Good evening, good to be back
with you. I appreciate this congregation. You're always, someone made reference
to the message this morning and said they appreciate it and I
appreciate you. You're easy to preach to was
my response and you always seem hungry and I appreciate that. We have to guard against and
pray that God give us grace not to grow stale, don't we? And that's sort of the theme
of my message tonight. Will you turn with me to Exodus
chapter 14? We just sang about God's amazing
love and grace saving us and what we have to look forward
to that day when we shall see Christ look upon the face of
the One who saved us by His grace. And yet, in view of that grace
already bestowed in glory, certain and promised, I have a terrible
tendency in me, it's just so, that I take that for granted.
God help me tonight and in the study and preparation to preach
to you, I pray that God would make the wonder of His grace
exactly that to our hearts. Refresh our hearts with a fresh
appreciation of His mighty grace, His wondrous grace, and His marvelous
mercy. Would you pray that with me as
well? begin here reading at verse 30, we'll read just the last
two verses of Exodus 14 and then we'll read A few verses in chapter
15, this was the response to what took place. What God had
done for the children of Israel in bringing them through the
Red Sea and then they responded with a song of praise to their
God that had done such a wondrous work. Thus, that's how it was. Thus the Lord saved Israel that
day out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians
dead upon the seashore. And Israel saw that great work
which the Lord did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared the Lord
and believed the Lord and his servant Moses. Then sang Moses
and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake,
saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously."
Well, why wouldn't he? If he's the Lord that our brother
just read about that has his way in heaven and in earth and
in all deep places, why wouldn't he triumph? Who's going to stop
him from triumphing? I hear people talk about allowing
God to have his way. Who's going to stop God from
having His way? No, He does have His way. The
Lord hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider hath
He thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song,
and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will prepare
Him a habitation, my Father's God, and I will exalt Him. The Lord is a man of war. The
Lord is His name. Pharaoh's chariots and his host
have been cast into the sea. His chosen captains also are
drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them.
They sank into the bottom as a stone. Thy right hand, O Lord,
has become glorious in power. Thy right hand, O Lord, has dashed
in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of Thine
excellency, Thou has overthrown them that rose up against Thee.
Thou sentest forth thy wrath which consumed them as stubble,
and with the blast of thine nostrils the waters were gathered together.
The flood stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed
in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, I will pursue,
I will overtake, I will divide to spoil, my lust shall be satisfied
upon them, I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. What
did God do? Thou didst blow. Less effort
than that. Thou didst blow with thy wind,
the sea covered them. They sank as lead in the mighty
water, so much for their will. Who is like unto thee, O Lord,
among the gods? And as you know, what we just
read is a picture of God's amazing grace and His great salvation. And in light of that, For every
sinner that has experienced that amazing grace, this question
is put before us. Who is like unto thee, O Lord,
among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in
holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders, all the wonders
of grace? the wonders that grace has wrought.
Thou stretchest out thy right hand, and the earth swallowed
them. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou
hast redeemed." They were redeemed in Egypt that night when the
Lord passed through and the blood of that lamb was on the doorpost. The death angel passed over them. God said, when I see the blood,
I'll pass over you. They were redeemed with blood.
And now they're redeemed by power. Everyone who was in the house
where the blood was applied, they're brought through the Red
Sea. You'll bring forth the people which Thou has redeemed. Thou
has guided them in Thy strength into Thy holy habitation. The
people shall hear and be appraised. Sorrow shall take hold on the
inhabitants of Palestine. Then the Dukes of Edom shall
be amazed, and the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take
hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan
shall melt away. Fear and dread shall fall upon
them. By the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as
a stone, till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people
pass over. There's no if there, is there?
Until the people pass over which thou hast purchased. Thou shalt bring them in, and
plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place,
O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in. In the
sanctuary, O Lord, which thine hands have established, the Lord
shall reign forever and forever." The wonder of grace. I would
like to begin my message by just reading to you a brief article
by our dear friend, faithful friend, so recently departed
to be with his Lord, Brother Henry Mayhem. The title of this
article is, The Wonder of it All. Perhaps it rings a bell
with you. The Wonder of it All. Henry wrote,
I can appreciate the ability of the learned botanist to give
me the scientific names of the rose, the origin of it, the various
types of roses, how and where they grow, and the number of
petals, thorns, and leaves to expect on a genuine rose. But
too often, those who become overly entangled in these things somehow
lose the most important thing, the beauty and the fragrance
of the rose. Stop and smell the rose. I hope
in our preaching," Henry wrote, and teaching and witnessing concerning
the gospel of our dear Savior, we do not become more concerned
with the system than the sweetness, with the mechanics rather than
the mercy, with the right terminology rather than the right spirit
and attitude. He is my Rose of Sharon. which
brightens my life and sends his sweet fragrance through my soul.
One can preach about Christ and not preach Christ, just as one
can know how God saves sinners and not be a saved sinner. Oh,
the wonder of it all! Just to think, Christ loved me. How can I ever get over that? He loved me and gave Himself
for me. The hymn writer expressed it
this way, and when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent
Him to die, I scarce can take it in. I mean, I can't get much
of a grasp upon that. I scarce can take it in that
on the cross my burden, all my burden, he gladly bearing, he
bled and died to take away my sin. Now what should be the response
of a believing sinner to such mercy and such grace? Oh, then
sings my soul, O Lord my God, my God, how great, how great
Thou art." I love the old story in Bunyan's famous allegory,
Pilgrim's Progress, when Christian pilgrim has been awakened, has
been awakened, God turned the light on. God got him lost. You know, if you've never been
lost, you've never been saved. That's just a fact. If you've
never been stripped, He had never been clothed. God brings down
before he lifts up. And that's what happened to Pilgrim
in Bunyan's famous allegory. God got him lost. And Bunyan
pictures him with that burden on his back. You've read the
story, remember? And he couldn't get rid of it.
No matter what he did, he couldn't get rid of it. Oh, he cried,
eternal life, eternal life, turning his back upon the city of destruction. Turning his back upon wife and
children. They cry after him, oh come back,
come back, don't leave us. And he runs off crying, eternal
life, eternal life, I must have eternal life. Joseph Hart said,
what comfort can a Savior bring to those who never felt their
woe? Pilgrim felt his woe. He was
one of those sacred things that was a real sinner because only
God can make a sinner. Only God can make a sinner. Convince
them that they're a sinner. And so it was with Pilgrim. And
he goes on with that burden on his back. Nothing he can do. You ever been there? Remember
that? Remember that? Or remember when
those things that were once Everything to you meant everything to you.
Oh, I want to be rich. I want to be famous. I want to
have this. I want to own that. Bigger, better,
more. I can't have enough. And then
suddenly, suddenly, in a way that you couldn't understand,
you couldn't explain it, but somehow they all became as nothing. They're nothing. What does it
matter? What does it matter if I gain
the whole world? I must have Christ. I'm lost. I'm undone. I've got this burden
on my back and I can't shake it off. The burden of guilt.
The burden of my sin and God's wrath breathing heavy down my
neck. And then Bunyan says, but just
as Pilgrim... I love this part. Just as Pilgrim
came up to the cross The burden, that burden fell off his shoulders. and began to tumble and just
kept tumbling down the hill until it came to the mouth of the sepulcher
and it fell in and Bunyan said, I saw it again no more forever. Oh, the bliss of this glorious
thought. My sins not in part but the whole
are nailed to his cross and I bear them no more. Oh, praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord. Oh, my soul,
the wonder of God's grace. First, remember this. This song
of praise that we read here in chapter 15, sung by the children
of Israel at the Red Sea that day, led by Moses, was their
response to what had just happened. It was their response to their
final and complete deliverance from Pharaoh. Listen, child of
God, they would never be enslaved in Egypt again. Never again. And your sins, by the grace of
God, shall never reign over you again. Your sins have been put
away by your glorious captain of your salvation, the Lord Jesus
Christ himself. Glory to his name, he bore them
all away. How far? They can't be found.
They're gone. They're completely gone. They're
all gone. That is what this is a picture
of. Look again, if you will, at verse
30 of chapter 14. We read these words, thus, thus. That's a good word. Thus, that
is saying, this is how it was. This is exactly how it happened,
thus. Thus, the Lord saved Israel that
day. When I was a boy at home, my
father would sit down each evening after a day's work and watch
the evening news. He didn't want to be bothered. You didn't bother him, Kyle,
when he was watching the evening news. And he would watch, the
anchorman was Walter Cronkite. Anybody remember him? Walker,
do you remember how he closed every broadcast each night after
his broadcast is over, after the evening news, and he would
say, and that's the way it is on such and such a day, whatever
it happened to be. We're told here, this is how
it is. Thus, the Lord saved Israel. The Lord did it all. It wasn't
that Israel did their part. What did they do? Bellyache and
gripe and blame Moses. That's what they did. That was
their part. Moses, we knew better than to listen. I just knew it.
I had a feeling I shouldn't have listened to you, Moses. I'd have
been better off to stay down in Egypt. You brought us out
here to be destroyed by Pharaoh. What are we going to do? Moses
said what God told him to say. Tell them to shut up, stand still,
and see the salvation of the Lord. Thus, the Lord saved Israel
that day. The Lord saved. Salvation is
all of the Lord. It's all His doing. Repentance
is His gift. Faith is His gift. You can't
believe people are told left and right in our day. This morning,
this evening, people are told in most churches. That faith
is easy. It's simple to believe. There's
nothing to it. Really. I didn't find it so,
did you? I wanted to believe. I was told,
look inside. Just reach in there. And I reached
in there. I couldn't find faith. Oh, I want to believe, want to
believe, and I couldn't believe until God Almighty in His mighty
grace dropped faith as His precious gift into my heart and I saw
the Lamb of God and I'll join Spurgeon in saying I never saw
a sight like that in my life. Never! Have you? Oh Jesus, my
Savior and my Redeemer, thus God saved Israel that day, and
thus God saves sinners today, purely as a matter of free grace
and pure mercy. I like what old John Warburton
wrote. He wrote a book, an autobiography
actually, called The Mercies of the Covenant God. Man, that
man, his whole life seemed to be one continuous trial. But
he wrote this, he said, The longer I live, the more I feel that
if there were one thing left undone, if the devil were not
conquered, Sin not expiated, justice not satisfied, the law
not honored and magnified, death not overcome, and every burden
carried away, I should have not a ray of hope. And you know what? Neither would I. And neither
would you. Neither would any sinner. On
the Mount of Calvary, the Lord Jesus Christ undertook the cause
of His people. And there is not a jot nor a
tittle that He left undone, but by one offering He perfected
forever them that are sanctified. There is therefore now, now,
right now, where does now find you? Where does this present
moment now find you? Oh, Larry, I'm passing through. I can't find words to describe
it. Such a burden. But right now, right now, whatever
you're passing through, no matter how severe, no matter heartbreaking
or heart-wrenching, it cannot change this. There is right now
no condemnation. to those who are aware in Christ
Jesus. Wrath can never take place on
any child of God because it's already taken place on the head
of their glorious substitute. And God Almighty would be unjust
People say, well that's not fair, that's not fair. It would not
be fair if God Almighty punished me for the same sins that He
punished His Son for. It's not going to happen. It's
not going to happen. There is therefore now no condemnation. to them which are in Christ Jesus
who walk not after the Spirit, or not rather after the flesh
rather, but after the Spirit. Here is complete salvation,"
Warburton wrote, saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. Jesus Christ came into this world
and He said, I come to do Thy will, O my God. And He did. When I was a boy
at home, I mentioned to you about my father. He was an old-fashioned
fella. My brothers and I, we had chores
to do. And Brad, he expected us to do
them. Isn't that strange? And if I didn't do them, and
he'd come home and find them not done, he would say, Larry,
tell you what we're going to do, buddy. We're going to have
a timeout. I'll tell you what the timeout was. He would take
the time to take that belt off and put it across my hind end.
That was the timeout. But he would say to me, son,
you didn't finish the job. You've got a job to do, and you've
only half done it, son. You didn't finish what I gave
you to do. God Almighty, We'll never say that about His Son.
His Son finished everything His Father gave Him to do. He fulfilled
every God-intent of God's holy law. As I said this morning,
everything God Almighty demanded, everything He required, the Son
of God rendered to Him perfectly. And God says, I am satisfied. I'm satisfied. I can demand no
more. Glorious Redeemer. Glorious salvation. Salvation is of the Lord. The
psalmist said, not unto us, O Lord. Not unto us. No, not unto us. But unto thy name give glory
for thy mercy and for thy truth's sake. Verse 31 here in chapter
14. And Israel saw that great work.
which the Lord did upon the Egyptians. They saw it. They experienced
it. That great work. That great work. There in chapter
14, verse 13, they were told, the Egyptians whom you see today,
you shall see them again no more forever. say the same things
concerning our sin, our sorrow, one day, no more, forever. The
Lord shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace." And
we're told they feared the Lord. They stood there on the banks
of the Red Sea. Pharaoh and his great army All
of his warriors, the horsemen, all of their armor, their spear,
just floating in the Red Sea. And we're told they feared the
Lord. What's that mean? It means they stood in holy wonder. They stood in wide-eyed wonder
and thought, wow! What a God! What a God! Who is a God? Likened to our
God, fearful in praises, glorious in holiness, doing wonders, doing
mighty wide-eyed wonder. used to so much enjoy when I
would spend time with my granddaughters when they were younger. They're
getting older now. And now when they call Paw Paw
or FaceTiming, the first thing they say to me, don't they, Robin?
We're bored. Well, can I help you out? Is
that how many times y'all called me, son? You bored? But when
they were much younger, oh, they were just full of white-eyed
wonder. I mean, just the most simple
things. I would take them golfing. I'd take them with me golfing,
and when they got so big, I'd let them drive the golf cart.
I'd let them steer. Their feet couldn't reach the
pedals. But, oh, they just loved doing that. They would go on
and say, Mommy, Mommy, guess what Papa let us do? They'd find
a golf ball. Oh, they just loved that. They
came down to visit me there in Sylacauga not long after I moved
there and took them out to the quarry. Marble City it's called. They saw all that and they said,
Oh man, that's something. We want to move here, Daddy.
Can we move here? Just wide-eyed wonder. Brothers and sisters
in Christ, how can this sinner that's experienced God's amazing
grace do anything less than stand in wide-eyed wonder and ask,
He saved me. He saved me. You know the Apostle
Paul never got over that. I believe Paul, until the very
day they came to that dungeon cell and brought him out and
laid his head upon the chopping block, he was still talking about
Jesus Christ. Until they severed his head from
his body and he was present with his Lord, he was always talking
about Jesus Christ. Paul never got over the wonder. He was sitting in prison. And
he wrote to Timothy. He said, Timothy, I'm in prison
for preaching the gospel. But he said, I'm not ashamed.
Timothy, I know whom I have believed. And he's able to keep that which
I committed unto him against Timothy. I obtained mercy. I obtained mercy. Don't you ever
doubt anybody being a candidate for God's grace as long as they
live because I obtained a mercy. I'm a pattern. The valious defender
that truly believes that moment from Jesus apart and receives. Yes, this, this work that God
did for the children of Israel at the Red Sea is a picture of
that greater work. Remember when our Lord, some
men brought a crippled friend to our Lord. Paralyzed man, let
him down through the roof before the Lord. The Lord looked at
him and said, Be in good cheer. Thy sins are all forgiven to
thee. And those Pharisees, they were
always around, weren't they? They were listening. Who is this
man? Who does he think he is? Who
is this man that forgives sins? And remember what the Lord said,
what do you think is greater? To say to this man, take up thy
bed and walk? Or to say, thy sins be forgiven
thee? Which is the greatest miracle?
Oh, the greatest miracle is when he saves a sinner. The greatest
miracle, greater than any physical miracle, is when he gives a dead
sinner life. When he does for you and I what
he did for Lazarus. When he went to his tomb and
said, Lazarus, Lazarus, come forth. And my soul, would you
look at that, here comes Lazarus shuffling out of that grave.
And he said, now you loose him, take those grave cloths off of
him, they're not fit for a living man. Even so, you have he quickened
who were dead in trespasses and sins. Oh, what was said to Israel
concerning their enemies, the Egyptians, shall soon be said
of you and I, this world, this flesh, this body of death, we
shall see it again no more. Forever. Forever. Because of
our mighty Savior. I was reading the other day about
some last words. of dying believers. This one
man said this just shortly before he left this world. He said,
I'm at the end of my race. I'm near the end of my race.
I'm hastening home. And there was never a schoolboy
more anxious to be out of school than I am to leave this world
and to be with my Redeemer. I've got a letter, I've got several
at home, but that Brother Henry Mahan wrote me. Y'all know Henry,
he always would respond. And one of the last things he
wrote, he said, Larry, every night when I lie down, I pray
that I don't wake up here. Well, not long ago he didn't. He woke up. He woke up in glory. He woke up, like we sang a moment
ago, looking up on the face of the One who saved Him by His
grace. Oh my soul, what a day! A glorious
day! That's going to be all the wonder
of grace. The marvel of mercy. Our salvation is a greater wonder
than what took place here. Because it required the Son of
Man, the Son of God becoming the Son of Man and coming into
this world. In the beginning, John wrote,
was the Word. And the Word was made flesh. That eternal Word. That express
image of God. That very expression of God. No man has seen the Father except
the Son. No man comes to the Father except
through the Son. And that everlasting Word of
God. was made flesh," John said, and
dwelt among us. On one occasion his enemy said,
you being a man make yourself God. Oh no, the opposite was
so. He being God made himself man. That's the wonder. That's the
wonder. People talk about seven wonders
of the world. I can't even name them. If I
tried to do it, I did it on one occasion and fell flat on my
face. So I'm not going to try it again
tonight. But seven wonders of the world,
you put them all together, whatever they are, and they fade into
nothingness compared to this. The Word was made flesh. Great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh. That little dark-skinned Jewish
baby boy in that stable that night is God Almighty. That's
the Everlasting Father. That's the Prince of Peace. That's
the Mighty God. Man, isn't that something? No
wonder Paul said, great is the mystery of godliness. And the
reason he did so is because his brethren were flesh and blood. He likewise, we read in Hebrews
2, took hold of the seed That he might in all things be
a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to
God. Wonderful wonder, is that not
so? Christ made like his brethren,
but he never ceased being God Almighty. And this same Jesus,
after he had done all that the Father sent him into this world
to do, led his disciples one last time
out through the Garden of Gethsemane, up Mount Olivet. And when they
reached the summit, while they beheld, he was taken. I mean, they're standing there,
Peter, James, and John, the others, and Jesus Christ just, He begins
to ascend right before their eyes. And they're just standing,
I don't believe them, I would too, wouldn't you? Man, they're
just standing there, I imagine, with their mouths open. What
matter of man is this?" And you know what the angel said to him?
This same Jesus which is taken up, taken up. How high up was
he taken? Well, I'll tell you this. God
has highly exalted Him. This is how up He was taken.
That every knee is going to bow to Him. And every tongue is going
to confess that He is God's Son. To the glory of God the Father,
that He is the Christ. God's given Him a name greater
than any other. Not Caesar. Not Rockefeller. No. Jesus Christ, God's Son,
that One who took away all the sins of all of His people. How
high up was He taken? God exalted His Son and He put
everything, I mean everything, and everybody under His feet. There's not a worm that wiggles
that's not under the control of King Jesus. Now that's just
so. And His people love to have it
so. They rejoice to know when they lie down at night When this
world is tossing them like a ship on the sea, He who rules wind
and water stands by me. And my great God and Savior says,
I'll tell you this, nobody is going to pluck one of my sheep
out of my hand. I like that story. In Mark's
Gospel, chapter 4, we read this verse. The Lord said, when the
evening was come, He said to His disciples, let us pass over
unto the other side. Let us pass over unto the other
side. I like how He put that, don't
you? Let us. Let us pass over. Whatever happens
to them is going to happen to Him. They're one and the same. This blessed union between Christ
and His people, the bride and the bridegroom, the sheep and
their faithful shepherd. If they perish, If they perish,
He must perish first. He must drown first. If He passes
over, they must pass over. And we read in the very next
verse of chapter 5, "...and they came over." Well, that shouldn't
surprise us, should it? He said, let us pass over. And
we read, "...and they came over unto the other side of the sea,
unto the country of the Gadarenes." O Jesus Christ, we're assured
with every promise of God, every attribute of God, that we shall
see His face. We shall see His face. Listen. Now this is true. If one of Christ's
sheep should perish, it'll be His fault. It'll be the fault
of the shepherd, not the sheep. And that will never happen. Everything He undertook, as we
said earlier, to do, that the Father gave Him to do, He did
it perfectly. Perfectly. Again, verse 11 of
our text here in Exodus 15. Who is like unto thee, O Lord,
among the gods? My soul, His grace was sufficient
to save me." That's amazing. What more proof do I need of
His greatness? Who is like Thee, glorious in
holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders. Doing wonders. Call His name Jesus. He shall
save His people from their sins. When the fullness of the time
was come, God sent forth His Son, made of the woman, made
under the law, to redeem them that were under the law. Is that
not glorious? To save His people? To redeem
His people? Did He succeed? Did He succeed? Was He victorious? Where I spend
eternity will be determined, did He succeed in what He came
to do? I know that He did. Because on
the cross, knowing that all things, we read in John's Gospel chapter
19, knowing that all things were now accomplished, accomplished,
our Lord said, give me a drink. They gave it to him. Knowing
that everything was now done, everything that was written was
accomplished, he said, it is finished. And you know what?
The angels in glory are still rejoicing over that. Curious
about that? Desires to look into the wonder
of that? It is finished! That glorious
cry of the victory of our Savior echoes throughout the halls of
eternity! And it will do, and continue
to do so until all of His sheep are gathered home, crying, with
all the redeemed, worthy is the Lamb. And what a wonder is that
great work of God's grace, His salvation. What wisdom! was required. What power, what grace, what
might of the Triune God was involved in the salvation of His people
and the wondrous experience of His saving grace when He is pleased
to reveal Himself to a sinner. There was a man that lived during
the time that Spurgeon pastored at the Tabernacle. His name was
Robertson Nicole, and he was a publisher and an editor, and
I think he often attended the Tabernacle. Just a few days after
Spurgeon died, he wrote this. He said, Mr. Spurgeon always
made salvation a wonderful, a supernatural thing. And so it is. Most people's
idea of salvation is nothing to get excited about. What's
wondrous about walking an owl? What's wondrous about making
a decision? Oh, but this is wondrous when
God Almighty calls a sinner out of darkness and reveals His Son
in him. Now that's marvelous. That's
a wonder of grace. Mr. Nicole went on to write,
this great and hard-won battle was sure. That is, it did not
stand in the creature, it rested absolutely with God. It was not
of man, nor of the will of the flesh. Mr. Spurgeon's hearers
had many of them missed all the prizes of life. God calls the
base and the weak things, doesn't he? But God did not choose them
for the reasons that moved man's preference, else their case was
hopeless. Their election was of grace. And He chose them, and He would
keep them. Many a poor girl, with the love
of Christ and goodness in her heart, working her fingers to
the bone for repentance that just barely keeps her alive,
with the temptation of the streets around her and the river beside
her, listened with all of her soul when she heard that Christ's
sheep could never perish. Many a struggling tradesman tempted
to dishonesty, many a widow with poverty and loneliness before
her were left it above all and taught to look through and over
the years coming thick with sorrow and conflict and anticipate a
place in the church triumphant. sinners redeemed with wonder
tale, Christ Jesus has done all things well, by his great sin
atoning blood, believing we have peace with God, and when to that
bright world I rise, and join the anthems of the skies, above
the rest this note shall swell, my Jesus hath done all things
well. Let me close with another story
about old John Bunyan. When he was seeking God's mercy,
he thought to himself, as I did. I can identify with that. He thought, how can God save
me? How can God save me? I remember
having him thought, God can't save me. God won't save me. There's
no reason he should. Man, I've been a rebel. God hate her. Christ rejected
her. He won't save me. And old Bunyan said he found
out so far from rejecting him was God that when Bunyan came
to him, he welcomed him in open arms. And Bunyan said there was
rejoicing in heaven that day when old John Bunyan came home. That's scripture, isn't it? That's
what our Lord said concerning the prodigal son. When the father
saw him, he ran to him. God delights to show mercy. He's
not reluctant to show mercy. He delights to do so. He delights
to do so. Every believer is proof of that. O who is a God like unto our
God, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? When with holy choirs we're standing
in the presence of the King, and our souls are lost in wonder,
while the white-robed choir sing. Then we'll praise the name of
Jesus with the millions round the throne, praising for the
power that reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Praise the
Lord for full salvation. God still reigns upon His throne,
and I know the blood still reaches, glory to His name, deeper, deeper
than the stain has gone. God bless you. Thank you for
your attention.