Turn, if you will, to Acts chapter
16. The passage we want to read is
a familiar one to you, so we'll begin at verse 25. Paul and Silas, under the direction
and guidance of God's Holy Spirit, are sent to Philippi. And after
arriving there on the first Sabbath, they go to the riverbank, and
there some ladies are meeting for prayer, and Paul preaches
the gospel to them, and Lydia, God opens her heart. Afterwards,
in the passage that we're about to read, Paul was in prison. Paul was now in prison. When I read a moment ago from
Romans, or rather Romans chapter 10, I said that that would serve
as an introduction to the message here in Acts 16. Here we have
another example of what we read there in Romans 10. Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But how
shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear unless
God in sovereign majesty sends them a preacher? That's exactly
what happened here. Last week we spoke to you about
God's purpose to save, God choosing a people to salvation. But always
remember, God that chose sinners to salvation also chose the means
to meet that end. Election doesn't bypass redemption. God chose the people. The Bible
plainly says that he chose them to salvation, but that doesn't
eliminate the necessity of the death of Christ. Election doesn't
bypass redemption, and redemption doesn't make the calling of the
sinner void or unnecessary either. And calling doesn't make preaching
the gospel unnecessary, but it's the very grounds, the very reason,
because Christ has redeemed the people, Those people that God
chose, those people that must be called, and He does so by
the gospel, that gives us the very reason, the very motive,
the very encouragement to go into all the world as our Lord
commanded and preached the gospel to every creature. Every creature
knowing, knowing that God's Word, God's purpose cannot be made
void by anybody, anytime. What an encouragement to preach
the gospel. With that in mind, let's begin
reading here in Acts 16, verse 25. As I said, this is familiar
to you. At midnight, Paul and Silas prayed. They'd been beaten,
been beaten severely, unjustly, and thrown into the inner prison. But at midnight, Paul and Silas
prayed. Imagine that. Paul practiced
what he preached. He would write to these Philippians
later and say, Rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say,
Rejoice. And he does that very thing.
And sang praises unto God. My soul, they didn't want a lawyer. They didn't demand their rights.
No, they sang praises to God and the prisoners heard them.
And suddenly there was a great earthquake. so that the foundations
of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were
opened and everyone's bands were loosed. Imagine that. And the
keeper of the prisoner, the jailer, whose responsibility it was to
keep the prisoners, the keeper of the prisoner, waking out of
his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword,
assuming, naturally, we all would, that the prisoners were gone.
and he was going to kill himself. And he drew out his sword and
would have killed himself supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
But Paul cried with a loud voice saying, do thyself no harm for
we are all here. Then he called for a light and
sprang in, that is the jailer, and came trembling and fell down
before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said, sirs, what
must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved in thy house. And they
spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in
his house. And he took them the same hour
of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized he
in all his straight way. And when he had brought them
into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing
in God with all of his house." What a blessed picture. Paul
and Sidus were arrested and thrown in the prison on trumped-up charges. But do you know why? You know
why? Because this jailer in that prison
was one of God's chosen, was one of God's elect, and the appointed
time, the appointed time of mercy and love had come when he must
be converted. That's right. He must be converted
by the grace of God. An example of what the great
shepherd said concerning all of his sheep. He said, them also,
other sheep I have rather, other sheep I have which are not of
this fold, them also I'm going to do my best to bring. I'm going
to bring if they'll allow me to bring them. If they'll cooperate. That's not what he said. Thank
God that's not what he said. Other sheep I have which are
not of this fold, them also I must bring. That's what happened here
with this gentleman. He was one of those sheep that
Christ must bring. And they shall hear my voice,
he said, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd. I like that, John. I don't have
a problem with that. When I was ordained, as they
called it, the several preachers were on the ordination committee,
asked me a lot of questions. What I felt about this, what
I felt about that, gave me advice about frivolous things. Not one
question about the glorious gospel of the blessed God. Oh, how encouraging
it would have been if I'd have been told, you're not going out
on a fool's errand. No, no. Christ has sheep that
he's going to call and he's going to do so by the preaching of
the gospel. That's the means that he'll call
them. Oh, how encouraging to go out and preach the gospel.
And God here sovereignly intervened to bring it all about. In order
to accomplish his purpose of grace, God overruled the rantings. We didn't read that, but it's
here in this chapter. He overruled the rantings of
a demon-possessed young woman and the malice of an angry, bloodthirsty
mob to bring the gospel. He used all those things, overruling
them for his glory and the good of this jailer. He did all that
because this jailer was one of Christ's sheep. Isn't that something? If you were standing on the streets
of Philippi that day and you saw this demon-possessed woman
following Paul and Silas around, Would you have thought God's
going to use her to bring the gospel to this jailer? If you
just saw Paul and Silas shortly after this being arrested and
being beaten and thrown in jail, would you have ever thought,
would you have ever imagined God's going to work good out
of this? God's bringing all this about
because there's a jailer that has to hear the gospel. God's
chosen that jailer unto salvation, but he won't be saved without
hearing the gospel, the good news of salvation by God. No wonder, no wonder, oh Calper. Did you think of that hymn that
old Calper wrote, God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders
to perform. He plants his footsteps in the
sea and he rides. Oh, how he rides in sovereign
majesty up on the storm. Deep in unfathomable minds of
never failing skill, he treasures up his bright designs and he
works his sovereign will. God works all things together
for the good of his people. To those who love God, to those
who, not everybody, this is not a blanket promise to everyone,
to those who love God, to those who are decalled according to
his purpose. Oh, God works his sovereign will
on their behalf. This is the very thing that the
apostle is thinking of and writing about in Romans 11. When he bows
down, before the throne of his sovereign God. And with the heart
full of wonder and adoration and genuine worship, he does
this. He doesn't walk around proud,
popping his suspenders. He does the very opposite. He
bows before God. He gets down in the dust where
he belongs, where we all belong. And he cries out all the death.
of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable
are his judgments and his ways past finding out. Who hath known
the mind of the Lord? Who hath been his counselor?
Who hath first given to him and it shall be recompensed unto
him again? And then Paul says of him, of
him, like an unbroken circle, of him and to him and back to
Him are all things to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Thank God that that's so. Now
I realize and in a way understand why a rebel has a problem with
that. It makes them uncomfortable,
at least it should. It should. If they're ever made
aware that God is not in their hands like they've been told
all their life, Jesus is not standing at their door waiting
for them to let him in. No, he's the sovereign God, ruler
over all, and he said, you're in my hand. The question is not
what you'll do with me. The question is, what's God Almighty
going to do with you? That's the question. Is it not? Our text is verse 31 here in
Acts 16. And here's the subject. The faith
that saves. Brother Henry, especially on
his television broadcast, when he would announce his text or
his subject, he would say, man, I'm interested in that. I'm interested
in that. And he said, I hope you are too.
I'm interested in that. The faith that saves. That's the subject. Are you interested
in that? The faith that saves. And here's
the text, verse 31. And they said to this jailer,
in answer to his question, what must I do to be saved? They said,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And
thy house, period. Period. Thou shalt be saved. This awakened jailer asked this
singular question. Sirs, what must I do? What must I do to be saved? Now
I've heard and read some pretty hard criticism concerning this
jailer's question. I heard a fellow one time say,
this man's question reveals that he was a rank Arminian. He was a free willer. His very
question reveals that. He thought there was some way
that he could work his way to heaven. I'm not going to go there,
John. I'm not going to go there. I
think that does a disservice to this man. I'll tell you what,
for my own part, I would love to hear someone ask that. I would
love to hear someone under a genuine concern for their souls ask this
same question. I would that my loved ones cared
enough to ask the question, to seek the answer to it, were concerned
enough about their souls that they would ask, Larry, what must
I do to be saved? Oh, I would to God that somebody
would ask that. It wouldn't upset me. It wouldn't
disturb me. I would give you the very same
answer. that Paul and Silas gave this
poor trembling jeller. The singular question received
the singular answer. And their answer was the only
correct answer, the only right answer. It wasn't a multiple
choice. It wasn't. We'll give you multiple
choice and you circle which one you like. It wasn't a combination
of more than one answer. It's only one. And I would answer
in the same way that Paul did, that God's word itself answers,
and it's this. What must a sinner do to be saved? Believe. Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and you have this blessed, certain, sure promise
of God's grace and word, and you shall, without a doubt, be
saved with an everlasting salvation. and you'll never be unsaved.
You'll be saved to the uttermost. True faith sees the Lord Jesus
Christ. You know, actually, in studying
this, I found that there's not a single word, not an English
word, that accurately translates this Greek word used here in
Acts 31 for believe. The word means to adhere to. I mean adhere to, to grasp, to
cleave to, to trust, to have faith in, and to rely on. The
apostles' words to the jailer could have more accurately be
translated like this. Have an absolute personal reliance
upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Throw down everything else. Let
go of everything else. Fall down before Him as the sinner
you are. Trust Him alone and you shall
be saved. The sense of Paul's words most
clearly are this. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
that is, give yourself up to Him. Take yourself out of your
own keeping and entrust yourself to His keeping and you shall
be saved. That's faith. That's the faith
that saves. Salvation by grace alone, through
faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone. And that's a humbling,
humbling truth to the proud, self-righteous man. That no man
will or can trust Christ unless God the Holy Spirit gives him
life and creates faith in him. That's so. Faith is God's gift
of grace. You're not going to get it from
the Pope, from the priest, from the Baptist preacher, from walking
in hell, from being ducked in water. You're not going to get
it in those ways. Grace, faith rather, is a gift
of God's grace. One of the most well-known verses
in Scripture, other than perhaps John 3, 16, is Ephesians 2, 8
and 9. For by grace are you saved through
faith. And that not of yourselves, it
is the gift of God. Faith is God's gift. A sinner
left to himself cannot believe. He can't do it. It's not in him. He can reach in and try to find
it in old fallen Adam. It ain't there. And as God Almighty
by an operation of His sovereign grace puts it there as His gift. Not of works, lest any man should
boast. Simon Peter wrote, a servant
and an apostle of Jesus Christ to them that have obtained like
precious faith. Oh my. Like precious faith through
the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Do you know how blessed you are?
Oh Simon Bar-Jonah. You're a blessed man. My Father
in Heaven has done something for you that He doesn't do for
everybody. But He's done it for you, Simon
Peter. He's revealed to you who I am, Christ the Messiah, the
Son of the Living God. Peter, you are one blessed fellow. And I declare, children of God,
anyone who with Peter confesses in the heart. We can say a lot
of things with our mouth, that doesn't make it so, but if we
confess with our mouth what's really in our heart, you are. Christ, you are the Son of the
Living God. Then His words apply to you just
as much as they did Peter. You're a blessed individual.
God Almighty's done something wonderful for you, something
miraculous, something fantastic, something amazing. He's dropped
His precious Word. into your heart, opening up your
darkened heart, shining in darkness to reveal to you the face of
himself in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, faith is God's
gift and it's also God's operation of grace. Again in Ephesians
chapter 1 verse 19, what is the exceeding greatness of his power
to us who believe? according to the working of his
mighty power. Colossians 2 and 12. Buried with
him in baptism, that is Christ, wherein also ye are raised, are
risen with him through the faith of the operation of God. Faith is God's gift. Faith is God's doing, who hath
raised him from the dead. And true faith always has this
blessed fruit. True faith always has this blessed
result. Salvation in Christ Jesus. Hebrews 10 we read, the just
shall live by faith. And those who have faith believe
to the saving of the soul. They are not of them that draw
back into perdition. But Paul said, those who continue
to believe unto the saving of the soul. If God gives you faith,
you'll believe his son. And you'll never quit believing
in your son, even when Peter stood cursing and trying to prove
to those enemies of Christ that he didn't know the Messiah. When he was cursing, I don't
know the man. He was lying. He was lying. He
knew he was lying. No, because once God gives you
the gift of precious faith in Christ, his gifts and calling
are without repentance. That means God never takes them
back. Glory to his name. Once we believe,
we'll always believe. We'll always believe. The substance,
the ground, the foundation of our confidence and hope of eternal
salvation The evidence of it is our faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ, and that faith is the proof of our eternal justification
and everlasting salvation. Faith is not the cause of salvation,
but the result. Faith is not a work by which
we accomplish God's salvation, but the operation of God in which
is salvation. And all who believe on Christ
shall be saved everlastingly. Believing on Christ, we possess
and enjoy God's salvation. And notice this. Notice this. The faith that saves is not what. What. And I'll tell you what. People will tell you, whether
you care to listen or not, about what they believe. What they
believe. this point, and that point, and
this point, and that point, blah, blah, blah. Tell me who. Tell
me who. Faith is not in what, it's in
who. Who must we believe? Salvation
doesn't come as a result of believing certain doctrines, no matter
how true and necessary they are. Neither does salvation come by
believing in certain historical facts. When I was a young man,
I was drug up to an altar. And this soul winner said, do
you believe that Jesus died? Yeah, sure do. You believe he
rose again? Well, sure I do. You willing
to accept him? Well, sure I will. And they stood me up and slapped
me on the back, said, you're safe, young man, you're safe
forever, don't you ever doubt it. And I was as lost as a goose
in a snowstorm. I didn't know God from a gourd.
And they were telling me I was saved. Just agreeing to certain
historical facts is not saving faith. That's not faith. No,
faith is God's gift. Salvation comes to those who
truly believe. And when they do so, they trust
the person. They're trusting the Lord Jesus
Christ. They can say with the Apostle
Paul, I know whom. I know whom I have believed. In order to believe on Christ,
a person must know the truth about Christ as it is revealed
in the gospel. But saving faith is more than
just mere agreement with revealed truth. It's believing in Christ
himself. It's trusting Christ himself. Look unto me, he says. Look unto
me. People look everywhere else.
Look at everything else, everybody else. Christ says, look unto
me. Would you be saved? Would you
have peace with God? Do you want the sweet experience
of sins forgiven? Of reconciliation, of justification? Of a good hope through grace?
Christ says, you can have it, but you can only have it if you
look unto me. and be ye saved because I'm God
and there's none else. None else can save. I'm a just
God and I'm a Savior. He said come unto me. Oh how
many poor sinners trying to seek peace with God as we read of
those in Paul's day. Ignorant of God's righteousness
and going about to establish their own righteousness. The
top lady said it's not the labors of my hands. that can fulfill
the law's demands? Could my tears forever flow? Could my zeal no respite know?
All these for sin cannot atone. You must save, and you alone. And he says to every thirsty
sinner, every tired sinner, you know religion will wear you out,
won't it? I mean, it will wear you plum
out. Walk. Make a decision. Come forward. Repeat after me, blah, blah,
blah, just wear you out and never have peace. But Christ says,
come unto me. What must I do to have peace
with God? What must I do to experience
the sweet forgiveness of all my sins? What must I do? Christ
says, come unto me. All ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will, I will. The leper said, Lord, if you
will. And he said, oh, I will. Bartimaeus, what do you want?
I want to see. Oh, I will. I will. Come unto
me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you. Rest. Oh, the sweet, sweet rest
a sinner has when he just falls down on the Lord Jesus Christ. Other refuge have I none. Hang my helpless soul on thee. I will give you rest. A few weeks
ago, there was an article in our bulletin by dear brother
Henry. You remember this? He said, what
is it to believe? And he said, it's coming to Christ.
A person. A person. It's intelligently,
willingly coming to Him. Deliberately coming to Him. It's
turning your back on everything else. That's exactly right. It's turning your back on everything
else. This is the faith that saves. And coming to Him. Coming
to Christ. It's to receive Him. I receive
Christ as my Lord and whatever comes with Him, I'll pay the
price. I'll bear the cross. It's looking
to Him. And every day along the way,
looking to Christ, never taking my eyes off Him, not looking
to my flesh. I didn't start in the spirit,
Henry wrote, and expect to be made perfect in the flesh. No
matter what comes or goes, whether the road be smooth or rough,
I better keep to the race, looking to Christ. And wherever my feet
walk, Wherever trials or winds or storms my body goes through,
it's still looking to Christ. Come unto me. Come unto me, Christ
says. Oh, what a sweet, sweet blessing
encounter that is. When a guilty, helpless sinner
is made willing in the day of God's power, and hears the voice
of the great shepherd, and he comes to him. He comes to him,
and you know what happens? All the doubts and the fears
that a sinner has, but he finds out they were all groundless,
because when he comes to Jesus Christ, he embraces him in the
arms of complete salvation, whispers peace in his ears, and say, your
sins are all forgiven you. Glory to God, and you can lay
down and sleep at night like you've never been able to do.
When you come to the Son of God, my faith," the hymn writer said,
has found a resting place, a place to rest. It's not in device,
it's not in a creed. I had someone not too long ago,
I've had this happen several times since I've been your pastor,
a lady wanted to know what creed we use. And I emailed her back
and said, the Bible. Well, that's pretty nice, that's
okay, but Can you tell me what confession of faith do you abide
by? The Word of God. The Word of
God. My faith has found a resting
place, not in device nor creed. I trust the ever-living One.
His wounds for me, shall plead. All blessed promise of grace,
look unto me, and be ye saved. Most people, most people, think
that it's a very easy thing to be saved. I mean, they've been
told all their life, it's easy as ABC. It's easy as ABC. That faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ is just a simple thing. And because of that, and this
is what's sad with modern-day fundamentalism or whatever you
want to call it, there's no sense of astonishment, no amazement
among religious people with regard to salvation. Because the salvation
they think they have is really no big deal. There's not much
to be amazed about. What'd you do? I walked up an
aisle. So what? I'd rather go play a
round of golf. I made a decision. No wonder. No wonder you're not
amazed. No wonder you're not excited.
There's nothing amazing about that. Nothing about that so-called
grace, that so-called salvation. Salvation requires faith in Christ. Not a work of man's free will,
but God's will. A mighty operation of His grace.
You must believe on Christ if you would be saved, but you can't
believe. You can't believe unless you're given faith to believe.
So what should a sinner do? Oh God, oh God, do for me what
I can't do for myself and nobody else can do for me. Give me faith
so I can see your Son. Give me faith so I can believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Give me faith so I can embrace
Him in the arms of faith. Grant me that precious, precious
gift. Work in me, O Holy Spirit of
God, affectionately and call me by Your grace. I like what
I read the other day. I think this was Don who made
this statement. He said, it's not faith to build
an ark that is important to me. but faith to enter into the ark
that God has already built. Christ Jesus and the rest in
him. God told Noah, Noah come into
the ark. Come unto me into the ark. God
was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself and he says
come into the ark. Would you be saved? Come into
the ark. You want to experience the sweet
forgiveness of sins? You've got to come into the ark.
Faith is the eye of the soul by which we look to Christ for
righteousness and peace and pardon and life and salvation. Faith
is the hand by which we receive Christ. And old Simeon is a good
picture of both those things. He went into the temple that
day and God whispered in his ear, said, Simeon, That little
baby, that little dark-skinned Jewish infant in Mary's arms,
that's him. That's the one I've been telling
you about, Simeon. That's the one I promised you
you wouldn't die until you saw with your own eyes. That's him.
And Simeon saw him. Oh, can you imagine the joy that
must have filled that old man's heart? And he walked over to
Mary and said, excuse me, excuse me, may I, may I? And he takes
that baby in his arms. Oh, the arms of faith. That's
what a sinner does. He sees the Messiah and he embraces
Him by faith. And then he can say, Oh Lord,
let me die. Let me leave this world. Let
me depart in peace. Why, I say, man? Because I've
seen your salvation. I'm ready to go. How can that
be? How can any sinner depart in
peace? Because he's seen God's salvation. I read once, I think it was in
one of Spurgeon's sermons, he told the story about a young
boy who was working on building a huge wall. And it was quite
high, and it gave way and fell, fell on him, crushed him. He
lay dying, breathing out his last. Somebody said, get the
preacher, get the preacher. So this fella came and kneeled
down next to this young man dying. And he said, young man, you need
to make your peace with God. What a sorry, bitter news. And
the young man said, make my peace with God. He said, I can't. I
can't. But he said, Jesus Christ. Jesus
Christ did. Jesus Christ made my peace with
God. That's exactly what we read in
Ephesians 2. But now in Christ Jesus, you
who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Oh, can you snuggle up to that?
Can you snuggle up to that? Snuggle up to God himself in
the person of God's Son? He is our peace who had made
both one and had broken down the middle wall of partition
between us. having abolished in his flesh
the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, for
to make it himself of twain one new man, so making peace." Faith
doesn't justify us. Christ did that on Calvary. But
faith embraces the Lord Jesus Christ and therefore is justified. Faith doesn't reconcile us to
God. Christ did that on the cross,
but faith experiences that reconciliation. Faith doesn't give us a standing
before God. That was given to us in Christ,
but we are accepted in Him and experience the sweetness of that
acceptance when we come to Christ in faith. Faith experiences the
love of God shed or brought in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. True faith is the conviction,
not in the head, but in the heart. In the heart. And this God-giving
faith, not man's creating, but God's doing, is what gives us
peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you rejoice
to feel the curse removed? Oh, my. Bobby sang a song that
Judy Estes, I first heard sing, she's with the Lord now, was
in the church in Dabble that our good friend Don Fortner pastors. But she'd also seen one, I don't
remember exactly how it goes, it just now comes to mind, but
said, Lord, Lord, thank you, Lord, for giving me faith to
see Jesus. Oh, oft I remember dark days,
dark days, terrible nights, all the wrath of God being heavy
upon my soul. But then, then, you gave me eyes to see Jesus. And with Simeon, with Simeon,
I take him in my arms and I say, God, let me depart in peace. I'm ready. I'm ready because
I've seen your salvation. My faith now lays her hand on
Jesus crucified, confessing all my guilt and sin. In Him, I'm
justified. I see, oh yes, my faith I see.
My guilt my Savior bore while hanging on the cursed tree, and
I'm condemned no more. Believing I rejoice, the field
the curse removed, I'll bless the lamb with cheerful voice
and trust his bleeding love. This is the second thing, briefly.
The result of true faith is this. They told the jailer, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. As surely as Jesus Christ came
into the world to save his people from their sins, that's true,
thou shalt be saved. As sure as it was for every dying
Israelite bitten by those serpents that lay dying, when they looked
at that brazen serpent, they shall be saved. As certain that
Jesus Christ is able to save to the uttermost all that come
unto God by Him, every sinner that believes shall be saved. Our Lord Himself said that, didn't
He? The Nicodemus. As Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
When Moses was commanded by God to make that brazen serpent the
remedy for those dying Israelites, he was instructed to put it upon
a pole. But don't stop there. Go to the
camp. Hold it up high, Moses. Hold
it up high. So that all that looked was sin.
But that's not all. It wasn't mums the word. No. It was look, look, look. Look and live. Whosoever believeth
on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God
sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that
the world through him, Jew, Gentile, should be saved. There is no difference between
the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich unto
all that call upon him." We read in Romans 10 concerning those
that God sends to preach How beautiful are the feet of them
that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good
things. Boy, this Jeller thought so,
didn't he? He thanked God the rest of his
days that he sent Paul and Silas there to preach the glorious
gospel to him. And he and his family, we read
here, were rejoicing, rejoicing. Imagine somebody telling him,
You shouldn't do that. You just haven't experienced
enough. You're just a baby in Christ. You don't have a right
to do that. You don't know enough. You've
not learned enough. I imagine he would say something
like this. Well, I know this. I know this is my story. To God
be the glory. I know that I'm only a sinner
saved by grace and I know this. The vilest offender that truly
believes, I know that moment from Jesus. a pardon receives. Excuse me, I think I'll just
keep on rejoicing. I'll rejoice anyway. Last of
all, we begin with the question. Let's end with one. Sirs, what
must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. The question is this. Do you
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you? Do you? Then know this. Know this. He that hath the Son
hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things, John said, I've written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God, that you may know, that you have
eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son
of God. And we know that the Son of God
is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know
Him, that is true. And we are in Him, that is true,
even in His Son, Jesus Christ, this is true God, and life eternal. Hear the words of Jesus Christ
himself saying to you, believing sinner, thy faith hath saved
thee. Go in peace. I like this verse
in Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 7. Listen to this. Go thy way,
eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.
For God now accepteth thy works. All glory to the risen lamb.
I now believe in Jesus. I love the blessed Savior's name.
I love the name of Jesus. And when to that bright world
above we rise to be with Jesus, we'll sing around the throne
of love His name, the name of Jesus. Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. Thank God for that glorious gospel
and that glorious promise. God bless you.