Let's go to the book of Romans,
chapter 5. Romans, chapter 5. This evening. Just a few services ago, on a
Wednesday, We started the subject on the
subject of the salvation of folks like us and that's sort of the
subject that I want to stick with this evening and talk about
the salvation of sinners right here from Romans chapter 5. Let me begin this way by making
a few introductory statements. As you visit with people and
talk with people, and as I do as well, we recognize that most
folks think that we're good people. Actually, the word good means
agreeable. And if you'll look it up, it
means without fault. Well, that means we're not good. Yet most folks believe that they
are good. And as we typically use the word,
I suppose we could loosely say we're good people. You're fine
folks. You seem to act good to me, at
least most of the time you act good around me. And from all
appearances, you seem to be good people. But that's as we identify
good people. But as God sets forth in his
word, we're not good people. We recognize that. Actually,
the very first one to use the word good in the Bible is God
Himself. In the book of Genesis, the first
chapter, God saw everything that He had made and He said, it's
good. It's good. Every day He said,
it's good. And then after the last day that
He made things, man specifically, looked at everything that he
made, he said, it's very good. Very good. That which comes forth
from the hand of God, it must be good because God is good. God is good. That means there
was a time when we were good, but we're not good anymore. We fell. We fell in Adam and
we lost that goodness. We just don't have it anymore.
When Adam fell in the garden when he decided he would defy
God and do what God told him not to do, And Adam did it willingly. He willed to eat. He wasn't deceived. Eve was deceived, but not Adam. And when Adam willed to eat,
and he exercised his will, and he defied God, he lost his
goodness. And we lost our goodness. And therefore, the scripture
says, there's none that doeth good, no, not one. God, in Psalm 14, God looked
down from heaven. God has viewed everybody. And this is God's judgment. God has said there's none good.
No, not one. Not you, not me, not your children,
not my children, not our grandchildren, not our grandparents. Nobody
is good but God. And that is the very standard
of goodness is God. And I'll tell you to be accepted
with God, we've got to be as good as God. Don't we? Absolutely. We've got to be as
righteous as God is, to be accepted by God. And yet, folks think
by nature that we're good people. You'll hear people say, well,
I know I've made mistakes and I've done some things that I
ought not to have done, I'm just not as bad as most people are.
I know there are lots of folks much worse than I am. Yet the scripture says, you're
no good. And there has to be this recognition
of a lack of goodness. The Spirit of God does that.
The Spirit of God convinces us of our sinfulness. That's His
ministry. The Lord Jesus, when He gave
His final words of instruction to His disciples in John 13,
14, 15, 16, He said, I'm going to send you another comforter. He's going to convict you or
convince you of three things. He said He'll convince you of
sin, and righteousness and judgment. And he must do this because unless
we're convinced of sin and righteousness and judgment, we'll never seek
for a Savior. We'll never be interested in
God's salvation. We won't recognize the need for
mercy. So he convicts us, he convinces
us of sin. that we have erred from God. We've missed the mark. That's
what sin is. It's missing the mark. What is
the mark? Perfection. Goodness. Without any fault. We've missed the mark. He is
going to convince us of that. Have you been convinced of sin? Of missing the mark? He convinces of sin and of righteousness
that we don't have any. That our best righteousness is
before God is filthy rags. That we are rotten folks. He
convinces of sin and righteousness and judgment. Judgment. That
the Lord Jesus went to die on the cross. And that when He died
on the cross, He judged. He judged Satan. He judged our
sin. He dealt in righteous judgment
with our iniquities. And the Spirit of God has got
to convince us of this. Convince of sin and righteousness
and judgment. But if he doesn't, we'll continue
through life thinking we're pretty good folks. Then, here's what the Scripture
says, and we've got to go to the Word of God, because it doesn't
matter. You say, well, I know what our
churches always believe. Well, I'm not so interested in
what the churches always believe. I'm interested in what the Scripture
says. I hope the church has always been true to the Word of God,
and I believe it has been, but not all churches are, and not
all denominations are. What is the authority? The authority
is not the church. The authority is not the Baptist
catechism. The authority is not whatever
the Westminster Confession of Faith, or the Philadelphia Confession
of Faith, or the New Hampshire Confession of Faith, or the New
Heidelberg Confession of Faith, or any of the rest of them. That's
not the authority. It's only the Word of God. What
does the Word of God say about these things? Here's what the Word of God says.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. God's glory. We've come short.
We don't measure up. We don't measure up. And we must
not deny our sinfulness. We must not. That's the biggest
mistake people make. They deny what God says. And
if we deny what God says about us, the Scripture says, we make
God a liar. You know what it says in 1 John
1? We make Him a liar. Well, God
says, yes, but I don't believe that. So you're calling God a
liar. We must not flatter ourselves. And men and women love to be
flattered. We love to congratulate ourselves. We love to think that we have
a beauty to us, an inward beauty to us. But before God, we have
no inward beauty. We're defiled. We're defiled
from the womb. In Ezekiel chapter 16, Ezekiel
writes of that infant, that infant that was born and cast aside
in its pollution and left for dead. And he says, that's us,
that's us. No soundness in us. No beauty
about us. That's the reason John says in
1 John chapter 1, if we confess our sin, He's faithful and just
to forgive us our sin. We've got to own up to our guilt.
There is no salvation for anybody who doesn't own up to their guilt
before God. You see, the evidence of a real
work of grace within is you begin to see yourself
as God sees you. As God sees you. Others, they
pat us on the back and say, you're such a fine fellow. You're a
wonderful neighbor. Oh, you're so good. I tell you,
this world is so blessed to have you in it. But then we look in the scriptures
and we find out about original sin. we find about our inward
depravity and therefore our spiritual inabilities. No wonder the Word
of God says, Christ Jesus said, you won't come to me that you
might have life. He says in John 6, no man can
come to Me except the Father which has sent Me. Draw him and
I'll raise him up at the last day. We brag him on our abilities. I can do this. I can control
my destiny. You can't control anything. And unless God does something
for us in this great salvation, this is a salvation that's for
sinners. Unless God does something for
us, we're all going to perish in our sinfulness. And the evidence
of a work of grace is we begin to realize something of the greatness
of our guilt. We begin to realize that we're
diseased. It's only when we realize we're
diseased that we'll be interested in a remedy. And the remedy is
the bloody death of the Lord Jesus. You see, all of these things
that I've said thus far, these things being so, that means that
if we are to be saved, It's absolutely impossible, impossible for us
to save ourselves. In the book of Romans chapters
1, 2, and 3, what does Paul do? He establishes our guilt, the
universal guilt of each of us. Therefore, there is the impossibility
The possibility of self-salvation or self-justification. I had
you turn to Romans 5. Just turn back a page to Romans
3. Romans chapter 3. Look at what he says here, Romans
chapter 3 verse 19. Now we know that what things
soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law,
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become
guilty before God. Therefore, but the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in God's sight, for by the law
is the knowledge of sin. Self-justification is out. It's out. Do your good deeds
as you consider good deeds. You make no headway toward God. Actually, you're worse off. Right? You're worse off. If you
think that by something you do, you have merited the favor of
God, you're worse off than you were to begin with. That's why the Savior talked
about it in the book of Matthew. He said, if the light that is
in you be darkness, how great is that darkness? In other words,
we have a natural darkness already. But then if we get into religion
and we somehow or another think that we have light, but it's
not light at all. It's just religious darkness.
We're in double darkness. And that's the way most people
are. We're in double darkness. And the Lord has to come in and
penetrate both darknesses. Which only He can do that. Go
back to chapter 5 of Romans then. Thank God, He's in the saving
business. He is the one who saves sinners.
We read here in Romans chapter 5 and verse 6, look at this,
for when we were yet, when we were still without strength. The word yet means still. God didn't see any improvement
in us. He didn't see that we were getting
better. We don't get any better. Or when we were yet still without
strength. Without strength. He saw us in
our weakness. But listen, even though we're
weak, that's no reason to despair. Because you see it's in 1 Corinthians
chapter 1, is it? Yeah, let me... I can't quote
it right now. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter
1. 1 Corinthians 1.27 Even though
we're weak, that's no reason to despair. Because look what
it says here. Being without strength. 1 Corinthians
1.27 For God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise, God hath chosen the weak things, that is, those
without strength. You say, preacher, I don't have
any strength. I'm weak. I'm weak. Good news! That's the kind of folks the
Lord chose unto salvation. So when He says over here in
Romans chapter 5 and verse 6, when we were yet, when we were
still without strength, when we were weak, when we were weak,
when we could do nothing for ourselves. Like we used to say,
weak as a kitten. Weak as a kitten. Weak as an
infant. In due time, in due time, something
happened. Christ died for the ungodly in
due time. When our debt of sin became due,
the Lord Jesus came into the world. He came into the world
to die. What is this? This is substitution
here. That's what this is. This is
substitution. in due time. Christ died for
the ungodly. Who did He die for? He died for
people without God. He died for people who were idolatrous
folks. That's us. Weak, idolatrous,
ungodly. That's the reason I've said before,
the more you can convince me from the Scriptures of my sinfulness
and my ungodliness, it won't offend me because the more you
show me these things, the more I am qualified for the mercy
of God. You see, this mercy is for the
ungodly. Any ungodly people in here? Grace
is for those without strength, those who are weak, those who
can do nothing for God. Do you say, I can do nothing
for God? I cannot in any way please God. Yes, preacher, that's me. Well,
good news, Christ died for folks like this. That's who He gave
His life for. This is substitution. Look what
he says in verse 7. For scarcely for a righteous
man will one die. Yet peradventure for a good man,
as we would say a good man, some would even dare to die. There
might be somebody who in your estimation, you loved them so
much that you would take their spot in death, take their place
in death. Now watch this, verse 8. But
God gave full evidence. God commended. God manifested. Here's what He did. He put on
display His great love. His love wherewith He loved us. Listen, this great salvation
for the sinful, love's behind it all. Isn't it? Love's behind it all. Somehow
or another, when we think about God's election, every once in
a while we may be, I don't know, led to think of an election like
this. God said, okay, I'll save this one, I'll damn this one,
I'll save this one, I'll damn this one. No, this election was
in love. Love is in the back of it all.
Hold your place right here. Go to Ephesians chapter 1. This
isn't what it says here in Ephesians chapter 1. Ephesians 1 verse 3, Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ,
according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
Him in love. In love! In love! And you can put that in love
as to His election, or you could put the words in love, in verse
5, being predestinated. Election is according to God's
love as is predestination. God's not heartless. This is
a fatherly tenderness. This is a great compassion on
the place of God. So he says over here back in
Romans chapter 5, that God commended His love toward us, and that
while we were yet sinners, when we were still sinners. And you
notice he uses the exact same language as he did in verse 6.
He uses the word yet. When we were still in that state.
When we were still without strength. When we were still weak. When
we were still sinners. Sinners. What happened? Christ died for us. Much more
then. Being now justified by His blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through Him. We shall be. Now this is good news for those
who meet these qualifications. You see, In the Word of God,
whenever you come to Scriptures that talks about the promises
of God, the mercies of God, the grace of God, if you can find
yourself set forth in that Scripture, then those words are for you.
Can you find yourself here? Can you identify yourself here?
Do you look into this Scripture here in verses 6, 7, 8, 9, and
10? Verse number 10 talks about when
we were enemies. Can you look into this Scripture
and say, yes, I see myself there. If you see yourself there, then
these blessed mercies of God are for you. That's the way it
is. And if you can't see yourself
here, And it's not for you. It's not
for you. If you say, well, I may be a
little weak, but hey, I'm not totally disabled. I can still
do some things for God. Okay? And I don't think I'm ungodly. I don't blaspheme the name of
God. I don't take His name Like me,
I read my Bible every once in a while. I try to pray. Give a little money to charitable
organizations. No, I don't think I'm ungodly. I think that's too strong a word
to describe me. I've made some mistakes, but
I'm not ungodly. Okay. I don't really think I'm
a sinner. And in verse number 10, and I'm
not God's enemy. I love God. God's been good to
me. I love God. I've never been God's
enemy. But you know what? This is not
for you. This is not for you. Because
it doesn't describe you. But if this does describe you,
And here's the good news. Salvation is for sinners. The
death of the Lord Jesus is for sinners. Go back to Romans chapter 3. Back up a page again. So we have concluded that if
we are to be saved, self-salvation is an impossibility. God has to save us. Well, how
does He save us? How does He justify us? What
does the word justified mean? Somebody asked me that the other
day. He said, I hear you preachers talk about justification lots
of times. I hear you use that word justified. What does it mean? It means to
be declared righteous. Legally declared righteous. By
God. By God. This is not something
that takes place in you. This is something that takes
place in the heart of God. It's God that justifies what
Scripture says. Look here in Romans chapter 3,
after he says in verse number 23, for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. He then says, being justified
freely. without any reason on your part. So why did the Lord come to me? Why did the Lord reveal Christ
Jesus to me? Man, I'm such a lost sinner.
I didn't know up from down concerning the things of the Gospel, and
yet the Lord has singled me out. Why did God justify me? Well, He justified you freely. By His grace, there was no reason
in you. Don't look for real. You say,
why me, Lord? Well, it's His own good pleasure. That's all. Please the Lord to
do it. Please the Lord to make you His
own. Being justified freely by His
grace. By His grace. through the redemption is in
Christ Jesus. Well, when was this grace given
to you? Well, 2 Timothy chapter 1 says grace was given to you
in Christ Jesus before the world began. God's always been gracious to
His people. And in that sense, we've always
been justified. There has to be an eternal aspect
to justification. Because God has always seen us
united to our Head, the Lord Jesus. He gave us in covenant
grace to His Son. And seeing us in the blessed
Redeemer, God has always accepted us. He accepts us even as He
accepts His Son. He loves us even as He loves
His only begotten Son. We're justified by His grace.
And I'll tell you this, we're justified by the blood of the
Lord Jesus. Look back over here again in
chapter 5. It says that much more than being now justified
by His blood. I know there is a sense in which
we've always been justified, but also this justification took
place when the Lord Jesus died for us. Now remember, this matter of
being justified, being declared righteous, is not something that
is... it isn't within us. This is something
God does. And we're justified by the bloody
death of the Lord Jesus when He took care of our indebtedness. When the Lord paid it all. There was no indebtedness left.
We were justified. God declared us to be righteous.
What was it that Daniel said? Do you remember Daniel in Daniel
chapter 9? He talked about Messiah coming
and all of the things that Messiah would do. And one of the things
He said He would do is bring in everlasting righteousness. That's a righteousness that will
always endure. That's the righteousness the
Lord Jesus brought in for us. It's a righteousness that will
never wear out. It will never grow old. It is
always beautiful in the sight of God. We're justified by His
blood. Something unusual happened when
Christ died. Our indebtedness was forever
cancelled. Our sins were removed from us,
separated from us as far as the East is from the West. Not North
to the South, but East to West. Our sins and iniquities were
buried in the depths of the deepest sea. They were put behind God's
back. God said, your sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. I'll never remember them against
you. That's the strength, that's the
potency of the blood of the Lord Jesus. Now we remember our sins,
and our sins still trouble us, and we weep over them, and we
confess them, but God says, I don't remember them! And He never will. Because they've been paid for.
And you see, if you can find yourself here in Romans chapter
5, verses 6 through 10, if you can find yourself identified,
If you say, oh, that's me. I was God's enemy. I was God's
enemy. Oh, along with Adam, I had my
fist balled up in the face of God. I said, you're not going
to be the Lord. I'll do what I want to do. His enemy. The Spirit of God brings you
to see You are His enemy. The Spirit of God will also bring
you to see you are reconciled to God by His death. Everything's
been made right. And the blessed condition of
every child of God is this. Everything is just fine between
us and God. And it always will be. God's
not mad at you. God's not angry with you. He's
not going to say a cross word to you. Oh, now He will rebuke
you. He will rebuke you and He will
chastise you and me, but God will never say, you're out of
my family. God will never say, okay, your
sins, I'm going to bring them up against you at the judgment.
I'm going to embarrass you in front of the whole wide world.
No, no, no, no. He's our Father who loves us. You know what charity does? It
covers a multitude of transgressions. And that's what the love of God
in the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus Christ has
done. It's covered a multitude of transgressions. All of the transgressions of
His people. I tell you, this is a salvation
for sinners. We're justified by His grace.
We're justified by the blood of the Lord Jesus. And I'll tell
you something else, we're justified by faith. Look here in Romans
chapter 5 and verse 1. Therefore being justified by
faith. Romans 5.1. Therefore being justified
by faith. Now does faith justify us? No. Remember, chapter divisions are
not inspired. It says in the last verse of
the previous chapter, verse 25 of Romans chapter 4, who was
delivered? Our Lord Jesus was delivered
for our offenses and was raised again for or because of our justification. Therefore being justified in
this state of justification. By faith we have peace with God. I just take the Word of God as
it says, I believe that Christ Jesus settled the issue. And I have peace in my soul that
He did. All I've got is the Word of God.
That's all I've got. You say, I don't feel safe sometimes. Well, you can't trust your feelings.
Luther said feelings come and feelings go and feelings are
deceiving. I trust the Word of God. Nothing
else is worth believing. You say, well, some days I just,
you know, I just feel more guilt than others and some days I don't
have the joy of my salvation that I ought to have. Just believe
the Word of God. Do you know where assurance comes
from? Well, yeah, assurance comes from examining yourself and see
if you've done enough good works and bearing enough good fruit.
No, there's no assurance there. Because when you look within,
all you see within is evil and sin. That's what the apostles
said. In Romans chapter 7, he said,
O wretched man that I am, do you want some assurance of your
salvation, of your reconciliation with God, of your fellowship
with God, of this great salvation? Do you want some assurance? Go
to the Word of God. It's all you can trust is the
Word of God. And the Word of God says, He
that hath the Son hath life. He that believeth on the Son
of God is not condemned. I believe God's Word, don't you? I don't feel safe. Feelings got nothing to do with
it. I'll take what God says. Thank
you very much. embrace his promises. And I said, that's for me. That's
for my poor soul. Because like you, I go through
times when I have doubts and fears. And I look within and
I say, oh my goodness. I don't know if I ever have a
God glorifying motive. I want to. I try to. But I examine
myself and after I examine myself, because the scripture says examine
yourself to see if you be in the faith. But really the examination
is not as to what you've done or how you feel. The examination
is what's your foundation? What's your foundation? Who you
building on? When I look within, all is dark
and fearful. I don't find anything to make
me happy. I don't find anything to make
me contented. I don't feel anything, I don't
see anything to give me assurance. And I talk to some people, I
hear them talk, and they talk about, you know, there's a part
of them that can't sin, and I say, well, whoopee for you, I ain't
got there yet. I don't know anything about that. I know that I have faith in Christ
Jesus. I know that I want to worship
the Lord. I want to do what's right. I
know that. But the want to, often times,
isn't put into action. Because I have great conflict. And I know you feel the same
way. Where are you going to have your assurance? Where are you
going to have any assurance that all is right? I believe that
when Christ Jesus died, He justified me. And I believe Him therefore
being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ. I'm just going to believe what
God says. I'm not going to trust what I
feel. I'm not going to trust what I see. I'll just take God's
Word to the bank. We're justified by faith. And
I'll tell you, we're justified without works. Works don't have
anything to do with it. You know, it's interesting scriptures
give you two scriptures side by side. Romans 4.2, For if Abraham were justified
by works, he hath whereof the glory, but not before God. But
the Scripture there says Abraham wasn't justified by works. What
saith the Scripture? That's all that matters. What
saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God. That's
what I want to do. That's what I want to do. I want
to believe God. Abraham believed God. It was
counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the
reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that
worketh not, but believeth, believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also described
it, the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness
without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. This is justification, this is
salvation without works. Not of works, lest any man should
vote. But I'll give you this and then I'll close up here. James the second chapter. I want
to put this verse alongside of that one. Alongside of Romans
4 verse 2. James chapter 2. Look at verse 21. Verse 20 says, Will
thou know, but wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without
works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified
by works? Well now wait. I just read over
in Romans chapter 4 verse 2 where it says Abraham was not justified
by works and now James comes along and says Abraham was justified
by works. What's going on here? Our justification
is evidenced by works. Evidenced by works. How do I
know Abraham was a justified man? Because when God told him
to do something, he did it. God said, take Isaac, that boy
you love, take him on a mount that I'll show you. Offer him
for a burnt offering to me. You know what Abraham did? He
went about obeying God. I know he's a justified man. It's evidenced by what he did.
He did what God told him to do. I'm absolutely confident of this,
that God's people do perform good works. Good works. God's ordained it. Ephesians
chapter 2 verse 10. What do good works do? Good works
are the evidence of, they're the fruit of being justified. It's the fruit. We're not fruit
inspectors. We don't look at one another
and say, I don't think you bear enough fruit. That's none of
our business. But I'll tell you this, and I'll
give you this and then we'll go home. Look at Matthew chapter
26. I'd ask Terry to read this Scripture.
In all the New Testament, there's only one event. Only one Scripture where I find
that the Lord says, that's a good work. That's a good work. I know we
read of good works, but the Lord specifically says of this which
was done, this is a good work. And it's right here in Matthew
chapter 26. By the way, in the Old Testament, and if you want
to look this up, it's in Nehemiah chapter 2 and verse 8 or 9, when
they went to build the walls of Jerusalem, Nehemiah said,
that's a good work. That's a good work. But this
is, the Lord said this, You remember the setting here? It's just a
few days before Passover. God's Passover Lamb is going
to die. And here these enemies of our
Lord gather together against Him. They said, we don't want
Him to die on the feast day. We don't want Him to die during
Passover. But they're not controlling this
situation. Our Lord is. He is God's Passover
Lamb. There was, when the Lord was
in Bethany, he was in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came
to the Savior. She had a box of very precious
ointment, ointment that was very expensive. She poured it on his
head as he said at the meal. Verse 8 says, But when the disciples
saw, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have
been sold for much and given to the poor. There's James and
John, sons of thunder. Simon, Peter, Bode, and Aaron.
They're joining with all of the other disciples. And they love
the Lord Jesus Christ, You know, God's people can sometimes do
some real stupid things and say some stupid words. You know that? But actually, the reason they
did this is because they followed the wrong guy. Because if you will read in John
chapter 12, Judas is the one who came up with this idea. Judas
says, this is wrong. Such a waste of money. And the
rest of the disciples said, yeah, that's right. This is a big waste
of money. Learn this. Some of God's dear
people, some of God's true sheep can oft times follow somebody
for the wrong reason and get in a jam themselves. That's what
these disciples did. That's a shame. And that happens
sometimes. You have some person that doesn't
know the Lord. They got a loud voice, boisterous,
like Judas. The rest of the guys said, I
think he's right. But the Lord Jesus here in Matthew
26 He said, why do you trouble this woman? She wrought a good work, a good
work unto me. You see, she understood some
things the disciples didn't understand. She's anointing Him for His burial. For His burial. What is a good
work? Something done for the glory
of Christ. For the glory of Christ. That's why Nehemiah said, you
guys, what are you all getting ready to do? He said, we're going
to build this wall. We're going to build this wall
around Jerusalem. It's dilapidated. We're going to do it so we can
worship God back here again. He said, you're doing a good
work. That's a good work. You do something for God's glory.
for God's glory, out of love to the Lord Jesus Christ. It
is evidence of your justification. Somebody doesn't drive you to
do it. They don't make you do it. You just do it because you
love Him. You love the Lord. This woman, she just anointed
Him because she loved Him. That's good work. I tell you,
salvation is for sinners. That's who it's for. And if you
can find your place in the Bible, If this describes you, then there's
good news for you. And if it don't describe you,
then I don't have any good news for you at all. That's kind of
long and short of it. Right there. Well, let's sing
a closing song. Preached too long, but that's
alright. 512. Saved by Grace. Saved by
Grace. Look forward to meeting here
Saturday, and may the Lord be pleased to bless the service
as we perform the marriage for David and Susanna. May God's
blessings rest upon them, and we'll look forward to seeing
you here Saturday for the service. Alright, and then the Lord's
Day, we'll be privileged to hear Tim James He's going to be here
to give Susanna away. And so I figured I'd put him
to work while he's here. So it'd be good to hear him preach. Okay, 512. Someday the silver thorn will
break And I no more shall sing But oh the joy when I shall wake
Within the palace of the King And I shall see Him face to face
And tell the story saved by grace And I shall see Him face to face
And tell the story saved by grace