Bro. David encouraged him in ministry. He also recounts taking Bro. David open-air preaching in downtown Dallas and reflects on his faithful preaching and encouraging spirit. The episode concludes with Bro. David’s sermon, “The Wrath of an Unpropitiated Lord,” from Malachi 4:1–3. Enjoy!
Bro. David Miller’s sermon: “The Wrath of an Unpropitiated Lord”, Malachi 4:1-3
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Ep. 18 - David Miller: Encourager w/ Ed Romine | The Wrath of an Unpropitiated Lord
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Line Upon Line Ministries podcast. I am your host Mark Williams. Lineupon Line Ministries is committed to the expository ministry of God's word for the life of the local church. On today's episode, we have a very special guest, Brother Ed Romine. Some of you may already recognize that name because it seems like everywhere you go and you bring up his name, everybody seems to know Ed. Brother Ed serves as the pastor of education and evangelism at First Baptist Church in Provo, Utah. He holds a PhD from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which is where I met him back in 2018. His emphasis is in historical theology and he wrote his dissertation and following uh with a book on the open air preaching of Charles Spurgeon which is a subject that shapes his own evangelistic open air ministry that he has there in Provo. Ed regularly teaches and preaches and engages in open air evangelism. uh he's also taught at some seminaries, Bible colleges and uh again just a wonderful brother and friend and he gives a unique perspective in his relationship with brother David Miller. So I know you're going to enjoy this interview. Uh it was a a rich interview. It was a long interview and so we're going to split this over two interviews. Part one will be on this episode and then we'll bring part two on episode 19. Also on this episode, we have another classic sermon by brother David Miller. This one's called the wrath of an unpropitiated Lord and it comes from Malachi 4:es 1 through3. Also, if you remember on our last episode, we announced the first book of sermons by brother David Miller, the doctrines of grace. Uh we have been overwhelmed by and encouraged by uh the support. Many of you have purchased those books uh whether in paperback or uh digitally on on Amazon. So, just want to say thank you. also want to ask if anybody has had the chance to read through it, if you would give a a review on Amazon, that would go a long way in spreading the word and uh putting it in front of other people, recommending it to other people as well. I'm also excited to announce to you that my next booklet in the God's Way series will be coming out in a couple of weeks. It is Handling Conflict God's Way. So, be on the lookout. We'll send out emails and updates on our social media when that is released. Before we jump into the interview with Brother Ed Romine, let me just encourage you once again, if it's been a while since you've checked out the website to go there and and see some of the new updates. If you haven't seen some if you've missed some of our previous podcast, you can find those there. Also, there's been some additional sermons added to the David Miller Sermon Archive. And so if it's been a while since you've checked it out, go to the website lineuponline ministries.com. I appreciate you taking out some time today and uh and and come and join me on the podcast. And um man, we've been friends what since 2018, something like that. 2017 whenever I you were already up at Midwestern, right? Um, and then I came up there in 2018 for the the residency thing. And uh, started working in the doctoral office and you were working in Spurgeon Library. That's right. At the time. That's right. Those were good. Some good days right there. They're starting to be a long time ago. I know. Yeah. That's almost a decade ago. Yeah, cuz this is 2026. Yeah. Yeah, man. cuz I graduated with my with my MD in uh 2016. Did my first THM through Southwestern in 2017 and then went up there to Midwestern in the fall of 2017. So yeah, we're coming up on uh you know almost nine years and so yeah. Yeah. Time flies. and you you've now gone off and and and finished your PhD. I I settled for the THM and and and uh had to back out, but um Yeah. And now you're over in now you're over in Utah. Where where are you serving now? Which church are you at? Yeah. And and I intend to stay here, Lord willing, for the rest of my life. I've got no ambitions to climb a ladder or anything like that. I'm the pastor of education and evangelism at the First Baptist Church of Provo. And uh I absolutely just love my people. You you just got to kind of sort of meet one. Uh they right I get the blessing of of uh living with church members and they help me out, help take care of me. And I told the church members that I live with uh you know, you're going to see your pastor sin. They they've got Yeah. See what what will and true repentance can look like. And you know, it's made them love their pastor more because they know how human it is. So there you go. I like it. We have a very loving, wonderful church. We have about 65 members right now. And uh we've got members from all over the world. Um, which you wouldn't think that being in Provo, Utah, which is mostly LDS. We've got about I'd say 13 nations represented. I haven't sat down and counted. Wow. And uh, wow. What are they all there for? What brought them to Pro? Various things. So, so some are students, students at UVU, BYU. Okay. Um, some some of them are just start starting businesses like we've we've got a sister from Myamar who's Lord willing opening up a law practice and uh uh to give one example um and then we have uh uh various business owners and things like that. And uh God God has been so good to our little church. We've also got former LDS and uh yeah, then we've got expats like me that are Texan and native Utons think I'm exotic. So yeah, especially with that uh that dialect, right, with that little drawing. Oh yeah. You know, uh, speaking of the names sake of this podcast, uh, David Miller and I used to understand each other just on a fellow country boy level. So, that's right. That's right. He called him Well, man, I I was going to say he called himself a country preacher and, you know, even though I've got a, you know, PhD and whatnot, I still feel like a country preacher. I'm happy with that. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Well, man, I I uh had no idea the providence of God would would lead me down here to to Tumbling Shoes after we moved away from Kansas City. And um where of course David Miller was a was a member here. and and uh and then knowing the connection with you after after I moved down here, you called me and you let me know, you know, hey, you're down there where David Miller's a member. And so, we've been able to uh to have that extra connection. And whenever uh he he passed away and I've I've stepped in to to keep Line Upon Line going, uh you you've been on the top of my list of of guys that I wanted to get on this podcast. So, I I really do appreciate you taking out some time and and love for you to just kind of share some of the stories you even shared with me before just, you know, how you met David and what he's meant to you and, you know, maybe a couple of, you know, uh, stories of of of, you know, how you've interacted with him. But, you know, other uh, you know, depending on how long that goes, we we that could be the whole interview. But if if we uh we have some time, you know, maybe we could just talk preaching, maybe we could talk about Spurgeon, you know, whatever. You know, that I know that's a big uh you know, big one for you since that was your dissertation topic. So, uh but anyway, I'd love to love I know a lot of people know you, Ed, just because you're have been around and and everybody knows Ed Roine, but that's what they're saying. That's what they're saying. That's what they say. So, I'd just love to hear from you, man. just let us know um you know how you met brother David and uh and we'll go from there. You know, I was thinking about that today just trying to make sure I got my facts accurate and to the best of my recollection. My first exposure to David Miller was watching the uh 20 uh the very first back in 2013 uh G3 uh panel discussion uh where he was on there with men like Vodie Balcom and and Paul Washer and others And uh I was uh really amazed by his uh panel discussion. And I thought, well, I'm going to listen to this brother preach. And uh David did his uh thing as a preacher, which very few men can do. Not only did he preach without notes, as you know, he uh recited his scripture passage from memory uh in the King James. And I thought, I' I'd like to get to know that brother. So, uh I did what I often do without any social grace. I just hit send on Facebook, sent him a Facebook friend request. It didn't take him long to add it. And uh he he and I originally started uh uh talking uh via that. I I managed to get a cell phone number uh because that was easier for him to communicate with me that way. and we struck up a friendship over the phone and I had told him about my civil policy and of course he I knew that he was also in a wheelchair. So, so we connected both over being physically disabled. And for those of you that are on YouTube, you can see that I'm sitting in an electric wheelchair much like David's. And um and uh David said, "You're a preacher. You ought to come to my expository preaching conference. invitation only. And uh so I went uh with with another dear friend of mine uh Taylor Cowan. I think you met Taylor before. Uh it sounds familiar. When what year was that when you guys came down to the the EPC? That would have been Oh my goodness. That would have been before we left for Midwestern. So at some point during my uh MDFTM time okay but okay David was there Hershel was there and and that was also my first exposure to Dr. Hersel York as well and um and uh he hit it off with both of them but especially with David and uh most of my friendship with David uh for the most part was over the phone because I didn't get many chances to uh travel to Arkansas. I never uh got to go to uh G3 uh back when he was invited. But uh there's one particular occasion that I think's uh unique to me and uh me alone and and my friend Taylor Paige Patterson who was the president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at the time uh reached out to me randomly and said uh do you have David Miller's cell phone number? I would love to invite him to chapel. So So of course I I gave him the cell phone number and I and I called David and I said, "Paige Patterson, uh, want you to come to chapel and and of course, brother David said, uh, Brother Ed, I would be delighted and I have a message for you. Uh, I want you to tell Paige. He said, "Old Page, I want you to tell old Paige." Old Paige. Yeah. I I am coming to correct his deficient theology. Oh. On the atonement. And I said, "That sounds like David. That sounds like that sounds just like brother." Yeah. And I said, "Okay, but you preach my funeral if I get shot." Yeah. And and the next time I had a meeting with Paige Patterson, I did indeed deliver that message. And oh my, how did he take that? Oh, he thought it was the most hilarious thing in the world. You said you said uh David Miller is one of my most favorite Calvinists. And of course when when David preached uh he he said that to the uh entire chapel body as well. And um and so while while David was in the DFW area, um I told David on the phone, um I would love it one day if if you could come out open air preaching with me. I don't know how we would do that, but but we would try to make it happen. Well, uh, when he was, uh, out there, uh, to preach a chapel in Fort Worth, uh, God in his goodness and providence, uh, allowed it to be so that my pastor at the time, Brother Doug Helms, had a van with with a wheelchair lift on it. Uh, brother Doug's uh, one of brother Doug's son uh, was t-boned by a semi and is permanently uh, wheelchair bound. And so because of that, he had a vehicle that was uh, big enough to transport David pretty easily. Yeah. And so we worked it out to where Pastor Doug uh, myself and and uh, Brother David all rode uh to Dallas together because uh we always preached in downtown Dallas at a certain night of the week and it just worked out to where that could happen. And brother David Miller got to open air preach in downtown Dallas to a bunch of people uh that were listening. So, if you can imagine David Miller, who who's an an old man with a with a mic set up, just preaching the gospel uh from memory, uh nothing in his hands. He got so many people looking and listening. And I bet and that that's that's one of my claims to fame, I guess, is I I got to uh take brother David Miller out open air preaching and I remember I told that to to a mutual friend of mine and David's Paul Washer and and Paul Washer uh he he exclaimed praise the Lord I'm so glad David got that experience you know that made brother Paul really happy as well so um Yeah. And then uh that was the one time that David got to hear me preach as well. Uh was was in the open air that night in Dallas. You got to do a little bit yourself. Oh yes. Oh yes. We let David go first, you know. Senor, but uh but u Yeah. But uh you know, he he gave me amens throughout throughout that sermon. Yeah. and uh he said, "Brother Ed, uh uh you're called to preach." And I'll never forget that. That's that's one thing. Yeah. I miss those amens. He He was Man, those amens from David were were encouraging. Yeah, he was he was always very very encouraged. Yeah. One of them that I never ever forget was when my mom died in 2023. Yeah. January 19th, 2023, David was one of the first ones to send me a voicemail. And um you know how it is when a loved one dies. you know, everybody everybody in the world's, you know, trying to cheer you up and and be an encouragement to you. and um he is one of the ones when his name popped up uh in in voicemail. I listened to him and um he he was already weak but by that time I think in 2023 January he had already pretty much quit most or if not all of his preaching. Yeah. But he had enough strength to encourage me. Yeah. So, uh, with that said, David's number one gift, I think, was encouragement. Uh, he was an encourager of the brethren, and that came out in spades. when he couldn't preach anymore. So, I want to be like David when I grow up. That's right. So, yeah. Yeah. I say the same thing, man. One day when I grow up, I want to I want to be just like David. Yeah. Yeah. So, and um you know, I'll tell you too um David really influenced my preaching style uh more more than I probably realized. Um, one of the hallmarks of his preaching is very simple outlines. Um, you know, he he will he'll give you his outline up front and then he just walks through it. And um if you listen to my preaching, I tend I tend to do uh very much the same thing uh w without thinking about, oh, this comes from David or I'm trying to sound like David or be like David. Nobody could ever be like David. Uh that was my first point. Did you like it? Well, here's the second point. Here's the second question. Forget that one. We're moving on to the next. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that that was that was part of his charm. But but he embraced in spades the the country preacher uh attitude and and it worked for him because he wasn't trying to be something he wasn't. So yeah. Yeah. any other man that uh that's one of one of the things I definitely miss about him is is that that encouragement and then his his influence there on on on preaching there. I've been listening to a lot of David Miller preaching over this last year and a half with line upon line stuff and and you can you can kind of just uh yeah it just listening to him and hearing from him influences the way that you you preach yourself. So, I can even catch myself saying things like, "Well, David Miller said this or I saying something like like that." Just trying to keep it simple. Right. Right. Um Yeah. Yeah. He had that kind of influence for sure. I'll tell you another time to go back to his gift of encouragement. You know, I've got nothing to hide or um you know, and I I've got no sense of embarrassment. So, I'll share this story. um you know having several policy I I often times uh will have certain things happen to me that doesn't happen to um most people because they're ablebodied. And I remember one specific time um I had um I was in my dorm room at Southwestern and and I almost fell my bathroom but that almost falling uh caused me to um you know wet my pants, urinate on myself and um you know nobody likes that you Every everybody normal abled body has that funny story where like you know they just couldn't get to the bathroom so they tinkle right. So but um for me uh when when stuff like that would happen it would always get me so uh down in the dumps because you know somebody else has to come help. it's not easy for me to clean myself up. And I just remember Sure. Uh I don't remember if he called me or I called him. But but either way, I just ended up talking to him, you know, sit sitting and you know, you're in soap pants. Uh just saying, "David, I'm so uh depressed right now." And uh he he's like he told me, "Brother Ed, sometimes you you've just got to know when to ask for help." And then he told me a story uh that I'm going to keep to myself. But uh David uh went through many of the same sorts of things. and um and um you know he he knew what it was like to be totally dependent upon others even more so than me right and um that's why I say he was just an encourager of the brethren uh particularly the dis the disabled brethren um Justin Peters and David Miller and I used to joke that that uh one day we need to we need to have a conference called the CCC uh the crippled Calvinist conference. Yeah, that'd be awesome, man. That would have been fantastic conference. I would have paid to go to that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And uh and uh what a lineup. Yeah. You know, and we uh we used to we used to, you know, say, you know, uh uh we we we we would let guys like uh we would joke and say uh we we would let uh other people come in on only if they identified or something like that. So yeah, identified as crippling. Yeah. Yeah. Because you know, in a sense, you know, and being being serious here, everybody is going to go through um the effects of the fall. Mine's right now and it's very pronounced, but looking at you, you know, you got a pair of these two. Uh that that's an effect of the fall. For those that are just listening, I'm I've got glasses on and I'm holding on to them and and I'm noticing brother Mark has has a pair as well. So glasses are are in effect or the need for glasses are in effect for the fall. And frankly, uh if if um if uh name your favorite athlete gets to be a 90 year old, uh chances are by age 90, that athlete that you love is going to be more disabled than me right now. M um because um I've been actively working on improving my health health going to the gym and stuff like that. Um but yeah, I've been seeing that on on on Facebook. You've been working out a little bit. That's good, man. Yeah. Yeah. Glad to see that. And I'm glad to have uh uh friends around me that don't mind taking me to the gym and helping me make sure that I can improve my health in that way. But the reason why I'm doing that is to be a good steward, not not to outrun the effects of the fall. Sure. Does that make sense? So yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Just because just because you have this disability doesn't mean you have to squander the the abilities you do have, right? Yep. Yep. And every disabled person on the planet has some sort of ability. Uh it it may be very very very subtle. It may not even be noticeable, but uh if they're alert and aware uh and especially if they know the Lord, they still have uh spiritual giftings that God is using. So, so yeah, that's uh what I would say about how I know brother David and the impact he's had on me. I I don't know him as well as other guests in terms of personal interaction and and the physical, but man, he's left an impact on me. So, yeah. Yeah. Well, and that's that's why I was I was um excited to get you on here is, you know, I we could talk to his friends over and over again and we will talk to more guys that may have known him for a long longer period of time, maybe spent more more time together with him, but uh you give a perspective that that other people just don't don't have. And uh you know I I appreciate hearing that uh hearing that perspective and and and getting to um you know hear about brother David in in different different scenarios that you know nobody else could share the stories you just shared. Right. Right. And to tell us about brother David. And so uh definitely appreciate you uh you sharing some of those. I know some of those were a little more personal. So appreciate you sharing that. Absolutely. Up next on this episode is a classic sermon by brother David, the wrath of an unpropitiated Lord from Malachi 4:es 1-3. Enjoy. Quite often I feel like I'm being launched into the ministry. I invite you to turn please to the Old Testament book of Malachi chapter 4. Malachi chapter 4 beginning at verse one. The title of my sermon today is the wrath of an unpropitiated Lord. Hail is the end result of the justice of an unpropitiated Lord. For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and the proud, yay, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch, saith the Lord of hosts. But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. And ye shall go forth and shall grow up as calves of the stall. Daniel Webster has said that the most solemn thought that can occupy the mind of man is our accountability to God. That God is judge. that this judge is just and that this just judge has the right to determine the criteria for the judgment. There is a day of reckoning. Behold, the day cometh. Some have asked why this theme has been neglected in our day. My response is the maid off Ponzi scheme of church growth which has caused us to resort to a methodology that allows us to bring in enough people through the front door to make up for all of those we're losing out the back door. All the while hoping that we can keep the scheme going so that no one finds out. But there is a day of reckoning that's coming. I would tell you that the userfriendly approach accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative has caused many to neglect this theme. And yet without a clear understanding of one's guilt before a holy God and our accountability to him as judge, there will be no fear of God. And where there is no fear of God, there is no humility and no contrition. And where there is no contrition of heart and spirit, there is no repentance with godly sorrow. And where there is no repentance with godly sorrow, there is no salvation. We are in need of hearing this theme declared again. We must be reminded that it was an oft repeated theme in the Old Testament. It was declared from the lips of our savior and the lips of his apostles. I would remind you that every great spiritual awakening in history has had this as one of the central themes. We shall be occupied with these solemn thoughts today. I only have two points in my sermon. First, I want you to see the destruction of the wicked announced. And number two, I want you to see the deliverance of the righteous assured. Under the first heading, the destruction of the wicked announced. I want to do three things. First, I want to talk about the reality of the wrath of God. Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven. This text speaks about a time yet in the future when the righteous judge of all men will pour out his awful wrath in vengeance toward the wicked and the unrighteous. I have selected the title of my sermon very carefully. I believe that a sermon title ought to be consistent with the text. Would you agree? I have had some titles that had nothing to do with the text. I believe this title, the wrath of an unpropitiated Lord, is consistent with the text. Let me remind you what propitiation means. Propitiation presupposes that God is just and that man is guilty before this just judge. Propitiation in the atonement of Christ had these two principles. One, in his atoning death through his sufferings from the bleeding hands and the thornpierced brow and the wounded side of our savior. these sufferings and this pouring forth of his blood, this sprinkling of his blood upon the mercy seat before holy justice caused the judge to cry out, "I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. And when holy justice was satisfied, the wrath, the awful wrath of justice was turned away. It was averted. Now, the doctrine of hell forces us to wrestle with great theological questions relating to the atonement of Jesus Christ. Let me help you to see how it works. The universalists and the Armenians are consistent on the front end. They both believe that in the death of Christ, he fully satisfied the claims of holy justice for all men of all ages. In the same way and without exception they part company on the end of the argument. The universalist and the Armenians. The universalists say that because Christ has satisfied the claims of holy justice that all men are going to be saved. Fairly logical argument. Would you agree? give the universalist their due. If holy justice has been satisfied, then necessarily and logically all men are going to be saved. The Armenian would argue with the universalist that the only way the propitiatory death of Christ is of any benefit to a sinner is if he believes on the Lord Jesus Christ. And I agree with the Armenian at that point. It It's all right. I I'm not through yet. None who do not believe will be benefited from the death of Christ. Now the theological difficulty for the universalist lies in a text like ours. We know that all men are not going to be saved. There's a day yet in the future when God is going to consign the souls of men to the bottomless pit and the wrath of God is going to be poured out upon them. This is a difficulty for the universalist. How can God be just if he on the one hand has exacted payment for sin in the suffering and in the death of his son and then turns around and requires double payment by sending the unbeliever to hell. Are you at least seeing what the difficulty is yet? Now, this will not stunt your growth. We may never come to full agreement on the answers to these questions, but we ought to at least know what the questions are. It'll be better in the judgment day if the Lord says, "You never did get it right." than for him to say, "You didn't even know what the question was. This position of the universalist puts God in an untenable position of requiring double payment for sin. Now, the Armenian tries to get off the horns of the theological dilemma by raising the question of sufficiency and efficiency regarding the death of Christ. And they argue like this that the death of Jesus is sufficient for all but efficient only for the believer. I respond to the Armenian by saying that when we view the atonement in light of God's eternal purpose and his decree. And when we view Christ's death as a fulfillment of God's eternal plan or as Peter declared in his Pentecostal sermon according to the predetermined plan and fornowledge of God ye have taken in Christ and crucified him. Is it a matter of sufficiency? Not at all. It's a matter of efficiency. Did Christ accomplish what God sent him to accomplish? Was it real or was it only hypothetical? Was it potential? Or was it particular? I don't know about you, but I like a redemption that redeems. I like a ransom that sets captives free. Amen. I like propitiation that satisfies justice. Not potentially, not theoretically, but real. Now, if it were simply a matter of sufficiency, all of us would be together on the issue. I like what Matthew Henry says about the sufficiency of the blood of Jesus. He said there is enough sufficiency in the blood of Jesus to save as many worlds of sinners as there are sinners in the world. That's a lot of sufficiency. That's not the question at all. The question is, has the wrath of God been satisfied for the non-elect? It forces us. We simply cannot get off the horns of this dilemma. If we would look into these things, we are forced to come to some conclusions about what we believe regarding the substitutionary death of Jesus. Did he die for all men without exception? If so, how can God whose justice has been fully satisfied for particular individuals, for all individuals? How can he now say, "Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and the proud, yay, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble." Well, let us ponder these thoughts. Now let me talk to you for a moment regarding the recipients of the wrath of God and the proud. Those who are arrogant in their attitude toward God. the proud Babylonian or rather Egyptian monarch Pharaoh. When Moses came to him and said, "Thus saith the Lord, let my people go," he said, "Who is the Lord? I don't know the Lord." He said to his task masters, "Take away the straw. Let them gather their own straw and produce the same tail of bricks. I don't know the Lord." Proud Sonakaribb came against Samaria and said to the men who sat upon the wall, "Don't listen to your prophets. Where are the prophets who have told you about God?" Their heads have been bashed against the walls. Your women with child have been ripped up. He came with tens of thousands against the people of God. Proud and arrogant. They shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch, but not only the proud, yay, all that do wickedly. In Psalm number 10, we are told this about the wicked. They hide in secret places to murder the innocent. Since 1973, by the most conservative estimates, there have been 45 million living, growing, developing innocent unborn children massacred in the abortion chambers. ers of this democracy, the American Civil Liberties Union, which is neither American nor civil, whose interest lies not in liberty but in lentiousness. attorneys who can dichotoize between their personal lives and their professional lives. in their personal lives they can declare that they are religious that they believe in Jesus and yet in their professional life defy everything that stands for God and righteousness. the wicked Baptist who make a profession of faith and join a Baptist church for business. Never come on a Sunday night. give no fruit of righteousness. Are y'all listening? Today, Southern Baptists number 16 million. And yet on an average Lord's Day morning, less than half of these will even bother to attend the house of worship. Today, if Ed McMahon were to be resurrected from the dead and walk down the aisle of this building and announced that 4 million Southern Baptists had won the sweep stakes, we wouldn't know where to begin to find them. Literally one out of four Southern Baptists are missing. Not just on the inactive role, missing, unaccounted for. and you as their pastor couldn't find them if your life depended on it. Many of them living in sin, proud and wicked. Number three, I want you to see the results of the wrath of God upon the souls of men. They shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. To this day in Palestine, men will dig a hole in the ground. They will gather the briars and the stubble. They will create a great fire with the effects of a furnace. It will quickly burn. It leaves the sides of the hole plastered and smooth. They then take their bread cakes and bake them on those plastered walls. Here our Lord says there's coming a day when the judge of all men's souls is going to pour out his wrath in vengeance upon the wicked. Not annihilation, not flung into the hory realms of non-existence, but everlasting destruction. When I hear the wicked call on rocks and hills to fall. When I see them start and shrink on the fiery deluge brink, then Lord shall I fully know, not till then how much I owe. The wicked are going to be destroyed. But now I want to take a few minutes to declare that the righteous are going to be delivered. But ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. Are there any country folk in this room today? I grew up out in the country. I have seen what a calf that's been shut up in the stall of the barn does when the farmer opens the gate and turns it out into the pasture. It runs. It frolicss. It romps. It jumps in delight. There's coming a day when the lame man shall leap as an heart. There's coming a day when some of you are going to have to give way so I can have my space. The son of righteousness is going to arise with healing in his wings. An obvious reference here to the preeminence of the Lord Jesus Christ. The sun is the dominant luminary in our solar system. All else revolves around it. The sun, the sun, what a delight. One of these days he shall return. But glory, glory, he's already arisen in my heart. He has already delivered me. Applied the bomb of Gilead to this sinful soul. Let's bow and pray. Our father, we thank you for this warning. Lord, I well remember those days when this warning came to my heart and to my mind. I remember those solemn contemplations that every soul will give account to God in the judgment that either heaven or hell awaits every man. Thank you Lord for the warning. It is a gift of grace that you have warned your people and thank you for the call of the spirit to believe upon the son of righteousness. In his name I pray. Amen. I hope you've enjoyed this episode of the lineup online ministries podcast. Uh particularly I hope you enjoyed the interview with with brother Ed and this sermon by brother David. Uh look forward to episode 19 where we complete the the interview with with Ed Romine. Uh where we focus in more on his open air preaching uh his dissertation and work with Spurgeon as well as other influences by David Miller in his preaching. Uh so be be looking out for next month's podcast to finish up this uh special interview. As always, if you have any questions or comments, uh you can always leave those in whatever media you're watching this, but you can also email me lineuponline ministries@gmail.com. Uh we'd be glad to hear from you, especially if you have any resources u from brother David Miller. if he came to preach at your church or uh you you have um any any kind of pictures or uh outlines or anything that that David had, we would love to receive those and if we don't have them already, we would love to be able to make those available on our website under the archive. Of course, you can also check out our social media on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, uh YouTube. Uh there's different sermons and and other resources that we post regularly to help encourage you in the expository ministry of God's word. Thanks so much for watching. God bless you as you continue to study and minister God's word line upon line.
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