service in the hardback hymnal
number 296. All the way, my Savior leads
me. 296, if you could please stand. All the way my Savior leads me,
what have I to ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy,
who through life has been my guide? Heav'nly peace, divinest
comfort, here by faith in Him to dwell. For I know what e'er
befall me, Jesus, do it all things well. For I know what e'er befall
me, Jesus, do it all things well. All the way my Savior leads me,
cheers each winding path I tread. for every trial feeds me with
the living bread. Though my weary steps may falter
and my soul a thirst may be, gushing from the rock before
me, lo, a spring of joy I see. Gushing from the rock before
me, Blow a spring of joy I see. All the way my Savior leads me
O the fullness of His love Perfect rest to me is promised In my
Father's house above When my spirit clothed immortal Wings
its flight to realms of day This my song through endless ages,
Jesus led me all the way. This my song through endless
ages, Jesus led me all the way. You can be seated, please. It looks like school has started
back. We're going to be reading from Psalm 65. 65. If you'd like
to turn with me there in your Bibles. Jim and Callie Fendi are going
to be here this weekend and anybody that can help them unpack on
Saturday morning at 1941 Jungle Road in New Smyrna, which is
basically across the highway from Deb's house. So they're going to get here
Friday night, Lord willing, and we're hoping to get some help
on Saturday morning to unpack their trailer. Alright, you have your Bibles
open to Psalm 65. Praise waiteth for thee, O God,
in Zion, and unto thee shall the bow be performed. O thou that hearest prayer, unto
thee shall all flesh come. Iniquities prevail against me.
As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell
in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. By terrible
things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our
salvation, who are at the confidence of all the ends of the earth
and of them that are afar off upon the sea. Let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
what a blessing it is to know that you have chosen a people
and you caused them to come unto thee. Oh Lord, how we pray that
you would confirm in our hearts that we are chosen by causing
us to come unto thee. We ask that you would send your
Holy Spirit in power We ask that you would enable us to put aside
those things that would distract us and that would cause us so
much fear and trouble in this world and enable us now in this
hour to set our affections on things above where Christ is
seated at the right hand of God. Oh, that we would find our hope,
our rest, our peace, all our salvation, and the satisfaction
of our soul in His glorious person and in His accomplished work.
For we ask it in His name. Amen. Let's sing number 38 in the gospel
hymns. Number 38, if you could please
stand. ? Come every sinner saved by grace
? You who by faith God's Son embrace ? Tell all who hear your
voice below ? The death of love to Christ you owe Dear Lord,
I lift my praise to Thee. All that I am or hope to be,
I owe a load, O Christ, to Thee. He left His Father's throne above,
And came to earth on wings of love. For us He lived the perfect
man, And so fulfilled the Law's demand. Dear Lord, lift my praise
to Thee, All that I am or hope to be, I owe alone, O Christ,
to Thee. Jesus endured His Father's hour
and died at the appointed hour. Why He endured, no tongue can
tell, to save our souls from death and hell. Dear Lord, I
lift my praise to Thee, All that I am, or hope to be, I owe a
loan, O Christ, to Thee. From death's dark grave our King
arose, And triumph over all our foes, Up through the skies the
victor rode, And reigns on high our Savior God. Dear Lord, I lift my praise to
Thee, All that I am, or hope to be, I owe alone, O Christ,
to Thee. From heaven Christ will quickly
come and bring his ransomed people home. There we shall see his
lovely face and chant the praises of his grace. Dear Lord, I lift
my praise to Thee. All that I am or hope to be,
I owe alone, O Christ, to Thee. Let's open our Bibles together
to Isaiah chapter 24. Isaiah chapter 24. Why is the world that you and
I live in, in such a mess? Why is it in the shape that it's
in? Why is it so defiled? God gives us the answer to those
questions. in Isaiah chapter 24. But before
we look at the answer to those questions, let me remove any
misunderstanding that someone might have from those introductory
comments about the world in which we live. The world that the previous
generation lived in was just as defiled. Matter of fact, We
moved Laura Grace into her dormitory out at UCF the other day. And
I was impressed. I was impressed with the kindness on the part of the parents
and the students that were moving in. I was impressed to see that
there were students from lots of different ethnic backgrounds
and races. And no one seemed to be pushing
and shoving, and I was remembering what it was like on our college
campuses back when I was of college age. A whole lot better now. You know,
you hear preachers talk about the evil of today as if things
are worse today than they've ever been. They're not. I can remember the hippie movement. I can remember the free drugs
and free sex movement of the 60s and the horrors of some of
the stuff that went on in my generation. Young people today
don't seem to be engaged in a lot of the stuff that we did. I found
out through a little bit of research that the Per capita murder rate
in the United States today is exactly the same as it was in
1950, which is half of what it was
in the late 70s, all during the 80s, and during the 90s. We're
actually back to where we were in the 1950s as far as our per
capita murder rate in the United States. Things aren't worse today than
they've ever been. This world has always been defiled. It's always been sinful. And the Lord tells us in this
passage why it's so. The good old days aren't as good
as nostalgia would like for them to be. We think about, oh, I
wish it was like it was before. No, you don't. No, you don't. What would cause that sort of
sentiment, particularly among preachers? I think it's rooted
in, a lot of it's rooted in self-righteousness. You know, they're looking at
the sins of the day and thinking, well, we didn't used to do those
things back then. And a lot of it among unbelievers
in particularly, the moral majority, if you will,
the religious right, that sentiment is rooted in a
dissatisfaction and unhappiness with their own life. And they
go, well, wish we had it this way. Wish we had it that way. Child of God, every generation
has been defiled. Every generation has been wicked
and God gives us in our text the reason for it. And, you know,
to buy into the fear-mongering of today's culture is to lose
sight of the truth. The truth is that every culture
has been this way. Every culture. And the Lord tells
us why. And the reason that the world
is in the condition that it's in, according to the Word of
God, is the very reason why we have
hope in Christ. Because what the world is guilty
of, in terms of causing the problems that we have, in the Lord Jesus
Christ, we're not guilty. We're not guilty. You are not
of this world. You're not of this world. Now
here it is. Look at verse 5 in Isaiah chapter
24. The earth also is defiled under
the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws. They have broken the laws of
God. Number two. I said, what did
I say? We're not guilty of this. If
you're in Christ, you haven't broken any laws. You're perfect
before God. Here's the reason the world's
in the condition that it's in. Because they've broken God's
law. They have changed the ordinance. Now the ordinance there means
the word of God. They've changed the word of God. And thirdly, they have broken
the everlasting covenant. That's the covenant of grace.
And they've changed the covenant of grace to a covenant of works. And so the child of God is not
guilty of having broken any of God's laws, not in Christ. He's
the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. We
believe every word in God's word, and we dare not change it, and
we don't add to it, and we don't take away from it. And number
three, we're not looking to a covenant of works. We're looking to a
covenant of grace. So, the very thing that God boils
it all down to, in terms of the condition of the world, is not
the condition of the child of God. You are not of this world. You live in this world, but you're
not of the world. You're not of the world. This
is the world. Look at verse one in this chapter. Behold, oh, take notice of this. Give your undivided attention
to this and be amazed at the truth of this. Behold, the Lord
maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste and turneth it upside
down and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. The world's
always been that way. When Peter, James, and John were
accused of turning the world upside down, the world was already
upside down. They were turning it right side
up in preaching the gospel. You and I live in an upside down
world. Why? Because all men have broken God's
laws. They've changed His word and
they're trusting in a covenant of works. They've changed the
everlasting covenant to a covenant of works. That's just, that's,
that's every person of this world. Who maketh thee to differ? And
how are you different? I mean, people look it up. We
look the same as everybody else. We live our lives pretty much
the same as everybody else. And we, we live in a world that,
you know, that you can't distinguish believers from unbelievers and
in, in this world. But here's the spiritual truth
of it. The law is perfectly kept. We don't change the word of God.
We've been taught of God that this is his word. And we dare not go back to a
covenant of works. The Lord's taught us grace, hasn't
he? Verse two, and it shall be as
with the people. Now look at this verse too. And
it shall be as with the people, so with the priest, and as with
the servants, so with the master, and with the maid, so with their
mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the
lender, so with the borrower, as with the taker of usury, so
with the giver of usury to him, the land shall be utterly emptied
and utterly spoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word. Now that's the world we live
in. A world that is dry and thirsty. A world that is utterly spoiled. A world that is vain. That's the word, empty. You see
that? The Lord shall be, the land shall be utterly emptied. Have you seen the vanity of this
world? Can you say with Brother Solomon,
vanity of vanity, all is vanity? It's all empty. There's no purpose
to it. There's no direction. There's
no hope. There's no life. There's no peace. It's just men in a vain world,
cursed of God because, because cursed is the man that breaks
the law of God. Cursed is the man that changes
the word of God. Cursed is the man that forsakes
the everlasting covenant of grace and goes back to a covenant of
works and hopes in something that he has done for his own
salvation. Cursed of God. That's the reason
the world's in the condition that it's in. And it's always
been that way. Always been that way. Well, the generation that Isaiah
was writing to just before the Babylonian exile was much more
wicked than the generation that you and I live in. The generation
that the apostles wrote to in the first century was much more
wicked as far as the outward behavior is concerned. And even
in our nation. You know, the preachers that
would bewail some of the shameful sins of our day would have participated
in the shame of segregation a generation ago? How evil was that? And had they lived a hundred
and something years ago, would have participated in slavery,
you know, or women's suffrage. In other words, you look back
in the history of our own nation and you see every generation
had its own problems. Why? because they've all broken
God's law. They've all changed his word
and they've all turned the covenant of grace into a covenant of works. And God says, that's the reason
that they're defiled. And that's the reason that I've
judged them. I've done it. And it's true of
every one of them. Don't you love verse 2? All the
people. You know, the people, the priest,
the master, the servant, the maid, the mistress, the buyer,
the seller, all of them. Look at verse 4. The earth mourneth
and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty
people of the earth do languish. That's the world. That's the
world. That's the world we live in.
But we're not guilty. We're not. Blessed is the man whom the Lord
imputeth not iniquity. Blessed is the man whom the Lord
chooses and causes to come to him. He's blessed of God. You
know why? Because in Christ, he's never
broken one of God's laws. And through the faith that the
Lord has given him, he believes every word of this book and would
dare not change a word of it. And by the grace that God's given
him, he would never break the covenant of grace to go back
to a covenant of works. There it is. There's the answer.
There's the reason. The earth also is defiled under
the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws,
changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore
hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate. They're desolate. They're not happy. They're not
satisfied. They're not saved. They're not
content. They have no hope. They have
no peace with God. Therefore the inhabitants of
the earth are burned and Few men are left. Oh, there's a remnant
There's a remnant This is why the world is in the condition
that it's in They've broken God's law You and I and our father Adam
took of the fruit and did eat. And that fall was so severe that
everything that we've ever put our hand to since then has been
sinful. It's like we saw Sunday, we've
not been able to have a holy thought. We've not been able
to produce an ounce of righteousness. David said, of thy righteousness
will I speak even of thine only. Our righteousnesses are as filthy
rags before God. We have no righteousness. So we're all guilty of having
broken the law of God. We're not able to satisfy any
of its demands. The scripture says, Cursed is
everyone that continueth not in all things that are written
in the law to do them. Cursed is everyone that continueth
not to do everything that's written in the book of the law. And then
James put it like this, whosoever shall keep the whole law. Let's
say it might be possible. Well, we know it's not. But James
is using some hyperbole here, isn't he? When he says, if a
man could keep the whole law and violate it at one point,
he's guilty of breaking it all. Guilty of breaking it all that's
the way God's law God's law stands or falls together So the Lord
the Lord's never pleased with our best he's never pleased with
with anything less than absolute perfection and That he's judging
not by the outward appearances. That's the way men judge he's
judging by the heart and Remember what the Lord said in Matthew
chapter 5 when he said, You have heard that it was said of them
of old that whosoever shall kill is guilty of judgment? But I say unto you, I say unto
you, whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause is
guilty of judgment. God's interpreting anger in the
heart as murder. And then he went on to say, you
have heard that it was said of them of old that thou shalt not
commit adultery. But I say unto you that if you
look upon a woman lustfully, you've already committed adultery
in your heart. God's looking at the heart. Who
can stand? Who can say, well, I'm not violated
God's law. It's the reason why the world
is cursed. And here's what the Lord Jesus
went on to say in Matthew chapter 5. Think not that I have come
to destroy the law and the prophets. I came not to destroy the law
and the prophets, but to fulfill them. That's what he came to
do. He came to satisfy all the demands of the law and fulfill
everything, every promise that the prophets ever made about
the coming of the Messiah. Verily I say unto you, till heaven
and earth shall pass away, not one jot or tittle, that's the
crossing of the T or the dotting of the I, not one jot or tittle
shall pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Unless your
righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees,
you shall in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven." How am
I going to do that? I'm going to have to be found
in Christ. Cursed is everyone that hangeth
upon a tree. The Lord Jesus Christ was judged
for my sin. Turn to me to Galatians chapter
2. Galatians chapter 3. Verse 10, for as many as are
of the works of the law are under the curse. Galatians chapter
three, verse 10. If you're trying to be saved
by your law keeping, all you can do is be cursed because the
law, the law standard is high. It's, it's cannot be attained
by us. For it is written, cursed is
everyone that continueth not in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them, but that no man is justified
by the law in the sight of God, it is evident. For the just shall
live by faith, and the law is not of faith. The man that doeth
them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written,
cursed is everyone that hangeth upon a tree. Oh, there's our
hope. There's our hope. Paul said in the previous chapter,
he said, I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not
I, but it's Christ that liveth in me. 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. And I do not, what's the next
verse say? I do not frustrate the grace
of God. Four, if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ died in vain. So what's the Lord say about
this, about this world? He says it's cursed. The reason
that it's cursed is because it has broken the law of God. That's the reason that it's cursed.
It's broken all of God's laws. Preachers that point out one
particular sin, generally, and particularly when you're dealing
with this thing that's in our generation, this thing of open,
celebrated homosexuality, and preachers want to point that
out because it's the one thing they're not guilty of. That's just self-righteousness
is all that is. If you're gonna deal with a sin
from the pulpit, deal with sins that you're guilty of. Don't
point your finger at other people that sins they're guilty of. I heard a preacher recently talking
about homosexuality from the pulpit and said it was the absolute
worst sin of all sins. Where do you get that from? If that's true, and I've never
even been tempted towards that, then I can't see myself as the
chief of all sinners. No, God's law stands or falls
together. And it's like James says, if
you keep the whole law and offend at one point, you've broken it
all. Broken it all. And that's where
we are. Yet we have one. We have one
who has kept God's law in his heart, in his mind, in his walk. In his works, everything he did
was in perfect obedience to the law of God. And God said, that's
my beloved son. I'm pleased with him. You're
not going to be cursed with the rest of the world. You're not
going to be defiled with the rest of the world. If you be
found in him, not having your own righteousness, which is of
the law, but that righteousness, which is by the faith of Jesus
Christ. No curse. You're in the world,
but you're not of the world. You haven't broken God's law.
If you're in Christ, not a single one, not a jot or a tittle of
God's law has been violated by you if you're in Christ. That's
right. You believe that? There is now
therefore no condemnation. The law hadn't changed the standards.
to them that are in Christ Jesus. That's who's going to deliver
you from the body of death. As He is, so are we in this world,
in this world right now, with this cursed world that can do
nothing but break the law of God. We stand before a holy God,
holy, perfect, undefiled. and in the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ separate from sinners. The earth is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof because they've transgressed the laws, because
they've changed the ordinance. Ever since Satan said to Eve,
did God say that thou shalt not eat of any of the trees in the
garden? Oh no, that's not what he said.
He said not to eat of the tree in the midst of the garden, the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, neither shall we touch
it. Oh, he's got his foot in the door now, doesn't he? God
didn't say anything about not touching it. He said don't eat
it. Let's see. If you add to or take away from
the word of God, and men have been resting and twisting the
scriptures to their own destruction ever since. Ever since. In Psalm 56 verse 5, every day
they rest my words, their thoughts are against me for evil. That's the natural man. The world
doesn't believe this Word as the Word of God. I'll show you
that in just a moment, but let's turn to 2 Peter chapter 3 first.
2 Peter chapter 3. Verse 16, as also in all his
epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some
things hard to be understood. Now Peter's talking about Paul's
writings. He said, you know, yeah, some of the things Paul
wrote are hard to understand. Didn't mean that were hard to
believe. You remember when the people said these are hard sayings?
The Lord wasn't saying there they weren't saying well, these
are hard to understand. They're very clear They're they're
rigid. They're they're inflexible And
and now Paul says Peter says some of those things that Paul
wrote are are difficult to understand but they which are unlearned
and unstable rest as they do also other scriptures unto their
own destruction and I've told you what this word
rest means before. It's a picture of a man on a
rack having his bones pulled out of joint until he finally
cries out and confesses what his torturers are wanting him
to confess. And so he says something he doesn't
believe, But he says it in order to stop the pain. And that's
what the Lord's saying. You twist the scriptures, you
make the word of God say something that it doesn't say. You therefore, beloved, seeing that
you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led
away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. You grow in grace and in the
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, you know this book is a revelation
of Him. You know that in the volume of
the book it is written of Him. You know that beginning with
Genesis all the way through to Revelation, this is a glorious
revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you believe it, don't
you? A lot of it we don't understand, but we believe it. We don't rest
it. We don't twist it. We don't make
it contradict itself. Even when we said we believed
the Bible was the Word of God, we didn't believe it. We didn't believe it. We thought that when the Bible
said, whosoever will, that man had a free will. And that salvation
was an offer made by God to all men and that whosoever would
exercise their will and do their part could be rewarded with salvation. We thought that whosoever, that
when Bible says God so loved the world, that God loved every
single individual person in the world. And that he was going
to be a frustrated lover when he had to send most of those
whom he loved to a devil's hell. We didn't know. We didn't believe
this Bible to be the Word of God. We believed that the precepts
that were in the Bible were nothing more than rules and regulations
that were to be followed for our sanctification and for our
growth and grace. We thought, you know, we somehow
have got to do something. You have your Bibles open to
Galatians chapter 2 still. I'm sorry, Colossians chapter
2. Turn to me there. We took the commandments of God and changed
them to the commandments of men. Galatians, Colossians chapter
2 at verse 21. Well, verse 20 says, wherefore,
if you'd be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world,
why, as though living in the world, he's subject to ordinances,
touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish
with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men, which things
have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility
and neglecting of the body, not in any honor to the satisfying
of the flesh. Oh, we played the religious hypocrite,
didn't we? All along, giving him honor with
our lips and having our hearts far from him. All along saying,
well, this is the inerrant, inspired, infallible word of God. And yet
we rested it, made it say things it didn't say. Why? Because we couldn't believe.
We didn't have eyes to believe. When the Lord gives you faith
to believe, you know every word in this book is about Christ.
And you just want to find Him in it. What does God say? They changed
the ordinances. Every word that proceeded out
of the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ Was the perfect word of
God. I love it when those those men
came back to the Pharisees they've been sent out to get the Lord
and bring him back and They came back empty-handed and they said
where is he? Never man spake like that man
We couldn't we couldn't contend with him Every word, every word that proceeded
out of his mouth was nothing less than the Word of God. Oh,
that's what John meant when he said, when John says we beheld
His glory as the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and full of truth. The law was given by Moses, but
grace and truth came by the Lord Jesus Christ. What a glorious Savior we have.
He didn't change the ordinance of God. He came to fulfill it. He came to fulfill it, and He
did just that. And if you're in Him, you've
never broken one of God's laws, and you have fulfilled the Word
of God. Thirdly, the reason why this
earth is cursed of God and defiled in every generation is because
they've broken the everlasting covenant. Now, what is the everlasting
covenant? That's the covenant of grace.
That's the old covenant. I'm sorry, that's the new covenant,
which is older than the old covenant. The new covenant is infinitely
older than the old covenant. This is the covenant that was
established by God, where the scripture says that we find our
rest in Christ and the works were finished before the world
began. This is the covenant that the
Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb slain. before the foundations
of the world, shed his precious blood in order to fulfill the
requirements of this covenant. But what does the scripture say?
They have broken the everlasting covenant. Now, how do you break
the everlasting covenant? This word broken, I looked it
up. It means to make void, to disannul, or to frustrate. to frustrate the grace of God. How do we frustrate the grace
of God? Paul said, I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness
come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Oh, foolish Galatians who have
bewitched you. Received you the spirit by the
works of the law, by the hearing of faith. Are you so foolish,
having begun in the Spirit? Are you now made perfect by the
flesh? That's what we thought. That's
what we thought. Oh, we knew we had to be born
again. But we thought, well, we're going to become more perfect
by the works of the flesh. We're going to become more sanctified,
become more holy. We're going to get closer and
be more acceptable to God. And what did we do? We frustrated
the grace of God. Not anymore. Not anymore. We don't frustrate the grace
of God. We don't believe that our works have anything to do
with our election, with our redemption, with our sanctification, with
our glorification. We believe it's all of grace. It's all of grace. We believe
that salvation is of the Lord. And God's people don't break
the everlasting covenant. That's what the world does. The
world has turned grace into works. They've added their part to what
God has done. And Hebrews chapter 9, turn with
me there quickly. Look at verse 12. Neither by
the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. We don't make void. the everlasting
covenant. We don't break the everlasting
covenant. We don't frustrate the grace of God. We believe
that when the Lord Jesus Christ shed his precious blood that
he obtained eternal redemption. For if by the blood of bulls
and goats and ashes of heifer sprinkled, the unclean sanctified
to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works? Purge your conscience from dead
works. The accuser of the brethren would
like to would like to turn us back to the law wouldn't he?
and well, you know if you just work a little bit harder you
could be you could be a real Christian and And if you were
really saved you wouldn't be doing the things you're thinking
the things you're thinking you wouldn't you wouldn't act that
way And now what's the scripture say you're looking to Christ
and He purges your conscience of dead works. In other words,
your conscience is no more controlled by what you do or don't do. Because what you did or didn't
do is dead works. It's all dead works. to serve the living God, and
for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by
means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the First Testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance." Now the Lord says the reason
the world is cursed, the reason it's so defiled, is because they
have broken the everlasting covenant. The Lord Jesus Christ established an eternal covenant. by the shedding of His blood.
In Isaiah chapter 28 it says, the natural man makes a covenant
with death. And God says, I'm going to disannul
that covenant. Any covenant that you make, any
promise, that's what a covenant is, a promise. It's salvation
based on some promise that you make to God. God says, I'm going
to disannul it. If you're trusting in a promise
you've made to God, this everlasting covenant is a promise that the
Lord Jesus Christ made to the Father before time ever began. And when He laid down His life
on Calvary's cross, He fulfilled the requirements of that promise. Why is this world in which you
and I live so sinful? Why is it so defiled? Why is
it so cursed by God? Three reasons. All men have broken God's law. All men have changed God's Word
and all men have taken the covenant of grace and turned it into a
covenant of works except the child of God. We're not broken one of God's
laws. We believe this book to be a revelation of Christ, and
the only hope of our salvation is based wholly, completely on
the grace of God. You're not of this world. You're
not. You're in the world, but you're
not of the world. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we're thankful that You've given us such clear language in Your
Word. We're thankful for the ministry
of Your Holy Spirit that enables us to believe it. Oh, how we
pray that You would remind us often of how that we are not
of this world. that in Christ, your law's been
kept. In Christ, the Word of God has
power. And in Christ, the hope of our
salvation is all of grace. We ask it in His name. Amen. All right, Brother Byrd, let's... 125. Let's stand together, 125. Hmm. I hear the Savior say, Thy strength
indeed is small, Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in me thine
all in all. Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. Lord, now when did I find Thy
power and Thine alone Can change the leper's spots And melt the
heart of stone? Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe. Sin had let the crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. For nothing good have I Whereby
thy grace to claim I'll wash my garments white In the blood
of Calvary's Lamb Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. And when before the throne I
stand in Him complete, Jesus died my soul to save, my life
shall still repeat. Jesus paid it all, All to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow.