We want to remember those who are still traveling, Mitch and Carla, and for them. Pray for Lord's guidance and their safe return. I know that Chuck and Patty are away. Pray for them as well. And others who are not able to be with us tonight, ask God's mercies on them. Ask your prayers for me.

I always desire to preach the gospel to you, I really do. I long to with all my heart and totally dependent upon God to give me what you need. I don't profess to have any ability in myself. If there's any effect or effectualness to the message it must be God himself, God the Holy Spirit. So I ask your prayers that God give me the strength and the ability to preach to you tonight and make it effectual. Pray for those churches without pastors, those who do not have pastors. Remember them in your prayers.

The Lord willing, I will be in Crossville on the 26th. The 26th of this month. I'll be here Sunday and then Wednesday of next week. But I'll be in Crossville on that Sunday. Brother Aaron Greenleaf will be preaching the gospel to you here. He's agreed to come and preach and so pray for him as he prepares. He's a member There at Todd's Road Grace Church, a very faithful young man to preach the gospel. Preached it in several places, and I trust that he will be led of the Lord to preach the gospel to you, so remember that. Remember our conference. I did receive, again, notification from Brother Gabe Stoniker that he will, Lord willing, be here to preach along with his dad, Marvin, We'll have both of those men, the Lord willing, to preach the gospel to us in the last full weekend of July, 24th, 25th, and 26th of July.

So pray about that. Ask God's mercy upon us to have that conference. Let's go to him in prayer. Our gracious Father in heaven, we bow ourselves before you seeking mercy tonight. Father, you would give us the liberty, the ability to come and bow ourselves before you in our hearts, in our minds, and that we would come to hear your voice through the gospel that is preached. I stand in need of you, Father, to give me the strength of body and mind heart that I should preach the gospel as it is intended by thy spirit. Father, you would give me liberty and unction of your spirit to declare the truth which is Jesus Christ. Every mind, every heart might be turned from themselves to the things of this world and set our eyes upon the victorious and risen Savior, even the Son of God, Jesus Christ, our Lord. We confess our weakness. We confess the weakness of our mind. We confess the weakness of our body and the weakness of our spirit within ourselves. to apply the gospel. So again we ask that you would come and apply it to the hearts of your people.

That this night you might even use it for the glory of raising one of your children from the dead. That they might believe on Jesus Christ. That you might take this message and it might be a comfort to those who you have called, those who are in trouble, those who are afflicted. And Father, you might give them comfort and peace in their afflictions concerning the safety and security that we have in Jesus Christ, safe in the arms of Jesus.

Therefore, we are truly leaning on the everlasting arm our Lord Jesus Christ, as all our hope in standing before you. Forgive us our sins. Cleanse us of our unrighteousness. Instruct us, lead us, guide us, use us. And I ask these things in the name of Jesus our Savior and for his sake. Amen. Now you take your Bibles and turn with me to Ezekiel chapter 33. Ezekiel chapter 33.

This week I began to think on my calling, my purpose that God has sent me to, the ministry that God has put me into. And this text came to mind concerning the watchman. I've entitled this message The watchman's work and the watchman's word. The watchman's work and the watchman's word. Now, I want to read this. It's a lengthy section, but I want to read it in its entirety, and then we're going to divide this into four sections tonight. Four things I'm going to want you to see, I pray, by the Spirit of God.

Scripture says, and again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, saying to them, when I bring the sword upon the land, if the people of the land take the man of their own coast and set him for their watchman, if when he seeth the sword cometh in the land, he blow the trumpet and warn the people, when whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning, The sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning, his blood shall be upon him, but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned. If the sword come and take away any person from among them, listen, he is taken away of his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel. Therefore thou shalt hear the word of my mouth, and warn them from Now, the prophet of God is said here to be the watchman. And we know this for sure that Ezekiel was a faithful watchman.

He heard the word of God and he faithfully declared it unto his generation. But God the Holy Spirit used this man who faithfully preached the Word of God to his generation, he also inscribed it in Holy Scripture, not only for that generation, but for this one. Pages of Holy Scripture are inscribed for the good of God's Church. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

You remember the Apostle Peter, he walked with the Lord Jesus Christ. He preached in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember Peter was one of those who saw him transfigured heard the voice of God from heaven. And listen to what Peter said in 2 Peter chapter 1. He said, we have a more sure word of prophecy. Something more sure than hearing the voice of God. Something more sure than walking hand in hand with the Lord Jesus Christ. Something more sure. What is that?

Where to we do well to take heed? as into a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day spring arise in our hearts, knowing first that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not of old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." This text, this text was not just intended for that watchman and that people. This text was intended for every man that God has called to preach the gospel and for everyone to whom they preach it. And so I've got four points tonight.

First of all, the word of God concerning the watchman. Who is the watchman and what does he say? What is the trumpet that the watchman is to blow? What is the gospel of the watchman? What is the message? The watchman is called to warn the people, but what is his message to the people of God?

Thirdly, we're going to see the answer of the natural man to the gospel. And fourthly, we're going to see God's answer to them. First of all, the word of God concerning the watchman. Now God uses these first verses to give us an illustration, a picture of something. You remember when the nation of Israel sinned, God would send their enemies in to destroy their land, take them captive.

And when God would send a message of warning to them, that people would be wise to set a watchman on the wall. And the watchman had one purpose. He said, when he see the sword cometh, He blowed the trumpet and warned the people. That was his purpose. And God said if he warned the people and they do not listen and they die, they will die because of their own iniquity. And the watchman would be blameless. He did his job. He did what he was supposed to do. regardless of what the result was. And now God turns to the watchman and he says this, but if the watchman fail for whatever reason to warn the people. I imagine these watchmen were not necessarily the most popular people. The prophets were not popular people. We admire the prophets now. But in their day they were hated.

They were not listened to. Isaiah said, Who hath believed our report? Nobody listens to us. And God said, Listen, I don't care about the excuses. If you fail to warn them, listen, their blood will be upon your hands. In other words, God says, I will charge you with the murder of all of them. Now listen, they'll die because of their own sins. But God will chasten the watchman. God will chasten the watchman. The blood of the whole would be upon their hands. So who is the watchman? Well in this we know in verse 7 the watchman was the prophet. I have set thee as a watchman."

To do what? To preach my word. To hear my word and tell them what I said. We are set to be a watchman over the house of Israel. Even so is every true gospel preacher set to be a watchman over the House of Israel. We are given one purpose, one aim, and one ministry, and that is to hear what God says and tell you. We are to hear the word of the Lord and then convey it to you.

Paul says we are ambassadors. As though God did beseech you by us, be ye reconciled unto God. Look what Paul says to Timothy, this watchman. Go to 2 Timothy chapter 4. Timothy was set to be a watchman after the Apostle Paul, preacher of the gospel, and this was his charge. He said, I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead in his appearing and his kingdom. His charge was in reference to the coming judgment of God.

Is there anything more serious? Tell me, is there anything more serious than that? Any plans you have this week more serious than that? This is a serious thing. We're doing business in great waters, friends. This is concerning the coming of God's judgment. He said, I charge you because God is coming. God is coming in judgment. And He shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing. Listen, what do we do? Preach the Word, Timothy. That's the charge we have. Preach the Word. When? Instant. You know that word instant? It means to stand at the ready. We are to be instant to preach the Word of God. Always standing at the ready to preach the Word of God. When? In season and out of season.

You see, the watchman doesn't put his finger in the air and determine when to preach. Well, it's not so popular now. I guess I'll just shut up. No. We preach when it's popular and when it's not. We preach when there's one or there's one million. It doesn't matter. We are watchmen and we have one purpose. Preach the Word. That's it. Preach Christ. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Why? Time's coming when they're not going to endure sound doctrine. We're there, friends. I don't know about you. We're there. Men are not going to endure sound doctrine. They don't like it. They don't want it. They'd rather have their little crosses and their little figurines. And they'd rather bow down to that. And they'd like to have their incense and their robes and all these beautiful sights and sounds. They do not endure sound doctrine.

Is that to stop me? Is that to stop us who preach the gospel? No, we preach the word regardless of men, regardless of what they think, regardless of what they believe. We declare the gospel of Jesus Christ. We don't debate it. Watchman is not sent to debate the coming of the sword. He simply to declare it. That's it. We warn men. And our job is serious. There is no greater position in this world. None. There is no higher position as to speak for the living God.

But that's what we do. Regardless of my inability, regardless of my lack of strength or my lack of understanding, regardless, I am to preach the word constantly. This is what every man's called of God to do. We're not sent to debate concerning God's holiness.

I don't debate God's holiness. People try to judge what holiness really is. It's infinitely more holy than you think it is. Whatever you think holiness is, it's infinitely more holy. I simply declare to you that God is holy, and if you're going to stand before God, you have to be as holy as God.

There's no middle ground. Ezekiel says in chapter 18 in verse 4, this is the word of the Lord given to Ezekiel. He said this, Behold, all souls are mine. Now, who do you belong to? You don't belong to yourself. Your soul belongs to God. The soul of the Father and the soul of the Son, and you listen to what God says, the soul that sinneth, it'll die. the soul that sinneth it shall die. I tell you according to the plain word of God that every man that who has sinned against God and broken his holy law is worthy of God's eternal damnation. Therefore, as a watchman, I tell you that you must flee to safety. You must flee the refuge of lies, the refuge of self-righteousness, the refuge of religious works and self-salvation and flee to the only refuge that will sustain your soul, Jesus Christ and Him crucified. It is the only refuge. There is no other refuge. There is no other salvation. There is no other hope for you or me to stand before God except in Him.

Now, if you will not hear me, you will die in your sins. If you will not hear, if you will not flee, you will die in your sins. But as a preacher of the gospel, I am also warned if I don't warn you for whatever reason. Now listen, we as preachers are sinful men saved by the grace of God and we are capable of failure. We are capable of failure. You remember Jonah, this came to my mind, Jonah. Think about that. God told him to go warn those people and what did he do? He refused to warn them. What did God do to Jonah? He chastened him. He chastened him. And how many of God's men have failed to warn out of sympathy, out of some kind of misplaced sentimentalism, not wanting to offend, not wanting to lose people, Listen friends, what we do is very serious.

And when God said, I will count their blood, I will require their blood at your hands. That doesn't mean that if that man is a child of God, he's going to perish in his sins. That's not what he's saying. He's saying God's going to chase him. God's going to rebuke him.

Therefore, we as preachers must consider that the blood of souls is much more important than the blood of bodies. The blood of a man's soul is infinitely more important. If your children were in a fire, would you not warn them to get out? And yet look at all the people around us, perishing.

And yet for what reason would we not warn them? What reason? Embarrassment? Is that a reason? Lack of understanding? You can't say, get out! Flee! You must warn man. The wrath of God is coming. I remember hearing this street preacher one time preach a message, preaching, trying to answer questions.

That's what he was doing. college campus trying to answer questions. One woman came up to him and she said, you know what, I cannot believe, I cannot believe a God that doesn't give every man an equal chance. Her reasoning was that there are many people in some African country that lived and died and never heard of Jesus Christ, and if they went to hell, she just couldn't believe in a God like that. That man, he began to be kind of confused and he was kind of very stern at first, very forthcoming and then all of a sudden when she had that, he began trying to explain God's reasoning. He began to try to excuse God in some way.

Instead of just declaring the truth, Those men perished in their sins. Why not tell the truth? Regardless of what she thought or what she felt, all that woman was trying to do was justify herself. She wasn't doing anything. She wasn't trying to reason out the gospel. She was just trying to justify her own self.

As watchmen, we must declare the truth regardless of what men think or what men feel. We're not to explain God. were simply to declare what God says. We declare this to men. That's what watchmen do. Watchmen just declare what God says. We declare this, the soul that sinneth it shall die. That's blanket.

I don't care if you are in the darkest jungle and you've never heard of Jehovah in your life. If your soul has sinned against Jehovah, you will die in your sins. And if you have set in the church, or you have preached the gospel, and yet you have not come to Christ by faith, if you have not been born again of the Spirit of God, you will die in your sins. If you are not as holy as God, you will die in your sins.

Oh, that sinners would hear our warning. That's our desire. That's every preacher's desire, that every man would listen to us. Hear our warning. that men would not plug their ears and run in the opposite direction, but that seems to be the majority of people. When we say these things, men seem to cut us off and turn us off. They don't want to hear it anymore.

Would to God that woman looked within her own self and saw her own need and sued God for mercy instead of trying to make an excuse. Look what it says here. Go back to your text. Look what God says to the watchman in verse 10. He says, Therefore, O thou Son of man, speak to the house of Israel. Speak to the house of Israel. Now listen to this.

Every watchman is sent to the city he sent to. God sent this prophet specifically to the nation of Israel. He didn't send them to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Jebusites. Everyone who is preaching the gospel is sent to the house of Israel. We are to warn the city of God. Now, as we warn the city of God, there is no doubt a general warning sent. A general call is sent. And so as we charge men concerning the holy justice of God, all men should repent. We command everyone to repent and believe on Christ.

But in truth, I'm only sent to the house of Israel. I'm only sent to the Israel of God, to the elect. Though we warn all men, yet only the elect will hear. I don't know who they are. That's why I preach to everyone. I like that what Spurgeon said when he was asked that question. He said, if God has chosen a people and he's only going to save them, then why preach to everyone? He said, I preach to everyone because I don't know who the elect are. If you would kindly point out the elect to me, sir, I'll preach to them. No. So we preach to everyone. But this is one thing that I know. is that everyone chosen of God, redeemed of Christ, will hear the watchman.

Look what happens in verse 10. Look at this in verse 10. Therefore, thou son of man, speak to the house of Israel. Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgression and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how shall we then live? You see, God's people will always hear the warning of the watchman, and they will ask this question. We who pine away in our sin, how shall we live? shall we live? Seeing we have sinned, how shall we live? If God is holy, and he is, if God demands us to be holy, and he does, how then shall we, who are only sinners, live? God's coming in judgment. How shall we live?

This is the question of everyone God has chosen to save. And so God sends a watchman. He declares that God's coming in judgment, that all have sinned. God is not going to spare men. Every soul that sins, it will die. That's the warning. When that comes home to a man, he begins to pine away, begins to feel the guilt, the fear in his soul concerning the wrath of God. And he says, how shall he live?

This is my second point, the word of the watchman to God's people. The word of the watchman to God's people. The watchman warns and then the watchman gives hope to everyone who feels their need, their sin and need of mercy. Herein is the gospel, look at verse 11, saying to them, As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. God says, just as sure as I am the living God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

Now what does that mean? We all understand that false religion takes this message to somehow make God's mercy and God's justice to be in conflict with each other. That's us, isn't it? Our mercy and our justice are always in conflict. Someone does something to us, we start to have a conflict within ourselves. We love them, we want to forgive them, but yet we're mad at them. We've got a conflict. God has no such conflict. This is not a conflict in the person of God, as though God is saying, well, man, I sure don't want to punish them, but I got to. No. There is no conflict between God's mercy and God's wrath. None. None.

What this means is this, that when a wicked man dies, God's justice is never satisfied with him. God says when a wicked man dies, there is no end to his punishment. My justice demands his eternal punishment because he can never satisfy my justice by his death. That's what that means.

But here is something God does have pleasure in as well. God has pleasure in having mercy. But I have pleasure that the wicked turn from his way and live. And so then now the watchman says this, turn ye. If that's true, if that's true, listen to you, you pine away in your sin, turn. God says there's no hope. You can never satisfy my justice. What you can do is turn. Turn from your way and turn to Christ. That's what he means. Turn ye, turn ye, saith the Lord. Why will you die, O house of Israel? Why will you die?

It surely pleases the Lord that none of his elect should die. I like that when the Lord Jesus Christ in the end will say to his people, it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Do you know it pleased the Lord to choose his people? It was his pleasure that chose us. It was his will, his grace that chose his people. It was His will and pleasure that Christ should die for every one of them. And it is His will that every one of them should turn from their wickedness and turn to Christ.

They should turn. Behold the goodness of God. We see the severity in the warning, don't we? We see the holiness of God in the warning, but now behold the goodness of God, the grace of God, the mercy of God. To who? to sinners. I think it's amazing here.

He said, uh, he said, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn. Who's, who's a gospel directed dude? He didn't say it is my pleasure that the righteous man should turn from his No, the wicked. The gospel is always geared to the wicked. Our message as watchmen is not to the righteous, but sinners. Jesus said this, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Sinners. The gospel is always to sinners.

And so then I ask you, you wicked men. Well, that's not me. Well, I'm not talking to you. I've already warned you. I'm talking to somebody who needs mercy. Any of you need mercy? Only the wicked need mercy. I'm talking to the vile sinner. I'm talking to the reprobate. I'm talking about the man who has no hope in himself. To the wicked. I ask the wicked, why will you die? If Christ came to save sinners, why would you die? Why would you perish?

But turn ye. Now this word in verse 10, he said that he would turn, I'm sorry, verse 11, that he would turn from your evil ways. This is not a life of reformation. God's not asking you to reform your life. Remember what happens when you turn over a leaf? What do you get? Same old leaf, just different side. What you need is you need a whole new tree. You don't need a new leaf. You need life. He's not asking you to reform. What is he telling you to do? It simply means to turn by faith to Jesus Christ. Why?

He's the only way to God. There's no other way. Listen, there's no other refuge. God is coming in judgment and the only refuge is Christ himself. Jesus Christ is the refuge of God. He is the foundation upon which all the souls of God's elect are built. He is the rock. He is the foundation. He is the refuge for sinners. And everyone that comes to him, you know what they find? They find both the mercy of God and the justice of God have met together and kissed each other. In Him, justice is satisfied. Isn't this why we're fleeing? Justice? Isn't this why we're fleeing? Our wickedness? Our sin? And so wicked man, why will you die?

For the Son of God was ordained to be the Savior of Israel. He was ordained to be the Redeemer, the Mediator, the High Priest, and the representative of all the elect of God. And when He came in the flesh, He fulfilled all the salvation that they needed. All the righteousness they could not provide, He Himself provided. All the redemption that their death could never provide, His death provided. And God raised Him from the dead to testify of it.

You see, you that flee to Christ, I want you to know this. God is not sweeping your sin under the rug. We who come to Christ come because Christ endured the wrath of God for us. Isn't that what a refuge is? A refuge endures the storm for everyone inside. That's what our Lord Jesus Christ, He Himself bore the wrath of God for our sins, endured it on the cross, bearing our sin in His own body on the tree.

And so I say to every wicked man, behold the Lamb of God who beareth away the sin of the world. When God raised him from the dead, he put an exclamation point on it showing this, he was victorious. God was pleased. God was pleased. You want to know if God's pleased with you? Then look at the two. What's in there? Nothing. God raised him from the dead to prove to you that he's satisfied. Now listen.

Could not he have just left that stone on the thing and took Christ up anyway? Why did he have to make a big deal about it? Why did he have to open the tomb, show everybody it's empty? Why did he have to go around, show 500 people himself alive? Make his apostles testify of his resurrection. Why?

Because that is proof that God bore away my sin and my substitute. And so the vessels of mercy, those God chose, those who Christ redeemed, who are they? They're wicked men. They're sinners. And so the purpose of the watchman is to warn everybody, but yet the gospel of the watchman is geared only to those who are weakened, to only those who deserve the wrath of God. Look at this in verse 12. Look at this in verse 12.

He says, Therefore thou son of man say to the children of thy people, the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. Now he's going to set two people in opposition to each other, a righteous man and a wicked man. Now God says this, the righteous man, his righteousness will do him good until when?

Until the day he sins. and the day he sins, none of his righteousness will count. As for the wicked, wickedness of the wicked, listen, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness, neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live, listen, If he trust in his own righteousness and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered. But for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

This is what God said to everybody who claims to be righteous. He said, as long as you're righteous, yeah, sure. But the day you sin, it's done. The day you sin, all your righteousness, suppose, let's just suppose that a man could be righteous. All of his life, except for one thing, one thought, one deed, that was evil. God says, then all his righteousness shall not be counted. He'll die. If a man trusts in his own righteousness, he'll die. This is why the scripture says, by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight, because the law is constant.

If you want to be under the law, you must be constantly, continually under the law in every part. You don't get to pick and choose. This drives me crazy. And I'm telling you, when people tell me you need to obey the Ten Commandments, they do not understand the law. They do not understand the law. They do not get to pick and choose which part of the law they get to try to keep. The law is the law is the law is the law. And the scripture says that cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law. Listen to do them. Don't just tell me you love them. If you want to be under the law, do them. Which one? All of them.

And the day you don't, God said, you shall surely die. But here's the part I like. The wickedness of the wicked shall not come on him in the day he turneth from his sin. Look at verse 14, Again I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die. That's the warning, isn't it? Now look at this, But if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right. If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall live and he shall not die." Now, how is that possible?

You see, the only way that's possible is if we are turning to the only one who's done that. Who is the only one that has done that which is lawful and right? Only Jesus. Who alone restored the pledge? Jesus said this, I restored that which I took not away. Who restored the pledge of God's covenant? Christ did. Who alone walked in the statutes of life without committing iniquity? Christ did.

So therefore, every wicked man that turns from his own self-righteousness to Jesus Christ is counted righteous. Isn't this what is said of Abraham? Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for what? Righteousness. This is the message of the prophet, the watchman. God is coming, God is holy, and the soul that sinneth it shall die. What's God's message to His people? The people that pine away for their sin. The people who feel their guilt and need of life. If the wicked turn from His way. If the wicked turn to Christ and believe on Him. Listen, He shall not fall by His wickedness. You know why? Because Christ bore our wickedness. He bore our sin away. He paid the price. He obtained for us even the righteousness of God for everyone that believed on Him. Now what is the answer of the people to this? What is the answer of this? We warn men of God's judgment, we give men hope concerning the gospel of Jesus Christ, and if they would turn to Him, they'll live. And yet what is the answer?

Look at verse 17. You see the answer of the people. Look at this. I want you to understand this. He said, get the children of thy people. You see, he's setting two people apart from each other, the children of Israel. And now he goes and he says, your people, not my people, your people. This is the answer of your people, the sons of Adam, every man by nature. This is the answer of the gospel. Look at this. The way of the Lord is not equal. How depraved does a man have to be to call God unjust? This is exactly what they're saying.

I will not believe in such a narrow gospel. I will not believe in such a God that chose a people and rejected others. I will not believe in a Christ that died specifically for a people. I will not believe in a God of irresistible effectual calling. I will not believe in a God like that.

Why? He's not just. That's what men say by nature. When our gospel is preached, this lost, self-righteous, religious world will declare, as our text says, the way of the Lord is not equal. It's not just. This is exactly what Paul declares in Romans chapter 9. I'm not going to go into this in great detail. There are three objections in Romans chapter 9.

God says He's going to save Israel, and then we find out this, that not all Israel nationally is going to be saved. And they say, is the Word of God of none effect? Well, God said He's going to save Israel, and look, they crucified the Christ. Is God's Word invalid? Oh, no. God forbid you should say that. Why? Because God chose Israel as spiritual. It's not physical. It's not carnal. It's spiritual.

And he goes on to say that God has chosen Jacob and hated Esau as a picture of election. He said, the children not yet being born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand. It is said to her, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then?

Is there unrighteousness with God, because that's what you're going to tell me. Isn't this the objection of man to God's election? God's unjust? Third objection is this. Well, if God chose a people and only those people are going to be saved and God says He's going to have mercy on whom He will have mercy and whom He will, He hardeneth and nobody resists His will, then how can He find fault?

Boy, that's one they always think they got you on. If God ordained everything and God ordained the elect to life, and he ordained the reprobate to damnation and nobody can resist his will, then how could God find fault with those people? You know what Paul said? He said, who in the world do you think you are? How dare you, who are only sinners, try to condemn a holy God?

And that's what men do. When they hear the warning of God's watchman, they always seek to find a way out. They don't want to hear what we have to say. You're too hard. You're too strict. I'm not here to tell you anything about it. What I've said tonight is not my opinion. I don't give opinions. Watchmen don't give opinions. We take what God says and we tell you. We make no excuse for it. I'm not going to make excuses for God.

God chose a people. Christ died for them. The Spirit will call them and they will come. And He will save them and only them. And the rest will die in their sins. And I just don't care what men think about that. And so I say to you, if you are a wicked man, why will you die? Turn to Christ.

And this is God's answer to them. God's answer to them. He says this. Verse 20, you say the way of the Lord is not equal. Oh, you House of Israel, I would judge it. I'm sorry. Look at verse 17. Yet the children of our people say the way of the Lord is not equal, but as for them, Their way is not equal. You know what God says about them? He said their way is unjust.

Now who's right? Who's right? God or man, who's right? I say this, let God be true and every man a liar. God's way is a way of grace, it's a way of mercy, so that God might be just and justify the ungodliness, and the only way of escape is in Christ.

This is the message of every man God sent, and this is the only message we have. It is a message of mercy toward the wicked. It is a message of damnation to those self-righteous men who will not heed our warning. It is my hope as a watchman that everyone I speak to would listen.

Not to me, but to God. Listen to God. God is warning you to flee the wrath to come. God is warning you to come to Christ and be saved. There is no other hope for wicked man. But every wicked man that comes to Christ, God's promise is sure. He shall not fall by his own wickedness. Isn't that wonderful? It's only wonderful to the wicked. It's only wonderful to the sinner. It's a message of mercy. I pray God would comfort those that have hated this warning and do. And I'll tell you what, we've never stopped hating this warning, haven't we? We are always abiding in Christ. We are always believing in Christ. We are always trusting in Christ. When that day comes, and it's coming, what a happy day it is for us. What a happy day. That day of judgment will be a happy day for us who are in Christ. What a miserable day it will be for everyone outside of Christ. Pray God bless this to you. Let's stand and be dismissed in prayer. Glenn, dismiss us in prayer, please.

May you all understand, you all can trust in objective, right, telegraphic, official culture. You all need rest in peace, if you'd like that. God, we need you. We need you every hour, every minute, every moment. God, don't leave me for myself. It makes me afraid to think of such a thing. all these people. Satisfy your justice. Yes, for all the people that you gave to me before the world ever began. Keep us loyal to you. Be to those who are not willing to speak with me on the phone. Those that are sick, Lord, please, please touch them as quickly as you can. We bless you for all you do. Question for us in the name of our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.