Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth, simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

Take your Bibles and turn to Deuteronomy, chapter five.

And in a moment, we're going to look at verse 29.

But let me tell you about a funeral that took place some years ago.

It was a very unusual funeral.

The coffin was draped with the folds of old glory,

and the President of the United States of America

was there at that funeral.

The President's cabinet was all there.

There were dignitaries from the Congress and from the Senate.

There were representatives from all over the world that had come to this

funeral. And if you had been a stranger and walked up and had not seen the president, you would

have thought that perhaps it was the president himself whose funeral was being held. And you have to ask yourself whose body was in

that casket because he'd never really sculpted a great piece of art. He had never written a great book.

He certainly wasn't a war hero. He was a man who was in the Foreign Service, and he had died in Tripoli, and they buried his body in Tripoli, but by common command and consent, they disinterred his body and brought it back to the United States for a very special funeral. They sent a United States man of war to go pick up that body

and to bring it back on that vessel.

And when the man of war came back to the United States,

there was a band playing to greet the arrival of that body,

and great guns boomed in the air.

And there was a parade, and all of the flags in the

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