God arranges things so much better
than I do. I would never have introduced
this message with that hymn. But having heard that hymn that
you just sang with Alan, I could not have selected a hymn
more suitable to introduce the message. My subject this morning
is limited atonement, precious redemption. Limited atonement,
precious redemption. That's my subject. Limited atonement,
precious redemption. Precious redemption is limited
atonement. Limited atonement is precious
redemption. Most of you are aware that I
knew Pam Wood, her brother, and her parents 20 years before Ron
and Pam started attending services here, more than 20 years. Back in 1970, in the spring of
1970, April or May, I was still in college. Shelby and I had
been married just a little while, a little over a year. And Brother
Ron Rumberg asked me to preach in a Bible conference at New
Covenant Baptist Church in Mount Airy, North Carolina. where he
was pastor, and he assigned the subject. I was 19 years old. Somebody said I was so green
if you'd have stuck me in the ground, I would have sprouted. But he
asked me to preach on the subject, particular effectual redemption,
limited atonement. The text I chose for that message
were two, Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 8. God says, For the transgression of my people
was he stricken. That's limited atonement. That's
particular redemption. For the transgression of my people
was he stricken. Christ came to save his people
from their sins. The good shepherd says, I am
the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. And when the goats heard that,
they said, we don't like that. He said, I wasn't talking to
you. You believe not because you are not of my sheep. Read it for yourself. John chapter
10. You believe not because you're
not of my sheep. As I said unto you, my sheep
hear my voice. I know them. They follow me. I give unto them eternal life,
and they shall never perish. But you believe not, because
you're not of my sheep. I'm the good shepherd. The good
shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. That's limited atonement. That's particular redemption.
The second text I chose for that message was Hebrews chapter 9
and verse 12. With his own blood, He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. That's effectual redemption.
With his own blood, God's darling son entered in once into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. That's effectual redemption.
Jesus Christ died for a particular people called God's elect, and
he effectually redeemed those people. He did not make redemption
possible. He did not try to redeem them. He did not make them redeemable.
He did not make it possible for them to be redeemed. He obtained
eternal redemption with his precious blood. Now, these days, many,
many, I once knew who would declare that as plainly as I had been
preaching it for 44 years, many, Now, find a reason to compromise
and hedge and say, oh, no, we've got to find some sense to make
this thing acceptable to people. Hear me and hear me well. I believe
in limited atonement. In this house of worship, the
sweet, soul-cheering gospel doctrine of limited atonement is like
salt and pepper and bread and butter. It's always on the table.
Over at the Fortner house when we eat, we may not always have
meat. Most of the time we do these
days, but they don't always have meat. But you will always find
salt and pepper, bread and butter on the table. I just don't eat
without it. I know folks say you can't live
very long that way. I live long enough with that.
Salt and pepper, bread and butter, always on the table. Well, in
this house of worship, in the house of God, we never have a
gospel feast of fat things, a feast of wines on leaves, of fat things,
full of marrow, of wines on the leaves, well refined, without
the gospel doctrine of limited atonement on the table. I don't
flavor my sermons with it now and then. I don't preach on it
on Tuesday night when just a few folks are here and strangers
are not around. I don't preach on it once in
a while. If you walk through those doors
or through those doors into this house of worship, you can expect
to hear limited atonement every time I stand to preach. I had
a preacher ask me one time, he said, how often do you preach
these things? He was talking about what folks
commonly call five points of Calvinism. I said, every time
I preach. And he was shocked because most folks who claim
to believe the gospel of God's grace know that it is unacceptable
to the religious world. So they choose to talk about
it in coffee shops, and discuss it in theology meetings, and
forget it when they get in the pulpit. This is the heart of
the gospel. And without it, there is no gospel.
I said that exactly as I want you to hear it. I said that exactly
as I want it reported. This is the heart of the gospel,
and without it, there is no gospel. Take away limited atonement. Take away particular, effectually
accomplished redemption, and you have absolutely destroyed
the gospel. It no longer is good news, just
good advice. The good advice ain't good because
it's a lie This is the heart of the gospel We believe in limited
atonement You'll find my text as I mentioned earlier in Psalm
49 and verse 8 while you're turning there again Let me tell you exactly
what I mean when I use the term limited atonement So a lot of
times folks get confused because people use terms different ways.
This is what I mean we believe according to the plainest statements
of Holy Scripture. Now, I stress that. I stress
that. According to the plainest statements of Holy Scripture.
Now, this is what I'm telling you. There is not a place in
this book that even gives a slight hint that Christ died to save
folks who were in hell. There's not a place in this book
that even hints at it. Everywhere in this book where
the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary is spoken of, prophesied, typified,
or explained, it is always for a specific people. It is always
an effectually accomplished redemption. We believe, according to the
plainest statements of Holy Scripture, that our Lord Jesus Christ died
for, made atonement for, and effectually redeemed God's elect,
that all for whom the Son of God suffered and died at Calvary
shall, by the power of His grace, be saved at the appointed time
of mercy. Now, everyone who believes anything
at all about the atonement, Everyone who claims they believe that
Jesus died at Calvary and shed his blood to redeem sinners Everyone
limits the atonement Everyone limits this that babbling I've
been in across the street in that goat barn over yonder. Hey,
I know it we were the same seminary That Babylon many across the
street in that goat barn over yonder with a brown siding and
ten and red roof. I hope he hears this He limits
the atonement He limits the atonement. He says Jesus died for everybody. Jesus died for Judas just like
he died for Peter. Tell me what good that does Peter
or anybody else. Jesus died for folks who are
in hell just like folks who are in heaven. Then the blood of
Christ doesn't make any difference. He died for nothing. Everybody
limits the atonement. Most people choose to limit the
merit, the power, and the efficacy of Christ's precious blood. For
if Christ died for folks who perish, as he died for folks
who are saved by his blood, then his blood, his power, his merit
is nothing, and God didn't accept it for him. If that doesn't limit
the atonement, you tell me what does. If Christ died for sinners
in hell, hoping to save them, died for sinners in hell, giving
them a chance to be saved, died for sinners in hell so that they
might pretty please come to Jesus and let Jesus save them by their
mighty free will, then his blood not worth spit. I told you, this
is the very heart of the gospel. Without it, there is no gospel.
We consider such talk utter blasphemy, utter blasphemy. To suggest that
Christ tries to save people he cannot save because they won't
let him. To suggest that is to declare
that Jesus Christ is not God. God says, I'll do all my pleasure. God said what I purposed, I'll
bring to pass. What God wills, God has. What God wants, God
performs. You understand that? We're talking
about God. I try to do things I can't do.
You try to do things you can't do. Not God. Not God. To put some limitation upon God
is to deny that He's God. To suggest that Jesus Christ
died for sinners, tries to save sinners, wants to save sinners,
who are lost at last, is to declare that man has power over God. That's the reason it's called
will-worship. It's not Christianity. Todd,
it's will-worship. It's will-worship. It's worship
of man in the place of God, setting man up in the house of God, demanding
that man be worshipped as though he were God. Is that what it
is? God wants to save you. Jesus
died to save you. The Holy Spirit's trying to save
you, but God's hands are tied behind his back. See here? You've
gotten twisted by your mighty free will and God's omnipotent
arm can do nothing without you permitting him to do it. I laugh at that God. I decry that God. I denounce
that God. I just soon worship a crutch.
I just soon worship a demon. That's not God at all. That's
not God at all. That is no God. That's pure idolatry. No, not pure, filthy idolatry. Yes, we do limit the atonement.
Not the power of the Savior. Not the merit of his blood. not
the merit of His righteousness, not the omnipotence and the resistibility
of His grace, but we limit it as the Word of God does in design,
in intent, in scope, and in purpose. The Lord Jesus Christ came into
this world to save His people from their sins. They were His
people before He came to save them. He existed before he came. He came here to save his people
from their sins. And when he left this world,
he said, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to
do. Either he told the truth or he died. Either he by his
blood saved his people or he didn't. Either he redeemed them
or he didn't. If he didn't, he's a failure,
and he messed up on the mission for which he came, and God has
no glory in his death. Oh no, we do limit the atonement. We limit the atonement to God's
elect. Christ came here to suffer in
the room instead of God's elect. The people he represented scattered
through all the world. He came here to suffer and die
to the satisfaction of divine justice for those sinners loved
of God, chosen of God, and ordained of God unto eternal life by Jesus
Christ the Lord. And the Lord Jesus, having fully
accomplished the redemption of those people, they shall be saved
by his almighty grace, by the power of his Holy Spirit, by
the irresistible force of his grace. Brother Don you folks
you talk as though God forces sinners to be safe. Well, he
does If he didn't force you you wouldn't come If you didn't force you you wouldn't
believe You mean God forces sinners to be safe whether they want
to or not. No, no, he makes them walk to He changes their will You see,
in order for the sinner to believe in Christ, in order for the sinner
to look to Christ, you who are here without Christ, I don't
beg you to do something for God. You're dead. I don't twist your
arm, have altercars and get you to come up here like I was some
kind of a papist and repeat some mumbo jumbo after me and say,
now you come to your confessional booth, go home, you're safe.
God bless you. I'm not gonna receive your soul.
You're dead in trespasses and in sins All it'll take for you
to go to hell is for God to leave you alone. You're dead in trespasses
and sins dead and If you would look to Christ you got to have
a life If you would believe on Christ, you've got to have life.
I If you would repent of your sins, you've got to have Christ.
If you would bow to the Savior, you've got to have Christ. If
you would choose the Lord, you've got to have Christ. The only
time the sinner ever believes is when God, by his grace, gives
him a new heart, a new life, a new nature. The Spirit of God
gives him faith and operates faith in him. And so I've been
praying since the last time I preached to you on Tuesday evening. God,
will you be pleased? Oh, God. Will you by the word
of your grace, by the power of your Holy Spirit, cause the dead
who hear my voice to live? Oh God, let this people hear
God speak through these lips of clay. Because if all you hear
is my voice, you've heard nothing. It'll do you no good. Now, let's
look at this text, Psalm 49. We'll back up to verse 3 before
we get to the text. We'll read the text in the context. I want to tell you a little secret. I've repeated it to you often,
but people forget stuff. And the older we get, the more
we forget. The older we get, the more we
forget. This is deep, deep, deep stuff. This is profound. It confuses a lot of people and
it destroys most religion. If you want to understand what
this book says, read the next line. At least read two or three
lines before it, two or three lines behind it. Then you'll
understand it in its context. Quoting scripture, like a machine
gun splitting bullets, doesn't mean anything. We want to know
what the book says. And God says what he intends
to say, as he intends to say it, where he says it. All right,
let's read the beginning of verse 3. The psalmist calls upon all
people to give ear, all the inhabitants of the earth, low and high, rich
and poor together. Listen, verse 3. My mouth shall
speak of wisdom. And the meditation in my heart
shall be of understanding. I will incline mine ear to a
parable. I'm going to give you a parable,
and I'm going to give it to you in verse, and I'm going to give
it to you on the harp. I will open my dark saying upon
the harp. And he opens his dark sayings
of this parable by raising a question. Verse 5. Wherefore should I fear
in the days of evil? I've gone to the doctor, and
the doctor tells me my lungs are full of cancer. It's spread all over my body.
I'm going to die soon. Day of evil. Everybody puts it
off, the day of evil. Doctor says you're going to die
tomorrow. Put your house in order. If you want to see your children,
have them come see you now. Wherefore should I be afraid? in the days
of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall come past me about. Laban, the day is going to come
for you and me when all the evil of our lives, all of our walk
through this world is going to be pressed on our minds. You'll try to think about good,
but you won't be able to. You'll try your best, you'll
talk to other folks about good things, and other folks will
brag on you about how good you are. But when you come to meet
God in death, all the iniquity of all your life will compel
you about. And the psalmist said, why should
that bother me? Why should that cause me to be
afraid? You see, for the believer, like the psalmist, For when we
trust Christ, there's nothing to fear in death. Christ came
that he might save us from the fear of death. Hebrews chapter
2 verse 15. There's nothing to fear in death,
not even all the sins I've committed all the days of my life as they
gather and can pass about my mind. How can that be, Brother
Don? Christ took my sins away. Christ is my righteousness. Will you hear me? Will you hear
me? John Bunyan put it this way. He said, one day I saw the Lord
Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father, the Lord my righteousness. And I said, John, no matter what
state you are in upon this earth, No matter what state you're in,
no matter how the devil may harass you with your sins, no matter
how your sins may appear before your face, you're perfectly righteous! Because my righteousness is standing
in front of God, and I'm accepted in the below. Satan raises Moses up and he
would accuse you as he did Joshua in Zechariah chapter 3, but the
Lord Jesus stands by and Commands righteousness for his own and
we are made the righteousness of God in him so that being without
sin and Perfectly righteous. We have nothing to fear Somebody's
how often mark to hear folks say well, that's the way God
sees things. I Let me give you another secret. Come here. Listen. Listen. Listen. However God sees
things, that's how they really are. That's how they really are. However
God sees things, that's how they really are. You and I can't see
very well, but God sees perfectly. For the unbeliever, death is
another story. Oh, how fearful death is to the
wicked. Your refuge of lies he will destroy
in that day. Without Christ, poor fallen sinners
have no hope. For them, death is the king of
terrors. The thing that makes death terrifying
is the gathering of your iniquity around your conscience. So the
wicked do everything they can to bribe death and rob the grave. They do everything they can to
bribe death and rob the grave. But here God the Holy Ghost tells
us that those who trust in their riches, their earthly wealth,
skill, power, exercise, dietary discipline, religious deeds,
religious works. Oh, look at that missionary. He sold
himself into slavery so he could go preach free will works religion
to other folks who already believed it. They went and became lepers
so they could preach to lepers who were dying with a leprosy
of unbelief. Oh, I must be so dedicated, so
faithful, been so good. I've done all I could. I've tried
to do right. Reach in the righteousness of
the filthy legs. Men try to hide from God. rob
the grave and bribe death, but it can't be done. You will not
bribe death. You will not rob the grave. To
try to do so is to act as a fool. You can't stretch out your life
beyond its appointed time on this earth. Look at verse six.
They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude
of their riches, That's not just talking about a fellow who's
got John Rockefeller's bank account. It's talking about that. But
it's talking about more than that. It's talking about good,
church-going Baptists. Good, fundamentalist Baptists. Good, good, dedicated Baptists. Good, walk down the aisle and
say, I believe in Jesus Baptists. Good folks who quit smoking and
chewing and cussing and running folks who do. Good folks. Rich in their own eyes, but poor
and filthy and needy before God. Watch this now. None of them
can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for
his soul, for his brother. Verse 8, or verse 9 rather, that
he, his brother, still live forever and not see corruption. The man can't redeem his brother,
let alone himself. He doesn't have enough righteousness,
doesn't have enough wealth, doesn't have enough power to deliver
his brother. It's clearly a reference here
to the law of the kinsman redeemer. If your brother has sold himself
into bondage and he can't deliver himself, the one who's rich next
to him can deliver his brother, but not from death. Not from
death, not from the grave. Oh, no, no, no. Then we have
this parenthetical statement. No man can stop the progress
of death, not for himself nor his brother. But this statement
is about the inability of a man to redeem his brother. It seems
designed of God to point us to one who became a man that he
might be a brother able to redeem. The brother that's able to redeem,
the mere kinsman, is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Have a look at
verse 8 again. Notice this verse is placed in
parentheses. That's done by our translators.
The parenthesis gives us an indication that it's an explanatory statement. I'm not a grammarian, but I know
this much about grammar. If you read something in brackets,
in parenthetical brackets, you can pick it up, set it over here,
and read the sentence as we just have, and it doesn't change the
meaning at all. The parenthesis is given to give an explanation.
The parenthesis is given to say, now, this is what I'm talking
about. The parenthesis is given to say, now, I'm using this thing
to show you something else. This parenthetical statement
is put here by the translators to tell us what God the Holy
Spirit is saying. He's saying there is a brother
able to redeem. His redemption is a finished
redemption and all who are redeemed by him live forever and shall
not see corruption. That's what it says. For the
redemption of their soul is precious. And it ceases forever. The redemption
of their souls is precious and it stops. The redemption of their
souls is precious and it's finished. The redemption of their souls
is precious. It ceaseth forever that he still
live forever. That the brother redeemed should
indeed still live forever and never see corruption. The redemption
of their soul is precious. Why? No sinner can redeem himself. None can redeem his brother because
we've got nothing with which to pay the ransom price. The
redemption of their soul is precious because the only ransom price
by which the soul can be redeemed is the precious blood of Jesus
Christ, the son of God, the lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. Turn over to first Peter chapter one. Let's look
at the book. Dear and precious is the redemption
of the soul It cannot be bought with corruptible things like
silver and gold But only with the precious blood of Christ
watch this first Peter 1 18 For as much as you know if you've
been redeemed, you know this if you've been born of God, you
know this and You're not redeemed with corruptible things as silver
and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers. Corruptible things as silver and gold. Let me tell
you about some corruptible things. Your good works are corruptible
things. Your religious activities are corruptible things. Your
prayers are corruptible things. Your preachings are corruptible
things. Your worship here this morning is a correctable thing.
You're not redeemed with correctable things like silver and gold from
your vain conversation. That's a pretty good description
of your life in this world. Mine too. As it's a man who's
been, how long you been a doctor, Fred? Forty years. That's a long time to be treating
folks. It's called a vain conversation. Oh, that's somebody. Well, yeah. Yeah, if you call one worm that's
slightly higher than another worm somebody, that's all right,
isn't it? That's all right. It's a vain
conversation. A vain. You're, there's Skip
Gladfelter, man alive, how important he was in the development of
computers with IBM and all that stuff. Go all over the world
advertising those things. Worked with them all your life,
didn't you? He was a big dog over yonder.
He was a big dog over yonder. Oh, isn't that something? Isn't
that something? Vain conversation. I'll never
forget our first trip to Mexico together. Skip and Walter and I were sitting
out on Walter's rooftop after a long day of preaching, traveling,
preaching. We'd had supper, sitting out
there having a glass of wine, chatting, talking, Walter and
I. reminiscing about all stuff we reminisce about every time
we get together. We've known each other a couple of lifetimes. We like to talk about old things.
And Skip got real quiet for a long time. You remember this? I said,
Skip, you all right? He said, yeah. He said, I've
just been thinking. I've been listening to you two
fellows preach or talk and say I've been all over the world.
I've done everything any man want to do. And I just realized,
I've never lived. I'm talking about your vain conversation.
That's what your life is without Christ. Empty, meaningless, vain
way of life. Brother Don, you don't brag on
folks much, do you? No, not much. I haven't found much to brag
on, have you? He will redeem you from your
vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.
Not with silver and gold or things like that, but with the precious
blood of Christ. Precious blood, because it's
His blood. Precious blood, because it's covenant blood. He was brought
again from the dead by the blood of the everlasting covenant.
Precious blood, because it's the blood that God the Son shed
for us at Calvary. Precious blood, because it's
effectual eternal blood accepted by God before the world began
as a lamb who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
world. without blemish and without spot,
who barely was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest, revealed to in these last times for you,
precious blood of Christ, because it's effectual." You see, this
redemption is God's work, and it ceases forever. What's
that mean? What's that mean? Christ is redeemed. This brother
has redeemed. He's redeemed our souls. And
now redemption ceases forever. Redemption ceases forever. This
is God's work. Nothing can be put to it. And
nothing can be taken from it. You can't add to it and you can't
take away from it. What you do has got nothing to do with it.
What you decide has got nothing to do with it. What you pretty
please let Jesus do. I want to cry so I start laughing
instead. What you let Jesus do. Oh my soul. No, no, no, no, no. You can't put anything to it
and you can't take anything from it. It's God's work. The redemption's
done. When our Savior said it's finished,
Guess what? It was finished. He said, this
is the end of it. This is the conclusion of the
matter. It's finished. Redemption is done. The sins
of my people are put away. Justice is satisfied. Righteousness
is brought in. My people are redeemed. Every one of them. They have
the forgiveness of sins. That's the language of scripture,
isn't it? In whom we have redemption through his blood. What's that
mean? The forgiveness of sins according
to the riches of his grace. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7.
It's precious redemption. And this redemption is particular
redemption. No man is foolish, foolish enough to pay a ransom
for unspecified people. If I should get a notice, I don't
expect to get one because Folks usually check in to see if you've
got any money. But if I should get a notice in the mail today
that somebody's holding somebody I love dearly hostage and they
want $100, I could come up with that probably. I wouldn't pay
it. I wouldn't pay it unless they
had a name. Would you? It'd be like buying a pair of
shoes I haven't seen. I wouldn't pay it. Let's add
a name. You pay for something specific. You pay for something you purchase. You pay for something you get.
And Christ shed his blood. A ransom. What did he say? What
does he say? Somebody tell me. For many. For many. If he had meant to
say everybody, he would have said everybody. For many. For
many. He shed his blood of ransom for
a specific people. For the transgression of my people
was he stricken. The good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. Now, if I had a choice, if I
had a choice, I'm not the brightest bulb in the room, I know, but
if I had a choice, and my choice was either to pray for you or
die for you, which you reckon I'd do? Well, let's reverse that. If you had a choice, And you
can help me either by praying for me or dying for me. Which would you do? Well, let's
have a prayer meeting right now. I believe I'd pray for anybody
before I die for them. Listen to what our Savior says.
I pray for them. Them that you have given me.
They were yours, you gave them to me. I pray for them. I pray
for them. I pray not for the world, but
for them which thou hast given me. That was his high priestly
prayer in John chapter 17. If he refused to pray for them,
you reckon he died for them, knowing ahead of time they're
going to hell anyway and they weren't his? God's not a fool. God's not a fool. Our Savior
is not a fool. He is the wisdom man spoken of
in Proverbs chapter 8. This redemption, precious redemption,
particular redemption. It's a just redemption. It's
a just redemption. You see, redemption is as much
an act of divine justice as it is an act of divine mercy. Jesus
Christ died at Calvary because justice must be satisfied. God said, the soul that sinneth,
it shall die. That means that you, Rex Bartley,
must suffer the wrath of God and die. There's no getting around
it. You must suffer the wrath of
God. You must die. Either you in your
person, or you in a substitute, a brother able to redeem. Oh, bless God. Christ is a brother
able to redeem. He is God in human flesh. That means he is able to do what
no man could do, nor all men put together with all the angels
of heaven could do. He is able to perform an infinitely
worthy work. He is able to do an infinitely
worthy thing. This sacrifice is God in the
flesh. God could not suffer. And God could not die. But the God-man both suffered
and died. And when he died, he satisfied
the justice of God. So that when Christ died, he
didn't die for himself. No. He didn't die because he
needed something from God. He died as a representative man,
like that high priest with the names of Israel inscribed upon
his breastplate. I wonder why that priest didn't
have the names of the Amorites inscribed on his breastplate.
Looks to me like he would. I wonder why he didn't have the
names of the Sodomites inscribed on his breastplate. Looks to
me like he would, if he's going to be a typical high priest of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Why, that'd be nonsense, Brother
Don. He was high priest for Israel. Oh, oh. He was high priest for
a specific people. And he had the names of the twelve
tribes of those specific people inscribed on his breastplate.
And he took a sacrifice for those specific people. And he laid
his hands on the head of that sacrifice for those specific
people. And he laid the sins of those
specific people on that sacrifice. And he slit the throat of the
sacrifice for those specific people. So the Lord Jesus, our
great high priest, and our great sacrifice, suffered and died
for a specific people. And when Abraham went in, and
sprinkled the blood of the lamb on the mercy seat over the Ark
of the Covenant, over the broken law of God for that specific
people, God showed up. The glory of God shined in the
tabernacle. And God said, I'll accept you
for that sacrifice. And he commanded Aaron, now,
you go back out and put on your gorgeous apparel again. You take
off those bloodstained linen britches You put on your gorgeous
apparel and put on your turban and your miter in front says
holiness to the Lord, your breastplate. You put it all on and you go
out and you lift your hands up to that congregation and speak
for God and say the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord be
merciful to you and make his face to shine upon you and be
gracious to you because justice is satisfied. Behold the Lamb
of God in glory, our great high priest. He stands before sinners
like you and me and lifts his hands in the name of God and
says, the Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord be gracious
unto thee and make his face to shine And God will do it because
justice is satisfied. Justice is satisfied. We preach
Christ to sinners and call for sinners everywhere to come to
Christ. With this assurance, the Savior
says, him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. And you can come to God just
as you are. With no preparations. If you
make some preparations, you can't come. You can come to God just
like you are. Brother Don, you don't know where
I slept last night. No, but he does. And he says,
him that cometh to me, I will know why he's cast out. But brother
Don, you don't know what I did this morning. No, but he does.
And he says, him that cometh to me, I will know why he's cast
out. Brother Don, you don't know what a wretch I am. No, but I
know what a wretch I am. And I proved his word good. He
said, him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Come
to Christ like you are. And he says, you have everlasting
life. That's his gift. It's a free
gift. And it's right for God to give
it to you. Because Christ died for you. It's right for God to give it
to you, because Christ died for you. Have you ever heard better
news than that? Oh, it's right for God to give
it to you, because Christ died for you. You see, payment God
cannot twice demand. First, by bleeding Syrtis' head. and then again at mine. Now, take this with you and rejoice. The redemption of their soul
is precious. Amen.