Thank you for the special song. That will be a glorious day,
won't it? When we join the Ransom Band
and we sing of sovereign grace there at the feet of our Lord
Jesus. Our subject today is Babylon
the Great. Babylon the Great. Earlier in the book of Revelation,
we were introduced to a very special woman. She is identified as the people
of God, the church of our Lord Jesus. She is the bride of Christ. She is that glorious body that
He chose unto Himself back before He made the world. God gave to
this woman grace in Christ Jesus. It was for her salvation and
redemption that the Lord Jesus came into this world. And He
robed His deity with flesh. He walked among men in obedience
to divine law, government law, civil law, parental law. And
then, in order to pay our debt of sin, he gave himself the sacrifice
under the justice of God. And by his death, he removed
all of the sins of all of the people of all of the ages that
God had given him in covenant love. Having finished the work
that God gave him to do, he bowed his head and he gave up the ghost. And then he came forth from the
dead, that one who conquered the grave, and After 40 days,
he went back to heaven. All of this he did for a very
special woman. That woman is identified here
in Revelation chapter 21. Look with me in verse 9. Revelation 21 verse 9. There came unto me one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last
legs. And you remember we've spoken
about this earlier in the book of Revelation back in the 16th
chapter. These angels had the seven golden
vials of the wrath of God. Now one of these angels had something
to say to John. He talked with John. And this
is what he said. He said, John, come hither. I will manifest to thee, I'll
show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. What a special woman, a
special group of people, made special by grace. Are you among
that number? You can only know it that you're
among that number if you've been brought to cast your soul with
all of its neediness upon the Son of God for salvation. This is the Lamb's wife, a very
special woman. I think about an Old Testament
story It's found, as many of you know, in the first part of
the book of Hosea. God told Hosea, go and love a
woman of Hortense. Her name was Gomer. And he did. And he married her and they had
sons. And then she left him. She went
back to the practice of The rest of the women of her nation, she
went back to harlotry. And she was finally arrested. She was deep in debt, had no
way to pay. She wasted all that she had,
and she was a wasted woman. No longer beautiful. No longer
lovely. Nobody wanted her. All of the
lovers that had given her some money along the way For her favors
they all forsook her. She was put up for auction like
a common, common slave. And that day Hosea saw her in
her nakedness, in her neediness. She was broke. She had nothing. She had no beauty about her.
Nobody wanted her. Nobody else even bid on her.
But Hosea said, what is the price for her redemption? And he paid
the price of redemption. He took his own robe and put
it around her. He said, you're mine for the
rest of the days of our lives. I love you. That's our Lord Jesus. Hosea is a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is One who redeemed us. We
were lovely in Adam, but we fell into misery and degradation.
No beauty about us that He would desire us, that He would want
us. But He loved us with an everlasting love. And
as it were, He said to the Father, like Hosea said, what's the price
of redemption? And the Father said, your life's
blood. And He gladly paid the price.
He redeemed the woman that He loved. Just like Hosea redeemed
Gomer, Christ Jesus redeemed His bride. That's an outstanding woman who's
mentioned in the book of Revelation. But, as wonderful as it is to
study that woman, there's also another woman who is mentioned
in the book of Revelation, so I'll ask you to go back to chapter
17. As wonderful as it is to study
that bride of Christ Jesus, made lovely through His comeliness,
through the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. There
is another woman in the book that John is led to see. He is in Revelation chapter 17
verse 1. There came one of the seven angels
which had the seven vows. Remember, I just read to you
in chapter 21, One of the angels that had the golden vials is
the one who showed John the woman, the church, the bride of our
Lord Jesus Christ. And now another one of those
angels said to John, come hither, I'll show unto thee the judgment
of that great whore that setteth upon many waters. He's going
to show John another woman, another woman. This woman is called the
Great Harlot. She's identified in verse 5 of
this chapter. And upon her forehead was a name
written, Mystery, Revelation 17, 5, Mystery Babylon the Great,
the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. This woman is the representative,
she is the embodiment of all idolatry and all false religion
in this world. And to give us an indication
of just how vile and wretched this woman is, she is given this
name, Babylon the Great. the great. This Babylon is any
and all religions in this world that are in opposition to the
gospel of God's free grace. In other words, it is every religion
except the true gospel of grace. Babylon is the religion of man. It is that religion which instructs
people that salvation is conditioned upon something man must do, some
contribution that man must make. You know, the beginning of false
religion is, that's back in Genesis chapter 4. that he's a picture of a man
who has true religion, that is, he believed the true gospel of
substitution, of the innocent dying for the guilty. He believed
what his dad had told him, what Adam had told him, because Adam
related to both Abel and his brother Cain how that God, God
intervened for him and for Eve. They had fallen into degradation,
they had fallen into great sinfulness, And God had said, in the day
ye eat thereof, you'll surely die. And they just knew they
were facing the wrath of God. But the Lord Himself came. He came to them in the cool of
the day. And then He instructed them in
the Gospel. That is, an innocent victim had
to die in the stead of the guilty. And that's always the picture
through the Bible. Remember that. Beginning in Genesis,
at the end of chapter 3 of Genesis, This is the gospel message it
set forth all the way through. If the guilty are to live, who
are the guilty? That's us. Right? That's us. If the guilty are
to live forever, an innocent victim, innocent victim, a victim
without without any blemish, without any spot, must die in
their stead. And Abel believed that message
by the grace of God. The Spirit of God taught him,
hey, this is the gospel. This is the way to come to God.
You come to God through a bloody sacrifice. And so Abel, he brought
the firstling of his flock. He represents all of those who
believe salvation by substitution. That lamb died in his stead and
satisfaction. God got death, but it wasn't
the death of Abel. It was the death of an innocent
victim who died in his stead. Now, here's the introduction
of false religion. His brother Cain, he brought
of that which he had labored to produce That is, out of his garden, out
of his vineyards, out of his fruit trees, he brought
the best that he could grow out of an earth that God had cursed.
Right? God cursed that earth. And yet
Cain decided he'd bring what he could produce, present it
to God, He assumed God would accept him and God wouldn't accept
his sacrifice. God wouldn't accept his offering.
You see, that's why we say to you, to all of you, to those
of you who are watching, this is why we say to you, God's not
going to accept even the best that you can do. He cannot because God's a holy
God. God's a righteous God. You ought
to be a good person. You ought to do right. You ought
to always tell the truth and pay your bills and be forgiving
and all of that. Absolutely. But that doesn't
have any bearing on your relationship with God. Because a holy God
demands perfection. He demands righteousness and
He demands death for sin. And if you bring to Him, well,
Lord, accept me because I've been baptized, Lord. And Lord,
You know every morning I read my Bible. And every time they
pass the offering plate, I put some money in. And Lord, You
know I try to do the best I can. I try to be the best neighbor
that I can be. You know, Lord, You know how
I took soup to my neighbors. Lord, I know You're keeping up
with all the good things I've done. There are people who believe
that kind of nonsense. You see, here's the thing of
everything we do is polluted, polluted with sin. It's all contaminated
because everything we do comes forth out of a rotten fountain. We're bad in the heart. Therefore,
everything we produce by word, by deed, everything we think,
everything is polluted with sinfulness. brings the best that he could
produce, and God wouldn't have it. And of course, Cain rose
up against his brother Abel, said, let's go out here in the
field and talk a while. Yeah. And then he murdered his
brother. So the first blood shed on earth,
first blood of man shed on earth was shed by somebody who believed
a false religion. And he shed the blood of a man
who's a true believer in grace. Now, there's no doubt but what
false religion began with Cain. However, false religion became
organized, organized as a system of worship in opposition against
God in the fourth generation of Noah. Go back, if you would,
hold your place there in chapter 17. We'll come back to it in
a little while. Go back to Genesis chapter 10. I asked Brother Ron to read the
first few verses of chapter 11 about the Tower of Babel. Let me show you how that began.
Let me show you what led to that. Genesis chapter 10. Here in Genesis
chapter 10, We're introduced to a man named Nimrod. Nim-rod. Look at Genesis chapter 10 and
verse 8. It says, And Cush begat Nimrod. It just kind of reminds you of
the genealogy here. There's Noah. Noah and then his
son. Of course, he had three sons.
We're tracing down to Nimrod, Noah, then a man by the name
of Ham, and then his daddy was a man by the name of Cush, and
his son was Nimrod. It's interesting, I love definitions
of names and words, and you can look these up for further study. Noah means rest. He found rest
in the Lord. He found rest for his soul. The
Savior said, come unto me and I'll give you rest. You need
rest for your soul? Your soul burdened with guilt?
Burdened by sinfulness? You need that forgiveness only
God can give through the bloody death of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Come to Christ Jesus and find rest. Noah rested in the ark. He rested believing the Word
of God. Noah means rest. One of his boys,
his name was Ham. Ham. His name means feverish. Feverish. Well, that's what we
all are by nature. We're feverish in sin. We're
sick in sin. And then one of his boys was
Cush. And his name means black. We're black with sin. Then one
of his boys is Nimrod. And Nimrod is made up of really
two words. One of them is valiant, and the
other one is rebellious. He's a valiant, rebellious man,
Nimrod. Now look at verse eight again.
So Cush beget Nimrod. And he began to be a mighty one
in the earth. What does that mean? Well, it
means this. Up until this point, all of the people who lived,
they were kind of content to just be equal with one another. Nobody sought to be higher than
somebody else. And then along comes Nimrod. And remember, this is after the
flood. And he decides, he decides he's
gonna be great. And so, not content to be like
other men, he rose up, he began to be a mighty one in the earth. Now look at verse number nine. Verse nine. He was a mighty hunter
before the Lord, before the Lord. And really, that word, before
is against the Lord. He's a valiant man. He's a bold
and daring man, but he's a religious man, and he's a rebellious man
against God. And you see, that's one of our
problems. All men are rebellious against
God. We're rebellious against God's Word. And here's a man
who's not only rebellious, but he's bold. He's daringly bold
against God. He's valiant, and he's valiant
against God. Well, it's good to be valiant,
it's good to be bold, it's good to be courageous, but don't be
courageous against God. You've got to be brought humble
before God. That's the way to come to God.
Come to God with a contrite heart. Don't come before God in your
arrogance and in your own pride. God will cast you away. God receives those who've got
a broken heart and a contrite spirit. That's not the way Nimrod
was. He's an arrogant man, he's a
valiant man, he's a daring man, and he's a rebellious man against
God. Actually, when it says he was
a mighty hunter before the Lord, Most conservative writers that
we would have any confidence in say that's a very poor translation,
that literally it should say Nimrod was a mighty rebel against
the Lord. In fact, the mightiest rebel
before the Lord in the earth. He's a rebel. By the way, his
name also not only includes valiant and rebellious, there's also
in there, if you go deep into the origin of his name, of a
leopard or a lion. And that's interesting because
he is being dominated by that lion who goes about seeking whom
he may devour. He's a rebellious leopard. Well,
he's the man He's a man with whom Babel originated. And Babel is the root word for
Babylon, okay? Babylon. What does Babel mean? Well, it means confusion. It
means a mixture Getting a bunch of stuff together and mixing
it together so that there isn't anything pure. There isn't anything
that's just very, what would we say, simple. But it's a bunch
of stuff together. Confusion. Mixture. You see the
gospel. Now remember Babylon pictures
all false religion. It's a bunch of stuff. But you
know something about the Gospel? There's a blessed simplicity
to it. Right? There's a blessed simplicity
to the Gospel. In fact, that's the reason the
Apostle Paul, he warned the people of Corinth. He said, I'm worried about you.
I'm concerned about you. Because even as the old serpent
seduced Eve and deceived Eve, Eve, I'm concerned of you that
you'll be led away from the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus. You
see, we have a pure message and a simple message. It's all of
grace. It isn't about you doing this,
that or something else. In fact, the gospel isn't about
us at all. Except in this sense, it's for
sinners. But it isn't about us doing.
It's not about us working. It's not about us laboring. The
Gospel is a very simple, simple message. All of grace. That's pretty simple, isn't it?
No matter who you are, whatever your degree of knowledge is in
the Bible, and you may have been in church for many, many years
and you know a lot about the Scriptures, or maybe you haven't
been in church but maybe just a short while. It makes no difference. The message of grace is a very
simple message. Here's what the Bible says of
this salvation. It's all of God from beginning
to end. And you know, if it's all of
God, that doesn't leave any room for us, does it? It means we
make no contribution. It's all of God. God chose a
people. Christ Jesus redeemed those people. The Spirit of God reveals Christ
Jesus to those people. God preserves those people. These
people are justified. These people are indeed sanctified. And one of these days, these
people are going to be glorified. And God did it all. There's the
blessed simplicity of the Gospel. But false religion is Babylon. It's a mixture. Because this
is what false religion does. False religion, now listen, it
always takes some of the truth. In fact, oft times, false religion
uses the Bible. But here's what they do. They
mix into the message what man must do. And it may be And you've
heard evangelists say this, walk down this aisle. Jesus walked
all the way to the cross for you. You walk down this aisle
for him. And you say yes to him. That's
you, that's you. You need to be baptized. Wash
away your sins. We were talking with someone
just recently and a great grandchild was christened And the question,
the issue arose, well, why was the baby caught being baptized? He wasn't put under water, of
course, just some water splashed on him and then splashed on others
along the way. Holy water, of course. So what
was the need for that? Well, the need for that is, that's
how they're saved. They can't do anything for themselves,
they're too little, so we'll go ahead and christen them, we'll
baptize them until they reach that mystical age of accountability,
whatever that is. That's man doing something. You
see, false religion, and you remember this about Babylon,
it's a mixture now. Talk about grace, they use the
same kind of terminology we use. But ultimately, it's a message
of works. Babylon has many faces, many
different faces. But ultimately, they're all just
alike. Because it's something you must
do. It's very well depicted here in chapter 11. led by Nimrod,
this daring, courageous, valiant rebel, this lion, this leopard. He gathered people together at
Babel. He said, let's build a tower
all the way to heaven. We're going to get to heaven.
And you'll notice how many times when Ron read that, here's what
they said, let us do this. Let us! Let us! Nothing about
God. Nothing about a redeemer. Nothing
about bloodshedding. Nothing about sacrifice. Nothing
about righteousness. Nothing about being justified.
We gonna build a tower all the way to heaven. And I might be
talking to somebody here this morning, you've been building
your own little tower. I'm gonna get to God. You think
you can get to God by building a tower? I'm going to build. I'm going to do this. I'm going
to do that. I'm going to do bad. I'm going to quit these bad habits,
I'll tell you. Many years ago, I visited with
a man. He had been in an accident. Hurt his back really bad. Went
to visit him in the hospital. He said, I'll tell you. If God
would heal me, if he'll get me out of this mess, I promise him,
preacher, I promise him, I'll live right. I'll quit my drinking. Quite a drinker he was, quite
a drunkard. And quite a foul mouth. He said,
I'll quit my drinking. I'll absolutely clean up my language. I said, well, that's good, y'all
do that. But that's not salvation. That
don't impress God. That will impress me if you clean
up your life. Because I like you better. You
won't be beating up on your wife. You won't be doing the kind of
stuff you've been doing. But that's not salvation. You know
what he's doing? He's trying to build a tower
all the way to heaven. It's not going to happen, folks.
And this is the beginning of organized religion right here
under the leadership of a man who is valiant, a man who is
daring, a man who is brave, a man who is courageous, and a man
who is rebellious against God. Because you see, false religion
ultimately is rebellion against God. It's rebellion against God's
way of salvation. God's way of salvation by the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. God's way of salvation by grace
alone. This is the first organized idolatry. It began right here. An absolutely intentional rebellion
against the Lord. It was the invention of a very
arrogant man who refused to believe the gospel of his great-grandfather,
Noah. Noah. Can you imagine? Noah, and he
passed word down. Of course, Ham, he went through
it. This man's grandfather, Nimrod's grandfather, He lived through
the flood. He was in the ark. He was in
the ark. And he knew that as soon as they
got out of the ark, that his daddy, Noah, offered a sacrifice
to God. It's the very first thing he
did. He knew that. And word was passed down to Cush. And then to Nimrod. And Nimrod
said in his heart, that gospel is not for me. That's too much
grace. I'll do it myself. I can do it. No, you can't do it. And He's
in hell. And if you try to build a tower
to God, I'm going to tell you right now what's going to happen
to you. You're going to perish too. You're going to perish in
your sins. Salvation is all of grace. Well,
go back now to Revelation chapter 17. This is Babylon. Babylon the
Great. Babylon the Great. And let me say this. I'll add
this on. While Nimrod founded Babylon,
and Babylon became the very focal point, the focal point of the
propagation of error, and also for the persecution of the people
of God. And you know that's right, because
you read through the Old Testament how often Babylon was against
Israel. But through all of these times,
God preserved the lineage of Shem, because that's the lineage of
Messiah. That's the lineage of the Son
of God. You see, God has never left Himself
without a witness. And He's always preserved a name
for Himself. And He's preserved a people for
Himself. The bride of Christ Jesus. You
get over here to Revelation chapter 17, and I'll go quickly. We've already studied about the
fall of Babylon, even as I had you turn to chapter 17. Just
look back at chapter 14 and verse 8. This has been announced already. That is the great fall of Babylon. False religion, you see, it has
no firm foundation. I think one of the songs that
David played earlier was Christ the solid rock. On Christ the
solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand. And all of Babylon is sinking
sand. It can't stand. If you want to
stand through life and through death and forever, you've got
to stand on the rock, Christ Jesus. of the foundation can
no man lay than that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus the
Lord." Christ in His death. Christ in His blood. Christ in
His righteousness. Christ Jesus. He's all. He's all to the people of God. But look back here in Revelation
chapter 14 and look at verse 8. There followed another angel,
and this is what it said, Babylon is fallen. It's fallen. That great city, she's fallen. So it's already been announced.
It's already been announced the fall of Babylon. Go to chapter
16. Look at chapter 16 and verse
19. 1619. That great city, the Lord divided
it into three parts. The cities of the nations fell,
and great Babylon... Remember, it's Babylon the Great.
She's a great city. Here's all the false religion
together. Doesn't matter what face she
wears, what name she bears, what the name of her denomination
is, or the name of her church is. Any kind of works and free
will message, it all comes under the heading of Babylon. started
by Nimrod. And great Babylon came in remembrance
before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of his wrath. So this great fall of Babylon,
it's already been announced. Now we get into chapter 17. John is compelled to see this
awful city, Babylon, and he's made to see that she's a woman. She's like a harlot. She's beautiful,
very attractive. Oh, she's not ugly, not unless
she has spiritual eyes. Can you see her ugliness? Because
you see, if false religion was ugly, if it just kind of turned
people off, Nobody would be allured by her. Nobody would be fooled
by her. False religion is beautiful.
They got a lot to offer. You look at false religion today.
Emphasis on the family. Hey, I'm all for the family,
aren't you? And you look at false religion,
the emphasis is on the family. We want the whole family to come.
We minister to the entire family. That's why they have so much
stuff going on all the time. She has a beautiful face to the
natural man. But to those with spiritual eyes,
we sear for what she is. She's demonic. She's hellish. She's destructive. And lots of
people have perished under her delusions. And it's only by the grace of
God that we're not still deceived by her. Clear verse 1. Again, Revelation
17. There came one of the seven angels which had the seven vows
and talked with me, saying unto me, John, come hither. I will show thee, I will manifest
unto thee. I will give you understanding
of the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many
waters. John is here compelled to view
and see this foul, wicked harlot. He will tell us the location
where she is in the wilderness. Look at the next verse. With
whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, The inhabitants
of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication,
so He carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness."
Into the wilderness. Where do you find Babylon? In the wilderness. You see, the
gospel is an oasis. The gospel is full of life. The
gospel is always fruitful. The gospel is like, we're the
Lord's people like a garden. A garden enclosed. The Lord said, it's my spouse.
We're trees planted by the river of water. But Babylon is wilderness. Barrenness. No life. No fruit. What has Babylon been doing?
What has this woman been doing? She's been making people drink
of the wine of her fornication. What is fornication? Here's a good definition for
it. Giving your love to another who is not deserving or worthy
of it. Okay? That's fornication. giving the
love of your heart to somebody who isn't deserving of it or
worthy of it. Babylon leads men to commit spiritual
fornication. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, mind, soul, and strength, and Him only
shalt thou serve. Babylon leads you to give the
love of your heart to a false Jesus and a false God, to an
idol. That's spiritual fornication.
And people drink this wine, the wine of her fornication. and
they're inebriated on it. They're drunk on it. Listen,
the Bible is very specific, literally, be not drunk with wine. Those
of you in here, if you want to drink wine, that's your business.
Don't be drunk with wine. It's what the Scripture says.
Do not ever drink to excess. It's sinful, right? It's sinful. But there's another kind of wine,
the elixir. of the harlot. And anybody who
drinks that, it's like one glass and you're a goner. One glass
and you're inebriated, you're drunk. You're drunk. And when
people drink of the wine of the fornication of the harlot, they're
so drunk, if you try to talk to them, You just can't get through
to them. You know why? You know why you
can't get through to them? They're drunk. They're inebriated. Have you ever tried to talk to
a drunk? Somebody who's physically drunk? Try to reason with them?
I was called, please go down to the jail. So and so's down
there. I went down to the jail, and
this guy was drunk. Oh, preacher! Good to see you,
preacher! You can't reason with a man like
that. Sleep it off. You're not going to get me out?
No, I'm not going to get you out. Sleep it off. Because you can't reason with
somebody who's drunk. And people who are drunk on the
wine of the fornication of the harlot, you cannot reason with
them because the natural mind is enmity against God. They're
drunk on the elixir of the harlot. And the only hope is sovereign
effectual grace. That's the only hope there is. So verse three, he carried me
away in the spirit of the wilderness. I saw a woman sit on a scarlet
colored beast. Scarlet colored, though your
sins be as scarlet. That's a color that describes
sinfulness. Full of the names of blasphemy.
She's got seven heads and ten horns. She has great power. She has great leadership. You
want to see organization? Look at false religion. They've
got it. They've got organization. And they've got great power!
Ten horns! They've got great power! And the woman was arrayed. Purple
scarlet color deck with gold and precious stones and pearls
and people say she is beautiful I'll tell you that church over
there. You know downtown or wherever They just they're always active
doing something. They're so beautiful You just can't see that they're
full of deadly poison, that's their message You ever see You
ever look at these mega churches? They have thousands and thousands
of members. And they've got something for
everybody. I don't care who you are, what age you are. They've
got something for everybody. We've got a message for all of
you. And we've got activities. So
beautiful. So beautiful. But watch it. She
has a golden cup in her hands and it's full of abominations
and filthiness of her fornication. It's not full of salvation. It's
full of abominations. And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery. You say, Preacher, I hear what
you're saying about all of these churches, but I can't see that
they're bad. That's because it's a mystery
to you. Mysteries have to be revealed.
You say, but that preacher down the road, over there, he's such
a nice man. I'm sure he is. If he wasn't
a nice man, nobody would follow him. And the people in their church,
they're so warm and friendly. In fact, I visited there, you
might say. I visited there. Everybody came
up to me and said, it's so good to see you. Where you go to church
usually, 13th Street, oh. Go to the old church. It's a
mystery. And I'll give you this and I'll
quit, verse six. And I saw the woman, she's drunk
with the blood of the saints. And with the blood of the martyrs
of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered
with great admiration, in other words, I was absolutely astonished. I was astonished. She's drunk
with the blood of the saints. And she's drunk with the blood
of our Savior too. I know that Christ Jesus died
according to the eternal purpose of God. And God in His purpose
used Babylon to bring it to pass. She's drunk with the blood of
our Savior. The Sanhedrin all gather together. They all despised Herod, of course. Herod the Great had had previous
administration of the Sanhedrin. He had them all murdered. Herod
the Great did. And now you've got a new Sanhedrin
set in place. That's the highest judicial body
in Israel. And they cozy it up to Herod
and Pilate. That's just false religion. Drunk
with the blood of the martyrs. I know people today, they see
even Roman Catholicism, and they say, and doing so many good things
in the world. She's drunk with the blood of
the martyrs. Y'all do a little bit of reading about church history.
Read about how the popes have treated the people of God down
through the years. Treated the church as if she
was the off-scouring of the earth. False religion, Babylon has made
every effort to stamp out true religion, the gospel of grace.
The one woman opposing the other woman. I'll tell you in the end, only
one will be left standing. Those standing on the rock. Christ
Jesus. The foundation of God's free
and sovereign grace. Alright.