Fr. David had made mention to
you about Eric's dad having to stop. It might be beneficial
to you if we tell you about his dad and mom. Most of you are
aware of the fact that Fr. Eric Richards is Walter Gruber's
grandson, his mother Desta, Walter and Betty's daughter. After she
and James got married, they were in the church at New Caney, where
Brother David Edmondson is pastored now, where Jack Shanks pastored
for many years. And while Jack was there, I normally
went down at least once or twice a year to preach for the folks
at New Canaan. And James didn't come. He had a bad accident, a swimming
that left him severely crippled, and he still has difficulty walking. And he got mad at God, didn't
go to church for years. Never came to any of the services.
Never came. And of course, I've known the
boys since they were just babies. And one Sunday morning, I was
down there preaching. I'd been preaching several nights
through the week. And on Sunday morning, James
got up and told Desta, said, get me a suit. Now, you've got
to know Desta to appreciate this. She grabbed Eric and Tyler in
the kitchen. She said, now boys, don't you
do anything to upset your daddy. He's going to church with us
today. And God got him. And he's been
there ever since. God does move in mysterious ways
to scatter those handfuls of purpose by which he graciously
brings his elect to himself through faith in our Redeemer. But has
the Lord God told us what he will do? Has he plainly told
us in his word what he has sworn to do? He has indeed. Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
45, and I'm going to show you from the word of God five things
God has sworn to do. Before time is finished, before
this world is consumed in a ball of fire and made new, there are
five things specifically revealed in the book of God that God has
sworn he will do. Let's begin our reading in verse
20, Isaiah 45 and verse 20. Assemble yourselves and come.
Draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They
have no knowledge that set up the word of their graven image
and pray unto a God that cannot save. Tell ye, and bring them
near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient
time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there
is no God else beside me, a just God and a Savior? There is none
beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is none
else. I have sworn by myself the word
has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return. That unto
me every knee shall bow. Every tongue shall swear. Surely
shall one say in the Lord have I righteousness and strength.
Even to him shall men come. And all that are incensed against
him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed
of Israel be justified and shall glory. Here God speaks to sinners about
who he is, what he is determined to do, and how we may be saved
in him. He tells us here how things shall
be when he gets done with all things. I always like to get
to the end of the book. I always like to find out how
it turns out. I like to watch Old Western.
Shelby and I record Gunsmoke and watch it when we get a chance
to. And if I turn it on, I don't care if it's 3 o'clock in the
morning, I'm going to watch it to the end because I want to
see how it ends. And God here tells us how everything
will end. We ought to take great delight,
comfort, and joy along the way, knowing that everything shall
end well for our souls. Everything shall end well according
to God's purpose, who works all things after the counsel of his
own will. All right, let's begin in verse
20. Here is God's description of all lost men. The Lord God describes lost,
unbelieving men and women who worship at the altar of a God
who cannot save as those who have no knowledge. Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, ye that are
escaped to the nations. They have no knowledge. They
have no knowledge. Not a little knowledge, not a
little misguided knowledge, not misjudgments about things. No,
they have no knowledge that set up the word of their graven image
and pray unto a God that cannot save. Now, this should go without
saying, but folks don't really grasp things many times. All
people are religious. Everyone has some kind of a religious
refuge. You who are sitting here tonight,
who have not yet professed faith in Christ, have not yet been
born of God, who've not yet been given faith in our Lord Jesus.
You have your religious refuge by which you soothe your conscience
and ease your soul and hope at last to have everything right
with God. You have some kind of religious
refuge. Everyone has some concept of
God, some form of religion, some form of faith, some form of hope.
The fact is most people are very religious. I don't suggest for
a moment that they're spiritual. I don't suggest for a moment
that they're saved. I don't suggest for a moment
that they know God. But most everybody is religious.
Most everybody in your family and mine. Most every one of your
neighbors and mine. Most all the people you do business
with day by day and those I do business with day by day. Everybody
we know is religious. The vast majority of people we
meet with, however, are described here as a people who pray unto
a God that cannot save. They've entered into the wide
gate and walk in the broad way, a way that seemeth right unto
a man. but the end thereof are the ways
of death. Now here are three things by
which God describes all lost religious people. They have no
knowledge. Now, they may be brilliant and
well-educated. They may have PhDs in nuclear
physics. They may be folks who work on
the space shuttle. They may be folks who are well-renowned
scientists, inventors. They may be brilliant mathematicians.
They may be highly esteemed educators. But they have no knowledge. That is, they have no spiritual
knowledge. No understanding, no discernment,
and no ability to get any. They have no knowledge. The natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness to him.
Neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned.
Those who are born of God do have this knowledge. Ye know
all things. You have an unction from the
Holy One. We discern all things. Brother Larry mentioned that
just a little bit ago when he was reading scripture. Believers,
it doesn't matter whether they have a high IQ or a lesser IQ. It doesn't matter whether they
are well-educated and well-trained and well-learned. It doesn't
matter whether they are brilliant or whether they're just ordinary
folks. It doesn't matter. Every believer does have spiritual
knowledge. I have a dear friend with the
Lord in glory now, one of the first deacons in the church at
Lookout where I was pastoring. He'd been there a long time.
When Shelby and I met him, he was already retired. As a matter
of fact, I'd been a pastor for a few months before I met him.
He and his wife were in Florida. They came back by the Elmer Harrell.
When he was seven years old, his parents died. That was the
end of his education. And he labored hard. He went to work picking cotton
and made his way from Oklahoma through time to West Virginia
and started a feed store there and built a good business. But
he couldn't read. Write very, very little. Read very, very, very little.
Just stumble along. Had no education. But oh, did
he know things spiritual. Or was he taught of God? God give me that knowledge. And
I'll swap it for anything else. I won't swap it for anything
else. You see, except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God. I can't tell you how many times
over the years I've had folks say to me, well, if you could
explain this to me, then I'd believe. No, you wouldn't, because
I can't explain it to you, so as to make you understand it.
It's not going to happen. Folks, young men, I think Frank
will attest to this. You're still fairly young. Fairly
young as a believer. Fairly young as a preacher. I
remember a few years ago your frustration fussing with folks
about doctrine. Is that accurate? Did you ever
convince anybody of anything? Doesn't happen. No point in arguing. No point in fussing. No point
in fighting. Just preach the gospel and wait. except a man
be born again. He cannot see the kingdom of
God. He cannot know anything about
the character of God. He cannot know anything about
his own character. He cannot acknowledge what he
is, for he cannot know what he is. He cannot know what sin is. He cannot know what righteousness
is. He cannot know what God's salvation
is. He cannot know how sinners are
saved by grace until he is saved by grace. And when you're saved
by God's grace, through faith, we understand. Through faith,
we understand. Isn't that marvelous? The apostle
writes in Hebrews chapter 12 or chapter 11, and he says, by
faith, we understand what folks have been searching to understand
for thousands of years and still don't understand. By faith, we
understand what science can't yet get hold of. It's amazing
to me that men and women who believe God will try to find
ways to buttress what they know is true by scientific investigation. The scientists don't know. Why
ask them? Why ask them? By faith, we understand
that the worlds were framed by the Word of God. Why, you can't
believe that so. Not if you don't know God, you
can't. Not if you don't know God, you can't. Oh no, the natural
man has no knowledge. Number two, they set up the wood
of their graven image. They all worship a God that they
have quittered out of one of the trees of the dark forest
of their own depraved minds. Now, I realize that refined,
civilized, educated people don't worship images carved from tree
stumps, chiseled in granite, or molded even from gold and
silver, unless they happen to be Catholic. Nobody else is so
foolish as to bow down and worship such things in refined, civilized
society. Yet the vast majority of people
in this world, judging by the words spoken from their own mouths,
pray unto a God that cannot save. They worship a little peanut
God, which they have whittled from their own little peanut
minds, a God who no more resembles the God of this book, the God
whose word we have just read, than a gnat resembles an angel. They worship and serve, thirdly,
and pray unto a God that cannot save. The Holy Ghost told us
plainly that in these last days, perilous times shall come. times
of danger, extreme danger. Peril is extreme danger. He has
told us that in these perilous times, men and women everywhere
will have a form of godliness. That is, they will have godly
exercises, religious exercises, religious rituals and ceremonies,
religious customs. They'll go to church on Sunday
morning and they'll be baptized and eat bread and wine and have
their Lord's Supper and they'll wear robes or not wear robes,
wear collars or not wear collars and they'll sing in the choir
and they'll stand on the street corner and pass out tracks and
they'll go to the mission field and give their lives to missions.
They have a form of godliness. The problem is they deny the
power of godliness. The power of godliness. The power
of godliness. The power of godliness is the
gospel of the grace of God. They have a form of religion,
but they deny the power of godliness. They have a form of religion
that makes them zealous for one thing or another, but they deny
the gospel of God's free grace. Our Lord Jesus said to the Jews
and the religious leaders of his day, ye do err, not knowing
the scriptures, nor the power of God. Let me be crystal clear. A form of godliness says God
wants to save all men. Denying the power of godliness
says but he can't unless you let him Let go and let God doesn't
that sound sweet. Well, that's as near blasphemy
as anything ever heard Let go it How are you gonna let God
do anything? or keep God from doing anything.
A form of godliness says, God loves you and has a wonderful
plan for you. Denying the power of godliness
says, but you must let him have his will and his way. A form
of godliness says, Christ died for everyone. and wants to save
everyone. But his blood, the form of godliness
denying the power of godliness says, his blood was shed in vain
for many who will not let Jesus save them. A form of godliness
says the Lord's knocking at your heart's door. Denying the power
of godliness says but you must open the door and that amen a
form of godliness says Salvation is of the lord Denying the power
of godliness ads, but those he saves may fall away and perish
a form of godliness says salvations by grace But now that doesn't
mean enough something for you to do denies the power of godliness
a god that cannot save A God that cannot save is useless,
as useless as a bucket without a bottom. A God who cannot save
is a worthless God. Any who worship such a God are
not saved. Any who preach such a God are
to be identified and marked as false prophets. How are we to
treat such religion and such preachers and such people? How
are we to deal with those who preach another God, another Jesus,
another spirit, and another gospel? Let us do everything we can to
make the gospel known to them. Let us do everything we can to
preach the gospel to this generation. We are not Muslims. We don't try to force people
to worship God who will not worship God. We would not if we could. You will never get men to worship
God by the sword or by the voting ballot. That's not going to happen.
But the power of the gospel reaching the hearts of men by the power
of God, the spirit brings rebel sinners to bow to Jesus Christ,
the Lord. What do we do? We preach the
gospel and wait on God. But with regard to the religion,
the scriptures are very plain. from such turn away. You will do your neighbors, your
friends, your relatives, those you meet on the street, you will
do them no good but only harm by encouraging them in their
false way as though somehow we will approve of this way. From
such, turn away. They invite you to go to church
with them, tell them no and tell them why. Tell them no and tell
them why. There's a reason because you
have a form of godliness and deny the power thereof. Now,
look at verse 21. Here, the Lord God describes
God. That's a pretty good way to find
out who God is. Who does God say he is? Here the Lord God
contrasts himself with the gods of men who cannot save. He tells
us that he is God. God who can save. And in this
verse he asserts his glorious saving character. This is God's
description of God. He who is God indeed is sovereign,
just, and saving. Tell ye, and bring them near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient
time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there
is no God else beside me? Just God and the Savior. There is none beside me. Now
let's look at this closely. If the God you worship If the
God to which you pray, if your idea and concept of God lacks
any of the things here that God says about himself, any of these
five characteristics, if the God you claim to worship The
God you claim to trust, the God you claim to serve. If it lacks
any of these five things, then your God is nothing but a graven
image, a God who cannot save. And you're going to perish in
your sins. Now, here is God's description of God. Number one,
he who is God has an absolute, unalterable, sure saving purpose. by which all things are governed. In the opening of verse 21, the
Lord God challenges men to bring all their little peanut gods
and let them take counsel together. I challenge you to do the same
thing. Gather up all the gods of men. All the gods of men,
Baptist gods and Mormon gods and Catholic gods and Protestant
gods and Russellite gods and Hindu gods and gather them all
together, gather them all together and let them take counsel together.
Find me one in the whole bunch who hasn't declared absolutely
from ancient times, from eternity, all things that are. All things
that have been and all things that shall be hereafter. Find
me one. Find me one. So leave here tonight
and wait outside the church doors, folks start getting out of church.
Y'all just go to different churches all over the county, all over
the county. Go wherever you want to. And find me a God who from
eternity declared absolutely everything that has been is and
shall hereafter be. Find me one. Some of you have been here long
enough that you may recall on my first visit here, Brother
Merrill, talking to you folks about coming as your pastor,
I said from this pulpit, we were meeting over at the Kentucky
Utilities Building, I said to you if you can find any place
in this town in this county Where this God and this gospel is preached
don't call me as pastor go there and worship with them Go find
it go find it all the gods that men make All the gods that men
make like this essential character of godhood Back in isaiah 14. Look at it Isaiah 14, hold your
hands here in chapter 45. Satan huffs and puffs and he's
fixing to blow God's house down. And the Lord said, this is the
purpose that is purposed in the whole earth. Look at verse 24. The Lord of hosts has sworn saying,
surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass. As I have
purposed, so shall it stand. All hail notwithstanding verse
27 for the Lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul
it and his hand is stretched out And who's going to twist
his arm behind his back? Who shall turn it back to the
chapter 46? verse 9 God speaks about himself
Remember the former things of old For I am God and there is
none else. I am God and there is none like
me. Declaring the end from the beginning. And from ancient times
the things that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand
and I will do all my pleasure. I'm God. I declared from the
beginning exactly what things would be in the end. I am God
and I do all things according to my counsel and it shall stand
verse 11 I even do things contrary to nature I do think contrary nature calling
a ravenous bird from the east The man that executed my counsel
from a far country Yeah, I have spoken it and I will also bring
it to pass I have purposed it I will also do it. He who is
God is God of absolute purpose, and he works all things after
the counsel of his own will, working all things together for
good to them who are the called according to his purpose. Number
two, he who truly is God declares himself to be I the Lord. Do you see that? He is not a lord. Our God is
the Lord. Our God is the Lord. There are many lords in the world. There is one who is the Lord. Our God is in charge. Our God holds the reins of the
universe. This God truly is God. He has his way in the world we're
in. The clouds are the dust of his
feet, the thoughts of every man's heart, the roll of the dice on
a crap table, and the pairs of fish in the sea are all directed
by his infinite wisdom, by his infinite skill, according to
his infinite purpose, and all exactly according to his purpose. Look at Isaiah 45 verse 5. I
am the Lord. There is none else. There is
no God beside me. I girded thee. Now remember,
he's talking to Cyrus, a pagan king who didn't know who he was
and wouldn't be born for another 200 years. I girded you. I girded you, though
thou hast not known me. that they may know from the rising
of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me.
I am the Lord, there is none else. I form the light and create
darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things. Somebody says, what is darkness?
It's the absence of light. No. No. That's not what darkness
is. and darkness are created by God. Light and darkness are created
by God. And God Almighty makes peace
and creates evil. All of it. The Lord sent an evil
spirit to Saul. And it tried to kill David. Well,
how do you explain that? What's to explain? God's in charge. What's to explain? God controls. Now you've got two choices. You
either recognize that God controls everything or you recognize that
God doesn't really control anything. Look at verse 12. I have made
the earth and created man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched
out the heavens, and all their hosts have I commanded. The Lord
says through the psalmist, Surely the wrath of man shall praise
thee, and the remainder of wrath wilt thou restrain. Our God is
in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever he hath
pleased. This great God whom we worship
is the absolute sovereign monarch of the universe. He rules all
men, good and bad, all creatures, good and bad, all angels, all
demons, yes, Satan himself, absolutely governing all, or he's not God. Number three. He who is God is
God alone. Now, most people, most people
have the idea really that God is everywhere, in everything,
and everybody as well. Most people have the idea that
the Buddhist, and the Baptist, and the Pentecostal, and the
Presbyterian, and the Papist, and the Mormon, and the Mohammedan,
and the Hindu, they all really, they worship God different ways
than we do, and they call Him by different names, but they
really worship God. You go talk to anybody you want
to, and You don't have to run the risk. You don't have to talk
to them. You can tell them this one. I'm a preacher, preacher. Tell
me what you think about it. And just play what you've heard right up to
now. And this is what they'll tell you. This is what they'll
tell you. I wouldn't worship a God like that. I wouldn't have a God like that.
I don't know why we can't understand what they understand. The God
we worship is not the God of this world that men worship and
call God. The God we worship is God who
rules the world. I'm God. Beside me, there is
none else. He's just told us who he is,
told us what he does. He said, now this is who God
is. And there is no other God except
me. None other. Number four, this
one who is God is a just God. A just God, he says. Now much
needs to be said concerning that. Two things I'll say. A just God
is a God who must punish sin. He must punish sin. Number two,
a just God cannot save sinners. apart from the satisfaction of
his justice. Not a just God. A just God must
punish sin. And a just God cannot save anyone
apart from the satisfaction of his justice. By mercy and truth,
iniquity is purged. Blessed be his name, the justice
of God, has been satisfied for sinners by the obedience and
death of the Lord Jesus Christ, his dear son. Righteousness and
peace have kissed each other. Therefore, upon the grounds of
Christ's obedience and death, as the sinner substitute, this
fifth thing God declares about himself. He who is God indeed
is both a just God and a savior. Turn back to the book of Exodus.
I want you to see this This is exactly what God showed Moses
when Moses said I beseeched they showed me thy glory Exodus chapter
33 Exodus 33 Verse 19 he said y'all y'all gather your gods
are ahead here. I Get them all together and hear
me! I, God alone, am a just God and
a Savior. That means Bob Pontius Sir, he
cannot and will not forgive your sin. He must punish your sin. What is that? What is that? You
mean God won't forgive sin? Not like you think. Look here
in Exodus 33, verse 19. He said I will make all my goodness
to pass before thee and I will proclaim the name of the Lord
before thee and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and
will show mercy on whom I will show mercy There's his goodness. It is his sovereign mercy. I
will be merciful I will be gracious to whom I will verse 20 and he
said thou can't not see my face for there shall no man see me
and live and The Lord said behold there is a place by me and thou
shalt stand upon a rock and it shall come to pass while my glory
passeth by that I will put thee in the cliff of the rock and
I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by and I will take
away mine hand and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face
shall not be seen look at chapter 34 verse 5 and And the Lord descended in the
cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the
Lord, the name of Jehovah. And the Lord Jehovah passed by
before him, and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful
and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and
truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression,
and sin. But now, wait a minute. He's
continuing right on the same sentence. And that will by no
means clear the guilty. What? How can he be merciful
and forgive and not forgive? How can he be merciful and forgive
and not clear the guilty? By the sacrifice and obedience
of his son, he takes guilty sinners and puts their guilt on his son.
and takes away our guilt from us and thereby justly saves our
souls. By the merits of Christ, the
crucified Redeemer, God is just to forgive our sin. He's just. In fact, if Christ lived for
me and died for me, God's justice demands that he forgive my sin. He cannot, he cannot injustice,
punish one for the same obedience twice, both in my substitute
and in me. Payment God cannot twice demand,
first at my bleeding shirt, his head, and then again at mine.
And then God gives us a description of faith. Look at verse 22. This is the only way any sinner
can ever be saved. Look unto me and be you saved. All the ends of the earth. Oh,
I love these words now, for I am God and there is none else. Look to me. You remember when
the children of Israel were bitten with fiery serpents, God commanded
Moses to make a serpent of brass and raise it up on a pole. And
he said, it shall come to pass that anyone who looks will live. And all through Israel, with
thousands dying, with thousands dying, Way back in the distance,
way back in the distance is a sinner bitten of a fiery serpent and
he looks and he can't make out the form of the serpent. He doesn't
know much about the serpent. He just knows that the serpent,
like that one who caused his death, has been raised up and
God said, look and live. And he looks, immediately he's
made whole. As Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, our Savior said, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. So it is that God saves sinners
by looking to Christ. What do you mean looking to him? Looking to him and to him alone,
like a servant looks to his master for everything. Looking to him
and him alone like a baby looks to its mother for everything
Looking to him and to him alone like a maiden looks to a mistress
for everything Looking to him to provide all that's how sinners
are saved Will you look to Christ? Will you look to Christ to look
to him you got to look away from yourself To look to Him, you
gotta look away from everything else. Look to Christ. That's
all. That's all. In the experience
of it, in the knowledge of it, salvation begins with a look. Look unto me and be you saved,
the Savior said. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world. And salvation continues in a
look. How do you walk with God? How
do you walk with God? Brother Don, let's have a series
of meetings and series of studies on how to walk with God. I'll
give it to you in three words. Looking unto Jesus. That's all. Looking to Christ. As you receive
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Looking to Christ. Let's run with patience the race
that set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith. And salvation is concluded and
consummated in glory in a look. They shall see his face. That's how God saves sinners.
Look unto me. Me! God revealed in the God being
Christ Jesus in his obedience and death and be saved. There's
no other way. Now, here's God's description
of providence. God Almighty tells us about himself
and he tells us about sinners and he tells us about salvation.
Here, he tells us about his providence. Verses 23 through 25. I have sworn by myself, the word
has gone out of my mouth. in righteousness, and shall not
return. That unto me every knee shall
bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely shall one say, In the
Lord have I righteousness and strength. Even to him shall men
come, and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed
of Israel be justified and shall glory. Now hear me. God created this world and rules
this world every day, every moment, every second, 365 days a year
forever for one purpose, the saving of his people. To glorify
his name in the salvation of his people, he raised up Pharaoh
to show folks who he was in the saving of his people. He raised
up Cyrus to show folks who he is in the saving of his people.
And the Lord God here declares to us five things he's going
to do. This is what God has sworn to
do. Number one, every knee shall
bow to Christ and acknowledge that he's Lord. I have sworn
by myself the word is going out of my mouth in righteousness
and shall not return. unto me the Lord God shall every
knee bow and every tongue swear. Sooner or later you're going
to bow before the throne of the sovereign King Jesus Christ. Sooner or later you're going
to acknowledge that he's Lord and that it's right for him to
be Lord. Number two, the Lord Jesus shall
have a people to worship and serve him forever. There shall
be a people called out of this world who shall confess that
Christ is their righteousness and strength. Verse 24. Surely
shall one say in the Lord, have I righteousness and strength? Christ is my righteousness. Christ
is my strength. He's my shield. He's my help.
He's my defense. Number three. All God's elect
shall come to Christ. Surely, shall one say, even in
the Lord have I righteousness and strength, even to him shall
men come. Everyone who's made to know Christ
is his righteousness comes to him. God's elect shall come to
Christ. Not one shall perish. No possibility. He's going to save them by the
preaching of the gospel, by the power of his spirit. Some of
you ask sometimes why I continue doing what I do. Go wherever
I can, do whatever I can, make known the gospel. I can't raise Lazarus from the
dead, Bobby, but I can roll away the stone. And I'd like to be there to roll
away the stone. By this means, God will save
his elect. By this means God is saving his
elect. Number four, every rebel in the
universe, every rebel in the universe, both men and devils
soon will lick the dust before the throne of Christ in utter
shame and confusion of face. Even to him shall men come, now
watch this, and all that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed. You're going to come and you're
going to bow down and you're going to be ashamed because of
the enmity of your heart because you've lived all your life incensed
against him. You will do so either being bowed
by his grace to the saving of your soul, or being bowed by
his justice to your everlasting damnation. But everyone shall
be ashamed of his sin and shall be brought to bow to Christ.
And number five, every chosen sinner will be saved by the grace
of God alone. And being saved by God's free
grace shall glory in the Lord forever. In the Lord shall all
the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory. In the Lord shall all the seed
of Israel, every chosen center, shall be justified and shall
glory. What do you say to that? of the riches, both of the wisdom
and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways
past finding out. For who hath known the mind of
the Lord, or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath first
given to him, and he shall be recompensed unto him again? For
of him, and through him, and to him are all things. to whom
be glory forever. Amen.