We're always glad that Roland
and Lori Browning are here from Dingus, West Virginia, and I've
asked Roland if he'd come read scripture and lead us in prayer. Open your Bibles with me to the
book of Isaiah. Isaiah 43. Let me say thank you,
Brother Frank, for putting this on. Thank those that have worked
and done the things that are needed to bring about this meeting
for people like me just to come and enjoy. It's a blessing. It's a blessing. We'll read the
first seven verses here in the book of Isaiah. Listen to what
God says He's done for His people. He is doing and shall do. Isaiah
43. But now thus saith the Lord that
created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel, fear
not. For I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name
in your mind. Thou art mine. When thou passest
through the water, I will be with thee. And through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the
fire, thou shall not be burnt, neither shall the flames kindle
against thee. Why is that? How is that possible?
For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for thee, or for
thy ransom in Ethiopia and Cephas for thee? Why'd you do that,
since thou was precious in my sight? Thou has been honorable,
and I have loved thee. Therefore, will I give men for
thee, and people for thy life? Fear not. Fear not, for I am
with thee. I will bring thy seed from the
east and gather from the west. I will say to the north, give
up. Come unto me, all ye that labor
and heavy laden. And to the south, keep not back.
Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the
earth. Every one that is called by my
name For I have created him for my glory. I have formed him,
yea, I have made him. Let us pray. Our Heavenly Father, what a privilege
it is to come and hear the gospel. What a blessing that you have
bestowed upon a people. such unworthy, sinful, wretched,
vile, worms, maggots as we are. But yet, you said in your word,
in your testimony and in your law, I have loved them. And I went about working all
things for their good and for my glory. What a blessing. Send forth your word again this
morning. Teach us. Speak to our hearts. Cause us to not to fear the things
that are going about in this world that we have no control
over, we have no understanding of them. Let us seek Christ and
Christ alone. Let our hearts be settled upon
Him, knowing that He works all things for our good. He will
do all that is right for the sake of His people, and He will
bring us to glory. What a blessing. Be with Brother
Todd as he comes once again to speak to us. Lord, pour out Thy
Spirit upon him, that he may shed it to us, that he may speak
the words of God concerning our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
and that we may hear. Lord, give us ears to hear and
give us hearts to understand. For it's in Christ's name we
pray. Amen. Stand and sing 256. When peace
like a And sorrows like sea billows
roll Thou hast taught me to say, It
is well, it is well with my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well Though Satan should buffet, though
trials should come, Let this blest assurance control, That
Christ hath regard for all. my helpless estate, and has shed
his own blood for my soul. It is well with my soul It is well,
it is well with my soul I sing o'er the bliss of this glorious
thought I sin not in part, but the whole, is nailed to the cross,
and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
O my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. And Lord, they said, and my face
shall be sighed. The clouds be rolled back as
a scroll. The trump shall resound and the
Lord shall descend. Even so, it is well with It is
well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. You may be seated. Our last speaker of the day,
Pastor Todd Nyberg. And Tal, I pray the Lord bless
you as much as he did last night. I'm looking forward to hearing
what the Lord's given you. Would you turn with me to Genesis
chapter 25? Somebody once said that Genesis
is the seed plot of the whole Bible. What that means is every
doctrine of the scripture is illustrated in the book of Genesis. And I believe that to be so.
The Bible is God's word And let me say something about that.
I love that scripture to the law and the testimony. If they
speak not according to that, no light in them. God created the universe from
nothing. Anything other than that really
just is irrational. Illogical. unreasonable. God created the universe from
nothing. And everybody in this room, if
you don't believe it now, one time you did. It's just natural
to believe that. Now you can through various means
put that light out because you don't like the implications of
it. I realize that we can't do that. But everybody knows that
God created the universe from nothing. He's all powerful. Now, if God can create the universe
from nothing, can he inspire a book? And keep it without error? And
preserve it? Sure he can. It's not hard to
believe. All scripture It's what the Bible
claims for itself. All scripture is given by inspiration
of God. And as I have said to a congregation in
Lexington so many times, if we don't have that, all we got is
my opinion and your opinion. And we're in bad shape if that's
the case. Thank God for the scripture. And the book of Genesis is, I
like what one man called it, the seed plot of the Bible. Every
doctrine, every teaching is illustrated in the book of Genesis. Now let
me read my text in Genesis chapter 25, beginning in verse 19. And these are the generations
of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac
was 40 years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter
of Bethuel, the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister to Laban, the
Syrian. And Isaac entreated the Lord
for his wife because she was barren. And the Lord was entreated of
him. And Rebecca, his wife, conceived. And the children, she didn't
know as of yet she had twins. And the children struggled together
within her. And what that means is there
was a fight going on inside. Strong language. They were battering
and bruising one another. There was conflict between these
two children in the womb. No conflict before life. But
when life is conceived, There is conflict. And she said, if it be so, why
am I thus? You know what that means? What's wrong with me? What is
wrong with me? Something's wrong with me. And she went to inquire of the
Lord. And the Lord said unto her, two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall
be separated from thy bowels, and the one people shall be stronger
than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger. Now I want to call your attention
in verse 23, two nations and two manner of people. Now, is
that being redundant? No. This scripture is teaching
two separate things that are taught clearly in the New Testament. The two nations, Election. Election. I've heard it said by somebody
this week, I love election. I do too. It's God being God.
That's the best summary of election. God is God. Whatever he does
is right. And we love it this way. The elect love election. That is not our subject, although
it certainly has bearing, the two manner of people. The two
nations, God's elect, those Christ died for, the two manner of people. I have entitled this message,
Holy and Sinful. Holy. I mean what the Bible means
by holy, not what men mean by holy, but what the Bible means
by holy. Holy and sinful. And I could, I believe, just
as easily entitle this message, do I have a holy nature? I want to know. Is there a way
I can know? Do I have? a holy nature. Now every believer, every one
of God's elect that are living today on this planet, have a holy and a sinful nature. There's no exceptions to this. Every believer has a holy and
a sinful nature. Now what does that mean? What
does that mean? Holy. You know what that means? Sinless. Impeccable. Without even having the potential
to sin. Now think about that. Would you turn with me to 1 John
chapter 3? Hold your finger there. In Genesis
25 we're going to be looking at that quite a bit. But look
at this verse in 1 John chapter 3. Whosoever is born of God doth
not commit sin. Now, there are other translations
that says he doesn't continue in sin. He doesn't practice sin. Well, if that's what John means,
it means you've never been born of God. But that's not what it
says, is it? Whosoever is born of God doth
not commit sin. For his seed, the seed of God,
remaineth in him, and he cannot sin. He is unable to sin, because he is born of God. Question. Can God sin? Answer that in your own heart.
No. Can the Lord Jesus Christ sin?
You know, I've heard preachers call into question what is called
the impeccability of Christ, his inability to sin. Because
he said if he has no ability to sin, there's no virtue in
him resisting temptations. No. No. He's immutable. If he could sin,
he wouldn't be God. Jesus Christ is God. No. Jesus Christ cannot Can God the Holy Spirit see him? He's the Holy Spirit. He cannot
see him. Can that which God birthed see him? Now if God birthed him, can he
see him? Can God give birth to that which
is sinful? No. No. He that's born of God doth not
commit sin. John 1, 12, and 13 says, As many
as received Him, to them gave He the power to become the sons
of God, even to them which believe on His name, which were born,
which were birthed, fathered by God. of blood, not of the will of
the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God. Can that which proceeds from
the new birth sin? No. Divine holiness cannot sin,
that which comes from God cannot sin. Now, that same man who has
this holy nature has a sinful nature. That means plumb full of sin. If I have a sinful nature, That
means, I touched on this last night, all I do is sin. I cannot not sin. I can't do it. It's always there. And when I'm talking about my
sin, my sin is my fault. I can't hold God responsible
for my sin. My sin is all my fault. That's what makes it so bad.
That's why I need mercy, because my sin is my fault. And I, you
know I judge people all the time. I mean, probably you get around
me and you'll find out how judgmental I am. I judge people all the
time, and every time I judge somebody for anything, I hear
this voice in my heart, hypocrite, hypocrite. You don't have any
business judging anybody for anything. Look at you. And I
know in and of myself, I don't have any claims on God. I forfeited
everything by my sins. Now, every believer has these
two natures, a holy nature and a sinful nature. And listen to
what Paul said. First Timothy 1, 15, he said,
this is a faithful saying, it's worthy of all exaltation
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. of whom I used to be the chief. Doesn't say that, does it? You
know I hate ex-sinners, don't you? Of whom I am, present tense,
the chief. Now, Rebecca was barren. She could not produce life. I mean, you by nature, we can't
produce life. Dead in trespasses and sins. And Isaac, this great type of
Christ, entreats the Lord for her. He asks for life. And what took place? Verse 21,
and Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife because she was
barren. And the Lord was entreated of
him. Now this gives me such an encouragement
to pray. You know, Isaac knew that the
promise seed was going to come through him. God told him that. And he could have said, well,
there's nothing to worry about. I won't pray. No, he entreated
the Lord, didn't he? He entreated the Lord. If your belief in God's absolute
sovereignty makes you think prayer is unnecessary, you've misunderstood. He entreated the Lord. And the Lord was entreated of
him. God hears. God answers prayer. Aren't you
thankful for that? He hears me. He hears me through
his son. He hears me. And Rebecca, his
wife, conceived. Life is now there. that was not
there before. And the children struggled in
her womb. Now, before there was life, there
was no struggle. Like you said last night, my
problem with sin really came into being when I was given life.
That's when the struggle really began. And the children struggled
within her. And that word is literally crushed,
oppressed, broke, bruised, discouraged, struggled together. She had a
battle within. And she said, what's wrong with
me? Why am I like this? If I'm saved, why is there this
struggle? If God really has done something
for me, what's going on on my inside? Have you ever thought
that? What's wrong with me? What's
going on? I don't understand this. Seems
like if I was saved truly, I wouldn't do that. or I wouldn't think
that, or I wouldn't be that. What's wrong? And she went to
inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, two
nations are in thy womb and two manner, two different types of
people shall be separated from thy bowels and be One people should be stronger
than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger.
Now we're gonna come back to that at the end of this message. But he gives her the reason,
twins. Twins. Verse 24, here's the human
explanation of why am I thus. And when her days to be delivered
were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. And the first came out, verse
25, the first came out red. That's where we get the word
Adam from. All over, like an hairy garment. He came out with a ready-made
garment from his youth. from his birth. And his name was Esau. Esau is
taken out of the word work. Works, human nature, already
have my own covering. You know, that garment is the
same word that's used for the goodly Babylonish garment that
Achan stole. Babylon, the representative works
religion, making the tower to heaven, the goodly Babylonian
garment. Now here's Esau. Verse 26, he was the firstborn. He comes out of the womb, I suppose,
head first. And this is pointed out, when
he's pulled out, there's a hand holding on, clutching tenaciously
to his heel. I wonder if that had ever happened
before. I wonder if it's happened since.
But look at verse 26. And after that came his brother
out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel, and his name was
called Jacob. Heel catcher, supplanter, deceiver. And if you look at this man's
life, he was a very deceptive man. He deceived his brother. He deceived his father. As a
matter of fact, there's no more dysfunctional family in all the
word of God than Isaac and Rebekah and Jacob and Esau. You say,
I have a dysfunctional family. Well, you're not the first. And
you're not the last. And I mean, this place, I mean,
talking about deceiving going on, Rebekah, look what she did
to her husband. I mean, there was some interesting
dynamics in this family. But here comes old Jacob. And
he is a deceitful man holding onto his heel, but I couldn't
help but thinking about this. What is prophesied with regard
to the Christ? You'll crush his head. He'll
bruise your heel. Talking about the cross. And
I'm holding tightly on by his grace to my only hope is that
Christ died for me. That's it. I do not have any
other hope but that. And that is why I despise in
my heart that teaching that says that Jesus Christ can die for
you and you wind up in hell anyway. My hope's gone if that's the
case. Verse 27. And the boys grew. And he saw was a cunning hunter,
a man of the field. He was a man's man. Part of the dysfunction of that
family, verse 28, it's seen here, Isaac loved Esau because he did
eat of his venison. I mean, somehow he gave him his
favorite food. That's why I like him better.
But you can see the, dynamics of this family. But it says the
boys grew and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, a
man's man. And Jacob was a plain man, dwelling
in tents. He hung out with his mom. He
didn't want to go outside. He was a cook. I can't even boil
water hardly. Jacob was a cook. Remember Esau
coming in to eat of his pottage, the stew he'd made? He was a
cook. He didn't like the outdoors.
He stayed in with his mom and was a cook while Esau was a man's
man. But I want us to notice this
word in verse 27. Jacob was a plain man. A plain man. Now that word is
used 13 times. in the Old Testament. Nine times
it's translated a perfect man. Two times it's translated undefiled. One time it's translated upright. And here it's translated plain.
So whatever a plain man is, he's perfect. He's undefiled. And he's upright. As a matter
of fact, this is the language that the Lord used to describe
his church. Undefiled. Now that's the scriptural
testimony. And somebody says, well, he doesn't
seem much that way to me. I know. Lot is not who I would have called
a just man and a righteous man with a righteous soul. I would
have had a hard time calling him that. But God didn't. And how God says
is the way it is. You know what me and you see?
Nothing. We never see things the way they
really are. We just don't do it. But God
does. And Jacob is called perfect. Job was perfect and upright.
Same word used to describe Job. And you know, I remember when
I was a kid, when I'd read things like that, I'd think, well, they just didn't
have the temptation that we had back then, and they could just
live there. No, no. That's a stupid, foolish, childish
thing to think. He was perfect. He was upright. Now, this is given to illustrate
the old nature and the new nature. Jacob and Esau. Now, if you would look to Jacob's
conduct, his character is that of a supplanter, a deceiver. How deceptive are you? How deceptive am I? I mean, I
don't know of a better word to describe me as a deceiver. You say, well, why are you preaching
to me? How can I listen to you if you're a deceiver? Well, just
figure it out. I'm no different than you are.
All of us are in that light. God uses this word to describe
Jacob, perfect. It's what the New Testament calls
the new man. The new creation. Something that was not there
before. And this is something I just
thought of this morning. I didn't just think, I mean,
1 Peter 3 calls it the hidden man of the heart, which is not
corruptible. And I thought of that word hidden man. You can't
see it. You can't look at yourself and
say, yep, I got that holy nature. Look at me. That's not what is
being taught. That's not true. It's the hidden
man of the heart. The only way you know you have
it is by faith. Not by looking, well, I was holy
there. No, no. All you prove by that
is you don't have a new nature if you thought that. It's only
the holy nature that recognizes the sinful nature. You know,
the reason someone doesn't see their sinful nature and their
complete wickedness is because they don't have a holy nature.
If you have a holy nature, you sure enough know you have a sinful
nature. I mean, when I say these things, you say, yep, that's
true. But if you don't have this holy
nature, this new nature, you think that guy's been talking
out of both sides of his mouth. Well, that's ridiculous to think
you have two separate natures. Now, if I look at my own experience, it's to the law and the testimony.
That's what we're looking at, not how I feel about things,
but to the law and to the testimony. If you're a believer, you have
two separate natures, a holy nature and a sinful nature, and
here's where we get messed up. Both of these natures come through
one consciousness. You can't separate the two. Not in your experience, you can't.
It's kind of like hot water and cold water coming out of the
same faucet. Hot water over here, cold water over there, but they
come out of one faucet and you can't really distinguish Can't
be done. This is just what the scripture
teaches with regard to the new nature. Now, I've heard people
say, yeah, you got two natures. And whichever one you feed, that's
the one that's going to grow. And that's the one that's going
to prosper. Now, wait a minute. You've already introduced a third person. And that's no different than
a good angel and a demon on my shoulder. Which one am I going
to listen to? Well, that's foolishness. I think I'm going to feed the
new nature today. Oh, good. Go for it. You know that I'm
going to feed the old. Yeah, you will. But the point
is, that is not what the scripture teaches. That's human reasoning,
human thought, human logic. It's not what the Bible teaches.
There's a conflict between these two men. And just like that struggle was going
on in the womb. Turn with me for a second. Keep
your hand in Genesis 25. Let's go to Romans 7 for a second. Romans 7. Verse 14. For we know, who's the we? All of the elect. Everybody who
knows. We know that the law is spiritual,
but I am carnal, fleshly, sold under sin. Sold as a slave to sin. I can't just not sin. Now, he
says we know this. We know this. The law is spiritual.
I am carnal, sold under sin. Do you know that? Verse 15. For that which I do,
I allow not. I don't approve of that. You're
all saying, you're giving everybody license to sin saying this. No,
I'm not. I don't approve of any of this.
It's not okay. Sin is never okay, never. under any circumstance. It's
not. I don't approve of this. It's not OK. It's wrong. It's
evil. For that which I do, I don't
approve of that. I allow not. For what I would,
I'd be holy and without sin. I don't do it. But what I hate, I do all the
time. all the time. If then I do that, which I would
not, I consent under the law that it's good. I love God's
law, don't you? I love the holy law of God. I consent under the
law that it's good. Now then, it's no more I that
do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. It wasn't me, it was him. You realize that? It wasn't me. It's Him. For I know that in
me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. Do you know that? For to will is present with me,
I would be without sin. But How to perform that which
is good? It doesn't happen. I find not. For the good that I would, I
do not. But the evil which I would not, that I do. Now, if I do
that, which I would not, it's no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me. I find then a law that when I
would do good, evil is present with me, for I delight in the
law of God after the inward man. But I see another law in my members,
warring, that's that struggle, warring against the law of my
mind and bringing me into, what's the next word? captivity. That's what he was talking about
when he said the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. Oh, wretched man that I am. Not that I was. Not the way I
used to be before God saved me. Oh, wretched man that I am, who
should deliver me from the body of this death, this old nature
that I'm carrying with me right now, and will until I die. I thank God. Through Jesus Christ
our Lord, so then with the mind I myself serve the law of God,
and with the flesh the law of sin. I turn back to our text
in Genesis 25. Now this is going to show the
difference. This is how you could know if you have a holy nature. Because you sure don't feel holy. You don't feel holy. You feel
dirty. You feel unclean. Verse 29. Jacob sawed potage. He was a cook in his mother's
tent. And Esau came from the field,
and he was faint. He was hungry. And Esau said
to Jacob, feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage, for
I'm faint. He was very polite. He didn't
make demands. He really, in many respects,
seemed to be a better man than Jacob was. He's who everybody
would like better. And if you would have asked who's
your favorite, everybody would say Esau. And even though he was wanting
to kill Jacob after He swindled him in Genesis 27, he's gonna
kill him. He ended up forgiving him because
when Isaac died, they both buried him together. He was a forgiving
man. Don't you admire that? I mean,
there's many things about Esau that seem better than Jacob.
That's the way it is a lot of time, about all the time, really,
when it comes right down to it. But look what it says. And Esau said, behold, No, verse
31. I want some of that soup you're
making. And Jacob said, sell me this
day thy birthright. Wow. For a bowl of soup? Well, what's the birthright?
You know, for many years, I thought, well, what is the birthright?
Let me show you what the birthright is. Look in verse 5 of the same
chapter. And Abraham gave all that he
had to Isaac. Now that's the birthright. If
you had birthright, you were given everything. Look in the
previous chapter when the servant is describing to Rebekah, Isaac. Verse 36, And Sarah, my
master's wife, bare a son to my master when she was old, and
unto him hath he given All that he had. Now, what is the birthright? Christ inherits everything. Jesus Christ is all. He's all that God is. He's all in this book we're looking
at. He's all in salvation. Can I overstate that? Jesus Christ
is all God requires of me. He looks to Christ for nothing
else. If I have the birthright, remember
the Messiah came through the birthright. If you have the birthright, you
have Christ. If you have the birthright, you
have all. Verse 31, Jacob said, sell me
this day thy birthright. And Esau said, behold, I'm at
the point to die. How many times have you said,
I'm sorry for your death? I've said it every day, I guess, at some point.
I've been around people who say, I was so busy I forgot to eat.
Never happened to me. I'm starving. What good would
it do me? Behold, I'm at the point to die.
What profit shall this birthright do me? I'm going to die. It won't
do me any good. I'm going to starve to death.
And Jacob, the swindler, Jacob, the deceiver, swear to me this day and he swear
unto him and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau
the bread and pottage of lentils and he did eat and drink and
rose up and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. Esau was living for today, the
flesh. He didn't really see any value
in the birthright. He could sell it. You know, if
you're an unbeliever, you can be bought. You can be bought
for something. I don't know how high the price
has to be, but you could be bought. When it says Esau, who was a
profane man, it means he could be bought. That's what the word
means. He, for one morsel of meat, sold his birthright. Now, here is a holy nature I
must have the birthright. I must have Christ as all. You
see, if He's not all in my salvation, I won't be saved. I need Him
to be all. I need Him to be all God requires. If there's anything required
of me, there's no hope for me. I must have Him as all. I won't be saved if He's not
all. I have to have the birthright. Esau, it was not that important
to him. Sure, I guess I can see where
it could do me good one of these days, but it was not important
to him. You know, when you hear gospel
preaching, if you hear gospel preaching, well, you're not hearing
gospel preaching of it in Christ at all, but you have to hear
preaching. that says Christ Jesus is all
in my, he's all God requires, he's all God is, he's all I have. You're the only time Christ is
all to you is when he's all you have. If you have anything else,
you don't have it. You got something else. What
about this man, Jacob, this deceiver, this deceitful man, when he ended
up his life, he said, few and evil have been the days of my
pilgrimage. description of his own life.
He said, I've not attained to the days of my father's. And
yet God is called more than any other title in the Bible, the
God of Jacob. The God of Jacob. Now, let me tell you, somebody
that has a holy nature. All they have is Christ. And if you have anything other
than Him, you do not have a holy nature. You've never been born
again. You've never been saved. This thing of faith, persevering
to the end, is not just staying religious to the end. It's looking
to Christ alone all the way to the end. Now, in closing, back to Verse 23, and the Lord said to
her, two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people should
be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger
than the other people. You know, greater is he that's
in you than he that's in the world. The new nature is stronger than
the old nature. And the elder, that man you were
born with, is gonna serve the younger, the man you were born
again with. How so? How so? My old nature drives me to this. Christ is all I have. He's the
only, the only righteousness I have is the righteousness and
merits of Jesus Christ. That's the only righteousness. And in that sense, my old nature
is made to serve the new nature because my old nature keeps me
looking anywhere. But the Lord Jesus Christ has
all my salvation. His righteousness, my only righteousness,
His precious blood, the only way I can stand before God, perfect
in Christ Jesus. The elder shall serve the younger. As it's written, Jacob have I
loved. Don't you say, why me? Why me? Why me? Al, I'm sure I've enjoyed being
with you. May the Lord bless this. Isn't it a blessing to know that
God has birthed in His people what He'll accept? If He didn't,
He'll never accept me. This is just such a blessing.
And to our members here, you know, we're going through the
book of Genesis on Wednesday nights. Expect to hear that outline
again. I'm just going to repeat it.
That was so good. All right. Brother Nybert and Brother Bell
have to return home today. And we so thank you for coming
and pray God give you traveling mercies. Bless you as you preach
tomorrow. The sheep God's given you. And
we're going to have some dinner. I hope you can stay and have
something to eat. Wayne Kennel has smoked us some
pork to eat and he's really taken a lot of care in smoking this
meat. Sidney told me he swaddled the
meat baby. I mean he's really, he's really,
you know, put some effort in this thing so I know it'll be
delicious. Hope you can stay and enjoy a meal and some fellowship
together and 6 p.m. this evening if you're still
in town we'll have a picnic out at Simpson Valley 6 p.m. Before
we sing a closing hymn, we'll bow in prayer, and after we sing,
the man will set up some tables here, and y'all start through
the line, and you'll figure out how to do it. Let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank you
for this time that you've given us again today to hear your gospel
preached, to hear of our Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of sinners. Father, how we thank you for
him. How we thank you for His obedience is the only righteousness
that we could claim. How we thank you for his precious
blood. It's the only way our sin can be cleansed. Father,
how we thank you. I pray you'd take your word as
it's been preached and apply it to our hearts that we might
see the glory of Christ our Savior and believe him, but believe
him more fully than ever before. Father, we thank you for these
men that you brought our way and I pray that you give Todd
and Donnie traveling mercies today Father, bless them as they
preach tomorrow to your sheep that you've called out. Cause
them to be able to preach this same gospel to your people there,
and bless it for your great namesake. Father, we thank you for this
food that we're about to eat in our time of fellowship. Pray
you bless it. Bring us back again tomorrow
to, one more time, hear this glorious gospel of Christ our
Savior. It is in his precious name. For his sake we pray, amen. All right, Isaac. stand and sing 272. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, But wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock
I stand, All other ground is sinking sand. When darkness veils his lovely
face, I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy
gale, The anchor holds within the veil. On Christ the solid
rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand. of His covenants, His blood,
support me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives
way, He then is all my hope and stay. On Christ the solid rock
I stand, all other ground is Mother ground is sinking sand,
Then He shall come with trumpet sound, O may I in Him be found,
Dressed in His righteousness alone, All blessed to stand before
Him. On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand All other ground is sinking sand