Mark your calendars two weeks
from today. I think that's the 6th of May. Todd Nyberg will be here preaching
for you all from Lexington. So I'll be out. We'll be here
next Sunday, and then we leave next Sunday night. So Todd will
be here on the 6th to preach for you then. And I know you
look forward to that. The hymn that Tom is going to
lead us in is number 42 in your spiral hymnal. And it begins
with this line, let us praise the name of Jesus, prophet, priest,
and king. In the Old Testament, sometimes
one man would be a king and a prophet, sometimes he'd be a priest and
a prophet, but never was anybody given the opportunity to be prophet,
priest, and king. And that was reserved for the
Lord Jesus Christ. He's the bread of life. He's
our prophet. He's the one that not only brings us the Word of
God, but is the Word of God. He is our priest who intercedes
on our behalf and offers his own blood to the Father for the
sins of his people. And he's our king. He's not only
the one who established the law, but he's the one that fulfilled
it. We worship him as prophet, priest, and king. Let's stand
together. Brother Tom, you come please,
number 42. ? Let us praise the name of Jesus
? ? Prophet, priest, and sovereign king ? ? To him render adoration
? ? Laud and homage to him bring ? ? Let us praise the name of
Jesus ? God incarnate from above Came to save His chosen people
Sent by God in covenant love Let us praise the name of Jesus,
who upon Mount Calvary shed his blood and sealed our garden,
died for sin to set us free. Let us praise the name of Jesus,
risen, conquering, gracious Friend, Advocate and Mediator, all our
hopes on Him depend. ? Let us praise the name of Jesus
? ? For he brought us to his fold ? ? Come exalt his name
and worship ? ? May the Savior be extolled ? ? Let us praise
the name of Jesus ? till we see him face to face. Then throughout the endless ages,
praise him for his love and grace. Please be seated. We were glad to go into the house
of the Lord. Please turn with me to Romans
chapter 10. Romans chapter 10, and we will
begin at verse 13. I'm often reminded, Paul, when he
would write Timothy, he said, Timothy, I put you in remembrance
of these things. And the Lord has done that over
the last several months. He's put me in remembrance of
these things. and I hope that he will do the
same for you. As we read this, this is God's
call to worship, not ours or his, he calls his people. And
verse 13, he says, Paul writes, for whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call
on him in whom they've not believed? And how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, that's the
gospel of God's grace in Christ, and bring glad tidings of good
things. The Lord has pressed upon my
heart four things I want to share with you. The first is the importance
of what we're trying to do here this morning. These two hours
are more than just gathering together. They are life or death.
The preaching of the gospel. Eternal life or eternal death.
The second thing is. The rarity of it. We often forget just how how
rare it really is. We just wake up in the morning
and come to church and. When there's literally hundreds
of millions, there's no no gospel anywhere around him. The third one is a very sobering
one for me is. The brevity of it. For history proves itself to
remain, there will be coming a day that the gospel will no
longer be at Grace Gospel Church. And I hope the Lord takes me
before that happens, but that's just history, folks. It's such
a small, short window. And I fear all too often I take
it for granted. of both its importance, its rarity,
and its brevity. God has only showed us one way
that he saves sinners, through the preaching of his gospel. I know that for my loved ones
and for yours, that they're not gonna walk in the woods one day
and a bright light hit them. No, they've got to hear the truth
about Christ and how he saves sinners. The last point I would
make to you is that the blessing of God giving a
gospel preacher and his wife and family to a congregation. There are brethren scattered
all over the United States that there is no preacher. We pray
for them that God would send them one, but I can assure you
the Lord says they hate him. because they hated me first.
And the reason I'm probably not hated like you and Brother Greg
and Trish are is because most of them don't hear what I believe.
The public declaration they hear every week and I guarantee you
they hate God's servants. We should pray for them and ask
God to care for them and protect them and put a love in our hearts
for them. I'm going to close with one final
thing. I debated whether to say this or not. I hope not to embarrass
you. I was listening to a sermon by Brother Henry on the funeral
of a gospel preacher. And this stunned me, and I'll
say, he hadn't spoke for two minutes when he looked down at
the widow and said, I thank you for God giving you the grace
to share your husband with us. And I thought, that's what Trish
does. She shares her husband with all of us. God didn't give
me that grace, I tell you right now, nor my wife. But it is a gift of God. And
I pray that to put us in remembrance of this, that how special, how
rare, and how important what we're trying to do this morning
to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. Would you join me in prayer please? Lord, we've come here this morning
as needy centers who can do nothing for ourselves. We ask that you
enable us this morning to. Worship you. To glorify you. Turn our hearts and our minds
and our souls to you, Lord. Knowing that. We are totally
dependent on you for everything. We thank you for the great blessing
of being where your gospel was preached, that you would choose
us out and bring us and gather us together to worship you. We pray for your servant, Brother
Greg, and for your servants wherever they are in their families. We
ask, Lord, that you would speak through them this very morning.
Give them boldness and their spirit would be on them that
declare Christ. And you would be pleased, Lord,
by your spirit to open our hearts and give us the faith, not only
to hear it, but to believe it. And Lord, that we would give
all glory to you. We ask it in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Thank you, Michael. Let's all
stand together once again and let's sing the hymn that's on
the back of your bulletin, on the back of your bulletin. Compared with Christ in all beside,
no comeliness I see. The one thing needful, dearest
Lord, is to be one with Thee. The sense of thy expiring love
into my soul convey. Thyself bestow for thee alone
I absolutely pray. Lest then thyself ? My comfort to restore ? More
than thyself I cannot crave ? And thou canst give no more ? Loved
of my God for Him again With love intense I burn, Chosen of
Thee ere time began, I chose Thee in return. What e'er consists not with Thy
love, Oh, teach me to resign. I'm rich to all the intents of
bliss if thou, oh God, art mine. Please be seated. Bri Weishi
is going to bring special music now. Jesus, lover of my soul, lead
me to thy bosom, fly. While the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high, Hide me, O my Savior, hide, till
the storm of life is past. Safe into the haven guide, O
receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none. Thanks my helpless soul on thee. Leave, ah, leave me not alone. Still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stained
All my help from thee I bring Cover my defenseless head With
the shadow of thy wing Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
more than all in Thee I find. Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is thy name I am all unrighteousness While
sinful of sin I am Thou art full of truth and grace Plenteous grace with thee is
found, Grace to cover all my sins. Let this healing streams
abound, Make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art
Really let me take a leap Spring Thou within my heart Rise to
all eternity That was beautiful. Thank you,
Bree. Will you open your Bibles with me in Isaiah chapter 65? And I want you to notice with
me verse 24. And it shall come to pass that
before they call, I will answer." Now we just read from Romans
chapter 10, Michael did, all that call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved. There's no salvation apart from
us calling. How should they call upon Him and they've not heard?
How should they hear without a preacher? How should they call
upon him? Not believe, I'd say believe without, and they've
not heard. This matter of calling, us calling
on him is essential for our salvation. But what the Lord has said here
is that before they call, I will answer. You see, there's
some things that take place before we call upon the name of the
Lord. Redemption took place before
regeneration. God doesn't make the blood of
Christ effectual for us when we call. Before they call, I
will answer. The shed blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ successfully covered all the sins of all of God's people
before they were brought by the Spirit of God to that time in
their life, ordained of God, to call on Him. Our call doesn't
make our redemption. Our call is the result of our
redemption. Before they call, I will hear. There's a beautiful story in
Daniel chapter nine, where Daniel is praying for a whole two weeks
and nothing, God's not speaking. And then finally, after two weeks,
the Lord says to Daniel, Daniel, when you began to set your heart
to prayer, I heard you. You see, we're not calling upon
God in order to influence him. Prayer is not for the purpose
of manipulating God or convincing him to do something he hasn't
already purposed. Prayer is what God puts in our hearts to cause
us to recognize the blessing when it comes. From where it
came, before you call, I will answer. When a sinner calls on
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, God has already done everything
necessary for their salvation. Does that make the call unnecessary? No, no, but that call was something
that the Lord did. Before they call, I will answer.
I will make them willing in the day of my power. I will cause
them to turn. Before they call, I will answer. God's people were justified before
God, before they ever had faith. He was offered up for our offenses
and raised again because of our justification. We are justified
in the face of a holy God through the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That took place 2000 years before
you were born. Before they call, I will answer. Election? Election was before
Adam. God chose a particular people
in Christ before the foundation of the world. According to His
own will and purpose, the covenant of grace was established in the
purpose of God. Before they call, I will answer. When the Lord Jesus Christ said
in John chapter 14, let not your heart be troubled. You believe
in God, believe also in me. I go and prepare a place for
you. Now, when the Lord Jesus Christ
was ascended back into glory 2,000 years ago, was everything
necessary for God's elect to inhabit heaven prepared? Of course it was. Of course it
was. Before they called, I will answer.
I prepare a place for you. I receive you unto myself that
where I am there you may be also. God does all the preparing before
we ever call and he prepares us with prevenient grace. Every one of God's... I hear
men talk about common grace because the rain falls on the just and
the unjust and the and the unbeliever enjoys all the things of the
gifts of God in this world, and men say, well, there's grace
given to all men. Grace is only spoken of in the
scriptures as saving. There's no other kind of grace
than saving grace, and there's nothing common about saving grace. The only reason the unbeliever
enjoys the things of God is because the believer's still here. That's
the only reason. And when the believers are taken
away, this world's coming to an end. God's not showing grace
towards the reprobate. He shows grace towards his children.
And there is a thing such as prevenient grace, pre meaning
before, convenient meaning that which has a purpose. And prevenient
grace is everything, everything that God puts every one of his
children through in experience and in thought prior to when
they call on him. God knows each one of his children
intimately. He knows what each one of them
need in order to bring them to faith in Christ. So before they
call, I will answer. Before we're brought by the Spirit
of God through our circumstances and through the convicting power
of the Holy Spirit, before they call, I will answer. I'm going
to answer every need for them. I'm going to bring them to that
place where they're gonna call. And when they call, they're gonna
know that I did it all. and they're going to give me
all the glory. They're not going to talk Sibyleth language. They're not going to say, well,
you know, I accepted Jesus or I did this or I did that. No,
they're going to say, you know, the Lord called me and he did
all things well. He did all things well. He did
everything necessary for my salvation before I ever called. He redeemed
me. He justified me. Why, Romans
chapter 9 says that we're already glorified in Him. Already. seated in the heavenlies in christ
right now so that everyone that the lord jesus christ died for
are in him before the throne of god right now so how can that be i'm right
here before that call before we find ourselves standing
in His presence and being made like Him, which means to be made
without sin, seeing Him in the fullness of His glory. I've already
answered. I've already answered their glorification.
They're already there. They're already there. Notice
with me in our text in verse 17 of Isaiah 65. For behold, I create new heavens
and new earth, and the former shall not be remembered or come
to mind." I hear people talk about heaven
as if it was some kind of a family reunion. Now, I've been to family
reunions. You want to strip me of all the
joy and hope of going to heaven? Just make it to be like a family
reunion. But that's the way the unbeliever
thinks, doesn't he? You know, I'm gonna go to heaven, I'm gonna
see mama and grandma, and I'm gonna see my child. What did
the Lord say to those Pharisees that wanted to debate who was
gonna be married to who in heaven? He said, you do err, not knowing
the scriptures nor the power of God. Why would you think of
something so ridiculous as to people being married in heaven?
Are you recognizing somebody from your past life here on earth?
Or somebody in heaven looking down on us? That's not heaven.
The Lord said, I'm going to make a new heaven and a new earth
and the former shall not be remembered or even come to mind. That's my hope. My hope is I'm
not going to remember any of this. And the Lord in that passage
where he told the Pharisees they do err, not knowing the scriptures
nor the power of God, he said those that are in heaven are
going to be like the angels. We're going to be in perfect love with
one another. We're not going to have the kind of affections
that we have now for one another. It's going to be perfect love. And before they call, and before
they join that heavenly choir and sing hallelujah in glory,
I've already answered. I've already answered because
I'm already there. Before they were ever, before
Adam was ever made, I'd already answered. The lamb was slain
before the foundation of the world. The covenant of grace
was already established in the purpose of God before they call. Before they call, I've already
answered. Oh, He loved us long before we
ever loved Him. Why do we call? little things
that we eat before a good meal, an appetizer. Why do we call
it an appetizer? It gives us an appetite for the
meal, doesn't it? You know, that's what we're having
right now. These are just appetizers. Oh, but if we've tasted of the
heavenly gift, we can't wait to sit at his table and enjoy
the full meal. to see the fullness of Him in
all of His glory. Before they call, before they
call, I've already answered. It's all prepared. Isn't that
what John said in Revelation? He said, come sit, the meal's
all ready. You know, you get invited to somebody's house and
what do you say? What do you say every time you get invited?
What can I bring? What can I bring? Don't ask the Lord that. Don't ask him. You can't bring
anything. You bring something with you,
you're just going to mess up the meal. Well, you're not going
to be invited. You're not going to be at the
table. It's all done. It's finished
before they called. Before they called, I answered. Look at verse 18. and be ye glad
and rejoice ever in that which I create." Now, we speak of people being
creative and we compare men to men. We say, well, they're more
creative than them in terms of their ability to whatever. But
to create means to make something out of nothing. That's what the
word create means. You and I have never created
anything. All we do is move things around. God's the only one that
can create something. And in fact, he doesn't create
something out of nothing. He creates everything out of
himself. You remember when the disciples,
when the Pharisees said to the Lord, we'd be children of Abraham. They were trusting in their physical
lineage to father abraham for the hope of their salvation and
the lord said to them god can raise up children of abraham
from those stones right there you know that's exactly what
he does if you're a child of abraham you were created from
a stone you came into this world with a stony heart, cold, dead,
lifeless And the Lord takes out the heart of stone and he puts
in a heart of flesh. And he makes us willing. He said, before you
called, I already created it. I already provided it. I already did it. For behold, verse 18. Behold, do you remember what
that word means? It means, oh, take special notice of this.
You're about to see something that you've never seen before.
This is amazing. This is amazing. I create Jerusalem. Unless the Lord builds the house,
the laborers labor in vain. Upon this rock, I'll build my
church and the gates of hell shall not be able to prevail
against it. Jerusalem is the church and the Lord has to create
it. You can't create it, I can't
create it. He has to create in our hearts
a desire to call upon Him. And He says, before you called,
I've already provided, I've already created it, I've already answered
everything. And look what He says, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing a rejoicing. If we don't leave here this morning
rejoicing, either I haven't preached the gospel or God hasn't met
with us. Now what would cause us not to
leave here rejoicing? For you to be put under the law. For you to be brought to look
to yourself for some evidence of your salvation. or for some
cause of your salvation in yourself. If you're an honest person, you're
going to leave here with your head down. You're going to leave
here fearful. You're going to leave here thinking,
well, maybe I haven't done enough yet. But if we leave here believing
that before we called, he had already answered, then we can
leave rejoicing. rejoicing in that salvation is
of the Lord. It's all of Him. All of Him. You know, men want to debate,
you know, when were we saved? When were we saved? And they've
debated that question for millenniums. And most of the controversy stems
from man's effort or attempt to answer the eternal in light of the temporal
in other words he interprets that word when as a moment in
time and he wants to think he wants to he wants to nail it
down he wants to peg a moment when when he got saved but that's not how the scripture
speaks we're saved in the covenant of
grace before Adam was ever made. That's what the scripture says.
Turn with me to 2 Thessalonians 2. 2 Thessalonians 2. Verse 13.
But we are bound to give thanks always
to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath
from the beginning chosen you to salvation through the sanctification of
the Spirit and the belief of the truth. So before the beginning
of time, God has chosen a people in the covenant of grace and
saved them in the land that was slain in that covenant. When
were we saved? In eternity past. Is that all
the scripture says about our salvation? Oh, no. No, there's
no salvation apart from the accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ
on Calvary's cross. We were saved. when God the Son
bowed his mighty head on Calvary's cross and cried, it is finished. It is finished. Everything necessary
to redeem those whom God chose in the covenant of grace was
accomplished by the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's
cross. 2,000 years ago we were saved.
There's no salvation apart from that. Turn with me to Jeremiah
chapter 23. Verse 6, in his days, that's the days
of the Lord Jesus Christ, in his days Judah shall be saved. Oh, I hear about people talking
about Jesus offering salvation and, you know, it's not really
done. You got to do your part to make
what he did work. In his days, Judah shall be saved. And Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name whereby
he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. We have a righteous
advocate in heaven who was accepted and received back into glory
by his father. Why? Because he accomplished
the salvation of his people. When were we saved? We were saved
in the covenant of grace. We were saved when Christ died
on Calvary's cross. Is that it? Is that it? That's not all the scripture
says about it. Our text says that there must be a calling.
And Michael, you read from that passage in Romans chapter 10.
Before they call, I will answer. God's elect are saved when they
hear the gospel as the gospel and are made willing by the Spirit
of God to call upon the name of the Lord. Turn with me to Jeremiah chapter 29, Jeremiah chapter 29. Look at verse 10, for thus saith
the Lord, after 70 years be accomplished at Babylon. Now the children
of Israel were in captivity in Babylon, weren't they? But you
know that's not what this is a reference to. This isn't just
a historical reference to the captivity of Israel. This is
you and me. What's the life of a man? Three
score and ten. That's 70 years. And where do
we live right now? We live in Babylon. And what's
Babylon known for? It's known for its Babel. It's
babbling view of God. It's babbling view of salvation.
It's mixing of works and grace. You remember they had bricks
for stone and they had slime for mortar and they tried to
build a tower up to God? That's Babylon. And what did
we read in the book of Revelation? The destruction of Babylon. So
you and I live 70 years in Babylon. And after the 70 years be accomplished
be accomplished. God has a purpose for us being
here and he's going to accomplish the salvation of every one of
his children while they're in Babylon. And when the 70 years
be accomplished I will visit you and perform my good word
toward you in causing you to return to this place. What a
promise! What a promise! During your 70
years in Babylon, you're going to be called. And when you're
called, you're going to call. The effectual call of the Spirit
of God, that's our regeneration. That's what makes us call. And
before we call, He's already answered. And before we ask Him,
He's already heard. For I know the thoughts that
I think towards you, saith the Lord. Verse 11, thoughts of peace
and not of evil to give you an expected end. Now you can't have an expected
end if the hope of your end is based on something you do, because
you can't expect yourself to be good enough, can you? But if what he did is sufficient
for me, I can have an expected end. I'm persuaded, persuaded,
that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him.
I don't know what else to do but to trust Christ for my salvation. God has caused me to call upon
Him, believing that before I called, He had already answered. He had
already answered in the covenant of grace. He had already answered
on Calvary's cross. Before I called, he had already
answered. And he brought me out of Babylon
and he said, I have thoughts of peace towards you and not
of evil to give you an expected end. Then, then, then shall you
call upon me and you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken
unto you and you shall seek me and find me when you shall search
for me with all of your heart and I will be found of you, saith
the Lord, and I will turn away your captivity and I will gather
you from the nations and all the places whether I have driven
you sayeth the Lord, and I will bring you again into the place
which I have caused you to be carried away captive. I'm going
to bring you out of Babylon. The Lord warns us about Babylon. He said, come out of her. Have
nothing to do with her. Be separate, saith the Lord.
Don't mix grace with works. That's what Babylon is. I'm going to do this. and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So that before you
call, I'm gonna answer. And while they are yet speaking,
I will hear. So when are we saved? We're saved in the covenant of
grace, we're saved on Calvary's cross, we're saved when God calls
us and makes us to call, and we're being saved. We're being
saved. You see, we don't speak of salvation
as a one-time past experience. We're always needing to be saved,
aren't we? We're always to whom coming, as Peter said. We never
graduate beyond being saved. That's why Paul said, as you
receive Christ Jesus, the Lord, so walk ye in him. How did you receive him? How
did you receive Him? As a successful Savior, you received
Him as a mercy-begging sinner, didn't you? We never graduate
beyond that. That's why in our text, go back,
go back with me to verse 20 in Isaiah 65. There shall be no
more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not
filled his days. For the child shall die a hundred
years, but the sinner, being a hundred years, shall be accursed.
Now what the Lord is saying is what He said when he said that
he will turn the fathers towards the children, children towards
the father. Let me ask you this. Do you know anything else in
this world that has the same exact relevance to a 15-year-old
as it has to an 85-year-old? That's what the Lord's saying
here. There's not going to be infants and old men. The gospel
message is going to be the same message with the same saving
relevance and with the same glorious happy end for the child as it's
going to be for the adult. We talk about generation gaps,
don't we? And we have lots of them in our
music, in our in our dress, and lots of things we compete with
our children with and our grandchildren want to know, you know, what
do you mean by that? Oh, but the gospel doesn't, it
just cuts through all that, doesn't it? It cuts through every bit
of that. So that the infant of days is like a hundred-year-old
man, and the hundred-year-old man is like a child, and the
unbeliever It doesn't matter how old he is. He's without hope. God's elect are continuing to
be saved as they are kept by the power of God and made to
keep coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn with me to Isaiah
64. Isaiah 64. At verse 5, when are we saved? I hope we're being saved right
now. Oh, I hope you are. I hope we can leave Jerusalem
rejoicing this morning. I hope the Lord will confirm
to us once again that we're the children of God. It's the work
of the Spirit of God. Don't look to your works as evidence
of your faith. Ask God for His Holy Spirit to
confirm to your spirit that you are the child of God. If He does,
you'll find yourself looking to Christ and resting in Him
for all the hope of your salvation. Look what Isaiah said in Isaiah
64 at verse 5. Thou meetest Him that rejoiceth
and worketh righteousness. Those that remember Thee in Thy
ways Behold, thou art wroth, for we have sinned, and in those
is continuance, and we shall be saved." Christ came to save sinners,
and God's people never graduate beyond being a sinner. And that's
why Isaiah said, in these is continuance. I can't find any
righteousness in me. I can't find any reason in looking
at my life to believe that I'm a child of God. I'm a sinner. Everything about me falls short
of His glory. That's what sin is. All of sinning
comes short of the glory of God. You've heard me ask you this
question before. I think it's the clearest, simplest definition
of sin. What in your life falls short of the glory of God? Nothing measures up, does it?
Christ is the only one that is without sin. And so he says. In those is continuance and they
shall be saved. Sinners are always finding their
hope in the Savior. Always coming, always believing,
always rejoicing. In the Lord Jesus Christ. So
when are we saved? We're saved in the covenant of
grace, we're saved when Christ died on Calvary's cross, we're
saved when we hear the gospel as the gospel and are brought
to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're being
saved. We have been saved, we shall be saved, we are being
saved, and we shall be saved. When are we gonna be saved? God's elect will be saved when
they're taken to glory and see their Savior face to face and
be made like Him. sinless. What a day that'll be. You see, these five aspects, if you will, of salvation
is election, redemption, regeneration, sanctification, and glorification. And there's no salvation without
all of them. Without all of them. Was that thief on the cross saved
the moment the Lord said to him, this day thou shall be with me
in paradise? Did he just say, did he say,
okay, well, that's good. I'm good now. No, no. He fixed
his eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ. And until he hung his head in
death, he was trusting Christ, wasn't he? Believing on the Lord
Jesus Christ and received into paradise. Before you called,
I answered. And while you were yet praying,
I heard you. I've done it all. I'm the one
that made you call. Oh, that will comfort a sinner's
heart, won't it? That gives me hope. Gives me
hope. to rest all the hope of my salvation
on Him. That's what the scripture means
when it says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that thou shalt
be saved. Our merciful heavenly Father,
we're thankful for your word. We ask Lord that your Holy Spirit
now would speak to our hearts and comfort us in Christ. Call
out your children and cause them, Lord, every single one of us
to call on thee. For it's in Christ's name we
pray. Amen. Number 39 in the spiral hymnal. Let's stand together. Number
39. Wretched, lost, condemned, and
dying, Guilty, I deserve God's wrath. Long I fought against my Master. Hell-bent, I was courting death. But the blood of Christ had bought
me. He refused to let me die. This poor sinner loved by Jesus
must be conquered by and by. At the time which was predestined
in the covenant of God's grace, God in mercy sent Blessed time of love and grace,
To reveal His Son's great merit, As the sinner's substitute. I saw Jesus bleeding, dying,
Suffering as my substitute. Precious blood for sin's atonement. Justice could not ask for more. I heard Christ cry, it is finished. And I could resist no more. Thanks to God for intervening. Grace that broke my stubborn
will. Grace that would not let me perish. Grace that rescued me from hell. ? Sovereign grace I will proclaim
it ? ? Irresistible and free ? ? Grace that chose me and redeemed
me ? ? God by grace alone saved me ? ? Sinner now you've heard
my story ? Now I bid you trust my God, Christ my all-sufficient
Savior, saves poor sinners by His blood.