Good evening, let's stand together,
we'll sing hymn number 39. Hymn number 39, if you don't
have it written in yet, the third verse, second half of the second
to the last line is, the battle has been won, Jesus has died,
God is satisfied, oh the wonders of his grace. This is my father's world, and
to my listening ears, all nature sings and round me rings the
music of the steers. This is my father's world I rest
me in the thought Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas His
hand of wonders wrought This is my father's world The birds
their carols raise The morning light the lily white Declare
their maker's praise This is my father's world He shines in
all that's fair In rustling grass I hear him pass He speaks to
me everywhere This is my father's world Oh, let me ne'er forget
That though the wrong seems all so strong, God is the ruler yet. This is my Father's plan. Be seated. In our course books
on page 21, course books on page 21, How
Tedious and Tasteless. How tedious and tasteless the
hours when Jesus I no longer see. Sweet prospects, sweet birds,
and sweet flowers have all lost their sweetness to me. The midsummer sun shines but
dim. The fields strive in vain to
look gay, But when I am happy and empty, December's as pleasant
as may. His name yields the richest perfume,
And sweeter than music his voice, His presence disperses my gloom. And makes all within me rejoice. I should were he always thus
kind, Have nothing to wish or to fear, No mortal less happy
as I. I, summer would last all the
year Content with beholding his face I, all to his pleasure reside
Though, changes of season or place Would, make any change
in my mind I'm blessed with a sense of His love A palace that joy
would appear All prisons would palaces prove If Jesus would
dwell with me there Come near, Lord, if indeed I am Thine If
thou art my sun and my song, say, why do I languish in pine? And why are my winters so long? Oh, drive these dark clouds from
the sky, Thine soul-cheering presence restore. Take me to Thee upon highward,
Winter and clouds are no more. Romans chapter 3, Romans chapter
3. Our dear friend, preacher friend
Marvin Starnaker had a stroke and they've done some MRIs and done
some blood work and things on him but all the bleeding in his
brain seems to stop but he has an awful headache. because there's
blood still on his brain. And they're keeping him asleep
so he won't, head hurts so bad. They're gonna do another MRI. I think it was either today or
tomorrow. Check on his brain again. But
I certainly remember him. Boy, we just don't know what
a day's gonna bring forth, do we? Don't know what a day's gonna
bring forth. Certainly remember him. All right, I'm going to
start reading in verse 1 of chapter 3 and read down through verse
8. What advantage then hath the
Jew, or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way,
chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of
God. For what if some did not believe?
Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
God forbid, yea, let God be true, but ever man a liar, as it is
written, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and
thou mightest overcome when thou art judged. But if our unrighteousness
commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say then? Is God unrighteous who taketh
vengeance? I speak as a man. God forbid,
for then shall God judge the world. For if the truth of God
hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am
I also judged as a sinner, and not rather as we be slanderously
reported, and some affirm that we say, let us do evil, that
good may come, whose damnation is just. Our blessed, blessed Father in
Heaven, our great, great, glorious God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
our Lord. Lord, we always come with thanksgiving,
always grateful for the day you've given us, for the strength you
give us day by day. Lord, as our days be, so shall
our strength. And we thank you for that. We
thank you that you always, always keep your hand upon us and preserve
us and keep us. Oh Lord, if you didn't keep us,
what would we do? We can't keep ourselves. We're
so thankful for your keeping, preserving us, keeping our heart,
keeping our souls, keeping us, oh Lord, from our own flesh and
sin in the world. God, thank you for that. And
Lord, we thank you that you allowed us to meet here tonight to worship,
worship, worship, worship the true and living God. And our
Lord Jesus, I pray that you would enable me to speak, make what
is written here understandable, and Lord, give me wisdom to do
that, give the ears to hear. And Lord, we pray for our dear
friends, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, whose bodies are weak,
whose bodies are frail. We pray especially for Marvin,
dear brother Marvin. Lord, he's a pastor, and a church
always needs a shepherd. So Lord, if you'd be pleased
to raise him back up, we'll bless you forever and ever. But Lord,
we're gonna bless you, and I know he'd bless you for this. Lord,
encourage him and encourage the saints there, encourage his dear
wife, Lord, please bring glory to yourself through that situation
for Christ's sake, amen. Page number nine in our course
books, we'll sing Say Sinner Will You Meet Me on page nine
in the course book. Say sinner, will you meet me? Say sinner, will you meet me? On Canaan's happy shore By the
grace of God I'll meet you By the grace of God I'll meet you
By the grace of God I'll meet you On Canaan's happy shore And give Him glory There we'll
shout and give Him glory There we'll shout and give Him glory
For glory is His name Paul asked a Jews asked a question
there in verse 1. What advantage then hath the
Jew? Because you remember Paul took
them to task. They are confident that they
are gods of the blind and they themselves are in darkness. You
know they instruct people and they teach people and yet don't
teach themselves. They preach against adultery
and then they commit adultery. And he says the name of God is
blasphemed, blasphemed that is written. And their whole hope
was in the law and in circumcision, that was their whole hope. And
in reading chapter 2 you can see why the Jews come back with
some questions. So I'm back with some questions.
Look what he said up here in verse 28 of chapter 2. Paul said, For he is not a Jew
which is one outwardly, just because you are a Jew outwardly,
and neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh.
That's not true circumcision. God Himself said circumcise the
heart, not the flesh. But he said, I'll tell you who's
a Jew which is one inwardly, And circumcision is that of the
heart, God cleansing the heart, taking the hardness of the heart,
and taking the heart and giving a new heart, and in the spirit,
in the spirit of a man, and not in the letter of the law, because
if it's in the letter of the law, whose praise is of men,
men will be praising you if YOU keep the law, YOU keep the letter
of the law. And if you glory in your praise,
men will praise you, but God won't do that. God's only interested
in that people that have the circumcision of the heart, and
that's a true Jew. And as I've often said, I don't
have no Jew blood in me. As far as I know, I don't have
any at all. But according to that verse right there, those
two verses right there, I'm actually a Jew. God made me, you know,
He made us a holy nation, a peculiar people. And so the Jews come
back with some questions after Paul had told them that they
didn't have any hope, that they was no better off than the Gentiles
was, no better off at all. And so they come back with some
objections in the apostles' argument, you know, where Paul said that
God is no respect of persons, and they thought that He was.
He especially respected them. The truth that the Jews needed
righteousness as much as the Gentiles, that really, really
upset the Jews. Now, as far as this world goes,
and as far as what the Bible does, and in those times there
were only two classes of people, Jews and Gentiles, you know,
but all men was lost or saved, but anyway, but Jews and Gentiles,
and that's the way the Scriptures described them. Now, we're Gentiles,
we're Gentiles. And I tell you then the Gentiles,
and he told them that the Jews needed righteous as much as the
Gentiles. And is the Jew, and what he's
asking is, is the Jew on the same spiritual level as the Gentiles? That's what they're saying. Is
the Jew no bigger and no better than the Gentiles here? They
don't have a greater spiritual elevation? And oh, how do you
explain? And they say, How do you explain
the fact that God Himself made a distinction between Jew and
Gentile? Well, Paul deals with that from
here, Romans chapter 3 all the way to Romans chapter 11, show
how God made a distinction in one way and then not another
way. So Paul really, really answers the question all the way to chapter
11, and he PROVES, now listen to him, he PROVES It's the Jews'
perversion of the truth. It's their perversion of the
truth. When our Lord was on this earth, they perverted the truth
and our Lord Himself called them for perverting the truth. They
perverted the truth of God. They perverted the covenant.
you know, that God made a covenant with Abraham, the covenant of
circumcision as a token, and also the token of the blood.
But here the Jews, they perverted the truth of the law, and they
perverted the covenant, and they were so unfaithful to God that
makes their privileges, their privileges bring them into a
greater, greater condemnation. You remember when our Lord opened
a blind man s eyes, and they said, You know, said the Pharisees
come and ask him, said, Are we blind also? Our Lord said, If
you were blind, if you really was blind, you d have no sin. But because you say, I see, I
SEE MY LAW, I SEE MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, I SEE MY LAW-KEEPING, I SEE MY
WORKS, I SEE MY OBEDIENCE, I SEE MY CIRCUMCISION, I SEE MOSES,
I SEE ALL THE THINGS AND PRIVILEGES I GOT, I SEE ALL OF THEM, BUT
I DON?T SEE YOU. I DON?T SEE CHRIST, I DON?T SEE
SIN, I DON?T SEE MYSELF AS A SINNER. And that?s why I said because
you?re not blind, going to leave you alone. This
is judgment, this is the judgment of God on you, and oh, my! And I tell you, their privileges
bring them into a greater condemnation, and I know the more light a person
has, the greater responsibility they have to that light. And
I tell you, there s four objections to Paul teaching here that the
Jews raise. And you know, Paul, Paul s the
one that wrote this, and he knows how Jews think. He knows exactly
how they think. He dealt with them in all of
his ministry over all the times that they stood up against him,
tried to kill him, tried to destroy him, had him put in prison, everything
else. So they hated him and hated his
gospel. So they bring four objections
to Paul s teaching raised by the Jews. Maybe Paul brought
them up, but anyway, he knew how they thought. Here s the
first thing that they objected to when he says, Don t make any
difference between Jew and Gentile. You ve got to be a Jew inwardly.
It s not just because you are a son of Abraham, not just because
you follow Moses. What advantage then hath the
Jew? And he said, What profit is there of circumcision? If
these things don't mean nothing, what profit is it to be a Jew?
Why does it matter whether we're a Jew or not? Well, that's why
he went back up there and said, He's not a Jew which is worn
outwardly, neither circumcision which is
outward in the flesh. I don't have nothing to do with
it. Oh, got to have a new heart, got to have a new nature, got
to have a new, follow not the letter. According to your teaching,
is what they re saying to Paul, there s no use in the Old Covenant. God is unfaithful to the Jewish
people. God s unfaithful to have given
us any advantage to being a Jew under the Old Testament. And
oh, my, when REALLY He was given NONE, because you say the Jews
are no better off than a Gentile is, is what He said, and they
don t like that. What advantage then does I have?
And there s people that way today. I mean there s people that way
today. Oh, my, you know, what advantage did we have under the
Old Testament? Well, no, God was really not
giving us any because you say the Jews are no better off than
the Gentiles are than anybody else. And then look how He answers
them in verse 2. Much in every way, much every
way, He's going to answer them. And oh, and here's the first,
the chief thing, the chiefest thing, the number one thing,
the greatest thing that advantage of the Jew had is this, that
under them were committed the oracles of God. So what is he saying? That God
gave you his word. You know, when God come down off, when
Moses come down off that mountain, he come down there with something
written with the hand of God himself. God took two tables
of stone and took His finger and wrote on all of them, wrote
on them. And I tell you, then God SPOKE
off that mountain, and God said, Moses, go tell them! And they
had the first five books of the Bible. They had Genesis, they
had Exodus, they had Leviticus, They had NUMBERS and they had
DEUTERONOMY. They had God s Word, and yet,
beloved, they said, Oh, you had God s Word, the oracles of God
yourself. God trusted you with His LIVING
WORD. And oh, here s something else
that you had. You had God s Law come from His
own mouth, written with the fingers of God. You had PROMISES that
nobody else had. You had promises that God would
bless you and prosper you. You had the prophecies concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ. You had the prophecies concerning
all the things that God would do in the latter days. You had
the pictures of the Messiah. You had the ark. You had the
Passover lamb. You had the bloodshed put over.
You had all these things. And oh my, you had the prophets. And oh, one of the greatest things
you had, you had the tabernacle in the wilderness. And God only
met people at that tabernacle, didn't meet them anywhere else.
He met you in that tabernacle, that tent out there in the wilderness.
And I tell you what, He gave you a priesthood that nobody
else had. He gave you sacrifices and told
you what sacrifices to offer and how to offer them and when
to offer them. Oh my. All given by God. God give them
to Him in His Word. Give them to Him in His Word.
And oh my, I tell you what, Peter said this, if any man preach,
let him preach as the oracles of God. Let him preach as God's
Word he's using. God's Word he's using. So oh
my, you got an advantage, you do. God gave you His Word. He gave it to you and He didn't
give it to nobody else. You know, the Jews is the only
people that had the Word of God. The only one that had. And the
only reason we've got an English Bible is because there was a
fellow named King James. They started printing the Bible.
A fellow named William Tyndale started printing the Bible, and
they hunted him like a thief, and somebody was going to kill
him because the Catholics at that particular time ruled the
world, and they didn't want people to have a Bible in their hands.
So they started printing Bibles, and especially New Testament,
sending them out here, sending them out there. And it was against
the law to have a Bible. Well, finally, they got a king,
And they had a king, and a king appointed some men to write the
scriptures in an English language that men could read for themselves
and understand for themselves. And so before that, nobody had
a Bible but the Jews. Nobody had the Word but the Jews.
And ain't you glad God gave us a Bible? My goodness that this is this
is a living word It's a living word and all my they had everything
they had the oracles of God And all here's the here's the second
objection look in verse 3. Oh This is he says for what if
some did not believe? What if some of the Jews did
not believe? Oh? Shall their unbelief make
God's faith, the faith of God, without effect? Does it not work?
And what they're saying is, if we had the living oracles, what
about those who had no faith and believed in God's word? What
if some did not believe? And that's why Isaiah said, who
has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord
been believed? Let me show you something over
here in Hebrews chapter three. I'll mention this, I'll bring
this out, continue to bring this out. And what they're saying,
well, what if some people of them didn't believe? What if
some of them didn't believe? Did their unbelief make these
oracles, make the word of God, the promises of none of that,
make them void? Look what he said in Hebrews
3.15. while it is said, Today, today,
if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."
So there was a provocation, they provoked God sometime, so for
some when they had HEARD, you listen to that? heard the oracles
of God, heard the word of God, heard the law of God, seen the
sacrifices of God, when they had heard, did provoke, howbeit
not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was God
grieved for forty years? Was it not with them that sinned,
whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? You know the only reason they
stayed in the wilderness for 40 years? God to kill all them
unbelievers. They could have went in the promised
land just in a few days, but they went around and around so
God could leave all them unbelievers and all those hateful people
to die in the wilderness. And look what he said in verse
18. God swear that they should not enter into his rest, but
them that believe not. Them that believe not. we see
that they could not enter into the Promised Land, into the covenant
of grace, into ANY of the things that God did because of unbelief. Oh, my! And look what He says
here, Let us therefore fear lest the promise God leaves us of,
entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short
of it. Now listen to this, and watch this. For unto us was the
gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word priest did
not profit them, being mixed with faith them that heard it.
They didn't have any faith. They didn't believe. They didn't
believe God. They didn't believe what God said. They didn't believe
His law. They didn't believe His word. Oh my, so go back over
here in our text. What if some did not believe
then? What about some of these didn't believe the Word of God?
Does that mean that God's faith is without effect? Is it God's
Word, God's truth made of none effect? Is His promises useless? Are they void? Because someone
doesn't believe the Word of God, is it because of God's unfaithfulness? If somebody doesn t believe,
is it because God s unfaithful? Is it the Word s fault if a person
does not believe? Oh my! Most of the Jewish nation
did not believe in redemption by blood. They did not have faith. They had a righteousness of their
own making. They didn t believe that they
d ever be able to have to face the judgment. And they believe
that God made their covenant with Abraham, and He said He's
made it in voice because He's not doing anything for us. And
I'll tell you, this is a fact. Just because, and I've said this
many times, just because somebody refuses to believe, is it God's
fault? If somebody says, I don't believe,
I don't believe I need the blood. I don't believe I need faith.
I don't believe I need a righteousness. Is it God's fault that you're
that way? Huh? And that's what they're trying
to say. God's fault that we're not believers. And Paul said,
no, no, no, that's not right. You're unbelievers because you
didn't have faith. You didn't believe God. You didn't
want to follow God. And Moses taking that high-minded
bunch out through the wilderness. They murmured and complained
and griped and grouched. And God said, I've had all of
them, I'm going to take. We're going to walk around this
wilderness, go in circles until all of you are dead. I'm not
fixing to take you. Only people that believe are
going to go into that place. Only people that believe me is
going into that place. Only people believe my word.
Only people believe my promise. Only people's trusting in the
blood is going into that place. The rest of you is not going.
I swear you wasn't gonna do it. Why? Because you didn't have
faith. Oh my. And then look what else
he said. Oh, this is one of his, boy,
you're talking about when he sets somebody straight. This
is what Paul does. He said, God forbid, God forbid. Yea, let God be true. Let God
be true. Oh, because you think that God's
not, you're trying to make your unbelief to be blaming on God.
He said, God forbid, let God be true. Let God be true. Oh, don t ever say such a thing!
God s truth cannot be changed because men lack faith! God s
true to His word! God s true to His nature! God
s true to His promises! God s true to His covenant! God
is true in everything! God is true in His everything! God is true! He is true! true to His Son, He s true to
us. He is true to us. We re not faithful,
our faithfulness ought not be mentioned, but oh my, but God
s true to us with our fumblings and failings and stumblings around,
but He s true to us. And I tell you, you and I may
deny the truth, may even deny God, and to deny the truth is
to deny Him, But Paul said, God can not deny himself. He can't deny himself. Oh my,
if every man, and that's what he went on to say here. Let every
man, let God be true, but every man a liar. Every man a liar. If every man on earth is proven
false, proven to be a liar, God's truth will remain the same. His truth will never change.
And you know, over in Revelation 20, where it says, and the books
were opened, the books were opened. You know what books were opened?
That right there. And the dead were judged out
of that book. Brought them out of the hell,
brought them up from the dead, brought them up and said, this
is what you're gonna be judged by. And I tell you, oh, God's truth were gonna remain
the same, and look what he says there. As it is written, that
thou mightest be justified in whatever you say, and you overcome
when you judge. And oh, let's go back over in
Psalm 51, and look at what he's talking about over here. And
that's the way we feel about God right now. You know, God's
justified in whatever He does. God's justified in whatever He
does. You know, if He don't save your
children, He's justified. If He puts us on our deathbed
tomorrow, He's justified. And look what He said in Psalm
51, verse 4. This is what Dave is saying.
against thee and thee only have I sinned. I sinned! Somebody else did I sin and done
this evil in your sight before you, God Almighty, in your sight,
that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when
you judge me. I've got nothing to say. The
same thing is that every mouth may be stopped and the whole
world become guilty before God. David said, my mouth is stopped
ever how you judge me. You're justified whatever way
you judge me. That's what he's saying. And
oh my. And I tell you, that's exactly
the way we all feel. I feel God is justified in what
he does in this world. And I got no qualms with how
he deals with anybody, me or anybody else. Now, I'm sorry
when people get sick, I'm sorry when people have heartache, I'm
sorry when people go through things, and I'm sorry when I
have to. But yet, God let him be. He's justified whatever he does.
When he brings judgment on a person, he's clear, he's clear. We're
the ones, we got to be cleared by him. and oh my, alright, let's
go back over here again. In verse 5, look what he says
now. This is the arguments that they
make now, and they say, because he says their righteousness doesn't
amount to anything, they're no better off than Gentiles. But
if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, What
shall we say then? Is God unrighteous, who taketh
vengeance? Paul says, Now I'm speaking like
a man, I'm not calling God into question. And what he's saying
is, If our unrighteousness commends or glorifies the righteousness
of God, what shall we say then? And here's what he's saying,
If man's unfaithfulness If man's sin brings greater glory to God,
how can he justly punish a man for it? If I go out here and I live an
unrighteous life, I come to church and I preach and I get up and
then I go out in the world and I live a completely unrighteous
life, will my unrighteousness glorify the righteousness of
God? Will it make God appear more righteous because the way
I live? And that's what they're saying.
If a man's unfaithfulness or sin brings greater glory to God,
how can he justly, justly punish a man? And listen to me, if God
uses sin to glorify Himself, surely He ought not punish the
sinner for it. And that's why He said, Is God
unrighteous to take vengeance? I tell you where God's glorified,
not in a man's sin, not in a man's unrighteousness. I tell you God's
glorified in putting sin away. God's glorified in giving a man
a righteousness. God's glorified in saving a man
by the grace of God. Sin in itself is evil. And I
tell you, let me ask you, do you glory in your children's
sin? Do you glory in their immorality? Do you glory in their lifestyle?
That's what these folks are saying. Well, we just will glory in our
unrighteous lifestyle because it's going to make God greater,
give Him more glory. Paul said, How in the world then
is God going to judge you then? How is He going to bring vengeance?
And oh my, listen to go on now. Here are the apostles being charged
with antinomianism. Now I'll tell you this much.
If you preach free grace, free grace, powerful grace, only grace,
only salvation in Christ, you'll be charged with antinomianism.
What does antinomianism mean? It means that you're without
law. You have no rules. You have nothing to restrain
you, nothing to keep you. I was talking to a fellow the
other day about, you know, you know the scripture said, Don't
commit adultery, so DON'T COMMIT ADULTERY THEN! Oh, but oh, here are the apostles
being charged with antinomianism. You believe in such a way that
your preaching gives excuse to sin! A license to sin, your doctrine
of salvation by grace, of a righteousness without works, leads to immorality
and a tendency to sin. Now, everybody that's ever preached
the gospel freely and powerfully and right, is all, everyone that's
ever done that's been accused of that right there. If I believe,
how many, I don't know how many times I've heard this. If I believe
what you did, I'd go out here in the world and live like hell
and still go to heaven. I've never preached that and
nobody's ever got any information that. You're going to go ahead
and live it like hell anyway, so I mean go on and do it. And
if you don't, God's got to be the one to save you. Oh my, I tell you this, you know,
Paul said it like this, Shall we continue in sin? Shall we continue in sin that
grace may abound? God forbid. How can we that are
dead to sin continue longer therein? Where did we die to sin at? In
Christ. When Christ died to sin and put
sin away, we died to sin in Him. And oh my. Grace is the greatest
motive that there is to glorify and honor God than anything in
this world. Would you understand that it
took the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and His death on
the cross, bloody death on the cross, that it took God punishing
His Son in our room instead to put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself. I tell you, that grace will motivate
you to do things nothing else will. Law won't do it. Church
rules won't do it. But I tell you what, the love
of Christ, he said the love of Christ constrains us, gets a
hold of us and pulls us. Oh my, and I tell you what, if
a fella's gonna, oh I don't need a license to sin, do you? I need a license to drive, I
need a license to fish, I need a license to hunt. but I don't need a license to
sin. No, no. Oh, and I tell you what, and
Armenians and free wheelers still bring this charge, and yet they're
the ones that's backsliding and say, you know, you gotta live
above sin, you gotta quit sinning, you gotta make it all, you gotta
make it ALL the way! On your own. Well, look what
he says now. Here's the answer to that objection. He said in verse 6, God forbid,
if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, if
our sinful life commends the righteousness of God, How in
the world can God take vengeance? How can God bring judgment? God
forbid, then how shall God judge the world? How shall God judge
the world? If man's sin and man's unrighteousness
brings glory to God. And oh my, how's God gonna judge
the world? And then, oh, I love this right
here. Look what he said in verse seven.
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie
unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Oh my, if a man is lying on God,
and God is true, if a man's lying on God, not telling the truth
about God, NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HIMSELF, NOT TELLING THE
TRUTH IN THIS WORLD, AND IF THE TRUTH OF GOD, BY ME LYING, BY
ME LYING, TELLING LIES, MAKING UP STORIES, IF MY LIE ABOUNDS
TO GOD'S GLORY, HE SAID, WHY AM I STILL JUDGED AS A SINNER?
WHY WOULD I STILL BE JUDGED AS A SINNER? SIN ITSELF DOES NOT GLORIFY GOD
OR ANYONE ELSE. IT'S EVIL EVER APART FROM ITS
CONSEQUENCES. AND IT'S EVIDENT, IT'S EVIDENT
THAT LIE AND TRUTH CAN'T WALK TOGETHER. LIE AND TRUTH CAN'T WALK TOGETHER.
TRUTH, LIE HAS TO BE DRESSED UP, MADE TO APPEAR PRETTY. TRUTH WILL STAND NAKED. AND THAT'S WHERE YOU GOTTA FACE
IT. And I tell you what, some lie on God. Oh, my! Some lie on God and lie on us,
and I tell you, they lie on God. I lied on God! You think my life
honored God and glorified God? When I was preaching works, when
I was preaching self-righteousness, when I was preaching the dress
codes and places you could go and places you couldn't? When
I was preaching these lies on God, and trying to save myself
by my own works, and telling everybody else they had to do
it, you've got to dress a certain way, and when you're out in the
world, a woman's got to dress like a woman. She can't go out
in pants. I mean, I preached all that stuff
for a long time. Was my lie that I was preaching,
did that glorify God? No. No, no. Truth and a lie can't walk together.
They can't do it, but I've heard this said before. A lie will
get up and go around the block before truth ever gets off the
steps, because a lie runs head on. And oh, look what he says
about it. And he says, oh my, why am I
judged as a sinner? If I'm lying on God, if I'm not
telling the truth about God, How in the world can He get glory
out of my life? Why didn't God judge me as a
sinner? Well, for being a liar, and not rather, and this is,
he says, as we be slanderously reported. They did this in the
book of Acts, and as we be slanderously reported, and they did this to
Christ. They said, He has a devil. He's a drunkard. He's a winebibber.
He's a friend to publicans and sinners. As we be slanderously
reported, said they slander us, this is they report this on us.
And some say and affirm that we say, let's do evil that good
may come. Let's do something awful evil
that good may come out of it. And Paul says their damnation
is just, just. The truth of God can never abound
through a lie. The lie is against the truth.
Our Lord says the devil's a father of liars, and he begot lies,
and he's a father of liars. And he said in Revelation, he
that loveth and maketh a lie, loveth and maketh a lie shall
be damned. Oh my. And you know, here's the
thing. Where am I at? I've lost something
here. Well, here it is, I found it. Ken Bass, Scott. Well, I said,
if I find it in here, flip through his Bible, try to find the page,
see if I got it turned the right way. But look what he said over
here in Romans 125. Look what he says, talking about
making God a liar, lying on God. Look what he said in Romans 125.
who changed the truth of God into a lie, took God's truth
and changed it into a lie, took God's sovereignty and made man
all-powerful, took away God's free will and
made man's will to be paramount, took away God's purpose and made
salvation by chance, Oh, man changes God s truth into
a lie, and make it appear to say what it doesn t say. It s
like in Genesis, you know, when Satan came, and he came to the
woman, and the first thing he said to her is that, Yea, hath
God said, Yea, hath God said, that if ye eat of that fruit
that you won t die, And oh, she said, yeah. He said,
no, no, we'd die. And he said, no, you shall not
surely die. God's not that kind of a God.
God's not a God of judgment and justice. He won't judge you.
He won't damn you. He won't, you know, no. Listen,
I'll tell you what you do. When you eat that fruit, you
know what you'll be? You'll be like God himself. Your eyes will
be opened, and you'll see things you never saw. And you'll experience
things you never experienced. Huh? Oh, my. And boy, she'd run
over there and got that fruit. Fine, fine, fine. But when Adam
ate it, because he was the head of the woman, when Adam ate it,
that put us in where we're at right now. And I'll tell you
what, when you lie on God, your damnation's just. And I'm so
thankful, so thankful that God saved me, saved me from all the
things I said about him that was so wrong. That's the greatest
shame, the greatest grief I've ever had in my life was when
I found out that the things I said about God was not so. God in
his sovereign mercy brought me to the end of myself. Our Father, our blessed, blessed
Father, in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, thank
you for allowing us to meet here tonight. Thank you for allowing
us to deal with your word. There's nothing about us, nothing
about us, lying, unrighteous, or anything we could ever do
wrong to bring glory to God. But, O Lord, it's in our hearts
and our soul to bring glory to Him in the Gospel and acknowledging
our truth before Him, prostrating ourselves before Him to give
Him all the glory, for He did all the saving, He does all the
keeping, and He'll carry us all the way to glory. God, we bless
you. Lord, thank you for these people
gathered out this evening. God bless them. God encourage
them. God uphold them. Meet their needs. And again,
we pray for Brother Marvin and the congregation up there and
his dear wife. Please meet his needs and raise
him back up for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Every hour of every day, every
moment, and in every way, I'm leaning on Jesus. He's the rock of my soul. I'm singing His praises wherever
I go. Come on in here, boy. Oh, we got a, we're gonna have,
the lady's gonna have dinner Friday, the lady's lunch is this
Friday. Lady's lunch is this Friday.
Hi, buddy. I'm glad you come in. How you
doing?