I want to look at just one sentence
in Isaiah 53, verse 3. This is speaking of Christ, Jesus,
and it says, He is despised and rejected of men. Not was, but
is. Isaiah could say it in the present
tense in his day. He is despised and rejected of
men. And the Lord Jesus could say
it in His day when He walked this earth. He is despised and
rejected of men. And we could say it in our day
in the present tense. He is despised and rejected of
men. Why is that? Why is the Lord
Jesus Christ despised and rejected of men? Why is that? Christ is despised and He's rejected
of men because of the gospel that He preached. Isaiah begins
here with, Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the
arm of the Lord revealed, the power, the wisdom, the arm of
the Lord revealed. Our report is the gospel that
a born-again saved believer believes and preaches and declares. The
gospel that we receive when Christ is revealed in our hearts. To
whom is the power and wisdom of God revealed? Our report is
of God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Look at Romans chapter
1. You can stay in the New Testament. We're going to turn around a
few places here. But look at what Paul tells us
this gospel is. Now, you pay particular attention.
I want you to stay with me and go to each of these scriptures
and look at this with me. Paul said there at the end of
Romans 1-1, the gospel of God. which He had promised to for
by His prophets in the Holy Scriptures. That's who Isaiah is talking
about. That's what Isaiah was doing. Talking about Christ. Concerning His Son, Jesus Christ
our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the
flesh, that's the house He came through, and declared to be the
Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by
the resurrection from the dead. Christ was despised and rejected
because the word He preached when He walked this earth was
foolishness to men. Just like it was to those to
whom Isaiah preached, just like it is to those to whom we preach
in our day. But to those who are called,
to those who are saved, to those in whom Christ is revealed, the
arm of the Lord is revealed. We preach Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. To them that perish is foolishness,
but unto us which are saved, the power of God, Jesus Christ,
the power and wisdom of God. So who does believe our report?
Who does believe our gospel? Who rejoices in this gospel?
It's those in whom the Spirit of God has given a new heart
and a new understanding that was not there so that Christ
is formed in us And we know Christ and He's been revealed in us
and we rejoice in Him. He's the power of God to save
and the wisdom of God to save. So what was Christ's gospel?
When He walked this earth, what did He preach? What is it that
makes men despise the truth? What is it that made men reject
Christ when He preached the gospel? What is this that Jesus Christ
had to say about Himself that made people so upset, so angry? Look at John 10. John chapter
10. We'll be in John a little bit
today so you can hold your place there. The Lord Jesus declared
Himself to be sovereign God in human flesh. That's what He declared
in the Gospel that He set forth to everybody He came in contact
with. John 10.24. Then came the Jews round about
him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If
thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. They asked for that, didn't they?
They asked for him to do that, so that's what he's going to
do. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not. The works that I do in my Father's
name, they bear witness of me. Everything that he did, Everything
that he accomplished, everything that he did when he walked this
earth, he did it in his father's name. He's got the son. He did
this in the name of his father. And everything he did declared,
bears witness. He's the Christ. He is the Lord
Jesus Christ, God of heaven and earth. He declared He's God the
Son who saves by electing grace whomsoever He will. Look here
at verse 26. He says, but you believe not
because ye are not of my sheep as I said unto you. The reason
you don't believe me, he said, is because my father did not
choose you. That's what he's telling them.
The reason you do not believe is because my father did not
choose you. You believe not because you are not my sheep, as I said
unto you. These were children of Abraham
now. He's talking to children of Abraham. Outwardly moral men,
religious men, Pharisees of Pharisees, religious leaders even. But Christ
told them plainly. Ye believe not, because ye are
not my sheep, as I said unto you." He declared to them that
he's God the Son who's able to effectually make his sheep hear
his voice, who is able to give them eternal life, and who is
able to keep every one of them and not lose any of them. Look
at verse 27, 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 shall any man pluck them
out of My hand. My Father which gave them Me
is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of
My Father's hand. And He said, I and My Father
are one. Just like they can't pluck them
out of His hand, They can't pluck them out of my hand. I and my
Father are one. Men despise, men despise and
they reject Christ because He's God who saves whomsoever He will. That's why men despise and reject
Christ. Men despise and reject Christ
because He calls His sheep by name. He knows them. They were
given to Him before the world began and their names were written
in His book. And He knows them all by name.
And He comes to where they are and He calls them effectually. And when He does, He knows them. He knows them so that they know
Him. And they follow Him. And men
despise and reject Christ because He alone He alone is able to
give eternal life, and He alone gives that eternal life to His
children. And men despise and reject Christ
because He's God, one with God the Father. Now everything I
just told you is the only way, the only way you and I, sinners,
desperately depraved and vile sinners, the only way we're going
to be saved. The only way we can be saved,
the only one who can do anything for us, everything that he just
said is grace, grace, grace, undeserved, unmerited, free,
sovereign grace that he's able to accomplish for his people.
This is salvation we're talking about. Wouldn't you want salvation
if you're dying? Wouldn't you want salvation if
you're desperately in need of it? Wouldn't you want somebody
to save you if there's just absolutely nothing that can be done and
you're going to die unless somebody saves you? That's the case. That's exactly the shape we're
all in. But look what they did. Verse
31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered
them, many good works have I showed you from my Father. For which
of those works do you stone me? The Jews answered him saying,
for a good work we stone thee not. You can heal us, you can
feed us, you can give us spiritual, physical sight, you can give
us physical hearing, you can do any temporal blessing, establish
a temporal kingdom, give us riches, give us wealth, give us health,
give us everything that we want in this earth, and we'll love
you for it. But for blasphemy, and because
of thou being a man, make us thyself God, we're going to kill
you. You can be anything you want
to be to us, but you can't be God to us. That's what they said.
That's the problem. That's the exact problem. Sinners
are no different in our day, brethren. Absolutely not. Than
they were in Isaiah's day or when our Lord walked this earth.
Men can make up excuses. Men can say all they want to
do, but men despise and reject our gospel because this gospel
is declaring Christ is God. That's why. That's exactly why. He wasn't frustrated and he wasn't
surprised when these men came to him and said all that they
said. He calmly, plainly turned to them and looked them square
in the eye and he said, you believe not because you're not my sheep. You're not my sheep. Let's look
at the second thing. Hold your place there and John
will come back. Look over at Luke chapter 4.
Luke chapter 4. Christ declared that he was sin
of God to work the works of God. That's what he told them. Luke
4 verse 16. He came to Nazareth where he'd
been brought up. And as his custom was, he went
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read.
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he opened the book,
he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor. The Spirit of the Lord was upon
Christ, the Lord Jesus. The Lord God anointed Him to
preach the gospel to the poor, to those spiritually poor, those
desperately hell-deserving sinners that could do nothing for themselves.
Not just to preach the gospel to those who are a little bad
off, but those who are desperately poor. I mean, without anything.
That's who we sent to declare this gospel to. Now, I stand
up today and I preach the gospel to you. I try to preach the gospel
to you. I preach to you who He is and
what He's done and what He is doing. That's what I do. But
when He stood up and preached, He didn't preach Like I'm preaching
to you. He stood up and He preached what
He Himself came to do. And what He does. Now what is
that? Look at verse 18. He said, He
sent me to heal the broken hearted. to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Did he send him just to preach those things and just hope somebody
would avail themselves of this privilege? Is that what he did?
When he said he sent me forth to preach these things, he means
the Lord Jesus came forth and by my gospel, I'm going to heal
the brokenhearted. I'm going to bind them up. That's
what he meant. He makes spiritually blind sinners
to have spiritual sight. That's what he does. When he
preaches the gospel, he breaks down that prison door that's
holding your heart captive to your sinful, depraved will and
he busts in and he puts a new man in there and a new heart
in there and gives a new will and a new understanding and sets
that captive man free. That's what he does. He sets
at liberty them that are bruised. Them that are bruised, and He
does it by satisfying justice on their behalf, by being bruised
in their room and their stead, burying their sins in His body.
He does that. He does it through His blood
atonement. That's what He came to do. He
accomplished it. And He does it by bringing us
under His hand of grace, His hand of truth. The law came by
Moses. The law came by Moses. The law said you're guilty. The
law said you're damned. The law said you're condemned.
The law said you're convicted. The law said you deserve death.
That's what the law said. The law didn't offer you any
grace. The law didn't offer you any truth to tell you how you
can be saved from it. The law didn't offer you any
mercy. The law didn't offer you anything but justice. That's
all it did. But grace and truth came by the
Lord Jesus Christ. He comes and He takes that law
and He teaches you what that law says about you. He teaches
you the truth of that law, that you can't fulfill it, that you
can't keep it, that you can't obey it. He teaches you the truth
of that law, that it declares you lost and you need Christ. And when He makes this understanding
true in your heart, He pours in the grace that He came to
give, and He draws you to Himself and makes you to see. He's done
everything required by God. He's done everything God requires.
He's all your acceptance with God. He does that affection.
And He sets them at liberty. He proclaims in the heart the
acceptable year of the Lord. You know what that is? He declares
in the heart the day He finished the transgression. He declares
in the heart the day He put an end to all your sins. He declares
in your heart the day that He went to the cross and put it
away and satisfied God and brought in an everlasting righteousness
for His people. That's what He declares in the
heart. And when He declares the acceptable year in our heart, That's when you find you gotta
have him. That's when you find you can't
do without him. That's when you find he's y'all. Now look at
this. He just stood up and read that
scripture. Now listen to this sermon. You ready? Listen to
this sermon. This is the greatest sermon of
a priest right here. He stood up and he read that
scripture. When he got through reading that scripture, this
was his sermon right here, verse 20. He closed the book and he
gave it to the minister and he sat down. And the eyes of all
them were in the synagogue fastened on him. And he began to say unto
them. Here was his sermon. This day is this scripture fulfilled
in your ears. That's all that needed to be
said. That's all that needed to be
said. There he is. There's the fulfillment of all
the law. All the prophets, there's the
fulfillment of everything God's been declaring. Righteousness
stood right there in front of them. Righteousness of the law,
everything the law demands, everything the law requires, the essence
of the law and everything it teaches, there He stood right
there in the front. Everything the prophets had been
declaring all the way through, there He stood right there in
the midst. Everything that had been written in the ceremonial
law, there He stood right there. And He said to them, it's fulfilled.
Well, how'd they take it? How'd they like it? Well, sinners
hear the gospel in our day just like they heard Christ. Unless
he does something. Unless he does something in the
heart, sinners hear this gospel just like these sat there and
heard Christ. Verse 22 says, all bear him witness. They agreed with that scripture
and they said, that scripture is about the Messiah. We've studied
it. We know that scripture is about
the Christ. No doubt about that. We agree
with you on that. But they didn't believe He was
the Christ. They didn't believe Him. They saw that that scripture
talked about Christ. They believed it talked about
Christ. But they didn't believe Christ. Verse 22 says, they wandered
at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth and said, ah,
this is Joseph's son. They admired the manner in which
he spoke. They admired his speech. They admired his delivery. They
admired the way he read the scripture. They admired his ease of finding
the scripture they were looking for. They admired the outward
form of his preaching. And they said, it's amazing,
just amazing that he can preach like this. He ain't ever even
been to seminary. He ain't even been up there with
a scribe. This boy came from us, y'all. This is Joseph's son
right here. Look at him. That boy can preach
now. That's what they were saying.
But they didn't care anything at all. They had no wonder and
no amazement at all for him, the subject of his message. Not
at all. Men don't mind hearing a good
sermon. Men don't mind loving to discuss and debate and give
their opinion, their two cents, and how they see that this is
Christ in this scripture and how they see that this is Christ
in that scripture and how they put them together and show you
and bring it all around and show you, boy, ain't this just beautiful.
They don't mind doing that at all. Most look for a place to,
they'll engage in any number of religious activities. Most
look for a place to worship like men look to buy a new car. Is
it shiny? Is it a place that's got all
the bells and whistles? Am I going to look good in it?
Is it going to be a place my friends are going to look at
me and say, I want to go there. But they don't care anything
at all, nothing at all for the message, the subject of the message,
the object of the message. Christ Jesus and Him crucified. Those religions are a game people
play when they have a little time left over out of what they
consider to be their life and their livelihood and that incredibly
busy and important life of lust they're living. Verse 23, and
he said unto them, You will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician,
heal thyself. Whatsoever we've heard done in
Capernaum, do also hear in our country. He said, surely this
is what you're going to say to me. You're going to say to me
that you've heard this gospel, that I've done a bunch of works
in healing the blind, and healing the sick, and healing the deaf,
and the leprous, and the lame, and all this in Capernaum. And
you're going to say, now come home and do that for us. Don't
forget us now, hometown boy. Come home and do the same thing
for us that you've been doing out there in Capernaum. Because
we're your hometown folks. We're both country boys. Oh,
we got so much in common. We're both city boys. Men want
to try some common ground, any common ground, and they'll take
that common ground, anything but the truth of God. They didn't despise the notion
of Him healing anybody. They didn't despise the notion
of Him feeding anybody. And sinners don't have any problem
with God giving them physical and temporal things, nothing
whatsoever. And most people consider blessings
to be physical and temporal blessings. Heal me when I'm sick, fix my
eyesight, make it so my cramp comes out of my toe, whatever
it is, but don't care anything at all and don't understand that
the blessings that He comes to give and that He gives are spiritual
blessings. It's a new heart. It's a new
nature. The blessings He gives that can't
be compared with anything else is righteousness and peace and
joy in the Holy Ghost that only He can give. They don't have
any interest in Christ receiving all the glory. The natural man
has no interest in Christ getting all the praise. He got no interest
in all the time in the sermon being devoted to Christ Jesus
the Lord. He got no interest in all the
work being attributed to Him and Him alone. No interest in
that whatsoever. Verse 24, And He said unto them,
Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
Long as you're looking at me as a man, he said, and think
I'm just like you, and one of you, you'll never see who I am.
That's exactly what he told him. Long as you don't know God sent
me and I'm God in human flesh, he told him, you'll have no regard
for me. You won't understand a thing
about me. You'll expect you deserve for me to do something for you.
Is that what you're thinking, sinner? Do you think God owes
you something? Do you think you deserve for
God to do something? Listen to this. This is why sinners
despised and rejected Christ. He declared to them as soon as
He said that, He said, I'll be gracious to whom I'll be gracious,
I'll be merciful to whom I'll be merciful, and the rest I'll
pass right by. Look at verse 25. I tell you
of a truth. Many widows were in Israel in
the days of Elias when the heaven was shut up three years and six
months, when great famine was throughout all the land. And
he says, but unto none of them was Eli sent, save unto Sarepta,
a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow, a Gentile,
not a Jew. And many lepers were in Israel
amongst all those fine Jews. There was many lepers there in
Israel in the time of Elisha, the prophet. And none of them
was cleansed, save Naaman the Syrian, a Gentile, not a Jew. You hear what Christ is saying?
You hear what He's saying? The truth that Christ is God.
The truth of His electing grace. The truth that Christ is the
fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. The truth that Christ
alone works the works required of those He saves. The truth
that sinners deserve nothing from God. The truth that God
has mercy on whom He will have mercy. That's what He's declaring.
And here's how men react to it. Verse 28. Those same men that
were sitting there just thrilled and amazed and wondering at him.
They finally heard what he was saying. They finally heard what
he was saying, at least with those natural ears they did.
And all they in the city of God, when they heard these things,
were filled with wrath. And rose up and thrust him out
of the city and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon
their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
But he passed right through the midst of them and went on his
way. He's despised and rejected of men. Why is that? Look at
John 8. John 8. Is there a parade going by? John
8. John 8, 39. This is why men rejected him. He declared the depravity that's
in a man's heart. He told a man what he's thinking
in his heart. That's what this gospel does.
That's what Christ does through the gospel as it's being preached.
He tells a man what he's thinking in his own heart. Look here at
verse 39. They answered and said unto him,
Abraham's our father. Don't you know I'm a Baptist?
Don't you know I'm a Methodist? Don't you know I'm an Episcopalian?
Don't you know I'm a practicing Catholic? Don't you know where
I came from? Don't you know who my mama is
and who my daddy is? Don't you know all the religious
deeds I've done? My mama sprinkled me when I was
eight days old. My daddy then took me and baptized
me when I was 8 days old. I was circumcised when I was
8 days old. And then when I got to be 13
years old, I was catechized. I learned all the catechisms.
And then when I got old enough for myself, I went and was baptized
myself and gave my heart to Jesus and made Him the Lord of my life.
And I've been feeding the poor and clothing the naked and I've
been doing marvelous works all my life and doing everything
I can to serve God and to serve His people and to serve His cause
in this world. What do you mean telling me I'm
a sinner? And Jesus said unto them, If
you were Abraham's children, you'd do the works of Abraham.
Do you know how many works those folks have been doing? Do you
know how much work they have been doing? These were Pharisees
of Pharisees he's talking to. Do you know how many works they've
been doing? He said, If you were Abraham's children, you'd do
the works of Abraham. What did Abraham do? Abraham believed
God. He saw Christ's day. And how
did he manifest it? I'll just read this to you. Hebrews
11 says, By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into
a place which he should have to receive for an inheritance,
he obeyed. You know what he did? He repented
from his daddy's idols. He repented from his daddy's
vain religion. He repented from all the works
he had done when he was under daddy's house. And he walked
out of there because God gave him a heart and he bowed to God
and believed God. By faith, he went out not knowing
where he was going. He stopped looking at his way,
his will, his works, his wisdom, and he trusted God to provide
for him and lead him. By faith, he sojourned in the
land of promise in a strange country. He didn't live for the
world anymore. He didn't live for his belly
anymore. He wasn't living for the momentary pleasure of this
world anymore. By faith, he dwelt in tabernacles
with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise,
because he looked for a city whose foundations whose builder-makers
God. In other words, he joined himself
with the Lord's people and lived a modest life walking where they
walked, going where they went, and was a stranger to this world,
to this world's religion, to this world's people, and he dwelt
with God's people. That's what it means. You mean
Christ values those works more than all the works the Pharisees
were doing? All the works the Pharisees were
doing would be the same as, instead of going to the poor man's house
and clothing him, would be the same as going over there and
pouring gasoline around his house and setting it on fire. just
about as valuable and merit just about as much. Men despise and
reject Christ because when men hear the gospel preached, the
Lord tells men what's hidden in their heart. Verse 40, they
hadn't said anything. He said, but now you seek to
kill me. That's what was in their heart. He said, but now you seek
to kill me. A man that had told you the truth, which I've heard
of God. This did not Abraham. That's
not the work Abraham did. See, he took this thing all the
way down to the heart. That's where he's dealing with,
the heart. See, Abraham believed in the heart, he said. That's
what he's saying. You do the deeds of your father.
They said to him, we'd be not born of fornication. We have
one father, even God. Jesus said unto them, if God
were your father, you'd love me. For I proceeded forth and
came from God. Neither came I of myself, but
he sent me. Why do you not understand my
speech? That's what he said. Why don't you understand it?
Because you can't hear my word. Sounded like they was hearing
him, didn't it? They got mad when they heard it. They couldn't
hear it. They couldn't hear it. He said, you're of your father
the devil and lust your father you'll do. He was a murderer
from the beginning and a bow, not the truth because there's
no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own for
he's a liar and the father of it. And he said, and because
I tell you the truth, because I tell you the truth, you believe
me not. Generally, when somebody gets
told the truth, that's when they believe somebody, isn't it? Not
in spiritual matters. When men are told the truth in
spiritual matters until God tells them the truth in the heart,
makes it real in the heart, they don't believe Him. They don't
believe Him. That's why the men despise Christ. That's why they
reject Christ. That's what's happening in that
heart when Christ is speaking through His gospel. You know
what he's doing? He's sweeping away. He's laying
righteousness to the line and judgment to the plummet, and
the hell is sweeping away the refuge of lies. And he's disannulling
the agreement you have with hell. He's disagreement, and the scourge
is passing through, and it's making it so that it's a vexation
just to understand the report. Just to hear the gospel becomes
just, oh, I hate that message. I hate it and I won't hear it
anymore. That's what the man says in his heart. You see it
in his countenance. You see it in his actions. You
hear it in his words. Everything just changes. He says,
it's a vexation to me to even hear it. You know what's happened? That bed's become too short and
those covers have become too narrow and he can't stretch out
and he can't wrap himself up anymore. Because God's confronted
him with the inconvenient truth. That's what's happened. And it's
ruined his whole life. Everything was working out so
good, had a good playground built, was swinging and playing on the
monkey bars and just having a time of my life. God came, tore down
my little playground. That's what happens when men
hear the gospel. And one of two things happens. Either God pours
in the grace of His Spirit and creates life there, or men just
go away in a rage. Paul said to them over in Galatia,
they got mad at him. He said, you've become my enemy
because I told you the truth. He said, when I first came here,
preached the gospel to you, he said, you'd have plucked out
your own eyes and given them to me. Though you were speaking
so highly and so good and talking, it's so sweet that sugar wouldn't
even melt in your mouth, it was so sweet. He said, and now have
I become your enemy because I told you the truth? He said, I've
been telling you the same thing from the very beginning. I didn't
change my message. Who changed? Where did it change? Who changed? You finally heard
it. That's what he said. You finally
heard it. He finally heard it. If we could just find a center,
that's what we need. Everybody in our generation has got to,
he's got to, it's always somebody else's fault. Everything is somebody
else's fault. Everything is somebody else's
fault or some other object's fault. We'll blame an object.
It's a gun's fault that people get killed. I got some guns. I've never seen one of those
guns pick itself up and do a thing. It can't load itself. It can't
undo the safety. It can't pull the trigger. It
can't do nothing of itself. It's time we looked in the mirror
and realized that evil is us. The sin is us. It's not our environment
that we put in. It's us. The environment was
perfect before we sinned. The environment was made by God
spotless. We came in and messed it up.
Oh, I can't believe God because how could there be a God that's
so loving and so much evil take place in the world? God ain't
doing the evil. God ain't killing people. People
are killing people. God's saving people from people. That's what God's doing. He just
said, I didn't come to call the righteous. I came to call sinners
to repentance. And I wish I could find one true,
dead dog, foul sinner. Because you know what I'd find
when I found that person? You'd find one person that God
will show mercy to. Thank God I saved. That's right. Well, I'm going to end here,
but let me give you one last scripture. Turn to John 6. You
see, Men didn't despise Christ because He did good works, temporal
things that they saw. Men despise Christ then and now
because He declares that from the beginning
of the new birth that He works in a sinner, that He works in
the vessels of His mercy. It makes them behold salvations
of the Lord from the beginning all the way to the end. They
behold everything of His work. It's all His work. He's done
it all. It's not because people don't get mad and go away because
the preacher don't wear the right kind of suit. They'll say that. It's not because
they don't want to be part of a hick church. It's because they're
too puffed up to admit they're the lowest hick of the lot. That's
what it is. Men don't despise and reject the gospel because
the church doesn't offer all they want. It's because Christ
is not all they want. That's why. That's exactly why. John 6, verse 66. It's not because they try to
go away and give it a little space and let's see what the
preacher will do. Well, he didn't come running after me. See there. See there. He didn't come running
after me. See there. There's no love in him. So men
did that with Christ. Verse 66 says, from that time
many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
Art read a scripture in the back where God gave Moses a heart
to tell the people to quit giving. You don't ever hear a preacher
tell folks to quit giving. God's preachers do. Quit giving.
We got enough. That's what they told them. Let
me show you here what this preacher did, what the preacher did when
men walked away. He turned around to the 12 that
were standing there and he said, you want to go too? You're free. Free. Do what's in your heart.
Do what your heart is willing to do. What was the difference
between those that were willing to walk away and these right
here? Here's the difference. Then Simon Peter answered him,
Lord, to whom? You see that? To whom shall we
go? He didn't have a what or a thing
or a stuff or anything like that on his back. He said, Lord, to
whom shall we go? And he said, Thou hast the words
of eternal life. You've got the gospel. You are
the gospel. You've got the words of eternal
life. He said, And we believe and are sure that Thou art that
Christ. the Son of the Living God. Who hath believed our report?
To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? It's those who can
say with David, he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered
in all things and sure, and this is all my salvation and all my
desire. That's who's believed. Amen.