Would you turn back to 1 Peter?
1 Peter. I'd like to begin the message by
a quote, a few words by Mr. Spurgeon. Everybody today quotes
Spurgeon. I know men that hate the gospel
that he preached, but they still quote Spurgeon. I remember hearing
Brother Henry Mahan make that statement one time and talked
about everyone praising Mr. Spurgeon. And when he lived,
some preachers wouldn't even want to meet him coming down
the street. They would cross over so they
wouldn't have to see him. But Henry said he couldn't wait
to die because he just wondered what people would say about him
after he died. Because after you're dead, he
was a good man. May have despised him when he
lived. But Mr. Spurgeon made this comment. He
said, after some years of experience, And I think every Christian can
relate to this, every believer. After some years of experience,
the Christian comes to know better than he did at first how much
the gospel suits him. He finds that its simplicity
suits his bewilderment, its grace suits his sinfulness, its power
is suitable to his weakness, its comfort is suitable to his
despondence. And the more he grows, the more
he loves the gospel of the grace of God. I believe that's exactly
right. I believe that's absolutely true.
And I want to put it to the test this morning to see if it's not
so. Look down, if you will, again here in 1 Peter 2 at verse 4. Verse Peter 2 and 4. It's speaking
of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the hymn of him that is
speaking when it says to whom. That is, the Jesus Christ. to
whom coming unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, will
not have this man rule over us, the religious leader said. But
that didn't change this. But chosen of God and precious. Notice that our text says, to
whom coming. I think it's always important
to point this out. To whom coming, not to what? Not to what? I know people, there's
not probably Too many that can't tell you what they've experienced,
what they've done, what they're doing, and not speak about whom. Just the other day, I was on
the phone with Pete, having a conversation, and the subject of prophecy came
up. And I think someone had asked her something about a secret
rapture, and she asked me about that. And I said, Pete, isn't
it amazing that people that have no interest in the gospel, no
interest in God's glory, no interest in gathering with God's people,
yet when the subject of prophecy comes up, oh, they'll just bend
their ear to listen. There's something about it that
grabs man's curiosity. But people talk about the signs
of Christ's coming, the signs of His coming, and while they're
talking about signs of His coming, they never think about the coming
Christ, the one who's coming. Oh, that's the glory of His coming.
Not what will happen, when it'll happen, to whom it'll happen,
but who's coming, the Lord Himself. That's what we're looking for.
Not a sign. Not a sign, but Himself. He shall
descend from heaven with a shout. We're looking to the coming Christ.
It's the Christ that sinners must come. It's always been so. This has always been so. New
Testament. Old Testament, 2,000 years ago,
or today. This has always been true. Sinners
must come to Christ. They must deal with Jesus Christ
to be saved. There's no getting around it.
You say, well, what about people who profess God, but they don't
believe Christ? It's a delusion. That's impossible. The Lord himself said, no man,
no man. Be him Muslim, Buddhist, whatever. No man comes to the Father but
by me. No man deals with God except
through me, the one mediator. Remember what Christ said? The
heavy laden sinners, I wish I could find one. Someone that's carrying
that load of sin on their back, that burden, that old pilgrim. said Christian was suffering
with, oh woe is me, woe is me, with that burden on his back
and he couldn't get rid of it. The Lord Jesus Christ says to
such as that, come to me. Religion says come to me. Come
to the baptistry, come to the law, come to Sabbath keeping,
come to the altar. Altar. Churches have altars. Come to the altar. Christ is
our altar. People come to a so-called altar
and miss Christ. But Jesus Christ says, no, no,
no, that's not so. Look unto me. Would you be saved? Then look to me. Come unto me. Anyone that's laboring and are
heavy laden, loaded down, toiling under a sense of sin, Christ
says, come to me and I will give you rest. An altar can't do that. Water can't do that. Doctrine
can't do that. Oh, but the Word made flesh,
He can do that, and He does do that. I'll give you rest. Christ
can speak like He did to that woman in that self-righteous
Pharisee's house in Luke 7 when He said, Don't pay them any mind.
Go your way. Thy faith hath saved thee. Go
in peace. Literally what He said to her,
Enter into peace. Enter into peace with God. Peace
with God. The peace of knowing your sins
are all forgiven. This is what salvation is, isn't
it? This is what salvation is. A
young lady asked me one time years ago, after our service,
she got me off to the side and wanted to talk, and she said,
I just was wondering, what process do you teach about salvation?
What is the process that you subscribe to? I said, young lady,
salvation's not a process. Salvation's a person. It's the
Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is coming to Him. That's
who our text is speaking of. That's what He said Himself in
John chapter 17. His high priestly prayer. Oh,
this is holy ground. But He said, this is life eternal,
Father, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ. You can't know God apart from
Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 2 Timothy chapter 1, Paul was
facing death, soon to lay his head upon the executioner's block. And he said, for this cause,
the preaching of the gospel, I suffer these things, Timothy.
Nevertheless, nevertheless, I'm not ashamed, for I know whom.
I know whom. That's what comforted Paul. That's
what gave him peace. That's what gave him hope. He'd
already said, when I'm absent from this body, I'm going to
be present with the Lord. I know whom. The same one our
text speaks of, the Lord Jesus Christ. I know whom I have believed,
and I'm persuaded that he's able to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. In 1 John 5, verse 20, and we
know. Believers know some things. There's
a lot of things we don't know, but we know who Christ is. We
know God the Father through Christ, and we know that the Son of God
has come and has given us an understanding that we may know
Him. Not know prophecy, not know all
the signs of last days, know that we might know Him that is
true, and we are in Him that is true, even in His Son, Jesus
Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. Not only is knowing Christ salvation,
this is the very Glory of heaven, isn't it? That's another subject. People talk about heaven and
all some of the weird, crazy ideas they think about what heaven
will be. Heaven will be where Christ is. It's to come to Christ and to
be with Him forever. What good would it be without
Christ? What would heaven be without
Him? In John chapter 14, before He
went to the garden, He told His disciples, He'd already spoken
to him and said, I'm going away, and sorrow has filled your heart.
But he said, if I go and prepare a place for you, I'm coming again. I won't forget you. I'll be out
of sight, but you won't be out of my mind, out of my heart,
out of my hands. No, I go to prepare a place for
you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there ye may
be also." That's heaven. That's glory. To be where Jesus
Christ is, to be with Him forever. What does it matter, streets
are gold or not? I saw two men trying to argue
who was the most spiritual about to come to blows. Because one
said they were pure streaks of gold, and the other said, no,
they're just gold-plated. Boy, that's important. That's
really important. No, heaven is where Christ is.
This is what Peter told the religious leaders in his day. He stood
before the Sanhedrin, and he said, now, if you're asking me
and John who's healed this man, this crippled man at the gate,
if you're asking us who's made this man perfectly whole, perfectly
whole, Oh, that's a picture of a saved sinner, perfect in Christ
Jesus, complete in Him. Peter said, I want you to know
this. God did this. God did this by that man whom
you crucified, the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said, I'll tell
you this. I'll add this. This is free of charge. Peter
said, here's a little extra for you. Neither is there salvation
in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved. And this is also true
of every child of God, every believer. The believer is constantly
coming to Christ. It's not a one-time thing. It's
not a one-and-done deal. First, we have come to Christ. Then we continue to come. We
are coming to Christ. And we shall yet come to Christ. And here's the reason for all
three of those things. Here's the reason. This is why
it is so. Here's the bottom line. Here's
the foundation on which all three of those blessed truths rest.
All that the Father giveth me, Christ said, shall come to me.
Who else are they going to come to? They belong to Him. They
belong to Him. They were put into His hands.
God entrusted every one of His elect into the hands of Jesus
Christ And Christ accepted that responsibility. Christ said,
I will answer for them. I will answer for them. I will
do all that you require for them. I will call them. I will keep
them. I'll preserve them. I'll bring them all to glory
and bring them back to you, Father, and not one will be lost. All
that the Father gives me shall come to me. Oh, I like that. They'll come to me. Oh, I used
to say, I won't come. I will not come. No one can make
me come. Christ said, oh, you will come.
I'm not willing to come. Oh, you'll be willing. You'll
be willing in the day of my power. And him that cometh unto me,
I will in no wise cast out. Here's the first thing. Oh, and
what a blessed, blessed truth this is. Believers have come
to the Lord Jesus Christ. When a sinner comes to Christ,
you can put your finger down on this and know it so. This
is the Lord's knowing. This is the Lord's doing. Billy,
you and Robin were talking just before service about brothers
and sisters and children that are lost, that don't know God.
It's wrapped up in false religion. And you said, oh, but God can
change them. God can change them. God can teach them the truth.
Yes, He can. This requires America. This demands
grace that reigns. The salvation of a sinner requires
grace that reigns. Nothing less than that will get
the job done. Again, Mr. Spurgeon, this is
the quote in your bulletin above the readings. Not all the devils
in hell can quench the feeblest spark of grace that ever dropped
into the heart of a man. It's raining grace. If God has
given you faith as a grain of mustard seed, it will defile
all earth and hell, all time and eternity, ever to destroy
it. This is what we read a moment
ago in 1 Peter, didn't we? Chapter 1. You've been born again
by the word of God that liveth and abideth forever. No one will
ever be saved otherwise. If grace is not raining, Is grace
not overruling? If grace doesn't abound over
my sin, I don't have a hope. But my hope rests in this, Jesus
Christ is able, He's always able, to save to the uttermost every
sinner, especially this one, that comes to God by Him. Men
would be far better served in our day hearing the truth that
with man salvation is impossible rather than hearing what they
do in most places, that it's easy as A, B, C. Does that raise
any alarm? Does that give anyone cause for
concern? Does that bring any sinner down
to realize that they're a beggar before the throne of God being
told all the time, it's easy, it's simple, it's just saying
this prayer, it's just repeating after me. That doesn't give anyone
concern for their soul, but let God teach them. Let God teach
them this. With them, salvation's impossible. There's nothing you can do to
save yourself. There's nothing you can do to
contribute to your salvation. It's all up to Him, and that
will get their attention. That'll bring them down. Oh,
when God, by His grace, strips them, that lie about salvation
being simple and easy has deceived multitudes. You know what that
preaching has done? It's produced multitudes of false
professors that that's all they've done, just made a profession
who don't know God, don't know themselves, don't have a clue
how a man can be just with God. I rejoice. It's a delight to
preach that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved. I'm not bashful about declaring
that any sinner in all the world, no matter who he is, who will
call upon Christ in true faith shall be saved. That's God's
promise. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. I know that all men are responsible
before God to believe that which is plainly revealed in His Word. And I know that if you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, God has saved you. He that believeth
on the Son of God have everlasting life. That's not the problem. There's no question about that.
Here's the problem. I know that no man by nature
can or will come to Christ if left to himself. It's never going
to happen. It never has and it never will.
Because left to ourselves, we have neither the desire nor the
ability to come to Jesus Christ. Our Lord on one occasion, this
is in John chapter 5, He spoke these words to some who had followed
him. He told these religious leaders, search the scriptures.
In them you think you have eternal life, and they are they which
testify of me. What he literally said to them,
you do search the scriptures. I know that you do that. You
read them daily in your synagogues, from your rabbis and your doctors
and your scribes. You make it your business to
study the scriptures. and yet you're blind to the one
that the scripture is about. They testified me, the Lord said,
and you won't come to me that you might have life. You will not come to me. I've
had men point to that and say, here's evidence that man is free.
Well, it says you will not. Excuse me? No, no, it's saying
the very opposite. It's not saying that you will,
it's saying, ye will not come to me. That doesn't sound like
freedom to me, does it to you? In Romans 9 and 16, so then,
Paul concludes, so then, it's not of him that willeth, that's
not how salvation comes, it's not of him that willeth, nor
of him that runneth, but it's of God that showeth mercy. And not only is the lost man
unwilling to come to Christ, He's unable to come to Christ.
He has neither the will nor the ability, the power to come to
Christ. In the very next chapter of John,
our Lord said this. And he said this to some people
that had followed him, had followed him across the sea, had sought
him out and found him. And this is what he said to them.
They came to him with their feet, but never with their heart. He
said, no man can come to me except the Father which has sent me
draw him. and I will raise him up at the
last day." Romans 3 and 11. There was none that understand
it. There was none that seek it after God. The Word of God,
the Bible, is not a record of man's search for God. It's the
record of God's search for man. It's the record of God coming
down to man. It's God coming to Adam, not
Adam coming to God. The first thing Adam did when
he fell, when he heard the voice of God, that was once his greatest
joy. His greatest delight was to walk
with God and to talk with God in the garden. Oh, but then he
hears the voice of God after he had fallen, after he had become
a sinner, disobeyed God, he hears the voice of God and he tries
to hide from God. I asked, did he really think
he could hide from the all-knowing God? God knew exactly where he
was. And God said, where are you Adam?
Where art thou? And the Word of God is the record
of God searching for man, not the reverse. And the prime example
of that was when Jesus Christ was sent into this world as the
sinner's savior in search of man, in search of his sheep.
I'm the good shepherd. I've come down here to seek and
to save my sheep. And that's what he's doing. He's
still doing it. Salvation must begin with God because, as our
Lord said, concerning Lazarus. And this is a picture of what
we are by nature. He said, Lazarus, he told his
disciples, we're going to Bethany. He said, Lazarus is dead. Lazarus
is dead. Then said Jesus unto them plainly,
Lazarus is dead. And that's a picture of the state
of all human beings by nature. We're spiritually dead. The scriptures
teach that. Dead in trespasses and sin. And
being dead, we're incapable of either knowing or changing our
condition. We don't even know we're lost.
until God gets us lost. I mean, you got along just fine
for years, maybe sitting in a church, maybe after making a decision,
you were lost, as Don used to say, as a goose in a snowstorm,
and it didn't bother you at all. Didn't bother you. Preacher would
stand and preach, say you're lost, and you'd just sit and
take a nap. Didn't bother you at all, because you've never
been lost until God got you lost. Oh, thank God, When God taught
your heart to fear, when God turned the light on, he said,
oh, my soul, my soul, I'm lost. I'm lost. And I don't know what
to do. What must I do to be saved? Romans 5 and 12, wherefore, as
by one man's sin entered into the world, and death by sin,
and so death passed upon all men, were all the descendants
of Adam. Shake any family tree, and old
Adam will fall out. For all have sinned. Then is
there no hope for sinners? If we're unable, unwilling to
come to Christ, is there no hope for sinners? Oh, yes, there is.
The Lord Jesus Christ said of Lazarus, fellas, I'm going to
go to Bethany and wake him up. I'm going to wake him up. I'm
not going to offer to wake him up. What good would that have
done? I'm not going to ask him to take the first step and then
I'll wake him up. He said, I'm going to wake him
up. Barely, barely I say unto you,
Christ said, the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall
hear. When he speaks, they hear. When
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that
hear She'll live. They'll live. They'll live forever. Because the life that's given
them is the very life of Jesus Christ. Because I live, Christ
said, ye live also. The same life that's in me is
in you. The same everlasting eternal
life. That's why you'll never perish.
That's why he said, Martha, whoever lives and believes in me, they're
never really going to die. I'm the resurrection and the
life. And when he had thus spoken,
we read in John 11, he cried with a loud voice standing in
front of the tomb of Lazarus after they'd rolled the stone
away, Lazarus come forth. And Lazarus came forth. Lazarus
came forth, the dead man arose to life. This was a personal
call. Lazarus, someone said if he just
said come forth, everybody in that cemetery would have got
up. No, this was a personal call. a particular call, a powerful,
irresistible, effectual, distinguishing call. Lazarus, I'm talking to
you! Oh, what grace! What mercy! When the Son of God comes to
a sinner and speaks to them particularly, I'm talking to you. Larry Criss! Larry! I thought, man, he's talking
to me. He's talking to me. Live, live. That's why sinners come to Christ.
That's why sinners come to Christ. He raises them and gives them
life. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, David said, and
causes to approach unto thee. Every man, therefore, that hath
heard and hath learned of the Father comes to me. Thy people
shall be willing in the day of thy power. You remember when
Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonica in his first epistle? He said,
I know your elect of God. Now, how could Paul know that?
You can't know your elect of God until you believe. Paul said, I know your elect
of God. And he tells them how he knew. He tells them how anyone
can know they're one of God's elect. In chapter 1 of 1 Thessalonians,
Paul said in verse 4, knowing, brethren, beloved, your election
of God, Oh, that's sweet knowledge. There's a lot of things I'm ignorant
of. You could fill the room with the paper that would take the
right damn things I'm ignorant of. Oh, but I know the Lord Jesus
Christ. Knowing, brethren beloved, your
election of God. I know that I'm His, and He's
mine. For our gospel, Paul said, came
not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy
Ghost, and in much assurance. And ye know what manner of men
we were among you for your sake. And ye became followers of us
and of the Lord." We look back at what we were, and where we
were, and how we were, and we thankfully confess that this
is what happened. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. It wasn't my doing. It was his. Joseph Hart wrote, come ye sinners,
come and welcome. God's free bounty glorified.
True belief and true repentance, every grace that brings you nigh.
Come ye weary, heavy laden, lost and ruined by the fall. If you
tarry till you're better, you will never come at all. Let not
conscience make you linger, nor a fitness folly dream. All the
fitness he requires is to feel your need of him. And grace,
grace, reigning grace says live. And then our attitude is, oh,
I will arise. I will arise and go to Jesus.
He will embrace me in his arms. In the arms of my dear Savior,
oh, there are 10,000 charms. And here's the second thing.
Yes, we have come to Christ, and we are yet to come to Christ,
aren't we? My sheep, Christ said, hear my
voice, and they follow me. And they just keep following
me. Don't they? The Lord on one occasion As multitudes
who had followed him, we referred to this a moment ago in John's
Gospel, chapter 6. Multitudes had followed him for
a while, and then he said some things they considered just too
hard, just too harsh. Can't take this. He talked about
God's sovereignty. He talked about man's depravity.
And they said, oh, don't have to hear this. And they turned
and walked away. They turned their back on the
Son of God. And the Lord has left with his twelve disciples,
and he said, will you also go away? Peter spoke up and said,
Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life, and we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. Sometime after that, the disciples
are with the Lord Jesus Christ again in the Garden of Gethsemane,
when a mob comes to arrest And as he's led away, drug away by
that bloodthirsty mob, we read that Peter followed the far off.
And then Peter sneaks back and he warms himself at the campfire
of the Lord's enemies. And then shortly after that,
he denies that he even knew who Jesus Christ was. And then, the
last we see of Peter, he's running into the darkness, weeping bitter
tears for what he had done. Hmm. Can you imagine what torment
of mind What broken heartedness Peter was experiencing for those
three days until our Lord rose from the dead. Because he didn't
understand. They didn't understand. When
our Lord spoke about his death and rising again from the dead,
it was hid from them. They just couldn't understand
it. Can you imagine what torture Peter went through? Because Peter
was one of Christ's sheep. And Christ would not let him
go. Peter didn't act like it. If I was there and saw Peter
standing by that campfire cursing, calling down curses from God
from heaven on himself, saying, I don't know the man, I would
have never believed he was one of Christ's sheep, would you?
He didn't act like it. And he didn't feel like it for
a time. But Peter was one of those. that God gave to Christ
before the foundation of the world to redeem and to call and
to keep by his mighty grace. And Christ was responsible for
Peter. Jesus Christ had the answers
for Peter. He wouldn't let him go. There's
no way he was going to let Peter go. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul,
writing about the resurrection of Christ, said, I delivered
unto you, first of all, that which also I received. how that
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he
was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the
Scriptures, and that he was seen of Cephas. I think, if I'm not
mistaken, that's the only place in the Bible that we read that
he appeared first to Cephas. Remember what the angel told
the women who came to the tomb after the Lord had risen from
the dead? He said, go tell his disciples and Peter, and Peter
that he goeth before you into Galilee There shall ye see him
as he said unto you." Can you imagine that meeting between
the Lord and Peter? Can you imagine that? The Lord
took Peter in his arms and said, nothing's changed. Nothing's
changed. I still love you. You're still
mine. I'm still yours. I forgive you. I forgive you. We continue to
come to Christ because he will not let us go. David on one occasion
said, oh, my heart was grieved. I was so foolish. I was ignorant.
I was like a beast. No better than a beast before
you, my God. Then he said, nevertheless. Oh, that's true, Billy. We can't
deny it. We can't deny it. Oh, but David went on to say,
nevertheless, it doesn't change this. I'm continually with thee. You've holded me by your right
hand, and you'll guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive
me to glory. And again, the reason for that
is this, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. But
now saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed
thee, O Israel, fear not, fear not. Oh, we have fears and doubts
and anxiety, but our Lord says, fear not, I've redeemed you.
I've redeemed you. You're mine. I've called you
by name. You belong to me. And when you
pass through the waters, I'm not going to leave you. I'm not
going to let you perish. I'll be with you. And through
the rivers, they'll not overflow you. When you walk through the
fire, you won't be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle
upon you, because I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel. I am your Savior." And again,
he speaks, hearken unto me. Oh, this is especially comforting
to older believers. Hark unto me, O house of Jacob,
and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are born by
me from the belly, which are carried from the womb. And even
to your old age I'm he. Oh, your mind may deteriorate.
You may forget things. Oh, you may come a time when
you'll forget your name, but I won't forget. You may find it difficult to
remember me, but I'll never forget you. Even in your old age, I'm
here. And when your hair is all gray,
I'll still carry you. I made you, and I will carry
you, and I'll deliver you. Every believer can look back
over their life and say, with old John Newton, through many
dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come, and its grace has
brought me safe thus far. and it's grace that's going to
lead me home. The Lord has promised good to me, his word my hope
secures. He will my shield and portion
be as long as life endures. The earth shall soon dissolve
like snow, the sun forbear the shine, but God who called me
here below will be forever mine. That brings us to our last thought.
We have come to Christ, we are coming to Christ, and we shall
come to Christ. We shall come to Christ. Father,
our Lord prayed, I will also that those whom thou hast given
me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4,
while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things
which are not seen. For the things which are seen
are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, this flesh, we have a building of God. A house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens. If we could lift, we
can't. But if we could lift that curtain
that separates the seen from the unseen, the temporal from
the eternal, oh what a sight we would behold. If we could
just pull aside that veil, you know what you would see this
hour, this very moment. You would see redeemed sinners,
called sinners, going from strength to strength, and every one of
them appearing in Zion before God. Every hour of every day,
God is calling His people home. He's saying concerning them,
you've dwelt here long enough. That's what He says to certain
people. That's what happens. The doctors don't determine it.
The illness doesn't determine it. God makes that determination.
And he says, that's enough. That's enough. You've suffered
long enough. It's time to come home. It's time to come home. It's
time to be with your Redeemer. It's time for you to see His
face. Oh my soul, what a day that would be. A day without
end. A day without a night. Sunshine
without clouds, no more tears, sorrow, pain, death, no more
sin, no more sin. That's where every child of God
is going. That's where we're coming to.
The Father's house. That's where Jesus Christ is
and that's where he wants us to be. Revelation chapter 22,
and the Spirit and the bride say come. And let him that heareth
say come. Let him that is a thirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Christ is all. Let me conclude
the message just by reading. I wish I could sing it, but I
can't. Christ is all. I stood beside
a dying bed, and we have, haven't we? Where lay a child with aching
head, waiting for Jesus' call. I marked his smile, it was sweet
as May, and as his spirit passed away, he whispered, Christ is
all. I dreamed that hoary time had
fled, and earth and sea gave up their dead, a fire dissolved
this ball. I saw the church ransomed throng,
I heard the burden of their song, was Christ is all in all. Oh, my soul, if we could just
draw back the curtain. The last two verses of God's
Word says this, He which testifieth these things saith, Surely, surely
I come quickly. And the church responds, Amen.
Even so come Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen. Amen. God bless you.