Everybody's settled down, it's
good. Let's open tonight's service with hymn number 19 from your
Spiral Gospel Hymns hymn book, number 19, Pleading for Grace. I hope this goes with tonight's
message. Let's all stand. Lord of all Prostrate at your
feet I fall You are holy, wise, and just I'm a creature of the
dust All things move at your command Governed by your mighty
hand ? Heaven, earth, and hell I see ? Fulfill all your wise
decree ? Dares a man resist his Lord ? Stand against the sovereign
God ? I will bow before your throne ? Seeking grace in Christ
your Son ? Through his blood and righteousness ? Lord, I plead
with you for grace ? If you will, you can, I know ? Grace and mercy
to be shown ? Will you, Lord, my soul forgive ? Grant this
sinner grace to live I've no other hope but this, Jesus' blood
and righteousness. Now I'm conquered by your grace. In the dust I hide my face. Give me Christ or else I die. I upon your grace rely. ? Oh for mercy now I plead ?
Grant me Lord the grace I need ? Turn oh turn to me and say
? All your sins are washed away ? In my son your debt is paid
? Be for you the ransom made Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles to Ephesians
chapter two. Ephesians chapter two. We'll begin reading at verse
one. And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and
sins, wherein in times past you walked according to the course
of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience,
among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in
the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and
of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others, but God. who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace, ye are
saved, and hath raised us up together and made us sit together
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. that in the ages to come,
he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. Let's pray. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we thank you that you put into the hearts of your children that
cry for mercy, that need for grace that we just sang about.
Lord, we know that this is the quickening work of your spirit.
Lord, that if you left us to ourselves, we would never have
any sense of our need or of the remedy of that need. Lord, we
thank you for your word. We thank you for your spirit.
We thank you for your grace. We thank you for faith. We thank
you for the forgiveness of our sin. We thank you that you work
in us, causing us to will and to do after thy good pleasure. Lord, make us thy workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus, unto good works, which thou hast ordained,
that we should walk in them. Bless this service, we ask it
in Christ's name, amen. Let's stand together once again.
We'll sing hymn number 125 from the hardbacked hymnal, 125. I hear the Savior say, Thy strength
indeed is small, Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in me Thine
all in all. Jesus made it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. Lord, now indeed I find Thy power
and Thine alone. can change the leper's spots
and melt the heart of stone. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. For nothing good have I Whereby
thy praise to claim I'll wash my garments white In the blood
of Calvary's Lamb Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe Sin had
left a crimson stain He washed it white as snow And when before
the throne I stand in Him complete Jesus died my soul to save My
lips shall still repeat Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. Please be seated. Tonight we're going to be looking
at the story of the woman who had
an issue of blood that the Lord healed and we'll look at the
Luke passage, Matthew, Mark and Luke all tell us about this event. We'll be in Luke chapter 8 if
you'd like to Open your Bibles there with me, Luke chapter 8.
It's one of my favorite stories. This woman came and said, if
I could but touch the hem of his garment, I could be made
whole. And it's such a beautiful picture
of everyone that touches the Lord in faith. Remember the Lord
said, who touched me? Who touched me? And the disciples
said, but Lord, there's multitude thronging around me, impressing
thee. What do you mean, who touched thee? No, virtue has gone out
from me. And that word virtue is power.
Someone touched me in faith, and the power of my salvation
has gone out to her. Now he didn't ask that question
because he didn't know who it was. The Lord always asks questions
in order to expose us and that was the result of the question
that he asked because she came and told him all the truth and she hid nothing back. There
are several different elements of this story that I hope each
of us will be able to identify with and we'll have some comfort
and some hope in knowing that the Lord has brought us to that
place of touching Him and that virtue has gone out from Him
and that that power has resulted in nothing less than the forgiveness
of our sins and the making us whole. and saving our souls. You remember this event takes
place while the Lord is traveling with Jairus to his home to heal
his 12-year-old daughter. And the Lord brings about this
this interruption because by the time he finishes dealing
with the woman with the issue of blood, the servants of Jairus
come and say, bother the master no more, thy daughter is dead. And that was God's timing because
Jairus lost all hope at that point. And the Lord looked at
Jairus and said, be not afraid, only believe. And the Lord went
to Jairus' home and raised his dead daughter from her bed, her deathbed. So this miracle was not only
for the benefit of the woman who had the issue of blood, it
was for Jairus' benefit as well. And I hope that it will be for
our benefit. One of the things that Luke doesn't
mention that Matthew does is that this was a certain woman,
a certain woman. Let's begin reading in verse
43 because that's the first point I want us to see. Verse 43 of Luke chapter 8, and
a woman, or as Matthew tells us, a certain woman, having an
issue of blood 12 years, which had spent all her living upon
physicians, neither could be healed of any." Matthew said
she had spent all that she had and was none the better but worse. So after having used all her
resources in an attempt to be healed, She's now worse off than
she was before. And she came behind him, she
came behind the Lord and touched the border of his garment and
immediately her issue of blood stanched. And Jesus said, who
touched me? That's the title of this message,
who touched me? I pray the Lord will speak that
to our hearts. And when all denied, Peter and
they that were with him said, Master, the multitude thronged
thee and pressed thee, and thou sayest, Who touched me? And Jesus
said, Somebody hath touched me, for I perceive that virtue is
gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she
was not hid, like I said, he wasn't asking this question because
he didn't know who she was. Don't you know the Lord was probably
looking right at her when he said, somebody has touched me.
And I love it. The woman saw that she was not
hid and she came trembling and falling down before him and she
declared unto him before all the people for what cause she
had touched him and how she was healed immediately. And he said
unto her, daughter, be of good comfort. Thy faith hath made
thee whole, go in peace." Well, we just read from Ephesians chapter
2 that faith is a gift of God. So let's be sure that when we
begin this miracle that she didn't come up with this faith. God
gave it to her. This is God-given faith. And yet, that faith drove her
to Christ. And in touching the hem of his
garment, she was healed. Matthew begins this story in
Matthew chapter 12 verse 25 by using this word certain. And I love that word. And it's
found many, many times in the Bible. And the opposite of something
that's certain is something that's uncertain. It's not by chance and it's not
by man's choice. It is purposed and ordained in
certainty by God. Romans chapter eight, and you
know, brethren, you know that all things work together for
good for them that love God and those that are the called according
to his purpose. Everything our God does is on
purpose and is certain. It is sure, it is absolute, it
is definite. And I looked up this word as
it's used in the New Testament and I was very interested to
see that Luke, in writing the Gospel of Luke and in also being
the penman that God used to write the book of Acts uses this word
certain more often, much more often than anyone else. Now that
was not appropriate. Dr. Luke, the physician would
have had somewhat of an analytical scientific mind I'm sure and
he loved that word certain. He loved to think about things
that were absolute, things that were true, things that were certain,
things that were not ambiguous, things that were not unsure. And the Lord has given us, through
his writing, the certainty of the salvation of God's people.
God the Father with certainty, with certainty, with absolute
certainty and on purpose chose according to his own will and
purpose a particular people. And their salvation was made
sure by the sacrifice that the Lord Jesus made on Calvary's
cross on their behalf. He made their salvation certain. The certainty of their salvation
is brought to bear on the hearts of those that the Father chose
and that Christ died for by the virtue or power of the Holy Spirit
anointing the message of the gospel, implying it to the hearts
of God's elect. Such absolute certainty. Is there
any possible way that any that the Father chose, that any that
Christ died for, that any that the Holy Spirit brings life to,
he quickened us together, quickened us. Is there any possibility
of the uncertainty of their salvation? You see, our comfort and our
hope is in the certainty of God's grace and the certainty of his
power. We're not hoping and taking a chance. We're persuaded, we are persuaded
that he is able, that he has all power, all power has been
given unto him in heaven and earth and he is able to save
to the uttermost, completely, perfectly, all the way to the
end with absolute certainty. This was a certain moment, there
were a lot of people, as the apostle said, Lord, multitudes
are thronging thee and pressing on thee. And how descriptive
that is of the many, many religious people of the world that have
a a passing curiosity, an interest, or maybe a temporary need for
some relief, but have no concern for their souls and no understanding
and no hope for their salvation in the certainty, the certainty
of God. And so all that touch the hem
of his garment and all that are made whole through the faith
that he gives are a certain people. We just read that this woman
had suffered many things. She had spent all her living,
you see that in verse 43? She had spent all her living
upon physicians, all that she had. 12 years she's been suffering. And it's interesting these two
stories as they meet together that Jairus's daughter was 12
years old and we know that in God's word numbers are significant
and the number 12 is very special. Note there were 12 tribes of
Israel, there were 12 apostles, there's 12 months in the year.
It's a number that 12 times 12,000, the 144,000, the entire church
of the Lord Jesus brought together in glory. It's a number of completeness. And what the Lord's telling us
here in this 12 years is that the Lord had purposed this certain
time in her life, but there was a need of this suffering for
12 years in order to fulfill his certain purpose of saving
her. And so it is in each of our lives,
Paul said, when it pleased God. The Lord had ordained Saul of
Tarsus to be in religion and to be persecutor of the church
and a blasphemer. And as he said of himself, an
injurious man, injuring men and God, at least shaking his fist
at God. And then at a certain time, in
the fullness of time when God had completed his purpose in
bringing Saul of Tarsus to that place to where he now would be
knocked off his high horse and God would speak to him and he
would touch the hem of our Lord's garment. Bartimaeus spent his entire life
blind until that certain time. Twelve years were finished. Oh,
he was a lot older than that, just like the man who was crippled
at the Pool of Bethesda. Thirty and eight years, the Bible
says. Born crippled, lived a crippled
life, and yet, now is the time. Here's our comfort, brethren,
that the Lord is going to purpose certain time for each of us in
whatever experiences that we might have to go through in order
to bring us to that place. And in 12 years, at the end of
that perfect time when he has finished his work Not only does
that apply to whatever he puts us through and sends us to prior
to coming to know him, that's true in all of the providential
circumstances that we experience in this world and that is true
in the sufferings that we bear in this life. so that the glory that shall
be revealed in us cannot be compared, cannot be compared to the troubles
and trials and sufferings that we have in this life. Twelve
will come to pass when God has accomplished His purpose and
bring us through all our afflictions and all our trials and enable
us not just to touch him in faith as this woman did and as each
one of God's children will be brought to but to see him in
glory where there will be no faith. There's not gonna be any
faith in heaven. We won't need faith. Faith will
be our sight. We won't need hope. Hope will
be our experience. We'll be glorying in His presence
and in perfect love for all eternity when the 12 years are up. She spent all her living, she
exhausted all her means. spent all that she had on physicians,
Mark says, and was nothing better, only grew worse. The Lord was her last resort. You know, oftentimes we say,
well, you know, there's nothing left to do but pray now. The only time we really pray
is when there's nothing else to do. The only time. We really find ourselves in God-given
prayer is when we've spent all that we have. We've done everything
we can do. We've tried all that we can try.
And we have been brought to the end of ourselves, the end of
all of our resources. She had spent everything. She
didn't have anything left. She was shut up to Christ now.
Christ was all she had. If the Lord wasn't going to heal
her, It was no hope that she didn't have any more money to
give to physicians. And she was worse off. What a picture of man-made religion. You know, all the things that
men do in order to try to salve their conscience and save their
own souls actually makes them worse off than they would have
been otherwise. But we spend all that we have,
don't we? And the Lord will allow us, even
as his children, to waste our inheritance in an attempt to
fix our own problems until he, in 12 days, 12 weeks, 12 years,
whatever it is, in the completeness of time, he brings us to the
end of ourselves. And again and again and again,
we're shut up to Christ. We've got no place else to go.
What did the disciples say? What did Peter say when the Lord
said, will you lead me also? Lord, to whom shall we go? To
whom shall we go? You alone have the words of eternal
life. We know and are sure that thou
art the Christ, the son of the living God. Lord, we're, we've
got no place else. We've got nothing else we can
do. What a blessed place to be. We've tried the chains of the
law. We've tried doing what Elijah did and hiding ourselves in the
caves of Mount Sinai. And the Lord has to arrest us
again and again, doesn't he? And say to us what he said to
Elijah, what are you doing here? What are you doing here? This
mountain can't help you. The law can't help you. Look for the experiences of the
mighty rushing wind or the renting of the rocks or the shaking of
the earth, you know, something, something Lord's gonna happen.
No. And the Lord was not in any of
those things, was he? He was not in any of those things.
And then God spoke and it was a still small voice. He spoke
to the heart and he speaks peace and comfort to the heart when
he brings us to faith in Christ. Crawling, if you will, exhausted,
having spent all that we have. Oh, if I could but touch the
hem of his garment, I could be made whole. We've tried the ivory
tower of intellectualism and higher knowledge and the pursuit
of of man's wisdom to no avail. To no avail. Covered ourselves
with fig leaves, indulged ourselves in the pleasures of this world
and tried to find some sense of comfort and purpose by the
accumulation of material things. None of those things, you see,
God will allow us to spend all that we have so that at the end
of the day, we're worse off than we were otherwise. We wasted
our inheritance on riotous living, as the Lord said of the prodigal. And what does he do? We find
ourselves eating the husk that the swine do eat. He brings us
to ourselves. Gives, puts us in our right mind
causes us to flee home to our heavenly father, only to find
him out on the road waiting, waiting, lavishing us with kisses,
putting a ring upon our finger and shoes upon our feet and killing
the fatted calf and clothing us in the righteousness of Christ.
And my son that was lost is now found. Oh, what a merciful heavenly
father we have. And the period of time will vary
depending on our circumstances, but it'll always be 12. It'll
always be God's perfect time. Just as his time in this life
will be a perfect fulfillment of his purpose for his certain
bride. to be brought in faith to the
one who says, it is done, it's finished. And to be able to rest
in Him. How wonderful and merciful our
Father is to remind us of this, because how easy it is that we
can spend all our living on physicians. Oh, how we need the great physician. I love what Job, just listen
to what Job said of his miserable comforters. You know, those friends
that were saying to him, you know, you're hiding something,
Job. You just come clean. And, you know, God's punishing
you for some hidden sin that you're committing. And Job fell
into the trap of defending himself and justifying himself. When
Elihu finally comes on the scene and preaches the gospel, he rebukes
Job and his friends for having justified themselves before God. But Job, in listening to the
accusations that his friends were making about him and in
his attempt to prove them wrong, He says of this, he says this
of them in Job 13 verse four, you are all physicians of no
value. You're not giving me any comfort.
You're not healing me. You're a bunch of quacks. You
don't know what my need is. And then the great physician
comes. The Lord said, the well don't need a physician, but they
that are sick, those that are sick with sin will come to me. And they will come to see that
their problem is an issue of blood. Their problem is a heart
problem. You wouldn't go to a dermatologist
if you had a heart murmur. But we do that, don't we? The Lord's the only one that
can that can speak to the heart and solve the problems of the
heart. And he did that. As our great
physician, he said to the Pharisees, he said, you will say unto me,
physician, heal thyself. And he was quoting prophecy when
he said that. You will say to me, physician,
heal thyself. And when he was on the cross,
that's exactly what they said. He saved others. Let him save
himself. If he be the son of God, let
him come down. The only way that our issue of blood could be healed,
the only way that we could be brought like this woman with
the issue of blood to touch the hem of his garment and be made
whole, The only way that the certain individuals that God
has chose and for whom Christ died is that he could not save
himself. The physician had to die. And he said, he said, tell John. Tell John that the deaf hear
and the blind see and the lame walk and the dead are raised.
I've come to heal the brokenhearted. The Lord Jesus is that physician. So all these other physicians
were like Job's friends. They were of no value. They were
of no value. And the things that we look to
and we try to find comfort and peace and happiness in If we
belong to the Lord, he's gonna allow us to come to the end of
our resources and cause us to come crawling to him again and
again, to touch the hem of his garment and to be made whole. She had an issue of blood. You know, there are many diseases.
Doc, you know more about this and I'm speaking out of school
here, but you know, we all know, there are many diseases that
can be treated locally in the body. You can either remove parts
of the body, you can cut out a tumor, you can cut off a limb
for that matter and solve the problem. But I remember someone was first diagnosed with
cancer. And the doctor said, the question
was, well, can we remove the tumor? And the doctor's statement
was, the horse is out of the barn. Cancer's in your blood. We can
treat the tumors. But it's in the blood. It's going
to come up in other places. And here's a picture of sin,
isn't there? And what we would do by nature
is to try to cut off a limb, is to try to cut out a tumor,
is to try to treat a particular sin, thinking that that's the
problem. And we do it, and men do it.
And, you know, well, if I can just stop doing that and start
doing that. And religion has a restraining
effect. The legal and social aspect of
religion will restrain men's behaviors. And men can clean
up their lives being under the the scrutiny of peers that are,
you know, they're all, you know, holding each other up and being
under the power of the law. You can fix some problems. You can change, you can turn
over a new leaf. You can clean up the outside
of the cup. You can whitewash the tomb. You can stop sinning
as far as certain things are concerned. Yeah, I'm not gonna
do that anymore. People do it all the time. But when the horse is out of
the barn and the sin problem is much deeper and much greater
than just a certain behavior, now it's in the blood and just
as the blood courses through the body being pumped by the
heart and affects every cell of the body, so it is with the
sin problem. Lord, I've got a sin problem
that affects everything about me. I can't fix this problem. I can't
go to a physician. I can't go to religion. I can't
go to the law. I can't just change a self-destructive
bad behavior, which, you know, we should change those things,
but that's... You see, the problem is she had an issue of blood
and life is in the blood. The scripture makes that clear.
Death is in the blood too. And that was her condition. And the Lord forbids his people
from eating blood. And that's Old Testament and
New Testament. You remember in Acts chapter
15 when the apostles got together to try to decide what are we
gonna do with these Gentiles? The Gentiles were accustomed
to eating blood. What did they do? You've seen
it, I've seen it. I watched a couple of men when
I lived in Cuba take a large sea turtle that they had just
caught and they cut throat of that sea turtle and drain the
blood and I watched them drink that blood. And I ask him as
a young man, I said, what are you doing? Oh, we're getting
the spirit of that animal into our bodies by drinking this blood. And so the Lord forbids his people,
Old Testament and New Testament, from this practice, thinking
that somehow we're gonna get the spirit of God into our bodies
by something we do. Well, just pray this prayer.
Well, just perform this religious act. Just do this and stop doing
that. And you see, the drinking of
blood is like circumcision. It's what man puts his hand to. No, the life that is in the blood,
and I've heard people, I've heard preachers say, well, you know,
you need to apply the blood. You need to apply the blood. How are we going to do that? God applies the blood. We don't drink the blood thinking
that somehow in what we do we're going to get the life of God
into our lives by our acts. You see, this is all done by
faith. We look in faith to what the Lord Jesus did when he shed
his precious blood on Calvary's cross and took that blood, spiritually
speaking, and put it on the mercy seat in heaven. He applied the
blood. And there's our hope that the
Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, was doing business with his Father
in applying his blood to the mercy seat for the healing of
certain women who have had an issue of blood 12 years and now
he's going to bring healing and life through faith into their
lives. What a glorious picture. I want you to also notice the
humility of her faith. The humility of her faith. The
scripture says that she came from behind him. The higher view we have of Christ,
the lower view we'll have of ourselves. She knew that she was unclean,
she knew that she was unworthy and she comes crawling quietly,
secretly through the crowd thinking, oh if I could but touch the hem
of his garment. Abraham who is called the father
of the faithful said this in Genesis chapter 18 When he was
interceding for Lot in Sodom, and he was asking the Lord to
spare the city, Abraham said this, behold, now I have taken
up to speak unto the Lord, which I am but dust and ashes. You
see, anytime we come into God's presence, yes, we come boldly
to the throne of grace to find help in our time of need, but
our boldness is the confidence that we have in Christ and our
access is because of Him. We don't come with some sort
of, you know, we're told that when we enter into worship that
we come and let our words be few and God is in the heavens
and we're upon the earth and And we come before him. Well,
listen to Psalm 2. Psalm 2, I think it's verse 11.
Serve the Lord with fear, rejoicing with trembling. You see, it's
not either or. We rejoice in Christ and we have
no confidence in the flesh. And so there is a humility that
God puts in the heart through faith that when we come, we come
like this woman. We come like we sang, we open
the service with a hymn about how unworthy we are and yet we
rejoice with trembling. It's not either or. We're confident that in Christ
We have full acceptance before God. We're confident that in
Christ we are justified and without sin. And we're also certain that
apart from Him, we have no claim on God. We have no worthiness. We have no right to come before
Him. That's why the scripture says
whatever is not done in faith is sin. You see, faith involves
everything we do so when we walk by faith we're looking to Christ
for all of our acceptance and all of our righteousness before
God. That's what she was doing, she was humbly coming behind
him and yes, we come boldly before the throne of grace, always remembering
that it is by grace that we're saved, by grace, free, sovereign,
unmerited grace. And she believed that the Lord
was able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that she asked or think.
She thought, if I could just touch the hem of his garment.
In Psalm 133, the scripture speaks of Aaron as the high priest and
the oil being poured upon his head and running down his beard
and going down and dripping off the hem of his garment. So, and
it's a picture of the anointing of the Lord Jesus who is our
Christ, the anointed of the Father. And one drop of that anointing
that might drip off of his garment is sufficient. Don't you love
the Syrophoenician woman said, truth Lord, I'm a dog but if
I could just get one crumb off your table, that would be sufficient. The centurion who wanted the
Lord to come and heal his servant, well, actually, he didn't want
the Lord to come. He said, I'm not worthy. You
should come into my house. Only speak the word, one word. All I need from you is one word
and my servants should be made whole. All I need is one drop
of oil. All I need is one crumb off the
master's table. All I need is one word from God. Why? because the foolishness
of God is greater than all the world." 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 23. All we need, everything in the
world, little is little and much is much, but with God, little
is everything. And little is sufficient and
little is enough. Lord, if you'll just give me
a little, if you'll just give me the faith of a mustard seed,
that'll be sufficient. You see, it's not the quantity
of God's grace and mercy, it's the quality of it. And just a
little bit of it is enough. Why? Because he is exceedingly,
abundantly able to do above what we should ask or think. He is omnipotent. He's able to
save to the uttermost. And finally, notice verse 47. And when the woman
saw that she was not hid, she came trembling and falling down
before him. And she declared unto him before
all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she
was healed immediately. She had lived her life for the
last 12 years in shame and secrecy. She was obligated by the law
to let everybody around her know what was going on with her. You
think she did that? No. No. She either stayed at home and
suffered quietly. If she got out, she didn't tell
anybody. She wouldn't have done that. She's not hid anymore. Now she's
no more reason to be ashamed. I've been made whole, my sin's
been put away. What a picture. We do what Adam
did with our sin. We hide, we shame, we try to
cover it up, we try to fix our problem and then when the Lord
gives us faith to get a drop of oil off the hem of his garment,
and we're no longer here, we're no longer gonna have anything
to be ashamed of. And one of the writers tells
a story, says that she told him all the truth. She told everybody,
him and everybody around, what her problem was. She was unclean,
is a sinner. And now she has the, the comfort
of the Lord saying to her, look at verse 48, daughter, be of
good comfort. Be of good comfort. It's okay,
rest. My faith has made thee whole. Go in peace. You have peace with
God. Oh, that's what we need, that's
what we want. This is a picture of how we first
come to Christ. And then the scripture says,
as you receive Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. So this is a picture, Peter said,
to whom coming. This is not just a picture of
how we first come to Christ. This is a picture of what faith
does every time it comes and says, oh, but if I can touch
the hem of his garment, I can be made whole. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for your word. Lord, thank you for this story. We pray for your
Holy Spirit to apply to our hearts. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. Number 29, let's stand together. In the spiral hymn book. But I was lost and did not know
it, rushing madly to my end. But my God, who's rich in mercy,
would not let me die in sin. Hallelujah! God has saved me. me by His sovereign
grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me. I am saved by sovereign grace. ? Chosen by my heavenly Father
? ? And redeemed by Jesus' blood ? ? I am justified, forgiven,
and accepted by my God ? ? Hallelujah, God has saved me ? ? Saved me
by His sovereign grace ? Jesus died, the Spirit called me ?
I am saved by sovereign grace ? God the Spirit came in power
? Gave me life and set me free ? He revealed my blessed Savior
? And created faith in me ? Hallelujah, God has saved me ? Saved me by
His sovereign grace ? Jesus died, the Spirit called me ? I am saved
by sovereign grace God has saved me and will keep
me by the power of His grace. He will guide, guard, and protect
me till I see my Savior's face. Hallelujah, God has saved me,
Saved me by His sovereign grace. Jesus died, the Spirit called
me, I am saved by sovereign grace.