Now, Romans 10, verse 13, let's read it again. Verse 13, "'For whosoever shall
call upon the name of shall be saved. I know this verse has been abused
today. I just couldn't help sitting
there looking at some of our young people And I want so badly for the Lord
to save them, not just my own daughter, but your children. And this verse right here is
so full of a blessed promise. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. And I was thinking, Lord, call
somebody. Call, just call. This verse is used so abused
in our day, but it's still true. It's true. Romans 10.13 is true. And whosoever calls on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. It seems like such a simple thing,
doesn't it? Calling on the name of the Lord. The reason it rings
so hollow in our day is because this generation of
lying preachers have got everybody so convinced that God loves them
and Jesus died for them, along with the fact that we are in
material prosperity, rich and increased with goods and have
needed nothing. Nobody is lacking any of that.
Our young people have everything they could possibly want, and
so do us old people. And nobody needs saving, do they? Nobody needs saving. I've got some notes here. I ought to follow them, shouldn't
I? Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved." Now, who's going to call? He
said, Whosoever. Who's going to call? Turn back
with me to Joel 2. While you're finding that, Paul
is quoting this passage over Joel. Joel 2, Daniel, Hosea, Joel. That's where it is, Ezekiel,
Daniel, Hosea, Joel, chapter 2. Paul is quoting from Joel,
chapter 2, when he says this, but very few people go on to
quote the rest of this verse, do they? They quote Romans 10,
13, soul winners and all that. But they fail to give the glory
where it's due. We've got to give the glory where
it belongs, don't we? We've got to start where salvation
starts, don't we? Where does salvation start? With
us calling on God? With us making our decision?
No, it starts with God, just like everything does. Joel 2,
verse 32, says, And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered. We're going
to look at that blessed promise in a minute. In Mount Zion, that's
the church, in Jerusalem shall be deliverance. As the Lord has said, he's faithful,
he promised, he can't lie, he said it, whosoever shall call
shall be saved. Oh, I want to call, don't you? I'm going to call right now.
I am calling right now. I am. Are you? I mean right this
second. Say, I didn't hear you, preacher.
I'm not calling you. Right? And it's a promise thing. Whosoever,
doesn't matter how young you are, nine years old, doesn't
matter how old you think you are, fifteen years old, or how
old you really are, sixty-some, whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord, young people, shall be saved. Shall be saved. Who's going to call? Well, this
is a fact. Look at verse 32, "...the remnant
whom the Lord shall call." That's who's going to call. Although
I weep and want so badly for our young people to call, I know
it's fine. That if God Almighty has will
and purpose, and this is comforting, really, that if God Almighty
has will and purpose to save my daughter, she's going to call
one of these days. This year, next year, sixteen
years old, eighteen, twenty-six, when I'm dead and gone, and she's
fifty-six, sixty-five years old, an old grandmother, if God has
chosen her, she's going to call. She's going to call. That's comfort
in it. It really is. That's election,
is what that is. whom the Lord our God shall call
a remnant according to the election of grace," the scripture said.
God Almighty has chosen certain individuals to come before the
foundation of the world. He chose, he made that choice
before the world began. Is that all right with you? It better be, because that's
the way it is. That's the way it is. That's a fact. The world
likes to argue, well, why preach that? If somebody is going to
be saved, only the elect are going to be saved, no matter
what? I didn't say no matter what.
And the scripture doesn't say no matter what, does it? Scripture says God elected them
through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. and repentance toward God and
faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ, doesn't it? People argue that,
don't they? Well, if they are going to be
saved no matter what, if elect, then saved? No, no, no, no. God
uses means. And all the elect are called
in the same way. Do you know that? All people,
all the elect are called the same way, and saved, and they
respond. the same way, and we read that
in Acts 20, repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord
Jesus Christ. See, God is the one who elected
them to repent and to call and to believe. Right? And the fact that anybody is
saved is owing to God's blessed election. God chose him. God, in sovereign mercy, said,
I'll be merciful. Thank God he's merciful. He is. But he said, it's to whom I will.
That's his right. You see, we preached that first.
Why? God gets all the glory. We're not begging men to do anything,
are we? No, we're here to give God all
the glory. But knowing the terror of the
Lord, we do want to persuade men and women and young people.
So God is the one that calls, and only those that God calls
are going to call. Well, how does God call? call on the name of the Lord
shall be saved." Who is going to call? All that God calls.
How does God call? Turn over to 2 Thessalonians
2. In Romans 1, Paul talks about the sound or a general call of God heard throughout
the world. Psalm 19 says the same thing. His eternal power and Godhead
is seen and clearly seen and clearly heard when thunder thunders
and rattles your house. It's not the actual voice of
God. God really spoke as the sound
of many waters. It consumed this world from heaven. If he spoke, the one who spoke
and things were created, if he spoke again, it's going to be
devoured. But you hear God in that, right? When it thunders,
as powerful as that is, the creation clearly shows that God is. clearly showed his eternal power
in Godhead, so that they are without excuse. That's what the scripture says,
without excuse. All men everywhere, to the native
in the jungle, sees that there is God, that
God is, that this thing has been made. It's just too amazing,
too awesome, the forces of nature, so to speak, are too powerful,
and man is too frail and too subject to them, isn't he? Man,
anything can just wipe man out in a second. And all of these
things are at the beckon of God Almighty. He controls all these
things. That's a call that everybody's
heard. Everybody is without excuse. I didn't know there wasn't a
God. Yeah, you did, God said. And when I thundered that day
and it shook your dishes, you should have fell on your face
before the one who caused it to thunder. He said, I don't
know you. I'm afraid to reveal yourself
to him. Yeah, you did know who I am.
But I am God. You look at your thumbprint and
know that God is. You look in the mirror and know
that there's somebody marvelously created you. God is. But God, when he goes to saving
folks, when God is determined to save people, all of this creation,
all of that is going to condemn them. But when God determines to save
somebody, he gives us special He gives a special call. He speaks
directly to a person. And this is what he says here,
2 Thessalonians 2, verse 10. He says that this spirit of wickedness is working
on all the suitableness of unrighteousness and them that perish. because
they receive not the love of the truth that there might be
say." Now, the gospel has been heard. We'll see that in Romans 10.
Everybody has heard the gospel, too. There is no place on the
corner of this globe that the gospel hasn't gone to yet. That's
what makes me think Christ is coming soon. My dad is going
out to hold a meeting for a fellow in California, a grace preacher,
and he says that he's coming this year. beyond a shadow of
a doubt. It says September. I asked my dad, what do you think
about that? And he said, I hope he's right. But he is coming. And it may
be. I hope that man's right. I hope it's September of 1994.
Make no mistake about it, though, he's coming. And these things
point to it. 2 Thessalonians 2 points to it,
because they receive not the love of the truth. You'd be hard-pressed
to find somebody that loves the gospel now. That's what Christ said in Matthew
24. He said, Many false prophets of Christ shall arise and deceive
many, if it were possible to deceive the very elect. And because
people don't love the gospel, but love a lie, love signs and
wonders, he says, I won't give them to them. And this generation
is going to be so religious and going to be so taken up with
signs and wonders that when Christ himself comes, they're not going
to know it. He's going to consume them in
a minute with the spirit of his mouth. Verse 11 says, For this
cause God shall send them strong delusions. We're seeing a lot
of things going on today, aren't we? That they should believe
a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth. That's
just a plain old word of God, isn't it? That's just a plain
old gospel is what that is. That's old, old gospel. It's
unfashionable today, isn't it? All this talk about sin and God's
holiness and the need for blood and atonement, it's unfashionable
today, isn't it? It's old-fashioned. We don't
need that anymore. We've progressed beyond that. Yes, you're going
to be damned who believe not the truth. It's an old, old story.
Tell me the old, old story. but had pleasure in unrighteousness,
self-righteousness, personal righteousness. But we're bound to give thanks
for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord. Not thanking you. Paul is not
thanking you, but thanking you. It's like saying, Thank you,
Henry, for believing on Jesus, accepting Jesus. Give Henry a
big hand. It's not my saying there. We're bound to give thanks
to God for you. We're thanking God. That's why
we're here, Henry, to thank God, because he chose an old wretch
like you. Because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation. God elected you. How do you know,
preacher? Well, he did this through sanctification,
or setting apart of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the
one who came and got old Henry. and caused him to believe the
truth. Whereunto he called you by our
gospel." How does God call? By our gospel. Whose gospel? The world's gospel? There ain't
no gospel in it. It's our gospel. If any man preaches
any other gospel than that which you're hearing, which you have
heard, he's going to go to hell, and everybody that hears him
and believes him. It's our gospel. That's how he calls it, by our
gospel, our gospel. Belief of the truth, the true
gospel. This is eternal life. They might
not be the only true God, God who is God, and your only son,
the only one that can say, the Lord, not try to say, but the
Lord, Jesus Christ, the true gospel. He called you by our gospel to
the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Not to just believe facts. He
didn't call you just to believe you believe Jesus died, don't
you? Yes, you believe he was buried, yes, he rose again, yes,
you believe you're a sinner, don't you? Yes, and God won't
save you, yes, and now repeat after me. Not just facts, but
it says something about the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord said that in his prayer
to the Father. He said, This is what I will, that they
will be with me where I am, that they might behold my glory."
Just a little bit before that, Barbara, you're right with me,
I'm going to appreciate it. It wasn't a little bit before
that until the Lord took James and John and Peter up on that
mountain, and they beheld his glory. got a glimpse of it, and
they were melted. And Christ said, Someday I want
them all to be right there with me that they might really see
my glory. You know what salvation is right
now? It's to behold Christ's glory. It's to see his glory. It's called the gospel of the
glory of God, the glorious gospel of the blessed God. and his Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. God calls men and women to behold
his Son, like putting the sun up in the sky. You remember me
saying to my daughter one time, I said, the sun has gone down. No, it hasn't. No, it never goes
down. The sun always shines. In its full brightness, it's
always at its full strength, the sun is. Just because man
can't see the sun, It doesn't mean it's not shining. It means
he's in darkness. But every now and then the Lord
rotates that globe around as parts of clouds, and we see the
sun, don't we? And this is salvation. Every
now and then he takes an old sinner who's in darkness and
rotates, turns him 180 degrees, rolls the clouds back, and he
sees the sun in some of his glory. God who calls to light to shine
out of darkness, he said in 2 Corinthians 4. One day long ago, God said,
Let there be light. What a day that must have been,
when God created light. There was no light. Let there
be light. And the angels, and I'm sure
the cherubs and angels just sat back and just God illuminated
stars and sun. Are you taken up with the lights
that God has made? You can't even look at the sun,
it's so glorious. The moon, have you ever seen
a full moon at night? The stars and all their brilliance,
are you just taken by it? Look at most of the angels in
a chair when God created it and said, Let there be light! Firework! Let them display it again! God
said, Let it happen. And the angels in the chair said,
Wow! Glory to God in the highest!
What a Creator he is! God who caused the light to shine
out of darkness one day, shine in your own dark heart to give
the light of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus.
The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of a person. One day you believed on Jesus,
Joe. You were a good old Southern Baptist old boy going to church. doing nobody no harm, you quit
your drinking and carrying on, and you believed on Jesus and
accepted him, and so forth. And one day, God let the light
shine in him. God put his Son on display, and
you saw him for the first time in his glory. And you said, I've never seen
him before. Now, I see. You saw him through the gospel,
didn't you? When a man sets him forth, and that's what God does
when he calls a man by the gospel, he sets forth his son. The gospel
is nothing more than the setting forth or declaration of the glory
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's reason to say there ain't
no gospel when you tell people that he wants to do something
and can't, and tries to do something and fails. And you need to let
him do something. That's not the glory of the Son
of God, is it? The glory of the Son of God is
to set him up on the floor where he is, lift it, if I may lift
it up, he said. And I'll draw them in to me,
and they won't come kiss me on the cheek, they'll bow at my
feet. And kiss the feet of the Son of God lest he be angry,
and they perish by the way. And the declaration of the gospel
is a declaration of that Son of God, the S-O-N of God, to
see his glory, that he's all in all. He calls
men to see the glory of a person, not just a man named Jesus, not just a poor martyr hanging
on a cross, a poor fellow bleeding in the eye. Don't you feel sorry
for him? Accept him, he wants you to. It's a blasphemy. It's a blasphemy. He's a Lord
sitting on a throne. He's a King of glory. And he
commands men everywhere to repent and believe and bow. Have you
seen that glory? Huh? Do you believe? Do you? not just a man named Jesus now,
but God manifest in the flesh. God. Thomas one day, turn over
to John chapter 16. Thomas one day finally saw who
he was, didn't he? Isn't that something He walked with the Lord for three
years or more, and he really didn't know who he was, did he? Remember he said to Philip, Philip,
I've been so long time with you, and you don't know me? Remember
that? One day Thomas found out, didn't
he, who he was. When Christ arose from the grave
and Thomas said, I'm not going to believe until I see the nails
in his hands and a scar on his side, and it's not going to believe
him. No, he's dead. No, he's not, Thomas. We saw
him. He's alive. He's living. He's reigning. He's
the Lord, Thomas. I'm not going to believe him
until I see him. The Lord came to old Thomas and said, Thomas,
why are you unbelieving? Reach over thy hand. Touch my
side. Touch my hand. Look here. Is
that enough? Thomas fell on his face. Thomas
said, My Lord and my what? God. Not precious Jesus, but
my Lord and my God. Thomas saw him. Peter saw him
one day, didn't he? And it was a different situation.
They were in a boat fishing, and the Lord said, Cast your
net on the right side. Now, we've been doing that. We've
been doing it all night. Cast your net on the right side.
And Peter cast his old hardened fisherman's net, and they took
in a haul of fish that they couldn't get in the boat. And what did
Peter say? Oh, depart from me, Lord. I'm
a sinful man. I'm a sinful man. In other words,
he saw that if this one who could who was in charge of the fish
under the ocean, he could read his thoughts. John saw him on
the Isle of Patmos, and when he saw him, he said, it fell
at his feet as a dead man, a dead man. And everyone God Almighty
calls, everyone God elects, he sends his Holy Spirit to give
them a sight, a sight of his Son. Look at John 16, verse 8,
and this is what the Holy Spirit does when he comes to call. When
he comes calling, has he come calling to you? Here's what he
called, here's what he said. When he is come, verse 8, he
will reprove the world of sin. What you read, Nancy Parks, first
thing, of sin. That's out of preaching today,
and you won't hear that anymore, except here and a few other places. And of righteousness and of judgment,
verse 9, of sin, whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
shall have the Holy Spirit reveal or call them and tell them about
their sin. going right back where we started.
Repentance toward God. Sin. Right? Convinced by the
Holy Spirit, everybody God calls, he sends the Holy Spirit to convince
them of their sin. What kind of sin? A sin, verse
9, because they believe not on me. They believe not on me. Seeing the love of God won't
do it. It won't cause a man to repent. Seeing Jesus down the
cross won't do it. It won't do it. Seeing the Lord
Jesus Christ in whose hands you are, that'll do it. Seeing a
holy and righteous and sovereign God, that'll do it. Seeing the
fear of the Lord, that's the beginning of wisdom, that'll
do it. That will convince a man that he's a sinner in the hands
of an angry God. Sin. Sin. The hands of an angry
God. Verse 10, "...of righteousness,
because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more." In other
words, Christ says, I'm going to God. Are you going? Well,
I'd like to. How are you going to get there?
Who shall ascend unto the holy hill of the Lord? Well, he that
hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and never looketh so under
bandage, or is sworn deceitfully. That's who. Can you make it? Try your best now, Terry, and
you'll get there. I warned of my Father. And God's righteous,
God's holy. To offend in one point of the
law is guilty of all, and he won't accept you. Be fine if
the Lord marks iniquity. You're a goner. I'm going to
the Father. Are you going? I want to. How are you going
to get there? You've got to have a righteousness, don't you? And
it's got to be as righteous as God himself. How are you going
to do it? Well, I'll do my best. I'll make
me a little fig leaf, and it'll cover. I thank God it'll cover
my sin. No, it won't. No, it won't. It's got to be perfect to be
accepted. I'm going to the Father, and I've got a righteousness,
Christ said. I've got a righteousness, and
I give it to everybody who calls for it. Not everybody makes their decision
for Jesus, and everybody commits and consecrates and dedicates
and redoes this and that and baptizes and does many wonderful
works for Jesus' name. But everybody says, Lord, I need
a righteousness. Lord, cover me in your righteousness."
That's what the Holy Spirit convinces a man of, isn't it? That all
our righteousnesses are filthy rags, they're thin gleefs. The
Lord convinced old Adam of that, didn't he? Didn't he, ain't he?
He convinced him. Adam, you at least don't cover
you. One little wind blows and you're exposed. Right? Like I say, it's like those hospital
gowns, you know. We think we're covered, think
we've got it covered. No. You turn around and you'll
reveal what you are. God Almighty sees us. He knows us. We need something he can't see
through. What's that? The righteousness of Christ.
It covers. The blood of Christ. It covers.
Right? We need clothing. That's the
wedding garment. He says, if I find anybody in
my heaven without their wedding garment, I'm kicking them out.
That's the wedding garment. Do you have one on? Got a perfect fit waiting on
you. Oh yeah. And by cause, I got
one specially made to fit them. It's been prepared before the
world began for you. A robe. A perfect robe. A perfect
fit. Mine fits perfect. Ain't taking
it off. John, not taking it off. Clinging
to it, buddy. Clinging to it. It's grown with
me, you know? It's grown with me. Righteousness,
I go to the Father, and you're going to have to have one to
go to the Father. Judgment. The Holy Spirit comes, he'll
convince of judgment. He'll convince you of your sin.
Teresa, has he done that? That you're altogether sinning.
But you're God's holy. You can't just . . . God's holy. You can't come to God. If the
Bible says anything that says that, God's holy. And you're
sinning. Everything about you's sinning.
Everything about me's sinning. Well, how am I going to get to
God then? Well, Christ said, I'm going there. I'm a man. I'm
going there. I've got a righteousness. God will accept it. And the Holy
Spirit says, you're going to have to have that robe he's wearing.
And he gives it to everybody that calls. If you call, if you
ask, And of judgment, because I go, the prince of this world
is judged. Now, back to Romans 10. Turn back there quickly, and
I'll wind this up. Romans 10. You see, God hath
appointed a day, the Scripture says, God hath appointed a day in which
he will judge the world, judge all men, by that man, Christ
Jesus. Judgment, all judgment, Christ
said, is committed unto me of the Father. All judgment. And it's coming
today when Christ is going to judge all men on the basis of
what they've What have you done? What kind
of works have you done, Henry? They'd better be good ones. They'd
better be perfect. They'd better be pure. They'd
better be spotless. They'd better be your works. They'd better
be perfect. He's going to judge them, every
one of them. Well, there's a psalm that says, Thou hast ordained,
thou hast done all thy work in me, for me. Christ came down
here. to do the works that God required
for men, for some men, for some women. That's that righteousness
we're talking about. And he says, I did this for sinners. I did all this for sinners, and
God accepts it on their behalf. All they have to do is call,
and take their old filthy rag like old Barnabas, or not Barnabas,
Barnabas, blind Barnabas, Take that old robe they've been wearing
and they've been trusting in for all those years, that old
blanket they think, that old church attendance and that morality
and that decency and that baptism, and wad it up like an old, stinking,
filthy, raggedy idiot and throw it away and say, I don't need
that. I need this robe, this work,
these works that Christ has done to cover me. Then God says, I'm
going to judge everybody on the basis of you're either in Christ
or you're out of Christ. I'm going to stand with Christ
right there, spotless Son of God. And everybody that's beside
Christ is going to be stacked up to
Him, going to be judged by Him. God's going to look at Christ's
hands. Let me see your hands, Christ, Son, and they're going
to be spotless, clean hands. going to hold up the hands of
that fellow standing beside him and say, Let me see your hand.
They're going to be dripping with blood. Dirty. Let me see your heart. Christ opens his breastplate,
and there is a pure heart, with a motive and a love for God Almighty. He's going to look into the hearts
of nothing but darkness. But everybody in Christ now is
going to accept it with the blood. He's accepted with Christ. When
he sees Christ's hands, he sees my hands. When he sees Christ's
heart, he sees my heart. When he sees Christ's work, Christ
says, I have loved thee, I have lived for thee. He sees Paul
make him. You say, you didn't do that.
No, I didn't. Christ did it. Not my works of
righteousness which I have done. No, it's the works of righteousness
which Christ has done. And he said, come unto me and
I'll receive you, and I'll go to the Father for you. I go to
the Father, I have a righteousness, and I'm going to judge, I'm going
to judge everybody. And you're either in me or you're
standing beside me to be judged by me, in Christ. Romans 10, who shall call? I ask that. Who shall call? Well,
as many as the Lord shall call. How does he call? The gospel,
I just spent the whole time you how he calls. Have you heard
it? Did you hear that? Maybe somebody
heard it this morning for the first time. I'm not yelling,
not screaming, just still small voice. I've just told you what
the gospel is, who the gospel is, where salvation is to be
found. It's in a person. It's in a person.
And this is how God calls. He calls everybody to understand
these things and to believe these things. And it says, "...whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord may some day get into heaven
by the skin of their teeth." If they hold on, if they just
have faith in their faith, if they keep on, if they pray through,
if they'll quit this, if they'll quit that, whosoever shall on
the name of the Lord shall be saved." Shall. Shall be saved. Shall be saved. Saved from what?
Saved from sin. Saved from the wrath of God.
There's coming a time over in Revelation where it's said that
there's some people going to cry out unto God Almighty. Some
people are going to cry out unto God Almighty. They're going to
be praying to God. Pray into the rocks and hills
to hide them from Christ. Do you remember that? Hide us
from the face of him. Hide us. We're going to be saved
from him, saved by him, and saved from him, from his wrath, from
his judgment, from his condemnation. And instead of saying, hide us
from the face of him, we're going to be right there
looking face to face with him and enjoying it. And enjoy it. And Romans 10.10 says this, verse
10, got to tell you there. Now, this is with the heart.
the Lord shall be saved." How are they going to call on him
whom they do not believe? How are they going to believe
in him whom they have not heard? What is it to believe? It's to
believe with hearts. You believe these things in your
heart, I know you're agreeing with me in your head. Everybody
in here is a good Calvinist, even our children. They've been
instructed these things from children. They know the fact
of these things in their heads, don't they? But do you feel it
in your heart? I'm a sinner. And I don't mean I've just done
some bad thing. I mean, I am sin. And God is holy. And if he doesn't give me mercy,
I'm going to die. If he doesn't give me Christ,
I'm going to die. If Christ didn't come and establish
that righteousness for me, I'm a goner. If the blood of Christ
doesn't say it, I'm a goner. Do you believe that in your heart?
In your heart, now. The heart, man, believe it. Believe
it what? Believe it on Jesus? Believe it's everything I've
just been talking about. The gospel. Have you heard that? You believe it in your heart?
Under righteousness? That's what he said. That's righteousness.
And with the mouth, confession is made. What do you confess
with your mouth? Lord, you're Lord. God, you're God. Christ, you're Christ. Your righteousness
is all there is. The blood of Jesus Christ, your
Son, cleanses. It's all my only hope. Christ
is all. I am a poor sinner and nothing
at all, but Jesus Christ is my all at all. Is that your confession
from the heart? Well, tell me about eschatology.
I don't know much about that, but all I know is I'm an old
sinner and nothing at all, but Jesus Christ is my all in all.
Well, tell me about soteriology. Well, I don't know any what the
word means, but all I know is that I'm an old sinner and nothing
at all, but Jesus Christ is my all in all. I know that. What
do you know? There is a story of a fellow, a coach driver back in England
years ago, driving a famous preacher. I forget his name. I think his
name was Law, William Law. At any rate, this preacher was
riding with this fellow and this coach, riding up the side of
him. He asked the fellow to take him
to Bath, the town of Bath in England. The fellow said, OK. And they took off riding in that
coach. And this visitor, Mr. Law, I
believe was his name, he looked over and saw a big mansion
over here. He said, Hey, that's a beautiful
place. What is that? And the coach driver said, I
don't know. I don't know what that is. And
kept driving. And they kept on a little while.
Mr. Lyle said to the coach driver,
he looked over to his left and saw a beautiful village, and
he said, Where is that? What's that town there? And the
coach driver said, I don't rightly remember. And they went on and
on, and he saw something else that interested him. He said,
What's that? Mr. Driver, and the fellow said,
I don't know. And Mr. Law finally said to that coach
driver, he said, "'Fellow, what do you know?' And the fellow
said, "'I know the way to Bath. You asked me to take you to Bath.
I know the way to Bath. There's only one way to Bath.
We're going to Bath. Now, about all this, I don't
know so much. But I know the way to Bath. And you ask an old
sinner, What he knows about this and that and the other and all
the views of the day, he might not know much. He might, he might
not. But I'll tell you one thing all
God's people know. They know the way to God. It's
about Jesus Christ and him alone in it. But the heart, men believe,
is under righteousness. And they've all called on it.
They've all called on it. Lord, save me or I'll perish.
But it's not a one-time thing, is it? I'm calling right now,
again. I called when we first started,
and I'm going to call again. Do you want to join me? Would
you like to join me in calling? Anybody? I'm not satisfied with
the first time I called. Are you? I'm not satisfied that
he's told the reveal. I believe he has. I believe the
gospel. I believe it from my heart, but
not like I want to. I've heard it again. I believe it again.
Now, John, I've heard it again. Even though I'm the one that
pushes, I heard it again. Like the commercial said, I tasted
it again for the first time. And I'm calling again. I'm going
to call, Lord, save me or I perish. I see now that Christ, I saw
then, I see now, I see a little more clearly. This is all in
Christ. And I'm calling, Lord, save me
or I perish. I need Christ. Would you call with me, Deborah? Whosoever shall call, in the
name of the Lord shall be saved." Will you call with me, Terry?
Huh? What about you, Stephen? Earlene? Have you called before? Want to try it again? Whosoever shall call doesn't
say did call, does it? It said whoever called was baptized. Years ago, we'll be safe. But
we shall call. Keep calling. Keep calling. And
be like that importunate wither. Don't quit calling until he answers.
Shall be safe. Shall be safe. All right. Brother Joe, come up and lead
us in a closing hymn. What's the number? 125. Well, Joe's going to read us
a couple of verses. 125. Jesus paid it all, stands. First
and the fourth stanza. First and the fourth. I hear a Savior say, Thy strength
to me is strong. I love Thee, just as You pray. I'm in Thee, I'm all in all. Jesus, Savior, Lord, You
hear my call. Sing and let the crimson stain
be your defiance soon. And when before the crown I stand in hymn of glee, Thank you, and you're dismissed.