In the 10th chapter of Romans
Paul contrasts that righteousness which is of the law which concerns
doing with that righteousness which is of faith and he personifies
the righteousness of faith and speaks of it as speaking. And
in verse 8 he says of the righteousness of faith what sayeth it? What
does this righteousness say? Does it say to do this, to go
up into heaven to bring Christ down? Does it say to go down
to the deep to bring him up again? No, it doesn't. What does the
righteousness of faith say? It sayeth, the word is nigh thee,
even in thy mouth and in thine heart. That is the word of faith
which we preach. that if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. For the scriptures say, if whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference
between the Jew and the Greek. For the same Lord over all is
rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever, Jew or Greek,
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him
in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring
glad tidings of good things. But they have not all obeyed
the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who have
believed our report? So then, faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard?
Yes, verily their sound went into all the earth, and their
words unto the ends of the world. Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God. So Paul emphasises the wonderful
contrast between faith and works, between law and grace, between
doing in order to be saved and hearing that thou shouldst believe. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing
by the word of God. What does the righteousness of
faith say? Does it say to work? Does it
say to strive? Does it say to seek to climb
up to heaven to bring Christ down to you? Does it say to go
down into the depths to bring him out of the grave up to you?
Does it say to strive to seek him out? No, it says believe. The word which brings faith,
the word which will make you believe, is in thy mouth and
in thy heart, the word of faith which we preach. Faith cometh
by hearing and hearing by the word of God. If you want to be
saved you need to hear the gospel. And if you hear the Gospel, not
just in the letter but in the heart, by faith inwardly, if
God causes you to hear and puts faith in your heart through that
hearing, then you will believe and then you will be saved. this
is the great differentiator between that gospel of God that saves,
the power of God under salvation, that means by which God truly
saves sinners and gives them everlasting life and the righteousness
of God and all that false religion which takes Christ's name which
speaks about something they call the gospel which talks about
salvation but which seeks to bring it to pass by something
that you must do for the difference lies in the hearing of the gospel You can go to countless churches
and countless meetings and listen to countless preachers, but if
what you hear from their lips is not the Gospel, is not the
Word of God, then no faith will come by it, and no salvation
will be wrought by it. No matter what is said, no matter
what you do in response, If the Word is not mixed with faith,
then there's no salvation. And if that Word is not the Gospel,
the Word of God, which comes from God, comes from Christ's
lips on high, is sent down by the Spirit of God, and is delivered
by those preachers that God calls and sends to His people, if that
Gospel, if that Word that you hear does not come from that
source, then it will not produce faith in your heart and whatever
you do or say, you will not be saved. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing
by the word of God. And this was the trouble with
Paul's kinsmen, the Jews, Israel at the time. They had all the religion in
the world, all the history, all the heritage, all the claims
but they never truly heard and therefore they never had a true
knowledge of the gospel and therefore they never sought righteousness
by faith. Brethren, my heart's desire and
prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. And our
heart's desire and prayer for you is that you might be saved. But if you go about salvation,
or if you rest or hope in a means of salvation which falls short
of the gospel which Paul preached, then you, like Israel of old,
will remain as a disobedient and against saying people. I
bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according
to knowledge. For they, being ignorant of God's
righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believeth. Now what are you resting in and
what are you striving at and on what do you hope to be saved? On what basis do you hope to
be saved? Do you have a zeal? for the things
of God. It may be that you have no interest
in the things of God whatsoever. The fact that you are hearing
this message today means you've been brought in the pathway,
but that might be simply because you're dragged to a meeting by
others and forced to hear, or simply because somebody has suggested
you listen to this message. But truly in your heart you have
no care, no concern, Whatever your lips may say, your heart
is far from these things. You love the world, you love
the pleasures of the world, you love the riches of the world,
you love the acclaims of the world, you love the ambitions
of the world, you love the hopes and the desires of this world.
All your heart is set upon progressing in this world and religion to
you is either a distraction something of disinterest or perhaps it's
just a veneer by which you can cover your life in some sort
of sense of good morality or some sort of sense of self-righteousness
but really it's secondary to all that you desire and love.
And it cannot truly be said of you that you have a zeal of God
or a zeal for the things of God. Well you've no hope of salvation
if that's your path. You can listen to the gospel
and shut it out. It can go in one ear and out
the other. You can trundle through your
life to the last day. But if that's your attitude and
contempt for the gospel and salvation, then one day when you pass from
this world to the next you'll stand before that God of whom
you may have spoken and certainly of whom you have heard and he will treat you with contempt,
justly and rightly. But maybe you fall in with these
Jews and you do have a zeal You are aware of the need for
salvation. You know you're a sinner. You
know God is a holy God. You know you're mortal. You know
this life is not all there is. You know you must stand before
a holy God. You know that to dwell with him
forevermore once you pass from this world, pass from this moment
of life, that you must be righteous. And you have a zeal. and you've
read the scriptures and you've attended the meetings and you've
listened. But is your zeal not according
to knowledge? Are you striving to be righteous
before God by your own strength, by your own works, by your own
deeds? I bear them record that they
have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge. Oh they had a zeal
and I'm sure their zeal was greater than your zeal. However zealous
you are I'm sure it was. Paul was zealous as a Jew, a
Pharisee of the Pharisee, of the tribe of Benjamin, as concerning
the law blameless. He kept it outwardly, he followed
everything that he thought he should do as a Jew before God.
He read the scriptures, he attended the meetings, he went to the
temple, he offered up sacrifices. He tried to keep the Ten Commandments
as well as he could and all the other commandments flowing forth
from it. And outwardly he thought he was
blameless, but he knew not God. because he was ignorant of God's
righteousness. He was going about seeking to
establish his own righteousness by the law that God had given. But in so doing he was seeking
to establish his own righteousness. And he was ignorant of God's
righteousness. And it wasn't his righteousness
which would save him and make him acceptable before a holy
God. He needed God's righteousness. He needed to be righteous as
God is righteous, not righteous as man can be righteous by his
own strength. And if that's what you're doing,
you're making the same mistake. because no matter how zealous
you are and how hard you strive at it and how particular you
are to the letter and how careful you are to turn away from this
sin and that sin and to read the scriptures and to follow
rightly and to do this and that no matter how zealous you are
everything you do is tainted with sin and every day and every
moment of that day you fall short for they being ignorant of God's
righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Is that you? You know you need righteousness
but you've not submitted unto the righteousness of God. You're just striving to be righteous
yourself. You hope that God will look upon
you and say that you're better than the next man. They never
went to the meetings. They never read the scriptures. They never prayed, but you did. And surely that counts for something. Surely when God looks at you
and compares you to that sinner over there, that he'll say, well,
look at you, well done. You were at every meeting, you
listened to the gospel preached, you read the bible, you said
your prayers, you never fell into the gravest of sins, you
were zealous, oh well done. And you think and hope that that's
how God will respond to you, when you fail to see the blackness
and corruption of the heart within. and that all that so-called righteousness
is but a veneer on the outside. Just like the Pharisees who whitened
the outside of the sepulchre when inside it was filthy and
vile and disgusting and God looks not on the outside but the inside. God isn't looking on you as other
people can see you. Seeing how you dress, seeing
how you speak, seeing how you appear. But God looks and sees
your heart, what's within. Those filthy thoughts, those
evil desires, that anger which you may constrain outwardly and
hide from others but it's there. That jealousy, that covetousness,
all that's within. He sees and knows just as you
see and know. There's no fool in God. And this matter of salvation
is not a matter in which you can fool about with. You can't
fool about with God. You can deceive multitudes, but
you can't deceive God. He sees within. And if you know
that there's one blemish within, then you can be sure that God
knows about it too. Are you going about seeking to
establish your own righteousness? Seeking to keep the law when
God has said Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone that believe it. Christ came, made a man the son
of God that took upon humanity to his wonderful divine person
he took humanity was made a man born a man made under the law
he lived as a righteous man the law never found one fault in
him but he took at the cross as the substitute of his people
he took the sins of his people upon himself and he was made
sin in their stead and as a consequence the full vengeance and outpouring
of God's law and God's wrath against their sins was poured
out on him. And all that the law said against
them, all that the law said against their sins, all that the law
said against their breaking of that law, demanded a penalty,
a penalty of death, and that penalty was exacted upon Christ. It was exacted to the full, exacted
to the uttermost. Every last drop of God's wrath
was drunk. And having been drunk, having
been answered, the judgment having been paid to the last, to the
end, that law had no more to say. It said do this and live
otherwise die and its penalty fell upon Christ fully completely
until it was fully and completely discharged and Christ delivered
all of his people from under that law, under its penalty,
under its demands, under its rule and brought in for them
in himself. the righteousness of God and
he brought it in for them freely by grace it didn't demand anything
from them because he did it all he went to that place of execution
that they deserve to go to he stood in their place he answered
their debt and he having answered it gave unto them righteousness
freely by grace. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believe it. He brought in
for them the righteousness of God, on which they believe. Therefore, it is a righteousness
which comes not by law, not by works, not by their striving,
but by faith. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believeth, to everyone that
has faith. He's not the end of the law for
righteousness to all, but only to those who have faith, only
to those for whom he died, all of whom will at some point be
brought to faith, because all for whom he died will hear the
word of God by which faith comes. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing
by the word of God. There is a righteousness which
is of the law which says that the man which
doeth those things shall live by them. A righteousness which
you can never keep up Because you live, you live, you live,
you work, you work, you work and you fall every day at the
same time. And even when you're doing you're
taken up by your pride and conceit at how well you've done and taint
the whole lot. But the righteousness which is
of faith speaketh on this wise, saying not in thine heart who
shall ascend into heaven, that is to bring Christ down from
above. or who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up
Christ again from the dead but what sayeth it? It says believe. The word is neither even in thy
mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of faith which
we preach. That if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Why does Paul say that the word
is neither even in thy mouth? It's not in everyone's mouth
clearly, because not everyone believes all day long i have stretched
forth my hands unto israel unto a disobedient and gainsaying
people they did not believe they crucified christ they rejected
him when he came unto them but paul says christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth then
for those that believe, those who are brought to faith, the
word is definitely nigh, and it's definitely brought into
their mouth and in their heart. And he says this as he's preaching. He comes here preaching the Gospel,
as I preach the Gospel to you today, and I say unto you that
this Gospel which you are hearing, this Gospel which declares that
faith comes by hearing, that declares that Christ has brought
in the righteousness of God for his people, for sinners like
you, for the guilty, for the fallen, for the lost, for the
corrupt, This gospel which declares that righteousness will never
come by your seeking to establish it by the keeping of the law.
This gospel that says that Christ had to die, he had to take the
punishment for your breaking of that law, for your sin, he
had to stand in the sin instead. This gospel that says that it's
of grace and grace alone. This gospel, as we preach it,
is being heard and if you hear inwardly then this word is nigh
in thy mouth in thy heart it's the word of faith which we preach
Have you heard? If you hear, if you receive,
if you believe it, then if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation. Under the law man worked unto
righteousness and under just about every form of false religion
whether it be islam buddhism hinduism or every corruption
of christianity every form of false religion puts you to work
in that you should work unto righteousness but under this
gospel We say that with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. How are you going to obtain righteousness? Not by works, but by believing. How are you striving to obtain
righteousness? More often than not, not by believing,
but by working. Because that's the folly and
the foolishness of man, especially religious man. he hears and he
goes and he says what shall I do and off he goes and strives and
strives and strives and seeks to attain unto God by his own
strength don't be the fool with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
It's about believing. It's about faith. But I haven't
got faith, you say. But my faith is weak, but I struggle
to see. How can I believe? How can I
have faith? Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God. To be right with God, you need
righteousness. And not just a bit of righteousness,
not just some sort of man-made level of righteousness, but you
need righteousness equal to the divinity in the person of God
himself. You need to be as righteous as
God is righteous. You need to have not one shred
of sin within you. You need to be unblemished, perfect,
pure and holy. And you're not. By nature you're
not. But there is a righteousness,
the righteousness of God, which comes by faith when the gospel's
preached. The righteousness of faith. The righteousness of faith. What are you doing, working or
believing? What have you got? some works
in your hand, some self-righteous garments, filthy rags of iniquity? Or have you got faith that God
has put in your heart when you heard? With the heart man believeth
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. For the scriptures say, if whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Whosoever. If you believe, if you believe
today, if you have faith today, you won't be ashamed, you will
be saved. But you say, I'm too far lost,
I know nothing. My knowledge of the scriptures
is poor. There are others that know far
more. They're far more zealous than
I am. Surely they're ahead of me. They're
far more righteous than I am. They're far more pure and moral
in their living. You don't know what I've done.
You don't know what I think. You don't know what I'm like.
But God says, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. The Jews had all the advantages. The Greeks, the Heathen, the
Romans, the Gentiles had none. They were in darkness, full of
superstition, full of evil and corruption, full of fornication
and lust, full of this world and its ways and its means. Darkness. And yet God in his gospel sent
that gospel unto the Gentiles, unto the Romans, unto the Greeks,
unto the heathen, and said you can be saved just as the Jew
by believing. All the so-called advantage the
Jew had proved to be a snare around his feet. He trusted in
his birth, he trusted in his heritage, he trusted in his religion,
he trusted in the temple, he trusted in the sacrifices, he
trusted in the form, he trusted in the oracles of God, he trusted
in everything that was outward and he trusted in his own keeping
of God's commands and he didn't look as God encouraged him to
by faith unto the Saviour, of which the sacrifices were a picture,
of which the temple was a picture, of which his birth was a picture,
of which his heritage was a picture, all that he had was a picture
pointing him to Christ and he shut his ears and looked at it
outwardly and never saw what it meant but those of them, those
Jews, those born of God, those who had their eyes open, saw
by these things unto a Saviour. A Saviour, the Son of God, who
came into this world to save sinners. One who came of which
the sacrifices were the picture. One who was slain. One who came
as a priest to offer up Himself as one sacrifice once and for
all. One who came to bring in righteousness. One who came to shed His blood.
One who came to take away sin. All pointed unto Him. upon whom the sinner looks by
faith and believes unto righteousness. For there is no difference between
the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich unto
all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. All Jew or Greek, you
must look unto the Lord and call upon him. All must believe, all
must hear the gospel, all must have faith to be saved. Whatever
you are, wherever you're born, whatever you know, your salvation
depends upon having your eyes open to see a saviour crucified
for you. It depends on having faith. You
must believe. But how? How will you believe? How will you obtain faith? You're
not born with faith. And that's one of the great lies
of our time is to tell people that they all have faith. and
that it's just an exercise of their mind and that we are, as
it were, born with faith and it's just a matter of what we
put our faith in. You don't have faith. You're blind by nature. You're dead by nature. You cannot
see God. You cannot comprehend God. You
cannot understand God. You cannot hear God. You're dead. You're without faith. And you
need faith. And faith is a gift of God. He gives it to whom he will. Then how, you say, will I receive
it? How can I know if God will give
it to me? How can I ask God for it? How
may I obtain it if I'm born without it and I need it? How will I
gain faith? Ephesians 2.8 tells us that faith
is the gift of God, how are you going to receive it? Well not
by doing, not by working, not by going about seeking to establish
your own righteousness, not by your zeal in religion, but by
hearing. and by hearing the word of God
and by hearing the gospel of God and by hearing a preacher
come with that gospel faith cometh by hearing and hearing
by the word of God how then shall they call on him in whom they
have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they
have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be said? Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved, but how can you call upon one
you do not know? How then shall they call on him
in whom they have not believed? If you don't know him, if you've
not seen him, if you've not believed on him, how can you call upon
him? You know you must call to be
saved. But you need to know that he
is. You need to know that he is. As we've heard before of faith
in Hebrews chapter 11, we know that without faith it is impossible
to please God. For he that cometh to God must
believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him. But if you've not heard of him,
if you've not heard the truth of him, if you've not heard what
he's really like, if all you've heard is of another God, or a
characterization of God. If all you've heard is a false
description of God then you might seek to believe on that God,
you might seek to follow that idea of God or that idea of Jesus
but if it's not the God and the Jesus then you're trusting in
an idol. And how can you truly believe
in whom you've not heard? You must hear of God and you
must hear of the true Christ and you must hear of the true
gospel in order to believe on him and to call upon him. You know you must call and you
know that in order to call you must hear of him and on whom
you must call you must know of him. How then shall they call
on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they
believe in him of whom they have not heard? You can't. And how
shall they hear without a preacher? You need to hear. And if you're
going to hear, then God must send you a preacher to tell you
who God is and to tell you who Christ is. and to tell you what
God has done through his son Jesus Christ to save sinners
like you. Then to call upon God the preacher
must come to you with his message. God must call unto you. God must
send his message, his gospel, his salvation unto you and God
does so by calling a preacher and sending him forth and then
sending him to his people and sending him with his message
and saying declare unto that person my gospel that they might
hear and they might understand and they might believe. How shall they preach except
they be sent? God must send them because this
is a communication between God and the sinner. If you hear from
a man who sent himself, then all you're hearing is the words
of that man. You're not hearing God. You're
not hearing the word of God. And faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of God. God must speak unto you and if
God's going to speak unto you then he will call a man and send
him to you with his gospel. And when that man comes with
that gospel in power with the Holy Ghost then you hear God's
speech, then you hear the Word of God, then you hear the Word
of Jesus Christ, then you hear the Spirit of God, then life
is conveyed, then you hear of Him upon whom you can believe. And then by that Gospel, faith
will be put in your heart, that you should hear, that you should
believe. There's a line, there's a chain. How does God save sinners? By
speaking unto them. Why are sinners not saved? Because
God hasn't spoken to them. Why are there multitudes that
delude themselves that they're going to heaven, that delude
themselves with religion, who are heading for hell because
they've never heard God? They've heard words, they've
heard the scriptures, they've heard men stand up and talk and
say many things, but no one sent those men unto them. God never
sent them, so the message never came from God and it was never
his gospel. It may have sounded close, it
may have referred to Jesus and to God, it may have referenced
the cross, but unless God sends the preacher, And unless God
preaches and speaks via that preacher through the Holy Ghost,
and unless that people hear from that preacher that Gospel that
declares the truth, that declares the Word of God, then there will
never be faith put in the heart, and they will never call, and
they will never be saved. Whatever their profession, whatever
their delusion, Has God sent His Gospel unto you? Has He spoken
unto you? Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the Word of God, therefore by preaching. You're not born
with faith, you need to hear it and it comes by preaching.
By preaching. There are many who've never heard
the gospel. They've no time for it, no care
for it, no interest in it. Yet that and that alone is what
brings faith. And that and that alone is what
saves your soul. And without it you're lost forever. You must hear the gospel, you
must hear the word of God, and you must have faith by that gospel. But God spake. unto Israel. And there were many in Israel,
even at the time when Christ lived upon this world, who never
heard, despite the words, and in fact turned around and rejected
the Saviour that God sent unto them and crucified Him. Because
they only heard the words. They only heard outwardly. They
only heard the letter. They only saw outwardly, they
saw Christ on the earth, they saw a man but they never saw
in him the Son of God. The eyes had to be opened to
see the Son of God, the disciples who confessed they were the Son
of God had their eyes opened to know him and to see him for
who he was. and they when they heard his
speech heard with a hearing which put faith in their hearts to
believe. You can hear outwardly but have
you heard God speak? You can come, you can sit, you
can listen to me, you can listen to my voice, you can listen to
a recording, you can listen to another preacher and you can
hear the words that are said, you can hear what I'm saying
today but are you just hearing my words? or through them does
God speak and do you hear his words you need to hear him now
he calls and sends preachers with that gospel but you need
to hear his voice and that's in his hands wherever you do
faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God but I say
have they not heard did Israel not hear Had they not heard of
these things? Yes, verily, their sound went
into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world. But I say, did not Israel know? 1st Moses say, if I will provoke
you to jealousy by them that are no people and by a foolish
nation I will hang you. Here are the Jews at the time
of Paul rejecting Christ and God had already said unto them
hundreds of years earlier by Moses and by other prophets that
I will provoke you to jealousy. Your hard heart will reject me. and I will send my gospel out
from you to other nations. I will send my gospel to the
gentiles to the dogs and they will believe and bring you to
shame for rejecting. Isaiah is very bold and say if
I was found of them that sought me not. I was made manifest unto
them that ask not after me. But to Israel he saith, all day
long I have stretched forth my hand unto a disobedient and gainsaying
people. Now are you like that? Do you
come week by week and listen to the gospel? And listen to
the gospel, but your ears are shut? and your heart is heart
and your mind is heart and your mind is elsewhere and the words
just wash over you well God might say unto you look I will send
my word unto someone else who sought me not who knows not me
who doesn't have the advantages that you have and they will believe
are you hardened in your heart? Are you taken of the gospel and
turning it into something by which you might work and by which
you might take pride in and by which you might seek to please
God by your own strength? You can take the words of the
gospel as the Jews took the scriptures and the form and turn it around
and turn it into something by which you seek to establish your
own righteousness. You can even speak of grace,
and even speak of faith, and even speak of the death of Christ,
and even speak of election. You can take all these things
and turn it into something in which you rest, because you're
rested in your knowledge and wisdom. You know these truths,
you know these doctrines, you've discerned whereas others haven't. And you establish your own righteousness,
you seek to please God by your knowledge, by your wisdom, when
in reality you've never heard Him. Because if you had, the
difference that will be seen is that your hard heart and your
proud heart will be broken and humbled and contrite. Because the true believer in
Christ, the true recipient of grace, the true man of faith,
is one who like blind Bartimaeus and like those poor cripples,
and those lame men, and those deaf people, and all those poor
sinners that Christ touched and saved, those without strength,
those without great acclaim, those nothings of this world,
the true believer is one who says, Lord, I believe, help thou
mine unbelief, have mercy upon me a sinner. They make no claim
for themselves, they don't think they're righteous, they think
they're full of sin. They're amazed and wonder that
God should have mercy upon them. They feel that they're the least
in the kingdom of God. They feel that they're the least
likely to be saved. They feel that they're the furthest
away, the foulest of sinners. They feel that their knowledge
of the scriptures, their knowledge of the gospel, their knowledge
of God is the worst. They feel ashamed of themselves,
they feel like if they come into a meeting with others, that others
would be looking down upon them. They're afraid of getting into
conversation to reveal their lack of understanding. Yet they
long to be saved. and they know they've no righteousness
they know there's nothing they can do they know there's nothing
in them in which God would be pleased and yet they look and
they cry out and they hope and they say God have mercy upon
me a sinner and all they can do on hearing this gospel is
to sit and to look and to see and to believe and to say if
Christ died for sinners, if Christ is the end of the law for righteousness,
if Christ has brought in the righteousness of God by his sacrifice,
by his shedding of his blood, by his death on the tree, if
he came to save sinners, of whom Paul said, I am chief, then mighty
have come to save me. O Lord, wash me in his blood. O Lord, make me clean. O Lord,
have mercy upon me. O Lord, may I have been one for
whom he died. and they look and they trust
and they hope and they believe on him because they've nowhere
else to look no other hope nothing else in which they can trust
there's nothing in themselves that they can look onto there's
nothing in their own hands that they can bring there's no claims
they can make all they can do is look All they can do is believe. All they can do is confess. With
the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. That's all they can do and all
their hope. Is that you? Is that you? Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord, shall be saved. If that's you today, hopeless
and helpless, but just looking and hearing and crying out, Lord
save me, wash me, make me clean, then you shall be saved. you shall be saved faith cometh
by hearing and hearing by the word of god if you hear this
gospel and if it brings you to that state of knowing you're
nothing and just crying out lord help me then god says unto you
whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed whosoever shall
call upon the name of the lord shall be saved Faith cometh by
hearing and hearing by the word of God. Amen.