I brought a message very similar
to this some time back. And I was going through this
chapter and thinking about these things. I have a brother who's been in
ICU now for about two weeks and just hanging on by a thread. He's been on a kidney transplant
list for a long time, a lot of years. undergoing dialysis and
so forth. And I've got a sister that's
93 down in Florida who suffered a heart attack and some things
and she's getting better. It's amazing what the Lord does
and it makes us want to inquire in his house and find out what's going on. What's the Lord doing? What's
he doing in the world today? We get so caught up in ourselves
that we forget to think about what God's doing. The Lord accomplished
all his purpose in the life and death of Christ, and there was
only a handful who knew it. Only a handful. Everybody else
in this world was going about their daily business, tending
to their jobs, doing this and doing that and going through
the motions of religion and then going to the synagogues and going
to the temple and keeping the feast days. And right in their
midst came the Lord Jesus Christ. He that's been foretold since
the fall of man was suddenly born in Bethlehem. and raised in controversy all
about him and people looking about him but they didn't know
what was going on. God was working and he did work.
He worked in the hearts of, you can read about it over in Acts
chapter 4, he worked in the hearts of nations. The whole nation
of Israel and the whole nation of the Romans. And all the events and the providence
involved in all of those things and God did what his counsel
and his hand determined before to be done. And nobody knew what
was going on. I don't want to be among them.
I want to know what's going on. I want to know what the Lord's
doing. And I believe Paul tells us very plainly in this chapter
what the Lord's doing. Now the theme of the book of
Romans is the justifying righteousness of God in Christ which comes
to the sinner by the free and sovereign gift of God, the gift
of faith, and that comes through the preaching of the gospel.
And Paul tells us that over and over and over, all the way through
the book of Romans. He begins that book by saying,
everything that's in me, he said, Everything that I can muster,
everything that I can study, everything that I can remember,
as much as in me is, I'm ready to preach the gospel to you. He said, I'm not ashamed of the
gospel. It is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone that believeth. Why, Paul? For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed. God has a people. He's not looking
to find a people. He has a people. He's always
had them. He chose a people before there
was any people to choose. Is that right? He gave us to
Christ before the foundation of the world. There was never
a man created yet, and yet God chose a people. They hadn't done
any good or evil. He tells us that. That the purpose of God, according
to election, might stand. He established that. God has
a people. He's not looking for a people.
He's not hoping to gather some people. He has a people. And
He has them as He chose them in His Son before the world was.
And He has them as He predestinated them unto the adoption of sons
by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will.
He has a people. And those people He put in covenant
union with His Son before the world was, and made full provision
for them through the suretyship of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here's the covenant of God. all of its stipulations, all
of its demands, all of its promises. Christ said, I'll stand surety
with the covenant. He's our covenant surety, Russell.
Depends on Him. That whole covenant, all those
promises, all that God required to satisfy Him, it all depends
on this man, Christ Jesus. I'll be surety. I'll be the surety. And what a surety He was. God
made full provision for us in Christ through the suretyship
of His Son, Jesus. He has a people, not only that
He chose, not only that He made provision for, but He has a people
that He purchased and justified by the life, death, and resurrection
of their substitute and our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. He was
delivered, it says, for our offenses and raised again for our justification. And all those chosen in Him and
redeemed in Him, God has purposed to call by His gospel. That's what's going on in our
day. God calling those that He made
full provision for, that He chose and predestinated back in eternity. that Jesus Christ, when the fullness
of the time was come, was made of a woman, made under the law,
to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of sons. And now in our day, what's God
doing? He's calling out his people by
his gospel. Now that's what's going on in
the world. All those chosen in Him and redeemed
in Him, God has purposed to call by His gospel. Paul wrote to
the Thessalonians in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, if you want to read
it, verse 13. He talks about all those in this
world who've been given strong delusion by God to believe a
lie and be damned because they wouldn't receive the love of
the truth that they might be saved. They wouldn't have it.
They wanted something else. I want what my daddy had. I want
what my grandpa had. I want what my grandmother had.
You better want what he has for you. That's what you better want. God has, listen to what he tells
him. He said, but God has from the
beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the
spirit and belief of the truth. Don't ever separate those two
things. Sanctification of the Spirit
and belief in the truth. Whereunto, that is for this reason,
God called you by our gospel. All of God's elect shall obtain
the knowledge of God's glory in Christ. They're gonna be partakers
of his glory. I don't know if you've ever thought
about this, but that tiny baby born back in Bethlehem's manger,
that's God. Now you can think about that
the rest of your life and you won't exhaust it. You won't even
begin to commence to understand what all that takes in. But this
is God come into the flesh. This is a glorious thing. This
is not just something that happened like somebody had five children. Instead of one at a time, they
had five. It's not even in the realm of
possibility. God come into the flesh. The
Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. We saw him, we saw
his glory. The glory is of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth. We saw him, this is
God. He proved beyond a shadow of
a doubt that he was God come into the flesh. Who else can
forgive sin but God? Thy sins be forgiven thee. Ain't
that what he told that man? Who else but God could call a
dead man back to life? Oh, it's a glorious thing. We're
partakers of that glory, partakers of the benefits of that glory.
Christ died. He suffered the wrath of God. He drank the bitter dregs at
the bottom. He suffered my eternal hell. He suffered it for me in my room
and in my still. That's a glorious thing, isn't
it? We become partakers of that glory
through the gospel. I didn't have a clue. I was raised
in religion. I was raised in hour walking,
knee-bound, bench-sitting, all this religious nonsense. Nobody
ever told me about the sovereign God. Nobody ever told me about
the eternal Christ. Nobody ever told me about particular
effectual redemption. Nobody ever mentioned it. until God sent me a preacher.
And oh, my soul, did he tell it. And what good news it was. God called you, Paul said, because
he purposed to do it. Called you by our gospel to the
obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Fellow heirs
with him. You can't take that in, can you? We worry about a little business
in this world. Paul said, don't you know the
world's yours? Huh? We're squabbling over a
little piece of real estate, worrying about next month's car
payment. We're heirs of the world. We're joint heirs with Christ.
Isn't that a glorious thing? Oh, my soul. partakers of his
glory. All of God's elect shall obtain
the knowledge of God's glory in Christ. God, who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts that
we might see the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. And then think about the victory
of God's glory in Christ. How do we acquire it? How does
one know his election of God? When the gospel comes unto you
in power and in the Holy Ghost. That's how you know it. That's
how Paul knew it. Spoke about it twice in the same letter.
All of God's elect shall be brought to a saving knowledge of Christ
through the gospel. They shall all receive the righteousness
of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, and know that it's
upon all them that believe." His righteousness. When do we fear the most? What makes you fear the worst?
It's when you really mess up things. Oh, you really mess up. David prayed, he said, I thought
I was clean gone. He was no further away from Christ
than he ever was. But he thought he was. He thought
he was. Oh, we have His righteousness,
the righteousness of God in Christ. It's ours. It's upon all them
that believe. They shall all hear and know
that they have been justified freely by His grace through the
redemption that's in Christ Jesus. They've been justified. Now,
if God justified you, who's going to condemn you? There ought to
be some comfort there. If God Almighty justified me
when he called Christ forth from that tomb, raised him up, and
set him at his own right hand, if he justified me, who's going
to condemn me? You're not even going to accuse
me, because Christ died. Christ died. My sins were paid
for. I'll tell you, if I can remember
his name, He was a preacher like Barnard and back in the day of
Barnard, but he made this statement preaching in a First Baptist
church. He said, God can't forgive sin. Boy, you think there wasn't
some mouths come open in that place? Sin has to be paid for. And every
time you read that word forgive, it's in connection with the blood.
Huh? That's right. We've received
the forgiveness of sin through the blood of Christ. Through
the blood of Christ. Justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus whom God has
set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. You believe that? You believe that? You believe that the blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin? Believers do. Believers do. My sin is gone. What do you do
with it? Put it under the blood. under the blood of my soul. And he was set forth in the Old
Testament that way, and he's set forth in the New Testament
that way. So that all who see God is just
and justifier of all them that believe. When a man comes to
see these things, his heart is broken for those who have not
seen it. Oh, the first time I saw this,
I thought everybody, everybody's going to want to see this. They're
not going to believe that a worm like me has come to know this. This is a glorious thing. It's a wonderful thing. They're
all going to want to see it. They didn't want to see it. They couldn't believe it, wouldn't
believe it. Well, if they don't believe me,
let me show you. I read it to them. That's not what that says. It's not. I tell you, when a man comes
to see these things, his heart's broken for those who have not
seen it. And that's where we pick up the context of Romans
chapter 10. It's not a man with a chip on
his shoulder. It's not a hardliner looking
to divide. It's a sinner whose heart's been
broken, he's been saved by grace, and he hopes to see that grace come to others. He wants them to see it. And I might add, especially them
of his own house. Now the five things I want you
to see as we go through these verses that should ring true
with your experience of grace, and if they don't, you might
wanna put a question mark there somewhere. Go back and examine
yourselves. The first thing is this. He makes
the grandest, most glorious declaration straight from the mouth of God
himself. Listen to this, Romans 10, verse
13. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. I don't care who he is. I don't care who he is. There's
a man hanging on the cross. He died for his sins. He died
because of his sins. He sinned against the government,
he sinned against God, and he's hanging up there on the cross
and he's about to go out and meet God, his judge. And he sits
up there and everybody, the whole crowd and the other thief, he's
over here on the other cross and they're all railing on Christ
and so he just joins in the gang and he rails on Christ for a
minute, but he got to listening. And God opened his eyes and he
come to see why that man was dying and who he was that was
dying. And he said, Lord, remember me. Remember me. Old thief, probably
murderer, seditioner, whatever he was. I mean, he done a lot
of things wrong. He wasn't up there because he
was a pretty nice guy that slipped. He was up there being hung for
crimes that he committed. And here's this old criminal
in the last minutes of his life and he's calling upon Christ.
Will he hear him? This day shalt thou be with me
in paradise. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. Here's an old leper. He's not
even allowed to come into the company of men. He's not allowed
into the worship of God. He's not allowed anywhere. He's
confined out to a leper colony. But he makes his way to the Lord
and he falls down and he said, Lord, if you will, you make me
clean. I will. Huh? I don't know what that does for
you, that gives me hope. He might hear me if I call on
His name. He might forgive my sin the way
He did theirs. Oh, this is a grand and glorious
declaration from the mouth of God. Whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord, shall be saved. And if there's a sweeter
declaration to poor sinners than this, I've never read it. Come
to Christ. Oh, you don't know who I am.
It don't matter. It don't matter who you are. Oh, you don't know
what I've done. It don't matter. It don't matter. You know anything any broader,
any sweeter than that for a poor sinner? If there's a broader, more encompassing
declaration than this, I've never heard it. Black and white and
red and yellow, rich or poor, bond or free, male or female,
it don't matter. Come to Christ. I don't understand it all. You
don't have to. Come to Christ. The most miserable wretch who
ever lived if he'll call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved. That's good news to a sinner.
It's not just words, it's not just speculation by some scholar. This comes from the mouth of
God. And not just from God's apostle,
but from God's prophet also. And both of them inspired by
God the Holy Ghost. But there's a problem. There's a problem. And this is
the second thing I want you to see. There's a universal problem. Nobody knows his name. Well, you say his name's Jesus. No, that's not his name. That's
his earthly title. What CBers call your handle.
Jesus, that was his earthly name. Men and women don't know his
name. They don't know God or his son,
Jesus Christ. And so he says here in Romans
10, verse 14, now, these Jews had a zeal of God, they talked
about God, they called God their father. They called Abraham their
father. And the Lord said, if Abraham
was your father, You wouldn't hate me. Abraham didn't do that. And if God was your father, you
wouldn't despise me because I came forth from God. I'm God's son. You're of your father the devil.
Men and women don't know his name, they don't know God, and
they don't know the Lord Jesus Christ. So how are you going
to call on him in whom you have not believed? I prayed when I was just a little
fella. I grew up in church and I prayed. Boy, if I got sick,
I prayed. Before I went to sleep, I prayed. But I didn't know God. I was
just talking to the air. I had no idea who God was. How
you gonna call on him in whom you had not believed? Natural
man has two universal witnesses given to him by God, but neither
one of them declare the name of God. One is his conscience. God said, I've showed it to him.
I've showed it to him. And the other is creation. Romans 1.20, for the invisible
things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.
That is his Godhead. There's a creation out here.
Somebody created it. Whoever it is got more power
than I do. It testifies of his eternal power
and Godhead. There's an order in creation.
You can't deny it. You can't look at it and not
understand it. There's an order to it. There's
a frightening preservation. Have you ever looked at any of
the pictures that they took from the Hubble telescope? You have
to look. Those planets are beat to death
with meteors and comets. I mean, they just beat them and
beat them and beat them, and there's nothing but big holes,
and they're not Earth. Well, we got one or two in all
the time that the Earth's been in existence. How come? Just lucky, I reckon. No, that
ain't it. That ain't it. All creation travaileth
in pain, waiting. What are they waiting for? The redemption of God's elect.
Till then, he protects and preserves this earth. Nothing gonna happen
to it until all is accomplished. Man is a fallen creature. He
fell in Adam and inherited his nature of sin. Paul tells us
in Romans 3, 9 that he'd already proven both Jews and Gentiles
are all under sin. What's that mean? It means there's
none righteous. No need to speculate about whether
somebody's in heaven or whether they're not or whether he was
a good man or whether he wasn't. There's none righteous. That's
what God said. I hope you're not sitting around
thinking, well, if God takes me out, one thing I can say. No, you better be able to say
more than one thing. Cursed is everyone who continueth
not in all things written in the book of the law to do. You're
going to have to say all things if you've got a hope of righteousness
by your own work. They're not unrighteous. Well, I was just sitting around,
and all of a sudden, I knew. No, he said, there's none that
understandeth. Well, they say they do, but God
said they don't. Who you gonna believe? A man told me up at a meeting,
A few years back up in Van Buren, boy, he put his finger on the
table in the fellowship place, and he said, I'm telling you
what God did. I said, yeah, but God's telling
me he didn't. Now, who am I going to blame? There's none righteous. There's
none that understand it. There's none that seeketh after
God. They're all gone out of the way. They've together become
unprofitable. There's none good, no, not one. Their nature and spiritual death
has rendered them ignorant in the way of peace, the way of
peace they've not known. It's left them with no fear of
God before their eyes. Satan works and flourishes in
a world filled with fallen sinners. He takes them captive at his
will. They think it's God. Satan working
in their midst and they're giving God the glory for it. Huh? Men over speaking in tongues
and doing things, holding their hand up saying, pray God, pray
God. God did this. No, God didn't
do that. Satan did that. Signs and lying wonders. How you gonna call on Him in
whom you have not believed? And then watch this, Romans 10,
14, the second line. How you gonna believe in Him
of whom you've not heard? That Ethiopian eunuch, he evidently
read a lot because he read that the Jews at a certain time of
year, had all these festivals and all these holy days and all
this. This was a special time for them down in Jerusalem. And
at a great expense, he packed up his caravan and went all the
way to Jerusalem and sat through all the feasts and listened to
all the Pharisees and all the scribes stand up and talk about
it, listened to the scriptures being read, and he was coming
back reading the book of Isaiah. As ignorant as he was before
he went, Now you could talk to him about
animal sacrifices and he'd go, yep, they took a lamb and this
one took a dove and he could tell you all about it. But he
didn't know what it meant. He didn't have a clue what it meant.
And he's just riding along. God sent him a preacher. Preacher
went out there and he looked up there and he saw him reading
those scrolls. I imagine that was a shock to him. See an Ethiopian
eunuch reading the scrolls? And he said, hey buddy, do you
understand what you're reading? He said, how can I except a man
tell me what it says? Isn't that what Paul's saying
right here? That's exactly what he's saying. How shall they believe in Him
of whom they've not heard? Not once in 18 years did I ever
hear the gospel of Christ. Not one time. Not a single message about particular
effectual sacrifice of Christ. Not a single message on the covenant
surety, the great mediator. Not one single message on the
unchangeable love of God in Christ, not one message on the reigning
king of glory, the heavenly intercessor. Just walking aisles, making decisions,
signing pledge cards. That was the big thing, whether
or not you're going to sign that pledge card, that way you're
guaranteed that you're going to tithe. And if you didn't tithe,
they sent you a bill because you signed a pledge card. They
done you for it. Oh, my soul. How shall you believe
in him of whom you have not heard? And then listen to this. How
are you going to hear without a preacher? Well, I'll just read the book.
A lot of people thought that. A lot of people. My dad thought
that. The fact is, he taught himself
to read, reading the Bible. But you know, everything that
he thought he learned from the scripture was wrong. Everything. Everything. How you gonna hear
without a preacher? God don't send you a preacher. Man is doomed in this world of
darkness and false religion and ignorance. He's shut up to the
sovereign mercy and grace of God to send him a preacher. If
he don't, he'll flip and he'll flop around until he finds something
that suits his fallen nature. And he'll join up, and he'll
rejoice in it, and he'll participate in it, and he'll support it until
he dies and goes out and meets God in judgment. That's just
so. Paul said, we know him that has
said, vengeance belongeth unto me, I'll reconvene, saith the
Lord. Therefore he said, it's a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God. You can't call on him because
you don't know him and you can't believe in him because you never
heard of him and you never will until God sends you a preacher. We've got a grand and glorious
declaration, and we've got a universal problem. And then thirdly, he
gives us a gracious solution. Here's the solution to your problem. In Romans 10, verse eight, he
goes through with all of these things that it don't say, and
then he tells them what it says. I do that to you all all the
time. I'll tell you what the Bible don't say and then I'll
tell you what it says. That's exactly what Paul did
in this first few verses in Romans chapter 10. And then in verse
eight he said, well what does it say? What sayeth it? What
does it say? The word is nigh thee even in
thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of faith which
we preach. The word of faith is the means
God has ordained to establish faith in the heart and call guilty
sinners to repentance. And it comes through gospel preaching.
The Spirit of the living God works in conjunction with the
preaching of the gospel. Or maybe I should put that the
other way around. The preaching of the gospel works
in conjunction with the Holy Spirit. He's God. Paul said we're laborers together
with God. He planted a polished water,
but God gave the increase. And he said, we're not sufficient
of ourselves to think anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency
is of God. Both he and those he preached
to knew their election of God as his gospel went forth in the
power of God's Spirit. Now let me tell you something.
It's by gospel preaching that the revelation of Christ is brought
to the center. He don't hear the gospel and
then go wait on the revelation. The gospel is the revelation. I hope you don't get another
revelation. This is the revelation. It's
the gospel of Christ. And it's brought to the center
through the preaching of the gospel. Oh, now wait a minute,
preacher. 1 Corinthians 2.10 says that
this mystery's revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. Says that
plain language. Yep, it does. And it is. But you need to read on a few
more sentences, a few more verses. You didn't read it all. You just
read part of it. Paul continues, and he says in
verse 12, now we have received not the spirit of the world,
but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things
that's freely given to us of God, which things also we speak. What's he speaking? What the
Holy Spirit revealed to him. Not in words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. but a natural man won't receive
the things of the Spirit of God. The Holy Ghost says four things
about the preaching of the gospel here in Romans chapter 10. First of all, he tells us that
it brings the precious name of Christ close to the sinner. Paul said it's nigh thee, It's
even in your, you can taste it, it's even in your mouth and in
your heart. That's how close it, when a preacher
under the influence of the Holy Spirit brings this message, it
takes that gospel and that's as close as you're ever gonna
get to it. It puts it in your mouth, it puts it in your heart. Secondly, he tells us that without
it, we cannot believe. I just read it to you. We can't hear without a preacher.
Fourthly, every gospel preacher called of God has to be sin of
God. He's sin of God. How should they
preach? Except they be sin. All right, here's the fourth
thing overall that I want you to see, and I'll wrap this thing
up. A sad but true fact. Romans chapter 10, verse 16. But they have not all obeyed
the gospel. You see it there? They heard it. God sent it to,
God brought it nigh to them. He made them to taste it. But not all of them obeyed the
gospel. What's he talking about? The
gospel commands you to surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ. He's not begging sinners to be
saved. He's commanding sinners to bow
down. Preachers today on television,
they tell them people stand up and be counted. My soul, that
ain't what the gospel says. Gospel says fall down and surrender. Stop your fighting and resisting
and rebelling and bow to the king. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. None other name under heaven
given whereby we must be saved. And then thirdly, the gospel
commands repentance. What's that talking about? That's
talking about turning from yourself. Can you give me an example? Yeah.
Well, it seems to me, huh? Oh, not when God works. You turn
from self. not looking at what seems right
to you, you're looking at what seems right to God. Is that right? Well, I think
not to a repentant man, he already knows his thoughts are not God's
thoughts, his ways are not God's ways. The gospel commands repentance.
Turning from yourself to God and the gospel commands you to
confess him and believers baptism. Well I believe and I let everybody
know it. That ain't what he commanded
you to do. The gospel commands you to be baptized if you believe. Is that right? Am I saying that
right? It doesn't ask you to, it commands
you to. And this is what Paul's telling them. They had not all
obeyed the gospel. They took part of it. They took
some of it. But not all of it. Not all of
it. You go into all the world and
you teach all nations in my name. and all them that are baptized
shall be saved. All them that believe and are
baptized. I didn't include that in there.
The Holy Spirit of God put that in there. But the sad fact is they have
not all obeyed the gospel. And I'm going to tell you something
else. The Bible nowhere commands men to go home and think about
anything. That's what those folks told
Paul on Mars Hill. They said, well, we're gonna
go home and think about this, and we'll see you again another
time. There wasn't another time. They
died in their unbelief. The gospel commands the hearer,
based on the word of God, to obey it, submit to it, and receive
it, and confess it. And to disregard the message
of Christ is to trot underfoot the Son of God. That's how Paul
puts it in Romans chapter 10. To count the blood of the covenant
whereby you sanctify it is an unholy thing. And to despise,
to do despite unto the Spirit of grace. It's a sad but true fact that
not all have obeyed the gospel. And then I'll close with this.
There's only one reasonable conclusion. Somebody told me one time to
preach for a verdict. That's what I'm doing this morning.
I'm preaching for a verdict. And there's only one conclusion
to the things that I've just told you. You see it right here
in Romans 10 verse 17. So then, based on what I told
you, Paul said, so then, Faith cometh by hearing. Hearing by
the word of God. Over in the book of Peter, he's
talking about our new birth and he said, this is the word. This is the word which by the
gospel is preached unto you. We don't have anything, I don't
have anything. There is no book of Darwin anywhere that I know
of. But if I read you something from
the book of God, you can write it down, it's so. It's not gonna
change, it's not gonna alter. I don't have to worry about the
wise men down at the college, somebody coming up here and turning
me upside down. You can turn me whichever way
you want to, but you're not gonna change this book. God says what
he means, he means what he says. And I've got nothing to say apart
from this book. If you're hearing this congregation
on the sound of my voice, God's speaking to you this morning.
If I'm called of God, He is. God's speaking to you. It may
be the last word you'll ever hear from God, or it might be
the first. I don't know. I don't know. It might be one
in a line of succession of many times that He's spoken to you.
I just don't know. But I do know this. The Holy
Spirit of God tells us in Hebrews chapter 3, and He tells us three
times Today, if you hear his voice, not mine, his, don't you harden your hearts.
That's what happened back in the wilderness when that whole
outfit, after God's preservation, after his preaching the gospel
to them, after giving them the tabernacle and the sacrifices
and the knowledge of God and the prophet of God and everything
else, They come up to their country and they said, we ain't going
in. They're giants in there. God said, I ain't speaking to
you no more. I ain't speaking to you no more.
Your carcasses are going to be buried right here in the wilderness. And when they all died, they
went in. When all of them died, then they went in. And he gives
that over in Hebrews chapter 3 and 4. He says that time and
time and time again toward us and the hearing of the gospel.
The gospel is preached unto them as I preached it unto you. But
they could not enter in because of unbelief. Unbelief. Now, whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord, he'll be saved. He'll be saved. Oh, what
a wonderful thing it is, God. Why would anybody want to fight
against the means that God's ordained, or against his son,
or against any of the means that God has employed? Why don't we
just find out what God says and fall in line? My soul. Lord bless
you. Thank you.