Before we started our service, some of you may not know that
I've asked several of our members to serve on a building committee
and we are researching the possibility of building another building. In the meantime, we have an immediate
need And that is for nursery space and for ladies' restrooms. And so we had a contractor come
this week and look at the possibility of moving the front wall of this
building out about 15 feet and add a nursery classroom, a nursery
space and a large ladies' restroom. So just wanted to let you know
that that's kind of something we're thinking about. We'll keep
everybody posted on the progress. All right. Tom. Number 39. Let's stand together. Let's all stand together. Wretched, lost, condemned, and
dying, guilty I deserved 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 His Spirit,
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 ? Please be seated. Good morning. Our call to worship
scripture, would you please turn to Psalm 24. Psalm 24. Psalm 22 is the crucifixion of
our Lord. Psalm 23 is His perfect faithfulness
with our Heavenly Father through His crucifixion. And Psalm 24,
our Lord returning to be with His Father. And it will answer the question,
as what Greg said this morning, how is it possible that we could
stand in the presence of a holy God. It's a glorious, glorious
psalm. Verse 1, The earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. For He, the Lord Jesus Christ,
hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods,
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand
in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and
a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor
sworn deceitfully. Now this can't be speaking of
David. There's only one. He shall receive the blessing
from the Lord. and righteousness from the God
of his salvation. This is the generation of them
that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob, Selah. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory
shall come in. Who is the King of glory? The
Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up
your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, you everlasting
doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King
of glory? The Lord of hosts. He is the
King of glory. Selah. Let's pray. Oh Lord, it's our heart's desire
this morning once again to be reminded of that glorious
day. True faith right now, but in
reality one day that we can behold you face to face in that day. Heavenly Father, we're so thankful,
Lord, that you have provided a way in which we could stand
in thy presence. The only way is for you to put
us in thy dear son. Our only hope of standing in
thy presence. We come this morning once again,
Lord, for you to speak in the power of thy spirit and the truth
of thy word concerning him. as we ask that you would once
again look to him as you deal with us. Lord, you have sent us your gospel
preacher. And again, this morning we ask,
we don't presume, but just ask that you would again provide
him the power of your spirit, the clarity of thy word. And
Lord, we are in desperate need of hearing this morning. Save
us. Turn us, Lord. Be merciful to
us again. Forgive us of our sins, Lord.
Lord, we can't explain or understand, but, Lord, we believe. Help thou
our unbelief this morning. Bless your word. Bless your people
this morning, here and where all they meet, in the name of
Christ. For we ask it in his name, amen. Let's all stand together once
again. We'll sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin.
The hymn on the back of your bulletin. Look upon me, Lord, I pray thee. Let thy spirit dwell in mine. Thou hast sought me, thou hast
bought me. Take my heart and make it thine. Not I ask for, not I strive for,
but Thy grace so rich and free. This Thou givest by the Savior,
He hath all things who hath Thee. Precious is the name of Jesus,
Who can half its worth unfold, Far beyond angelic praises, Sweetly
sung to harps of gold. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,
pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but Thou art mighty. Hold me with Thy powerful hand. Please be seated. The Yelp in your Bibles with
me to Psalms Isaiah, I'm sorry, 64. Isaiah 64. I probably titled another message
that I preached the same, but I couldn't think of a better
title for this text than Hope for Sinners. Hope for Sinners. Paul said this is a faithful
saying and worthy of all acceptation. This is a saying that's worthy
to be accepted by all men, and it's worthy to be accepted in
its entirety. What is the saying? Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. The Lord
Jesus Christ only saves sinners. He only saves sinners and he
saves every one of them. Now what does God say about a
sinner? How does God define a sinner? I was listening to a preacher
talk to a newscaster recently on TV and the preacher made a
statement about a particular behavior being sinful. a behavior
that is accepted in our culture and the newscaster could not
believe that this preacher was calling that particular behavior
sinful. You're saying that that's sinful?
Oh, if they knew what sin really was. If they knew that their
prayers were sinful, that their attempts of worship were sinful. Paul said in Romans chapter 7,
we know that the law is holy, but I am sinful, carnal, sold
under sin. Long as we're in this flesh,
as long as we've got this body, this body of death, Paul goes
on in Romans chapter 7 to call it We're going to be sinners.
Sinners. In need of a Savior. Now, to
be made a sinner is a miracle of grace. And the only possible
way that you and I are going to see ourselves as sinners is
if the Lord Jesus Christ is pleased to reveal Himself as the holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, When he does, when he does, we'll
be just like Job. You remember when Elihu preached
the gospel to Job and Job listened? And what did he say? Behold,
behold. That word means I see something
I never saw before. I am vile. To read the first five chapters
of the book of Isaiah, Isaiah six times says to the people
of Israel, woe unto you, and he identifies particular sins
in those first five chapters, woe unto you, woe unto you, and
rightly so. They were under the law, they
were violating God's law, and Isaiah is the prophet of God
was saying to them, the judgment of God is coming against you.
And then in Isaiah 6, in the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah
saw the Lord high and lifted up. And the seraphim hovered
over the throne of God, and they cried, holy, holy, holy is the
Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth is filled with
his glory. And what's the first words out
of Isaiah's mouth? Woe is me. Woe is me. My eyes have seen
the king and he's seen me. And if he doesn't do something
for me, I'm a dead man. I cannot stand in his presence.
I'm a man of unclean lips. I live among a people of unclean
lips. Oh, how dependent I am for the Lord to take a coal from
off the altar and touch my lips, purge my sin. Isaiah chapter
64 gives us as clear a definition of what a sinner is as you'll
find anywhere in the Bible. You remember it begins as we
saw last Sunday, O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and
come down, and that's our greatest need for God to open the windows
of heaven and to speak not to treat us like he did to Herod. The Lord answered him not a word. The worst thing that can happen
to you and me is for God to be silent to us, for God not to
speak to us. And so the prayer here on the
part of the prophet is for God to open the windows of heaven
and come down and visit us. And that's exactly what he did.
That is exactly what he did. When God was made flesh, he dwelt
among us. God became man, the fullness
of the Godhead bodily in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He rent the heavens and he came
down. And what was the accomplishment
of him coming down? Here it is in verse 3, When thou
didst terrible things we looked not for, thou camest down, and
the mountains flowed down at thy presence. As we saw last
Sunday, those mountains are our sin. That's what separates us
from God. In Isaiah chapter 59, behold, the Lord's hand is not
short that He cannot save, neither is His ear heavy that He cannot
hear, but your iniquities have separated you from your God. We've got a sin problem, and
we can't fix it. The Lord is going to have to
melt the mountains away. He is going to have to cast them
behind His back. He is going to have to bury them
in the depths of the sea if we are going to have any hope of
knowing God. Your iniquities have separated
you from your God. Now iniquity, iniquity, that
is falling short of His glory. And this passage of scripture
in Isaiah chapter 64 defines it like this. Look at verse 4.
For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard nor
perceived by ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Does that
verse sound familiar? It ought to. In 1 Corinthians
chapter 2, Paul quotes it. Turn with me there. 1 Corinthians
chapter 2. Men have not heard. Men have
not seen. That's why they're still trying
to redeem themselves. They're still trying to atone
for their own sins. They're still living in guilt
and fear. They're still superstitious.
They're still engaged in man-made religion in hopes of being able
to make things right with God. They haven't heard the truth.
They haven't heard the truth. They can't see the truth. In 1 Corinthians chapter 2, but
as it is written, verse 9, I have not seen nor you heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him. Now, if we take that verse out
of context, we could apply it, and it would be true, to the
rewards that we will receive in glory. We can't even begin
to imagine. Eye hasn't seen, ear hasn't heard,
it hasn't even entered into the imagination of man what it's
going to be like to be without sin, to see Christ in the fullness
of His glory. We can only believe. it's gonna
be greater than anything we try to think about heaven and what
do we do we just think about an improved version of what we've
got don't we uh... oh it's gonna be so much better
than that we can't begin to imagine what it'd be like to be made
like him to be in his presence but that's not really what the
Lord's talking about here look at verse ten but God but God
hath revealed it unto them, unto us, I'm sorry, by His Spirit,
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things
of God. So the things that Isaiah is talking about in terms of
man not being able to hear, man not being able to see, now the
Lord by the Holy Spirit interprets that passage as the revelation
of the gospel that's been made clear. to the believer by the
Spirit of God. For what man, verse 11, knoweth
the things of God, save the spirit of the man which is in him? Even
so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that
are freely given unto us by God." Grace. Grace. It's a free gift. We don't earn it. We can't deserve
it. We can't present God with anything to force His hand to
give it to us. It's freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the word which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. Now, what is it to compare spiritual
things with spiritual? It's to compare Scripture to
Scripture. The scripture is the only revelation of truth that
we have. It's not our creeds. It's not our confessions. It's
not our opinions. It's not our church history. It's the word of God. And so
we compare scripture to scripture, which is exactly what we're doing
right now. But the natural man, look at verse 14, the natural
man, the unregenerate man, The man that does not have the Spirit
of God, and you have not the Spirit of God, you're none of
his. The Holy Spirit is given in the new birth. But the natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they
are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them. He can't know
them because they are spiritually discerned. So here's what Isaiah
was talking about. Isaiah was talking about the
natural man. His eyes haven't seen, his ears haven't heard.
He cannot enter into the things that God has prepared for him.
He'll never be able to imagine the truth of the gospel. That
has to be made known by the Spirit of God through the miracle of
the new birth in Revelation. But he that is spiritual, he
that has the Spirit of God, he judges all things. Yea, himself
is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of
the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of
Christ." The believer has the mind of
Christ. He has some understanding. Now how do I know if I have the
mind of Christ? How do I know if I have the Spirit
of God? Go back with me to our text. Only those who have the Spirit
of God believe themselves to be sinners. Only those who have the Spirit
of God believe themselves to be sinners, a biblical sinner,
a scriptural sinner, a sinner as it's defined by God, not a
sin as it's defined by culture. You know, there are lots of things
as I've already made reference to that are, that used to be
sinful in our culture and they're not sinful anymore. But that's
not the standard of sin. God's given us the standard of
sin. What is it? Well, look at verse five. Thou
meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness. Those
that remember thee in thy ways, behold thou art wrath for we
have sinned in those is continuance. and we shall be saved. Only those who understand that
everything about them, everything about them is sinful. That's the work of the Spirit
of God. Most folks think of sin just
as a behavioral problem. You know, I just, I did something
wrong here, did something wrong there, and I guess that would
be sinful. Turn to me to Romans chapter
7. Verse 14. Romans chapter 7 verse 14. For
we know that the law is spiritual, the law of God is holy, the law
of God is just, and the law of God is good. But I am carnal,
a fleshly man, sold under sin. Now that means what Paul is saying,
he was talking about past tense experience. What he was saying,
he was talking about his flesh, his natural man. He said, my
natural man is a slave to sin. It can't do anything but sin.
That's all it can do. Verse 15, you see now, these
people that recoil at us identifying a particular behavior as sin,
they would never be able to acknowledge this, would they? We looked at this recently. When
the Lord ordained Aaron as the high priest, you remember Aaron
had to wear a mitre on his head and it said, holiness unto the
Lord. And the scripture said that Aaron had to bear before
the Lord the iniquity of the holy things. That means that
God's people needed a priest to bear the sins of their worship. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
high priest. Read on, verse 15 of Romans chapter
7. For that which I do, I allow
not. For what I would, that do I not. But what I hate, that do I. If
then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that
it is good. I hate the way I am. I would be holy. I would be sinless. And the longing in my soul is
that one day I will be. Now then, it is no more I that
do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. Now, let me ask you a
question. Does this sound like present
tense verbs or past tense verbs? Because there are a lot of folks
that will read this passage and say, oh, Paul was talking about
his life before he became a believer. No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't. For I know that in me, that is
in my flesh. Now, he's identifying the two
natures. His old man. that is in my flesh dwelleth
no good thing. For to will is present with me,
but how to perform that which is good I find not. I would be
perfectly holy. I would be without sin. But I
can't because I've got this old man that I'm carrying along with
me. For the good what I do, I do
not, and the evil that which I do, that which I would not,
that I do. Now if I do that which I would
not, it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me.
Now why is it no more I that do it? Because I am in Christ
and that's my real man. The hope of my salvation is that
I'm perfectly righteous in the Lord Jesus Christ and he's identifying
his old man from his new man. Verse 21, I find then a law that
when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God
after the inward man, the new man. delights after the law of
God. Oh, I love God's law. But I see
another law in my members, that's my old man, that's my flesh.
I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in
my members, O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from
the body of this death. And we're going to see in Leviticus Chapter 5, what it means to be
unclean, in just a moment I want you to remember this verse. I
thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, so then with the mind
I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of
sin. There is therefore now no condemnation. No condemnation. to them that
are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after
the spirit. I'm looking to my new man for
the hope of my salvation. Alright? Go back with me. Tartects in Isaiah 64. Because Isaiah makes it clear
in them is Continuance. Continuance. For we are all, verse 6, the
only person that can say, and we shall be saved, not we might
be saved, not even we will be saved, but we shall be saved,
are those who see themselves as sinners. What is a sinner? A person that has no righteousness
in and of themselves. Everything about them by nature
is sinful before a holy God. They say with the Apostle Peter,
depart from me Lord for I am a sinful man. They say with that
woman with the issue of blood who touched the hem of our Lord's
garment when he said, who touched me? Her virtue has gone out from
me, power has gone out from me. And the scripture says, and she
told him all the truth. all the truth. Lord, I'm unclean. I'm a sinner. I'm the one. We are all as an unclean thing.
What does the Bible say about being unclean? Turn with me to
Leviticus chapter 5. Look at verse 2, or if a soul, a person, touch
any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean
beast or the carcass of an unclean cattle or the carcass of unclean
creeping things, that's a bug. Yeah. So if a mosquito lands
on you, you swat the mosquito and kill the mosquito, you become
unclean. You just touch something dead. And if it be hidden from him,
he also shall be unclean and guilty. Even if you didn't know
you touched something dead, you're still unclean. You're guilty.
So God says you touch something dead and you're guilty. What
is this flesh that we touch all the time? What is it? Scripture says we're dead. Dead. Paul said, I die daily. This old man is dead man. I'm
carrying it. Who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? Isn't that what we just read
in Romans chapter 7? So I'm carrying around in my current circumstances
a body of death. which makes me perpetually unclean. Look at verse 3. Or if he touched
the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be, that a man
shall be defiled therewith, and it shall be hid from him. The uncleanness of man in the
scriptures is identified as dung. And there's a whole lot of folks,
I know this is a gross analogy, but they're playing with dung
in hopes of making themselves clean. What did Paul say? I suffer the loss of all things
and count them as dung that I might win Christ. So everything, everything about
me is unclean. and then Leviticus chapter 13
the scripture goes on to define uncleanness as a person who has
leprosy and if he if a leper goes to the priest with symptoms
of leprosy and the priest finds spots of leprosy on his body
and inspects him, makes him naked and inspects every part of his
body and finds spots of leprosy the priest says to him unclean
and he's put outside the camp but then the The most amazing
thing in Leviticus chapter 13, if a leper comes to the priest,
who is that priest? The Lord Jesus Christ. And the
priest inspects him and finds from the crown of his head to
the sole of his foot, there's not a square inch of clean flesh
on him. He's leprous from the top of
his head to the bottom of his foot. And the priest looks at
him and says, clean. Clean. Go back with me to our text.
How do I know if I have the Spirit of God? Only those who have the
Spirit of God believe themselves to be sinners, biblical sinners. sinners as defined by God, a
person who can do nothing but sin. In them is continuance,
verse 5, and we shall be saved. But we are all as an unclean
thing and all our bad behavior. Is that what it says? All our righteousnesses, the best thing about us. Man at his very best state is
altogether vanity. The things that you want people
to repeat about you, the things you wouldn't be ashamed of, all
of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, all of them, not
some of them, all of them. And in those is continuance,
and we shall be saved. Here's the hope. Look, look. And we all, we all do fade as
a leaf. Leaves only last for about a
year, don't they, at best. No, they don't last that long.
Maybe here in Florida. We're losing our leaves right
now, aren't we, from last year. And new leaves were coming out. Most places in the world, they
would only last half a year. And trees would be naked, like
a leaf, the Lord said. You'd fade away. You'd fall.
You'd return to the soil. That's it. And like the wind, we're taken
away, blown away by the wind of God. And there is none that calleth
upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee.
For thou hast hid thy face from us, and thou hast consumed us
because of our iniquities. Do you believe that to be true
about you? The only reason that you have
any hope of salvation is not because one day you woke up and
decided, you know what, I've got a sin problem, I need to
find God. But that God rent the heavens
and came down and caused the mountains to melt away, solving
your sin problem, putting away all the sins of all of God's
people, of every generation." And now he says, but now. Listen to Job chapter 15 verse
15, the heavens are not clean in thy sight. Job chapter 4 verse
15, God charges his angels with folly. What does that say about
us? But now, here's our hope, isn't
it? Aren't you thankful for the but
nows? You know, men will hear the gospel, religious people
particularly. I can't tell you how many times
I've heard this. They'll hear what we're saying and they'll
say, yeah, yeah, I agree with most of that but. And they but the truth of the
gospel, don't they? To their own condemnation. But
when God says but now, that's a message of hope. But now, O
Lord, Thou art our Father, and we are the clay. And Thou art Potter, and we the
works of thy hand." That sounds familiar, doesn't it? That verse
is quoted in Romans also where the Lord says, he is the potter,
we're the clay. Does not the potter have the
right to make out of the same lump of clay some vessels of
honor and some of dishonor? You see, I know I'm a sinner.
When I stand in the presence of a holy God and I'm able to
say, You're the potter. I'm the clay. You can make of me whatever you
want. If you choose to cast my soul
into hell, you'll be just and right in doing it. You see, the person who's not
a sinner wouldn't say anything like that, would they? I've got some rights with God. God's not going to say, Lord,
you're my father. Whatever you do is right. I'm
completely dependent upon your mercy for the hope of my salvation. Lord, I'm sinful. I've got nothing
to bring. I've got nothing to bring. You're going to have to
make the mountains melt away into the sea. You're going to
have to be the one to rend the heavens, you're going to have
to be the one to fashion me into a vessel of honor. Turn with me to Ephesians chapter
2. Verse 2, wherein in times past
you walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience. It was a time when you were blinded,
you couldn't see the gospel, you couldn't believe on Christ.
You believed what everybody else believed, that salvation was
by works. among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others, but God, who is rich
in mercy for the great love wherein He loved us, even when we were
dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ." When were
God's people quickened? When were they made alive? when
the Lord Jesus Christ was risen from the dead. Everyone that
Christ died for, He quickened them in the covenant of grace. Now, the quickening that we experience
in our lives that takes place at the new birth, but made alive
by the resurrection. He's the firstborn among many
brethren. Look down at verse 12 of that
same chapter. that at that time you were without Christ being
aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from
the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the
world. But now, but now in Christ Jesus,
you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ. You've been brought nigh into
the presence of God, not by your commitments, not by your decisions,
but by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, for He is our peace. We have peace with God through
the Lord Jesus Christ. No more guilt. Oh, it's so freeing
to be able to say what Paul said in Romans chapter 7. It's so
freeing. rather than trying to, you know,
what we cover, God's going to uncover and what we uncover,
God will cover. You know, when the Lord brings
us to the place to where our sin is, we're just uncovered
before God, then the blood of Christ covers all our sin, all
our sin. Go back with me to Isaiah 64. Verse 8, but now, O Lord, thou
art our Father. Only the Spirit of God can enable
us to cry, Abba, Father. We just read that in 1 Corinthians
chapter 2. We are the clay, thou art our
potter. We are all, we are all the work
of thy hand. Be not wroth, very sore, O Lord. Remember, neither remember iniquity
forever. Behold, see, we beseech thee. We are all thy people. Lord,
we're coming beseeching you on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
looking to your covenant promises for the hope of our salvation,
looking to the accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of our sin. Apart from Him, we are sinners. And in Him, we are sinless. Sinless before God. Holy. Undefiled. So I conclude by asking you,
are you a sinner? Can you pray with Daniel? When Daniel said in Daniel chapter
9, and I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession,
and I said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God keeping the
covenant and mercy to them that love Him and to them that keep
His commandments. What is it to keep the commandments
of God? It's to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. It's to trust
Him. Trusting Him, the Lord said,
I did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. Trusting
in the Lord Jesus Christ fulfills all of God's law. And outside
of the Lord Jesus Christ, you and I have never been able to
keep any of God's laws. And Daniel went on to say, for
we have sinned and committed iniquity and have done wickedly
and have rebelled even by departing from the precepts of thy judgments. Oh Lord, righteousness, Belong
if unto thee, but unto us is confusion of faces. Will you pray with me, please? Our merciful heavenly father. We're thankful for the work of
your spirit that brings conviction of sin. It causes us, Lord, to
be able to acknowledge the truth of what you have declared. For
we know that when the Spirit of God comes, he will convict
the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. of sin, because we believe not
on Thee. Lord, we trusted in ourselves
rather than in Christ, of righteousness, because the Lord Jesus Christ
has gone to the Father, and of judgment, because the Prince
of this world has been judged. Thank You for the accomplished
work and glorious person of Thy dear Son, and we ask now that
that you would cause our sin to melt away like the mountains
into the sea and that you would give us the hope of knowing that
we have acceptance with thee. That our sin has been separated
from us as far as the East is from the West. And that however it can be, that
you remember it no more. We thank you for it in Christ's
name. Amen. With Tom. 199 in the hardback
terminal. Let's stand together. 199. ? Sinners Jesus will receive ?
? Sound this word of grace to all ? ? Who the heavenly pathway
leave ? ? All who linger, all who fall ? ? Sing it o'er and
o'er again ? ? Christ receiveth sinful men ? Make the message
clear and plain, Christ receiveth sinful men. Come and He will give you rest. Trust Him for His word is plain. He will take the sinful last. Christ receiveth sinful men. Sing it o'er and o'er again. Christ receiveth sinful men. Make the message clear and plain,
Christ receive His sinful men. Now my heart condemns me not
Pure before the law I stand He who cleansed me from all spot
Satisfied its last demand Sing it o'er and o'er again Christ
receiveth sinful land Make the message clear and plain. Christ, receive us, sinful men. Christ receiveth sinful men,
even me with all my sin. Purged from every spot and stain,
heaven with Him I enter in. Sing it o'er and o'er again. Christ receiveth sinful men,
Make the message clear and plain, Christ receiving sinful men. Okay.