Number 296, in the hardback hymnal,
you may remain seated. Number 296, All the Way My Savior
Leads Me. 296. ? All the way my Savior leads me
? What have I to ask beside ? Can I doubt His tender mercy ? Who
through life has been my guide ? Heav'nly peace, divinest comfort
? Here by faith in Him to dwell For I know what e'er befall me,
Jesus, doeth all things well. For I know what e'er befall me,
Jesus, doeth all things well. ? All the way my Savior leads
me ? ? Cheers each winding path I tread ? ? Gives me grace for
every trial ? ? Feeds me with the living bread ? ? Though my
weary steps may falter ? ? And my soul a thirst may be ? ? Gushing
from the rock before me ? ? Blow a spring of joy I see ? ? Gushing
from the rock before me ? ? Blow a spring of joy I see ? ? All
the way my Savior lead me ? ? O the fullness of His love ? Perfect
rest to me is promised in my Father's house above. ? When my spirit clothed the
mortal ? ? Wings its flight to realms of day ? ? This my song
through endless ages ? ? Jesus led me all the way ? ? This my
song through endless ages ? ? Jesus led me all the way ? Would you open your Bibles with
me to Judges, the sixth chapter of Judges. We've seen a pattern in the history of the children
of Israel that reminds us very much of ourselves. They fall
into sin, idolatry. They suffer the consequences
of that sin. cry out for mercy and God sends a Savior, a Deliverer. Sound familiar? They say history
repeats itself and surely that is the case in our lives. Isaiah put it like this in Isaiah
64 verse 5, we have sinned and in that continuance, and we shall
be saved." What a promise. More precious
words have never been spoken to the soul of a sinner than
to know that though I bear in my body nothing but that which
is offensive to God, I had the hope of burying in my soul a
righteousness found in the Lord Jesus Christ that makes me acceptable
in the sight of God. And my sin causes me to cry out
that I might know him and see him and believe on him and be
forgiven for not believing him as I ought. That's the believer's
life. That's the fight for faith. I wrote in my notes when I first
started preparing this, our real problem, and then I changed it
and said, our only problem with God is our sin. Your sin have separated you from
your God, the Lord said. There's only one person's sin
that can separate you from God. You understand that? There's
only one thing that can separate us from God, and there's only
one person's sin that can separate us from God. Someone else's sin
can't separate me from God. It's my sin. It's my unbelief. What was me, I am undone. Lord,
I'm the problem. So we have this promise of redemption, promise
of salvation, promise of deliverance, given to us over and over and
over again in the Bible, pointing us to the only one who is able
to put away our sin by the sacrifice of himself, the only one that
is able to impute to us a righteousness that will make us acceptable
to God. Here, We see him in Judges chapter six likened to the Judge
Gideon, and all that he does points us again to Christ. The Lord told Gideon, as the
father told his son, surely I will be with thee, and I will deliver
the Midianites to thee as one man. And that was the promise
that the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world on. He knew that
the Father would enable him to defeat sin, Satan, the grave,
death, all those things that come as a consequence of our
unbelief, and that he would Ascend back into glory and be seated
in his rightful place at the right hand of God as a priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek, living forever and making intercession
on behalf of his people. That's why God's given us his
word. In the volume of the book, it is written of me. The Lord Jesus said that. So
we read these events, I pray that the Holy Spirit would cause
us to see that this is the battle for salvation that the Lord Jesus
Christ waged on behalf of his people. when he went to Calvary's
cross. Hebrews chapter nine, verse 12
says, by his own blood, he entered in once to the holy place, having
obtained redemption for us. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
making himself an offer, for his salvation, an offer to us. He went in once with his blood,
put it on that mercy seat, not the one that was made by the
hands of men in the tabernacle, but that spiritual, mystical
mercy seat that's in the heavens. And he put his blood there and
he obtained, past tense, eternal redemption for all those for
whom he died. Say, well, I don't know if he
died for me. Are you looking to him? Are you looking to him? Faith is the evidence of things
hoped for. It's the substance of things
hoped for. It's the evidence of things not
seen. Faith, childlike faith. I mentioned Wednesday night.
This matter of faith is not some sort of character trait that
men boast in. Maybe in religion it is. You
know, in religion you have hierarchies of spirituality and the great
men of faith are exalted as examples to be followed. When a small
child hides behind the skirt of its mother when it's afraid,
does that child have reason to be proud of what it's doing?
or buries its face in the neck of its father. Does that child
have reason to be proud for what it's doing? No, the pride and
the glory goes to the parent who's protecting that child.
The child's ashamed. Let me ask you like this. What
if you as an adult or an older child did that? Would that not
be shameful? What would we say to you? We
would say, grow up. Grow up. Isn't that what we would
say? You're shaming yourself by acting like that. Well, that's
exactly what faith is. We shame ourselves and we abhor
ourselves and we adore the Lord Jesus Christ. Because lest you
become as a little child, you should not enter the kingdom
of heaven. So yes, as an adult, we hide behind his skirt. We bury our face in his neck.
And we cry, Lord, save me. And he never says to his children,
grow up. He never says that. He always
receives us. Lord, teach us to pray. When
you pray, pray like this. Our Father, our Father, our heavenly
Father, hallowed be thy name. Oh, the Lord told Mary, he said,
go tell the disciples, I go to my father and to your father. We have a familiar relationship
with God. He's a child of God. He's our
father. And he's like the father of the
prodigal, isn't he? He doesn't meet, the prodigal
coming home and say, and try to shame him and remind him of
all the things I told you so. Did the prodigal's father do
that? Did the prodigal's father rebuke him? Did he shame him? Did he try to put him in his
place and remind him of all the things that he had told him before
he left home, what's going to happen and they happen? No. No, the father saw him coming
from a long way. How did he see him coming from
a long way? Because he was watching. He was out there. He knew the boy was coming home.
And he ran to him, and he kissed him. He called a servant. He said, put the shoes on his
feet and a ring on his finger and kill the fatted calf. My son, which was lost, is now
saved. He's come home. And that's our
experience with our Heavenly Father every time, every time
the Spirit of God convicts us of our sin and causes us to see
our need to come home. We just keep coming, don't we?
The Scripture says, to whom coming. Let the men of religion talk
about when they got saved and when they came to Christ as if
it was some sort of past experience that they're hanging the hopes
of their salvation on. The child of God just keeps coming. Why? Because in those there is
continuance. Our sin, we never get away from
it, do we? So we keep coming. And we trust. that by His own
blood, which He offered once and put on the mercy seat in
that holy place, actually accomplished and obtained the redemption of
His people. He was offering Himself up to
His heavenly Father. The Father accepted that offering. Hebrews 9, verse 26, now, once. the end of the world hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." Some of
you all have small children. Maybe the siblings get to arguing
over something, and you take it from them, and you put it
away, and they come ask you for it, and what do you say? It's
been put away. Can't find it. Put away. Oh, it's much more
glorious than that, isn't it? He buried them, the scripture
says, in the depths of the sea, removed them from us as far as
the east is from the west so that God says, I remember them
no more. There's our hope. There's our
hope. Tell them their warfare is accomplished.
Tell them their iniquity is pardoned. A sacrifice has been made on
a rock in Judges chapter 6. The Lord told Gideon, said, you
take that meat and that drink offering and you place it here
on this rock. And the angel of the Lord, which
was the Lord Jesus Christ in Judges chapter 6, took the staff
of his justice And he touched that rock and fire came up out
of the rock and consumed the sacrifice. And you remember what
Gideon said, he said, oh, he said, oh, I've seen the Lord,
I'm going to die. And the Lord said, no, you're not going to
die. You're not going to die. No, the justice of God was satisfied
in the fire that came up out of the rock. You know, that's
a picture of the cross. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
rock. The fire is the justice of God. He's the sacrifice. And when the sacrifice was consumed,
the fire was quenched. The Lord said to Gideon, peace
be unto thee. Thou shalt not die. And the Lord says to us what
he said to Mary in John chapter 11, I am the resurrection and
the life. He that believeth in me, though
he die, yet shall he live. And he that liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Never die. The Lord Jesus Christ
came into this world to give to his people eternal life. If in this life only we have
hope, And that's what religion's all about. If you listen to the
false gospel, it's all about how to live a better life. It's
all about how to be a better person. It's all about how to
be more happy in this world. And that God says, if in this
life only we have hope, we are of all men, most miserable. If we're coming to church and
reading our Bibles and praying just so that we can have a more
comfortable life. We read in the first hour the
experiences that the Apostle Paul had in his life. There was
no comfort in that. I came that you might have eternal
life. No man can pluck you out of my
hand. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. There's what
we have. Sweeter words have never been
spoken to a dying sinner. In the song of Solomon, the bride
of Christ says to her husband, her beloved, thy lips, oh my
spouse, drop as the honeycomb. He wasn't talking about physically
kissing him. He's talking about what falls
from his lips. He's talking about his words
and his promises. We have the precious promises
of God to rest all the hope of our soul on. And now Gideon calls
the place Jehovah Shalom. You see that? Look in verse 24. Then Gideon built an altar there
unto the Lord and called it Jehovah Shalom. Unto this day, it is
yet in Ophrah of the Abizarites. Jehovah, I am the eternal name of our God.
Shalom, peace. I am your peace. Not I'm gonna,
I'm gonna somehow make your life more peaceful. To the contrary,
the Lord Jesus Christ becomes your peace. You're going to have
another conflict that you've never had before. And it's going
to be in you. Your spirit warring against your
flesh and your flesh against your spirit so that you cannot
be with. Your conflicts aren't just going to be those circumstances
out there. Now you've got the burden of
your sin that you have to bear and bring to Christ every day. Isn't that true? And yet we have
peace with God. You're going to have another
conflict. The Lord said, I did not come
to bring peace. I came to bring a sword. You
think in coming to Christ and believing the gospel is somehow
going to make everybody love you? No, a lot of people are
going to hate you for it. And some of those people are
going to be of your own household, people you love. You see, This idea that men have that
somehow I'm just gonna have better life and more peace in this life,
that's not. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord Jesus
Christ, he is my peace. And now the first order of business
in God calling out Gideon is to tear down the altars of Baal. Now you, child of God, you believed
A long time ago, what was the very first thing the Lord did
for you? When he saved you and opened the eyes of your understanding
and caused you to see yourself as a sinner, and you cast all
your care upon the Lord Jesus Christ as your only hope and
your successful Savior, you looked in shame to what you had trusted
in before. Your idols. Look at me in verse 25. And it came to pass the same
night that the Lord said unto him, take thy father's young
bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old. Now, some
commentators have suggested that this second bullock was chosen
because the first bullock had already been dedicated as a offering
to Baal. There's no evidence of that in
the scriptures. It's just something that men came up with in order
to try to explain why did he choose the second Bullock? Well,
we know who that second Bullock is. It's the second person of
the triune Godhead. It is the Son of God. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
who the second Bullock is. The first Bullock is God the
Father, but God the Father sent his Son to be made the sacrifice
for sin. And we know what the number seven
is. This bullock was seven years old. You see, all these things
point to Christ, don't they? They point to the accomplished
work of redemption for sinners. God required a perfect sacrifice,
a lamb that was without spot, without blemish, of seven years
old. And what is the number seven?
It's the seventh day. What happened on the seventh
day? Rest. Why was there rest in heaven on the seventh day?
Because the work was accomplished. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
Sabbath. He's that seventh day. We rest
our souls in Him because He accomplished the work of redemption when He
laid down His life for the sins of His people. So here's the
second bullock of seven years. It's the perfect son of God who
becomes the sacrifice. And the Lord points him out to
Gideon and he says, throw down the altar of Baal that thy father
hath made. We come into this world bearing
as an infant, the sins of our fathers. the sin nature that
we're born with. Scripture says that we come into
this world speaking lies. Baby cries 99 times out of 100,
they're lying to you. You know that, you've had children.
They want you to think they're dying. They're not dying, they're
just not getting their way. Why? Because they're just little
sinners. And we grow up doing the same
thing. Don't get our way, point our finger at our circumstances.
Oh, we just never grow up out of that, do we? We accuse God of wrongdoing. And
then the Lord says to us, Baal, which your father worshipped, you came into this world as a
Baal worshipper. Now, Baal translated just means
Lord. Lord. Master. You know, each culture
has a different, a different name for, for Lord. In Egypt,
it was Isis. And with the Greeks, it was Zeus. And with the Romans, it's Jupiter. And everybody, every culture
has its own Baal, its own idol, its own false god. And men fashion these idols as sinners
in the darkened imagination of their own hearts. You see, men don't just come
into this world as a sinner. They come into this world knowing
that there's a God. You know, in one sense, atheists
are a little bit more honest. non-atheist. A non-atheist who's
religious will admit that there's a God, but it's a God fashioned
after himself. At least the atheist says, What the non-atheist has done
is set themselves up on the throne of God, and then they'll worship
themselves, but they'll acknowledge it to be another God. At least
the atheist is honest enough to say, no, I'm on the throne.
I'm on the throne. All men, all men believe that
there's a God. The law of God, the scripture
says, is written on the hearts of all men. All men know that
there's a God with whom they must do. And so they fashion gods after
their own imagination. It doesn't really matter. One God's
good as the next. The Lord says to Gideon, tear down the altar of Baal that
thy father hath. and cut down the grove that is
by it. Look at verse 26, and built an altar unto the Lord
thy God upon the top of this rock in the ordered place. It's the same rock that Gideon
had made an offering to before that was touched by the staff
of God, consumed by the fire of God's wrath. Now God says,
take the second bullock, the Lord Jesus Christ, cut him up,
put him on that same rock in an ordered place. Oh, the Lord Jesus Christ did
everything orderly. He does everything in order.
Nothing's out of place. That's why He tells us when we
come together that we're to worship Him decently and in order. We're not to act foolish in this
place. We're not to do all sorts of stupid things that men in
religion do in order to try to prove that they're being spiritual.
No, we come, join our hearts together in song,
we offer up prayers, we take the word of God and we preach
orderly, the person of Christ and look for scriptures to compare
to scriptures to reveal Christ. Ordered in all things, isn't
that what David said? This gospel, this covenant of grace that God
established in eternity past is ordered in all things and
is sure. This is all my salvation and
all my desire. The gospel is very orderly, very
orderly. And he gives to God all the glory
and the sacrifice of the second bullock is made upon that same
strong rock. The Lord Jesus Christ, who himself
is our rock. He's a rock that provides a shadow
in the wilderness. He's that rock that followed
the children of Israel through the wilderness, upon which the
staff of Moses' rod was struck, and the water of life flowed
freely. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
rock. Golgotha, Mount Calvary, is an
outcropping of a rock. And the second Bullock was sacrificed
on that rock in an orderly manner. Nothing was out of order. Every
blow of the hammer, every piercing of the crown of thorns, the sword
that went into the Lord's heart, everything that happened on that
rock happened according to the purpose of God in order to provide
the sacrifice that was necessary for the salvation of God's people.
That's what we're seeing here. So the people have fallen into
sin, they've fallen into idolatry. got it from their father, you
got it from your father, and I got it from mine. And our fathers
got it from their fathers all the way back to Adam. Now, let
me add to this another thing the scripture says. No longer shall you say, our
fathers ate sour grapes and our teeth were set on edge. For a
man's teeth are set on edge when he eats sour grapes. So though
we inherited this idolatry from our father, we cannot stand before
God and be excused for that. Lord, I'm the problem. Lord, you gotta break this cycle
with me. These idols. You remember in
Acts chapter 19, when Demetrius the silversmith was complaining
because his trade was to make idols to the goddess Diana. Paul came to town and said, any
God that's fashioned by the hands of man is no God at all. And people started believing
Paul. They stopped buying Demetrius' idols. And Demetrius ultimately
began a riot over that whole thing. But what did Paul say? They be no gods, which are made
with hands. So all these false idols that
men have fashioned in their minds, and we've all done it. We don't come into this world
knowing God. We come into this world knowing that there is a
God. We come into this world knowing that we've got to do
something to be right with that God. But we do not come into
this world knowing who God is. That comes by divine revelation
through the preaching of the gospel. And my hope and prayer
is right now this morning, the Lord, the Holy Spirit is doing
a work of grace in your heart and in mine, revealing himself
once again, or maybe afresh, maybe for the first time. that
the spirit of God would reveal Christ. So will you give up on
our idolatry and look to that second bullock that was offered
up on that rock in an orderly manner for all the hope of our
salvation. God's made with the hands of
men. Galatians chapter four, verse
eight says, Paul was speaking to the church at Galatia, and
he said, when you knew not God, you did serve them, which by
nature were no gods at all. You were worshiping a figment
of your imagination, and your imagination was darkened by your
own unbelief. See, you worshiped a God that
were no gods at all. You remember when Paul was in
Athens in Acts chapter 17, he said, I perceive that you are
very superstitious. For our God is not worshiped
with the hands of men as though he needed anything, seeing that
he giveth life and breath and all things. God doesn't need
anything from me and you. That's why the Lord Jesus Christ
said, that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. The Sabbath doesn't, God doesn't
need us to do something in order to hallow the Sabbath. The Sabbath
was made for us. What is an idol? I mean, they
come in lots of different, Varieties. What is an idol? An idol is a
God that needs you to do something in order for him to be able to
save you. That's an idol. An idol is a
God who does not have life within himself. That's why the name
of our God is I Am. I am that I am. I'm self-sufficient. I'm self-existent. I'm self-dependent. I'm not like you. I don't need
anything from you. And you need everything from
me. And now, brethren, you think
about all the idols of the world. They've got to have something
from you. They've got to have your agreement. They've got to have your prayers.
They've got to have your decisions. They've got to have your faithfulness.
That's an idol. A God that needs anything from
you is an idol. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
reveals himself as the second bullock placed upon that rock
in an orderly fashion, the idols are tore down. They're tore down. Can't go back
to them, can you? We saw that in 1 Timothy 1, where
Paul said, I did those things in ignorance, and therefore God
forgave me. But if any one of us went back
to the idols that we once worshiped, you would have no hope of forgiveness.
It would only be proof that you were just playing the game. You
were never really saved because God's people who are saved can't
go back. They don't want to go back. They
won't go back. They won't go back. They burned their idols. You can't listen to a false gospel,
Kenyon Delfus. We've talked about this. You
just can't listen to it. Telling me about a God who needs
me to do something in order for him to be able to help me. That's
an idol. Our God gives life and breath
and all things. He's not a God made with hands. Turn with me to Psalm 115. That's why the Lord saves for
his namesake. He saves for His namesake. What
is He accomplishing in His salvation? Glory to Himself, having done
all the salvation all by Himself. Look at Psalm 115, verse one. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto Thy name give glory for Thy mercy and for Thy truth's
sake. Lord, I'm the mercy beggar. The
gospel is the truth. Christ is the truth. And if he's
the truth, then everything else is a lie. Someone said, well, no man's
got all the truth. If you've got Christ, you do.
If you've got Christ, you've got all the truth. Because he
is the truth. Does that mean you understand
everything? No, I didn't say that. If you've got Christ, you've
got all the truth. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is now their God? Show me some evidence of your
God. Isn't that what men are looking for? Looking for a sign?
Oh, wicked and perverse generations seeketh after a sign. Said we
got to put out your fleece. Now what Gideon's gonna do in
just a little bit, as we study on further into Judges, Gideon's
gonna put out a fleece, yes? And that fleece points to Christ.
The water that was wrung out of that fleece, the water is
the word of God, inspired by the spirit of God. You remember
Gideon put out a fleece, said, Lord, I need a sign. And the
next morning, the fleece was wet, but the ground all around
it was dry. And Gideon took that fleece and wrung out a bowl full
of water. And then he put the fleece back out and he begged
God, said, Lord, I'm sorry, but give me one more sign. And what
happened the next morning? The fleece was dry and all the
ground around the fleece was wet. The word of God has come
into the world. He came in the full power of
the spirit of God. He's the wet fleece. He's the
wet fleece. The word became flesh and he
dwelt among us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the
only begotten of the father, full of grace and full of truth.
And he was wrung out on Calvary's cross. And as a result of that,
he says in John chapter 17, I have given them thy word and they
have believed and kept thy word. You see the water now has gone
from the fleece to the ground. We're creatures of the earth.
We came out of the ground. So there's the sign. Don't think
I'm gonna put out a fleece and somehow, you know, I'm gonna
test God and he's gonna speak to me. God speaks by his word.
And the only proof and evidence that we need is what he's given
us in his word. So when a man says, where's your
God? Prove it. Prove to me where your God is.
Show me some evidence. What do we say? Look at verse
three. Our God is in the heavens and
he hath done, past tense, whatsoever he hath pleased. Our God is absolutely
sovereign and he accomplishes his purpose and his pleasure
in saving his people with the second bullock offered upon that
rock and his people cut down their altars, their bales. They cut them down. They can't
go back to them, don't want anything to do with them. How hard is it for somebody to
tell you that you're wrong? It's pretty tough, isn't it?
I mean, if somebody's gonna tell me I'm wrong, I want them to
be real gentle about it. It's what the gospel does. Why
is the gospel so offensive to the natural man? Because it says
to them, you've been duped. You've been lied to and you believed
the lie. You've been worshiping an idol,
a figment of your imagination, a God that required you to do
something in order for him to save you, who is no God at all. You're wrong. And the natural man's bristles
go up and he said, no, no, I'm not. What do we say? How do we,
let me ask you this, how do we tear down idols? Do we do like
the Muslims and declare a jihad? Or do we do like the Catholics
and do an inquisition? Or do we do like the fundamentalists
and try to make changes in the world through political avenues? How do we tear down the idols
of the false gods of this world? Do we go out and grab people
by the nap of their neck and argue with them and debate with
them like the reformed people do. The Calvinists, they write
books and confessions and creeds in order to promote their God. At the end of this story, let
me tell you what Gideon is going to do. And we don't have time
to read it all. You can read it, reread it, read the rest
of this chapter. But, uh, They're going to kill
Gideon once they find out that he's the one that tore down the
altars of Baal. And Gideon's father steps up and Gideon's
father says, what kind of God is it that you have to defend?
If Baal be God, then let him defend himself. How does our God defend himself? Preaching the gospel. That's
how we tear down the altars of Baal. We don't go out. We don't
accost people and get in people's face and get, you know, in conflict
with people and write books and confessions and creeds. Our God doesn't need defending.
He doesn't need defending. You don't have to defend a lion.
Just let him loose. Slam loose. The lion of the tribe
of Judah is perfectly capable of defending himself. And he
does it through the preaching of Christ, the preaching of the
gospel. We don't have to go out and start
a holy war. Don't do it in your family. Most
new believers, we learn from our experience, don't we? We
got in some arguments with people at the beginning and you realize,
you know what? I didn't accomplish anything
except just, I added offense to the gospel. Now they're offended
at me as well as the gospel. Let them be offended at the gospel.
And You know, people, be ready always to give an answer to anyone
that asks you for the hope that's within you. Do it with meekness
and with fear. Pray for them. Speak to them
kindly. And remember that but for the
grace of God, there go you. Who make it thee to differ? What
do you have that you did not receive? Our God defends himself. I'm not here to tell you what
you should do and not do with your religious life. Let the
scriptures. I am perfectly happy to let the
scriptures support what we believe. Matter of fact, I want them to.
We want them to, don't we? What sayeth the scriptures? We're
not relying upon tradition or some dead theologian or some
position that confession takes. We're looking to the word of
God. What sayeth the scriptures? That
settles all controversy. That's what Gideon's father said. Let God defend himself. And he
does exactly that. And when he shows you Christ,
your idols, He'll take them away. He'll take
your idols away. You won't be able to go back
to them. You won't want to. You won't want to. They'll be offensive to you. You stub your Bibles open to
Psalm 115. Let's just read a couple of verses here. Our God is in
the heavens, verse three. He hath done whatsoever he hath
pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the works of men's
hands. They have mouths, but they speak
not. Eyes have they, but they see
not. They have ears, but they hear not. Noses have they, but
they smell not. They have hands, but they handle
not. Feet have they, but they walk not. Neither speak they
through their throat. And they that make them are like
unto them. so is everyone that trusteth
in them." Ever heard someone say, well, you know, you're the
only feet that God has. You're the only mouth that he
has. You're the only hands that he has. What a poor, miserable
God that is. God can take me out and will
take me out when he's pleased. And his order will not miss a
beat. Doesn't need me, doesn't need
you. He's perfectly capable of defending
himself, isn't he? First order of business, when
God shows you that you're a sinner, Christ is the Savior, tear down
the altars of Baal. Come out from among them. and
be separate, saith the Lord. That's God's word. Our heavenly Father, thank you
for your word. We pray that your Holy Spirit would make it effectual
to our hearts. Give us faith to believe all
that you've said and forgive us. Oh Lord, forgive us for our
unbelief. We ask it in Christ's name and
for his name's sake, amen. Brother Bert, the bulletin, the
hymn on the back of your bulletin, let's stand together.