Chapter 12. Genesis chapter 12. We've been
looking at some very familiar old stories,
gospel stories, familiar to God's people, believers. To the world, though, These things
are hidden. I hope we don't take them for
granted. I was talking to my pastor about this. I told him
we were going back through some of the old standards, just going
back to the beginning and preaching over again the same old gospel
stories. He said, we probably ought to
preach two old messages for every new one, two old Testament messages. This is one of them. This is
the story of Abraham, how Abraham was called, the call of Abraham. And in this story, in this message,
we're going to find out who God is. We're going to find out how
God saves and who God saves. This is it. This is the story,
and we're going to find out, we're going to see. All of God's people are saved
the same way. The same way. One way. Abraham's way. The way God saved Abraham. All right, we looked at Adam's
fall. We saw how it all fell in Adam,
didn't we? Man died in the garden, yes died,
dead in trespasses and sin. We saw Abel's sacrifice, just
one way to come to God. Blood represents Christ. And Ephesians,
listen to this, Ephesians 4 says now there's one hope of your
calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
and one hope of your calling. That's your hope. That's my hope,
that is, that God will call us like he called Abraham. Are you
with me? Well, may God make it so. In
Genesis 12, let's read the first four verses of Genesis chapter
12. This is our story. had said unto
Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from
thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I
will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing." And I will bless
them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee. And in
thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed." So Abram
departed as the Lord had spoken unto him. And Lot went with him,
and Abram was seventy-five years. old when he departed out of heaven. This is the story of sovereign
grace. Who is Abraham? Why is he important? Abraham is mentioned many, many,
many times throughout the scripture, throughout the Old and New Testament,
many times. Abraham. Who is it? Why is he
important? Well, let me give you this one
clue. He's called the father of the
faithful. Or that is, how Abraham was saved
and what Abraham believed is how all whom God saves are saved
in what they believe. He's the father of the faithful. That is, he's the one who shows
us what salvation is. All right? Who is Abraham? Who was Abraham? Well, he's just
another son of Adam. He's nobody special. He's the
son of Noah's son named Shem. But that's, you know. He's just
another son of Adam on down the line came from Adam and Adam
all died. Abraham Abram is his name before
God changed. Abram is another son of Adam
born in sin dead and trespassed in sin another son of Adam another
sinner and nobody special. You remember reading. In 1 Corinthians,
you see your calling, brethren, how not many wise, not many mighty,
not many noble. Abraham was none of those three. He's just another man's son. Son of two other brothers, Heron
and Nahor. Well, he's another man's son. He's the son of Adam. He's a
sinner. He's an idolater. Look at chapter 11, Genesis 11. He's an idolater. This man, Abram,
worships idols. He doesn't worship the living
and true God, the God of the Bible, Adam's God, Abel's God, Noah's
God. He worships idols. Look at it,
verse 27 and 28, chapter 11. These are the generations of
Tira. Tira begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begat Lot. Haran died. One of his brothers,
Haran, died before his father Tira in the land of his nativity
in Ur of the Chaldeans. Chaldeans were idol worshipers. Chaldeans. They worshiped other
gods than the god of the Bible. They worship other gods than
the God described in Genesis 1 through through chapter 11. And I dwell in a generation of
Bible worshipers, too. I contend, yea, say without hesitation. that most in this land are idle
worshipers. I say that with a certain amount of sadness,
with fear, but I do not hesitate to say
that because the God I'm hearing preached today doesn't resemble
Abraham's God. The salvations that I hear about
today, the decisions, they're not like Abraham's God. And such were some of you. Everyone in here who God revealed
the gospel to, the truth to, who came out of religion will
testify that you were an idol worshiper. That's what Paul said
to the Thessalonians. He said, you turn to God from
your idols to worship the living and true God from idol. Now, idol doesn't have to be
a pole with an image on it. An idol doesn't have to be a
statue or a picture, although there are a lot of that, a lot
of those, aren't there, which the Lord expressly said, Thou
shalt not make any graven image. Didn't it? Even in so-called
Christianity. Think about all the pictures
and statues. God expressly condemned them.
But it doesn't have to be a picture or an image. But the word idol
comes from the word image, which is a base word of imagination,
or that is, the way men think God to be. And God said in Psalm
50, I believe it is, he said, Thou thoughtest that I was altogether
such a one as yourself. Thou thoughtest, he said, that
God was like a man, but I'm not, he said. Who will you compare
me to? And so, and men and women, young
people all over who imagine God to be this way or that way. And if he doesn't fit this God,
Abraham's God, Noah's God, Abel's God, it's idol worship. Now, is this too hard? Can I
say this? If your mother, your father,
your husband, your wife, your son or daughter or brother or
sister, worships any god, believes any gospel other than what you're
about to hear. They're idol worshipers. Is that
too strong? That's what Paul said in Galatians
1. He said, though we are an angel from heaven, preach any
other gospel. Let them be of courage. Idol
worshipers. Abraham, Abram is his name, was
just another son of Adam. Who is he? Nothing special. God
doesn't choose. You remember reading that in
1 Corinthians 1? You see your calling, brethren.
God doesn't choose the high things, the mighty things, but base things.
Nobody, from nowhere, nothings. God made everything in this world
out of nothing. And so one of the old preachers
said, if he's going to use you, you've got to be a nothing. a
nobody, from nowhere, unworthy, so that he'll be worthy. God doesn't need anyone. He doesn't say that in the Scriptures
anywhere, that God needs anyone. No. You can't add anything to
God, do anything for God. Abraham, just another son of
Adam, but in the purpose of God. in the will of God, God chose
him. He's an idol worshipping, another
son of a—how many were there at this point? How many were
there? Who could God have chosen other than Abraham, huh? He didn't need Abraham. What
Abraham needed him. And that the purpose of God,
according to election, might stand, he called Abraham. All
right, look at it. of God. When is a man saved? When is a person saved? When it pleases God. That's when. When is a person saved? What
does saved mean? It means you're lost. And to
be saved means Somebody else did it, doesn't it? If you're
lost and somebody saves you, when are you going to be saved?
When that somebody comes to save you. Huh? You can sit in the
water and decide to be saved all you want, but unless somebody
decides to come save you, you're not going to be saved. When is
a man saved? When is a woman saved? When is
a person saved? When it pleases God, that's when.
Not when it pleases the sinner, when it pleases God. That's what Paul said, when it
pleased God. Separated me from my mother's
womb and called me by his grace to reveal his son in me. Salvation is when God says the
word, save him. Salvation is when God gives the
command, go get him. Fetch him. Fetch her. Give her
ears. Give him eyes. Give him a heart,
break his heart, put the word in his heart, give him repentance,
give him faith, and bring him to me. That's one answer. Salvation
is of the Lord. Where is that thing? Salvation
is of the Lord. Does anybody know? Jonah 2.9. You're supposed to
know that. Salvation is of the Lord. Well, the sovereign God of the
universe, when he wills us to be saved, that's when we'll be
saved. Whatever he wills, it happens. He said that in Isaiah
all the way through. He said, I've spoken it and it'll
come to pass. When he determines to save, he
gives the command and it's done. We'll look at verse 1 of chapter
12. You have it? Genesis 12, verse 1. Now, the
Lord had said. unto Abraham, get out." When
is Abraham going to be saved? Not until the Lord comes and
says, get out. He called him, in other words. Is that plain? It's as plain
as I can make it. Now, now, we're going to talk
about Abraham. Now, we're going to talk about
how God saves a human being. Now, when the Lord had said,
spoke the word to Abraham, said, Get out. Why? Because God had chosen Abraham. Yeah. Romans 9 says that. Because God had elected him.
Yes, that's what Romans 9 says. Abraham doesn't have any arguments. Yes, Abraham. Abraham, what do
you think about God choosing whom he will, God electing whom
he will? I love it. I love it. I love that. I love because I would never,
I was an adulterer. Abraham said, I was worshiping
idols. I wasn't even interested in God. Seventy-five-year-old
man, set in my ways, worshiping God the way I thought he was.
But God, who's rich in mercy, called me, spoke the word, and
I heard by his grace. Bless God. What do I think about
election? Praise the God of electing Christ. for choosing me. I would never
have chosen him if he hadn't chosen me. I would never have
loved him if he had not first loved me. Praise God. The Lord had said, get out. Now, he didn't say this to his
brother, Heron, did he? Who did God say this to? I hear
three brothers, Abraham, Nahor, That's important to me because
Nahor has a daughter that Abraham is going to be real interested
in someday. And Heron is another brother.
He's three brothers, all right? Three brothers. They're all three
Adam worshipers. I don't know which one Abraham
is, oldest, youngest, but they're all at least in their 60s, 70s,
maybe 80s. Heron died without knowing God. Herod died an idol worshiper. God didn't call him. God didn't
speak to Herod, did He? Should He have? Why should He? Mercy. Mercy means not getting
what you deserve. All of sin comes short of the
glory of God. The wages of sin is death. Why?
Why should God? Men are unworthy. Mercy is God in mercy and love
and compassion, showing mercy, not giving some hell-deserving,
unworthy, God-hating, God not... Heron wasn't a God-lover, Sam. Heron wasn't seeking the Lord.
Heron wasn't a good man. He was an idolater. And the Lord
passed him by, sovereignly passed him by, didn't he? But Abraham
found mercy. Here's one boy and here's another,
and they're both just alike. And this is what Romans chapter
9 says. Jacob and Esau, two boys, grew
up in the same house. They're just alike. Neither one
of them any good. But God said, Jacob have I loved,
Esau have I hated. But shall we say these things,
Paul said? It's not of works, but of him
that calleth. It was said unto her, The elder
shall serve the younger, and Jacob have I loved. He saw her.
Abraham I've chosen, Herod I'm going to pass by. Herod's going
to be damned. He's going to get what he deserves, but Abram's going to find mercy.
How about you? You got a brother, a sister?
I do. I have a brother. I've had two
brothers and a sister. My brother that's living right
now on this earth has no interest whatsoever in this gospel. He
scoffs at it. He's one of these wise men, as
you read about in 1 Corinthians 1. A professor of history. Too wise. Intellect. I'm his little brother. Old,
old-fashioned, foolish preacher. He's a professor. Salvation's God choosing people
to reveal the gospel to. Now, the Lord had said, get out. Now, here's what happened, all
right? Here's what happened. The Lord had said unto him, look
at verse 1, Get thee out of thy country from thy kindred from
thy father's house. What's he saying here? You're
going to have to turn from those idols. You're going to have to
leave those idols. I'm the living and true God.
You're going to know me. You're going to know my will.
You're going to follow me. You're going to believe me. You're
not going to worship an idol. You're going to worship the living
and true God. You're going to hear the Word
of the Lord. You're going to follow me. You're going to worship
me the prescribed way. There's one way. I taught your
great-great-great-great-great-granddaddy Adam. I taught his sons Abel
and Noah. And they all know it, and you're
going to know it, too. You don't know it now, but you're
going to know it. There's one way. There's one Lord, one hope
of your calling, and I'm it. And you're going to leave everybody,
and the whole world, though your mother, though your father, though
your kindred, though everybody believes this way, and they're
going to call you a fool for going my way, there's one way, and you're going to leave all
that. You're going to throw all that religion in a garbage can,
and you're going to come follow me. That's the way the Lord says
every single person, he said, calls He shows up. Be what? Be truth and be light. There are not many ways to God.
Have you heard people say this? There are many faiths. There
are many people of different faiths. No. No. Ephesians 4 says there is one
faith. Christ said, I am, and there are not many ways to believe.
John 6, verse 45, Christ said, they shall all be taught of God.
That is, all of God's children are taught by God himself. Does he teach them different
things? Does he teach them different lessons? No, he teaches them
one faith. Not many faiths, one faith. Scripture calls it the faith
of God's elect. We're going to ask Abraham in
a minute here. What is it, Abraham? You're one of God's elect. What
is the faith? Abraham to justify it. All right? Well, God called Abraham and
said, Get out. And all he chooses, he calls. And he tells him to leave the
world, leave religion. Outside the camp, the Hebrews
say, let's go unto him outside the camp, outside of organized
religion, outside of the world. There's a way which seems right
unto men, but the way is disruption, and there's only one way, and
it's revealed. Well, Christ said, You didn't
choose me, I chose you. Now, verse 2, is that plain?
Is that plain who chose who here? Abraham was an idolater. Is it
plain to everyone in here, down to the smallest child, who chose
who? Who called who? Well, God called Abram. God chose
Abram. Abram was an idolater. Who came
to who? God came to Abram. And so it
is with every single human being that God determines to serve.
I can't make it any plainer than that. Now, God had said, salvation
came to Abraham when God spoke the word and said, Get out. Now,
look at what God says. Now, he said, verse 1, Get out,
get thee out from thy kindred, from thy father's house unto
a land that I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great
nation, and I will bless thee. and make thy name, or I will
make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing. I will. I will. I will. God said, now here's the salvations
of the Lord. I will, God said. I will. Not
once did God ask Abraham, if you will. Not once did God ask
Abraham anything. would we would somebody show
me where God asks Abraham anything at any point in time right here
anything Abraham if you will. Kings don't ask people anything. King God doesn't ask the creator
doesn't ask his creatures anything if would you let A Creator asking
the creature if he'll let him do something? That's best for
me. God doesn't ask anything. He didn't ask Abraham, Will you
please, will you, if you will, I shall. No, no, no, no. Salvation
is of the Lord, of the Lord God omnipotent who reigneth, is this
way. God says, I will and you shall. I will, and you shall." Did you
hear that? I will, not your will. My will will be done, and you
shall. What do you think about that,
Abraham? You're the Lord. What do you say to these things?
Paul said that, and that's what he preached about all through
the book of Romans. What shall we say to these things? It's God that willeth. Not of
him that willeth or him that runneth, but it's of God that
showeth mercy." And we're going to see Abraham in a minute leaving. Why? Because it's God that worked
in him both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Philippians
1.13. 2.13. I will, and you shall. This is the salvation of the
Lord. I never grow tired of hearing this. I don't have everybody's
ear this morning. This is what happened to me.
People, you're talking about a self-willed son of Adam, a
rebel, going his wild way, a prodigal son. Will you please let You ask every single person in
scriptures that God say, you ask them. Did you choose God? Did he choose you? Ask Abraham. He would say, well,
that's the most foolish question I've ever heard of. Wouldn't
it? Ask Abraham. Abraham would say,
did I choose God as an idolater? Ask Jacob. Jacob, did you choose
God or did he choose you? What a foolish question. Ask Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth,
did you choose David? Did you let David do anything? Mephibosheth, why are you at
the king's table right now, sitting there? Because you decided for
David. What a foolish question! David chose me. David looked
on me with mercy. David called me. David fetched
me. I'm here right now because of
the sovereign goodwill and pleasure and purpose of the king, not
by anything that I've done. I'm unworthy. I was a rebel.
I was an enemy of the king. But the king, in his mercy and
kindness, called me, sent somebody and said, Fetch me, and here
I am right now. What a foolish question. And I ask every one of you sons
of Jacob. God said, I'm the God of Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob. He said, I'm the Lord, I change
not. We need to learn that scripture
before we learn John 3, 16. That's Malachi 3, 6. We need
to learn that long before we learn John 3, 16. And Malachi
3, 6. And isn't it? Isn't it? important that the last book
of the Old Testament, God said this, as if now, you understand,
as if he's closing the Old Testament and he says this, I'm the Lord,
I change not. Isn't that significant? Do you
understand the significance there? The last book, Stan, do you understand
the significance? The last book in the Old Testament,
God said, I'm the Lord. I'm the Lord. I change not. I'm going to write a New Testament.
I'm the same. I say the same. I call it the
same. I choose. I call. I say the same
way. My will will be done. It's not
going to be up to man's will now from here on. No, I will. I change not. Therefore, you
sons of Jacob, I'm not consumed. Malachi 3, 6. Well, salvation is when God said,
I will. I will, and thou shalt. What
you hear today, being preached today is this, and you've heard
it so many times. If you will, if you're willing,
if you will let go and let God, if you will accept Jesus, It
doesn't say that anywhere in the scriptures at all. Does it
ever say, accept Jesus? Nowhere. You hear this all the time, don't
you? If you just let go and let God, it doesn't say that. anywhere in all of scripture
it doesn't say let God I tell you what Isaiah 43 13 says God
will work and who will let it. That's what Bible says that's This is how men are going to
be saved. This is the point that every
son of Adam, if God has determined to save him, is going to be brought
to. Who's the Lord? Who's God? Whose will will be
done? That's the first thing everyone
learns. Thy will be done. Well, wait a minute. If you don't
give an invitation, how are people going to respond? If you don't
ask people to do things, if you don't give an invitation, you've
got to give people an opportunity to respond to the invitation. How are people going to respond
if you don't ask them, invite them down front? Well, let's
look at Abraham. Let's see what happened. God didn't ask him anything.
What did he do? Look at verse 4. It says, So
Abraham departed. Now, God had said, Ben, get out. I will. I will. I will. I will. You shall. What happened? He
did. He did. So Abraham departed.
He did. As the Lord had spoken to him,
verse 4 says, the word of his power. You read that? The word of his
power. You see your calling, brethren? To the Greek, to the Jew, to
the religious man, it's foolishness. It's a stumbling block. To the
wise man, the Greek, it's foolishness. That's ridiculous. Preaching,
that's... But to them that are called,
both Jew and Greek, former Jews and former religious and former
intellects, Christ, power of God, and the wisdom of God. This
preaching, this stuff they call foolishness today, is the voice
of God, the power of God. God had said, and it was done.
God spoke, and it was done. God said, get out, and it got
out. God said, believe, Abraham believed. Now, there's several
chapters in the Scriptures. Romans, Galatians, other places
that talk about Abraham believing God, and it counted unto him
for righteousness. He believed God. Why? Abraham
believed God. In Romans 5, it says, now wait
a minute, did Abraham have something to boast in? Is it because Abraham
decided? No, no, no, no. He was an idolater.
Remember, God called him. God called him. Why did he believe?
Why did he believe? Why did he believe, Henry? Well,
it's a gift of God, wasn't it? That's Ephesians 2.8. By grace
are you saved. Through faith. And that's not
of yourselves. It's a gift of God. Not of works. Abraham was justified before
he ever did any job. Before he took a step, he was
justified. Before he left town. He was justified
from all things, cleared of all charges, declared by God, holy,
unblamable, unreprovable, accepted in God's name. Why? How? He believed God. Just believe in God. He believed
God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Read Romans
4 sometime for yourself. That's what the whole chapter
is about. Abraham believed in God and it was counted unto him
for righteousness. And it wasn't written for his sake alone, but
for our sake. What did Abraham believe? God. He believed God. Now, I didn't
say in God, did I? James said this. He said, you
believe there's one God, you do well. The devil believes that. People everywhere say, I believe
in God. Everybody believes in a God. But believe God. is to believe the record, the
word of God. God said, I've magnified my word
above my name. To believe God is to believe
that God is God. He says that all the way through
Isaiah, I am the Lord. There's none else. And you don't
make him Lord. No human being makes God God. God makes human beings human
beings. No human being lets God, lets
the Creator do anything. It's the Creator in whose hands
our breath is and all our work. Who does the resting? This is
the God of the Bible. And to believe God is to believe
God is God. There is none else. You don't
let him, you don't decide for him, you don't do any of that.
God is God. So much water over the bridge,
under the bridge, under the pulpit. Abraham believed God. That's
the first thing, he believed God. He believed God. God's God. What do you say to
yourself? What do you say? Either believe
it and it's baptized. Believe what? Believe God is
God. Anybody in here that does not believe anything said thus
far about God? If I said anything contrary to
Scripture, you who know the Scripture, how many Scriptures have I quoted
thus far? Dozens. God's God. This is God's Word. Why is it so important we begin
in Genesis? Because he begins to tell us,
I'm God. I'm God. And the same God, he
doesn't change. It's the same God today. And
God saves people in the New Testament the same way he did in the Old
Testament. He saved Abraham by accusing him and by calling him,
by his Word. Now what did he tell him? Get
out. Follow me. Look here in chapter
12. He must have told him something
else. Look at verse 6. It said, "...Abram passed through
the land in the place of Sikkim unto the plain of Moriah. And
Canaanite was there in the land. The Lord appeared unto Abraham
and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there builded
he an altar." under the Lord. He built an altar. He built an
altar. What'd he do? Why'd he build
an altar? What'd he do on the altar? What'd
he put on the altar? Anybody know? Now, we've been
studying this all the way back, haven't we? What'd he put on
the altar? What'd God teach Adam? What did God teach Abel? What
did God teach Noah? What did Noah put on that altar
when he got off that ship? What did God teach Abraham? He
teaches all of his sons. If you're going to worship me,
there's one what? He put a lamb on that altar.
He shed the blood of a lamb, which represents the Lord Jesus
Christ. The lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. God's way. God's righteousness. We sung that song. By his oath,
his covenant, his blood, support me, his blood, the blood of Christ. That means the innocent dying
for the guilty. The blood of God's perfect Son,
God killing, bruising his own Son to set us free, his people,
his chosen. They went and believed that. And he built an altar and made
a sacrifice. And that represented the Lord
Jesus Christ. So Abraham believed Christ. Abraham believed Jesus Christ.
You say, wait a minute, preacher. Wait a minute. This is thousands
of years before Jesus Christ. Let me let you hear what the
Lord Jesus Christ himself said. Okay? Abraham rejoiced to see
my day. He saw it and was glad. Abraham knew you. That's what
they said to Christ. Well, you're not even fifty years
old. Do you know Abraham? He said, Before Abraham was, I am. The God who spoke to Abraham
was Jesus Christ. What do you reckon Jesus Christ
I told Abraham, you've got to have blood, Abraham. It's going
to be my blood. And one day, and we're going
to get to it, Lord willing, in chapter 22, my favorite, Abraham
took his boy up on that mountain and was about to kill him. Something
happened. He saw Christ. They came down
from that mountain, and Abraham from that day forward. Well,
long before that, but all he could think about was the coming
Lamb, the coming Christ. That God will be in Christ, manifest
in the world, or reconciling the world, his people, unto himself. And so, salvation's of the Lord.
You see that? You see that? Abraham's the father
of the faithful. What Abraham believed, I believe.
You believe. You better. We better believe
exactly like Abraham. Who Abraham had revealed to him,
we better have revealed to him. The true God. Not idols. Not the way we think God is,
but the way He is. The way He reveals Himself in
Scripture. And that blood, and that righteousness
of Jesus Christ, You better believe that. And that's a gift of God. It's a work of God, isn't it?
Right? Abram Davis. Right? Abram Sheisle. He's the father
of the faith. Are you son of Abraham? In fact,
he is, why? Son of Abraham. I'm the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Abram was called, chosen, and
faithful. Who called who? Did you call God or did he call
you? Did you choose God or did He
choose you? Did you let God or did He, in mercy and grace, allow
you? That's salvation of God, of the
Lord. Do you believe that, Roy Baldwin? Juanita? Everything? Karen? Well, he didn't believe it. and
is baptized shall be saved." Those three, Roy Baldwin, his
wife Juanita, and daughter Karen Bryant, come before all these
witnesses this morning to say in this way that the Lord told
us to do, that this is the God I believe. This is the salvation
God saved me with. This is the Christ that I worship. Amen? All right. Now, John, if you'll come and
let me, Roy and Juanita and Carol, you can go begin getting ready. I want to read you something
over in Acts 16. Acts chapter 16. We don't see this very much. A whole family. You know, when
you're on the job, OK. Father, mother and child, the
whole family. You don't see this whole family.
And I met Roy. I want you to listen to it in
Act 16. Listen to this. up in verse, you got it? I want
you to look at it. This happened in the scriptures
many times. God saved a whole house. I got some family I'd love to
be getting in the pool with right now. Acts 16 says, verse 14,
Lydia, whose heart the Lord opened, she attended unto the things
which are spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized and
her household, evidently, everybody in her house. I want, I confess
him too. And then down in verse 31, Paul
said to the jailer, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved. And by house, they believed too.
And it says in verse thirty-three, he took them the same night and
washed their stripes and was baptized, he and all of his,
his whole house. So this is, it's not unusual at all. The
Lord did this several times. Okay, you can go get ready. So
what a blessing, what a blessing, what a blessing, huh? God did
not save one. But the whole house? Oh, my. Sovereign mercy. Every one of
them said, this is it, this is it. I didn't ask them, I never
once asked them anything. Never once asked Roy or Juanita
or Karen anything, ever. Matter of fact, I ignored them. They can say we've heard the
Lord spoken. We won't be back on the same. Number one oh three. You may be seated yet. One day when heaven was filled
with His praises, One day when sin was as black as could be,
Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin. Bread of the many,
my sample is He. Living, He loves me. Dying, He saves me. Buried, He carries my sin forever. Why did he just decide we'd leave
forever? One day he told me a glorious
day. One day they laid him a calvary's
mountain. One day they nailed him to die
on the tree. Suffering, angry, despised and
rejected, Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He. Living, He loved
me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sins far
away. Rising he's justified freely
forever. One day he's crowned with all
glory ever. One day they left him alone in
the violence. One day he rested from suffering
free. Angels came down on his tomb
to keep spiritual. Oh, there the hopeless, my savior
is he. Living, he loved me. Dying, he claimed me. Buried, he carried my sin far
away. Rising he shall with glad singing
forever, One day he's coming, O glorious day! One day the breaker can steal
him no longer, One day the stone thrown away from the stone. When he arose, all mercy he had
conquered. Thou is the standard my Lord
ever bore. If he loved me, dying he'd save
me. Bury me, carry my sin far away. Rising, he justified, freely
forever. One day he's coming, O glorious
day.