Isaiah 43 verse 25 says, I, even
I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions, for my own sake,
and do not remember your sins. Let's stand together. Brother
Tom's going to come lead us in number 38 in the Sproul Hymn.
37, I'm sorry, 37. Number 37. The abuser will have just a slight
pause after the first and third lines of each verse. Approach, my soul, the throne
of grace in every time of need. There's mercy for the needy one
who Jesus' name shall plead. Though I'm a weak and sinful
wretch, I will approach the throne. I'll lean upon Christ's mighty
arm and plead His blood alone. The blood, the precious blood
of Christ has opened up the way by which I can draw near to God
and to my Father pray. Though Satan tempts my heart
to sin, I'll call upon my God. And if I fall, He'll lift me
up and cleanse me in the blood. The way is open, God will hear
my groans and cries of grief. Nothing can keep me from His
throne but my own unbelief. O Lord, my unbelief remove, and
turn my heart by grace. Compel me to approach your throne,
and there spread out my case. Please be seated. Good morning. A scripture reading
is going to be on Isaiah chapter 43, the book of Isaiah chapter
43. But now thus says the Lord that
created thee, O Jacob, and that formed thee, O Israel, Those
are the two names that God gives his believers. Jacob, our natural
selves, and Israel, our new nature in Christ. Fear not, for I have
redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name. Thou art mine. When thou passest through the
waters, I will be with thee. And through the rivers, they
shall not overflow thee. When thou walketh through fire,
thou shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. What a wonderful blessing that
is. Through our trials, tribulations, and there's no judgment for the
child of God. For I am the Lord thy God, the
Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for thy ransom,
and Ethiopia and Ziba for thee. Since Thou art precious in my
sight, Thou hast been honorable, and I have loved Thee. Therefore,
I will give men for Thee, and people for Thy life. In Christ
we are precious before Him. What a wonderful blessing that
is in Christ. Fear not. for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the
east and gather thee from the west. I will say to the north,
give up, and to the south, keep not back. Bring my sons from
far and my daughters from the ends of the earth." That was
what the Lord was Meaning when he say that he came to save the
world, not just Israel, but every nation, every tribe, they are
believers. When everyone that is called
by my name, for I have created him from glory, I have formed
him, ye, I have formed him. Bring forth the blind people
that have eyes and the deaf that have ears. Let all nations be
gathered together Let the people be assembled, whom among them
can declare this, and show us former things. Let them bring
forth their witnesses, and that they may be justified, and let
them hear and say, it is truth. Ye are my witnesses, says the
Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen. that ye may know and
believe me and understand that I am he. Before me there was
no God form, neither shall there be after me." This is the only
true God, the God of the scriptures, the God of the gospel. I, even
I, am the Lord, and besides me, there is no Savior. There's lots
of Gospels out there, lots of religions, lots of preaching,
but there's only one Savior. This is the only one. I have
declared and have saved, and I have shown thee, when there
was no strange God among you, therefore ye are my witnesses,
says the Lord, that I am God. We believers are the witnesses
that the God of the scriptures is the God that saves, is the
real one. Ye before the day was I am he and therefore none that
can deliver me out of my hand. I will work and who shall let
it? So, no one can deliver us from
His hand. That's the security of the believer.
It's Him, not in us. Father God, we come before You
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to give You thanks, to
give You praise for wonderful blessing of knowing the Gospel,
of hearing of Christ. wonderful blessing of being here,
Father, and listening to the gospel, Father, and having communion
with brothers and sisters. We pray not only for this church,
for all the churches that preach Christ, that We may be filled
with the Holy Spirit at this time. We need him, Father. We need you to pour your Holy
Spirit both on us and on the preacher, Father, that we may
hear Christ. We pray that you bring us to
Christ, that you draw us to him, Father, as we need. This is our
greatest need, Father, to be drawn to the Lord Jesus. In Jesus'
name we pray, amen. Let's all stand together once
again and we'll sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. Blessed day of solemn meetings,
blessed day of praise and prayer, far from earthly cares retreating,
in thy blessings we would share. Be Thou near us, precious Savior,
In the morn and eve the same. Give us faith which shall not
waver, Trusting only Thy great name. In thy name, O Lord, assembling,
we thy people now draw near. Teach us to rejoice with trembling,
hear thy word with godly fear. While our days on earth are lengthened,
may we live them, Lord, in Thee. Cheered by hope and daily strengthened,
till in heaven Thy glory see. Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to First Corinthians, Chapter 15. First Corinthians, Chapter
15. I've titled this message, Good
News for Sinners. Good news. That's what the word
gospel means. Good news. And the message of the gospel
is for sinners. Someone might be thinking, how
do I know if I qualify as a sinner? Well, let me ask you a question.
Do you see first and loathe most sin in your own life? War is sin, something you see
first and loathe most in the lives of others. The Lord gave a parable of a
Pharisee and a publican who went to the temple one day to pray.
And the Pharisee prayed thus to himself, God, I thank thee
that I'm not like other men. even like this publican over
here. He saw sin first and loathed most sin in someone else. The publican, on the other hand,
would not so much as even look up but smote himself upon the
breast and said, God have mercy upon me, the sinner. The sinner. Do you see yourself
as the sinner? The Lord asked this question
at the conclusion of that parable. Which one of these men went down
to their house justified? Justified with God. The publican
was justified with himself and justified with his friends, justified
with his peers, but our need is to be justified with God. The gospel is good news for sinners. Those who see themselves as sinful. Those who understand or have
some understanding. We don't loathe sin as we ought. The sinner would be quick to
say that the thing that bothers me, the thing that I hate most
about the world, is how much I love it. So I'm not suggesting that we're
capable of loathing our sin as we ought. What I am saying is,
what the scriptures say, is that sin's my problem, not theirs. Not yours. It's my problem. I'm the one that needs a sinner.
I'm the one that needs a savior. I'm the one who is at fault. I own full responsibility for
my own sin before God. The message of the gospel is
of great comfort to one that the Lord has brought to that
place. Paul begins in 1 Corinthians
chapter 15. You show me a person who is constantly
critical of others and I'll show you a person who has not judged
themselves very well. And the Lord makes it clear in
the scriptures that those who stand in judgment of others are
guilty of the very same things that they point out in the lives
of others. Lord have mercy upon me, the
sinner. Moreover, brethren, I Declare unto you the gospel This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all Acceptation Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners and Paul concluded that glorious declaration by
confessing of whom I am chief Chief I'm the chief of all sinners If the Apostle Paul could make
that confession, how much more true is that of me? Moreover, brethren, this message
is for brethren. The one who doesn't see himself
as a sinner is not going to be comforted by the message of the
gospel. This is the message of the gospel is comfort to those. This word brethren means to be
birthed from the same womb and that's the literal interpretation
of it. And we're birthed through the
womb of the gospel into the family of God. And only those who have
experienced the new birth can be comforted by the gospel. The Lord has to regenerate us
miraculously, breathe life into us. Before we can see, before
we can hear, before we can believe, before we can enjoy the comfort,
before we can rest in Christ, we've got to be born again. It's
what the Lord said to Nicodemus. Nicodemus, unless you're born
again, you can't see the kingdom of God. You can't perceive of
it. You can't understand it. You
can't receive it. Nicodemus, confused, said, how
can I go back into my mother's womb? I'm a grown man. He said,
no, Nicodemus, you don't need to be born of your mother's womb
again. That which is of the flesh is flesh. You're already there.
That which is of the spirit, now, is the spirit that giveth
life. You've got to be born of the Spirit of God, and the Spirit
of God's like the wind. He listeth withersoever he wills.
He blows in whatever direction he wants to blow. Oh, Lord. You see, when God's people hear
this, they just become mercy beggars. Lord, blow your Spirit
in my direction. Change my heart. Give me grace. Enable me, Lord, to find hope
in the gospel of your free and sovereign grace. Brethren, it's for brethren. If you hear the gospel, you're
already a child of God. You're already a child of God
if you hear the gospel. A natural man cannot receive
the things of the Spirit. They are spiritually discerned.
You can't know them. Moreover, brethren. So how do
I know if I'm a brethren? Because I've heard the gospel.
And I've been shut up to Christ. God's made me to be a sinner.
You understand sin. The world interprets sin as just
a behavioral problem. Sin is just something that bad
things that people do. Oh, it goes so much further than
that. All have sinned and fallen short
of the glory of God. What in your life falls short
of the glory of God? What thought have you ever had
that elevates itself to the glory of God? What deed have you ever
performed that would qualify for the glory of God? That's
why the scripture says every God looked down from heaven and
he looked into the hearts of men and he saw that every imagination
of the heart was only evil and that continually. You see, the
truth is, everything about me and you falls short of the glory
of God. And God's eyes are too pure to
look upon sin. He's got to have perfection.
He's got to have righteousness. He's got to have holiness. Oh,
Lord, I'm a sinner. What am I going to do? You need
a surety. You need a Savior. You need a
sin-bearer. You need one to stand in your
stead before God and represent you to a holy God with His righteousness. And that's what God did. He made
Him who knew no sin to be sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. Lord, I've got no righteousness.
See, this message is for the brethren. It's not for anybody
else. We're not trying to dress goats
up and make them look like sheep. God's preachers are just sheep
dogs. They're just trying to round
up God's lost sheep. And they preach the gospel knowing, knowing
that the Spirit of God is going to give ears to hear to those
whom God has chosen. Those for whom Christ has died,
they're going to hear and they're going to believe. If I didn't
believe that, I'd give up. If I thought it was up to me
to persuade men to believe the gospel, I'd sit down right now. Somebody else is going to have
to do that. I can't do it. But oh, what a precious promise
we have that the Spirit of God gives life. It is the Spirit
that quickeneth. Moreover, brethren, I declare,
we don't debate the Gospel. We don't try to defend it intellectually. We don't even gather around and
pool our ignorance in some sort of religious discussion of the
Gospel. We declare the Gospel. And that's
why it's so offensive. The gospel's offensive because
it just leaves men with, thus saith the Lord. This is what
God says. We take you back to a passage
that we looked at in the first hour. Chapter 14 at verse 32. As I was thinking through this, Relating this verse to everything
else that is abusive in religion relating to the speaking of tongues
And what I said about verse 32 is true These people who pretend
to be overtaken with the Spirit of God and speak ecstatically
are overtaken with the Spirit, but it's not the Spirit of God
and But the primary meaning of this verse, and Tom pointed this
out to me during the break, and it's true. When he said it, I
knew it was true. Look at verse 31. I'm sorry, verse 32. And the
spirits of the prophets, that's the spirit of this preacher,
are subject to the prophets. In other words, if I speak not
according to the law and to the testimony, it's because there's
no light in me. All scripture is given by inspiration
of God and is profitable for doctrine, and for reproof, and
for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man
of God may be thoroughly furnished unto all good works. It's none
of it's by private interpretation. Holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Spirit of God. So what do we do? We declare
what God has said. Now the message, this word declare
is the word to instruct with proper knowledge. And then notice
the word that he says, which I preached unto you. Now the word preached here is
the town crier. It's the one who the king sends
out into the town square and he opens his scroll and he reads
the words of the king for the people. And he rolls it up and
he goes back. There's no discussion, there's
no debate, there's no, I wonder if we should, no, the king has
declared a feast. And he's called everyone to that
feast. And all the preacher's doing
is heralding what the king has said. And that's all preaching
is. It's not, well, you know, you
need to think about this, or it seems to me, or it could be
this way or it could be that way. It's, thus saith the Lord. And the one who's not a sinner,
the one who wants to be on the throne of God Himself, will buck
to that message. And the sheep will bow. I just
want to know what God says. Just read it right from the scroll,
town crier. Just tell me exactly what the
King told you to tell us. That's all I need to know. Make
it clear, make it simple, make it plain. So Paul says, brethren,
I declare unto you, what are we to do with the gospel? We're
to declare it and we're to preach it. We're not here to entertain. We're not here to educate. We're
not here to preach over men's heads. We're not here to preach
down to people. We're not here to preach at people.
We're preaching to sinners the gospel. Which you have received. The scripture says that the Lord
Jesus Christ came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But to as many as received Him,
Damn, God gave the power to become the children of God. If you receive
Christ, that's because God gave you the power to receive Christ.
Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, flesh and blood did not reveal
the Son to you, my Father which is in heaven. The gospel is to
be received, it's to be believed. And I implore you to believe the
gospel. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what we call... Now is
the day of salvation, right now. Never will a gospel preacher
say, well, you know, you need to go home and think about this
and stew on it for a little while. No, we call men to come to Christ
right now, just like they are. There's no improvement that you
can make to make yourself more qualified for the gospel. The
gospel's for sinners. It's for people who have no righteousness. And so we declare unto men the
message of the gospel and preach, thus saith the Lord, that men
might receive the gospel. And if you've received it, notice
the next thing in verse 1, which also you have received and wherein
you stand. You're not standing on shifting
sand. You're not standing on the opinions of men. You're standing
on the rock of ages. And your feet can't be moved. If you've received Christ, you
cannot be removed from Him. No man can pluck you out of My
hand. You can't pluck yourself out of His hand. If He's given
you faith to believe, you're a believer. And you're always
going to be a believer. From now to eternity, you're
going to be a believer. Why? Because here you stand.
Unless, look at verse 2, by which you are also saved,
if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you believed
in vain. If it was just a verbal confession, if it was
just a Something you did to please someone else, if it was a spurious
faith, if it was just a... If you believed in vain, there
was no substance to it. There was no salvation. But if
the Lord's taught you the gospel, you're saved. Saved from the
wrath to come. Saved from the penalty of sin.
Save to love God. Save to believe. Save to rest. Saved. Now most folks don't need
saving. They really don't. I'm getting
along just fine by myself. That's kind of radical. This
thing of salvation, that's sort of radical, isn't it? Not for a sinner it's not. Sinners have some understanding
as to what the penalty of sin is. Most folks don't believe that
there's a hell. And those who do believe that there is a hell
don't believe they're going there. Most folks, you know, God is
some sort of doting grandfather up in heaven who just sort of
passes over everybody and just pats you on the head and, you
know, everything's okay. You're okay, I'm okay, we're
all okay. Well, that's not the case. In the day in which you sin,
you shall surely die. Believers grieve when someone
dies because they know what the consequences of death are. They do. They understand this
is not, you know, everybody else is going to a better place. Well,
has he? This gospel in which you stand,
in which you received, which I preached and declared unto
you, It saved your soul. Now, religion today is all about
fixing up your life here in this world. It is. You just listen to it. It's moralisms. They'll mix in a little entertainment,
a little theology, a little doctrine to kind of dress up the outside. And the Lord said to those Pharisees,
you're like whitewashed tombs. You've taken the sepulcher and
you've whitewashed it and made it look pretty, but inside it's
full of dead men's bones. He said, you're like a cup. You've
cleaned up the outside of the cup, but the inside of it's full
of corruption. You want to drink out of a cup like that? You see,
this message of the gospel is a message that goes to the heart,
isn't it? And that's where the problem is. Saved. Oh, most of the messages you hear
in religion, it was saved to serve. God needs you to serve
him here on this earth. And so he's going to save you
so you can become an instrument of his service. God's people
delight in being able to serve the Lord. But their salvation,
first and foremost, is for the eternal redemption of their soul. That's my concern. Truth is, this life is a vapor. You can clean up your life all
you want. Live the best life a person can
live. And the Lord said, what does
a prophet of man? If he gains the whole world and loses his
own soul, what will a man give in exchange for his soul? You see, sinners are concerned
for their souls. They really are. They see that death is coming. They see that there is a God
with whom they must do. They see that they've got a problem
with sin. They see they need a Savior. And oh, they become mercy beggars,
don't they? Paul said, I declared unto you
this gospel. I preached it. I said, thus saith
the Lord. You received it. This is where
you stand. And it has saved your soul. Unless, of course, you believed
in vain. Then all is lost. Oh Lord, don't let me deceive
myself. The heart is wicked and deceitful
above all things. Who can know it? That's talking
about your heart and my heart. You and I are capable of deceiving
ourselves. Lord, don't let me deceive myself.
I need you to speak peace to my heart. I need you to assure
me that I'm standing in Christ. You see, salvation and assurance
of salvation is from the Lord. It's from the Lord. You can't
whip it up. People try to get assurance of
their salvation by convincing themselves and others how faithful
they are and how much they're doing for God. It's just whistling
through the graveyard. It's all it is. Men fooling themselves. Spirit of God is the one that's
got to speak to the heart. Verse 3, For I delivered unto
you, first of all, that which I also received. Where did this gospel come from?
Came from God. No man spake by private interpretation
and men, Paul said, I didn't make this up. God taught me. Remember he went into Arabia
for three years and the Lord taught him the gospel. And he
said, I didn't learn it from men. I didn't make it up myself. I got it directly from God. How
do you know this came from God? You won't know until the Lord
sends it to you. And then you'll know. I can't convince you that it's
from God. Paul says he's not defending himself. He's not trying
to prove it. He just said, I received it from
God. For I delivered unto you first
of all that which I also received, Where did he receive it from?
What was the means by which God taught him the gospel? The scriptures. The spirit of the prophet is
subject to the prophets. He got it from the scriptures.
How that Christ died according to the scriptures. Now don't
miss that word how. There's a whole lot of folks
who think they're saved. Because they believe in what
happened. But they don't know why it happened. The children of Israel saw the
acts of God. All the Israelites, they saw
miraculously the water flowing out from the rock. They saw the
manna on the ground every morning. They saw the mountain quake.
They saw the quail come. They walked through walls of
water in the Red Sea. They saw the acts of God and
they knew it was God that did it. And the scripture says, and
Moses knew his ways. Don't comfort yourself in thinking
because I believe in the acts of God that therefore I'm a Christian. Has the Lord revealed to you
His ways? How? How that Christ died according
to the Scriptures? Not what happened, but why it
happened. Not that Jesus was born of a
woman, born under the law, but why was He born of a woman? Because
it was a fulfillment of scripture. It was that prophecy that God
made in the garden at the very beginning when Adam sinned against
God and said the seed of the woman will crush the head of
the serpent. Now that's how that Christ died
according to the scriptures. Christ was the seed of the woman.
And he crushed the head of the serpent. He delivered all those
who were held in bondage by Satan and brought them right out the
gates of hell. He actually, He didn't just,
He wasn't just born of a woman and died on a cross. He accomplished
the salvation of those for whom He lived and died. He actually satisfied before
God all the demands of God's holy law. He actually put away. You see, the death of Christ
is not an offer of salvation to be made effectual by something
that we do. It was an accomplished salvation.
How that Christ died according to the scriptures. What about
that ark? People say, well, I believe in
Noah and the ark and the flood and all that. Does that mean
I'm a Christian? That ark, how that Christ died, according to
the scriptures, that ark was all about Christ. Christ is the
ark. And the pits that was put on
the outside and the inside of the ark, that's the atonement.
And what happened to that ark? The same thing happened to the
ark that happened to the world. A deluge of God's wrath fell
upon it. But there was one difference. It was pitched. It was covered. It was atoned for. And it survived
the full wrath of God. Not only did the ark survive,
but no one in his family who were in the ark survived. How did Christ die according
to the scriptures? The full fury of God's wrath
fell upon the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross, but he was
covered His atonement was effectual,
and all those for whom He went to the cross were in Him and
died in Him. So that Paul said, I am crucified
with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me. The life that I now live in the
flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and
died for me. How that Christ died according
to the Scriptures. Just believing in a past historical
event is not salvation. It's believing what God accomplished
through the sacrifice of Christ. This is the Gospel. And if this
message is not being preached, the Gospel is not being preached.
And men won't be saved without the Gospel being preached. What about that Passover lamb?
What about when Moses was bringing the children of Israel out of
Egypt, and God said, take a lamb of the first year, a male lamb,
a lamb that's without spot, without blemish, and bring that lamb
into your home, and you inspect that lamb for three days to make
sure that it's perfect. And at the end of three days,
you kill that lamb, shed its blood, consume its meat, and
whatever you don't eat, burn with fire so that nothing's left.
And what happened that night? The death angel came through,
didn't he? He killed the firstborn of everyone who didn't have a
lamb. And then the scripture says,
and not a hoof of the Israelites, not one of their animals, not
one hoof from one of their animals was left behind. All Israel came out of Egypt
as a result of that Passover lamb. How that Christ died according
to the scriptures. What about the scapegoat? God
told Moses, you take a goat, you place your hands on the head
of that goat, and you transfer the sins of the people of Israel
to that goat, and you send that goat out into the wilderness,
outside the camp. How that Christ died according
to the scriptures, God Almighty placed His hands on the Lord
Jesus Christ, transferred the sins of His people. And he went
outside the camp and died on a Roman cross to satisfy God's
justice and to put away the sins of God's people once and for
all. How that Christ died according
to the scriptures. This is the scriptures. What about Genesis chapter 15,
when God cut a covenant with Abraham? Remember that story? And God told Abraham, I'm gonna
make you a father of nations and your seed, speaking of Christ
being the seed of Abraham, is gonna be the savior of my people. And God had Abraham take all
these animals and cut them in half. and lay those animals out
on the ground. And when the birds of prey came
and started pecking on the animals, the carcasses, Abraham chased
them away. What a picture. That's what we
do. That's what we do. False prophet starts pecking
on the sacrifice. Oh, we chase them away, don't
we? Why? Because a smoking furnace and
a burning lamp went between those cut sacrifices. And God said,
this is the covenant that I have made with you. This is the promise
that I have made. That smoking furnace was a picture
of the wrath of God. Those sacrifices were a picture
of Christ. The light The torch, the burning
torch, that's the light of the gospel given by the Spirit of
God in the heart. You see, how that Christ died
according to the scriptures. We're not looking back to some
historical event as an event, thinking, well, if I just believe
that happened, therefore I'm saved. It's believing what God has revealed
in His Word about the death, burial, and resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ. This is what's preached. This
is what sinners receive. This is where sinners stand. You see, we never get beyond
it, do we? We never get beyond the Gospel. As you received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in Him." How did you receive Him? You
received Him as a sinner. You received Him as a publican.
You received Him as a mercy beggar. You received Him as one who has
no righteousness, completely dependent upon Him for all your
salvation. Just stay right there. Just stay right there. You'll
be alright. As you received Him, so stand." How that Christ died according
to the Scriptures. How that He was buried. You see that? We'll finish here.
Look at verse 3. How that Christ died for our
sins. He didn't die for everybody's
sins. Wherever there's an hour, there
has to be a there. Christ died for the sins of his
people, and he put them away. He said, I remember your sins
no more. Separated them from you as far as the east is from.
When I see the blood, when I see the blood, I'll pass by you. And then he was buried. This wasn't some sort of fake
phantom death. This was a real death. God Almighty,
in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, died and was buried. It had to be. It had to be. Why? Because God said, in the
day in which you sin, you shall surely die. It's the death penalty. God cannot compromise the standard
of His holiness. But he didn't stay there. When
you have time, go to Acts chapter 2 and read the sermon that Peter
preached, the very first gospel message that was preached on
the day of Pentecost, after the coming of the Spirit of God.
Peter spends a lot of time talking about the resurrection. This
Jesus whom you took with your wicked hands and crucified, God
has raised him from the dead. And those promises in the scripture
Peter goes on to say about David, they weren't about David. David's
still in the ground. His sepulcher is here among us.
Those were about the son of David. Those were about the seed of
David. Those were about Christ the Lord,
the Savior. And God could not allow His Holy
One to see corruption. God raised Him from the dead. How are you and I going to believe
in a resurrection that took place 2,000 years ago? If that Christ who raised from the
dead reveals himself in you, then you'll know he's alive. And his resurrection is the only
proof you need that you have acceptance before God. God raised
Christ from the dead because he was satisfied with the work
that he accomplished. This is the gospel that we preach,
how that Christ died according to the scriptures and how that
he was buried and raised again according to the scriptures. We have the word of God, the
scriptures. These are not this message. Well, it's just
thus saith the Lord, isn't it? Where else are you going to go
and get a word from God? Nobody else can tell you with
any certainty about God except God. He's the only one who can
tell you. And He has only spoken by His
Word. This is the means by which we
of His own will begat He us with the word of truth. With the word
of truth. Aren't you glad we've got a word
from God? What a comfort for sinners. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we're thankful for the revelation that you have given us of thy
dear son and his accomplished work. And how we pray that your
Holy Spirit would direct our hearts, our minds, our thoughts
as we search the scriptures. See whether these things be true.
And to discover Christ. For it's in His name we ask it.
Amen. Brother Tom. 199. Let's stand
together. Oh. 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 or again, Christ receive
a sinful man. Make the message clear and plain,
Christ receive a sinful man. Come, and He will give you rest. Trust Him, for His word is plain. He will take the sinful last. Christ received the sinful man. Sing it o'er. and or again. Christ receiveth sinful men. Make the message clear and plain. Christ receiveth 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 or but can
Christ receive a sinful man? Make the message clear and plain,
Christ receive a sinful man. Christ receiveth sinful man,
even me with all my sin. Purged from every spot and stain,
heaven with Him I enter in. Sing adore! And or again, Christ receiveth
sinful men. Make the message clear and plain,
Christ receiveth sinful men. you