Isaiah 63, verse 1. Who is this that cometh from
Edom with dyed garments from Basra? This that is glorious
in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength.
Who is this? The Lord answers, I that speak
in righteousness, I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine
vat? And the Lord answers, I have
trodden the winepress alone, and of the people there was none
with me. For I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my arraignment.
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart. and the year of my
redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none
to help. And I wondered that there was
none to uphold. And therefore, mine own arm brought
salvation unto me, and my fury it upheld me. and I will tread
down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury,
and I will bring down their strength to the earth." The title this
morning of our message is, Mighty to Save. Mighty to Save. We have to understand something
about this one who is mighty to save. He says, I am He that
speaketh in righteousness. The only one that ever spake
in righteousness is God. The only one who ever spoke a
word in truth, in true judgment, in true equity, in true fairness,
rightness, is God. And this One who is mighty to
save has joined Himself with man in the person of His dear
Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He's both God and man, the Godman,
the Godman. The Redeemer, the Lord Jesus
Christ, equal and co-eternal with the Father, infinitely possesses
all the divine attributes, even as God the Father and God the
Holy Spirit. That's who this one is. That's
mighty to save. He was with his Father in the
eternal counsel and decree of election. He was in the eternal
covenant. He was in the creation of angels,
of heaven and earth, of man and beast. But for anything that
is, He was there. That's who this One is. It's
mighty to save. He said, when He prepared the
heavens, I was there. When He set a compass upon the
face of the deep, when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened
the fountains of the deep, when He gave to the sea His decree
that the waters should not pass His commandment, when He appointed
the foundations of the earth, then I was mine. I was one brought
up with Him. I was daily His delight, rejoicing
always before Him, rejoicing in the habitable part of His
earth, and my delight were with the sons of men." He's wisdom. This is the One who speaks in
righteousness, mighty to save. For by Him were all things created
that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible. Thrones and dominions and principalities
and powers, all things were created by Him and for Him. This One who is mighty to save
everything that is, has been made by Him for one purpose,
and that's to glorify Him. Everything. Name me one thing.
Everything. Everything. He's before all things
and by Him all things consist. Tell me He's not God, this One
who walked in human flesh. Whoever healed the lame with
a word. Whoever spoke and made the sea
calm. He touched somebody and healed
them from an ailment that nobody ever could heal them from. Whatever
man did the miracles that he did, is he God? He's most truly
God. Even when he condescended to
take the flesh of those that he sanctified. He's God. That's who this One is that's
mighty to save. Well, who is He now? He's still
God. And He's still man. He's the
God-man. High above all principalities
and powers and every name that's named, there is the King of Kings. Who is the man, who is the woman,
who in their self-exalted state, putting themselves upon their
own lofty throne, Boasting in their free will and their free
choice and their authority and their dominion and their power
who thinks themselves a king Well, I'll tell you one who's
your king this one is mighty to say What president what Prince
what ruler of what land ever? existed It was not under the
authority and dominion of this King. I He's the king of kings. He's the sovereign of anybody
who calls themselves sovereign. He said, I'm He that speaks in
righteousness. He's a child born and a son given,
and at the same time, wonderful, the counselor, the mighty God,
the everlasting Father. He's the daysman. He's the mediator. In Him, God and man come together. There's atonement, communion
between God and man. Justice and mercy have kissed
in harmony one place. And it's in Him. Understanding something of who
He is reveals that He is mighty to save. He's mighty to save. Well, what does it mean to save?
What does that mean to save? What is salvation? It's more
than delivering a sinner from hell. And nobody wants to go
to hell. It's more than that. It's more
than merely erasing some guilt. Nobody wants to be guilty. Nobody
wants to be found, have their sin discovered. The sin, their
secret sin, the sin that's in their heart, the sin that nobody
but them knows about. Nobody wants that to be brought
out, to be brought up. It includes those things, but
it's more than that. For the Lord to save a sinner,
it includes every single moment of salvation. It includes His predestination
of every minute detail from the beginning of this thing that
we understand as time. I mean every last detail. The day that, children, the day
that your mother caught the eye of your father, it was by God's
divine, predestinating, sovereign, electing grace that He would
bring their paths to cross. That one of His elect children
that He determined to save before the foundation of the world would
be born into this world. I'm talking about salvation is
every detail. Everything. From the moment that
we were conceived in our mother's womb. From the moment that He
began fashioning all our members and giving them the exact fashion
that He predetermined before the world began. From the moment
that we came forth and took our first breath. You know who gave
it? God did. This One who is mighty to save.
All the days that we traveled the back roads of rebellion,
kicking up our heels and laughing and having a big time and rejoicing
in our depravity. It was his sovereign grace towards
his everlastingly loved children that kept them safe from every
curve and every blind hill and every head-on collision. It was His sovereign hand that
moved and directed everything and all things and everything
that is. It brought His gospel home to
the heart of you that sit here right now that know Him. This is that one mighty to save.
Salvation began in the eternal counsel of God who was there. God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit. This One who speaks in righteousness. This One who is mighty to save.
You and I weren't there. You and I had no say in the matter.
You and I had nothing to say in the matter, nor do we have
anything to say in the matter now. We can deny Him. We can boast. We can do all manner
of rebellion to try to run from Him. But if you know He is, Run
as you may. This One that's mighty to save
is going to save you in the might of His own strength and power. When God declares salvations
of the Lord, He doesn't mean that Christ's work, His finished
work, put all men into some kind of state where they're savable,
and then it's up to man to make it effectual. That's not what
He means. They wouldn't make Him mighty to save. They would
make His might totally dependent upon you, A.J. And God won't
do that. He's going to receive all the
glory. He's going to receive all the glory in the salvation
of His people. You know, when God made Adam,
He created the world. He created everything that's
in it. The firmament, all the stars,
everything that's in it. spoke them into existence by
his word, by his own determinant counsel. He made them like they
are from nothing. And He made Adam from the dust
of the earth and made his body. And his body was sitting there
just a lifeless form. Nothing. Not able to move. Not
able to move a muscle. Not able to do anything to bring
himself alive or to bring himself to God or to enjoy any of God's
good pleasure toward him. Nothing. He's just laying there
a lifeless form. That's all he was. And God breathed life into him. And his eyes opened and he discovered
that he didn't have to make anything. He didn't have to do any work.
He didn't have to perform anything, speak anything, do anything,
work out anything. The whole thing was made for
him and given to him freely. Even the very life breath that
he was given to come alive and enjoy it. And that's how God
saves sinners. Christ has done all the work.
He's done everything. And God comes and He breathes
life. And we behold for the first time that He truly has performed
all the work. Given us all His blessing. And it's done. The very best
proof that He's mighty to save is those of you who He saved. Can you say that? When I say
that, boy, I tell you what, that is proof to me he's mighty to
say. You just don't have no idea what
a rebel he was dealing with. I can't make you believe he's
mighty. I couldn't make myself believe it, but I tell you what
I do now. I speak those things that I know. I speak those things
that I've seen. because His mighty hand conquered
me. His mighty hand conquered me.
And I can tell you, it's grace. When I was getting ready to move
up here, Brother Dave Edmondson down in Madisonville, Kentucky,
he went up talking to Brother Maurice Montgomery. He said,
Maurice, did you hear that Clay Curtis is moving to Princeton,
New Jersey? The boy grew up down in the south
of Arkansas, in the woods in Arkansas. He was going to move
to Princeton, New Jersey. Brother Maurice just sort of
looked up and he said, the only thing I know to say, Dave, is
that's sovereign grace. That's right. Same sovereign
grace that called me in the first place. Brought me right here
where I am right now. A man can spend his whole life
denying the power of God, but if or when our mighty God comes
to him in power, that thing that he once wouldn't admit, that
thing that he willingly hated to declare, that he wouldn't
say God's mighty, that all the sovereignty is His, that all
the kingship is His, all the lordship is His, all the might
is His, all the glory and salvation is His, that thing he didn't
want to declare, now he'll declare it to anybody that will listen
to him. What did that Lord tell that
man who had the unclean spirit? He said, you go home to your
friends and you tell them what great things the Lord has done
for you. And you know what he did? He went home and told them. He wasn't embarrassed. He wasn't
bashful about it. He wasn't ashamed of it. He went
home and told them. Because he knew what it was to
experience the mighty saving hand of Him who is mighty to
save. There's more to it though than him giving life and faith
in Him. When we say He's mighty to save,
we not only mean in the beginning when He comes to us, but all
the way to the end. All the way to the end. Look
over at 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians chapter 1. 1 Corinthians 1. Here in verse 4. Paul says, I thank my God always
on your behalf. Here's what I thank Him for.
For the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ, that
in everything you're enriched by Him. In all utterance, and
in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed
in you, so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ. who shall also confirm you unto
the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ. God is faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship
of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. He's the one that does
this thing. Paul told the Philippians, he
said, I'm confident of this very thing, that he which has begun
a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Peter said, we're kept by the power of God through faith unto
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. He's not only
the author of our salvation, this One who speaks in righteousness
and who's mighty to save. He's not only the author of our
salvation, the author of our faith, He's the finisher of it
too. He not only establishes us in the beginning, but He confirms
us until the end. He not only begins a work in
you, He performs it until the day of His return. Outside of
Christ, He's a consuming fire that destroys anybody who tries
to approach Him. But in Christ, He's a consuming
fire to protect everybody that He loves. Everybody that's in
Him. Everybody that He's bought with
His own blood. And none can pluck them from His Father's hand.
Not a one of them. Why? Because this One speaks
in righteousness. And He's mighty to save. Why
is Christ so mighty to save? It's because of the very thing
that this world's religion denies. The very thing that the carnal
mind denies. The very thing that the natural
heart of every child of Adam is born with. It's the very thing
that this natural religious heart denies. He's mighty to save,
and He shall confirm us to the end, and shall bring every one
of His people to Himself, because He effectually redeemed His people. He put away
their sin by the one sacrifice of Himself. He purged them. He bought them out from under
the transgression. He paid the wages that were ours. The wages that were due to those
that had sinned against Him and trespassed against Him. He's
the Lord our righteousness. He's the Lord our salvation.
This is that glorious apparel. It's His righteousness. Wherefore
art thou red in thy apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the wine-fat? For I have trodden the wine-press
alone, and of the people there was none with me." How many people ever in this
world, since it ever began, how many ever had God speak from
heaven and say, This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.
Hear ye him. Only one. It's because he's righteous. Everything he thought, everything
he said, everything he did is righteous. And when He went to the cross,
and He took the sin of His people upon Himself, and He was made
to bear the wrath of God in the room instead of His people, this
One who speaks righteousness, this One in whom is all truth,
this One who is the spotless Lamb of Calvary, consumed everything that was
due. to every one of those that He
represented, that He laid down His life for us to substitute
on that cross. It had to be that way. It had
to be that way. If God's going to show mercy
to a sinner, if He's going to justify a sinner, it cannot be
at the expense of His justice. He cannot be at the expense of
His justice. This is why He created the whole
world, was to teach us that He's going to save a people by His
own might, by His own power in righteousness. He's going to provide Himself.
He's going to come in His own person. He's going to take upon
Him the likeness of sinful flesh and condemn sin in the flesh
that His righteousness might be fulfilled in His people. and
mercy, His mercy, His sovereign, free, electing mercy to choose
whom He would, to save them for the sole purpose of His namesake,
to show how He's right in everything that He does, to show that He's
God and He'll be served as God. This One who came and did this,
who chose them and put them in Christ, this very One, He came. And he said, now is my righteousness
manifest without the law. You want to see how you can be
just before God? It's not going to be by your
obedience to the law. It's not going to be by what
you've done according to the law He gave. That wasn't the
purpose for which He gave it. He gave it for this one purpose
to show us that we need somebody who's mighty to save because
we can't save ourselves. He gave it to us to show us that
in condemning others, all we do is condemn ourselves. Because
we do the same thing. We do the same thing. And we
need somebody who's righteous. And he says, now is the righteousness
of God manifest without the law. And that all I gave, it's a witness
to Him. It looks to Him. That whole law,
everything I gave, Everything spoken from Mount
Sinai. All the precepts. Everything
God gave. His whole law. And all the prophets
that came before spoke of Him and gave witness to the righteousness
of God. To this One who speaks in righteousness. To this One who is sovereign,
mighty. To this One who saves. This is
the One of whom the law and the prophets give witness. He's just because He's satisfied
His own justice. And He's merciful because He
delights to show mercy. He delights in it. How are you
going to come to God? How are we going to come to Him?
We're going to come to Him in this one. We can't come to Him
any other way. How many times have you heard
the story of some fella, he goes, he don't care anything at all
for God's Word, he don't care anything at all for his people.
In fact, he don't like them, really. And his wife asks him
to go with him, and he goes, and he sits there with her, and
all really he's trying to do is just get her to hush, quit
nagging him about going to church with him. And he goes and he
sits there and he listens and he listened for years and he
didn't care for what he heard or anything. He just watches
his clock. He's just waiting on a time when he can get out
of there. His wife asked him a couple of
questions about it afterwards. He don't really have much to
say about it. Rather not talk about it. Ball
game's coming on. I'd like to get home and watch
that if I could. And he sits there under that word and Something. He don't know why, he don't have
any idea, but somehow something, something gets a hold of him.
He hears a word drop down. And it comes into his heart and
he hears something and it's bothering him, aggravating him. But he
can't get away from it. For some reason he wants to go
back and hear it again. He goes back and hears another
message. This one that's mighty to say. And then, all of a sudden, one
day his sins become open to him. And he sees himself as just wounds
and bruises and putrefying sores before God. All the works and
everything that he had put his trust in and all the hope that
he had hoped in, it hadn't bound up his wounds. It was no mollifying
ointment that had done anything to correct the offensiveness
that he is to God. And he sees it now. And he beholds
himself as he is. And he abhors himself before
God. He sees God in all His majestic
glory. He sees God as holy. And he sees
this One with whom he's got to deal. And he hears God speak. I've loved you with an everlasting
love. Therefore, all this pain and
all this heartache that you're going through, it's my loving
kindness, because I've drawn you to myself, and I've bought
you, and you're mine, and you're complete, and there's now, therefore,
no condemnation for you. And that man, he wants to go
hug his wife and say, honey, I'm sorry I rebelled against
you. Sorry I didn't want to go with you. I don't know what I
was ever thinking. He goes to the preacher and says, oh, thank
you for telling me. Thank you for standing up and
telling me about this one that's mighty to say. He wants to even
thank the boys that pass the books out, the singing song books
out. He wants to thank everybody. I'm thankful, thankful for this
place. Have you heard that story? It might be our story. A lot of us can sound just like
our story, don't it? Well, what does this unchangeable
fact that He's mighty to save teach us? What does it teach
us? Well, it teaches one thing that Hyman brought out in that
word he read this morning. Set forth His Word. Set forth
His Word. 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. What did, you know, turn over
to Philippians 2-4 with me. I want to show you something.
Any time in Scripture that there was an issue within the
church, disputings, murmurings, things like that, Like in the
church at Corinth there, in the second letter that Paul wrote,
he said something to the effect, he said, I don't say these things
to bring you under any kind of hardship, but that there be no
distractions from worshiping the Lord. That's what anytime
there's some reproof given and some rebuke given, it's that
there be no distractions from the matter, the heart of the
matter. Look here what Paul says in Philippians 2.4. Do all things
without murmurings and disputings, that you may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked
and perverse nation. among whom ye shine as lights
in the world, holding forth the word of life. See that? That I may rejoice in the day
of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
I'm sorry, it says 2.14. Let's try that. I wouldn't have a man turn to
the wrong scripture. You know I wouldn't do that. You know
where I do it about every time we come together. But this is the thing, brethren,
is the light that's in us. It's no light of our own. You
know the sun don't have any light of its own. I mean the moon,
it gets its light from the sun. The reason that there's times
when it doesn't appear like there's much light there, you know why? It's because the world has come
between the sun and its object. That's what happens when we have
murmurings and disputings and all that we go with the way of
this perverse generation is the world come between us and God.
But he said, hold forth the light. Hold forth the word of truth.
That's our purpose here. That's why we're here, is to
teach. Out of his mouth goes a sharp
sword, and with it he'll smite the nations. That's how he's
going to break the hard heart of his people. That's how he's
going to call his people out. That's Huckabee running for president. I don't know who's for him, who's
against him. I hope this don't alter your
opinion in one iota. But I've known him for a long
time. He was governor of Arkansas, where I came from. He made this
comment. He said something to the effect.
He said, I thought I might do more good to step up to the Oval
Office. He was a pastor. He said, I thought
I might do more good stepping up to the Oval Office. Tell you
what, if you're a servant of God, and everyone that believes
him is a servant of God, you'd have to step down. to be the
President of the United States for being a servant of God. Is
that right? By His omnipotent hand and His
might, He brings one who knows Christ is Redeemer to a sinner
who doesn't yet know that Christ is his Redeemer. And He turns
in His might. He brings him. And it's the power
of God unto salvation. that's brought forth into his
ears, and then it goes down into his heart by God's grace. For
therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
faith. That's how we come to know God,
is through the Gospel. And the Spirit of God opens up
that heart, gives a new heart, and the power through that same
blood, through that same Gospel, keeps us in that faith. And this
righteousness of God that God demands that everyone for whom
His Son died be saved, He can't deny Himself. There's an inheritance
reserved that's incorruptible, that's undefiled, that fadeth
not away, that's reserved in heaven for everyone for whom
Christ died. And that inheritance is Christ
Himself. There's a people that He purchased
with His own blood. They must be born again. They
must be born of His incorruptible seed. They must be born by the
Spirit of God, by the Word and by the Spirit. They must be born
and made to live and abide forever. They must be sealed with the
Holy Spirit of promise, the earnest of their inheritance unto the
redemption of the purchased possession. They must be. God's glory is
at stake. They have to be. He's conquered
all our enemies. He's conquered all the enemies
and they've been put down. It says, who is this that comes
traveling in the greatness of His way? He came traveling in
the greatness of His strength from heaven to earth when He
took our nature. He traveled in the greatness
of His strength as He went about perfecting righteousness. He
traveled in the greatness of His strength meaning head on
our enemy and death itself on our behalf. He traveled in the
greatness of his strength through the valley of the shadow of death,
and as he ascended in the greatness of his strength, he marched right
past the prince, the power of the air, victorious and triumphant,
having crushed his head by his one offering, delivered his people
out from his clutches, And then He comes in traveling
in the greatness of His strength, and He pours down His Spirit
in abundance into the heart of His people, and He brings them
to Himself, and then never let go. Never let go. And He'll return, and He'll yet
come in the greatness of His strength. He's not done traveling
in the greatness of His strength. Verse 1 mentions Bozrah. It's a type of antichrist, the
enemies of God and his people. Anybody who rejects Christ, who
treats his redeemed with cruelty and contempt, you'll see him
who travels in the greatness of his strength. He said, I'll
tread all my enemies in my fury. He saved his people. Absolutely. He's saving us right now and
he's going to yet save us. Wherefore art thou read in thine
apparel six as is 63 verse 2 wherefore thou read in thine apparel night
garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat He said I tread
it alone And of the people there was none with me for I'll tread
them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their blood
shall be Sprinkled upon my garments and I'll stain all my raiment
for the day of vengeance is in mine heart The year my redeemed
is come I looked, there was none to help. I wondered that there
was none to uphold. Therefore, mine own arm brought
salvation unto me, and my own wrath, it upheld me, my justice,
my fury. And therefore, I'll tread down
the people of mine anger, make them drunk in my fury, and I'll
bring down their strength to the earth. Go over to Revelation 19.11 with
me just a moment. David Gill says this is one of
the best commentaries on this 63rd chapter. I believe he's right. Revelation 19-11. Look here. I saw heaven open and behold
a white horse traveling in the greatness of His way. And He
that sat upon Him was called Faithful and True, I that speak
righteousness mighty to say. And in righteousness He doth
judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on His head were many crowns. And He had a name written that
no man knew but He Himself. And He was closed with a vesture
dipped in blood. And His name is called the Word
of God. And the armies which were in
heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen
and white and clean. That's that beautiful apparel
of his with which we're clothed. And out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword, this gospel, that with it he should smite the nations,
him that speaketh in righteousness and judgment, and he'll rule
them with a rod of iron. break them in pieces as God promised
when He raised Him from the dead, set Him at His own right hand.
And He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God. And He hath on His festure and
on His thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing in
the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together
to the supper of the great God, that you may eat the flesh of
kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and
the flesh of all, free and bond, both small and great. This is
he, this is the one I'm talking about. All our enemies are conquered,
and there's not a one left to be conquered. And He's going
to come and He's going to put down every one of them and bring
us to Himself. People wrestle with the Scriptures
and they'll wrestle with a Scripture like that and they'll wrestle
with a Scripture like this when I'm preaching to you and try
to say, well, I believe theologically it means this and theologically
it means that and I'm going to argue with you on this point
and that point and that point. I'm here to tell you about the
one who's mighty to save and if he'll break that stony, ignorant,
argumentative heart of yours, you'll bow to him and you'll
worship him. You'll fall on your face and
say, thank God he's mighty to save. That's who I'm talking
about. Take your theology and stick
it. I don't care about it. I'm talking about the One who
this Word declares. I'm talking about the One that
is righteous. The Holy One. The Just One. The
One who is truth. That's who I'm talking about.
A pastor preached for years and
years and years and people won't understand him. People won't
hear him. Parents teach their kids for
years and years and they don't understand it. But remember this,
brethren, His Word doesn't return to Him void. He's mighty to save. And that great day, I'll tell
you what's going to matter. When He calls us home, I'll tell
you what's going to matter. It's going to matter who it is that we're beholding.
Every knee's going to bow and every tongue's going to confess.
Not going to be a matter of whether you agreed or disagreed. Not
going to be a matter of whether you elevated yourself to some
kind of superior gracious status or not. What's going to matter
is who is this one you've beheld? Who is he? Is he Lord? Or is he Jesus? He's the Lord
Jesus, God's anointed Christ, that one despised from Nazareth. He's the Lord of Lords and King
of Kings. I got this from Augusta's top
lady. There was a battle fought. The Battle of Aisincourt in France. There was some 80,000 French going up against 9,000 Englishmen. And some 80,000 French army was
totally defeated by these 9,000 English soldiers. And afterwards,
on the battlefield, they asked that Psalm 114 be read aloud
to the soldiers. The last two verses of that Psalm
is this right here, tremble thou earth at the presence of the
Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, which turned the
rock into a standing water and the flint into a fountain of
waters. And the historians say after
those words were read that that whole army fell down upon their
knees like one man and shouted with one heart and one voice,
verse 1 of Psalm 115. And they cried, Not unto us,
O Lord, not unto us, but to Thy name give the glory, for Thy
mercy and for Thy truth's sake. When He shakes this earth again,
and there's nothing in it that will remain but that which He's
established in His own blood, He gonna bring his people to
himself, and we're gonna fall down at his feet, and we're gonna
say thou art worthy For thou was slain and has redeemed us
to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people
in nation That's what we're gonna say Well, you just don't understand
the problems. I have well quit thinking about
yourself so much I Turn from yourself and start looking at
the One who's mighty to save. I pray that He might conquer
our hearts and reveal in us that He alone is mighty to save. To the praise, the glory of His
grace. Amen.