What a blessing. I have a couple of thank yous. First of all, I want to thank
the Lord for letting us be here. I'm thankful to this church for
the time and effort that you have put in to put this conference
on, for the meals that you have prepared, for John and Irene
for letting us come over yesterday, and most of all, for God allowing
us to meet and worship Him. All glory is His. Thankful for
Paul and Mindy and them allowing us to come into their home. It's
just such a blessing to be with God's people, to dwell together
in unity. And our unity is Christ. We have
different backgrounds. We have different personalities.
How in the world can all these different people get along? It's
impossible without Christ. But in Christ, there is no difference. Neither bond nor free, rich nor
poor, black nor white, it just doesn't matter. It's all about
Him. All about Him. If you would, open your Bible
this morning to the book of Romans. I want to be getting down to
chapter 10, but I want to begin back in Chapter 9, Romans chapter
9, that great, great chapter of
the scriptures which lays out very clearly the sovereignty
of God and the salvation of sinners. He will show mercy to whom He
will show mercy and whom He will heal hardness. And God has a
people from every kindred, tongue, tribe, and nation, from Jews
and Gentiles. That's always been God's purpose,
was to save a people. And then it begins in verse 26,
and it says, And it shall come to pass that in the place where
it was said unto them, You are not my people, there shall they
be called the children of the living God. And Isaiah also cries
concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel
be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. For he will finish
the work. We could spend all morning on
that part of the verse. He will finish the work. He'll
finish his work. People were saying, you know,
in the Book of Romans, it said, well, God's work wasn't effective.
He preached the gospel to all them Jews, and most of them went
to hell without knowing God. Well, he must have failed. No,
he'll finish his work. Inside that nation, there is
a remnant according to the election of grace. You know, in Matthew
24, I know a lot of people say, you know, they talk about the
great tribulation. They're looking somewhere way
down the road. We're in tribulation. And it says, for the elect's
sake, those days shall be shortened. Because it said, he will finish
the work and cut it short in righteousness. Because a short
work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as Isaiah said
before, except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been
as Sodom and Ben-Nach and to Gomorrah. Everybody knows what
happened to those wicked cities. If it was not for God leaving
a very small remnant, we'd all perish under God's wrath. We'd
all perish. What shall we say then? What
can we say to a statement like that? That the Gentiles, which
followed not after righteousness, Do you see that? They followed
not after righteousness. Now understand this, the Gentile
nations were left in total darkness. Except for a very few that God
picked out and saved, like Rahab the harlot, Ruth the Moabite.
It's just very few. Look what the Jews had. Look
at the advantages they had. They had the scriptures. They
had the tabernacle. They had the Ark of the Covenant.
They had the priesthood. They had all these things. The
Gentiles had none of these things. They followed not after righteousness.
But we know that all men by nature knows who God is because He's
revealed it to them through creation. They're all without excuse. But
they followed not after righteousness. Which have not, verse 30, what
shall we say then? That the Gentiles which followed
not after righteousness have attained to righteousness. Even the righteousness, which
is of what faith? They didn't follow after it,
but they attained it. They've attained it. But look, that Israel,
which followed after the law of righteousness, They followed
after the law of righteousness, hath not attained unto the law
of righteousness. They had the law, they were following
after the law of the law, and never obtained it. It's just
like exactly like Gabe read, they did not understand the law. But when Ezra stood up and read,
two or three times it said, they understood, they understood,
they understood the purpose of the law. Could never save anybody,
but it pointed us to the one who did. The righteousness of
God. It showed us our inability. And
the Jews had the law, but they were following after a righteousness
trying to keep the law. And they never attained it. Never
did. Wherefore, he explains himself,
they sought it not by faith. But as it were by the works of
the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling stone. I thought
about this the other day. I was walking in my study and
I walked around my desk and I set my briefcase there and I forgot
about it. And I walked into that thing and just like fell into
the wall, I stumbled over it. God put his gospel in their way
and they stumbled over it. And Chipps stumbling over it.
And Chipps stumbling over it. Because it says in verse 33,
as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and
rock of offense. And whosoever believeth on him
shall not be ashamed. They said, we will not have this
man to reign over us. You know, read through the book
of Acts. The gospel was first to be preached in Jerusalem,
Judea, and then to the uttermost parts of the earth. They preached
the gospel to the Jews. God saved 3,000. Later on, he
preached to the Jews. Oh, they hated it, despised it. I think it's in Acts 13. They
preached the gospel to them on the Sabbath day. They despised
it, hated it. The next Sabbath day, the Gentiles
said, we want to hear that very same gospel. Tell us about that
Jesus. We've never heard about this
Jesus. We've never had the law, never had any of these things.
Oh, tell me about Him. Oh, and it said they received
it gladly, and it says, as many as were ordained unto eternal
life believed. They said, I've got to have that
righteousness. They're not seeking one by works. I've got to have
Him. I've got to have Him. Now verse
1 of chapter 10, brethren, my brethren, my heart's
desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be
saved. He just wrote, Romans chapter
9, there is a remnant according to the election of grace. Paul
was an Israelite of the flesh. the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew
of the Hebrews, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, a very religious
but lost man, and he knew that's exactly how his brethren was.
He saw them living under the law, trying to obtain a righteousness,
but trying to keep the law. And he said, my heart's desire
for them is what? Not that they may get saved,
but they may be saved. Salvation is a state of being.
If we say that we believe in a God of election and it doesn't
break our heart, there's something wrong. Any man that's been saved
and is being saved, he wants others to be saved. Turn back to Romans 9, the very
first verse. He said, I say the truth in Christ,
I lie not. My conscience also bearing me
witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual
sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself
were accursed from Christ, my brethren, my kinsmen, according
to the flesh." You read behind commentators and every one of
them will try to tell you what that's not saying. Let's just
read it like it is written. Like somebody said, just because
we don't love like Paul did, that don't mean he didn't love
them that good. He said, I would be willing to be accursed from
them. That's love. I would be willing. Moses prayed similar prayers. God said, just get out of the
way, Noah, and I'll just kill them all. He said, God, you blocked
my name out of your book. You blocked my name out of your
book. This is what Paul was saying. He said, this is my heart's desire,
a prayer to God for Israel as they might be saved. He never
quit praying for them, burdened for them. Do you not see the
familiality with this in your own life, in your own family?
If your family is like mine, most everybody is just real religious.
They go to church and they try to live right, try to live a
good moral life, but they don't know God. Don't have any desire
to know God. Lost. Verse 2, for I bear them record. They
have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Very zealous, very
enthusiastic, but not according to knowledge. Let me read verse
3 and 4, and then I'm going to come back to verse 3. For they,
being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. He is the end
of the law. He is the goal of the law. What
is the purpose of the law? To bring us to Jesus Christ.
It is our schoolmaster unto Christ. He's the end of the law. Like
the little tract that Brother Rupert had reprinted, it's not
due, it's done. The law says what? Do this and live. Do this and
live. That's exactly what it says.
And you've got to do it all. You can't pick and choose. And
Christ did it all. It's done. He's the end of the
law. I'm glad the law's not my rule
of life. Christ is the love of God constrains
me. You don't have to beat people,
God's people over the head to try to get them to do something. He's the end of the law. So you can understand this, you
don't have to beat me over the head to get me to do something
for that girl right there. Because I love her. That's the
difference. And she loves me. That's where it's at. And that's
free. I'm glad this morning I'm free.
I'm glad I'm not seeking after righteousness. I have one. It
was given to me by Christ. I'm accepted in the beloved. But I still remember my brethren,
according to the flesh, they don't know God. I was telling
this to Bruce, I went and saw my sister. Just a sad, sad story. She'll be 54 in July. She's been in a nursing home
for about the last four or five years. She is wrapped up in religion,
speaking in tongues, women preachers, and the whole nine yards. And
I went to her one day and I said, well, if I was to bring you a
tape recorder, would you listen to some tapes? She said, sure.
So I took her some, and about two or three weeks later I went
back and I said, did you listen to them tapes? She said, yeah.
I said, do you want any more of them? She said, no, don't
bring me any more. That ought to break our heart.
Why is that not me? Who makes you to differ? Some of you God may have spared.
You may have raised all your life in a grace church. From
the time I was big enough to go to church, somebody took me
and taught me, trained me in religion. Trained me to make
a decision. I was playing religion. Even
went to preacher school. Thought I knew God and didn't
know God. Had no understanding. Lost. Lost and without God. But today I want to look at verse
3 in those 3 points. He says, they were ignorant of
God's righteousness. And because they're ignorant
of God's righteousness, they are going about to establish
their own righteousness. And they've not and will not
submit themselves unto the righteousness of God. Does anybody understand
what that verse means? It's talking about what? God's
righteousness. God's righteousness. And that's
the only righteousness there is. It's God's righteousness. There is none other. So let's just look at this verse.
It says, man is ignorant of God's righteousness. What does the
word ignorant mean? It means lacking knowledge, information,
awareness about something in particular. They are unfamiliar
with this. Some synonyms of this word is
they're blind, Shallow, thick, and dumb. And as I thought about
those things, this verse, Isaiah chapter 56, verse 11, came to
my mind, and it just describes it. His watchmen are blind. They are all ignorant. They are
all dumb doves. They cannot bark, sleeping, lying
down, loving to slumber. You know why people are ignorant?
Those who teach them are ignorant. They're ignorant of God's righteousness.
He said these watchmen, you know what a watchman was? He was the
one that was on the wall and his responsibility was to watch. He's blind. Would you want to
put somebody on the wall that was blind? He can't see. He can't understand. It says
he's ignorant. He's like a dumb dog. We've got
three dogs at the house. Sandy's got a bulldog. I say
it's her dog. The biggest one of the bunch.
We've got a little teacup hood on her. Miniature's nouser and
then we've got that bulldog. She'll stand about that high.
She barks the least of the bunch. Somebody drives up and she just
goes... They're dumb dogs and cannot
bark. Sleeping, lying down, loving
the slumber. That's where we're at. 2 Peter 3, verse 5, For this they
willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens
were of old, and they are standing out of the water, and in the
water. The fallen man has no righteousness of his own, and
he is totally ignorant, totally ignorant of God's righteousness. He is ignorant of God's character
of righteousness, God's requirement of righteousness, and God's accomplishment
of righteousness. He's ignorant. I know what it
was like to be ignorant. Don't you, Brother Rupert? Being
ignorant, just did not understand, was blind and couldn't see. Ignorant. Ignorant. It's humbling when
somebody calls you ignorant. It's humbling when you find out,
say, am I just that ignorant? Just that dumb? Just dumb. And I'll tell you this, we're
all born ignorant. Ignorant. We're ignorant to God's
righteousness. Ignorant. Ignorant. A person
cannot be saved. Now listen to me. A person cannot
be saved without a knowledge of God's righteousness. He just can't be. What does God
demand? That's what God's righteousness
is. He demands perfection. I heard Don say on the tape one
time, a lady came up to him and she asked him in the parking
lot one day, she says, how good does a person have to be to go
to heaven? He said, as good as God. As good as God? That's God's
righteousness. God cannot lower, He cannot,
He will not, and He has not and never will lower His standard.
Holiness. Holiness. They're ignorant of
God's holiness. If you was able this morning
to hear Brother Henry's message on the radio, he just introduced
this message about God's righteousness. What is God's number one characteristic
that describes God? He's holy. He dwells in a holiness
that no man can approach. He has a mitre on His head that
says, Holiness unto the Lord. The Ark of the Covenant was in
the holies of holies. He's holy. Holy. Holy. Holy and reverent is His
name. And how can a holy God have anything
to do with us that are unholy and ungodly? Only by His righteousness. Only
by His righteousness. We're ignorant of the strictness
of God's nature, the strictness of His holiness. A man's heart
must be right with God. When Christ came, this is why
the Pharisees hated Him so bad. They knew exactly what He was
saying. They thought they had a righteousness. They said, oh, we've never killed,
we've never committed adultery, we've just never done any of
those things. Our Lord said, have you ever
been angry with your brother? He said, if you've been angry
with your brother, you've killed him in your heart. They said,
oh, we've never committed adultery. He said, have you ever looked
on anybody else in a lustful manner? He said, you've committed
adultery in your heart. He said, it's a heart problem.
Man is just interested with what's on the outside. God has to deal with a man's
heart. They didn't understand. They were ignorant. Our motives. Our attitudes, our
deeds, our thoughts and everything that we do, it must be holy. The best day we thought we ever
had. It's an abomination in the sight
of God. That's what I'm talking about.
That's what God's, they're ignorant of God's righteousness. Ignorant. Ignorant. Ignorant to the strictness of
His justice. They're trying to merit acceptance
with God on the strength of their words, their deeds, and their
righteous duties. Oh, this is a picture of our
day. Hosea chapter 4, verse 4. My people are destroyed for lack
of knowledge. Because they have rejected knowledge,
I will also reject thee. and thou shalt be no priest to
me, seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will
forget that thy children have no knowledge." You know who the hardest people
are to try to win to Christ or even talk to? It's religious
people. It's like a barrier is there. But they must come to realize,
Romans chapter 1 verse 16, Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ. It's the power of God and the
salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to
the Greek. For therein in the gospel is
the righteousness of God revealed as it is written, the just shall
live by faith. You know, people find out how
God's righteous in the gospel. The just for the unjust, that
He might bring us to God. We're not under the law, we're
under grace. Grace! Grace! Do you remember when you heard
about grace? I thought, Paul, can it really
be that true? Can it really be that true? I've
been struggling all my life. And He gave it to me. Gave it
to me. gave it to me. Oh, listen to
this. Jeremiah 3.15, And I will give
you pastors according to mine own heart, which shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding. Thank God that God sent you a
preacher to feed you with knowledge and understanding. A lot of people
have a lot of knowledge but don't understand nothing. I want to
understand something. I want to understand this book. Don't you? This book is all about
Him and His righteousness. And God gives His sheep, pastors,
from His own heart. And they're not a dog that can't
bark. They're not a watchman that won't
cry out for danger. They feed them with knowledge
and understanding. As I said, I run across this
verse in Job chapter 21, verse 14. Therefore they say unto God,
depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy way. That sounds like this generation. You remember when our Lord crossed
the sea and went to the the gathering country, and he went on purpose
and saved that one man. And the townspeople came out
and they got mad because they had lost their income. And they
said, you depart from our coast, we don't want you here. That's
what he's saying. They said, we don't want this
knowledge, we won't have this land. God says, okay, I'll give
you exactly what you want. The greatest curse on any country,
community, church or anything is when God leaves people in
darkness. And He doesn't send them a pastor after His own heart. You know how I learned to be
religious? Somebody taught me. Somebody taught me. Taught me. Taught me. Listen, 1 Timothy 1.13. Paul said he was before a blasphemer.
What's he saying? He's saying, when I was in religion,
trying to keep the law, Pharisee of the Pharisees, he said, I
was a blasphemer. Some people say, oh, I was saved
before I ever heard the gospel. That's foolishness. Paul said,
I was a blasphemer. And I was a persecutor and injurious,
but I obtained mercy. Because I did it ignorantly in
unbelief. The fact that Paul did these
things in ignorance and unbelief was not the reason he obtained
mercy, but he is saying that it is indeed mercy that pardons
and justifies such an ignorant person like me. You mean he justified somebody
ignorant like me? Yes, he did. You know what Paul
said? Paul said, I'm an example. And
God saved him as an example. Example of mercy. You mean God
can save a religious, ignorant, self-righteous man like that?
He'll save anybody. That means there's hope for me.
I didn't get saved, I obtained mercy. What do sinners need? They need mercy. Mercy. Mercy. The second point. They are ignorant
of God's righteousness, and they are going about to establish
their own righteousness. The Amplified Bible says they
are seeking to establish a righteousness, a means of salvation of their
own. being ignorant both of the righteousness of God and man's
own sinfulness. Man never goes about to establish
his own righteousness. He's really busy at it. Our Lord
said, you will encompass sea and land to make one proselyte,
to make one convert. And when you've converted him,
you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourself. They're
going about. They are always working to try
to earn their salvation. Their means of salvation, they're
going about or seeking to do this. This shows their ignorant
zeal, the toil, the pain, the labor they use, but it's all
in vain. All in vain. All in vain. In Luke 16, 15, He said, You
are they which justify Yourselves before men. They do it as a show
to be seen. Oh, look at this. This makes
my philosophy so broad. I just want everybody to know
how much I love God. That's it. They have no concern
what God thinks. They're going about. I don't
know where I got this. It says, to establish, this is
a homemade righteousness, which is of their own spinning. You've
seen an old spider just spin a web. They've spun their own
righteousness. And their design is to set up
in the room of, instead of God's righteousness, the word established,
listen, it means to make stable, to place firmly, to set fast,
to strengthen, make firm, and make to stand. We're going about
to make stand our own righteousness. Listen, Psalms 24, verse 1. The
earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world, and they
that dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the
seas and established it upon the rocks. Who established this
earth? Does this world stand? Why does
it stand? He established it. You see the
word? It means to stand. And they're
going about to try to establish their own righteousness that
will stand. To stand. That's why they've
got to keep working on it. It rots. It decays. It's no good. It's like the tamper you bought.
It looked pretty good. Paul got to working on it. He
said, it's just rotting all inside. Rip the whole side out of it.
That's it. Just decayed. He has established it upon the
flood. Now listen to this verse. The next verse, verse 3. Who
shall ascend unto the heel of the Lord? Or who shall stand
in his holy place? Who can stand in God's holiness? Who can ascend unto his heel? And he answers the question.
He had clean hands and a pure heart. He that hath not lifted
his soul into vanity or sworn deceitfully." Oh, that's talking
about Him. That's talking about Christ.
None of us could ever imagine who's going to ascend, who can
stand in God's holiness and His righteousness? Only Christ. And my standing, my establishment
is in Him. Standing, that's my standing.
Here I stand. I stand complete in Him. I'm
not trying to build me a righteousness and trying to make it stand.
It will always fall. It can't stand. Psalms 1 verse
5, Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous. I love this passage
of Scripture. Psalms 130 verse 3, If thou,
Lord, should mark iniquity, O Lord, Who shall stand? What is that saying? If God can
charge you with one sin, motive, attitude, you cannot stand. It will not stand. It will not
stand. If men were to be judged upon
no system but that of works, among whom Us could answer for
himself at the Lord's bar and hope to stand clear and accepted.
Here King David owns that he cannot stand before the great
King in his own righteousness. He says, I can't. I can't. He is so struck with a sense
of the holiness of God and the rectitude of that law that he
is convinced that no man, no mortal man can stand in God's
presence. He was convinced of it. Who can
stand? But they're going about to establish
a righteousness that they think will stand. You know, in Matthew
chapter 7, it talks about these religious people, very religious,
very moral. They die. And they're going to
stand before God's bar of holy justice one day. And they're
going to be judged. And here's what they say. Well,
they're going to plead. We've prophesied in your name.
We've cast out devils in your name. We've done many wonderful
works. You see, I'm just describing
them. Many wonderful works. And he
says, depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you.
What am I saying? That will never stand. It won't
stand. It won't stand. They're going about to establish
or make to stand a righteousness of their own. And that's like
building a house on the sand. It won't stand. Matthew 7, 24,
Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them, I will liken unto him unto a wise man, not a dumb man, but
a wise man, which built his house upon the rock, and the rain descended
The floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house.
Trials, tribulation, aggravation, assaults, everything beat against
that house. And it fell not. It fell not. You know why? It
was founded upon a rock. The rock is something you can't
see. It's below ground. It's the very foundation. But
the world wants their righteousness where everybody can see it. They
don't care what side of side. But that house, listen to me,
that child of God that's built on Christ, the solid rock, he'll
stand. Having done all to stand, stand
there for her. Stand. Let me read to you about
the other house. And everyone that heareth these
sayings of mine," everybody in here with your natural ears,
here's the sayings. You hear them? Here's the sayings. Everyone that heareth these sayings
of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man
which built his house upon the sand. He has no foundation. He's not concerned about one.
Most of y'all have been to the beach, you've seen the sand,
you walk out there in the water and you think you've got a pretty
firm foundation in the first wave, it just washes everything
around your feet. It's just gone. It will not be
able to stand against the wrath of Almighty God. Let me tell
you this, in the day of judgment, in the day of judgment, my house
will stand. But it says that man that built
his house on the sand, the rain descended, the floods came, the
winds blew, and it beat upon that house, and it fell, and
great was the fall of it. It wouldn't stand there going
about with great energy and zeal to establish them a house that
will not stand in the day of judgment. They think it will.
You know, it's sobering to think about those people that I just
mentioned a few minutes ago who actually are standing before
God and they actually think that God's going to accept what they
do. That's how depraved we are. That's
how depraved we are. They are in a most dangerous
condition. They cannot support themselves. They must fall. And
great will be their fall. Their destruction is inevitable.
Their ruin is irrecoverable. They work hard to make their
good works stand. And then the last point. Because
they are ignorant of God's righteousness, they are going about to establish
their own righteousness, they have not submitted unto the righteousness
of God. In 2 Samuel chapter 5, I think
this is one of the most humorous chapters, if you want to say
that, in the Bible. It talks about, you know, the children
of Israel, they were fighting the Philistines. And God was
allowing the Israelites to be defeated by the Philistines.
And God then told Eli that he was going to judge his two sons,
Hoth and Phinehas, And the Philistines come to fight against Israel.
You know what they do? They take the Ark of the Covenant.
They capture it. Eli's two sons are killed. And
when they come back and tell the news to Eli, he said, what
about the Ark? They said your two sons died
and the Ark was taken and he fell backward and breaks his
neck. And one of his sons The wives is having a child and she
has a child and she dies. And they named the child Ichabod,
the Lord, the glory hath departed. And it says in the next chapter,
when they took the ark, you know what they did with the ark? You
know what these Philistines did with the ark? They took it into
the house of Dagon. Let's put it with the rest of
our gods. And said they come in the next
day and old Dagon's just fell. Now they prop him up. We've got
to help him stand. They come in the next day. In
verse 3, And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold,
Dagon was falling upon his face to the earth before the ark of
the Lord. And they took Dagon and set him in his place again.
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, the next
day, behold, Dagon was falling on his face to the ground before
the ark of the Lord. And the head of Dagon and both
the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold. Only
the stump of Dagon was left to him. He fell before God. He could not stand. You know
what the mercy seat is? It's the Lord Jesus Christ who
kept the perfect law, kept the law perfectly. And, oh, let's
plop up our Dagon. Let's prop him up. They go back
in there and his head's cut off and his hands cut off. He has
no wisdom and he has no strength to save himself. He's an empty
God. And let me tell you this, that's
what man's empty righteousness is. It's nothing but a dead Dagon.
And they're trying to prop him up. We've got to help him. We've got to help him. God can't
do something unless you won't let him. That's Dagon. Every false religion is anti-Christ
religion. It has to be propped up to make
you stand. And the only standing place is,
God said, at that mercy seat. That's where I'll meet with you. You notice what I said? Let's
just talk it real slow. It is a mercy seat. For the day of atonement at one
month is made. That's where I'm accepted. The
only way I'm accepted is that mercy seat. The mercy seat. And today, men
refuse to submit to the true righteousness of God. You give
them something to do and they'll do it. They won't submit. What does
the word submit mean? Submit to subject oneself to
obey, to submit to one's control. As I thought about this, we went
over yesterday over at Kelly's Barn. He's good with a horse. You ever seen a horse you've
never messed with? I had one, and I had to get Kelly to come
get it. This thing was about four years old, and I wasn't
there. I might rub it a little bit when I was feeding it, and
that's the only reason he came to me, because I was feeding him. He had a mind
of his own. I couldn't control him. But somebody
knew how to break him. Break him. He was out there working
with that horse yesterday, and that horse would watch him. And
that horse would submit to His control. That's what it is to
submit. That horse was four times his
size, but he made it submit. God makes you willing to submit. To bow and say, God, I have no
righteousness of my own. I have no way of attaining. I
can't remove one sin. And I submit, Lord. Isn't it? The question is not if you will
bow, but when. Every knee is going to bow, every
tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Man by nature
will not bow to God's righteousness, but God can make him bow. He does. May God give you an
understanding of who you are and who He is and what He requires. What God demands, now listen
to me, what God demands, only God can give. You can't produce
it. God didn't tell you to produce
one, He told you to receive one. That's grace. Amen.