You know, the Apostle Paul, and
this is the title of my message this morning, How will God save
His elect? How God saves His elect. That's
the title of my message, How God saves His elect. And because
the Apostle Paul, God used him so mightily, wrote 13 books in
the New Testament, and God revealed to him how much he had to suffer
for the cause of Christ. And he did suffer, spent three
different times in prison, was beaten, left in the deep, or
you go through a list of the things that he went through.
beaten with stripes, put in jail and beaten so many times. He
suffered very, very much for the cause of Christ. But most
people think that his conversion was unusual, something out of
the ordinary. But it really wasn't. It really
wasn't. And others say that there's something
special about him that God caused God to call him and use him.
Well, if that's so, there's something special about him. If that was
so, then salvation wouldn't be of grace. And that's why he says,
by the grace of God, I am what I am. That's what he said. If I have any gifts at all, if
I'm allowed to suffer at all, if I'm allowed to preach at all,
if I'm called to be an apostle at anything that happens to me,
God, in His grace, gave me that grace to do it and gave me those
gifts. But I believe if we look at how
God saved the Apostle Paul and how the Lord Jesus saved him,
I believe we'll see that this is the way He saves all His elect.
I believe this is the way He saves all of them. And you know,
I believe it's just as plain as the nose on your face. First
of all, look what it says in verse 14. This is where I'm going
to get my subject. Verse 14. And he says, The God of our fathers
has chosen thee that thou shouldest know his will, and see that just
one, and should hear the voice of his mouth. He was saved. God saved him here on the Damascus
Road because of God's sovereign election. And if anybody's saved,
it'll be because of God's sovereign electing grace. Nobody will be
saved apart from God's sovereign. Election is not salvation, but
it's unto salvation. A man ain't going to be saved
who's not one of them. And that's what the scriptures
teach us. The first thing, when Ananias came and said, Ananias,
he said in verse 12, And one Ananias, a devout man, according
to the law, having a good report of the Jews which dwelt there,
came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive
thy sight. The same eye looked upon him,
he said, the first thing he told him was, he says, the first thing
he told Paul after he gave him his sight, and laid his hands
on him and gave him his sight, he says, the God of our fathers
hath chosen you. And is there anybody that would
doubt for a minute that God He does not save by sovereign free
grace and sovereign election, that God chose a people in Christ
before the foundation of the world. And God always chooses
those who are most unlikely. Look what Paul said up here in
verse 4 and 5 of chapter 22. He always chooses the unlikely.
Now here's a man who was a persecutor. And he told, this is his witness
as he stood before these Jews and these Greeks in Jerusalem. Now they're at the temple. They're on the steps at the temple.
And I persecuted this way. What way? The way of the gospel. The way of grace. The way of
salvation. The way of sovereign election.
The way of the scriptures. The way of the Lord Jesus Christ
is a substitute. The way of the Lord Jesus Christ
being a sin offering. The Lord Jesus Christ. Moses
don't have nothing to do with this anymore is what Paul said.
He said Christ is the only hope that a man has. Christ is who
a man has to look to. And they hated that and despised
that. But he said, I persecuted this
way. And he said, not only did I persecute
them, but I persecuted people all the way to death. He said,
I was responsible for people dying. Now that's a pretty mean
man, ain't it? Responsible for people like you
and me being took to jail, being punished, and being crucified
or our heads chopped off. Or beaten to death, stoned to
death. That's what he did. Binding and
delivering into prisons, both men and women. It didn't make
any difference to me. And the high priest also doth
bear me witness in all the estate of the elders. Because they gave
me letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring
which were them that were bound, already bound there, kept in
jail there, bound in prison there, unto Jerusalem for to be punished.
Now that's the man that God chose. That's a wicked, miserable, sorry
man. And that's what God chooses when
He chooses you and me. We may not have murdered anybody
except in our minds or in our attitude. We may not have punished
anybody except with our tongue. And there's lots of things that
we did in our minds and in our hearts and in our attitude and
in our feelings. How many times if we had the
opportunity, if what we had done to somebody, if God hadn't have
kept us back. So you see, we can't say, well,
Paul was worse than us. We may not have actually laid
hands on a man and killed him, but boy, we've murdered people
in our hearts before. We certainly have. And look over
here in Acts chapter 9. Look about Ananias. Here's what Ananias said about
Paul or Saul or Tarsus. Look up here in verse 10. Acts
chapter 9 and verse 10. And there was a certain disciple
at Damascus named Ananias. And to him said the Lord in a
vision, He said, ìLord, I am here. Behold, I am here, Lord.î
And the Lord said unto him, ìArise, and go into the street which
is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas, for one
called Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he prayeth.î He had
always been praying. He was a Jew. He prayed three
times a day. He went to the temple to pray.
He was praying that all the time, but this is the first time God
said he prayed. When God says you're praying,
you're praying. Behold, he prayeth. And look
what happens now. And hath seen in a vision a man
named Ananias coming in, putting his hand on him, that he might
receive his sight. Then Ananias answered, Lord,
oh Lord, I've heard by many of this man, I've heard lots of
things, lots of people told me about this man. And listen to
this, how much evil he hath done. to thy saints in Jerusalem."
It's common knowledge around here what an awful, wicked, evil
bandit's man he is. And what all the things he's
done to your people. And here he hath authority from
the chief priest to bind all that call on your name, Lord
Jesus. But the Lord said unto him, Go
ye away, for he is a chosen vessel unto me. to bear my name before
the Gentiles and the king. But Oedonaias, the Lord had to
tell him, he said, Lord, you go on. I don't want to go to
see that man. I don't want to go. I don't want
to have nothing to do with him. And that's how bad he was. And
oh, beloved, listen, salvation in the Scriptures, Christian
is mentioned three times. Three times. Believers is two
times. elect is four times, and I didn't
count how many times it talks about being chosen, but the word
elect is 14 times. The children not being born,
neither having done evil or good, why? That the purpose of God
according to election might stand. And Acts 13.48 says, as many
as were ordained or predestinated unto eternal life, every single
one of them believed. Now people, I love this blessed
truth of God's sovereign election. And God chose, God elected. It's all on purpose. And it's
God's purpose. And I love this blessed truth.
Because had not God chosen me, I would have never, ever chosen
Him. Had not God sent His affection on me and His will on me, I would
have never, ever come to Him. He first had to come to me. Is
that not right? He first had to come to me before
I'd ever come to Him. He had to call on me before I'd
ever call on Him. He had to put me down before
He'd ever lift me back up. And that's the way He does with
everybody. He puts everybody down like He did Saul of Tarsus
on the Damascus Road. And when He puts them down, the
first thing they want to know is, who is this that's dealing
with me? And then you begin to realize this is the Lord doing
this. And Lord, you know, we start
bargaining, but there ain't no bargaining. All we do is say,
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And beloved, we are blind
until somebody like Ananias comes along, and with a message from
God, and when that message from God comes, then the eyes are
opened, and not till that message comes. I'm not Ananias. But I'm one like Him. And I tell
you what, if man never sees anything, God's got to open his eyes. And
then look what else He saves. Over in Galatians chapter 2 and
verse 20. How God saves His elect. Look
over in Galatians 2 and verse 20. This is the way God saves His
people. This is the way the Lord saves His people. He said, Galatians 2.20, I am
crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me. In the life which I now live
in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. He is saying here, he was saved
by the merits of Christ's blood and Christ's atonement. And that's
how this man was saved, by the merits of another. and by the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ shed." And when he says here,
I'm crucified with Christ, what he's saying was, is that everything
that Christ did, I was in Him when He did it. That I am so
one with Christ that whatever His merits are become my merits. Whatever His blood is, it washes
away my sin. And He was justified. He was
cleansed and made righteous by what Christ did. And that's the
same way it is with us. Beloved, if we are saved, we're
saved by the merits of somebody else. You know, Boy Scouts and
different people, they get merits. And out there was a young girl
that she won every award at that high school that they had last
week when we were down there. And she was a merit scholar.
Merit Scholar. That means that she merited so
much stuff because she is so brainy. Because she had such
a brain. And they gave her all kinds of stuff and they based
it on her merit. And her accomplishments. Now if we had to have merits
and accomplishments for God to save us, who in the world would
be saved? Huh? Who would be saved? Who would be justified before
God? If you had to have a merit, if
you had to have a work, if you had to cleanse yourself from
your sins, and if you had to make your own righteousness,
who in the world would ever be saved? That's why Paul said,
I'm crucified with Christ. And what does that mean? He says,
when Christ died, I died too. Christ died unto sin once, I
died unto sin once. And he says, nevertheless, I
live. How do I live? I live by Christ
who was raised again from the dead. And the life that I now
live in the flesh, and I live in this body. He said, I live
by the faith of the Son of God. And God counts all of us, all
one with the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is something that we
know, and God help us to believe this with all of our being, that
God made us one with Christ before the world ever began, and He
never viewed us outside of Christ. If He ever viewed us outside
of Christ, there would be nobody ever saved. Christ was the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. Well, you keep that
and look in Romans 8 with me. I'll show you exactly what I'm
talking about. Everything over here is in the past tense. And
why it's in the past tense is because what God did for us,
He did for us in Christ before the world ever began. He said here in verse 29, "...for
whom He did foreknow." Did He foreknow Paul? Did He foreknow
you? And that word foreknow means
to have an intimate acquaintance with. It's like a man knowing
his wife. And look what he goes on to say
here. He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image
of his son. Well, he's got to have somebody
that he's going to save and predestinate to be conformed to that. That
he might be the firstborn among lots and lots of brethren. Moreover,
whom he did predestinate And everything He also called, and
whom He called, He also justified. Whom He justified, He also glorified. What then are we going to say?
If God be for us, who's going to be against us? And God counts
us all one with Christ, and Christ one with us. And when our Lord Jesus came
into this world, He did not come in this world on a fool's errand.
He didn't come into this world to to hope that somebody, that
by His living and by His death and by His blood, that somebody,
someone, somewhere, that it would work for somebody,
sometime, somewhere. What kind of God would it be
to send His Son here and left everything up to somebody else
to apply what He did? And that's why He said, you know,
if we're not one with Christ in the beginning, and we wasn't
one with Christ when He's on this earth, wasn't one with Christ
when He's on His cross, one with Christ when He's in His grave,
once with Christ when He risen, and once with Christ when He
sat down at the right hand of God, then beloved, who in the
world did He actually live and die for then if it wasn't for
His elect? And I tell you, one, one, God
looks at us as one. And I tell you, Christ, our Lord
Jesus, suffered God's justice. And justice
cannot pull out His sword and come after anybody for whom Christ
died. He bore our sin in His own body
on the tree. He was made sin for us. He died unto sin once, just once,
and we did too. Sin hath no more dominion over
us, none whatsoever. Sin, if God called us out of
this world right now, I woke up this morning, I thought, boy,
wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up in glory this morning. That's
the first thing I thought of. I opened my eyes and said, boy,
wouldn't it have been wonderful to wake up in glory this morning. You know, I just I thought boy
that'd be the most glorious thing to open my eyes and it'd be someplace
else but all of my died under sin just one time and By his
blessed grace we did too We died under sin once can't die of sin
anymore people either, you know, there's a You hear these preachers
and surely is just a preacher on the radio this morning And
oh my, he was carrying all his sight. I said, what are you doing?
He said, I just want to see what he's got to say. I just want
to see what he's got to say. Well, he didn't say what I'm
saying, that's for sure. And then I'll tell you something
else, look what it says. In the live in verse 2, back over in
Galatians 2 with me. I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless,
I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in
me. And this is one of the great
mysteries, you know, that Christ in you, the hope of glory. Christ
abides in you. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, Abide
in My Word, and I abide in you. And oh, we know that the love
of God dwelleth in us by the Spirit which He hath given us.
And He says, The life which I now live, I live by the faith of
the Son of God. Now what does he mean by live
by the faith of the Son of God? Does that mean he lives by faith
in the Son of God? I think here he means that he's
living by the faithfulness, the faithfulness and the faith of
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Our Lord Jesus Christ believed
God perfectly and completely and absolutely. Now you and I,
we believe God, but not like our Savior did. We trust God,
but not like our Savior did. Our Lord Jesus Christ was perfect. And everything that God accepts,
it must be perfect for it to be accepted. That's why we don't
look to our faith. We look to Him who is perfect,
the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why we don't look to our
faith. And you say, I think I can make that good. Look over here
in Galatians 2.16. You know, I live by the faith
of the Son of God. Now where in the world are we
going to get perfect faith? We don't have it. But Christ does. And if we're
in Christ, then we've got the faith of Christ. And oh, listen, look what it
says here. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works
of the law. Everybody knows that. A man's
not justified by doing and working, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. by the faithfulness of Jesus
Christ. Faithfulness to what? Faithfulness
to the law. Faithfulness to obey it. Faithfulness
to bear its curse. He is faithful to His Father. The words that I speak, they
are not mine. He is that sent me. I do always the things that
please Him. I came down from heaven. Every
man seeks his own honor, but he that seeks the honor of Him
that is from above, he is from God. He is true. And, oh beloved,
He is faithful to His people. He's never ever failed one of
His people. He was faithful to Peter when
Peter denied Him three times. He is faithful to David when
David sinned so grievously. He is faithful to Noah when Noah
was naked and drunk. He is faithful to Noah. He is faithful, faithful. to people like you and me. And
if it wasn't for His faithfulness to us, we wouldn't last no longer
than a snowball in a blast furnace. And look what else he says, "...by
the faith of Jesus Christ, we even we have believed in Jesus
Christ, that we might be justified by the faithfulness again of
Christ, and not by the works of the law. For no works of the
law shall no flesh be justified." And bless His holy name, When
we say that He is faithful to His Father, faithful to the Law,
faithful to His people, faithful to His Word. Faithful to His
Word. Faithful to the Covenant. He
kept the Covenant that God gave Him. He said, Father, they were
Thine. Thou gavest them to Me. And everything
He did, He did to honor His Father first and foremost. And then
when He did that, then what He did became ours when He honored
God. When He satisfied God, that's
the first thing He had to do before He could do anything for
me or you. And once He did what He did for
God, and God was satisfied, then God can look on us just like
He looks on His own Son. And that's one of the things
that it's hard for us to get And that God, when He views us
right now, right now, where we are, what we're thinking, what
we're feeling, right this instant, that God views us just like He
views His Son. If He didn't view us like He
views His Son, what would He do to us when we messed up? You
know why He don't do anything to us? Because His Son's perfect.
And it says we're complete in Him, and that word complete means
perfect. He hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. So we're perfect as far as God's
concerned. And then let me show you another
one over here in Galatians chapter 1. Let me show you one in Galatians
chapter 1. How He is saved. That's what
I mean, you know. This is how the Lord saves His elect. Saved them by sovereign election. Chosen. God of our fathers that
is cherished, saved by the merits and blood of Christ. Christ loved
him and gave himself for him. Gave himself for him while he
was a murderer. Gave himself for him while he was a blasphemer.
Gave himself for him while he was sitting at the feet of Gamaliel. loved Him even and gave Himself
for Him when He was persecuting the Lord's people, when He said
He had a righteousness after the law that was blameless? God loved Him. God loved Him
and gave Himself for Him. Now look what He says here in
Galatians chapter 1 verse 14, 15, and 16. He was saved by the
Holy Spirit's effectual, irresistible call. Let's start at verse 13. For
he said, Ye have heard of my conversation, or my manner of
life. That's what that word means. In time past, in the Jews' religion,
how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God. Nobody could
measure how I persecuted them. And I wasted it. And I profited. Oh, how I profited in the Jews'
religion. I really was somebody. above
many my equals in my own nation, Jewish nation, being more exceedingly
zealous of the traditions of my fathers." Not of Christ, not
of the law, not of honoring God, but the traditions of the fathers.
But now watch what he says, "...but when it pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace to reveal
His Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen. Immediately
I conferred, not with flesh and blood. So here we have, beloved,
his effectual call. He says, When it pleased God,
who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace.
You know the day that He called him by His grace? That day on
the Damascus road. When He put him in the dust.
That was that day of his effectual call. Because Paul says, I ain't
going to listen, I'm not going to pay any attention, I'm going
to stick my fingers in my ear. No, he couldn't have done that.
This is the sweet work of the Holy Spirit throughout God's
Word. You know, everybody you find
that God ever did something for, He gave them an effectual cause.
He gave them an effectual cause. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. Was he any different than other
people on the face of the earth? And he said, God said, man has
corrupted himself upon the earth. But he says, Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord. And then when he got in the ark,
he says, Noah, come thou into the ark. He came in where Christ
was. He came in where the salvation
was. And oh, beloved, how about Abraham? God said, Abraham, go
out. And Abraham went out. And you
know what? He didn't even know where he
was going. People say, where are you going?
I don't know. I'm going in that direction. That's the direction
you told me to go in. So you see, beloved Abraham,
and what about Jacob? Oh, you're talking about an effectual
cause. Jacob was laying alone and asleep
and Worried and afraid about his brother. Everything seemed
to be against him and then all of a sudden, somebody while he
was laying there got a hold of him. And when he got a hold of
him, he turned him every way a bit loose. And they wrestled
till the break of day. And he said, what's your name?
He said, my name's Secret. Do you know what the word Secret
means? It means wonderful. He said, I'm the wonderful one,
the one that's here with you. And that was the Lord Jesus Christ
resting with him. Threw his leg out of joint, gave
him a new name, and he walked different from that day. He went
from Jacob, the supplanter and the deceiver, to Israel, a prince
with God. And so you see, there's always
an effectual calling. Hosea says this, God said about
Ephraim, He said, I took him by the arms and led him. Took him by the arms and I led
him. And you know, beloved, all the
way through the Scriptures, especially in the New Testament, Zacchaeus,
little of stature, climbed a tree. Zacchaeus didn't have a clue
that the Lord Jesus knew who He was, where He was, or what
He was doing. What he did for a living or nothing.
He said, Zacchaeus, come down. Well, how in the world do you
know my name? I know my sheep and I call them by name. And
he called him by name. And he came down and Lydia was
sitting by the riverside where they went to meet in Philippi. And Paul was preaching. And the
scripture said, and the Lord opened her heart. And Lazarus
was dead and had been dead four days. And a dead man, a dead
man, a corrupt man, a stinking man, a rotten man. Four days
dead. And a dead man. Four days dead,
swelled up, rotten, corrupt. And even his sister said, Oh
Lord, oh he stinks. Don't take that stone away. He's
stinking. And the Lord Jesus said, take
it away. He said, Lazarus, come forth. And he went back to like
he had never died. All that corruption stopped.
He wasn't stinking when he come out of there. He'd come out of there like he'd
never been there. Come out of there like he'd never
been there. And that's what's going to happen with us. When
the Lord Jesus comes and gets us, it's going to be like we
never was Here, it's going to be like we never was any by all
those that have already died in Christ. It'll be as if they
never died. It'll be as if they never know what that death was
about. Never know it. And then on his call, his call
is a pattern, a pattern. I tell you, first of all, it
was a distinguishing call. He said, the God of our fathers
has chosen thee. I've chosen thee. It's a distinguishing
calling. God calls people individually. And it was a personal call. Saul,
Saul. Saul, Saul. Called his name.
It was personal. And I tell you, when God calls
you, it'll be personal. He'll call you personally. You'll
hear His voice yourself. Nobody else, the person sitting
beside you may not ever hear it. They may not, but I'll tell
you what, you'll be like Saul of Tarsus. You'll be a changed
man. And thirdly, it was a humbling
call. He said, I fell to the ground.
It was a humbling call. He fell to the ground. And on
my leg there, and he said, Who art thou, Lord? Who art thou? And it was an irresistible, effectual
call. Because he said, what shall I
do? What shall I do? And he said
in another place, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Lord,
what shall I do? You just opened my heart, my
mind. Tell me, what is it that you'd
have me to do? And he did what God called him
to do. And his call, this effectual call, this glorious call, this
call of the Holy Spirit came when it pleased God. And it was
a call of grace, he says, when it pleased God who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me, called me by His grace. And then, beloved, he was saved
by faith in Christ, believing on Christ, and trusting the Lord
Jesus Christ. And I'll tell you this much about
him and anybody else that God saves. He saves them without
any preparation of their own. But did Paul have any preparation?
Did he prepare himself for God to save him? Did he go into a
synagogue and start saying, Lord, please do something for me? No,
no. He was a murderer. He was a persecutor.
He was an injurious man. He was saved without any preparation
on his own part. And I'll tell you what, There's
no preparation on our part. God Himself has to be the one
to prepare us. God Himself has to open the heart. God has to open the ears. God
has to open the mind. God has to have power over the
will. In the day of His power, His
people are made willing. And I'll tell you something else
that happened to Him. He was saved at once. He was saved at
once, immediately, when Christ called Him on the Damascus Road.
Saved at once. There ain't no time period of
salvation. But when it happens to us, it
happens. And we know it. When God saves
us, we know it. A man can't be saved. Can he
pass from death unto life and not know it? Well, that's what
happened to him. He was passed from death unto
life. And then he was in darkness and the light shone. He was under
the dominion of sin, but grace came. And Paul was in double
darkness. He was in a double darkness. He was in the darkness of his
sin of Adam. He was in that darkness of the
sin of Adam. And then the horriblest darkness
of all was the darkness of religion. He was in the darkness of religion.
And that darkness of religion is awful. God saved us. Most
of us have been saved from religion. Some kind of an experience. And
God saves us. When He saves us like that, He
has to save us from devil darkness. And He was saved by grace alone. He was a persecutor. And He was
saved by faith that He says, it's a gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. It was brought in Him, given
to Him by the Holy Spirit of God. Now look over here in 1
Timothy, and I'll close with this. 1 Timothy 1, verse 13. Before God saved the Apostle
Paul, before God saved him, he was
a pattern of God's long-suffering grace. When God saved him, he
was a pattern of God's sovereign saving grace. He was of God's
long-suffering grace and God's sovereign saving grace. Oh, the long-suffering of God,
and then it was God's sovereignty that saved him. Look what he
said in verse 13. He said, I thank God that He
put me in the ministry, enabled me, counted me faithful, who
was before a blasphemer and a persecutor. And I was injurious. I injured people. I was mean
to people. But look what he said, I obtained
mercy. I obtained mercy. Because I did
it ignorantly in unbelief. I was in unbelief. And I tell
you what, until a man believes and God gives him faith, he don't
know how ignorant he was until God gives him faith. And how
ignorant he was of the grace of God, of himself, of the Scriptures. How ignorant he is of God and
so many things. Everything to do with spiritual
things, he's ignorant. And then look what he said. And
the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love
which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Now here's what I'm talking
about. Pattern of God's long-suffering
mercy. He said, God was exceeding abundant. Oh, He is so long-suffering to
me. How bid for this cause that in me first Jesus Christ might
show forth all long-suffering. God is long-suffering to usward, to usward, for a pattern
to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting.
So He was a pattern of how God saves His elect. Choses them,
calls them, and He does it by the merit and
doing and dying and the righteousness and blood. of the Lord Jesus
Christ, His Son. Our Father, in the blessed name
of Christ our Lord, thank You for Your abundant mercy and grace
given us in Christ. Thank You for we can see in Your
Word how You save Your people, how You save those that were
given to You in a covenant of grace, how You save those that
You died for, Shed you blood for her. Was buried for her. Risen again. Set right now in
God's right hand. How you save them. And oh Father,
I bless you that salvation is by election. By you choosing
us. We'd never choose you. And Lord
Jesus, we thank you for your precious blood. Your worth. Oh, your worth. What is your
worth before God? How much merit do you have before
God? Oh, how rich are you before God? And Lord, thank You for calling
us, calling us, calling us, calling us out of our sin, calling us
out of our darkness, calling us out of our religion, our traditions,
our ignorance, our blindness. And oh Lord Jesus, help us by
Your blessed grace. to look to You, lean on You,
trust You, commit our whole lives, our heart and souls to You. We
ask these things in Your blessed name. 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 told my heart
to fear, And grace my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed See you tonight, six o'clock,
God willing.