Bless me not, God loves me, and
my heart, O Lord, to Thee. While the streams of life are
streaming, blessing others, O bless me. Even me, even me, Thank you, John and Jeanette. The blessing of God is going
to fall on someone, and I'll tell you who it is. Like the
rain, it's going to fall on the parched soul. It's going to fall
on the thirsty lamb. God is not going to pass by some
people. And I'll tell you who they are,
all that call on him and ask, like Bartimaeus, don't pass.
Have mercy on him. He'll stop. Romans 11. Go to Romans chapter 11. Now
I announced, when did I announce? Wednesday,
was it? That I was going to talk today
about the election. You didn't think surely. that I was going to devote this
day, the day of the Lord, the day of worship, to something
like politics. One of the men, well Dan, wrote
me, texted me and said, you didn't put the chapter and verse behind
when you wrote the election. Well, I did that on purpose.
Kind of a test. Kind of a test. He didn't think
surely. I'm going to talk about that
election. The election I'm going to speak of today from God's
Word has already determined Tuesday's election. It's already been determined. Romans 11, and this is the one,
oh brother, this is the one we need to give diligence to make it sure. Now Isaiah had called on the Lord. Isaiah
was one true preacher up against 850. Eight hundred and fifty false
prophets. That's what the Lord said. And Isaiah was one true
preacher. And the way he said that God
would be known was if the fire fell and consumed the sacrifice. Now that's another message. But
Isaiah said to the Lord, verse 3, Lord, they have killed thy
prophets, dig down thine altars, I am left alone, and they seek
my life. But what saith the answer of
God unto him? God said, I have reserved to
myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee
to the image of Baal. There were probably around 7
million Israelites. 7,000 is what? 1%? Not very many. That sound like a lot of people
at that time? It wasn't. It was just a remnant. But God
said, I have reserved to myself, for myself, for my glory, for
my honor, for my purpose, 7,000. that haven't bowed to the knee
of this false god. I just imagine there are at least
seven in here. Even so, verse 5, at this present
time, then and now, there is a remnant according to the election of grace. Now this is the election. we're going to deal with today. This is the one you need to know
if you're in it. This is it. I'm not careful, I'll bring up
this one coming up, but I'm not going to do that. And I'm not trying today, I'm
not trying to prove doctrine. try to prove truth. You don't
do that. You just declare it. I'm not
going to explain it either. I'm just going to proclaim it. But what I'm trying to do is
glorify God for His sovereign, electing love, mercy, and grace
that was given us in Christ before the world began. You see, this
is all about Christ. When you begin talking about
this thing of election, you begin with Christ. We're going to see
this in a minute. Because Christ is all and in
all. Christ is in all things He might
have preeminence. And what I'm trying to do today
is to bless God and for you to bless God according as He has
chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world to the
praise of the glory of His sovereign electing love, mercy, and grace
to put in you. Of God are you in Christ and
putting you in Jesus Christ. Some of you are already nodding. Wonderful. All right, look at
2 Thessalonians 2. 2 Thessalonians 2. What a good sign. All that I've
just said, some of you are smiling and nodding. You have received
the love of the truth. What I'm going to tell you this
morning is completely from God's Word. We're going to read a lot
of Scripture. I'm going to quote a lot of Scripture,
okay? Because the Scripture is the truth. The truth. All right? 2 Thessalonians 2.
Now, up front, let me say this. No one is saved because they
believe the doctrine of election. Someone can be lost. Someone
can be lost and believe in election. Lots of people are. But no one is saved who does
not believe the doctrine of Lictor. Why? Because it's the truth. And we're going to see how he
saves us by the truth. More than just that, all of God's
elect love the truth. They not only believe it, they
love it. They love this glorious truth. Their salvation started this
way. Chosen. Look at 2 Thessalonians 2. Verse
13, Paul said, we are bound to give thanks always to God for
you, brethren, beloved, that means foreloved, always loved,
of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you
to salvation through Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the
truth. Where unto? That is salvation.
He called you by our gospel. What's the gospel? The truth.
The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. To
the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. That means
to see His glory. What's His glory? The elect. Lord over all. The Savior. The way. The truth. The life. All and in all. It's all Him.
Now, the elect of God, those whom God has chosen, are known
by their belief of the truth. We just read that. They are known
by their love of the truth. But look at verse 10. It says
that some, Satan and his power and with his ministers, false
ministers that are many, many more than true prophets, with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness and them that perish because
they receive not the love of the truth. What does that mean? They didn't
receive the gospel? It says they didn't receive the
love of the truth. Meaning, for this cause, verse 11, God
sends strong delusions that they should believe a lie, that they
all might be damned who believe not the truth. And you read with
me in Isaiah 6, it says, God blinded their minds. And we just
read in Romans 9 that God blinded their minds. But some people,
His elect, receive the love of the truth. God brings the truth
to them and opens their blind eyes, their
deaf ears, gives a heart to receive it, They love it. That's how you
know them. They love it. The truth. The truth of God's
Word. What's the truth? It's God's Word. It's God's Word. The truth. The gospel of our
salvation. What is the gospel of our salvation?
Me and Jesus, you know, say, no, no, no, it's the gospel of
our salvation. Someone came and saved us. The truth is God's Word. The
truth is Who God is. This is life eternal, our Lord
said, that they might know Thee, the only true God. The truth
that God is God. He's not a God that men let be
God. That's just not God. He's not
a God who wants to do things and can't because men won't let.
That's not God. The true God says, I will work
and who shall let it? I am God, he says, there's none
else. All through the scriptures he
says that. He said, see now, to his people, to his elect,
he says, see now and understand, I am. He, who? God. Beside me, he said, there's
not even a little g, o.d. I reign, I rule. The truth of
who God is. If you don't know that God is
God, if you don't believe that God is God, if you believe that
you let Him be God, that you let Jesus be your Lord, you don't
know God. You don't believe the truth.
You don't know the true God. Right? The truth. The truth, the truth is of who
Christ is. Who is Jesus Christ? He's God. Why did he come? He said, I've
come seeking to save that which was lost, my sheep. He said,
I know my sheep and have known of mine and I've come to save
them all, my sheep. He said, I didn't come for goats,
I came for sheep, I came for my people. He was given to, Christ
was given as a covenant for his people. His chosen people. And Christ came down and He said,
that's who I've come for. And He went, He lived a life
for them, established a perfect righteousness for them. He went
to Calvary's cross and bore in His body on the tree all the
sins of all of His elect, all of God's people. God spared not
His own Son, delivered Him up for us all. Who's that? Who's
the all? All in Christ. In Adam all die,
in Christ all are made alive. All His people, all His elect,
all those given to Him, Christ said, all that the Father giveth
to man shall come to man. That's who He died for, all of
them. And all of their sins were put away by Christ. He was buried. put away our sins, His people
rose from the grave, proving who He is and what He did and
who He did it for, and went back and sat down at the right hand
of the Majesty on high. whom God hath made Lord over
the dead and the living, and he has expected all his enemies
to be made his footstool, and he sends his Holy Spirit after
his people, all of his elect, given to him by God in that covenant
before the world began, all whom he died for. They have blood
on their hearts, just like the people in Egypt had blood on
their doorposts. And the Holy Spirit comes through
what I'm doing right now, through the preaching of this Word, and
finds them all, and calls them, quickens them, brings them, and
they're all saved. And nothing, nobody can stop it. But what? There are a few
amens in here. Why? Because that's such good
news to dead, blind, helpless, hopeless sinners that have been
quickened by His grace and called by His power. Ask Abraham. Abraham? If you
choose God, He chooses you. Abraham, I believe he'd say,
you don't know the truth, do you? I was an adopter. I was 75 years old. I was steeped
in my religion. I knew a God, but it wasn't a
God of the Bible. But God, one day, came to me. I wasn't calling on Him. I wasn't
seeking Him. He called on me. He sought me. I've got to go
on. But this is what the Lord said
when He said, I am found of a people that ask not for Him. I am found of them that sought
me not. The truth of who God is. Our
Lord said that, this is eternal life to know the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom he sent, not as a down payment for sin. If Christ didn't pay for all
the sins of all of his people, nobody's going to be saved. We
can't pay for one sin. The true Christ who came for
His people, the covenant head, if Jesus Christ did not fulfill
God's law perfectly for His people and the Holy Spirit imputed to
our account, we're lost. We're yet in our sins. This is the true Christ. Any
variation of this is a false gospel. Listen to this verse
of Scripture, no lie is of the truth. No lie is of the truth. The truth
does not have one lie in it. Brother Scott Richardson used
to say, you know, rat poisoning is 99% good food. It's the 1%
that will kill you. And our Lord even said it in
the false gospels in the last days, it's going to be so close.
Our Lord said, many will come in the last days and say that
I'm the Christ. They're going to tell people I'm the Christ,
that he's the Son of God, and this and that and the other.
But what they're saying, and they'll talk about him dying for your sin,
they'll talk about the blood, the book, and the blessed hope,
they'll talk about everything. They won't talk about election.
But they will talk about the blood, the book, and the blessed
hope, and that Jesus died for you, and God is angry. But in
the end, here's where they'll blow it. Here's where they'll
prove that they're false. Here's this one percent of rat
poison. Here is this lie that's not of the truth. Now it's up
to you. The choice is yours. Where do you find that in the
Bible? The choice is yours. On the contrary,
I find from Genesis to Revelation, the choice was God's. I'm not trying to exclude anybody.
I'm trying to give God all the glory. trying to glorify His
Word, trying to show people, hopefully somebody will hear
this that's blinded by this, that's in the captivity of false
religion, that maybe God will use this. This is what He uses.
This is what He uses to open blind eyes. Isn't it? Isn't it,
John? Isn't it, Roberta? It opens your eyes. You chose
Jesus years ago. You did too, and you did too,
but one day God said, And you weren't saved then, and then
you came to a higher knowledge of God, and you came to a knowledge
of the doctrines of grace. No! You were dead! You didn't
know God, you didn't know Christ. You thought you accepted Him,
and one day He came through this preaching, like this. Waking you out of the dead. And
you renounced all that. You renounced that. You said,
I didn't know God as a false god, as another Jesus, as another
Gospel. I was praying and believing on
a God who can not save. That they say He's done all He
can do, now it's up to you. That means He can't save. God
says, well, go to Isaiah 43. Isaiah 43. Let's see who does
the saving. Let's see who does the choosing.
I told myself I wasn't going to get too loud or excited. Oh, thank you, John. My old brother
Roy used to say that. Go ahead, get loud. I love it,
he said. I said, all right, man. I'm a pastoral boy. Go back and
listen to Brother Scott and these men. I'm preaching that we'll
wake the dead. That's what we need. Look at Isaiah 43. He said, now,
verse 1, thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel,
fear not, I have redeemed thee, I have called thee, this was
written a long time ago, I have called thee by thy name, thou
art mine. 4, verse 3, I am the Lord, thy
God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior, not a wannabe, but
a Savior. I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee, you're
precious in my sight, has been honorable. I have loved thee,
therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy life. Verse 7, he says, everyone that's
called by my name, I have created him for my glory. You see where his workmanship.
I have formed him, yea, I have made him. Make Jesus your Lord. No, here's what God says, I,
the Lord, have made you to know that I am Lord. I have caused
you to know that I am Lord. Verse 10, let you, my witnesses,
say of the Lord, my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know
and believe me, the true God, true Christ, and understand that
I am He. Before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord. Beside me there is no Savior.
I have declared and have saved. I have showed I showed it to
you. He doesn't show this to everybody.
Who does he show it to? Jacob, whom I have loved. Verse 13, Before the day was,
I am he. There is none that can deliver
out of my hand. I will work, and who shall let it? It's pretty plain, isn't it? Pretty plain. He said in another
place, verse 21, look at verse 21, this people have I formed
for myself. They shall show forth my praise. Go to Ephesians 1 with me, Ephesians
chapter 1. You know we had to go there.
Ephesians 1, we read Romans 9, we'll look at that in just a
minute. But God's truth, this is about God's truth, God's glory. And all of God's elect love His
truth because they love His glory. And this is how you know the
truth. What gives God all the glory? Not most of it, all of
the glory. God said, I will not share my glory with another.
I won't share my glory. God chose you and the devil is
against you and you cast a deciding vote. That means we have equal
votes. that we're just as powerful as God, that God needs to congratulate
us for choosing Him. That's exactly what false preachers
did. No, sir. All of God's people praised God for His sovereign
electing reign. If He hadn't chosen them, This is all about God's right
to be God. You know, this is what proves
God to be God more than anything else. He said, "...shall not
I do with my own what I will?" This is what He said in Romans
9, He said, "...I will show mercy." Thank God. He delights to show mercy on
whom? I will. It's not of Him that
will it. My will. That's what makes Him
God. You see, man, whoever has free will is God. Whoever can do as he will is God. Right? Isn't it? This is what makes
God God. So, Anyone that says man has
a free will and believes that doesn't know God. It's a false gospel. Ephesians 1. Okay? And I want
you to listen. This is God's elect. Love this
chapter. Oh, how we love it. Never get
tired of reading it, hearing it, do we? Ephesians 1, verse
1, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by whose will. Now, the
will of God. To the saints, that's the sanctified
one, set apart by the Holy Spirit, made holy, put in Christ, to
the faithful in Christ. How'd they get there? How'd they
get in Christ? It means in Christ. How'd they get there? Oh God,
are you in Christ? I'll go ahead and quote the rest
of it. "...who of God is made unto you." Made unto you. Not
offered unto you. Made unto you. Wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, redemption. In Christ. Grace to you. Saving grace. What kind of grace? Electing grace. Saving grace. Peace from God our Father. What
kind of peace? Christ said, My peace I give
unto you. My peace. I made it for you by His blood. My pick, read on, from our Father,
who's His Father of? His children, His seed, not everybody,
His children though, He's the Father of. And from the Lord
Jesus Christ, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly places or things
in Christ. And Paul wrote in Romans 8, 20,
28, all things work together for good to them that love God. Who are the called according
to His purpose, the purpose of God according to election. These are the blessings. Verse
4, according as He hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation
of the world. that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to Himself according to whose will? The good pleasure of His will,
to the praise of the glory of His grace wherein He hath made
us accepted in the Beloved. Who accepted who? And I'm not, I'm going to quit
apologizing for what I say, I don't have to explain this at all,
but what man is saying today, this false gospel is blasphemous.
It's sharing the glory with God. When they tell men to accept
Jesus, it's completely a denial of what God's Word says. When
it says, we're the ones up for acceptance or rejection. And
God doesn't accept anybody because he saw any good in them, because
he saw faith in them. God doesn't accept them at all.
He accepts them because they are elect according to the foreknowledge
of God. Because he gave them to Jesus
Christ in a covenant before the world began. And Christ came
down to save them. If he hadn't done that, they'd
all be lost. And he came down to save them and he did exactly
what God's Word told him to do, fulfill righteousness, die for
their sin, And every one of those are saved, they're accepted in
the Beloved. And for a man to stand up and
say, he did all he can do, he wants to save you, and he tried,
and he laid down his blood, and you'll accept it, that's to trod
underfoot the blood of the everlasting covenant. That's to trod underfoot,
make it a common thing that people, if they'll exercise their free
will, if people just let God be God and accept Jesus, then
God will pat them on the back for accepting His Son. No sir! That's blasphemous! Blasphemous! This is to the praise of the
glory of His grace wherein He hath made us accepted. That God
said one time to Jacob, He said to Jacob, and Jacob will never
get over this, neither will any of the sons of Jacob get over
this. God said one day, I have loved thee with an everlasting
love. I set my love on you before the
world began. Why, Lord? I'm just like my brother. Because I will. Because I did. I don't have to explain it. I
don't give an account of my matters to men. The praise of the glory
is that God would save anybody, let alone a people that no man
can number. He's got them numbered. The foundation
of God stands assured, having this seal. The Lord knoweth them
that are His. He chose them. He said, I know
mine, and I'll be known of mine. And they'll know who did the
choosing. And they'll give Him all the glory. And they'll worship
God in truth. And they'll rejoice in Christ
Jesus who did it all. And they'll have no confidence
in the plan. In fact, they'll all say, every
one of them will say, I was dead. I was blind. I was halt, I was
lame, in my flesh even to this point dwelleth no good thing."
What's your hope then? What did you do? I did the sinning. He did the saving. What did you
do? Nothing! In my hands an old price I bring. Why are you here? Him. One hundred percent. No lie is of the truth. This is the truth that you heard
from the Savior. Yes, sir. No exceptions. No exceptions. That's what God
said. I've chosen you. You're going
to know me. You're going to know me. The first mention of election
is Isaiah 42. I've got to quit. I said I was
going to be short. Well, I am short. I always have been short.
I always will be short. But I don't want to come short
of His glory this morning. You hear me? I don't want to
come short of His glory this morning. I want to make it plain.
I want to make it clear. Let there be no mistake in here. Who does the saving? Who does
the choosing? Whose glory it is? This is what it's all about.
Isaiah 42. I want to speak the truth in
love. I tell you what though, the love that we have first is
to God. Like sinners have justified God
in condemning themselves. Pharisees didn't. They thought
pretty highly of themselves, so they didn't receive the truth.
But sinners did. Isaiah 42 verse 1, Behold my
servant whom I uphold, mine elect, and whom my soul delighteth.
I have put my Spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment
to the Gentiles. He won't cry, he shall not cry,
nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street, meaning
he's not out to try to save anybody. He's come to save his people. When they announced his birth,
they said, call his name Jesus. That means Savior, God our Savior.
Why? Because he shall save his people
from their sins. Oh, bless God, a bruised reed
shall he not break, a smoking flack shall he not quench. That's
the case he came for. He shall not fail, verse 4, nor
even be discouraged. He's not crying right now. The
Lord's not crying. He's not outside our hearts door
crying, wanting in. He's laughing. He's smiling. Psalm 2, is he not? He that sitteth
in the heavens laughs, smiling, the work's finished, expecting
it all to be exactly like he purposed it to be, and it will.
It makes me smile. First mention of election was
Christ, because He is the elect. Every one of His elect are chosen
in Christ before the foundation of the world. He's the covenant
head. He's the covenant head. He's the one that came to save
them. And all of these, I can't believe
how many Scriptures I just don't have time. I don't have time. Would you just look at Romans
9 again one more time? Romans 9. I said Genesis to Revelation. I was going to go to Genesis
3. I said go to Revelation. Genesis 3, let me just tell you
this. Man fell in the garden, he died.
And here's the problem, here's what false religion, here's what
people don't realize, don't know. This is what rebels, rebels,
like Adam and Eve in the garden. God said, you eat that fruit,
that day you will die. You know that people call what
I'm preaching right now, just the Word of God, doctrines of
devils. You've heard that, haven't you?
That's the doctrine of the devil. Has anybody ever told you that?
Sure they have. This thing of election, predestination, doctrines
of the devil. Here's the doctrine of the devil.
Satan in the garden said to that man and woman, hath God said, you shall not eat of all the
trees in the garden? A little question mark. Is that
what it says? And she said, that's right, said,
if they really surely die, he said, he won't die. You're not dead in sin. You have
a free will. That's exactly what he told the
first one. Exactly. You have a free will. God knows
if you choose that you'll be a God. You'll be like God. It's
up to you. What happened? He died. He died. But before he cast him
out of the garden, God said in Genesis 3.15 to that man and
that woman, He said to that serpent, He said, I'm going to put enmity
between thy seed and her seed. Her seed, the seed of woman,
is Jesus Christ. Not many, but Jesus Christ. And
all in him. In Adam all died, but in his
seed made alive. But Satan has a seed. That's what God said to Satan,
buy seed. Our Lord one day said to some
Pharisees, you're of your father, the devil. If God were your father,
you'd love me. But you don't. You're not. He
said, my sheep hear my voice. They're going to hear it. I came
for them. They're my elect. They're going to hear my voice.
He said, you don't believe because you're not my sheep, as I said
unto you. And he said, no man can come
unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw them. But all
that the Father hath given me will come unto me. They were
given to me. They're my seed. He shall see the travail of his
soul and be satisfied. He shall see his seed. But Satan's seed, I don't like
that. I don't like that. You don't like God's glory? You
don't think God has the right to do the choosing? No, I don't
like that. I had a man one time, one of
our brethren was reading Romans 9 to him. He was reading it. He just read it. That's all he
did. He didn't comment. He just read it. And the man said, after
he finished, he said, I don't believe that. And this was a
Southern Baptist, free will man who had gone to church all his
life. He said, I don't believe that. And the brother said, what
do you mean? He said, I just read God's Word.
He said, yeah, I don't believe it like you read it. Tell me what you were thinking
when I was reading that. Tell me where you would have
me emphasize, what you would have me emphasize when God said,
I will have mercy on him. Is there any person in here,
upon reading that, thought, no, I don't much like that. God is seated there. Our Lord
one day said to his disciples, they said, they don't like that.
They don't like what you're saying. He said, leave them alone. He
didn't come for them. And just stand up, preacher,
and declare the truth, and my people will come. Don't beg,
don't plead. God's people are going to come.
Romans 9, it says in verse 11, the children not yet born, neither
having done any good or evil at the purpose of God according
to election. The election that was held before
the world began. It's not of works, but it's him.
It's of God that called. It was said under Rebekah, the
elder shall serve the younger, as is written, Jacob have I loved,
Esau have I hated. People say, that's just talking
about a national people. No, it's not. Because they are
not Israel, which are of Israel. And he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly. He's not talking at all about
God's people. He said even though the children
of Israel are the sands of the sea, they're just a remnant according
to the election. And now this upcoming election, Say, what's this all got to do
with the upcoming election? Because known unto God are all
his works from the beginning of the world. God hath ordered
all things and sure. God has made Jesus Christ Lord
over the universe. That's why if anybody says, make
him Lord, then we're in a mess. No, God hath already made him
Lord. And he's the king of kings and lord of lords. And he's the
one who sets up and puts down. He's the one who's already determined
before the world began who's going to be put in office on
Tuesday. Well, shouldn't we, shouldn't
we? Well, I guess. But he's the one, you say. It's not your choice. Do you like that? Buddy, when I look around at
this world, if you didn't believe God is God, we better head to
the hills. That's why some people are packing
guns and all that. I don't do that. Our Lord said
to His disciples, put up your sword. I'm going to slay them
with my mouth. I'm the one in charge here. And
I'm not asking you to let me be. I'm telling you, he said,
I'm God and I will work. I work all things after the counsel
of my will and none can stay my hand. And I've already purposed
this thing. If there's a bad man or a bad
woman, I mean, God did it. Go to sleep, trust the Lord,
and when this is all over, You're going to see clearly then. You're
going to see. You know in part, our faith is so weak, we believe
it in our heads, but oh God, some days we'll say, see, I told
you, didn't I? Didn't I tell you? I am God. We're wondering, how could this
turn out good? How could this? It all looks
bad to me. God said it. He promised it. He can't license
it. All things work together for good to them that love God,
to the called according to my purpose, my people, my purpose. And everything is according to
my purpose. Even the bad things. Like Egypt. He said, I gave Egypt
for thy ransom. I gave Ethiopia and Cebu for
thee. I did all these plagues that
He sent, all these plagues that made Egypt miserable. He's bringing
His people out. It's all good. It's all good. Even the bad is good. He said,
Isaiah 45, 7, I create peace, I make evil. Proverbs 16, is it? For the Lord
hath made all things for himself, even the wicked for the day of
evil. But I don't understand. No, no
one can fully understand God. But here's the thing, just believe. Because He doesn't give an account
of Him. He's God. Someday he is. Someday we're
going to know. I believe throughout eternity
he's going to be showing us. Look at this. Look at what I've
done. Look what I did over here to
cause this over here. This had to happen here for this
to happen way over here. And you didn't have a clue. You
thought, oh no, oh no. Oh yes, oh yes, because of this
and this and this and this and this. I said, I'm God. I'm working
it all out. Rest, relax, believe. If you don't believe, you won't
be established. If you don't believe, you'll
worry, you'll stay up Tuesday night. I'm not trying to be smart of
it, seriously. I'm not trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying
to glorify God. trying to glorify His Word, give
Him all the glory, and give you peace and comfort in knowing
that He is God, that Christ is Christ, and if you belong to
Him, it's all good. Eternally good. Okay. Brother
John, let's sing number 42. And the reason we chose this
one is because of the chosen seed of Israel's race. Number
42. Just stand.