Back to Isaiah 45 now, Isaiah
45. I believe that the book of Isaiah
is perhaps the clearest declaration of who God is, His character,
His will, His ways. than any other book in all of
God's work. Well, perhaps not the clearest,
but yet one perhaps that has the most declarations of who
he is. Now, lest someone would say upon hearing
this that God is different now. God is changed. God is different. This doesn't
describe God today. Oh, no. God himself said in Malachi
3 verse 6, God himself said, I am the Lord. I change not. I change not. So God is the same,
exactly the same as he's described here in the book of Isaiah. You know, anything that changes
means it wasn't perfect, doesn't it? Things change either for
the better or for the worse, don't they? God is perfect. His way is perfect. Salvation has always been the
same. has always saved human beings
one way. By grace are you saved through
faith in Christ. All right, here in chapter forty-five
of Isaiah, now there's just too much to deal with every verse,
too much. So we will look briefly at some
of the verses. We began reading verse five because
the first four verses really go with the previous chapter.
The first four verses are a prophecy of a man named Cyrus, who is
a type of Christ himself. But we're not going to look at
that. We're going to begin in verse 5, where he says, in verse
5, he says, I am the Lord, and there is none else. There is
no God beside me. Look at verse 21. Verse 21, he
says, Tell ye, bring them near, let them take counsel, who hath
declared this from ancient time, hath told it from that time.
Have not I the Lord? There is no God beside me, but
just God and the Savior. There is none beside me. Verse
22, the last line says, I am God, there is none else. Look at the next chapter, chapter
46, verse 9. Look at this. He says, Remember
the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am God. There is none like
me. Now, he keeps saying this over
and over, doesn't he? One time is sufficient. He keeps
saying this over and over again. I am the Lord. There is none
else. I am God, he said. There is no
God beside me. I am the Lord. Now, the word
Lord, the name Lord, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital
D, the name Lord means Absolute sovereign. Man has used the term lords over
the years to talk about rulers, lords as
rulers of the people. But now he says, I am the Lord,
Lord of lords. Remember? And I remind you who to see it,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, I am the Lord. There's only one sovereign. There
can be only one king, right? There can't be two kings. There
can't be two sovereigns. The word sovereign means the
one who rules, the absolute. There's only one. I am the Lord,
he said, and God. God is Creator. God is God, in
whom we live and move and have our being. OK? He says, I am
God. There is no other. There's only one. Look down at
chapter 46, verse 10. Here's a description of how God
is God. Chapter 46, verse 10. He says,
declaring the end. He said in verse 9, I am God,
there's none else. I am God, there's none like me.
Declaring the end from the beginning. Who can declare, from ancient
times, the things that are not yet done? Saying, my counsel,
my purpose, my will, whatever I have determined, shall stand. It shall. I will do. Not I might, not I hope to, not
if circumstances let me, not if man will cooperate, not if
man will do my will. No. This is why he says, I'm God. Man's not God. I declare, now who but God can
declare things that have not yet happened and say, this is
what's going to happen. Absolutely, without error, without
mistake. Who but God can do that? Like one preacher wisely said,
for something to be certainly foreknown or foretold, it must
certainly come to pass. And how can that be, unless that
One brings it to pass? He said, He's in control of all
things. He controls all things. I am
the Lord. There is none else. There's only
one God, all right? One Creator, one God. Satan is not a God. He is not a god. Satan is an
angel. Satan is a created being. He's
not a god. Satan is not omniscient, that
is, all-knowing, omnipresent, everywhere at one time. No, he's
got a body that he's confined to. He's not omnipresent. He's not omnipotent, all-powerful. He gets his power from God. Satan's not a God. And he's in
a chain. You remember this morning? He
led captivity captive. You remember, I love the story
of our Lord there in John chapter 13, I believe it is, where he
said to Peter, Satan that desired thee to sift you like wheat. He wants you But I pray for it. He can't have
you. See, he has to answer to me like
he did when he wanted Job years ago. And even Adam. That couldn't have happened without
God's permission. Right? I'm the Lord. There is
no other. I'm God. There's no other God.
Satan's not God. He's not God. Man is not a God. Not even a small g. Man can't
control one hair in his head, or if we could, we would, wouldn't
we? Our Lord said this, which of
you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? Just
grow. God said a cubit is 18 inches. That's a lot, but that's nothing
to God. Your teenagers do that in one
summertime sometimes. Who did that? They didn't do
it. God did it. He said, which of
you do it? Do it. Try it. We can't grow
one inch. I've told you before of my endeavors
as a boy to grow just one inch. So I could play basketball and
other things. Gain weight. Couldn't do it. Hang from the
door. I couldn't stretch myself. He
said, you can't do that which is the least. How can you do anything else,
huh? Anything great, spiritual, whatever.
Well, he said there's only one God. Man is not a God. Man can't
do anything. Man receives all of his power,
mentally and physically. Mentally and physically. to will and to do of his deflation
for the Lord. You see, I'm the Lord, there's
none here. What could be plainer? And yet, he keeps telling us
this, doesn't he? He keeps telling us this. He's
telling his people. He's telling his people. The
world doesn't believe that he's Lord. Oh, I know what they're
saying. And I bring this up a lot because it needs to be exposed.
And all this talk about letting him be Lord, people, anybody
that says that, anybody that says, let Jesus be Lord, doesn't
believe he is Lord. You understand me? This is not
a point of doctrine. Our God keeps saying in this book, Brother
Dan, to you, not them, they don't believe it, but to you, he said,
I am Lord. He doesn't say, Dan, if you'll
let me be, I hope to be, I want to be. He doesn't say that, does
he? He keeps saying over and over,
I am the Lord. And in the same chapter he says,
bring him near. With whom did he take counsel?
Who did he ask to let be Lord? But he says to his people, you
listen to me now, I am. in telling Moses to go to his
people, he concluded it all. All that he is by saying this,
tell them, I am that I am. Don't even let them ask you anything
else, just tell them I am. Not I will, not I hope to be,
I sure will. Now, I'm on my favorite subject
here. Oh, I am the Lord. Man has made up this silly notion. Man has made up this notion.
This is all it is. Man-made. It's imagination of
man's thoughts and heart, and it's evil. Man has made up this
notion that man has a free will, that man can choose good or evil,
that man can will himself into the kingdom of God, that man
can do pretty much what he will. To have a free will means you
do what you will. Does it not? Does it not? If your will is free, Brother
Roy, that means you do what you will, doesn't it? That makes man a God. That makes him a God, doesn't
it? When God says, I will do all my pleasure, that's free
will, you see. I will do. That I will do. If man has one, then he's a God. Now this is very appealing to
the flesh. Why does everyone believe this?
Because it's very appealing to the flesh. Huh? Man wants to
be a God. He did. Man has always wanted
to be a God, like God, free. Man doesn't want God to be God,
telling him what he can have and what he can't have. He wants
free will. Man wants to do the choosing,
not have God do it for him. But man is not—whoever has free
will is God. You understand? Nothing could
be plainer. Nothing could be simpler. You
understand that? I know you do. And that's very appealing to
the flesh, you see, but I tell you what it is, it's blasphemy
to God. Because God says, I will do my
good flesh, all my good flesh. And over and over he says about
man, you can't, you can't, can a leopard change its spots? Can
a black man turn himself white? Neither can you do good. Didn't
he? He said, No man can come to me. Didn't he say that? No man can
come to me. That it is God which worketh
in us both to will. But see, that's the glory of
God. That's to the glory of God's
power in making His people willing in the day of that power. They
don't have the power. We're powerless. But in the power
of God—the gospel is the power of God—in the hand of God, not
in the hands of the preacher, not in the hands of the soul
winner, not in the will of the man, but in the will of God,
in the power of God, the Holy Spirit, to apply it to whom He
will, to make them willing. They wouldn't be willing otherwise.
They can't will unless He makes them willing. Lions eat meat. Horses eat grass. Man drinks iniquity, not the
water. Man is sinful. God is holy. Man can't make himself holy.
God must. Man's will is bound by his nature. It's corrupt. It's evil. He can't
choose good. He chooses evil. God must make
the choice for him. This is the power and the glory
of God. You see, God's glory is at stake
here. And this is why he keeps reminding
us, I'm God. There is none other. I'm the Lord. There is none other. Look at verse 5 again. He says,
Isaiah 45, verse 5, he says, I girded thee thou hast not known
him." He's talking all flesh here. I put the clothes on your
back, even though you don't know it. Oh, make Jesus Lord. I am your Lord. I've always been
your Lord, though you don't know it. When God reveals Himself to somebody,
what He causes them to understand is not that they made Him Lord, but that He is Lord. And they
didn't know it. You see the difference, Barbara? God doesn't put within them to
accept Him as their Lord. Oh no, He just reveals to them,
I am your Lord. You didn't know it, but I am. Now you know it, don't you? What
does that bring? The fear of the Lord. They sure won't go around talking
about how they made Him Lord from then on. I'm the Lord. I girded you, though you don't
have it known to me. Yes, He is everyone's Lord. He's
the God of all flesh. Principalities and powers, spiritual
wickedness and high pleasure. He's their Lord. Let's ask Satan,
did you make him Lord? No, he made me, he made me a
little Lord. I can only do what he lets me.
He knows that. He believes there's one God and
trembles. You remember back in chapter
43, this is salvation. People, what I'm telling you
right now is the beginning. It's salvation. This is life
eternal, that they might know thee, the only true what. This is life eternal. Where is
that? John 17, maybe? Verse 3, perhaps? This is life eternal that they
might know thee. Who is it? The only what? True God. And here in Isaiah 43, verse
10, he says, You are my witness, and you're mine. I've chosen
you. Unlike in a court of law where
witnesses are just They're just bystanders. They just happen
to be on the scene. Now, do you have any witnesses?
Yeah, so-and-so happened to be there. God said, I've chosen
you. I've chosen my own witnesses. You hear me? Are you with me?
Come on now. This is holy ground. This is great stuff here. I've chosen you, He said. What? that you might know and believe
Me and understand." What? I'm He. But before Me there was no God,
and neither shall there be after Me. There never was, and there
isn't now, and there never will be, but one God, and I'm it. I'm He. Even I am the Lord, and beside
me there is no Savior. I am the Lord. I am the Lord. Some, you see, God has chosen
by His sovereign electing grace to know Him. Folks, if you know
this, you'll hear His witnesses. He's
chosen you to know this. There's not one in a million
that know this. This is so plain to you. It's just without controversy,
isn't it? To you, isn't it? It's without
controversy. It's without argument. It's absolute. It's irrefutable to you, is it
not? It's all Proverbs 8, 8 says it's plain to him that understand
it. It's right to them that by knowledge. Well, it's silly to think that
God's not God, isn't it? Isn't it just absolute foolish
for someone to say there is no God? Well, how do you know that, Andrew?
You used to think that. You used to think there was no
God. You used to think you were a God. You used to think you
had free will, didn't you? You used to think Satan was and
God were about on equal power. He said, I've chosen you. I've
chosen Henry Sowell from Cornwaller. Huh? One-room schoolhouse. One poor little fellow up in
the back side of nowhere. I've chosen you. But you know
and understand I'm hateful. Scholars in schools don't know
this. Principalities and powers, rulers of the world, had they
known this, Peter said at Pentecost, had they known this, they wouldn't
have crucified the Lord of Glory. And this is what convicted them
all at Pentecost. You know this one you killed?
You did it because God determined to do it. Do you know where he
is? On the throne right now, and
you're in his hands. He can kill you or let you live. It's up to him. And they all came bowing and
screaming. But I've chosen you, he said, that you understand
me. Sovereign, praise God, sovereign, elect him, revealing grace, huh? And verse six says in our text,
says, There is none beside me. There's no other God. He says,
now look at this. Verse six, From the rising of
the sun from the west, there's none beside me. I am the Lord,
there is none else. You can search all you will,
you won't find another. I'm it. I'm the Lord. Verse seven. Now look at this. I form the
light and create darkness. I form the light and create darkness. Turn to 2 Corinthians 4, okay? 2 Corinthians 4. Everybody. Now everyone that calls himself
a believer, that believes in God, at least the God of this
book. Everyone claims to believe that
God created all things. Right? Sure. Only a pagan would
believe in this evolution stuff. I form the light, I create darkness.
What light is he talking about? What darkness is he talking about?
Look here in 2 Corinthians 4. Before you were a believer, you
probably believed that God created the heavens and the earth. I'd
say most in here were raised in a Protestant home, and your
dad and mom, though they didn't know a lick about God or the
gospel, they believed God created all things. Thank the good Lord
for this. Thank the good Lord for that. Let's say our blessings
here. Well, look at 2 Corinthians 4,
but you didn't know this, and they didn't either. This is talking
about spiritual light and darkness. 2 Corinthians 4, 6, God who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, that is, God who in the beginning
said, Let there be light. God calls there to be light.
See, the earth was out for him in darkness, and God said, Let
there be light. Well, that same God, verse 6,
hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge. What is this light? It's the
knowledge of the glory of God. What is the glory of God? It's
who He is. It's the glory of Him being God. It's the glory of Him choosing
whom He will. It's the glory of His sovereign
mercy, sovereign grace. It's the glory of His power. It's the glory of His name. He's
given you light. God one day said to you who were
in darkness without form and void, He said to you, let there
be light. Let him or her know that I am
God. You woke up one day after hearing
the gospel like your eyes came wide open. He is God, isn't He? You woke up one day after hearing
the gospel. It's like waking up. It is. It's quickening. And you hear
and you believe and you see the glory of God. And where do you
see it? Who God is and what He's like. His dealings with man in
the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. You see that that man named Jesus,
by Him, not just a man, He's Lord. And I didn't make Him a
Lord. He was born King. Born Lord. And I was born under His Lordship.
There never was a time I wasn't under His Lordship. He's Lord. Shined in our hearts. Give the
light and the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of the
Lord Jesus Christ." Turn back to the text now. And over in
Isaiah 29, he said, he said, he blinds men. He said,
I create, I make, create light. Look at it in our text here.
He said, I form the light and I create darkness. Over in Isaiah
29, verse 10 and 11, he said, blind their eyes. blind them. Our Lord said that. He said,
blind their eyes. He decides who's blind. He blinds
them. God sends in strong delusion.
God blinds their minds and hearts. Didn't our Lord say this? Thank
you, Father, that you've hid these things. You've hid the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God. They don't know
God's God. They still think and make Him
God. It's hidden to them. They're blind. They're in darkness.
Men love darkness rather than light. Ah, but you'll know and
understand that He is He. Look at here, our text, verse
7. He goes on to say, I make peace
and I create evil. You know, I've never heard a
modern preacher quote this verse. I haven't looked at modern translations,
but I bet you they've changed it. Do you recall? I've never heard a modern preacher
quote Isaiah 457. I make peace, and I create evil. Now, I told you there's too much here
to to deal with all of it, but peace. Now, our Lord said there
would be wars and rumors of war. And he said it would be. He raises
up rulers to cause trouble. Can you believe that? He raised
up this Cyrus fellow to just just take over everything. And
on and on it goes. Everybody's ever, every ruler
who ever has been, God made him ruler to accomplish his purpose. Now listen very carefully. If anything, people, if anything
happens that God didn't purpose it and direct it, he's not God. Is that clear? He's not absolute
ruler. You understand? He's not absolute
ruler. If something happens without
his permission, God didn't want that. You ever hear anybody say
that? God didn't want that. Then he's not God. It is or it isn't. Now what's
he keep saying? What's he keep telling us? I'm
God. There is none else. I will work," he said. Who's
going to stop him? Who's going to allow it? I am
the Lord. I make peace. Now, man is enmity
against God. A natural man is at war with
God. If you'd bring the average person in off the street to hear
what you've just heard this morning, you would hear teeth gnashing. Honestly, I've been receiving
a lot of harassing phone calls lately. Well, the past couple
of months. Why? You know what, Mr. Priest, from
the radio. I know who it is. I've got a
caller ID. He calls and leaves messages
and all that. He's too much of a coward to
talk to me in person. Because he knows I won't be here.
Well, what's he mad at? You hear me. You hear every preacher. What are we talking about here?
What am I talking about now? Who's worried about my proclaiming
here? What are we talking about? God being God. And the natural
man hates that. Hates it. But he is. He is God. And the carnal mind is enmity
against God. And like I said, every one of
you, before God revealed Himself to you, you didn't like God being
God. You heard this, didn't you, Nancy? You heard it, and you said, I
don't believe that. Didn't you, Nancy? Until the
Lord said, Nancy, you will believe this. I do, don't I? You were made
willing, you see, in the day of His power. He had to make
you believe, doesn't He? He takes His power. He makes
peace. He reconciles us to Himself. He tells us, you better put your
gun down. You're going to find you're fighting
against God. What you don't like is. What you don't believe is. Better put your pop gun down. It won't reach God. It won't
reach anywhere. Put her down. Stack your arms,
Scott used to say. You're fighting against God.
Bow the knee. Open your mouth. Say it. You're
God, aren't you? Love it! I love it! Sing it! And my son is peace. I'm not
pleased with mankind, God says. There's nothing about mankind
that I like. That's why I'm going to destroy
this whole ball of dirt with every human being on it except
those that I'm pleased with. I don't like mankind, God says. Let alone love it. I hate all
workers of iniquity, God says, Psalm 55. And I will destroy it. It's a
stench in my nostrils, God says. I'm going to burn it up this
last time. I'm going to absolutely put it
out of my memory. I don't love far from loving
mankind. It's a stench in his nostrils.
That's how you burn, that's how you get rid of something finally,
you burn it. You burn carcasses. Is this too hard? This is God's
Word. But now, he says, there's some
in which I'm well pleased. There's some that I've chosen. Didn't have to choose any of
them. They're all sin and come short
of my glory. But God, who's rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith he loved who? who he chose to
love. He had to. You see, he had to. He had to set his love on her.
He had to choose whom he would love, John. Isn't that lovely? Let's look at a pile of maggots,
okay? I'm going to love some maggots. Which one will I love? Here's a pile of maggots. Isn't
that what it calls us? Worms. Here's a pile of maggots.
Which one am I going to love? Well, here's one with a black
hat on. Well, he's cute. Well, here's one over here, side
for me. He's not good. He's not drinking
this what this one's drinking. He's not. Maggots. Now, this is just a very plain
illustration here, but this is the way it is. God says, I plucked
you as a bran from the burning. Here's a maggot. His name is
Stan Anderson. He's just like the rest of them.
He's unclean like the rest of them. He hates me like the rest
of them. Now Stan, and he transformed his
ears. Maggots don't have ears. Maggots
don't have eyes. He gives him ears and eyes and
starts—he's predestined him to be conformed to the image of
his Son. Takes a worm, he's going to turn him into a glorious butterfly. Going to give him wings to fly
above the rest of the night. That wing, that freedom is the
gospel. Those wings, you soar on wings
of eagles, it's the gospel. You fly up into the presence
of God. I'm God. Not feeding on dead things anymore.
He looks up. He looks up. The rest of the
maggots are still looking down. He looks up. He hears His voice. He sees His glory. Picks Him
up and falls into His hands. He's not going anywhere. It's
mine. Sets His love upon Him. How'd he do all this? And there's
another story. It's the whole story. He, God,
went down and became a worm. That's how he told us. That's
how he told Stan. He came to this earth. God can't
speak to man. God can't see man. Or, I mean,
a man can't see God. He'd be concerned. God's a fire.
God had to robe himself, come down in the form of a man, talk
to him. Go to the cross, live, die, rise
again. I'm coming back for you. You're
still a migrant. You're no different than the
rest. But I love you. I love just you. And I know the
foundation will stand assured and His salvation stands assured.
How's this? The Lord knows them that are
His. And he comes in time to this place called Earth and finds
his people. They look like everybody else,
but he takes them out. Takes them out. One way or another,
death or the resurrection with Christ. See, he creates peace. And evil, what does evil mean
there when he says, I create evil? Well, now listen very carefully,
all right? Caused you some trouble in the
past. God is not the author of sinning. God cannot sin. God cannot tempt
with sin. God didn't make Satan sin. God didn't make Adam and Eve
sin. You say I'm confused. Of course we are. Human beings, we're worms. Do maggots understand human beings?
Let me tell you something about nuclear physics, quantum physics,
astrology. Forget it. They can't begin to
understand if they search the rest of their life. But let me see if I can't make
some of this understandable. The absence of God—God is light. What do you have when you turn off a light? What's
automatically created? Darkness. Okay? God is mercy. God is love. God is good—goodness. God is grace, God is holiness,
God is righteousness. How do you create evil? How did
evil come about? Somehow God removed his constraining
and restraining grace. You understand where I'm at?
God didn't cause it. It's a natural reaction. It's
a natural reaction. It's like human nature was created
fallible, not perfect. We're created in the image of
God, but not to express image of God. Man had a holiness, a
righteousness, but not the righteousness of God. He had his own. It was
fallible. It was finite. It was subject
to change. Man was created subject to change. Now, the only thing that could
change him is sin. You know, you see God's purpose.
You see God's glory, don't you? See, God's glory would not have
been known had not sin entered into this world. The angels saw God's holiness. The angels saw God's love. They
saw his love for his Son. The angels saw God's justice. When the first angels that kept
my that rebelled, they saw them cast down with no hope of mercy.
Then they never saw mercy. They didn't know what mercy was.
They didn't know what grace was. Mercy is not, you read the article
in the bulletin, mercy is not getting what you deserve. None
of those angels were spared. Grace is getting what you don't
deserve. They never saw that. This first man and woman sinned
in the garden. They did what the first angels
did. Shook their fist in God's face. Said, we won't be God. God didn't annihilate them. God
didn't put them in chains. God didn't destroy them. He spoke to them. He killed an
animal. Clothed them. Spoke to them. Made promises to them. What's
that? They didn't get what they deserved. It's grace. They got
what they didn't deserve. But we'd have never known this
had not sin entered. Do you understand? Never known
this. The glory of God is His complete
character, he said. His complete character. Greater
love hath no man than this. The greatest display of love
is God And while we were yet enemies, died for us. So evil, now let me just quote
this and I'm going to quit. Let me quote this, sin takes
place when God removes his hand. Very simply, sin takes place
when God removes his influence or his presence or how, I don't
know. He's gone, but it does. Thomas
Watson said this, one of the old Puritans said this. Now,
you may want to write this down. I did and committed it to memory.
Thomas Watson said this, God has a hand in the action where the sin is. But no hand in the scene of the
action. You understand. Let me see if
I can illustrate that Adolf Hitler killed how many Jews. Way before him way before him
Pharaoh. Pharaoh killed how many Jewish
babies. Who killed him. Who killed him? Deuteronomy 32, 39, brother Stan
says, I'm the Lord, I kill. I make a life. Plagues, that is, diseases and
so forth, diseases, whatever disease, let me just name one,
bubonic plague, smallpox, cancer, AIDS, who does it? Oh, God didn't want you to get
sick. Then he's not God. Why would I pray to him? If he
didn't want me to get sick and I got sick anyway, why would
I want to pray to him? He can't do it if he didn't want
it and it happened. Why would I pray to him now? Why didn't
he stop it? He says, I wound and I heal. Right? See, that's all our peace. That's all our fears when things
happen. You say, with Job, it's the Lord. We can't explain it
completely. We can't. We don't know his absolute
purpose. We don't know the end from the
beginning. We don't know why he did this, but he did it to
accomplish something down there. You can guarantee that, and you
can guarantee this. Romans 8.28 is for our good.
I don't know how. Of course you don't. You're not
God. He does. I declare the end from the beginning. I kill, I make alive every person
that's ever died, God that killed him." He used means, yes. He allowed this one to do what
their evil heart wanted to do, but they did what God determined
before to be done. He had no hand in the sin of
the action. You understand that? He didn't
make them evilly do that. They did it because they're evil. But it works out his purpose.
Understand that? I know you do. A flesh and blood
didn't reveal that to you. Did it? The Father in heaven
revealed that to you. I'm the Lord, I do all these
things. You see that? Verse 7, I do all
these things. All these things. Whatever's
done, I did it. Don't argue. He said, down there,
he said, don't let potsherds Strive with potsherds, broken
vessels, pottery, maggots. Strive with maggots. Don't be
striving with your maker. It won't do any good, because
that's the way it is. Let the potsherds strive with
the potsherds. But I, the Lord, do all these things. I don't
like that. It doesn't matter. I'm the Lord. But salvation is
to like it. Yet He loves it, who He is. And
salvation, and too, you know, once He, once our Lord gives
you a new heart, see it takes a spiritual heart to love these
things. A natural man doesn't love these things. Man doesn't
want to be a worm. Man doesn't want to be helpless.
Man wants to be independent. Man wants to be in charge of
his own destiny. Man's heart is full of pride. He wants to be a God. God has
changed that heart, you see? He has given a new heart, a broken
heart, a contrite heart, an humble heart, a submissive heart, a
believing heart, an understanding heart. To know
that He's God, to know that we're worms, and to know that Christ
is all. And love it. And love it, you
see. The only way I can make That
dog love what human beings do is turn a dog into a human being.
Right? Make a dog love a cat and a cat
love a dog? And I, the Lord, do all these
things. I and God. There's none else.
Well, let's sing in closing. Number 10. Him number 10. It's a great hymn of worship
by Isaac Watson. Who knew the true and living
living and true God. Let's stand. Brother Johnny,
come up and lead this, if you will. Him number 10. We'll stand. We'll sing verses 1, 3, and 5,
OK? Verse 3rd and 5th. O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy past,
and our eternal home. Before the hills in order too
For us we seek her flame From everlasting doubt or doubt To
end the fearsome pain O God, our help in ages past, our host
for years to come, be thou our guide for life shall last, and
our eternal home. So, so, now, I do, I do, I do,
I do, I do.