Would you turn back to the 110th
Psalm, verse three. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. I've entitled this message, Made
Willing. made willing. Now that's an amazing
concept, isn't it? This is something that only God
can do. Make someone willing. I can't make you willing. You
can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink, can
you? I can't make myself willing. God makes his people willing. Thy people. There is a group
called thy people. Thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins. Oh, I want to
be in that group, don't you? Not everybody's his people. He
says, not everyone that sayeth to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
the kingdom of heaven. Not everybody's his people. Oh,
I want to be in this group of his people. And his people are
actually made willing in the day of his power. Now, willing,
willing. Now, if you do something out
of hope for reward, Or if you do something out of fear of what'll
take place if you don't do it, there's really no willingness
there, is there? It's kind of mercenary. But when you do something
because that's what you want to do, that's what you desire,
that's what you're willing to do. What a blessing of God's
grace when I am willing. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power." Willingness. Now, to deal with this thing
of willingness, there's some things I'm going to have to say
by way of introduction. People speak of free will, and
it's a presupposition that everybody makes. Sure, man has free will,
but did you know there's no such thing as free will? There is
absolutely no such thing as free will. I've heard people say,
well, was there not free will before the fall in the Garden
of Eden? No. No, because anytime you talk
about free will, you're talking about independence of God's sovereign
will, and that's never going to be. God is always sovereign,
and he's completely sovereign over the free actions of men.
God is God, and there never has been such a thing as free will. I love that passage of scripture
in Acts chapter four, verse 27, but Pilate and Herod and Pontius
Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered
together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done. Everything that takes place is
God's hand and God's counsel, what he determines before to
be done. And the teaching of free will
is an absurdity. There is no such thing. You see, your will is always
controlled by your nature. Let me repeat that. Your will
is always under the control of your nature. God does not have
a free will in that sense. His will is determined by his
nature. You see, he can't have his own
free will decide to tell a lie, can he? That'd be acting contrary
to his nature. He cannot of his own free will
decide to sin. That would be acting contrary
to his nature. It's the nature that controls
the will. There is no such thing as free
will in that sense. The natural man's will, and by
natural man, I'm talking about a man that God has not saved.
The way we're born into this world. The natural man's will
is controlled by an evil nature. And that's just the truth. That's
what the scripture teaches. By nature, no man is willing
to be saved by Christ. By nature, no man is willing
to be saved by his grace. The Lord said, you will not come
to me that you might have life. And that's our crime. That's
our crime. We will not have this man to
reign over us. Now, for a man to claim free
will, He's saying these three things. He's saying, I'm not
subject to God's sovereign will. He's saying, I'm not totally
depraved. You see, free will says I'm not
totally depraved. There are some things I can do.
And I love that statement, wrong on the fall, you're wrong on
it all. If you believe in free will, you're denying human depravity
and human sinfulness. And thirdly, you're saying salvation
is ultimately in man's hands. Salvation is by work. So let
me say this. I want to say it compassionately,
but I want to say it forcefully. If you believe in free will,
God hadn't done anything for you. You've never bowed the knee
to Christ. You've never seen your sinfulness. You've never seen your need of
his grace. If you believe in free will,
God has not been your teacher. Because if God has taught you,
you will know that you are a sinner. I hope the Lord saves you for
Christ's sake, but right now, You've not really known him. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. All of God's people will be willing.
Now, what does that mean? Well, the day of his power, what's
that a reference to? It's a reference to regeneration. That's a reference to the new
birth, when God, by almighty power, gives you life and you're
given a new nature and you have a new will. Thy people shall
be willing in the day of thy power. Listen to this scripture.
But to as many as received him, this is John 1, 12 and 13, but
to as many as received him, to them gave he power. to become
the sons of God, even to them which believe on his name, which
were born, not of blood, not of the will of the flesh, not
of the will of man, free will is completely denied, but of
God. It's God that worketh in you
both to will and to do. His good pleasure. Philippians
2.13. Now just as the old nature controls the will of the old
man, The new nature controls the will of the new man. Made
willing in the day of his power. You see, if God has given you
a new nature, here's your want to. If any man will come after
me, that's your desire. If any man will come after me,
let him deny himself. take up his cross and follow
me. That cannot be done unwillingly. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. Now, I would be remiss if I did
not acknowledge that a believer still has an old nature with
a corrupt will that's just as much there and powerful as it
ever has been. There are two separate natures
in a believer, the old man and the new man with two separate
wills. Somebody says, well, that's crazy.
Well, I'm sure it is crazy if you only have one will. If you
only have one nature, it doesn't make any sense to you. You have
to have two natures to understand this. If you have two natures,
you know exactly what I'm saying. And if you only have one nature,
you think, well, that's foolishness. I can't enter into that. Well, there are two wills in a believer. They only come through one consciousness.
And that's what makes things so hard to grasp. They only come
through one consciousness, but there are two separate wills
in every believer. What did the man say? Lord, I
believe. The new nature always believes. Help thou mine unbelief. The old nature never believes. Turn with me to Galatians chapter
five. I'm gonna ask you to turn to
a lot of scriptures in this message, so be ready for it. Verse 17, for the flesh, the
old nature, lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit, the new
nature, against the flesh, and these, the spirit and the flesh,
are contrary the one to the other. They're adversaries. so that
you cannot do the things that you would. Child of God, you would never
sin again, would you? You would be perfectly conformed
to the image of Jesus Christ. You'd never have another proud
thought. You'd never have another lustful thought. You'd never
have another envious thought. You would be perfectly conformed
to Christ. You would never sin. That's your
desire. But you can't. You cannot do that. You also
have a nature that has just as much an appetite for sin and
evil as you did before the Lord saved you. And there's no sin
that you would not commit. No sin that you would not commit,
but you can't. You can't. Two natures, flesh
and spirit, adversaries one to another so that you cannot do
what you would, what you actually desire to do. You actually desire
to be holy and without sin. You cannot. You actually desire
to be a monster in iniquity. There's nothing you wouldn't
do, but you cannot. I think of when the Lord came
in Matthew chapter 26, he's praying in the garden of Gethsemane.
And he says, stay here and watch and pray with me that you enter
not into temptation. And he comes back and there they
are all asleep. You know what the Lord said to
him? The spirit truly is willing. The spirit, the new man, truly
is willing, but the flesh is weak. And that word weak is also
translated impotent, without strength. There the Lord tells
us of the two natures at that time, as he watches his disciples
sleep while he's praying in Gethsemane's garden. Turn to Romans chapter
seven. Verse 14, for we know that the law is spiritual,
God's holy law, but I am carnal, fleshly, under sin, sold as a slave to
sin. Question, is Paul speaking as
a believer or as an unbeliever? That's a pretty powerful statement
about yourself. We know that the law is spiritual, but I am
carnal. sold as a slave to sin. Now the whole context says he's
speaking as a believer. Look at verse 15. For that which
I do, I allow not, I'm against it. For what I would, what I
will, that do I not. But what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would
not, I consent unto the law that it's good. Now it's no more the
I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me. Now he's talking
about two natures there. For I know that in me, that is
in my flesh, I'm talking about my fleshly nature, dwelleth no
good thing. For to will is present with me. I would never sin again. I would be perfectly obedient. But how to perform that which
is good, I find not. I find not. For the good that
I would, I do not. But the evil which I would not,
that I do. Now, if I do that, I would not,
it's no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find
then a law that when I would do good, that's my desire, that's
my will, I've been made willing, evil is present with me, for
I delight in the law of God after the inward man. Only a believer
can say that. I delight in the law of God after
the inward man, but I see another law in my members, warring against
the law of my mind and bringing me into, what's that word? Captivity. To the law of sin, which is in
my members. Oh, wretched man that I am. Not that I was, but that I am. Who shall deliver me from the
body of this I thank God through Jesus Christ,
our Lord. So then with my mind, I myself
serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. Now
that lets me know that when he's speaking in verse 14, he's speaking
as a believer. As a matter of fact, Romans chapter
seven is the healthy spiritual life. If I don't enter into Romans
chapter seven, something's bad wrong with me. This is the normal
Christian life and it's glorious. It's glorious. No believer is
going to use this and think, well, okay, my sins. Okay. No
believer is going to do that. I know people are afraid of that,
but that's because they just don't know the Lord. No believer
is going to use this in that sense, but it certainly is an
explanation as to why I am the way that I am. So long as your
old man is still alive, you have the struggle of two wills. One that loves sin. One that hates sin. Two wills. In the same man and
this struggle will go on until the day we die. And when I die,
I'm only gonna have one will. I'm not going to have that sinful
will anymore. It's going to be put away. Think of being utterly
without sin. That's what every believer has
waiting on them, to be utterly without sin. And if you're not
having this struggle with sin, that would mean you would be
dead in sins. If you don't have the struggle, we just read about
it in Romans chapter seven. Somebody says, that's not me.
Well, you're dead and sin's in. Somebody that has life will have
this struggle. But I love to think that a better
day is soon coming. Beloved, it does not yet appear
what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we'll
be like him. for we shall see him as he is. David said, as for me, I will
behold thy face in righteousness. I'll be satisfied when I awake
in thy likeness. And until then, we say with David
in Psalm 51, you know when he says, uphold me with thy free
spirit, what that means literally is make me willing. Make me willing. Cause me to
be willing in the day of thy power. And that's what his power
does, he makes me willing. He makes me volunteer. He makes
me volunteer. That's really what that means.
You become voluntary. This is what you want. This is what you will. This is
what you desire. It's real. It's not just performing
because I'm afraid of what will happen if I don't or I'm going
to get this gain or this advantage if I do. No, it's what you really
want to do. What you want to do is who you
really are. That ought to tell you about
how sinful you really are. That's what you want, sin. But
you would be holy if you're a believer. You're willing. In the day of
his power, when he gives you a new nature, that new nature
is demonstrated in a new will. And let me give you some examples
of this in the scripture. I love the publican in the temple,
don't you? You remember how the Pharisee
stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you. He gave God
the credit that I'm not as other men are. He started talking about
all his virtues and all the things he did do and all the things
he didn't do. They're all lies, but he claimed them anyway. I
don't do this, I do that. But what is said of the publican?
He would not. His will, this is the place He
wanted to be. He didn't want to be anywhere
else. This was His will. He would not so much as lift
up His eyes to heaven. He beat upon His breast. This
is the place He wanted to be. He knew He didn't belong anywhere
else. This is where He wanted to be. God be merciful To me,
the sinner. That is the place he wanted to
be. It didn't feel appropriate going
anywhere else to him. This is the place he wanted to
be before God as a sinner needing God to do something about his
sin. I can't do anything about my
sin. This is the place I'm taking. I'm not going to take the place
of the publican. I mean, the Pharisee, by the
grace of God, talking about how good I am. This is where I want
to be right now. This is what this is. Where I
where I will to be by his grace is what I want. I want to take
the place. Of the publican. God be propitious. God, do something about my sin. Take it away. Do something about
it. Now that's what I want. Is that what you want? Is that
the place you want to be? You know you don't have any business
taking another place. Here's another scripture. John
chapter 12, verse 21, when those Gentiles, they come up to Philip. And they knew about Philip's
master, the Lord Jesus Christ. And they said, sirs, I love the
humility and the politeness they come up with these men, sirs,
we would see Jesus. Now that is what we would. That is what we want. This is what we want more than
anything else, to see the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm not talking
about a physical sight, although one of these days we're going
to have that. But I'm talking about seeing who he really is. I want to see His power. I want
to see His glory. I want to see His greatness.
I want to see His sufficiency. I want to see who He is, because
I know He's salvation. I love that scripture in John
6, 39 and 40. It says, For this is the will
of Him that sent me, that all which He hath given me I should
lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day. And this
is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone that seeth
the Son See who He is. And you know what you're gonna
do if you see the Son? And believe on Him. If you and
I ever see who He is, and that's what they were desiring, we would. This is our will. This is our
want to. I wanna see the Lord Jesus Christ. I don't wanna just,
I don't wanna be religious. I don't wanna go through the
motions of human religion. I don't wanna be left to my own
self and my own understanding. I wanna see the Lord Jesus Christ. Sirs, we would see Jesus. Turn with me to Mark 6. Mark
6, verse 46. And they came to Jericho, and as he went out of Jericho
with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus,
the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side, begging. And when he heard, that it was Jesus of Nazareth. Now, hold on for just a moment. He believed that Jesus Christ
was the son of David before Christ passed his way. He didn't know
him. He couldn't say, I know him,
but he believed who he was. Now that's where saving faith
begins. It's believing who he is. And let's go on reading. Somebody
says, how did he know? Well, I think he heard the scriptures
read all his life. Somebody take him to the temple
and he heard how Jesus Christ would give sight to the blind,
the coming Messiah. And when he heard that the Lord
Jesus Christ had healed one that was born blind, he said, that's
the Messiah. I know this is the son of David.
Oh, if he ever comes by here, I'm going to cry out for him
to do something for me. And let's go on reading. Verse
47, and when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began
to cry out and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. Now you know when you're gonna
ask for mercy? When your sin is all your fault. That's when you're gonna ask
for mercy, not before then. As long as you're a victim, you're
not gonna ask for mercy, you're gonna ask for justice. I'm not
being treated right. But when your sin is all your fault, only
then will you ask for mercy. Oh, have mercy on me. Don't give me what I deserve. Have mercy on me. Verse 48, many
charged him that he should hold his peace. And he cried the more. a great
deal. I love that. Bartimaeus, give
up. You won't do that if you need
mercy. If you need mercy, this is a cry you will never stop. Jesus, thou son of David, have
mercy on me. Don't give me what I deserve.
Verse 49, And Jesus stood still. He's on his way to the cross,
but there's one cry that would stop him dead in his tracks. And listen, the cry for mercy. You know, there are all kinds
of people yelling his name at this time. He didn't stop, but
this stopped him. And it'll stop him right now.
If you or I from the depths of our heart cry for mercy. And he commanded him to be called.
Verse 49, and they call the blind man saying unto him, be of good
comfort, rise. He calleth thee. And he casting
away his garment. Now this is highly symbolic.
If you come to Christ, a garment in the Old Testament particularly
signifies righteousness, the robe of righteousness, the robe
of covering. If you ever, if I ever really
come to Christ in coming, we will cast away, completely cast
away any semblance of righteousness in ourselves. We'll get rid of
it. It's a filthy garment that we're not bringing into his presence
and pleading that. he rising, cast away his garment,
rose and came to Jesus. Now, real carefully, verse 51,
and Jesus answered and said unto him, what wilt thou? What do you want me to do? What's
your desire for me to do? What wilt thou that I should
do unto thee? It's kind of like when the Lord
came up to that man in John chapter five, the impotent man that had
been laying there by the pool of the water 38 years, and he
had some kind of disease. And the Lord said to him, wilt
thou be made whole? Yes, yes, I am willing. to be made whole in a way that
gives him all the glory and none to me. It's his work alone being
made. Are you willing to be made whole? He says to this beggar, what
wilt thou that I should do unto thee? What if he said that to
you? What will you that I should do
unto you? Well, what was this blind man
of great need? Sight. Eyes to see the Lord Jesus
Christ, who he really is. Jesus answered and said unto
him, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said
unto him, Lord, that I may receive my sight. And Jesus said unto
him, go thy way. You're free. Do what you want
to do. You're set free. Go your way. Do what you want to do. And immediately. He received
sight and followed Jesus in the way. That's what he wanted to
do. Not he was afraid of what would
take place if he didn't. This is what he wanted to do.
Follow that one. who gave him sight. Turn to John
chapter six. Thy people shall be willing on the day of thy power. Verse 66, John chapter six. From
that time, many of his disciples went back What a scary thought. If you would ask them, were you
a disciple of Christ? They would have said, yes, yes. But they went
back and they walked no more with him, never to walk with
him again. Now, you know that this took
place after that sermon that the Lord preached in John chapter
six. You can read that on your own. And we read in verse 59,
these things said he in the synagogue, this sermon, as he taught in
Capernaum, many therefore of his disciples, when they'd heard
this, said, this is a hard say. Who can hear it? Who can be expected
to listen to this kind of stuff? When Jesus knew it himself and
his disciples murmuring at it, he said, does this offend you? Are you offended by what I've
said? What and if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where
it was before? What he's saying, you're hearing me speak this
on the earth and you're offended. You'll really be offended when
you see me speak the same thing from heaven and you find out
who I really am. It's the spirit that quickens, the flesh profits
nothing in this thing of salvation. The words that I speak unto you,
their spirit and their life. But there are some of you that
believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that
believed not and who should betray him. And he said, therefore said
I unto you that no man can come to me, except it were given unto
him of my father. From that time many of his disciples
went back and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto
the 12, Will you also go away? Now the Lord's not going to have
any unwilling disciples. If you want to leave, there's
the door. That's what he's saying to them.
Will you also go away? Is that your desire? I love what
Peter says, verse 68. Then Simon Peter answered him,
Lord, It's not like we have an option. It's not like we have
a choice. To whom shall we go? There's
nowhere else to go. Back to the law, all it does
is condemn us. Back to free will religion, we
don't have a free will. To whom shall we go? Thou has
the words of eternal life and we believe and are sure that
thou art that Christ, the son of the living God. Turn to Matthew
chapter 20. Now this is where James and John's
mother, had requested that they sit on his right hand and on
his left in his coming kingdom, those two, exalted above the
other 10. Verse 24, and when the 10 heard
They were moved with indignation against the two brethren. How
dare they think something like that? That they be exalted at
my expense. And what they meant by that is
I'm the one that belongs there. That's the reason they were so
moved with indignation. But Jesus called them unto him
and said, you know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion
over them. And they that are great exercise
authority upon them, but it shall not be so among you, but whosoever
will. This is your desire. Whosoever
will be great among you. Let him be your minister, your
servant and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your
slave. Even as the son of man came not
to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life
a ransom for many. Now listen real carefully. It
ought to be our will, what we desire to be great in the kingdom
of heaven. I don't mean exalting yourself
above somebody else, but I mean you want to serve the Lord. That's your want to. You want
to serve him wholeheartedly. Well, is that your will? To be
great? Then be a servant. Then be a
slave. That's the way things work in
the kingdom of heaven. And you ought to want to aspire
to greatness, not in a self-exalting way. You know that. If I'm seeking
to exalt myself, all I'm doing is kicking myself out. That's
not what he's talking about. But every believer wants to be
great in the kingdom of heaven in the sense that they love their
Lord. I want him to be pleased with me, don't you? Love wants
to please. You want to be great in the kingdom
of heaven. What do you want to be great? Be a servant. That's the
key of greatness, being a servant. You know, there's two areas I
think that the scripture addresses. I've got a lot of scriptures
to read on. I'm not going to have time, but I'm just going to talk about
them. Submission. Submission. There's a whole lot
in the scripture about submission. Wives, submit yourselves to your
husbands as to the Lord. Be subject one to another. Submit
yourselves one to another. Ye elder, be subject to the younger.
Submission, submission. Now, the only way you can submit
yourself is if you want to. Isn't that so? The only way you
can submit yourself is if you want to. There's no such thing
as unwilling submission. Oh, you might be afraid and you
go ahead and don't do what you're not supposed to do because you're
afraid of what'll happen if you don't. But that's not a willing heart submission.
You know, the only way a woman can submit herself to her husband
is because she wants to. That is her desire to do it.
She sees it's what the scripture says for her to do. And if, you
know, kind of like when Lynn, I've said this before, when Lynn
and I were first married, she disagreed with me. Submit! Didn't
work. Didn't work. Won't work. There's no such thing as forced
submission. You can only submit because that's
what you want to do. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. In the area of giving, turn with
me to 2 Corinthians 8. There's a lot said about willingness
in this chapter. Verse one. Moreover, brethren,
we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed upon the churches
of Macedonia. We want you to know here's what
grace looks like, how that the grace of God was bestowed upon
the churches of Macedonia. How that in a great trial of
affliction and the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty
abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power,
I bear record, yea, beyond their power, they were willing of themselves. We didn't have to coerce this.
We didn't have to press on them for this. Praying us with much
entreaty that we would receive the gift and take upon us the
fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And this they
did not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves
unto the Lord. and unto us by the will of God,
insomuch that we desired Titus that he'd begun, so he would
also finish in you the same grace also. Therefore, as you abound
in everything in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all diligence
and your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also,
this grace of giving. I speak not by commandment, but
by occasion of the forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity
of your love. For you know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes
He became poor, that you through His poverty might be rich. And
herein I give my advice, for this is expedient for you that
which have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward
or willing a year ago. Now therefore perform the doing
of it, that as there was a willingness, so there may be a performance
also out of that which you have. For if there first be a willing
mind, a willing mind, It's accepted according to the man hath, and
not according to that he hath not. Look in chapter nine, verse seven. Every man according as he purposes
in his heart, so let him give. How much do you give? However
much you purpose in your heart. There's the answer. What does
the Bible teach? Tithing? Doesn't teach that. whatever it is you purpose in
your heart. So letting give, not grudgingly,
not unwillingly, or of necessity. We need to do this to pay the
bills. For God loveth a cheerful giver. God loves a cheerful giver. Turn to Revelation 22. This can
be our last scripture. No, it's not. Second to last.
Sorry. Verse 17. And the spirit and the bride.
The message of God, the Holy Spirit, the message of the church.
What is the message? Come. Come to Christ right now
just as you are. Don't wait for anything to happen.
Don't wait to become better. Don't wait till you understand
more. God's command to you right now, God's command to me right
now is to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. The message of the law
is go and do. The message of the gospel is
come and welcome. Come and welcome. And let him that heareth say
come. And let him that is athirst come
and whosoever will. Are you willing to be made whole?
Are you willing to be saved by Christ in a way that gives him
all the glory and none to you? Are you willing to follow him?
Somebody says, that teaches free will. No, it doesn't. That's
ridiculous. There's no such thing as free
will. But it does say, whosoever will, whosoever will. Let him take the water of life
freely. The only condition you have to
meet is to have no conditions you can meet. You have to take
it freely. Whosoever will, let him take
the water of life freely. Now, I'm going to close. Go ahead and turn to Exodus 21.
This is the last scripture. This is right after the giving
of the Ten Commandments. This is talking about the Hebrew
slave. He has been serving unwillingly
for seven years. It wasn't voluntary. He was made
to be a slave. He wasn't able to pay his debts.
He got into some kind of trouble and he was made to be a slave
for seven years. This was not voluntary. But after
seven years, He was given the choice. You
can leave or you can stay. Now, if he loved his master, he could choose to stay. And
if he wanted to leave, he could leave. Now, this primarily speaks
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He loved his bride. He wasn't
going to leave us after keeping the law. He was going to be with
us forever. And that's why he had to, on
the cross, his ear was bored. And he was saying, I'm willingly
being their savior. I don't want to be parted from
them. I don't want to be taken from them. You can read this
on your own, Exodus 21. I'm going to be their savior.
But you know what else it's saying? Every believer is saying, my
want to, my want to, is to follow Him. That is what I desire. I willingly desire to follow
Him. Bill Clark made this statement. He was a missionary to France,
one of my favorite people. I've been dead 20 years, I guess. But he made this statement. Here's the believer's rule of
life. Trust Christ and do what you
want to. Trust Christ. and do what you
want to. I've heard preachers say, you
shouldn't say something like that. Yeah, you should. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. You know what my want to is?
It's to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's pray. Lord, we cannot make ourselves
willing and we will be unwilling unless you make us
willing. But Lord, how thankful we are
that in your word you tell us thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. Oh Lord, make us willing. What a crime it is to be not
willing. Make us willing to be saved by
thy grace. Make us willing to follow thy
son, to deny ourselves, to take up our cross and follow him. Bless this message for the Lord's
sake. In his name we pray.