All right, we're having technical
difficulties. Nothing online's working, or
the visual's working, but the sound's not working. So, I'm
gonna say something to the people online. You can't hear, we don't
know what the problem is. Sorry. Romans nine, Let's read
the first four verses. I say the truth in Christ, I
lie not. My conscience also bearing me
witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual
sorrow in my heart, for I could wish that myself were accursed
from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
who are Israelites. Paul is expressing the heart
that the Lord gives to his pastor, his ministers. to his people,
we truly sorrow for those that don't believe the gospel. And
it's truly, truly our heart, we want them to hear and know
Christ. Now Paul's gonna declare the
great advantage the Lord gave to Israel. He's talking about
Israel after the flesh, those that were not born again. He
says here, verse four, to whom pertaineth the adoption? and
the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and
the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, of whom,
as concerning the flesh, Christ came, whose over all, God blessed
forever, amen. You know, each of those things,
and I would encourage you to go again and listen. I preached
on those, each one of those things, to show you how they had a natural
application and a spiritual application. The Lord used the nation Israel
and all of those things, the adoption, the covenant, the covenants,
the glory, which speaks of the Ark of the Covenant, all the
advantages he gave the children of Israel. He didn't give to
any nation around them. And he fulfilled every natural,
every promise he made was an earthly promise. and he fulfilled
every promise he gave him, everything. The scriptures declare that,
the Lord declared it to him. He said, of all the things I
promised you, not one thing, not one thing has gone unfulfilled. But they all were to picture
spiritual Israel and the spiritual promises God made and the spiritual
works that God works. They had the law and the letter
and the ceremonies, but they were shadows and types picturing
salvation by grace, salvation by Christ, salvation by the Spirit
of God, salvation through faith in Christ apart from our works.
So the majority in the nation Israel did not believe God. The
majority did not believe God in any generation. And then when
Christ came, they were very religious, but they rejected Christ himself
for their religion, for their works and the things they were
doing. They would not and they could not understand the spiritual
meaning of those things. None at all. So they would not
and they could not believe on Christ. Now my subject tonight
is the true children of God, the true children of God. The
children of God are the children of God's promise. That's who
the children of God are, the children of God's promise who
God alone saves, who therefore give God all the glory. The children of God are the children
of His promise, saved entirely by God, and those saved by Him
give Him all the glory for every aspect. That means we don't take
credit for anything. We give it all to Him. Now, first
of all, God's Word is always effectual and always saves. It's always effectual, always
gives life, always saves. always. He said in verse 6, it's
not as though the Word of God had taken none effect. That was not the problem. That's
not why they rejected Christ. They had God's Word, yet they
believed not the Lord Jesus. But that doesn't mean the Word
of God is of no effect to save. That does not mean that the word
of God is not effectual. The word of God never fails because
God never fails. Go to Isaiah 55. Isaiah 55 and look at verse 10. As the rain cometh down, and
the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the
earth, and maketh it bring forth in bud, that it may give seed
to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. for you shall go out
with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn
shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come
up the myrtle tree. Catch these two things right
here, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, that means his
people will give him all the glory, And it means, and for
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. God saves through
his word, through the preaching of the gospel to bring glory
to his name. And those he saves give him all
the glory. That's the whole point Paul made
in 1 Corinthians 1. Look to your right there just
a little bit. 1 Corinthians 1, Paul said, In verse 21, He said,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that
believe. And here's why, look at verse 24. When he calls unto
them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power
of God and the wisdom of God. When he calls you through this
gospel, he makes you know Christ is the power of God and the wisdom
of God who saved. And everybody he calls through
this word gives him the glory. And another reason is down there,
he said, Verse 29, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
And then in verse 31, he that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord. You remember Ezekiel 37? Look there, that's what he said
in Ezekiel 37. He took Ezekiel out in that valley
of dry bones. And he said, you preach to these
bones and you tell them what I will do. You tell them I'll
cause breath to enter, I'll cause them to be alive, I'll bring
them together. He said, I'll do all this and
here will be the result, Ezekiel 37, 13. And you shall know that
I am the Lord. When I have opened your graves,
all my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall
put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place
you in your own land, then shall you know that I, the Lord, have
spoken and performed it, saith the Lord. The word never fails,
and God saves through this word, because when he does, everybody
he saves gives him the glory. Now look at Isaiah 43. This is
the scripture I asked you, son, to go home and read. because
he's assuring his church right here that he will save his people. And I'll show you why. He said
those that he calls, the very fact that a dead sinner is made
spiritually alive and believes Christ, it's for an everlasting
sign that shall not be cut off. He holds His people up as the
sign of His power and His grace, like a trophy. Look here, verse
5, Isaiah 43, 5. By the way, that song we just
sang, How Firm a Foundation, it all comes from these first
verses right here. Well, not every bit, but most
of it. Isaiah 43, 5, look here. Fear not, for I am with thee.
I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the
west, I will say to the north, give up, to the south, keep not
back, bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends
of the earth. Even everyone that's called by my name, for I have
created him for my glory. I formed him, yea, I made him.
It's to his name for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Look, bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf that
have ears. That's what you who believe are.
You're blind people that now see, deaf people that now hear.
He said, let all the nations be gathered together and let
the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this?
and show us former things. Let them bring forth their witnesses
that they may be justified, or let them hear and say it's true.
You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant, whom I
have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand
that I am he. Before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and
beside me there's no Savior. I have declared and have saved,
and I have showed when there was no strange God among you,
therefore you are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
Yea, before the day was, I am he, and there's none that can
deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who shall let
it? He goes on to say there, for your sake, I brought down
Babylon. He said, for your sake, for my
people's sake, I've given nations for you. That's how he began
the chapter. So he's saying my word will never
fail. He's saying I'm gonna call my
sons and daughters from the north, south, east, and west, because
they're gonna give me glory, and this is gonna be for an everlasting
sign that'll never be cut off, what I do for my people. Now
secondly, back in our text in Romans, so it's not the word's
fault. Romans 9. Romans 9, he said, verse 6, for
they are about all Israel, which are of Israel. You see, most
in the nation of Israel were not the Israel of God. That's
why they didn't believe. Being born in the nation of Israel
did not make them the Israel of God. If you'll take note when
you read scripture, there is a difference. God speaks of the
children of Israel, that's the people that lived in the nation.
He talks of the Israel of God, that's his people that he calls
out of every nation. Where we're born, where we're
raised, does not make us God's children. God made national Israel
to picture spiritual Israel. He made national Israel to picture
spiritual Israel. Now, I'll give you some examples. He showed how that he saves freely,
sovereignly by his grace, by his grace. forming this nation
Israel. He said to them, the Lord did
not set his love upon you, nor choose you because you were more
in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people.
Well, that's so of God's spiritual Israel. There was nothing in
us to make God choose us. God chose his people because
he would. He loved his people because he
sovereignly, freely loved us by his grace. God showed a picture
of redemption using spiritual Israel. He provided a lamb for
them. They were in bondage in Egypt,
and He provided a lamb for them. And He slew all the firstborn
in Egypt, but He passed over the firstborn in Israel when
He saw the blood. The Lord brought you out with
a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen from
the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Now look, that's God saving
a people from a people. That's God slaughtering all of
the firstborn in the land of Egypt and sparing the firstborn
children in Israel. God did that. God did that. God's grace is distinguishing
grace. And that pictured Christ, the
Son of God. God provided Himself the Lamb.
Christ Jesus came down. And He went to that cross and
laid down His life for His people. And He bore the sin of His people.
And He bore the curse for His people. And He satisfied justice
for His people. And so when God sees the blood,
He passes over His people because He's satisfied in Christ. Go
to Romans 2. Romans 2. God used Israel, national Israel,
to show a picture of spiritual regeneration. He gave them this
mark to distinguish them from all other people. Circumcision,
fleshly circumcision. At eight days old, they took
a helpless child that could not do anything for himself, eight
days old, and they took this child to the high priest. and
they circumcised the child, put a mark on them so that they were
distinguished from all other people. But that fleshly circumcision
did not make them the children of God. It pictured what God
does for His true children. It pictured circumcision of the
heart. The Spirit of God brings us to
Christ, our high priest, and the Spirit of God regenerates
and gives a new heart and a new spirit Look here, Romans 2.28,
for he's not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision
which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew which is one
inwardly. Circumcision is that of the heart
in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but
of God. That's when we first believe,
when he does this work in our heart. And when he gave them
that Brought them to be circumcised. Paul said, whoever is circumcised,
he's a debtor to keep the whole law. It brought them under the
covenant of works. But it pictured what God does
when he circumcises his own heart and gives his faith to believe
Christ. He brings you under the covenant of grace. Not works,
grace. Grace. And this is what distinguishes
us. Go to Philippians 3. This saying of circumcision set
the children of Israel apart from all the nations of this
world because he gave them the ceremonies and the law, the way
they worshipped was different than everybody in the whole world.
Well, when he works this in your heart and brings you under the
covenant of grace, this is the distinguishing mark of his children. This makes us different from
everybody else in the world, including those who claim to
be Christians. Listen, Romans, I mean, Philippians
3.3, for we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit
The new spirit He's given us when He circumcises the heart.
We worship Him in spirit, we rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
we have no confidence in the flesh. He said before that, beware
of dogs, beware of the concision. They're always telling you, cut
something out. Cut this out, cut that out. Paul said in Galatians,
I wish they were cut out. But he said, I got all this pedigree. Everything that I had, circumcised
the eighth day, I was a Hebrew of Hebrews, a Pharisee of the
Pharisees, all of these things he said he had. As touching the
law outwardly, you'd have thought I was blameless. He said, but
I count all those things done. We're the circumcision. We worship
in spirit. True worship is in spirit. We
rejoice in Christ. He saved us to make a name for
Himself. We give Him the glory. It's a
sign, an everlasting sign that won't be cut off. We praise only
Him. And we have no confidence in
any of our works, in anything of us. Natural Israel. Go to Revelation 5. Natural Israel. They were just people. You had to be born in that nation.
But this work of grace that God does, His Israel is from all
nations. Jew and Gentile. Jew and Gentile. Look here, verse 9. They sung
a new song, Revelation 5, 9. They sung a new song, thou art
worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou
was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred and tongue and people and nation and hath made us unto
our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth.
You see, natural Israel was just a picture of spiritual Israel.
And so those that were natural Israel, they rejected Christ
when He came. But not all who are Israel. How does he say it there? Let
me look. I want to say it right. Romans 9. It's not as though the word of
God are taken unaffected for they are not all Israel which
are of Israel. Just because they were born there
didn't mean they were the Israel of God. Now thirdly, Not all
Abraham's children were the true children of God. Now read it
with me, verse seven. Neither because they are the
seed of Abraham are they all children. But in Isaac shall
thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children
of the flesh, just naturally born the first time, these are
not the children of God. but the children of the promise
are counted for the seed. For this is the word of promise. The Lord said, at this time will
I come and Sarah shall have a son. Who our parents are does not
make us children of God. Who our parents are does not
make us the children of God. Ishmael and Isaac were both the
children of Abraham, both of them. But Isaac was a true child
of God. Ishmael was not. God's true children
are God's children by promise. Do you see that? The children
of the promise are counted for the seed. What does that mean? They're the children of God's
covenant of grace. God's covenant of grace. God
made a covenant promise to Abraham. And he said, I will produce a
child. Sarah was barren, never could
have a child. She was up in years, past the
age of childbearing. So was Abraham. Well, he was,
she was. But the Lord said, I will cause
Sarah to have a child. This was a child of promise,
a child produced by God. Before the foundation of the
world, the triune God entered covenant together in Christ. Christ Jesus is the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. When you see him, you see the
triune God. When we get to glory, we're gonna
worship the triune God in Christ. God elected us, he chose who
he would and gave to his son. And his son inter covenant to
redeem everybody God trusted to him. The spirit of God would
regenerate and give faith to each one. That's what it is to
be a child of promise, one God promised to save. God promised
God he would save. If you go read Galatians 3.15,
it says the promise, the covenant that was made to Abraham and
to his seed, his seed is Christ. Before the world was made, long
before that promise was made to Abraham, God made the promise
to Christ and Christ made the promise to God. that He would
save His people. He would save His people. And
the law entering in didn't change that, that it should make that
promise of none effect. It had no effect on it whatsoever.
Now look at verse 8. And Isaac shall thy seed be called. Look at verse 9. For this is
the word of promise, at this time will I come and Sarah shall
have a son. Now go with me to Galatians 4.
Galatians 4. God overruled Abraham and Sarah's
rebellion to bring glory to his name, to give us a picture. God
used Isaac and Ishmael and their mothers as an allegory, a spiritual
illustration. Sarah was barren. God had said,
I will produce a child in Sarah. Now, she's a picture of the church.
We can't produce children. We preach the gospel, but we
can't produce children, just like she couldn't. And you, each
individual of us by nature, can't give ourselves life, can't produce
any fruit. But God promised Abraham he would
call Sarah to have a son. But a long time passed, and Abraham's
Sarah got impatient, and she had a handmaid named Hagar. So
Abraham produced a son through Hagar. named Ishmael. And then in God's time, he produced
Isaac. God did. And Sarah had Isaac. Now look at this, verse 22, Galatians
4.22. It's written, Abraham had two
sons. The one by a bondmaid, that's
Hagar. The other by a free woman, Sarah. but he who was of the bond woman
was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman was by promise,
which things are an allegory, for these are the two covenants.
They represent the two covenants. The one from the Mount Sinai,
Asalov works, which Jindra took bondage, which is represented
by Hagar, For this Hagar pictures Mount Sinai in Arabia, and she
pictures Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage where the
children. Hagar pictures the law, pictures
works, covenant of works. Hagar's pictures also pictures
the false church. Any church that says that you're
saved by your works, by your will, by anything you add, rather
than Christ only, by God's grace only, is pictured in Hagar. They're in bondage. That's bondage. That's not the true salvation,
not the true gospel. That's what most are in, in our
day, who boast that they made themselves be born again, or
that they made themselves righteous by their works, or that they
made themselves holy by their works. That's not the gospel,
brethren. That's a false message. That's
what the people were in who rejected Christ. Verse 26, but Sarah pictures
Jerusalem, which is above. This is the church of God. That's
where Christ is. She's free. All his church is
free, been saved, brought out of bondage by Christ. She's the
mother of us all. How so? Because the church preaches
the gospel. Why does he say Jerusalem above? Because we've been saved, our
life is in Christ at God's right hand, a great multitude are already
there in glory, but you of us that are here below, we think
we're separated, but But it's Christ doing the work through
the preaching. He's birthing his children through
the gospel. The words, the incorruptible
seed, the preaching is the incorruptible seed whereby we're regenerated. First time we're born of corrupt
seed from our father. The new birth is incorruptible
seed by the Spirit of God that produces a new man, which Peter
said is, you can't corrupt him, a new man. But look here now,
let me get back to what I was saying. Sarah pitches Jerusalem
above, which is free, which is the mother of us all, for it's
written, rejoice thou barren that bearest not, break forth
and cry thou that travailest not. You didn't do the work.
For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath
a husband. Now we brethren, as Isaac was,
are the children of promise. But as then, he that was born
after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit,
even so it is now. By God's grace, we're children
of promise like Isaac was. God entered into covenant from
eternity to save us by grace. And then Christ came and redeemed
us by grace. And the Spirit of God, through
this gospel, regenerated us, and we were created by the word
of God, by God's promise, by God's word speaking into the
heart, just like Isaac was. But brethren, just like Ishmael
persecuted Isaac, God said, cast him out, him and Hagar. Well,
right now, we're worshipers, they will not be friends with
God's people. They're going to persecute God's
people because they can't stand the God we worship and they can't
stand the gospel we preach because it's offensive. It strips all
of the works out of a man's hands and declares it's all of God.
And it's offensive. And as it was then, so it is
now. Those born after the flesh persecute
those born after the spirit. Nevertheless, look at verse 30,
what saith the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her
son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son
of the free woman. So then brethren, we're not children
of the bondwoman, but of the free. He says, stand fast therefore,
stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith the Lord has set you
free and don't be entangled again with that yoke of bondage. Look
back at Galatians 3.29. If you be Christ's, then are
you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. See
that? Children of promise, saved by
God's grace. Now, fourthly, go back with me
to Romans 9. Why does God choose whom He will
save? And Christ came and laid down
His life for those God gave Him. And why does it take God to regenerate?
Why is all of this of God? What's God's purpose in electing
whom He will? Verse 10. And not only this. Now, you know, he just said,
he said, this is the word of promise. God said, at this time
I'll come and say I have a son. Well, now he's fixed to tell
us another example. Here's the word of promise right
here. Verse 10, not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived
by one, even by our father Isaac, for the children being nigh yet
born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose
of God, don't you want, Don't you want God to have the glory?
Don't you want his purpose to be done? Surely that's what everybody
wants. That's what his people want.
Well, here it is. So that the purpose of God according
to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.
It was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger, as it's
written, Jacob have I loved, but he shall have I hated. They
had the same father and mother. They were conceived at the same
time. They had done neither good or evil. God made the difference
between them. God alone. God alone. Nobody else. They didn't make
the difference. Their parents didn't make the
difference. None of their works. Nothing they did. God did. We're worshippers here this and
they say, how could God hate Esau? Isn't there just some sense
in which God loved Esau? You know where that comes from?
Pride. That comes from pride. That's
all it is. God hates pride. That's pride. Because you know what? When God
gives you a broken heart, by making you see what a dead dog,
vile, wretched sinner you are, you say, how amazing that God
loved Jacob. You don't have a problem seeing
that God hated Esau. We can understand that. The only
way God could love Jacob, the only way God could love me, is
by grace. By freely, like he told Ezra,
I didn't choose you, I did it because I would. I didn't choose
you for something in you, I did it cause I would. It's only by
God's free and sovereign grace. What do you mean by free grace?
I mean, you didn't earn it, you didn't do anything to merit it.
What do you mean by sovereign grace? God can do with his own
what he will. He said that the purpose of God
according to election might stand not of works, but of God that
calleth. Not of works. Salvation is not
of works. Does it mean salvation? Yes.
Does it mean regeneration? Yes. Regeneration's not of works,
it's of God that calleth. Does it mean redemption? Yeah.
Redemption's not of works, it's of God that calleth. Does he
mean preservation? Preservation is not of works,
but of him that calleth. Does he mean resurrection? Resurrection
is not of a man's works, it's of God that calleth. What about
glorification? Not of works, but of God that
calleth. Everything about the salvation of God's child is not
of works, it's of God that calleth. Who maketh thee to differ from
another? What hast thou that thou didst not receive? That wasn't freely given to you.
Now, if you received it, Why dost thou glory as if thou hast
not received it? That's what all that is. Anytime
somebody says they contributed or they did some part of salvation,
they're glorying in that which it's none of their business to
glory in. God did it. The Holy Spirit now made Paul
raise the objections. Here's what the natural man's
thinking in his heart when he hears this, right here. Here's
exactly what a carnal mind is thinking in his heart. God knows,
God raised the objection and answered it. Look here in verse
14. What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? You that know the Lord and have
talked to family and friends, the gospel, have you never heard
that? You've heard it a bunch, I'm
sure. Well, that's not fair. That's just not fair. That's
what they're saying, that's not fair. God forbid. He said to Moses, when he showed
Moses his glory, he said, this is my glory, Moses. I will have
mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, worketh, but of God that showeth
mercy. Christ said, is it not lawful
for me to do what I will with my own? Is thine I an evil because
I'm good? Man gets joy, he gets so upset. This is God being good to sinners
who don't deserve God to give us anything. And yet he chose
to save some. Let me read a little bit further
here. I just really want to just read the rest of it. Look at
verse 17. For the scripture said unto Pharaoh,
God said this to Pharaoh, even for this same purpose have I
raised you up, that I might show my power in you, that my name
might be declared throughout all the earth. Pharaoh was a
real man. Would God do that to a man? God
gave him, he thought he was making all the political inroads and
playing the political game to climb the ladder as high as he
climbed it. God said, I'll put you there. to show my power so
I could send all those plagues. And as you hardened your heart,
I hardened your heart. So I could put you down and show
my people, I save whom I will and I harden whom I will. Look
at there, therefore have thee mercy on whom he will and whom
he will he harden. Here's your next objection. You'll
say then, well, why does he yet find fault? Well, if we can't
do anything but what God works by grace, then why does he even
blame anybody for being a sinner? Why will he condemn anybody?
Why does he find fault with us? That's the next objection. Here's
God's answer. Nay, but O man, who are you to
reply against God? Who are you to even object? That's
what God said. See, this thing is to bring us
down. It's to humble us. And this is
what God does for you who He saved. He humbled you. He brought
you down to see it's God. Let Him do what He will. Isn't
that right? Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Has not the
potter power over the clay? Are you saying I'm just a lump
of dirt? Exactly. I used to get so persecuted in
grade school for being named clay. Clay dirt, clay mud, everything
you could think of, they called me. I hated it. It's like a boy
named Sue, I guess, makes you tough. But I like it now because
it reminds me God can do with me whatever He will. He's the
potter, I'm the clay. He makes one vessel into honor
and another into dishonor. What if God, and by this He shows
the riches of His grace to you He's called. Because you know
everything I'm saying so, this is what God is saying. And you
know when you see that if He left you to yourself, you'd be
just, you'd be in the world, you'd be grabbing it with both
hands, you'd just be lost. And if he let you go at this
minute, took his hand off of you, that'd be the case. But
by saving it, he shows you the riches of his grace. Look at
that. What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his
power known, endured a much long suffering, the vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction, that he might make known the riches of
his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had aforeprepared unto
glory. from before they made the world,
he prepared us for glory in Christ, trusting us to Christ. Even also
he called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. And
so this is what we say. We say verse 29, if the Lord
had not chosen us and left us to see, chosen a people, we'd
have been like Sodom and Gomorrah. We deserve what Sodom and Gomorrah
got. We're no better than them. You saying I'm as bad as a sodomite? Yeah, that's what we are by nature. Just by our wretched. But God
chose the people and Christ laid down his life for us. And here
we are, we're Gentiles, we fit that group right there. We didn't
have the law, we weren't trying to be righteous by the law, and
God saved us and made us so that God looks at us and says, you
have kept my law perfect. How? How can God say that about
me when I've never kept His law? Only because Christ kept it for
me and then went to the cross and put away all my sins for
not keeping it. It's only through faith. He robed
you in His righteousness. And those that were in Israel
trying to come to God by the works of the law didn't obtain
it because they were seeking it by the works of the law rather
than trusting Christ. Oh, brethren, be thankful God
saved you. Listen, this is what scripture says. Blessed is the
man whom thou choosest and calls us 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. God makes his
people satisfied. He's satisfied in Christ, he
makes you satisfied in Christ. And that's so of his people.
Thank God he made you the true children of God, children of
promise. What a blessing. All right, Brother
Adam.