Chapter 26, lest I forget to
mention it when I get done preaching. Tuesday night, if I have got
things correct, will be Jennifer Cass's last time with us for
a while at least. She's going, believe it or not,
she's going back to the left coast. Hard to imagine, but she's
going back to the left coast. And I hope you're just forced
to come back. Been a delight to have you here.
Isaiah 26, verse 12. My subject is a God-wrought salvation. Isaiah 26, 12. Lord, thou wilt
ordain peace for us, for thou also hast wrought all
our works in us. What a humbling confession. It ascribes everything to God
in the matter of salvation and nothing to man. Self-sufficiency
and self-satisfaction are the tendencies of our proud human
nature. We all like to think I'm rich
and increased in goods and have need of nothing, but we're not. Since God has wrought all our
works in us, we have nothing of which to boast ever. If God has wrought all our works
in us, we have nothing of which to boast ever. For who maketh
thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou
didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it,
why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? This text
proclaims two things emphatically. Salvation is something that is
wrought in a person. Thou hast wrought all our works
in us. Salvation is not external, it's
internal. All human religion is external. Human religion lobs off the branches
and never gets to the root. Human religion, all works religion,
deals with that which is outward, never that which is inward. Our
Lord says to the self-righteous Pharisee of every generation,
ye may clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within are
full of extortion and excess. All human religion, All carnal
religion is just on the surface. It may stir the emotions, create
a lot of excitement, but it's all about outward things. God
looks on the heart. God deals with the heart. The
Lord God said to Samuel when he sent him to anoint David king
of Israel, the Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh
on the outward appearance. but the Lord looketh on the heart. God sees what no man can see. God looks on the heart. We spend
our lives trying to impress men with things that they can see.
Religious people are taught to do things that other people can
see so that they can see Jesus in you. Well, the Tim James said
from this pulpit many years ago, people didn't see Jesus in Jesus.
They ain't gonna see him in you. But people like to have men brag
on them and hear good words spoken about them. And so they practice
things that make them appear great and good and righteous
and noble. God looks on the heart. God hears
the heart. If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness. The heart believes all God's
revelation with reference to righteousness. Not with the heart
man believeth and makes himself righteous. But with the heart
man believes with reference to righteousness. And with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. God deals with the heart. He
said in his promise of the new covenant, I will put my laws
into their hearts. In their minds will I write them. I find it difficult adequately
to express what the scriptures refer to when speaking of the
heart. It's obviously not talking about
that organ that pumps blood through your body. It's talking about
the inmost being the inmost being of a man or woman, what you are
inside, the heart, the mind, the conscience. This salvation
wrought in our hearts is the work of God alone. Thou hast wrought all our works
in us. I contend that every true believer
gladly makes this acknowledgement of grace. Thou hast wrought all
our works in us. Now, we may differ about many
things, but God's people don't differ about this. Every person
taught of God is taught what Jonah learned down in Wellbelly
Seminary. Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. This
is the universal testimony of Holy Scripture. I want you to
just listen to some Scripture. I've put them, written them out
here, put them in my notes. You don't have to turn to them,
but you might want to write down the references. Psalm 37 verse 39. The salvation of the righteous
is of the Lord. Romans 9, 16. So then it is not
of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that
showeth mercy. Salvation is there specifically
stated. Not to be something that's accomplished
by man's will or man's movement. It is the work of God that showeth
mercy. By the grace of God, Paul says
in 1 Corinthians 15, 10, I am what I am. What I am in Christ, what I am
in this standing in grace, what I am in the kingdom of God, what
I am spiritually, what I am before God, I am altogether by the grace
of God. In Galatians chapter 1, I do
want you to turn to this passage, Galatians 1 15. Paul says, when it pleased God
who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace
to reveal his son in me that I might preach him among the
heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. Now
look what Paul tells us here. I am saved because it pleased
God to save me. It pleased the Lord to make you
his people. Anyone who's saved is saved because
it pleased God to save them. This God who was pleased to save
me, Paul says, separated me from my mother's womb. As I was brought
out of my mother's womb, as soon as I came forth from the womb,
though I came forth from the womb, like all of the men speaking
lies, God Almighty separated me from all other human beings. God separated me unto himself. God separated me unto himself. This is his work. And how God
marvelously does that with all his all. graciously arranging
all things concerning us to prepare us at the appointed time of love
to receive his grace in Christ Jesus. And called me by his grace. He called me. We call it the
effectual call. It is the call that Lazarus heard
when the Savior said, Lazarus, come forth. It is a call from
death to life. It is a call out of darkness
into light. It is an irresistible call. The
Lord God called me by his grace. And he did this to reveal his
son in me. Salvation always comes by revelation. It never comes any other way.
It comes by the revelation of Christ in you. Sinners are saved
when Christ is revealed in them. And when Christ is revealed in
you, you cannot resist the call of His grace. When Christ is
revealed in you, you find yourself believing on the Son of God.
Therefore Paul says, because salvation is God's work, We're
confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good
work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. For
it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his
good pleasure. Salvation is God's work. It doesn't
matter how you study it. From what angle you look at it,
in Bible terms, salvation is described as the work of God
alone. Whatever salvation is, as it's
discussed and revealed in this book, whatever it is, whatever
it involves, from beginning to end in every detail, salvation
is of the Lord. It was planned by God the Father,
purposed by God the Father for His elect before the world began. First chapter of Ephesians speaks
so very clearly, you're familiar with it. The Lord God purposed,
He planned, He predestined the salvation of His people. Before
the world was, He predestined us unto the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will.
Why is that? Because He chose you in love
before the world began. had chosen you, he blessed you
with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. This salvation,
plan, purpose, predestined by God our Father, was purchased
for us, purchased for all God's elect. purchased for all the
chosen, purchased for those who were predestinated to obtain
it, purchased by the holy life and vicarious atonement of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, in whom we have redemption through his
blood, the forgiveness of sins. The Lord Jesus Christ, by his
obedience in life, his obedience unto death, Both were necessary. Both His holy life and His sin-atoning
death. By His obedience unto death,
the Lord Jesus Christ obtained eternal redemption for us by
His blood. And this salvation, purchased
by Christ for His elect, is effectually performed in us, preserved in
us, and perfected in us by the work of God the Holy Ghost in
the new birth. In whom, that is Christ Jesus
the Lord, ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that ye believed,
ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the
earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory. When God the Holy
Spirit comes to sinners and gives them life, He gives and creates
and works and operates faith in us. Faith that's performed
in us by the very same power that raised Christ from the dead,
Ephesians 119. The very same power that raised
Christ from the dead is the power that works faith in us. and giving
us faith in Christ, he seals to us all the blessings of the
covenant. He says, all this salvation is
yours, sealing it to us by faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord. This
is the doctrine of our text. This is the message of the entire
Bible. Salvation is of the Lord. Ours is a God-wrought salvation. Thou also has wrought all our
works in us. Now let me raise four questions
and answer those four questions for you from this book with regard
to God's salvation. Number one, Who are these people
in whom God works? Who are these people in whom
God works? I'll give you three answers found
plainly in scripture. First, God works his grace in
his elect. Would to God I could make this
generation understand. Election is not a cuss word,
it's a good word. God works his grace in his elect, his chosen,
those whom he ordained to eternal life before the world began,
all of them and only them. Election is not something that
we should be bashful about talking about. It's not something we
should be, allow folks to cause us to be silent concerning it,
people don't understand this. They do understand it, that's
the reason they object to it. That's the whole problem. It's not that
folks don't understand it. When you declare election, everybody
knows what that is. That's making a choice. What
men object to is the declaration that God made the choice. And you don't have a choice.
This is God's doing. This is God's work. If God leaves
you to yourself, you will perish. Salvation is according to God's
electing purpose of grace in Christ before the world began.
We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved
of the Lord, because God had from the beginning chosen you
to salvation. He chose you to salvation through
sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto
he called you by our gospel, called you by the preaching of
the word, by the power of his spirit to the obtaining of the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation comes to God's elect. Salvation always comes. Grace
always travels a predestined road to a foreordained house
and is bestowed upon a chosen sinner in that house. God works
his grace according to his will. Our Lord Jesus must needs go
through Samaria. He must needs go through Samaria.
Why? Because there's a Samaritan woman
there, a harlot, a woman who'd had five husbands, loved of God
from eternity, for whom the time of grace had come, and it's time
for him to call this chosen sinner to himself. Salvation comes to
God's elect. Number two, God's saving grace
comes to every sinner for whom there is a high priest and a
sacrifice in heaven. Salvation comes to every sinner
for whom there is a high priest and a sacrifice in heaven. Grace
comes to all those, but only those for whom the Lord Jesus
Christ was made sin and made a sin offering. It pleased the
Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall
see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. The cross
of our Lord Jesus Christ shall never be discovered a miscarriage. Every sinner for whom he travailed
at Calvary, he will give life to that sinner at the time of
love according to his purpose. There is no possibility that
any sinner for whom Christ died can perish under the wrath of
God, for God has declared to them, fury is not in me. Those to whom grace comes, are
those for whom the Lord Jesus Christ by his blood obtained
eternal redemption. Turn to another text, Galatians
chapter three, Galatians three. We commonly quote verse 13 and
leave off the continuing sentence in verse 14. Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law. Being made a curse for us, for
it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Why did
Christ redeem us? Why was he made a curse for us?
The sentence continues in verse 14. For this purpose, that the
blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith. Those for whom Christ obtained
eternal redemption shall receive the blessing of Abraham. That
is God's salvation, God's covenant that we receive the promise of
the Spirit, eternal life by the gift of grace. Those in whom
God works salvation are those sinners for whom Christ makes
intercession. You cannot divorce the priestly
work of the Lord Jesus Christ in his intercession and in his
sacrifice. Those for whom intercession is
made are those for whom a sacrifice was made. And our Lord Jesus
Christ declares twice in John 17 verses 9 and 20, I pray not
for the world. I pray not for the world. I don't know why this seems shocking
to people except they just pay no attention to God. It was never
the intention, the desire, the purpose, the plan, the hope of
God Almighty. Never the intention, the desire,
the plan, the purpose, the hope of the Lord Jesus Christ to redeem
and save all men. He said, I pray not for the world. In this world of Adam's fallen
race, there are vessels of wrath and vessels of mercy. There are
God's elect and there are reprobate. And Christ Jesus came to save
those for whom he makes intercession. He said, I pray for them. I pray
not for the world. I pray for them for whom I died.
I pray not for the world. I pray for them who were trusted
to my hands as the surety before the world was. I pray not for
the world. And third, God's grace, God's
salvation always comes to the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the most
undeserving of sinners. Samuel was sent down to the house
of Jesse. And he said, you got some sons?
He said, yeah, I sure do. Got a bunch of them. He said,
bring them in here. One of them gonna be king in Israel. And
he brought his boys in one at a time. And the Lord said, that's
not him. That's not him. That's not him.
Strong, strapping, grown men. That's not him. That's not him.
And finally, Samuel said, don't you have any other boys? He said,
you have one, but he don't count. He's a boy out in the field.
He said, go get him. And he brought David in. And David was not a
fellow who would impress you as a strong, manly fellow, but
a young boy, kind of ruddy faced. The Spirit of God said, arise,
anoint him. This is he. God's grace comes
where you least expect it. God's grace comes to sinners
you would never choose. God's grace comes where it's
least anticipated. And it comes to those who least
anticipate it. Look here, look here. See the
man talking to you? Look in the mirror. Do you see
yourself? You see your calling, brethren. Not many wise, not
many mighty, not many noble are called. But God's chosen the
foolish things of the world, the weak things, the things that
are not, that no flesh should glory in his presence. Oh God, thank you for free distinguishing
grace. Now, here's the second question.
What is it that God works in his elect? Thou also has wrought
all our works in us. Whatever works there are in us
that are related in any way to God's salvation, There are works
that God has wrought, is working, and shall work in us. In this
book, nothing is ascribed to man but sin. Nothing. Nothing's ascribed to you. Nothing's
ascribed to me but sin. Everything relating to salvation
is wrought in us. Let me state some things that
ought to be clear to anybody. I hope they're clear to you.
Regeneration, the new birth, is performed by God the Holy
Spirit. The wind bloweth where it listeneth. You hear the sound thereof, but
you can't tell where it's coming from or where it's going. So
is everyone that is born of the Spirit. It is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth. It's the spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profiteth nothing. That's the language of scripture.
It's the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.
Men and women by nature are dead in trespasses and in sins. If
we live, we live because God gave us life. When God created
Adam, gathered up a bunch of clay, formed it in the shape
of a man, and breathed into his nostrils, and man became a living
soul. And the word that's translated
breathe or breath throughout the scriptures is the word translated
spirit. He is the breath of God, the
breath of life in us, breathed in us by God himself. People today talk about going
to, I went down to the church and got saved. Every time I hear
it, I used not to be this nice. I used to just be quiet. Somebody
comes, church thanks we got saved, I say I doubt it. That's not
likely. That's not likely. If you went
and got it, you didn't get it. Salvation is God's work. And
if you got it, you ascribe it to God. Repentance. This too is the gift of God.
Christ has been made a prince and a savior for to grant repentance
to the house of Israel and the forgiveness of sins. It is the
goodness of God that leadeth thee to repentance. Believers
are men and women who abhor self and sin because Christ has been
revealed in them. and abhorring self and sin, we
repent. But it's not a one-time thing. It is an ongoing life process,
a continual turning to God by his Spirit. This repentance arises
out of conviction. Our Lord Jesus told his disciples
just before he went to Calvary, it is expedient for you that
I go not away. For if I go not away, the Comforter
will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send
him unto you. And when he has come, now remember
who he's talking about. When he has come, the Comforter, this
is how he'll comfort you. He will convince you of sin,
of righteousness, and of judgment. The sweetest consolation in the
world. He will convince you of your
sin, of righteousness finished because I go to my Father and
the judgment over because the prince of this world is judged.
Faith in Christ. This is the gift of God. It is
God's work in us. Just before anyone came over,
I was reading some more on this passage of scripture in Isaiah
26, 12, and one of the commentators said, Isaiah must have been reading
Ephesians 2. For by grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of
works that sin and man should boast. I recall many, many years
ago, 1968, I was in school out in Springfield, Missouri, Baptist
Bible College, where they hate the gospel of God's grace. Always
have, always have. I didn't last long there. I was
called to the president's office after being there just about
a week, and was called every month after that. But we used
to go to various things, went together, and the folks knew
what I believed, where I stood. I didn't make any bones about
it. Nobody liked it. And so I took a good bit of ribbing
from folks sometime Not so nasty sometimes, real nasty, but one
night we'd been somewhere and a girl stood up. Oh, anything
gets under my skin, it's a woman out of place. This girl stood
up and she said, I want you to know, I believe salvation's by
grace, but I decided to believe that was my choice. and I referred her and the rest
of the folks on the bus to Ephesians 2. This is the gift of God. In Colossians 2, 12, Paul calls
it the operation of God. If you believe, it's because
God, the Holy Ghost, works faith in you. I mean that if right
now for the first time you believe God, If before you leave this
building tonight, you find yourself for the first time trusting Christ,
it's because God the Holy Ghost worked faith in you. And for
you who are here who've been walking with God for a long time,
you will bear me witness. If you believe God at any time
concerning anything, it's only as he works faith in you. Faith in us is our faith. It is God's gift. It's our faith,
but it's God's gift and God's work. Not only is that so, but
all spiritual understanding, all understanding in the word
of God, all understanding in the truth of God is the work
of God's spirit because he's given us the mind of Christ. so that you have the unction
from the Holy One and understand all things. We understand the
whole revelation of God. I really do. I really do. I don't
understand everything in this book. No, no, no, no, no. But
I understand the whole revelation of God. I understand how God
saves sinners by the doing and dying of His Son for the glory
of His name. And if you read 1 John 2, you'll
find out that's the understanding John's talking about when he
says, you know all things. He's talking about the person
and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believers understand how God
saves sinners. They really do. And we have the
mind of Christ to discern all things, though nobody discerns
us. The natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them. They
are spiritually discerned. Now, if ever we get our minds
around that fact, it'll help us a lot in our efforts at witnessing
to folks. You will never persuade anybody
to believe the gospel by arguing with them. It will not happen. It will not happen. I tried. I have tried. I used to, I had
back in, My office, still a Bible that Brother Ron Lumberg rebounded
for me with a hardback Bible and put ridges on it like the
old used to have. It was a rather large, wide-margin
Bible, and somebody asked me one day in Bible college class,
in theology class, why I carried that Bible. I said, so I'll beat
you Armenians in the head with it and make you get what Scripture
said. And I tried to beat folks in the head with it, and I never
succeeded. Never did anybody any good. All
I did was alienate folks. Well, how do you witness, folks?
Tell them who God is, what God's done, what God's taught you,
and leave it alone. That's all. Just proclaim the
grace. Tell sinners how God saves sinners, and if God causes them
to hear, they'll hear. But your arguing and fussing
with them will not accomplish anything except bring out your
pride and bring out their anger. That's all it'll do. Good works,
yes, we must be careful to maintain good works. But any work performed
by us that our God and Savior calls
good works are works which he before ordained that we should
walk in him and that he by his grace teaches us to maintain. Those good works, I promise you,
are not the things that you commonly associate with good works. I was raised in the South. In
the South, you may not know this, but about everybody My age was
weaned on tobacco, either smoking it or chewing it or dipping it,
one way or the other. That's just part of being raised
in the South. I tell folks all the time, I was raised in the
finest city in the world, Winston, Salem, North Carolina. On a hot
July day, you could walk down the streets, breathe in the air
and spit out the amber. And so religious folks in the
South, being as how about everybody was paid by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, they never said too much about smoking and tobacco. Didn't have many taboos about
it, but buddy, you didn't drink. Nah, everybody preached against
it in the North. Most everybody in conservative
churches didn't think a thing about having a beer or a glass
of wine, but tobacco? You better not smell like you've
been in a smoking alley. You'll be in trouble. They'll
excommunicate you because folks have regional sanctification.
Those things that men point to as good works, isolation, separation,
the scriptures never speak of in such a vein. There is a woman,
who planned with great care to honor the Savior with a costly
sacrifice, desiring to be seen and approved of no one, who brought
her alabaster box and anointed the Savior for his burying. What
she did, Lindsay, she did just for him, just for his honor,
just because she wanted to. Isn't that something? And the Savior said something
about her that he never said about anybody else. She hath
wrought a good work on me. Whatever good work there are
performed by God's people, it's the work of God's Spirit in us. All works of service to our Savior
and his church are the results of God's purpose and his grace. Gifts for the ministry. Don't come because men have natural
abilities. No, no, no, no, no, never. They don't come because they
are intellectual, brilliant, scholarly fellows. Never, never. Gifts for the ministry, God gives
them in such a way to such men that he makes it obvious this
is God's gift. He makes it obvious, this is
God's gift. It's not something you can muster
from within. You can pretend it, but you can't
muster it. It's not something you can get
from a Bible college or seminary. You can get the degree, but you
can't get this gift. To understand Scripture and preach
the gospel of God's grace in Scripture is the gift of God. Not only that, but the usefulness
of men. where God puts them is according
to God's purpose, his usefulness. I fully believe that God prepares
a man for a place and a people for that man and there he serves
God. This is God's work. There's some
Paul, some Apollos, some Peters, some Epaphroditus, some lesser
known fellows put where God has them for God's glory, for their
usefulness. Oh God, what a privilege. This
is God's gift. This is God's gift. I wouldn't
trade places with anybody in the world, ever. I wouldn't do
it. Spiritual fruit, it's called
the fruit of the spirit. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, meekness, faith, temperance. Against such
there's no law. The fruit of the spirit. is that
which God the Holy Ghost produces in us. It is not something we
produce by discipline. But believers must persevere.
Yes, we must. We must hold on. We must hang
on. We must persevere to the end.
But our hold on God is not much. It's God's hold on us. Mark expressed
it well. Nothing can tear me from the
grip of his hand. This is God's work. This is God's
work. Even prayer. Just recently in our reading,
he read 2 Samuel 7, and the Lord made David some promises. And
David made this statement. Therefore thy servant, founded
in his heart, to pray this prayer unto thee. True prayer, Sam Wall,
if you or Don Fortner ever pray, is found in the heart where God
puts it. Everything else is mouthing words. Everything else is expressions
of desires. Prayer is the utterance of the
heart in response to the work of God in us. And when we can
pray in the spirit, we can pray with expectation. Shelby and
I were talking about this either last night or this morning, last
night I think, we were talking about this, laying in bed chatting
a little bit. Prayer, we ought to always pray with
expectation. Anything less, I don't think
you can rightly call prayer. Expecting God to do what we ask
because we have a reason to ask. The reason being God has inspired
the prayer. I have difficulty with prayer. I honestly acknowledge it. We pray before every meal. We
pray together regularly. I pray through the day, call
the names of friends and foes and pray, pray. But most of the time, I have
to ask God to forgive me the prayer because it so much involves
myself. and my desires and my lust, things
I want because I want. Prayer indicted on the heart
by the Spirit of God is the cry of a soul for that which God
will perform. Oh God, teach me to pray. Teach me to pray. and pray with
expectant faith as I believe God. Why? That's the third question. Why
has the Lord wrought all our works in us? We should never
ask why God does anything or why he does anything the way
he does unless he's given us the answer. And there are three
clear answers given to this question. Why has the Lord brought our
works in us? Because number one, if he hadn't
done it, we'd all go to hell. Unless God gives you faith, unless
God reveals Christ in you. Unless God births you into his
kingdom, you will never enter his kingdom because we're dead,
depraved, lost sinners, utterly helpless before him. Secondly,
the Lord God has wrought all our works in us so that salvation
might be effectually secured. effectually accomplished, a matter
of certainty. If salvation, any aspect of it,
depends on you, any of it, you'll go to hell in a heartbeat. Salvation's
God's work. And third, the Lord has wrought
all our works in us so that He alone might have all the praise,
honor, and glory for our salvage. It's his work. He will have the
praise for it. No man, no preacher, no church. He will have the praise for it.
One last question. Is my salvation of God-wrought
salvation. Turn to 2 Corinthians, or 1 Corinthians
chapter 13. 2 Corinthians 13, I'm sorry, verse five. Is my salvation a God-wrought
salvation? People struggle greatly with
assurance because they look for assurance on the legal ground
by works of some kind, by something they do. Paul in 2 Corinthians
13, 5 says, examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith.
Prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Christ Jesus is in you, except ye be reprobates. Well there, preacher, we got
to examine ourselves indeed. Examine one point, not how much
you know, not what you've experienced, not how good you live, not how
much time you spend in prayer, not how much time you spend studying
your Bible. Examine one point, whether you
be in the faith. There was a jailer who was fearing
for his life. And Paul and Silas told him everything
was all right, no need to take his life. And he said, sirs,
what must I do to be saved? He heard them praising God and
singing his praise. I expect he heard more than that,
but he heard that at least. And he said, sirs, what must
I do to be saved? And Paul said, believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Don Fortner. Is your salvation a God-wrought
salvation? Yes, it is. I'm confident that it is, for
just one reason. I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you? I trust Him. No feeling, no experience, no
knowledge, no work, just Him. I flat cast my soul on Christ
alone. That is a God wrought salvation. Oh, may God make it yours. Amen.