Let's open our Bibles this morning
to the book of Romans, chapter 12. Someone said years
and years and years ago, if a man would learn more about the gospel,
let him submerge himself in the book of Romans, which is the
gospel of God. That's what Paul said in the
opening chapter. Paul, a bondslave of Jesus Christ,
separated to the gospel of God, which he promised afore by his
prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning his Son, Jesus Christ
our Lord, who was made of the seed of David according to the
flesh, but declared to be the Son of God. That's what the Book
of Romans is all about. Justification by faith through
Christ Jesus our Lord. by the grace of God. The first
eleven chapters of Romans—now let me give you this background
just for a few moments. The first eleven chapters of
the Book of Romans are devoted to the great doctrines of grace,
the doctrines of redemption. The foundation of the Reformation
five hundred years ago, of which we have profited greatly the
Reformation, when those men came out of Catholicism, and it was
based on four things. That Reformation was based on
four things. Number one, the Scriptures alone.
The Scriptures alone, not what the Pope says or the Church says,
what God said. If they speak not according to
the Scriptures, it's because there's no light in them. Thus
saith the Lord. That's our message. Salvation
by grace alone, not by works, not by any contribution of works. For by grace are you saved through
faith, but that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. Salvation by grace alone. The
third foundation of that great Reformation was redemption by
Christ alone. He was made sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him,
in him, in him." Salvation is a person. Redemption is by the
obedience and the blood of the Son of God. If you read Isaiah
53, you'll find these words used 43 times, him, he, and his. It's a person, that's right.
Isaiah 53, the gospel of the Old Testament, the gospel according
to Isaiah, him, 53, 43 times in that 53rd chapter, he, him,
and his. The full foundation of that great
reformation, the scriptures alone, grace alone, Christ alone, faith
alone, justification by faith, by faith. Therefore, Paul said,
we conclude a man is justified by faith, not by the works of
the law. Now, that's what the first eleven
chapters of Revelation of Romans deals with. This great truth
taught by our Lord, these great truths which our fathers, forefathers,
loved and by which they lived. and for which they died, and
in which they rejoiced, and in which I rejoiced." Now the last,
the last five chapters of Romans, and I'm going to deal with chapter
twelve this morning. Chapter twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, is devoted to the results of redemption.
Redemption by grace through faith The last five chapters deal with
the results of redemption, what happens in a man, to a man, through
a man, when God saves him. That's right. The last five chapters,
they deal, the last five chapters deal with the life of obedience,
the life of grace, the believer's walk, the believer's conduct,
the believer's conversation the believer's attitude. That's what
these last five chapters deal with. That's the reason he starts
with verse one, says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, by the mercies of God to you. That's the motive
for anything we do. That's the reason for anything
we do. Because he loved us, we love him. Because he's been merciful
to us, we're merciful to others. Because he forgave us, we forgive.
See, by the mercies of God to you, you present your bodies,
yourselves, your faculties, your members to God. That's your reasonable
status. That's what you ought to do.
If he died for us, we're not our own. We're bought with a
price. We're his. So that's what this chapter deals
with. Now, I'm going to start with verse nine. That's where
I'm going to go for my message this morning. Here's the title
of the message, Ten Commandments for Believers. Preacher, you
gonna preach on the Ten Commandments? Yes, sir. Ten Commandments for
Believers. And the basis of that is what
our Lord said to his disciples, a new commandment I give you,
that you love one another as I loved you. That's my commandment. Here Paul gives us ten commandments
for believers, starting at verse nine. Ten commandments for believers. Let love be without dissimulation. What's that word mean? Hypocrisy. Let love be without hypocrisy. Let it be sincere without hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. All right, here's the first commandment.
love one another. That's the first commandment,
love one another. True, sincere love in the heart
is the heart of faith. True, sincere love is the essence
of spirituality. True, sincere love is obedience
to God's commandments. Our Lord Jesus Christ, one day
one of the Pharisees said to him, Master, which is the great
commandment of the Lord? I should love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, thy soul, thy mind, and thy neighbors,
thyself. On this hangs all the law and
the prophets. On this hangs it all, to love
God and to love one another. That's the first commandment
to believers. You see, love is the bond that brings us together
and holds us together. Love is For all the stones are
in the temple of God. Turn to Colossians chapter 3,
and I'll show you that. Colossians chapter 3, verse,
Colossians 3, verse 13, 14. Colossians 3, 13, 14. Listen. Forbearing one another,
forgiving one another, If any man have a quarrel against any,
even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye, and above all things,
above all things, put on love." What's charity? Love. That's
the bond of perfectness. That's the bond. That's what
holds us together. That's what keeps us together.
Keep thyself in the love of God. keep thyself in the love of God. Revelation warns us not to leave
our first love. It's the bond of perfectness.
And I'll tell you this, without love, everything else you do
in religion is useless. Turn to 1 Corinthians 13. Let
me show you that. Without love, if you don't love,
Everything you do in religion is useless before God. 1 Corinthians
13. Now back in chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians,
it talks about the gifts. God gave some unusual, miraculous
gifts to the early church. Gifts of tongues, discernment,
interpretation, this sort of thing, healing of the sick. Gifts
he gave. And in the last verse of chapter
12, Paul tells the church, covet earnestly the best gifts. Covet
the best gifts. But I'm going to show you, yet
means but. Yet I'm going to show you a more
excellent way. I'm going to show you something
better than gifts. I'm going to show you something more important
than gifts. I'm going to show you something more important
than discernment and interpretation and tongues and healing or anything
like that. Because, verse 1, chapter 13,
there I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have
not love, I am a sounding brass, a tinkling cymbal. There ain't
nothing worse to the ear than a pow of a sounding brass, a
tinkling of a cymbal, and that's what I am without love. Look at the next verse. And there
I have the gift of prophecy. and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge and have all faith so that I can remove mountains
and have not love? I'm nothing. Oh, Mr. Nothing from nowhere. That's
what you are without love. I don't care how good you can
preach. Look at the next verse. Thou
art bestowed my goods to feed the poor, but I give my tithes,
preaching my offerings. I support the church. Stop supporting
it if you don't love it. That's right. You think, let
me do it. Though I bestow all my gifts
to feed the poor and give my body to be burned for my doctrines
and have not love, it'll profit me nothing. That's the reason
I said, stop giving, buy your new car. I say this, if you don't love, if you
don't love, you're a sounding brass and a
tinkering cymbal, you're nothing And you're not profited in any
way by what you believe or what you profess or what you do. Love
one another. That's number one. It's indisputable. It's undeniable. It can't be
challenged. That's why I like to preach.
It's the only way. Let it be without dissimulation,
let it be sincere, let it be without hypocrisy. Yes, hate
that which is evil, cleave to that which is good, and this
is good, loved one." Now, here's the second commandment. Verse
ten, be kind to affection one to another, with brotherly love,
in honor of preferring one another. Be kind. That's to love one another,
and the second commandment is to be kind to one another. Can
you quote Ephesians 4.32? Many of you can, I know. The
Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4.32 says, Be ye kind one to another,
tender-hearted, tender-hearted, loving, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ's sake gave you. Be kind. Be kind. Paul calls this kindness brotherly
love. Look at that verse again. Be
kind Be kind in affection one to another with brotherly love.
Look in your margin. Does it say in the love of brethren? Love like brothers. That's what
it's saying. Be kind like brothers. Be kind
to one another as brothers are kind to one another. And I'll
tell you why he tells us to, as a church, church family, to
love one another and be kind to one another like brothers
is because We're commanded to love all people, be kind to all
people, but one's family is special. Our families are special. Fathers
and sons. You've got fathers and sons here
this morning, and they're special to one another. They have a union
and a relationship that's special. Husbands and wives. Fathers and sons. Mothers and
daughters. Brothers and sisters. So what
Paul is saying here is you believers, you love one another with that
special bond and that special relationship of brothers. And you prefer one another. You
protect one another with a special bond and a special spirit. You
have a concern for one another. That's family. And you protect
one another and provide for one another as a family. my family,
my children, my grandchildren. If something good is going to
happen, let it happen to them, not to me. Don't you feel that
way? A child or a brother or a sister,
if something bad is going to happen, let it happen to me,
not to him. That's what preferring one another means. And that's
how we as a, as your natural family He says, be kind to one
another, affection with love like brothers, preferring one
another, protecting one another. If something happens in the family,
say a child, one of your sons or daughters does something that's
not commendable, do you go tell anybody about it? Well, something happens to a
believer in church. You tell that? Shouldn't. We should protect
one another and prefer one another and provide for one another as
you would your own blood kin. That's what Paul said. Be kind
because he's your brother. I like that story of a little
boy walking through the field that day and he's carrying his
baby brother on his back. And a man came by and said to
God, that boy's heavy, isn't he, son? He said, no, sir, he
ain't heavy, he's my brother. That does make a difference,
doesn't it? Hey, baby, he's my brother. All
right, here's the third commandment. I've got to move along. Verse
11. Love one another, be kind to one another. Thirdly, not
slothful in business. Fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord. Not slothful in business. Well,
that has two things here in this verse. Now, you know what fervency
is. That's, uh, fervency is un-zamas. Now, what he says here is in
your business, in your dealings with the world and people in
business, make the Lord's glory your rule in everything. What
you do, whatever you do, do it with fervency and wholeheartedly. and sincerely, zealously, as
if you were working for the Lord. Say, for example, a man hires
you to do a job. You do that job wholeheartedly,
since be fervent in business. It's a testimony. Do it as if
you were doing it for Christ. Serve your employer as if you
were serving Christ himself. That's what he's talking about
here. Be fervent in business, if you're engaged in any kind
of business or secular work, laboring for wages, serving the
public, work as if Jesus Christ our Lord were your employer.
That's right. If you're hired to cut a man's
grass, do it as if you're cutting the Lord's grass. Let me show
you that in Ephesians 6. Ephesians chapter 6. Ephesians 6, I believe, verse
5. This is saying what I've just stressed. Ephesians 6, 5, "...Servants,
be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart,
as unto Christ." Not with, I serve, this is men
pleases, you're not apple polishing, but as servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart, zealously, fervently. That's
right. With good will, doing service
as to the Lord, and not to me. Does that narrow down what I
just said? Well, if you, when willed, work to be fervent in
business, and conduct your business as if the Lord Jesus Christ is
your employer. All right, now the second part
of that is this, back to my text. Not slothful in business, fervent
in spirit, serving the Lord. That same fervency is to be in
our worship. Here's what one writer said,
Be careful that your worship of the Lord, your prayer and
your praise and fellowship with other believers does not degenerate
into a form and a routine and a doctrinal position. That's right. Even as a child,
you came to the Lord Jesus Christ as a babe in Christ. You came
to Him, and He gave you life, and you loved Him and clung to
Him. And as you came to Christ, so
walk in Him, so continue with that purpose. Our Lord Jesus
Christ went with his mother and Joseph to Jerusalem. And when they started back home,
they traveled a day's journey and he wasn't with them. And
they began to seek him among their kinfolks and didn't find
him. So their child went back to Jerusalem. And they found
him in the temple. conversing with the lawyers and
doctors. He was about twelve years old,
thirteen. And his mother came to him and said, Son, doesn't
it bother to concern you that you caused us grief? We've been
seeking you, searching for you, and couldn't find you. And he
said, Wished ye not that I must be about my father's business? My father's business. Now you
and I, this is my father's business. This singing is my father's business.
This worship is my father's business. This fellowship is my father's
business. This preaching is the father's business. This work
in San Domingo is the father's business. I'm going to be about
the father's business, fervent and spirited. Wish ye not, I
must be about my father's business with the best I have, with the
best I can possibly serve him, serving the Lord. with fervency
of spirit. Don't allow your fellowship with
Christ and your worship and your fellowship with the people of
God to degenerate into an unpleasant form. I tell you, you're going
to go one of two ways. God will take you out or he'll
let you dry up. He said, Cut the branch that
doesn't bear fruit, I'll cut it off, cast it off, wait. But
he'll let you sit there dried up. But don't, don't come to
God's house with a dull spirit. Don't sing and worship and read
and preach and pray with a dull spirit. That's all I'll say. Serving the Lord with fervency.
Here's the fourth commandment. rejoicing in hope, patient in
tribulation, continuing in prayer. The third commandment is rejoice
in the Lord. He says rejoice in hope, preacher.
Well, he's our hope, so we rejoice in him. Ten times in Philippians
they rejoice in the Lord. And when I was reading this and
studying other writers, one of them said this, right between
serving the Lord and patient in trials and tribulation, he
put rejoice. Serve the Lord, that's the way
we serve Him, rejoicing. When we have trials, rejoicing. Serve the Lord, rejoicing in
Him, and patient in trials, and keep on praying. Rejoice in the
Lord. Rejoice. You know, one of the
greatest examples that I had of that commandment is Bill Clark.
You all love Bill Clark. He's been here several times.
Missionary, died 65 years old. Friend of mine, 35 years, Bill
and I have been friends. Every one of those 35 years,
we've spent at least two weeks out of that year together, either
across the water or in America, in Africa, in England, in Ireland,
in France, in Spain, in Russia, been to Russia twice together,
35 years for two weeks. I observed him, walked with him,
preached with him, and he was always firm on his spirit. When
he had malaria and they had to isolate him in the hospital,
still wanting to get back to Africa, back where he got the
malaria. When Bill was dying, and I think
the very day he died, I think it was on the Lord's Day on Sunday.
His family was around his bed. His daughter, Janine, was there.
Time for church. And she suggested she might stay
with her dad. He said, now, honey, you go on
to church. Teach a class. Worship the Lord. I'll be all right. First things
first. That's what I'm talking about.
And you know him. You know him. You know the way
he was. Don't do anything for God halfway. If it's not all
your heart, stay away. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all your heart. That's right. Rejoicing in hope,
serving the Lord with fervency. Or the fifth commandment, in
verse 13, distributing to the necessity of the saints, given
to hospitality. What's the fifth commandment?
Share what you have. Share it with others. God gave
it to you. You're a steward of His property. It's not yours. David said to
the Lord, when he took up the offering to build the temple,
he said, we've just given you what's already yours. That's
all. It's His. It's His. Sharing what
you have. The Lord gave it to you, and
the more you share it, the more He'll give you. That's right. The more you share, the more
He'll give you. Now, I know this. It's the will of the Lord for
his people to provide for missionaries, provide for their pastors, to
support the pushing of the gospel, and various efforts to get the
gospel out, the radio and the television. We support those
things we give to get the gospel out. But this is talking about
something else here, distributing to the necessity of the saints.
Sometimes, in the will of God, for whatever purpose he chooses,
some of his people go through sickness, through sickness, and
loss of job, and decline in work, laid off, or old age, or widowhood,
or poverty, or fire, or storm, a number of things. But no one
in the family of God should be neglected or permitted to be
in need when we have so much, when we, by the grace of God,
have the means to help them. Any time it's in your power and
ability to relieve someone's need, do it. Just do it. Distributing to the necessity
of the saint. Look out for one another. Just
look out for one another. That's what he's saying here.
Love one another, be kind to one another, fervent in spirit,
rejoicing in hope, and distributing to the necessity of God's people. Give, and it shall be given to
you. Full measure, pressed down and running over, shall the Lord
put in your hand. For with what measure you need,
it will be measured to you. How much you want God to provide
you, then you do the same. as it, as it, with what measure
you meet. Whatever you measure out, folks,
that'll be measured to you again. So give, and it shall be given
you. Forgive, and you'll be forgiven. All right, here's the sixth,
the sixth commandment, verse fourteen. Bless them that bless,
persecute you. Bless and curse not. What's the
sixth commandment? It's don't hate people. Don't
hate. Don't hate, don't curse people.
Hatred is an inner thing, and when it's directed towards someone,
it doesn't hurt him because he doesn't know it. It hurts you. If I regard iniquity or hatred
in my heart, the Lord's not going to hear me. If I regard hatred
and iniquity in my heart, God will not hear me. That's what
Scripture says. And I know down through the years
some of the Lord's people have had to endure some real persecution,
by word and by deed, because of the gospel, we believe. But I'll tell you this, we've
never resisted unto blood, have we? I've never shed any blood
for the gospel. I've had my feelings hurt, and
I've been persecuted and bad things said about me. that I've
never shed any blood for the gospel of you." Now, that's what
Paul said in Hebrews. We've never existed under blood.
But do not, do not allow opposition and persecution and unkind feelings
and all these things to fill up a hatred in our hearts. Don't hate people. Pray for your
enemies. Our Lord said, pray for your
enemies. Bless them that curse you. Bless them that persecute
you. Pray for them. Pray for them. Our Lord did, hanging on that
cross. He looked down at those folks that nailed him to the
tree, and he said, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're
doing. And Stephen, when they were stoning him for the gospel,
he lifted his eyes to heaven and said, Lord, lay not this
sin to the child. And you know why he could pray
for his enemies like that? Because he knew if it wasn't
for the grace of God, he'd be throwing the stick to stop him.
He'd be the hater, if it wasn't for the grace of God. He'd be
the enemy. I would too. You would. It's
only by the grace of God we are what we are, and have what we
have, and know what we know, and have the hope we have. So
don't hate folks. Don't hate folks. What's the
next one? The seventh commandment. In verse fifteen. Rejoice with
them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be one in heart.
The whole church, the church family, be one in heart. When
brethren are one in heart, they're able to sympathize and identify
with one another in all things. In joy, in sorrow, in prosperity,
in adversity, in happiness, or in weeping, a God-given love
shed abroad in the heart, produces a strong interest in and concern
for one another. Now then, I want to read you
something that a great old preacher wrote years ago, and this is
going to be a blessing to you. It's going to help you a lot.
Be of one heart. Be of one heart. Love one another
with the same kind of love. I realize it's difficult to love
every believer with the same degree of love because every
believer is not equally lovable. Every believer is not always
easy to get along with. Every believer is not always
friendly. Isn't that true? I was in a Bible
conference one time And we had a preacher's meeting. There were
about 20 preachers there. Most of them knew one another.
And they asked me to preach. So I brought a message on 1 Corinthians
13 on love, Christian love. And God used it. He blessed me
to preach it, blessed them to hear it. And when I got through,
I sat down, and one of the men stood up, one of the preachers.
He stood up and teared the corn down his cheeks. And he said,
brethren, he said, I've been blessed this morning. And he
said, I've been convicted. He said, I want the Lord to give
me a universal love for all his people. I want him to help me
love brother so and so. And he called one of the preachers
names sitting over here and said, he ain't all that easy to love.
Honest. That's being frank, isn't it?
He's not all that easy to love. Well, I'm not either. I know
that. I've got a personality that's
pretty sharp sometimes. But I have to be sometimes. I
have to tell, I have to be plain. But not all that easy to love.
But you love me anyway, all right? And here's what he's saying.
This man right here, he says, We're not, we may not be able
to love everybody with the same degree of love. Some you love
more than others because they're more lovable, they're more amiable,
they're more personable, they're easier to love. But we can love
everybody with the same kind of love, the love of Christ. Isn't that good? Maybe not the
same degree, but the same kind. It's His love shed abroad in
our heart by the Holy Spirit. That's just, that's so important.
Be of one heart. My heart's your heart. That's
how. Here's the eighth one. Be of
one mind. Verse 16. Be of the same mind,
one toward another. Mind not half things. Don't be
snobbish. Don't be haughty. Don't be proud. Don't be reserved. Don't make
everybody come to you. Mind not high things, but condescend. What does that say? Condescend
to men of low estate. Be content with simple things.
Adjust to people of every station. Be willing to perform humble
tasks. Be constant. Be constantly content. with whatever God has, wherever
God's placed you. Paul said, I know how to abound.
I know how to be successful and have, how to be abased. And I've learned in whatsoever
state I am, be content with what I have. So don't be high-minded. Let not the wise man glow in
his wisdom. Let not the rich man glow in
his riches. That's not the mighty man glory
and his strength. Man's glory is one thing altogether,
that we know the Lord. Actually, what I have is by His
grace. Who made you different? You say,
I'm smarter than he is. Who made you smarter? You could
tomorrow not know your name. It's only by His grace. that you're able to walk or I'm
able to think or talk or finish this sermon, vice versa. So don't
be snobbish. Come on down off your high horse.
That's what my dad used to say. Come down off your high horse
and come to send the people of every estate and every station. Ask God to give you a sense and
me a sense of our own unworthiness and ignorance. Isn't that right? Ask God to give us an understanding
of our own unworthiness. All right, be of one mind. All
right, here's the ninth one. I'll move along. The ninth one
is verse seventeen, and it's just plain two words. Be honest.
Be honest. Recompense to no man evil for
evil. Provide things honest in the
sight of all men. All men. All men. Now brethren,
and you know this and I know this, but we're not only addressing
our conduct here in the building and here in the church and our
character among believers in church fellowship. Paul says,
provide things honest and aboveboard in the sight of everybody. I
walked in a sporting goods store several years ago, Mr. Crack
in Ashland, Kentucky, on a sporting goods store. They were all in
sports, and we had clubs, and tennis rackets, and you name
it. And I ran a little account there.
Sport is good stuff. And I went in one day, and I
said, Bruce, give me my bill. I want to pay up all the boys
owe you. He said, you're one of the only preachers in town
that pays his bills. Honesty's like that. I said,
come on, Bruce. He said, they're bad. They're
bad credit risk. Preachers are bad. They're not
all that. He said preachers and radio announcers are the worst
credit risk. That should provide things honest
in the sight of all men. Honesty. That's what, that's
that ninth commandment. Honesty. Honesty. I tell you
this, our conversation, our conduct in public and private enables
us to adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. A man came, my son
is still in class. One son, Tammy, probably knows
about this illustration. The man brought his wife and
his child. He came to my class and I shook
his hand and I said, who are you? He told me his name. He
said, I work at Ashton Oil. And I said, why'd you come here? How did you get directed to us?
He said, I work with two of your members. I work with Joe Turner
and Dale Parker. He said, I've been working with
them for years. And he said, I've been watching them and listening
to them. Everybody down there is religious, but these men are
different. And he said, I came out here this morning to see
what they was listening to that made them so different. He didn't come back, Channing. The medicine didn't soothe his
disease, I guess, but he heard what those men hear. And that's
providing things on us. Now here's the 10th commandment.
Live in peace. Verse 18, as much as possible,
verse 18, if it be possible, possible, as much as peace and
harmony depends on you, as much as it lies in you, as much as
you can with your actions and attitude, as best you can, live
in peace, seek peace, pursue peace with all men. Don't be an agitator, be a peacemaker. Blessed are the peacemakers,
they're sons of God. Be at peace. Be at peace with
all men. Somebody wrote just one time,
that man may never be your friend, he may never believe your gospel,
but one day he'll be impressed with you and your conduct and
behavior. All right, verse 18, if it be
possible Number ten, live in peace with all men. And dearly
beloved, don't get evil and avenge not yourself, but give place
to wrath. It's written, vengeance is mine,
I will replace it with the Lord. Therefore, if your enemy is hungry,
feed him. If he thirsts, give him a drink, and so do you, he'll
heap coals of fire on his head. Now here's the last statement.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. And
this is what I have to say about that. evil men and evil thoughts and
evil crowds to dictate your character and your conduct, you'd be different. Don't you let them overcome you.
You overcome. Here's the second thing. Don't
let revenge replace forgiveness in your heart. And thirdly, don't
allow hatred, ill feelings to replace the love of God shed
abroad in my heart, in your heart. Don't be overcome by peer pressure. Don't be overcome by resistance. Don't be overcome by them. But you overcome evil with good. Let's pray together. Our Father, we thank you for
your Word. Thy Word is a lamp unto our feet
and a light unto our path. that we might not sin against
thee. I pray that your Holy Spirit would bless this word that's
been preached. This is your word. These are
thy commandments, to love one another, to be kind, to forgive
one another, to live in peace, to share what we have, not to
hate people. This is to walk in righteousness
and truth and obedience and provide things honest and outside of
all by your blessed Spirit. to walk in the truth and adorn
the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. Foster in the
services today and give him yearning mercies on his way home and bless
thy servants everywhere who preach this day. We thank you together
and I pray that you make it effectual Lord, we can preach and we can
tell this world what the will of God is and what the truth
of God is and what the gospel of God is, but that's all we
can do. Only you can change the heart. Only you can touch the spirit
and the soul and regenerate and turn men from ways of error into
your way. And I pray you take the word
that's preached today and make it affectionate in our hearts.
We want, we want above all things to glorify your name, to walk
in truth, to worship thee, to love one another, to have a good
hope in Christ Jesus. Bless us. Create in us a clean
heart, renew within us a right spirit. In the name of Christ
our Lord. We pray, amen. This is all turning our hymnals
to number 49, and stand as we sing. Our great Savior will sing verses
1, 2, and 5. Jesus, what a Prince for sinners,
Jesus, lover of my soul. Prince may tell me, Moses tell
me, He my Savior makes me whole. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah, what a Friend. Shaving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me through the end. Jesus, what a strength and weakness,
let me hide myself in Him. Tempted, tried, and sometimes
failing, He my strength, my victory wins. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah, what a friend. Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me to the end. Verse 5. Jesus, I do now receive
Him, more than all in Him I find. He has granted me forgiveness,
I am His and He is mine. Hallelujah, what a Savior! Hallelujah, what a Friend! Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me through the end. The.