King of my life, I crown thee
now Thine shall the glory be Lest I forget thy thorn-crowned
brow lead me to Calvary. Lest I forget Gethsemane, lest
I forget thine agony, lest I forget thy love for me, lead me to Calvary. Sorry, it's a little out of tune
here. Show me the tomb where thou wast laid, tenderly mourned
and wept. Angels in robes of light arrayed,
guarded thee whilst thou slept. Lest I forget Gethsemane Lest
I forget thine agony Lest I forget thy love for me Lead me to Calvary Lead me like Mary through the
gloom Come with a gift to thee Show me to me now the empty tomb
Lead me to Calvary Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest
I forget thine agony, Lest I forget thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary. May I be willing, Lord, to bear
Daily my cross for Thee, Even Thy cup of grief to share, Thou
hast borne all for me. Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest
I forget thine agony. Lest I forget thy love for me. Lead me to Calvary. Thank you, Adam. Gabe, thank
you. I was thinking as you were preaching
how many times the Lord in his word commands the impossible. He commands the impossible. He
says, believe, come, rest, abide. All these things are impossible
for the natural man to do, but the self-righteous will hear
these commands and say, I'll do that. Kind of like when God
gave the law to the children of Israel. Israel said, we'll
keep it. Moses said, you can't keep God's
law. You can't keep it. Faith will say, Lord, what you
require, you're going to have to provide. We come to God for
faith, not with our faith. He gets all the glory. Donny Bell. Donny, we've been
friends a long time. I love you, brother. If we could
just get this brother excited about preaching, we might make
some progress. That's a dear, dear friend. Shirley
was gonna be here and the Lord had other, you know, man devised
his way, the Lord orders his steps and Shirley wasn't able
to be here with us today, but Donnie, we're glad you're here
and look forward to what the Lord's put on your heart. Come on. Romans 7, Romans 7. When Gabe was preaching, I was
thinking about back in the old days, you know, Indians communicated
by smoke signals. You know, they'd be on this hill
over here and they'd build a fire and put a blanket over it, you
know, and let a little smoke out. Kind of like SOS, what do
they call that stuff? Push them little buttons. Yeah,
but anyway, guys up there doing the smoke signals, and then he's
way up on a big mountain and a bomb went off down in the valley. He says, man, I wish I'd have
said that. I said, well, I feel about you,
kid. I wish I'd have said that. Oh, boy. Maybe I'll put out a
little smoke signals. I tell you, we have more fun
than anybody, don't we? You know, I tell folks all the
time, you know, a lot of folks don't want to be Christian or
believers or go to church because it's too boring. Man, my life's
not boring as yours. Being a believer is the most
exciting and wonderful life that you could ever have in this world.
It's just full of surprises and fellowship and laughter and joy
and peace and comfort and assurance. Friendships, love, all the things
that, this life's just wonderful. It's wonderful, absolutely wonderful. Well, let me start reading in
verse 15 down to verse 20. For that which I do, I allow
not. For what I would, that I do not. I would to do something, but
I don't. But what a hate I do, I do. If then I do that which
I would not, I could sit under the law that it is good. Now
then it is more and more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth
in me. For I know that in me, that is
in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. For the will is present
with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. I've got the will to do, I really
do. But how to do it, that's what
I don't know and I don't get, I don't understand. For the good
that I would not, for the good that I would, I do not, and the
evil which I would not, I do. Now, if I do that that I would
not, it is no more I, but sin that dwelleth in me. Paul says twice here, it's sin
that dwelleth in me. Sin that dwelleth in me. He said,
what I would do, I wanna do good, but I don't know how. And that that I hate, I end up
doing it. And He said, I've got the will.
I've got the will this morning to live perfect before God, to
live a sinless life before God, to have a heart that loves Him
more perfectly, sinlessly. But how in the world? I don't
know. I've got that will, but how in
the world are you performing? How does it work? How does it
work? How do you perform? And you know,
he said, this is the reason this is because I've got this principle
in me. It's called sin. And I've got
this flesh in me that not a good thing lives in it. Not a good
thing. You know, God could have eradicated sin in his people,
but he left us here and he left us with two natures. There was
a time that we had an old nature, sinful nature. rotten nature,
corrupt nature, God-hating nature. And God come and in His sovereign
mercy and in His blessed power, He come and He overwhelmed us,
broke in our hearts, subdued our wills, took our minds and
that darkness is within it and turned on the light. and he gave
us a nature. He put a nature in us in the
new birth that never existed before. A nature that was like
Paul, I wanna do this over here, but this is what I end up doing.
I hate this over here, and I love this over here, but I do this
over here and don't do that over there. Now, what causes that
conflict? If it's not the two natures,
fight one another. If it's not the two natures that
you have to deal with. That's why Paul said, it's not
me doing this. I'm not the one doing this. He
said, it's not me. That's not me. He said, you know
what it is? He said, it's sin dwelling in
me. That makes me the way I am. This
is what I want to be perfectly. But this is what I struggle with
over here. And I have an unusual question to ask you this morning.
God could have took sin out of us just like that. But let me ask you an unusual
question. Why does God allow sin to remain
in us? Why does he do that? Why does
he do that? We find here when we read what
the apostle Paul wrote, a mature believer, and he's dealing with
a warfare that goes on in every believer's mind and heart. If
you're a believer here this morning, you go through this every day,
every day. Some of you going through it
right now in this service. Please get my mind on the surface.
This is where I want to be. And that's what he goes on, that's
what he said. But every one of us go through
this, and we read God's word And it's plainly revealed. You
look at Noah. Got drunk. Look at Abraham. Tried to protect his own self
and was willing to let his wife be taken by somebody else. And
there's a lot He was so, such a sorry human being, such a sorry
specimen of a man that God had to go in there and lay hands
on him and drag him out of Gabor. And David, he went out one morning,
just one afternoon, just to walk on the rooftop, probably want
to meditate a little bit and pray some. And all of a sudden
he looks down and sees this beautiful woman and says, man, oh man,
I tell you, I've never seen nobody like her. Next thing you know,
he took her. And then you look at Simon Peter.
He denied the Lord three times. Three times. And so we find in
this that you look at these God's blessed people, mature people,
loved people, God that loved and loved God and knew God. And
yet they have this awful struggle. They have sin, much evil and
much sin. in the most dedicated, the most
blessed people in the scriptures. In our own hearts, in our own
lives, we're painfully, painfully aware that we have sinned through
and through and through and through. Even as believers, we're yet
a mass of corruption. Our Lord said, the spirit indeed
is willing, but the flesh, the flesh is weak. We constantly
blunder, stumble, fall. But as you said so plainly last
night, we do not excuse our sin. Not gonna justify our sin. God's
not gonna blame it on anybody else. Not gonna make an excuse
for it. Not gonna say, if it hadn't been
for this, hadn't been for that, I wouldn't have done this, I
wouldn't have done that. No, when we stumble and fall, we take
the blame for it. If anything comes out in our
life, God does it. Anything comes out wrong in our
life, we do it. Wouldn't you agree with that?
And oh my, we condemn ourselves. Oh my, we condemn ourselves.
And why did God plainly reveal the sins of His people in His
word? And why does God allow sin to
remain in us? Why? Well, you know why? To constantly remind
us that salvation is entirely by the grace of God. If it wasn't
by the grace of God, and I love the, this is the term I love.
I love the term sovereign grace, but my favorite term for grace
is free, free grace, free grace. Oh, everybody uses the term grace. but all free grace what that
means is that there's no conditions on it it's freely given and i
tell you if you get it you freely receive it i mean it comes to
you free it comes from a god gives it to you free and all
free grace no conditions on it whatsoever salvation has never
ever, under any circumstances, been by anything we've thought,
said, or done, but our salvation is entirely completely, absolutely
done by the Lord Jesus Christ and everything he thought, said,
and done was perfect. Every word he said, every step
he took, every thought he did, everything he did from the day
he was born till the day he cried on the cross, it is finished.
That was the one that done our salvation. Nobody else done it. Nobody else could do it. Oh,
I tell you, this is the word that God used to teach me the
gospel. This one verse of scripture, God used me to teach. I asked
God two questions years and years ago. I was out on the farm and
I was in such a miserable state. I wanted to crawl under a bunch
of leaves and cover myself up and hide myself because I was
in such a sad state. And I asked God two questions.
I said, Lord, is salvation of you? or it's me and you together.
And I said, is holiness something we produce? Is holiness something
you give? And God gave me this verse of
scripture, and it just lit up. God who has saved us and called
us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to
his own purpose and grace, which was given us when? in Christ Jesus before the world
ever began. And that settled the question.
Salvation's of the Lord. He done it on purpose. He gave
us grace before the world ever started. And our calling is a
holy calling. Only God can call you holy and
bring you, call you with a holy calling and make you holy when
he calls you. You know, when I first went to
Tennessee, I was a fist-jumping Pentecostal. I could jump on that pew right
there and walk all the way. If nobody was there, I could
walk all the way across those pews and step off the back. I
was something, boy, I tell you what. I don't know what I was. But anyway, they called, then
I got down there, you know, I was preaching works, oh my goodness,
I was that Pharisee, you know, everybody else was wrong and
I was right. And they called me the little holiness preacher
when I got down there. And then I found out what holiness
was. You desire to be under the law,
don't you hear the law? And so that's why I asked God,
I said, is holiness something we do or is it something you
give? And if a man had to produce one
tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny minuscule bit of holiness, he'd
perish. He'd perish. Huh? Salvation is
not something we produce in our righteousness. I had a dream
the other night and I had four points to my dream. And I could
tell you the whole, every four points of it. The first one is,
what is righteousness? You know what righteousness is?
Being right all the time. Thinking right, saying right,
doing right, acting right. And you do it from the day you're
born to the day you die. Doing exactly everything that's
right. Now, have you ever done that? Where you gonna get that at then?
Where do you get righteousness in? Now, I know people talk about
imputed righteousness and that's good, but I just like to say
I have the righteousness of Christ. I have the righteousness of a
person. It's not something he stuck on me. It's not something
he licked his fingers and said, I'm gonna stick some righteousness
on you. It's something he gave me. It's like the prodigal when
he got home and he got home and the father said, bring forth
the best robe. What for? I got a son and he's
just a sorry looking thing. And I got to cover him up. And
he put that, put, said, put that robe on him. Don't, don't say,
reach out your arm here and reach out your arm there. He put it
on him. And that's what God does for
us. He puts on us a righteousness. And once he puts it on you, he
sees it from the top of your head to the sole of your foot,
from the inside of your heart to the outside of your flesh.
He can't look at you nowhere and not see righteousness. Ain't
that right? Oh my. And that's why Paul said,
you know, I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live.
If yet not either liveth, but what is it? It's Christ living
in me. Salvation. And we say this over
and over and over and I never get tired of it because I desperately
need this. Salvation never at any time is
dependent on any work, thought, act, or feeling, feeling that
we ever have. But it's utterly and absolutely
dependent upon God's grace given us in Christ Jesus entirely. I want you to I want you to look
with me over in 1 Peter chapter 5. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ, he went
to a Pharisees house one time, they asked him to come in and
eat. And he got in there to eat, and while he was eating, a woman
came in. And she began to weep, she began
to cry. And she just, her tears just
fallen on the feet of our Lord Jesus. They just, she wept profusely
and the tears just dripped down on his feet. And then when his
feet was wet, she got down on her knees and pulled her hair
around and took her hair and began to dry his feet off. And
old Simon, the Pharisee, said, if this man was a prophet, He
didn't know what manner of woman this is. He said, she's the awfulest
thing that's ever been in my house. What's the matter with
her? If he is a prophet, he'd know
she's a sinner. And old Simon said to her, he
said, Simon, let me ask you a question. He said, if a man owed debts,
one owed 500 pence, another owed just 50. And neither one of them
can pay. Neither one of them can pay.
But he frankly forgave them both. He said, who do you think will
love him most? Said, the one forgiven most. He said, look
at that woman right there. Said, you ain't done a thing
in the world ever for me, nothing. But that woman right there, she
come in here and washed my feet with her tears, dried them with
her hand. And said, you know what? Said,
that woman right there, she loves much, you know why? "'cause I
forgive her much." Grace, listen, how much sin you reckon God has
forgiven us of? How much sin you reckon God, how much blood did it take to
wash us all of our sins away? I can't even get up and preach
without sin. I can't think without sin. Sin's the awfulest thing in the
world. And I look for the day that we'll never, ever have to
deal with it. But oh my, look what he said
over here in 1 Peter 5. We're talking about grace. That's why God allows sin to
remain us, to remind us that salvation's entirely of the grace
of God. But look what he calls himself
here, but the God of all grace. The God of all grace. Oh, the
God of eternal grace. The God of electing grace. God
of effectual grace. Oh, what it says there, who hath
called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus Christ. It's an effectual
calling. It's eternal grace. And it's
enabling grace. Look what he said, after you
suffered a while. You live in this world very long
and you go suffer. You gonna suffer. I don't know about you, I suffered.
I suffered in a lot of ways. Everybody, everybody in this
building suffers in a lot of ways. We suffer, that's the fact
that we got sin in us. That's a, and we have to suffer
through that. We have to suffer through that.
But all people go through this world suffering. Suffering, suffering
pain, suffering depression. Suffering sickness, suffering
loss, suffering grief, suffering losing, suffering,
suffering. And then, oh, listen, it's an
enlightening grace. We get grace for grace, faith
to faith. And look what it says. He's talking
about perfectedness. Look what it says, last part
of that verse. After that you suffered a while. Oh, listen. Guess what he gonna do to make
you perfect? He gonna establish you, strengthen
you and settle you. Oh my. And look what he says
down in verse 12. He said, I've written briefly
exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God
wherein you stand. Oh my. That's the true grace
of God wherein we stand. That's why I love free grace.
Here's the second reason. Look back over in Romans 7. To
constantly remind us that salvation is entirely of the grace of God.
In God alone. God's grace. How long do you reckon we would
last if God took his grace away from us? look in verse 18 this is reason
another reason why allow sin to remain in us he says in verse
18 for i know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good
thing that's a painful lesson to learn
oh to make us know that in our flesh dwells no good thing When
he talks about the flesh in the New Testament, he's talking about
our old nature, our fallen nature, our awful nature. And sin manifests
itself in that old nature, in this body, in this flesh. Look
what he says down here in verse 12 of Romans chapter 8. Look
what he says there. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors,
not to the flesh. Oh, not to the flesh. Now, let
me ask you this. What is your flesh? ever contributed
to your salvation? What has your flesh ever done
for you? Has it done any good thing for
you? Has your flesh contributed to
anything you've ever done? A lot of folks seem to think
it does. But Paul said, listen, when you're looking at me, he
said, God taught me this. He taught me that in me, in my
flesh, I ain't never found anything good. I ain't found the first
good thing. Not the first good thing. Oh my. And you know, You hear people
say this all the time. Oh, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't
do that under no circumstances. Hey, you better be careful. You
better be careful. In our flesh, in our old nature
remains the potential to any evil, any sin that anybody else
could commit. I'm telling you. If you haven't
done it, you've at least thought it. If you haven't said it, you've
wanted to say it. Ain't that right? If what come
out of your mind, what you thought sometimes, that wouldn't be a
person in this building to have a friend. Listen, if we'd done that one
another, we would never have another Bible conference. That's why he said, you know,
Isaiah 64, six, he says, you know, we're all, all of our righteousnesses
are as a filthy rag. We're all as an unclean thing.
And he said, the flesh lusts against the spirit. That means
wars against the spirit and the flesh and the flesh wars against
the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. You got this war going
on, spirit and flesh, God in us and the flesh in us. And we
have this thing going on and the scripture says, I cannot
do the things, my flesh won't let me do what I want to do spiritually
and my spiritual won't let me get as fleshy as I want to be.
So I see this war going on in my memory. You can't be as spiritual
as you want to be, you know why? Because of the flesh. And you
can't be as fleshy as you be because of the spirit. But the
potential to be all flesh is in every one of us. Potential
to be all spirituals, not. We're a mess. How do you say
we're a mess in the middle of a mess? Oh, listen. And you talk about, let me ask
you, just let me ask you a question. Have you ever played the hypocrite?
Have you ever had any hypocrisies? Huh? If you ever thought, well,
there was two fellas working on a house one time, was building
our house, and they was up on a ladder, and I was having a
meeting, starting a meeting that night. And I said, fellas, as
you know, I told it, Joe James and Eddie Davis, I said, you
fellas, what y'all, I want you to come to me tonight, you know,
and be in the meeting like you come hear me preach. And they
said, ah, too many hypocrites down there. I said, come on,
two more won't make any difference. You know, have you ever been
a hypocrite? We all, you know, hypocrisy is
just part and parcel of us. You know, remember how many hypocrisies
we've all manifested. And let me ask you, have you
ever had any evil hard thoughts of other people? even other believers? Huh? Have you ever had any good prideful
thoughts of yourself? Huh? Do you know what that tells us?
That is in our flesh dwells no good thing. Huh? Oh my. When you should have seen,
when you see people in trouble, having trouble, sickness or whatever,
when you should have shown love and kindness and grace and mercy,
instead of doing that, you become cold and indifference. You know
what? Paul said it like this, we're
the circumcision, the true circumcision. which worship God, rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, none whatsoever. Oh, listen, let me tell you something
else. Why does God allow sin to remain in us? To teach us
to be patient and loving and kind and tenderhearted to our
brethren. You know, every one of us goes
through things I'm talking about today. Every one of us. And you know, when we look at
a brother or a sister, and we watch them commit some kind of
a sin, act some way they ought not act, we ought not never conclude
that they have no grace because we see them sin, or we see them
do something. If we did, we'd have to come
to the conclusion, if we're as honest with ourselves, that we're not saved either.
Oh, Paul said, when you that are, you know, if you that are
spiritual, if you see a brother overtaken at a fault, you which
are spiritual, restore such a one. In meekness, considering your
own self, lest you do the same thing. Oh my, who hasn't acted uncharacteristic
of grace who hasn't acted uncharacteristic of grace huh if you'd have seen
noah if you'd have seen noah drunk laying there naked you said there's
no way in the world that fella could know christ there's no
way in the world that man could be saved and you see david over
here in the arms of bathsheba and has a baby out of wedlock
and tries to get his daddy murdered, her husband murdered. You said
there's no way in the world David could be a Christian. It's impossible
for him to be a believer. And then when you see Simon Peter
over there and he's warming at the devil's fire and that's the
woman says to him, I, your speech betrays you. You're one of him.
No, no, no, no, no, not me. Another one come up and said,
didn't I see you with him one time? No, no, I don't know that
fella. I don't know that fella. And
if you would have seen him, you'd say, it's impossible for Simon
Peter to be a Christian. Now, what do you think God says
about all of them? Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. David was a man after God's own
heart. And our Lord told Simon Peter,
said, you go feed my sheep and feed my lambs. And he told him
how he's gonna die. And he said, that's all right.
That's all right. So next time you see somebody
stumble, say something, be ugly, be mean, be harsh, be impatient,
be unloving, be unkind. Remember, You've been there yourself. And that's why God allows sin
to remain in us. So we can be loving and kind
and impatient with one another, be tender toward one another.
And if I ever mistreat you, my brother one time, let me tell
you a true story. I come back from Vietnam and I was a mess.
I was a mess. Got discharged out of field death
and neighbor hospital. And I come home. And I was so
different, so changed. I got a little brother. He's
just exactly a year younger than me. And I was leaving his house
one night. He was hid behind a bush. And when I was leaving, he jumped
out of that bush and went to beating on me. Just thrashed
on me. And boy, I looked out. And they,
his wife, on the long evening, they took him to jail. But then,
years later, I got to thinking about that, and you know, I became
a believer. And I thought, well, I said,
you know, I said, I have to lay that to
his head. I couldn't lay it to his heart.
I have to lay what he did to his head. I went to see him years later,
and he brought one up and said, do you remember that? And I said,
I do, I do. He said, I'm so sorry, I'm so
ashamed that I did that. And I said, you know, he said,
I always laid it to your head, I never laid it to your heart.
And that's what we have to do is lay it to our head, don't
lay it to our heart. Whenever we do something, lay
it to your head, don't lay it to your heart. because our hearts
would do everything perfectly. But these old heads, oh my. Well, and here's another one. Here's another reason why. To
remind us that when we do sin, we've got an advocate. With the Father. Who is it? Jesus
Christ the righteous. But what in the world happens
when Christ, does he look down and say, well, boy, I'll tell
you what, he had a good intention. He had a good motive. He really
wanted to do the right thing. No, when Christ preached for
us, you know what he pleads? He pleads his own wounds. He
pleads his own worth. He pleads his own merit. When
they saw him in glory and sung the song of redemption, you know
what they saw? A lamb as it had been slain. Oh my. We got somebody that takes us
when we fall and not even know we've done it. Christ pleads
for us. The shepherd's responsible for
the sheep. He ain't never said sheep, make
it the best you can. Oh, the shepherd's responsible
for the sheep. And I tell you, when we sin, we don't lose our
salvation. It'd be impossible to. And one
of the points I had the other night in my dream was this. I
said, if you, if God gives you this righteous, can you lose
it? And my mind went to John 6, 37 in my dream. Now, I done
gave you three points of it. I'll give you the fourth, if
I can remember. I think I can remember, but the fourth, it
was this. He went, we say, well, can I
lose it again? If righteousness was given to
us and provided for us and it's being right and it's in Christ,
can you lose it? John 6, 37 said, all that the
Father gives me shall come to me and him that cometh to me.
Well, he's gonna sin. He's gonna cuss. He's gonna lie. He's gonna exaggerate. He's going
to make things up. He's going to be cold. He's going
to be lifeless. He's going to come to services
and he's going to be so cold hearted. He ain't going to hear
nothing. He's going to be deaf and he ain't going to hear nothing.
He's going to be blind. He ain't going to see nothing. Well, I think it's time to get
rid of him. There's nothing they'll ever
say, nothing they'll ever do, no place they'll ever go, no
way they'll ever act, nothing they'll ever think, say or do,
anything that you could possibly do in this world, if you're Christ
and Christ died for you, He will nothing in this world you've
ever done make Him cast you out. If He did that, every one of
us would not be in Christ right now. Ain't that right? Oh, we can lose our peace. We can lose the joy of our salvation.
David said, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. But oh
my, you know why? Because we were saved by an everlasting
covenant of grace. Everlasting covenant of grace.
And our Lord Jesus pleads his wounds, his person, his work,
his righteousness. And oh my, he did it all. And
let me close with this. Here's the last reason why he allowed sin to remain in us,
to wean us from this world. Wean us from it. Ruby Elmore,
she was 90, 89 years old, and 90, and she would, every time
she'd leave the service, she'd say, God's weaning me, God's
weaning me, God's weaning me. And that's why he does that,
to wean us from this world, to wean us from our selfishness,
from our self-love, from our materialism, to wean us from
this world. And a dear sister, I had her
funeral a week ago, it'd be a week ago tomorrow. And you know what she said when
she got sick and know she wasn't going to make it? You know what
she said? She said, oh, I want to go see the Lord. I want to
see Christ in his glory. In less than two weeks, she's
gone to see Christ in his glory. And oh my, when I was a boy and young, and
even when I moved to Tennessee, people lived in houses that you
could throw a cat through the wall. You know, people slept,
snow would get on them in the night. And then most of it, you
know, I mean, the wind just blow through. And that's what this
thing is. It's just an old sod house. Wind blows through it. So why in the world don't I want
to be built with that house made without hands? That house eternal
made without hands. Take this old tent down. and live in that house, not made
with hands, eternal house in the heaven. When my wife drew
her last breath on a Friday night at 1046, when she drew her last breath,
the first thing I said, and I said it out loud, she's going to be
with Christ. She's going to be with Christ. And you know what it's called?
Going home. Going home. I'm going to go to a house. And
my wife's made it a home. I have a home. And I'm thankful
for it. You know, you can live in a house, but only certain
people can have a home. But I'll tell you something.
We've got a home eternal in the heavens. But one of these days,
bless his name, that sin will not have no more dominion over
us and we'll never have to deal with it again when these eyelids
close in death. That makes me happy all over,
think about it. But I got to stay here till the
Lord's done, till the Lord's ready. And I'll do that too,
won't you? Well, thank you all so very much.
You're all so gracious and kind. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Years after the Apostle Paul
wrote the book of Romans, At the end of his life, he wrote
the epistles to Timothy and this was the conclusion of his life.
He said, Christ Jesus, this is a faithful saying and worthy
of all acceptation. It's God's word and it's worthy
to be accepted by all. Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners. And then he closed it by saying,
of whom I am chief. Every believer sees themselves
in need of grace more than anyone else, more than anyone else. Thank you, Donald. We will close
the service with a hymn, and then we will meet back here this
evening at six o'clock, Lord willing, six o'clock, not seven,
six, okay? All right, Tom, number nine in
the spiral hymnal. Let's stand together, number
nine.