Good evening. It's good to be
back. Let's open tonight's service
with hymn number 52 in your hardback timinal. 52. Let's all stand
together. His majestic sweetness sits enthroned
upon the Savior's brow. His head with rage and glories
crowned, His lips with grace o'erflow. His lips with grace
o'erflow. ? No mortal can with Him compare
? ? Among the sons of men ? ? Fairer is He than all the pair ? ? Who
fill the heavenly train ? ? Who fill the heavenly train ? ? He
saw me plunged in deep distress ? ? And flew to my relief ? For
me he bore the shameful cross and carried all my grief, and
carried all my grief. To him I owe my life and breath
and all the joys I have. ? He makes me triumph over death
? And saves me from the grave ? And saves me from the grave
Please be seated. I'm gonna read Psalm 103 tonight,
the whole psalm, if you'd like to follow along. It's a familiar
psalm. 103, a psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the
Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgiveth
all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases, who redeemeth
thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with lovingkindness
and tender mercies, who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, so
that thy youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord executeth
righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made
known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in
mercy. Everywhere it says mercy here,
I think the word is loving kindness, which is the same word for grace.
He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger forever.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according
to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above
the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As
far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions
from us. Like as a father pitieth his
children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth
our frame, He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his
days are as grass. As a flower of the field, so
he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it
and it is gone. And the place thereof shall know
it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is
from everlasting to everlasting. That's that word again, grace.
Is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his
righteousness unto children's children. to such as keep his
covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
The Lord hath preferred his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom
ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye his angels
that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening
unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his
hosts, ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. Bless the Lord,
all his works in all places of his dominion, Bless the Lord,
O my soul. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we come
before you now in this hour, needing your grace, Lord. Lord,
we are full of iniquity and sinners. Lord, we are so thankful that
you've told us in your word that because of Christ and his work
and his death and his resurrection, you have removed our iniquity
from us as far as the East is from the West. Lord, we are thankful
for your promises. We're thankful for this time
that you brought us together. Lord, we ask that you would be
with all of your people who are traveling, who cannot worship
freely as we are able to. Lord, be with us now. Be with
Jeff as he brings a message from your word. Lord, be with all
of our families, especially those who are sick and frail. Lord,
we ask all this in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Let's just stay seated and we'll
sing hymn number two from your spiral hymn book, number two. I love this hymn. ? Come before thee now ? At thy
feet we humbly bow ? O do not our suit disdain ? Shall we seek
thee, Lord, in vain Lord, on Thee our souls depend In compassion
and love Fill our hearts with Thy rich
grace, Tune our lips to sing Thy praise. In Thine own anointed
way, Now we seek Thee, here we stay. Lord, we know not how to
go Till a blessing Thou bestow. Send a message from thy word
that may joy and peace afford. Let thy spirit now impart Christ's
salvation to each heart. Jeff. Good evening, everybody. Good
evening. It is good to be here. Tonight,
I want to bring a simple, simple message about how salvation is
all of grace entirely. God's doing and not of works,
not of our will, nor of our efforts at all. When I say salvation,
I'm talking about God delivering someone from the misery and from
the eternal consequences of their sin. And salvation in every part
of it, at every point, in every way, is entirely by God's grace,
not of works. But by way of introduction, well,
let's read our text first. Romans 9, verse 15 and 16. I want to be like a like a little
child standing against his father's legs looking up in admiration
as God says I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. Romans
9 15 says for he sayeth to Moses I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that willeth. nor of him that runneth,
but of God that showeth mercy. Now we know that the it here
is our eternal salvation. Look up in verse, starting in
verse six, Paul is saying that the gospel has been preached,
but not all of Israel has believed. It's not because the gospel doesn't
save, though, in verse six, not as though the word of God hath
taken none effect, for they are not all Israel which are of Israel,
neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all
children, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is,
they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the
children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for
the seed. Now in verse 15, that's how we
would ever become God's seed. That is how we're saved, not
of works. So by way of introduction, could
we go to Psalm 115, please? Psalm 115. All we've done is sin, brethren.
The scripture says that our best works are filthy rags before
God. Psalm 115 verse 1, not unto us,
O Lord, and that's the title of this message, not unto us,
O Lord, but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy
truth's sake. We're an unclean thing that came
from an unclean thing. We can't do anything to fix our
problem with sin. But Lord, consider who you are. Give glory to your name, Lord. Consider who you are, what you've
done. Consider your son. He says mercy and truth here
because where mercy is, God teaches truth. For me to be blessed, for anybody
to be blessed, Lord, you'll have to take glory to your name and
show me how mercy and truth met at the cross. Verse two, wherefore
should the heathen say, where is there now their God? See,
ruined man who doesn't have faith, they want something they can
handle and see and touch because they're hopeless. For hope that
is seen is not hope. Hope and sight don't mix. For
what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? The world wants
a hope that they can see and touch and manipulate. But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatsoever he is
pleased. With him is strength and wisdom,
the deceived and the deceiver. are his, and our text says in
Romans 9 that he will have mercy on whom he will. He's done whatsoever
he is pleased and what his soul desires, even that he does. That is the God of the Bible. God stopped Abimelech from touching
Abraham's wife, he said. He said, I stopped you from sinning
against me. And before that, though, He left
an entire world of millions of people to sin before he drowned
them in a flood. He could have stopped them from
sinning as easily as he stopped Abimelech. It's not hard for
him. But this is God who's done whatsoever he is pleased. And he works all things after
the counsel of his own will. And the counsel of his will that
all things are worked after is how he was pleased to bruise
his son. and make him a curse, make him
sin for us, for the sins of God's elect, whom he will have mercy. Our God is in the heavens, brethren.
The congregation of the dead preach that he's done whatsoever
you will allow or invite him to do. Their gospel is like a
lifeguard at the side of a pool who wants to rescue everybody,
so he throws a life ring in and hopes everybody swims to it.
But for some reason he can't violate their free will, so he'll
just have to hope. But our text says God in the
heavens, who's done whatsoever he's pleased, says that he will
have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and therefore, therefore,
It's not of him that wills nor of him that runs. That's searching
because we're talking about our souls. We're talking about eternity. And that means that I can't look
to anything I've ever brought to God. I can't look inward. I can't look at I can't take
assurance from anything. I can't bring anything to God
because he won't accept it. He accepts the blood of his son.
So I have three points. What is it to will? What is it
to run? And what is it for God to show
mercy? Well, mercy is for those who
can't will and can't run. He says, oh Israel, thou has
destroyed thyself. but in me is thy help. So, number
one, what is it to will? Our text says that salvation
is not of him that will, so I want to know what is it to will? It's
to believe that you have the final hand in consenting to letting
God save you. To will is to believe that you
had the final choice of whether or not God would call you and
save you. But that's not true. James 1
18 says of his own will begat he us with the word of truth
that we should be of first fruits among his creatures. It is of
God which shows mercy and the elect love that because we know
that without God calling us and giving us faith we're blind to
the gospel and we still would be. I love the hymn we sing. It says, Jacob he saved and gave
no reason why. In Esau's heart he left depraved. And who would dare reply? Who
would dare? Let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter
two. We can't will ourselves towards
something that we can't see. and those who are taught of God
know that all we can do is thank God for giving us eyes to see
and ears to hear. In 1 Corinthians 2, here, let's start reading in,
let's just start at verse one. And I, brethren, when I came
to you, came not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring
unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know
anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified. And
I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
of the spirit and of power. that your faith should not stand
in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God, in the power
of God. Salvation is not of him that
wills, because without mercy, it's the words of men only. God
is not obligated to call people to his feet just because the
gospel is preached. We need God's power in this.
If all we hear is the words of men, Nothing happens, we need
God's mercy. But with mercy, when God's word
is attended with his power, it's a living hope, it's the same
power that raised Christ from the grave. Paul wrote to the
Ephesians and said he's praying for them, that they would have
their eyes, the eyes of their understanding enlightened to
see what is the hope of his calling and what is the exceeding greatness
of his power to us who believe. And that power is according to
the same power that he raised Jesus Christ, which he wrought
in Christ when he raised him from the dead. That's the mercy
we need, that's the power. God's not obligated to it, but
where it is, oh, a living hope, brethren. All
the words of this life is what the gospel is called. Now verse
six. How be it, we speak wisdom among
them that are perfect. We do speak wisdom, but only
the perfect can hear. Of God that shows mercy, yet
not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world
that come to naught. But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before
the world unto our glory. Wisdom prepared before the foundation
of the world for the people, prepared before the foundation
of the world. Verse eight, now this hidden
wisdom, none of the princes of this world knew, for had they
known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
It's not for everybody, it's unto our glory. See, Christ had
to die to deliver his church, and if these princes had known
it, they would not have crucified him. Here we can see God's sovereign
hand in using men in their lives to accomplish his purpose. But as it is written, I hath
not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
We know that if we love Him, it's because He first loved us.
This is about what He's done for those He loves. But God has
revealed them unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God. Christ said, the Holy Spirit,
He said that He will take the things of mine and show them
to you. He said that to men who he had
called to himself and singled out from their daily life years
before sovereignly, choosing them and giving them faith. It's of God that shows mercy.
For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man
which is in him. Even so, the things of God knoweth
no man but the spirit of God. There's things that you can't
know about a person except they tell you. Even so, no man can
know God except God show him by putting his spirit in you.
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God. That's what we've received. So
we can know the things that are freely given to us of God, that
we've been justified freely by his grace through the redemption,
that he's loved us freely. without us doing anything, not
of him that runneth. If God gave Christ for us, how
shall he not with him freely give us all things? Which things,
those things freely given, which things also we speak? Not in
the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. We speak
of the spiritual blessings given to us, not in the wisdom of men,
but by using the scriptures in the power of God. And with the
hearing ear and the seeing eye that he's given, what an unbeliever
does when they hear the gospel is they reflect everything they're
hearing off of their own common sense or sense of right and wrong,
logic, they reflect it off of that. We reflect it off of other
scriptures. That's why when you're trying
to tell somebody the gospel and they say, no, because if that's
true, then that must mean fill in the blank. And we stand there
and we say, no, it doesn't mean that. Because we're able to compare
spiritual things with spiritual things to arrive at truth. And
that's an ability only God can give. Why do we rejoice at scripture,
at hearing the gospel preached, and somebody else just darkens
counsel and further condemns themselves? Because we've been taught not
to use the words of man's wisdom, but the words which the Holy
Ghost teaches. That's only by mercy, that's
only by grace. God by his mercy has written
his word on our hearts. Do you remember willing or running
yourself into that blessed state? I would ask the Apostle Paul,
the last thing he was willing or wanting in regards to God
when he set out on the road to Damascus was to kill God's people. That was the last decision he
made about God, but God had made another decision about him. The
Psalm says, when the Lord turned the captivity of Israel, we were
like unto them that dream. Like when you wake up from something
so wonderful and you have, This mercy and compassion of having
spiritual ears, it will mark us out in this life. Going through
religion is easy, but we have found out that to actually believe
the scriptures, your life's about to change. It's not gonna be
easy. Let's go, could we go to Psalm
119, please? Go to Psalm 119. Not of him that willeth, nor
of him that runneth, but of God that shows mercy. And now here
we are. Look at Psalm 119 verses 49. We're different than other people
because God has made us so. The most important thing about
a person is where they look to comfort themselves. Everybody
knows, everybody lays down in bed at night, thinks about what,
A mess their life is, they worry, they fear. But where do you look? What do you turn to to comfort
you? Everybody has something. Ours marks us out. Okay, 119
verses 49, starting at verse 49. Remember the word unto thy
servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. That's... God the Father giving his word
to his righteous servant, behold, my servant, my elect, that's
Christ. Christ said, my doctrine is not
mine, but the Father's which sent me. David here is asking
God to remember the promise, the covenant, the gospel that
he gave to his son to come and to communicate and to perform.
And look, it says, David says God has caused him to hope, caused. I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy, God says. Now verse 50, this is my comfort
in my affliction. God's word unto his servant,
for thy word hath quickened me. We comfort ourself with God's
word that he gave to his servant. Because he's quickened us, by
the greatness of thy strength shall thy enemies submit themselves
to thee. The psalmist says, verse 51,
the proud have had me greatly in derision, yet have I not declined
from thy law? God sends heresies and gainsayers
to try us to make the truth even more beautiful in our eyes, that
we cling to it even more. Verse 52, I remembered thy judgments
of old, O Lord, and have comforted myself. His judgments of old
are all of salvation, all of it, from before the foundation
of the world. This is God who calleth those
things that be not as though they were. All of salvation is
his judgment of old. Jesus Christ was the lamb slain
before the foundation of the world. He says whom he did predestinate,
that's a judgment, Them he also called, judgment, and whom, no,
whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called,
them he justified, and who he justified, them he also glorified. That is God's judgment, that
he would have a bride, a church for his son, and that they would
be with him in heaven forever. Horror hath taken hold upon me,
because of the wicked that forsake thy law. These are the proud
in verse 51. When we speak, we're for peace,
but they're for war. Thy statutes have been my songs
in the house of my pilgrimage. I used to always see people walking
around with headphones, earbuds. Think about that, but we have
the song of the gospel, his statutes to play over and over again in
our heads as we go through this wilderness while we're in our
tabernacle, in this house of my pilgrimage, our bodies. God's
statutes are our songs. Verse 55, I have remembered thy
name, O Lord, in the night and have kept thy law. in the night
when we can't see anything. We walk by faith and that's a
mercy and we didn't will ourselves or run ourselves into that. This
I had, everything in this psalm, all of it, this I had because
I kept thy precepts. If we keep his precepts, believe
his word, this will be our experience. The Lord does make a difference
between Israel and Egypt and he is the one who made them differ
by having mercy and compassion, not their will contributing in
any way. These verses in Psalm 119, you
notice, are entirely about faith, simple trust, God, clinging to
God, putting all your hope in him. So to will is to believe that God
needed your permission to save you. and that you had to take
the first step, but it can't be because we're blind to the
gospel. We have no desire to it. We're
running the other way. We need his mercy and compassion
first to believe the gospel. Our Lord told a group of Pharisees,
you believe not because you're not of my sheep, but they that
are of God, hear God's words. Secondly, what is it to run?
Our text in Romans 9 says salvation is not of him that runs. To run is to try, to work at,
to strive, to please God by our living in order to tip the scales
of justice and atone for our sins or secure God's blessing
to earn his favor by our obedience. We can go, please go back to
Romans 9 now. In verse 11, he uses the word works. It says, for the children being
not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God, according to election, might stand not of
works, but of him that calleth. And that proves that salvation
is not of works by the fact that God loved Jacob and hated Esau
before either of them had done anything, that his purpose, according
to election, might stand. natural man assumes that good
people are in heaven and bad people are in hell. But let's
look at Romans 9, starting in verse 30. What shall we say then, that
the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, they
had no clue about God, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness
which is of faith." See, but Israel, who strived after God
in the law, did not attain to righteousness. God says, I was
found of them that sought me not. That's about the Gentiles.
But But Israel, which followed after
the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore, why? Because they sought it not by
faith, but as it were by the works of the law. Oh, that we
might be found in Christ not having our own righteousness,
but his. They believe, Israel believed
their blessing was conditioned on their law-keeping, instead
of seeking righteousness in another, in God's righteous servant, the
righteousness which is by faith of Jesus Christ, which is unto
all and upon all them that believe, not work. As it is written, behold,
I lay in Zion a stumbling stone, and a rock of offense, and whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. A rock of offense to
them that be disobedient, 1 Peter says, the stone which the builders
rejected. What if you were building steps
to heaven and you grabbed one stone and you found out that
that one could be the only one you use? It was that one or nothing. You had to put them all back
and only use that one. That wouldn't make any sense
to you. You'd reject that stone unless God has mercy and compassion
on you. Now, I'm reading this all, I'm
forgetting the chapter breaks. Go to chapter 10, verse one. Brethren, my heart's desire and
prayer, because this is the same argument he's making here. My
heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might
be saved. Paul wrote, a servant must not
strive, but be gentle, apt to teach that the Lord peradventure
might grant repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. For
I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according
to knowledge, knowledge of God's righteousness. For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish
their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God. This is what it comes down to,
righteousness. Paul wrote, you that desire the
law, do you not hear the law? He wrote to the Galatians. Do
you not understand that that's not a list of suggestions to
live by? That is a law of God that you've already
broken and you cannot keep. That's a rap sheet. It's not
a list of suggestions. Don't you hear that? As many
as are of the works of the law, are under the curse. A curse
that is everyone that does not continue in all things that are
written in the book of the law to do them. But, verse four, Christ is the
end of the law for righteousness, the period at the end of the
sentence, the terminating point, the thing that everything else
was leading to, the end of the law. is not of him that runneth. Now, it's not of him that wills
or runs. But what is mercy now? Well,
the difference between mercy as we hear about it in Christendom
and mercy in the gospel is that real mercy meets a sinner right
where he is and asks nothing from him that it doesn't already
give. It does not stand off at a distance and make an offer,
that's not mercy. What if I told you that you need
to wash up, you need to be clean, and in order to get in the shower,
you need to first take a shower. When you hear somebody saying
God wants to save you, but you need to first, it's no different. That's hopeless. I want to see
what mercy is. I want to see what compassion
is. That's what I need. Can we go to Jeremiah 33? Jeremiah
chapter 33. Verse one, moreover, the word
of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time while he was
yet shut up in the court of the prison. That's called salvation. That's called salvation. While
he was yet shut up, the word of the Lord came. Thus saith
the Lord, the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it to establish
it. The Lord is his name. Call unto
me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things
which thou knowest not. The princes of this world didn't
know. They're revealed by his spirit. For thus saith, look at what he does. He shows
great and mighty things. He gives a view into those things
prepared for those who love him. For thus saith the Lord, the
God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning
the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the
mounts and by the swords, thrown down in their sin, enemies in
your mind by wicked works. This is God's elect. This is
the houses of the kings of Judah in their unregenerate state,
thrown down and they're not getting up again. But God. They come to fight with the Chaldeans,
but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I have
slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness
I have hid my face from this city. In a little wrath I hid
my face, as it were, for a little moment, but with everlasting
kindness will I have mercy on thee. They come to fight, but
it is to fill them with the dead body. To fight against our sin
is futile. It's futile. We need God. Verse six, behold, I will bring
it, the houses thrown down, these ruined people, I will bring it,
the ones shut up in the court of the prison still, I will bring
it, health and cure, and I will cure them, and I will reveal
unto them the abundance of goodness and truth. It is not of him that wills nor
of him that runs. It's of God who comes to a dead
sinner and brings hope and makes them believe it. Verse seven, and I will cause
the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return. And I will build them as at the
first. And I will cleanse them from
all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me. And I
will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned and
whereby they have transgressed against me. And it shall be to
me a name of joy, whose praise is not of men, but of God, a
name of joy. because she bears the name of
her husband, who for the joy that was set before him endured
the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God, angels, principalities, and powers being
made subject unto him. As he rejoices in his bride,
it shall be to me a name of joy. and an honor before all the nations
of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them,
and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for
all the prosperity that I procure unto it. Mercy and compassion gives hope
to those enruined while they're ruined. God does this for his
beloved elect children, and they love it that way. In closing,
Let's go to Titus chapter three. This is the same message in Old
Testament, New Testament. The scriptures always say it
is always the same thing. Pure grace, not of works for
ruined sinners who can't help themselves and don't even want
to. Titus chapter three. Let's start at verse one. put them in mind to be subject
to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready
to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers,
but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men. We are just clay. We're just clay, brethren. Now
here's why meekness. For we ourselves also were sometime
foolish, We were sometime foolish for a time, for a time, but then
God showed us who he is. He revealed his son in us. And
there's never a time that we won't know the gospel from that
second on throughout this life and into eternity. There's never
a time that we won't know the gospel, that we won't know that
Jesus Christ is the son of God. That will never be taken from
us. But before that, what were we? Disobedient, foolish, deceived,
serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful
and hating one another. Paul says we, we were those things,
Timothy, that means He's including himself too, but in Philippians
chapter three, in Philippians chapter three, in verses four
through six, Paul seems to describe himself a very different way,
because he said that he was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the
law blameless. He had more reason than anybody
to glory in the flesh and to put confidence in himself. He
was extremely religious, upright, moral man. And here he's saying
we were disobedient, deceived, foolish. So does that sound like
a contradiction? That's not a contradiction, that's
sin. While Paul was going through
all the motions of Judaism, of religion, his heart was full
of wickedness. In Philippians, he's describing
what you would see if you looked at him. And here, in Titus 3,
he's describing what he really is. God taught him that it's
not of him that runneth, so that in Philippians he goes on to
say, though, oh, that I might be found in him not having my
own righteousness, which is of the law, because what things
that I thought were gain, they actually were loss. But, but the kindness and love
of God our Savior toward man appeared. He revealed the abundance
of goodness and truth to Paul and Titus. God brought health and cure to
these houses that were thrown down, not by works of righteousness,
which we have done. But according to his mercy, he
saved us. Same thing in Romans chapter
nine. By the washing of regeneration, the washing of water by the word,
and renewing of the Holy Ghost, renewed after the image of him
that created him, which he shed on us abundantly. The Holy Ghost renews and regenerates
God's elect and was shed abundantly through Jesus Christ because
he bore our sins in his own body on the tree. He tasted death. He was betrayed into the hands
of sinful men and put on a cross for our sins and God made him
to be sin. But God raised him from the dead
and exalted him with his right hand to be a prince and a savior,
to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel. And that's how our Lord Jesus
Christ sheds forth the Holy Ghost abundantly. That being justified
by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of
eternal life. Our Lord was delivered for our
offenses and raised again for our justification. All this for
sinners who can't will, who can't run, but look to God who has
mercy and compassion on whom he will. Let's pray. Our Father, God, Lord, Lord,
we do need your blessing, God, your hand to be on us. Lord,
make your words powerful, Lord. Give us faith to believe you. And God, have us, make us turn
away from everything else except your son and him crucified. This
is your church, God. We need you to bless us and feed
us now, amen. ? 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, And 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. Oh, 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 in white as snow And when before
the throne I stand in incomplete 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.