I'll read three scriptures starting
here in verse 16. The Spirit itself bears witness
with our spirit that we are the children of God. How in the world does that happen? Well, it happens in the gospel.
It happens when, if the Spirit of God has regenerated you and
come to you and done something for you and quickened you and
gave you life, then the Holy Spirit in the gospel bears witness
to your spirit that you're indeed a child of God. Because you react
to the Scriptures. You react in a wondrous way to
what God has to say. And that gives evidence that
you're a child of God. And then He says, if you're children,
then you're heirs. Then you're heirs. Heirs of who? Heirs of God. Heirs of God Himself. And join heirs with Christ. And
listen to this, if so be that we suffer with Him, we'll also
be glorified together with Him. When did we suffer with Christ?
When He did. when he did. When he died, we
died. When he was buried, we was buried.
When he rose, we rose with him. And so, this sufferings of Christ
and being suffered with him guarantees us glory, guarantees us to be
with Christ. Then look what he says in verse
18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed
in us. Now I wanna deal with that subject
right there, the glory which shall be revealed in us. God's
glory revealed in us. You know, when our Lord comes
in glory, we're gonna meet Him in glory, we'll be glorified
together with Him. We'll meet Him. You know, when
He appears, shall we also appear with Him in glory? But here He
talks about His glory revealed in us. We're saved to the praise
of the glory of His grace. And I tell you, and God says
that He will not give His glory to another, but here He's talking
about His glory being revealed in His elect, in His people,
in His people. Now, I don't know about you,
but that's such a blessing to me. It's astounding to me that
God's glory would be revealed in me or revealed in you. And
He's purposed to do that. He's purposed to do that. Over
in 1 Corinthians 1-7 it says over there that according to
His wisdom, the world knew not God but in His wisdom He revealed
unto us the glory that He has purposed in us. The glory that
He's purposed to give us. And I tell you another thing
is that He said, you know, The glory of 1 Peter 1.5.1 says the
same thing. Now you're talking about assurance.
Talking about hope. I want God to be glorified in
Christ. I really do. I really, really
do. I want Him to have all the glory
for what He's done. For He's done it all. All to
Him I owe. And I know Sometimes I have trouble in my own heart
and in my own mind, not because of my past sins or not because
of my future sins, but because of my lack of conformity
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why does that bother me that
I'm and troubled because of my lack
of conformity to Christ. Well, I have an awful coldness
and dullness of heart sometimes in prayer, real dull in prayer.
I'm real dull and cold sometimes in my hearing, cold and dull
in my hearing when I'm sitting here in the gospel. And oh, I
tell you, this really, really troubles me, my hardness of heart. I hope nobody's heart is as hard
as mine. Sometimes I feel utterly and absolutely emotionless. Like
I have no emotions whatsoever. Could care less about anything. And I tell you another thing
that I have such a lack of interest in the things of God sometimes. Such a lack of interest in the
things of God. Such a lack of interest. And
oh, my attitude, oh, to not be conformed to the image of Christ.
My attitude, my nature, my corruption, my hypocrisies. Got them all. It's almost like there's two
of me, and there is two of me, but I think sometimes the worst
one's gonna win out. I think there's a private me
and a personal me. public need. I think the private's
going to win out sometimes. But I heard a fellow say one
time that there's, we appear three different ways. We appear
three different ways. The way we appear to ourselves,
all of us appear some way to ourselves. We view ourselves
one way. And then there we appear a different
way to the public. appear a different way. And then
the way we appear before God. And you know the way we appear
before God is the way it really is. No matter how we view ourselves
or anybody else views us, it's how God views us. That's the
way it really is. That's the way it really is.
So when I say what God says about me, I can believe it. I can believe
it. Oh my. I'll tell you what. When I see from God's holy word
that he's gonna bring glory to himself, and that I'm included
in that eternal purpose, I'm so very thankful it strengthens
my heart. So let's look at this statement
there in Romans 8, 18. I reckon that the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us. What kind of glory is
revealed in us? There's the glory of His electing
grace that's revealed in us. We wouldn't know anything about
election unless God had chosen us. You know when we found out
we was God's elect? When somebody told us. You know, He said He loved us
with an everlasting love and with cords of loving kindness
He called us. And the scripture says in Romans
11, 5, it says, if it's of grace, then it's not of works. If it's
of works, then it's not of grace. It can't be of works and grace
at the same time. They won't mix, they won't mix.
Men say election isn't fair, that God doesn't do things that
way. Well, according hath chosen us in Christ, when? Before the
foundation of the world. Elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit. You know, men
can go and choose their wives. Wives can choose their husbands.
They can choose where they'll go to work, they'll choose where
they'll live, they'll choose a house to live in, they'll choose
how many children they're going to have, and yet they'll refuse
God His rights to do what He will in this world. They want
their rights, but God, you can't have no rights over me. We'll
find out one of these days, won't we? Oh, I'll let them say what
they will. I tell you, His glory of electing
grace is revealed in us, and revealed in us right here, right
now. Paul wrote to the Romans, and he said in Romans 1-7, Beloved
of God, and called. That's how he first addressed
them. He said, Beloved of God. How did he know there's Beloved
of God? Because he knows God. He knows we can recognize His
people. Oh my. And I tell you what, if men wanted
things based on fairness, and if salvation and election was
based on fairness, I tell you this much, God would have never
ever chosen me, would have never done anything for me. But I'm
thankful that God doesn't, men can say things are unfair all
they want to in this world, but I tell you what, The judge of
all the earth, he's going to do what's right. When were we chosen? What were
we when we were chosen? Let's put it that way. The scripture
says we were dead in trespasses and sins. When you're dead, you
can't hear nothing, you can't see nothing, you can't feel nothing.
You can kiss a dead person, they can't feel it. You can tell them
how much you love them, they can't feel it. You can put your
hands on them and squeeze them, they can't feel it. And we were
dead in trespasses and sins. But listen to what He said, God
who hath quickened us together with Christ, that word quickened
means to give life to, together with Christ. And then who it
was, that's what we were like. We were dead. Then God comes
along and He says, I choose you. I elect you. You're mine. You belong to me. When did he do that? He did that
before the foundation of the world. And then look what else
he said. Who it is that elected us? God
did it. God did it. You know people say
well God cast a vote and the devil cast a vote and you decide
to cast and vote. This is not a democracy. You
know, this is not a democracy. No, no, God rules this world. But oh my, and if that's the
way it was, if that's the way it was, that God cast a vote
and the devil cast a vote and you get to decide and vote, then
you know who'd get the glory for that? You would because you
was the one that made the right decision. Then you'd get all
the glory and God wouldn't get any. It all depended upon you
and what you said and what you done. God didn't have anything
to do with it. And oh God, listen to this. God
who saved us and called us with the holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to His own, own purpose and grace. which was given us were at in
Christ Jesus, when? Before the world began. That's
a long time ago. How did he elect us? He chose
us in Christ. According as he hath chosen us
in Christ. Oh, he said, our Lord said, I
gave him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life
to as many as thou hast given him. As many as wore eternal
life, believed. And why did he choose us? Why
did he do it? Well, Ephesians 1 verse 5 said,
according to the good pleasure of His own will. We sang that
song this morning. How can it be? How can it be?
That thou my God shouldst die for me? How can you love me? How can you do anything for me?
There's only one answer. According to the good pleasure
of His will. He works all things after the
counsel of His own will. And the only reason that God
would save anybody and choose anybody is only found in himself. You certainly can't find it in
you, can you? And then let me tell you another
thing. His glory revealed in us. The glory of his redemption,
the glory of God's redemption in Christ is revealed in us. Now what do we mean by redemption?
Look over in Romans 3. Look in Romans 3. And look what
it says over here. You know, redemption means to
buy something. It means to buy something. And redemption means, the redemption
is that Christ bought us with His own blood. We were purchased
with the blood of Christ. Not by the blood of the bulls
and goats, but with His own blood. with the precious blood of Christ
without spot, without blemish, we were redeemed from corruptible
things like silver and gold. But look how it, look what happens
here now. In verse 24, being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption or the paying price of the Lord Jesus
Christ by Christ's blood. You know, let me, Look over in
Galatians 4, let me show you something over there. Let me
show you something in Galatians 4. In verse 4. You know, when God,
Israel was his people, when Jacob went down to Egypt with 70 souls,
and they were down there 400 years, They were always God's
people, and he sent Moses, and he said, Moses, it's time for
my people to come out of Egypt. It's time for my people to be
redeemed. It's time for my people to come
into the land that I promised them. Well, how in the world
are they gonna get out of there? Well, first of all, you gotta
have power. You gotta have the power to do
it. God got the power to redeem people, and the second thing
you gotta have is blood. Blood and power. But you know
when God manifested His power? He said, when I see the blood. And when the blood was applied
on the doors, God said, now go out. Did He have the power to
bring two million people out there? He did. What did He do? He opened the Red Sea. They walked
through on dry land. And here's the thing about it,
because Christ shed His blood for us, washed us from our sins
in His own blood, paid for us by His blood, paid for us by
His death, paid for us by His resurrection, paid for us by
His ascension, I'm telling you this right now, that God, because
the blood's been shed, He's gonna apply the power to make that
blood effectual in your life. And he says, now when I see the
blood, you sin, you sin, you do an awful thing. But you think
God's gonna come by and knock you in the head, gonna knock
you down? No, you know what he's gonna say? When I pass by, I
see the blood. I see the blood. Oh my, we were
sprinkled. You know, It says, you know,
how does that blood apply to us? It's the blood that cleanses
us from sin. It's the blood that cleanses
our conscience. You know, he said, having the blood sprinkled
on our conscience. Sprinkled, and I tell you what,
every time you hear the gospel, God applies the blood. And people
used to all the time, they'd pray, Lord, Manifest your power
get this we sing a song there's power in the blood wonder working
power in the blood You know what it'll do it'll change your heart.
It'll change your mind It'll cleanse you from your mind your
heart your soul everything about you to cleanse you where in God's
sight God was and everybody that wasn't behind that blood you
don't happen to them Every firstborn in Egypt had not died Huh? But who didn't die? Well, all of God's people did
that day. They died in that lamb. And that's the way we did. We
died in that lamb. And God said, when I see the
blood, I'm gonna pass over you. And oh, there's a wonder, wonder.
I said Galatians 4. Let me look at this with you
right quick. Look what it says now. When the
fullness of time was come, It always happens that way with
God. God's time is not our time. God sent forth His Son, and He
was made of a woman, and then He was made under the law. Why
was He made of a woman? Why was He made under the law?
To redeem them, to buy them, to pay for them, that were under
the law, that we might receive, and that's where the Spirit comes
into our hearts, and we have the adoption of sons, And because
you are sons, because you are sons, God has sent forth the
spirit of his son into your hearts where we cry, oh father, our
father. So we're no more a servant, we're
no more under the law, we're no more slaves, but we're sons. And if you're a son, you're an
heir of God. And oh my. And this is the thing about redemption. It's a wonder that there would
be any redemption at all. When you think about it. You
think about it. If you know yourself, isn't it
amazing to you that God would give His Son to shed His blood
for you? To wash you from His sin? That
Christ would pay for you? Pay your sin debt? Provide you
a righteousness? Pay all your obligations? Take
you out from under the law and it's awful curse? Save you from yourself? Save
you from your sin? Save you from your self-righteousness?
Oh, it's a wonder there'd be any redemption at all. And it's
a wonder, beloved, because who purposed it? Who purposed it? You and I didn't. You and I didn't. God did. Why don't we know that? Christ
stood as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
And oh my. And I tell you, He didn't redeem
angels. You know that? He never paid
a penny. Never shed any blood, not for
one angel. Not for one angel. And oh, who
it was that redeemed sinners. Awful sinners. Terrible sinners. black-hearted sinners, corrupt
sinners, cruel sinners, hateful sinners, dark sinners, any way
you describe them as sinners. And I tell you this is a wonder
who their Redeemer was, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The Lord
Jesus Christ was our Redeemer. And the greatest wonder of all
is that He redeemed me. He paid for me. He paid for me. He paid for me. Oh my. Well, that's the song
they sang in glory unto him that loved us and washed us from our
sins in his own blood, redeemed us unto God out of every kindred,
nation, tongue, and people. And let me give you another thing
about his glory revealed in us. Give you the third thing. The
glory of his effectual call. Now we talked about the blood
being applied. We talked about the redemption.
But now listen to this. How's this redemption gonna be
applied? How's this gonna be, how are we gonna get this redemption? How are we gonna get this blood
applied to our hearts? Well, God effectually calls his
people to himself. Now what does effectually mean?
Henry Mahan said it means he gets the job done. He gets a job tonight. Our Lord said, He said, I lay
down my life for the sheep. And He said, I have sheep and
I know them sheep. And I lay down my life for them
sheep. And I know them and they know me. And here's what our
Lord Jesus Christ said, we were aliens from God. Sinners ever
you know with there's a lot of talk about Illegal aliens illegal
aliens in America and all that well that we were aliens, and
we were illegal We were saying this from God and we were illegal
God could not justify us and let us be part of his family
and So I tell you, that's why the blood was shed. But oh my,
we was without God, without hope, and without Christ in this world.
We desperately needed life. People say, God wakes you up.
No, we don't need woke up. We need life. We need life from
the dead. You know how you know you're
alive? Because you passed from death to life. All of us gonna
pass from life into death one of these days. But to pass from
death where we were and to pass to life in Christ, that's a whole
nother story. Huh? Oh my. We didn't need waking up. You
know, the Lord didn't tell Lazarus when he stood outside Lazarus'
tomb, Lazarus, I hate to do this, buddy, but I just gotta wake
you up. You just need to be woke up. No, no. He'd been dead four
days. Martha said, oh Lord, please
don't take that stone away. He said, if he does, he's gonna
stink, he's gonna, that's all ours. That corruption and stink's
gonna come out of that grave. We'll all, it'll just be awful. He said, Lazarus, that's what
I mean by affection called. Lazarus, come forth. And you know what, I love this.
And he that was dead, came forth. That's what happens when God
calls you. When He calls you, you know what you do? You come
forth. And you know, you'll be sitting
there one of these days, and this happened to all of us. One
day we heard the gospel. I mean, we heard it. You know
why you heard it? Because God had given you life. A man can't hear, he can't have
faith, he can't do anything until God, like Lazarus, brings you
from the dead. Huh? And you've got to have a
life before you can believe. You've got to have a life before
you can have faith. You've got to have a life before
you can do anything. Ain't that right? Oh my. Then old Zac asked. He was a little old bitty fellow.
He probably didn't stand five foot tall. Maybe four or nine. He couldn't see Christ for the
crowd. He'd jump up. Oh, I'd like to see. He's trying
to jump up to see people. And he said, well, I can't see
him, but I sure climb trees. I'm a little bitty fellow. I
can get right up a tree. So he climbed up that tree, and the
Lord Jesus Christ walked by there. Now, this is what I'm telling
you. How did he know his name was Zacchaeus? How did he know
he was Zacchaeus? And how did he know he was up
a tree? Christ stood and just stopped
and said, Zacchaeus, come down. And you know what he said next?
He said, today I must, I must abide at your house. For today,
salvation has come to you. That's what happens when God
hollers. That's what happens when God calls. How about that
thief on the cross? That's two thieves, one on either
side of our Lord Jesus Christ. One of them died in his sin and
our Lord looked over to that other. That other thief, He was
as guilty as they both were guilty. They was both there for the crimes
that they committed. And our Lord Jesus Christ, that
one of them looked at him and said, he's a just man. He's done
nothing amiss and he does not deserve to be here. He looked
at Christ and said, he's here not for what he think he did.
Now how did he find out who Christ was? Why did he find out? How
did he find out he was a king? How did he find out that this
Lord Jesus Christ was innocent for any crimes he had ever done?
How did that happen to him? God gave him life on that tree. God quickened him and gave him
his life. And he looked over at Christ and called him a king.
He said, I want to be in your kingdom. When you come into it,
I want to be in it. The Lord said, well, you know what? Today.
When I go to paradise, you're gonna go with me. That's what you call effectual
calling. Oh, in the day of his power,
his people, his people are made willing. Blessed is the man whom
thou choosest, and listen to this, and causes, causes, causes
to approach unto thee. Oh my. He must bring his sheep,
he says. It's like when that infant was
cast out into the field in Ezekiel 16. And it was cast out to the
loathing of his person. It still had his blood on it,
still had his navel on it, still polluted. Mama just throwed it
out there, just like it come out of the womb, just throwed
it out there. And the scripture says, and I
pass by thee. It was a time of love, and I
say unto thee, I say unto thee, live. And that baby lived. Oh my. Well, let me give you
another one right quick. Not only the glory of effectual
calling, that's why we don't have to have
altar calls, that's why we don't have to beg people, that's why
we don't have to sing a bunch of songs, that's why we don't,
that's why we don't tell people that Jesus down here in the front.
Cause salvation's in the Lord. I couldn't talk, if I could talk
you into it, somebody else could come on and talk you out of it.
That's what happens to so many people that backslide. That's
what so many people call backsliding. That's why so many people quit
church. Cause somebody talked them into something. Ain't that right? And if I talk
you into one doctrine, somebody else talk you into another. That's
why you got to have life. Life. All right. And then there's the glory of
Christ's righteousness being ours. Look in Romans 5 with me
right quick. I'll hurry up here. Humidity in here is awful, ain't
it? Look what it says here in Romans
519. Oh, listen. For by one man's disobedience,
many were made sinners. By Adam's one sin, that one disobedience
that Adam had, everybody, we were made sinners. So by the
obedience of one, the Lord Jesus Christ, of one shall many be
made righteous. Lost in Adam, found in Christ. Sin in Adam, obedience in Christ. Fallen nature in Adam, new nature
in Christ. And we were sinners in Adam,
now we're righteous in Christ. Made righteous through the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now let me tell you something.
This righteousness of Christ, the glory of His imputed righteousness,
that's the sweetest words that you'll ever hear in your life
if you're a sinner. Our Lord said, if any man, follow
me, the first thing he said, he must deny himself. First must
deny himself. Now what does he mean by that?
Deny self means deny your ego. Deny who you are. They call it
id. They call it ego. Two different,
all different things. They call you who you are. But
here's the thing about who you are. You've got to deny that.
And here's the first thing you deny. You deny your righteous
self. People don't have such a problem
saying, well, you know, I'm bad about this and I'm bad about
that. But I tell you what, to deny your own righteousness,
To deny that you was ever righteous, to deny that you ever done anything. Listen, when you deny yourself,
you got to deny everything about you. That's what Paul did. He said, Oh, listen, I had a
righteous set to the law as a Pharisee. I was a Hebrew of Hebrews, but
everything that was gained to me made me look good in the world.
He said, I turn around, I count it but lost. I count it but done. Why? Because I want that righteousness
of Christ. And that's the only place I want
to be found, is found in Him. Oh my. Men will deny their deeds, and deny a lot of things, but one thing
most men won't give up, they won't give up their goodness.
It's not man's badness that keeps him from Christ. It's not man's
sin that keeps him from Christ. You know what it is? Their self-righteousness. Their good opinion of themselves.
Feeling good about themselves. Thinking they're all right. I
got this all figured out. Huh? Oh my. I'll tell you what. The only thing that'll keep...
Listen. If you ever, when we become sinners,
we knew right then and there that we could not do anything
for ourselves. Now here's the thing, there's man-made sinners, there's
preacher-made sinners, there's church-made sinners. But if God
makes you a sinner, you know what you'll do? I ain't got nothing. In my hands,
I ain't got nothing. All of my righteousnesses are
as a filthy rag. It's man's goodness that keeps
him from Christ. It's not his badness. If he ever
gets bad enough, he's going to come to Christ. But it's man's
goodness. That's what it is. Paul disowned
his own righteousness. Let me tell you something. God's
glory and of His righteousness, it'll make us disown every work
we ever done. It'll make us disown every work
we ever done. Has anybody got any work they
want to look back on and say, Boy, I done real good back there? Anybody got anything they want
to look back on and say, Boy, I was really, really something
then? No. He makes us disown our righteousness. Oh, I had a righteousness. It
was self-righteousness. I really had a bunch of it. I
had it by the bushel baskets. I had it all the way up to here.
I had a righteousness of my own and I thought I was really somebody.
And I was hard on everybody that wasn't righteous as I was. And oh my, we deny our righteousness
for acceptance. We know that we're only perfect
in Christ and complete in Christ. And I tell you, Jehovah's akin
you, Christ our righteousness. Abraham believed God and God
said, you're righteous. Paul declared the testimony of
God and I believe it and so do you, I believe it. And then let
me hurry up and give you this, back over here in Romans 8. Look down there in verse 29. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate. Listen
to this now. To be conformed to the image
of His Son. Huh? Oh my. You reckon that's going to happen?
You reckon one of these days that God's going to... I heard
that, and I've told you this before. A fellow went in, an
old country store one time and they had them old pot-bellied
stoves and a fella sat in there whittling, whittling all the
time. Tim James was whittling. He whittles
ducks and he whittles hummingbirds, he whittles a lot of things,
chains, but this fella, they was in an old country store and
there was this old pot-bellied stove there. And there was all
kinds of wooden dogs all over the place, you know. Some of
them was spotted, some of them was painted red, and some of
them painted white and black spots and all these things, you
know, white nose, black ears and all that, just painted every
way. And he said, how in the world did you, how you do that?
And he said, see this piece of wood I'm working on? He said,
yeah. He said, you cut away everything, don't look like a dog. And that's
what God's doing to us. He's cutting away everything
that don't look like Christ. And He'll wean us. And we're
going to be weaned. And everything that don't look
like Christ is coming off. And ain't you glad? Oh, just
Lord whittle. Whittle away. Cut away. Oh my. The whole of salvation
of God's eternal purpose in Christ is to bring glory to His Son
in saving sinners through that redeeming love and grace of our
Lord Jesus, and conforming them to the image of His Son. That's
predestination. And that's what we look forward
to. One of these days, He's going to be done with us, and when
we enter glory, we're going to look just like His Son. Now we?re
not going to look like His Son in the sense that we were born
sinless, but no, we?re going to be like His Son in the sense
that we?ll obey God perfectly, we?ll be without sin, we?ll have
a body, we?ll have a glorified body, we?ll have no sin of sense
or molest us anymore, we?ll be like Christ in the sense that
we will obey our obedience to God will be perfect our love
for God will be perfect our Submission to the will of God will be for
everything that we want to be right now. We'll be then Huh? Oh my oh This is my hope this
to my desire And let me show you this in Ephesians 2 and then
I let's see if I got another point I don't look here and in
Ephesians 2. I want you to see this. I hope this will be a blessing
to you. Don't it grieve you? Don't it
really grieve you sometimes because of your lack of conformity, your
heart not in it, and your heart and soul ain't in the things
of God and Christ as you want them to be? And you long to be
conformed to the image of Christ. Oh my, look what he says here.
You know, God said he's gonna bring many sins unto glory, many
sons unto glory. Look what he said here in verse
7, Ephesians 2, 7. Well look in verse 6, that God
hath raised us up together. and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ. That's where we're at right now,
as far as God's concerned. That's one of them appearances
that God said, that's the way God says we are. That in the
ages to come, that word ages means world, same thing as worlds
will now come, ages. In the ages to come, He's gonna
show the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness toward
us through Jesus Christ. What do you think he means there?
That when we get to glory throughout the endless ages, God's going to reveal how gracious
he was to us and he's going to do it through his son and his
kindness toward us ages without end through his blessed son.
You know the only thing we're interested in in heaven at all
is to be with Christ. I could care less about streets
of gold. I could care less about gates
of pearl than anybody else getting interested in those things. You
know what the four and twenty elders done? They all got off
their little seats and they all bowed down before him and every
single one of them took off their crowns and throw it at his feet. Oh boy, when He conforms us,
we're gonna be home. No more doubt, no more discouragement,
no more heartlessness, no more fear, no more sin, no more sorrow. Perfection, perfection, perfection. And all His glory revealed in
us. Now look in Ephesians 3, 20, and I'll close with this verse
of Scripture. Now, now, right now, unto him
that is able to do exceeding abundantly of all that we ask
or think, we can ask and we can think awful big, according to
the power that worketh in us, unto him, unto him be glory,
in that church, in his people, by Christ Jesus, listen to this,
throughout all ages, world without end. That's where we're going.
That's where we're headed. That's our destination. That's our destination. That's
my destination. But it's all over, said and done. Our blessed Savior, our great,
glorious God in heaven, in the blessed, blessed name of your
Son, our Savior, our Redeemer, the one who loved us and gave
himself for us. Lord, thank you for meeting with
us today. Thank you for your blessed gospel. Thank you for
that glory that's revealed in us and the glory that's going
to be revealed to us one of these days. Oh Lord, be conformed to
the image of your blessed son. Be without sin. Be without this
old flesh. Be without these burdens. Be
without this discouragement. Be without this old cold, cold
lifeless heart. Oh Lord. Oh Lord. Even so, come Lord Jesus, come
quickly. God bless these dear saints as
they go their way. Save you people, oh God, with
the gospel through the Lord Jesus Christ by his blood and righteousness.
Bring glory to yourself through us. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Thank you, Lord, for saving
my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation, so rich and free. See you tonight, 6
o'clock, God willing.