Open your Bibles to Romans chapter
9. Romans chapter 9. And we'll begin over in verse
8. Sometimes we wonder in ourselves
that why in the world am I doing this? Why am I in this position? Why
am I presenting a message so important that I'm not capable
of doing it right? We just pray that the Lord would
give me the words to say and that it would feed you in the
place where you needed feeding. I talked to David one day, and
he said something about preaching for him. I told him, no, I can't
do that. I'm not called to do that sort
of thing. And he said, well, if you ever get to the point
where you think you're something special, and you should be doing
those things, he says, you better not do it. So I'm all over the
place with my thoughts this morning, and I'll do the best I can to
deliver a message. Usually, I'm a little more prepared
than what I am, but this did not come together. My mind is
whirling with it. But I keep thinking about Matt's
message Wednesday night. And he was talking about man's
will, and man's free will, and all these things, and how this
world thinks, and how we think, how we were before we come to
know the Lord. And that in itself, the fact
of how we were and the way we thought before we come to know
the Lord, is probably something that we should never forget.
Because if we forget that, then we forget how all these folks
out here think, and what's on their mind, and what they think
of our Lord, and what they think of our Gospel, and the way we
live, and the message we have, If we forget how we were before
we come to know the Lord, we can't relate to where they're
at. We don't understand. We can't have compassion on them
because they don't believe in the true Christ. And when you
talk to them, it's very frustrating. And so, it is very difficult
to have compassion if we don't remember what a lost person has
in his mind, what he thinks, what he's searching for. You
know, Lord, I guess I might put the title of this message, The
Importance of Election, because that's what I'm going to talk
about today. You see, we were all born in sin and fell in Adam. And so there's, none of us did
any good or evil. When we were conceived, we fell
in Adam. And that was something that God
has said in His plan. We fell in Adam. We were dead
in sins. And there was nothing that we
could help ourselves in the eyes of God, and yet we needed a God. We needed some kind of God. We
needed something to hold on to. Nobody in this world lives in
and of themselves. We need someone to hold on to. Someone just other than ourselves.
No one can seem to stand alone. And so we were born in sin. We
fell in Adam. And we hadn't done any good or
evil. We just were born into sin. Before the foundation of the
world, the Lord, I've said this many times, God gave to His Son
the elect, His children. He chose the people. He elected
the people. He picked them out. And we don't
know why and which why He picked each one out. We don't know that. All we know is that before there
was ever time, God gave those to Christ, and Christ said that
He would accept them, and that He would save everyone, and there
would be none of them lost. None. Not one lost. And also
in the process of taking those, He loved each one of them. Each
one that God gave Him, He loved them. God chose them out and
elect them, and He loved these people. These were the ones He
chose out of. And also, being the three in
one, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, the Son loves them also. And
so He took on Himself to come to this earth. You see, we sinned
against God. Just by being born into sin,
we were separate of God, and we sinned against God. And so
therefore, we were destined for destruction. All believers, all
unbelievers, when they're born, they're destined for destruction.
We're sinners. We live a life of sin. And our
idea of who God is, is the same idea of who these people out
here believe it is. And we did not know we were lost.
We didn't know it. They don't know it. They're searching
for a God, but they don't know who God is, so they don't know
they're lost. And so we've got to remember
this when we talk to them about the Gospel, because they don't
have a clue who the true God is. And so therefore, when we
witness to them, this is something totally new and out of the way
for them. And if their heart's cold and God doesn't deal with
their hearts, they're going to hate us. They're going to hate
our message. They're going to hate God. Worse is, they hate
God. They're enmity with Christ. And
so anyway, God accepted the burden of making the elect satisfactory
unto God, make them right with God. So he came to this earth
and he walked this earth perfectly as a man with all his actions,
all of his thoughts, everything were perfect. They had to be.
Because God says, blood has to be shed. You have sinned against
me, and therefore, you're going to pay for that sin, and the
price of sin is death. So each one of us, if Christ
had not come to this earth to die for our sins, we would all
perish. There would be no hope for us.
But thank goodness God elected a people. If He had not done
that, We would not had any hope. And so therefore, Christ walked
this earth. He did. He obeyed the law because
he had to be a perfect sacrifice. Just like I used to pin up that
lamb and watch him and see that he has no blemish, no bad character. He has to be perfect. He's the
lamb that had to be perfect. And He died and shed His blood
for our sins. That is the payment for our sins,
for the elect. If there had not been any elect,
there would be no payment for our sins. Why were we elected? Think about that. If that isn't
humbling, why were we elected? Why are we one of Christ's children? We didn't know when we came in
this world that this would come about. We just lived and walked
this life and searching for something to hang on to. But we had no
idea that we were going to be one of his elect or that we are
his elect. This happened before the foundation
of the world. We just lived our life. Listened to the worldly
preachers and what they had to say and what they said we needed
to do. And we continued on in our flesh. But Christ had already made us
right with the Father. He'd already done that. For all
people that are elected from the beginning of time to the
end of time, He paid for their sins. He took them on. And He
said, I won't lose a one. That's a promise that He would
not lose a single one. And so, it says in these, you
know, we talk about people and free will and all, and they think
so little of God. They, like Matt talked about
John 3.16, well, he died for the world. He died for the world. The world's saved. And you read
obituaries, they are. They are saved, every single
one of them. Went with the Father. That died to stand there as the
Father today. And so, the world does not understand
that, but they think he died for everyone. And so therefore,
there has to be some reason why there are some people in hell
and some people in heaven. So what else is left? The most
precious thing that a man has in this world, he thinks he has,
is free will. That's all that's left. He will
fight you to the death over that. Free will. That's my power. That's
what I can do. I get up in the morning and I
go to work. I put on my pants and I do all these things. That's
my will. That's my free will. I do what I want. So God, He
died for everybody. And the preacher says, you must
accept Him. So Christ, God puts His Son through
all He put His Son through. The walking on earth amongst
men that hate Him would not accept Him. to go through the pain and
agony of the cross. The worst thing is He took on
our sin, which was worse agony than any physical agony He could
have possibly taken on. He took all that on Himself and
made the elect right with God. Now, you think about that. Would
He do that to His Son and then just leave it up to somebody
wanting to accept Him? Some would accept Him. Some wouldn't
accept Him. There is nothing that God does
that is not absolute. In other words, whenever He died
on the cross, He died for the elect, and it is done in perfection,
and with power, and for His glory, and not a single person can change
any of that. I don't care how great you think
you are with your elect. And He's not going to leave it
up to a dead sinner to accept Him. There's nothing going to
be left with, quote, chance. Nothing. Nothing's going to be
left up for that. We're not going to leave that
up to sinful dead men to decide whether they're going to want
to come with him or not come with him. That's why the election
is so important. It's part of the whole plan.
But election is extremely important because These are the people
that Christ died for, and these are the people that no matter
what happens, are going to be with Him in glory. And why were
you chosen? I haven't got the slightest idea.
And I've often wondered, and it says in His Word in these
passages, we are not to question God. But don't you wonder why
me? Now we know the Word, and why
it says it was us, but why were we amongst so many and yet we
were chosen? Such a small group and yet a
number that can't be numbered. We were chosen to be His. We were chosen to know Him, to
know His Gospel, to understand His Gospel, to follow Him, to
love Him, to desire Him while we were still sinners in the
flesh before we were ever walked in or born. He says in verse
8, that is, they which are the children
of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children
of promise are counted for the seed. For this is the word of
promise, that this time will I come as Sarah shall have a
son. And not only this, but when Rebekah
also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac." Now, there's
nothing I'm going to tell you this morning that you haven't
heard, and that's the thing about the gospel is, we hope you have
heard what we've said already, because if not, we're probably
changing it. So it needs to be what we've
already heard. But he's talking here that here
are two babies born in this world. A miracle. God said He created
this earth and He was pleased. Everything God did, He was pleased
with because He created it. And everything that came after
that was for His glory. In other words, it points to
Him and says, thank you, I did it. He's a jealous God. But He's jealous of what He did.
He said, I did this. Not us. We didn't do it. So when
we acknowledge that He did all that He has done for us, we're
giving Him glory. And that's what's most important
to Him, is His glory. He did it all. So if He leaves
a little bit of this up to man, we're stealing His glory. And
He won't have it. He won't have it. The world hates
Him, and therefore when they speak of free will, that is a
complete attack upon our Lord's glory. Man does not have free
will, and we will see that here in a minute. But here are two
children born, never done any good or evil. It is promised
there would be two boys born. These boys were born for a purpose.
There's two reasons that I can see up here He's born for a purpose.
One of them is for God's glory, of course. But also to show how
He predestinates things. He already had predestinated.
He knew that these two boys were going to be born. Just like He
knows each one of us is going to be born. And the time when
they were going to be born, and the conditions of it, and when
it was, it's a teaching moment. It was written in this Word to
teach us. Whenever things happen in the
world, every little single thing that happened in this world is
not written in here, but the teachable things are. And so
they were born for a purpose, for an example to us, to see
how election works and how complete and sure it is. How that has
absolutely nothing to do with man, but it's all in God's hands. They were born for a purpose.
It was predetermined that they would be born, two of them, at
the same time, to show that they had done no
good or evil. were not born yet. They didn't
have a chance to think. They didn't have a chance to
see, to do anything, to hate, or to do anything. They were
still in the womb. And yet, he says, let's go to
verse 11 where it just pretty well lays it all out. For the
children not yet born, neither one unborn, neither having done
any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election
might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth. It says in verse 13, as it is
written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated. God made
this statement in verse 13 before either child was born. When man thinks of sin and he's
lost his state, he thinks, well, it's the things I do. I went
to the bar. I sinned. I said a cuss word. I sinned. stole money, I sinned. He thinks that's what their sin
is. I thought something. That's sin. And it's the actions
of sin. But the thing of it is, man,
these two sons, they're born into sin. I mean, they fell the
day they were born upon this earth. They died an Adam. And
they were dead in their sins. They weren't capable of doing
any good thing for God. for the world or anybody in the
eyes of God. They could not make themselves
right before God. They had no opportunity to do
good or evil. They were dead in their sins.
They didn't know God. They hated God. They were full of pride and they
were full of self-will. They didn't know it. They didn't
know it. They were born in sin. They didn't
even know that they hated God, and yet they did. Because the
condition that they were in, that goes along with being born
in sin. All those things. You hate God.
You don't desire Him. You don't want to look at the
light. But one was elected by God, and Christ was given unto
him to do what was necessary to attain his salvation. One of His boys was loved and
one wasn't. And Christ accepted all of them
from the Father. Did all the things that was necessary
for the one that He loved to be able to spend eternity with
Him. Christ loved all elected in the
beginning. But this in itself is the greatest
expression of love because of the condition these boys were. I kind of got ahead of myself
here, but that's alright. It says here, the children, being
not yet born, have not done any good or evil for the purpose
of God according to election might stand. He is teaching us
what election is about. The purpose of election. How
come it's there? Not of works, but of Him that
calleth. And so therefore, He's saying in there that there's
not a thing that we could have done to be able to be one of
His, to make Him love us and desire us, but those that, not
of works, but of Him that calleth. And He is the one, we with Christ,
the one that is elect. He's the one that God will reveal
Himself into. God does the work. He does the
work. We have no choice in the matter.
Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated. Now, that's pretty
strong words. God doesn't hate anybody. He
died for the world. It says here He did. It says
here that Esau He's hated. Jacob have I loved. But look
at the love He had for Jacob. Already knew before the foundation
of the world that He was going to be His. And already knew that
He was the One that's going to die for. And He's the One that's
going to spend eternity with Him. And the agony and the pain
that He was going to go through for Him, He already knew it.
Before He was born. Didn't leave it up to Jacob.
God did this Himself. Esau hath hated. Oh God loves
everybody. No. Esau have I hated. Esau has no hope. He will never
come to know God in any way, shape, or form. He will not know
God in his heart. He will not love God. He will
not follow God. He will not understand who God
is. He will never see the light.
Like Lazarus, he will be dead in his sins, and unless Christ
shows him light, he will never see the light, he will never
hear, he will never feel anything toward God. Because that's the
way God set it up. Now, is that fair? Sure it's fair. Because he's
done it all for God's glory. God says, I did it. That's His
glory. I did it. I saved one, but I
didn't save the other one. It's all in my plan and it's
set up the way it's set up so that when it comes to the end
of time, everything is in His hands and the work that He did
and everything. His glory all goes to Him. Esau is made for the day of destruction. I didn't look up the verse it
is, but he says that he created some people for the day of destruction. That's the day of judgment. The
elect will never be judged that way. They will never be cast
into hell. They will never be separated
from God. But he made some for the day
of destruction so that he could show how great his glory and
love is to those of the elect. The love that He shows is so
great. He said, neither have done any
good or evil. And He says here, I see and hear
when He says, having done any good or evil, that anything that
man does in and of himself outside of Christ is evil. And so this
is for the purpose of God according to election might stand. And
He is showing us how He has been elected. Man just cannot see
this, will not accept it, and does not want to have anything
to do with it. Because man wants His glory too. And any man that
wants His glory does not know the Lord. We sometimes get pretty
haughty about the things we do. And we think we are pretty great.
Until we get a thinking about how the Lord took care of us
and how he saves us and how he showed us our sin and how awful
we were that we would not have seen if he had not revealed himself
unto us. All this we were so thankful
for. And if that does not humble you,
I don't know what will, because it's just because election you're
his. Just because of his plans, you're
his. What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? Verse 14, God forbid. Of course not. There's no unrighteousness with God. Our
God does everything perfect. He's righteous. He's the straight
line and we're the crooked line. We can tell when we're doing
right or wrong, or whatever is right or wrong, because He is
so perfect and so righteous that He is the example of what is
right. Is there unrighteousness with
God? Can't be. There cannot be. What shall we say then? Shall we question Him? Can we
question Him? No. Is there unrighteousness
with God? God forbid. God forbid. We don't dare question Him. Why
do we know that? Because we know Him. Those who
don't know Him will question all day long and take upon themselves
all kinds of things that has to do with God. But a believer,
he does not question Him. He says to Moses, I will have
mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion. So he told Moses, he says, I'll
show you my glory. And he passed by and he told
him, I have the right and I will have compassion on who I want
to and who I don't, I won't. I made you. I made this world. It's mine and I'll do with it
as I see fit. And through the love He has for
His elect, He will have compassion on His elect. And those that
He doesn't, He doesn't have compassion for them. I'll do it if I want. That is a God. Think about the
gods of a country. The king of a country. If He
says, kill that man, they'll kill him. If He says, go to war,
they go to war. And you just name whatever else,
it's done by just saying it, and it's done. God is even greater
than a king, but that's an example of what God can do. But He has
a compassion upon His elect. But it says then, so then it's
because of this, it is not of Him that willeth, nor of Him
that runneth, but of God that shows the mercy. It's where He
is. It's not because of what we do,
what we desire. He says it's a free will in there.
It's not about our will, what we want to do, nor of how good
we are, how we take care of our neighbors, and how we come to
church, and how we worship, and we pray, and we preach, and we
do all these things. It's not that. Our work and everything
we do is so tainted there is hardly anything good to be seen
in it. But of God that shows the mercy. And it's mercy that
He shows. It's mercy that He has upon us.
Mercy says, you don't deserve it, but I'm going to be good
to you. That's what mercy is. Grace is just being good to you. I'll give this to you, but you
can't do anything for it. But if I give it to you, I'm
God. I'm king of this world. I'm God. If I give it to you,
it's yours. And some I've heard people say,
well, if God gives you something, it's like Christmas presents.
You got to reach out and take it. Not if God gives it to you.
God gives it to you. You got it. If he gives you love
in your heart for him, you got it. If he gives you faith, you
got it. But if he don't, you'll never
have it. It won't be there for you. Election
says that. Let's see, we go up here. It
says, verse 18, it says, Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will
have mercy, and whom He willeth, He hardens. And so, God declares
He will have compression and all that are... I can't even
read my notes. It says, God declares He will
have compassion, and all that He does not have compassion on
are not the elect, and He hardens their hearts. They may never
have salvation. Isn't that amazing? Therefore
hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will,
He hardeneth. He hardeneth. Those who are not
God's elect, He gives them a heart of stone. It's a hard heart.
He does not change it into a heart of flesh that is pliable and
hears His message and listens and understands, but it's a hard
heart. I know what I know and I'm going
to stay with what I think and I've got free will and nobody
can tell me I don't. He hardens your heart and there's
no way you'll ever know through love who He is. Now we have people come And they
may sit for a long time and listen to this message. But if God has
not dealt with them, they still have a hard heart. And one day,
I guarantee you, they'll be gone. It never fails. He hardens their
heart. Well, no, He saves everybody.
He has compassion upon everybody. He does not do bad things to
people. No, He left them with a hard heart. It makes it sure
that they don't ever hear. They have a hard heart. And then
he says, Thou wilt say unto me, Why doth ye find fault? For who
hath resisted his will? I've been religious. I go to
church. I'm not mad at God. I do everything
I can to be good to my neighbor. I'm generous. I help everybody. I do all these things for everybody. How could he find fault? I haven't
resisted his will. You've done the worst thing there
was. You've got pride, full of pride. Arrogance. I've done all
these things for God. I didn't do anything to hurt
Him. He owes me. That's what they
think. That's what we thought. But according
to election, according to these verses, He hates those workers
of iniquity, and that their hearts are not right. They have a hardened
heart. He makes it so that their hearts
are so hardened that they cannot see His gospel. And yet, being
men of the earth and walking this earth, they need a religion
of some kind. They need something to hang on
to. No man stands on his own. And so here he says, I've got
this God and I follow Him. And who resists His will? Well,
you are. You may not know it, but you
do resist His will. Man thinks God is absolutely
too small. Nay, but, O man, who art thou
that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the
potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel
into honor and another into dishonor? Of course, why do you question
the one that made you? You may be created in the womb. You question the God of salvation. The one that saves one and hates
the other. Why are you questioning Him?
He's the one that created all this. We can't go to Him and
say, why? He told us it's for His glory
and also for being able to carry out the promises that He says
all through this Word. All things have to be carried
out in a certain way and predestinated in order that all of His promises
are sure. And they are carried out to be
sure. He done all this. Treated it. And then of course,
you have the right to question Me. Lost man don't have a clue. They don't know how godly God
is. How righteous God is. And they
have these same words. And they read these same words.
And I find it interesting, but mainly now I forget a lot about
what I was growing up in churches. But I go to funerals and weddings
and stuff and I see why they can't answer it, but they talk
over it. They don't understand what these
words say. They don't know what God, as
sovereign God as ours is. They don't know who He is. They
can't see Him as one that is completely over all things. And
there's one statement I hear all the time that just blows
my mind. I was in that wreck and God was
sure riding with me because I didn't get hurt. Who calls to how the
wreck happened? How'd that happen? Did that just
come out of the blue? He says He predestinates all
things. The lost man doesn't understand How much He predestines
all things. How minute little things He makes
so before the world began. That accident, that was part
of His plan. But a lost man can't see it that
much. Thank goodness we know our God for who He is. And you
know, to know that, even those things happen in His hands, gives
me peace. He's got you in His hands and
there is nothing Anyone can do to you or take you away from
Him. Nothing. Your salvation is so sure. I
don't care what thoughts you had today, how bad you've been
this week, the awful things you've thought and said and done this
week. If you're His, you're His. And
no one can pluck you out of His hands. You belong to Him. This whole world, all things
work together for good for those who love Christ, those that are
called according to His purpose. All things work out for good. We will continue on here and
he says, If God, willing to show His wrath
and make His power known, endured much longsuffering, the vessels
of wrath fitted destruction, and that He might make known
the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had
aforeprepared unto glory." He has done this before time. He's
aforeprepared this. It says it here. Unto glory. We'll be with Him in glory. And
it says here, He makes known the riches of His glory on the
vessels of mercy. The others He hardens their heart,
but ours He doesn't. He comes in and takes out that
stony heart and gives us a heart of flesh. And one day the preacher
is preaching or somebody is talking to you and you think, Can that
be so? And so you study some more, and
so you listen some more, and as you do that, He's building
the faith in you. And one day, you really understand
that this is the God of salvation, not the one that I've been following.
And you want absolutely nothing to do with them, with their religion. You just hope and pray they can
hear what you've got, what you've seen. and you go witness to them,
and you pray for them, and you do all you can that they might
hear your message. If they're elect, yeah, they'll
hear the message. If they're not, God's hardened
their heart and they will never hear or understand. Even us whom
He hath called, not the Jews only, but also the Gentiles.
He's saying here that it's not a particular tribe, country,
or color, or race, or anything like that. He has saved people
out of every tribe, country, race, everywhere. People out
of those different ones. No particular group. Not just
the Jews, but the Gentiles only. He says in Osiah, I will call
them My people, which were not My people, and her beloved, which
was not My beloved. They're mine now. They're mine.
And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said
unto them, ye are not my people, there shall they be called the
children of the living God. Isaiah also cries concerning
Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as
the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. That's amazing,
isn't it? We look around. And we know the
churches that we associate with. We know how many people are in
there. We know how many people are born and how many left. They're
gone. They passed on. All these people. And we think, well, that's nobody. That's just nobody. We're so
small. How in the world did we make
it in this world being so small? But I don't want to go any other
place. But He says in here, They be as the sand of the sea. From
the beginning of time to the end of time, think about how
many saints there are. As many as the sands of the sea. We're a small group here right
now, but from the beginning of time to the end of time, God
saved a large number of people. And they're all His. But compared
to the world, we're a small flock. For He will finish the work and
call it short in righteousness, because a short work will the
Lord make upon the earth. It is a short work. The years
that He was on this earth was very short. But it was accomplished
everything that He needed accomplished for His saints and His glory. And Isaiah said before, except
the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom
and been made like unto Gomorrah. If He had not had His elect,
if Christ had not come to this earth, if He had just left us
all to ourself, we'd be like Sodom and Gomorrah. But He didn't
leave us to ourselves. He saved a few. He elected a
few. The ones He elected for the foundation
of the world. Think about that. You know, you
feel so insignificant. And we are. Go up in an airplane,
you can't even see us walking around here on this earth. We're
so little and nothing. Big trucks are that big, you
know. We're just nothing. You think
about that. Think about eternity. And we were elected in eternity. This little group here, stand
in front of the mirror and think, why me? I don't understand, why
me? But all you can do, it just humbles
you. And all you can do is thank You
Lord. Thank You that You have compassion
upon me. For whatever reason, we know
it's for Your glory. and whatever reason. Your brother
may not have been. Your mother or dad may not have
been chosen. Your neighbor and your friends
and all that stuff. Sometimes all families are become
to know the Lord. And sometimes they don't. And there's not a thing we can
do about it. Just thank the Lord that whatever He does and all
that He does, He receives glory for it. It's His glory that's
important. And a believer can understand
that, and a believer can say that in his heart and his mind
and honestly mean it. It's for the glory of God. And
what do we do? What Donnie said one time, get
on a bicycle and ride? There's nothing we can do with
it. Just go with it. Because by the grace of God,
You're His, only by the grace of God. Would you pray for us? Father, we thank You for it. We remember You, Mother, who
saw nothing in us but saw Your Son in full eclosion for our
sins. When we look upon Your church,
the comfort that we have is Your righteousness, is Your grace.
It's your world. It's nothing to none. We just
benefit. We know how many benefits we
have. May we continue to count until
we pass on to meet you face to face. Father, we pray that you
bless the remainder of the service and we will remember you in the
wine and remember you in the bread. We ask these things in
Christ's name. Shall we pray? Our Heavenly Father, as we come
before You now, remembering Your supper, how
the wine is an example of Your blood, the bread is an example
of Your flesh, how You walked this earth and You bled and You
died and overcame flesh and rose again for us. We know You, Lord,
as the sovereign Lord over all things. We know that You keep
us in Your hands and that we're safe and we'll always be with
You. We look at Your promises and Your words and we know they're
yea and amen. They will always be performed. Lord, we pray in our hearts that
we keep You in our hearts and think of You often as we walk
through this day and as we wake up remembering that You've made
this world and everything in it By Your mercy, You saved us
to know You in truth. Lord, we just thank You for the
mercy and the grace You showed us. Thank You for a place to
come to worship. For all we desire to hear, Lord,
is the truth of who You are. These things we pray in Jesus'
name. Amen. Take heed. This is my body. This is my blood of the New Testament,
which is shed for many. Alright, open your chorus books
and we'll stand as we sing number two, as on the cross of Christ
I thought, number two. As on the cross of Christ I thought
it seemed I heard one cry, Is all this nothing in your eyes,
you who this day pass by? Is not such suffering greater
than that which you've seen before? And was there ever any man who
grieved or suffered more? I looked again and what I saw
I cannot fully tell. It seemed within his very bones
there What caused you grief, I ask
the man What crimes could you have done? That God Jehovah struck
you down And left you all alone His answer cut my heart like
steel and left me void of breath. Tis for your sins this pain I
feel, for you I go to death. Your soul before my Father's
throne could find no place to hide. This is the way God can
be just, and you'll be justified. Jehovah's mercies never fail,
each morning they are new. Great is His faithfulness and
love, therefore we're not consumed. Jehovah God in Christ the Son
shall all my portion be. My soul shall therefore wait
for Him and live eternally.