Yeah. Yeah. There you go. It's a beautiful day. So, I can't believe it. so so so so The other arm. Shake his hand. so so Good morning. Welcome to the
services. Let's begin our singing by turning
to 222 in the hymn book. There is a fountain. 222. so There is a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners plunge beneath that
flood, lose all their guilty Lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains. And sinners plunge beneath that
flood. Lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day. And there may I go by Wash all
my sins away. Wash all my sins away. my sins away. And there may I, though bowless
ye, wash all my sins away. Dear dying land, thy precious
blood shall never lose its power. Be safe to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more. Some church of God be saved to
sin no more. E'er since, by faith, I saw the
stream, Thy glowing wounds apply. Redeeming love has been And shall
be till I die And shall be till I die And shall be till I die Deeming love has been my thing,
and shall be till I die. When this poor whispering tongue
is in the grave, I'll sing thy power to save I'll
sing thy power to save I'll sing thy power to save Turn over to 334, if you would
please. Be Thou My Vision, 334. Be Thou my vision, O Lord of
my heart, Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art, Thou
my best thought, by day or by night. Waking or sleeping, Thy presence
my light. Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my
truth, ever with thee and thou with
me, Lord. Thou my great Father, I thy true
Son. Thou in me dwelling and I with
thee, Riches I heed not, nor man's
empty praise. Thou, my inheritance, now and
always, Thou and Thou only, burst in my heart. High King of heaven, my treasure
Thou art! High King of heaven, my victory
won! May I reach heaven's joys, O
bright heaven's sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever
befall. Still be my vision, O ruler of
all. I'd like to ask you if you would
remember G.D. Harmon in your prayers. and also
continue to remember the Parks family and the loss of Dee Parks. I'm going to ask Brother Gene
if he would lead us in prayer at this time. Our gracious Heavenly Father,
thank you. Thank you for bringing us to
this meeting place safely. Thank you for the desire you
put in our hearts to be here. And we do pray, our Father, that
you might be pleased to stir our hearts to worship you in
spirit and in truth under the preaching of your gospel. Be
with our pastor and enable him to speak well for your glory.
He needs you as well as we need you. Give him good utterance
and give us the heart to receive the engrafted word with gladness.
We do pray for the afflicted. asking that we might not take
these things for granted, that they come our way by your divine
will. Help us to see that and to know
that you have a purpose for them and give us the grace. Oh, how we need your grace. Remind
us of your words, that your grace is sufficient. May it all be
for Your glory, Lord Jesus. In Your name we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay, turn with me to hymn number
17. I'd like to ask you to stand as we sing, Come Thou Fount. Hymn number 17. Come Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace. Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melody or sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount I'm fixed upon
it, mounted by redeeming love. Here I raise my Ebenezer Hither
by thy help I'm come And I hope by thy good pleasure Safely to
a ripened home Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from
the thought of God. He, to rescue me from danger,
interposed His precious blood. Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be. Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Buy my wandering heart to Thee. Prone through wonder, Lord, I
feel it, Prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, oh,
take and seal it. Seal it for thy courts above. You may be seated. Thank you, Shelly. If you would first turn with
me this morning to Romans chapter 10. Romans chapter 10. The Apostle Paul here writing
to believers as to how the preaching of the Word of God, it's called
the Word of Faith, brings salvation to the lost. In verse eight,
Paul says, the Word, referring to God's Word, is nigh thee even
in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is the Word of Faith which
we preach. That's what God's servants do,
they preach the Word of God. We don't preach our opinions,
what we think, we endeavor to preach what God says in His Word. Then in verse nine, Paul gives
us a quick summary as to what the Word of God is all about.
It's about the Lord Jesus Christ. It's about God raising Him from
the dead. So that means that Jesus Christ
died and that God raised Him from the dead, and He did so
for a reason. What was the reason? Verse nine,
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved." So we see that salvation comes
by confessing with your mouth and salvation comes by believing
in your heart that Jesus Christ died and rose again. And if you
believe that and you understand why, thou shalt be saved. And if you don't, you won't.
Now, how does confessing and believing these things save a
sinner, you might ask? Well, Paul goes on to tell us.
In verse 10, he says, for with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So we see that salvation has
everything to do with righteousness. No man, no woman, no sinner will
ever be saved apart from possessing righteousness. And we know, according
to the scriptures, that it must be perfect righteousness because
we know that the only righteousness that God will accept must be
perfect righteousness. For whosoever offered a sacrifice
of peace unto the Lord, it shall be perfect. to be accepted, Leviticus
22, 21. Verse 11, for the scripture saith,
whosoever believeth on him, that being Jesus Christ, shall not
be ashamed. For there is no difference between
the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich unto
all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved." Now, God doesn't save
different sinners different ways. There's no difference between
one sinner and another. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord, Jew or Gentile, shall be saved." Now, what is
it to call upon the name of the Lord? We've talked about that
some. His name reveals who He is. His name reveals what He
has done, and His name reveals why He did what He did. Jesus Christ is Jehovah Jireh,
the Lord who provides. It's Christ who provides us with
the perfect righteousness that God requires. Jehovah Rapha,
the Lord that heals. Christ is the Lord that heals
us of our leprous sin. No one else can. Jehovah Nissi,
the Lord our banner. Christ is our token. He's our
flag. He is our emblem of perfection. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord our
peace. Jesus Christ is our peace that
passes all understanding. Jehovah Raha, the Lord of my
shepherd. Why he's the good shepherd that
watched over his sheep. Jehovah tithes to Sid Canu, the
Lord our righteousness. And our righteousness in and
of ourselves is imperfect. It's filthy rags. We're righteous
in Him. He is our righteousness. Jehovah
Shema, the Lord is present. He is our salvation that will
never ever leave us nor forsake us. So to call upon Christ's
name is to believe that He has made unto us all these things. what all the things that His
name represents. And then in verse 14, Paul asked
this question, how then shall they call on Him in whom they
have not believed? And how shall they believe in
Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And here Paul insists, on the
necessity of preaching the gospel to sinners, because none can
be saved who do not call upon Christ. And none who call upon
the name of Christ, who do not believe that He is able and willing
to save, can be saved. And none can believe that He's
able and willing to save if they've not heard of His grace, His death,
and His resurrection. And none can hear these glad
tidings unless these things are preached to them. Verse 15, and
how shall they preach? except they be sent. As it is
written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things. The ambassadors, preachers of
Christ who preach the good news of the gospel are sent by the
Lord. And I suppose the greatest blessing
that God can give a people other than Christ himself is a faithful
preacher, a servant of Christ and His gospel, and all whom
God sends will preach the name of Christ. If they don't, then
God didn't send them. You want to know if God sent
a preacher? You listen to a preacher and
you want to know if God sent him? Is he preaching the name
of Christ? And then we come to verse 16,
which I suppose is my text. but they have not all obeyed
the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath
believed our report? Now have you noticed here that
Paul did not say, but they have not all believed the gospel,
though that's true. But he said, but they have not
all obeyed the gospel. You see, to obey the Gospel is
to believe the Gospel, and to believe the Gospel is to obey
the Gospel. Yet, not all have obeyed or believed. And this is one of the most plain
proofs of man's depravity. Now listen, if God has devised
a way to save sinners, a way which He can be just and yet
justify the ungodly, and He has. And that's through Christ alone.
You would suppose that the moment that any sinner heard this good
news, they would immediately bow, believe, obey, and call
upon the Lord Jesus Christ, the only one who could save. But
they have not all obeyed. They have not all believed and
called upon Christ. You see, we have offended God. I know men today preach that
men are born basically good, and then they make decisions
along the way, bad choices, good choices, whatever. But we've
all offended God. We are all in a state of condemnation. We're born condemned. Wouldn't
you think that the very moment that the God of all grace mentions
the possibility of forgiveness, that the condemned sinner who
has offended God would have sought forgiveness at His hand immediately. Oh, there's a way for me to be
saved, the rich that I am? Tell me how. But they have not
all obeyed the gospel. Mankind has made the gospel something
that man can accept or reject, making it no more than an offer.
Men and women have made the gospel to be something that can be accepted
or rejected without any real consequence. The majority of
people today simply believe that if a sinner just does the best
they can do. I cannot tell you how many times
I've had men and women both tell me just that. Well, you know,
I believe, I don't know what you believe, but I believe that
if men and women just do the best they can, treat people like
you want to be treated, that God will usher them right into
the pearly gates of heaven, into their mansions of glory. No,
sir. No, sir. If you accept the terms,
you reap the benefits. If you reject them, no big deal. Just work hard, exercise your
free will, and God will provide another way. But the gospel is
not an offer. It's a command. Salvation is
not something that God has made possible. The gospel comes to
men and women with the force of a command. Not all will be
saved, for they have not all obeyed the gospel. Now you can't speak of obeying
anything which has not the authority of a command. The gospel comes
to sinners as a command. Now time wouldn't permit me to
show you the large number of scriptures that prove that, but
allow me just to give you one. In Acts, Chapter 17, verse 30,
it says, and the times of this ignorance, this blindness, God
winked at. You know, there was a time when
men and women, Gentiles they're called, worshipped idols of gold
and silver and stone, and they made these idols their God. And
this angered God, and it displeased Him. Why, in the Ten Commandments,
one is thou shalt not Worship other gods. Don't set up any
graven image and make a god out of it. And God overlooked them
and He took no notice of these. He gave no revelation to direct
them. He gave them no prophets to instruct
them. But now, the scripture says,
God commandeth all men. Did you hear that? God commandeth
all men everywhere to repent. So this command is not an option
to accept or reject, it's a command to be obeyed. For it was God
who commanded it. And you cannot reject it without
incurring the guilt of disobedience to a divine command. Now, are
you following me? Or better, do you believe me?
And then no, do you believe God? This is His word, it's not mine.
If you reject Christ and His Gospel, you're being disobedient
to God Himself. just like those to whom He said,
all day long I've stretched forth my hand unto a disobedient and
gainsame people, Romans 10, 21. And our Lord, speaking of the
Holy Spirit, said this, He said, He will reprove, He will convince
the world of sin. And then almost immediately,
the Lord added of sin. He's gonna convince the world
of sin because they believe not on me. Now, what makes man's
sin so evil and the crown of his disobedience is this, that
men believe not, obey not. The command of God. They believe
not on Christ. And the command to men to believe
the gospel has the death penalty attached to their disobedience. He that believeth not is condemned
already. You're not going to be condemned
if you reject it. You're already condemned. You're
born condemned. You're born in trespasses and
sin. You're dead in trespasses and sin. Because, you're condemned
already, because he had not believed in the name of the only begotten
Son of God. And this is the condemnation.
This is why men and women are condemned, that light Light,
God's light, the Lord Jesus Christ, the light and life of man is
coming to the world. And men loved darkness rather
than light because their deeds were evil. They don't become
evil when they reject it. They're already evil. That's
why they reject it. And in the Lord's great commission,
you remember what he said? He said, go ye into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and
is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be
damned, condemned. So we see that the gospel is
given to us as a command and disobedience to it involves a
dreadful penalty. Now the problem is, most people
don't really believe that. That's right. If they did, they
would be on their knees asking God to forgive them. The gospel is a command, but
it encourages poor sinful seekers to come. You see, a repentant
sinner, one who is truly sorry over their sin, They might ask,
may we come that we might be saved? May we really believe
in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved? And the answer
is yes, yes. You may certainly do what you're
commanded to do. You think about that. I'm commanded
to keep the Sabbath holy. Then am I permitted to do so? Well, of course I am. I can't
do it. but I am permitted to do so.
I'm commanded to worship God. I'm certainly permitted to worship
Him if I'm commanded to do it. God doesn't command us to do
something that we can't do. Well, He does. Christ does it
for us. If I'm a sinner and I'm commanded
to put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, then I may be assured
that I may believe in and on Christ because God has commanded
me to do so. Are you following my thinking
here or what the Word says? The command, hear ye deaf and
see ye blind, is why the deaf hear and the blind see. Because
God has commanded them to do it, and with the command comes
the power to obey. Believe, and thou shalt live.
Well, this isn't the voice of a man inviting another man to
do something. This is the command of God to
a sinner. Believe, and thou shalt believe,
and thou shalt live. Believe, and thou shalt live.
You know, preachers in churches today, at the end of their services,
give what they call an invitational. Some call it an altar call. They
invite people to come to Christ by coming to the front of the
church. They ask them to repeat a sinner's prayer, to confess
their sin, and zip, zam, zoom, that sinner is saved. It reminds
me of the old Mr. Clean commercials where he rides
on a horse, and here's a dirty man in filthy clothes, and he
zaps them with that whatever it was, and they're white as
snow. Well, nowhere in the Bible, nowhere
in the Word of God is such a thing practiced, encouraged, or taught. I challenge you to show me where
it is. This nonsense began in the 1800s with a man by the name
of Charles Finney. He was a Presbyterian leader
in the Second Great Awakening, as it's called. And Finney told
people they wanted to receive prizes to come forward. Come
on down. Like on the Price is Right. And
they actually had what they called exorbers. They were people in
the congregation that would stand up and point to someone and say,
I see that God's working on you. You need to go forward and give
your heart to Jesus. And this started that whole mess.
Billy Graham. Now, I know this is dangerous. I mean, this is ground that offends
people and makes them mad. I had my mother chase me out
of the house one time for saying something negative about Billy
Graham. But Billy Graham had church workers in the crowd who
would get up from their seats and go down front, making it
easier and encouraging others to do the same thing. You won't
find it in the Bible. Our Lord and His apostles simply
preached. And the Holy Spirit convicted
sinners by their preaching, and they asked, what must I do to
be saved? And the command was always the
same. Believe! Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be the same. They weren't invited to believe.
They were commanded to believe. They were not invited to move
from where they were standing to where the one preaching was
standing. They were commanded to obey and believe the gospel
of Christ and Him crucified. Now the word invite, you know
what it means. It means to ask or bid someone's
company or presence to make a polite, formal, friendly request to come. And the word command is in an
authoritative order. It's to require, to bid, to instruct
to come. Turn with me to Matthew chapter
11. You can let your place go in Romans 10. Turn with me to
Matthew chapter 11. And look at verse 28. You know
this passage. Matthew chapter 11, verse 28. Here our Lord is speaking and
He says, come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Verse 29, take my yoke upon you
and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall
find rest unto yourselves. Now I ask you, does that sound
like an invitation to you? Come is a command. Take is a
command. You know, when my father told
me to come, it wasn't an invitation for me to do so. I found that
out on more than one occasion. When my mother told me, hey,
David Lee, take your dirty shoes off, she wasn't inviting me to
do so. Is the Lord inviting all to come
to Him? Now, I want you to think with
me for a little bit here. If that's so, then coming to
Christ is the work of man who chooses to come, and salvation
is an invitation that can be accepted or rejected. But that's not the case at all.
Come, or you're gonna die. Take, or you'll never rest. The Lord had just prayed to His
Father in verses 25 and 26, and look what He said. He said, I
thank Thee, O Father, the Lord of heaven and earth, because
Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast
revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for it seemed
good in Thy sight. Now, is it even remotely possible
that the Lord would thank God for hiding the truth from some,
and revealing it to others, that He might then just turn around
and beg every man and woman to come to Him. Well, that doesn't
even make good sense. And after concluding his prayer
to his father, the Lord goes on to say in verse 27, all things
are delivered unto me of my father, and no man knoweth the son but
the father, and neither knoweth any man the father save or except
the son, and he to whomsoever the son will reveal him. So the
Lord makes it abundantly clear that it's God's will to hide
spiritual truths from the wise and the prudent and reveal the
same truths to babes. Would the Lord who carries out
the will of the Father then turn around and tell everyone to whom
He preaches that He and His Father desire and invite everyone to
come to Him and be saved. How absurd and how ridiculous. Verse 28 tells us who the Lord
is speaking to. He says, come unto me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, heavy laden with sin, burdened
with sin, and I'll give you rest. The gospel's for sinners. That's
who Christ came to seek and to save. He came in the world to
save sinners. He came to save those who labor
and are heavy laden, burdened with sin. And this is a call,
this is a command to every sin-cursed sinner, whether Jew or Gentile. A command has a consequence from
the one who commands it. And in this case, it's God. An
invitation simply requests you to do something, but disobeying
a command from God has great, great consequence. Ignoring an
invitation doesn't. You know, I've been invited to
many things in my life. And some I was able to attend,
and some I wasn't. But I was never punished or condemned
for not keeping an invitation. But I was chastised and punished
many times for not heeding the command of my parents or my school
teacher or whoever was in charge. And you know, friends, what makes
this way of thinking and believing so dangerous is this. If our
salvation is based upon you and me accepting the invitation,
then it is naturally thought by us and believed by us that
the acceptance of that invitation is the cause, the result, and
the reason for us being saved. It's claiming that God made salvation
possible for all, for everyone, but only those who accept His
invitation to be saved. I've never been to a funeral
of an unbelieving lost man or woman that has not been made
to be saved. I'm not just making that up.
Because most of them at one time went to church, And most of them
at one time made a decision and accepted God's invitation. And
at one time, they all exercised their will and accepted the invitation
to be baptized. And then they were invited to
become a member of that church. Well, that's all fine and dandy,
but the gospel is a command. And if it's a command, and it
is, and if that command is obeyed and believed, then God saves
them. But if they don't, if they don't
obey, if they don't believe, well, the consequence is dreadful. The gospel comes to chosen sinners
that they might be pure. You and I have no right to be
impure. That's not how God made man. The gospel comes to chosen sinners
that they might have their sin put away. You and I have no right
to have any sin. God did not create us with sin. He didn't create Adam and Eve.
Sin was man's choice, and it was committed against God willfully
and wickedly. Adam had a free will. You and
I lost our free will in Adam. and Adam chose to sin. We have
no right to sin against our holy creator. The gospel comes to
the elect sinner that they may be reconciled to God. We should
have never been God's enemy. The gospel truly brings the gifts
of God's grace that should have been ours if we had not sinned
against the righteous God and broken his holy law. And we're
commanded to believe this gospel. If we trust in Christ, we will
be saved. Are you trusting in Christ? And
if we do not bow, if we do not obey and believe, we'll remain
damned and condemned. Are we to ask God to make another
way of salvation that suits our fancy? Saving us apart from faith
in His Son? That's what most people think.
When God requires us to do what we cannot do apart from His divine
intervention in giving us life, we're commanded and obeyed to
trust in the one who did it for us. So if we say that we can't
trust Christ, we make God a liar. And our condemnation's no one's
fault but our own. And it's the most awful thing
for a sinner to say, I cannot believe God. Well, who can you
believe if you can't believe God? If you say you can't believe
in me, well, I might be hurt by your lack of confidence in
me, but at the same time, I'm very aware that I'm incapable
and very capable of failing you, but not God. But not God, who
cannot lie. No, sir. It's God's right to
be believed. It's God's right to be obeyed.
It's God's right to be trusted. I often think about that prodigal
son. You know why? Because he's a
picture of me and every believer. Some say, how could one so blessed
leave his father and spend all he had with righteous living?
I've asked myself that question. Because that's me. How could
I do that? There's nothing said in that
parable of the prodigal son concerning or talking about the Spirit of
God leading him to resolve to go back to his father. It seems
to many that he came back home on his own accord. But the passage
says that when he came to himself, you remember that? Who but the
Holy Spirit brought to his mind how the hard servants in his
father's house fared better than he. That was the Holy Spirit
that put that into his mind and in his heart. We don't come to
our senses by ourselves. Somebody says, well, I finally
came to my senses. A dead man can't do that. A dead
woman can't do that. Not until the Holy Spirit gives
them light and life. And it's the Holy Spirit that
brings us to ourselves. The truth is the prodigal son
should have never gone away. Should have never left his loving
father. It was the prodigal's duty to come back home. There
was never a moment from the time he left taking his journey into
a far country, there was never a second while he wasted his
substance on righteous living that he was not wrong in doing
so. There was never a minute while
he was feeding the swine and then eating upon the swine's
husk that he was not wrong in being there had he acted rightly. But that's our problem. We can't. Our sinful hearts won't allow
us to act rightly. I wish I'd have thought that
years ago when my mother told me I needed to straighten up
and fly right. I would have told her, I can't.
The Bible says I can't. But I wasn't that smart. But I think the Lord has taught
me some things. Christ did for me what I can't
do for myself. That's what makes the gospel
so glorious. The gospel demands our obedience
to it because it has the authority of God behind it. Like Moses
lifted up the brazen serpent in the wilderness, we lift up
Christ and we cry to our hearers, look and live. That's what I'm
endeavoring to do right now. I'm endeavoring to encourage
you to look to Jesus Christ and live. We're not just uttering
our own words here. These are the words of God. To
reject my word would just be a small matter, but to reject
God's command, it's a death sentence. And when God himself sets forth
Christ as the only propitiation for sin, will you turn your back
and reject so great a salvation? If a sinner is to live, the gospel
demands obedience because it carries the authority of God
with it. The wondrous love of God is displayed
in the gospel and the love which made him to give up his only
begotten son to bleed and to die. While this is the wondrous
love which allowed our Lord Jesus to be nailed to the cross by
his own voluntary act, that he might suffer in our room instead. Oh, what amazing love that proclaims
complete amnesty and pardon for those who obey His Word. Oh, what amazing love that says,
come, let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be white as snow. Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool. Oh, what amazing love that says,
so let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his
thoughts and let him return unto the Lord. And he'll have mercy
upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. There are some who are absolutely
resolved to have something to do with their salvation. You
can't come to Christ on the terms and merits of your own will and
work. You can't do it. When God says to come to Him,
He'll give you the will and the power to become His son or daughter. All who come to Christ on their
own merits will, in the end, expect the glory and the credit
for their coming. So in closing, I remind you again
of Paul's statement that we read in the beginning, Romans chapter
10. They have not all obeyed the
gospel. What must we do to obey the gospel? Well, first we gotta hear it.
We gotta hear it. Incline your ear and come unto
me, here and your soul shall live. But we must take heed as
to how we hear as well. There must be in our listening
a deep and earnest desire to know the truth. Many today have
ingested what some call a sugared gospel, which is nothing but
sweet poison. The gospel of God tears, and
it cuts, and it wounds, and it even kills before it makes alive. Christ died for sinners. He stood
as the substitute for all who trust in Him. God punished Christ
instead of me, and therefore being a just God, He cannot punish
me. That would be punishing the same
offense twice, which a righteous and just God cannot do. When a husband and wife take
each other in holy matrimony, they take each other for better
or for worse, for richer or poorer, for life or for death. But our union with Christ goes
much further than that. Death cannot break that union.
Do you see what the gospel commands? More importantly, will you obey
the command? You may say, well, I'm not fit
to come to Christ. All the fitness that God requires
is that you feel your knee to hand. Do you feel your knee to
hand? Then come. Strength and personal fitness,
it's a hindrance. It's your weakness that is required,
not your strength. You may say, well, I have nothing
good about me. Well, your goodness does nothing
but stand in your way. Isn't that right? It's your sin that Christ died
to put away. So it's without any goodness,
without any fitness, and it's our unholiness and boundness
that commands us to come. So if you're laboring and are
heavy laden, burdened over your sin, come to Christ and He will
give you rest. If you're heavy laden with sin,
He says, take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I'm meek
and lowly at heart and you shall find rest for your souls. His yoke is easy. His burden
is light. Will you believe? You're commanded
to. You're commanded to. You're commanded
to come to God without moving a muscle. Come to Him where you are and
come to Him just as you are. May God be pleased to make it
so for our good, His glory and for Christ's sake. Okay, Michelle, if you'd come. Turn with me to 249. Just as I am, I come. Don't come up here to the front.
Come to Him in your heart. Stand with me. Just as I am without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for
me, And that Thou bidst me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come,
I come. Just as I am, and waiting not
to rip my soul of one dark blot, to Thee whose blood can cleanse
each spot, O Lamb of God, I come. I could, just as I am, though
tossed about ? with many a conflict me about. ? ? Tears and fears rip in, ? ? without
a lamb of God, I come. ? ? I come just as I am. ? Beside riches He'd leave up the
night. Yea, all I need is Thee to find
a land of God. I come, I come. Just as I am, Thou wilt receive
will dwell compartment cleansed freely. Because Thy promise I
believe, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Delanne Hanson, would
you dismiss us in prayer, please? It is a great privilege to be
here today to hear your word. We thank you for your grace and
your mercy. Thank you for that fountain that's
filled with blood. We pray that you keep pointing
us to that, keep turning us away from our own work and our own
ways. We pray again for those that
are sick, those that are afflicted. We pray that you give them grace
and mercy as they need. We pray that you keep us. Thank you so much for keeping
us. for providing for us. We're especially thankful for
feeding us with your gospels. We are grateful to you for giving
our contentfulness to you. We pray these things in Christ's
name. Amen. It's so tempting.