that folks of our congregation
present to us. Just about every Lord's Day,
somebody sings, and it helps me. I was thinking about those words just to think he died for me.
He died for me. and he ever lives for me to make
intercession. I tell you this gospel, it's
the best news there ever was, isn't it? And it'll be good news,
be good news for you. If God ever shows you what you
are in yourself, at least gives you some idea. We couldn't stand a full look
at our depravity, but if God ever gives us a glimpse of our
sinfulness and our wretchedness in the great vast distance between
us and God, God who's holy, God who's righteous. God who's just. And then we hear again Christ
Jesus died for sinners. He took our place. He shed his
blood. He suffered and I'm never going
to suffer the agonies of God's wrath. God's got no wrath for
his people. He's got no anger for his people.
There's chastisement for God's people, yes, and we need that. But that's not punishment. That's
not punishment. That one we see by faith dying
on the tree, he took the punishment. He took the blame. He bore our
debt. It became his. and he was answerable
for it, and he died under the wrath of God. And because he
died, we live. That's just the greatest story
that there ever was. And I sure don't get tired of
telling it. And I hope you don't get tired
of hearing it. That's my prayer. Well, Isaiah
50, that's where we're going to this evening. Chapter number
50, the last two verses of the chapter tell us about two groups
of people. Isaiah chapter 50 verse 10, here
are the children of light. And we often walk in darkness. He says, who is among you that
feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? that
walketh in darkness and hath no light." Let him trust in the
name of the Lord and stay upon his God. Then the next verse,
the last verse of chapter 50, he sets before us another group
of people. These are the children of darkness,
the wicked. And He says to these people,
He says, Behold, all ye that kindle a fire that compass yourselves
about with sparks, walk in the light of your fire and in the
sparks that ye have kindled. If you keep doing that, this
shall ye have of mine hand. Ye shall lie down in sorrow. In other words, you're not going
to come to a good ending. You keep going down that road.
Here are the two groups of people, the children of light walking
in darkness and the children of darkness walking in the light. Now let's talk about this first
group and I'm going to spend most of my time here in verse
10. I won't spend much of the time on verse 11, but in verse
number 10, here's the children of light walking in darkness,
and this verse raises three questions. And to those who answer in the
affirmative, if you answer yes to each of these three questions,
then the Lord gives these two admonitions. If you say yes to
these three questions, He's got two admonitions for you. Now
here's the three questions. Number one, who is among you
that feareth the Lord? Question number two, who is among
you that obeyeth the voice of his servant? Question number
three, who is among you that walketh in darkness and hath
no light? Now if that's you, if that's
you, if that's me, then he gives these two admonitions. Number
one, let him trust in the name of the Lord. After all, the name
of the Lord is a high tower, a strong tower. That's what the
Bible says. So if this is you, you fear the
Lord, you obey the voice of His servant, but you're walking in
darkness, well, here's what you need to do. You need to trust
in the name of the Lord. And number two, you need to stay
upon your God. So here are these three questions.
Here they are. Number one, who is among you
that fears the Lord? Good question to be asked. A
very good question. Do you fear the Lord? Throughout
the Old Testament, we come across scriptures about the necessity
of fearing the Lord. You don't have to look these
up. I'll give you a few of them. Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse
12, And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee
but to fear the Lord thy God? 1 Samuel chapter 12 verse 24,
only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart. Psalm 22, 23, ye that fear the
Lord, praise the Lord. Psalm 33 verse 8, let all the
earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of Him. Psalm 34 verse 9, O fear the
Lord, ye His saints, for there is no want, there is no lack
to them that fear Him. Psalm 115 verse 11, Ye that fear
the Lord, trust in the Lord. He is their help and their shield. Psalm 118 verse 4, let them now
that fear the Lord say that His mercy endureth forever. Psalm 111 verse 10, the fear
of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding
have all they that do His commandments. His praise endureth forever. Proverbs 1 verse 7, The fear
of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise
wisdom and instruction. What is it to fear the Lord?
Well, it's not a slavish dread of the Lord. It's not to be afraid
of God. It's not to be afraid to speak
to God. Why, we're told in Hebrews chapter
4, the people of God, we're told to come boldly to the throne
of grace. And we may fully expect to find
grace and mercy to help us in our hour of need. Come boldly.
Don't be afraid to come to God. Don't be afraid to draw near
to God. Our Lord Jesus said, I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me, from which I gather this. If I come to the Father
through Jesus Christ the Lord, who is the way, the truth, and
the life, God will accept me. God will receive me. Say, I worry
that God won't receive me. He will receive you if you come
the right way. He said He would. If you come
the way of blood, if you come the way of righteousness accomplished,
If you come the way of Christ Jesus, who is the new and living
way, if you come to God through Jesus Christ, you have nothing
to fear. You don't have to worry as to
whether God will receive you or not. He receives everybody
who comes to Him through Christ the life, the way, and the truth. Don't tell me you come to God
through Christ but He wouldn't receive you. You are deceived
in your heart. You haven't come to God the right
way. You come on your own merits. You come on your own righteousness. You come by some other way than
Jesus Christ the Lord. You come God's way, God will
receive you. Preacher, aren't you afraid that
God will cast you away when you sin? No, I'm not. Why aren't you afraid that God
will cast you away? Aren't you afraid God might disinherit
you? No, I'm not. Aren't you afraid
that God might reject you if you sin against Him? There's
no if to it. I do sin against Him. I am still
sin. I have life within me, but I
also have death within me. I have sin within me. I have
rebellion within me. But I have a Savior. You need
to understand that. I have a Redeemer. I have a Mediator. I have an Advocate. I have a
Righteousness, and He's the person, Jesus Christ, who sets at God's
right hand. Am I a sinner? Yes. Am I guilty? Yes. Is God full of mercy? Yes. Does God receive everybody who
comes through Jesus Christ the Lord? Yes. Yes, oh yes. Come to God through Christ and
you will find like the prodigal son found. You will find the
father with his arms outstretched. Come on home. Come home. You'll find a warm embrace. You'll
find God puts a kiss on your cheek. He puts a ring of sonship
on your hand. And He puts a new robe around
you. He'll put the robe of the very
righteousness of Jesus Christ around you, the garments of salvation. And God Himself will say, welcome
home, my child. Well, come on. It's just wonderful. Just wonderful. Oh, this is the
grace of God. Afraid of God? No. But I fear
Him. I reverence Him. What is the
fear of the Lord? It's to respect God. I absolutely
respect God. I reverence His name. I try to
be careful how I use God's name. People just think nothing of
blaspheming God, taking God's name in vain. Let me use His
name with adoration in my soul. What is it to fear the Lord?
It's to adore Him. It's to adore Him as He's revealed
in His Word. It's to adore and respect and
reverence all of His perfections. All of His attributes. All of
the characteristics of God. That's what it is to fear the
Lord. Deep in your soul it's to have
great respect. It's to be devoted to God. I
have a devotion to Him, like the reverence and the devotion
that a child has for their parent, which involves love and respect. I love the Lord. I don't love
Him like I ought to. Don't misunderstand me. I wouldn't
put forth my love as an example of love. But I'll tell you this. I love him and I respect him. He's God and he does what he
wills and in my heart of hearts I say amen. Amen. Lord, you're God over all. You made everything. You own
everything. You own everybody. You don't
owe us anything. Whatever you do, it's right.
Whatever you bring to pass in this world, it's right. Whatever
direction you send me in my life, whatever path you put me on,
it's right. It's right because you're God
and you can't do anything wrong. You have my utter respect, oh
Lord. And when I doubt, when I'm filled
with fears, that's my fault. That's my sin. I shouldn't do
that. When I worry, somebody was mentioning
tonight something about we shouldn't worry. No, we shouldn't. It's
wrong for us to worry. Why do we do that? But we do
still, don't we? And you can say to yourself,
you can just say, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, and
you'll say, man, I'm worried about my worrying now. That's just the way we are. We're
so hard-headed and hard-hearted. and yet God's full of tenderness
toward us. I love Him for that. I respect
Him for that. I respect God for the fact that
He only saves sinners in a way that honors His justice and His
holiness. That's what it is to fear the
Lord. It's to see how God can be holy and righteous and just
and yet embrace me, a poor old vile sinner, and yet God's not
contaminated by my sin. He does this through the substitute,
through the satisfaction of divine justice accomplished by His Son
at the cross. We fear the Lord. We have a heart
admiration for God. He doesn't say who is among you
that is religious or who is among you that's trying to live a decent
life or He doesn't even say who is among you that wants to go
to heaven when you die. It says, who is among you that
feareth the Lord? Here is the second question.
Who is among you that obeyeth the voice of his servant? Well, who is God's servant? We
address this a little bit this morning. Go to Hebrews, if you
would, chapter 13. Hebrews chapter 13, and I would
say that first of all, God's servant is every preacher of
the gospel. We're the servant of the Lord.
If you look through all these epistles, in fact, you go into
Hebrews chapter 13, just look down at James chapter 1, you're
right there at it anyhow. James chapter 1 in verse 1, It
says, James, a servant of God. And you'll find that so often
in the epistles. The writer identifies himself
as being a servant of the Lord, a servant of God, a servant of
Jesus Christ. So who are those that obey the
voice of the servant of God? The servant of God is the preacher
of the gospel. Go back into Hebrews chapter
13. Look at verse 7. Hebrews 13 verse 7, remember
them that have the rule over you. God's preachers have the
rule over you. That doesn't mean we run your
life. Hey, I'm not your spiritual policeman. I'm not inspecting your life.
You will receive from me, you might receive a visit from me,
but you will not receive from me a visit for pastoral evaluation
of your life. I'm not going to do that because
I'm afraid you might visit me for a church evaluation of the
preacher. So I'm not going to evaluate
you and I don't want you to evaluate me. This rule has nothing to
do with a man running somebody's business. Boy, I hear preachers
preach sometime and I just want to say to them, you're in my
business. Now, you can't tell me how to
run my life. You can't tell me what to do. You can't tell women
all these things that they need. You women shouldn't work and
you shouldn't wear slacks and all these sort of things. You
know, you need to wear dresses down your ankles and so forth. I am running your life. I'm not trying to run your life.
Well, what is this rule? It's a spiritual rule. It's a
rule in the house of God. It's a rule when it comes to
the things of the Lord. Somebody's got to be in charge.
And God's appointed His servants, His preachers. Who are they?
How can you identify them? They've spoken unto you the word
of God. That's what God's servants do.
They speak to you the word of God. Not their word, not the
word of the denomination, not the word of the Baptist church,
but the word of God. They preach to you the written
Word of God and they preach to you the incarnate Word of God,
Jesus Christ the Lord, who is in the beginning with God, the
Word of God. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. We preach to you, we've spoken
to you of the Word of God. He says, whose faith follow.
That word follows imitate. When I tell you that I believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, that He's all my hope, He's all my
righteousness, He's all my wisdom, He's all my holiness, He's all
my sanctification, He's all my redemption, here's what I want
you to do. I want you to follow me. I want
you to imitate. I want Christ to be the same
to you. Imitate me. Paul said, follow
me as I follow Christ. Somebody said, I'll never follow
a man. Don't push it too far. I'm not going to blindly follow
any man, but I'll follow a man as long as he takes me to Christ.
If you take me away from Christ, then buddy, you're going by yourself
now. This is where our ways part. But as long as the preacher is
telling me about the Son of God, he's telling me about the grace
of God, he's telling me about the blood of the Son of God,
the righteousness of the Son of God, he's telling me salvations
altogether of grace, Boy, I'm going to follow him. I'm going
to follow him. He might be quirky in some ways
and he might be an unusual guy, but if he's telling me the truth,
I'm going to follow him. That's what Paul says, who faith
follow. Imitate. Watch this. Considering the end of their
conversation. Consider their goal. I've got I've got two main goals. I'll just tell you that. I've
got two main goals. And every preacher of the gospel,
he's got these two main goals. Now, I know a hireling does it. There are a lot of hireling preachers
out here. It's their vocation. I used to work at a restaurant.
Pretty good short order cook, actually. So I can fend for myself
if my wife has to be gone. I can cook for myself. But I
worked for a guy. He was a preacher. And he owned
the restaurant. That's when I was in high school.
Then I went away to Bible college. Then I came back to Rocky Mount,
Virginia to be pastor of Central Baptist Church. And we were out
at a buffet one day. I like buffets. Don't you? I
like buffets. It's cheaper by the mouthful
there. But we was at a buffet. And I saw this preacher. He was
a preacher and I won't tell you what church. He wasn't much of
a preacher and he wasn't much of a church either. But anyway,
he is the pastor of the church. And he came up to me and he said,
hey Jim, good to see you. And I called him by name. I said,
good to see you. He said, doesn't it feel good
to have a week's work behind you already? That was after the
Sunday morning service was at Sunday afternoon, Sunday lunch
at the buffet line. He said, doesn't it feel good
to have a week's work behind you already? He's done. He's done for the week. And then
he retired in his denomination. They provide him a retirement.
He's in a retirement village. Probably still is today. Got
a big lake where they fish, big nice golf course where they play
golf. He's a hireling. That's all he
was. God's preachers are not hirelings.
This is not vocation. It's a calling. It's a calling. And God's preachers, every one
of God's preachers has two goals. Two goals. Number one, the glory
of God. The glory of God. Our brother
read, God said, my glory will I not give to another. Don't
you try to steal God's glory. He will put you in hell for that. That's a sure enough thing. If
you want to perish in your sin, you just try to lay your filthy
hands on God's glory. And He will absolutely do away
with you. There won't be so much left as
a spot of you. He'll just roll over you like
a mighty juggernaut. That'll be the end of you. My
goal is to glorify God. Now follow me in this. Let's
seek God's glory. Seek God's glory. See, the reason
we follow preachers is because we consider their end. I'm talking
about preachers of the gospel now. The reason we want to imitate
their faith is because we know what their goal is. They seek
the glory of God. And all of you who are God's
children, Those of you who are watching, those of you who are
listening to this, you all would echo me on this. That's what
we want, is for God to be glorified. We want God's will to be done.
We pray, our Lord said in that prayer that he taught his disciples
to pray, you pray this way, thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. That's what we want. Want God's
will. Now, God's will may, you know,
I may want somebody to be healed and somebody to feel better and
that sort of thing. I may ask God, would you please
change these circumstances for so-and-so who's having difficulties,
but Lord, not my will, thy will be done, because I want you to
be glorified. Whatever happens to me, I want you to be glorified.
That's the way I feel deep down. I'm talking about deep down in
my soul. We all got shallow feelings. They're fleshly and they're carnal,
right? We all like that. I'm talking
about deep down in the soul, in the soul where God's put His
life, where God's put His grace. That's what we want is God to
be glorified. And the second thing every preacher
of the gospel wants is this, your salvation. your salvation. Brethren, oh
listen to Paul. Listen to Paul. Brethren, my
heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might
be saved. I want you to be saved. I want
you to know this God of grace. I want you to know Jesus Christ
the Lord. I want you to see the beauties,
the beauties of the Son of God. I want you to see Him for who
He is in His grace and in His mercy. Savior is Jesus, my Lord. I want you to see and know and
experience the power of His blood. The efficacy of His blood. That
His blood fully put away the sins of all those for whom He
died. I want you to see that. I want
you to know that. I want you to experience the
life-giving power of His blood. And I want you to, in your heart,
to rejoice in Christ Jesus and His shed blood. That's what I
want. I don't want you to perish. I
don't want you to go to hell. Go to hell with a Bible in your
hand. Go to hell with the gospel in
your ears. Oh God, don't let anybody here
perish. Lord, make your gospel known
to us. That's what I want. Oh, God,
open up our hearts. We're just poor and helpless
sinners. Lord, won't you help us? That's
what I pray. When I pray at night, I ask,
oh, God, you got to do something for us, because we can't do anything
for ourselves. That's what I want. I want God's glory. If you won't
pray for yourself, I'll pray for you. If you won't weep over
yourself, I'll weep for you. If you won't cry out to God,
I'll cry out to God for you. Oh God, do something for sinners. Isn't that what we want? That's
what we want. We want God's glory. We want
the salvation of sinners. That's the way all of God's preachers
are. That's the way the servants of the Lord are. Without fail,
I don't care what preacher of the gospel it is, a man who loves
God in his heart, who sees the glory of Christ Jesus, he wants
God's glory in all things, and he wants those that he loves.
And I love this congregation. I read that passage in Philippians
chapter 1, to begin the service. And I thought of all you folks
when I read it. I've had love for this congregation
for years and years. And here's what I want for you.
I want God to do a work within you. That's what I want. That's
what I want for my children. That's what I want for my grandchildren. That's what I want for everybody
in my family. That's what I want God to do
for you. He don't have to do anything for us. He doesn't. And if he doesn't, he's still
God and I'm still going to worship him. If he sends some of my family
members to hell, I'm going to say, Lord, you're right. It hurts
me, but you're right. It'd break my heart to know that
one of my family members died and perished without Jesus Christ.
But listen, if they perish without Jesus Christ, if they perish
in unbelief, they're getting exactly what they deserve. And
I love you. I'm thankful for you. But if
you don't bow to Jesus Christ the Lord, and in your heart,
if you don't submit to Him and run up the flag of surrender
and say, He's the Lord, you've cleaned your self-righteous rags,
you'll perish in your sins. And when God throws you into
hell, I'm going to say, Lord, you did right. Amen. I say amen to whatever God does,
don't you? I say amen. Whatever you do is
right. It's not right because it's not
what I say is right, it's what God says is right. Whatever God
does is right. We listen to His servants. Go
back over here to my text. Boy, I've got to get moving here.
But in Isaiah 50, He says that, Obeyeth the voice of His servants.
Oh, that you would obey my voice and look to Christ. See, I'm
like Moses. Children of Israel have been
bitten. We're going to deal with this Wednesday night. I'm going
to get into John 3, verse 14. They've been bitten. God told
Moses, put up a serpent of brass in the wilderness. And you tell them to look. And
everybody who looks, And would you obey my voice? Would you
do what I'm telling you to do? Christ lifted up. He said, as
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of Man be lifted up. That whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish but have eternal life. I tell you, Jesus Christ
has been lifted up. Lifted up according to God's
eternal purpose of grace. Lifted up according to His covenant
promises when He became our surety in that great covenant. He's
been lifted up to die. He's the substitute. He's the
satisfaction for divine justice. Oh, poor sinner, I tell you,
look to Jesus Christ and live. Look and live. Look and live. Obey the voice of the servant.
But there's more here than this. It's not just merely obey the
voice of the sons of men, the servants of the Lord, but obey
the servant of God. That's Jesus Christ the Lord.
Our brother read to us there in Isaiah chapter 42. God talked
about His servant, Christ Jesus. In fact, look over here at Isaiah
52. Look at Isaiah 52. Look at verse 13. Isaiah 52 and
verse 13. Behold, God says, My servant,
he shall deal prudently, wisely. He shall be exalted and extolled
and be very high. He is talking about the reward
of his sufferings and death. He is going to be exalted. He
will be extolled and be very high. How high? At the Father's
right hand. How high? Exalted over everything. How high? given authority over
all things to give eternal life to as many as the Father has
given Him. You obey this servant now. You
obey this servant. Look in chapter 53. Chapter 53, look down at verse
10. Isaiah 53, 10. Yet it pleased
the Lord to bruise He hath put him to grief when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin. He shall see his seed, he
shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper
in his hand. He shall see the travail of his
soul. and shall be satisfied. By His
knowledge shall my righteous servant, here's this servant,
Christ the Lord, by His knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many for, and the word for is because, He shall justify many
because He shall bear their iniquities and He'll bear them away. And
He did that on the cross. You need to obey God's servant. You need to obey Christ the Lord. Go back to the text. Who is among
you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant?
What is the voice of Christ Jesus? You know what His voice? That's
His Word. That's His Word. That's His Gospel. You obey the
Gospel. And walketh in darkness. Anybody amongst the children
of God here tonight walking in darkness? Got a black cloud over
your head. You ever feel like that sometime,
man? Everywhere I go, I got a black cloud over my head. Things are
dark and dismal. I'm happy, I'm thankful for the
sunshiny days and I see the Lord rather clearly and rejoice in
His grace and in His mercy and understand and think about and
appreciate His good providence that's bringing to pass His predestination. I'm thankful for those sunny
days but I'll be honest with you, I have some dark days. I believe everybody does. What do you do in those dark
days? These storms of life, when the
thunderclouds roll in, what do you do? I've had people say to
me, when folks go to the cemetery where they've got to bury somebody,
How can they get along without the Lord? Well, they've never
had the Lord. That's it. They don't know what
they're missing. But all of God's people have
gloomy days. Do you ever have those days when you can't even put your finger
on it but you say, I don't know. I don't know what's the matter
with me today. I'm just, just leave me alone. Just leave me
alone. I'm down in the dust. What's
the matter? I don't know. Don't even ask me. You ever get
like that? It could be sickness, it could
be problems in the family, it could be as you look at the world
situation and all that's going on. Remember God reigns. God reigns. What do you do in those situations?
Well, he says two things. Trust in the name of the Lord.
But he doesn't just say, trust in the name of the Lord. It says,
let him trust in the name of the Lord. Let him! Satan doesn't
want you to trust in the name of the Lord, but the Lord says
to Satan, let him trust! Let him trust! And your family
members, they may be against the gospel, and they may hate
everything about sovereign grace, but the Lord says to them, let
him trust! Let Him trust. And your own vile
nature may be opposed and is opposed to the way of grace,
and God says to your own vile nature, let Him trust. Let Him
trust. Trust what? Trust in the name
of the Lord. The name of the Lord. What does
that mean, the name of the Lord? That's everything God is. That's
all of His perfection. Let Him trust in the Lord. Where is there safety? Where
is there going to be safety for any of us? In the name of the
Lord. What is in the name of the Lord?
He is Jehovah Jireh. The Lord will provide. He is
Jehovah Rapha. The Lord that healeth thee. He
is Jehovah Nissi. The Lord our banner. He is Jehovah
Ra. The Lord is my shepherd. He is
Jehovah Shalom. The Lord is my peace. He is Jehovah
Sidkenu. The Lord is my righteousness.
He is Jehovah Shammah. The Lord is there. Let him trust
in the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord is everything
that God is and everything that God is, He is to His people.
Trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon His God. Stay upon His God. That means
lean on, rest upon, be supported by God. Be supported by God. Rest on His power to protect
you. Rest on His wisdom to guide you. Rest on His grace to provide
you for all your needs. Lean on the Lord. The arm of
flesh will fail you. You dare not lean on the arm
of the flesh. Lean on the Lord. We are going
to sing a closing song here in a few minutes and we are going
to change that one to leaning on the everlasting arms. I am
just giving you a little hint. Lean on the Lord. Trust the Lord. Rely upon the Lord. And watch
this, let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his
God. Just keep on walking. Notice
it says that walketh in darkness. Even if you are in darkness,
just keep on walking. I like it, just keep on walking.
Preacher, if you are in the dark, better stop. No, true believers
don't quit. We just keep on going. It may
be little baby steps. It may be just, I'm inching along
here. I may be on a walker, I may be
on crutches, but I'm going to keep on walking now. Even if
I'm in the dark. Because the Lord is the light
of my salvation. Whom shall I be afraid? And if
I can't see the light, There's an old song, I bet you know,
the back of the clouds, the sun's always shining. It's always shining. Maybe I can't see the sun very
clear, but I'll tell you what, the son of righteousness, he's
always there. He's always there. Whether I
see him or not, whether I perceive his presence or not, he's always
there because he said, I'm not going to leave you and I'm not
going to forsake you. Now here's a final word on verse
11. Children of darkness walking
in light. All you that kindle a fire, behold
now, behold, listen up! He didn't even put a behold in
front of verse 10, but he puts a behold in front of verse 11.
Behold! Let me get your attention! That's
what he's saying. Behold is a word of attention.
Reach out and grab it. All right, listen up now. All
you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with
sparks, you walk in the light of your
fire and in the sparks that you've kindled. See, sparks, they can't
warm your hands. Sparks, they can't provide you
any light. You walk in the sparks of your
own self-righteousness. God says, this is what's going
to happen to you. And you're going to have it from my hand. You're going to lie down in sorrow.
And you're going to have sorrow forever. Boy, that's solemn. That's solemn. If you insist on trying to work
your way into God's good graces, this is what you're in for. You
insist upon being saved your way, even by your repentance
or your faith or your anything, and you won't bow to the blood
and righteousness of Jesus Christ, you are not going to come to
a good ending. And if you persist in this, you
perish like that, you know what? You're going to remember this
message too. I believe that. I believe that's a good bit of
hell's memory. I remember when that man talked
to me about Christ Jesus and he preached from his heart. He
told me about the Savior. I wasn't interested. I wasn't
interested. Children of God, you walk in
darkness. Trust in the name of the Lord.
Stay upon your God. Lean upon your God. Leaning on
the everlasting... What number is that? 460.