Genesis chapter 42. A great famine and a great surety. A great famine and a great surety. If we go up just before this
in chapter 41, we read of a great famine. It says in verse 53,
we can begin there, in the seven years of Plenteous that was in
the land of Egypt was ended, and seven years of dearth began
to come, according as Joseph had said, and the dearth was
in all lands. But in all the land of Egypt,
there was bread. When all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried unto Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh
said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph, what he saith to you do. And
the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened
all the storehouses. and sold unto the Egyptians. And the famine waxed sore in
the land of Egypt. And all countries came into Egypt
to Joseph to buy corn because the famine was so sore in the
land. And this famine was so sore that
it came not just into all the world, but even unto Jacob. Now, when Jacob saw that there
was corn in Egypt, he said to his son, why look ye upon one
another? He said, behold, I've heard that
there's corn in Egypt. Get you down thither and buy
for us from thence that we may live and not die. Now, remember,
this is how it was that God in the providence had allowed his
brothers, Joseph's brothers, to sell him into slavery. And
now the purpose of God is ripening fast, and there were to be seven
plenteous years, and then seven years of famine, this seven years
of famine. And God purposed that Joseph,
though he was sold into Egypt, should be raised up as ruler
next and equal to Pharaoh. And God warned that there should
be this famine in the land for seven years. And Joseph was given
to rule and store up grain all those fat years. And now the
purpose of God is here fulfilled in our text and the whole purpose
of the fat years would raise up Joseph was for this one thing,
to save Jacob, to save Jacob. The whole purpose of this was
one purpose. Many things happened, but all
one purpose. That was to save Jacob. And this is clearly seen when
Joseph revealed himself. Remember what he said, you meant
it for evil, but God meant it for good. Save much people, much
people alive. With this purpose of history,
this history that has taken place here, this famine that has come
along, and this salvation of Jacob that is revealed in history,
we know that this is only a type and picture of something more
real, more real. It is a picture of spiritual
things, the Scripture. All the Old Testament does show
forth Christ and the salvation of his people. That's what this
is. This story is concerning the salvation of
God and his people. So spiritually speaking, I want
us to see this. What is this famine? Spiritually,
what does this mean? A famine was in the land. This
is the first thing that we see, the famine. There's meant to
be a picture and type not only of the lack of food or grain,
but rather sin, sin. And see whatever, wherever there
is sin, there is a famine of righteousness, a famine of righteousness. Without
righteousness and true holiness, no man can live. No man can stand
before God. In Hebrews chapter 12, it says,
follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man
shall see the Lord. Jesus said, blessed are the pure
in heart for they shall see God. In Revelation, it describes the
kingdom of God. You know, when that kingdom is
all brought in and there's no more... The heavens and the earth
have fled away and they're restored to their proper place. This is
what it says, "...there shall in no wise enter into heaven
anything that defileth or whatsoever worketh an abomination." or make
it the lie. But that which is written in
the Lamb's book of life, you see, only the righteous will
enter into heaven. Only the righteous shall see
God. Only the righteous shall have eternal life and be accepted
of God. And who are these righteous?
In the book of Revelation, where it mentions that, it says, "...and
they that are written in the Lamb's book of life." Only the
elect, only those chosen by God, redeemed by Christ, and called
by the Holy Spirit are made holy and able to enter into heaven. We know the Word of God by our
own experience, which testifies against us that this famine of
righteousness is in our own heart. This famine that is a picture
here, that barrenness of food, that the land was burned up,
that there was no water, there was no life in the fields, even
so it is with our own heart by nature. There's a famine in our
own heart, a famine of righteousness. Now listen, we live in a country
of plenty, don't we? We live in a land that we know,
we hear of famine. We just don't know anything about
it by experience. Not in this country right now. We know of plenty. Food abounds
in this country. Even the poorest among us live
rich compared to most of the world. Even our people on food
stamps and poverty, we are rich compared to most of the rest
of the world. Let me ask you this, has our
prosperity brought us to God? Has our liberty, this country
is based on liberties, has our liberty brought us to God? Drawn
us closer to give thanks unto God. I'll read this to you in Isaiah.
Isaiah, looking at his nation, he saw much of the same thing
that is even a parallel to our nation. In Isaiah chapter 2 and
verse 7, he said, "...their land is full of silver and gold. Neither
is there any end of their treasures. Their land is full of horses.
Neither is there any end of their chariots. Their land is full
of idols. They worship the work of their
own hands. that which their own fingers
have made. And the mean men boweth down,
and the great men humbleth himself. Therefore, forgive them not."
Is this not exactly a parallel? Now, our nation, there's a famine
in our nation, friends. It is a famine not of food or
of wealth. It is a famine of the Word of
God. It is a famine of righteousness. And none of our liberty or prosperity
is ever going to bring us to God. From the lowest of men to
the highest of men, they bow down and scrape to the gods of
their own making. The treasures of this world,
the pleasures of the flesh, this religious world has the same
heart as that church that lay at the sea of their rich and
increased in goods and listen, have need of nothing. Yet what
does God say about the man lost? He said, but you are poor, blind,
miserable, and naked. Friends, there are many. There
may not be a famine of food, but I tell you there is a famine
of righteousness in the hearts of men by nature.
and outward prosperity never will relieve us of this famine.
Increases of this prosperity will only increase the famine
of righteousness in a man's heart. Now listen, let a man plow the
fields of his heart with all of his strength. Let him try
to sow seeds of righteousness in his own heart. Let him work
ever so hard in his religion Study the scriptures, learn doctrine,
pray earnestly. But whatsoever he plants and
sows in the barrenness of his own heart, even though he might
be confident that he'll yield righteousness. Now, aren't religious
people confident? They're very confident that they'll
be accepted. But I surely tell you they'll
be disappointed. They'll be disappointed. You remember that day when the
Lord said, He's coming. He's going to divide all men
into two groups, His sheep on His right hand and the goats
on His left hand. And He'll say to His sheep, Come,
you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you.
Why? Because they were righteous.
And the sheep will say, Lord, when have we ever done these
things? The only hope for us who are
his sheep is know this, that all our righteousness is in Christ.
But those goats he'll gather together and they'll say, he'll
cast them out. And he said, why? Because you
weren't righteous. They said, Lord, when weren't
we righteous? We always were righteous. And God will cast them out and
say, I never knew you, you that work iniquity. I never knew you.
These wicked men, they planted the seeds of their own obedience
and thought they would yield righteousness because they failed to see the
famine of righteousness in their own heart. They failed to see
that they could not provide their own righteousness. Have you seen
that? Have you seen the famine of your own heart, the barrenness
of your own soul? To yield righteousness unto God. Just as those Egyptians, just
as Jacob could not plow the field and yield seed and righteousness,
yield fruit of the land, neither can a man plow in his heart and
yield righteousness unto God. Why? There's a famine in the
land. There's a famine in his heart.
He's dead in trespasses and sins and can by no means please God.
But I want you to notice this, that this famine was not just
in Egypt. It wasn't just among the wicked.
It wasn't just among the godless heathens. Listen, this famine
reached to Jacob. This famine reached to Jacob.
In our text, Jacob said, we need food or we'll starve. This famine
reached Jacob. And Jacob, you know, he was a
chosen man of God. He was loved of God. He was chosen
of God even before the foundation of
the world. But listen to this, he did not escape the famine.
He did not escape this famine. We see his low condition of this
man chosen by God and see now he is in the same plight as all
other men. And so then the reality of this
picture is this. Jacob is a picture of all the
elect of God. And what this shows us is that
none of the elect of God escape the barrenness and the famine
of unrighteousness. None of us escape this. None
of God's people Escape this nature of sin. We are all born dead
in trespasses and sins. As God loved and chose Jacob
before his birth, not according to any merit in himself, but
according to his free grace and mercy, even so God has loved
and chosen his elect from eternity and put them in Christ, not according
to their merits or worth, but according to his grace. Scripture
says, but of him are you in Christ, who God hath made both wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, that no man should
glory. Surely this is what is pictured
by the seven fat years, is it not? The seven fat years occurred
long before the seven lean years. The seven fat years is the righteousness
and salvation that was stored up by Jesus Christ. Joseph is
a picture of Jesus Christ. He was sent ahead of Jacob. To what? Store up the seed. Store up the bread. Even so,
Jesus Christ was purposed of God to store up our righteousness,
to store up our provisions for salvation. Christ was sent ahead. He was chosen in eternity. And
before the years of famine, before the sin of Adam in the garden,
God had already stored up our salvation in Christ. Therefore, Jacob was under the
famine of sin, even as all the elect. There's no difference
between us and any of Adam's seed. Is that not right with
you? You believers, is that not so with you? Have you escaped
the famine? No. No, we confess. We confess our unrighteousness
and our worthlessness. Yet herein does God make the
difference. For all of the elect of God,
for all of Jacob, will by the grace and power be made to feel
their hunger. Jacob didn't know anything of
barrenness until he felt his hunger. Jacob knew his need, that if
he did not have grain, he would die. Now what he says in our
verse here, he said, he said, why do you look among each other?
He said he saw him and his son sitting around in a circle, all
looking at each other, starving to death. And Jacob said, why
are you looking at each other? Now isn't this what men do by
nature? When they recognize the barrenness, they begin to look
to each other. They begin to try to find help
among themselves. Now listen, there was no help
in that circle. They were all starving. Listen, there's no
help in this circle. There's no help. I can't help you, you
can't help you, and I can't help you. No man can help you. Jacob realized that. He said,
look, I've heard of something. I've heard a message. There's
bread in Egypt. Now go and get it. Go and get
it lest we die. It's not what men by nature,
they look to each other, but only when the word of God comes.
And we'll continue to look to each other, we'll look to everything
we can until we feel the barrenness of our own soul. You know, depravity
is not a doctrine to be learned, it's one to be experienced. And
if you've never experienced your own depravity, you'll never come
to Christ. Jacob would have never left Canaan
had he not starved had he not felt his hunger. And you, sinner,
you will never come to Christ except you know your need of
Christ, except you hear the gospel of Christ, the message that we
preach. For faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the word of God. And this is the message we preach
to all the elect of God. Jesus Christ is the bread of
life. to everyone hungry, everyone hungering and thirsting for righteousness,
Jesus Christ can fill you. He alone can fill you. He is
the bread of life. Come now, you are hungering for
righteousness, so come to Christ. This is the message he heard.
This is the message we hear. It's the message we preach. Why
do you look to one another? Why do you look to yourselves?
You're barren, you're famine in your heart. Come to Christ,
the bread of life. Oh, everyone that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters, come, buy wine and milk without money
and without price. Wherefore do you spend your money
on that which satisfieth not? Listen unto me, hearken unto
me diligently, and live. Come now and hear this gospel,
God has purposed salvation of Jacob, that God has chosen a
people, and praise God for that message. Anyone who doesn't praise
God for the message of election doesn't understand his need. If there were no election, there
would be no salvation. Election is unto salvation. We would have all, Paul said,
been as Sodom and as Gomorrah. had God not chosen a people. Praise God for that message.
And just as God chose Joseph to go before, I tell you of a
message of Jesus Christ, who has gone before us to store up
a perfect righteousness, perfect redemption for all of his elect. Over in Isaiah chapter 45, verse
2, it says, I will go before thee and make the crooked places
straight. I will break up into pieces the
gates of brass and cut asunder the bars of iron. See, it was
by grace that put us in Christ, that has given the elect all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places, and God has chosen us
has purpose that we should be holy, not by our merits, but
by the merits of Jesus Christ. This is the message of bread,
of righteousness. Now listen, are you such in need?
Have you felt the barren nature of your own soul? It's not sufficient to sit there. Would it been sufficient for
him just to know there was bread in Egypt? How many lost people
know this gospel I'm preaching and yet themselves have not come?
All of you heard this. Every one of you heard this.
If you've not come, why have you not come? Why have you not
come? except you know your need, you'll
never come." Now then, listen to this. I want you to hear their
reception. When they found out their need
and they actually got up and went to Egypt, listen at the
reception. Look at verse 5. They left Benjamin,
you remember they left Benjamin back, and these 10 boys, they
went on to Egypt to find corn. Verse 5, the sons of Israel came
to buy corn, among those that came, and the famine was in the
land of Canaan. Joseph was a governor over the
land, and he was that sold to all the people of the land. And
Joseph's brethren came and bowed down themselves before him, and
their faces to the earth. And Joseph saw his brethren,
and knew them, and made himself strange unto them, and spake,"
listen, "'roughly unto them.'" He spake roughly unto them. And he said unto them, Whence
come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to buy food.
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew him not. Joseph remembered the dreams
that he had dreamed of them, and said unto them, You are spies.
To see the nakedness of the land, are you come? They said unto
him, Nay, Lord, we came to buy food. We are thy servants. That sounds strange, doesn't
it? Joseph knew who they were. They didn't know who he was.
And he spake roughly unto them. I know this. God knows his people. Just as Joseph knew his brethren,
God knows his elect. God knows what he's going to
do for them. He knew he was gonna give them
bread. He knew it before they did. Yet something else must take
place here. And he does this by speaking
roughly to them. Yet is this not our experience
as well? When we seek salvation, did we not come seeking by merit? Didn't they not come trying to
buy corn? Isn't this how men first come?
They come seeking to buy their salvation, to buy their bread,
to buy their righteousness. Anyone who comes in such a way,
Christ will always speak roughly unto you. You will never be accepted seeking
to buy righteousness, earn righteousness, never, never. By the deeds of the law shall
no flesh be justified in His sight. Cursed is everyone that
continueth not in all things written in the book of the law
to do them. Surely when we come to Christ with anything in our
hands, He will never accept us. Why? Because everything we have
is polluted. What good is money when you're
starving to death? What good is it? Can't eat it,
won't satisfy, and neither will your works. They're polluted,
they're corrupt, they're not bread. We must come to Christ. If we're
coming to Christ, we must come empty. We must bow ourselves
down. We must come empty and broken. Joseph could not reveal himself
to his brothers until he had first crushed their pride. Joseph tried them. He gave them
grain and returned their money. And they took it away and they
came back. But remember what he told him, he says, look, you're
gonna prove something before I give you anything. You must
prove you're not spies. You must bring Benjamin, your
brother, to me. In other words, they must bring
the thing most precious to Jacob. The thing Jacob most valued,
he must surrender in order to live. In order to live. And so they return in verse 19. He said, If you be true men,
let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison.
Go ye and carry the corn for the famine of your house, but
bring your youngest brother to me, so shall your words be verified,
and you shall not die." So they did so. When a sinner comes to
Christ, he must come empty of his religion, empty of his works
or his free will. He must only return to Christ
and offer up what he holds most precious. In other words, he
must submit everything to him. Isn't this a picture? Only Christ
can save. You must come empty and you must
surrender the thing you hold the most dear, your soul. You
must surrender all to Christ, submitting yourselves to Him.
Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath cannot be my disciple.
You must forsake your works, your religion, your family, your
friends, your wealth, your health, your treasures, and all the earth,
or you cannot come to Christ. You cannot be saved. And surely a man will not forsake
these things until he's come to his wit's end. You know what?
He sent them back, and they had that money in their bag. They
didn't even take their money, didn't take anything. How long did that grain last?
Didn't last very long, did it? And pretty soon, they were again
starving to death. And you know what Jacob said?
He said, Go back! Go back! And you know what Judah
said? We can't. We cannot go back except
we have Benjamin chapter 43. Look at this, read it with me,
chapter 43. And the famine was sore in the
land that came to pass when they had eaten up the corn which they
had brought out of Egypt. Their father said to them, go
you again and buy a little food. And Judah said unto him, the
man did solemnly protest unto us saying, you shall not see
my face except your brother be with you. If thou will send our
brother with us, we will go down and buy food. But if thou will
not send him, we will not go down. For the man said unto us,
you shall not see my face except your brother be with you. And
Israel said, wherefore dealt you so ill with me as to tell
the man whether you had a brother? And he said, the man asked us
straightly in our state and our kindred, saying, is your father
yet alive? Have you yet another brother?
We told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we
certainly know that he would say, bring your brother down?
And Judah said unto Israel, his father, send the lad with me,
and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both
we, thou, and our little ones. I will be surety for him. of my hand shalt thou require
him. If I bring him not unto thee
and set them before thee, let me bear the blame forever. This is the third thing. Not
only is there a famine of righteousness, not only is Jacob the elect part
of it, Jacob must come empty. He must come for bread to Christ,
but he must have a surety. He must have a surety. You not
consider the pain of Jacob, to offer this son, to give this
son up. He'd already lost one. Joseph
was to him dead. And now this man is asking for
his only son, his only son that was left. The pain, Benjamin
was most precious, yet herein is the promise of God to all
such sinners, even the promise of Judah. that if a man were
to offer up even the most precious thing, his soul, yet this is
the whole, I will be surety for him. I will be surety for him. Sinner, hear this, the words
of Jesus Christ, he hath promised to the Father, I will be surety
for thy beloved sons. Jesus says to the Father in a
covenant promise of grace, Father, all that you have given me, I
will save. I will save. and see the great
promise of the Son of God that He has promised and swore to
do for all of the elect, I will be responsible." That's what
a surety is, a responsible one, one who is to bear the blame
if they are neglected or if he fails. I will bear the responsibility. And so when Jesus came into the
world, what was He doing? He was being surety. He was being
responsible. Isn't that what he says in Isaiah? He said, unto us, a child, unto
us, a son is given. Unto us, a child is born. Unto
us, a son is given. And the government shall be upon
his shoulders. The whole government of the church,
the whole elect should rest upon the word of Jesus Christ. came into the world to be a representative
man, to accomplish and provide the righteousness and atonement
for all the sins of his elect. Now let me ask you, was he a
successful surety? This divides all religion, especially
under the name of Christianity. This divides all of it. Was Christ
successful? Did he bear the blame for all
his people? The surety, was he a surety?
Jesus, did he fail or was he discouraged? The scriptures are
clear. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. Thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sin. Paul said in
Romans chapter 11, he said, and all Israel shall be saved. All
Israel shall be saved. Jesus declares himself that all
that the Father giveth me, I should lose nothing, but raise it up
again at the last day. And so now look back at Genesis
chapter 44 and verse 30. This is when he brings Benjamin. He's now come back to Joseph.
And he's telling him what had taken place between him and his
father. And he says this, if you take
this also from me, you take Benjamin from me, and mischief befall
me, you shall bring down gray hairs with sorrow unto the grave. Now therefore, when I come to
thy servant, my father, and the lad is not with me, seeing that
his life is bound up in the lad's life." The life of Jacob was bound up
in Benjamin. And if Judah failed to bring
Benjamin, his father would surely die. I want you to see the reality
of this, that the glory of God is bound up in the success of
Jesus Christ. In the salvation of His people,
the glory of God is bound up in it. That if Christ should
fail, then the glory of God should be darkened. You know how God pictures false
gods? He says, look, they got hands, they got feet, they can't
do anything, they can't save. Isn't that the summation of a
false god? He cannot save. Now listen, if
Christ failed to save his people, should he not be as a false god? But our God says, I have declared
the end from the beginning, And my counsel shall stand and I
will do all my pleasure. And what is the pleasure of the
Lord? It is to save his people. That is his pleasure. That is
his will. And God hath committed all of
this judgment unto the Son. God purposed Christ to do it. God chose Christ. God first trusted
in Christ to be the surety of all of his elect people. And see then in verse 33 through
verse 34 that Judah was willing to substitute himself. Now look
at this. He said in verse 32, for thy
servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, if
I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my
father forever. Now therefore, I pray thee, let
thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bondman to my Lord,
and let the lad go up with his brethren. For now shall I go
up to my Father, and the lad be not with me, lest peradventure
I see evil that shall come upon my Father." Does that not sound
like the Lord Jesus Christ? It sounds exactly like it. I'm going to take the place of
Him. Why? So my Father's glory is
maintained. Our Lord Jesus Christ took the
place of His people. He took the place of His people.
He became a servant, a bondman. Go to Isaiah 50. Look at this, Isaiah chapter
50. Read this with me here. Verse 2, he says, wherefore,
when I came, there was no man. When I called, there was none
to answer. In other words, there's none righteous. There's none
good. There's none that understand
it. And yet God says, is my arm shortened at all that I cannot
redeem? Does that cause God to be, his arm to be short because
you can't save yourself? Is my arm short that I cannot
redeem, or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke
I will dry up the sea, and make the rivers of the wilderness,
their fish stinketh because there is no water, and dieth of thirst."
What does God do when He comes to save? He rebukes and dries
up all our self-righteousness so that it stinks. It stinks,
the blackness of our sin. In verses 3 through 7, it's the
Lord here speaking. He said, I clothe the heavens
with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering. The Lord God
has given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how
to speak a word in season to him that is weary. To waketh
morning by morning, he waketh mine ear to hear as to learn. The Lord God hath opened my ear.
And I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back
unto the smiters, my cheek to them that plucked off my hairs.
I hid not my face from their spitting. For the Lord will help
me. Therefore shall I not be confounded. Therefore I have set my face
like a flint, and know that I shall not be ashamed." You see, the Lord Jesus Christ
had come and his ear was opened to God, he was not rebellious,
but turned not his way back, but gave his cheeks to the smiters."
The Lord Jesus Christ has assured he suffered for the sins of his
people. He suffered on Calvary's tree. He set his face like steel, trusting
in God to forever put away our sins Therefore, he laid down
his life once as a substitute for all of the elect. And now
then he is risen and ruling all things after the counsel of his
own will. Behold, the names of all of his
elect are written on the palms of his hands. I like that hymn. He says, My name from the palms
of his hands eternity cannot erase. Impressed on his heart
it remains with marks of indelible grace. Therefore you who are famished
should come. Why? The storehouse of righteousness
has already been filled. You must offer up everything. For Jesus Christ has offered
himself as a surety to God. He pleased God. Come now and
come alone, come empty, come to Christ by faith and he will
save you. What's that hymn? If you tarry
too, you're better. You will never come at all. And so may even now God open
your heart to see that you will never get better. You'll only
grow worse. And all who come to God by Christ,
you listen, just as surely as Joseph knew them and knew what
he would do for them. When he came with the surety
into the presence of Joseph, what did Joseph do? Joseph revealed
himself to them. And I like how he did it. He
could not refrain. He could not refrain anymore.
He could not hold himself any longer. And at the appointed
time of God's grace, when he brings a man to see his famine,
to see his need, that he cannot buy it, that he must have a surety,
and he sees that Christ is a surety, then he reveals himself to him
and he weeps. He lays his head on them and
he weeps. He says, Behold, it is I, Joseph,
whom you sold. It is I, Christ, whom you sold. Fear not. Fear not. You meant it for evil, but God
meant it for good. God meant it for good. It's like the prodigal wasted his inheritance. And he comes to himself in his
famine and his starvation. And he said, there's plenty in
my father's house. I will go and confess my sin. I have sinned against thee and
against heaven. Make me now thy servant. And
you remember, as he came, his father saw him a great way off
and ran. And he said, I confess I have
sinned against thee in heaven. And he said, shut up. And he fell on his neck and he
came. And he said this, in this text,
he goes on and he says, you go tell my father to come. God has made me ruler over him. Now isn't this the gospel that
we are to go and preach? Go tell Jacob, go tell Milet
that God has made me ruler, Christ is ruler, that there is plenty. There's plenty of bread and plenty
of salvation. And he said this, you go tell
my father that the land, I'll give him the land of Goshen,
the best of Egypt. Isn't that what we're to tell
God's people? That I will give them heaven,
the best. And they shall dwell with me
forever. Friends, listen, there is still famine of unrighteousness
in the land. There's still a famine. When
he found out this, when the brothers found out this, there was still
five more years of famine. Listen, there's still famine
in the land today. And what is our purpose? Having
found bread, should we not tell others of the bread? What is
our purpose here? But rather just to tell others
how we came. We came with money, but he sent
it back. You come with money, He's sending you back. He will
not accept you except you have a surety. Except you have Christ,
the surety, who has paid for your sins, He will reject you.
But if you have surety, know this, your salvation is sure. Your salvation is sure. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. and he will give you the land
he will give you glory give you heaven merit? no all by grace all by grace
have you found this so? is this not very personal to
you? it is if you've been saved by
the grace of God you understand this you know of your famine
you know of your need and you know of a great surety And I'm
so thankful, so thankful that God has given salvation in this
way. Every other way we would have
been lost. In this way, since we have nothing
to do, it's sure. It's sure. May God give us peace
and rest in this. Let's stand and be dismissed
in prayer.