versus free grace. And I thought
this was so well written by Robert Hawker, I want to begin this
morning's service with it. Free will doctrine, writes Robert
Hager, teaches that the success of God's eternal purpose of salvation,
the triumph of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and the effectual
work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration are all dependent upon the will
of the sinner. To those who have been given
an understanding of the gospel of free grace, The teachings
of free willism, others may call that decisionism, are repulsive
because they are so contrary to the scriptures which declare
this, the salvation is of the Lord, Jonah 2.9. The eternal purpose of the Father
to save a chosen multitude cannot be frustrated. I say amen. The redemptive work of Jesus
Christ by which he satisfied divine justice, finished transgression,
put away the sins of his people, made reconciliation for iniquity,
and brought in everlasting righteousness shall never be a failure. Amen. The regenerating power
of the Holy Spirit cannot be resisted. I say amen. That's a big word for make alive. He will make alive dead sinners
and grant them repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's the Scriptures that we
preach here. That's the Word of God that we
see in this book we call our Holy Bible. That's the message
that we preach every Sunday, Lord. Isn't that our prayer?
Psalms 86, verse 1, we read these words, O Lord, hear me. for I
am poor and needy. Christ came to preach the good
news, the gospel to the poor. Are you poor? You know, we look
at some of the pictures that we see around the world of third
world countries and we think, oh man, we're rich. And we are,
if we compare ourselves to the world. But we're comparing ourselves
to the wrong thing, aren't we? Folks, God is holy. So holy that He cannot even look
upon sin. So holy that when His Son, when
His only begotten Son, He who knew no sin, when He was made
sin, He cried out to his father, he
says, my God, did you imagine crying that out? My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? I wanted to lead into this message
with this song, I Need Thee. Do you need the Lord? Yes. I'm not talking about when you
first heard the scriptures The Lord called you out of darkness.
I'm talking about right now. Today. I've shared this with
you before, I believe. Kathy and I were on a trip. We were over on the ocean. I
think somewhere in the Monterey, Pismo Beach area, somewhere down
there. And cell service wasn't very good. The internet wasn't.
If somebody had Wi-Fi somewhere, we might have been able to get
it. Sitting on the beach, there's no Wi-Fi. And we wanted to do something. We had gone to several churches
throughout other trips. And we're always just really
disappointed with what we heard and saw when we went into the
building. Get up and walk out before services even started.
But this time, we just decided, you know, we're going to go over
and we're just going to We downloaded in one of the laptops a message
from Henry Mahan. And I heard a message of grace
that I needed to hear at that moment. And my point about bringing
that out is that God's people, we need him every hour, even
when we're on vacations. I missed it when I didn't come
to church on Sundays. I was like, This sin that's within
me, it's overwhelming me even more if I don't come to here,
if I don't join my brothers and sisters in worshiping the one
who saved me from that sin. You know why we come to the table
of remembrance? Because we need to be reminded
of it over and over and over again, don't we? We need Him
every hour. The only peace God's people have
in this world with this body of death. That's what Paul calls
it. Who's going to save me from this
body of death? I thank the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's who. We're turning to Christ. We look
to Him. When I got up this morning, I
don't know about you folks, but there's usually some place I've
got to go first. I needed to go. So I went. I needed to eat something. My
body was weak, so I ate. We need things, don't we? We
thirst. You know, you can go for a long
time without food. My mom quit eating almost a month
before she finally passed away. But as long as you keep getting
water, you can last. There's things we need. We need
food. We need water. In Luke chapter
10, our Lord gives us a scenario in which He uses to show what
is most needful of all. Are you with me in Luke chapter
10? Look at verse 38 with me. And now it came to pass. You
know why it says that? Because the Lord had purposed
it. Folks, our God is sovereign in
all things. When He purposes something, it's
going to come to pass, isn't it not? This was purposed of
God to come about exactly how we are going to read it. Now
it came to pass, it happened, as they went, that he, the Lord
Jesus, entered into a certain village, and a certain woman,
named Martha, received him into her house. Do you think that
was just an accident? Hey, you know, how lucky are we? That guy, Jesus, was just passing
by and he stopped by my house today. Two men pulled into our
parking lot out here yesterday, tried to proselyte my sister-in-law,
Susan. They wanted to share with her
their version of God in the Mormon tabernacle. Was that just by
chance? No. It was purposed. Purposed for a reason. It came
to pass exactly how God had purposed it to come to pass that when
He had entered into a certain village, a certain woman named
Martha received Him into her house. He had planned that before
the world began. He planned that you and I would
be here this morning. All of us would be exactly where
we are before anything was ever created. That's hard to grasp,
isn't it? That's like, oh, you sure about
that, John? Yeah, I'm sure. Scriptures tell us that. And
she had a sister, it says in verse 39, called Mary. That was purpose too. These two
women were purpose for a reason. We're gonna see that right here.
Which also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about
much serving, and came to him and said, Lord, dost thou not
care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore
that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto
her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many
things, but one thing is needful. Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Do you have a need? Are you a
sinner who needs the gospel, the good news? Oh, man, I hope
you are. I hope the Lord's got some sinners
here today, because I've got a gospel message for you. Christ
is our need. We come to the table of remembrance
to remember what our Lord has done for us. We need what He
has done for us. Because we know that in this
flesh there is no good thing. There's no ability for me to
save myself. I could walk down the aisle,
but that's going to do me no good. I could get in the waters
of baptism, but that's not going to do me any good either. I need
a Savior. Do you? Oh, I want to tell you
about our Savior. One thing is needful, verse 32,
and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken
away from her. Nothing, folks, is going to take
that good part away from God's people. Can anything turn the
hand of your God? Think about that. If anything
could, could you even call that God? No. Folks, the title God means
sovereign in all things. Everything. Not just this and
that, but all that goes with it as well. What is the one thing
needful? Do I need it too, is the question
I want to ask. Turn over to Mark chapter 2 if
you would. Mark chapter 2. If you've not eaten for a time,
your body begins to remind you, does it not? If you go without
water, the same thing, is that not right? I ask you this morning,
does your soul hunger? Does your soul thirst? You know
that woman at the well? You remember the story of the
woman at the well? She was a Samaritan. The Jews wouldn't have anything
to do with the Samaritans. They were like dogs. We don't
want to be around those. Dogs back then weren't friendly
pets like we have today. They were just animals we kept
around to clean things up, maybe protect us. They were like dogs. Yet that woman went every day
to the well, didn't she? Why? She and her family needed
water. She and her family needed water.
She came every day. Every soul comes from our mother's
womb, spiritually dead in trespasses and sin, full of guilt. You know
how I can say that? What do you think religion is?
Isn't religion a way to appease whatever your God might be, whatever
your imagination might be, every person that comes from their
mother's womb comes dead and trespasses in sin, and they know
it. They know it. They may not know
the depth of it, but they know it enough that they've got to
go find some appeasement to their God for it. Has your soul been
brought to the point where it has a need. Many there are who
have come to that point and go about searching how to satisfy
that need. It's called religion. And there
are two types of religions, works and grace. Works are anything
that have nothing to do with grace. That's a pretty wide picture. That's a pretty big thing. It's
what we call religion. trying to earn your way into
heaven, trying to do something good that will satisfy your imaginary
God. That's what the Mormons do. They
go out and work for their salvation. That's what all of the religions
out there do outside of the sovereign grace of God. It's the wide path
to destruction is the way the scriptures describe it. But there's
a narrow path that God has appointed for some to walk. And I say He's
appointed because they were chosen in Him, in His Son, before the
world began. That's why it's called an everlasting
love. It was a love that God had for
you and I, for His people, from before the world was ever created.
It's a love that will take us throughout eternity, forever,
praising Him and worshiping Him. in the presence of our Savior
Christ Jesus. It's called grace. Sovereign grace. It's the exact
opposite of works religions. You think that free will is works?
When you say, I made a decision for Christ, you're declaring
that your will, your free will, is above God's. In Job chapter
30 verse 17, the Lord inspired Job to write these words, My
bones are pierced in me in the night season, and my sinews,
my flesh, take no rest. In Lamentations 5 verse 5, we
read these words, Our necks are under persecution, we labor and
have no rest. We sing this song with these
words, Sin had left a crimson stain. I'll tell you, that stain,
it's a stain that cannot be washed away by sinful hands, but there
is a way. There is a way. Our Lord speaks
in Matthew 11, verse 28, says, Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. and
ye shall find rest under your souls. My yoke is easy, and my
burden is light." Is there a need in you today
to find rest? Are you tired? Are you tired
of the works that do no good in bringing peace to your souls?
Look at verse 15 through 17 of Mark chapter 2. Mark 2, beginning
at verse 15, we read these words, And it came to pass that as Jesus
sat at meat in His house, many publicans and sinners sat also
together with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many that followed
Him. So we see a picture here of publicans and sinners sitting
at the table with our Lord, commuting with Him, having a meal, fellowship. And then verse 16, we read this, and the Pharisees saw him eat
with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, how
is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? How
can this one sit with those who are so bad? When we, the ones
who have followed the law, when we are the ones who have gone
out and done this, when we are the ones who have gone out and
done that, how come he isn't sitting with us? No, he's sitting
with those who are unworthy. Boy, they sure thought highly
of themselves, didn't they? What do you think those sinners
and publicans were thinking of themselves at that time? Could
it be that I need something? I know what I am and I need something?
Hmm. Let's go on. Verse 17, and when
Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, they that are whole have
no, what? Need. What's the one thing needed
that Mary needed? She needed the physician that
she sat at the feet of. What's the one thing a sinner
needs? We need the Savior who has brought us to sit at His
feet. They that are whole have no need
of a physician, but they that are sick. I came not to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance. In Isaiah 55, verses
8 through 9, our Lord says these words, He says, For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. How can it be? How can it be
that God would choose this one over that one? That's what men
think, huh? Isn't that what comes to your
natural self? How could God choose that one
who's a sinner, that one who knows what he is, that one who's
unworthy, that beggar over there in the corner who's pounding
on his chest rather than this one who stands in the middle
of the congregation in his fine robes, who walks out to the doors
and feeds the poor? who walked down the aisle and
accepted Jesus into my heart. How could he? Isn't that what
we think in our natural self? I will have mercy, the Lord says,
on whom I will have mercy. That's grace. Folks, we're saved
by grace through faith. That means believing God. believing
that we're saved by grace and grace alone. And if you want
to mix that walking down the aisle and accepting Jesus with
grace, then you've destroyed grace. You've made your act,
your work, a part of salvation, and that's what free willism
is. My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither my ways your
ways. Sayeth the Lord, for as the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. That's God telling
us that. Do you believe God? Oh, I hope
and pray you do. Thankful. Be thankful to Him.
Because that face, that belief, is a gift from Him. not of works,
lest men should boast. There's only one way to wash
that stain of sin away, and it's not your works. Matthew chapter
7, verse 13-14, our Lord tells us this, He says, Enter ye into
the straight gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way
that leadeth to destruction. And I was telling you, I can't
remember what we were talking about, but you know how many
churches out there base their rightfulness, their salvation
on the size of their church? 2,000 people for each service. I've been to one of those churches.
I was conned into it on my best friend's wedding down in Vegas.
2,000 people for each service. That's 4,000 people in a two-hour
period. And their words are this, there
can't be that many people that are wrong. Oh, yes, there can
be. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. They're like this. They're like
a blind person or a person who's been blindfolded and told to
go look for something. feeling for things. Folks, I'll
tell you, a dead soul can't even do that. You can't reach over,
a dead person can't reach over and grab a bottle of medicine
on the nightstand. We're dead in trespasses and
sin. We must be quickened. We must be made alive to see
the glory of God in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. We come into this world sick,
blind, deaf, lame, dead, in trespasses of sin. Do you understand the
depth of your depravity? That's our biggest problem is
that we can't see our need. I'm okay. I can get by. My daddy taught me how to work
hard. We don't see the depth of our need. We think there's a little bit
of sin and it's easy to clean it up. All we gotta do is change
our ways, turn our life around, work, work, work. Folks, it's
not good enough. It's not good enough. Our God
requires holiness. He requires perfection. And there's
one who provided Himself as a substitute, as the substitute of His people.
We must be holy, and as it says in 1 Peter 1, verse 15-16, but
as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner
of conversation, because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am
holy. Job cries out in chapter 13,
verse 23, How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my
transgression and my sin. Do you see the depth of your
depravity? Do you see your need of a physician? Do you ask this
question? Well, if I can't earn it, if
I can't work it out myself, then how? Then can I be holy? Well, there is a way. Our Lord
tells us in John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. The truth is this, folks. Everything
about your flesh is sin. Sin is what we are. From the
top of our heads to the tip of our toes, and this flesh will
never get any better. Have you ever heard a religious
man stand in the pulpit somewhere and say, your life could be so
much better if you just turn it over to Christ. If you just
make a decision for the Lord. If you just show up on Sunday
for services, if you just get baptized, if you just do this,
your life will be so much better. Sovereign Grace Baptist Church,
Sovereign Grace preachers are the only ones I know in the world
that will tell you the world does not get any better. In fact, Scriptures tell us it's
going to wax worse. You know why it waxes worse for
God's people? All of a sudden we see ourselves
for what we are. When you see the truth of what
you are before God, you see the grace of God in sending His Son
to be our substitute. That's the wonder, that's the
joy. Everything in the world about
us will wax worse and worse until the Lord takes us out of this
world. We have only one hope, and that hope is to be in Christ.
In Him. in him when the covenant was
made, to be in Christ when the covenant was made between the
great three and one before the stars ever twinkled. God the
Father gave God the Son a people. God the Son said, I will cleanse
and wash that people white as snow to be in the presence of
God the Father for eternity. And God the Spirit said, I'll
call them and make them alive. I'll give those who are dead
life that they will hear and have ears to hear the Word of
God. We were in Him when He created
all that is. We were in Him when He walked
this earth perfectly in perfect submission to the Father's will,
perfectly obeying everything that the Father had given Him
to do. He was sent of the Father. We were in Him when He laid down
His life, when He bled there in the garden great drops of
blood. We were in Him when He cried
out to God the Father for His people, when He prayed for His
people. We were in Him when He was raised
from the dead to sit on the right hand of God the Father as the
all-powerful Jesus Christ. Folks, coming to Christ is not
a one-time event. Coming to Christ And then going
on your way is not the case at all. This flesh can do nothing
but sin. We need a physician every moment
of every day. I need thee every hour. Mary
did not just sit down and then get back up. She was sitting
continually. Where? Where was she sitting? At the feet of Jesus. Looking
unto Him. That's what was needful for her. Do you have a need? Why was she
sitting there? Because that's the only place
true rest is. Those men who showed up the other
day, they're required to do that. They're given little plates with
their names on it, who they're from. Put it on your chest, put
a white shirt on. We used to see them down in this
city on bicycles. Up here they drive around because
houses are too far apart, I guess. They're required to do that.
Those folks you see out here at the park, they got that little
stand with the Watchtower magazines on it. And they're required to
be there. I know this because I used to
work with them. And he told me. He goes, yeah, I gotta go down
this, I can't play golf on Saturday, I gotta go down at the park. Why? Because it's part of what
I have to do. Okay. There's only one place God's
people find true rest, and that's at the feet of Jesus, just like
Mary. His yoke is easy. He's fulfilled
the law perfectly for us. He's walked the holy walk. perfectly
for us, for all for whom the Father hath given Him. God humbled
Himself and became flesh, born of a virgin, that He might lay
down His perfect sinless life for us and pay the wages of our
sins. It says God will have mercy on
whom He will have mercy. Aren't you thankful He has mercy
on some? Maybe I'm one. This grace, this
unmerited favor, God's peoples receive as bristles of mercy. Why, you might ask? Well, here's
the reason why. Ephesians 2, verse 7, that in
the ages to come, He might show the exceeding riches of His grace. Isn't that wonderful? Is Christ
showing you the exceeding riches of His grace today? Is it fulfilling
your need? Oh, I pray that it is. I pray
that it is. That He is showing the exceeding
riches of His grace and His kindness towards us through Christ Jesus. Turn over to Psalm 27. Psalm
27. When the Lord of all glory comes
to one of His sheep, and in grace calls them from the darkness
that we have all walked in, shining His glory and the light in His
face of His Son, Jesus Christ, we come to sit at His feet and
rest in Him. Look at verses 1-14 of the 27th
Psalm. The Lord is my light. We're talking
about sitting at the feet of our Savior, the very one that
we look to for our need. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is
the strength of my life, and whom shall I be afraid? When
the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, come upon me to eat
up my flesh, they stumbled and fell, though a host should encamp
against me." And folks, this is not talking about people.
This is spiritual. When the wicked, that's me. That's me. In the flesh, the
wickedness of this flesh, when the wicked, even my enemies,
that's me. And my foes, that's me. When they come upon me to eat
up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Why? Because I have a Savior. I have a Savior who is righteous
for me. He is my righteousness. He's
fulfilled the need of my righteousness. Verse 3, though a host should
encamp against me, that's me. My heart shall not fear, though
war should rise up against me, that's me. In this will I be
confident. One thing have I desired of the
Lord, that while I seek after, that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life. To behold the beauty of
the Lord and the iniquity of His temple. For in the time of
trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion. In the secret of His
tabernacle shall He hide me. He shall set me up upon a rock,
do you see that? Who's the rock of scriptures?
Is that not Christ? And now shall mine head, verse
six, be lifted up above mine enemies around about me, therefore
will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yea, I will sing
praises unto the Lord. Hear, O Lord, when I cry with
my voice. Have mercy also upon me, and
answer me when thou sayest, seek ye my face. My heart said unto
thee, thy face, Lord, will I seek. Hide not thy face far from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou hast been my help. Leave
me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father
and my mother forsook me, then the Lord will take me up. Teach
me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in the plain path because
of mine enemy. Deliver me not over unto the
will of mine enemies, for false witnesses are risen up against
me, and such as breed out cruelty. I had fainted unless I had believed
to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait
on the Lord. Be of good courage, and He shall
strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. What are your needs this day?
Turn over to Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2. What are your needs this day? Mary was at the feet of Jesus. And the Lord said unto her, This
is what's needful. He said unto her, but one thing
is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not
be taken away from her. Mary did make a choice, didn't
she? She made a choice after God had given her life to do
so. Look here at verse 11. of Ephesians
chapter 2, Wherefore remember that ye, being in times past
Gentiles in the flesh, who are called on circumcision by that
which is called the circumcision of the flesh made by hands, that
at that time ye were without Christ. Being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of the promise,
having no hope and without God in the world, verse 13, but now
in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by
the blood of Christ. For he is our peace who hath
made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition
between us. Having abolished in his flesh
the enmity, even the law of the commandments contained in the
ordinances were to make in himself of twain one new man, so making
peace, and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body, by
the cross having slain the enmity thereby, and came and preached
peace to you which were far off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have
access by one spirit unto the Father, now therefore ye are
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens, with the
saints of the household of God and are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief cornerstone. One last point, if I may, turn
over to 1 Peter chapter 1. One last point. If God the Father has given his
people a son, and we read that in the book of John, If God the Spirit has called
this people unto the Son, if God the Son has paid the ransom
price for this people, if God the Father has accepted that
ransom price and raised His Son to sit at the right hand, the
hand of the Majesty on high, with all power and all glory,
can anything separate us from Him? And the answer is, I just looked up and I see people
smiling. That means you guys know, huh?
I'm not telling you anything new, am I? No, but the Lord's
Word sure is new mercies every day, isn't it? Absolutely not. Paul stated in Romans 8, verse
38. You don't need to turn there.
I think you're familiar with this. I want you over in 1 Peter
1. But in Romans 8.38, Paul writes it this way, he says, For I am
persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. Why was he persuaded? Was there anything in him that
he could trust in? Where was his confidence? Was
it in his own flesh? No, Paul said all those things
that he had done before the Lord called him was nothing but done.
So he had no confidence in that. Philippians 3.3 we read these
words, For we are the circumcision which worship God in spirit and
rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. So it couldn't be anything that
Paul was doing, is it? No. This is why we need our Savior. Not just yesterday. Not just
this morning, but right now, this afternoon, tomorrow, the
next day. I'll be back here next Friday,
worshiping my Lord again, will you? I'll be back here next Sunday,
because I need my Savior then, will you? Paul's confidence is right where
Mary's was. It's right where ours is. It's
a confidence in the one for whom we sit at his feet. We sit because
we rest in him. We rest in his works. We rest
in his faithfulness. We rest in his power. That's my need. What is yours? My need is I can do nothing of
my own. If left to myself, I will fall,
but God. God, who is rich in mercy, for
his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in
sin, hath quickened us together in Christ. By grace ye are saved,
and hath raised us up together to make us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. That's in Ephesians 2 verses
4-6. Here in 1 Peter, and again, I'm
still not in 1 Peter, why am I not there? Here in 1 Peter
chapter 1, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers, scattered, You know who the strangers
are? That's God's people. Strangers
in the world? Those strange Calvinistic people. Those people who call themselves
Baptists, but they preach a whole different thing than the Baptist
people preach. They preach of a God who's ruling
over everything, including men like puppets. Scattered throughout Pontius,
Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, all according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification, that
setting apart, being made holy of the Spirit unto obedience
in the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you
and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ according to His abundant mercy, the very
mercy we just read about a moment ago. that Paul was confident
nothing could separate us from, hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Folks, the fact that Jesus is sitting on His throne right now
is what we base all of our faith on. It was accomplished. God
accepted His Son's sacrifice for us. We are accepted in the
Beloved. Verse 4, to an inheritance. incorruptible
and undefiled, that fate is not away, reserved in heaven for
us, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein, verse 6, ye greatly
rejoice, though now for a season. If need be, ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptations, that the trial of your faith,
being much more precious than the gold that perishes though
it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor
and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, whom having not
seen, ye love, in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing,
ye rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory. When I first heard a message
on that scripture, sitting at the feet of Jesus, doing what
was most needed, and I can't remember exactly when that was,
but I know that since that first time I've heard that message,
I've thought to myself every time, this is what I need every
hour. We can't spend every hour in
God's Word We're literally sitting there with the book in our hands
reading. We've got families to raise,
don't we? We've got things to take care of in this world that
we walk through. Christ is always with us, folks.
As God, we know that He's standing there listening to us even when
we're just thinking about it, don't we? I heard about a man
who was hammering on a roof one time. And some people on the
other side of the building, he couldn't even see it. I heard
him crying out as he was hammering on that roof. Lord, don't let
me hammer my fingers. Keep me, Lord. See, that's talking
to the Lord all the time. And it doesn't have to literally
come out of this mouth. We can just think it, can't we?
Lord, thank you for giving that red light to me, because I don't
know what's down the road from it. I pray the Lord God Almighty
has given you a need. Because if he's giving you a
need, he's going to fulfill it for you as well.