For thou also hast wrought all
our works in us." Now, if we're going to ever understand what
salvation really is, we have to understand that when we talk
about salvation, we're talking about the salvation of a dead
sinner. We're not talking about the salvation
of a kind of a good person or a good person. We're talking
about the salvation of a dead, rebellious sinner. And that's
the way all of us are born. We're dead in sin. Our father
Adam plunged us into sin and death with his rebellion in the
garden. Now that means none of us can
do anything to save ourselves. We can't do anything of any kind,
spiritually speaking, because we're dead. Now the error of
man-made religion comes from error that they have in two places.
The first one is this. They don't understand who man
is. They don't understand that man is totally depraved. They
think man somehow has some ability to decide to do something good.
They think man has some ability to do something to make themselves
savable. In short, they don't understand
that man is spiritually dead. So they don't understand that
man doesn't have the ability to do anything but sin. They
can't do anything good, can't decide to do anything good, Wouldn't
if they could. They don't have that ability,
they're dead in sin. Their second error is this. They
don't understand who God is. They do not understand that God
is holy. They don't understand God will
never accept the best that we can do. God will only accept
perfect righteousness, perfect holiness, perfect obedience to
his law. So if a sinner is going to be
saved, God must do all the work of salvation. From beginning
to end, he's got to do it all because man's not able to do
anything to contribute to his salvation. Now, the good news
of the gospel is this. Christ has done it all. All the
work that's necessary for the salvation of his people is done. Christ finished it all. Christ
has wrought all the work of salvation that's necessary for the salvation
of his Christ became a man and he produced a perfect righteousness. He obeyed God's law perfectly
in every detail. And everything that God requires
of a man in order to be saved, Christ did it. Christ did every
thou shalt of the law. And Christ never did any thou
shalt not of the law. He obeyed the law perfectly.
He's a perfect man. Then God's justice requires death
for sin. So Christ died the death that
his people deserve so that his people live. Christ rose again
for the justification of his people. He ascended back on high
to sit on a throne as the mediator of his people. Christ has done
everything that God requires of his people. And we don't have
anything to contribute. There's not a single solitary
work left undone for God's people to do in order to be saved. Christ
did it all. Salvation is complete. He finished
it. Christ has done all the work of the salvation for his people.
But Christ has also done all the work of salvation required
in his people. Isn't that what our text says?
For thou hast wrought all our works in us. In order for a sinner
to be saved, Christ must do a work for his people, but he also must
do a work in his people. Look at Matthew chapter five.
You know, this is all that man-made religion cares about, is the
outside. But no matter what you do to
the outside, there can be no salvation until there's a mighty
work of grace in a sinner. In Matthew 23 verse five, But all their works they do for
to be seen of men. They make broad their phylacteries
and enlarge the borders of their garments. They're doing this
to be seen of men, to have their outside works seen of men. Now
skip down to verse 23. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin.
That's just little flavorings that they put in food. You pay tithe of that. and you've
omitted the weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy, and
faith. These ought you to have done
and not to leave the other undone. You blind guides, which strain
it in that and swallow a camel. Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for you may clean the outside of the cup and platter,
but within they're full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the
outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are likened to whited
sepulchres, just white gravestones, which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of dead men's bones and of all
uncleanness. Even so, ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men. but within you're full of hypocrisy
and iniquity. Our great need is to be cleansed
by the blood of Christ within. Our great need is to receive
a new heart and a new birth. That heart we received in our
first birth, it can't be changed, it can't be modified, it can't
be improved, it's gotta be done away with and God's gotta give
us a new heart and a new birth. And that's the work in us that
Isaiah is talking about. Christ's work in his people is
the new birth. Now the new birth is the birth
of a new man who never existed before. He's a new spiritual
man. He's not another fleshly man.
He's a new spiritual man. That old man is fleshly. He's
born flesh and he's fleshly. His nature is fleshly. He can
never be anything but flesh. That old man can never be spiritual. All he is is flesh. The new man
is spiritual, and he can never be anything but spiritual. That
new man can never be flesh. He's always a spiritual man. Now look in 1 Peter 1. This new
man is born in holiness and righteousness, and that new man can never sin. He doesn't have the capacity
to sin. This is the man that's born of
God. 1 Peter 1 verse 22, seeing you have purified your souls
and obeying the truth through the spirit and unfeigned love
of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure
heart, fervently being born again, not of corruptible seed, not
of that corruptible fleshly seed, but of incorruptible by the word
of God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh is as
grass, and all the glory of man is a flower of grass. The grass
withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. But the word of
the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached unto you." Now, this new man is born again
of the perfect, incorruptible seed of the word of God. Now,
what's the nature of that new man? What's the nature that the
incorruptible seed of the word of God's going to produce? Well,
it's going to produce a man who cannot sin because he's holy. He's conceived from holy seed,
just like the old man. That old man is conceived from
fleshly seed, isn't he? Well, then that's what he's going
to be. He's going to be flesh and he can never do anything
righteous. He can never do anything holy because he's conceived from
corruptible seed. But the new man's not conceived
that way. The new man is conceived with perfect, sinless, incorruptible,
holy seed. Look at 1 John chapter 3. And
because of that, because of the seed from which he's conceived,
he can't sin. 1 John 3 verse 9. Whosoever is born of God doth
not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot
sin because he's born of God. Now someone might look at that
verse and say, Frank, I don't, I don't know what that means.
I don't know how to apply that to myself. I'm so sinful. I'm so full of sin. All I do
is sin. All I see about myself is sin.
I'm glad. I truly am glad if that's the
way you feel because the only man who can see how sinful we
are, is the new man. The old man can't see that. The
only man who can see how sinful, how corrupt we are is the new
man. The only way we can see how sinful
we are is to be born again. That's the work of the new birth
that's in us that Isaiah is talking about. Christ's work in his people
is the new birth. Then Christ's work in his people
is faith. The Holy Spirit puts faith. This new man who's born
of God, he has faith. This man believes God. He relies
upon Christ. That's the work of Christ in
us, it's faith. Then Christ's work in his people
is love. The Holy Spirit gives us a new
heart, a heart that loves God, that loves our brothers and sisters,
that loves Christ, that loves other people and cares about
them, cares about their souls. That's the work of Christ in
us. It's a heart of love. Then Christ's work in His people
is a new mind. When we're born again, that new
man has a new mind. And that mind knows God. That
mind understands how God can still be holy and save a sinner
like me. That's the work of Christ in
us. Christ's work in His people is new eyes. Eyes that look to
Christ. Eyes that quit looking to whatever
it is we used to look at about ourselves and whatever we thought
was good about ourselves. Eyes that look to Christ and
that keep looking to Christ. Looking unto Jesus. Constantly
looking to him. He's the author and finisher
of our faith. He's the one who begins it and
the one who's going to finish it. Christ working in his people
is new ears. That new man who's born, he's
got new ears. And those ears hear the gospel.
They understand and rejoice in the Gospel. We receive new hands
that serve for the glory of Christ. We receive new feet that follow
Christ, that follow after righteousness. That's Christ's work in His people.
Now look back in our text, Isaiah 26, verse 12. Christ's work in
His people is peace. Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace
for us. Now what Isaiah is talking about
there is peace of conscience. Now, we just looked at this.
Christ has finished all the work of salvation. It's all done.
Well, if all the work of salvation is already finished, then can't
we just sit and enjoy peace? The work's done. So we have peace.
A believer has peace of conscience and peace of heart because There's
no need to look for another savior. Christ has already saved us to
the uttermost all by himself. I'm at peace. I don't need another
savior. I don't need another gospel.
I don't go to my study every day wondering, well, is this
the gospel or isn't it? Should we preach Christ? No,
we don't need another gospel. This gospel of Christ gives perfect
peace. We have peace in the heart, peace
of the conscience. because there's no need to look
for another sacrifice for sin. Christ has already offered a
sacrifice that cleanses us from all sin. We have peace in the
heart because there's no need to constantly evaluate, am I
doing good enough? Am I being holy enough? Am I
being righteous enough? We have peace. Christ has already
wrought a perfect righteousness and imputed it to his people
by his obedience to the law. If I'm in Christ, I've already
kept the law perfectly. So there's peace. We have peace. A believer has peace, not because
we've done good enough. We have peace because we have
a good hope through grace. It's because Christ did everything
for us and in us. True salvation, now I'm talking
about the salvation of a soul, not just pretend business, false
religion talks about. I'm talking about the salvation
of a soul. It's salvation that God has wrought
for His people and in His people. This is God's salvation. It's
the salvation that the Father purposed. It's the salvation
that the Son purchased with His precious blood. And it's the
salvation that the Holy Spirit performs in His people. in the hearts of his people,
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Now, since Christ has done all
the work of salvation, doesn't he get all the glory for it?
He gets all the glory, all the credit. He did it all. So where's
boasting? Well, it's excluded. Boasting
in anything we have done is excluded by God's grace, by the finished
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. But I'll tell you what, there's
some boasting to do. If Christ has saved us, we're going to
boast about Him. We're going to brag about Him. Now I want
to give you seven things quickly. There are seven marks of salvation
that is wrought by God. Is my salvation something that
I came up with by my works? Or is this God's work for me
and in me? So the first mark of salvation
that God has wrought is salvation wrought by God enables us to
see ourselves as we really are, for the sin that we really are.
Now look in verse five, Isaiah 26. For he bringeth down them
that dwell on high. The lofty city, he layeth it
low. He layeth it low even to the
ground. He bringeth it even to the dust. Now I'm sure that verse
has some reference to judgment. When Christ returns, he will
destroy every enemy in judgment. He'll bring all those proud lofty
ones. He's going to bring them all
low. But you know, before the Lord saves any of his people,
you know what he does first? He brings us low. I mean, He
brings us low to the dust. He makes us see ourselves as
we really are. He makes us see ourselves as
sinful. He makes us see that there's
no good in us. Not only am I covered with wounds
and bruises and putrefying sores from the top of my head to the
tip of my feet, they're within too. I mean, my insides are corrupt,
so there's no hope in me. And when the Holy Spirit teaches
us that lesson, we understand this. Nobody's lower than me. Everybody Christ saves is the
chief of sinners. Nobody's lower than me. Look
at verse six. For the foot shall tread it down,
even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy, even
the lowest of the low can walk right over me. I mean, that's
how low I am. I'm in the dust of the feet of
the lowest of the low. They just walk right over top
of me. because I'm the chief of sinners. A believer ought
to know this. I can't look down my nose at
anybody. I'm down in the dust. And that's what, if God wrought
salvation, it makes us see that about ourselves. We're sin, we
have no hope in ourselves. Second, salvation wrought by
God makes a sinner just in Christ. Verse seven, the way of the just
is uprightness. Thou most upright does weigh
the path of the just. First, the Lord humbles his people,
but then he raises us up in Christ. First, he makes us see ourselves
as we are, nothing but sin. But then he justifies us in Christ.
He makes his people just so that we see ourselves as we are. I've
got an old man, he's nothing but sin. I've got a new man who's
perfectly just. And he says here about, he does
weigh the path of the just. That means he makes their way
straight. He makes it plain. He puts his
people on paths of righteousness and he removes every stumbling
block so we can walk without falling. He makes his people
just and puts them in paths of righteousness. That's salvation
wrought by God. That we're just in Christ. Then
thirdly, salvation wrought by God. Makes a sinner desire Christ
more than anything. It feels like it's about three
degrees. I guess the thermometer says a little warmer than that,
but Jan and I have been talking about it. It feels like it's
about three degrees. Why did y'all come out here tonight?
I mean, it's cold. You could have stayed at home
and around a fire or something. I hope you came out because your
soul desires Christ. You've got to have him. Here
it is midweek, you've been going through this. It's not a hot
desert this week, it's a cold desert, isn't it? What's your
soul crave? Salvation that is wrought by
God makes his people crave Christ more than anything. Look at verse
eight. Yea, in the way of thy judgment,
O Lord, have we waited for thee. The desire of our soul is to
thy name and to the remembrance of thee. Now I'm not just talking
about there. You know, I kind of want this.
I'd like this if I could have it. No verse nine with my soul. Have I desired thee in the night?
Yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when
thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world
will learn righteousness. Now since salvation is a work,
it's all done by Christ. Then we wait for him. If salvation
is in Christ alone, His finished work alone, then I'm going to
wait for Him. I'm going to watch for Him and wait on Him. And
Christ is the desire of every soul who knows Him, both day
and night. We desire Him. Just the mention
of His name makes us long for Him because His name tells us
who He is. Every time we hear His name,
we desire Him even more. And we long for Christ, we desire
Christ this way, because only Christ can save like this. Look
at verse 10. Let thy favor be showed to the
wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness. In the land of
uprightness will he deal unjustly, and he'll not behold the majesty
of the Lord. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see. Now they'll see someday, won't
they? But they shall see. And that day when Christ returns,
then they'll see. And they'll be ashamed for their
envy at the people. Yea, the fire of thine enemies
shall devour them. But until the Lord returns, while
they're in this earth, let favor be showed to the wicked. He won't
learn righteousness. You know, false religion tells
us that the real blessing of this world is more stuff of the
world. I mean, they tell you, you know,
that you do their deal, whatever it is, you know, and you'll get
riches, you'll get more houses and cars, you'll learn to have
better relationships with husbands and wives and you get more friends
and all these things. But when I read scripture, I
read just this verse right here. Those things cannot be the real
blessing. They can't be. I know that so,
because the Lord gives these things to the wicked. They've
got more than the heart can desire, but they're still wicked. Receiving
all those things, good things of the earth, riches and plenty
and fatness, that doesn't turn the heart of the wicked to the
Lord, does it? They attribute it to good luck. They attribute
it to something they did. You know, I was real smart in
business or whatever, you know. They attribute it to themselves.
And then the Lord takes all those things away. That didn't turn
the heart of the wicked to the Lord. They think, well, it's
just bad luck, you know, the stock market crashed, I lost
everything. None of those things, whether the Lord gives them or
takes them away, none of those things turn the heart of the
wicked to the Lord. Salvation requires the work of
God in a sinner. And only God can do that work.
There's gotta be a new man born who's born in righteousness.
There's got to be a new man born who sees that Christ is our righteousness. That's the only way we're going
to learn righteousness. The only way we can learn how unrighteous
we are and how righteous Christ is, is to be born again. That's
the only way we're going to learn righteousness. Now, when this
new man's born, We still like the stuff of this world. Of course
we do. Everybody likes to have a nice
car, a nice house, nice clothes. That's fine. You still like that
stuff. But what is your soul crave? Your soul craves Christ. I can't live without him. I cannot
live without him. You may have opportunity to move
to another town. Maybe it's good business. Maybe,
I don't know, maybe it is, maybe it isn't, maybe you think it
is. Is the gospel preached there?
Now I'm not being flippant. I mean, I'm honestly asking you
this question. Well, maybe there's some place I could go that, you
know, get some good stuff every once in a while. You really want
to pick through the stones, try to find some feed? What would a limeleck tell us?
He left Bethlehem down in Moab, didn't he? What would you trade
for your soul? What would you trade for your
soul? Our Lord said, what shall it profit a man? What if he gained
the whole world and lose your soul? What does your soul crave? Well, if God saved you, your
soul craves Christ more than anything else. Our soul pants
after him. Fourth, Salvation wrought by
God sets a sinner free from idols. Now, before God saved us, I don't
care where we were, before God saved us, we were an idolater. That's so. Verse 13. O Lord our
God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us, but
by thee only will we make mention of thy name. They are dead, they
shall not live. They are deceased, they shall
not rise. Therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them and
made all their memory to perish." Now idols, I told you, wherever
it was, God found us. We were idolaters before the
Lord saved us. Because idols are anything we
worship other than God. Well, by nature, we worship anything
but God. Now, it can be a stone statue.
It can be an idol of our imagination. This Jesus that needs you to
accept him in order to save you, that's an idol. He doesn't exist.
That's a figment of man's imagination. An idol is this Jesus who died
for everyone and wants to save everybody if they'll just let
him. That's an idol. That's a figment of man's imagination. And idols always require men
to do things. And I don't care how much you've
done, you can't quit. It's never enough. You gotta
keep it up. You're never finished. This is
exactly what this other Jesus requires. It's work from you.
You've got to accept him and then, buddy, you better keep
it up. Now, you've got to keep it up or you lose your salvation.
You'll be saved today and lost tomorrow. That's an idol. But
these idols hold such power over men because men desperately want
salvation. Men want some assurance of their
soul being saved. We're in Mexico. And we went
to this Catholic cathedral and we walked in and just, you know,
just people hadn't been there before. You see the architecture,
it's mind boggling how they built that building, you know, it's
just mind boggling. But you know what was going on at that moment?
We walked in, it was mass. And people were over here praying
this little figurine, this ceramic figurine. They're going up there
with their hands all folded, you know, and the priest is dipping
that wafer in and giving it to them. In such bondage, I mean just
bondage, Cody couldn't take it. He just had to walk out, just
big old tears in his eyes. I could not take it. Men willingly
submit themselves to this bondage because they desperately, wants
some assurance their soul is saved. Brethren, the Lord Jesus Christ
has finished the work. It's finished. He's brought all
of our works for us and in us. Why did he cry? Just to make
sure there's no doubt. It is finished. Every work is done. And that
includes this business of the mastery of idols over his people.
He has broken the power of those idols so we don't remember them
anymore. That's why believers turn to
God from our idols to serve the true and living God because Christ
sets his people free from idols. Fifth is this, salvation wrought
by God. This is good news. It's for sinners,
for all kinds of sinners, verse 15. Thou hast increased the nation. O Lord, thou hast increased the
nation. Thou art glorified. Thou hast removed it far unto
all the ends of the earth. The salvation of Christ reaches
sinners to all the ends of the earth, not just Jews, but Gentiles,
not just Americans, but every country, every continent, every
bird on the face of this planet. The Lord is adding to his church
daily such as should be added to his glory because he's doing
it. Sixth is this, salvation wrought by God gives a sinner
a good hope through grace. Verse 16, Lord, in trouble have
they visited thee. They poured out a prayer when
thy chastening was upon them. Like as a woman with child that
draweth near the time of her deliveries in pain and crieth
out in her pangs, So have we been in thy sight, O Lord. We've
been with child. We've been in pain. We have,
as it were, brought forth wind. We have not wrought any deliverance
in the earth. Neither have the inhabitants
of the world fallen. Now, first of all, this is a
good hope from being delivered from trial. Believer comes to
a time of trial. We're like this pregnant woman.
That baby keeps growing and growing and growing, keeps getting heavier
and heavier and heavier and harder and harder and harder to bear.
And she knows this is hard. If you think this is bad, that
delivery pain is coming. And it's going to be, it's coming
soon. It's going to be hard. And sure enough, those pains
come. And she bears through them because
she has a hope of raising a healthy child. She has a hope somebody's
going to put a live baby in her hands. She's going to nurse that
baby. She's going to teach it. She's
going to raise it. She has a hope. She's willing to go through all
this because she has a hope of raising a healthy child. Well,
that's the way a believer looks at trials. We can patiently endure
trials because we have a good hope of deliverance. They get
heavier and heavier and heavier. And they get so painful, we think
we can't go through this another moment. But we have good hope. God has promised to deliver his
people from trials. He won't put on us more than
we can bear. And he's promised a way of escape. So based on,
that's a good, if God promised, isn't that good hope? I think
it is. Then we can patiently wait on him. But more importantly,
This is a good hope of being delivered from this life. Being
delivered from the trail of tears that is this life. The trail
of tears over our sin. And we're just like that pregnant
woman. This is what I gather about a
believer getting older. The way doesn't get easier and
easier and easier. The burden gets heavier and heavier
and heavier. Just like that pregnant woman,
that child's growing and growing and growing, getting harder and
harder and harder to carry. And there's a lot of pain comes
of giving birth to that child. But that mother labors because
she has a hope of a healthy child. But you know, sadly, that doesn't
always happen, does it? Sometimes that baby's stillborn.
Sometimes maybe the baby's born, live baby, and it may die. Janet told me about a friend
of ours who, well over 20 years ago, had a child that died in
SIDS. The baby was healthy and put
to bed one night. Next morning, the child was dead.
All these years later, it's still vividly painful to that mother. Child of God, I want you to listen
to me now. That will never happen to you. Never. We have an expectation. This is not a hope like, well,
I hope it's Sunday tomorrow, but I don't know if it will be
or not. No, this is an expectation that shall never fail. It's a
good hope. It's an expectation because it's
by grace. Now it'd be a hope like, I don't
know what's going to happen if it depended on me, but if it's
by grace, it's an expectation. It's a good hope by grace. Every believer will receive exactly
what we're waiting for, to be just like Christ and to be with
him where he is. They'll be all patiently waiting
for that. That's worth waiting for. It's by grace, it will receive
it. And last is this, salvation that's
wrought by God is gonna result in a glorious resurrection. Look
at verse 19. Thy dead men shall live. Together
with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing ye that
dwell in dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the
earth shall cast out the dead. Now this chapter, and we began
looking at it last week, in that day should this song be sung
in the land of Judah. This chapter is a song of praise,
sung by God's people. But a lot like Song of Solomon,
now this song becomes a duet. This verse is sung by our Lord
Jesus Christ. This is a promise from his own
lips. That new man who's born in a new birth, he's going to
be clothed upon, not with this flesh, but he's going to be clothed
upon with perfect flesh and he's going to be forever with the
Lord. Look over in first Corinthians chapter 15. This chapter tells
us about this in great detail. We read it often, we'll just
read a portion of it here tonight. It'll do us good. 1 Corinthians
15, verse 47. The first man is of the earth,
earthy. The second man is the Lord from
heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy.
And as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
As we've borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth
corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trumpet
shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when
this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass
the saying that's written, death is swallowed up in victory. O
death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. but thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. That new man is
going to be clothed upon in a glorious resurrection, raised in a body
just like Christ. That's the hope of everyone that
God saves. Ezekiel learned that, didn't
he? Ezekiel, can these dry bones live? Lord, you know, boy, they
stood up an exceeding great army, didn't they? These dead bones
should live. This was Job's hope. We're told
the book of Job is the oldest writings of the scripture. And
this was Job's hope. He said, now I know my skin worms
are going to destroy this body. Yet in my flesh shall I see God. I'm going to see him with these
eyes and he won't be a stranger. He won't be another. He's not
going to be a stranger. I'm going to know him. That's
the salvation that's wrought by God. Now you believers, come
rest in Christ. Come rest in Him. The work's
finished. Come rest in Him. You that don't
know the Lord, now you come to Christ. You come rest in Him. The work is finished. You come
hide yourself in Him. Come hide in Christ while the
storm of God's wrath against your sin passes over. Come hide
in Christ during the storms of this life. The storm not gonna
last forever. Soon the storm's gonna be over,
but you come rest in Christ. That's what Isaiah says in the
rest of this chapter. Verse 20, come my people, enter
thou into thy chambers, shut thy doors about thee. Hide thyself
as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpassed.
For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth. He's coming to judge the earth
for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose
her blood and shall no more cover her slain. The Lord's gonna come,
he's gonna judge in righteousness for all the earth. Every dead
body's gonna be resurrected, but those who are in Christ,
those who have this salvation wrought by God will be raised
to eternal life with him. Now you come, like Noah did,
come rest in the ark, you come rest in Christ, in His salvation,
in all the work of salvation that Christ has wrought, both
for us and in us. Alright, I hope the Lord will
bless that to you.