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Donnie Bell

Let God Be True

Romans 3:4
Donnie Bell • April, 19 2026 • Video & Audio
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What does the Bible say about God's sovereignty?

The Bible asserts that God is sovereign, ruling over all creation according to His will (Psalm 115:3).

God's sovereignty is a central theme throughout Scripture, highlighting that He governs all events in the world. As stated in Psalm 115:3, 'Our God is in the heavens; He does all that He pleases.' This underscores God's ultimate authority and control over creation, demonstrating that no one can challenge His decisions or purposes. The doctrine of God's sovereignty assures believers that history is unfolding according to God's plan and that He accomplishes His purposes without opposition. It emphasizes that God's ways are not always understood by man, yet they are always just and right.

Psalm 115:3

How do we know the gospel is true?

The truth of the gospel is affirmed through Scripture, which reveals Christ's death, burial, and resurrection for our sins (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).

The gospel is rooted in the truth of Scripture, particularly the accounts of Jesus' sacrificial death and resurrection. In 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, Paul writes, 'For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.' This affirmation connects the gospel to prophetic fulfillment in the Old Testament, validating its truthfulness. Furthermore, the transformative power of the gospel in the lives of believers serves as additional testimony to its authenticity, showcasing how lives are changed by grace through faith in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Why is belief in Jesus Christ necessary for salvation?

Belief in Jesus is essential for salvation, as He is the only way to be justified before God (Acts 4:12).

Belief in Jesus Christ is fundamentally necessary for salvation because He is the only appointed means of reconciliation between God and humanity. Acts 4:12 states, 'And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.' This underscores that apart from faith in Christ, individuals remain estranged from God due to their sin. Salvation through Christ encompasses His fulfillment of God’s justice through His atoning sacrifice, thus ensuring that those who believe are declared righteous before God. In essence, faith in Jesus connects believers to His redemptive work and grace, which is vital for eternal life.

Acts 4:12

What does it mean to be born again?

Being born again refers to the spiritual rebirth that enables one to see and enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:3).

To be born again signifies a transformative experience in which an individual is made spiritually alive through the Holy Spirit. Jesus articulated this concept to Nicodemus in John 3:3, stating, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.' This new birth is not a physical rebirth but a spiritual awakening that brings about a change in heart and mind. It conveys the reality that a person, previously dead in sin, is given new life, enabling them to respond in faith to the gospel. This regeneration through the work of the Holy Spirit is essential for understanding and embracing the gospel message and ultimately results in a life that bears fruit in accordance with one's faith.

John 3:3

Why is understanding sin important for Christians?

Understanding sin is crucial for Christians as it reveals their need for a Savior and the profound grace of God (Romans 3:23).

Comprehending sin is vital for Christians because it lays the groundwork for understanding the necessity of salvation through Jesus Christ. Romans 3:23 clearly articulates, 'For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.' Recognizing that all people are sinners helps believers appreciate their need for God's grace and the redemptive work of Christ. It leads to a deeper acknowledgment of personal depravity and the consequences of sin, fostering true repentance. This awareness not only compels believers to place their faith in Christ as their sole hope for salvation, but it also cultivates gratitude for the grace that God extends to unworthy sinners, ultimately shaping their spiritual growth and relationship with God.

Romans 3:23

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Again, we're gonna sing number three in our hymn books. This is called Daisy's Hymn in this church. So we've been singing it ever since Daisy arrived. I've always sung especially for Daisy and she's heading off to the States next week and we pray for traveling mercies for you, so. Okay. Number three. Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, nought be all else to me, save that thou art. Thou my best thought, by day or by night, waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. you. you.

We normally pray before our second message. Why don't we pray the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in John chapter 17. Turn there with me and we'll read from verse 20 on. These are the Lord's prayer for us. The question is, has it been answered? God says it's been answered. May it be answered in us and amongst us today. These are some of the most remarkable words in all of the scripture. What a glorious God.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also, which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and thou in me. that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me. For thou lovest me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it. that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. And when David in 2 Samuel received the most remarkable promises from God that you could possibly imagine that could come to a sinner, he just simply said, Lord do as you have said. Lord do as you have just said.

Y'all ain't gonna believe this but I left off one of those I just got to six I never got to seven I when we go back and finish seven? I guess I'm carried away sometimes, but turn with me to Romans chapter three, excuse me, Romans chapter three. Start reading at verse 28, down through verse four. Chapter 3, verse 4.

For he is not a Jew which was one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. What advantage, then, hath the Jew? What profit is there of circumcision?

Much every way, the main reasoning being because God gave them His Word, gave them the oracles of God, gave them His Word. But what if some did not believe, didn't believe what God said, didn't believe the Word that God gave them? What if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect, will it make what God does ineffectual?

God forbid. Yea, let God be true. But every man a liar, as it is written, that thou mightest be justified. God be clear and might overcome when you're judged. And I want to talk today about let God be true. That's what he says in verse four. Let God be true. Let God be true.

Sinful man is always looking for a way to clear himself, justify himself, to make himself look better than he is. He may use the scripture, wrongly interpret it, even use false doctrine. The Jew and Gentile alike do this and they'll take a look at true doctrine and turn it and use it against God himself.

And he asked this question, why some didn't believe? Why some people didn't believe God's Word? And there's lots of people don't believe God's Word. Is it still gonna make God's work not work? Is it not gonna make God's work, huh? Just because they don't believe, they gonna make their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid. Will their unbelief make God a liar?

And that's what happens when men put their reason in the place of God's Word. Look what he said here in verse five. And this is what people say about us. They say, you know, if I believe what you preached, this is what we'd have to do. They say, well, I'll tell you what, we're unrighteous. We're unrighteous men. We live unrighteously.

But will our unrighteousness, if God commends the righteousness of God, how's God gonna take vengeance in? How's God gonna judge us? And that's what people do. God, you know, if the truth of God had abounded more through my lie, me lying on God, me telling a lie, then it bounced through his glory. Why did God turn around and judge me as a sinner?

And that's what people say. And I don't know how many people said this. If I believe what you did, I would sin all I wanted to do, and I'd live like I want to, and I'd still get to go to heaven. But let me tell you something. I sin a heapsot more than I want to. And I look forward to the day when I get someplace where I'll never, ever sin again.

And then they'll say, well, you know, it gives people a license to sin. They'll live lasciviousness. Men don't need a license to sin. They don't have to, you know, you have to have a license to drive, have a license to fish. You have to have a lot, you know, but listen, I'm telling you something, you don't need a license to sin.

I'll tell you the gospel, if the gospel makes a person use that as an excuse to live a ungodly, a life that's so against God and does not regard God, does not regard His holiness and His glorious gospel and the faith of God, they don't know anything about it. I'm telling you that without a shadow. And all the religious people in the world, this is what people ask me, said, you know, what about people that don't believe like we do and preach? What about all the religious people in the world, all the people in foreign lands who don't believe like you do?

Are they lost? Yes, absolutely. And there's three things we have to face. Now listen to me. There are three things we have to face. We'll either face it in grace or we'll face it in judgment. First one is God's immutable sovereignty. You've got to face God as he is, not like we think he is, not what we hope he is, but God's immutable sovereignty.

The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. God rules and reigns in this world. He doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and no man can stay his hand or say unto him, what do you do? Nobody can say that. The Lord does what He pleases in heaven and the earth and all deep places. Oh, the heavens declare the glory of God.

Man's gonna have to face God as He is. They can say what they want to about Him. They can make Him little. God is little and man's big now. And the gospel makes man to be nothing and Christ to be everything. got it backwards, but that's one thing man's got to face. He's got to face God who is immutable.

A God who rules and reigns in this world. Our God's in the heavens. Psalm 115 verse 3 says, God's in the heaven and he does whatever he pleases. Show me your glory. I'll have mercy on whom I'll have mercy. I'll have compassion on whom I'll have compassion. Jacob have a love, so have I hated."

They immediately say, that's unrighteous for God to do that. Paul said, God forbid, who are you? Who do you think you are that you set in judgment on God himself? You're gonna judge God and tell him what he can do and what he can't, who he can love and who he can't, who he can hate and who he don't? You're gonna go set in judgment on God, puny man? Weak man gonna stand and set in judgment on God?

So that's the first thing man's gotta do, he gotta face God, an immutable God. And then here's the second thing man's gonna have to face, his utter and absolute ruin. David said, I was shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin. And I'll tell you what, every man that comes into this world, he comes into this world, they say, well, people's gonna be lost. They come into this world lost. They come into this world sinners. When I had a son, he was just like me.

He was a sinner, born a sinner, born of the flesh. How did I become a sinner? Not just because I was related to Adam. God's not gonna judge me for Adam's sin. He's gonna judge me for my sin. And man's UTTERLY RUINED! That means that he has NO ABILITY! He has NO HOPE! He is RUINED in SIN! He is born NAKED! He is born HATEFUL! He is born with ENMITY in his heart towards God! He was BORN with a WILL ADVERSE to God! And the first—listen—the first man that ever sinned against God, do you know what he did? He didn't come running to God!

You know what he did? He run over there and bought him a fig leaf and put it over and covered his nakedness. And I tell you what, that's all most people's got, a fig leaf religion. And they have to, when you put on a fig leaf in the middle, he starts dying. And you gotta get another one and get another one and get another one. And that's all religion's doing. Just get another fig, give him another fig leaf.

Cover up their nakedness, cover up their nakedness. But he hid from God. And he said, Adam, where are you? God don't ask people for information. You know, when he asked the question, he wants you to know something. He wanted Adam to know where he was. He wanted Adam to know he was naked. He wanted Adam to know he rebelled. He wanted Adam to know you can't stay in my presence anymore. Why? Because you ruined yourself. You did it. You did just exactly what I told you not to do.

If you get ready to leave your house, you got three or four kids, and you say, now listen, go and replace in the house you want to, but that door right there, don't go behind that door. Don't you open that door, don't you go in that room. You know what's gonna happen? You won't get out there in the driveway to go get in that room.

That's man's run. He's gonna do what you tell him not to do. And so man's gonna have to face that. People gonna face, you know, there was a group that came to the Lord and said, Lord, we've preached in your name, we've prophesied in your name, we've cast out devils in your name. You know what our Lord said? I never knew you. Never knew you. And here's the third purpose, third thing that we gotta face.

It's God's purpose in redeeming sinners by the Lord Jesus Christ. There's only one way that God saves a man, and that's through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. There'll be no other, I don't care how many God's people say they are, I don't care how many they talk about, how many ways you can be saved, we all, we all, we go in different ways, but we all don't get in at the same place. No! No! There's one person that God's purpose for saving men in, and that's His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

There's only one washed in the blood. You know, there's power in the blood, soul-cleansing power in the blood. It's the blood that God said that washes us from our sin. And he had to have a payment for our sin, that his blood was a payment for our sin. And all of God's purpose in redeeming sinners by the Lord Jesus Christ.

God will not, will not. Old Scott Richards said this, he said, God will not speak to, nor be spoken to, except by His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. If you're gonna talk to God, you're gonna have to come through His Son. If you're gonna come to God, you're gonna have to come through His Son. If God's gonna come to you, He's gonna come to you through His Son.

No other way. No other way. That's what we gotta face. And the only way we can answer these three questions is that we can give in one place, and that's the Scriptures, that's the Word of God. Yea, let God be true. Let everybody else be a liar. Huh? Let God be true.

Isaiah 820 says this, if they speak and not according to the law in this word, it's because there's no light in them. No light in them. And according to the word of God, I'm gonna give you some things. Now, this is true. According to the word of God, no one who is saved who hasn't been born again. Nobody that's what God says ain't it?

He took look over here in John 3 with me. Just keep Romans. Look over here in John 3. I was just over there a minute ago But look what he said to Nicodemus. Oh Nicodemus came to the Lord Jesus Christ and all said nobody do these miracles except God be with him and I Lord just stopped him and look in verse 3 and Truly, truly, or verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again. Now listen to what I'm telling you.

He said he can't see. He can't even see. Why can't he see? Because he's blind. He's blind. You can turn on, you know, if you're in a dark room and turn on a light, the only person who can't see that light is a blind man. And that's what our Lord said. He told Nicodemus, said, Nicodemus, without that new birth, you can't see. You can't see. And then look what else he goes on to say. And Nicodemus asked the most ridiculous question. How can a man be born when he's old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? That's the most ridiculous thing you ever heard, ain't it?

But that's natural man. That's why I can't see. He said, how in the world am I gonna do this? Will I have to start over again? Oh, our Lord said, oh, except a man be born of water. And that water is his word. That's what he's talking about, the word. And then he talks about, you know, water and the spirit can enter into the kingdom of God.

And so you got to be born again. And I'll tell you what, you got to be, you know, God who hath, we were dead in trespasses and sin, and God hath quickened us together with Christ, given us life from the dead. Do y'all ever, I know you've seen Ezekiel 16, and that infant, that infant that was cast out, his navel hadn't been cut, he was thrown out in the field. And nobody had cleansed it up, nobody had cleaned it up, never laid that infant in there. But here comes God, here comes the Lord, and He shows us how a person gets life. He passed by that infant, and He saw it lighted, polluted in his blood, and He said, I say unto thee, live, yea, I say unto thee, live. And He covered that child's, that baby's, put a beautiful garment on that baby, decorated him up, But God has to say live. And if God don't say live, nobody gonna live.

And what about the dry bones in Ezekiel? God took Ezekiel and took him out there and he showed him a valley as far as you could see, nothing but dead, dry bones. And he asked old Ezekiel, he said, son of man, can these bones live? Lord, you're the only one who knows that. You don't know whether it can or not.

He said, I tell you what, I want you to preach to them. I've been preaching to dry dead bones for decades. He said, can they live? He said, well, preach to them. Preach to bones? Dead, dry bones? Yes, preach to them. And this is what I want you to tell them. He told him what to say. God told us, put words in his mouth, said, now, bone come to bone.

Next thing you know, bones started rattling, bones started coming together. Legs and arm and everything, and all them bones are standing there. They're still just bones. He said, now, command that flesh come upon them. Next thing you know, it's covered in flesh. And he said, now, command the wind to blow. And the wind blew over him. They came to life, dead, dry bones.

And Lazarus, Mary and Martha said, Lord, don't move that stick, don't move that stone. You'll embarrass us. Our brother's been dead four days and he stinks, and I don't want anybody to know what shape my brother's in. You know, you'll embarrass us, Lord, if you take away that stone. Everybody will smell him, he's gonna stink. If you'd have been here, it wouldn't have happened. The high lord moved that stone, and he said, Lazarus, come forth. And the scripture said, he that was dead came forth. And that's the way God does us. When he says live, you're gonna live.

So I'll tell you what, faith, and I'm gonna tell you something. Faith doesn't give you life. Faith doesn't give you repentance. No, no, you have to have life and then faith. Life has to come first. Because a dead man can't believe. A dead man can't repent. And God, when he gives life, That's when faith comes. That's when repentance comes. It comes with the life. Faith doesn't give, people want to believe that faith is what gives them life. Faith is the gift of God. And it comes through the new birth.

And here's the second thing about let God be true and every man a liar. Those who don't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you know, let God be true, but every man a liar. Man must be born again. And I'll tell you something, if a man does not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and I'm not talking about just some historical facts. You know, they put out documentaries about the historical Jesus. Well, I'll tell you what, we're not worshiping a historical person. We're worshiping a living man, a living person, a living Lord. And I tell you what, Christ is alive and he lives in us and we live in him. Our Lord said it like this, except you believe that I am he. You know what'll happen? You'll die in your sin. Bye-bye.

You know, it's not just the facts of His burial and His resurrection and His ascension. Look in 1 Corinthians 15. Look in 1 Corinthians 15. Verse 3 and 4. That's what some, I've heard preachers say all the time, you know, said, well, the gospel's the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, that's not all there is to it. Look what he said here. Verse three. Verse 15, three.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. According to what God said. Isaiah 53 is all about the death. of our Lord Jesus Christ, all about why he died. And then look what else he said, that he was married and that he arose again the third day according to the scriptures.

And that's what you have to deal with. That's what we deal with, according to the scriptures. And oh, if I had an opportunity to preach to a great, great, great crowd one of these days, the only thing I would preach is that there's one Savior one Savior, thou shalt call his name Jesus, and he shall save his people from their sins. The only Savior of sinners is one man, the Lord Jesus Christ. God put everything about himself in his Son, and everything that God's gonna give us has to come through his Son. And I, you know, There's no other way. It's impossible for a man not to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. It's impossible. Look down in verse 20 here of Romans 3. I hope I don't take too long again, but look what he said.

Therefore, by the deeds of the law, by the doings of the law, no flesh will be justified in God's sight. You know, only thing the law was fit for is to make you know your sin, give you knowledge of sin. But, oh, but now there is a righteousness. It's the righteousness of God. The law had nothing to do with this righteousness. But the prophets witnessed it. Even the law witnessed it.

And, oh, the righteousness by faith. Jesus Christ by the faith of Jesus Christ and all mine let me show you give me go over to verse 25 and all we're talking about Christ now you know a man I said a man except he'd be born again now it is except he believes on Christ and he talks about the Lord Jesus Christ whom God set forth he set him forth and as a child, set him forth as a man, set him forth as a propitiation, set him forth on that cross to be a propitiation, atoning victim to take away the wrath of God. And it's through faith in His blood. And God declared, said, I'll forgive your sins and put your sins away through Christ. To declare, I say, at this time, God's righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of him that believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how, how can God be just and justify a man? How can God be just and stay just and yet save a sinner like us? Only one way, through his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Sent him forth, he said, listen, my son will bear your sin in his own body on the tree. My son will be wounded for your transgressions. It'll please me to make His soul an offering for sin. Oh, God put everything in His Son.

And I'll tell you, nobody's saved who does not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Nobody, I don't care who they are. And I'll tell you something else and let God be true in every man of our heart. I believe this with all my heart now. A man is not saved who has not heard the gospel. And there's only one gospel, one Savior, one gospel. You know, Paul said, I marvel, I stand in amazement that you're so soon removed from the grace of Christ unto another gospel. Because there's really not another gospel. And he said, if I come unto you, or an angel of God comes unto you and preaches another gospel, let him be cursed of God himself.

Well, what is the gospel? What is it? Look in Romans chapter one. Oh, I tell you, the gospel can be defined. It can be defined. God defines the gospel himself. Look what he says, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, look what he said, separated unto the gospel of God. The gospel started with God, it originated with God. It didn't originate with man. It didn't even originate with Paul. It originated with God, God.

And oh my, and he had promised this gospel before by his prophets in the Holy Scripture. And what is this gospel? It concerns his son. Jesus Christ our Lord. That's who it concerns. It concerns the Son of God. The gospel of God's glory concerning His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Well, how in the world did He come into this world? He was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. He come into this world as the seed of David. And oh my, and God declared this right here. God declared Him to be the Son of God. with power. Oh my.

How can God be just and justify sinners? He said, I'm a just God and I'm a savior. You find it in the ark, just to give you an illustration how God can be just and save sinners at the same time. He looked on the earth and man's imagination on evil continued. He destroyed everybody on the earth. That's his justice. But hell, he was also a savior. He said, I got an ark. Come into the ark, and he shut the door. He saved eight people. Of course, he's a just God, he destroyed everybody else, but he saved his people in an ark. And that's the way God is.

There's three points, if I can give it to you, about the gospel. First of all, sin. Sin, man's a sinner. Born that way, live that way and die that way without Christ. The second thing about the gospel is substitution. Substitution. We got to have somebody that God will accept in our room instead. And there's only one person that God accepts in our room instead. It's his blessed son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He won't accept anybody else.

Oh my. And God, Abraham started up the mountain. Wood, fire, knife in his hand. Isaac said, Father, you got everything here, but where's the lamb? He got up top of that mountain. Somebody's ram got out somewhere, and it was caught. He brought back that knife to kill his own son.

About that time, he looked around, and there's a ram. took his son and put him in our stead, in our place, and God put our sin on him, wounded him, bruised him, made his soul an offering for sin, and I'll substitute the Lord Jesus Christ for everything that was against us, and he's satisfied.

And here's the third thing, satisfaction. Satisfaction, is God satisfied with him? If he's satisfied with him, then he'll never look to us for satisfaction. He's satisfied God's holiness, satisfied God's truth, satisfied God's justice, satisfied sin and death, he put it all away, once and for all by himself. Oh my, he's a just God and a savior, and I'm grateful he is.

And I'll tell you another thing, let God be true, and every man a liar, not only does Man has to be born again. Can't know God without a new birth. Who does not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? A man's not saved who's not heard the gospel. You know, would God ever use a lie to save a man? Would God use a lie? Will he use free willism to save a man? Will he use works to save a man? Will he use law to save a man? Would he send somebody to lie on him and get people to believe on Christ? Would he use the law? Would he use words? Would he use obedience? If he did, his son died in vain.

And that's what the gospel's about. And I'll tell you something else, a man's not saved who's ignorant of the righteousness of God. Oh, I'll tell you what, you know the righteousness of God. Hmm. Look in Romans 10. Look in Romans 10. Now, I'll tell you what. Look what it says here, Romans 10, verse one.

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to Israel is that they might be saved. I tell you, I'll bear record to them. They have a zeal, they're zealous for God. They pass out tracts. They pray. They pray standing in the street corner. They make loud, you know, but here's the thing that they're ignorant of. They're ignorant of God's righteousness. How do you know they're ignorant?

They're going about to establish their own. I don't know what Reformed people down here believe, but Reformed folks at home, Reformed Baptists and things at home, they're all legalists. You know what a legalist is? They try to face God on the basis of all their obedience and all their keeping the law and all the things that they think that they're doing.

And I'll tell you something, they're ignorant of God's righteousness. If you're ignorant of how God makes a man righteous, listen, And you got to be as righteous. How right you have to be? As righteous as God. How good you have to be? As good as God. How obedient must you be? As good as Christ. Where you gonna get that righteousness? Where you gonna get that obedience? Where you gonna get that love? Where you gonna get it at? Only one place, that's in the Lord Jesus Christ. Look what he's going on to say now. They being ignorant of God's righteousness, they're going about to establish their own.

I remember my father-in-law, bless his heart, he didn't get converted till he was 75 years old. But I talked to him about the scriptures and tried to tell him something. He said, oh, I know that, I know that, I know the Bible, I know it, I know it, I know it. He'd always say, of course, you know why he said that?

He's going about to establish his own righteousness. But all of my, and have not submitted themselves, listen to this, under the righteousness of God, I love this right here. Christ is the end, the goal of the law for righteousness, not to somebody that does something, but for everyone that believes. That's how righteous come through faith. God made him to be sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

And you know, I'll tell you something, I'll be no more righteous in heaven than I am right now. I'll be no more righteous in heaven than I am right this moment. I'll have a new body. I won't have any sin, but as far as righteousness goes, I'll be no more righteous in the sight of God than I am right now. When I get to glory, I'll still have the same righteousness that I've got right here. Y'all believe that? I'll change locations, geographical locations, but I'll be as righteous as I am.

I'll never be any more righteous than I am right now. Nothing could ever make me righteous except the righteousness of Christ. All right, let me give you another one here. And I'll tell you what. You know, let God be true in every man alive. Let God be true. I do know this. A man who is not saved, who does not continue in the faith, How long, how long you got to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Till the end of your life, huh?

You know, the scripture says, and I think it's 1 John 2, 19 says, they went out from us because they were not of us. If they'd have been of us, they would not have went out from us. They would have continued with us. And Hebrews 1038 says, the just shall live by faith. The just shall live by faith. And my soul shall have no pleasure in them who draw back unto perdition. But we believe, we believe to the saving of the soul. We believe to this soul. The end of faith is the salvation of our souls. Oh. And I tell you what, you gotta continue in the faith. How long did Abraham believe? Till he got to glory.

What if, what if, I've got to hurry, I know I'm wearing you out, but I don't mean to, but. What if, what if you get old and you lose your mind, you get dementia? What if you end up in a nursing home and you don't know who you are or what's going on? Who's gonna save you then? How you know you're gonna get to heaven? You don't even know your name. Don't know your wife's name, your kid's name. How you gonna get there? The same way he saved us. I'm more interested in what God knows about me than what I know about God.

But I have said this time and time again, and I've said it to our congregation, I say it wherever I go, if you can quit, if you can quit the gospel, if you can quit Christ, if you can quit your relationship with Christ, you will. If you can leave, you will. If you can quit, you will. Sooner or later, you'll end up going. But if you ain't got nowhere else to go, Then you will never leave. Never leave.

Huh? Where are we gonna go? You know, Shirley's heard me say this before. My wife had died. A fella come to our house. We're sitting out on a porch and this asker said, how do you know that you're saved? How do you know you're saved? How do you know that when you die, you get to go to glory?

She said this, she said, I'm such a great, great, great, great sinner. I'm such a sinner, and I know I am. But Christ is a great, great, great Savior, and if that's not enough, I won't make it. And that's the way we're gonna live, and that's the way we're gonna leave this world.

I may not know my name, but he does. I may not know where I'm at, but he does. Somebody may be changing my diaper one of these days, but he knows. He knows. That's what counts, ain't it? Well, thank you all for listening. Appreciate you very, very much. Appreciate you very much. Thank you.

Donnie, we're having lunch now, so you're most welcome to join us and to talk through some of those things with each other. And Donny will be preaching next Saturday evening. We're meeting here at five and having pizzas and then next Sunday morning. So for anyone that you know that you might love to hear this gospel, this savior, I pray that you might come on.

Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you that according to your word, your word has come to us today through your servant and that your word has returned to heaven, and your word has done a work, Heavenly Father, in your people in this world, and done a work in all who hear, and we pray, Heavenly Father, that you give us ears to hear, and hearts to believe, and eyes to see the glory of your dear and precious Son. We pray that you might bless our food and bless our fellowship, Heavenly Father, but most of all, you might bless the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and cause us to flourish in this place, Heavenly Father, and flourish in our hearts. And may we go from here rejoicing that there is a saviour for sinners, a great saviour for great sinners. We thank you again, Our Father, for sending your servant. We thank you for your words that have come to us, and we pray, Heavenly Father, that they bear much, much fruit for your glory in this world.

We pray these things for the glory of your dear and precious son and bless this food and bless our fellowship, Heavenly Father. We pray and thank you that we can come into your presence because our saviour is there interceding for us now and he's here with us at the same time. What a saviour. What a glorious saviour. We pray in his precious name. Amen.
Donnie Bell
About Donnie Bell
Donnie Bell is the current pastor of Lantana Grace Church in Crossville, TN.

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