Alright, brethren, let's go to
Exodus 6. I enjoyed that song. I heard that. Son of my love. I enjoyed that. Exodus chapter
6. After God used Pharaoh to show
Moses and his people that they had utterly no power to deliver
themselves. Let Pharaoh make their lives
more bitter with hard bondage and allow them to be beaten.
And he showed Moses and Aaron. God used Pharaoh for that purpose,
to show Moses and Aaron that they had no power in themselves.
And after that, our text begins with the word, then. Exodus 6,
verse 1, Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see. what I will do. Now shalt thou
see what I will do. Now shalt thou see what I will
do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and
with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. After God
made them see, they were absolutely helpless to deliver themselves.
God said, Now shalt thou see what I will do. You see, so long
as a sinner is looking at what he thinks he can do, he will
not see what God can do, what God will do. As long as he is
looking at what he will do, he won't see what God will do. But
when he's brought to where he finally sees that he can't do
anything, God says, Now shalt thou see what I will do. Now
is there any sinner here today? I know we're all sinners. Oh
yeah, we're all sinners. But I'm talking about, and God
is saying here, What He said in the other place, ìI came not
to call the righteous, but sinners to repent us.î Is there anybody
here that knows they are utterly helpless? If so, God says, ìNow
thou shalt see what I will do.î Now in these eight verses, God
declares the gospel of ìI have and I will.î That's God's gospel. The gospel of I have and I will. Let's read it together. Verse
2. God spake unto Moses and said unto him, I am the Lord. And I appeared unto Abraham and
Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty. But by my name
Jehovah was I not known to them. And I have, I have, also established
My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the
land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers. And I have
also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians
keep in bondage. And I have remembered My covenant
Wherefore, say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and
I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,
and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you
with a stretched out arm and with great judgments, and I will
take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God, and
you shall know that I am the Lord your God. which bringeth
you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will
bring you in unto the land concerning the which I did swear to give
it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I will give it
you for an inheritance. I am the Lord. You see, God's
gospel and the gospel His people declare is the gospel of God
has and God will. God says, I'll have and I will. The gospel is the message of
salvation accomplished for helpless sinners by God alone. That's
the message of the gospel. There's nothing else being preached
in religion anywhere, any kind of religion, no matter what name
it goes by, there's no religion anywhere, any place that is declaring
to people a message. concerning a God who does all
the work in salvation for helpless sinners. This is the only message
that declares that in all the world, in every generation, throughout
all time. Because there's just one God
and one truth. This is the only one, right?
The rest of them, as the Lord said through Joshua, choose which
one of them you'll serve. You've got many choices. You've
got a buffet line to go down if you want to. But Christ said,
as for me and my house, Christ was speaking that through Joshua.
I, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We don't
have a choice. There is just one Lord and one
truth. We serve in Him. Now first of all, the gospel
is the declaration of God's name. The gospel is the declaration
of God's name. Verse 2, He said, God spake unto
Moses and said unto him, I am the Lord. I am the Lord. You know, as soon as God began
declaring to Moses what He would do, what He had done and what
He would do, as soon as God started declaring promises to Moses,
this is where it starts with His name. I am the Lord God. God always attaches the promise
of His works, the promise of what He will do. He always attaches
it to His name. Look here in verse 6. Wherefore
say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring
you out. Look at verse 8. I will bring
you into the land I promised, and I will give you an inheritance.
Look at the end. I am the Lord. Look at verse
29. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
I am the Lord. Now go tell Pharaoh everything
I promise to do for my people and to him. Why? Why does he do that? Why does
he attach his name to the works that he promises he shall do?
My grandfather used to always tell me, he said, when you speak
your word to someone, When you tell them you are going to do
something, fulfill your word because that will declare your
name. You think about that. When you
tell somebody that you will do something, you do it because
that is declaring to them your name. Then when a person hears
your name, they know it is one who fulfills his word. You don't
want folks to hear your name and say, oh, that man's a liar.
You don't believe a thing he says. You tell him he's going
to do it, but he won't. You want them to hear your name and know
that's a man that when he says it, he does it. For the same
reason, whenever God promises His works to His people, what
He will do, He attaches His name to it. That assures us that God
shall fulfill His promise because His name is at stake. And He
will not allow His name to be polluted. His name will be glorified. And so He will perform everything
He promises to do. Listen to this. God made all
these promises here to Israel. And He said, now you go tell
Pharaoh and my people what I'm going to do to both of y'all.
And later on when He brought them out, Israel rebelled against
God. You know, that was a natural
covenant. He hadn't worked in their heart like He does His
people. He showed us what we would do
if it's all just a natural thing of our will. And they rebelled
against Him. But even still, God had made a promise that He
was going to take them to Canaan. And God said this, He said, The
house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness, but I wrought,
I worked for My namesake, that it should not be polluted before
the heathen in whose sight I brought them out. See, He fulfilled His
promise, not for their sake, for His namesake, because He
had made His promise. This is why God's name is connected
to His works, the works of salvation throughout the Scripture. Psalm
23.3 says, He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for His name's sake. It says, David said, Save
me, O God, by Thy name. You know what that is? That's
the same as saying, Save me, O God, by Thy works. Because
His name and His works are one. Psalm 79.9 says, Help us, O God,
of our salvation for the glory of Thy name. Help us for the
glory of Thy name. Deliver us and purge away our
sins for Thy namesake. 1 Samuel 12.22, The Lord will not
forsake His people for His great namesake, because it hath pleased
the Lord, because the Lord hath sworn to make you His people.
And John said, I write unto you, little children, because your
sins are forgiven you for His namesake. You see, everything
God does, He does for the glory of His name. That's why He attaches
His name to His promise, to His covenant. Now what is His name?
He tells us there His name, verse 3, He says His name is God Almighty. God Almighty. That is translated
from El, which means God, Shaddai, which means Almighty. El Shaddai. That's His name. God Almighty. But it means more than what we
usually think of when we think of Almighty. It means more than
power alone. It means God is able to execute
His grace, His purpose upon His people and redeem them completely
Himself and save them, regenerate them, call them, give them faith
completely Himself. It means that He is able to fulfill
all His covenant promises to His people. That's what El Shaddai
means, God Almighty. And His name is Lord Jehovah. Capital L-O-R-D, when you read
that and you read Jehovah, it's the same word, translated from
the same word. It means, and when you read capital
G-O-D in the scripture, same word, Jehovah, and it means the
existing one. the existing One, which is and
was and is to come. That's the name of our Savior.
Remember Revelation 1.4? He said, He is He which is and
was and is to come. That's the name of Jesus Christ.
Savior, Deliverer, this is His redemptive name. The best way
I know to convey His name is to read Isaiah 40. Go there with
me. I mentioned this in our first
message. Go there with me. Isaiah 40.
The best way I know here to define or to, not define, but explain
or declare His name, look here, Isaiah 40 verse 9. O Zion, that bring us good tidings. What's that? That's what the
gospel means. The word gospel means good tidings. Go, good, spell, speech. Good speech, good tidings. Good
news. Get thee up into the high mountain,
O Jerusalem that bringeth good news. Lift up thy voice with
strength, lift it up and be not afraid. Say unto the cities of
Judah, Behold your God. Now watch this. Behold the Lord,
capital G-O-D, Jehovah, Jehovah. The Lord Jehovah will come with
strong hand and His arms shall rule for him. Behold, His reward
is with Him and His work before Him. He, the Lord Jehovah, shall
feed His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with
His arm and carry them in His bosom and shall gently lead those
that are with young. Look at verse 22. It is He that
sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof
are as grasshoppers, that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in, that bringeth the
princes to nothing. He makes judges of the earth
as vanity. Look at verse 28. Has thou not
known, has thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord
Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not? He
doesn't faint, but what does He do? Verse 29. He giveth power
to the faint. That's the only ones He gives
power to. How do I start this message? Nah, you won't see what
the Lord will do unless you're utterly helpless. He only gives
power to the faint. And to them that have no might,
He increases the strength. Look at verse 31. For they that
wait upon the Lord, those that wait to receive all strength
given them from Jehovah, they shall renew strength, and they
shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not
be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Now did you see that,
how he started with that name? He said, this is the one who
is the shepherd, who will carry his lambs in his bosom, gather
them up and carry them, and will not lose any. When I wrote to
the gentleman I talked about earlier. He answered my reply
and he said, I was just shocked that you didn't mention the name
of Jesus once. Oh yeah, I did. I said, God.
I said, God does this. I said, El Shaddai, the Lord
Almighty does this. That's who Jesus is. Yeah, I
talked about God. He's the fullness of the Godhead
bodily. That's what we're talking about.
So first, the gospel is God declaring the glory of His great name,
and that name is manifest in Christ. Now, secondly, the gospel
is the declaration of the covenant of God. It's the declaration
of the covenant of God. When we preach, you know what
we're preaching? We're preaching the promises of God. That's what
we're preaching. Look here now, Exodus 6, verse
4. Speaking of the patriarchs, God
says, And I have also established My covenant with them, to give
them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein
they were strangers. And I have also heard of the
groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage,
and I have remembered My covenant. God calls it My covenant. My
covenant. We sometimes refer to it as the
covenant of grace. We sometimes refer to it as the
covenant of redemption. Let me tell you what Scripture
calls it. Scripture calls it a covenant of peace, a covenant
of life, a covenant, a new covenant, an everlasting covenant. That's
what Scripture calls it. God says, I have established
my covenant. I've established it. I've established
it. God the Father purposed it, God
the Son purchased it, and God the Son performs it within. You see, all three persons that
make up the one true and living God, all three persons agreed
in eternity to fulfill a part of this covenant that we're talking
about. And each one fulfills a part of the covenant. The redeeming
work involved in the covenant goes to Christ. It goes to the
Lord. And He came representing His
elect. And He promised the Father. He
promised to be surety for His people. He promised to redeem
us, to make us righteous, and to gather us all up and present
us to the Father without spot and without blemish. That's why
we don't leave it in the sinner's hand when we preach. That's stealing
the glory that goes to Christ for this covenant work and putting
it in the hand of a sinner and making it a condition on the
sinner. This covenant we're talking about
here, there's no conditions to be met by the sinner. When I
say God fulfills every part of the covenant, I'm saying God
fulfilled every condition there was so that He leaves none for
you and I to fulfill. That's what makes it glad tidings. It's a good tie to good news
because if He left something for me and you to do, there would
be no assurance whatsoever. None whatsoever. He gives full
assurance. And when He came, He represented
His people and by His works representing His people, He fulfilled the
covenant for us. And so the Holy Spirit also establishes
His covenant with us. God established it for us and
He established it with us. Look here, He said, and I have
also established my covenant with them. See, He said first,
I established my covenant and I also established my covenant
with them. This is the point. He established the covenant for
you and I. I never knew it was established. But He comes also
and He establishes it with us. He makes it known in our hearts,
brethren, He promised there to give them the land of Canaan,
the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.
That's a picture of eternal life in glory where Christ brings
all His people. Eternal life in glory with Christ
is what Canaan pictured. See, He promised to give them
something. He promised to give them that. This, John said, this
is the promise. This is the covenant. This is
the promise that He hath promised us. Even eternal life. That's the covenant promise.
Eternal life. That's what He promises His people.
Now, since God remembers His covenant, He remembers His covenant,
He makes His covenant with all Abraham's spiritual seed. See,
when we talk about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we're talking about
believers who God regenerated and gave faith in Christ. Christ
came to them and taught them the gospel. That's who dealt
with them all through the Scripture. We're talking about believers.
And when we talk about, when Christ talked about their seed,
the children of Israel, the children of Jacob, He's talking about
their spiritual seed. And the natural seed, the natural
children, which almost every one of them were in Israel, they
just simply picture His spiritual children. Those who are of faith
are children of Abraham. Scripture says. So we're talking
about His spiritual children. And since He remembers His covenant,
He's going to make that covenant with all His spiritual children
in every age, with all His elect in every generation. Now watch,
we have that pictured here in these natural children. He said,
I made my covenant to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And he did
make a natural covenant to them too, telling them he would actually
deliver their natural sons and daughters into that physical
land of Canaan. And so it says here in verse
5, And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore, Moses, say unto the
children of Israel. You see, He is showing us a picture
of how God, that everlasting covenant, that covenant whereby
He saves His elect, He is showing us here in the natural how that
He always remembers the spiritual. I remember, I hear my children
and I remember my spiritual covenant, my everlasting covenant. And
what does He do when He remembers it? Well, Moses hears a type
of Christ. He is a mediator here of the
Old Covenant. And so, He is a type of Christ
in that He is a mediator. Christ is the mediator of the
New Covenant. He was the mediator of the New
Covenant then, from Adam to Noah, and from Noah to the prophets,
and from the prophets to Christ, and from Christ to now. Christ
is the mediator of the New Covenant. He's the one who goes between
God and His people and makes this covenant with us in our
hearts. It's Christ that does it. And
since God established this covenant in Christ on the cross, God always
hears the groaning of His elect in their sin and bondage. And
at the set time that God has set, He calls Christ and He says,
I've remembered my covenant, wherefore say unto them, He sends
Christ forth to speak to us and make the covenant with His child. You see the picture? You see
that there in the text? He said, I remember my covenant.
He said, now Moses, you go tell them what I'm going to do. And
that's a picture. God remembers His everlasting
covenant and He says to Christ, now go tell my spiritual children
what I'm going to do. And Christ does at the time appointed.
God said of Christ, I give thee for a covenant of the people
to establish the earth. Remember that? Remember God said
He shall not fail till He has set judgment in the earth? How
does He establish this covenant in the earth and establish judgment
in the earth? He's talking about what He does
in the hearts of His people. He has done it for us at the
cross. He established the covenant for us at the cross. He is going
to establish that covenant with us in our hearts. And Christ
is that covenant. God said, I have given thee for
a covenant to establish the earth that you might say to the prisoners,
go forth. What is He sending Moses to do?
He is sending Moses to the prisoners to say, go forth. God says, go
forth. And that's a picture of Christ
who is the covenant, who comes to us and says, go forth. He
sets the prisoners free, brethren. How does He do that? He comes
and enters the heart. Men boast of their free will,
but that would rob God of His glory, rob Christ of His glory.
He's the one that says, go forth from the prison. Let me ask you
a question. Men want to talk about, well,
he makes us alive, he sets us free from that prison, but then
we have a will to either choose him or reject him. Has anybody
here, honestly, has anybody here ever seen a death row inmate
set free and then go back and say, let me back in? He may commit
another crime and be thrown back in, but he doesn't turn around
voluntarily and say, let me back in. And neither does somebody
God quickens. They don't say, well, I'm going
to go back into prison. He brings you out of prison.
That's what Christ does. And when Christ the Covenant
enters His child, a new heart is created and a new will is
given. And now, you remember how God
said, I'll write my laws on their inward parts? If you study the
word laws in Scripture, it also means doctrines. That's what
it means. Remember God said a new covenant
will I make with them and I'll write my laws in their mind and
in their inward part. He said a new covenant I'll make
with them and I will write the doctrines of this new covenant
in their heart. What are those doctrines of the
new covenant? It's the law of faith or the
doctrine of faith. It's the law of righteousness,
the doctrine of righteousness. It's the law of sin whereby we
hear the law say you're guilty and you can't come to me by the
law. It's the doctrine of the law. It's the doctrine of liberty
whereby we're set free. It's the doctrine, he called
it, bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. It's the doctrine of Christ.
Take their burden, that's what I'm doing for you, Christ said,
I'm bearing your burden away. You bear the burden of your children.
of your brethren. How are we going to be made to
do that? How does God write that covenant
on our heart? Christ the covenant is formed
in you. And He is the new heart and He
is the writing of the new covenant on the new heart. When Christ
is in you, you are going to know the gospel. You are going to
know the everlasting covenant of grace. Now let's go lastly
to this. The Gospel declares the works
of God. The Gospel declares the name
of God. The Gospel declares the covenant of God. He does everything
by covenant. He saves by covenant promise.
And the Gospel is the declaration of the works of God. And when
I say works of God, what I'm saying is the declaration of
the promises of God fulfilled by God's works. When we preach
God's works, you know we're preaching His promises, that He promised
He would work for His people, then that's the message of the
Gospel. It's not the message of man's
works, it's the message of God's works, of Him fulfilling every
promise He made. Now what are they? Here they
are, here's some pictures of these spiritual blessings. Redemption
and deliverance by Christ. He says, verse 6, I am the Lord. You see His name's attached.
Now here's the work, here's the promise. I will bring you out
from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will rid you, I
will snatch you out of their bondage and I will redeem you
with a stretched out arm and with great judgments. That's what the gospel is. The
gospel is the declaration of God's will, not man's will. The
Gospel is a declaration of God's will, not man's will. God promises,
I will redeem, I will deliver you with my outstretched arm
and my great judgments. Who is that? You see, redemption
from the law and deliverance from our sin nature is only attained
by Christ who is the arm, the power of the Lord. the wisdom
and power of the Lord. He's the arm of the Lord. It's
all accomplished by His power, and He accomplished it by accomplishing
great judgments for His people on the cross. That's what Christ
did. Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it's written,
Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Thou was slain and
hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred and
tongue and people and nation. Not only does He redeem us on
the cross, not only does He establish His covenant for us on the cross,
He comes and redeems us out from among sinners. He comes and delivers
us out from the Egyptian bondage, out from the bondage of the world,
out from the bondage of our sin nature, out from the bondage
of every enemy. He brings us out of that bondage. This is all the work that He
promised to do. So it's the work He does. He
promised to take us to Himself and be our God. So we preach
that word. Look at verse 7. And I will take
you to Me for a people and I will be to you a God. He sends Christ
into our hearts by the Holy Spirit and He takes us to Himself just
like He sent Moses and took them from Pharaoh. See that? He sent Moses, and he worked
through Moses' preaching, what Moses declared, and God worked
as Moses declared. And he snatched his people out,
he delivered them out, and he showed them, I've taken you to
myself, and I'm going to be a God to
you. I've taken you to myself, and I'll be a God to you. And
that's what He does for us in Christ. He comes and He takes
us to Himself. And He's a God to His people.
Isn't He a God to us? What does that mean? I'll be
a God to you. It means we don't have one thing
to worry about. It means there's nothing that
we need that He shall not provide. He will provide you everything
you need. Spiritual, temporal need. Period. He provides it. That's what Jehovah means, He's
all-sufficient. El Shaddai Almighty means He's
God all-sufficient. He's going to provide everything
we need. He's a God to us. And then He
promised to make His people know Him, that He alone is our Redeemer. We read that in Ezekiel. Remember
He said, when I breathe life into you, and I make you stand
up, and I put sinews on you, and I clothe you, and I do everything
for you, then you're going to stand up, He said, and you're
going to have life, and then you're going to know, I am the
Lord God. Look here in verse 7. He said,
when I've done all this, you shall know that I am the Lord
your God which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians. You see, the whole purpose of God is to glorify
His great name before the eyes and in the hearts of His people.
He's sanctifying Himself. He's setting Himself apart above
all other gods. that men claim He is setting
Himself apart high and above and apart from all of the gods
in our eyes and in our hearts. That is what He is doing through
the Gospel and through His works. He said, when I become a god
to you, you are going to know, you are going to know I am the
Lord. You are going to know it. You
are going to know I am the one that brings you out from under
all your burdens. You are going to know it. You
know it, don't you? Some of you sitting here know
Him. And when you hear a God that
He wants to save and He's willing to save, but He needs you to
cooperate with Him by your will. I'm going to tell you something.
If that was my God, number one, I wouldn't be willing for Him
to throw me in hell, so He wouldn't be able to. And number two, I'd
be willing to go to heaven, so that's just where I'd go. Because
my will is over His will. That's not our God. We hear that
God and we know that's not God. That's not even a definition
of a God. A God who wants to? A God who
is willing but can't perform His will? That's a description
of you and me, brethren. That's not a description of God.
But that's who the Will Worker's God is, Himself. That's a description
of you and me. That's not a description of God.
You know, you hear that message and you say, I can't listen to
that. Why? Because you know He is the
Lord God that brought you out of bondage. You can't stand to
hear anything else. He said here, He promised to
bring us into the land that He promised. Look here, verse 8. I will bring you in unto the
land concerning which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob. And I will give it you for an
inheritance. I am the Lord. He brought us
into Christ. That's the land He promised.
In eternity He promised Christ. You go forth to redeem this people
and I'm going to bring them into you. I'm going to give them to
you. I'm going to bring them into you, into that land. And
He promised it. And He's promised me and you
that He'll bring us into that land. And He has. And He is. And He shall. It's not complete
yet. One day we're going to be in
Christ so fully we're going to be one with Him. when we see
Him as He is. We are going to be like Him. But it will be Him that does
that. He is going to bring us in and give us that land. And
because He has made us so one with Christ now, He has already
given us our eternal inheritance. We have it. Remember, Ephesians
1 says that. You have obtained an eternal
inheritance. How? According to the purpose
of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His will. That's what He's done. We're
joint heirs with Christ. We're children of God. And if
you're children, then you're heirs and joint heirs with Christ. What do you reckon God's willing
to give to His Son? Everything. He's so pleased with
Christ, His Son, He said, I'll give you everything. I'll give
you the heathen for your inheritance. What do you think He's going
to give me and you? Who are His joint heirs with Him? Everything
that belongs to Christ belongs to us. That's the work. That's
His promise. Now look, since all God's promises
to us, all these promises here, I said to you there's not one
condition for you to fulfill. Since all of these conditions
were fulfilled by God in Christ. Go to 2 Samuel 23. 2 Samuel 23. Since they are all
fulfilled by God in Christ. Look at 2 Samuel 23. Verse 5. We can say this with David. This
is what we do say. Although my house be not so with
God. What does that mean? Look at
the last phrase. Although he make it not to grow.
Although my earthly, fleshly tabernacle, my earthly, fleshly
house is full of sin, and God does not make my flesh to grow
any better, even though that's the case, yet He hath made with
me an everlasting covenant ordered in all things. And sure, for
this is all my salvation and all my desire. Nothing I do is
my salvation. Nothing I do is my confidence. My confidence is all the promises
of God in Christ are yes and in Him, amen, to the praise of
the glory of God's grace. That's my confidence. That's
my salvation. He didn't leave a thing for me
to do. Thank God He did not leave a thing for me to do. That's
my salvation. Now that's the difference between
the true gospel and the false gospel, brethren. The true declares
salvation is of the Lord. When we say that, we don't mean
partly. We mean is. Salvation is of the
Lord. We speak only of God's will and
God's work. Look at Psalm 145. I want you
to see this. Psalm 145. I'm going to close. Psalm 145. Look at verse 4. He says, Great is the Lord, greatly
to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation
shall praise Thy works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty
acts. I will speak of the glorious
honor of Thy majesty and of Thy wondrous works. And men shall
speak of the might of Thy terrible acts, and I will declare Thy
greatness. They shall abundantly Utter the
memory of Thy great goodness and shall sing of Thy righteousness. Look down at verse 10. All Thy
works shall praise Thee, O Lord, and Thy saints shall bless Thee. They shall speak of the glory
of Thy kingdom and talk of Thy power to make known to the sons
of men His mighty acts, His mighty works, and the glorious majesty
of His kingdom. What's our message? whom He did
foreknow, He did predestinate. Whom He did predestinate, He
did justify. And whom He justified, He called. And whom He called, He glorified.
Our message is Him, brethren. It's God that spared not His
own Son but delivered Him up for us all. It's God that with
Him shall freely give us all things. It's Christ who laid
down His life. It's Christ who arose. It's Christ
who makes intercession for us. It's through Christ that we're
more than conquerors, through Him that loved us. You see? Oh, but what about my will and
my works? This is the work of God that
you believe on Him whom He has sent. And that's only by the
gift of life and faith that He gives. What does that mean to
believe? It means you don't do anything
else. You rest in Christ. That's what
it means. See, that's our message. That's
our message. And if we talk about us, we talk
about our will, our work, you know what we do? We declare all
our fleshly works are just filthy rags. Our righteousness is altogether
nothing but a filthy rag. And we declare that if there
is any good work in us, it is God who worketh in you both to
will and to do of His good pleasure. We give God the glory. It doesn't
matter what we're preaching because the gospel is the message of
the will and work of God saving helpless sinners. Amen.