If you will, turn back with me
to Psalm 130. Several weeks ago, I was preparing
a message on Psalm 128. And I knew about the Song of
Degrees. And Brother Lindsey up in Danville
taught a Sunday school lesson and went all through the Songs
of Degrees. But I still had not entered in
to the blessing of these songs. And I was reading Spurgeon on
the Songs of Degrees, on this song, and all of a sudden it
just opened up to me. No, I'm not going to preach on
Psalm 128. I'm going back to Psalm 120, and I'm going through
all of these. And the more I looked at them,
the more they opened up, and they've been such a blessing
to me. And several people that have
heard me preaching on these Psalms, they've commented how blessed
they were from these Psalms. The Psalms are something. You
know, we came in here tonight. If you don't have a hope in Christ,
Singing, leaning on the everlasting arms don't mean much. I sang that when I was in Nazarene
religion, and it meant absolutely nothing to me. They sang it,
the piano played, I muddled the words and went home, but it had
no effect on me whatsoever. These songs were inspired of
God, and they were sung. They were sung by pilgrims. believing pilgrims sojourning
down to Jerusalem to partake of those typical feasts. They
were going down there, and they understood what these feasts
are, just like we understand when we read in here, and I preach
to you things, and you see them in the Bible, you understand
what I'm saying. These men understood, not like we do, because Christ
was coming. But they understood what these
feasts were. This wasn't just an ordinance
to them. They were going down to worship
God and actually partake of these feasts, typically. And if you
read Romans chapter 3, verses 24 through 26, he's talking about
that very thing. God had set before them His propitiation,
which is Christ. And when they went through the
Feast of the Passover, they knew what that blood was for. This
is talking about the coming Redeemer's blood. They understood that. And so they're preparing their
hearts for this. This is a one-time-a-year thing,
and they're going down there, and he hears these psalms that
God has inspired David and perhaps Solomon or others to have written. After reading these, I'm convinced
that David wrote all of the songs of degrees, but I could be wrong.
Anyway, they would sing these songs. What did that have to
do with anything? They were recalling in these
songs what God had done for them. Isn't that what we were just
doing? Isn't that the place that our
songs, our hymns that we sing? We sing them at the beginning
of the service because we're recalling. We're recalling what
God is. Nothing but the blood. Don't
you like to sing that hymn? Oh my soul. Amazing grace. We've seen those and we recall
what God is doing for us. And that's what these believers
are doing here. They're recalling all of these
things. And this is the 11th in a series
of messages that I'm preaching on these Psalms. And there's
15 all together. Psalm 120 through 134. And they
were inspired of God for these pilgrims. But they're also inspired
of God for us. The Word of God is not for a
specific time necessarily, but it's for His people in all times. God's grace has to do with all
His people in all times. There's churches in our day that
like to say, well, the Old Testament church is not the same as the
New Testament church. Where do you get that? Where
do you get that? He called that his church in
the wilderness. That's what he called it. My
church in the wilderness. What about that old rock, that
smitten rock? He tells us plainly in the Word
of God, that rock was Christ. There were songs inspired of
God for these men and women who were going to, now listen, God's
designated place of worship. Well, they could have stayed
home and killed a lamb, couldn't they? Ain't what God told them. He
said, you're going to Jerusalem. You're going to Jerusalem. God
has always had a designated place of worship. Well, where's that
at today? Where two or more are gathered
together in my name. That's his designated place of
worship. It ain't out on the river. It
ain't on the mountainside. And there's beautiful things.
I've been to Montana and all over the Rocky Mountains. I've
been to North Carolina and all over those mountains. And there's
beautiful scenery up there. You can sit and you can ooh and
ahh over God's creation. But that's not where you go to
worship God. You go where His people are assembled. And that's where God meets with
you. Now if you ain't interested in God meeting with you, you
can meet anyone. But if you're interested in hearing from God
and worshiping God, you're going to go where God designates his
worship, wherever that is. He tells us over in Hebrews 9,
he said these things, these old feasts, these ordinances, the
priesthood, the tabernacle, These things were figures for the time
then present and they stood in meats and drinks and various
washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time
of reformation. What's that? That's the appearance
of Christ. The appearance of Christ. And
then he tells us it was necessary that those patterns, the patterns
of things in heaven, It's just picturing these things and it's
necessary that those things that they've patterned, those things
which actually will happen in glory be purged with better things
than sheep's blood or bull's blood. Heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices. And our Savior didn't enter into
the holy place made with hands. which are figures of the truth,
but into heaven itself, and not with the blood of bulls and goats,
but by His own blood, and entering in, He obtained eternal salvation
for us. And these men, I'm reading you
these scriptures because I want to impress this home. These men
understood what those feasts were about. And I want you to
understand as I go through these Psalms, But these men understood,
they were men of faith, and I could enter in with them. As they prepared themselves to
go to God's designated place of worship, they'd sing these
songs, and they'd recall what God had done, and what God is
doing, and what God promised yet to do. And there's three
applications to these Psalms as we go through here. You can
apply everything in every one of these Psalms to Christ. If
you'd like, that's the first application when we read. And then secondly, to every believer
as he sojourns through this present evil world on his way to his
father's house. They were going down to Jerusalem
to their father's house. This designated place, ain't
that what we're doing? We're sojourners in this world,
where are we going? To our Father's house. Our Lord
said, I go to prepare a place for you. He said, in my Father's
house, there's many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you.
We're on our way to our Father's house. And then also, we can apply this
to our own hearts every time that we prepare our hearts to
come and worship. We can apply these songs. We
can sing things just like these. And I've got five things, five
verses, if you will, to this song that I pray God will teach
us to sing. I want to learn to sing these
in my heart, in my heart, to sing these things. And to sing
with understanding. That's what Paul said. If you're
going to pray, pray with understanding. Pray so everybody out there can
enter into what you're praying. We don't speak in foreign languages. We preach in a common language. And even so with this, and he
said, when you sing, sing with understanding. And that's what
I want to do. Here's the first thing. The first
thing I hear in this song, the first thing I see, It's a recollection
of that desperate desire of the sinner. Boy, can you recall that? Being desperate. Desperate. Out of the depths, I cried. I thought sin, growing up in
religion, I didn't know any better. I thought sin was just when your
life got messed up. You did something, somebody else
said something, your job, whatever, now your life's all upside down,
sideways, and I really need to go to church. Well, that's really
not what your problem is. Your problem is sin. S-I-N, not
sins, that's a problem too, but I'm talking about at the very
core of it is sin. S-I-N. Salvation's for sinners. I've
got nothing to say to a righteous man tonight because he's really
not righteous, he's unrighteous. There's no unrighteous, no not
one, isn't that what it says? Salvation's for sinners. What's
that mean? That means hell deserving sinners. You ever look at yourself in
the mirror and think that? I deserve what sinners, their
curse. I deserve it. I deserve it. Ill-deserving. Ill-deserving.
Man, I don't deserve to be blessed. God blesses me on every hand.
Protects me. Watches over me. Provides for
me. But I'm ill-deserving. I'm not
deserving of any kind of blessing. We're sinners. We're rebels against
God. Men and women whose minds, the
Bible said, are enmity. That's hostility. Hostility towards
God. Boy, you haven't seen anger until
you tear down somebody's refuge. They won't just put you out of
the church. They'll come out and try to get you fired from
your job. Enmity against God. Not subject
to the law of God. That word law, there's a broad,
broad meaning. That has to do with the authority
of God in anything. Not subject. Ruin sinners. Sin entered and death passed.
Ruin sinners. Ignorant sinners. Walking in
the vanity of our minds. Having our understanding darkened.
Blind sinners, ignorant because of the blindness of our hearts.
Paul said, if our gospel be hid, it's hid to the lost, in whom
the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe
not. Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine
unto them. Helpless sinners. Who then can
be saved? If the rich young ruler can't
be saved, he's got all the potential in the world, who then can be
saved? Are you listening? With man, it is impossible. Oh my soul, helpless sinners. What can I do? Hopeless sinners. Paul said, you remember, you
were Gentiles. You were Gentiles. And you were,
you had no hope without God in the world. Don't that sound like
hopeless? Religion paints the picture of
a man climbing up a mountain. He's on his way to heaven and
he's nearly exhausted. He's almost there but he's exhausted
and he reaches up his hand and God bends down and gets him by
the hand and says, I'll help you the rest of the way. That
ain't salvation. David, when he sang about this
death, he said, out of a pit, a horrible pit, thou hast delivered
me. Out of a pit, out of a pit of
hell, he hath delivered me. Here's the picture. All have
sinned and come short of the glory of God. All my soul. People patting each other on
the back. You'll be all right. You'll be all right. You just
do the best you can do. God will accept that. Oh, my
soul, no he won't. No he won't. All is sin by the
deeds of the law. You obey the law. Rich Young
River said he did. All these I kept from my youth
up. There's nothing to him to obey the law. He says here, by the deeds of
the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. We're all together, Isaiah said,
as an unclean thing. A minstrel's cloth, a leper's
cloth that he covered that pus-covered face with. We're all together
as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses, the best
prayer I ever prayed, the best deed I ever did, filthy rags. Filthy rags before God. Out of
the depths. That's what he's telling us.
That's what he's recalling. Out of the depths. I can't even
judge how far down I was. I just know in part. I'm just
telling you what I learned from the Word of God about these depths. Did you know in hell, he talks
about hell being a continual falling? You don't ever hit bottom. I don't know where the bottom
is. It's beyond your wildest imagination. Out of the depths,
he said, I cried. Jonah said this, out of the belly
of hell, I cried. I saw. Turn with me to First
Corinthians chapter six. Has God ever convinced you of
sin? The Holy Spirit's gonna convince us of sin. And it's
not by telling you about how bad hell is going to be, and
it's not by telling you what an awful sinner you are. It will
help us to understand that these things that we thought were good
are not. But that's not how He convinces us of sin. When the
Holy Spirit convinces us of sin, He does through our unbelief
of Christ. Here is a perfect man, perfect
life, perfect humility, perfect everything. It's a perfect man.
And he comes out by the grace of God and accomplishes our salvation,
gives us full provision which was given to us by the Father
before the foundation of the world. And here we are, we're
fully justified. Here's a Savior that can save.
Here is the only way God can show mercy and grace, and we
look at Him and go, huh, and walk away. That's how the Holy
Spirit convinces us of sin. Unbelief in a Savior who's provided
everything. There's nothing in Him to despise. Nothing in Him to hate. Let me show you something here
in 1 Corinthians 6, verse 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Well, all men are unrighteous,
aren't they? They're unrighteous. If you're
not righteous, you're unrighteous. Be not deceived, neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate. What's that?
That's girly men. nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, that's homosexuals and the feminine sister to it, nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of God. But watch this, and such
were some of you. Do we recall that? Out of
the dents. But you're washed. You're sanctified. Oh my soul. God set me apart and said he's
holy. He's holy. Don't you abuse him. He's holy. How on earth did he
do that? He put me in Christ. He chose
us in Christ that we might be what? Holy. Don't talk to me about holiness
outside of Christ. It ain't happening. But in Christ, you're holy. And you're without blame. You're sanctified. You're justified. Who should bring any charge against
God's election? Who's going to charge them? What
are you going to say about God's election? It's God that's justified. Is there some higher court? He's the judge of judges. Somewhere
else to turn? No, we're justified. Washed,
sanctified. Actually, he uses this word,
un-reprovable. Boy, I got a lot of room for
improvement. But not in Christ. In Christ, you can't reprove me. I'm perfect.
I'm perfect in Him. You see what I'm saying? Out
of the depths. I recall that. And what's this? I cried unto
thee, O Lord. And that's the story of every
believer. He cannot think about God's gracious kindness and love
and long-suffering without remembering that awful pit out of which he
was dug. Verse 2. What did he cry? I am not hearing that word today
in churches, all I am hearing is Jesus. Lord, when the believer cries, this
desperate sinner, God has given him faith or he would not cry.
He has given him understanding, he knows he is a sinner, but
he does not know he is a believer yet. When we cry, it's not to some
poor defeated reformer who can't do anything because my will's
got him shackled up and he can't do it. No, no. We're crying to
the Lord. To the Lord. Lord of what? What's he Lord of? All the saints? What's he Lord of? Heaven, earth,
and hell. Eternity. Lord of the dead and the living.
He's Lord. It's not so much, what are you
going to do with sweet little Jesus, boy? It's what is your
Lord going to do with you? See, that's when you're crying
to him out of, what's he going to do with me? He'd be just if
he sends me to hell. I deserve everything I'm getting.
But I've heard there's mercy with the Lord and I cry out.
But I don't cry out to Jesus, I cry out, Lord! Lord! Because nobody else can do you
any good. It takes the absolute sovereign
Lordship of God in human flesh to save our soul. Nothing less. Nothing less. He has to be able
to order providence. How you going to hear without
a preacher? And how's he going to preach if God don't send him?
Well, what if he don't go? Oh, he's gone. Ask Jonah. He's gone. Well, I might not
come. Oh, yeah, you're going to come.
All that the Father gave of me is going to come to me. All of
it. Oh, what if he's too ignorant
to know? Oh, God's going to teach him. He's going to teach him. They should all be proud of God.
And everybody that learns from the Father, they come to Christ.
Why can he say that? Because he's sovereign. You see
what I'm saying? Well, I thought salvation was
by grace. It is sovereign grace. I thought it was all about mercy.
It is sovereign mercy. I'll have mercy upon whom I will
have mercy and whom I will I'll harden. That's what God said.
It's the Lord that we cry to. When the Holy Spirit convinces
us of sin, oh my soul, now we're going to cry, but we're going
to cry to the Lord. Because He's the only one that
can do us any good. Oh. He's Lord. Scripture said He's
the Lord God Omnipotent. Wow. He's Lord of Lords and King
of Kings. Lord, hear my voice. Let thine
ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. Have you
ever thought about what a miraculous thing it is that sinners like
us should even be allowed to talk to God? Don't that astound you? That's
a wonder to me. It's a marvelous thing. I can talk to God and He hears
my voice. Isn't that what He said? Hear
my voice. What are you? I'm just a sinner. Oh, now, now you've got some
qualification. You're a sinner. See, this is
a faithful saying. Christ Jesus came into this world
to save sinners. Am I a sinner? Then he'll hear
my voice. He ain't going to hear the voice
of the self-righteous. You read it over in the book of Isaiah,
he tells you flat out, I ain't going to hear Hear my voice. Let thine ears,
the very ear of God, let thine ears be attentive to the voice
of my supplication. Oh, I think about ancient Israel.
I used to get mad at them. Man, that bow-headed bunch, why
don't they get... And now I found out I just like
them. Just like them. But he said they cried unto the
Lord, and he said, and I heard them. I heard him. Oh, what a
wondrous thing. God should hear your voice, David.
He was up here tonight and he was leading us in prayer with
some confidence that God will hear your voice. We should have such a privilege
giving us not only to speak, but for God to hear. And having set before us the
accomplished redemption of Christ, Paul tells us in Hebrews 10,
19, having therefore, brethren, boldness. Now I'm going to tell
you something. For a sinner to enter into the
throne room of God takes boldness. Don't it? Therefore brethren, boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new
and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the
veil, that is to say his flesh, and having a high priest over
the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith. Assurance of what? That he's
going to hear. He's going to hear. Out of the depths have I cried
unto thee, O Lord. Hear my voice, and let thine
ears be attended to the voice of my supplications. And then
secondly, he recalls this. Here's the second verse to this
song. He sings of a life-altering truth. If thou, Lord, shouldest
mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Who shall stand? If the righteous God should judge
every man according to his works, who's going to stand? Now you
can turn over to the last page of the book and you can read
the ending. And the ending says, nobody whose names were not written
in the book of life. If your name's not written in
the book of life, you're going to be cast into hell. Now there'll
be other reasons, but that's the That's where the rubber hits
the road. That's the basis of this whole
thing. Because there's no hope for any
man except the elect of God. And they have a hope by sovereign
grace. God has made provision for them. He sings of a life-altering truth. And he said, if thou, Lord, shouldest
mark iniquities, Now this if is not laying the groundwork
for any compromise in the character of God. This if is not talking
about our acceptance, not talking about our accepting,
God accepting the best we can do. I'll give you that in a minute. It's not laying the groundwork
for something other than this. This is talking about our acceptance
in the blood. God does mark iniquity, and none
shall stand. Not even the sinless Son of God. Not even the sinless Son of God,
bearing our iniquities, can stand before His holy justice. He'll
pour His wrath out on His own Son. He spared not His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all. All that were chosen in Him,
all that were represented in Him, all that He loved from the
beginning and made full provision for. He was delivered for our
offenses and raised again for our justification. All we like
sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to His
own way and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. And the reason God's sheep will
stand in His presence is that they're blameless, unreprovable
in His sight, being redeemed through the blood of Christ.
Clothed in His righteousness. And that's the only reason. And
everybody who ain't, they're not going to stand. They're not
going to stand. No wonder He sang in Psalm 126,
we were like them that dreamed. Good time with that message.
We were like them that drank. Can you imagine how Israel felt
when they came out of Egypt? Not an arrow had been fired.
Not a rock from a sling. Not a spear had been thrown.
Nothing. And they walked out of Egypt
and the people were saying, here, take my treasure with you. Take
all my goods with you. And God said, not even a dog
is going to bark in resistance. And they walked out of Egypt.
Huh? Oh. We were like them that dreamed.
Weren't you? First time I heard this message
of grace in Christ, I thought this can't be. Surreal is the
only word I can find in the dictionary that even describes it. This
is too good to be true. There's something wrong here.
This can't be. Yeah, it can. It can. Listen to the hymn writer. Closer
to God. Closer I cannot be. For in the
person of his son, I am as near as he. None but the redeemed can sing
this song. None but a reconciled sinner
could sing this song with such words as these and rejoice. God hath appointed a day in which
he'll judge the world in righteousness by that man, that man whom he hath ordained
Christ, whereof he hath given assurance, not of salvation,
although he does that to the believer. But of the everlasting
judgment and that he had raised him from the dead, God judged
his son. And he'd given assurance to this
whole world that he'll judge them because he judged his son. He'd given assurance to all that
believed because he raised him from the dead. And he's giving
assurance to this world of that judge, because that judge was
raised from the dead, and now he's seated at the right hand
of God. And we'll all stand before the judgment seat of Christ,
that's what it says. All that truly believe shall
be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. He that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life. He's not even going to perceive
it. But the wrath of God abideth
on him. Here's a life-altering truth.
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, who shall stand? All those in Christ. All those
in Christ. And then thirdly, he sings of
a gracious hope. Verse four. He said, but there's
forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I used to ooh
and ah over the miracles that I read in the Bible. And truly,
they're wonders. I don't mean to put them down
in any way. Lazarus, come out of that tomb.
That's wonders, isn't it? Loose him and let him go, and
the great clothes fell off. Lord, if you will, you can make
me clean. I can't even imagine. He probably mumbled that because
his face was being eaten away with leprosy. And I picture him
with that rag over there saying that and just kind of mumbling
that out before the Lord. And the Lord said, I will be
thou clean. Isn't that wondrous? That's what
he does to every sinner. Yes, sir. I know what y'all are. I can smell you. You're a smoke
in my nose. But I'm going to show you grace
and mercy. I'll be there clean. What? Yeah. Yeah. And I'll tell you something.
Never a man speak like that, man. That's what Paul preached
on up there. Never a man. If he said you're clean, you're
clean. You're clean. I used to ooh and aah all these
miracles that I read in the Bible, and truly they were a wonder.
But the real wonder is that a holy, just, and righteous God can and
will forgive sin. There is forgiveness within.
Ha! Any son? Any son? In whom, Paul said, we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sin. We justify freely by His grace
through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus. He said, He set him forth as
the propitiation. What's that mean? That means
to conciliate or satisfy. Satisfy. It's how God's able
to actually forgive sin in Christ only. you that were sometime alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled
in the body of His flesh through death to present you holy and
unblameable and unreprovable in His sight. There is forgiveness
with thee that thou mayest be feared, not a slavish fear, but an awestruck fear. Now I'm
going to tell you something. Had I been on the sidelines,
just sitting back looking, and God commanded and the whole universe
appeared, wouldn't you be awestruck? I
think you would. I think you'd fear it. I think
you'd fear him if you were standing there and watched Lazarus come
out of that tomb at his command. He couldn't walk, he was bound
in grave clothes. But he came out. I think I'd
have been awestruck. I think there'd been some reverential
fear involved in this thing, seeing him. But the believer
has seen his salvation in him on that tree. And he's awestruck
by it. He's awestruck by it. A wondrous
yet reverential fear that one so high and holy should take
notice of me a sinner. That one with such power should
engage that power to save my soul. That one so demanded should
stoop to meet his own demands on my back. And then here's another verse
of this song. The Song of the Depths. Those
who cry from the depths of their depravity to a holy, just, and
righteous God, believing there's forgiveness with Him, wait for
the Lord. Why? Because nobody else can
do you any good. You're going to wait. I'm going
to preach to you. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Go ye in all the world, preach
my gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
But that's as far as I can go with it. Now you're going to wait on the
Lord. We shut up to Him, ain't we?
We're going to wait on Him. I know His means. I know the
means that God uses. But after those means are used,
what do we do? We're going to wait on the Lord.
We're going to wait on the Lord. Verse 5, I wait for the Lord,
my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. I hope in his
promises, I hope in his word. But until he takes his finger
and sticks it into my heart, I can't do nothing. I don't care
how much of his word I know, I can't do nothing. Listen to
this, verse 6, my soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that
watch for the morning. I say more than they that watch
for the morning. The man is dying. And he is thinking
about his life and his children. What are they going to do? I
am dying. Boy, he waits on the morning. One more day. If I could
just have one more day. And he watches and he looks out
the window and he waits. Of course, he is waiting on the
Lord. Peter said we have a more sure
word of prophecy. We're unto you do well to take
heed as a light that shineth in a dark place. Now listen,
till the day dawns and the day start rising in your heart, we
wait on the Lord like those who wait for the morning. Salvation's of the Lord. What
part of it? All of it. Huh? All of it. of Him in its eternal design,
it's of Him in His gracious promises, it's of Him in the wondrous accomplishment
of it, it's of Him in its application, and it's of Him in its ultimate
perfection, and especially in our preservation. It's all of
the Lord. We don't wait on Him. We don't
wait on Him. Faith is the gift of God, He
said, not of works, lest any man should boast. And so we wait
on Him anxiously, desperately, waiting upon the Lord. What's
going to happen here tonight? Nothing, unless the Lord does
something. I'm waiting on Him. I'm waiting
on Him. Oh, I hope so badly. And all
the days that I preach, I wait on Him. I wait on Him. I want
to see somebody's heart just broken. And then He pours His
grace and mercy into the world. Huh? Don't you want to see that?
I want to see that somebody. I wait. Wait on Him. Wait on
Him. I can't do it. He can. He can. Listen to this, 2 Peter 1.19.
Well, I just quoted that to you, I'm sorry. Wait on him, like
those who wait for the morning. And Hosea said, his going forth
is as the morning. That's what we're waiting for,
his going forth. And because we're sons, he sends
forth his spirit into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. And then
here's the last verse to the song. He said, let Israel hope
in the Lord, for with the Lord there's mercy. And with him is
plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from
all his iniquity. Ain't a if in it. Ain't a but
in it. He shall. He shall. There's nowhere else to hope.
No hope written, manifested, or preached except Christ the
Lord. And he says here that his hope
was in the Lord. That's because true faith comes
by submission and bowing. He's the Lord. He shall redeem
Israel from all his iniquities. And because he's Lord, we have
no reason to doubt his success. Do we? Boy, if it's up to me,
if one part of it's up to me, I'm in trouble. I can't have
any assurance. Can't have anything. He shall. The believer uses words
like shall. He likes that. I can lay my head
down at night on that, can't you? He shall. He shall. Thou shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall save his people from their sin. You believe not because
you're not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. And they
follow me, no doubt about it. Because he's Lord, we have a
holy assurance that he's able to save to the uttermost all
those that come unto God by him. Paul said to the Philippians,
and I'll quit with this, he said, being confident of this very
thing, he which hath begun a good work in you will fulfill it unto
the day of Jesus. Even the honorary ones. They're
going to save them all.