Good morning. We can find our
seats, please. We have one announcement, and
just to remind you all, next Sunday we are having lunch after
church. So hope you all could be there. Thank you, Robert. That was the
gospel. Thank you. All right, now we're
going to take the hymn in the back of the bulletin. We're going
to sing that. If you all could please stand. How beauty, O, are their feet,
Who stand on Zion's hill, who bring salvation on their tongues,
and words of peace reveal. How charming is their voice! How sweet the tidings are! Zion, behold thy Savior King
He reigns and triumphs here How happy are our ears That hear
this joyful sound Which kings and prophets waited for And sought
but never How blessed are our eyes that
see this heavenly light. Prophets and kings deserted long,
but died without the sun. The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ. Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy. The Lord makes bare His arms,
through all the earth abroad. Let every nation now behold their
Savior and their God. May be seated, please. Good morning. Our call to worship
scripture reading will be on Psalm 40. Psalm 40. I waited patiently for the Lord,
and He inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also
out of a harrowed pit, out of a miry clay, and set my feet
upon rock and establish my goings. He hath put a new song in my
mouth, even praise unto our God. Many shall see it and fear and
shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man that maketh
the Lord his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn
aside to lies. Many, O Lord my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which
are to usward. They cannot be reckoned up in
order upon there be. I will declare and speak of them,
there are more that can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering, thou
didst not desire. Mine ears hath thou opened. Burn offering and sing offering
hath thou not required. Then said I, lo, I come. In the volume of the book it
is written of me. I delight to do thy will, O my
God. Ye, thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness
in the great congregation. Lo, I have not refrained my lips,
O Lord, thou knoweth. I have not hid thy righteousness
within my heart. I have declared thy faithfulness
and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy lovingkindness
and thy truth from the great congregation. Withhold not thou
tender mercies from me, O Lord. Let thy loving kindness and thy
truth continually preserve me, for innumerable evils have encompassed
about me. Mine iniquities have not taken
hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more
than the hairs in my head. Therefore, my heart faileth.
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. O Lord, make haste to help
me. Let them be ashamed and confounded
together that seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be driven
backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate
for a reward of thy shame that say unto me, aha, aha. Let all those that seek thy rejoice
and be glad in thee. Let such love thy salvation say
continuously, the Lord be magnified. But I am poor and needy. Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my delivery. Delivery make no tearing of my
God. Father God, we come before you
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to thank you, Father,
for such many blessings, especially the Lord Jesus Christ and what
he has done for us, Father. We thank you that we have a place
to hear your word, hear your gospel here, and have communion
with the brothers. We ask that you be with our pastor.
When he's preaching, Father, we pray that you may bless that
service, as well as bless all the services that your word is
preached, that your gospel is being preached, Father God. We
ask that your Holy Spirit be with us, especially today, especially
now, Father. We need your Holy Spirit to point
us to Christ. We need the Holy Spirit to fill
the speaker, Father, and may he glorify the Lord Jesus Christ,
because we need to be brought to him, Father God. In Jesus'
name we pray. Amen. We're going to sing number 158
in the Blue Archive, and you can all remain seated. Number
158. Come Holy Spirit and With all thy quickening powers,
Kindle a flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. Look how we grovel Fond of these early toys, our
souls, how heavily they go. to reach eternal joys. In vain we tune our formal songs. In vain we strive to rise. Hosannas languish on our tongues. and our devotion dies. Dear Lord and child, at this poor dying reign. Our love so faint, so cold to
Thee, and Thine to us so great. Come Holy Spirit, With all thy quickening powers
Come shed abroad a Savior's love And that shall kindle us I don't know of anything more
humbling than to have to try up here and speak the Word of
God. Unless He enables us, it's just
not possible. Turn with me, please, in God's
Word to Isaiah chapter 53. Isaiah 53. And as you're turning there, I was thinking about God gives
His people many gifts. But there are three gifts that
He gives to every believer. You can call them marks of a
believer. The first of those is every believer has a love
for Christ. No matter what our circumstances
may be, in our eyes, good or bad, Even the times when we feel
like we're down into the pit, like David, and the waters have
overwhelmed us, we still have a love for Christ. The second
gift is He gives us a love for the gospel. The gospel of God's
grace in Christ, it is our lifeline to Christ. I was thinking about
it, it's like a dead person hooked up to a breathing machine. The gospel keeps us connected
to Christ, and without it, I know that I would die, spiritually
die. And the last is, the Lord gives
us a love for His people. Whether they be in this room
or they be listening over the internet, we have a love for
them. We may not always get along as
sometimes brothers and sisters do, but don't let somebody else
talk bad about us. We love one another. It's not
just a feigned love. It's a true love, a caring love.
And I know my wife and I want to thank you for your love towards
us during these times we've had recently. We thank you very much.
Before I read this and I thought about this, I want us to see
two things. The first is, what does this
tell us about Christ and how He saves sinners? But I also
thought of a dear brother, Brother Henry. Brother Henry used to
say, the Old Testament tells us somebodies are coming. And
the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell us He's here
right now. Acts revelations always tell
us he's coming back again, and that's somebody's Christ And
that's what we have here. Isaiah is telling us that the
Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ is coming and He tells not only
she's coming. This is what he's going to do
but most importantly he tells us this is what he's going to
accomplish and I pray the Lord would bless it today and speak
the truth to our hearts and that we could see that the work of
Christ was for his people. He asked, as every gospel preacher
would ask, who hath believed our report? And to whom is the
arm of the Lord revealed? God has to reveal it to them.
For he shall, this is Christ, he shall grow up before him as
a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground, Christ hath
no form nor comeliness. And when we see Christ, there's
no beauty that we desire him. Christ was despised and rejected
of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we
hid as if we were our faces from Christ. Christ was despised and
we esteemed him not. That doesn't sound like very
loving people, does it? Surely Christ has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we did deem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. And the chastisement of our peace
was upon him. And with Christ's stripes, his
people, we are healed. All of us, like sheep, have gone
astray, we've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord
hath laid on Christ the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and
he was afflicted, yet the Calvary Christ did not open his mouth.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before
her shearers is done, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from
prison and from judgment. And who shall declare his generation?
For he was cut off out of the land of the living. And why was
he cut off, put to death? For the transgression of my people
was he stricken. And he made his grave with the
wicked and with the rich in his death, because he had done no
violence. Neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased
the Lord God to bruise Christ. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, Christ shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand. And Christ shall see the travail
of his soul and shall be satisfied, God shall. By his knowledge shall
my not righteous servant justify many, not all, for he shall bear
their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and
he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bear the sin of many,
and he made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah is foretelling us what
the Lord Jesus Christ is going to do in His earthly ministry.
He tells us not only what He's going to do, He's going to tell
him the price that was paid, and He tells us who He has done
it for. And I started to title this message,
What Happened at the Cross. And the more I thought about
it, I thought, you know, I'm not sure that's right. That's
just not right. And then I thought back and I
thought, you know, years ago I heard a, and I'll use it kindly,
a preacher preach a message on the cross. And he told everything
about the cross. And nothing he said could I have
said, that's not true. The problem wasn't what he said,
the problem was what he did not say. You see, he preached the
cross, and this is what they do in works religion, as a historical
event. He told all the events that happened
at the cross. And they were all true, but that's
not salvation. Salvation is what was accomplished
at the cross. And that's the title of this
message. What was accomplished at the Lord's cross in Jesus
Christ. And if God ever reveals that
to you, you've been blessed. You've been blessed. So this
morning I want us to look at that and I think I have four
or five things that was accomplished at the cross. The first one of
those being is the will of God was accomplished. God's will
always accomplished. Now, I can't speak for all of
you, but I'll speak for me. I struggle to pray, because I
don't know what to ask for. That's what the Lord says. But
I do know one thing, I can always pray. Lord, I pray that thy will
be done. That I know is good and right.
I can't judge what's good, but you know what, and I'm glad it's
done, Lord. No matter whether I like it or
not, I'm glad thy will is going to be done. And the cross was
the will of God. It was not an afterthought. It
was not a plan B when he saw things happening. It wasn't he
looked down the avenues of time and planned the God, the triune
God, planned the cross before the world began. Did God know Adam was going to
fall? Did he? Of course he did, he's God. Did
God cause Adam to fall? Absolutely not. The Bible says,
the term is meganoita, God forbid. God didn't cause it. He doesn't
cause you to sin or he doesn't cause me to sin. All God had
to do with Adam was what? Leave him alone. And the greatest
judgment God can put on any man, woman, or child is to leave them
to their selves. Even the believer. God, don't
ever leave me to myself. You know, God says, do not lead
us to temptation. Brother Greg said, Lord, if you
let me go into temptation, I already know the result. I'm going to
fall. Because of this old flesh, I'm
going to fall. But Adam, God warned Adam, didn't
he? Don't eat of the fruit. Don't
eat of the fruit. You eat of the fruit, you're
going to die. What Adam do? He rebelled against God. I don't
know, this is probably a poor example, but if you're a parent,
you had kids, you remember telling your kids, don't do that, you're
gonna get hurt. Don't do that, you're gonna get
hurt. I did that with my grandson recently. Don't do that, son,
you're gonna get hurt. And his mother finds it. Grandpa's
being nice, he's telling you to stop doing that. He kept on,
and guess what we hear sooner or later? He's hurt. Did I cause him to
get hurt? No. Did I know he was going to
get hurt? Yep. Same thing with God. Did God know Adam was going
to fall? Yes. But we know that God's thinking
is not like our thinking. God knew that the cross would
be necessary for the salvation of his people. And God the Father,
before the time began, elected, chose, predestined a people that
he was going to save. I like this term. Years ago,
I'm gonna tell you, there was a group of people in England,
they were called Particular Baptist. I like that term. And the reason
they were called that, because they believed God and Christ
ordained to save a particular people. Not everybody, a chosen
and elect people. But before time began, God the
Father says, I'm going to save a people out of his own good
will and pleasure, not because of anything in you or me. And oh dear Christ the Son, he
covenanted with God the Father that he would do everything necessary
for the salvation of those people. He would do for those people
what they could not do for themselves. And God the Spirit covenanted
with the other two to agree that in due time the Spirit would
come and make the work of Christ and God the Father effectual
in the hearts of His people. And that was done before the
foundations of the world. Revelation says Christ is what
the Lamb slain before the foundations of the world. We see the cross
God's will being accomplished the second thing we see at the
cross is God's justice being accomplished Now you probably
know this better than me. I've always thought I was kind
of warped. I Mean my mind's not right because at the cross there's
parts of the cross that scare me to death and There's parts
of the cross to give me great comfort and joy. I Often that
is where there's warnings and there's comfort. Cause when I
seen the cross, I see God's justice must be met. And at the cross, we see his
justice accomplished. God must punish all sin, every
sin. Not one sin can go unpunished. and high who is nothing but sin.
Lord, I'm in trouble. I can't do what needs to be done. And a part of this is that man
has a perverted view of law, and especially God's law. I tried
to describe this. Some of you maybe can understand
it. I'm a I'm not very bright, man, I'm a simple man. And simple
things I can understand. But I was trying to teach the
children and I said, let us say you were driving in a car and
the speed limit was 30 miles an hour. and you were driving
and all of a sudden you see lights flash on and the sirens go off
and they pull you over and the police officer come to you and
say, do you know why I pulled you over? No, well I caught you
speeding, you were doing 31 in a 30 mile an hour zone. What
would be the reaction of everybody in this room? Are you kidding me? You're doing what? You're pulling
me over for going 31 in a 30? You must be out of your mind.
Haven't you got something better to do? That's a true statement,
isn't it? And my guess is every one of
us would try to fight that ticket in court, demanding justice. And we would use the same excuse
sinners use to God's law. Well, why did you pull me over? People are passing me. They're
breaking the law more than I am. You should let me go. Or, I was
just one mile on over. You ought to have some mercy.
See, they have a perverted view of law, don't they? Were they
guilty? Yes. Did they break the law? Yes. Did they jerve judgment?
Yes. But they think they should have
mercy. God's law. There's no mercy in God's law.
It's exact. It must be fulfilled completely
and totally every single time. And God's justice must fall.
God cannot be God without justice. and every sin must be punished. And if you and I stand before
God in the day of judgment with but, and this is not true, but
with one sin on our record, God has just as demands that we be
cast into the pit of hell. There is no mercy in God's law. There is no forgiveness in God's
law. It is exact and it must be had. Is God's law good? Yes. His law's good. But the problem is for me is
I can't keep it. And when I see the cross, I see
a hopeless case for me. I can't keep his law. I've never
kept his law. I'm not keeping it right now.
I won't keep it till I draw that last breath. I am in trouble. And I can do nothing for myself. See, man in religion keeps thinking,
well, I'm better than others. I'm doing better than others.
Surely God will say, or I'm really close, you know, I just barely
tweak the law. Surely God will have mercy on
me. No, God says guilty. And for those who sometimes,
you know, there's a group that says, well, we're saved by grace, but we
live with the laws of rule of life. I can say to you, anyone
that says that does not understand God's law. I don't want to be
under God's law. Because I know it's a hopeless
case for me under God's law. All I can do is condemn and be
sent to hell for God's law. Oh, praise be God, I need a substitute. I need a substitute. I need a
substitute. There's no salvation in the law.
That's why I say if someone says, well, what about God's law? I
need somebody to keep it on my behalf because I can't keep it.
And maybe I'm, like I said, I'm a little warped. Lord, we want
to do right by God, but Lord, I'm telling you right now, even
what I'm doing right now, I am guilty of breaking God's law. I don't want to be, but thank
God. At the cross, we see that God's law is accomplished, and
it won't be bent for anybody. It wasn't bent for his dear son.
You know it ain't gonna be bent for you or I. It must be, and
it must be executed or God can no longer be God. We love a just
God. Job asked the question, How can a man be made right with
God? That's a good question. And the
religious like to ask, well, how can God be just and justifier? The third thing I see at the
cross is the accomplishment of sin forgiven. Sin was forgiven
at the cross. You want to know what God thinks
of sin? Look at the cross. I am so thankful that God does
not show me my sin in its entirety. I don't think I could take it.
It's too evil, it's too great, and it's too severe that I am
that vile as I am. But the Word of God says that
the cross, he who knew no sin became sin. He who knew no sin
became sin. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, the other day I was just looking at something and there's
a great debate. Like I said, I'm not a very smart
man, so I'll leave that alone. All I want to know is what does
God say? What says Scripture? But there
are many out there saying that, well, Christ could not become
sin and remain God. words the imputation of our sin
to Christ was not real it was just a symbolism I Don't know
if you've ever heard that or not. It's just symbolic and My
reply to them always Was God's wrath when he punished that sin
was that symbolic? I Don't think so. Do you Adam
when he poured his wrath on his dear son? It was as real as could
be. I The only way you or I or anyone
could be justified before the Holy God is Christ to take on
our sins. He didn't just as a jester take
them, they became his sins as if he committed them. And that's
why we can say, who killed the Lord Jesus Christ? You're looking
at him. Oh, the Romans did the acts,
but it wasn't that. I killed him. And he had to be
killed if I was to be saved. Christ took on the sins, and
here's where the gospel and false religion rubber hits the road,
they fork. And that's the question we asked
this morning. Whose sins did Christ take on? There's a works religion and
most people today, they would tell you that Christ took on
all the sins of all mankind. That's the predominant thought
throughout the day. And if that were the case, if
Christ took on all the sins of mankind and God punished all
the sins of mankind, how foolish it is to talk of judgment in
hell. Because who has to be in glory if that was true? Who would
be in glory if that were true? Everybody. Universal redemption,
that's what it's called. Everybody has to be in heaven.
Because if God did that and punished one soul in the hell, God would
have punished sin twice. Once in Christ, once again. That's
a God we couldn't trust. That's why I say, that's not
just a minor tweak in the distance, that's blasphemy. That's a denial
of God's justice and that's a denial of Christ as God and Savior.
That's why we cannot take that, that's not lightly. That's another
gospel. But oh, for thus to whom Christ
did die, those chosen, those particular people, the people
of God, Christ took our sins at the cross he effectually bore
Everyone that's what it says here. He bore our transgressions
and by his stripes we are healed Now I can't fully understand
that But oh, I'm thankful for it Because he did for me what
I couldn't do And God became both just, was
God just as executed? Absolutely. And yet he was justifier
at the same time. The cross was ordained of God
and it was accomplished, the forgiveness of sin. And Jesus,
what did he tell them on his earthly ministry? For this cause,
I came into the world. Christ came into the world to
go to the cross. And how do we know he took on
their sin? Because what did God say? He
never opened his mouth. And why didn't he open his mouth?
Because he was guilty. He was guilty. Now there's some
that will argue that, and all I can tell you, if he wasn't
guilty, then I have no hope. Because that means he took on
my sin, my guilt. And he bore them in his body.
And God poured out His wrath on Him at the cross. You remember
the words of the Lord, Father, why hast thou forsaken me? At the cross, God the Father
turned His back on His Son because of our sin, that it became His
sin. He was alienated from God as
He poured out His judgment and His justice was executed. We looked at that, we said, the
next thing I see at the cross, that He accomplished the salvation
of His people when He said, it is, those are sweet words, it
is finished. It's finished. So He didn't say,
I've done my part, now it's up to you. Thank God He didn't. It's finished. We see that the
cross was a finished work, ordained of God before the world began.
And everything, everything necessary for our justification was accomplished
by the Lord Jesus Christ. Always like Brother Todd, he
always said, justification, just as if I'd never sinned. And that's
how we are in Christ. It was a finished work. God's
law was satisfied. and God remained both just and
justifier. I sat there and I said, only
God could come up with a plan of salvation like that. Man can't
come up with it. They try, but they can't. That
his justice could be upheld and yet he could justify his people
at the same time. That all took place as an accomplishment
at the cross. Aren't you glad it's finished?
Sin was atoned for. He saved His people. He didn't
make it possible. He saved His people. And if we
add anything to that, cursed be us. That's what Paul said. If we
add anything to the gospel, cursed be us. No, it's finished. My hands are clean. I don't know
about you, but I am so thankful the salvation of my soul is not
depending on something I do. I can't tell you what freedom
that is. That's freedom. That Christ who
cannot fail, God the Father who ordained it, God the Spirit who
committed and didn't know He was going to accomplish what
they wanted, made it effectual. Even a vile sinner like me can't
stop God from saving me. That's good news to me and it
gives me great freedom. And the last thing I see accomplished
at the cross is that God accomplished getting his glory. The cross is all about God's
glory. It's not about you and me, it's about God's glory. Because everyone for whom he
died, I'm looking at him now. Who are you going to give the
glory to your salvation to? You're going to give it all to
God. Because you know it was he and he alone that accomplished
your salvation. In spite of you. In spite of
you and me. He saved me years ago. Susan
and I, we don't smoke. I can hear one of those preachers,
Lord, save me, save me from myself. That's Harper, save me from myself.
I'm my own worst enemy. But all the glory, all the glory
of our salvation goes to God and His people like it that way. We like it that way. I can't
tell you what a joy it is in my heart to be able to say, Michael, you don't... Look to
Christ. Michael, look to Christ. How many times is your heart
telling you, well, you know, if you was a Christian, you wouldn't
have been doing that. Look to Christ. No, I'm not the
one. Look to Him. That's my salvation. And He never fails. He never
fails. I can say that with certainty.
And only the believer knows what was accomplished at the cross. Because there's people that everyone
in so-called Christianity can tell you what happened at the
cross. Even non-Christians can tell you what happened at the
cross. But God's people know what was accomplished at the
cross. And He pray He'll give you the
faith to believe it was for you and for me. This is such a great,
it can't be changed. God's not gonna say, well, I
think I've changed, but that's not the way it is. And of course,
everybody said, well, then you're just gonna live like I already
live a life that I'm not proud of. Why do you think I'm gonna
get any worse than I am? This old flesh, thank God he restrains
me. The only hope I have from being
the most evil human being in the world is God's restraining
grace. I want to close, well, two things, but I want to close
with this thought. Brother Burton, he sang a song
a few years back, we sang it sometime, called, Deeper Than
the Stain. Deeper Than the Stain. There's never been a child of
Adam and Eve been born that the saving blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ is not capable of saving. He can go deeper than any stain. And I mean the stain of the most
wicked, vile people that have ever graced this earth. Christ
is capable of saving them. All we ask is, Lord, would you
be willing? That's what we plead for our loved ones, don't we?
Lord, I know you can save them. I don't doubt that. You saved
me for God's sake. I know you can save them. Lord,
oh, I plead with you, would you be willing? Lord, because all
you have to do is speak it, and it'll be solved. And I know that
if you're willing, they're going to be saved. That's what we plead
for our loved ones, and we plead for everybody, don't we? I'm
going to close. This is just, there's old Rachel.
She's my friend. Always, Rachel, some days told
me, Mr. Etheridge, you've got a story
for everything that happens. I didn't know whether to be complimented
or shamed. It was a little of both, I think,
because I wasn't sure. But I'm going to try to do this,
because this blessed me, and I hope it would bless you. I've
told it before, but I can't get it out of my mind. As you get
a little older, some of you don't realize, especially all these
young people in the front row, both sides, the reality of death becomes
clearer and clearer. I'm going to die, I know that.
I'm gonna tell you right now, you're going to die. Only God
knows when. My life could end this day, for
only the Lord knows. But death is coming. And the
good news for the believer is, is we're not afraid of death.
In fact, Lord, if you come today, thank you. But I thought about
this a lot and I hope, I'm gonna say this publicly, I've told
my family this, they're kind of, Dad, don't start that. I
hope Brother Greg lives longer than I so that he can preach
my funeral. And I said, this is one of the
things I want said, this is the thing. There was a man by the
name of William Carey. He was a particular Baptist from
England. And I always laugh, because there's
a university named after him, and they don't have any idea
who William Carey is. If he preached there today, they'd
run him out of that university. But God put it in his heart to
go to India. And at first, his wife didn't
want to go, because she was pregnant with their child. But, you know
us men, we're slick talkers. He talked his sister-in-law to
go with him, so she went. And they all went to India, and
they were astonished when they got there of the poverty. and
the hard times in India. So they landed, and boy I think
of Walter and Betty when I tell this stuff. They didn't speak
the language, it was Bengali. And William Carey learned the
language, and he learned it well enough that he translated the
word of God into Bengali, and the Lord blessed the ministry
there. Well, as soon as word got out to the so-called civilized
world, and it's hard to believe this was news in England, guess
who came flocking? All the false religions. Oh,
we got to get down there. We got to get our piece of the
action. You know what I'm saying? And they got down there, and
when they did, of course, the first thing they had to do was
what? Get rid of William Carey. Because he preached the gospel
of God's grace in Christ. that God chose a particular people
and He saved a particular people. He didn't die for everybody.
And they did. They run him off and he went
back to England. And people wanted to know because they had heard
about God's work there. The man came to William Carey,
a reporter, and said, Dr. Carey, I guess he had his sweater,
said, when you die, What would you like your legacy
to be? We hear that term a lot with past print. What would you
like to be said at your eulogy? And this is my hope. He said, dear man, when I die,
don't tell them about William Carey. You tell them about William
Carey's God. And that's my hope. When I die,
don't say anything, because there's nothing worthy of me to be said
about. Don't tell them about Michael Etheridge. I pray you
tell them about Michael Etheridge as God. That's what they need
to know. They need to know Michael Etheridge
as God. Knowing me is no benefit, probably a detriment to them. But we're so thankful. that the
Lord has revealed to us what He accomplished at the cross
of the Lord Jesus Christ in saving His people. And thank God He
did. Thank you for your time. Eternal love, electing grace,
secured for me in heaven a place. Chosen from all eternity, the
Son of God by blood bought me. The Spirit came in sovereign
power, At the exact appointed hour, Revealing Christ, creating
faith. My soul be quickened from its
death, Now I rejoice in sovereign grace. My sovereign God shall
have my praise. Praise God for grace. Praise God for grace. Sovereign, eternal, saving grace. Amen. Thank you.