Good morning again. We're going to close the service
this morning with the observance of a baptism. And so have that
to look forward to. Gigi Recente is going to be baptized. And Gigi, I've got up here early
this morning, I've been boiling water, pouring it into the baptistry. And then I remembered the first
baptism that we had. Lake Sebelia. 20 years ago. And it had gotten down to 25
degrees that night. And we had baptism in the lake.
So just remember that, Gigi. It's not that cold. The Lord called Peter to preach
the Gospel. to a Gentile by the name of Cornelius. It's the first time that the
Gospel goes out to the Gentile world. And here's what Cornelius said
to Peter in Acts chapter 11 verse 33, Are we all here present before
God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God? That's what we're here for this
morning. We're here to hear and know how
we hope that the Lord will be pleased to speak. Let's stand
together. Tom's going to come lead us in
the hymn on the back of your bulletin. This is a grand and wondrous
truth that Christ, the Lord of all, befriends and loves poor
sinners who are lost through Adam's fall, are lost through
Adam's fall. Like sheep we all have gone astray,
But Christ the shepherd sought. He finds each lost and wandering
one, His precious blood has bought. His precious blood has bought. The woman searched within her
house The silver coin to find And so the Spirit of our God
Seek sinners lost and blind Seek sinners lost and blind Like foolish
sons we left the Lord in sinfulness to roam, but God through Jesus
will receive the prodigals back home, the prodigals back home. The sheep, the coin, and erring
son were sought and each was found. So Jesus seeks and saves
the lost. This is a joyful sound. This is a joyful sound. Please be seated. Good morning. Our scripture reading
is found this morning in Ephesians chapter two. We're going to read
the first seven verses of Ephesians chapter two. Very familiar passage,
but there's a reason why it's very familiar to us. It's very
dear to us as well. Ephesians chapter two. And you have he quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sins, where in time 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 children
of disobedience. among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the loss of flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others. This is us. That's why
we were born in Adam. Every one of us was born in Adam.
We were children of wrath. And this is the reason for the
rejoicing. And this is who makes the difference.
What God, who is rich in mercy for his
great love, where he loved us. That's what made the difference,
because God loved us. He's rich in mercy. Even when
we were dead in sins, have He quickened us together with Christ. By grace you are saved. Notice
that He did not just quicken us. He quickened us with Christ. That is God's method of salvation,
is Christ. Christ is salvation. And He has
raised us up together. and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. Take notice, this is the past
tense. He has done this in Christ. We are sitting together with
Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come, This
means the rest of eternity, the rest of our lives, most of our
lives, really. This is just but a moment. It's
just a quick moment, our life here is. So that in the ages
to come, He might show us the exceeding riches of His grace. It's going to take all eternity
for Him to show us His grace and His mercy towards us and
His kindness towards us. And how does He do this? Through
Christ Jesus, our Lord. Father God, we come before you
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by his merits alone and
by his sacrifice alone. We come in thanksgiving, Father,
because you have given us everything. You have given us Christ. We
thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ. In him is salvation,
Father. And we thank you for this. We
thank you for a place that you have provided here to meet with
the Burnton, to worship you, and to learn of you, learn of
the gospel. Father, God, we pray that you
may give us the Holy Spirit, a special portion this morning,
that we may be all drawn to Christ, Father. And the Holy Spirit may
be active both in us listening and in the brother that's going
to bring the message. Father, we pray and we recognize
that we are in great need of your Holy Spirit to teach us
about Christ. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Let's all stand together again.
Hymn number 158. 158 from the hardback hymn, 158.
Come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove, with all thy quickening
powers, kindle a flame of sacred love in these cold hearts of
ours. Look how we grovel fond of these earthly toys our
souls how heavily they go to reaching In vain we tune our formal songs
In vain we strive to rise Hosanna's languish on our tongues And our
devotion dies dear Lord and child. live at this poor dying rate. Our love so faint, so cold to
Thee, and Thine to us so great. Come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove,
with all thy quickening powers, come shed abroad the Savior's
love, and that shall kindle ours. Please be seated. In case I forget to say something
at the end of the service, Friday night, 6 o'clock, we'll have
pizza here, in case you have to come straight from work, and
then we'll begin the service at 7. Okay? This Friday night. Open your Bibles with me to Isaiah
chapter 40, please. Isaiah chapter 40. And we'll begin reading in verse
29. He giveth power to the faint. He giveth power to the faint. The only way you're going to
know anything about the power of God is for you to be faint. to be powerless, in that while
we were yet without strength, Christ died for the ungodly. God, when it comes to me being
able to satisfy the demands of Thy holy law, I'm faint. I've
got no power. I've got no strength. When it
comes to me being able to Provide for you a righteousness that
would be acceptable in thy sight. Lord, I'm faint. All I see is
my sin. And it comes to me being able
to handle the challenges of life in this world. Lord said, if
you can't keep up with a footman, what are you gonna do when the
horses come? And you know, we've got, we're faint, we're faint. And to them that have no might,
he increaseth strength. Even the youth shall faint and
be weary, and the young man shall utterly fall. Only by God's grace
will that be true. Only if the Spirit of God does
work of grace on a young person's heart, will they become faint. Otherwise, they'll think I've
got the world by the tail, I can do this, I've got it. When God gets a hold of a person,
they become faint. And Paul put it like this, his
strength is made perfect in my weakness. When I am weak, then
I am strong. So my question to begin with
for you this morning is, are you faint? Are you weak? Are
you without strength? Are you needy and poor and wretched
and blind and weak and miserable? Spiritually speaking, it's that. But. But. And when man says, but,
he's usually objecting to God. And it's always the goats that
are butting, isn't it? Man likes to say, yeah, but. Well, all that's good but. And
they offer their objections and stand in opposition to an omnipotent,
sovereign God. Oh, what foolishness that is. But when God says but, it's just
the opposite. When God says but, it's a good
thing. God's saying this is the way you are by nature, but they
that wait upon the Lord shall, you see that word renew in verse
31? It's the word change. It's the
word change. That's the word. It doesn't mean
you're going to revitalize your strength. It means you're going
to exchange your strength for another's. And if you know anything
about waiting on the Lord, that's what happens. That's what happens. But they that wait upon the Lord
shall change their strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
Oh, that's God's promise. God's promise. I've titled this
message Reasons for Waiting. Reasons for Waiting. And I'm
so very thankful that we have a Heavenly Father who doesn't
say to us, you do it because I said do it. It's my way or the highway. That's
a poor way to parent, isn't it? You try parenting your children
like that and they'll rebel against you. But if you sit down with
them and you lovingly explain to them why this is good for
them, then your hope of bending their will and moving their heart
is greatly increased, isn't it? Now that's what this book is
all about. God has the sovereign right to say to you and me, it's
my way or the highway. You do it because I said do it.
And we would have no right to do anything but bow and submit
to that kind of authority. But he doesn't. He doesn't. He sits his children down. That's
what he's doing right now. And he explains to them why this
is good for them. And he bends their hearts. Forms
their will to submit willingly to his will What a perfect and
he always accomplishes the submission of his children They don't resent
submitting to him They do it willingly. He makes them willing
in the day of His power. And our hope this morning is
that the power of the Holy Spirit would bend our hearts and make
us willing subjects, willing children, submitting to a loving
Heavenly Father who says to us, I know the good that I have for
you, the thoughts that I have for you, They're good. They're
not evil. They're not evil. They're for
your good. I'm going to bring you to your expected end. And this whole book is God revealing
himself to us so that we'll fall in love with him and follow after
him. And so I've titled this message,
Reasons to Wait. The Lord never says, believe
and leave it at that. He tells us what to believe and
who to believe. And so it is in this passage.
He says, but they that wait upon the Lord, they that trust in
Christ, they that believe God, they're going to exchange their
strength. They're not going to be relying upon their own strength
and their own will and their own works. They're going to mound
up with wings as eagles. They're going to find themselves
soaring in the heavens. As you just read, you go, all
the blessings of God are in the heavenlies in Christ. They're going to find themselves
setting their affections on things above. They're going to find
themselves waiting and watching for the imminent return of their
Savior. They're going to be longing to
see him as he is and be made like him. Someone says, well,
wait, waiting is doing nothing. Waiting's doing nothing. Well,
in one sense it is. And the hardest thing that you
and I will ever do is nothing. Matter of fact, it's impossible.
You can't do nothing when it comes to your salvation unless
God makes you a nothing. If he makes you to be a nothing,
then you'll find there's nothing you can do. And so the Lord's
saying, they that wait upon him, they that sit and listen, they
shall renew their strength. What's impossible with man is
possible with God. It's not possible for you and
I to wait upon the Lord. It's not possible for you and
I to believe on him. He has to do a work of grace
in our hearts. And what he's causing every one of
his people to do right now is say, oh Lord, do that work of
grace in my heart. Cause me to come. Turn me, Lord,
and I shall be turned. Give me faith. Open the eyes
of my understanding. Take out my heart of stone and
put in a heart of flesh. Lord, enable me to wait on Thee. Now, waiting is to look with
a hopeful expectation. This is not waiting without hope.
This is Galatians chapter 5 verse 5 says, We through the Spirit
wait for the hope of righteousness through faith. We through the
Spirit. The Spirit of God has to do a
work of grace in our hearts to cause us to wait. Again, you
see I make these declarations, some people will say, well there's
nothing I can do then, I'll just sit back. No. No, when you hear that you've
got to have the Spirit of God, you'll be brought to say, oh
Lord, give me your Spirit. And here's what God says. If
you, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children,
how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
them that ask Him? You have not because you ask
not. Lord, give me your Spirit. We, through the Spirit, wait
for the hope of righteousness. Oh, that place where there's
nothing but righteousness, nothing but glory. Right now, we're waiting
in hope. And we're waiting, struggling
with sin, aren't we? But the hope is that there's
a righteousness that's going to be made perfect and all to
be made like him Romans chapter 8 verse 24 says for we are saved
by hope but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth
why does he yet hope for it but a hope that we see not that Do
we patiently wait for? This is not something you can
see with a natural eye. What did the prophet Elijah say
to a servant? Lord, open his eyes that he might
see. The Lord has to open our eyes,
doesn't he? To give us this hope. So waiting is what hope does. Waiting is what hope does. Hope
that is seen is not hope. But if we have faith given to
us by the Spirit of God, then we patiently wait for the hope
of our salvation, the full revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. A life
of waiting is contrary to everything that this world values. This
world is all about Getting what you can and canning what you
get and sitting on the can. You know, your life is measured
by the accumulation of things. Turn with me to Psalm 37. Psalm 37. The life of faith. is contrary to everything that
this world holds dear. Everything that this world values
is just the opposite to the life of faith. Now, we live in the
world and we're torn by this world, but the Lord says, if
I've caused you to wait, if I've given you hope, then you're not
of this world. You're not of this world. You're
going to see the difference. Look at verse 7 of Psalm 37. Rest in the Lord and wait patiently
for him. Fret not thyself because of him
who possesseth, I'm sorry, who prospereth in his way because
of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. In another place, David speaks
of seeing the man who's prospering in this world, and he says, my
foot had almost slipped until I went into the house of the
Lord, and then I knew the end of his ways. And that's what
the Lord's doing right now, I hope, for us. Here in the house of
the Lord, he's reminding us of those things that are most precious,
those things that are most important, and they're contrary to the things
of this world. Cease from anger and forsake
wrath, fret not thyself in any wise to do evil, for evildoers
shall be cut off, but those that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength. I'm sorry, shall inherit the
earth. I was quoting from the Isaiah
passage. They that wait upon the Lord
shall inherit the earth. The whole world is running frantically,
trying to possess as much of this world as they can get. And
the Lord says, those that wait upon the Lord, they're the ones
that are going to inherit the whole world, the whole earth.
Everything belongs to them. You see, this life of faith is
really the ultimate delayed gratification, isn't it? And we're not too good
at that. We're not too good at that. We want it and we want
it now, don't we? And what God is saying to me
and you is, wait, wait. I got something so much better
for you. Wait on me. Lean not on your own understanding.
In all of your ways, acknowledge Him. He'll direct your path. Make your plans. Make your plans. Have some goals. But know that
God's gonna order your steps. Tricia talked to Winna this week.
And Winna was telling Tricia about the day that the Lord took
Cody home. And Wynna and Cody had had breakfast
together that morning and sat down and discussed the activities
of the day. They were going to Cancun to
preach that night. And Wynna went to the gym to
work out while Cody got things in order. And when she came home,
the Lord had already taken him. And she found on Cody's desk
a to-do list that he had written after she left to go to the gym.
Things for them to accomplish that day. He made his plans. The Lord ordered
his steps, didn't he? Yeah, that's just the way it
is. That's just the way it is. So wait. All these plans that
we make are nothing. This is especially true when
it comes to salvation. Lamentations chapter 3 verse
25 says, the Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the
soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. To wait on God is to not put
your hand to the work that Christ has accomplished. It's to believe
that all righteousness has been fulfilled in the perfect life
of the Lord Jesus Christ and the only righteousness that you
have before God is to be found in Him. It's to believe that the only
way that your sins can be atoned for And the older I get and the
more I see of myself and people, the more convinced I am that
we spend most of our time trying to atone for our own sins. In
our thoughts, in our actions, in our words, we just... And
all we're doing is aggravating our sin. Self-atonement's the
worst thing that a person can do. Self-righteousness. You want to make that sin that
you feel so ashamed of and so bad about? I had a young man corresponded
with him today, this week, I'm sorry, and he was talking about
what a burden of sin was. I told him, I said, your sin's
a whole lot worse than you think it is. It's a whole lot worse
than you think it is. You can't feel the full burden
of your sin, but you want to aggravate that sin? You want
to make it worse? Try to atone for it. Try to make
up for it. Try to offer God something that's
going to satisfy His holy justice. And all you're going to do is
commit another sin that's worse than the one you feel bad about. And then what's going to aggravate
it even more is when you feel good about having what you did.
You see? You see how evil we are? Lord, I've got no strength. All
I can do is hang all the hopes on that nail that's been fastened
in a sure place. Christ is the only one that's
able to atone for our sins. God said, when I see his blood,
not when I see your blood, not when I see your sacrifice or
your dedication or your commitment, when I see his blood, then I
will pass by you. God's only impressed with one
person. He's not impressed with you, He's not impressed with
me, He's impressed with His Son. Notice in our text, you have
your Bibles, turn them back with me to Isaiah chapter 40. Look at verse 10 in Isaiah chapter
40. Behold, the Lord God will come
Now you see that next phrase where it says, with strong hand,
and see how the word hand is in italics? The literal translation
here is the Lord God will come against the strong. Against the
strong. Now that's what the Lord Jesus
Christ came to do. He came to make the strong weak. How strong is your sin? The same
person I was talking to said, he said, I have a hard time with
this old man. He said, it seems like it's difficult,
I think was the word he used. I said, it's not difficult. I
said, it's impossible. It's impossible. You can't fight
your flesh. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal. They're mighty through God to
the pulling down of strongholds. We might bring into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ. He's the only one that satisfied
the demands of God's law. He's the only one that had perfect
flesh. You can't fight Satan. You can't
fight sin. You can't fight the law. You go to battle against God's
law, see who wins. I promised you I was going to
win every time. You can't satisfy the demands of God's holy law.
His law will say every time to you, guilty, guilty, guilty,
guilty. There's only one person the law
couldn't say that to. You can't fight death. The clock
is ticking. The clock is ticking. And you're
not going to stop it. You can't stop the clock from
ticking anymore, and you can stop the sun from coming up.
And there's only a few more ticks. And then there's death. What
are you going to do about that? You can't fight it. All you can
do is give in to it. Christ came into the world to
defeat the strong. He satisfied the demands of the
law. He put away our sin. He conquered death. He conquered
the grave. He rose from the dead. Look what
he says. Behold, the Lord God will come
against the strong and his arm shall rule for him. Now that's
Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
strong right arm of God. And that's what he did. He came
to rule for God. The governments are upon his
shoulder. Behold, his reward is with him
and his work before him. Now every time we try to atone
for our sins, what we're doing is we're presenting something
to God in hopes that that's going to pave the way and recommend
us to God. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one who's ever able to do that. His work went before him
to recommend him to God. God Almighty was obligated by
the perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. You talk about
God being obligated, only God could obligate God. And God the
Father was obligated to raise Christ from the dead and receive
him back into glory because he was successful in doing what
the Father sent him to do. His work went before him. God
saw his work and he said, I'm pleased, I'm satisfied. He saw
the travail of his soul on Calvary's cross. You can't feel bad enough
for your sin. You can't do it. Christ is the
only one that experienced the full weight and burden of sin.
Three times in that garden He said, Father, if there be any
way this cup can pass, let it be nevertheless not mine. It
was the cup of the bitter dregs of God's wrath as a result of
the sins of God's people that He was going to drink dry. And God saw the travail of His
soul and was satisfied. What are we going to do? Lord,
I've got no ability, I've got no strength to feel shame. I can't repent. I can't be sorry
enough. I can't believe enough. I need
one who has perfect faith and perfect repentance and perfect
sorrow and perfect righteousness and perfect justice to stand
in my stead before God. And that's what it is to wait
upon the Lord. To wait on Him is to have a hopeful
expectation that you have an advocate, a Savior, one with
whom God is pleased to plead your case and to present your
name before a holy God. And He'll get all the glory for
it, won't He? Verse 11, these are reasons for waiting.
And by the way, do you remember the story of King
Saul, who God had anointed king over Israel? And Samuel, the
Philistines were coming against Israel and Saul had amassed his
army Samuel instructed Samuel was the prophet and Samuel instructed
Saul he said do not do anything until I get there and He said I'll be there in
seven days and Saul waited seven days, but he didn't wait to the
end of the seventh day and And Saul, contrary to what God
had said, offered up a sacrifice on his own to God. And while
the sacrifice was being offered up, Samuel shows up. And Samuel said, what are you
doing? And Saul said, Well, he said the people were beginning
to disperse, and the Philistines were getting closer, and I had
not yet made a sacrifice, so I forced myself. That's what
he said. He said, I forced myself. And
here's what Saul said. Here's what Samuel said to Saul.
Samuel said God would have established your family over Israel for perpetuity
you would have been your family would have been king of Israel
forever but because of what you've done
he's taken away your throne and he's given it to a man after
God's own heart speaking of David Now, Samuel was the only one
that could make the sacrifice, not Saul. Christ is pictured
in Samuel. He's the only one that can make
a sacrifice to God that's acceptable to God. And what we'll lose is
any inheritance. We try to make a sacrifice. We
look at our circumstances. We look at the bleakness of our
circumstances, and we see that, you know, I've got to be prudent
here. I've got to do something. I've got to do something. That's
what Samuel's thinking. Seven days. He's counting off
the days. And it's starting to get sunset.
The seventh day's not quite over yet, but he's, you know, he's
running out of time. He did not wait. He did not wait. And God took it away from Saul
and gave it to David. Now, who is a man after God's
own heart? Well, Christ is pictured in David. He's the son of David.
But believers are men and women after God's own heart. In other
words, they know that they can't make a sacrifice. They can't
make an offering. They can't satisfy the demands
of God's justice. They need a Savior. They need
a prophet to come and do it for them. It's a serious thing not to wait. Serious thing. God says the young
men will lose their strength, but they that wait upon the Lord
They that trust Christ, they that look to Him for all their
righteousness and all their justification and all their sanctification
before God. Look at verse 11. He shall feed
His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather
the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently
lead those that are with young." Now this chapter starts out with,
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith the Lord. Speak ye comfortably
to them. Speak from God's heart to their
heart. Our Lord is so gentle to sinners. He's so compassionate. He said,
I'll not quench a smoking flax. I'll not break a bent reed. You come to Christ in need? You come to him weak, you come
to him to exchange your strength for his strength, and you'll
find him so lovable and so lovely and so compassionate and so tender-hearted
and so understanding. I love thinking and reading about
the stories of our Lord in the Gospels. And the publicans and
the harlots and the sinners were attracted to Him. It was the
Pharisees that stood off at alarm's length, isn't it? But the sinners. Look, your master eats with sinners. Yeah, he does. He eats with sinners. It's what he came to do to save
centers. Are you a center? If you are. Then you will find
yourself waiting on him. Waiting on him to feed you. Waiting
on him to provide for you. Waiting on him to save you. With
hopeful expectation. Waiting patiently for him. And here's another reason for
waiting. Look at verse 12. Who hath measured the waters
in the hollow of his hand, or meted out heavens with a span,
and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed
the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Don't you love the way the Holy
Spirit just forces us to say, Lord, you going to take all the
oceans of the world and put them in the hollow of your hand? God
can do it. You, do you know how many specks
of dust there are in every mountain on the face of the earth? God
does. Do you think he doesn't know your
needs? That's why, you see the Lord
is wooing us to himself. This is not harsh, chastising
language. This is the tender language of
a loving shepherd who's saying to his sheep, I've got this. I've got this. It's okay. I'm working this out for my glory. The clay cannot say to the potter,
why hast thou made me so? But you know what? There's going
to come a day when that question is going to be answered for every
single one of us. Every single one of us are going
to know why God made us so. Why every circumstance in our
life happened like it did. You remember when the Lord healed
that blind man and the disciples wanted to know, is he blind because
of his sins or because of the sins of his parents? And the
Lord said, neither, but that the works of God might be made
manifest. And there's going to come a day
when every knee's going to bow and every tongue's going to confess
and everyone's going to know that everything was for his glory. It was all for his glory. And
what you're going through right now is for His glory. To force
you to wait on Him. And all the clay, the vessels
of honor and the vessels of dishonor are going to know that everything
the potter did was for His glory. Can you wait on that? Is that
okay with you? I mean, is that good with you? The strong man says, I'll not
have that man reign over me. And the weak man says, Oh God,
give me the grace to exchange my strength for yours and to
wait on you. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful
for your mercy. We ask, Lord, that you would
forgive us for our rebellion and cause us, Lord, to bow, knowing
that you hold the oceans in the hollow of your hand, that the nations are dropping
a bucket to you. Oh, Lord, increase our faith,
and cause us to wait on Thee. For it's in Christ's name we
ask it. Amen. We bless the name of Christ the
Lord, we bless him for his holy word, who loved to do his father's
will and all his righteousness fulfilled. We follow him with
pure delight to sanctify his sacred right and thus our faith
with water sealed to prove obedience that we Baptized in God the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit, three in one, with conscience free, we rest
in God, in love and peace through Jesus' blood. ? By grace we Abba Father cry
? By grace the Comforter comes nigh ? And for thy grace our
love shall be ? Forever only Lord for thee Please be seated. I was wondering today, how old
were you when you all started coming here? Six. Six. Six years old. And she's 19,
and she's been sitting under the gospel most of all of her
life. I'm so very thankful for you,
Gigi. I think it's okay, Rachel, for
me to tell this story. Gigi was talking to Rachel recently,
and Rachel was expressing concerns, as we all have, about circumstances
in our life. And Gigi's response to her sister
was, beggars can't be choosers. I'm going to use that in a message
sometime, Gigi. That's something for all of us
to remember, isn't it? Beggars cannot be choosers. If we're
mercy beggars, then we have the circumstances that our loving
Heavenly Father has ordained for us. And it's Gigi's desire
to confess her hope in waiting on Christ before you, her church
family. So let's pray together. Our Heavenly
Father, we're thankful for your mercy. We thank you especially.
for the faith that you put into the heart of Gigi to look to
Christ for all her salvation. Make him to be all our desire. And Lord, we pray that you would
keep us all, and we pray especially for Gigi, that you would keep
her and increase her hope and her faith, cause her more to,
to, Enjoy thy presence and thy power in her life. We ask it
in Christ's name. Amen. GG is with great joy that I baptize
you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
buried with Christ in baptism, and raised to walk a new life
in Christ Jesus. In all God's people said, amen.
Amen. Let's stand. Oh, hey. I'm so sorry. You had mentioned to me. I'm
sorry. They had mentioned to me that
she was interested. We've talked on several occasions
about the gospel. And, you know, one thing that's
different in a gospel church is, I mean, this is a perfect
example. If a person wants to confess
Christ, do you think that the apostles Had a new members class
for those 3,000 people that came forward on the day of Pentecost
and interrogated them to want to, no, they've been sitting
under the gospel, they heard the gospel, and they wanted to
confess Christ in baptism. And that's it. You know, one
of the hindrances that religion puts in the road to salvation
is the rock of knowledge. And, well, you have to know a
certain amount, you have to do this, and you have to, there's
only two things you have to know. Number one, you're a sinner.
And number two, Christ is your only Savior. He's your only hope.
He's all your hope. And I'm thankful, okay, that
that's what you want to confess. So, it's a great joy that we
baptize you in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, buried with raised to walk a new life in
Christ Jesus, whom God's people serve. Amen. Amen. Let's stand together. Tom's going
to lead us in amazing grace. What's the number? 236. 236.
236. 236 in the hardback diminal, if you don't know the words. Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind, but now I see. "'Twas grace that taught my heart
to fear, and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils and
snares, I have already come. Tis grace that brought me safe
thus far, and grace will lead When we've been there ten thousand
years, bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing
God's praise than when we'd first begun. Amen. Thank you.