The book of Acts this morning
in chapter three. There's so much in this chapter
three. We've spent quite a bit of time
here in chapter three. And these verses, verses 17 through
26 of the book of Acts chapter three is probably the most comprehensive
statement of the gospel that we have in such a short place. Now, the book of Romans, that's
a comprehensive statement about grace. certainly tells us that
from the fall, to redemption, to the blood, to the resurrection,
and so forth, it is so comprehensive. But these few verses are so comprehensive
of all the truths of the gospel, and Peter is preaching this message
here after he was used of God to heal a man that was crippled
from his birth. Now, who must we give credit
for raising the man crippled from his birth? Well, the same
person that the Apostle Peter gave credit for, when a whole
group of people gathered around said, my goodness, we got some
honorary guy right with us, look what he can do. Well, Peter was
very quick to say, not by my power, not by my holiness, not
by my goodness did this take place. In the book of Acts there,
chapter three, I'd like to just skim through
verse six, if you would. For it tells us here in verse
six, then Peter said, silver and gold have I none, but such
as I have, give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, rise up and walk. Verse seven, and he took him
by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet
and ankle bones received strength. 40 years of being a cripple,
at least 40 years. We're going to find that mentioned,
that he was 40 years plus. But all of that time, he never
walked in his life. And here, instantly, immediately,
by the power of God, he is healed. And it tells us there in verse
7, He received strength. Verse 8, it says, he leaping
up stood and walked and entered with them into the temple. Can
you just see this man walking and leaping and praising God? My, something he'd never done
before. He's leaping. And then it tells
us in verse eight, and he leaping up stood and walked and entered
into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God. And
in verse nine, it says the people saw him walking and praising
God. Verse 16, would you drop down
to verse 16 of this passage of scripture? It says, and in his
name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom
you see and know, yea, the faith which is by him that given him
this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. There's
nothing imperfect about this healing. And when we went over
this, we spoke about that, that God does not save halfway. He
doesn't save three quarters of the way. He doesn't save 99%
of the way and leave the rest up to us. He gives us perfect
wholeness in our salvation, complete and total. Now, as we look here
at verse 17, The Apostle Peter continues from this point. He's
gonna mention some of the greatest statements about the gospel in
such a succinct manner, in such a close-quarter manner. I mean,
he combines all that we have in Scripture in just a few verses
here, and we can take it and read it and be blessed by it
and use these verses of Scripture to share with others about God's
great grace. For it tells us here, beginning
with verse 17, And now, brethren, I want that through ignorance
ye did it as did also your rulers. I understand that that is true. Now, Peter does not mean that
they were innocent in having put him to death, putting Christ
to death. They're not innocent of that
at all, but he means to say that their offense was mitigated by
the fact that they were ignorant of what that he was the Messiah. They did not understand that
this one was the Messiah. Now, he had all the signs of
the Messiah, he had all of the credentials of the Messiah, but
they did not know by nature that he was the Messiah. And it's
so true today that without the revelation of Jesus Christ, we
cannot and we will not recognize him as the Christ, as the Savior. We will always look at him as
some other lesser being. Well, as we follow this through,
turn with me, if you would, to the book of Acts chapter 13 for
just a moment. In the book of Acts chapter 13,
we have this passage of scripture that gives us some insight into
this. Acts chapter 13 and verse 27. Now this is some time later
in the book of Acts. This is past the time that Peter
is preaching on this day. What a wonderful message he had
on the day of Pentecost. What a wonderful message he has
on this day. But a little bit later we have
someone else picking up this theme and says, for they that
dwell at Jerusalem and their rulers, because they knew him
not." Now, who are these that dwell in Jerusalem? Same people
Peter's talking to. They dwell in Jerusalem. They
were there at Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion, and
they're the ones that cried in the street. Crucify him, crucify
him. So it goes on to say here, because
they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets. What
does that tell us about their understanding about the Old Testament,
about the scriptures? that by nature they could not
understand what this is all about. We find that the Ethiopian eunuch
explains a whole lot about the condition that we're in by nature.
How can we understand except some man teach me? Philip happened
to be at the right place at the right time and began at the same
place and preached on the not law, not commandments, not duties,
not all the stuff that is so commonly mentioned. He began
at the same place and preached unto him Jesus. Now, summed up
in that name, as we heard this morning in the Bible class, summed
up in that name is a savior that saves from eternity, a savior
involved in salvation from eternity, that he would come to this earth
Born in such a low state, and yet the righteous ruler of all
things, that he would come, condescend, give up the glory that he had
with the Father before the world was, and come down to this sin-cursed
earth, and live for thirty-three and a half years among people
that did not know who he was, in fact were angry with him most
of the time. They would have stoned him. They
would have thrown him over the Brava Hill, given the opportunity,
but it was not theirs to do. That was going to take place
at the cross. Going on, it says here, they
did not know, nor yet the voices of the prophets, which are read
every Sabbath day. They have fulfilled them in condemning
him. So every Sabbath, these guys
would go to church, and the clerk, the preacher, somebody would
read the Old Testament. I was listening to a sermon on
YouTube the other day, and I'm sure that that guy was one of
the readers that day that was there. I'm telling you, he had
no excitement at all about what he was reading. It was just,
no more, no more, no more, no more. God's people have some excitement
about the scriptures. They know something about it
and they have some excitement. It's just not monotone. So they
listened to these guys and there was nothing in it. And you know,
one of the wonderful things that we find out about the Lord Jesus
Christ, he spoke with authority. and not as one of the scribes.
He knew what he was talking about, and yet he was hidden to them.
In the book of 1 Timothy 1, would you join me there in the book
of 1 Timothy 1? 1 Timothy 1, verse 13. 1 Timothy 1, verse 13, we have
these words. This is the Apostle Paul speaking
about himself. It takes the grace of God to
say this. It takes the grace of God to
write this and let someone else read it. God's grace was so evident in
Saul of Tarsus' life. And you know what? Only the church
is able to make a confession like this. Now, last Friday,
I was visiting with one of the young men I've been talking to
for some time, and I used the word church, and I've used that
several times. It's used in the book of John
quite a bit. And I says, do you know what that means? What's
the word church mean? Well, you know, I'm glad I asked
him the question because he says, well, when I heard the word church,
I think of those great buildings over there in Germany and France. I says, you know, That's one
way of looking at it, but the scriptural way of looking at
it is the people that God has saved. That's the church. Now, sometimes I say, will you
meet me out at church? Well, that's a misnomer. This
isn't a church. It's a place where we can gather
out of the wind and nice building. We're thankful for it, but the
church is here. People, that's the church. All
right, here in the book of 1 Timothy 1, it says, Paul can make you
this confession. Well, verse 12, I thank Jesus
Christ, and I thank Jesus Christ our Lord. What wonderful words
he has to say about Christ. You know, salvation changes our
whole wordage about God, and He becomes Lord. He's Lord, Master,
Sovereign. What He does is not something
we argue with. What He does is we don't understand
it, but we believe God is very capable and righteous in what
He does. All right, it says here, who
hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful, putting me into
the ministry. Now, one time I surrendered to
the ministry. My pastor said, you must be called
to preach. And so I surrendered to the ministry. And it was a farce and a fake.
But here the Apostle Paul puts it in perspective. God puts his
people into the ministry. And you know what? He puts us
into the church. We are the recipients of that
putting. And then he goes on here, who
was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious, but I obtained
mercy because I did it in ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of
our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love, which is
in Christ. This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners of whom I am chief. So he's not saying I'm
righteous in any capacity. I was a blasphemer. I did it
in ignorance. You know, as we look about this,
we find that all sins spring from ignorance. and are aggravated
by unbelief. These folks were ignorant of
what they had done and they were ignorant of who he was and it
was aggravated by their unbelief and that's just where we stand
by nature. We have an And we're unable,
do not have the capacity to believe the word of God on our own. It
must be revealed to us. We heard this morning there,
are you also gonna go away? Can you imagine the split that
was in that church that Jesus was teaching? 5,000 men at one time left. And
you know what? I don't find the Lord ever sent
out emails and say, brethren, what can we do to heal this mess?
He let him go. If you can leave, leave. And
he came to his apostles and said, will you also go away? And Peter, speaking for the church,
said, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And the church says, hallelujah,
thank you for speaking for me, because where can we go? You
have the words of eternal life. And then he says there, I'm a
sinner, sinner saved by grace, I'm the chiefest of sinners.
Every person that God ever saves is gonna say, he was until I
came along. He was the chiefest of sinners
until I came along. and everyone that God ever saves
will take that and agree to that and say, I'm the chiefest of
sinners. I know what I am. I know what I was. I know what
God saved. All right, so as we think about
this, he's not making an excuse for their ignorance. He's just
saying that this is a statement about sin in their life and their
sin by nature and practice and choice. The phrase describes
the apostle state And he was a poor, blind, ignorant bigot,
an unbelieving and hardened creature. When he made those statements,
the Apostle Paul made that about himself. So here we have this
statement that Peter brings up. Now going back to chapter three,
if you would, verse 18. Chapter three, verse 18 of the
book of Acts. Chapter three, verse 18. As we
follow this down through here, we have in this passage that
follows, declared by Peter, the most comprehensive declaration
of the gospel truth in such a short space. You know what he begins
with? Notice here. But those things
which God before had showed by the mouth of his prophets, What
did he say there? The Old Testament is the Word
of God. Everything about the Old Testament
is the Word of God. by the mouth of all his prophets,
all the books from Genesis to Malachi, which he declared all
their contents, all their statements, all their covenants, all their
promises, all their patriarchs, all their mediators declare the
account of Jesus Christ and his righteousness. It is claimed
by all the books of the Jewish Bible All of it, everything about
it, even kings and heroes, all their sacrifices and rituals
spoke of him whom they crucified. So when we go to the Old Testament,
just as Jesus Christ did during his ministry on this earth, or
the apostles did while they were here, or Paul did while he was
here, or the apostles did until about 100 or 150 AD, they all
went to the Old Testament, and that's where they preached the
gospel from, because, as Peter brings up, all those prophets
spoke of him. Not one of them was contrary
to what God had to say. Now, there were some contrary
prophets, but they were not God's prophets. There were some contrary
preachers, but they were not God's preachers. Every time they
disagreed with the Old Testament, they were disagreeing with God.
They said, I am yet in my unbelief. But those who held to the truth
of the gospel were quick to declare, even though they may, as Jeremiah,
end up in a pit, in mire up to his armpits. He went through
a great deal of persecution, but he never gave up on the gospel. So, as the Apostle Peter brings
out here, by the mouth of all his prophets, Moses to Malachi,
the little books, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Mayhem, Habakkuk, all
those plus the major ones. You know, I used to hear that
there was the minor prophets and the major prophets and the
minor prophets didn't have near as much to say as the major prophets
did. You know what? That's not true.
They're just shorter. Just shorter. God said a whole
lot in a very short, succinct manner. And he used some to say
a whole lot in a longer manner. Book of Isaiah, Ezekiel. Here
he says, then, in verse 18, that these prophets, what did they
write? What did Moses write? What did
Joshua write? What did Samuel write? What did
Obadiah write? You know, if all we had was the
book of Obadiah, we will find Christ in him crucified. And we would rejoice together
in what Obadiah had to say. He's going to bring up those
three things, ruined by the fall. He's going to bring up redeemed
by Christ. He's going to bring up regenerated
by the Holy Spirit. Now in the Old Testament, it
may say, as we heard Brother Lauren read this morning, circumcised
of the heart, same thing. Same thing, same meaning. God has to do it. We can't do
it ourselves. All right. And then it says here
that Christ should suffer. He has so fulfilled. My goodness, in one verse of
scripture, we have all the Old Testament declared at what it's
about. Every sacrifice, every piece
of furniture in the tabernacle and in the temple, those kings,
those prophets, those judges, all of those things summed up
declare Jesus Christ and him crucified, that he must, that
he should suffer, he hath also fulfilled. Now in verse 19, we
have a result that Peter calls on the people to do. It says
there, repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted out. When the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord, What a statement
we have here as God brings out the Apostle Peter to say, this
is the requirement. You know, there's many requirements
in the Bible. Did you know that you are required
to keep the Ten Commandments? But we can't. An impossibility. I'll tell you this, the Holy
Spirit has never let anybody, contrary to the Ten Commandments,
But it's impossible for us to keep it. We cannot keep it. We
cannot keep God's word in our lost and undone state. We just
can't. In our fallen state, we cannot.
We are contrary to the word of God. The natural man receiveth
not the things of God, for they are spiritually discerned. We
just can't get there from here, even though the command is to
do it. But then we find out the precious words of God Almighty
when he shares with his preachers, when he shares with his apostles
that God is pleased to grant repentance to his people. grant repentance to the Gentiles,
grant repentance to the Jews. They can't get here from there,
but they can by the grace of God because it is God that grants
repentance. Now, as we've mentioned in the
past a number of times, most people's idea of repentance is
I've done something very wrong and I'm asking God to look over
it, look behind it. I don't wanna deal with it anymore.
I've done a great crime against God, against my fellow man, and
I'm sorry I got caught, and I'm gonna live better for the Lord,
and I'll turn over a new leaf. Oh, how many have already broken
your New Year's resolutions? I just don't waste my time with
it anymore. It's not worth it, because about the third week,
we're already in the cycle. repentance is God-given repentance. It is repentance that means a
change of mind and heart about God. Physical repentance, human
repentance doesn't have much change about God. I'll do better,
Lord. I'll do better. But this repentance
is you've done it all. You are in charge of salvation. I come to you. And as the leper
said, Lord, if thou wilt, thou can makes me clean. It's up to
you. I come. And he, repent ye therefore
and be converted that your sins may be blotted out. That's what
true repentance does for us. We find out in God's great purpose
of grace, that he's taking care of the sin issue. that it's not
an issue that's brought up all the time. Yes, we are sinners,
but they're blotted out. They're taken care of, paid for
in full. That's why we read about Christ
going to the cross. It's not because of something
that he did, excuse me, that he did wrong, but it's our sin
was imputed to him. The church's sin was imputed
to him, given to him. God placed it upon him. And by
the same manner, He imputes his righteousness to the church.
Our right standing before God is imputed, given to us. So that
is the blotted out. When the times of
refreshing shall come, you know, the most refreshing day I ever
had was when I realized that God had given me peace. It was
a time of refreshing. I went through agony. A lot of
people talk about, and I have a friend I've been talking to,
and he wants to know more about the book of Revelation so he
can cause fear and get people into the kingdom. I said, stop,
it doesn't work that way. If that had worked, all of Israel
would have been saved. If that had worked, there would
have been nobody in Israel that died in unbelief. It doesn't
work. You cannot scare anybody into
the kingdom. But here, the greatest tribulation
I ever went through was when God revealed to me, I am the
sinner. Oh my goodness. Never felt anything
like that in my life. And then, what peace there was
when he granted me repentance. And you know, I've never had
to ask again while I was fishing, Lord, if I'm saved, let me catch
a fish. Never had it been an issue since
then. It's always Lord, thank you. I don't know why, but thank
you for your grace. I am at peace with you. because you're at peace with
me in Christ Jesus. It tells us they're going on
in the book of verse 20 of this passage of scripture, and he
shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you.
Where was he preached before? Genesis to Malachi. We may read
over there, not the name Jesus, but we'll read over there the
term Messiah, the promised seed. We'll read that. And we find
that that's the same. And then it said, verse 21, whom
the heaven must receive until the things of restitution. When
did the heavens receive this one? Well, it was a few days before
Pentecost. We read about it. When those
disciples were standing there, and the Lord ascended, left this
earth, went to heaven, sitting down at the right hand of the
Father, Not only does the Bible, Old Testament, and the truth
of the gospel say he was crucified, he was buried, he spent those
three days in the heart of the earth, but he came out of the
tomb, raised from the dead, victorious over all our sin, and spent a
few days on this earth with some folks that would testify to that
fact. We are witnesses of this, is
what they said. We're witnesses. We saw him.
We fed him. We touched him. He is raised
from the dead. He is the Lord raised from the
dead. And then on that day, he disappeared into the clouds and
the angel said, you know, this same Jesus in like manner is
gonna come again at the appointed time. He's gonna come again. It says there, until the times
of restitution of all things which God has spoken by the mouth
of his holy prophets since the world began. So the holy prophets
of the Old Testament, they preached, they taught, they delivered to
their congregations that Jesus Christ is going to take care
of the problem. There will be restitution. There will be as it once was. Sin will be put away. And you
know, this time, mankind that is with God in heaven for eternity,
men, women, boys, and girls will never, ever be put into the position
that they can rebel against God. Adam was put into a position
that he could rebel against God. Let's just see what he will do.
Well, God knew what he was going to do. Why did we know God knew
what he was going to do? Because he already had a lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. A purpose of grace
has already been declared. Names have been written down
in the Lamb's Book of Life. We have all of that taken care
of before Jesus Christ ever comes to this earth because he knew
Adam would fall. Well, in the new heaven and a
new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness, there will not be the possibility.
of anybody leaving that condition. All hearts will be the hearts
of God. He will give us a new heart.
This word restitution or restore as we find here, this means we
find that almost the same word, it's a very close relative of
it is found in the book of Luke chapter 6 and verse 10. And if
you turn over there with me very quickly to the book of Luke chapter
6 and verse 10, it says here, And we just think about what
it was like before the fall. I don't think it took very long
for Adam to say, I'll not have him rule over me. He's told me
something I cannot do. It's just the way we are. We
have everything but one thing. So we don't think we have anything.
So we're gonna claim the one thing. What did King Ahab do with Naboth
and his vineyard? He had the kingdom, but he didn't
have that vineyard. So he claimed that vineyard by
killing Naboth. All right, here in the book of
Luke chapter six and verse 10, and looking round about upon
them all, he said unto the man, stretch forth thy hand. Now,
if you read this, we got a man with a withered hand. And it
says, he did so and his hand was what? Restored whole as the
other. This word is what we find here
in the book of Acts of restitution, restored. What a promise that
God has given that there is, we look for a kingdom wherein
dwelleth righteousness. that there will be no sin whatsoever. It'll all be removed from our
mind. It'll all be taken away. The
memory of it will be taken away. The act of it will be taken away.
We'll be righteous before God, never to sin again. It will never
be brought up again. The only thing that we will remember,
this is my opinion, In glory, we'll see the nail prints in
the hands of the Lord Jesus, and we'll see the footprints,
and we will remember what grace is. Not by my righteousness,
but by his great work of redemption. So we have this restitution.
He's long suffering to us. We're not willing that any should
perish, but all should come to repentance. He's going to do
that. and what he has to say. And then
if you turn with me to the book of 1 Timothy 1, 1 Timothy 1,
1 Timothy 1, and there in verse 16, we have the apostle Paul
writing once again. He says this, how be it for this
cause, 1 Timothy 1, verse 16, for this cause, 1 Timothy 1, verse 16, how be it
for this cause I obtain mercy that in me first Jesus Christ
might show forth all long suffering. It doesn't take us very long
to read about Saul of Tarsus and find out what a wreck of
a man he was. He was, he called himself injurious. He injured a lot of people. He
was the one that voted against many people and had them either
put in prison or slain. Many people feel like he's the
voting hand at Stephen's death. They put all their coats at his
feet. Well, he goes on to say, for a pattern to them which should
hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. I am a pattern. I'm a pattern of believers. I'm
a pattern of the church. Everything that happened to Paul
is going to happen to everyone he ever saves. Now, we may not
be on the road to Damascus, but we're on our road. And we may
not see that bright shining light that he saw, but we're gonna
see the light of Christ. He's the light of the world.
There's some things that we're gonna be given because of the
grace of God. All right, going back to Acts
chapter three. In the book of Acts chapter three, we follow
this through, we find that this is such a passage that just declares
Such a comprehensive statement. We've got Christ crucified. The
Old Testament is given by God. It declared Christ coming. It
declared Christ victorious. It declared the ascension of
Christ, going back to the Father. All of these things, everything
that happened in the Old Testament was a picture type and shadow.
This declaration continues by affirming the resurrection, the
exaltation, the glorification. My goodness, Peter brings up
so much in this passage of scripture. Acts chapter three, down in verse
22, it says, for Moses truly said unto the fathers, a prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me. Him shall ye hear in all things. Now that's one of the things
that Moses didn't have. Very few listened to him. He would speak the word of God,
but they just wanted to do their own thing. Well, in this prophet,
this savior, this one, the son of God, everyone that he came
to die for shall believe on him. Lord your God, raise up unto
you of your brethren. He was in all ways like us, yet
without sin. He was like his brethren. He
didn't come in the form of angels. He came as a man. Him shall you
hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And then
he goes on to say, oh, let's not miss this point. Because
all of those who do not believe, this prophet. Next verse, yea,
and all the prophets from Samuel, excuse me, verse 23, and it shall
come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among
the people. So here's the judgment that God
is going to have on this world. How comprehensive is the apostle
Peter in covering so many subjects in just a few verses. And then
verse 24, yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow
after as many as have spoken have likewise foretold of these
days. You know, sometimes I am thankful
that this verse of scripture is here because there are some
things in the Old Testament I'm just not able to put together,
but then I find out the Apostle Peter in summing it all up says,
It's talking about these days, talking about Christ, talking
about the resurrection, talking about the ascension, talking
about him coming back, talking about all these things throughout
the Old Testament. So I may not go over there and
find it, because I'm ignorant of those things, but I can trust
this verse of scripture, these verses of scripture, and say
what God said is correct, right, and truth. You are the children
of the prophets. and of the covenant which God
made unto our fathers. Now this, what a statement Peter
brings up among a bunch of Jews. You know, this verse of scripture
is for us. Comprehensive statement about
who the church is made up of. What's it go on to say? Saying
unto Abraham, and in thy seed, shall all the kindreds of the
earth be blessed. What does that mean? Out of every
kindred, nation, people, and tongue. God has a people and
he's gonna save them, Jews and Gentiles. Paul brings up, by
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Jews and Gentiles are all sinners
before God. And then we hear, but God has
a people among Jews and Gentiles that he will save for his glory
and by his grace. All the kindreds, in thy seed
shall all the kindreds, in Christ alone shall all the kindreds
of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God having, verse
26, having raised up his son Jesus, send him to bless you
in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. What
a statement. How do we get turned? How do
we repent? How does God do that? Well, Peter
sums it up, unto you first, God having raised up his son Jesus,
if he has the power to raise up his son from the dead, what
can he do with us? Raise his people from the spiritual
dead. He can say as he did to Adam,
he breathes in our nostrils the breath of life and we become
a living soul. God raises his people. God exercised,
just give me a little liberty here, God exercised more power
in saving someone from their natural state, from their sin,
than it took to create the heavens and the earth. He's raising someone
who is dead. with resistance. I will not,
and he wills. It's on unto you first, God,
having raised up his son, Jesus, sent him to bless you in turning
away every one of you from his iniquities. Turn to the next
chapter for one reading, if you would. Verse four, we'll not
cover much of this today, but we want to look at verse four.
What's the results of Peter letting God I hate to use that word. Peter's stepping back and saying,
what will God do with this message? What's the results of preaching
that message that day? Well, in verse four, how be it
many of them which heard the word believed and the number
of men was about 5,000. Now that's effectual preaching. Peter stepped back, not in my
hands. I can't do anything. Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God. You'll have to take care
of this. And God worked out and here is 5,000 were marked out
from before the foundation of the world that he would save
on this day in the preaching of the gospel. No one has ever
been saved by a false gospel. God will not honor a false gospel. He will only honor the gospel,
the truth of the gospel, that Jesus Christ actually came to
this world to redeem a people, that it's all summed up. He is
going to effectually do what he has been called on to do,
and we can witness that. Oh, we find that word repent. God commendeth all men everywhere
to repent. God commands it. And then we
find out God has granted me repentance. I have a totally different view
about God than I ever had in my religious days. You know,
I've told you this before. I'd stand in the pulpit, preach
a message, and go home and wonder, is there really a God? Is there
really a God? You know what? I don't have to
worry about that anymore. He's the Savior God. He's the
one that saves his people from their sins. Brother Mike, if
you'll come.