Chapter 10. Maybe this will be the day. Maybe
this will be the day. There are some of you sitting
here that have never called on the name of the Lord to save
you. And lately I find that every
time I'm getting ready to climb up here to this pulpit, That's
what I'm saying. Maybe this will be the day. Maybe
this will be the day. Verse 13 says, Whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's a wide, wide statement. Surely, you fit in there. Whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord And that's a sure certain
promise. Shall be saved. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. Will this be the day you call
on Him? Now, this verse is one that will
worshipers think bolsters their claim that salvation begins with
the sinner's will. They'll go to a scripture like
this and they'll read it. And then they will read, Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And then
they portray the Lord as a weary beggar who's done everything
he can possibly do, but he's hit a stone wall. and that stone
wall is you, the sinner. And then they start begging you,
the sinner, why don't you let God have His way and let God
be able to save you by exercising your will and calling on the
Lord. But if we read the rest of this
text, we keep tracing this back. One step at a time. All the way
back to the first cause. All the way back to the first
cause. And the first cause is the Lord. The first cause is
the Lord. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. But the first cause of every
sinner who calls on the Lord is the Lord Himself. He is the
reason a sinner calls on the Lord. I want you to see this. I want to trace this step by
step. This was what the Spirit of God gave Paul and God gave
him this and it's so wise. He takes it step by step right
back to the source. And let's go with Paul and let's
read this. First of all, these will be our
divisions. First of all, no sinner shall
call upon the name of the Lord until they first believe. He
says there, verse 14, How then shall they call on Him in whom
they have not believed? No sinner is going to call on
the Lord until they believe. And then secondly, none shall
believe except they first hear of the Lord. He says, And how
shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And
then thirdly, nobody can hear except by a preacher. He says,
and how shall they hear without a preacher? And then fourthly,
we come to the first cause. And how shall they preach except
they be sent? Except they be sent. You know
what the Lord said about that? Let me go back with me to Isaiah
52, and I'll show you where Paul's getting this word. He's going
to end up quoting Isaiah 52. Let me show you what the whole
point of this is right here. I'll show you from the beginning.
Here's the point. This is Paul's point, and this
is the Lord's point. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. Well, how are you going to call
on somebody you haven't believed? How are you going to believe
on him if you haven't heard about him? How are you going to hear about Him
without a preacher? And how is anybody going to preach except
the Lord send them? And here is what the Lord said
is going to be the outcome right here. Isaiah 52 verse 6, Therefore
My people shall know My name. Therefore they shall know in
that day that I am He that doth speak. Behold it is I. How beautiful upon the mountains
or the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth
peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation,
that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth. Thy watchman shall
lift up the voice. With thee voiced together shall
they sing, for they shall see eye to eye when who brings again
Zion? When the Lord shall bring again
Zion. When the Lord shall call His
people to Himself. When the Lord shall do the saving.
You see, the Lord said the whole purpose of me sending my preacher
is the people I call, they're going to know I did it. They're
going to know it's me that's speaking to them. And they're
going to know it's me that's drawing them. And they're going
to glory in me. They're going to glory in me.
That's the point. That's the point. Now let's see it. I've
titled this, The First Calls. Now let's go back over here to
Romans 10 and let's see it. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. But no sinner is going to call
until they first believe. It says in verse 14, How then
shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? Last
time I ended and I said, Have you ever called on the name of
the Lord? I ended with that question. Have you ever called on the name
of the Lord? Well, if you answer no, the Spirit
of God tells you right here why you've never called on Him. You've
never believed on Him. A sinner will not call on the
Lord until he believes. He will not call on the name
of the Lord until he believes. How then shall they call on Him
in whom they have not believed? A sinner only calls on the name
of the Lord for salvation when he already believes the Lord.
One, he believes the Lord's word against himself. He hears the
Lord say, you're a sinner. He hears the Lord say in His
Word, you cannot save yourself. You fell in Adam in the garden.
You became ruined in the fall. You fell into condemnation by
that first representative. You can't save yourself. And the one to whom the Lord
is speaking, the Lord said, they're going to know in that day it's
I that speaks. And the one that hears the Lord
speak, he's going to believe the Word of the Lord. And he's
going to say, that's right, I am a sinner. Do you know what a sinner is?
A sinner is not somebody that needs Christ to help them. That
person doesn't need salvation. Salvation is needing the Lord
to do all the saving. That's when you need salvation.
A person that just needs, he doesn't need all the salvation
to be accomplished by the Lord. That person just needs a little
help. He just needs a leg up. That's not salvation. Salvation
is needing the Lord to do it all. And the Lord speaks and
makes you know, I'm such a sinner. I can't do one thing. I can't
contribute one part to this thing. I need the Lord to save me. It's
simple. You don't go to the doctor unless
you're sick. You don't call for the life preserver
unless you're drowning. You don't call for the Savior
unless you're a sinner. And the Holy Spirit has to make
you a sinner. He has to reveal it in your heart
so that you see, yes, I am a sinner or else we're such sinners we
won't take sides with God against ourselves. We will not say, yes
Lord, you're true and I'm a liar, I'm a sinner. We won't do that.
That's how much of a sinner we are. We will not confess we're
sinners unless the Lord makes us confess it. So that first
thing, that person that calls on the Lord, he believes the
word of the Lord against himself. That's the first thing he believes.
And he also believes the Lord alone can save him. He sees he's
a sinner, unable, unrighteous, and he sees the Lord is able.
and he believes the Lord. There was a leper, and that leper
came, and Scripture says he was full of leprosy. And it says,
who seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him. He was begging the Lord Jesus,
saying, Lord, if Thou wilt. This leper didn't boast in his
will. He didn't come boasting in his will. Well, I believe
I will let You heal me today of my leprosy. No, he said, Lord,
if you will, you can make me clean. If you will, you can make
me clean. I believe you're able, Lord.
See, he believed he was a leper. And he believed he could not
make himself clean, but he believed the Lord was able to make him
clean. That's why he came to the Lord. That's why he called
on the Lord. And the Lord put forth His hand and touched him
saying, I will be thou clean. Immediately the leprosy departed
from him. Immediately. And that's what
will happen if you call on the name of the Lord. Immediately
He will heal you of your sin. Faith believes the Lord. Faith
believes the Lord's word against ourselves and faith believes
the Lord's word about Himself. When my children were toddlers,
I can just see them now doing it. They used to love to stand
on the stairs and I'd say, fall back, just fall back, I'll catch
you. And Emma would just giggle and laugh and just fall back.
And I'd catch her. We'll do the same thing. Why?
They believed me. They believed my word. And so
they fell back. Sinner believe God's word and
just fall back in His arms. He's able. He's able. Well, who's the first cause of
faith? Where does this faith come from? Go to Ephesians chapter
2. Ephesians chapter 2. Our message is the first cause
and I want you to see the first cause now. Go back to Ephesians
2.8. Why is this so important? Because
if the Lord's not the first cause, then you're the first cause.
And if you're the first cause, you have reason to glory. You
have reason to boast. Now look what the Lord says,
Ephesians 2.8. By grace, free unmerited favor, are you saved
through faith. And that not of yourselves, it
is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should
boast, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works. Now what kind of good works is
he talking about? He's talking about the good work
of calling, of believing and calling on the Lord. That's one
of those good works. Which God hath before ordained
that we shall walk in. You see, everybody that calls
on Him, everybody that believes Him and calls on Him is because
God ordained it before the world was made. He ordained it and
then He gave them the faith. and they called on Him. So we
can't boast, can we? He's the first cause. He's the
first cause. Now secondly, go back to Romans
10. How does God give this faith? How does a sinner come to believe
the Lord? Romans 10 verse 14, How shall
they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? It's impossible
to believe on anybody you haven't heard of. You can't believe on
anybody you don't know if you haven't heard of them. It's impossible
to believe on the Savior that we don't know and it's impossible
to know the Savior we haven't heard of. Right? This hearing
includes what I'm doing right now. This is called in Scripture
the general call. It's going forth and everybody's
hearing it. It's a preaching of the gospel. The Lord's calling.
It's not an offer. God doesn't offer the gospel.
No, no. It's not an offer. It's a command. It's a command. Come. Come. But then there's hearing that
only God can give. And it's spiritual hearing. It's
this hearing with faith. It's hearing where through ears
that God gives. Spiritual ears. Spiritual hearing.
This gospel is good news because it's the hearing of Christ Jesus
who is the one and only mediator between God and sinners. There's just one mediator. A mediator is a daisman. He goes
between two parties and he brings those parties together in harmony. He mediates between them. He
brings them together. Christ is the mediator. We offended
God, we sinned against God, and God provided a mediator. He sent
His Son to mediate between Him and His people. And that's what
the Lord Jesus is doing. And that's what we hear when
we hear the Gospel. The Gospel is Christ. It's not
just... Christ is not just a side note
of the Gospel. Christ is the Gospel. We preach
Christ. We go forth to preach what the
Lord has done. You know how we know about our sin? You know how we learn of our
sin and hear of our sin and learn of our sin the most? You know how we most learn of
our sin? By hearing of the Holy One, Christ Jesus. You and I
were conceived in sin in our mother's womb. He is the Son
of God, the eternal Son of God, who came down and took took flesh
in the womb and came forth holy. He was holy from the womb. We
were ruined at the very beginning. He was holy from the very beginning.
We went astray as soon as we were born. Speaking lies, Scripture
says, the Lord Jesus Christ was obedient from the womb even unto
the death of the cross. We are nothing but sin. We've sinned and come short of
the glory of God. He's the righteous servant who
is the very glory of God. Christ said, if I had not come
and spoken unto them, they had not had sin. But now they have
no disguise for their sin. They can't hide it anymore. The
holy ones come. You want to see how badly a lion
is crooked? We put a straight line down beside
it and you'll see how crooked it is. Christ is that straight
line. We see how sinful we are by hearing
about how holy and righteous He is. That's what this gospel
is. This gospel is hearing that that
man, Christ Jesus, that one and only mediator, that one who is
the one and only salvation of God's chosen people, this message
is a message of substitution. We hear about how Christ came
forth and willingly laid down his life for the sheep. That's what he said. No man has
taken my life from me, he said in John 10. I laid down my life
of myself and I lay it down for my sheep, in the place of my
sheep. I am the substitute who is taking
the place of my people under the justice of God. The illustration
we use is of Barabbas, remember? Barabbas, he was this notorious
criminal. Everybody knew him. He was the
Charlie Manson of his day. Everybody knew who this man was.
And he's up to die. He's going to die. And there
he is. He's in that jail cell down there and all he can hear,
he hears that leader stand up and yell, Barabbas. And he hears,
crucify, crucify, crucify. And he thinks they're coming
to crucify him. What he didn't hear was as that leader stood
up and said, who do you want us to release? This man Jesus
or this man Barabbas? And they said, Barabbas, Barabbas,
Barabbas. That's all he heard. Barabbas,
Barabbas. And they said, What do you want us to do with this
man, Jesus? And they yelled, Crucify Him! Crucify Him! And
all Barabbas heard was, Barabbas! Barabbas! Crucify Him! Crucify
Him! And he learned substitution that
day. They came down there and he heard that jailer coming with
the key and he thought, This is it. I'm fixing to be crucified. And that jailer opened up that
jail cell and he said, Barabbas, you're free to go. Christ Jesus
has taken your place today. You think He had to be talked
into coming out of that jail cell? You think He had to be
talked into being thankful? You think He had to be talked
into praising the name of that man who took His place? If you ever meet the substitute,
you won't have to be talked into calling on Him. Not at all. We hear about how He made propitiation
for His people, how He satisfied justice for His people. We hear
how He purged the sins of His people, how He brought in everlasting
righteousness for His people, how He's now seated at God's
right hand and His people are seated in Him, and He's ever
living to make intercession for us. We hear of the successful
Savior. He's not trying. To put the words
try with God and attribute trying to God, that's blasphemy. God doesn't try. He succeeds. The Lord Jesus Christ didn't
try to do anything. He came and victoriously, triumphantly
accomplished what He came to do and He saved His people. That's what the Gospel message
is. We hear Christ Himself speak in the Gospel. Christ said, I
am the way, that means there's not another. I am the truth,
that means there's not another. I am the life, that means there's
not another. And just so that us dumb sinners
get it, He said, no man cometh to the Father but by Me. You
want to come to God? You want to be accepted of God?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Call on the name of the Lord.
This is the gospel we preach. We hear Him say, I'm the door
of the sheep. I'm the door. By me, if any man
enter in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find
pasture. He's the door. He says, My sheep hear My voice,
and I know them, and they follow Me, and I give unto them eternal
life, and they shall never perish, neither any man pluck them out
of My hand. He said, All the Father giveth
Me shall come to Me, and him that cometh to Me I'll in no
wise cast out. He said, I am the light of the
world, he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life. He said, I'm the bread of life,
he that cometh to me shall never hunger, he that believeth on
me shall never thirst. He says, come unto me, all you
that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest. He's not trying. He's not trying. You just heard the general call,
come unto me. If he ever speaks it effectually,
he says, in that day, my people shall know my name. They shall
know it's I that speak. And you will come. You will come. He's able to save to the uttermost
all who come to God by Him. This is the Lord Jesus we're
talking about. Our Lord told us, He said, take heed how you
hear. And He said, take heed what you
hear. Now listen to this. He said, with what measure you
meet, that's M-E-T-E. He says, what measure you mix
in with what you hear, it shall be measured to you. And unto
you that hear shall more be given. First of all, make sure you are
always hearing the truth according to this Word. You that are new, have you figured
out yet that when I say something to you, I am trying to show you
this is what the Word of God says. We turn to a text and I
don't just read it and go off and just preach some current
event or whatever is on my mind. I try to preach this text and
show you what this text is saying. And I try to show you other scriptures
and show you this is to help you understand the sense of what
the text is. That's what we're trying to do.
We're preaching the truth according to the scripture. Make sure what
you hear is the truth according to the scripture. And then when
you hear, meet it with an effort to understand it. That's what
he's saying. He says, Incline thine ear unto wisdom, apply
thine heart to understanding. Yea, if thou cryest after knowledge,
and liftest up thy voice for understanding, if thou seekest
her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasure,
then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the
knowledge of God. In other words, don't just sit here and listen
and say, well, he says God's sovereign, I guess if He's sovereign,
He's going to make me here. No. Hear it and turn to these
Scriptures. Hear it and seek after an understanding
like you would seek after hid treasure. Seek and cry after it. Go after
it. Meet what you hear with some
genuine effort to understand it. And the only place you're
going to get that understanding is from God. You see, even in
hearing this, He's saying, you're going to have to come to Me and
call on Me. The only way you're going to hear is to call on Me.
This whole thing is to bring us to call on Him. You're not
going to hear any other way. Who gave hearing to the deaf
when He walked this earth? The only man that ever could
do that was Christ. They brought a deaf man. He was deaf and he
never had spoken. They brought him to them and
the Lord spoke some words, stuck His fingers in his ears and spoke
some words and said, Be thou open. The man could hear and
he could speak and the people were astonished. Well, he does
the same thing spiritually. And the only way you're going
to hear is if you come to him and beg him, give me some hearing. I want to hear, I want to understand.
And what you'll find out is if you're able to do that, if you're
able to meet it with some effort, you're going to find out he was
the one that gave you the effort. That's right. Thirdly, look here now, back
to our text, Romans 10. Paul takes us back another step.
How shall they hear without a preacher? How are they going to call on
Him whom they have not believed? How are they going to believe
on Him if they have not heard? And how are they going to hear
without a preacher? Go with me back over there to
where Brother Steve was, 1 Corinthians 1. Now, Christ is the head of
the church. And Christ uses His preacher,
preaching Him and His cross, and Christ gives spiritual ears
and faith that so a sinner can believe on Him. Now did you hear
me? Christ is the head of the church. He fills all in all. Christ uses
His preacher, He sends Him forth preaching Him, preaching Christ
and His cross, And He gives ears of faith to the person that hears
it so that that person then believes on Christ. You see how it's all
of Christ? Every bit of it. Now this insults
the wise and the prudent. This insults the wise and the
prudent and it humbles the elect that God saves. Because it insults
the wise and prudent that God is going to use another sinner
And I have to hear another sinner preach Christ? I have to hear
another worm like me preach Christ? That insults the intelligence
of the wise and prudent. But that abases those that God
humbles. It brings you down. And that's
the purpose. Look here. 1 Corinthians 1.18
1 Corinthians 1.18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness. But unto us which are saved,
it's the power of God. For it's written, now watch this,
here's God's purpose. I will destroy the wisdom of
the wise and I will bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is
the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world? How did He do it? 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. For the Jews require a sign,
and the Greeks, the worldly intellectual, seeks after wisdom, but we preach
Christ crucified. Unto the Jews a stumbling block,
unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them what you call.
both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom
of God. Now here's what God's teaching
us through this foolishness of preaching. Verse 25, The foolishness
of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger
than men. Who does God use as His preachers
and His witnesses? Who are His people and His preachers
that He uses? Surely He's going to use some
impressive people. Verse 26, you see your calling
brethren, not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble are called. God has chosen the foolish things
of the world. The word things there includes
His preachers and His people. Foolish. Why? Why did He choose
the foolish things? To confound the wise. And God
has chosen the weak things of the world. Why? To confound the
things which are mighty. and base things of the world
and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, things
which are not. Why? To bring to nothing things
that are. Here's why God saves this way. This is what He accomplishes
through preaching. This is what's taking place when the Gospel
is being preached right here. Verse 29, that no flesh shall
glory in His presence. None. This is why He saves His
way. But of God are you in Christ
Jesus. Who of God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. That's everything
you need. It's of God that He puts His people in Christ. It's
of God that He reveals Christ in us. And Christ is revealed
to be everything we need. Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. And here's why. As it's written,
He that glories, let him glory in the Lord. The wise and the
prudent, you hear men in their wisdom object to this means and
they say, this gives too much glory to a man. You, you, you. Oh, no, no. We don't say people
have to be saved through preaching. That's glorifying a man. That's
man in his wisdom. That's what he thinks. What he's
really Under all that, He wants the glory for teaching Himself. And it insults His intelligence.
Insults Him. Proud, wise, prudent. God says
in His wisdom, it does just the opposite. It destroys the wisdom
of the wise and prudent. And in those I save, it humbles
them so that they don't glory in their flesh anymore. They
glory only in the Lord. That's what God, that's why He
saves this way. That's why He saves this way. So fourthly,
now go back to Romans 10. Paul takes us back one more step.
So that we come now to the first cause of all this. Verse 15. How shall they preach except
they be sinned? Now let's start right here. We're
going to start right here at this first cause and we're going
to follow the links in this chain to the sinner who calls on the
Lord. Alright? The appointed time comes,
a time the Lord appointed from before the world was made. When
Christ, who is the head of the church, He's going to call one
of His lost sheep. It's one that He's redeemed with
His blood. He saved them, He justified them on the cross.
Now He's going to bring this good news, give them a heart,
tell them, teach them, and bring them to Him. Teach them what
He's done for them. How's He going to do that? Well,
Christ chooses his preacher that he's going to use, and he sends
him. Christ chooses the preacher he's
going to use. It's his preacher, he's called him, he's given him
the word, he's taught him the gospel, he's equipped him, and
he's going to send him now. Provide the way, nothing's going
to stop him from going forth and preaching. For how shall
they preach except they be sent? So Christ's going to send him,
his preacher. And then by Christ's sovereign hand, He's going to
rule everything in time, everything in providence, everything in
the day-to-day of this chosen sinner, everything in the life
of that preacher and that people, that church, however He does
it, He's going to cross, they're going to cross one another's
path. Christ is going to work it so that His preacher and His
lost sheep are going to cross paths. For how shall they hear
without a preacher? And then Christ is going to give
His preacher the message to preach that's going to exalt Christ
alone. And Christ is going to bless
that message to His lost sheep so He can hear. For how shall
they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And then as His
lost sheep hears this gospel of Christ, Christ intercedes
with the Father. And they send forth the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit enters that lost sheep, gives him life,
regeneration, gives him faith, and he believes what he's hearing.
Believes everything he's hearing. For how shall they call on Him
in whom they've not believed? And then that lost sheep finds
himself calling on the Lord Jesus for mercy. He calls on Him for
mercy. And Christ gives him peace in
believing. Because whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's how it happens. That's how it happens. That's
what Paul is telling us. That's what the Lord said back over
in Isaiah 52. And what did the Lord say the
result of all this would be? Why does He save this way? I've
told you this is more wisdom. I'm astounded at the wisdom of
God saving through preaching, using His people that He's gathered
and His preacher and sending forth the gospel and saving in
this way. It's so wise. Because here's what He does.
This is what He said He would do. This is what the outcome
is right here. From that day forward, that sinner
saved by grace loves the Lord Jesus. He loves the Lord's preacher. He loves the Lord's people who
sacrificed to send that gospel through which He was saved. He
loves them. He loves the Lord. He loves His
people. He loves His preacher for sending
that gospel of His salvation to Him when He was a lost ruined
sinner. And having experienced God's
grace through the preaching of the gospel, He esteemed assembling
with those brethren under the preaching of the gospel of Christ,
he esteems that to be priceless. And he'll never forsake it. He endeavors to keep the unity
of the Spirit in the bond of peace, to overlook the faults
of his brethren, to bear with their burdens, to endeavor to
keep unity. Why? He sees the value of that
Gospel that saved his life. And he knows he has to have it.
He knows those brethren he loves have to have it. It makes him less selfish because
he knows the value now of sending that Gospel forth to other lost
sheep. And Christ said through Isaiah,
this would be the outcome of using this means. All this I'm
just telling you. He said this would be the outcome.
He said He had knit the hearts of His people inseparably together
with Him by making us all to be in full agreement on this
right here. Verse 15. How beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad
tidings of good things. And when you've experienced that,
That's the difference between you who can sit here and will
put up with anything you have to put up with because nothing
is worth walking away from the gospel. You've experienced it. That's the difference in you
and somebody who says, I can take it or leave it. And the
least little thing and they're offended and they go off to find
something else. like the bumblebee, from one
flower to the next flower to the next flower. I know people
who sit on the gospel for 40, 50, 60 years. Same gospel. And I know some people that I
haven't known any longer than 12 years and they've already
been to two or three churches. Preaching different messages. What's the difference? have a preacher sent to them,
and they are saved by the gospel, and they know the value of the
gospel. Others, self-taught, they don't know the value of
it. It doesn't mean anything to them. They don't need it. You see the difference? You see
why He saves this way? I pray God, make us value the
gospel as a priceless commodity. Because it is. This is the most
valuable thing we have. Because this is telling us about
our King, our Savior. And we have to have Him. We have
to have Him. I think that's so wise. I think
it's just the wise. I see the wisdom of God in that. It's just astounding. Alright
brethren, let's stand together. Father, we thank you for this
word. Thank you for this means by which you save your people.
Lord, use the gospel to knit our hearts together with you
and with your people. As we walk through this wilderness
together, keep us close, cemented and separably together. Keep us ever looking to Christ
and rejoicing in Him. And Lord, we pray that you would
bless this gospel. Send this word today to the heart
of one of your lost sheep. Make them enter into this priceless
treasure that you've given us. And Lord, don't ever let us value
you and your gospel any less. Don't let us, don't let it ever
begin to dim in our view whatsoever. We found the pearl of great price
by your grace. Make us sell the field, the house,
everything we got to sell to have it. Please don't let us go. Forgive
us, Lord, of our sins, our shortcomings, and our not appreciating it like
we ought to. And do it all in the name of
our King and our Redeemer. our head, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in His precious name we
pray. Amen. Brother Art's going to lead us
in a closing hymn. Before he does, let me remind
you