to open your Bibles to two texts
of Scripture. First find the book of Jonah,
Jonah chapter 2, Jonah chapter 2. And then open your Bibles
again to the 10th chapter of Revelation and just hold them
there for a moment. Jonah chapter 2, Revelation 10. The greatest weight of responsibility
I carry all the time is the responsibility of speaking
to eternity bound immortal souls in the name of God. I carry the weight and responsibility,
the privilege of doing so, of being a husband, father, I hope
of a friend, a citizen in this world, but the greatest responsibility
I have is that of speaking to you in God's stead as God's ambassador. I want you to know Christ. I want you to know God. I want
you to have God's salvation. I want you to believe on the
Son of God. That responsibility and concern
is increased by the fact that we're living in a day of horrible
religious darkness and confusion. Probably, probably everybody
you know is religious. Most of them at least profess
to be Christians. Almost everybody you know, friend
and family alike. And most everybody presumes they're
saved. Some people think that because
they were born in a Christian family, that makes them Christians.
I've talked to folks who tell me that I've always been a Christian.
Some folks think if they were baptized when they were babies,
that makes them Christians. And then if they came out and
were confirmed, that surely makes them Christians. Most people
imagine that if they walk down a church aisle and repeat certain
things somebody tells them to say, that makes them a Christian.
Kind of like going to a confessional booth and confessing your sins
to a priest. Well, nothing could be further
from the truth. the vast majority of people,
imagine that salvation lies in the power of man, his work and
his will. If you'll do good and believe
God, everything will be all right. Or some folks don't even include
the work. If you just believe in Jesus,
everything's all right. It's up to you, it's up to you.
I don't doubt that some of you are confused by all the conflicting
notions about religion to which you've been exposed. I hope that
you come here concerned for your soul, seeking the Lord, seeking
to know the Son of God. And I'm going to speak to you
as plainly, as clearly, as simply as I possibly can in this message. I know that if the trumpet gives
an uncertain sound, no one will be prepared to the battle. And
if a preacher is not understood, no one will profit by what he
has to say. So let's look at these two texts
of scripture. Jonah chapter two, verse nine. Jonah is in the whale's belly
because of a decision he made. And while he's in that whale's
belly, he prays. And he says in verse nine, I
will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I
will pay that that I have vowed. Now here's his sacrifice. The sacrifice by which he comes
to God. Here's the vow that he had made. The vow he declares before God. Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. It is something God does. Something God performs. Something
God gives. It is God's property, God's possession,
God's work, and God's gift. Salvation is of the Lord. What a glorious, glorious message.
God saves sinners. Not only does God save sinners,
he saves sinners altogether by himself alone. So that salvation
does not in any way to any degree, in any measure, depend upon anything
you do. It is not determined by you. Salvation is of the Lord. It is not a work of man and it's
not a cooperative work of God and man together. We rejoice
in this glorious, delightful gospel truth taught throughout
the word of God. I mean, from the beginning to
the end, we're taught plainly that salvation is of the Lord. Now, look at the second text,
Romans chapter 10 and verse 13. This whole 10th chapter of Romans
is talking to us about faith in Christ, salvation by the grace
of God, that salvation that we receive and experience and enjoy
by faith in Christ. And this is what the apostle
says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, That
is, whosoever shall worship the Lord God, as he reveals himself
in this book in all his character, work, and attributes, whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now that's
good news indeed. Listen to what the scripture
says. Anyone in all the world who calls on the name of the
Lord, Anyone in all the world who believes on the Lord Jesus
Christ shall be saved. That promise is made without
condition, qualification, or exception. Whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. If I trust Christ,
I'm saved. If you trust Christ, you're saved. That's the doctrine of Holy Scripture. Whosoever will, let him come
and take of the water of life freely. In Jonah 2.9, we have
a clear declaration of God's sovereign grace. In Romans 10.13,
we're given an equally clear declaration regarding man's responsibility. Both are true. Both need to be
understood. Both must be believed. Both must
be preached with clarity. God Almighty is totally sovereign
in the salvation of sinners. And we are, every one of us,
utterly responsible to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. God
holds you responsible to believe on His Son. God will judge you
in the last day according to this. Do you or do you not believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ? In the day of judgment, in the
day of judgment, you will not find anyone going to hell. Now listen carefully to what
I'm telling you. I'll back it up from scripture. In the day
of judgment, you will not find anyone going to hell. because
it stole a watermelon out of a neighbor's patch, or because
it cheated on a test in school, or because it stole some cookies
out of a cookie jar, or committed adultery or fornication, or murder. You won't find that in this book.
God punishes men providentially in time for all manner of sin,
but you won't find anyone going to hell for any of those acts
of evil that are contrary to the law of God. What you do find
folks going to hell for is refusing to believe God. When God the
Holy Spirit comes in Holy Spirit conviction and convinces men
of sin, do you remember what he speaks of? He will convince
the world of sin because they believe not on me. The issue between you and God
is his son. The issue between you and God
is faith in his son. The issue between you and God
is believing God or not believing God. That's the issue. Regrettably,
there are some people who have such a distorted understanding
of God's sovereignty and the gospel of his grace that they
become hard, uncaring, and negative in their preaching and in their
attitude. They're opposed to everything and in favor of nothing. I've met with a bunch over my
lifetime. They're like big wrecking balls.
They know how to tear down anything, but they don't know how to build
anything. They're anti-missionary, anti-evangelistic, and anti-responsibility. They talk a lot and do nothing.
They seem to care more about debating, defending, and protecting
what they consider true doctrine than they do in seeing sinners
saved by God's grace. I listen to some fellows preach
and they'll make a statement that they've encouraged the sinner
to believe on Christ and then they start backing off and they
start building fences and they start building walls. They go,
wait a minute now. They preach like they're scared
to death some of the non-elect are gonna get saved. And they
just, they've got to protect everything. What a pity. Such
a spirit is not the spirit of God. It is not the spirit of
the Word of God. It is not the spirit of our Redeemer.
It is not the spirit of the apostles. And it is not the spirit of God's
servants. Listen to our Lord. Oh, Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
which are sin unto thee. How oft would I have gathered
thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and you would not." Well, Brother Don, we believe
in election. Yes, I do. I do. And I pray that God will never
allow me to get over upon perishing sinners with a broken heart. Our Lord Jesus seems to spread
out His heart and says, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft I would have
gathered you, but you would not. You just read the first chapter
of Proverbs, stretched out my hands to disobedient, gainsaying
people. I call, but you refuse to answer. God holds sinners responsible
to believe on his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And then there
are others who totally deny God's sovereignty, his purpose of grace
in election and predestination, the efficacy of Christ's blood,
and the effectually irresistible power of his grace in salvation. All they see in the Bible are
the two words, whosoever will. Whosoever will. It doesn't matter
what text you read. Doesn't matter what subject you
deal with. Doesn't matter what you say to them about the teaching
of God's word. Their response is, I believe
in whosoever will. God gave us a free will. I don't
know where they get the idea that God gave man a free will.
It didn't come from this book. You won't find it anywhere in
this book. Matter of fact, there's nothing about your will that's
free. There's nothing about your will that's free. Try flying. Will it all you want to. I'll
tell you what, you really believe you have a mighty free will,
crawl up on top of this building, and it's not a real high building,
and just take a dive off and fly. Just will to fly. Just try
it. Give it a shot. You'll find out
how strong your will is. It's not much. It's not much. No, man does not have a free
will. His will is bound by his nature. Well, pretty sure nobody ever
dreamed that a man could fly by his will. You dream you can
fly to heaven by it. Nobody ever dreamed a man could
do something impossible like that by his will. You believe
you can be saved by it? No, salvation is not by the will
of man. It is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. And
man's will being bound by his nature is such that he will never
make a right decision. except he be compelled to do
so by forces from without himself, by God himself. You will never
believe on the Son of God except God graciously compel you to
believe on his Son. You'll never come to Christ except
God graciously force you into the arms of his Son. The will
of man determines nothing in salvation. I detest the doctrine. It's not of God, this idea of
free will religion. It's of the devil. Satan, Lucifer,
was the first free willer. I contend that free will religion
is the religion of Satan. Will worship is the religion
of Antichrist. It has the number of man written
across his forehead and engraved in his hand. It's the doctrine
that makes man his own savior and promotes the worship, adulation,
and honor of man rather than the worship, adulation, and honor
of God. The religion of this world, the
religion of this society, right across the street you're under,
down the road you're under, up the road that way, the religion
of this society is will worship. It's idolatry. It's Babylonian. It's antichrist. It's damning. It's damning. It's damning. If
it weren't, I wouldn't oppose it. I wouldn't oppose it. In this message, I want us to
look into God's word and see what God says about salvation. These two facts are clearly revealed. Both of them are set forth as
clear as noonday. Salvation is of the Lord. Whosoever will, shall call, or
whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Whosoever
will, let him come and take the water of life freely. I'm often
asked, Brother Don, who do you think saved? Do you think she
saved? I try not to form an opinion,
that's none of my business. I try not to form an opinion.
I try not to form an opinion because David, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know whether
you believe on the Son of God or not. I can't tell you that.
I won't tell you that. I won't try to make that determination.
But I can tell you from this book who will be saved. Now that's my subject. Who will
be saved? Let's look into the Word of God
and I'll give you four answers to the question. Number one,
number one. God's elect will be saved. All of God's elect and none but
God's elect. God's elect will be saved. There
is such a thing as the election of grace. There are some men
and women who were chosen, predestinated and ordained to eternal life
by God Almighty before the world began. Now, I know people have
the idea, well, that's a complex, hard, deep, deep, deep doctrine. It ought not be preached in public.
It's all right to talk about it back yonder in the study and
talk about it in the seminary and in the school rooms and discuss
it in private, but that just confuses people. No, you were
born confused. I'm trying to help you. God's
elect will be saved. And this doctrine of election
is written across every page of Holy Scripture. Every page
of Holy Scripture. It is that which our Savior taught
in the beginning of his ministry and in the end of his ministry.
He said, many are called, but few are chosen. And just before
he left this world, he said to his disciples, ye have not chosen
me, but I have chosen you and ordained you. Salvation then
is by God's election. Turn back just a page in your
Bible to Romans chapter eight. Look at verse 28, We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are thee
called according to his purpose. Now here's his purpose. For whom
he did foreknow, whom he loved from eternity, He also did predestinate. That's a good word. Predestinate. Predestinate. Oh, what does that
mean? Exactly what you think it means.
It means exactly what you think it means. It means their destiny
was determined beforehand. Then he also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his Son. He predestinated
them to be made new in Christ's image, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate,
them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified,
and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Now, this is
God's purpose. He in providence is working all
things together for the good of these people who love God,
those who are the called according to his purpose. And his purpose
is that these special objects of grace, these chosen ones should
be exactly like his son when God gets done. But before he
ever does anything in time, before the world was in predestination,
God called them and justified them and glorified them. They were redeemed and accepted
in Christ before the world was. You might say they were saved
before the world began. Oh, you can't say that. Let's
see. Turn to 2 Timothy 1. 2 Timothy 1, verse 9. God hath saved us and called
us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according
to his own purpose and grace, watch it now, watch it now, which
was given us in Christ Jesus the day we made our decision
for Jesus. Anybody got a Bible that reads
like that? I'll give you a thousand dollars for it. Anybody. He saved us and called us the
day we came down the church aisle and said the sinner's prayer.
Anybody got a Bible that says that? Or anything like that? He saved us and called us according
to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began. Mark, this thing was done before
you were born. That means you don't have any
hand in it. It was done before you drew your
first breath. Done before God made the world.
Done by Christ the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,
in whom we are accepted, he who is the beloved of the Father.
Salvation is by God's election. And all those who are chosen
of God in eternal election shall be saved. I'm certain of it.
I'm certain of it. There is a remnant according
to the election of grace. In this world there is a people,
a people who must and shall be saved because God chose them. And the Lord God preserves the
race of man in this world in time because in the loins of
men are a people who are in the loins of the Savior. by whom
we were saved from eternity in election, a people who must be
saved. Brother Don, that's primitive
Baptist doctrine. That's hard-shelled doctrine.
I don't care if it's Buddhist doctrine. If it's true, it's
true. Salvation is by God's elected
purpose. Anyone who denies that denies
the book. I like the Bible, but I'll treat
it like Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson actually published
a Bible, published a New Testament, actually published one. If I'm
not mistaken, they still give it out free of charge to folks
when they come into Congress. Actually published one. You know
what he did? He went through and took out everything supernatural
in it. I just can't believe in that.
He just took out everything supernatural and he published it. Now it's
a good book of morality. Morality that hates God. Morality
that's opposed to God. And most people in this world
who call themselves Christians take a pocket knife and they
cut out everything about election in it. They just blotted out,
they just blotted out. My first year in school out in
Springfield, Missouri, I didn't know what had gone on before
I went out there. I went out in the fall of 1968, and in the
spring of 1968, they had purged the campus of what they called
hyper-Calvinist. Everybody who believed in election,
predestination, and limited atonement was out. All the professors,
all the students, anybody who said they believed it, they were
out, just kicked out of the school. And I hadn't been on campus any
time, Less than a week and I was talking to folks and I got called
in the president's office. They're gonna kick me out of
school. I Said what for they said you're a hyper Calvinist.
I said my what I Had no idea what it's talking about and then
they started talking about you've been talking about election and
predestination limited term I said you don't believe that As you
can't believe that go to school here I said, well, I don't know
what's going on, but God sent me here, I'll let you know when
he tells me to leave, until then, you're stuck with me. But later on, the president
of the school, his grandson, was our dorm, whatever you call
those things, RA, monitor, whatever they call them, it was his job
here, and called, the crazy fella called on me to lead the whole
dormitory and chapel service one day, to read scripture and
have prayer and have a devotional. So I thought I'd read Ephesians
chapter one. And I got to chosen and predestinated and accepted. And before the world began, every
time I got to him, I read it and I said, bleep, bleep, bleep. And he was a little enraged.
He said, Don, what are you doing? I said, well, I had been told
that you can't talk about election and predestination on this campus.
So I figured we must censor the word of God. I got called back
in the office. You can't believe this book and
deny election. It can't be done. It can't be
done. I don't know who the elect are
and you don't, but God does. He knows who they are, where
they are, what it will take to save them, and when he will do
it. And it is not possible for one of God's elect to perish.
Won't happen. Won't happen. All right, here's
the second thing. Every sinner bought redeemed
and purchased by the precious blood of Jesus Christ will be
saved. With Paul I say God forbid that
I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now
this matter of particular redemption Limited atonement, effectual
atonement, those are the words we use to describe the sin-atoning
death of our Lord Jesus Christ, is vital to the gospel. And nothing
is more commonly despised in this religious age and has been
throughout the New Testament age since the days of the apostles. Nothing has been more despised
than the doctrine of limited atonement. The doctrine that
all those for whom Christ died are actually redeemed. The doctrine
that Jesus Christ actually accomplished redemption. actually obtained
the forgiveness of sins, that He actually put away somebody's
sins, that He actually satisfied the justice of God. Now that's
exactly how the Scriptures state it all the way through the New
Testament. With His own blood, He entered
in once into the holy place, having made it possible for everybody
to be redeemed. Is that what the book says, Merle?
He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption. We have redemption through His
blood, and thereby the possibility of the forgiveness of sins. Is
that what the book says? Oh, no. In Him we have redemption
through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins, to suggest that any
can perish. for whom Jesus Christ died at
Calvary is to declare that Jesus Christ is not God. Now that's not a broad jump. To say that Jesus Christ failed
to accomplish what he came here to accomplish is to deny that
he's God. If you deny his virgin birth,
you deny that he's God. If you deny his holiness, you
deny that he's God. If you deny his righteousness,
you deny that he's God. If you deny his omnipotence,
you deny that he's God. To deny the effectual redemption
of Christ is to deny the very Godhead of Christ. It is to declare
that Christ died in vain, that there are multitudes in hell. for whom the Son of God suffered,
bled, and died in vain. But the Scripture says concerning
Jehovah's righteous servant, He shall not fail. He shall not fail. God, our Savior, is not a failure. He came here to save His people
from their sins. by his own obedience unto death,
by the sacrifice of himself. And he saved his people from
their sins so that we were saved by the blood of the crucified
one. Saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. You mean, preacher, he made it
possible for us to be saved? No, I mean he saved us when he
died for us. Saved us from the wrath of God. And when he arose, we arose with
him. And when he took his place in
heaven, Ephesians chapter two says, we are seated together
with him. In him, when he lived. In him,
when he died. In him, when he arose. In him,
when he took his place on high. Because we were in him before
the world began. There is no possibility of severing
Christ from his people or his people from him. Christ redeemed
ones shall be with him in glory. He shall see of the travail of
his soul and shall be satisfied. He shall see of the travail of
his soul and shall be satisfied. I'd gone back to school, left
Springfield after that, into that first year and went back
to Piedmont and Winston-Salem and jumped out of frying pan
into the fire. They decided to do the same thing
in Piedmont they did in Springfield before I went out there. And
I was talking to the kids this week. We were visiting for Will's
birthday and Thursday night it was. And they were talking about
chapel services. I said, I remember in chapel
services, we had to go every day. 20 minutes every day. And I didn't like to go, so I
knew what was going on. I wasn't interested in going.
And the church building was octagon-shaped type thing. And they assigned
me a seat. And my assigned seat was right
there. And the reason was so they could see if I wasn't there
every time. And they had a fellow come in from Wales, Thomas George
Lawrence. I don't think I'll ever forget
him. He and I became friends later. He was an older man, about
my age. He's younger than I am now, but
back in those days, I was 19 years old, so he was an old man.
And he preached from Galatians chapter six and verse 14. God forbid that I should glory
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he said, I
must glory in the cross of Christ because it is a compassion revealed,
and talked about the revelation of God's love. And he said, I
must glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, because it
is a covenant respected. And he talked about that. By
the time he got there, everybody got quiet. Dr. Stevens sitting
up on the platform, he was president of the school, and he was a bald-headed
little fella, and his veins on his head began to pop out. And
the professors were doing this, and I was jumping up and down.
And finally he got to the place, he looked over at me, he said,
what do you think about that? made this statement. I thought I was
going to jump out of my seat. He said, the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ shall never be discouraged and miscarried. Hear me, children
of God. Glory be to God. The cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ shall never be discovered a miscarriage.
His cross is a curse removed. The Lord Jesus Christ cannot
fail to save those for whom he died upon the curse tree. He cannot fail to make those
righteous for whom he was made sin upon Calvary's tree. Here's
the third thing. Who's gonna be saved? All who
are called by God the Holy Ghost. Called, called. Now I know there is a general
call. I'm calling you to faith in Christ.
I'm calling you right now, believe on the Son of God. But if all
you hear is my voice, it'll only serve to your everlasting damnation.
It'll do you no good. But if God is pleased by his
spirit, by his word, as this preacher proclaims his word to
call you, something's gonna happen. You're
gonna live. And living, you're going to believe. And believing, you will verify
and God will verify to you your election and your redemption
and your predestination in Christ Jesus the Lord. God will give
you the testimony of God the Spirit in you that you're His. He calls. Blessed is the man
whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee. It is
the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. What day is that? It's the day
that Paul described to the Thessalonians when he said, our gospel came
to you not in word only, but in power and in the Holy Ghost
and in much assurance. And now we know your election
of God because you believe on the Son of God. Who is God's
elect? The sinner who believes on Christ.
Who is redeemed by Christ? The sinner who believes on the
Lord Jesus Christ. And we believe because God graciously
forces us to. He forces us into the arms of
our Savior. He forces us to bow and makes
us willing when he does. Oh, now that's a force no man
can explain. God Almighty with omnipotent
power bows us down and makes us glad he did. He forces us
to come to Christ and makes us run to him. You see, God's grace
is described in a picture in the book of 2 Samuel. David wanted
to fulfill his covenant to Jonathan. And he said, is there anybody
still living who's kin to Jonathan? And this fella, he said, yeah,
there's one man, a fella named Mephibosheth. He said, Mephibosheth,
where is he? He's down in Lodibah. He's crippled.
He's one of Jonathan's sons. And David said, that's it. Fetch it. That's a good North
Carolina, Kentucky word. You don't see it much anywhere
else, just in the South. Go fetch me some water. Go fetch
me a bucket of water. Go fetch my hammer out of the
toolbox. Everybody knows what that means.
Everybody knows what, that means go get it. Go get it. David said,
you go fetch me a fiddle shaft. And God the Spirit comes fetching
sinners. He goes to get God's elect. He goes to get Christ's redeemed
ones. And when he goes to get them,
they come. Our Lord Jesus came to a fella by the name of Zacchaeus,
a little man, a publican. He had heard that the Lord Jesus
was passing that way, and there's a big crowd, and he was a little
fella, so he climbed up in the tree to see him. And as the Lord
Jesus got that sycamore tree, he said, Zacchaeus, come down,
for today I must abide at your house. And Zacchaeus made haste
and came down. My pastor, when I was converted,
Brother Calvin Davis, he said, he said, he came down that sycamore
tree so fast, he skinned all the bark off of it. He said,
sycamore tree's got no bark on it. He made haste and came down because
the call of our God is irresistible and effectual. If God calls you,
you'll come. And if God leaves you alone,
you won't. Who will be saved? All who are chosen of God. All
who are redeemed by the precious blood of Christ. All who are
called by the power of His Spirit. Blessed and holy is he that hath
part in the first resurrection. On such the second death has
no power. This call of the Spirit, this
new birth, this gift of faith takes something more than you
making a decision. It's a resurrection from the
dead. Lazarus is in the tomb. And the Lord Jesus came to the
tomb. And he said, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth. I'm really interested about how
that happened. I really am. I look forward to
finding out what happened that day. That man who was wrapped
in gray clothes and was dead came out of that tomb. Can you imagine how folks must
have looked at him? He'd been in there four days. His body already started to corrupt. And you expect him to come forth?
He can't do that, don't you know? He's dead! comes. Because with the call
came the power, and the dead live. Oh, Son of God, send your
Spirit to call the dead out of their graves to life, giving
them faith in Christ. Now, one more statement. Every sinner who believes on
the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. There's absolutely no
contradiction between that statement and everything else I've said.
Faith in Christ is the proof, the evidence of the Father's
election, the Son's redemption, and the Spirit's call. We make
our calling and election sure by believing on the Lord Jesus
Christ. If you trust Christ, your faith
in him is the result of God's grace in you. And God, who cannot
lie, declares that you're saved. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. Now, I'm not the brightest bulb
in the room, but there's some things that are hard for even
me not to understand. God says, he that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life. And I'm not real sure about a
lot of things, but this I'm sure of. I believe on the Son of God. Not like I want to. Not like
I ought to. No. But like that woman with
a trembling hand said, if I just touch the hem of his garment,
I'll be whole. Like Peter on the sea saying,
Lord, Lord, help me! I perish! Lord, I believe. Help thou mine
unbelief. But believe him. The only trust
I have, the only trust I have, the only trust I have before
God is not what's going on since I got up early this morning,
or what's going on in the past 67 years. What happened yesterday or 50
years ago, that's not it, that's not it. The only hope I have
before God is this fact, I believe on the Son of God. God says,
I have everlasting life. I reckon that means I have everlasting
life. He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. I believe, I reckon that means
I'll be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. The scripture doesn't say, for
you to do something, believe Him, believe Him, believe Him. You find yourself believing Him. Believe Him, putting nothing
between yourself and Christ. And don't let anybody else put
anything between you and Christ. Anything that keeps you from
Christ, anything that comes between you and Christ is idolatry and
damning. Believe on the Son of God, And
I assure you, you'll walk out those doors this morning with
everlasting life, as one who knows his election, his redemption,
and his calling, because God's given you faith in his son. Amen. Believe him. Believe him. Believe
him. Oh, believe on the son of God
and live forever.