Alright, if you turn with me
and your Bibles to Romans chapter 10. Romans chapter 10. Verse 17 will be our text. We'll
look at most of this chapter, verses 1 through 17 together,
but I want to start by giving you the conclusion. Give you
the conclusion. The title of the message this
morning is, The Righteousness of Faith. how it comes, the righteousness
which is of faith and how it comes. It says, so then, faith,
faith. And as we're going to see, this
word faith is inclusive of all that the Apostle had mentioned
before concerning faith. Faith and all that faith entails,
all that faith includes. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. So then faith and all that it
entails that the Apostle has mentioned thus far concerning
faith comes out by hearing, and no other means but by hearing. And what is the source of the
hearing? The Word of God. The Word of God. Not just hearing
anything, but only the Word of God. Now, let's go back to the
beginning of this chapter. And the apostle begins by pouring
out his heart. His heart's desire, he says in
verse 1, is that the children of Israel, his brethren, according
to the flesh, that they might be saved. Now the Jews in Paul's day, the
one he calls brethren in this chapter, he bears them record. He says in verse 2, these Israelites,
I bear them record that they have a zeal of God. These Jews were very zealous
in religion. I don't suppose that there has
been anybody before or since as more zealous and more determined
to obey the law of God than the Jews in Paul's day, in Christ's
day. I don't doubt there was in their
sincerity. I don't doubt that they determined
to do their best, the best that men could do in obeying the law. They had a zeal to live a holy,
a righteous life. They were the most moral men. The most religious men. And Paul
says, I bear them record of that. I'm not denying their zeal. I'm
not denying their passion for religion. I'm not denying that
they have a zeal of God, that they desire to actually be in
the presence of God. I don't doubt them, Paul says.
I bear them record. I'm telling you they do. I bear
them record." These men were very sincere in their obedience
and dedication to honor the law of God. Their aim and purpose
for zeal was to obtain righteousness. And this was their problem. This was the difficulty. Paul said, I bear them record.
They have a zeal for God, but here's the problem. not according
to knowledge, for they being ignorant... Now
notice what they're ignorant of. They're not ignorant men
in the things of the world. They're not ignorant in the law
of God. They're not ignorant in the traditions
of men. This is what they're ignorant
about. They're ignorant of God's righteousness. They're ignorant of God's righteousness.
These were so zealous for the Law to obtain righteousness by
the Law that they failed to see the true purpose of the Law.
They missed the righteousness of God. The Law was never intended
by God to be a means to obtain righteousness. Go to Galatians chapter 3. Now
we know the whole book of Galatians is based on this premise, that
these Galatians were trying to believe in Christ plus the works
of the Law, plus the one work, especially circumcision. They
said you had to believe in Christ and just obey that one part of
the Law, circumcision. And so Paul says, are you so
foolish in chapter 3 that you're going to begin in the Spirit
and finish by your obedience to the flesh? No! That's not
how it works. Look at verse 19. And so what
then is the purpose of the law? And so Paul asks that question
in verse 19. Wherefore then serveth the law? He says this about the promise
of God. He says that the promise of God
was given to Abraham 430 years before the law. 430 years before
the law was written. So then, does the promise of
Christ, does the promise then make void the law? He said, what purpose is the
law? He said, it was added because
of transgression, till Christ, the seed, should come, to whom
the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels
in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator
of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises
of God? God forbid. For if there had
been a law given, which should give righteousness, verily righteousness
should have come by the law. But the Scripture hath concluded
all under sin, that the promise by faith of
Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe."
Now, did you notice this? He says, if righteousness should
come by the law, if it were possible, then there should have been a
law given for that, that it could be possible. That would be the
best way, according to man, if there was possible, that Christ
shouldn't have to come and suffer. But that's impossible. Why? Because
the Scripture has already concluded us to be under sin. Therefore,
it is impossible for us to obey the law. "...that the promise by faith
of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." Did you
notice that there are two faiths mentioned there? the faith of
Jesus and them that believe? So then see the truth. The truth
is by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in the
sight of God That no man by the works of his flesh by the obedience
of the law by religious ceremony or rituals can ever ever ever
ever ever Obtain righteousness never can a man obtain righteousness
by any acts of the flesh. I because the scripture hath concluded
all under sin all under sin in Adam all die wherefore as by
one man sin entered into the world and death by sin so death
passed upon all men for all have what sin Therefore we being dead in sin
born dead in sin What hope have we to obey the law if you've
already struck out before you got to the plate? How can you
hit a home run you can't? You're out You're done You don't
even get to try It's over it's over before you start it We could never then merit. This
is their ignorance. And this is the ignorance of
everyone who tries to obey the law of God. Everyone who takes
that law and tries to mix it with Christ. Everybody says,
well, Jesus, you know, He died for our sins and He rose again
for our justification, but we have to obey the law. Now, you've just mixed law with
grace. And Paul said, that's impossible
in Romans 11. They said, that just can't happen. You can't
do it. We could never, by our own righteous
merit, obtain righteousness by obedience to the law. either by the law of Moses, or
by the law of the church, or by the law of man. You see, what
men do, like those Pharisees, is that they saw the law, they
understood the law, but they figured that they couldn't obey
the law. So what did they do? They amended the law. They made
traditions by which they either exalted
themselves, or made it more easy for men to obey the law. Isn't
that what church law is? And you say, well, you know,
the law is not... You don't have to obey it for
salvation. You just got to obey it for favor with God. Excuse me? Isn't that what salvation
is? Favor with God? So how then is righteousness
obtained? You make no mistake. be accepted
with God, you must have righteousness. Not just any righteousness. Your
righteousness, which is by the law, will never satisfy God. Never. I don't care how zealous
you are. You must have righteousness.
Who then shall obtain righteousness? How shall one obtain righteousness?
Psalm 24, verse 3 says this. Who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His holy
place? Listen, here's the answer. I
like this because God asks questions and He gives you the answer.
He doesn't make you guess. That's good. I don't like guessing
and you don't want my guesses, do you? You want the answer. God asks the question and God
gives the answer. Here's the answer. He that hath
clean hands and a pure heart. Look at your hands and you tell
me you have not done sin. Look rather at your heart and
tell me you have not thought sin. Only then could you be perfect
and ascend to the hill of the Lord. But notice how it is obtained. It's not obtained by the works
of our hands, because our hands are filthy. Not obtained by our
heart, because our heart is unclean. How then is it obtained? Paul
says, by the faith of Jesus Christ. Isn't that what it said in Galatians
there? It says, but the scripture concluded,
you're all under sin. That the promise, that the promise,
righteousness, the promise of life, the promise of God, the
promise of heaven, the covenant of grace, is based on this, by
faith of Jesus Christ. Back in our text, the Apostle
He says, they're ignorant of the righteousness of God. They
went about to establish their own righteousness. But I'm here
to tell you this. Christ is the end of the law
for what? Righteousness. It's the same
thing. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness. How? By His faith. He obtained righteousness. You see, I want you this morning
to look at the person who has clean hands and a pure heart. There's only one. There's only
one who has ever had clean hands and a pure heart. The Lord Jesus
Christ is the only one who has had clean hands and a pure heart.
The only one. The Son of God, eternally holy,
one with the Father and one with the Spirit. Yet in love and grace,
the Son of God condescended to become a man. He condescended
to take upon Him the nature of our flesh. Because God the Father so loved
His elect, He gave them to His only begotten Son to be the representative
of them. And seeing we could not and would
not obey the law of God. Isn't that true? See, man is
not just unable. It's not like man's wanting to
obey the law of God. Oh, we want to, we want to, but
we just can't. No, the scripture says this about
our hearts. It says that the carnal mind
is enmity against God. For it is not subject, listen,
not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. It's not
willing to be subject. You don't obey the law of God
because you don't want to obey the law of God. You want to change
it. You don't want to obey it, and
listen, you can't. You can't. Therefore Jesus Christ
came in the likeness of sinful flesh. He was made of a woman. I like that because He's not
of Adam's fallen descendant. He is not of Adam's corrupt seed.
He is the seed of the woman. Made of a woman. Listen, made
under the law. For what purpose? To redeem them
that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption
of sons. See, Christ, then, is the end
of the law. Why is He the end of the law?
Because He's fulfilled it. Because everything the law demanded,
Christ did. and He did it as a representative
man. So as Adam sinned, even so Christ
merited righteousness as a representative man. When Adam sinned, we all
died, we all sinned, we all struck out, we're all finished before
we start. And yet now Christ comes and He obtains what we
could not obtain, righteousness, by His obedience. Now the Law,
the Law is good. The law is holy, but we were
sold under sin. I know the carnal flesh despises
the law. Instead, it should be despising
self. We're the problem, not the law. We were sold under sin. So the
Law then, what was the purpose of the Law? It was never a means
of righteousness by our obedience. But it did testify of what Christ
should do for His people. Go to Hebrews chapter 10. You
know, we've been studying in this book for quite a while Christ
being all the types and shadows pointing to Christ. Listen to
what Paul says about the Law. He says, "...for the Law, having
a shadow of good things to come, but not the very image of the
things, could never, with the sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered, Because that the worshipers once
purged should have no more conscience of sin, you know if that sacrifice
if that sacrifice worked Why do you need another one? That's what he's saying if that
sacrifice of the law worked then why do you need one daily? Why
was the priest daily offering those sacrifices? Because it
was only a shadow. It was only a picture was not
the true thing. I But you see this in verse 7,
in verse 6 he says, "...in burnt offering and sacrifice for sin,
thou hast no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come." This
is Christ. "...in the volume of the book
it is written of me to do thy will. Above, when he said, Sacrifice
and offering, and burnt offering, and sin offering, thou wouldest
not, neither hath pleasure therein, which were offered by the law."
Then said He, Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God. He taketh away
the first, that He may establish the second. By the witch will,
that will He came to do, we are sanctified, we are made holy. You got that? Made righteous.
How? Through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ. Now how many times did He offer
Himself? Once for All. Once for all. See then that righteousness
of the law is only for those who do it.
Who's done it? No one. No one. For the scripture says, He that
continueth not in all things. all things now I want you to
pay attention to this he that continueth not in all things
that are written in the book of the law to do them don't bring
me one law and tell me that you need to obey that one law only
if you bring me the law you better bring everything if you tell me I have to obey
the Sabbath day then you better tell me I need to go to the temple
and offer sacrifices You better tell me that I need to be circumcised.
Why? Because the whole law is the
whole law is the whole law. You can't exclude any part of
the law. You can't say, well, Christ fulfilled
this and this and this, but not this. No. It's not what the scripture
says. He that continueth not in all
things written in the book of the law to do them is what? Cursed. Cursed. But I tell you of a better way. I tell you of a better way. This
man, the Lord Jesus Christ, this glorious, perfect, sinless man,
he has by himself obtained righteousness, even the perfect righteousness
of God. If you go to Romans chapter 3,
you know what it says about us. It says that we are all sin,
that there's none that doeth good. No, not one. says that by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in his sight verse 21 but now
the righteousness of God listen listen without the law man that's good news without
the law is manifest Listen, it was witnessed by the Law and
the Prophets. Even the righteousness of God.
How? By the faith of Jesus Christ. By the faith of Jesus Christ. Unto all and upon all imputed
and imparted to all them that believe now you notice there
the two faiths again You see that the faith of Jesus Christ
and the faith of them that believe Now which one obtained righteousness
Did your faith obtain righteousness? No His faith obtained righteousness
your faith simply receives Easy But not only did his faith obtain
perfect righteousness by his obedience, but you listen, the
law demanded death. How many scriptures can you read
in the Old Covenant without reading about blood? Paul says in Hebrews, almost
all things were sanctified by blood. Almost all things in the
law. Why? Because death was necessary
in the Law. Sin must be paid for. Sin must
be atoned. Therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ
not only obtained your righteousness, but by faith He offered Himself
to God as an acceptable offering for sin. Positive righteousness could
not be justly given to us without payment of sin. For God made him to be sin for us. Who knew no sin. We, sinners, who knew no righteousness
but only sin, might be made the righteousness of God in Him. In Him. Wonder of wonders! The Son, the sinless Son, made
sin The justice of God, then seeing our sin poured out on
Him without mercy. You see, when we talk about righteousness,
which is of faith, we're not talking about skipping out on
justice. No, we come to Christ recognizing
that He satisfied justice. I'm not getting away with anything. I'm not getting over on God. No, I receive righteousness and
I receive it justly because my Savior has paid my sin debt. Paid it. The justice of God was
poured out on him. He said, My God, My God, why
hast Thou forsaken me? I am a worm and no man. I know sometimes we think of the
deity of Christ's soul. We know He was God, manifest
in the flesh. And sometimes I think we see
that in in such a way that we don't understand His humanity. We don't understand His real
suffering. To know that He was hurt, that
He suffered in His heart and in His mind and in His soul. Matter of fact, I believe in
Psalm 109 it says, And my heart was wounded when they shook their
heads. Have you ever had somebody just
scoff at you? It wounds you, doesn't it? It
hurts. I tell you, he felt the arrows
of their eyes. He felt the darts of their glances. And I tell you, he felt the pains
of hell in my place. He suffered all the agony that should have been mine. And He did this so willingly. For the joy set before Him, He
endured the cross, despising the shame. Did He despise the shame? You
bet He did. He was spotless. Yet He had to
be made sin to satisfy the law of God in my stead. Was he victorious? Did he do what God gave him to
do? How do I know that He did? How
did I know if His faith was enough to obtain the righteousness of
God on my behalf? How is it possible that I should
know such things? God raised Him from the dead. When satisfaction was accomplished,
Christ said, it's finished. And God says, I've accepted it
and I've raised Him from the dead and set Him on my throne.
What more do you need? What more proof do you need? You don't need any more proof.
That's enough proof for anyone. There's more proof for this book
than any other piece of literature in all of history. And yet men
still despise it. Still will not say, it's not
enough, it's not enough. It would never be enough if the
Lord God Himself came down and told you. Matter of fact, He
did Himself come down and tell you. And you still won't believe. God raised Him from the dead.
It was His faith, it was the faith of Jesus Christ that obtained
the righteousness of God. But seeing we cannot obtain it
by our obedience to the law, seeing He has obtained it, the
promise by faith of Jesus Christ. How should we be obtained? How
should it be mine? If it was for me, how should
I obtain it? Listen, Galatians 3.22, it says,
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ should be given. That's how it's obtained. It's
given. Not by merit, not by obedience,
not by our will. It is given by the free grace
of God in the new birth. Except you be born again, you
shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. What is the
evidence then of the new birth? What is the evidence of us being
given? You listen. It is faith in Jesus
Christ. Righteousness obtained by the
faith of Jesus Christ. How is it given? By the faith
in Jesus Christ. This is the evidence of our sonship,
even faith. Galatians 3.26, for you are all
the children of God. How? By faith in Jesus Christ. That's the evidence. This righteousness
of God, not by our merit, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.
See that it is nigh thee. Go back to your text. Now then.
You have those that are ignorant of the righteousness of God,
those zealous, trying to obtain it. Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness. Moses described the righteousness
of the law. How? Do it! If you want to obtain
it by works, you have to do the whole thing. But what says the
righteousness which is of faith? Well, it says this, that Christ
did it. Christ obtained righteousness. But how then is it given to us? the word is not the per se even
in my mouth and in my heart that is the word of faith which we
preach that if i will confess with our mouth the lord jesus
and out and shall believe in my heart that god raised him
from the dead now shall be say for with the heart man believe
it on the righteousness and with the mouth confession is made
under south THE MOST FOOLISH AND DEVILISH
RELIGION IS TO READ THAT SCRIPTURE LIKE THIS, THAT IF THOU WOULDST
CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS, THOU SHALT BE SAVED. WHAT DID I MISS? BELIEF IN THE HEART. The most
devilish religion of our day stops at that. They say if a
people will confess with their lips, they shall be saved. All
you need to do is confess. All you need to do is profess
the Lord Jesus. All you need to do is make a
decision of the will. Then you shall be saved. Excuse
me. The mouth is only one part of
that. But the most important part is
the heart. Why? Because whatever's in the
heart comes out of the mouth. You can say it with the mouth
all you want to and it never goes into the heart. See, true religion never comes
from the outside in. It always works from the inside
out. God has to do something for the
heart in order for you to truly confess. True faith proceeds from a new
heart. One that confesses that I am
sin. That all I do is sin. That from
the crown of my head to the soles of my feet is nothing but wounds
and bruises and putrefying sores. Therefore, we who know this in
our heart forsake all our own righteousness. We forsake everything. and with the heart we believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ." What do we believe? That His offering
alone is sufficient. Notice the order is in verses
9 and 10, really, it says, the
Word is not in thy mouth and in thine heart. In verse 9 it
says, Thou shalt confess with thy mouth and then believe in
thine heart. But in verse 10, notice the order
is reversed. For with the heart man believeth.
Now he's showing you how the true order is. Yeah, this is
how we perceive it. When a person confesses, that's
what we hear first. And then we can look and see
if his heart is true by what he does, by his life. He'll eventually show that. But
the true order is this, it works from the heart, through the heart,
and out the mouth. So the order then is reversed.
That is because what is in the heart always comes out of the
mouth. Jesus said, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth,
Speaketh. Therefore, all who believe on
Jesus Christ will without a doubt confess Him." You, believer,
let me ask you, is it difficult for you to confess Christ? Is it hard for you? No! No, we are constantly fleeing
to Christ. Constantly clinging to Christ.
We've got no place else to go, and we've got no place else we
want to go. We come to Christ, and we gladly
confess Christ is all. Christ is all. What was that huckster he said?
I'm a sinner and nothing at all, and Jesus Christ is my all in
all." You know, they didn't have to pry that out of him. They
didn't have to pry that out. They don't have to pry that out
of me. What's your hope? What's your hope? What's your
hope? See, you don't have to pry it
out of you. Automatically, Christ. Christ
is my hope. Why? Because with the heart,
you believe, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.
I most gladly receive Christ. I most gladly renounce myself.
I most gladly renounce all my works are done that I might be
found in Christ and win Him. That's all. I want to be found
in His righteousness. Therefore the Scripture saith,
Whosoever believeth in Him shall not be ashamed. It does not matter
who you are, Jew or Greek, bond or free, male or female, there
is only one Lord over all, one Savior. And whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Do you get that? Is
there any... Do I need to clarify that? Whosoever shall call... Not on anybody. On the name of
the Lord shall be saved. You see, I know God has an elect
people. I know Jesus died for them. And
I know this. They all will come. Who are they?
Whosoever. Here they are. Whosoever. I always love that. You know
my favorite one is this. You see, we believe in the election
of God. We believe in whosoever will.
I believe God chose whosoever will. I just don't believe He
chose whosoever won't. Whosoever will. Come. Matter
of fact, Jesus said that. All that the Father giveth me,
you listen, shall come to me. Why? They ain't got no place
else to go. They got no righteousness of their own. They're going to
come to Him because His faith has obtained righteousness. All
who believe on Him and call upon His name are not those who desire
to mix their works in His, nor do they try to make some unholy
mixture of their obedience in Christ. But we come empty. We come with nothing but our
sins. in my hands no price I bring." Why? I ain't got nothing to bring.
Not to God. Simply, to Thy cross I cling. We come to Christ with nothing.
Now then, look at your text again. We know this because all who
call on Him must first know Him. If you call on the Lord Jesus
Christ, listen, isn't it imperative that you know who you're calling
on? How can you call on somebody
you don't believe? And how can you believe on somebody
you don't know? No man can believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. You listen to this. Faith and
all that it entails. Remember, what does it entail?
Righteousness. Obtained by who? By the faith
of Jesus Christ. Received by the faith that God
has given to His people, we receive that righteousness. Faith cometh. I'm so glad it cometh. By gift,
by grace. It cometh. How did it come to
you? By hearing. by hearing. How did you know who to believe? How could you believe on a Christ
you've never heard? No man can believe unless they've
heard of Him. And you listen to me, the Jesus
that is being preached in this age and most churches today is
not the Jesus of this book and He should not be believed. The
Jesus of modern religion is the one who died for all, in some
vain hope that everyone would believe on Him. If they'd just
exercised their will, then His redemption would be successful,
based on their work of faith. No. This is not the Christ of
this book. You see, how do I know that?
I know whom I have believed, and that's not Him. You see,
I believe in a successful Savior. The difference between true Christ
and the false Christ of this generation is one word, success. If your Christ is not successful,
then your Christ is not my Christ. You see, I know whom I have believed.
He was successful. He was successful. that Christ's
death was not in vain, but was victorious, triumphant, that He actually redeemed all
that the Father gave Him. And I believe on Him. I know Him. He has quickened
me and given me life and faith in Him. But how did that come to me? By what means did God use to teach me of Christ? Preaching. The thing that is most despised
ridiculed in this so-called intellectual age is what we are doing here
now preaching how shall they believe on him
in whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without what
a preacher preacher I was listening, and this is
what brought on this message this week, I was listening to
a man, it was open air preaching, who was declaring man's unrighteousness,
man's depravity, man's total helplessness. This man got up
and he was starting to declare his own righteousness. And God,
He said, that may be your opinion of yourself, but this is God's
Word concerning you. There's none righteous, no, not
one. There's none that understandeth. There's none that seeketh after
God. They are all together become unprofitable. There's none that
doeth good, no, not one. That's God's opinion. That's
God's Word. So it really nullifies any opinion
you had. And this lady stood up and she
was very angry with him. How dare you judge him? How dare
you tell that this man is unrighteous? He said, look, I'm just reading
the sentence. The sentence has already been
handed down. Would you accuse the bailiff of judging just by
reading the sentence handed down? No, I'm just telling you God's
judgment. I'm telling you what God says. That's what preachers
do. We don't make up these opinions
of ourselves. These are the words of God. And she was offended
by that. She said, no, what you need to
do is just go about living a Christian life and people then will be
saved by that. You mark this down. This is the
idea of most religion today, is that they believe that if
you go around living a good little Christian life, that somehow,
somebody is going to notice your lifestyle, and they're going
to get interested, and they're going to want to ask, and they're
going to want to... Nope. Nope. What does the Word say?
Faith cometh by living a good Christian life in front of people. Now, no doubt you should. You
should live according to your Master. You should follow His
example. He was an example for you, but
much more than that, He was your Savior. But I tell you this,
your Christian walk will save no one. It is not the means by
which God calls sinners. How does God call His people? Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God. Paul said, I came not to baptize,
but to preach the gospel. He said, to them that perish
this means of preaching is what? Foolishness to them that perish. But unto us. It is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. How do we know
that? We ourselves have experienced it. We ourselves knew not Christ. And someone came and preached
the gospel to us. And through that man, God used
the Spirit of God, took that word and applied it in power
to our hearts and we believed. We believed. this lost world is against preaching
but to us who have heard we know that it is a power of god to
salvation to everyone believer then let us do this let us preach
if that's the means that god is chosen we should be about
this one means i know there's not everyone is called to preach
in this sense that i'm preaching today you're in those two men that
uh... absolute was killed and this one man she has been written
down uh... uh... him as i believe that's how you
pronounce it he said uh... let me run let me go tell the
cake and he said what did what you're going to tell you didn't
see anything he's i don't know but i want to go and she will
go go run i don't care run And the other guy who actually saw
something was sent. He saw what happened to Absalom.
And he said, you go tell the king. He was sent to go tell
the king. And the other guy was faster. So he got to the king
first. Ahaz, he got to the king first
and he's out of breath. He said, what news? What news?
He said, oh, let the king live forever. He said, there was a
big noise. There was a battle. And King said, What about my
son? He said, I don't know. I didn't see anything. Get out
of my way. And the other guy came up running
and he had a witness. He was there. He said, The son
is dead. You see, a lot of men out there
running. They're running and they got zeal like these people
and the apostles. They have zeal of God. I bear
them record. They got a zeal. They can run. They can move. They're faster
and smarter than I am. The problem is they're not witnesses
of anything. You see, I'm a witness. The Son
is dead and now is alive. I just hear a great noise God did something in here and
he called me to tell you And it's by this God causes men to believe and faith, obtained by Christ,
received by us, how? Through the hearing of the Word
of God. And that's what we preach, the
Word of God. May God even now use it to save
sinners. Are you such a sinner? Are you lost? Are you undone? Believe on Christ. Call on Christ. He will save you. But I have called. Don't stop. If you got no place else to go,
you won't stop. You know that? You won't stop. And whosoever calleth upon the
name of the Lord, you listen, shall be saved. How long? Forever saved. Good news. Good news for sinners. I pray God will bless us too.
Stand and be dismissed in prayer.