And I want you to look in verses
7 through 10 with me. That in the ages to come, and
ages is the same thing I suppose as maybe eternity, through all
the ages to come. He might show the exceeding riches
of His grace and His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them. Now my subject this morning,
or the title of my message is Three Great Gospel Words. Three Great Gospel Words. You
know God's glorious eternal purpose towards the world is, and particularly
His elect, is being carried out. It's being carried out. God's
eternal purpose. He declared the end from the
beginning. but especially towards his elect, his world, his eternal
purpose is being carried out. Now, words are wonderful. Words
are wonderful. And let me just give you a little
advice, maybe, I know you didn't ask for it, but I'll give it.
When you read the scriptures, when you sit down to read the
Bible, read it very slow and pay attention to words, words. Just like in the book of Ephesians,
the word riches is in there 15 times. So when you start looking
at words, and you know words are wonderful, especially biblical
words, if you know the meaning of them, if you know the meaning
of them. The first word you need that
has a lot of power to it is the word dead. People wonder, people
ask how dead is a sinner. Well, dead is dead. It means
no life. And we're talking about death
and trespasses and sins, it means that you are without spiritual
life, without the ability to give yourself spiritual life.
But then you have that word quickening, and that word means to give life,
to raise from the dead. And so that word quickening means
life, being brought to life. And then this wonderful word
together. This wonderful word together. Together with Christ. Seated
together with Christ. Crucified with Christ. Risen
with Christ. Sent in heavenly places together
in Christ. And then God. Oh, that blessed,
blessed name of God. God who is rich in mercy. It's God who hath chosen us in
Christ before the foundation of the world. It's God who does
thanks to the praise of the glory of his own grace. And then you
know you have this wonderful word riches. Riches, oh my, the
riches of his grace. The riches of his glory. And
that word riches also means wealth. It means wealth. Who's the most
wealthy person in the universe? Who's the most wealthy person
that you could ever imagine? God. The earth is the land of
the fullest Noah. He measures the waters in the
heart of his hands. He counts all the nations of
the earth just like a little bit of dust on a valley. Oh my,
and all the wealth, and he said he's gonna show us exceeding
riches, exceeding wealth of his grace toward us in the ages,
in the ages to come. And when you look for motive
in God doing anything for us, there's only one answer you can
find. There in verse four of Ephesians
2, But God, we were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others. But God, who is rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith he has loved us. When did he
love us? When we were dead in sins. What did he do when he
found us dead in sins? He quickened us, gave us life
from the dead. And here's another reason why
you can give. Look over in Ephesians 1.5. It says that he predestinated
us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, and here's another
reason, the only reason you can find God does anything, according
to the good pleasure of his will. Why'd he do anything? According
to good pleasure of his will. Why'd he save you? According
to the good pleasure of his will. Look down in verse nine. And
then he has to be the one to make us know anything. He had
to reveal to us, we know now the mystery of his will. We know
what God's will is. We know where God's will's accomplished
at in his blessed son. And he called it according to
the good pleasure, his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself.
But we have in our text, what I read to you today, especially
in verse eight, we have three glorious, great, blessed gospel
words. And then in verse eight, it says,
for grace are you saved. The first gospel word is saved. The second gospel word is grace. The third gospel word in this
is faith. Now those are three great gospel
words. And lots of people, you know,
these words have lost their meaning because they've been overused
by a lot of people. But when we talk about saved,
being saved, saved, you know when you talk about being saved,
you got to have something to be saved from. Nobody wants to
be saved unless they're in trouble. The only people who want to be
saved are people that are in trouble. That there is some kind
of a danger. Or something dramatic is fixing
to happen that's out of their control. And so that's what happens. You know, they need to be rescued. They need somebody to save them. You take a fellow that's drowning,
somebody's got to go save him. Somebody's got to go rescue him.
And I tell you, do you know what the greatest danger that men
and women face in this world? And they don't even know it.
They're in danger of God's eternal justice. Oh, that's a great danger
to be under, God's justice. God isn't just God. And one thing
God must do is He must punish sin. He cannot let sin exist
without punishing it. And His justice will not be satisfied
until sin has been punished. And the only way, we rejoice
in justice. We hate, and even by nature. We hate to see somebody get by
with some kind of a crime or some kind of a murder or something
and then justice is not rendered toward that person. They get
by with it. And I tell you what, here's something
that people, that's a danger that people did. They're not
going to get by with not one thing they've ever done in this
life. Not one thing. Not one thing. So that's one
danger that people's in. And let me tell you something
else, when we talk about being in trouble, men are in trouble. People talk about, you know I'm
troubled about this, troubled about that, but let me tell you
something, the greatest trouble that people are in, they're in
trouble with God's law. Trouble with God's law. Now what
does God's law say? First thing it says, that there
is one God, and don't you dare make an image of him in any way.
Don't make no image of him. Don't make no, don't take a picture
of him. Don't make a statue of him. Don't
make anything that you can say there's God, because God is a
spirit, and I tell you, nobody's seen him at any time, and the
only place you can see God Almighty is in his Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Not at all. Everybody wants to
talk about the priest. I was preaching here one night,
and I mentioned the law, and I said, how many people think
they've kept it? And there's a woman in the back, raised her
hand. I said, oh no, that can't be possible. If you love God with all your
heart, if you love your neighbor as yourself. I heard a preacher
preaching the other day, very famous preacher, and what he
said was this. He said, love your neighbor as
yourself. If you want to go in grace, you
got to love your neighbor as yourself. Well, I'm not going
in grace. If I have to love my neighbor
just like me, and that's what the Bible says. I got to find
somebody that's fulfilled God's law. Somebody that loved us. God who loved us. When did He
love us? When we were dead in sins. When
did He love us? When we were rebels, when we
were by nature the children of wrath. And I tell you, in trouble
over sin, and I tell you, that ain't nothing new. People say,
quit your sinning. How can you do that? Oh, and we find out when you're dead
in trespasses and sins and God's against you. God's not for you,
God's against you. And I tell you what, you found
out that you have no ability, no power to save yourself. Is anybody in this building here
can save themselves from God's justice, from God's law? Can
they fulfill God's law? The Ten Commandments? Can you
for more law? Huh? Have you been able to stop sinning? Have you ever, anybody got the
ability to do a stand up before God and say, listen, I'm a good
person, I'm doing the best I can, and I'm trying to get over my
sinning? Oh my. But there's no power,
the Savior says, we were dead. And I want to show you something.
You keep Ephesians, look over here in 2 Corinthians chapter
one with me in verse eight. 2 Corinthians chapter
one, verse eight. You know, salvation's in three
tenses. Did you know that? Oh my, we're
talking about being saved. Being saved. Being saved from
God's justice. Being saved from God's holy law. Being saved from our sin. And
here's the thing about it, God no power to save ourselves from
any of those things. And those three tenses are being
saved. Look what it said here in verse eight of 2 Corinthians
1. And he said, we would not, brethren,
have you ignorant of our trouble. That's the first thing, trouble,
trouble. Do you ever get troubled over
your sin? Do you ever get troubled over your flesh? Do you ever
get troubled over your attitude toward the world? Do you ever
get troubled? When Paul said, I was in trouble, I was in trouble. which came to us in Asia, and
he said, this trouble was so bad, so great, that we were pressed
out of measure. I mean, we were pressed down,
we just had no ability to do it, above strength, any strength
we could possibly muster up, in so much that we said, we're
gonna die. This is gonna kill us. This trouble
here is gonna kill us. And then look what he said. So
what we did, we had the sentence of death in ourselves. Well,
I can't save myself, that's what he said, I can't save myself. That we, listen, that we should
not trust in ourselves. But I love this, but in God. in God, who raises the dead. Now look, watch this. Watch that.
In this word, who delivered us. That's salvation. That word means
saved. Who delivered us from so great
a death. And you know what the greatest
death we faced was? The death of sin. And he saved
us from that great, so great a death. And then look what he
said, he does deliver us, he does save us right now. And whom we trust that he will
yet save us. So he has saved us, he is saving
us, and he shall save us. And I'll tell you something,
I need saving. I need saving. Right now I need
saving. I need God to save me. And oh,
listen. And we are being saved. That's
what the apostle meant. He said our salvation is nearer
than when we first believed. And Paul said that the just shall
live by faith. And if any man shall draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure of him. But we are not of them
who draw back unto perdition. But we believe to the saving
of our soul. It's like you take a fella. They
get in a shipwreck. A man's lost. He's out and out
in the water. He's floundering around in the
water. His ship has went down. And he's out there floundering
around in the water. And they get a lifeboat to him. Get a lifeboat to him. And they
get him up in that lifeboat and he is saved. The moment he's
put in that lifeboat, he is saved. He may still have fear. He may not feel very safe in
that boat. It may be a long, long time before
he gets to land and puts his feet on ground, but the minute
they get him in that lifeboat, he is secure and is saved as
he's ever gonna be. And the minute, the minute we
look to Christ, the minute we trust Christ, we're as saved
as we're ever gonna be. Huh? Oh my. And I tell you the fact, this
word saved, Saved have been, are being, shall be. And the
only people that want to be saved is people that know. Know they
have no ability to save themselves. They know that they gotta have
somebody fulfill God's law for them. And that has to be somebody
that's equal to God himself. That's our Lord Jesus. Then we
have to have somebody put away our sin. And nobody else can
do that. Then look at this second word
over here in our text. Save, look at this next word.
In verse eight. Grace. Saved, grace. Oh, we sang that
song, Grace Tis a Charming Sound. You know, the scriptures is full
of this word. full of this word, 115 times
in the New Testament alone, the word grace is mentioned. 38 times in the Old Testament,
and almost 100 times by the Apostle Paul. Grace is mentioned in this
book of Ephesians 12 times, a dozen times. So if the apostle mentions
it over about 100 times, don't you think grace would be a pretty
precious word? Don't you think grace would have
a lot of power to it? Don't you think grace would have
some power to it? Now let me tell you something. And here's the simplest definition
of grace that there is that I can think of. Grace is God's undeserved
favor. His own merited love. And what grace means is the favor,
favor one finds in the eyes of someone who's superior to them. And that person that's superior
to them, they can't claim favorable treatment from that person. You
can't claim. Somebody, some superior person
gives you grace and you don't, you're not worthy of that grace
and they can barely give you that grace. And I tell you, it's
not something that is a right to you. And here's the thing,
if somebody doesn't receive grace, what can you say? No one deserves
grace anyway. Not one person has ever deserved
grace. If they deserved it, it would
cease to be grace. If you're as worthy of it, it
would cease to be grace. Nobody deserves grace. Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. Let me show you something about,
you keep Ephesians. Now look over in Luke chapter
one, verse 30 with me. Go to Luke chapter 1 verse 30. Noah found grace, God seen, Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Everybody else gonna be
destroyed, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Look
what it said here about Mary, when the angel came to her and
told her she's gonna have a child. And the angel said unto her,
verse 30, fear not Mary, Now listen to this, for thou hast
found favor. And that word there means highly
graced. How thou hast found grace, great
grace with God. Now, a lot of people end up thinking
Mary is the one you gotta pray to to get to the Lord Jesus Christ. But she was just the mother.
And she had to have grace just like you and I had to have grace.
She had to be saved by grace just like you and I have to be
saved by grace. And you take Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth,
I know everybody knows about Mephibosheth. He was an enemy of David. He
was of the house of Saul. He was an enemy of David. And
the only one left of the house of Saul. He was just a child. He couldn't walk. He couldn't
do anything. He couldn't get to David. And
David had every right in the world, being the king, to destroy
him. But you know what David said?
Is there any left of the house of Saul that I can show kindness
to? that I can show favor to?" Said,
there's this one who's named Mephibosheth and he lives over
yonder in Lodomar. He said, I'll tell you what,
you go get him and bring him to me. He couldn't come by himself. He couldn't walk. He was lame. He was crippled. And he was an
enemy of David, and he thought, when David's sent to get me,
he's gonna bring me over there, and David's gonna kill me. But
David always said, I wanna show kindness to him. Well, you know
what the first thing he does when he comes in front of David? He falls before David. Oh, he
was scared to death. And he said, Why doest thou look
upon such a dead dog as I am? Such a miserable old dead dog,
sorry dog. Why would you look on me? And
you know what David, the first word I was about, fear not, fear
not. I'm going to give you everything
you lost and a whole sheep's eye for. And he sat at the king's
table to rest all the days of his life. The king took care
of him. That's what you call grace. And then there's that
Canaanite woman. She came to the Lord Jesus Christ. She was a Canaanite. She was
from a cursed race. But she came to the Lord. She
brought her daughter. And she said, Lord, my daughter's
grievously, grievously tormented. Would you have mercy on her?
Our Lord never, He ignored her. How would you like God to ignore
you? Well, you know, He may do that. He's got the right to do
that. He can ignore you. He can act
like you don't exist. He can act like He ain't gonna
never do anything for you. He's not obligated to do it,
you know. He's the one who's got the grace.
He don't have to do a thing in the world for you. That's kind of shocking, ain't
it? Everybody thinks God's got to do something. God don't have
to do anything, for anybody, except his elect. And I'm telling
you, if you're, you better, how am I going to find out if I'm
God's elect? Believe on Christ, look to Christ, come to Christ.
But anyway, this Canaanite woman, they really ignored her. And she just kept following him
around. Kept following her around. She
wasn't going to take no for an answer. And finally his disciples
said, Lord shut this woman up. She's crying after us. She's
bothering us. And our Lord stopped. And he
spoke to her. And he looked at her. And she
said, listen, I'm the children's bread. And the dogs, the dogs,
And I didn't come here to give bread to dogs. And she said,
yes Lord, I'm a dog. I'll take my place as a dog.
But she said, even the dogs get crumbs from the master's table. All she said was, she agreed
with everything Christ said, and she said, I'd just take a
crumb, and the Lord healed her daughter like that. Would you,
would you really think, would you, and you know, that's the
thing, you got to be willing, take a crumb, take a crumb, that
means you're not even worthy of that. And then Saul of Tarsus,
oh, he was on the road to Damascus with hatred in his heart for
Christ, hatred for the Lord's people, and one day, God put
him down. A light from heaven shone round
about him. And let me show you something,
I'll tell you what, I hope I'm, look over here with me in Exodus
33. You know, grace, I love this
word grace. Look in Exodus 33 with me. I
love this word grace. I love free grace, sovereign
grace, just grace. That means I didn't deserve it.
And if I got it, God's the one who gave it to me. If I got it,
God won't never take it back. And look what Moses said here
in verse 13. He said, now therefore, I pray
thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way. Show me the way, O Lord, that
I may know thee, I can't know you without grace. I can't know
the way without your grace. And I want to find grace in thy
sight and consider that this nation is thy people. And he
says, my presence shall go with you, the Lord spoke to him, and
I'll give you rest. That's what God told him. He
told him that. He said, if thy presence go not with me, don't
carry us up. Oh Lord, please don't do anything. Don't make us go anywhere unless
you go with us. For where shall it be known,
here in my people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not
that thou would go with us? How can you find, know you found
grace? God's with you, God's for you, his presence is for
you. Look what he said. And so shall we be separated.
That's what God does, separates us from the rest of the world.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Now do this thing also that thou
hast spoken, for thou hast found grace in my sight. And listen
to this. He said, And I know you by name.
Our Lord Jesus Christ said, My sheep hear thy voice, and I know
them by name. He said, I know you by name.
And then Moses turned around and said, You know, wherever
you want grace, and you want God's presence, now Lord, since
you've given me your grace, let me see some of your glory. I
want to see your glory. And here's the first thing he
told me. He said, I'll make all my goodness pass before you. Oh my goodness. God's goodness. God's always good. And I'll cause
it to pass before you. And when I do that, I'm going
to proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I'm going to proclaim
my own name. And this is what my name proclaims. I'll be gracious to whom I'll
be gracious. And I show mercy on whom I show
mercy. And he said to Moses, he said,
you can't see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. Oh my, see God not live? And then the Lord said, behold,
there's a place right by me. Right by side me. What is it? He said, it's a rock. It's a rock. And you go over there and stand
on that rock, and that rock, of course, is Christ. And it's
gonna come to pass while my glory passes by. I'm gonna put you
in the cleft of that rock. There's a split in that rock. I'm gonna put you in that cleft.
And then he says, look what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put my hand
over you. I'm gonna put my hand over you
while I pass by. And I'll take away my hand, and
you'll see my back parts, but you shall not see my face. That's
what grace wants to see glory in God. And let me tell you something,
beloved. God's grace is in Christ. He
gives it to us in Christ, in Christ alone. The law was given
by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And then
back over here in our text, it says this. In Ephesians 2.8,
said grace saved is the gift of God. That's what it is. It's
the gift of God. That means it's free. You know,
God's not obligated to give it. He said, I'll show mercy on whom
I'll show mercy. I'll be gracious to whom I'll
be gracious. Grace is entirely depending upon God's will. It's
never, never, never deserved. If it's of grace, then it's not
of works. If it's of works, then it can't
be of grace. And I tell you what, men in the
Bible, in God's people, have been overwhelmed by the grace
of God. It's something you never, never,
never get over. Grace came, it must come. And when it does, we never get
over it. And grace is love. Grace is God
loving people who don't deserve love. God who is rich in mercy
loved us unconditionally, unevoked, undeserved. Come thou fount of
every blessing to my heart, to my heart to sing thy grace. Amazing grace! How sweet the
sound. that saved a wretch like me. And then it tells us it's not
of works. There in verse nine, not of works.
No, no, works don't enter into it. Before you're saved, before
grace comes, and after grace comes, salvation's gonna be entirely
by grace. It's not by weeping, it's not
by willing, it's not by working. And then look at this third word.
Look at this third word. First of all, you have saved.
Then you have grace. And then look at that. Faith. Faith. And you know how you get
faith? God gives it to you. It's not
of yourselves. You're not born with it. You
can't buy it. You can't earn it. You can't
work it up. And he says grace through faith
grace gives faith, and he says that and it's not of yourselves
Grace is not of yourselves salvation is not of yourselves faith is
not of yourselves. What is it? It's a gift of God
Now let me say something about faith see if I can say some things
about faith Faith is just an instrument What faith is is an
empty hand? It's just an empty hand And I
tell you what, and everything that you get, you take it freely.
God gives it freely. And grace brought faith to us. And when grace was brought to
us, it enabled us to look to Christ, to trust Christ, to believe
Christ. It caused us to look to Him and
no one else. Let me tell you something, faith
never does. It never, never, never looks
to itself. Faith doesn't look and say, boy,
I've got, my faith is strong, my faith is good, my faith is
pure. No, no, grace never ever, faith
never looks to itself. If I look for faith in myself,
how am I gonna know I got it? Only way I can know I've got
faith is because I look outside myself. I look to a person. I look to a salvation accomplished
by Christ. Everything that was done for
me was done outside myself. Christ died for me 2,000 years
ago. I had nothing to do with it.
God came to me in Holy Ghost conviction and brought me to
the end of myself. God brought me to where I was
a sinner and I'll never be nothing else and I'm going to always
acknowledge that Christ came to save sinners. And I tell you,
faith is as good as this object. If faith is in yourself, then
you've got a sorry object. And faith is as good as this
object. And if your object's Christ, that's faith that God
gave you. If it's object yourself, it's
no good. Huh? If your objects is what
you do, your works, no good. If your objects by your free
will are a decision you made, I'd get rid of it. If your faith
is because you made a decision one day to accept Jesus, I'd
get rid of it. And here's one of the dangerous
things that people do, is they have an experience that stays
old. They had to keep going back and
looking to what happened when I was seven or eight or nine.
Let me just give you, you know, when I first come down here,
one of the things that a lot of people said was, I can take
you to the place and I can tell you the time. And it was right
over yonder. I was in this building. I was
on this altar. And that's where I was saved,
way back yonder at that particular place and that particular time.
And every time they hear preaching, they go back to that time and
that place. Now, if you had to go back to
a time and a place and experience you had, then you ain't got no
faith at all. You ain't got any faith at all. I've seen a woman that we know,
her son's eight or nine years old. How old he is? Surely eight
or nine, something like that. Well, he got saved the other
day. He got saved. They baptized him. He accepted Jesus. And here's
one thing that they don't understand, that if they're old enough to
be saved, they're old enough to go to hell. If they're old
enough to be saved, they're old enough to be lost. Now, what
do you save a nine-year-old for? What do you save a five-year-old
for? They manipulate people's emotions, and then they'll tell
that boy as he gets older, you know, and he goes back in the
world, and that's exactly what he'll do, that's what they all
do, and they'll say, I know you're saved, I was there, you're nine
years old! Such and such a preacher baptized
you, and your sins are washed away by that baptism. If faith has any object but the
Lord Jesus Christ, His blessed person, His blood, and His righteousness,
His love, and His faithfulness, it isn't worth having. It isn't
worth having. Take your eyes off of Christ
and your faith off of Christ and all you'll have is depression
and despair and discouragement. Don't do it. It says it's not
of yourselves, it's the gift of God. And then let me hurry
on. I'm gonna give you just look
in verse 10. I'll hurry up on this. It says, for we are his
workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them. His workmanship. That word, and I've told you
this before, workmanship there means poema, poem. It's His handiwork. The heavens
declare the glory of God. The firmament shows His handiwork.
Since salvation is by grace and not of works, it's the work of
God. We're His workmanship. And then it says they're created.
It's a creation. It's the work of God. And you
wonder what kind of work God does. Wonder what kind of work
he does. You reckon it's a good work?
You reckon his workmanship is good? Huh? Oh, it's a creation. What it is, it's in saving a
sinner he has to create out of nothing. Somebody who has nothing. Someone who can't do anything.
And just like He said, created, said, let the light shine out
of the darkness, He ascended our hearts to give the light
of the glory of God in Christ. You know, in the original creation,
there was no resistance, no resistance whatsoever. God spoke and things
happened. But when He saves us, when our
Lord Jesus Christ begins to work on us, He has to overcome our
self-righteousness, our self-confidence, our self-worth, our works, our
false doctrine, our free will. He got to overcome our sin. He
has to overcome so many things by it. So how does He do that? He brings forth His power. He said in the day of His power,
His people are made willing. Huh? He has to put power. There was no power in Him. Say,
let there be light? It just happened. But when He
saves us, He has to put forth power. Power. Great power. Huh? We were dead. He gave life. We were in darkness. He brought life. His workmanship. Let me tell you something. It's
a creation and He makes the choice of who He creates. Look at Psalm
100, verse 3 with me. Let me show you this, and then
I'm going to wind this thing up. Psalm 100, verse 3. You know, His workmanship, God
who hath begun a good work in you shall perform it, carry it
on, until Christ comes. Look what he said here in Psalm
100 in verse 3. Know ye that the Lord, he is
God. Listen to this, it is he that
hath made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep
of his pasture. Oh, the character of the work
is seen in the character of the workmen. Every saved sinner is
an exhibition of God's blessed grace in Christ. And then it tells us that we're
created in Christ, made new creatures in Christ. And then it tells
us that we're created unto good works. You know, Good works,
that's a mysterious thing. You know, fruit of salvation,
that's why good works, just fruit of salvation, proof that a fellow's
saved. It's like Abraham, when he offered
Isaac, God, he was already saved, he already had faith, he'd already
glorified God. But when he offered up Isaac,
everybody in the world knew that he had faith. And his fruit,
the fruit of him believing God was going up on that mountain.
And then God said which God ordained that we should walk in them.
Now let me ask you a question and I'll quit. How many of you
want to stand up and talk about your good works? Any good works
you've done this week? What good work you've done this
week? Well, I put some money in the church. You ought to.
God gave it to you. I come to church. You ought to.
God provided us a place to go. And here's what the mystery of
grace, that a believer claims absolutely nothing, nothing good
of himself, nothing good he has done, yet they're the best people
on the face of the earth, and I'd rather be with them than
anybody else. And the thing is, if you ever do a good work, you
don't know you've done it. God's the only one that knows. And now I can see people that's
been very good to me. And God is the only one that
knows. The only one that knows. You know, nobody says, what did
we, when did we do this, Lord? When did we do this? That's what
they ask. You find somebody that's bragging about their works, you'll
find somebody that don't know nothing about being saved, don't
know nothing about grace, and don't know nothing about faith.
Amen. Oh, Lord, our God, how great,
how glorious, how blessed you are. We come into your presence
with thanksgiving and praise. Lord, for this wonderful salvation,
this wonderful, glorious salvation you gave us in Christ before
the world ever began. And God blessed this gospel today.
Lord, bless it to the heart, bless it to the mind, bless it
to the understanding. Lord, you told us that faith
comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. Well, the Word
of God was brought out today, and I pray it took faith with
it. Faith come to the ear, faith
come to the heart. And Lord, save you people in
this place, and do it for Christ's sake. Amen, amen. Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind, but now I see. T'was grace that taught my heart
to fear, and grace my fears How precious did that grave appear. The hour I first believed through
men. I have already come. Tis grace that brought me safe
thus far, and grace will be And we've been there 10,000 years, bright shining as the
sun. praise, to sing God's praise,
then when we first begun. Never get tired of it. Never,
never, never. See you tonight, 6 o'clock, God
willing.