Book of warning. If you would
care to open your Bibles with me to Matthew chapter 11. The
lesson this morning will be taken from Matthew chapter 11. Before
we begin our lesson, let's bow together in prayer. Our Father which art in heaven,
holy and reverent is your matchless name. And Father, we bow in your
presence this morning, thankful that we can bow before you at
the throne of grace. Thankful that we can come boldly
before your throne of grace in the person of our Lord Jesus
Christ. And father, we come before you this morning begging a blessing
from your storehouses of grace. Father, I beg that you bless
us as we look into your word, that you would apply your word
to the hearts of your people, that you use your word as it's
preached. to call out your sheep, to penetrate
our cold and dead hearts and give us a new heart, a heart
of faith and love for thee. Father, I beg of you that you
bless your word to go to the hearts of your people to show
us the glory. One more time, let us see the
glory of Christ our Savior. Cause your word to feed, comfort
and edify the hearts of your people. Father, we're thankful for this
opportunity to worship you in this way. It's not the way that
we would choose, not the way that we normally are able to
worship by meeting together in person. But Father, these are
the means that you've given us, and we beg of you that you bless
them. Bless this as an hour of true worship, an hour where the
glory of Christ our Savior is revealed. And Father, we Give
thanks for the many blessings of this life that you've given
to us, how abundantly that you've blessed this congregation. Father,
I pray that you would continue to lead and to guide and to provide
for us, that you would not leave us to our own devices at this
time, but that you continue to have your hand of mercy and grace
and leadership upon your people and upon this congregation in
particular, we pray. Father, we pray for our world
at this time that is It seems such dire circumstances, and
Father, we pray that you would move in a special way to preserve
and protect your people, that you'd provide some healing for
this. And Father, enable us to see
your glory and how despite the circumstances, despite how we're
restricted from doing the things that we normally would do, that
your power, your word is not restricted. Father, let us see
your glory, we beg, that you would Even in this time, save
your people, even in this time that you that you cause a revival
in the hearts of your people, that a special time where your
word has been preached and the power of your spirit. Father,
all these things we ask and we give thanks. And that name, which
is above every name, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, see
us and hear us only in him or in his blessed name that we pray
and give thanks. I've titled our lesson this morning,
Preaching Sovereign Grace. Now, I love to be able to preach
and I love to be able to believe the gospel of God's free and
sovereign grace. I understand that the flesh hates
that message, but I preach sovereign grace. By God's grace, I preach
the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace with no apology
to the flesh. My goal in Preaching, as a matter
of fact, is to offend the flesh without being personally offensive. By that, I mean I don't want
the manner in which I preach. I don't want my attitude in preaching
to be offensive. I don't want to come off as a
proud, arrogant person that thinks that I'm better than the lost.
I don't want to come off as thinking I'm better than someone who does
not believe Christ, because rightfully so, that's offensive to the flesh,
and I don't want to do that. But I do want the flesh to be
offended by the message. And if someone's going to be
offended, I want it to be because the natural, dead, fleshly nature
is offended at hearing the good news of the gospel. I want the
nature of our flesh to be offended by hearing that we are completely
sinful, that there's nothing we can do to please God, there's
nothing we can do to get God to save us, there's nothing we
can do to merit or earn salvation. but that we are totally dependent
upon God to save us. That truth is offensive to the
flesh, but it's the truth. And by God's grace, I want to
preach it. And our Lord gives us an example of how to preach
the message of sovereign grace in the right manner. Number one
is this. We're to preach the message of
sovereign grace to everyone without exception. Matthew chapter 11
verse 25. At that time Jesus answered and
said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because
Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast
revealed them unto babes. Now the gospel of God's free
and sovereign grace is right there in that verse. God is sovereign
in His display and dispensation of His grace. But now, who was
there to hear the Savior say this? All different kinds of
people were there. The Lord's disciples who believed
and trusted Him, they were there. John's doubting disciples were
there to hear the Lord say this. Needy sinners, publicans and
sinners, they were there to hear it. People who were steeped in
religion, who strongly disagreed with this message of sovereign
grace. They loved the law. They loved their obedience to
the law and following the ceremonies of the law. They were there.
Those Jews who are so steeped in the Jews' religion that thought
they were elect because they were Jews. They could be saved
because they were Jews, but these Gentiles could never be saved.
God would never be gracious to a Gentile. They were there to
hear this. The scribes and Pharisees who
fancied themselves preacher critics, that they were the ones, you
should listen to them, who they give their seal of approval to.
You know, they thought they were preacher critics. They were there
to hear the Lord say this. unbelievers who had heard the
gospel, who unbelievers who had seen many mighty works done by
the Lord Jesus. They saw those works, but they
still refused to believe on it. They were there. These were the
ones our Lord upbraided when he told them if Sodom had seen
the works that you've seen, if Sodom had heard what you've heard
and seen what you've seen, Sodom would remain until this day.
They were there to hear the Lord say this, that give this statement
of his sovereign grace. Now that tells me that we are
to preach the message of sovereign grace to everyone. It doesn't
matter who it is, we're to preach the message of sovereign grace
to everyone. Because sovereign grace is the
message every sinner, every person, saved or lost, the message of
sovereign grace is the message everyone needs to hear. Whether
it's the believer or the unbeliever. Whether it's those who are strong
in the faith or those who are weak in the faith. Whether it's
the religious or the heathen, all need to hear this message
of God's sovereign grace. So we are to preach God's sovereign
grace and only God's sovereign grace every single time we preach. We cannot be accused of preaching
too much of main sinfulness. It's not possible for us to,
people can accuse us, but it's not possible this accusation
be true. You preach too much of God's electing love. It's
not possible to preach too much of God's electing love. It's
not possible to preach too much of God saving, calling, keeping
grace. It's impossible. It's impossible
to preach that message too much because that's the only message
God's given us to preach. We must preach it to all men
everywhere without exception. All right, number two. When we
preach sovereign grace, we're to preach it thankfully. Do you
notice what the Lord said? Verse 25. At that time, Jesus
answered and said, I thank thee. I thank thee. O Father of heaven
and earth. You know, we don't preach sovereign
grace like, I'm sorry this is so, but this is just the way
it is. No, we don't preach it that way. And we don't preach
sovereign grace like we who know the Lord have something to be
proud of either. We don't preach it that way. We who believe are
no better by nature than those who refuse to believe. We're
no better. The only difference between the believer and the
unbeliever is just one difference. only difference is God's sovereign
grace in Christ Jesus. So we preach the gospel. We preach
God's sovereign grace. Thankfully, the Lord was thankful. He was thankful for God's sovereign,
distinguishing, electing grace. Then you and I must preach sovereign
grace. We must preach the gospel the
very same way. Look over at Ephesians chapter
one, Ephesians chapter one. You know, every time that the,
Apostles talk about election in the epistles. They're always
giving thanks. Every time they mention God's
electing love, they talk about it in such a way they're astounded
by it, they're astonished by it, they're thankful for it.
Listen to Paul, Ephesians 1, verse 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath
chosen. He's elected us in him. before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will." Now there's the definition of sovereign grace.
It's all according to the good pleasure of his will. And Paul
says, bless God, that God would do such a thing. See how thankful
he is? He's astounded, isn't he? God's sovereign electing
grace. that God would do something according
to the good pleasure of His will for somebody as low down, good
for nothing as we are. Paul says, bless God that He'd
do that. Look at the book of 2 Thessalonians.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2. How are we to preach this message
of God's sovereign grace? Thankfully. Listen here to verse
13 of 2 Thessalonians 2. But we're bound to give thanks,
give thanks all the way to God for you, brethren, beloved of
the Lord, because of God's sovereign grace. Because God hath from
the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the
spirit and belief of the truth. Or until he called you by our
gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul says, here's a good reason
to give thanks. God's electing love. And that's
the way we're to preach this message. You know, the message
of sovereign grace says salvation is up to God. You and I are in
God's hand to do with as he pleases. And I'll tell you, I'm thankful
it's that way. I'm thankful. I'm thankful for
God's sovereign electing grace because that's the only way I
could be saved. The only way. You see, I never would have chosen
God unless God chose me first. Even though I heard the gospel,
I heard the gospel preached clearly and powerfully by the best men
of this century. The best preachers God sent in
this century. I heard them and still wouldn't
believe it. And never would have. Unless God chose me first. Now,
I do choose God. I'm telling you, I do. I choose
God. I choose salvation in Christ
alone. It's the only way I want it.
But only because God chose me first. So we preach this message. of God's electing love, His sovereign
grace, thankfully. Thankfully, because it's the
only way we can be saved. It's the only way a sinner can be
saved. All right, number three. Preaching God's sovereign grace
is to declare the author of sovereign grace is God the Father. The
Savior says here, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth. I thank you because you've done
these things. All of salvation and every spiritual blessing
traces its beginning back to one place, to God the Father. It all began there. Salvation
all began with God's electing love. God the Father chose a
people to be saved out of Adam's fallen race. And if He didn't
do that, no son of Adam ever would have been saved. It had
to begin with God's electing love, with God choosing a people
that He would save. And all grace to sinners flows
back to one beginning point, one fountainhead, The fountainhead
of the Father's electing love. The Apostle Paul, when he talked
about God's grace many times, or when he talks about grace,
he calls it the grace of God. The grace of God that all began
from God, that all comes to us from God. The Apostle Peter said
that God is the God of all grace. All grace to sinners comes from
God the Father. That's where grace originated.
The Father is the one who's the author of salvation. He's the
one who penned salvation. He's the author of it. He's the
one who thought all this up. Salvation through grace that's
in Christ Jesus. It all began with the Father.
The Father authored. He purposed salvation in His
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and He made it so. That brings me
back to my last point. I'm thankful that that's so.
Otherwise, sinners like me would have no hope of salvation. If
grace did not begin with God, I'd have no hope of salvation.
If grace had to begin with me doing something to earn it, I
could never be an object of God's grace. But there's hope for me.
A sinner like me has hope for grace from God. If grace all
begins with God, the fountainhead of all of God's grace begins
with God the Father. And it has to be so. You and
I don't have the wisdom to author such salvation as salvation by
God's grace in Christ, but the Father did. He authored it. It all began, it all comes from
Him. All right, here's the fourth thing. Preaching God's sovereign
grace is the declaration of God's crown rights. His rights as King. He says here at the end of verse
25, He said, I thank thee because thou hast hid these things from
the wise and prudent, and has revealed them unto babes. Now
our Savior gives thanks that God the Father has the crown
rights to do what he will, when he will, with whom he will. God
has the right, the Savior gives thanks. Now this is a reason
to be thankful. Almighty God has the right to do with his
own as he will. God has the crown rights, the
crown righteous king to hide these things of salvation, mercy
and life and grace, faith in Christ. He has the right to hide
these things from the wise and the prudent. And the wise and
the prudent, those are the people who think that they're good enough
for God to save them because of what they've done or what
they haven't done. They think that salvation can be earned
by them. They think they can decide to accept Jesus as their
personal savior. And they decided to accept him
because they're wise enough. They're prudent enough. God has
the crown rights to hide salvation by grace in Christ Jesus from
those people. It's his right to hide it from
them. And God, because he's God, has the crown rights to reveal
his grace to sinners. And he has the right to hide
it from others. And that made the Savior give thanks. God has
the right to hide salvation by grace from anyone. And all he's
got to do to hide it from them is leave them alone. They're
in their darkness, they're in their blindness. All God's got
to do to hide it from them is just leave them alone. But God's
going to reveal grace to the hearts of his people. God's got
to do something special. The father has to choose them
in love. The son had to come and keep
the law for them. The son had to come and suffer
and die for their sins. The Holy Spirit's got to come
and give them a new heart, a heart that believes Christ, that sees
Him and believes Him and loves Him, God's got to do something
special for them. And God in His crowned rights,
as King, does that for people. He comes and gives mercy to one
and He passes by the other. He can do that because He's God.
Now what's your reaction to that? When you hear that, do you want
to bow to God? When you hear of God's crowned rights, to give
mercy and grace to whom he will and pass by whom he will. Does
that make you want to bow to him? Does that make you want
to beg him for mercy? Or does that make you want to
argue with him? Well, let's look at Romans chapter nine. Romans
the ninth chapter. Verse 19. Thou wilt say then
unto me, why doth he yet find fault? Who hath resisted his
will? Nay, but O man, who art thou that replyest against God?
Shall the thing form, say to him that formed it, why hast
thou made me thus? Now this is what Paul was saying. You want
to argue with God? Who do you think you are? Who do you think? You're the clay. What are you
doing arguing with the potter? Who do you think you are that
you've got the right to argue with God? Verse 21, hath not
the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one
vessel under honor and another under dishonor? What if God,
willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured
with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction,
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he hath afore prepared unto glory? What if God does that? What if
he makes his power known by enduring, just putting up with the wicked,
putting up with them, their vessels of wrath fitted to destruction?
What if he puts up with them so that he can make known his
riches, of his glory to the people he chose to save? What if God
does that? That's God's crown rights. That's what Paul's saying.
It's God's crown rights to do what he will with his creatures
and whatever he does, whether he is merciful and gracious or
whether he passes them by. Either way, God's right. He's
right to do it. He's right to make a vessel fitted
to destruction and he's right to make a vessel of mercy. fit
for the kingdom of God, fit for the use of God. You know, God
chose to love Jacob and he chose to pass Esau by. That's God's
crown rights to do with his own what he will. Now, before you
argue with that, I'm going to tell you something. You do what
you will with your own every single day. And you, buddy, nobody
better question you on a hat day because it's yours. You choose
what clothes to wear. You choose what color to paint
your house. You've been given some memento by somebody in the
past. Some of them you keep. Some of
them you put with the rest of your junk to put in a yard sale
to sell off. You know, it's just junk. You
decide whether to give an offering or not. You decide how much of
an offering to put in. No big question. It's yours to
give. It's yours to withhold. You can
decide whether to waste all your money on gambling down to track,
or to give your money to the poor. You can decide whether
to gamble all your money down there at the casino and lose
it all, or you can save it for retirement. It's yours. Nobody's
got the right to question you. Do with it what you will. Nobody
better question you on it. If we think we've got the right
to do with our own what we will, but we don't think God has the
same right, why is that? Because we don't know God. That's
why. That's why. If we think God does not have
the right to do with His own as He will, we think that because
we don't know God. We've never seen Him. And you
and I will never be saved until we hear and believe the message
of God's sovereign grace. We'll never be saved until we
hear and believe the message that God has the right to save
us or to damn us and He's right either way. You see, salvation
is not our decision for Jesus. Salvation is God's choice. Jesus
is not in our hands to do what we what we will do with him.
No, sir. We're in God's hands and he will
do with us as he sees fit and will not be saved until we hear
that truth and believe it. All right, fifthly, preaching
sovereign grace is the declaration of God's crown rights to do with
his own what he will, and it is the declaration of the objects
of God's grace. Our Savior says he thanks God
that you've revealed these things unto babes. And that word babes
he uses there means a little child. Remember our Lord told
his disciples one day, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. Little
children. I love little children. I just,
I love little children. Little children are people who
are helpless and they know it. They're just a little tyke. They can't reach the top shelf.
They need somebody else to do it for them. They're helpless
and they know it. A little child, they know, I
need somebody to feed me. I need somebody to clothe me.
I need somebody to teach me. I need somebody to lead me. I
need somebody to tell me what way to go. And a very little
child, a baby, a baby needs somebody to do everything for him, everything. All that baby can do for itself
is cry. The baby needs somebody to do
everything for it. That's the babe that the Lord
is talking about here. You'll never enter the kingdom of God
until you're a baby who needs Christ to do everything for you.
See, that's who hears the gospel and believes it. It's somebody
who can't do anything for themselves. And if a person is totally dependent
upon Christ to do everything for them, all they can do is
cry. They need Christ to do everything for them. Those people will hear
and believe the gospel of Christ and they'll love it. That person
who is helpless, they're lost in sin, they're dead in sin,
they can't do anything to make God happy with them, that person,
when they hear the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace,
they'll love it. They'll believe it. They said,
that's exactly what I need. That's the exact Savior that
I will need, that I need. Oh, I love him. They'll be thrilled
to hear that message. Well, how did that happen? How
did that person, how did that person in the flesh, the flesh
is so proud, oh, so proud, the heart is so stony, it will not
bend. How did that person become helpless
as a baby? God made him that way. God made
him that way. God took the starch out of them.
When he revealed to them who and what they are, And that made
them dependent upon Christ. And then God sent the gospel
to them. And they heard it and they believed it. Preaching sovereign
grace is the declaration of who those objects of grace are. It's
sinners. It's helpless babes, sinners.
How I pray, God will take the starch out of you and me. I mean,
whatever it takes for God to take the starch out of you and
me. If it's sending this virus, if it's Whatever it is, sinning,
trouble and trial and affliction, if God just opens our eyes by
hearing of the gospel to see who and what we are, I pray God
somehow, someway will take the starch out of you and me and
make us as little children, helpless, completely dependent little children,
because those are the people who are the objects of God's
sovereign grace. If you can't do anything to make
God happy with you, you're a fit object of God's sovereign grace.
All right. Sixthly, preaching sovereign
grace declares the reason for sovereign grace. It's in verse
26. It's a very simple reason. Even
so, father, for so it seemed good in my sight. Now, this is
the declaration of the gospel. God saves whom he will and he
passes by whom he will, and he does it for this reason, just
because it seemed good to God to do it. Now, if you know God,
that's enough for you. Best example I can think of to
illustrate this is my own children. When our children were very little,
Janet and I didn't explain one thing ever. I mean, when they
were little, we didn't explain one thing ever to them why we
were doing what we were doing. We're mama and daddy, we're doing
it, you come along. I mean, we never explained one
thing to them. When they were real little, and
she kept using it even when they got older, Janet had a phrase
that she used to put an end to all question, all argument, all
fussing. There was one phrase that put
an end to everything. Mama say it. I mean, it was just like
Pharaoh. You've seen the movie, The Ten
Commandments? Pharaoh says, I have spoken,
so let it be written, so let it be done. That was mama say
it. Janet just shortened that to
mama say it. It was the end of everything. Well, those girls
got a little older. We still didn't explain a whole
lot to them. Just do what I tell you to do.
Because you trust me. Trust me. I'm doing the best
thing for you. And by God's grace, they'd say,
OK. OK, Mom. OK, Daddy. I'll trust
you. Because you say I'll do it. A loving, obedient child will
say, OK. Because you trust your parents.
A rebel won't do that. But a child will. And the father
says, trust me. I'm doing what seems good in
my sight. That's enough for the child of God. You know why it's
enough for the child of God? Because what seems good to our
father is good. It is good. It's right, and it's
best for me. If it seems good to him, it's
right. It's best for me, and it's best for God's kingdom.
And God's child says, okay, I trust you. Seventh, preaching sovereign
grace declares the channel of sovereign grace. Verse 27, all
things are delivered unto me of my father, and no man knoweth
the son but the father, neither knoweth any man the father save
the son, and he to whomsoever the son will reveal him. Now
remember, the fountainhead of all sovereign grace, the beginning
of it, is God the father. All grace began with the father.
It was his will, his purpose. And all grace flows from that
fountainhead, God the father, that all flows through one channel,
the Lord Jesus Christ. All grace comes to God's elect
through Christ. It all comes to us through Him
because the Lord Jesus Christ is the one who earned all grace.
He's the one who purchased all grace for His people by His obedience
unto death to His Father. The Lord Jesus Christ earned
righteousness for His people by His obedience to the law for
them. They're made righteous in Him
and His obedience It all came through Him, didn't it? Christ
purchased redemption. He purchased salvation. He purchased
eternal life for His people by His death as their substitute,
by His death as their sin offering. It all comes to us through Him,
by Him. All of God's grace comes to us
through the Lord Jesus Christ because of who He is and what
He has accomplished for His people. How many of the epistles begin,
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. See, God the Father is the fountainhead
and it comes to us through the Lord Jesus Christ. The whole
first chapter of the book of Ephesians is written to show
us that salvation is in Christ. Go read it, circle, underline
how many times it says in Him, in Him, in Him, by Him, through
Him. He is the channel through which
all of God's grace flows. The fountainhead of grace, sovereign
grace, is the Father's choice and will. and the channel of
sovereign grace is the Lord Jesus Christ. It is given, all this
is given to Christ and He gives it, He gives it, just like it
all comes from the Father sovereignly, it all comes from the Son sovereignly.
He gives it to whomsoever He's pleased to reveal it. He says
it here and He says it again at the end of His earthly ministry.
In John 17, verse 2, in the Lord's great high priestly prayer, He
says, as thou hast given Him, the Son, power over all flesh
that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given
him. See, sovereign grace began at the fountainhead of the Father
and it comes to us sovereignly through the channel of the Lord
Jesus Christ who gives it to his people sovereignly because
the Father has given him power over all flesh. Let that sink
in for a moment and let's go back to my second point. I'm
thankful. Are you thankful that all grace
is in the Lord Jesus Christ? You don't have to go hunting
hither yither and yon to find it's all in one place. Go to
Christ, you'll have it all. I'm thankful. No son of Adam
could ever know God. No son of Adam could ever have
a relationship with God. No son of Adam could ever have
eyes of faith to see God. No son of Adam could ever understand
how it is that God saves sinners and still be just unless Christ
revealed God to us. Then we have eyes to see. Then
we have a heart that believes Him and loves Him. The Savior
says He is going to reveal the Father to someone. I sure do
pray to you in this meeting. All right, that's the message
of sovereign grace. That's how we're to preach it. Now, how
do you react? You've heard this morning the
message of God's sovereign grace. How do you react to it? Well,
here's the eighth thing. Here's the reaction of God's
elect to the message of God's sovereign grace. Verse 28, come
unto me, come unto me, all you that labor and heavy laden, and
I will give you rest. Now, Lord willing, we'll spend
some more time on this next Sunday, but I want us to see this in
connection to what the Lord just said. This is the reaction of
everyone who hears the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace.
And if they believe it, they come to Christ. They come to
Christ. Let me tell you one more time.
Come to Christ. All those who hear this gospel
and they believe it, they come to Christ because they can't
help it. They can't stay away from Christ. He's everything
that they need. They must come to Christ. They must come to Christ because
God's given them a heart that believes Him. God's given them
a heart that loves Christ. They must come to Him. Now, this is a commandment. Make
no mistake about it. We've just been talking about
God's sovereignty. He's the king. It's crown rights. Well, he's
not making a suggestion here. This is God's commandment. You
come to Christ and you believe on Him and do it right now. Right
now. And you say, well, I can't. Well,
I'll tell you what, you'd better. You'd better. I know you can't
unless God calls you, but you'd still better come to Christ.
I know you can't believe unless God gives you a heart of faith.
I know you can't come unless God gives you a heart of faith,
but you'd better do it. You'll not be saved unless you do. You
can call. You can beg God to give you a
heart, can't you? You can beg God to call you.
You can beg God to bring you to Christ. You can beg God that
he give you a heart to believe the gospel and believe Christ.
You better come to him because you'll not be saved unless you
do. See, this all goes back to God's grace. This is a commandment.
Oh, but it's a gracious commandment. Isn't this a gracious commandment?
That Almighty God would command us to come to Christ, the one
place we can have life. Isn't that gracious? God would
command you, come to Christ. It's the one place you can have
forgiveness of your sin. It's the one place you can have salvation.
It's the one place you can have peace with God. And God commands
you to come to Christ. Now that's grace. Now come, come,
come to Christ. Leave all your questions behind.
Leave all your butts behind. Well, what about this? Leave
it behind and come to Christ. Just come. Let me give you a
quote from Brother Henry Mahan. Quit trying to reconcile the
truth and believe it. Quit trying to comprehend the
truth. Quit trying to comprehend why
would God do this and why would God, quit trying to comprehend
the truth and bow to it. I quit and come to Christ. Quit and rest in Christ. I know that I can't come unless
God calls me. So my plea is, Lord, call me. Lord, I'm begging you, call me.
Lord, I'm coming to you. Stop me, but I'm coming. I say with the songwriter, oh,
it's so sweet to come to Christ. Out of my bondage, sorrow and
night, Jesus, I come. Into thy freedom, gladness, and
light. Jesus, I come. Out of my sickness,
into thy health. Out of my want, and into thy
wealth. Out of my sin, and into thyself. Jesus, I come. Out of my shameful
failure and loss. Into the glorious gain of thy
cross. Out of life's storms, and into thy calm. Out of distress,
to jubilant song, Jesus, I come to thee. Oh, may God make it
so. May He be pleased to make it
so for you and me and cause us to come to Christ. If God will
ever give us a heart to hear and believe His message of God's
sovereign grace, that's exactly what we'll do. We'll come to
Him. All right. Until next time, may the Lord