Good evening. Let's open tonight's
service with hymn number 22 from your Spiral Gospel Hymn book,
and let's all stand together. Number 22, For the Glory of His
Grace. We were ruined by the fall. Adam's sin defiles us all. By our deeds as by our birth,
we deserve the law's great curse. Helpless, hopeless sinners we,
never can our souls retrieve. But the blessed Son of God came
as man in flesh and blood. He fulfilled the law's demands
and in death stretched out his hands. On the cross of Calvary,
Christ redeemed and set us free. In the time which God had set,
the Spirit came for His elect to regenerate and call from the
ruin of the fall. By His power and by His grace,
we were born for God's own praise. Now your purpose we fulfill,
Saved according to your will. Sing this song of joyful praise,
For the glory of your grace. Blessed Holy Triune God, Hear
our praise through Christ our Lord. Please be seated. That was an appropriate hymn
for the passage that I chose for our call to worship in Romans
chapter 3. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Romans chapter 3, Romans 3. We'll begin reading in verse
9. What then? Are we better than they? No,
in no wise. For we have before proved, both
Jew and Gentile, that they are all under sin. As it is written,
there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth. There is none that seeketh after
God. They are all gone out of the
way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good. No, not one. Incapable of doing
anything that God would consider to be good or righteous. Their
throat is an open sepulcher. An open sepulcher is a tomb that's
filled with corpse. And the Lord looks down our throats,
that's all he sees is spiritual deadness. With their tongue they
have used deceit, and with the poison of asp is under their
lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their
feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in
their ways, and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before
their eyes. Now we know that whatsoever things
the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law that every
mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before
God. Men who reject what God has said
here about his sinfulness has deceived himself in thinking
that he has somehow satisfied, at least in part, the demands
of God's law. And the Lord says the law properly
understood shuts a man's mouth and makes him guilty before God. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly
Father, We ask that you would send your
Holy Spirit in power. We confess to you, Lord, that
we are guilty, that we have no righteousness, that we've never
done anything good. We've not been able to satisfy
not one jot or tittle of thy holy law. Oh, what hope, what
joy, what comfort, what peace we have in knowing that that's
exactly the reason that thy dear son, the Lord Jesus Christ, came
into this world to fulfill the law and to present himself on
our behalf for all our righteousness. We pray that you would enable
us to look to him, to rest in him, to believe him, to trust
him. for our life, our righteousness,
and all our acceptance before Thee. Open what no man can shut,
Lord. Open Your Word. Open our hearts. Give us faith. Forgive us for
Christ's sake. For it's in His name we pray.
Amen. Let's stand together again. We'll
sing hymn number 355 from your hardback timbrel, 355. From every stormy wind that blows,
From every swelling tide of woes, There is a calm, a sure retreat,
Tis found beneath the mercy seat. There is a place where Jesus
sheds the oil of gladness on our heads, a place that all besides
more sweet, it is the blood-bought mercy seat. There is a scene where spirits
blend, where friend holds fellowship with friend. Though sundered
far, by faith they meet, around one common mercy seat. Ah, whither could we flee for
aid When tempted, desolate, dismayed? Or how the hosts of hell defeat
At suffering saints no mercy seat? Ah, there on eagle wings we soar,
and sin and sense molest no more. And heaven comes down, our souls
to greet, while glory crowns the mercy seat. Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Isaiah chapter 53? Isaiah 53. I've titled this message, Why
Won't Men Believe? Why Won't Men Believe? Now, this matter of unbelief
is the cause of every sin. It's the problem that you and
I have. You know, if I stood before you
tonight and got in the pulpit here and I said to you, I have
a confession to make. I've done something horrible. I've committed the worst sin
that a man could commit. Your imaginations would go wild,
your hearts would begin to beat thinking, oh no, what has he
done? And then I said to you, I've
got a problem with unbelief. You know what you would do? Is
that all? Okay. You see, our attitude about unbelief
only testifies to how wicked it really is. It really does. The Lord said when the Holy Spirit
comes, he will convict the world of sin because they believe not
on me. The worst thing that you and
I can do, the absolute worst thing that we can do is to not
believe God. That's it. It's the most offensive, it's
the most degrading, it's the most God dishonoring thing that
we can do is not believe God. And what do we say? Oh Lord,
I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. I've got an old man that's never
been able to believe anything. Lord, he's with me all the time. Give me faith in the new man
to set my hopes on Christ and to believe everything that you've
ever said. The Lord's told us in this passage
of scripture why it is that men will not believe. Why they don't
believe. And I've got three points. Number
one, they are unable. Number two, they are unwilling.
And number three, they hate Christ. That's what the Lord says. What
is the cause of unbelief? And the first cause is they're
unable. Look what the prophet says when
he begins this chapter. Who hath believed our report? Lord, why won't men believe?
Why won't they believe the gospel? Why won't they believe you? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? That's why they won't believe.
They won't believe because they can't believe. Faith is a gift
of God. It can only come as a result
of divine revelation, divine intervention. If the Lord leaves
us to ourselves, it will be absolutely impossible for us to be able
to believe God. Faith is not our contribution
to the gospel. Faith is the gift that God gives
to believers when he saves them and reveals the arm of the Lord.
That's Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ said, no
man can come unto me, John chapter 6 verse 46, unless the Father which sent me, drag him." That's
what, the word is draw in the Bible, but it's the, you remember
over there in James when the Lord is rebuking the church because
they were favoring a rich man and letting him sit up front
and putting the poor people in the back, and the Lord said,
you have evil intents in your hearts, are not the rich ones
the ones who drag you into court and take advantage of you? And
the same word. So the Lord said, you can't come
to Me except the Father which sent Me draw you. And then in that same chapter,
verse 65, no man can come unto Me except it were given to him
of My Father. What did the Lord say to that
woman at the well in John chapter four? If you knew, if you knew
who it is that saith unto thee, give me to drink, you would ask
of him and he'd give you living water. But what the problem was
she didn't know. She didn't know just like Nicodemus
in John chapter three. We know that you've been sent
of God for no man can do the things that you do except God
be with him. Nicodemus thought he was discerning, didn't he?
He thought, I've got some insight, I've got some understanding,
I know that you're a prophet, son of God. He did not have any
idea that he was talking to God. And so what did the Lord say
to him? Nicodemus, except a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of God. He cannot perceive of it. He
can't understand it. Who have believed I report, to
whom the arm of the Lord has been revealed. If the arm of
the Lord has not been revealed, you can't believe and you won't
believe. Why won't men believe? Because it is impossible. It is impossible. Turn to me
to John chapter 12. John chapter 12. You remember in Isaiah chapter
6 when the prophet Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up. And the seraphim hovering over
the very throne of God, crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God of hosts. Heaven and earth is filled with
His glory. Heaven and earth is filled with
His glory. But we don't see His glory, why? Because of our unbelief. He has
to reveal His glory to us. What's the evidence that he's
revealed his glory? Woe is me. I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. Look
what he says in chapter 12 and begin at verse 37. But though
he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed
not on him. You know, one time they said,
show us a miracle and we'll believe. Make it clear, make it plain.
Are you the son of God? I've told you I am. But you won't
believe. And then what did the Lord say
to the rich man who died and went to hell? And ask Abraham
to send someone to warn his brothers of this place. Though one rise
from the dead, they will not believe. They have Moses and
the prophets. And if they're not going to believe
Moses and the prophets, they're not going to believe a miracle.
They're not going to believe a resurrection. They're not going
to believe any... Well, they saw the miracles.
And at one point, they actually saw the Lord cast demons out
of a man that was possessed with demons, and they said, well,
yeah, we can't deny that he didn't do it, but he did it by the power
of Beelzebub. Men won't believe. No amount
of evidence. No amount of proof. It's a work
of divine revelation and God uses His Word to reveal that,
doesn't He? Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the Word of God. And so we just keep preaching
God's Word in hopes that the Lord, that the Spirit of God
will take the Word of God and apply it to the hearts of God's
people and give them faith. And then grow us in His grace
and in the knowledge of Christ and increase our faith. The disciples
said, Lord, increase our faith. Increase our faith. You're asking
us to forgive a man seven times in a day? We're going to have
to have faith for that. Faith in what? Faith in the man
you're forgiving? No. Faith in believing that I've
been forgiven. That my sin's been put away.
That the Lord has succeeded in establishing for me a righteousness
before God. And that my offense to him is
so much greater than anyone's offense towards me. They saw
the miracles, but they would not believe. They wouldn't believe. That the saying of Isaiah, the
prophet, might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath
believed, I report, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been
revealed? There it is, Isaiah chapter 53. See, they saw the
miracles, they were in the presence of God. They heard Him. They would not believe. Why? Because Isaiah had said, they're
not going to believe the report. They're not going to believe
the doctrine. They're not going to believe the gospel. They're
not going to believe God. Therefore, they could not believe,
because that Isaiah said again, He, God, hath blinded their eyes,
and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their
eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and
should be healed. These things said Isaiah, when
he saw his glory, and spake of him. So Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus
Christ seated upon that throne, and that last passage is the
end of chapter six of Isaiah, where the Lord, well, it's quoted
more times than any other Old Testament passage, I think six
times. I think six times in the New Testament. They will have
eyes, but they will not see, ears, but they will not see.
God has hardened their hearts. God's left them to themselves.
So why do men not believe? Because they can't believe. They're
unable to believe. They do not have the wherewithal
to believe. They can't bring anything to
the table to force the hand of God and to obligate God to save
them. They've got nothing. Some will hear that and they'll
be angry. They'll be angry because it strips
them of any ability on their part, takes away free will, takes
away good works, takes away man's faith. Others will become fatalistic
and they'll say, well, you know, I can't believe, I can't believe,
you know, what am I going to do? You know what the child of God
does? Oh, Lord, cause me to come unto Thee. Give me faith. Turn me, Lord, and I shall be
turned. I can't believe unless You enable
me to believe. You see, the truth of your inability
is what God uses to make us mercy beggars. Lord, I'm completely
dependent upon You for all faith. And later on in this chapter,
well, in chapter six, the Lord said, I chose you 12 and one
of you is the devil. And then you remember when the,
when the Lord fed the 5,000, they all left. And, and, um,
and the Lord said, will you not leave me also what Peter say,
Lord, where are we going to go? Where should we go? You alone
have the words of eternal life. We know and assure that thou
art the Christ. You've revealed yourself to us. Why won't men believe? Well,
the seeing eye and the hearing ear are both from the Lord. Men will not believe the same
reason that a blind man can't see, the same reason that a deaf
man can't hear, the same reason you go down here to the nearest
cemetery and start trying to have a conversation with somebody
that's six feet under. See what kind of response you
get. You're not going to get a response, are you? Why? Because they're dead. And that's
how we come into this world. We come into this world spiritually
dead. We can't hear, we can't believe,
we can't do anything. Who has believed our report,
the prophet said? To whom the arm of the Lord is
revealed. They're the only ones that are
going to believe. And if the Lord doesn't reveal Himself,
if He leaves us to ourselves, we will die unbelievers. Oh, Lord, give me faith. Make me to believe. Forgive me, Lord. That's the
ministry of the Holy Spirit. It is the ministry of the Holy
Spirit. That's what the Lord said. It's expedient for you
that I go away, for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
come. But when he comes, When he comes, he's going to convict
the world of sin because they've done all sorts of horrible things.
No. He's going to convict the world of sin because they believe
not on me. Of righteousness because I go
to my father and of judgment because the prince of this world
has been judged. That's the ministry of the Holy
Spirit. The miracle of the new birth is that He causes us to
believe. And then we spend the rest of
our lives struggling with that old man of unbelief, don't we? Well, how are they going to have
the arm of the Lord revealed to them? go off in the woods, or go into
your private study, and no, faith comes by hearing. You know that.
How can they call upon Him whom they've not believed, and how
can they believe on Him in whom they've not heard, and how can
they hear without a preacher, and how can they preach unless
they'd be sent? Now it's not just talking about
what I do. He's talking about what the Lord said, say not,
say not that there be yet four months to the harvest. For I
say unto thee, it's white unto harvest right now. Pray to the
Lord of the harvest that he'd send forth laborers unto the
harvest. Every child of God has a privilege and opportunity.
Now every one of us, we have all missed opportunities. We have failed. to take advantage
of times when we could have been a witness for Christ. Does that mean that somebody
we didn't witness to or we were ashamed or we were afraid of
what somebody might think of us is potentially going to be
lost now because we didn't know? No. Every one of God's sheep
is going to hear the gospel. But they're going to come by
hearing the gospel from somebody that knows the gospel. They're
gonna come by hearing the gospel. So the report comes from the
church. And your participation as a part
of the church, your presence here when the gospel's being
preached, the times when God does give you grace and boldness
to speak a word of truth to a loved one or a family member or a co-worker
or somebody, what a blessing. That's the only means by which
they're gonna hear. I hope the Lord will put on our
hearts more of a burden for lost people and more of a sensitivity
to the Spirit of God to be prepared, more boldness, more boldness. You know, the Lord said, I'll
make you my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and the
other most parts of the world. You're going to, I'm going to
go with you. I'm never going to leave you or forsake you.
I'm going to, all power has been given unto me in heaven and earth.
You, as you go, you be my witnesses, baptizing them and teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you. The means
by which the Lord communicates the gospel is his church. Why won't men believe? Because they're not hearing.
Lord, give me ears to hear. And then, you remember what David
said in Psalm 51, when David cried out for repentance, and,
Lord, restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and then, then
I will teach sinners Thy ways. We can't speak to others until
the Lord's been merciful to speak to us. Secondly, not only are
we unable to believe, but we are unwilling to believe. Look
at Isaiah 53 at verse 2. And he shall grow up before Him
as a tender plant, That's the Lord Jesus Christ
growing up before the Father. And as a root out of dry ground,
He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see Him, there
is no beauty that we should desire Him. Why won't men believe? Because they don't see the beauty
of the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why don't they
see the beauty of his righteousness? Because they're too enamored
with their own righteousness. They it's like the man who comes
into the wedding feast and he refuses the wedding garment Everybody
else got on the same white robe and he walks in or he's dressed
to the to the hilt and and and he said no Thank you. I'm I'll
just wear what I've got See men are so caught up in their own.
It's it's the it's self-righteousness that keeps men from coming to
Christ Let me show you that turn with me to John chapter 3. I
John chapter 3. Look at verse 19. And this is the condemnation. And when God says this is the
condemnation, God said this is what's going to condemn the world.
This is the result of those who will not believe, who cannot
believe. Light is coming to the world
and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds
were evil. Because their deeds were evil.
They wouldn't come to Christ. because they were too caught
up in their own deeds. Look at verse 20. For everyone that doeth evil,
hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved. Now that word reproved means
to be exposed. The men won't come to Christ
because what they're hoping in for their righteousness God says
is evil. You remember when the Lord said,
when he separates the sheep from the goats and the goats will,
the Lord will say to the goats, depart from me for I never knew
you all. Wait a minute, Lord, wait, we cast out demons in your
name. We've, we've done many wonderful
works in your name. And the Lord says, depart from
me, you workers of iniquity for I never knew you. You wouldn't
come to me because you were trusting in your own righteousness for
the hope of your salvation. You're unwilling to trust my
righteousness because you thought you had enough of your own. But
he that doeth truth, what is it to do truth? It's to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Cometh to the light and that
his deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in God. Lord, the only deed I have is
faith, and that was wrought in God. You gave it to me. I didn't come up with it. I didn't
make a decision. I don't have a work to present.
Turn with me to 2 Thessalonians 2. Lord willing, we're going to
begin 2 Thessalonians Sunday Verse 10, and with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received
not the love of the truth. They didn't believe the gospel.
They didn't love Christ. They weren't putting their hope
in him for their righteousness. No, they were deceived in thinking
that their unrighteousness was righteousness. They received
not the love of the truth that they might be saved, and for
this cause God sent them strong delusion that they should believe
the lie. What was the lie? The lie was
that their decision and that their works were their acceptance
before God, and God let them believe it. He let them to believe
it, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness." They pleasured themselves in
thinking that their good deeds were their righteousness before
God. Who hath believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed? Why won't men believe? They won't
believe because they can't believe. Without the revelation of the
Spirit of God, you can't believe. And unless the Lord reveals to
you your unrighteousness, you won't be looking to Christ for
righteousness. You'll be deceived, taking pleasure in your own righteousness. Lights come into the world. Men
love darkness rather than light. Because when the light shines,
it reveals their righteousness for what it is. What does God
say it is? Filthy rags. Filthy rags. Alright? This is the condemnation. Lights
come into the world. Men love darkness rather than
light. Also, the reason men won't believe,
Turn back with me to John chapter 12. John chapter 12. This is a constant problem for
all of us. The reason why we often don't
believe God as we ought. John chapter 12 verse 42, nevertheless
among the chief rulers also many believed on him. Now did they
believe to the saving of their souls or did they say that they
show an interest and give some confession that yes that's the
Christ. Now read on. But because of the Pharisees,
they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the
synagogue, for they loved the praise of men more than the praise
of God." That's why men won't believe. Men won't believe because
they know, if I confess him, if I confess him, it's going
to put me at odds with everybody. It's going to put me at odds
with my family. It's going to put me at odds with my neighbors.
It's going to put me at odds with everybody in this world.
This gospel is contrary to everything in this world, and men love the
praise of men more than the praise of God, and so they will not
confess Him. These who said they believed
didn't really believe. Why? Because they didn't want
to be put out of the synagogue. They wanted to get along with
men. And the Lord said, I did not come to bring peace. I came
to bring a sword to divide a son against his father, a daughter
against his mother. This is this matter. And, and, and the Lord went on
to say that, um, that our enemies will be of our own household.
That's, that's, that's the result of the gospel. They would not believe because
they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. Thirdly, go back with me to Isaiah
53. Verse three, he is despised and
rejected of men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, and we
hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed
him not. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon Him. And with His stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray.
We have turned everyone to his own way. The Lord hath laid on
Him the iniquity of us all." Men will not believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ because they despise Him. They despise Him. They hate him. Now, they'll love
a counterfeit Jesus. And Satan's good at that. That's
his profession. He's a counterfeiter. And men
will create a little Jesus that they can love. But the Christ of Scripture The
one who bore in his body all the sins of all of God's people
and suffered the full wrath of God's judgment in order to put
away those sins once and for all, they won't come to him.
He's despised. What did the Lord say in Psalm
2? Why do the heathen rage? Why do the people imagine a vain
thing? Why do they have such an empty
view of Christ? A God, a Jesus that loves everybody,
a Jesus who died for everybody, a Jesus who's doing his best
to save everybody, a Jesus who's more concerned about fixing up
your life than he is in saving your soul. That's where most
religion today is, isn't it? That's a counterfeit Jesus. That's
men imagining a vain thing. They put their little Jesus on
the cross and then they feel sorry for him, don't they? Kind
of like when the Lord was going to the cross and those women
were weeping and the Lord stopped while he was carrying that cross
and said to them, weep not for me. Don't feel sorry for me.
You got a Jesus you're feeling sorry for. That's not the right
Jesus. That's another Jesus. He said weep for yourself and
for your children. Feel sorry for yourself. Don't
feel sorry for me. I'm God. I don't need your pity. I'm here to do a job. I'm here
to save my people. And I'm going to succeed in what
the Father sent me to do. Feel sorry for yourself. John chapter 15, verse 17. These things I commanded you,
that you love one another. You know what strengthens the
bonds of love between believers? is the persecution that they
receive in the world. I mean, it really does. You stand up for Christ, you're
going to find yourself to be the odd man out. If you're just
living to earn the praise of men and to get along with everybody
and be everybody's buddy, it's going to be reflected. Your
relationship with believers is going to be just like your relationship
with unbelievers. But when you get cut off from this world and
you realize the only people I've got anything in common with are
God's people. Oh, the strengthening of that
grace and that bond that you will have with believers and
you'll do everything to protect it. And so the Lord starts out
by saying, love one another. If the world hate you, you know
that it hated me before it hated me. And if you were of the world,
the world would love his own. But because you are not of the
world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you." Remember the word that I said unto you the
servant is not greater than his Lord if they have persecuted
me They also will persecute you if they have kept my saying they
will keep yours also But all these things will they do unto
you for my name's sake? Because they know not him that
sent me They hate me. They hate me. They despise me
the God who I am The sovereign, successful savior of sinners. The one who is to be bowed to
and worshiped. They hate. Oh, they'll make a
little, they'll make a little Jesus, put him on a crucifix,
wear him around their neck. They'll put him in his pocket,
you know, just kind of pull him out when they need him as a little
rabbit's foot. Rub him a little bit and get some good luck out
of their little Jesus. But that's not the Jesus who
exists. That's a figment of men's imagination. The one who exists,
the Lord says they hate. They hate. And they don't know it. They
don't know they hate him. I had a family member yesterday
text me a video. He was so proud of this video
he texted me. And he thought I was going to
be impressed. It was a religious skit that
was done in a church. And it was about Jesus. And I
watched about three minutes of it. It was the most blasphemous
thing that I had ever seen in all my life. It was blasphemous. But he thought it was wonderful. He said, you've got to see this,
it's great. They don't know they hate Jesus.
What he sent me was absolutely hatred for my God. Why won't men come to Christ?
Number one, they're unable. Number two, they're unwilling.
And number three, they hate the God of Scripture. They hate him.
You don't come to somebody you hate. You've already substituted
him with somebody else. And they're going to hate you
too. What does our text say? Go back
with me. Look at this. He was wounded for our transgressions,
verse 5, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement
of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. Done. Past tense, finished. Completed
work. We are healed. Now, I want to
show you one verse in closing. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
chapter 12. We've looked at this before,
but this is so... I hope I can speak clearly on
this subject. 1 Corinthians chapter 12. This
goes along with hating the Lord Jesus Christ. And there was a
time when I hated Him. I hated Him. I did it and I thought
I loved him. I'd have been sending out those
videos just like the one I got yesterday. I was doing all the
religious stuff, establishing my own right, but I hated God.
Hated God. Why? Because I called the Lord
Jesus Christ accursed. I called him anathema. So you actually called Jesus
accursed? Yeah. Yeah, let me show you. 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse
3. Wherefore I give you to understand,
oh my God give us understanding of this, that no man speaking
by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed, anathema. And that no man can say that
Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now, the word anathema,
the word accursed, is a thing devoted to God without hope of
redemption. That's what accursed means. a
thing that's been devoted to God, without any hope of being
redeemed. So that when something is accursed,
a person or a thing, it is doomed to eternal destruction. To suggest, to suggest that Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, gave His life for anybody, that doesn't
go to heaven is to say that he made an offering to God without
redemption. That he spilt his blood in vain. Now if you're going to say that
God loves everybody and Christ died for everybody, then you
must conclude that in the end, everybody's going to heaven.
So, you know, let's just eat, drink and be married. You know,
universalism. But if you're going to say that
God loves everybody and Christ died for everybody, but not everybody
he died for are going to heaven, then you are calling Jesus Christ
accursed. You're saying that he made An
offer to God without redemption. And no man can call Jesus accursed
who is of the Holy Spirit. And no one can call Him Lord,
not with understanding. Lord. Lord over the living and
Lord over the dead. Absolutely sovereign. What do we say in religion? Oh,
let's make Jesus Lord of our lives. That's blasphemy. That's blasphemy. I don't care what your attitude
about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is right now. He is your
Lord. He is your Lord. He reigns sovereign
over your life and he will do with you whatsoever he wills. And the natural man says, I'm
not gonna have that. We'll not have this God reign
over us. And all you're doing is giving testimony of your hatred
for the son of God. All you're doing is testifying
to why it is that you will not believe God's report. Who hath believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? To them whom God
has made willing, to them whom God has made able, and to them
who love the truth." They love Christ. They love having a Redeemer
who actually redeems. who actually accomplishes the
redemption of His people all by Himself. They love it. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful
for Your Word and we pray that Your Holy Spirit would speak
truth to our hearts and cause us, Lord, to be convicted over our unbelief
We pray, Lord, that you would increase our faith and cause
us to look to Christ for all our salvation. For it's in his name we pray.
Amen. 127. Let's stand together. Man of sorrows, what a name For
the Son of God who came Ruined sinners to reclaim Hallelujah,
what a Savior Bearing shame and scoffing rude, In my place condemned
he stood, Sealed my pardon with his blood. Hallelujah! What a Savior! Guilty, vile, and helpless we,
spotless Lamb of God was He. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior! Lifted up was he to die, It is
finished was his cry, Now in heaven exalted high, Hallelujah,
what a Savior! When He comes, our glorious King,
All His ransom home to bring, Then anew this song we'll sing,
Hallelujah, what a Savior! Thank you.