While you're turning to the 10th
chapter of the Gospel of Romans, I want you to listen very carefully
to the first statement I'm about to make. It will be shocking to some,
but it is a fact demonstrated over and over again throughout
the Word of God. I hope I've got your attention.
There are many, there are many, who earnestly desire salvation
and eternal life who will never be saved. There are many who
earnestly desire salvation and eternal life who will never be
saved. There are many thoughtful, zealous
men and women, very eagerly seeking salvation. who will perish at
last under the curse of God's holy law. They want to be saved,
but they will not bow to God's way of salvation. Look at Romans
chapter 10, verse two. I bear them record. I bear them
record. They have a zeal of God. Have a zeal of God. What a strong
word. Have you ever met somebody who
was zealous? I mean, zealous. Zealous. You best step aside. They're zealous. You're not gonna
stop them. You best get out of their way. They're zealous. They
have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness, have not submitted themselves
unto the righteousness of God. Now mark those words, submitted
themselves. Many will not be saved. Multitudes
will perish forever in hell under the wrath of God because they
will not submit themselves to God's righteousness. They will
not submit themselves to the righteousness of God brought
in by our Lord Jesus Christ, established by his obedience
unto death as the righteous servant of Jehovah and as the surety
of his people. Some of you sitting here are
not yet saved simply because you will not submit to salvation
by grace alone. through righteousness, the righteousness
of a substitute. You will not be saved by free
grace alone. Oh, you talk about grace. You're
waiting for grace. You're praying for grace. You
wouldn't be found in an Arminian church listening to some babbling
freewill monger. You may talk about waiting to
trust Christ, but you only deceive yourself. The problem is that
you keep trying to do something, trying to find something, trying
to feel something, trying to experience something, anything,
anything, anything you can know or feel or do or experience,
anything of your own that you can bring to God as a reason
why God should accept you. refusing to submit to the righteousness
of God. You seek to bring something of
your own, mingling it with the blood and righteousness of Jesus
Christ the Lord for salvation. Mr. Spurgeon once said, nine
out of 10 of the arrows in a preacher's quiver ought to be shot at the
sinner's good works, for these are his worst enemies. Nine out
of 10 arrows in the preacher's quiver ought to be shot at the
sinner's good works, for these are his worst enemies. And I
fully agree with Mr. Spurgeon. Proud man wants to
save himself, and you believe you can do it. You will not submit
to Christ for salvation. And I'm here to tell you that
if you would be saved, you must do just that. You must make your
suit before God at the bar of divine justice as an undeserving,
hell-bent, hell-deserving sinner seeking the unmerited gift of
God's salvation through Jesus Christ alone, on the footing
of mercy alone. This is the thing the carnal
mind, which is enmity against God, cannot do. The carnal mind
is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of
God, and it is not subject to the righteousness of God. It
cannot be. It simply cannot beg for grace.
You think you can work out a righteousness of your own, something God will
accept, or at least you can find something that you I can search
out and now I've learned this, or I know this, or I can do that. I feel this, I've experienced
that. Something good you can bring to God to supplement the
righteousness and blood of the Lord Jesus. You simply will not
be saved by pure grace alone. In order to be saved, you're
going to have to throw away all the filthy rags of your own righteousness. You've got to throw away all
the filthy rags of your own righteousness. You've got to come to Christ
in your naked guilt, sin, and loathsomeness, or you will never
be an heir of eternal life. Nothing in my hands I bring. Simply to thy cross I cling. Naked come to thee for dress.
Helpless look to thee for grace. Foul I to thy fountain fly. Wash me, Savior, or I die. You can't come any other way. Many years ago I heard Brother
Mahan tell a story of a man during the days of the Great Depression
who was an artist. and went down to the soup lines in Chicago
and found a fellow there who was a beggar. And it's obvious
the man had nothing. He had lost everything. And he
wanted to paint a picture depicting what happened to men during the
Great Depression. And so he pulled this man out
of the soup line and he said, sir, I would very much like to
paint your picture. And he said, I'll give you $20
if you let me do it. And the fellow looked at him
and he said, well, certainly you can do that. And they made
an arrangement to meet at a certain time. He gave him his $20 and
the artist went and set everything up and this fellow came and knocked
at the door. And he opened the door and the
artist didn't recognize him. He said, can I help you? He said,
I'm here for you to paint my picture. And the artist just
looked at him and just sad. The man had gone out and gotten
himself a bath and bought him some clean clothes and came just
as dressed as he possibly could on $20. And the artist looked
at him and he said, I'm sorry, I can't use you. I can't use
you. God won't have you at your best. God won't have you at your best. God won't have you at your best. You got to come to God as you
are. In all your filth, in all your
sin, in all your depravity, in all your guilt, in all your loathsome
darkness of heart, in all the vileness of your soul, with not
one good thing to give you acceptance with God. You gotta come to God
on the footing of mercy, trusting Christ alone. Oh, may God give
you grace to do that. The only way a sinner can obtain
righteousness before God is by giving up his own and submitting
to the righteousness of God in Christ. Now this morning, I want
you to see and see clearly that Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believe it. And whenever
I preach on this subject, whenever I write about this subject, there's
always someone who either willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or
unknowingly, misunderstands and misrepresents what I'm saying.
So let me be perfectly clear. I am not saying that God's law
is evil. God's law is holy and just and
good. There's nothing evil about God's
law. Turn over to 1 Timothy chapter
one. 1 Timothy chapter one, verse
seven. In this portion of scripture,
Paul is describing those apostate religious leaders who profess
to be saved by grace, but. They profess to be saved by grace,
but. That pretty well describes the
whole religious world in which we live. Most everybody you know
professes to be saved by grace, but desiring to be teachers of
the law, understanding neither what they say nor whereof they
affirm. Now you can mark it down. Every
preacher, every religious leader, every religious person who teaches
you to live by the law affirms those things they do not understand. Verse eight, but we know, we
who are born of God and taught of God, we know that the law
is good if a man use it lawfully, knowing this, that the law is
not made for a righteous man. If God has made you righteous
in Christ, the law is not made for you. The law is not made
for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient,
for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane. for murderers
of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers,
for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers,
for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing
that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel
of the blessed God which was committed to my trust. No, the
law is not evil. It would be wonderful, absolutely
wonderful, if all men and women everywhere lived in conformity
to the law's commands both outwardly and inwardly. Indeed, it is ordained
of God and it is used by all civil governments to protect
society. That's the purpose of the law,
to protect society, as it's spoken of here in First Timothy. To
protect society from those who otherwise would utterly disregard
and disrespect personal property and the personal lives of other
people. Here's the second thing. I certainly
am not saying that the believer is free to break the law. No,
sir. No, sir. Folks, Fortner says
believers are free to break the law. Fortner never said that.
Fortner never thought that. No, sir. I'm not saying that
at all. Believers not only are not free to break the law, they
don't want to be. They don't want to be. I delight
in the law of God after the inward man. The Apostle John tells us
plainly in 1 John chapter four, that those who are born of God,
I'm sorry, chapter five, those who are born of God, to them
the law of God is not grievous. The commandments of God are not
grievous, but delightful. If we could, if we could, we
would never sin. Now either that's true, Lindsay,
or it's a lie. Nothing in between. If we could,
we would never say it. If we could, we would love God
with all our hearts. If we could, we would love our
neighbor as ourselves. But we face the fact that we
simply can't. That doesn't even lie within
the realm of possibility. And third, I am saying that in
Christ, the believer is entirely free from the law. No, there's
nothing evil about the law. No, the believer is not free
to violate, disobey, disregard God's law. But in Christ, the
believer is entirely free from the law because as our text states
with emphatic clarity, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone that believeth. Romans 6 the Apostle Paul talks
to us about the believer's life in this world. He's talking to
us about the resurrection life of that man, that woman who's
confessed Christ and believers baptism, risen with Christ to
walk in the newness of life. And he's telling us how to live
in this world. If there's any place in the Word
of God where you don't Slip in law any place in the Word of
God we'd slip it isn't now now this This is where where the
law comes in you slip it in at Romans chapter 6 This is what
Paul tells us twice in Romans 6 14 and in Romans 6 15 We are
not under law but under grace We are not under law, but under
grace. If you would live for God, you
can't live under the law. If you would live for God, you
can't live by the rule of the law. We live by the rule of God's
grace. We have been crucified with Christ,
and Paul tells us in Romans chapter 7, as he continues talking about
this life of the believer in this world, that we're dead to
the law and married to Christ. There is no sense whatsoever
in which the believer may be said to be under the law. No
sense at all. Yes, we read frequently in the
book of God, particularly in the Psalms about the word, read
the word law, and it refers to the whole word of God. I delight
in God's law. I marvel in God's law. I love
God's law. And we see that throughout the
Psalms. It speaks of the whole word of God. But when we refer
to the law, as Paul uses it in the New Testament, when we refer
to the word law, it refers to the dietary laws and the civil
laws and the ceremonial laws in the nation of Israel. And
it refers to what men commonly call the moral law, the 10 commandments
given by God to Moses and to the children of Israel at Mount
Sinai in Exodus chapter 20. Understand that the whole of
God's law was given by God to Moses to the children of Israel. It was never given to anyone
except the nation of Israel, never, never, never. Nowhere in the world were men
required to keep a Sabbath day except in the nation of Israel. And nobody ever dreamed of imposing
such upon men until folks came teaching law for folks who believe
God. And this is something that needs
to be understood. Folks say, well, we don't teach folks to
observe the ceremonial law or the dietary laws, but we teach
them to observe the 10 commandments. And some folks say, well, we
teach them to observe the 10 commandments all except the Sabbath
day. And they'll say, no, we teach the Sabbath day and include
that in 10 commandments. The fact is, you will search
the word of God in vain, from cover to cover, to find any separation
made between the dietary, ceremonial, and civil laws of Israel, and
what's called the moral law, the 10 commandments given in
Sinai. They are not separated, they stand as one. But for us
who are gods, we are entirely free from the law. the dietary
laws of Israel. That means if you want to eat
rabbit, you can eat rabbit. And if you want to eat bacon for
breakfast, you can eat bacon for breakfast and it doesn't
have to be fake turkey bacon. So that's what it means. That
means if you want to wear clothes that are made out of both linen
and wool, that's perfectly all right. And if you have an ox
and an ass, and you can't afford to buy two of each, and you want
to plow your fields with an ox in the yoke alongside an ass
in the yoke, that's all right, that's all right. No reason why
you shouldn't. And if you do not wish to take your son, because
he's a disobedient son, and bring him before the courts of the
land, and say, my son won't obey me, so let's kill him. That's
what God commanded in the law. You don't have to. You don't
have to. There's nothing about the law that is binding upon
God's people in the gospel. Nothing at all. Our law, our
rule of life is not one section of scripture. Our law, our rule
of life is the whole revealed will of God in this book. the whole revealed will of God
in this book. So that all of those ceremonial
laws, and all of those civil laws, and all of those dietary
laws, and all those commandments of what's called the moral law,
are given in the book of God to point us to Christ, to believe
Christ, and to follow Christ. and we obey the whole will of
God revealed in this book, Believing Our Savior. We take the Word
of God in its entirety as our only rule of faith and practice.
We don't write out church covenants and hang them on the back of
the church building and say, this is how you must live. We
don't write out church creeds and pass them out to folks who
are about to become members and send them through a members class
and say, this is how you must agree with us and say your doctrine.
How come? Because if you follow the laws
of men, you will not follow the word of God. It's just that simple. And if you seek to regulate and
govern your life by the law of Moses, you will not follow the
word of God in its entirety. We rejoice in the fact that we're
no longer ruled, motivated, or governed by the law. We do not
live before God on legal principles. And therefore we delight to sing
as we just did, free from the law, oh happy condition, Jesus
hath bled and there is remission. We have no covenant with the
law. We live under a covenant of grace. We have no commitment
to the law. Our commitment is to Christ who
obeyed the law for us. We do not do anything by the
constraint of the law, the love of Christ constraineth us. We
have no fear of the curse of the law. There is therefore now
no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law. Now men accuse us of
being antinomians, that is folks who live in licentiousness and
promote licentiousness, folks who are against the law. You
who have heard me preach three times a week for 37 years, I
take you to witness. You've never heard me speak in
any way against God's law. Not in any way. They censor us
and warn others to avoid having contact with us as though our
liberty in Christ were some kind of spiritual leprosy. But we
will not again be entangled with the yoke of bondage. We will
not attempt to reach Mount Zion by climbing the walls of Mount
Sinai. We will not attempt to climb
up to heaven on the broken ladder of our works. We will not attempt
to bridge the flood of God's wrath by our obedience to God
in the law. As sure as the holy God stands
holy, all the attempts of men to make themselves righteous
will fail. For by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified before God. No, saved sinners simply
trust the grace of God streaming to us from Mount Calvary, from
the wounds of our crucified Savior, and we look on Him as all our
redemption and all our righteousness, all our acceptance with God.
If you seek to be saved by your works, if you seek to be saved
by something you do, by something you feel, by something you experience,
be warned. Christ is become of no effect
unto you. Whosoever of you are justified
by the law, you've fallen from grace. You've missed the grace
of God altogether. What are you saying, pastor?
Show me a man who trusts his own righteousness, his own obedience,
his own devotion, his own feelings, or anything else of his own.
And I'll show you a man who is entirely lost, a man to whom
the blood of Christ, the righteousness of Christ, and the grace of God
is altogether worthless. How can I be more specific? Show
me a man, show me a woman who thinks that salvation is a mixture
of God's grace and his works. I'll show you someone who doesn't
know God and despises His grace. Show me a person who thinks the
salvation is a mixture of being baptized and joining the church
and believing on Jesus. I'll show you a person who doesn't
believe on the Lord Jesus, but rather despises Him. Show me
someone who thinks the salvation is trusting Christ and His decision. And I'll show you someone who
believes in his decision, worships his will and despises Christ. Show me someone who points to
Christ on the throne and points to his experience as the basis
of his assurance before God. I'll show you someone who despises
Christ on the throne and worships his experience. Did you hear
me? Well, how do you know that you're
God's? How do you know then that you're
a believer? How do you know that you're truly saved by God's grace?
What can you point to and say, now there, there I know I'm a
child of God. Faith is the substance of things
hoped for. The evidence of things not seen.
I believe on the Son of God. When I feel that I believe and
when I don't feel that I believe. when I feel close to God and
when I feel far away from God. When I have wonderful experiences
in faith and worship and praise and repentance and calling on
God and singing His praise, and when I have horrid coldness and
indifference, I believe on the Son of God. My only hope is Christ. Not what I experienced 50 years
ago, or what I experienced this morning, but Christ alone. Not what I'm experiencing right
now, but Christ alone. Do you understand that? Understand
that? Most everybody you talk to, and
some of you, when you start to think about your salvation, your
relationship with God, it goes back to, I remember, When I was
six years old, I had a marvelous experience of grace. And I remember
going down the church aisle and going to talk to the preacher
and saying the sinner's prayer and the wonderful feeling of
relief, just the wonderful feeling of relief I had. I remember when
I was at a crusade and I was 17 years old, I had been a rebel,
I'd been horrible. And I, I, I, I, I, I, I, felt
God moving me in the altar call and I went and confessed Christ
and I believe on him. I remember, I remember how God
changed me. I quit smoking and drinking and
cussing and I quit, oh, I just quit that horrible life I used
to have and I started living a different life and I believe
in Jesus. You believe in yourself. You believe in yourself. If I
want to prove to you that I'm alive, and I realize sometimes
I have to do that, folks wonder if I'm still moving, but if you
get close enough, if you get close enough, you reckon you're
still alive? Wait a minute, wait a minute.
I carry a copy of my birth certificate here, let me show you. No. Just breathe. That's all. That's all. Where there's breath,
there's life. Where there's faith, there's
life. There's salvation. And where
there's anything mixed with faith, there's no life, no salvation,
no breath in the soul. Christ alone is our Savior. All right, now let's look at
our text, these three statements in the text. Christ, is the end
of the law. Christ is the end of the law. I've said that every way I know
to say it, but it's gotta be said again and again and again. Christ is the end of the law. If there's anything you ought
to dread, anything you ought to fear, anything you ought to
try your best to stay away from, It's God's holy law. If you understood what the law
said, if you understood what the law said, you wouldn't want
anything to do with it. But man is foolish. The law condemns,
the law damns, the law curses. It can't do anything else. But
man is like a gnat that keeps flying into a flame on a candle. He just keeps flying until at
last he hits the flame and he's dead. He's enamored with the
law, enamored with the works of the law. The fact is the law
can do nothing else except reveal and condemn sin. That's all it
does. The law was given that every
mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before
God. You've been making excuses for
your unbelief. You've been making excuses for
your ungodliness. You've been making excuses for
your rebellious. It's the way I was raised. You
don't know how I was raised. You don't know the influence
I had. You don't know the folks I live with. You don't know my
background. And now you. That's not the problem. The problem's
here. Problems here. Paul said when
the commandment came, sin revived and I died. He said I did no
sin until God calls me to see what the law requires. The law
requires perfection, holiness, righteousness. It will not and
cannot accept anything else. God's law was never given to
save sinners and it can't serve that purpose. By the deeds of
the law shall no flesh be justified. God's law was never given to
motivate God's people to holiness and service. And it can't serve
that purpose. Now you can get folks to behave.
and you can get them to act religious by law. You can do that. You
can convince them you tithe or God'll get it out of your hide.
You tithe or God'll get it out of your, I've actually heard
preachers say, and I have read what preachers have written about
tithing. Oh, you gotta make folks understand,
boy, if you don't tithe, God's gonna get it. He'll put your
son in the hospital. He may kill him. That's a strange
God. That's a strange God, a strange
father. God requires one thing first
in everything we do for him. If there be a willing heart. If you're willing, God accepts
what you bring him. If you're not willing, if you
bring it cause you're scared. You bring it because something might happen. You bring
your gift, your sacrifice, your service, because you're, oh,
I fear God's law. God'll punish me. God'll keep me from certain rewards
in heaven. Keep it to yourself. God won't have it. I don't care
if you're bringing him everything you own, or bringing him the
life of your own child. I don't care if you're bringing
him all your time, all your strength, all your energy, and all your
talents. God won't have it if it's brought by law. He won't
have it. He said, you come to me, don't build an altar, but
worship me on an altar of earth. And if you build the altar, Make
sure you don't build it by stuff you make, but rather make the
altar of the earth, and if you go up on it, don't put any steps
on there. Because if you ascend to the
altar by steps, first this step, then this step, then this step,
then this step, then you'll expose your nakedness. My friend, Brother Bob Harmon,
who is with the Lord now, I went out to preach for him years ago. First time I went to preach for
him, that's been a long, long time ago. On the way to the service,
he said, I'm going to preach before you this morning. I've
decided to preach first. And he said, I would like for
you to critique my sermon. And I thought, oh, my soul, no. I said, Bob, I just don't want
to do that. He said, no, I'd like for you to do that. I'd
like for you to do that. And so we went, and he preached. And this is what he preached
on. Steps of grace. Steps of salvation. And it just works. All he did,
climbing the steps, was expose his nakedness. His sin, his corruption,
his unrighteousness. That's all you do by climbing
steps to God. And when he got done preaching,
if he had gotten up and preached that the sun is purple and grass
is yellow and cold is hot and hot is cold, I could have let
it go. But he preached works. And I turned around and said
to Brother Gene Harmon, sitting right behind me, said, I'll give you
$100 if you preach in my place right now. And so I got up and
went to the text where he was, and I said, I want you to open
your Bibles back to where Pastor Harmon just finished, and we'll
pick up right where he left off. And I went through every point
of the sermon and showed how horribly evil it was. How can
you do that? How could I not do that? And
I figured that's the end of the friendship, and I'd hear no more
from him. But God broke his heart and revealed Christ in him. No, there are no steps to salvation.
There are no steps to grace. There are no steps to approach
God. You come to God on the altar God has made, and that altar
is Jesus Christ and him crucified. You come to God on that altar,
and now you're free from the law. The law's got nothing to
do with you. What do you do with the law?
We read it in Galatians chapter three. The law is Mount Sinai, Hagar. You remember what Sarah said
to Abraham? Cast that woman out of here. The son of the bondwoman shall
not be the heir with the free. And Abraham said, I can't do
that. That's contrary to the flesh. And God said to Abraham,
you do what Sarah said. For the son of the bondwoman
cannot be heir with the child of promise. Cast out the bondwoman
and her son. That's what you do with it. The law punishes. The law damns. The law condemns. The law slays. What do you do
with it? It has nothing to do with me.
It had nothing to do with me. How come? Because Christ died
in my stead. Christ obeyed the law and satisfied
the justice of God in my stead. You see, justice cannot be set
aside. Justice cannot be set aside.
That's the reason when Moses said, Lord, show me your glory.
The Lord said, all right, you stand right here and I'll show
you who I am. And he said, I'm sovereign. I'll have mercy on whom I will
have mercy. And he said, I will by no means clear the guilty. I will by no means clear the
guilty. And then he said, I'll forgive
iniquity, transgression and sin. What a contradiction. No contradiction
at all. No contradiction at all. In order
for God to clear the guilty, he must make
him guiltless. In order for God to forgive sin,
he must totally annihilate sin. Got that? Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, was made sin for me. And when he died under the wrath
of God, he satisfied the justice of God and took away my sin. And now the law of God finds
no sin on me. It can't. It can't. It's gone. The law requires righteousness,
perfect righteousness. But Brother Don, I know you want
to know you don't measure up to that. You do and you don't
know me near as well as I do. I've never thought righteousness. Even the aspiration polluted. Before God, I've never had a
good thought. Not a good one. Merle, the very best of it is
full of me. Very best of it. Not a good thought. My love for my wife is horribly
selfish. And as much as she loves me,
and it may be impossible for you to get it, her love for me
is horribly selfish. You can't do anything good. Your
heart's corrupt. Well, how can you say you're
not afraid of the law? Because Christ is the end of
the law. He, by his obedience to God in
the room instead of his people, brought in everlasting righteousness. Mark Medley, he made us perfectly
righteous. Perfectly righteous. That's how
the scriptures speak when they speak of Christ being the end
of the law. So that now the law has been cast out, terminated,
fulfilled, satisfied, ended. The law we read in Galatians
3 was our schoolmaster. to bring us unto Christ. But now that you've come to Christ,
you're no longer under a schoolmaster. Many of you have met my dear
friend, Brother Bob Spencer. He was my sixth grade teacher. He's a one-armed fella, had polio,
and his right arm was just a little shriveled up stump, smaller than
my hand. But he was a stout fella. He
was a stout. And in the sixth grade, I was
11 years old, and I was scared of him. And I had reason to be
scared of him, because every time his back was turned, I was
disobeying. I'd sneak in the closet and smoke something, or
I'd do other stuff. And so every time I thought he
was around, I kind of shook him by boots, kind of shook him by
boots. And I hadn't seen him for 30 years. One night I got
on the elevator down in North Wilkes-Barre, North Carolina,
and I looked at him and I said, are you Bob Spencer? He said,
yes, sir. I said, you won't remember me,
my name's Don Fortin. He said, oh, I remember you. And he prayed for me. Sitting
at our dining room table, he said, I prayed more for you than
any student I ever had. But I'm gonna tell you something.
He's not my schoolmaster anymore. And I'm not the least bit afraid
of him. If I should see him walk in the door right now, and he's
not going to, he's old now. If I see him walk in the door
right now, I'd be tickled to death to see him. Ah, that's
Bob, he's my friend, he's my friend. Listen to me. God's holy law is my friend. God's holy law is my friend. God's law demands as fully as
God's justice that Don Fortner enter into glory. How can that
be? Because by faith in Christ, we
fulfill the law. We bring God everything God requires,
perfect righteousness and perfect satisfaction. That's what it
is to believe on the Son of God. But Brother Don, surely the law
is designed of God to be a rule of sanctification so that by
obedience to the law, Assist God we help God we work with
God we side with God whatever terms you want to use in our
sanctification No thousand times no Christ is our sanctification
Christ is our sanctification We're sanctified by his blood
sanctified by his purpose and sanctified by his presence in
us Christ that holiness without which no man shall see the Lord
But if that's the case, if the law doesn't have any power or
dominion or constraint over us for anything, how do you expect
believers to live a godly life? If you tell them that, that means
I can live any way I want to. Any man who makes that statement,
or who thinks it and wouldn't dare make it, has betrayed himself. You mean you really would like
to live a different way? You would really like to be a
drunk, a whoremonger, an adulterer, a fornicator, a blasphemer? You'd
really like to spend your life doing something else other than
worshiping God? You'd like to live some other way, would you?
You betrayed yourself. God's people are not of your
kind. God's people live unto Christ
because they love him. That's all. That's all. Christ is the end, the termination
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. everyone that believeth. Now
this is the vital issue. Dost thou believe on the Son
of God? Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank God for the blessed
gift of faith in His dear Son. I believe on Christ.