Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ
and the brother of James. to them that are sanctified by
God the Father." That word sanctified there has to do with an external
sanctification, not an internal sanctification. I think about
every place in the Bible when it speaks of an internal sanctification,
it is contributed to the Holy Spirit. This is an external sanctification
which has to do with being set apart by God, God the Father. To be sanctified means to be
set apart. It means that in this particular
verse of scripture, he writes to them that are sanctified or
set apart by God the Father, and their not only sanctified
or set apart by God the Father, but they're preserved, not apart
from Jesus Christ, but in Jesus Christ, and they're called. They're called with a personal
call, like Lazarus of old, who was dead, and had been dead for
a number of days. And when our Lord stood there
before the tomb, he said, Lazarus, come forth. Now the graveyard was full of
dead people, but they didn't hear the voice of the Lord Jesus
Christ. He said, And Lazarus responded
to the call. Accompanying the voice of the
Lord Jesus Christ was power. And he gave that man who was
dead life, and he came forth. Now, all of God's people, everyone
who winds up at his feet, who bows to his government who receives
his Christ as his sacrifice for his sin, his covering, his atonement,
will be called. It will be a call that the world
cannot hear. It is a call that will not be
heard with the ear, but better still, it will be a call that
will be heard in the man's very soul. And it'll be felt in his
very soul. He'll hear the call in his heart,
in his soul, and he'll feel that call, and he'll respond to that
call. That's what it means. Called.
Called. They are set apart by God. They are preserved in Jesus Christ
and they are called. And he said, Mercy unto you. I think Carl, it was this morning,
read over there in the Psalms about the mercy of the Lord that
endureth forever. Let the whole realm of nature
praise him for his mercy endureth forever. He says, mercy unto
you and peace, the peace of God, the peace with God, this peace
that fills our very souls, floods our souls, the peace that comes
in a man's heart, which cannot be seen by this world. It's a
peace that God gives to those that are sanctified, preserved
in Christ and called the peace of God. It's a peace that has
to do with a man's conscience. It quiets his conscience. Conscience
screams for perfection. And we cannot silence conscience
because we're not perfect. But if we have a perfect sacrifice,
We can silence the conscience when it demands for perfection. We have the Lord Jesus Christ.
Peace is involved in the silencing of the conscience. And love,
the everlasting love of God that God hath set upon his people
Bob prayed before time ever was, everlasting, unchanging love. Paul writes to this type of people.
He's writing to the saved. He's writing to those that are
in the Lord Jesus Christ, that have been quickened by Spirit. They've been regenerated. They've
been reconciled unto God. They have laid their weapons
of warfare down. They've been found wrapped in
sin and rebellion. They've laid their weapons down.
They've responded to the call, Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. They've responded
to that call. They've come. They've repented. They've believed. They've trusted.
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And He says, mercy unto these
people, and peace unto these people, and love unto these people,
and love be multiplied. What does that mean? Love be
multiplied. If you add two and two, that's
four. But if you multiply three times
three, it adds up a lot quicker, doesn't it, Pat? One and one,
just two. But for him, three is nine. So
he says, these things be multiplied. Unto who? Unto these that are
the recipients of his blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And
he is writing unto them here. And he said, in the third verse,
he said, Beloved, they are beloved of God. Beloved of God, that's
what he's talking about, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me, is necessary,
is necessary for me to write to you and exhort you, exhort
you, that is to ask you and to remind you that ye should earnestly
Seriously, sincerely, contend, continue in and continue for
the faith once delivered unto the saints. Let me just talk
about that for a little bit and then we'll quit. I think the
purpose of this letter is to exhort them, and I've described
who the them are. to exhort them to continue in
the faith, and to contend for that faith, and to describe unto
these individuals the false teachers, and to point out to these people
the principles and practices of false teachers, and the end
of false teachers, in order that these that he writes to might
avoid and shun the end of these false teachers. Bob said, in
his prayer, we enter in this race, and some of us are 55,
60 years old, 65 years old, and it's inevitable that it won't
be long. And he wants to finish the race.
Started out years ago, running the race, want to finish the
race. I don't want to quit now in the middle of the course,
or have traveled over three quarters of the course and then quit.
I want to continue on. So he said, he describes here
these false teachers. and their principles and their
practices, and the bitter end that they come to, in order that
those that he wrote to might shun and avoid their end, and
their manners, and their practices, and their principles. You see,
he says, certain men crept in unawares, who were before bold,
ordained to this condemnation. That's a pretty hard nut to crack
right there, isn't it? But that's what it says. It says
there were certain men, and they crept in unnoticed. They just looked like everybody
else, and they talked like everybody else for a while. They crept
in unawares, unnoticed, and these people were before of old, ordained,
and only God can ordain a man. of old ordained to this condemnation
ungodly men. They turned the grace of our
Lord into lasciviousness. That is, they used the grace
of God. They used it as a means to vent
and satisfy the desires of the flesh and the lusts of the flesh.
They said, well, If the grace of God is available, and he said,
we'll just make use of the grace of God, and we'll just go on
and do this and do that and do other things. These people, that's
what they were teaching, that's what they were doing. They said,
oh, I'm saved by the grace of God, so if that's the case, where
sin abounds, grace much more abounds, well, I'll just go do
this and do that. Certainly they were unregenerate
men. They weren't regenerate. And he said, they turned the
grace of our God into lasciviousness, and they denied the only Lord
God and our Lord Jesus Christ. They denied that if any man be
in Christ, he's a new creature. All things have passed away.
Behold, all things become new. They denied that. They denied
who He was. He said, I will therefore put
you in remembrance, though you once knew this, you knew it,
but you kind of forgot, that how the Lord, having saved the
people out of the land of Egypt, that is the Israelites, afterward
destroyed them that believed not. He saved about 800,000 of
them from the physical wrath of Pharaoh in Egypt and delivered
them out of his hands and grounded Pharaoh and all of his iron chariots
and first-class soldiers. God delivered them and grounded
the enemy. And then he says, afterwards,
he destroyed these people that he delivered that believed not. This believing business does
not quit. It starts and it continues on
throughout life into eternity. for a man to say, well, I made
a decision. I'm not looking for decisions,
and neither is any writer of the Bible. He's not looking for
someone to stand up and say, I'm deciding for Jesus, or I'm
coming forth. There's nowhere in the Bible
you can find that. That the preachers, the apostles,
the teachers, the helpers, ever had that in mind when they taught
or when they preached, that they tried to get men to make a decision. They tried to get men to believe
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when they believed,
they tried to fortify them in the faith that they might continue
in that belief, continue in it. And the manifestation of their
continuing in it was outward in their faithfulness to the
things of God. Alright, he says, and the angels,
here's the whole nation of people he destroyed, save Joshua and
Caleb. and the angels which kept not
their first estate. The angels were right in the
very presence of God Almighty, as I understand it, but they
were not satisfied. They were not contented with
their position, but they left their own habitation. And he
hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto judgment
of the great day. That's what he, he destroyed
these that believed not, and the angels, and the angels, he's
got them, he's got them chained up, got them chained up, waiting
for that great final day of judgment when he can cast them off into
a burning hell. Now he writes these things unto
us. in order that we might avoid and shun these false teachers
and their principles and their practices, that we might not
come to the same end that they come to. What about Sodom and Gomorrah?
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities about them in like manner,
they gave themselves over to what? To fornication. and going
after strange flesh, or other flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. And then he goes on and
talks about it. You see what I'm talking about?
Alright? He tells us here in verse number
3, he says it's necessary, I gave all diligence, I considered this,
And he was waiting, he was waiting, and he said, I just had to write
to you. After a lot of thought and prayer
and consideration, he said, I felt like, and he's not writing here
to just a particular group of people like Paul wrote to the
church at Rome, or Paul wrote to the church of the Thessalonians,
but he's writing here to, generally speaking, just to Christians
everywhere, and it's certainly applicable to you and I today. And he said, I just thought about
it, and I felt the need of it after much prayer and consideration,
that it was needful for me to write to you, to tell you, to
tell you. Because it's so important. It's
so important. It's important to start, but
it's more important to finish. You might fall over the way.
You've got to watch out. There's many pitfalls. There's
many things that can throw you. And I don't want you to wind
up like these angels who were right in the very presence of
God, but they said, They said, well, we're not satisfied here.
Someone come along and said, let's start a revolution. Let's
start a rebellion. Let's rebel against God. And
they said, well, that sounds good. And so they fell in. And
they were discontented and cast out of heaven. And God's got
them in chains now. He's going to send them to hell.
So he said, I thought it was needful for me to write to you.
To exhort you, to tell you that you'd earnestly, that you should
earnestly, sincerely, and seriously, as our brother said, let us be
serious. Let us be serious and let us
be sincere. To earnestly contend, which means
to continue in and to strive for the faith once delivered
unto the saints. He wants us to contend for and
continue in. What is this? I believe it will
be of a help to us if we can find out what he is talking about
here. He tells us to earnestly contend,
strive for. I believe that to continue in
and to contend for the faith means that That it's the Lord
Jesus Christ who overcomes us by His mercy and by His goodness,
by His beauty, by His love, by His promises. to the extent that
He's ever before us. He's ever before us. We look
to Him in the morning when we get out of our beds after we've
received a good rest or whether we haven't received it of a morning,
we look to Him. We look to Him and seek His face
and ask His mercy and His blessing and His guidance and His directions
upon us for that day. Ask Him to Help us to be useful
and to somehow further the kingdom of the Lord Jesus and to be an
honor to Him. We ask Him to keep us from...
And so forth. We seek Him of a morning. Our eyes are fixed upon Him. Fixed upon Him from the time
we get up. Oh, I'm not saying now that it's
just 24 hours a day, we're saying, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. That's
not what I'm talking about. Certainly there's intervals when
you've got to pound the nail, or you've got to throw the shovel
full of dirt, and your mind's on what you're doing. I'm not
excluding that. But I'm saying for the most part,
that's the direction you're going in. You rise up in the morning
and you've got your eye fixed upon an unmovable object, the
Lord Jesus Christ. And then when the going down
of the sun and you lay your head back down to sleep, you say,
Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank you that you've kept
me, and you've blessed me, and you've helped me, and I thank
you for my family, and I thank you for food, and I thank you
for rain, and I thank you for the air that I breathe, I thank
you for what health I have, I thank you for all things, Lord, keep
me through the night, if it's your will. That's what it means to continue
in the faith. To continue, to continue in. It's to have Him
before us. It's like a horse with blinders
on. You ever try to walk a straight
line with your head down? You can't do it. You can't walk
a straight line with your head down. Sooner you'll go this way,
then you go that way, this way, that way. But if you keep your
head up, keep your head up, and you're looking at a fixed object,
and you start through the field, and you keep your eye on that
object, and you get to the end of the field, that is if there's
snow on the ground. If there's snow on the ground.
And if you get to the end of that field, and you look back,
and it's a pretty straight line, Bob. It's a pretty straight line.
But if you walk with your head down like this, you'll be going
this way and you'll be going that way. What I'm saying is,
and the point I'm trying to make is this, to continue in the faith
is to have the Lord Jesus as your companion all day long. To have your eyes and the eyes
of your heart fixed, fixed upon this immovable object. Continue
in the faith. Well, here, I think, it's meant
the doctrine of faith, in which sense it is used wherever faith
is said to be preached, wherever faith is said to be obeyed, wherever
it's said not to depart from the faith. Or it's mentioned
those that erred from the faith, or denied the faith, or made
a shipwreck of the faith. It says, contend for it. It's sometimes
called the word of faith. It's sometimes called the faith
of the gospel. Sometimes it's called, as we
were talking about prior to church, the mystery of faith, or the
most holy faith, or the common faith. What's involved in this
holy faith? Well, this. The doctrine of the
Trinity is involved in it. the deity and sonship of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Lordship of Christ, the divine personality
of the Spirit of the living God, And all that's involved in the
condition of man by nature, he's a sinner by choice and a sinner
by practice. What's involved in his depravity
and his enmity towards God and his open and secret rebellion
against God, and what's involved in the doctrine of faith is the
imputation of Adam's sin to all of his It's the corruption of
his nature. It's the inability of a man to
do good and to please God. What's involved in the doctrine
of faith? It is the everlasting love of
God. It is the doctrine of God's sovereign
choice, the doctrine of eternal election. It is justification
by the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It
is reconciliation by the blood of the Lord Jesus. It's regeneration. It's sanctification. It is final
perseverance of the saints. That's the doctrine of faith.
He says continue in this faith and earnestly contend for it. Strive for it. See? What's involved in the doctrine
of this faith? It is a constant reminder and
memory of who the Lord Jesus Christ is, who he is. He is the God-man. Who he is and what he did. who He is and what He did. Oh,
and our Lord told us, He said that this picture of baptism
out here will tell you who I am and what I did. He says when
you come to the Lord's table and you take of the unleavened
bread and you drink of the wine, He says it will be a picture
of who I am and a picture of what I've done. And He said this,
He said, now, as often as you do this, ye shall for what I
done till I come again. He said, remember me in this! Remember me! That's what's involved
in the doctrine of faith, is to remember, is to take it to
our hearts who He is and what He done. Do you remember over
there? in the book of Mark chapter 15
and verse 34, where it says, My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? I believe we need to learn again
what our Lord Jesus Christ meant when he said, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? In order, brethren, in order
that we might Continue in and strive for the faith once delivered
unto the saints, because as sure as you let your guards down.
Listen, if God would withdraw His presence from us, if God
would do that, if God would forsake us, if He would abandon us, if
He'd do that, you know what would happen? We'd go directly into
open sin, probably twenty minutes after He did it, or less. That's
right. It's hard to tell what we'd be
involved in. And on our dying bed with foam
coming out of our mouth and sheer insanity and madness, we'd curse
the very day that we was born if God would forsake us and abandon
us. We need to be serious about it.
We really do. Brethren, you haven't got as
far as you have so far without the help of God. And you can't
take another step without the help of God. So we better pay
attention to the pitfalls and to the warnings. It's not just
starting out, it's finishing. It's not only living in the faith,
but it's dying in the faith. Dying in the faith. Contending
for the faith. Better mean something to me.
It better be the most important thing in my life. My wife's important
to me and I love her. My family, children, they're
important to me and I love them. And this church is important
to me and I love you. But I'll tell you, faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ, who He is and what He does, that better
be the most important thing in my life. That better take precedent
over everything else. Everything else. He must come
first. Not Martha. Not Stanley, not
Pat, not Mitch, not Brad, not grandchildren, not you. The Lord,
Jesus Christ, He's got to be first. Brother, He said, if any
man will follow Me, if he'll follow Me, if he'll be My disciple,
let him deny all this. Let him deny it. And pick up
his cross every day and follow Me every day, every day. I thought
you said salvation's by grace. It is by the grace of God. It's
by the grace of God that you pick up your cross. Anyhow, brethren,
you remember where it says in Mark 15 and 34, my God, my God,
why it do us well to remember what's involved in the Lord Jesus
Christ being forsaken by God. And if we can get a little idea
of what that means, maybe God the Spirit will impress. Maybe He'll stab our hearts.
Maybe He'll implant this truth in our hearts that it will be
ever before us who He is and what He did for us. Well, to be forsaken of God,
that's what happened to the Lord Jesus Christ. God forsook Him.
God forsook the Lord. They're important to me and I
love them. My family, children, they're
important to me and I love them. And this church is important
to me and I love you. But I'll tell you, faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ, who He is and what He does, that better
be the most important thing in my life. That better take precedence
over everything else. Everything else. He must come
first. Martha, not Stanley, not Pat,
not Mitch, not Brad, not grandchildren, not you. The Lord, Jesus Christ,
He's got to be first. Brother, He said, if any man
will follow Me, if he'll follow Me, if he'll be My disciple,
let him deny all this. Let him deny it. Pick up his
cross every day and follow me every day, every day. I thought
you said salvation's by grace. It is by the grace of God. It's
by the grace of God that you pick up your cross. Anyhow, brethren,
you remember where it says in Mark 15, 34, my God, my God,
why it do us well to remember what's involved in the Lord Jesus
Christ being forsaken by God. And if we can get a little idea
of what that means, maybe God the Spirit will impress. Maybe He'll stab our hearts.
Maybe He'll implant this truth in our hearts that it'll be ever
before us who He is and what He did for us. Well, to be forsaken of God,
that's what happened to the Lord Jesus Christ. God forsook Him.
God forsook the Lord Jesus Christ. He abandoned Him. He left Him
to Himself. Why did He leave Him to Himself?
He left Him to Himself because He took upon Himself my sins
and your sins. And God is so holy, He cannot
look upon sin. He poured out His righteous wrath
upon sin. And my sin was upon the Lord
Jesus Christ, and the end result was He took my place, my room,
and my stead, and God utterly forsook the Lord Jesus Christ. Utterly forsook Him. And if He
hadn't stood in my place, in my room, in your place, in your
room, that's the way He'd have done you. And that's the way
He'll do you. He'll utterly forsake you. Let me tell you a little
bit about that so you might appreciate what I'm talking about in regard
to continuing in and contending for the faith. To be forsaken
by God certainly implies a utter loneliness. Just kind of imagine
yourself to be out in a vast wilderness where there's not
a single trace of humanity. There's not a bird in the air,
Bob, not a worm on the ground, not an insect in the tree, not
even a blade of grass. to remind a man of God. And when
the man cries for help, he can't even hear an echo. It's a state
worse than hell. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It's to be utterly alone. And secondly, to be or to be
forsaken of God implies a sense of helplessness. Our Lord Jesus
Christ said, I am a worm and no man. In other words, He was
so broken, so emptied of all of His power that He hanged upon
that tree. with dislocated arms and he cried,
my strength is gone, my strength is dried up like a potsherd. He was like Ezekiel's infant,
cast out into the wilderness, into that open field, into that
waste howling wilderness with none to swaddle the baby, none
to care for that baby, left to perish and left to die. That's what happened to our Lord
Jesus Christ. My God, my God, why hast thou
abandoned me? It's a sense of helplessness. It's a sense of being forsaken
by God in loneliness by yourself. And thirdly, to be forsaken by
God certainly implies to be without a friend. To be without a single
solitary friend. Everyone had forsaken the Lord
Jesus Christ. That was by himself. No one to
turn to, no friend to turn to, none to succor or assist or help. His only friend. And God, he
cried out to God, but God would not hear him. And he cried out
in desperation, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? is to be without a friend. None
of us knows what it is to be without a friend. Everyone's got, maybe you haven't
got many, but you've got somebody. You've got somebody, a friend
that you can depend on, who will hear you, who will listen to
you, who will sympathize with you, a friend that you can trust
in, you can tell your troubles to, he'll listen to you. What
must it be for some poor wretch whose parents have long since
died to be out in this cold, wicked, unfriendly world, penniless
and hungry, ragged, nowhere to go, nowhere to lay their head? They've lost their most distant
kin and haven't got a single solitary soul that they can turn
to. This fella says, well, my father
had a good friend. He had a good friend and I remember
where he lived and I'll go to his house and I'll tell him who
I am and I'm sure he'll be kind to me for my father's sake. And here's this wretched, penniless,
hungry, cold, dirty, forsaken man going down the street up
the sidewalk, knocking on the door, and a man comes to the
door, and he starts to tell him who he is. Listen, my father
was a good friend of yours, and he shuts the door in his face,
without a friend, without a friend. And then he thinks of a boyhood
friend, a boy that he played with when he was a boy, and he
said, I wonder if he still lives in the same place. He went to
the old neighborhood, and he knocked on his door, and he opened
the door, and he said, This is so and so. We were friends when
we were boys. We played together. And he says,
Hit the road, and he shuts the door right in his face. To be
without a friend, brethren, oh, to be told to go your way, I
don't know you. Listen, man is utterly friendless. and alone. Well, I'll tell you,
when a man gets to that place, when he hasn't got no friends,
and he's abandoned by everybody, forsaken by everybody, utterly
helpless without a friend, you know what that'll drive a man
to? Many a man has taken the gun and put it in his mouth and
pulled the trigger when he didn't have a friend. You ought to be
a friend to somebody. You might save his life. Be a
friend to somebody. Men without friends are so full
of despair that the first thing you know when they come to the
end of the rope and they've been abandoned by society, been abandoned
by their parents, been give up by everybody, and no one has
a kind word for them, they feel like no one loves them. I'll tell you, as long as a man
can feel that someone loves him, Someone, don't make any difference
who it is. If it's his wife or his grandson
or granddaughter or an uncle or aunt or a neighbor, somebody
really loves him as long as he's got that. As long as he's got
someone that he knows loves him. Well, I'll tell you, he'll say,
life's worth living. But if he hadn't got anyone,
no one. If he hadn't got anyone, no friend
upon the top side of God's green earth, When the last friend is
gone, he's like, I remember reading one time about the Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a captain in the Air Force
and he was shot down in the Pacific by the Japanese and he bailed
out of his airplane and in a boat he had a little life raft and
it came down with him and he inflated the life raft and he
stayed out there in that little life raft. For forty-some days
out on the ocean. Forty-some days he stayed out
there and survived! And he said there was many a
night that he welcomed death. He welcomed death. He felt like
he was out on this raft, far out to sea, no land in sight,
and he welcomed death! My soul, I'm saying all that
to tell you, brethren, our Lord was brought to this state. Forsaken
by God, without a friend, utter helplessness! He is brought to
that place. Oh, all of his disciples had
forsook him in flame. He said, He that eateth bread
with me hath lifted up his heel against me. Oh, to be forsaken
by God! May none of us here finally wind
up being forsaken by God. Oh, listen to me. You're here
this evening and the Spirit of God stabbed you in the heart.
I want to tell you, turn, turn now in trusting faith to the
Lord Jesus Christ. Listen, you'll find that His
ear is not too heavy that He will not hear. You'll find that
His arm is not shortened that he cannot save. But if you wait,
if you wait, if you wait, you'll have no friend to judge
That'll be terrible, won't it? To have no friend in judgment.
To look at the throne of glory and see nothing but eternal blackness
and darkness forever. To look to Him and He will not
help. He who has promised throughout
the Bible that He'll help every poor, sin-sick soul that comes
to Him. He said, I'll help you. I'll
not turn anybody away. All the Father giveth to me will
come to me in him that comes to me. I will in no wise forsake
him. I'll not turn him down. I'll
not turn my back upon him, but I'll reach forth my blood-drenched
hand and arm and lift him up. Come to me, he says. I'll give
you help. But one day, one day when this
is all over with and the man stands before the judgment, seat
of God Almighty, and is going to be judged in the white light
and heat of the perfect righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
he looks to Christ for help. He looks for a friend then, and
he won't find a friend. Mother won't help him. Father
won't help him. Nobody will help him. Oh, what a sad, sad, sad
day that will be when mother and father who is bone of your
bone and blood of your blood and flesh your flesh will turn
their backs upon you when men will scream out and say, Mother,
help me! Father, help me! Brother, help
me! Savior, help me! And Savior won't
help you. I'll tell you, that'll be hell,
won't it? That'll be hell! Nobody will help you. No friend
in heaven! No one to put their hand on God
and their hand on your shoulder and do away with that which separates. He said, all that, brethren,
say this, that's what's involved in striving forth and contending
for the faith. All this happened to the Lord
Jesus Christ that it might not happen to you. Huh? He won't forsake you. He won't
forsake you if you're in Christ. He said, I'll never forsake them.
I'll never forsake them. I'll never forsake them. Go come
hell and high water. I'll never forsake them. I won't
forsake them because of their sins. I won't forsake them for
this. I'll never forsake them. My soul to be in Christ. Oh, to be in Him. No reason for Him to forsake
us. His honor binds His heart to us. Our sins have been paid
for. We've been clothed with the perfect
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our judgment has taken
place in the person of the Lord Jesus. There's no reason for
God to forsake us. Oh, but there's plenty of reason
for God to forsake Him. Who would say no to that? Who
would say, I don't need your help. I don't need your help.
I'll make it. I'll be alright. I've got plenty
of time. I'll be alright. One day, you
see. One day. This loneliness, and
this helplessness, and this being without a friend will all combine
in a sense of in or unutterable, indescribable agony, misery,
despair, crushed and broken down, and you'll be the target for
every one of them! And he'll never miss a time.
forsaken and forgotten of God. I told you that that sacrifice
that God requires, He provided in the person of His Son, the
Lord Jesus. You must have a perfect sacrifice. You better reach out and touch
the Lord as He passes by. Reach out, reach out and touch
the Lord. God help you.