Let's open the Scriptures to
the book of Isaiah chapter 8, if you would. Isaiah chapter
8. We'll look at a few verses right
at the end of chapter 8 and then we'll get into the 9th chapter. Isaiah chapter 8. These last verses of Isaiah 8
speak of an awful state of wretchedness and despair. God speaks of destruction that
He is going to bring upon Israel and He is going to bring darkness. Let's begin reading in chapter
8. And verse 19, the Lord says, And they shall say
to you, Isaiah 8 verse 19, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards, wizards that peep and that mutter. Should not a people seek unto
their God? Who should we seek? Should we seek aid for our poor
souls from those that know nothing about God? Should we ask for some help from
someone who has no power to help us or from someone who needs
help themselves? The Lord says, shouldn't the
people seek another God? My friends, we've got soul trouble.
We've got serious trouble. We've got something worse than
cancer. We've got something worse than a heart disease. We've got
sin trouble. Therefore, we've got trouble
with the Lord. You see, His justice has got
to be satisfied. His very law that we've broken
says there's to be death for sin. God's Word said the wages of
sin is death. It's death. The soul that sinneth
shall die. We've got serious trouble. We're
in bad shape. Do you know that? We're in awful
condition. unless you know Christ Jesus,
or rather are known of Christ Jesus. Unless God brought you
to rest in the blessed Savior and His work of redemption. Unless
God has awakened you by His grace and showed you that life and
forgiveness and righteousness are only to be found in Christ
Jesus. If God hadn't done a work in
your heart to bring you to see the Lord Jesus is all, you got
serious trouble. And we ask God to do something
for you like He's done for us. You're dead in your trespasses
and sins. You're dead while you live. You're
cut off from God, laden with iniquities. Your sins have separated
you from a holy and righteous Lord. You've got big troubles. Some of you know something about
physical ailments, and some recently. But these physical ailments,
they're nothing compared to this spiritual ailment that we've
got, the leprosy of sin. And there's nobody going to help
us but God Himself. But bless His name, He does help
poor sinners. This is His specialty. He delights
to show mercy. Salvation is altogether by grace. Oh, make God the Spirit. Put
it in your heart and put it in your soul to seek unto your God. There's nobody else can help
you. There's nobody else can save you. There's nobody else
can rescue you. There's nobody else that can
speak life to the dead. There's nobody else who can bring
light to those who are in darkness. Seek unto your God, your God
who made you, your God who sustains you, your God who is good to
you every day, your God who shows you mercies, daily mercies. Seek unto your God. The Lord is able to save, God
is willing to save, and God does save. He does save. He saves the lost. He saves sinners. There are many of us who are
living examples of His grace and of His mercy and the power
of His salvation. Why would you seek help from
somebody who is dead? The Lord says to these Jews,
why do you go to these for assistance who don't know God? Who don't know the gospel? Why
would you go seeking any help for your soul from anybody who
doesn't know how God can be just and justify the ungodly? Why
would you ever go and listen to somebody, listen to them,
expect them to help your poor soul when they don't know anything
about sovereign grace and sovereign mercy? Why would you ever go
and listen to anybody who doesn't believe in the effectual redemption
of the Lord Jesus that He accomplished on the cross? Why would you do
that? Seek unto your God. Seek the
God who is able to save, who is willing to save, who does
save. Seek the Lord who made the heavens
and the earth. Seek the Lord who made all things
and governs all things and is directing all things to their
appointed end. Seek unto your God, that is what
He says. Later in Isaiah, the prophet
says, seek the Lord while He may be found. Oh, call upon Him
while He's near. Seek the Lord. And God says you shall seek Me
and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. When I went to Michigan, when
Nancy and I moved to Michigan in 1996, I followed a ministry
where the preacher I thought that you should seek the Lord,
but you may not find Him for years and years and years. And
I came upon people who told me, well, I've been seeking the Lord
for 25 years, and I still haven't found Him. I said, God's not
like that. God doesn't dangle a carrot out
in front of you and say, now reach for it and get it. And
then when you reach out, He pulls it a little further from you.
Our God's not like that. He's not like that. You better
be careful that this salvation that you think you're seeking,
that you're not seeking it by works. Be careful that you don't
bring your own righteousness into it. Well, I'm seeking the
Lord and I'm thirsty and I'm crying out to Him and I'm doing
this and I'm doing that. Yeah, yeah, that's your problem. You're doing it. You're bringing
too much of self into it. Salvation is in Christ Jesus
and if from the heart we seek Him, He says, I'll be found.
I'll be found. But it is seeking from the heart.
Seek Him from the soul. Seek Him from the innermost being.
That's right, isn't it? It's not just seeking Him one
day of the week. Not seeking Him one hour of one
day of the week. This is daily. It's being serious
about the things of God. I just don't think there are
too many folks that are really serious about the things of God.
I think they have a passing interest. Don't you agree with me? People
have a passing interest. They have a little dab of interest,
but it's like that Brill cream, a little dab will do you, you
know. That's for the older folks. You younger folks don't remember
that commercial. But people think, just a little religion, that
will do me and I will just seek Him a little bit. God says, you
shall seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your
heart. We are in the heart business
now. We are in the heart business. You see, God is Spirit and they
that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth, according
to the truth and from our spirit, by His Spirit, from the heart. From the heart. With the heart,
man believeth unto righteousness. With the heart, with the inner
man, with the soul, with the soul. God says, why do you seek
help from these who peep and mutter? And you look at religious, all
the religious programs, most all the religious programming,
that's on today and all you're going to listen to is a bunch
of peepers and mutterers. Seek unto the Lord your God. You do business with God. Your
business is not with me. Nobody is ever asking you to
walk down this aisle and let's go into a room in the back and
let's talk a while. No, your business is not with
me. Your business is with God. I
can't help you. I'm telling you everything I
know right now. Salvation is by grace. Salvation
is by God. Salvation is of the Lord. He
gives His grace. He gives His mercy to whom He
will. Seek the Lord while He may be
found. Your business is with Him. Go
home. Get alone in your closet with
God. Nobody's going to put pressure
on you. Nobody's going to back you in
a corner and try to get some kind of a religious decision
out of you in this place. It's never been done in this
place, and it'll never be done in this place as far as I'm concerned,
as long as I'm pastor. Nobody's going to put the screws
to you and say, you've got to make a decision now before you
get out there because we've got to strike while the iron's hot.
If God makes the iron hot here, it'll still be hot when you get
home. And it'll still be hot next week. It'll still be hot
next month. It'll still be hot 25 years from
now. It'll still be hot. I know somebody
makes a profession of faith and we rejoice and I'm thankful when
somebody professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but I've been
around long enough and you've been around long enough, we just
say this, well let's see where they are in 10 or 15 years. Let's
see where they are in 25 years. Let's see where we are in a few
years. Seek unto your God. What's this
next question? For the living to the dead? For
the living to the dead? Should you consult with the dead
about issues of life? Go to Him who is life. Go to
Him who gives life. Our Lord Jesus said to Philip
and to the rest of the disciples, He said, I'm the way, I'm the
truth, I'm the life! I'm the life! No man cometh unto
the Father but by Me. You need life? Go to Him who
is life. Don't go to the dead. They got
the same problem you've got. They can't help you. Poor old
Lazarus in the tomb. John chapter 11, he's dead. Well, let's put him over next
to a few other dead folks. Let's just move him over to another
tomb. Well, they can't help him. They're
in the same kind of shape he's in. Why would you go to somebody
dead? Somebody who doesn't know the
Gospel? Somebody who is spiritually lifeless? Somebody who is ignorant? Somebody who lies on God? Why
would you go to them seeking life? Go to the very origin of
life! The source of life! God who is
life in Himself! Go to the Lord! Look what He says in the 20th
verse. He says, to the law and to the
testimony. Go to the Word of God. Go to
the Scriptures. God's not silent. God has spoken. That's His Word
right here. Go to the law and to the testimony. Go to the Word of God that tells
about our dilemma and of God's grace. Go to the Word of God
that tells us of Him who is life, of Him who is the way, of Him
who is the truth. Go to the Word of God that speaks
to us about true righteousness, about true holiness. Go to the
law and to the testimony. This is God's Word. Well, I think
I'll go read a how-to book that somebody's written. You're going
to the dead. You're going to just another
peeper and a murderer. Go to the Word of God. To the
law and to the testimony. God has given an accurate testimony
of Himself. Everything you need to know about
God is in this book. And you can't even grasp what's
in this book. I wish we had more information
about God. You can't handle what He has
given. But faith believes that He is. Faith believes everything God
says about Himself. And while I can't grasp God,
I can't put my mind around God, I can't fathom the ways of God,
from this book I found out something about God. I found out something
about the unity of the Godhead. I found out something about His
infinity. I found out something about His
absolute holiness and His justice and His righteousness and His
grace. And His mercy, I find that out in this book. Go to
the testimony of God. God's given an accurate testimony
about Himself. About His love. It's not a universal
love. It's trying to save everybody.
It's a specific love. It's a particular love for His
chosen people. Go to the book of God. We're
in ignorance because we don't go to the Scriptures. I know there are organizations
that give out Bibles, and I'm sure some good work has been
done in distributing Bibles, but most of the folks I know
have got two or three or four or half a dozen Bibles laying
around. Problem is, they don't ever open
them. And even if they do open them,
they have no divine guidance through the Scriptures. There's
no light shed by the Spirit of God. You can read any other book and
grasp some things from it, get an understanding of history,
of science, of math, or whatever the subject might be, but you
open up the book of God, you got to have divine light. You got to have some illumination.
The one who inspired the writer to pen these words, That one
has got to give you some understanding of the passage. This is a testimony
of God. God's not like you think He is.
God's not like grandmother said He is. God's not like the old
preacher years ago said He was. God is who He says He is. Well, I just believe God loves
everybody. God hadn't said that. You're
wrong about the love of God. I just believe that Jesus died
for everybody. You're wrong about that. The
Bible doesn't say that. I believe God's trying to save
everybody. You're wrong about that. You need to open the book
of God and you need to sit under the ministry of somebody who
knows who God is and what we are and how God can justly save
sinners. That's what you need. We've got all these peepers and
murderers around here. And they are everywhere. Choose somebody whose ministry
you can sit under, whose ministry is the Word of the Gospel. And ask this question about everything
about the preaching, everything about the music, everything about
the ministry, everything about the missionaries. Ask this question,
who is getting the glory? Ask that question about your
own experience. And if your own experience starts
with I, you're in trouble. It's the Lord. It's the Lord. He's given us testimony of who
He is. He's given us testimony of what
we are. I was telling the Bible class this
morning, I said, you know, we're the only group that gets together,
as often as we get together, and you know what we talk about?
We're a bunch of sinners. There's no other organization,
there's no other society that gets together and does that.
And most religious organizations, they get together and the preacher
tells them what good folks you are, what good people you are,
how much God needs you, and how much the church needs you. But
we get together and we say, we're all a bunch of filthy, wretched
sinners. And then we rightfully say, Amen. That's the truth. That's the
truth. Because that's what the Bible
says. We went astray from the womb
speaking lies. But we are wrong from the get-go. Go to the law and to the testimony. The law which is the standard,
the law which sets before us perfection, and go to the testimony
of God about ourselves. and go to the testimony of God
about salvation altogether by grace through the doing and the
dying, the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Go to the
Scriptures. Now what do the Scriptures say?
For by grace are you saved through faith. And even that's not of
yourselves. It's a gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. Go to the Scriptures that speak
of the blood and the righteousness of God's beloved Son. Go to the
Scriptures. And if that television preacher,
if that radio preacher you listen to, if he doesn't speak according
to this Word, It's because there's no light in them. You need to
change the channel. Change the channel. God says to Israel, you've been listening to the
heapers and mutterers. They had fallen into idolatry. And God said, now you're going
to pay for this. You've forsaken my word. You've forsaken my gospel. You've forsaken salvation by
substitution. There you have it. And God said,
now, I'm going to bring darkness and desolation and despair upon
you. Look at verse 21. They shall
pass through it. They shall pass through life. They'll pass through life hardly
bestead and hungry. In other words, all through your
life it's just going to be a famine. A famine. Not a famine of bread. Not so much that anyway. But
a famine for the Word of God. You wouldn't have the Word of
God? Well, what's it going to be like when God just takes it
away from you? You wouldn't hear His preacher?
What happens when God takes the preacher away from you or takes
you away from the preacher? You're heartily bested and hungry. Then you're in a famine. In a
famine then. And it shall come to pass, verse
21, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, because
there's no satisfaction. They will curse their king and
curse their God and look upward and say, why did you do this? And they shall look into the
earth and no help there either. And behold, trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish. Why all of this? Why all of this? They have forsaken the Word of
God. They'd forsaken the God of Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob. They'd forsaken the Passover
lamb. They'd forsaken salvation by
grace. And God said, this is what you're
in store for, trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish. They shall
be driven to darkness. But notice how he begins chapter
nine, nevertheless. Nevertheless. And I tell you,
this is a merciful word. Matthew Henry, in his notes on
this, he said, in the worst of times, God's people always have
a nevertheless to comfort themselves with, something to balance their
troubles. Nevertheless. And He goes on to speak about
He's going to send the Messiah. He's going to send the Savior.
God says you've made a mess of things and you've fallen into
idolatry. And you've forgotten me, you
maker. You've forgotten my word. You've gotten away from the sacrifice. You've gotten away from substitution. You've forgotten the gospel.
You've been listening to these peepers and mutterers. And I'm
going to send you days of despair. Days of dimness and days of darkness,
nevertheless, I'm going to send somebody into this world that's
going to get you out of this mess, get you out of this hole
that you've dug. Nevertheless. This word nevertheless,
in many cases in the Bible, is a delightful word. A delightful
word. Could I give you just a few scriptures?
And these are my comments. The rest of the way are built
around this word, nevertheless. That's the title. Nevertheless. Nevertheless. Notwithstanding
our guilt. Notwithstanding our ignorance.
Notwithstanding our foolishness. Notwithstanding our deadness
and trespasses and sins, nevertheless, even though we
have been rebellious against God, nevertheless, He is going
to send His Son to save us from our sins. Let me show you a few
verses. Look at Psalm 89. Book of Psalm 89. Psalm 89. If I were going to
give a title to Psalm 89, this is the title I'd give it. The
Faithfulness of God. This entire Psalm, Psalm 89,
is about the faithfulness of our covenant God. Look at Psalm 89, verse 30. Now back up to verse 29, because
it's talking about the seed of Christ Jesus. And when you read
David in Psalm 89, and so often this is the case throughout the
Psalms, when you read David, just think Jesus Christ. Just
think of the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 29, Psalm 89. His seed, Christ's seed, also
will I make to endure forever. And of course, this is speaking
of himself and his throne is the days of heaven. If his children,
that's us, that's us. If his children forsake my law
and walk not in my judgments, if they break my statutes and
keep not my commandments, and we're guilty, aren't we? Don't
you acknowledge that? We're guilty. He says, then will
I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with
stripes. Nevertheless, notwithstanding
what my people have done, nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not
utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. It's
not on account of them. It's on account of God's faithfulness.
And verse 34, on account of His covenant. His covenant. Which is sure and steadfast in
all things. David said of this covenant on
his dying bed, he said, this is all my hope. It's all my desert. It's this covenant of grace.
God says, my covenant will I not break. It's not on account of
our faithfulness, it's His faithfulness. nor alter the thing that's gone
out of My lips. Once have I sworn by My holiness
that I will not lie unto David, to Jesus Christ. His seed shall
endure forever, notwithstanding their guilt and their depravity
and their rebellion. His seed shall endure forever
and His throne as the sun before me, it shall be established forever
as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven. And then that
word sila, just stop right there and think about all of that.
Just roll that over in your mind and in your heart for a little
while. God says, I do these things for you, not because of your
faithfulness, not because you deserve it, not because of your
goodness, but because of my covenant promises made to Jesus Christ
the Lord in love for you. Nevertheless, You've got to love
that word. Nevertheless. Nevertheless. Let me give you another one. Psalm 106. Psalm 106. Listen to the words of David.
Psalm 106, look at verse 4. Remember me, O Lord, with the
favor that Thou bearest unto Thy people. O, visit me with Thy salvation. Boy, that's a good prayer request,
isn't it? I make this recommendation to
you. You offer this petition to God. O, visit me even me, poor, sinful,
wretched me. Oh, visit me with Thy salvation,
that I may see, that I may know, that I may realize the good of
Thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation,
that I may glory with Thine inheritance, We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We
have done wickedly. You with Him so far? Say, that's
right. That's me. That's me. Verse 7. Our fathers understood
not thy wonders in Egypt. They remembered not the multitude
of thy mercies. but provoked Him at the sea,
even at the Red Sea. Nevertheless... Doesn't that just cause your
heart to rejoice? Nevertheless, He saved them. Why? For His name's sake. For His glory. For His honor. Nevertheless, He saved them for
His name's sake, that He might make His mighty power to be known. He rebuked the Red Sea also,
and it was dried up. He made a way. He made one way
through the Red Sea. Let me tell you something. Christ
is that way. Christ is that way. He's away
from Egypt on out through into the wilderness and then into
the promised land. He's the one way through the
Red Sea. There is no other way. No other
way. We're talking about that new
Russell Bridge being built out here. Somebody was talking about
it yesterday and somebody said they didn't like to drive across
that old bridge. And Ron said he thought he'd
just drive across that new bridge. It don't go all the way. I said,
that's an Armenian bridge. That's a free will Armenian bridge
that's built over the Ohio River. It's nice and wide and beautiful. Only one problem, it don't go
all the way. That's Arminianism. That's free
willism. Jesus made a broad way for everybody. The only problem is it don't
go all the way to the other side. Our Lord Jesus is the narrow
way, but He's the bridge all the way over to God. He takes
us all the way, all the way. Now, He rebuked the Red Sea also,
it was dried up, so He led them through the depths as through
the wilderness, and He saved them from the hand of Him that
hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. Who
did it? He did it! God did it! For His glory. Nevertheless,
notwithstanding their sinfulness and rebellion, awful attitude
and murmuring, all that complaining against God. Nevertheless, He
saved them. And isn't that our testimony? Our wretchedness, our depravity,
our disobedience, our ungodliness. There's nothing good about us.
Top of our heads, bottom of our feet, just full of wounds and
bruises and putrefying sores. That's our case. That's our condition. Nevertheless, He saved us for
His name's sake. That's our testimony, isn't it?
That's our testimony. We used to give testimony. I
used to be a camp preacher. years ago. Well, let's have a
testimony meeting. I want you to be popping up like
popcorn now. Come on now. Who will be the
first one to pop up? Somebody stand up. Thank the
Lord for saving me. Oh, let me tell you. Let me tell
you about my sinfulness. Go on. That's the problem. You know, it wasn't too long
after that I decided I didn't like any testimony meetings because
it was really braggamony meetings is all they were. Bragging on
the flesh. Our testimony is, I'm nothing. He's everything. By the grace
of God, I am what I am. That's what Paul said. By the
grace of God. And so one old writer noted this.
He said, men today in seeking to get the glory, they'll even
try to rephrase that. They'll say, I am what I am by
the grace of God. Put I in there first. You don't
read that way. It doesn't say, I am what I am
by the grace of God. It says, by the grace of God
I am what I am. He must increase. We must decrease. Isn't that right? Nevertheless,
He saved them for His namesake. Can I give you nothing? Psalm
73. Psalm 73. In this psalm, David envies He envies the wicked in their
prosperity. And I'll show you that. Psalm
73 verse 3, For I was envious at the foolish when I saw the
prosperity of the wicked. Go down to verse 17. He said,
I envied them, verse 17, until I went into the sanctuary of
God. And then, understood I their
end. And I didn't envy them anymore.
Let them have what they've got. Because this is it. Whatever
prosperity, whatever degree of happiness they've got in this
world, that's all they're going to ever have. David said, let
them have it. I see their end. He says in verse
18, Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou casted
them down into destruction. And he said, How were they brought
into desolation? As in a moment. It happens quickly. They are utterly consumed with
terrors. And then he says, As a dream when one awaketh, so,
O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Thus
my heart was grieved. I was pricked in my reins. So
foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee." This
is how I was. I was like a beast. And don't
you as children of God, you who are bought by the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ, you've been quickened by the Spirit of God,
isn't your testimony, isn't the acknowledgement of your heart
this? I'm just so foolish and ignorant, I'm like a beast before
God. That's still my confession. Verse 23, Nevertheless, I am
continually with thee. I am continually with thee. In other words, God hadn't cut
me off. God hadn't kicked me out of His
family. I've been a straying sheep. I've
been an ignorant sheep. I've been a sinning sheep. And
I'm ashamed of all that I am. Nevertheless, I'm continually
with the Lord. He's with me. Watch it. Thou hast holden me by thy right
hand and I can't fall. That's my safety. That's my security. I'll give you another one. Look at Daniel chapter 4. Daniel chapter 4. This is a story
about Nebuchadnezzar. And God gave him a dream. And
actually, Daniel chapter 4 is Nebuchadnezzar speaking about
this dream and then who interpreted it and how it all came to pass. God gave him a dream and in this
dream, as he would later understand, he saw himself like a great big
tree. He saw himself as a great big
tree in all of his self-righteous glory and he saw that God was
going to cut him down to size. It's a blessed day when God cuts
a sinner down to size. When He brings us up. If He doesn't
bring us down, He'll never lift us up now. I'm telling you. You've
got to bring us down. So in chapter 4, look at verse
number 10. Thus were the visions of my head
in my bed. I saw and behold a tree in the
midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. And as we
know, and you already understand this, He's the tree. He says,
this tree grew and was strong. The height thereof reached unto
heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
In parable form, He set forth as being this tree in His dream. He said, the leaves thereof were
fair, the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all. The
beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the
heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all the flesh was fed of
it. I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold,
a Watcher and a Holy One came down from heaven, and He cried
aloud. He said thus, what did He say? Hew down the tree. Cut off his
branches. Shake off his leaves. Scatter
his fruit. Let the beasts get away from
under it, and the fowls from his branches. Nevertheless, don't
kill Him. Leave the stump. Leave the stump. And I tell you, God cut down
Nebuchadnezzar. But he didn't kill him. God left
the stump. And then God gave him a mind
and a heart to work to see who God is and to worship God. Oh, brethren and sisters, We've
done awful against God in our pride, in our arrogance, in our
self-righteousness. And God, He comes in convincing
grace and in convicting grace. He shows us what we are. He's
got to knock us off that high horse of pride. And He cuts us down. Nevertheless,
God says, leave the stump. Leave the stump. Don't kill him. Make him miserable. Make him
realize that he's nothing. Make him realize he's no better
than a beast of the field. But don't kill him. He's a chosen
vessel of mercy. Don't kill him! He's redeemed
by the blood. Don't kill him! Don't kill him. I'm going to give Him life in
Christ Jesus. Don't kill Him. He's my child. He's my child. One more. Got time for one more? Alright,
here it is. 2 Timothy chapter 2. One more. 2 Timothy chapter 2. Nevertheless,
nevertheless. That's the word. God didn't put Nebuchadnezzar
in hell, didn't put you in hell. God brought him down, brought
you down, made him see and made you to see and me to see. We're
nothing and the Lord of glory is everything. 2 Timothy chapter
2. Up here he's talked about the faithfulness of God. And
in verse 16, for the sake of time, we'll read verse 16. But
shun profane and vain babblings. That's peepers and mutterers. They'll increase unto more ungodliness. Their word will eat as doth a canker, like a gangrene
aerospreads. of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection
is past already, and overthrew the faith of some." They've misled
a lot of people. They've led other people down
the wrong road. Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth
sure. It standeth firm. It standeth
forever. Having this seal, the Lord knoweth
them that are His. He knows them with an everlasting
knowledge, an everlasting love. And let everyone that nameth
the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Notwithstanding our
lack of faithfulness, and notwithstanding error that spreads like wildfire, God says, nevertheless, the foundation
of God standeth sure. The Lord knoweth them that are
His. And them that are His are safe
forever and ever. Don't you love that word, nevertheless? Nevertheless. Well, let's sing
a song. What is it?