What rich eternal beauties shine
upon the sacred page. There Jesus' glory's all divine,
my wandering heart engage. Within this treasury, God's own
word, are heavenly pearls concealed. And by the Spirit of the Lord,
those treasures are revealed. The preacher can but reach the
ear, God penetrates the soul. Deposits covenant blessings there,
and new creates the whole. The words a letter from above,
sealed with the Savior's blood. Each line contains the Father's
love, The Spirit wrote each word. Yes, by the power of His Word,
God melts the heart of stone. And sinners washed in Jesus'
blood believe on God the Son. And by the preaching of His Word,
God's saints are taught His ways. Receive rich mercies from the
Lord, ? And walk with Him in peace ? Please be seated. Good morning. For our scripture
reading to call to worship, could you turn to Psalm 29, Psalm 29. Psalm 29, a Psalm of David. Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty,
give unto the Lord glory and strength. And the Lord Jesus
Christ did that indeed. When he bowed his mighty head,
Calvary's cross and said, it is finished, fulfilling everything
that the father required of him, he did. Give unto the Lord the
glory due unto his name. Worship the Lord in the beauty
of holiness. The voice of the Lord is upon
the waters. The God of glory thundereth.
The Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full
of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh
the cedars, yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. He maketh
them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Syrian like a young
unicorn. The voice of the Lord divided
the flames of fire. I couldn't help but be reminded
what Elijah went through. You remember when the Lord manifested
his grace? When he saw the gospel, the picture
of the gospel, when the sacrifice consumed all the God's wrath
and appeased it. And then when Jezebel found out
that he wanted, she wanted to take his life, he fled. Remember
where you went? To Beersheba, into the cave,
into Horeb. And there where he sat, the Lord
sent a wind, but the Lord wasn't in there. Then he sent the earthquake.
The Lord wasn't in there. And he sent a fire and the Lord
wasn't in there. but with a still small voice
the Lord spoke to him saying, what are you doing here in the
law? I just manifested my grace. Grace, grace, still small voice. And verse nine or verse eight,
the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness. The Lord shaketh
the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord maketh
the hinds to calf, and discovereth the forest, and in his temple
does everyone speak of his glory. The Lord sitteth upon the flood,
yea, the Lord sitteth king forever, the Lord will give strength unto
his people. The Lord will bless his people
with peace. And it's my prayer, as Peter
said, that we have a more sure, excellent prophecy. Three times,
God audibly said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased. Hear him. That's our prayer this
morning, that the Lord would, through the preaching of his
word, speak peace to our hearts with a still, small voice. Let's
ask him to do that. Merciful Heavenly Father, we
are thankful again that you have gathered us here at this place
to worship you. We do confess again, Lord, and
unless, as Hugo said earlier, you send your spirit, Lord, all
is vanity. So we ask, Lord, empower that
you would send your spirit and that we would see the Lord Jesus
Christ through the truth of your word. And Lord, we desire to
hear your voice speaking peace to our hearts that only you can
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Do that now, Lord, through your
gospel preacher. Bless Robert. Pray that you'd
bless the word you've given him for us to hear. Oh Lord, how
we ask that you do give us hearing ears, seeing eyes and a heart
to believe you. that the Lord Jesus Christ is
the Son of God, to your glory, for we ask it in his name, amen. Let's all stand together once
again. We'll sing hymn number 327, 327 from the hardback hymnal,
327. Oh, for a faith that will not
shrink, though pressed by many a foe, that will not tremble
on the brink of any earthly woe. That will not murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod, But in the hour of grief or pain
Will lean upon its guard. A faith that shines more bright
and clear when tempests rage the hout, that when in danger
knows no fear, in darkness feels no doubt. Lord, give me such
a faith as this, and then what e'er may come, I'll taste even
now the hallowed bliss of an eternal home. Please be seated. Good morning. When I'm preaching, I don't need
to hear more if I can hear the message. So that's one good thing. Hugo asked me, he said, what
are you preaching out of? I said, Roman chapter eight.
What are you preaching out of? He said, Roman chapter eight. And I thought, oh no. But we're
both approaching part of the counsel of God from different
angles. Whenever the Holy Spirit made
the statement in Romans chapter 8 and verse 1, there's therefore
now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the spirit. And then moves on
to the evils of the flesh. They that are in the flesh cannot
please God. And by the time you get down
to verse 28, you're kind of like the disciples were when the Lord
Jesus Christ said you can get a camel through a needle's eye
quicker than a rich man can get through heaven. You think, my
word, if the flesh is this bad, who then can be saved? And the
Holy Spirit begins in verse 28 to, by the grace of God, open the doors of heaven and
we get a look at the counsel of God about who can be saved
and why they're saved and how they get saved. It's like whenever
the Lord Jesus Christ was on the cross and the veil in the
temple was rent from the top to the bottom. And for the first
time ever, the whole world could look on the mercy seat, which
is Christ. And when God does open the doors
of heaven in Romans and in Ephesians, you see Christ in all of his
glory. And that's what we're going to
look at this morning. Father, we thank you that you've
gathered us here together, Father, to worship your son, Father,
to learn more about him, to praise his name, Father, to be comforted
and to be assured. We'd ask, Father, you'd be with
Greg and with Trish and and his daughters and granddaughter,
father, you bring them safely back from Australia to here because
we miss them. You'd be with Brian and Jill,
father, and give them a safe trip home. Tell them that we
love them, father. We miss them and we need them
here. Open our hearts and our ears this morning, Father. Give
me the grace to present Christ, Father, in all of His glory,
to present assurance, Father, for the children of God. We ask
these things in Jesus' name. Amen. We'll be in Romans chapter
8 this morning. The part of God's counsel that
I want to speak to you about this morning is the call. The call is actually the first
time that we deal with God and we know it. We were saved before
the foundation of the world. In the covenant of grace we were
given to Christ and Christ agreed to die for us and he did. There's
never been any question about our salvation. But when we're
in the flesh, like Hugo said, we don't know anything about
God. We just know we hate him. We're
at enmity with God. When you're born again, I don't
know anybody that ever stood up and said, can you believe
this? I've been born again. But we know when God calls us. For the first time ever when
God calls us, we will look face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ. And we'll know who he is. And
we'll know who we are. So the call is probably one of
the things that you can speak about from your own personal
experience if you can remember when God called you. But it's
our first experience with God that we know about. Romans chapter
8 and verse 28. And we know that all things work
together for good for them that love God, them who are the called
according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that
he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren. Moreover, whom
he did predestinate, them he also called. Whom he called,
them he also justified. Whom he justified, them he also
glorified. What shall we then say to these
things? If God be for us, who can be
against us? He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, shall he not also with him freely
give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justify it. Who
is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather
that is risen again and is even at the right hand of God and
maketh intercession for us. If it's true that God foreknew
me, that he knew me before the foundation of the world, wrote
my name in the book of life, then it's true that he predestinated
every event from Adam until my birth to make sure that I got
here. If it's true that I was predestinated to be conformed
to the image of his son, am I? Are we? Yes, we are. We're crucified
with Christ. We are raised from the dead with
Christ. We were on the cross with Christ. We kept the law with Christ.
We are holy and without blame before God in love in Christ. If all of that's true, then we've
been justified. If we've been justified, we've
been glorified. No one, no one can lay any charge
against us. No one can condemn us. If all of that is true and we
can apply it to ourselves, then we have to say with Paul in verse
38, that we are persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things
to come. nor height, nor depth, or any
other creature shall be able to separate us from the love
of God which is in Christ Jesus. That's who can be saved, the
ones that God chose, the ones God predestinated, the ones God
called. Now the call is a very special
thing in this regard. There was a man standing by the
Jordan River, Naaman, captain of the host of Syria. He'd been
to see Elisha because he had leprosy and he's wanting to be
healed. And Elisha's servant told him,
he said, go down there and dip yourself seven times in the river
Jordan and you'll be healed. He's standing by the river Jordan
as mad as a wet hen. He said, are not the rivers of
Syria, Havana, and far, far better than this mud hole, Jordan? And
his servants told him, if he'd have asked you to do a great
thing, you'd have done it. The least you can do is go down in
the river. So this infuriated, mad Syrian walks down into the
water, dipped seven times, and just like that, he said, I know
that there's no God in the world except the God of Israel. That's
a pretty quick change of mind, isn't it? It's the call. And two fishermen out in the
boat, or not in the boat, but sitting on the beach, men in
their nets, interested only in making a living. making as much
money as they can, working for their dead. The Lord Jesus comes
by and said, follow me. And they left those nets on the
ground, forgot about fishing, forgot about money, forgot about
everything. Same thing with Matthew, tax
collector, sitting at the receipt of taxes. That's something you
paid for. You had to pay to be a tax collector
because it was a lot of money in it. He's sitting there writing
out receipts, beating money out of every penny they got. The
Lord Jesus come by and said, follow me. He threw away money
and everything and followed the Lord Jesus Christ. But the most
startling change of all, was a man hanging on a wooden cross
and we don't even know his name. And he's right next to the Lord
Jesus Christ. No one ever came down from a
Roman cross alive. And he's railing against the
Lord along with everybody else. If you are the son of God, come
down off of that cross and save yourself and us. And the next
breath, he said, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy
kingdom. A Philippian jailer is beating
on Saul and Pius Silas like a drum. I mean, really putting the whip
to him. And in the next breath, he says,
sir, what must I do to be saved? The call is the one thing that
God does to us that's obvious to other people. It's obvious
to us. Verse 28, and we know. Now when God calls us, we come
in total ignorance. Everything we ever knew about
Christ or thought we knew about Christ and God is nothing. When
we come to the Lord Jesus Christ, we come in total ignorance. And then the spirit teaches us
things. So there's certain things we
do know. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ
came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
We know that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, born of a
virgin. That which is conceived in her
is of the Holy Ghost, and she shall bring forth a son, and
now shall call his name Jesus, because he shall save his people
from their sin. We know that our only hope is
that God made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him. But we also know
some things that are said. Everyone here, I'm sure, has
a wife or a mother or a father, son, daughter, sister, brother,
someone who is in a position to not know the Lord. And it
breaks our heart. It really does. Because we know
where they're going. If I ever got called to preach
in the biggest free will church in the world, a huge thing, I
could stand in that pulpit And look around at all of that audience,
my father, my mother, my brother, everyone I've ever known. And
I could say with all honesty, I know that God is not here because
they worship a different Jesus and they preach another gospel. They are like 2 Thessalonians
2 in verse 10, I believe it is. Because they received not the
love of the truth, God sent them a delusion that they would believe
the lie. That they all might be damned
who received not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. And then God tells us who's saved
in verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks
always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath
from the beginning chosen you unto salvation through sanctification
of the spirit and belief of the truth. So we know about Christ,
but we know about the people that don't know Christ. So there
are certain things that we will know will be taught by the spirit
of God after God calls us. We know that all things work
together for good for those that love God. Now, the Holy Spirit
is very explicit in the scriptures, never leaves anything to doubt. You got a world full of people
that get up in church and saying, oh, how I love Jesus. And yet
they think they have the authority and the privilege to look him
in the face and say, no, I've got the last word about salvation. Check back with me next Sunday.
I may change my mind. So they don't love Jesus, do
they? A man will walk into a church in another country with 250 pounds
of dynamite strapped around him, pull a ripcord and kill a thousand
people because he loves God. So the Holy Spirit didn't leave
it there. Those that love God, them who
are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow. Now the foreknowledge of God
is not based on what we do. Don't let anybody ever tell you
that God looked down through the corridors of time. And he
saw that Robert Horton was gonna believe the gospel, so he went
ahead and wrote my name down in the book of life and he elected
me. The foreknowledge of God is not based on what we do. What we do is based on the foreknowledge
of God. I am a 100% total predestinarian. I believe everything in creation
is predestinated from the rise of Hitler to the death of the
smallest sparrow. So I don't believe, I don't believe
that just anybody can do anything they want to and call themselves
called by God. Because he foreknew them, believe
it or not, I think that my name is written in the Book of Life.
I know it is because I believe. I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God, therefore I'm saved. And right next to my name
is born October the 7th, 1936. On down here a little ways is
another date, whatever that date was because I don't remember.
That's the day I was called. And right on down here is another
date. Robert Horton died and went on to be with the Lord in
such and such a day. All of these things have been
done and taken care of. God is not a God that would leave
these things to chance. I've heard preachers say that
election. that God dipped his fingers in
the grace of God and whoosh, threw it out over a whole millions
and millions of people in creation. And the ones at the drops fell
under the elect of God. I'm going to tell you right now,
God is not a God of chance. Time and chance and circumstance
mean nothing to God. And just because you got a watermark
don't mean that you're the elect of God. God is a personal God. He calls us one at a time. He speaks to our hearts and our
mind one at a time. He foreknew us. That's a very
personal and intense relationship. He's known me forever. When my
day of grace came, He called me by name. So don't let anybody
tell you that each individual chosen by God was not a deliberate
choice because it was. Now, I'm not about to begin to
try to guess why God chose some and reprobated others. I'm just
glad he chose me. So I'm not going to get into
that. But I do know this, there's no such thing as God doing a
random act. Everything is in the counsel
of God. Those he did foreknow, he also did predestinate. Like
I told you, he predestinated every event, every person, everything
that happened from Adam until now for me and for you, if you're
a child of God, everything in your lineage has been predestinated
and taken care of that you might be the finished product in your
day of grace. Nothing, absolutely nothing is
left to chance. I'm predestinated to be conformed
to the image of his son. That's the most amazing thing.
And people overlook it sometimes. In Ephesians chapter one, it
said that he hath made us accepted by the beloved. No, it didn't
say that. It did not say that. It said he hath made us accepted
in the beloved. We are in an eternal, unbreakable,
indivisible union with the Lord Jesus Christ. He's ours forever. We are his forever. We were crucified
with him. Nevertheless, we live, yet not
us, but Christ live within us. And the life that we now live
in the flesh, we live by the faith of the son of God, not
our faith, his faith. We live by the faith of the Son
of God who loved me and gave himself for me. So you see, God
has taken care of everything. Whom he predestinated, them he
also called. And that is the most amazing
thing that'll ever happen to us in our life. Is there an event
in the scriptures that will show us the call and everything connected
with it from start to finish. I think there is. And it's in
John chapter 11. The Lord Jesus Christ was away
from, I guess you could say home with his disciples. And he had
three really close friends in Bethany, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. And Lazarus died. And our Lord
Jesus Christ stayed there two more days. And then he said,
let's go to Bethany. And doubting Thomas said, let's
go with him. We'll die with him. So he went
to Bethany. The Lord Jesus Christ went down
there for this specific purpose of raising Lazarus from the dead.
Just like he went, must needs go through Samaria. And he sat
on Jacob's well, and a wicked, adulterous woman came up, and
Christ called her. So Christ went to Bethany at
the appointed time. Ecclesiastes said there's a time
for everything and everything in its time. Scripture also says
it's appointed unto men once to die and after that to judgment.
That means we have an appointed time to die. The Lord Jesus Christ
came at the appointed time when the fullness of the time was
come God sent forth his son made of a woman, made under the law
to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of children. The Lord Jesus Christ comes at
the appointed time. But the most amazing thing about
this whole account is the fact that Jesus comes to us. We do not go to Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ comes after
us because we are His. We belong to Him. He's owned
us eternally. So the Lord Jesus Christ gets
there and they tell Him, Lord, if you'd have been here, Lazarus
wouldn't have died. But the point of this whole account
is to show us that He's Lord over both the living and the
dead. and to give us a picture of what happens to us when he
calls us. Now he's standing outside the
tomb. This is the God man, 100% God,
100% man. He is the light and in him is
life. John chapter three said, this
is that condemnation, that light has come into the world and men
love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
Mankind, if left untouched, would rather hunker down in the dark
and put their hands over their eyes and imagine a Jesus that
had to beg them to believe on him. They love darkness rather
than light because their deeds are evil. He is the lily of the
valley. He's our creator. He made all
things and without him was not anything made that was made.
He's the lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world.
He is the bright and morning star. Scripture tells us in Philippians
chapter two that he took on him the form of a servant. And that's
who he is standing before the tomb, a servant. He humiliated
himself, and he took on him the likeness of men. And being found
in fashion as a man, he became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross, wherefore God hath highly exalted him. and given him a name which is
above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of things in heaven, things in earth, and things under the
earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord to the glory of God the Father. He's not a servant anymore. He's not humiliated anymore. He has ascended into heaven.
He sat down on the right hand of God because his work is finished. He's done everything it takes
to save us. And I mean everything. So he's
standing outside the door of the tomb. Inside that tomb is
who? Me and you, a dead man, that's
who's in that tomb. He is knocked down, dragged out,
graveyard dead in trespasses and sins. He can't see the kingdom
of God. He doesn't recognize Christ.
He will not have this man to reign over us. I was conceived
in sin and shapen in iniquity. I will stray from the womb speaking
lies as soon as I'll be born and as I got older I got worse
and so did everyone here. There's not a just man in all
the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. That's who we are,
that's who's laying in the tomb. But between this dead man, between
us and Christ, is a stone. We're sealed in that tomb by
our own nature. So there's a great stone between
us and Christ. What is this stone? Well, you
could say that wherefore by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin, so that death passed upon all men, for that
all have sinned. That's a simple answer, but it's
really not the whole story. That stone is 6,000 years of
accumulated sin in my case. If I would have been there, I
would have found a rock and helped Cain kill Abel. If I would have
been there, I would have been an iron worker on a tower of
Babel that reached up into heaven so we could get up there and
kill God. If I'd have been in Jerusalem,
I'd have stood in that huge crowd of people and I'd have screamed,
crucify him, crucify him at the top of my lungs. I would have
handed the nails to the Roman soldier that nailed our Lord
Jesus Christ to the cross. The only reason I didn't do it
was because I didn't have the opportunity. I wasn't there.
Only God limits our sin. Only God puts a bridle on our
nature. It's 6,000 years of accumulated
enmity against God, hatred against one another, biting and devouring
one another, killing our children, doing all these terrible things.
That's the stone that stands between us and Christ. And the Lord Jesus Christ said,
take away the stone. And they didn't just roll it
over to the side. This huge stone was cast over
his back and into the sea. And he forgot 6,000 years of
sin and oppression and hatred and strife and everything else.
He is as far from me as the East is from the West. So now the door is open to the
tomb, but I'm still dead. I'm still laying there stone
cold dead. But the Holy Spirit comes to
me and borns me again and gives me life. It raises me up together
with the Lord Jesus Christ. It gives me eyes to see, ears
to hear, and a heart to believe. It gives me all of these things
that need to get me ready for God's call. Born again, can you
believe that? A new birth, but I'm still laying
there. I'm born again, but I'm still
laying there. And then comes the call. Robert Horton come forth and
I will and I did come forth bound hand and foot in grave clothes
with a napkin over my face and they took the napkin away and
for the first time ever I could see Christ my Redeemer. I could
look on the face of him who loved me before the foundation of the
world. And I could honestly and truly
say with Job, I've heard of you, Lord, by the hearing of the ears.
But now mine eyes seeth you and I hate myself. Now that sounds
like a contradiction. I've been born again. God has
called me. I'm standing before Christ and
I still hate myself. Why is that? because I'm still wrapped hand
and foot, bound in grave clothes. The grave clothes is just flesh
that Hugo talked about this morning. The things that I would dearly,
dearly love to do, I can't seem to do them. Things that I hate
and don't want to do, I always wind up doing them. Oh, wretched
man that I am, O wretched person that we are, who shall deliver
us from the body of this death? We're born again called of God,
but we're clothed in sinful flesh. It's a terrible thing to know
that you're just ready to fall away at any time. that if God
did not hold on to you, if the Lord Jesus Christ did not hold
you in his arms, you couldn't make it, I couldn't make it,
none of us could make it because of the two natures that Hugo
talked about. But God will strengthen us. The Lord Jesus Christ will give
us the grace to go on from day to day, bound in these grave
clothes. And there will come a day for
every one of us when we'll be freed from these grave clothes.
And the Son of God himself shall appear in the sky with the archangel
and the trump of God And the dead in Christ will rise first,
and we which are alive and remain shall rise to meet them in the
air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort
ye one another with these words. There will come a day when the
Lord Jesus Christ will loose us from this body of death. But until he does, what's left? What is it that we're supposed
to do in this life? We're supposed to lay aside every
weight and the sin which does so easily beset us. And we're
supposed to run the race that is set before us with patience,
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. You
see what I'm saying this morning, that the Lord Jesus Christ knew
me and loved me from before eternity. In my day of grace, He came to
me and He said, roll away the stone. Now, if you think I'm
telling you that I was saved before I was called, you're right.
2 Timothy 1.9, who hath saved us and called us. with an holy calling not according
to our work but according to his own purpose and grace which
was given us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the
world. Salvation is the free gift of God. He will remove every
obstacle. I want to say this. You can walk into a Catholic
church Where is their Christ? He's in a life-size statue hanging
on a cross on the wall, because that's where they want him. For
2,000 years, he's been hanging on a church wall on a cross. That's all right. They're under
the delusion. You can go into a free will church, and they
imagine a Jesus that has to have their approval to save them.
But I'm going to tell you right now, Whenever God the Holy Spirit
mourns you again and mourns me again and mourns us again, not even the gates of hell will
stop us from going to Christ. There is nothing in this creation
that can stop a child of God going to the Savior, not one
thing. He doesn't ask our approval.
He doesn't need our approval. He's taken care of our sin. He's taken care of everything. And he went to prepare a place
for us. He said in my father's house
or mini mansion, if it wasn't so I would have told you. All
we have to do is wait on the Lord and live out the rest of
our lives. Because there will come a day
when we're with the Lord. Father, we thank you that you've
done all of these wonderful things for us, Father. We're thankful
that you've known us before the foundation of the world. You've
known us personally, Father, each and every one of us. You've
blessed me, Father, with calling my wife, but not everyone is
blessed like that, Father. We'd ask that you'd give us grace
to look unto Jesus, Father, for all the problems that beset us.
We thank you again, Father, for loving us. We ask these things
in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's close with the hymn from
our Spiral hymn book, number 16. Number 16. And can it be that I should gain
an interest in the Savior's blood? Died he for me who caused his
pain? him to death pursued. Amazing love, how can it be that
Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Amazing love, how can it
be that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Tis mystery all the immortal
dies Who can explore his strange design In faith the firstborn
sacrifice to sound the depths of love divine. Tis mercy all Let earth adore. Let angel minds inquire no more. Tis mercy all. Let earth adore. Let angel minds inquire no more. He left His Father's throne above
So free, so infinite His grace Emptied Himself of all but love
and bled for all his chosen race. Tis mercy all, immense and free,
for, O my God, it found out me. Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For O my God, it found out me. Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature's night. Thine eye diffused a quickening
ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light. My chains fell off, my heart
was free. I rose, went forth, and followed
Thee. My chains fell off, my heart
was free. Rose went forth and followed
thee. No condemnation now I dread,
Jesus and all in Him is mine. Alive in Him, my living Head,
and clothed in righteousness divine. Bold I approach the eternal
throne and claim the crown through Christ my own. Bold I approach the eternal throne,
and claim the crown through Christ my own. Okay.