Psalm 86, this is a prayer of David. It
says, Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul, for I am holy. O thou my God, save thy servant
that trusteth in thee. Be merciful unto me, O Lord,
for I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant,
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art
good, and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy unto all them
that call upon thee. Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer,
and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of
my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me. Among
the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord. Neither are there
any works like unto thy works. All nations whom thou hast made
shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify
thy name. For thou art great, and thou
doest wondrous things. Thou art God alone. Teach me
thy way, O Lord. I will walk in thy truth. Unite my heart to fear. thy name. I will praise thee, O Lord my
God, with all my heart, and I will glorify thy name forevermore. For great is thy mercy toward
me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. O God, the proud are risen against
me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul,
and have not set thee before them. But thou, O Lord, art a
God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous
in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy
upon me. Give thy strength unto thy servant,
and save the son of thine handmaid. Show me a token for good, that
they which hate me may see it and be ashamed, because thou,
Lord, hast opened me and comforted me. Now it is a glorious privilege
to be called one of the sons of God. Now,
none of us can lift up or can climb up a ladder and look up
into heaven and open the book the pages of the Book of Life
and see our names written there. We think it would be a good thing
if we could, but that is not how the Sonship of God's peoples
manifested, although that is the record of those who are the
elect of God. They are recorded there in the
Lamb's Book of Life. That's what Scripture says. Now,
many people don't like for you to say such things as that, but
that's just exactly what the Scripture says. And so whether
we like it or whether we don't, we have to at least agree and
admit that Scripture does say that some have their name written
in the Lamb's Book of Life. And the Scripture says that those
who have their names written there, have been written there
from before the foundation of the world because they belong
to Him. But since a man cannot climb
up that ladder into heaven and see if his name is written in
that book, can he not know that he is a child of God? And I believe
that the proofs are very evident throughout the Word of God that
there is a manner in which the saints of God are taught that
they are the children of God. And the primary way that that
is is that they are those who call upon the name of the Lord.
I mean, the Scripture says, does it not, Whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now, I don't think it could get
much plainer than that or much clearer than that, could it?
Now, I guess then the question arises is not how they would
be known, but what is it to call upon the name of the Lord? Because
if a man calls upon the name of the Lord, the Scripture says
that the Lord will not turn away from him. I mean, David plainly
says it down here. He said, For thou, Lord, art
good and ready to forgive. and plenteous in mercy unto all
that call upon thee." Now that is a comforting thought to a
man that knows himself to be in need of mercy and the grace
of God. And such as call upon the name
of the Lord in the fashion in which The Scripture speaks about
here that the Lord is ready to forgive. Now who is He ready
to forgive? He is ready to forgive all who
call upon Him. He is ready to forgive all of
those who feel themselves to be in need of His forgiveness.
Now if a man does not feel that in the depths of his soul, then
he certainly is not going to call upon the name of the Lord
in the fashion in which the Lord is going to hear him, is He?
But it is a true thing that when God, who is rich in mercy, who
is the first cause of all things, as Brother Al is ably set forth,
He is also the first cause of a man seeing himself to be what
he is before God and thereby coming to the Lord for forgiveness.
Now, we are not talking about There is a carnal fashion in
which men want to be forgiven. I mean, a lot of people want
to be forgiven. Every time you do something wrong
to somebody else and you realize the consequences of what is going
to be the case, You want to get their forgiveness if you do them
wrong. I mean, you want them to forgive
you because you don't want them to do something back to you. Or either you don't want to suffer
some consequence as a result of what you did. But this is
far different than that. This is not really specifically
concerned about the consequences. Now, the consequences of sin
is death. It's destruction. It is the pit
of hell. That is the consequences of sin,
the just consequences of sin. Now, in order for a man to be
one who is one of these callers upon the name of the Lord, that's
the first place he's got to come, is it not? To a place where he
realizes that there is no way under the sun that he could possibly
ever accuse God of anything. I mean, as long as a man thinks
somehow, somewhere in his mind and heart that he is on a level
of a place where he could bargain with God or that he has some
chip to bring to God, he has some grounds upon which to approach
unto God, as long as he is in such a place as that, he is not
one who is calling upon the name of the Lord. But you see, that man in whom
the Spirit of God has performed the work is a man who is brought
down to a place where he knows he has absolutely no help or
hope apart from the mercy of God. And such a place it is that
David approaches the Lord. He says, Bow down thine ear,
O Lord. Hear me. For I am poor and needy. Now the Lord hears the prayer
of the poor and needy, does He not? Blessed are the poor in
spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. That is the first
of what we call the Beatitudes. Blessed are the poor. David said,
I am poor. and needy, bow down, Lord, and
hear me." Because that's the state I'm in. I'm not in a state
of strength. Now, when you hear these preachers
today that are preaching this ungodly message that causes men
to think they have something to bring to God, and they say,
Lord, see my faith. I'm bringing it to you. I heard
a guy the other day, he was talking about how the Lord takes notice
of a man that comes and brings faith. Well, the Scripture says
without faith it's impossible to please God, but that's not
the faith that's going to be pleasing to God. Because a man,
in order to ever have true faith, has to know where the source
of faith comes from. And he has to understand that
in himself he doesn't have any. And so he can't come to the Lord
and say, Lord, see all my faith. Now, I want you to bless me based
on my faith. I demand that you bless me because
I've got this faith. And you said that if I'd have
this faith, you'd do it. Now, I'm planning on you to do
it. I've got faith. I can't be turned
aside. That's not how David came. He
said, Lord, please hear me. He says, I'm poor and needy.
I don't have any faith. I don't have anything that I
could possibly bring before thee. Preserve my soul. Now listen
to what he says here. Preserve my soul for I am holy. Now do you suppose David is coming
here bringing a testimony of the fact that he thinks he is
without sin? Now only a fool would read this
and believe that that is what he is saying here. Of course,
if you look at the Scripture, that is not what he is saying.
What he says is, I am a worshipper of thine. That is what it is
to be holy. There is nothing wrong with a
man claiming to be holy before God. I hope that we are all holy. that we are worshippers of Him,
that it is our desire, that it is the thing that we want to
be found to be worshippers of the Most High God. Preserve my
soul, for I worship Thee. I am holy. And of course, in
that word holy, it could be translated as pious. Now, when we think of somebody
as pious, we're usually thinking about somebody who's self-righteous,
aren't we? But there is a proper use of
the term pious, and again, it means to be a true worshipper. If a man has piety, it means
that he is a worshipper of God. Now, who among those who would
call upon the name of the Lord would not desire to be known
as a worshipper of God? That's the place to which the
Spirit of God would bring a man to worship. Isn't that what the
Lord Jesus said to the woman at the well? The Father seeketh
such to worship Him as worship Him in spirit and truth. He's
not trying to find some folks that are. I've heard that preached
like that, well, the Lord's out here looking and every now and
then He'll find one that wants to worship Him in spirit and
truth. No, the Lord doesn't seek men in that way. The Lord seeks
men out to worship Him in spirit and truth. He doesn't seek and
find out who He is. But He is the One who is the
first cause of all things. He causes men to worship Him. And He takes delight, dear brethren,
in those who do worship Him. And David comes down and says,
I am a worshiper of God. Oh Lord, bow down and help me.
I am needy. You see, the worshipers of God
are needy people. They are not proud people. They
are not boastful people. They are not people who say,
look at me. They are people who say, O Lord,
Thou art worthy to be praised. In the city of our God, in the
mountain of Thy holiness, Thou art exalted above all. Thou art all and I am nothing.
Lord, I will worship at Thy footstool. O thou, my God, say thy servant
that trusteth in thee." What is it to trust in something or
someone? It is to cast your care upon
them. Now, it is hard to trust men
or women in this world, I mean mankind. It is hard to put trust
in them. Why? Because they will let you
down. Your favorite football team will
let you down. I mean, vain is the help of men. There's no helping men. I mean,
you might go along for a while and everything will be good,
but I guarantee you everybody in this world will disappoint
you at some point in time. Everybody, without exception. But you know that One in whom
our trust is placed, we know He will not disappoint us. Now
He may not always do exactly what we would like for Him to
do or what we think we would like for Him to do. But you see
that man who is a worshipper of God, he wants to worship Him
even if He does not do. what He wants them to do. Now,
a lot of people worship God as long as He is doing everything.
Oh, praise God! I prayed and I got me a Cadillac.
And, you know, I did this and I got that. And, oh, praise God! He is just a wonderful God. Well,
what about when the Cadillac, you get in a wreck? Do you praise
God then? Shall we receive good from the
hand of the Lord and not evil, as Job said? I mean, all these
things are ordered by the hand of God. Job said, though He slay
me, yet will I trust Him. See, you often hear people say,
oh, God's a good God. Well, He is a good God. In fact,
David says as much in this psalm, He is a good God. But he said,
I make peace and create evil. I make the light and I make the
darkness. It all belongs to me. God does
according to the good pleasure of His will, dear brethren. He
brings peace and He brings calamity. He brings life and He brings
death. And the true worshipers of God, those who call upon His
name and seek to worship Him in spirit and truth, they say,
even so, Lord, because it seemed good in Thy sight. Though He
slay me, yet will I trust Him. Whether we live, therefore, or
whether we die, we are the Lord's. Let all things be done to the
glory of God. Be merciful unto me, O Lord,
for I cry unto Thee daily. Now, one who calls upon the Lord
is not sporadic. Now, a lot of people call upon
the Lord when something bad happens. Everybody does from time to time,
don't they? I'd venture to say that there
is hardly a person on earth that does not from time to time, even
the rankest of those who claim that they don't believe in God,
I would venture to say that if you could be in their mind in
certain times and points in their life, there will be a calling
out for some help in a situation that they know they have. find any help anywhere else.
But that's no sign that a man is calling on the name of the
Lord. All that is is a sign that a
man wants to get himself out of a jam. Like a fellow told
me one time that it wasn't wrong to tell a lie if you was going
to get yourself out of a jam. I mean, that's how men think,
is it not? I mean, you can justify anything in your mind. And a
man will call upon the Lord when he's in a time of trouble. But
you see, the people of God, those who are the sons of God, call
upon the Lord whether they're in trouble or not. Now, they see themselves to be
in trouble most of the time. I mean like Jacob, I believe
it was Jacob, was it Jacob? Yeah, Jacob. He told Pharaoh, he said, few
and evil have been the days of my life. Now some say, well that's a dreary
way to look at it. Well no, you see a man who's
been acquainted with what he is, he knows that's the truth.
I mean, there's not anything he can point to to say, well,
oh man, I really did all these great things. That's why the
Lord said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom
of heaven. Because, you see, rich men are constantly looking
at all the things they have and have done to achieve them. It's hard for a rich man to say,
well, all this stuff was just put in my hands. I didn't have
anything at all to do with it, really. I mean, had it not been
for the mercy of God, I wouldn't have it. But you see, calling
upon the name of the Lord is not a sporadic calling, but it
is a constant calling. I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant,
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul." I cannot find any
source of relief or rejoicing. What is your place of rejoicing?
What is the thing that brings you the place of greatest delight?
That is what your rejoicing is. Is it your grandkids? I love
my grandkids. They are a place of rejoicing.
But they are not the place of my rejoicing. They are not the place of rejoicing.
There is nothing in this world that is the rejoicing of the
saints of God. There is nothing that is more
delightful to them, those that call upon the Lord, than the
Lord Himself. He is our joy. The joy of the
Lord is our strength. He is that One who gives us great
grace to go through the world. We call upon Him. He is our rejoicing. Rejoice the soul of thy servant.
For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. I don't have any
other. For thou, Lord, art good and
ready. to forgive. He is ready to forgive.
Why is He ready to forgive? Because He has provided the basis
upon which the forgiveness of sins could take place. And those
who are the children of God have a place of ready forgiveness.
Why? Because He has already accomplished that which was necessary for
us to be forgiven. See, we don't walk around with
the sword of Damocles hanging over our head ready to fall at
any time unless we ask the Lord to forgive us. He is ready to
forgive. He is already prepared. He has made the sacrifice. You see, the forgiveness is already
done. He is ready with it. He is good. Our God is indeed a good God. And woe be to that man who would
ever say any different. For thou, Lord, art good and
ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy. He is plenteous in
mercy. Listen, there is no end to the
mercy of God. God doesn't say, well, all right,
You've done that once, but if you do it again, I'm not going
to ever show you mercy again. Now a lot of people look at God
in that way, and they picture out the life of the child of
God as one of constant in and out, in and out, under and over,
and all of these kinds of things. But if God is our God, if we are worshipers of Him,
If He has caused us to call upon His name, the Scripture says
that He is what? Ready to forgive. He already has accomplished it.
He is plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon His name.
Now does He show mercy to them because they call upon His name?
No, they call upon His name because He showed them mercy. You see,
that's a small thing to say, but that's a big difference in
how we need to understand the working of God. He causes us
to call upon Him. And He sends mercy. We are the objects of mercy.
So those who call upon the Lord are indeed the recipients of
mercy. And they know they're the recipients
of mercy. You don't have to convince them
of it. See, a man that knows himself to be a sinner, when
he discovers that there is such a thing called redemption, he
knows that it is going to mercy. He knows it could not be anything
else but the mercy of God. Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer,
and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of
my trouble I will call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me. The Lord will answer His people. David said, I have never seen
the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread. The Lord
will answer us. Now He will not always give us
every jot and tittle of the things we want in this world, but the
Lord hears the prayers of His people because He delights in
them. and their prayers are made unto Him. You see, in the day
of my trouble I will call upon thee. Now, we do have days of
trouble. Now, just like we said a moment
ago, whether we have trouble or whether we don't have trouble,
the Lord is our Lord, but when we do have trouble, the Lord
is our Lord, is He not? I mean, vain is the help of men.
Who are you going to go to in a time of trouble? Now all men
will go to the Lord in a time of trouble, as we said there
a moment ago, but the people of God, they already know the
way. They've already been there. You
see, they didn't have to wait until a time of trouble, but
when the trouble does come, they're already there. See, they've already
got a path worn out. That is what David said, in the
day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer
me. I already know that. How does
he know that? Because he said, God is good. He is plenteous in mercy to all
that call upon him. He is ready to forgive. He knows
that. He said, you will answer me.
Because you see, the cry of the sons of God is ultimately not
to be delivered from some little problem or whatever that they
are having in this world, though that is beneficial to us from
time to time. But our greatest desire is that
we might be the objects of His mercy, that we might be found
to be the callers upon His name. And in that we know that He will
answer us. Now look, He says, Among the gods there is none
like thee, O Lord. Well, I thought there was only
one God. Well, the Scripture talks about that there are many
gods. I mean, the Scripture talks about
Satan as being the god of this world. There are many gods. The Philistines
had a god. The Amorites had a god or gods. They had all kinds of different
ones. There are all kinds of gods. Now, what's David saying?
He said the God with whom we have to do with, He is completely
different than any of the other gods of men. Now, men will trust in all sorts
of things. And the God that men trust in
today, by and large, is the God of free will, who stands around
in handcuffs all day, hoping that a man will reach up with
the key of faith or whatever and unlock the handcuffs so the
hod can do something for him. Now there is none like unto thee,
O LORD, among the hods. You see, the gods of the heathen
They are capricious gods. I mean, there is no standard
or rhyme or reason to anything they do. They may kill you one
day and help you out the next. I mean, there is just no figuring
it out. But with God, we know that He
is a God of mercy. Why? Because He has taught us
that. And it doesn't make any difference what circumstances
He may cause to come to pass. We know that He means it for
the good of His people. And there is no God among the
gods like unto Him. Now there is the God of men's
imaginations that says, as long as you do right, I will bless
you. Brethren, the promises of God
are yea and amen. He doesn't bless His people because
they do things. He doesn't bless them because
they are obedient. His blessing is to cause them
to walk in obedience. You see, He works in them both
the will and the do of His good pleasure. It is the working of
God in the lives of men that causes them to come into the
presence of God to rejoice and to say with David, among the
gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord. Neither are there
any works like unto thy works." Because you see, his works are
pure because his works all redound unto the glory of the Son. You
see, there is a consistency in the God with whom we have to
do. He is not here one day and liking this and the next and
over here and over there. But His purpose is singular,
to magnify the glory of His grace in the revelation of Jesus Christ
as the Redeemer of the people whom He loved in Christ before
the foundation of the world. That's a glorious thing. It's
a wondrous thing. All nations whom thou hast made
shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify
thy name. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord,
and glorify thy name? Who shall not? All nations shall. Every knee shall bow, every tongue
shall confess. He said that he had redeemed
out of every nation, kindred, and tribe on the earth the people. The Lord has a remnant in the
earth in all nations, and He is bringing those people unto
Himself. Now, does He have more in one
nation than another? Perhaps. That is His business. We might be surprised to find
out what that will be. A lot of people think, oh, well,
you know, the United States, I mean, we have got to be up
there top on the list. Well, are we? I mean, the Scripture
says that it is the poor and needy that are blessed. It would seem to me that we are
more as a nation among those who are rich with many goods. And what do we have need of?
I mean, we have got everything. We can figure out a way that
is better than the way of God. I mean, we can call light darkness
and darkness light and it's okay. We can attribute the works of
God to nature and all sorts of things and it's fine because
it's science, you know. It's all right. And we sit smugly
back, but we're a Christian nation going along the way and we lead
the world in going away from God. All the nations shall worship
Him. That does not mean all the people of all the nations shall. But all men, all nations without
exception, whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
thee and shall glorify thy name. Now the elect remnant which the
Lord chose in Christ from before the foundation of the world,
they are going to worship Him gladly. But all men are going
to worship Him. Some are going to worship Him
with His foot on their neck. The Lord Jesus said, that man
who casts himself upon the stone shall be broken. But He said,
that man on whom that stone shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. Now, Brethren, that ought to
cause some fear. to come into your mind and heart. It does
mind when I think of the fact that God is going to be worshipped. What a privilege it is to be
caused in the present time to call upon His name, to see Jesus
Christ lifted up, high and lifted up, His train filling the temple,
His glory stretched across all the earth. to magnify the redemptive
work which He has performed in giving Himself as a sacrifice
for our sin. What a glorious vision that is
to know and believe that and to worship at His feet because
of it. For Thou art great and doest
wondrous things. Thou art God alone. Oh, what a glorious place, dear
brethren, to be brought in worship. Thou art God alone. Teach me Thy way, O Lord. I will walk in Thy truth. Unite
my heart to fear Thy name or work in my heart to cause me
to fear Thy name. Give me singleness of heart.
that make it united. In other words, don't let there
be part of me that's wanting to worship a false god or to
go contrary to thy way, but, Lord, teach me thy truth. Apply
it to the inward parts. See, this is what one of the
marks of those that call upon the Lord is that they want the
truth of God written in their inward parts. Like David said,
Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against
thee. Now some use that to encourage people to memorize the Scripture,
and I certainly believe that God's people ought to memorize
the Scriptures. But far more important than memorizing
the Scriptures is seeking that the Lord might write His Word
on our heart. Not just in our mind. It is a
good thing to have it in your mind, but oh, far more important
is it to be written in the heart with that indelible pen. Unite
my heart. Give me singleness of heart to
fear thy name. When I am confronted with various
teachings and things as I go through life that would seem
to run contrary to that which God has taught me, do not let
me listen to it. See, we listen to the teachings
of the world, don't we? And we get to wondering, well,
you know, I wonder if the... Don't tell me you don't... Well, I wonder, you know, really,
if the Bible's really true. I mean, I wonder if really maybe
I'm missing the bone here. Oh, what a wicked way. that man
has. O Lord, unite my heart. Give
me singleness of heart to love Thy Word and to believe nothing
else, to not be tossed about with every wind of doctrine.
I will praise Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I
will glorify Thy Name forevermore. With all my heart. and I will
glorify thy name forevermore." You see, I believe that in every
man whom the Lord has given that genuine spirit work to cause
him to pray such a prayer as that, it is an evidence of the
fact that he is a child of God. that he wants to praise the Lord
forevermore? Men, by nature, do not want to
praise the Lord forevermore. Oh, they might want to go fish
or race cars or do something like that forevermore. They might
have some idea of something they might want to do forevermore. But is it to worship God forevermore? Because you see, that has had
a mark of that work. For great is thy mercy toward
me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell." Now it is not necessary for a
man to know the day and the hour whenever the Lord first began
a work in him. But I believe that it is a needful
thing that a man know and understand that he has been delivered out
of the darkness that he was in. Now, he doesn't claim to see
everything that he needs to see, but he knows that he's not where
he once was. He knows that there is a deliverance
and there is a greater thing that he desires and more that
he wants to see. But he knows that the Lord has
delivered him from the lowest hell. Now, the lowest hell, that's
pretty low. I mean, hell is bad enough, but
think about being in the lowest hell. I mean, that's right down
at the very bottom. Now, the Lord said to one of
the men that came to Him and asked him if he believed, and
the man said, Lord, I believe. How am I to believe? Now, he
had already been delivered from the lowest hell, had he not?
Sure he had. He said, Lord, I can't believe
like I want to believe, but I do believe. I believe. Help thou my unbelief. I cannot
do anything, but Lord, I know that you are the Deliverer and
I know thy presence. Thou hast delivered me from the
lowest hell. O God, the proud are risen against
me. The assemblies of violent men
have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them. The world is not a friend to
the people of God. Now, those that call upon the name
of the Lord and desire to see the name of Christ exalted, they are going to be sticks in
the mud in this world in varying measures because the
world is not a friend to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now the
religious world pays lip service to believing that Jesus died
on the cross, but I am talking about what Christ performed on
Calvary's cross when He actually paid the sin debt of His elect
and satisfied the claims of God's justice against them forevermore. That is a very divisive message
even among many who profess to believe. The Gospel. The proud are risen against me.
The assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul. They
are not sitting before them. You see, their concern is that
you will violate the free will of men. Well, I am not interested.
I do not care if I violate what they call the free will of men.
That does not interest me in the least. Because the thing
that we are sent into this world to declare is the glory of God. And the glory of God transcends
the free will of men. Now, do men have a free will? In a measure, they do. You chose what socks you put
on this morning, what shoes. You decided what time you would
walk out of the house. You have got a free will to do
a lot of things. But you see, one thing that man's
free will will not enable him to do is to seek the Lord. None seek Him. There is none that do us good.
No, not one. And so it is only by the mercy
of God and according to the working of sovereign grace that men are
brought to a place of seeing Christ lifted up and magnified. in the earth. The prouder isn't against us.
They have not set thee before them. But thou, O Lord, art a
God full of compassion and gracious, long-suffering, plenteous in
mercy and truth. O turn unto me and have mercy
upon me. Give thy strength unto thy servant
and save the son of thine handmaid." That's all we can do, is it not?
You've called upon the Lord. Show mercy to us, Lord. You're
full of compassion. We know it to be true. If you
come to me and you ask me, do I believe God is a God of great
compassion and mercy that shows mercy to thousands that call
upon His name, I'll tell you, He sure is. If you come to me and you ask
me, is God ready to receive guilty sinners who come to Him seeking
mercy in the name of Jesus Christ, I'll tell you, He sure is. So
much so that the Scripture says that the angels of heaven rejoice over a sinner that repented.
Because you see, God designed it that way. What a glorious
thing it is, dear brethren. Let us always realize that that
mercy is the work of God. And He shows mercy to whom He
will show mercy. But the mark of that mercy being
shown is when a man knows himself to be a sinner and he comes unto
the Lord seeking mercy for Jesus' sake. And I tell you, there is
never a sinner that ever lived, that ever sought mercy. from
the hand of God in the name of Jesus Christ that has ever been
turned away. It will never happen. He is that
God of great mercy and kindness to all that call upon His name.
May He ever be praised.