I'd like to begin by reading
just one verse, a very familiar verse of scripture to you. Perhaps
you can guess what it might be. Verse 37, and he says, All that
the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to
me I will in no wise cast out. Our Lord here was talking to
quite a few people that professed to believe in him, that professed,
at least outwardly, with the mouth, that is, to be his disciples. They had followed him. He's now
in Capernaum. He had crossed the Sea of Galilee.
After feeding the multitude, which included, we learn in the
first part of the chapter, 5,000 men, After that, they followed Christ
across the sea to Capernaum. This is where we began our reading.
It's part of the conversation he had with them once they found
him. But see what they were willing to do after this miracle that
they were partakers of and witnesses to in verse 14 of chapter 6. After that miracle, they made
this statement. Verse 14, Then those men, when
they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a
truth, that prophet. Now they're referring to Deuteronomy
18 where Moses said, The Lord himself shall raise up a prophet
from among you, him shall ye hear. That's what they're referring
to. They were familiar with that promise. And they said, this
must be Him. This must be that prophet. This
is of a truth, that prophet, that should come into the world. Now look what they were willing
to do. We read what they said. They seemed convinced of it.
They said, this must be Him. This is the one. This is the
Messiah. Now what were they willing to
do? Verse 15. When Jesus perceived, or therefore perceived, that
they would come and take him by force to make him a king,
he departed again into a mountain himself alone. That's what they
were willing to do, make him king. Now look down, if you will,
in the chapter, the verse 24. Our Lord sends his disciples
across the sea. He comes to them walking on water
in the storm. You're familiar with that. They
cross the sea. They're in Capernaum now. And
these men, when they can't find him on the other side, they take
shipping and follow. Verse 24. And when the people
therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples,
they also took shipping and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus. That looks good so far. It looks
good, doesn't it, that they would do that? Then verse 25, and when
they had found him on the other side of the sea, they looked
until they found him. They said unto him, listen to
what they call him, Rabbi, Rabbi, that is master, when comest thou
hither? Rabbi. Now, as we shall see on
down in the chapter, looking at a few other verses, These
men would fall into that category of people of which our Lord said,
you honor me with your lips, but your hearts far from me. They said rabbi, they said master,
but it's obvious as we shall see, they had never bowed to
him. They have never bowed to him
as their Lord and master. It was all outward. Everything
we just read. It was all an outward thing. It was not the result of an inward
work of grace. That becomes obvious on down
in the chapter. Look at verse 28 of John 6. Then said they unto him, What
shall we do that we may work the works of God? Now that question
there betrays an ignorance, does it not? And look at our Lord's
answer. Verse 29, Jesus answered and
said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him. That's it. This is the work of
God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. That was our Lord's
answer. It's God's work. Salvation is
not your work, as they seem to think, but it's God's work. It's
not what you've done, or are willing to do, or think you can
do, but it's God's work in you. As our brother read a moment
ago, for by grace are you saved through faith. That's what our
Lord's telling them. This is the work of God. It's
not yours. By grace are you saved through
faith, and that's not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. And after all they've done, look
at the outcome. Look down, if you will, at verse
66. This is what all they were willing to do, had done, had
said, had professed. But look what it all came to.
It's talking about these same ones. From that time, many of
his disciples went back and walked no more with him. The description of a true believer,
I think, is found a very good one in Philippians chapter 3.
Paul said, we are the circumcision. We are the true children of God. who worship God in the Spirit,
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. One hymn writer expressed it
like this. He said, It is the Holy Spirit
that quickeneth the soul. God will not accept man worship
or bow to man's control. No human innovation, no skill
or worldly art can give a true repentance or break a sinner's
heart. That takes a miracle of God's
mighty grace. Look back, if you will, at verse
36 of John 6. Our Lord is speaking to these
people that we just read. They walked
away from Him, saying, this is just too hard a saying, and followed
Him no more. Our Lord is speaking to them
here in verse 36 when he says, but I say unto you, I say unto
you that ye also have seen me and believe not. Believe not. They had seen him
physically. They had seen Him with their
natural eye. They've seen the Son of Man. They've seen the God-Man. They
saw literally the Word made flesh. They saw Him. They sat down in
that open field on grass and saw what He did with five loaves
and two fishes. He fed thousands. Thousands. They saw that and yet our Lord
says to them, you believe not. Isn't that something? They saw
more and had experienced more than many professed believers
do today and yet our Lord said, it's not enough. It's not enough. That's not what saves the soul. What you've done is not what's
required, what's necessary for a sinner to truly come to Christ. You're still blind. You still
believe not. I find that very interesting,
don't you? I find that very instructive. It's no wonder that our Lord
said, this is the work of God. It's God's work. For He knew
from the beginning, we read on down in the chapter, who they
were that should believe and those that didn't. Oh, He said,
you believe not. And I thought to myself, As I
look this over again this afternoon, and Larry Criss, that would be
your condition if it wasn't for his grace, Lester. The only reason
I believe, and I hadn't seen what they saw, I hadn't experienced
what they experienced, and yet I would be in that same category,
an unbeliever, still blinded by sin, if it hadn't have been
for this. He opened my eyes. He who is
the resurrection and the light, He who in the beginning said,
Let there be light, did likewise to you and I who are believers. The glorious gospel of the blessed
God has shined into our hearts to give us the knowledge of Jesus
Christ. All that to know Him, Paul said,
is indeed life everlasting. To behold savingly. savingly. They beheld Him with
the natural eye, but never with the spiritual eye, never with
spiritual sight. Therefore He said, you believe
not. Oh, but to be enabled by the
miracle of the grace of God, to be enabled by the miracle
working Holy Spirit of God, to see Him, to see Him and say,
Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. That's
a miracle. That's a miracle of God's mighty
grace. I read the other day in a bulletin
and thought of it as I was preparing this message and found it, a
few words by Brother Henry Mahan. I don't think I can go wrong
quoting Henry Mahan around here or anyplace else. This is sort
of Henry's old stomping grounds, not far from here anyway, isn't
it? Henry said this, the most difficult thing for any of us
to do is to trust totally and completely trust Christ. To trust and rest in our blessed
Lord Jesus to redeem us, to sanctify us and to make us accepted of
the Father. We are so prone to self-righteousness. How do you know that about me?
We are so prone to self-righteousness and works that we have a constant
battle trying to remember that man in his best state is altogether
vanity. And in his weakest moments is
no less loved and accepted of God in Jesus Christ. As Brother Fortner said, my relationship
with the eternal God in Christ does in a great measure determine
what I do. But what I do, good or bad, in
no way determines my relationship with the eternal God. Henry went
on and wrote, I do not come to Christ on the basis of my works,
nor am I kept in Christ on the basis of my works. I looked to
him then for all things, and I look to him now for all things. The command, look unto me and
be ye saved, is not only the hope and strength of the seeking
sinner, but it is the constant hope and strength of the believing
sinner. I know my emptiness, but I am
complete in Him. Oh, what peace we often forfeit!
Oh, what needless pain we bear! All because we do not cast our
sins, our souls, on Christ and leave them there. And I have
to say, Amen. He is exactly right. Is it not
so? Look again, if you will, at the
text. Verse 37. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh unto me I will in no wise
cast out. The title of my message, keeping
in mind our text, verse 37, is this. Does this discourage you? Does this discourage you? What
our Lord says here, what He proclaims here, does that discourage you? It doesn't a true believer, does
it? No. It's not discouraging at
all. What He said here concerning
the sure and certain grace of God, calling all that were given
unto Him by the Father, He said they shall come to Him. There's
nothing here to discourage a child of God as concerns himself or
his loved ones. Mr. Spurgeon had a message entitled
from this text, Election, No Discouragement to Seeking Sinners. No discouragement. Remember the
hymn that we sang in the bulletin this morning? Why not for me? Why not me? If God Almighty is
determined to give grace, if grace is free, if grace is unmerited,
if grace is bestowed upon nobody else, Lord, nobody, but needy,
helpless, hopeless sinners, then why not me? Why not me? It's the straw dummy, distortion of this blessed truth
that folks have a problem with, and so do I, or at least I have
a problem with. It's the caricature, I don't
know how to put it, what they say the doctrine of election
is, but not what it really is. For example, I've heard people
describe it as this, those who believe election are saying this,
There's a poor sinner who wants to be saved. He comes to God
for mercy. and he's seeking mercy. But God
won't save him because he's not elect. That's how they describe
the doctrine of election. I don't know where they get that
description. They never heard it from me.
They never heard it from any other man called of God to preach
the gospel. And they certainly didn't receive
it from the Word of God. On the other hand, I've heard
people say, oh yeah, those who believe the doctrine of election
believe this. that God saves people against
their will. And he doesn't. Here's a poor
sinner. I've heard men say this. Here's
a rebel against God. He doesn't want to be saved.
He doesn't want to go to glory. But God says, you're one of my
elect. So you're going whether you want
to or not. And picks him up, so to speak,
and just throws him into glory. That's not the doctrine of election. And that's not what our Lord
spoke of here. Bless God, we're not saved against
our will. But at the same time, our Lord,
or rather we're told in John, it's not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. And
we go to Revelation and we read, whosoever will, let him take
the water of life freely. What's the answer to those two
things? It's this, my people shall be willing in the day of
my power. God doesn't save us against our
will, but by his sweet constraining grace, he makes us willing. You remember in Exodus chapter
1, Joseph dies. The children of Israel are in
Egypt. Been there a good while. They've adopted the customs of
the Egyptians. They've forgotten long ago the
promise that God gave, you will not stay here, I'll bring you
out. They done got comfortable. Well,
Joseph died and we're told in chapter 1 that a new Pharaoh
rose up that didn't know Joseph, that didn't care about Joseph
like the one before and he made slaves out of the children of
Israel. And when they begin to feel the whip of the taskmaster
on their back, then they begin to pray. Then they remember,
we shouldn't be here anyway. Lord, do what you promised our
fathers. Bring us out of here. He didn't
make the children of Israel leave against their will, did he? But
he sure made them willing to go, made them willing to leave,
and thank God for that constraining grace. And that was all right
with them, and it's all right with me. Years ago, again, I'm
looking to Brother Henry for some assistance. I remember being
in a service with Henry. Oh, my soul. Long time ago. Long time. Right after I met
Don. And he introduced me to Henry. But it was in Beckley,
West Virginia. And Henry was preaching along
this line. And I remember him saying, when
a sinner becomes aware by God's teaching him that he's lost. Our Lord spoke of that in this
chapter, didn't He? We didn't read it. But it says,
all that have learned of the Father Do what? They come to
me. They come to me. And what God
teaches a man is his need of Christ, that he's lost, that
he's undone, and his only hope is in the Mediator, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Henry said, when a sinner becomes
aware by God's teaching him that he's lost and he wants nothing
but mercy, and he hears that Christ died to save his people
from their sins, he'll come in that character as a sinner. That's the only way we can come
to Christ, as sinners. And he'll find mercy to help
in his great time of need. If he hears God has chosen a
people, He'll still come, knowing those people, without exception,
are all sinners, and He'll bow down before the King of Glory
and say, Lord, if you will, have mercy on me, and He will experience
the very mercy of Christ Himself. And that doctor of election or
be all right with him, Henry said. He won't have a problem
with it. Our Lord said, he that cometh
unto me, I will in no wise, under any circumstances, I don't care
who they are, how far they've wandered, what they've done,
it doesn't matter. He that comes to me, He that
comes to me, I will in no wise, I like that. I've highlighted
that. I will in no wise, no way, no
how ever cast out. Never, never, never. When he comes to me initially
seeking mercy, I won't cast him out. It's never happened. It's
never happened, Louis. There's never been a sinner sincerely
come to Christ seeking mercy who was ever turned away. Find
me one example of it in the Gospels. He turned away the self-righteous.
He turned away those who wanted the fire safe out of hell, but
he never turned away a needy sinner like that leper. Lord,
if you will, you can make me clean. What did our Lord do?
I will. I will. The words were no sooner
out of that leopard's mouth than our Lord reached forth and touched
him and said, I will be thou clean. Bartimaeus, what do you
want? The crowd had already said, would
you be quiet? Shh, shh, be quiet. Bartimaeus thought, well fine,
for you to say be quiet, you're not blind. Jesus, have mercy
on me. And our Lord stopped. He's on
his way to be made sin. He's on his way to accomplish
eternal redemption for us. And he hears one poor blind beggar
and he stops and says, bring him to me. What do you want? What do you want, Bartimaeus?
I want to sin. Lord, my great one, he said,
that I might receive my sight. And what did our Lord do? I will. I will. And pardon me,
let's open His eyes. And the first one He saw was
Jesus Christ, the one that gave Him sight. And He followed Him,
we're told, in the way. And we can't follow Him until
He opens our eyes. Oh, but what a blessed, blessed
moment. It's not been too long. It's
not been so long that I could ever be justified in forgetting
it or ever be justified in getting
over it. He opened my eyes, Kenny. He came to where I was. And I remember where I was. I
was in the depths like old Newton. Out of the depths I cried unto
Him. And I couldn't help myself. And
He came to where I was. He reached out His hand for me. He touched me and raised me up. And He clothed me in the very
best robe. His own righteousness. He put
on me the ring of reconciliation. He brought me to the Father's
house. I've aided His banquet table
of mercy and grace all the days, and He's promised me, if that
weren't enough, He wants me with Him in glory, and He's promised
to bring me there. I will in no wise, no wise, Larry,
ever cast you So how could you get over something like that?
Hallelujah! What a Savior! I can seldom,
I can seldom in driving, not driving as much as I used to,
and I don't miss it, but seldom in driving along. When I Go over
a bridge or an overpass, and if I'm not mistaken, there's
one not too far off of 77 when you turn on 21 south, coming
this way. Railroad tracks. Go over that
overpass and look over, and I can see railroad tracks. And I don't
think I seldom see a sight like that. that I don't recall God's
mercy to me. Now that deserves some explanation,
because I go back in my mind, my memory, and I see a lost,
helpless, hopeless hippie walking down those tracks, wringing his
hands, and saying, My soul, I'm lost. And there's nothing I can
do. I'm undone. As old Barnard said,
God had gotten me lost. And I remember walking those
tracks and thinking, this is it. I'm going to live a little
while, Lester, in this misery. And then I'm going to die. and he's going to cast me into
outer darkness. And I deserve it. And I deserve
it. One or two of you ladies have
expressed a desire to meet my mother. I hope, the Lord willing,
I can arrange and bring her down here to spend some time and to
meet you. If that should happen, ask her. Ask her. Which one of her five
sons most broke her heart? Which one, not just as a teenager,
but after that, caused her the most heartache, the most trouble,
was the most rebellious, was the most selfish, didn't care
about anybody more than himself? Tried the drugs, the booze, all
of it. An absolute mess. walking around
saying, peace, peace, in constant turmoil, anything but, until
what? I'm picturing that guy going
down them tracks right now. And the God of glory said, that's
enough. That's enough. You've gone far enough. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me." To me. And I thought, that can't be
me. And Christ said, oh yes, it's you. It's you. Come down,
sinner. And this proud, rebellious rebel
fell down before the King of Glory, begging. Begging, not
proud anymore. Oh no, Lord, please have mercy
on me. And you know what? Now I can
sing like I did a moment ago. Only a sinner saved by grace. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story. To God be the
glory. To God be the glory. I'm only
a sinner saved by grace. You remember when he healed that
poor demoniac in Mark chapter 5? And the townspeople come out
and said, depart out of our coast. And they saw that demoniac who
they knew was a wild man. They couldn't tame him. They
couldn't do anything with him except put him out in the cemetery,
chain him, but he would just break the chains. And now they
see him setting and clothed and in his right mind at the feet
of Jesus. And our Lord gets in the boat
to leave. And that poor demoniac wants to go with him. Take me
with you. Take me with you." And remember
what our Lord said to him? He said, no, rather go home to
thy friends and tell them what great things the Lord has done
for you and have had compassion on you. Go tell them. And when I read, all that the
Father giveth me shall come to me, I'm not discouraged. Are you? Oh, I see the certainty
and the freeness of grace in those words. He says they shall
all come. They shall all come. I didn't
take the time, I probably wouldn't have been able to find it if
I could, but I remember reading a sermon by Mr. Spurgeon where
he was talking about the wonder of God's grace, God's willingness
to show mercy, His delight to show mercy, and exhorting sinners
to look to Him. And as I said, I couldn't find
the volume or the sermon in which I read those words, but I tell
you what, I think I'm pretty close to remembering them by
heart. And I jotted them down. At the
close of his message, Mr. Spurgeon said this, come sinner,
come. Come, and I'll stand with you. I'm so certain that the gospel
I preach, I'm so certain of the gospel I preach, that I'll take
my place beside you before the throne of grace. And if you perish
after coming to Christ sincerely seeking His mercy, I'll perish
with you," Spurgeon said. What more can I say to bear witness
to my absolute certainty of His promise? He that cometh unto
me, I will in no wise cast out. And to Mr. Spurgeon's comment,
I say, Amen. Amen. I'm so sure and so certain
of this blessed promise, I have no reservation, I have no problem
whatsoever declaring to the vilest offender that truly believes
according to God's own Word, that very moment from Jesus,
a pardon receives. It's no wonder it's called the
glorious gospel of the blessed God. It's no wonder that it's
good news. He's able to save to the uttermost
all that come unto God by Him. All that the Father giveth me.
All. And who are the all? Well, look
at them. And the first thing I know is
that they're all sinners. Every one of them. They're all
sinners. None other were given to Christ.
It's a multitude that none can number. And this doctrine certainly
speaks of election. But they were all sinners that
were chosen in Him. Yes, they were chosen unto salvation. They were chosen in Christ, and
that presupposes that they must have been loved with an everlasting
love. Therefore, love being the springboard,
God chose them, and Christ came to die for them. That's all true,
but they were all sinners. When we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us. Oh, what a wonder this is. God
loved these sinners. Freely. Freely. That word means
so much more than we consider what something free to be. It
means without cause. God's love loving us freely is
without cause, without reason. Imagine that. Imagine that. You've probably heard it said,
but one dear Woman, a believer, said, oh yes, I'm sure God must
have loved me before I was born because there's certainly nothing
in me to attract His love after I was born. Oh, but He has loved
us with an everlasting love from eternity, chose them to salvation,
knowing what we were. knowing what our salvation would
entail, knowing what his own holy justice required, he yet
loved us. Abraham, take your son Isaac,
your beloved son Isaac, that child of promise, that child
that you waited for for so long, take him up to Mount Moriah, Lay him upon an altar and sacrifice
him to me." And off Abraham goes. Father,
here's the fire and here's the wood. Where's the sacrifice? Remember what Abraham said? My
son, God will provide himself a sacrifice. And as Abraham raised
his arm with the dagger, To slay his son, God stopped him. There's a ram behind you, Abraham,
in the thickets. Sacrifice that. Don't you know
Isaac loved the doctrine of substitution? He stayed his hand. But when
the justice of God made bare his holy arm, and said, Awake, O sword, against
the man who is my fellow. Smite the shepherd. He didn't
stay his hand any longer. He thrust the sword of divine
justice into the heart of his darling son. He took the cup
of God's holy wrath and he drank it dry. Mmm. Wondrous, wondrous grace. God the Father knowing what was
required. in order to save those people
that he chose eternally from their sins, yet sent his son. And his son, knowing exactly
the same, what was necessary, what was required, responded
unto his father, sending him in the fullness of time with
these words, O I come, In the volume of the book, it is written
of me to do thy will, O God. And that included being bruised
for our iniquities. That included enduring the wrath
of a holy God. But He said, I come, I come. For the joy that was set before
Him, He endured the cross, despising the shame. That is wondrous grace. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. They'll come in time. They'll
come in time. Certainly, they must come in
time, just as Saul of Tarsus came. just as Zacchaeus came. Come down, Zacchaeus. Today is
salvation. Come to this house, he said,
our Lord said, because I've come, the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save, and he does both successfully that which was lost. All that the Father giveth me
will come to me. A multitude that none can number. And they'll come individually. He may be pleased to save 3,000
on the same occasion as he did on the day of Pentecost, but
they'll all experience that call individually. A personal call. It won't be issued or received
by proxy. No, no. He'll call them individually. All that the Father gave him.
Every one of them, in time, will hear his voice, and they'll come. They'll come, just as Saul of
Tarsus did. I remember again, this is a night
for Brother Henry. He preached at the little church
I pastored one night, and we were driving back to my house,
and he was going to spend the night with me before he traveled
on to Ashland, and oh, it was such an honor. For some reason,
Lester, that night, the power went out, and the house I lived
in at the time was total electric, so we lit candles, and Henry
just loved it. Sitting there at the kitchen
table with candles, and he was telling me, oh, we stayed up
till the wee hours, talking about the church in Ashland, how all
that came about. But I remember he asked about
my sons and my daughter. They were all pretty young at
that time. And I said, Henry, isn't it amazing
how, I mean, like, they're so different. So different. Henry said, yeah, Larry, they're
individuals. They're individuals. You have
two sons, you have a daughter, you're their father, they're
their mother, but they're their own individuals. And so it is
with all those God calls. He calls them as individuals. They may be religious or unreligious. They may be a self-righteous
hater of Jesus of Nazareth like Saul of Tarsus. But when the
King of Glory comes to him and says, Saul, come down, you know
what's going to happen. Saul's going to come down. He's
going to bow in the dust before the King of Glory and he's not
going to be too proud. anymore. You hear what I'm saying,
mom? Dad, with those lost rebels,
I've got them. Those prodigal sons of daughters,
look away from them and look to Him who's able to save to
the uttermost. He can bring them down. He says,
my arm's not shortened that it cannot save. All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. The next time you speak to them,
invite them to hear the gospel or witness to them, and they
put you off or even say something smart to deliberately hurt you,
just remember this. He's able to save to the uttermost. He did it for you. He did it
for you. Remember what a rebel you were? All that come unto God by Him. He's able to save. Moose Park sings a hymn with
that funny little instrument that he plays. Hail sovereign
love that first began the scheme to rescue fallen man. Hail free,
sovereign, eternal grace that gave my soul a hiding place. Thank God for that mighty grace. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. They'll come in time, they'll
hear His voice, and they'll follow Him. And they'll continue to
follow Him. And they'll follow Him all the
way to Galilee. In Revelation 14, we're told,
describing the multitude, they all have this in common. These
are they which follow the Lamb, whithersoever He goeth. Wherever He goes. They're going
to be with Him. They follow the Lamb. They'll
come to Him in eternity. They'll come to Him in glory.
They'll be with Him everlastingly. Oh, I've seen some Blessed, blessed
wonders of God's amazing grace when the master is come and calleth
for one of his sheep. And you have too. You have too. I've heard some blessed, blessed
testimony as they breathed at their last and closed their eyes
to this world and his heartaches and his trials and then he opened
them and they're seeing Him. Isn't
that something? Isn't that something? It's no
wonder Paul said, I'm in a strait to stay here and be with you
or depart and be with Christ. Oh, face to face with Christ
our Savior, face to face, well, what shall it be? When with rapture
I behold Him, Jesus Christ, who died for me. In Revelation 14,
verses 4 and 5, where it says, These are they which follow the
Lamb, whether so ever he goeth, it also says, and I'll close
this, They are without fault before the throne of God. Before the throne of God? Before
the throne of God? In the presence of God? He knows
everything. He knows all about man. I'm in
His presence? What about my sin before the
all-knowing God? He won't see it. You know why? There's no sin there. It's all
gone. They're without fault before
the throne of God. Let me read you this sweet word
from Micah chapter 7 and I'll close with this. Who is a God
like unto thee, that partneth iniquity, and passeth by the
transgression of the remnant of his heritage, his elect? He retaineth not his anger forever,
because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again. He will have
compassion upon us. He will subdue our iniquity. He will subdue our iniquities. You mean I'm not always going
to be like this? You mean I'm not always going
to have this nature, like we sang earlier, that is prone to
wonder, prone to leave the God I love, that's not always going
to be so? Oh, no. No, not in that day that
I awaken His likeness. Then I'll be satisfied. He shall
subdue our iniquities. And look at this, and that will
cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. And there's
no depth finder that can find them, Louis. There's no compass or whatever
they use that can find them. They're gone. One old preacher
said, yes, he's buried my sins in the depths of the sea, and
he puts up a sign that says, no fishing allowed. They're gone. They're gone. The prophet went
on to say, Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy
to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days
of old. That's our Savior. That's our
Savior. And all that the Father giveth
him shall come to him, and he promises all that comes he will
in no wise cast out. God bless you.