Thank you, Clay, for the welcome.
It's good to be back here. We came here a couple of years
ago. We're really blessed with our time meeting with our brothers
and sisters in Ewing. It's always a joy to come here
and to hear Clay preach the gospel. And I'm thankful for his invite
to come and to bring what the Lord has given to me to bring
to you this day. Shall we seek the Lord's face
in prayer briefly before we start? O Lord God and gracious Heavenly
Father, we thank Thee that Thou art a great and an almighty God. Thou art the sovereign God who
spake and brought the world into being. Thou art the God who rules
over all things. Thou art the God who in Thy Son,
Jesus Christ, hath done all things well. O Lord, we thank Thee if
Thou hast shown grace and mercy unto us as wretched sinners.
We thank Thee if Thou hast come into the darkness where we dwell
and shined light. We thank Thee if Thou hast come
and declared Thy Son unto us. And Lord, if we know Thee not,
this day, Lord, we pray that Thou wouldst have mercy upon
us. Come and speak. Put man in the dust and lift
up Christ. Give us faith to look unto Him
and none other. For he is mighty to save, and
he is wondrous in all his doings and in all his ways. Then Lord,
as we come now, we pray that thou wouldst take man away from
our sight, and may we hear but Christ only, may we see Jesus
only. We pray in his name and for his
sake. Amen. Turn in your scriptures, please,
to Psalm 42. Psalm 42. Psalm 42, where we read the words
of the Psalmist dressed to the chief musician, Maskil, for the
sons of Korah. As the heart panteth after the
water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. My soul thirsteth
for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear
before God? My tears have been my meat day
and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul in me. For I had gone with the multitude,
I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy
and praise, with a multitude that kept holy day. Why art thou
cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in
me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of
his countenance. Oh my God, my soul is cast down
within me. Therefore will I remember thee
from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites from the hill
Mizar, deep call if unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts.
All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Yet the Lord
will command his loving kindness in the daytime and in the night
his song shall be with me. and my prayer unto the God of
my life. I will say unto God, my rock,
why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of
the oppression of the enemy? As with a sword in my bones,
mine enemies reproach me, while they say daily unto me, where
is thy God? Why art thou cast down, O my
soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God,
for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance
and my God. Verse 10, as with a sword in
my bones, mine enemies reproach me while they say daily unto
me, where is thy God? Where is thy God? How the enemies of Christ oppress
his people with the derision and the mockery, where is thy
God? How they derided Christ himself
as he hung upon the cross suffering for the sins of his
people, cast out by all. How they mocked, how they scorned,
how they laughed, how they passed by and cried out, where is thy
God? In similar circumstances when
we are in the state that the Samis is in here, when we feel
forgotten, when we feel alone, when we feel cast out, oppressed,
how we hear the cry of the enemies of Christ saying unto us, where
is thy God? Where's your help? Where's the
God in whom you trust? Look at you. Where is thy God? This psalm is a psalm of faith in such circumstances, in such a place The psalmist
cries out as the heart panteth after the water brook, so panteth
my soul after Thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for
the living God. When shall I come and appear
before God? My tears have been my meat day
and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? How his faith is tested, all
outward circumstances, would say to this man, you're
abandoned, you're alone. The God in whom you trust has
forgotten you. Is he even there? Were you deceived? Is there a God? Look at you now. And yet, from his heart, there
is this cry. Why art thou cast down, O my
soul? And why art thou disquieted in
me? Hope thou in God, for I shall
yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Faith rises up beyond the circumstances. In the darkness, cast out by
all, trodden underfoot, all outward circumstances saying, you're
abandoned, you're lost, you're gone. Faith rises up and looks
beyond the darkness, up unto God. and says, why art thou cast
down, O my soul? Hope thou in God. Not only is this an illustration
of the faith of the believer, but of course these words in
this psalm are very much the words of Christ himself. Cast
out by all men, nailed to a cross, lifted up to die in the darkness,
bearing the sins of his people, drinking the cup of God's wrath. His enemies cry out, where is
thy God? But the heart of faith within
says, why art thou cast down, O my soul? Hope thou in God for
I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Yes, here in this psalm we see
God in Christ. As the Son was abandoned by all,
despised, cast out, spat upon, rejected, And yet in the midst
of this darkness, his faith looked up unto his God in whom he trusted. But the enemies came by and cried
out, where is thy God? And how we may cry out, where
thy God. Where is God? Where is he? As we look around in the world,
as we see the tragedies and the poverty, the hatred, as we see the troubles around
us, as we experience our own troubles
and trials, How often we may cry out, where is God? Where is he? How the enemies
of God will look upon the famines, the wars, the tragedies, the
tsunamis, the violence, the hatred of man. and cry out, well where
is God? Where's your loving God now? Where is he? How can we believe
in a loving God when there's all this going on in the world?
Where is God? Where is he to help us? But how we see in these cries,
the heart of man, the wicked, the sinful, the unbelieving heart
of man that looks upon the trouble, that looks upon the tragedy and
does not see and does not own that all these troubles that
come upon man are the consequence of man's sin. They are nothing
more than what we deserve. They are nothing more than what
man as a sinner deserves to be judged by a righteous and a holy
God. And yet we cry out, where is
God to spare me? Where is God to deliver us? Where
is God's help? When we won't come unto Christ
to be saved. God sent his son into the darkness
of this world. He sent his son unto a world
that hated him and rejected him. He gave his son to save sinners
from their sins, to bring them everlasting life. A man says,
when the judgment of sin is seen around him, where is God to save
me? When God has said unto man, look
unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved. Behold my Son. Believe on the Son of God and
be saved. And we won't. We run away. and we shake our fist at Almighty
God and say, why have you brought this upon me? Where is God? Where is God? Perhaps the Lord has given us
some wisdom to seek Him. Perhaps there are those who recognise
that there must be a God. that he brought this world into
being, that he must be there, he must rule over all things,
that there is a God and they may seek him. And they may turn to religion
to find him. Perhaps you have. Perhaps you're
seeking this God. But where is he? Where is he? In all the religions, where is
he? Is he to be found amongst the
Hindus? Is he to be found in Buddha? Is he to be found in Islam or
Judaism or Christianity? Which one? They all preach a
God, they all preach salvation, but where is he? If we look upon Christendom,
how many denominations there are? How many splits, how many
sects, how many factions there are? In the ten thousands of religions,
and variations of religions amongst all the denominations, where
is he? Where is God? Has he abandoned us? Has he abandoned
them? It feels like he has. So the Presbyterians, do the
best they can. And the Methodists do the best
they can. And the Anglicans do the best
they can. And the Baptists do the best
they can. They all say, lo, here is Jesus. Lo, here is Christ. And they
all preach a message at variance one with the other. Who's right? Where is thy God? Where is God
in all these religions? Where is God? Where is he? Is he in the buildings? Can you
go to this place and that place, to this temple, to that cathedral? Will you find him there, in the
quiet and the calm? Is he in the many rituals and
the forms and the ceremonies? Perhaps you heard the zeal of
some worshippers, the much praying, the loud crying. Is he with the
most zealous? Is he there to be found amongst
the most zealous people? Or the most devout? Or those
who have turned from the world around them and they seem to
sacrifice so much because they're so desirous of finding God. Are
they the ones that God dwells with? So you may go to this place and
to that place and turn from this religion to that religion, crying
out with a thirsty heart, where is God? My soul thirsty for God,
for the living God. When shall I come and appear
before God? Where is he? Is he in these things? Well, he
can't be in all. For they're all so different,
he can't be. And if you go to this place and to that place,
you'll find he's not there. In the buildings of men, and
the forms of men, and the organizations of men, you'll hear much noise,
many words, much crying, you'll see much zeal. but you won't
hear God. Like those that came to the tomb,
as we read in Luke 24, the women came to the tomb and met with
the angels and they said unto them, why seek ye the living
among the dead? He's not here, but is risen. He's not here. and how much of
our time we spend searching for the living God among the dead. Yes, if the Lord stores up your
heart, he'll give you the desire of the psalmist here to find
the living God. But all the time there is this
cry from the enemies of God saying, where is thy God? And you know that it's not enough
to have the record. It's not enough to just read
the Bible about God, or to hear a preacher talk of God, or to
hear people say, well, there's God. You need to know him. You need to hear him. You need
to see him by faith. You need to know him. You're
looking for the living God. God's people will seek him. They desire Him, but of themselves
they cannot find Him. In our own strength we will never
seek Him. Man by nature will never seek
God. Men speak of receiving Jesus,
of believing by your own will, but there's none willing. There's
none that seeketh after God. There's none that cares. not
until God stirs us up and causes us to first, causes us to see
the barrenness in our own soul, the emptiness within, the depravity
of sin within ourselves. When he causes us to see the
barrenness of religion below, the emptiness, the empty words,
that God isn't in these things, when he starts to draw us, and
give us a hunger and a thirst, then we cry out, where is God? Yes, Job, as we heard earlier,
was brought to cry out, to call upon God, to cry out for Him. Then Job answered and said, even
today is my complaint bitter. My stroke is heavier than my
groaning. Oh that I knew where I might
find him. That I might come even to his
seat. Oh that I knew where I might
find him. Where is he? Job felt abandoned. God has stripped
him of all that he had. All his riches were taken away. His children were lost. His health
was stripped from him. He was on the brink of death
and surrounded by those that mocked and scoffed and said,
you're in the state you're in, Job, because of some sin that
you've done. You've brought it upon your head,
Job. It's all your own fault. He was
cast out, he was lost, and there was none to help, none to comfort. And in such a state he cries
out, Oh that I knew where I might find him, where is my God? Has God brought you there? Has
God brought you there to cry out unto him that you must know
the living God? that a religion in the letter
won't do, that words won't do, that a mere profession of following
Jesus won't do. You need to know him, you need
his life, his salvation. You need to know that he's there,
that he's heard you, that he answers. Where is he? Where is he? He's not found in buildings.
He's not found in the form and in the words. But he's there. He's there. He will find his
own. He will come to them. He will
make himself known unto them. He came. Christ Jesus came into
this world to save sinners. of which I am chief," says Paul.
He came. He has made himself known. He
has come into the darkness of this world. The light of God
has shone. And he shines today. And he shines
in the preaching of his gospel. God is found in the preaching
of the gospel, which declares his son, Jesus Christ. Which is why Paul said, when
he wrote to the Romans, I am ready to preach the gospel to
you that are at Rome also, for I am not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ. For it is the power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to
the Greek. Why Paul? How is it the power
of God unto salvation? Because therein is the righteousness
of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the
just shall live by faith. When Christ preached his gospel
to Paul, to Saul, who was in the darkness of sin, in spite
of all his religion, and all his worship and all outward appearance
before man, he'd gone to religion to seek God. He'd worked at religion to know
God and he knew nothing. His zeal, his efforts, his will,
his energy in religion brought him to persecute Christ and his
people, to put his people to death. And if all we have is
religion, that's where we are. As Clay just preached, all we
have in religion, the religion of man, is Antichrist. If all we rest in is our own
strength, our own will, our own wisdom and our own works, all
we will do is resist the truth, resist Christ and in our hearts
put him to death. That's where Paul was until Christ
came with the Gospel and met him on the Damascus road and
said unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? He met him in the way. Saul was travelling to cause
havoc amongst the churches. In his religious zeal, in his
pride, in his arrogance, in his furthering of his own career,
he was traveling, aiming to bring havoc amongst the churches and
God intervened. God met him in the way, in Christ,
in the gospel. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou
me? Before Saul, the righteousness
of God in Jesus Christ was manifested, was revealed. He met him. He met his righteousness. He
met his salvation. He met his Saviour and all Saul
had to offer was the wretchedness of his sin, his opposition, his
unbelief, his hatred. And all he met with was the free
forgiveness of God through the blood of Jesus Christ. He hated
Christ. He sought to put the followers
of Christ to death. And Christ met him. And washed
him in his blood. And forgave him. And gave him
life where there was but death. He washed him. As Paul later wrote in Galatians,
he loved me. and gave himself for me. No wonder then that Saul would
later write, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it
is the power of God under salvation. He knew it. God had met with
him in power. He broke him. He brought him
down to nothing. And then he raised him up and
set him upon his feet. He revealed Christ to him and
in him. And when the enemies of Paul
would come and say, where is thy God? He would point them
unto Christ in his gospel as the power of God unto salvation. Has God met you in such a place? Has he met you in such a place? In 1 Corinthians, Paul speaks of the preaching of the cross. This Christ who met him, This
Christ who preached the gospel unto him, he preached unto others. And he says in 1 Corinthians
1 verse 18, the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness. But unto us which are saved it
is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the disputer of this
world? Have not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world? For after that, in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Where is thy God, you may ask, in this foolish preaching of
Christ? I don't want to know, you say.
Then you will never find God. But if God gives you ears to
hear this preaching, this saviour, this message, then you'll discover,
should God open your ears, a saviour who is mighty to save. For the
Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but
we preach Christ crucified, Unto the Jews a stumbling block, and
unto the Greeks foolishness. But unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom
of God. Because the foolishness of God
is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Oh, how strong we think we are. Oh, how wise we think we are. Oh, how smug we are when we cry
out, where's thy God? And ridicule and laugh and mock
and scorn. But where will our crying be
on that day when we stand before Christ when every knee shall
bow before him and the day of grace is no more. And he calls
us before him and we say, well I did this and I did that and
I fought this and I fought that. And he says, away with me, away
with thee, thou worker of iniquity. Where will our wisdom be then? Oh that God in Christ should
come and meet with us now in this foolish preaching of the
gospel which is wiser than men and stronger than men which makes
known Christ the power of God. For ye see your calling, brethren,
how that not many wise men are after the flesh, not many mighty,
not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise. And God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the things which
are mighty. And base things of the world
and things which are despised have God chosen, yea, and things
which are not. to bring to naught things that
are, that no flesh should glory in his presence. Where is God? In Christ, as made known by the
preaching of his gospel. How thankful we should be if
God should send his gospel to us by a faithful preacher like
Paul was. who comes and says, lo, here
is my saviour, who met me in the darkness as a blind and a
wretched sinner, who touched my eyes and made me see, who
gave me life as one who was dead. I was in the grave, though I
thought I lived. I was blind, though I thought
I saw. I was lame, though I thought
I walked. I was deaf, though I thought
I heard. I was wretched, and he touched
me, and he healed me, and he caused me to live, and he forgave
my every sin. Yes, he came and he preached
the gospel, he spake unto me. Because Christ speaks, God speaks
in his son. Where is thy God? Hebrews 1 tells
us. God who at sundry times and in
diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the
prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. who being the brightness of his
glory and the express image of his person and upholding all
things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged
our sins sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high being
made so much better than the angels as he have by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they. God in these last
days have spoken unto us by His Son, by Son, by the Word. He's spoken unto us by Word,
by the Word, His Son, Jesus Christ. He's come unto sinners in the
darkness and made Himself known unto them. has he come unto you? This son referred to as the Word
in John's Gospel, the Word, the speech of God, the manifestation
of God in human flesh. It's through His Son that He
speaks unto us. It's through His Son that He
makes Himself known unto us. It's through His Son that He
is declared unto us. He comes unto His people and
speaks this Word, Christ. brings life where there is no
life. In the beginning he spake and
the worlds were formed out of darkness. All things were made
by him and without him was not anything made that was made. He speaks. He speaks in Christ. He speaks through the preaching
of his gospel. You can go to this religion and
that religion, unless you hear the gospel there, you'll hear
nothing. You can go to this building and
that building, unless there's a preacher with the gospel, you'll
hear nothing. You can go to this church and
that church, unless they preach Christ by this gospel, you will
hear nothing. But if God meets you, wherever
you may be, on a road to Damascus, in the darkness of your sin,
in the depravity and blasphemy of your false religion, and you're
trusting in self and your own works and your own will. If he
meets you there and speaks then you will know where is God in
Jesus Christ. In Luke 1 verse 70 we read, He
spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since
the world began. that we should be saved from
our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us, to perform
the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,
the oath which he swore to our father Abraham, that he would
grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies
might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness
before him all the days of our life. And thou, child, Jesus
Christ shall be called the prophet of the highest, for thou shalt
go before... Thou, child John, shall be called
the prophet of the highest, for thou shalt go before the face
of the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation
unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender
mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high have visited
us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow
of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Child John
grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the deserts till the
day of his showing unto Israel. Before Christ came, God sent
his prophets from the beginning. Moses and
the prophets thereafter. He sent his prophets. He sent
the law to point and to declare unto the coming of Christ. And
when Christ should come, he raised up John and sent him into the
desert to herald the coming of Christ. And then in the fullness
of time, Jesus was born, a babe in Bethlehem. God came in human
flesh, born a man, a real man. He came into the darkness where
we dwell. that he should meet his people,
that he should find them in the darkness, that he should offer
himself as a sacrifice for their sins, that he should take their
sins upon himself, bear them and suffer the outpouring of
God's wrath upon them. He lived, he grew as a man and
he went to the cross where he should die for his people. God came in the flesh. Emmanuel,
God with us. Where is thy God? In Christ. He came, he walked upon the earth. He came before men. And all men, you and I included,
rejected him and cast him out. And our sins put him to death.
for we would not have this man to reign over us. Yes, he lived,
he died, he rose again, and he ascended, though we hated him
and despised him. Where is thy God? 2 Corinthians
5.19 tells us, to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and
have committed unto us the word of reconciliation. God was in
Christ when he was born a babe in Bethlehem. God was in Christ
when Herod put out a decree to slay the firstborn sons, when
Herod sought to kill him. God was in Christ when Christ
walked amongst men preaching the gospel of the kingdom and
salvation through Christ alone. God was in Christ when all men,
when Israel to whom he came, he came unto his own and his
own received him not. God was in Christ when all men
cast him out. God was in Christ when men took
him and nailed him to the tree, hammering nails into his hands
and his feet. God was in Christ when we rejected
Him and cast Him out and nailed Him to that tree with our own
sins and our own hatred and unbelief of Him. God was in Christ when
He was raised up in the midday sun. God was in Christ when the
light of the sun was taken away. When all the sins of all God's
people were laid upon Him. when he bore their sins in his
own body upon the tree, when he was made sin, when the light
of the sun was taken away and he entered into the darkness,
cast out by all men, when he felt forgotten and cast out by
even God the Father, when he was alone, when he cries out
like the psalmist at his heart, pantith after the water brooks, when he felt forgotten and alone,
when he sought his God, when his faith was tried upon the
cross. God was in his son. His son looked by faith unto
the Father. He trusted in the Father. As
with a sword in my bones, he said, mine enemies reproach me,
while they say daily unto me, where is thy God? Why art thou
cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within
me? Hope thou in God, for I shall
yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance and my God. Where is God? Where was He then? He was in His Son. As the whole
world put Him to death and cast Him out, every one of us, God
was in Christ, reconciling the world of His people, His elect,
the new world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto
Him. God was in Christ when He gave
Himself for those He loved. He loved me, Paul said, and gave
himself for me. God was in Christ at the cross
when he hung up his head and gave up the ghost. When he cried
out, it is finished. God was in Christ when they laid
him in the grave and shut the tomb. God was in Christ early
on the first day of the week. when the stone of the tomb was
rolled away and he rose. God was in Christ when he met
with Mary in the garden. And she said unto him, master.
And he said unto her, Mary. God was in Christ when he rose
victorious and ascended into glory. Where is thy God today? In Christ. In glory. Seated on the right hand of God
the Father, there is Christ. From whence he preaches his gospel. From whence he sends forth his
gospel to sinners like you and I in the darkness. Where is God, you may ask, but
where are we? Where are you? God doesn't wait for us to find
him. He sends his gospel to seek and
to save that which is lost. He seeks out the lost sheep of
Israel and wherever they are, however far off they may be,
however lost in sin they may be, however blind they may be,
however rebellious they may be, If they're his, he'll come with
his gospel and he will melt them by his grace. He will make Christ
known unto them. He will say unto them as he said
unto the thief on his side at the cross, today thou shalt be
with me in paradise. Why persecutest thou me? Believe on the Son of God and
live. For I have given myself for you,
my child. I've washed you in my blood.
What of my sins, you say? They're all gone. They're all
blotted out. Christ can see nothing but the
righteousness of God in every one of his sheep for whom he
died. Yes, today he is in glory preaching
his gospel, sending it forth by his Spirit through the mouths
of preachers sent of God to sinners like you and I. You say, can
he be found? Yes, he can in the preaching
of Christ in the gospel. Seventhly, lastly, where is God? He's in Christ alone in this
gospel. in Christ, only in Christ, in
the gospel of Christ, which Paul called the power of God under
salvation. That gospel, which is sent unto
a chosen, elect people, chosen of God before the foundation
of the earth, A people for whom Christ came. He was called Jesus
for he shall save his people from their sins. He will find
every one of them. Not one of his sheep shall be
lost. He shall send his gospel unto
them. He shall find them. He shall
deliver them. Because he gave his son to deliver
them. God gave his all. God gave himself
to deliver his people. Where is thy God? He was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them, and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation,
the preaching of Christ in the gospel. Why do we preach this
so fervently, so authoritatively? so confidently because God has
shown us like he's shown Paul that this is how God is known. That this is how we are saved. We were lost in the darkness
like Paul was. We were blind. And God came unto
us and touched our eyes and made us see. We were guilty. And God declared us forgiven,
righteous in Christ. We were wretched and vile. Worse than the worst. We look
upon the sin in the world. You can see it all around you.
The vilest have been washed by the blood of Christ. And Paul
knew this. And we know this, which is why
God sends us the word of reconciliation to preach unto sinners this God
who saves sinners from their sins. This God who declares a gospel
in which is revealed the righteousness of God. What righteousness is
that? It's not the righteousness of
the law alone, that which Moses described, as we read in Romans
10, Moses described if the righteousness which is of the law, that the
man that doeth those things shall live by them. But we haven't. The law proved us guilty. And
we know it proves us guilty. We're guilty before the law.
But when God sends a gospel declaring Christ unto us, he makes known
the righteousness which is of faith. The righteousness of God
in Jesus Christ. The righteousness he brought
in for his people upon the cross when he suffered in the darkness
by faith looking under his guard. A righteousness which declares
the love of God. The love of God in Christ for
God the Father and for all his people. A righteousness which
calls Christ to give himself for them. The righteousness which
is of faith speaketh on this wise. Say not in thine heart
who shall ascend into heaven. That is to bring Christ down
from above. Or who shall descend into the deep. That is to bring
up Christ again from the dead. But what sayeth it? The word
is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the
word of faith which we preach. That if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. For the scripture saith, whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Yes, he's given unto us a word
of reconciliation. The Gospel that makes known,
that reveals the righteousness of God. From faith to faith,
we preach this Word. And if you're given faith to
believe it, then your heart will respond by faith and receive
it. And this Word will be in you. The Word is nigh thee, even in
thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the Word of faith which
we preach. that if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Oh, that God would make himself
known in his gospel, in Christ, to us wretched sinners, lost
in the darkness, blind, fools, wretched, that he should come
unto us. And when we cry out unto him,
where is God? Whenever say unto us, where is
thy God? We shall know he's in Christ. He came unto me. He made himself
known. He's my savior. He's real. He came in power. For there's
no difference between the Jew and the Greek. For the same Lord
over all is rich unto all that call upon him. And he gave me
faith to call. Have you called? For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.