You may be seated. Let the Amen, Amen, sound from
His people again. Gladly forever we adore Him. 1 Timothy chapter 1. Let's read one verse. 1 Timothy
1. Read verse 11 again with me. Paul talked about sound doctrine
according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God. which was committed to my trust. I would most gladly let someone
take over and deal with this, preferably my pastor who has
preached for close to fifty years. The glorious gospel of the blessed
God those very words are not fit
for these vile lips. The glorious gospel of the blessed
God. I wrote that title down. That's
the title of this message, my text. And I thought to myself,
I just sat there looking at it. I thought, this is too big for
me, too much for any man. Who can
adequately declare the glory and the blessedness of our God
and the glory of the gospel? Who? I've heard a lot of preaching in my lifetime. A lot of good
preaching, the best. And some of it just seemed glorious. But really, the half hasn't been
told. The half hasn't been told. When the disciples heard our
Lord begin to open the Scriptures, When the Lord began to preach Boaz, the Kenton Redeemer, when
the Lord began to preach Joseph on that road to Emmaus, when
the Lord began to preach from the brazen circle, when the Lord
began to preach the smitten rock, when the Lord began to preach,
their hearts burned. I feel like Job. Job said this. See, Job and his friends got
together and they discussed theology. The whole book of Job is about
Job and his friends discussing theology. Much of it is good. And Job, though, when God finally, when God told them all to shut
up, And God began declaring Himself. Where were you, He said, when
I did this, when I did that? Can you catch a whale with a
hook? Can you? Who is this doing all
this talking? And God began to declare Himself.
Job said this. Listen. Job said this in Job
42. After God said what He said, Job said, I've uttered what I didn't understand. Things too wonderful for me. Things too wonderful. I've been
saying things, but I don't even know what I'm saying. I've been
saying glory, and I didn't know how glorious. You see, the glorious
gospel of the blessed God—try it. So all we can do is make a few
comments. And the best commentary—the old
brother of Ralph Barnard, years ago, made this wise observation.
He said, The best commentary on the Word of God is the Word
of God. Turn to Ephesians 1, Ephesians
chapter 1, the glorious gospel of the blessed God. Ephesians
chapter 1 is the gospel. from start to finish. Barnard
also said this, he said, you know, the Bible will shed a lot
of light on the commentary. That old man had a way of making
some profound statements. Ephesians chapter 1, this is
the glorious gospel of the blessed God. My, my, the gospel of God's
glory. That's how the original reads,
the gospel of the glory of God, the glory and blessed God. That's
how it reads. To the praise of the glory of
his person and his grace. Look at it, Ephesians 1, verse
2, Grace be to you. We just don't know. We just don't
know, Nancy, how much grace. He giveth more, he giveth more.
He's just been given since the day we were born. Grace be to
you. And peace. We don't know that
either. We haven't seen this earth burned up. We haven't seen
what God is going to do to this world and the inhabitants thereof.
We haven't seen it. Please ordain peace for us. We
got peace. We ought to get what the world
has come unto it. We have peace, grace, and peace
be to you from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father and the Son together, in this work of redemption for
his people. Ah, blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heaven, the places in Christ Jesus. And then he
begins to talk about it. So you don't need notes when
you've got God's Word. Then he begins to talk about
this blessed God, this glorious gospel, the story of what God
has done for us. The glorious gospel of the blessed
God. It's God's gospel. He's the one
that purposed it. He's the one that purchased it
in Christ. He's the one that applies it.
He's the one that has to tell it for it to be glorious to it,
for it to be a blessing to it. All right, what has he done?
Look at it. He said, he's blessed us, verse 4, according as he
had chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Chosen us. Election. God elected. This is not a doctrine, Jenny
Williams. This is God choosing you apart
from your sisters, apart from your friends, apart from the
rest of the world. It's God, before the world began,
saying, I will love Jenny Williams. I will set my love and affection
on her. I'm going to save her, not this
one, not that one, not the other. Her. Who? Why not me? You see, it's
not a doctrine. Barnard, again, is the one that
said this. He said, election is a person choosing persons,
not a doctrine. It's a glorious and blessed work
of God in choosing you, not your sister, Nancy. You. I have a brother right now, just
turned 50 years old. He doesn't care a thing about
the gospel. Why do I? Because God, blessed
be His name, chose me before the world began. If He hadn't,
John, I wouldn't be here right now. Me and my brother would
be out doing you-knows-what. You see, the court is His chosen
you. How? Why? Would it? In Christ.
It wasn't anything in you. It was in Christ. He considered
you in Christ. That's how He could love you
while you were yet sinner. That's how He could love you,
Sam. He saw you in Christ. When? Before you were ever born.
Before you'd done any good or evil. That the purpose of God
according to election might stand. It was said unto the son, Sam
have I loved, but oh Billy Bob have I hated. You see that? It's not a doctrine.
It's a glorious gospel of the blessed God who hath chosen us. in Christ before the foundation
of the world. Why? That we should be holy and without
blame before him in love. To make a worm into a butterfly. Anybody have bag worms on their
trees right now? Huh? We were driving somewhere
and where was it? Oh, 64 coming down through West
Virginia, the Greenbrier Valley. They were a bunch of trees all
down the road, just nothing but bagworm. I mean, it was awful. As far as I could see, trees
covered with those worms. Who needs bagworm? What good is a bagworm? Would
somebody please tell me what purpose they serve in life? I'm sure they came here because
of sin. But now a butterfly. Huh? A butterfly. You have butterflies
in your garden? Beautiful creatures to the glory of God's creative
glory and power. Where do butterflies come from?
What did a butterfly start out as? Every single butterfly was
a what? A what? God has chosen you to be a butterfly. and be like his son, not just
a worm, not just a worm like all the rest of the bagworms,
good for nothing but for his glory. Read on, that we should
be holy without blame before him in love, having predestinated
us under the adoption of children by Jesus Christ. See, he did
all this by Christ to himself. And look at this. Here's the
reason behind it all. According to the good pleasure
of his will, because he decided to do it, because he decided
is a bad word, because he purposed to do it, because he willed to
do it. And verse 6 is it, to the praise
of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted. To
the praise of the glory of his grace, it says this three, four
times. Verse 12, "...to the praise of his glory." Verse 14, last
line, "...under the praise of his glory." This is the glorious
gospel. This gospel is under the praise
of the glory of God, the blessed God, who hath blessed us. A glorious gospel, the blessed
God. I'm not fit to tell this, and
you're not fit to hear it. I'm not able to tell it and you're
not able to hear it. If one truth would hit home of
just how God chose us and spared us and was gracious to us, how
gracious? Somebody, I believe, would just be like David. He said, my heart
is ready to bust like new wine in a bottle. He had spewed out
pop. David said, I mused. I tried
to keep quiet. Blessed be the God, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing.
Go back to 1 Timothy. You see, God's word is the best
commentary. The glorious gospel of the blessed
God. the good news of how God chose
a people in Christ before the world began. The glorious gospel
of the blessed God, the glory of his mercy, the glory of his
grace, the glory of his love—none worthy. All those things are
sovereign—sovereign mercy, sovereign grace, sovereign love. And none
worthy, none deserving but God, who is rich in mercy. in sovereign
mercy, decided I'll have mercy on whom I will. Yes, I will,
but I'll have mercy on no one. I'll be gracious to whom I will.
Yes, but I will be gracious. I'll make my goodness pass before
him. I'm going to declare my name unto him. Well, here in
first Timothy, he says, The glorious gospel of the blessed God, which
was committed to my trust. The gospel is God's glory, the
gospel. That's it. It's the glory of
God. All the glory of God is contained
in the gospel. The gospel is the crown jewels
of heaven. God spent eternity purposing
it, eternity past purposing it, and all of time is spent in fulfilling
it. is the crown jewels of God's
glory. The gospel is the sum and substance
of this book. This book is the gospel from
Genesis 1, Revelation 22. This book is the gospel, God's
gospel. This book is that which angels
desire to look into. Right now, believe it or not,
Scripture says it, which things the angels desire to look into.
Not astronomy, not geology, not anthropology, but gospel, which
things the angels desire to look into. The gospel is the declaration
of God's person, Christ's person, the Holy Spirit's person. The
gospel is the declaration of God the Father's work, God the
Son's work, God the Holy Spirit's work. The gospel is a declaration
of the triune God, their glory. The gospel is the purpose, the
will, the power, the work of God Almighty in saving undeserving,
hell-deserving creatures. The gospel is the power of God
unto salvation, the only power there is, the only power God
uses to save, to regenerate, to create life. And for these
reasons, and many, many more—many I do not know yet—for these reasons,
Paul said, I have nothing to glory in, for necessity is laid upon me.
Yea, woe is unto me if I don't preach the gospel." What else
is there? If you're going to be a preacher,
what are you going to preach? The gospel! It's everything. What does all this tell you and
tell me about all the many out there who are preaching everything
and anything but the gospel? It clearly tells me they were
not sent. How shall they preach except
they be sent? And what are they going to preach
if they are? Paul said, the gospel. He said,
I'm determined not to know anything among you. He knew a lot of things before
he learned the gospel. But he said, that's a bunch of
cow manure. That's what he said. Ditch that. Oh, for the excellency and knowledge
of Christ Jesus, my Lord. The glorious gospel. of the blessed
God. The gospel is everything. So, and so Paul said, though
I preach the gospel, I don't have anything to brag about.
Necessity is laid upon me. If I'm going to preach, I preach
the gospel. The world will be done to me if I don't. And it's
not because I decided to be one. Paul said no, no. Look at that verse thirteen said
I was before a blasphemer injurious persecuted I didn't decide to
be a gospel preacher. He said this gospel was committed
under me. Committed under my trust. Let
me let me give you two things all right very this should be
a very short message Who does God commit the gospel,
the gospel to? Who does he commit it to to preach,
to preach it? God, now, how shall they hear
without a preacher? And how shall they preach except
there be sin? God, it's God's gospel, and he gives it to men
to preach it. Who? Who does he commit it to
to preach? He commits this gospel, committed
under their trust. All right, who? And secondly,
to whom do they preach it? All right. All right. Who does
God commit the gospel to? What sort of man? Man. What sort of man does he choose? What sort of man does God call?
What sort of man does he send? Look at verses 12 and 13. Paul
said, I thank Christ Jesus, our Lord. who hath enabled me, he
counted me faithful," or that is, among the faithful, putting
me, he put me into the ministry. Now here's Paul's description
of himself. This is the man that God chose
to preach the gospel, all right? I was before a really fine man,
just about the finest man on the earth. I was seeking God, I prayed and
fasted, and I said, We don't persecute injurious in other words center. So who does God choose who does
God commit the gospel to what sort of man does God have preached
the gospel center. Paul said, Now see, only a sinner—listen
carefully—only a sinner will receive the gospel. The man who preaches the gospel knows himself to be a hell-deserving,
rotten sinner. So therefore, he loves the gospel. The gospel is his love. The gospel
is his glory. The gospel is his desire. The
gospel is the thing he desires to look into. The gospel, the
gospel, the gospel. It's the good news to him. It
was when he first heard it, and it remains that way. So that's who God commits it
to. If you made an invention never
before created Who would you give it to? Who would you send
it to? Those that need it. Huh? Those
that need it. The righteous don't need the
gospel. Do they? The religious don't
need the gospel. Paul was religious. He didn't
need Christ. He had, he believed in one God. That's interesting by the stand. He said he was a blasphemer then. He believed in the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Joseph. He believed in sacrifice and
life. He said, I was a blasphemer.
Think about it. Apart from Christ. He was a law keeper. He kept
the Ten Commandments. He was a blasphemer. Did that
hit you like it hit me when I read it? How many times have I read
that? Paul believed in one God. Orthodox
Jewish religion, keeping the law. He said, I was a blasphemer. But see, only a sinner needs
the gospel. Well, God's going to give the gospel to a fellow
to preach it who needs it. God gives the gospel, commits
it to the trust of him so he'll highly esteem the gospel. Only
a sinner—see, God's going to give the gospel to preach to
a man to preach who's felt the power of it. You follow me? A man who himself
has felt the power, the life-giving power of the gospel from that
day forward, he knows what the power of God is. He knows what
it took. to bring him back from the dead. Only a sinner can tell the gospel.
Angels don't preach the gospel. They can't tell you about mercy.
No angel could stand up this morning and, be careful here,
but no angel could stand up this morning and declare the gospel
like a man can, who's experienced the mercy of God. Angels don't
know what mercy is. They haven't experienced mercy.
You see, they don't know what grace is. Angels don't. They
do, but you understand, they haven't experienced this great
undeserved gift. The self-righteous can't stand
up and preach it. Angels don't. The self-righteous
can't stand up and preach this gospel. Self-righteous are not
going to stand up all day long and talk about imputed righteousness,
imputed righteousness, imputed righteousness. My hope of glory
is imputed righteousness. My hope of being with God is
accepted in Christ. That if I get the glory, it's
because God sees me in Christ. It's not by works of righteousness,
which I've done. It's His righteousness. No self-righteous man is going
to stand up and say that all day long. But a bona fide sinner
will. He'll stand up and say, imputed
righteousness. Like Todd Norbert, laying on,
he thought, his deathbed. Psalm 32 was his favorite verse.
Blessed is the man to whom thou wilt not impute iniquity. Todd was laying there thinking
he was going to die, and he said, Have I done enough? Have I done
this enough? Am I good enough? And that verse
of Scripture came to his heart. Blessed is the man to whom God
will not impute iniquity, imputed righteousness. And Todd said,
I just smiled and quit my friendship. And if you hear that man preach,
you'll hear it come out of his mouth every time. The self-righteous
won't talk about it. The self-righteous aren't going
to talk about sovereign grace. You see, grace is without works.
Grace is unearned. Grace is without merits. Self-righteous
aren't going to stand up and It's nothing I've done, nothing
I've ever done or ever will do. And all my prayers, all my tears,
all my Bible reading, all my church attendance, all the best
sermon I ever prayed amounts to nothing! The self-righteous
are not going to say that. Oh, but a sinner will. And he'll say it every time. A self-righteous man won't keep
pointing you to Christ. He'll point you to Him. Look
at me. Listen to me. Last night I was
talking in tongues and it just made my ears tingle. And if you
were as holy as I am, you would too. I heard a man say that. I really did. If you had the
Spirit like I had the Spirit, oh, you'd know heaven and earth.
Self-righteous man points you to himself. An old sinner standing
up is going to say, Don't look to yourself. I'm not. Don't look
to me. Look to Christ. That's who he
commits the gospel to. Only a sinner can relate to sinners,
too. You know that? Only a sinner
can relate to sinners. Not a fellow who's been isolated
for four years to get his doctorate in the Master of Divinity. who'd
never, he doesn't even know what sin, he's never sinned. He came
right out of high school, went into a cemetery, a seminary,
where all the dead are, and they told him, Error, they kept, and
he was sheltered, don't, don't hold hands, don't do this, don't
go there, don't lock them up. Don't go out there, sinners out
there. What did our Lord do with his
preachers? What did he do with them? Go
out in the world. He taught them the gospel, miraculously,
in just a little while, and sent them out in the... He didn't
keep them all together there, huddled apart separately. No,
no. Go out there in the world. Understand
where everybody's living. You were there. You can relate
to them. Only a beggar, you see, can relate
to another beggar. Right? Only a beggar. Only one who's been in the fray
can tell you about the war. Who knows about Korea? The war
in Korea? I'm sure there's some history
people in here. You know anything about the war in Korea, Dan Ogle,
a little bit maybe? I know a little bit. I know about
the time period it was. I know. Well, anybody else? Ed, you're a well-read man. You
didn't go to war in Korea. Henry Sword was in a foxhole
in Korea. Let's hear about Korea. You don't want me standing up
and telling you about Korea. Oh, I read the other day about
Korea. It was bad. Henry, tell us about Korea. It was bad. You want a man standing up who's
had bullets flying over his head. That's who you want leading you
into battle, too, don't you, Brother Henry? You don't want
a fellow out of ROTC. You don't want a fellow out of
officer training school, do you? A fellow who got his second lieutenant
And at West Point, now he comes to the front line and, man, what
was that? Do you? You had plenty of those, didn't
you? You want an old hardened fella who's been down in the
ditch with you, don't you? He says, come on, boys. Victory's
ours. Let's go. That's who he commits the gospel
to. To whom is the gospel sent? To
whom does that preacher preach? Up there preaching. I'd better kneel. A wise man is not going to listen
to books. Just an old center priest. I'll
go somewhere where somebody can teach me something. Oh, centers. That's who hears
the gospel. Look at verse fifteen. This is
your favorite verse, isn't it? Oh, this is every center's favorite
verse. Yes, it is. First Timothy one fifteen. This
is a faithful saint and worthy of all acceptation. Why? Because all were sinners. But
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And Paul says,
I'm the chief. And for this cause, I'm a pattern.
That's why I'm a pattern. Because I was the worst and the
worst. So I'm a pattern of who God saves
and how. That's why he said, I'm a pattern.
I was a blasphemer, injurious, a persecutor, but I obtained
mercy. I did an ignorant unbelief, and for this cause I obtained
mercy, that God might in me show forth all longsuffering. God
put up with me for forty-some years, Paul said. Religious,
but self-righteous, rotten to the core. But God saved me. I'm a pattern of who God saves,
and worse. And how? Paul wasn't seeking
God. Paul wasn't working his—well,
he was working his way to heaven, but that's not why God chose
him. Paul said, on a pattern, the worst sinner, the chief of
sinners, he said, the glorious gospel of the blessed God is
committed to a sinner, to preach it to sinners. And that way it
becomes the glorious gospel of the blessing of God. You see? Turn over to Mark 2. The Word
of God illustrates it much better than I can. Mark 2, okay? Mark 2. You know, lots of folks
have come here and gone in this place. Lots of folks. And I expect there'll be lots
more come and lots more leave. We've had some come and stay
a little while and had some hopes that they love the gospel. Gone. As well as other places. Preach the gospel, they come
and go. And they hear the gospel, that's all they're going to hear
here. That's all they're going to hear here. If they're here to hear, that's
all they'll hear here. You see, the Church of God is
a place for lovers of Christ, and that's just who they want
to hear about, and that's who they'll hear. Well, lots have
come and gone, and some, if not most, are somewhat shocked and offended
by what they hear. Some of the offense is in the
preacher. I grant that much. Granted that they're shocked
by some of the crude language that comes out of his mouth in
a moment of flesh. You can't open your mouth for
45 minutes without the flesh coming out. You just can't do
it. Try it. You can hardly do it for 10 minutes. And so many have come and gone,
been shocked, been offended by much of what they heard. And what they are offended and
shocked by is, first, really, is the plainness of the gospel.
That is, therefore, seeing we have such hope, we use great
plainness of speech. We come right out and holler
election. And we don't wait till they go,
Are you ready now? And soft soap it and say another
word, so couch it in another language so they don't understand
what you're saying. Oh no. Come right out to the
top of their lungs. Say, Blessed be God who hath
chosen us. Elect according to the four knowledges
of God. That's a little too brazen, a
little too plain. The plainness of the gospel,
particular redemption. Barnard, again Barnard, showed
up fifty years ago in Ashland, Kentucky, in a big tent meeting.
All the local so-called churches were there. Everybody used to
go to tent meetings. You're going to have a tent meeting and everybody
went. Revival. Big old tent in the middle of
Central Park. Everybody came. All the preachers, so-called
preachers and pastors and members of their congregations and everybody
showed up and Barnard stood up. And the first words out of his
mouth, the first words out of his mouth
were these. Two biggest lies ever been told. God loves everybody. Two, Christ
died for everybody. He said, ain't neither one of
them so. You see, many people are shocked
and offended by the plainness of the gospel. The plainness
of the gospel. The plainness of the preacher,
too. Many people are shocked and offended by the plainness
of the preacher. His person, Most in here have heard Brother
Scott Richardson preach. And he'll make no bones about
it. He's just an old coal miner. He came straight from the coal
mines into the pulpit. The wise, mighty, and noble aren't
going to come here if they don't like that. They even said of
Paul one time, Paul said he abased himself. He had to unlearn. John Paul had to unlearn much
of what he learned, and he had to renounce all the terminology
and all the high and lofty language that he'd been using to impress
all his theological buddies. He used to talk about superlapsarianism
and interlapsarianism. But he said, I have abased myself. I use great plainness of speech. And they said when they came
to hear him, his fellow Pharisees, Deborah, came to hear him and
they said, what's this vain babbler going to say? This base fellow. Base fellow? He's the greatest
theologian ever. But he abased himself, you see?
The Lord of Glory has spoken two syllable words, one and two
syllable words. Dan, could he have spoken some
lofty language? He made the tongue. He created languages at the Tower
of Babel. He could have spoken in a language
nobody understands. But he said, now, there was a
farmer who went out to the farm, had some seed, and threw it. But they still didn't know what
he was talking about. Well, the plainness of the language, bold,
frank, the plainness of the people. Many are offended and shocked
by the plainness of the people. There just aren't any doctors
and lawyers in here this morning. Not that—scriptures—scriptures
doesn't say not any wise, mighty, and noble. You've got some friends,
some believers who are doctors in Lexington, Kentucky. There
are a couple of them in the congregation. But by and large, you see your
calling, brethren, don't you? Not many wise, not many mighty,
not many noble are called, but the congregation of God's people
are generally made up with common old folk, just old common folk. I wouldn't embarrass anybody
at all, and this is not an embarrassment. There's some men from this congregation
who went to work in an early age, didn't finish school because
they had to go to work to support their families. Some have no more than an eighth
or ninth grade education, but they could confound the dean
at Farrum College with the gospel. As a matter,
for that matter, one of our six-year-old children could. Yes, sir? the plainness of the people.
Well, who are they? Who goes there? Who goes there,
Mindy? When my wife was just a little
girl, about, well, eight or nine years old, young girl, she was
at school and some of her talky-talky friends, you know, who went downtown
to the Christian Church and the Methodist Church, where everybody
that is anybody goes to. And they asked her, when she
was a little girl, where do you go to church? She said, 13th
Street Baptist Church. She said, one of those little
friends of hers said, well, who goes there? And you know what that little
eight-year-old, nine-year-old girl said? She said, me and my preacher,
and he tells me about God. Who goes there? Who cares? Who goes there? Zacchaeus? Mary Magdalene? Thief on the
cross? Who were Christ's disciples? Peter. Who's Peter? The fisherman. Then Abraham. What was Abraham?
He's the first mention. Who's Abraham? A shepherd. Who's Moses? Shepherd. Who's Elisha? One day Elisha was out, had twelve
yoke of oxen, twenty-four oxen. He was standing there sweating,
filthy, stinking, dirty, farmer. Elijah came by and laid his mantle
on him. You're God's preacher. Who's Elisha? A farmer. Who's
Peter? A fisherman. Who's the Son of
God? Well, he's a carpenter. We know
him. He's a carpenter. Well, you're Mark 2. I almost
didn't get to it, did I? Mark 2, verse 15. Our Lord said,
time is... Mark 2, verse 15. It came to
pass that as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans
and sinners Wait, just a second. His house. What house? He didn't have a house. I've never seen that before.
His house. What house? It must have been Marian Martha's
house. He called it his house. Anyway, carry on. Many publicans
and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples.
Well, there were many. Oh, and they followed him. When
the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners,
they said unto his disciple, How is it that he eateth and
drinketh with publicans and sinners? Why was he doing that? Another
time they said, If he were a prophet, he'd know what manner of woman
this was. Oh, he knows. That's why he came,
for this manner of woman. When Jesus heard it, he said
unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician,
but they that are sick I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners to repent." Sinners to repent. Yes, this is a faith
to save, and worthy of all acceptation. Christ Jesus came into this world
to save sinners. And I tell you what, if we were
taking applications for entrance into God's church, if we were
asking for your resume, you know who we'd accept? I'll
tell you who God accepts. Those that apply. It's those who have nothing on
their resume. Nothing to recommend them. No
one to recommend them. List your qualifications. Why
should we allow you into God's family? List your, into the church.
Why? Membership in the church. List your qualifications. I don't
have any. Give us a character witness,
somebody to tell about your character. Well, there's none good, no, not one.
In my quest, there was no good thing, and all my old friends,
they'd tell you what a rounder I was. Unanimously accepted. Come on in. It's a faithful saint. He came
to save sinners. And if that's you, then you will
feel comfortable in here, and this message will always be a
comfort to you, he said. But nobody else. All right, let's
sing 205. Number 205. Once for all sinners received,
faithful saved, worthy to be received. Number 205, let's stand. 205. Free from the low and big conditions,
Jesus hath fled and there is remission. Cursed by the low
and bruised by the bones, grace hath redeemed us once more. Once for all, sinner exceeded. Once for all, brother believed
in. Slain to the cross, now burdened
to fall. Life that redeemed us, once and
for all. Second as the last. Now are we
free. There's no condemnation. The Lord Jesus provides a perfect
salvation. Come unto me.