Salvation is entirely of grace. Entirely of grace. It's of God
which showeth mercy. We read of the grace of God which
bringeth salvation. Except God set his grace upon
us, except God looks upon us in mercy, we will never be saved. Our iniquity is so great. Our rebellion against God is
so wicked. Our hearts and minds are so fallen
that there is nothing that we can do which is not corrupted
by sin and which can be at all presentable unto God. There's
nothing we can do to merit salvation. Not even our most diligent worship,
our most zealous religious deeds, our most fervent Bible reading
or prayer, nothing we can do will bring salvation. It's entirely
by the grace of God. Our wills are set against Him. Naturally we will not seek Him.
We seek our own end and our own glory, then left to ourselves
we are condemned. But God is a God who delights
in showing mercy. He delights in showing mercy. And everyone unto whom he shows
mercy is a guilty wretched sinner who's done nothing to merit it. Noah found grace in the eyes
of God. Why? Not because of any good
in Noah. He was as guilty and as wretched
as you are. Jacob found grace in the eyes
of God. Jacob have I loved and Esau have
I hated. Why, was Jacob better than this
or no? He was a schemer, a deceiver. But God said, I will show my
love unto Jacob. You, my friend, are a guilty,
wretched sinner. You have shaken your fist at
God. You have gone astray. Your heart
is full of deceit. Your heart is full of rebellion. However religious you might be
on the outside, you're as guilty as the worst. There is nothing
in you that deserves salvation and no cause for God to show
you mercy. But that does not mean that God
will never show you mercy. For he is a God that delights
in showing mercy. He saves guilty sinners. He saved Noah. He saved Jacob. He called Ruth, a stranger, out
of darkness into glory. He saved the thief on the cross. He saved Saul, who became Paul,
who went about persecuting the church and putting to death believers
who were so enraged against Jesus Christ and all who followed him,
that in thinking he did God's service, he went about causing
havoc in the churches. and he did everything to set
himself against God and to set himself outside of God's grace
and mercy and yet God came unto Saul and said, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? Here was a man who was religious. Here was a man who thought he
was saved. Here was a man who thought naturally
speaking that he of all men deserved to enter heaven. And yet, he
came to discover that his heart was full of sin. And he deserved
condemnation. He said, I'm the chief of sinners.
He deserved it. He was set directly against Christ
and his people with full knowledge of what he was doing. And yet,
God showed him mercy. He met him. He changed him. He turned him. He showed him
what he is. And he pointed him to his son.
His son met him. His son called unto him, Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he showed him his grace and
his mercy. Are you persecuting Christ? Have
you set your face, your fist, your will against Christ and
his people? Has he met you? Has he shown
you what you are? Has he shown you his mercy? David
knew this mercy. David knew his sin. David knew
his wretchedness. David sinned greatly. He took another man's wife. He made
sure that that man died in battle. He effectively murdered him.
He arranged the circumstances to put that man to death that
he might have his wife. And he knew that he'd sinned
against God in so doing. Yet God loved him. And God set
his grace upon him. And God caused David to write
out of the experience of his own heart. And in Psalm 13, David
writes this, addressed to the chief musician of Psalm of David,
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face
from me? How long shall I take counsel
in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? And how long
shall mine enemy be exalted over me? Consider and hear me, O Lord
my God. Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep
the sleep of death. Lest mine enemies say, I have
prevailed against him. And those that trouble me rejoice
when I am moved. But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy
salvation. I will sing unto the Lord because
he hath dealt bountifully with me. I have trusted in thy mercy. This psalm opens with five questions
and two requests, two pleas. Seven in all. A perfect plea,
a perfect prayer, born out of a perfect work of God in the
heart to break David down and bring him to nothing and cause
him to cry. David so often in the Psalms
like here cries unto God because God has brought him to cry. The natural man doesn't cry. The natural man doesn't call. The natural man doesn't care. The natural man in religion like
Paul, like Saul, may call to a God of their own understanding. may call to a Jesus of their
own creation or of the creation of false religion. A Jesus that
suits the natural man. A Jesus whose message doesn't
confront us as we really are. A Jesus who loves all men unconditionally
and just stands waiting for us to follow him and show him some
pity. The natural man will call upon
such a Jesus because he's not Jesus and he's not God and we're
not offended by him because he doesn't confront us with our
sin and the condemnation against our sin because we're never shown
what we really are by such a Jesus, by such a God, by such a message. Oh the natural man in religion
can go after such a message and such a saviour and call upon
such a saviour because he's never calling upon the true and living
God. But when he's brought to hear
of the real God, a sovereign God, who does whatsoever he pleaseth,
who raiseth up and casteth down, who loves and hates, who softens
hearts and hardens hearts. When he's brought to hear of
a sovereign God, in whose hands he is, and upon whose mercy he
depends, then the natural man rails against him. The natural
man's offended. This is a hard saying. He turns
away. He does not want to know. He will receive so much. So much
of the truth, but there comes a point where he says, not that.
Especially when he hears of the electing grace of God. Especially
when he hears that his salvation is not in his hands, but in God's
hands alone. this is too much for the natural
man and he turns in John chapter 6 we read of
how Christ spoke to the people and he said therefore said I
unto you that no man can come unto me except it were given
unto him of my father from that time many of his disciples went
back and walked no more with him. They were offended at this. They could take the miracles,
they could take the blessings, they could take the moral advice.
But when they heard that no man can come unto Christ except it's
given unto him of his father, except the father calls, except
the father draws, this was too much and they went away. Then
said Jesus unto the twelve, will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter
answered to him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words
of eternal life. To whom shall we go? As the natural
man's offended at the truth. But God sent the truth to David. and he worked a perfect preparation
in David's heart he allowed David to sin and to sin greatly but
he showed David his sin and he showed David the depravity of
his heart and God withdrew from David as a consequence of David's
sin to show him what his sin did the separation between God
and man that sin has caused the gulf that has opened up between
God and man. He showed David what he was and
the condemnation that reigned over him. And David cried and
knew the separation and he wanted God to hear him, he wanted God
to be present to him, he wanted to be saved. But God stood afar
off to show David that there's nothing in Him, there's nothing
in man, there's nothing in you and I which can bring about salvation
except God shows us mercy. So we see at the beginning of
this psalm five questions, two requests, a perfect cry unto
God to hear How long will thou forget me, O Lord, forever? And then we see at the end having
been brought to such a place having been brought to be nothing
and to know he's nothing and to know he can do nothing but
cry and call and wait for God to answer we see at the end how
the faith that God has put in David's heart rises up with a
three-fold cry. Though God is at a distance,
though God does not appear to hear, though God appears to be
silent, though David's alone in trouble, he looks up by faith. knowing the gospel, knowing that
salvation is by grace alone, knowing that his sins have separated
him but that through Christ the Saviour, through a Redeemer,
through God himself there is salvation. David by faith rises
up and says I have trusted in thy mercy My heart shall rejoice
in thy salvation. I will sing unto the Lord because
he hath dealt bountifully with me. Can you join him? Can you join David here? Do you
know the experience he's gone through that gives rise to these
five questions, two requests, But have you heard the gospel? And has God caused you to believe
that gospel? And are you crying out and trusting,
not in yourself, not in your works, not in your will, not
in man, but in God alone, in his mercy? Five questions. How long wilt
thou forget me, O Lord? Forever? How long wilt thou hide
thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel
in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall mine enemy be
exalted over me? To Christ consider and hear me,
O Lord my God. Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep
the sleep of death. Consider and hear me, O Lord
my God. Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep
the sleep of death. Oh, what a place to be brought.
You call, you cry, and God doesn't hear. You know the state you're
in. You know how desperate it is
by nature. You know you've got no strength.
You know you've got no wisdom. You know you've got no righteousness. You know you're full of sin.
You know what you've done. You know what you've said. Religious
or irreligious? Profession or no profession?
Standing or no standing, you know what's within. And you know
that you call unto God and it's like he's far off. He's not answering,
he's not hearing. How long will thou forget me,
O Lord? It's like you've been abandoned
forever and you know that you should be abandoned forever.
You know that you deserve to be abandoned forever. You know
you've earned it, you know you deserve it. You know your sins
have wrought this. It's like the sentence has been
passed and there you are waiting for the hours to go till you
finally are plunged into hell. How long wilt thou forget me,
O Lord? Forever. Is it going to be forever? Am I just passing my days in
this world? Will I stay in this state? Will
I reach the end of my days here and finally be cast into darkness? Is it forever? How long wilt
thou hide thy face from me? I call out unto thee, I cry,
I look for thy face, I want to be heard, I want to be saved. But thy face is hidden from me.
I never hear the voice of God. I never behold him. I never feel
his presence. I feel abandoned. How long shall
I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? I'm
on my own and all I've got to look at is what's within. I hear
the word of God, I read the scriptures, I hear the gospel. But all I've
got, other than them, is what I see within my sin. I want to
know God, I want to feel his presence, I want to hear his
voice. It's like he's abandoned me.
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? Satan brings
his accusations and they're all right. He comes and says look
at you, look at your sin, look at your filthy rags of righteousness. Do you think God's going to accept
you? Do you think he's going to accept
your profession of faith? And I know he's right. There's
no good in me. My enemy is exalted over me. I cannot answer him. I cannot
stand. I'm at death's door. Consider
and hear me, O Lord my God. Hear me. Lighten mine eyes, lest
I sleep the sleep of death. That's all that's awaiting me.
Young or old, whether I've many days to go or few days to go,
if I remain here, all that really awaits me is death. Hear me,
O Lord, lest mine enemies say I have prevailed against him,
and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. Oh, Satan's
got his grip upon me. He says, look at this one. Look
how wretched he is. Look how wretched she is. I'm
gonna have them. I'm gonna sift them through. He wanted to sift Peter. Peter deserved it. Peter denied
the Lord Jesus thrice. He professed to follow But in the hour in which it counted,
he denied. And Satan laughed. But was Peter lost? In the end, Peter was Christ's. When that message of the Gospel
came to those disciples and they heard that none comes to Christ
except the Father, has given them unto him except the father
draw them when they were offended at this and departed and the
few remained. Peter said to whom else shall
I go? And though Satan might get his
grip on him. And though he might be guilty
of all of this. And though Peter, like David,
might have felt like Christ would abandon him, like he'd cut off
any possibility of salvation. All that time he'd been with
Jesus. All that time he'd been with
his Master. And here at the end, when Jesus
needed him most, he denied him. He'd gone and ruined it all.
He knew he could go to no other, he knew that only Christ had
the words of eternal life and now he's gone and ruined it all.
And yet Jesus loved him. And yet Jesus kept him. And yet
Jesus set his mercy, his grace upon him. Oh do you feel like you've got
to that point that you've ruined it all? Whatever religion you
have, whatever profession you make, that your sin's too great and you sit in darkness, knowing
where you are, knowing what you are, but feeling like God's are
far off. You cry and there's no answer. How long wilt thou forget me,
O Lord, forever? David's brought here as Peter
was brought there and David did not wander off with those disciples
who were offended as Peter did not wander off with those disciples
who were offended when the truth of the Gospel came because God
had his hand on him and though they were brought low and though
they were alone and though they only seemed to have the cry of
their own heart for company taking counsel in their soul having
sorrow in their heart daily though they seemed to be alone and God
never spoke and God never heard God did hear and God did in the
end speak and God did turn and God did show them mercy and God
did call them by grace and David in such a state looked outside
of himself outside of his own wretchedness, outside of his
own sin, outside of his own soul, he looked up, he looked through
the gospel to a saviour who has said of God, that I am a God,
that delighteth in showing mercy. And David by faith, writes, I
have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy
salvation. I will sing unto the Lord because
he have dealt bountifully with me. What else can guilty sinners
trust in? What else can they rejoice in?
Who else can they sing to? What can you trust in but God's
mercy? We've no grounds for blessing,
no grounds for hope, no grounds to expect salvation. When we're
guilty as we are, with hearts like ours, with wills as wretched
as ours, When all we deserve is death and condemnation. When
everything we have done and said and thought has earned us judgment
and condemnation. All we have done has earned this.
What else can we trust in? But God's mercy. But God's mercy. There's nowhere else to go, nothing
else to trust in anymore. Everything else is gone. Some
men trust in riches. Some men trust in might. Some men trust in power. In the
natural realm you might build up your name in this world. You
might build up your business. You might build up your reputation. But it's all nothing. It's like
sand that will pass through the fingers. And those who are taught
of God are brought to see it's nothing. In the religious realm,
people trust in their works, in their righteousnesses, in
their attendance, in their prayers, in their zeal, in their decisions. They trust in everything that
they've brought forth, but when God comes to them, he shows that
it's all filthy, it's all nothing. and it all passes through their
fingers and falls away and they realise they've got nothing and
indeed all that they've done in religion has been wickedness
self-righteous zeal designed to glorify themselves and earn
their own salvation that they might say I was saved because
I did I said I went But when God speaks to them like
he spoke to David, when God brings the gospel and they hear the
gospel like David heard the gospel, they know it's all nothing. They
know their professions, their baptisms, their service, their
will, their attendance was all a sham. Do you know that of yours? Have you professed Christ? Have
you been baptised in his name? Have you heard the gospel? Have
you attended? Have you gone here and gone there?
But is it of you, or is it of God? When you're shown it's of man,
you will know that there's nothing you can trust in, nothing you
can rest in, except God's mercy, except his mercy. And who does
he show his mercy unto? Does he show it unto the good? Does he show it unto the righteous? Does he show it unto those that
made the right decision? Does he show it unto those of
the right birth? Does he show it unto those in
the right place? No. He shows it unto the guilty,
unto the wretched, unto the chief of sinners, unto the worst of
sinners, unto the hopeless and the helpless, unto the blind,
unto the deaf, unto the lame, unto those who are dead. He shows it unto the worst. Are you the worst? Are you the
most deceitful wretched sinner that ever lived? Are you blind? Are you naked? Are you poor? Are you a sinner? Are you beyond
hope? Well it's those. Those who have
no hope. Those who've gone too far. Those who've thrown it all away. Those who've gone against everything
that they were given. It's unto the Peters when he
denies. And the David when he sinned
and murdered. It's unto those who've fallen
that God shows mercy. If we turn to John's Gospel in
chapter 8, we read of a woman, a wicked woman, a wretched woman,
an evil woman, whom Christ loved. Jesus went unto the Mount of
Olives and early in the morning he came again into the temple
and all the people came unto him and he sat down and taught
them and the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken
in adultery. And when they had set her in
the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken
in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded
us that such should be stoned. But what sayest thou? This they
said, tempting him that they might have to accuse him. But
Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as
though he heard them not. So when they continued asking
him, he lifted up himself and said unto them, he that is without
sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her. And again
he stooped down and wrote on the ground. And they which heard
it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one
by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last. And Jesus
was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus
had lifted up himself and saw none but the woman, he said unto
her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Have no man condemned
thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus
said unto her, neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. Jesus said unto her, neither
do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. Well, she
was worthy of condemnation. She was caught in the act. She
was guilty. Moses' law said that she should
be stoned. These scribes and Pharisees were
right. She was guilty. But so were they. And when Jesus said unto them,
he who is without sin cast the first stone, none could rightly
pick up a stone, because they were all with sin. But she was
guilty. And yet Jesus said unto her,
neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. She knew
she was guilty. She knew she was wretched. She
knew she deserved to be stoned. She knew her state. Yet Jesus
showed her mercy. He showed her grace. She did
not deserve it. She did not earn it. She didn't
even ask for it. She was brought to him by her
accusers. She didn't even go to him. She
wasn't even one of those who heard of Christ and followed
him and called out to him. She was brought under him by
her accusers. Now Satan, your accuser might
come unto you and say unto you, look how wicked and wretched
you are. and you may stand before him
guilty and he may come unto God with you and say, ha ha, look
at him. And you may feel like you're
done for. Here's an accuser finding out
your sin and exposing it before everyone and bringing you before
God as guilty. There's no hope. But what if
the Lord, as he says unto this woman, says unto you where are
thine accusers? and he says unto you neither
do I condemn thee go and sin no more you've done nothing you've
done nothing but sin you've done nothing but earned condemnation
but you're brought unto God by an accuser Your own sin has brought
you before Him. Your own guilt has brought you
before Him. And though He should say you
are guilty and cast you out and have you stoned and put to death,
instead He says, go and sin no more. There's no condemnation. He sets His mercy upon you. You
expect to be judged and He forgives you. You expect to be slain and
condemned and he sets you free because he's a God who delights
in showing mercy. And the perfect work of his gospel
has brought you to know you're a sinner and brought you before
him and brought you unto the one who was crucified for sinners. who was slain for sinners, who
took the sin of this woman, who took the sin of David, who took
the sin of Noah, who took the sin of Saul, who took the sin
of Peter, and bore those sins upon the cross in their place,
and was judged and crucified and slain for them. He bore the
judgment of God for their sins. and when they're brought before
him guilty because he's borne those sins away he can look upon
the guilty and say no you're not guilty anymore I've paid
the price I've set you free go and sit no more have you been
brought to one who was slain in your place? did he die for
you? has he taken your sins away?
Do you know that you're a sinner? There are those for whom he didn't
die. When they hear his gospel, they're
offended and they go. But the guilty know they're guilty
and they stand with no plea. Nothing to say. No claims of
righteousness. No claims of the right decision.
They stand guilty. Expecting a sentence. They have
no answer, no criticism, no complaint, no self-justification. They stand
guilty. They know he'd be just to condemn
them. And yet he turns and says, you're
mine. In Ezekiel in chapter 16, we
read of a nation who was guilty. A people who were guilty. Again
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause
Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus saith the Lord
God unto Jerusalem, Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land
of Canaan. Thy father was an Amorite, thy
mother an Hittite, and as for thy nativity, in the day thou
was born thy navel was not cut, Neither was thou washed in water
to supple thee. Thou was not salted at all, nor
swaddled at all. None eye pitied thee, to do any
of these unto thee, to have compassion unto thee. But thou was cast
out in the open field to the loathing of thy person in the
day that thou was born. And when I passed by thee, and
saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when
thou wast in thy blood, live. Yea I said unto thee when thou
wast in thy blood, live. Here's a wretched people with
the wrong birth, born in sin, born guilty, born wayward. And Jesus comes unto them, the
Lord comes unto them, and says unto them in their filth and
their corruption, live. Now if you read through the whole
of Ezekiel 16 you hear a tale of a people who went astray time
and time again. time and time again despite the
grace of God unto Israel, despite his care of them, that country,
that nation went astray and turned its back on God and yet he always
remembered them, he says of them at the end Thus saith the Lord
God, I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast
despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Nevertheless, I
will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth,
and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Then
thou shalt remember thy ways and be ashamed, when thou shalt
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger, and I will give
them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. The
Lord set his eyes upon a people who were wretched and guilty.
By nature all they did was sin against him. And yet because
of his mercy, because of his grace, he continued to show mercy. In Matthew 27, we read of the
crucifixion of Christ. We read that those two thieves
crucified with him, two vagabonds, two transgressors, two evil men
who'd done nothing to serve God, nothing to deserve salvation,
sinners through and through. And in Matthew 27, 38 we read,
then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand,
and another on the left. And they that pass by reviled
him, wagging their heads and saying, Thou that destroyest
the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come
down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests
mocking him with the scribes and elders said, he saved others,
himself he cannot save. If he be the king of Israel,
let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him.
He trusted in God, let him deliver him now, if he will have him. For he said, I am the son of
God. The thieves also which were crucified
with him, cast the same in his teeth. There were two thieves
crucified with him. The people, the scribes, the
Pharisees mocked Christ. They derided, they hated him.
And the thieves, both thieves, which were crucified with him,
cast the same in his teeth. To the very end, both these thieves
hated and reviled and rejected Christ. And that's all that is
recorded of those thieves in Matthew's Gospel. No more is
said. You may read Matthew's gospel
to the end and all you'd know is that both those thieves cast
this mockery and this rejection in Christ's face, in his teeth,
and died and perished in their sins. That's all you'd know.
You may read of them in Mark's gospel, the same account. You may read of them in John's
gospel, the same account. But if you come to Luke, You
will read of one of them that there was a change which occurred
at the very end. Only in Luke, that Gospel that
sets forth Christ specifically in the light of his being the
Saviour who brought the grace of God and salvation. that gospel
which magnifies his grace says of this malefactor and one of
the malefactors which were hanged railed on him saying if thou
be Christ save thyself and us but the other answering rebuked
him saying does not thou fear God seeing thou art in the same
condemnation and we indeed justly For we receive the due rewards
of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said
unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily
I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in paradise. today thou shalt be with me in
paradise this thief at the very end was shown that his condemnation
was just and he knew it was just and he owned it and he cried
unto Christ and Christ said unto him you're mine you're forgiven
I will show my mercy unto you today thou shalt be with me in
paradise Now we see the grace of God magnified here. To guilty
sinners. To guilty sinners. That's Luke's
great focus in his gospel upon Christ. We see this guilty sinner. forgiven by grace. Despite the
fact that moments before, as the other Gospels record, he'd
been cast in this hatred in Christ's teeth, yet Christ looks upon
this hateful man, this rebellious man, this man who derided him
and scoffed him and said hateful things to him a moment before,
he says unto him, today thou shalt be with me in paradise. You see what's common in all
these free passages of all these people, of that woman caught
in adultery, of that nation of Israel chosen, though wretched
in their sin, of this thief at the very end who cast hatred
in Christ's teeth. What's common for all All that
they have done has ensured that they deserve, that they have
earned condemnation. They deserve nothing from God. And yet in each case God shows
them mercy. In each case God shows them mercy. As for their salvation, they've
done nothing to contribute to it, nothing to earn it. They
don't do anything here. The woman's just brought by her
accusers before the Saviour. God speaks unto Israel, unto
this people, born in iniquity. This thief is crucified with
Christ, he's led by the How does that be to his death place with
Christ and he just happens to be there? He never sought Christ,
he didn't try to be where Christ was, he didn't engineer this,
he was just there. And yet he was in the right place. All three are as it were passive,
they've done nothing other than that which would condemn them
and yet God brings them to himself and God speaks to them. And they
come to hear of God's great mercy and the grace of God and their
salvation. That mercy in which David trusted. That salvation in which his heart
rejoiced. That bountiful dealing which
caused him to sing unto the Lord. David trusted in God's mercy. But I have trusted in thy mercy. He didn't trust in self. He didn't
trust in his own works. He didn't trust in his own will.
He didn't trust in his own righteousness. He didn't trust in his own experiences. He didn't trust in man. He didn't
trust in friends. He didn't trust in preachers.
He didn't trust in the church or in religion. He'd been shown
that salvation lied in none of these things. Yes, God has his
people. Yes, God gathers his people in
the church. Yes, God sends forth preachers
with his word, but it's God through that church, through those preachers
who saves. The church alone can't save. The preacher alone can't save. Godly friends can't save. Experiences can't save. Your decision can't save. Your
works can't save. God's mercy alone will save you. And David stripped of everything
with nowhere else to go. Like Peter as it were, though
he waited and waited, though he cried, how long wilt thou
forget me, O Lord, forever? Like Peter as he were, he said,
to whom else shall I go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life, hear me, O Lord, hear me. And he was brought to hear. He
was brought to hear. In the end he heard. and he trusted
and he knew the bountiful grace of God. Have you heard? Has God brought this gospel to
you? Has he? Has he brought you to
know his salvation? His grace? Has he brought you
to know that you're a sinner? And do you hear that message
and accept it? Has he brought you to know you're
condemned and you say that's right I am? Has he brought you
to know that naturally you're lost and you say yes I am lost?
Has he brought you to know that your deeds are of nothing worth
and you say I know they're of nothing worth? Has he brought
you to believe that gospel, that truth and you say yes I believe
it but I long to hear his voice? then hear his gospel and hear
of the Saviour who came into this world into this world of
darkness unto that thief upon the cross and was crucified beside
him who took the sins of his own that they might be delivered
who bore their sins who bore their iniquity that he might
say unto them thy sins be forgiven thee oh have you been brought
there Oh if you haven't, if you're brought to know your sin may
the Lord have mercy upon you and bring you to hear his voice
and bring you to see his face that with roof you might fall
on your face and bow yourself to the ground and say unto him
why have I found grace in thine eyes that thou should take knowledge
of me seeing I am a stranger. Oh may you fall on your face,
bow yourself to the ground before this God and Saviour and say
unto him, why have I found grace in thine eyes that thou shouldst
take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger.