Outstanding. Thank you, Celeste. What is your purpose? What is your purpose for being
here? The purpose of your life. It's
sad when people go through life with no sense of purpose. Those
who have no sense of purpose, generally have real difficulties. They flounder around and they
feel useless and they cause themselves a great deal of trouble and cause
others trouble. What's your purpose? Why are
you in this world? I discovered shortly after God
saved me my purpose for being here. I knew when I was 17 years
old, I was born to be a preacher. And I keep praying that God will
make one of me. My purpose here, my singular
purpose for existence in this world is to preach the gospel
of the grace of God, to be his witness. And in reality, if you're
God's, that's your purpose. to be his witness. He left you here to be his witness
that you might be the means by which other sinners like you
and me come to know the Redeemer in the free pardon of sin, in
the saving, marvelous saving grace of our God. We don't hear
much about soul winning these days. In fact, I don't believe
I've ever heard a gospel preacher preach on the subject of winning
souls. That wasn't always the case.
There was a fellow by the name of Horatius Bonar in the middle
1800s, a Scottish Presbyterian preacher who wrote a booklet
and that's really just an expanded sermon on soul winning. Mr. Spurgeon preached numerous times
on the subject, but I don't know that I've ever heard anyone who
claimed to believe the gospel of God's free grace preach on
the subject of winning souls. Yet, we read earlier in Proverbs
chapter 11, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
and he that winneth souls is wise. My text this morning is
John chapter 4, verse 30. I want, if God will enable me,
to preach to you about two great soul winners. I've been preaching through the
Gospel of John to you on Sunday mornings, and I find it interesting
that often in God's providence, just as I'm coming on a particular
passage or a particular subject, in the course of an exposition,
the Lord causes things to happen. It is not accidental that we
have just returned from visiting with a man and his wife who spent
the last 45 years in Mexico winning souls to the Redeemer. Imagine
that. Forty-five years devoted to the
business of preaching the gospel among a people who, without them,
would be left in the darkness of papacy and religious superstition. Brother Walter Groover, and now
his son Cody and his wife, wouldn't have been there for 13 years
picking up the same mantle. God make us such faithful people.
In John chapter four, we are given a beautifully instructive
picture of the soul winner. Actually, we have before us two
great soul winners. First, our Lord Jesus came to
Samaria as the great soul winner. seeking a singular lost soul
for himself. And then the sinner whom he sought
out and called by his grace, this Samaritan woman, once the
Lord Jesus was revealed to her, she immediately took up the same
mantle and became a soul winner. Let me show you. We'll begin
reading in verse 27. Upon this came his disciples
and marveled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said, what
seekest thou or why talkest thou with her? The woman then left to water
pot and went her way into the city and saith to the men, come
see a man. Which told me all things that
ever I did. Is not this the Christ? Then
they went out of the city and came unto him. Are you concerned
about the souls of men? Are you interested in the salvation
of others? Are you concerned about the salvation
of needy sinners for the glory of God? Would you like to be
used of God for the everlasting good of immortal souls? I know
if you have experienced God's grace for yourself, if you have
tasted yourself that the Lord is gracious, if you have yourself
experienced the marvelous love of God in your soul, the redeeming
blood of the Lord Jesus has been sprinkled on your conscience.
You long for others to know the Redeemer. You long for others
to know the grace you've experienced. You long for others to know the
love of God that passeth knowledge. I know that you do. And yet you
have lots of concerns. How can I witness to others? How can I bring others to know
the Redeemer? How can I encourage others to
believe on the Son of God and not compromise the gospel? How
can I be an effective witness for the glory of God and not
compromise God's glory? How can I persuade sinners to
come to see the Savior, to come to believe on the Son of God,
and yet not compromise the very faith I proclaim? How many times
have you asked yourself, oh, Lord, how can I show this kid
next door that he needs you? How can I get my friends interested
in hearing the gospel? How can I minister to my mechanic
when I go up there today? How can I talk to my husband
or my wife, my son or my daughter about my Redeemer? How can I
minister to my neighbor? Now, before we look at the text,
let me encourage you in a few things. Bring sinners with you
to hear the gospel. I was telling Brother Peter,
Brother Russell, last night on the way home, back years ago
when Brother Paul Thacker had built the church building in
Pikeville, there was no church there. No pastor, no one interested. He called Brother Mahan up and
he said, if I build a building, would you see if you couldn't
get some folks to come up here and preach and maybe God raise
up a church? And he said, by all means. So Paul bought a piece
of property on one side of the big hole on the other side of
the mountain and moved the mountain and filled up the hole and built
a church building and said, here it is. And we started going up
to preach. I went there to preach one Sunday
morning shortly after things had gotten started there. And
there were normally 15, 20 people on a good day coming to services. And I walked in the back door.
Came around the side, just about time to get there to preach,
and I'd been studying. And when I walked in, I kind
of, I was like you down at the place the other night, out in
the jungle in one of these Pueblos, about 150 people there. I walked
in, the place was packed. I mean, there wasn't an empty
seat in the house. And I don't have any idea what Brother Thacker
did. I never did ask him. I don't know whether he bribed
them. I don't know whether he threatened them. I don't know
whether he paid them to come. But about everybody he knew in Pikeville
was there. And he's just one time going to get them to hear
the gospel. Why don't you do that? Are you interested? Do what you can to get folks
to hear the Redeemer's Word. Do what you can to bring sinners
into contact with the Word of God. Bring them with you to the
house of God. This lady didn't say, go see
a man. She said, come see a man. Come
see a man that told me all things ever I did. Use the tracks and
the CDs and DVDs and tapes and literature available to you.
Keep them on hand and have them ready to give to folks who ask
you questions about the things of God. But if these are matters
of concern to you, I have a message for you this morning. But as
I talk to you who believe, I want to speak to you who are yet without
Christ. And so I ask you to give me all
of you your attention. It is the privilege and responsibility. I stress both words. Bobby Estes,
it is your privilege and your responsibility. It is my privilege
and my responsibility. And often the greatest privileges
are often the greatest responsibilities. It is our privilege and responsibility
as God's people of every saved sinner to seek the salvation
of other sinners. Let's begin back in Proverbs
chapter 11, Proverbs the 11th chapter. At the outset, I want
you to see that all who are born of God ought to be so winners. Now, I know some may think, well,
that's strange language for a fellow who preaches election and predestination
and limited atonement and divine sovereignty. If you have such
thoughts, that's not consistent with God's election. That's not
consistent with God's sovereignty. That's not consistent with the
teaching of limited atonement and irresistible grace. It's
because you do not yet understand the gospel. Proverbs chapter
11, verse 28. He that trusteth in his riches
shall fall. But the righteous, sinners made
righteous by God's grace, sinners made righteous in Jesus Christ,
sinners made righteous by blood atonement and imputed righteousness
and by the divine regeneration shall flourish as a branch. Verse 30, the fruit of the righteous
is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise the fruit
of the righteous now notice the word is is in italics the fruit
of the righteous tree of life perhaps the wise man is telling
us that the fruit of the righteous hangs on the tree of life the
fruit of the righteous is from the tree of life Or perhaps it's
best to read it just as it is in our translation. The fruit
of the righteous is a tree of life. We understand that Christ
himself is the tree of life and all life comes from him. But
we are made here like the Lord is the branch. The wise man here
declares we are a branch as the Lord himself is the tree of life,
declares that we are a tree of life. The fruit of the righteous
is a tree of life. So that believers are here described
both as a flourishing branch, a fruitful branch. Our Lord said,
I am the vine, ye are the branches, and the branch brings forth fruit.
Not the branch produces fruit, the branch brings forth fruit.
And the believer is called here a tree of life. So that in the
whole course of his life, our prayers, our instruction, Our
example, our influence in the whole course of his life. The
believer is a tree of life. Turn to Revelation chapter 2. What the tree of life was in
the garden and what the tree of life is in glory. Every child
of God is in this world. Now I'm not suggesting to you
what every child of God ought to be. If you are His and I am
His, this is what we are. The fruit of the righteous is
a tree of life. The believer is what Christ is. And as Christ Jesus is the tree
of life, we are made in Him a tree of life. Look in Revelation chapter
2 verse 7. He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. To him that overcometh
I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst
of the paradise of God. Revelation 22 verse 2. Christ is the tree of life and
we have the fruit of that tree. Revelation 22 verse 2. In the
midst of the street of it and on either side of the river was
there the tree of life which bear twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations. What is this fruit of the righteous
which is a tree of life? It is the gospel of the grace
of God. This treasure that God's given
us in earthen vessels, that grace which comes from Christ Jesus
by which sinners have life. It is the abounding fruit, the
healing fruit that comes from the tree of life, God's free
grace. He's given it to us, and now
we carry this fruit with us through all the world so that sinners
may have life in Christ. This fruit is a healing tree. It bears fruit, or this tree
does, bears fruit, twelve manner of fruit. fruit for all God's
elect, all the tribes of Israel. And it bears this fruit 12 months
in the year so that there's healing in all seasons for all people
in all circumstances. Our Lord Jesus speaks plainly.
He tells us that we whom he has chosen, we who have experienced
his grace are made his witnesses in this world. He gives us this
wondrous privilege. And oh, what a privilege it is.
He puts in our trust the gospel of His grace to carry in this
world so that we are used of Him to bring chosen, redeemed
sinners to Himself. Turn back to Ephesians chapter
3 for just a moment. Let me show you the attitude
of one of these sinners who is used of God for this purpose. Now I stress again, Christ alone
saves sinners. He only, Charles Bridges wrote,
who purchased them by his blood can win them to himself. He alone
calls the dead to life by his sovereign grace. He alone gives
repentance and faith, for he alone gives life, yet he condescends
to use instruments such as we are. Ephesians 3, verse 8. Here is one of those instruments.
Unto me, whom less than the least of all saints, is this grace
given. What a word. This grace. Can this be called
grace? Oh, yes. Oh, what grace. Oh, what grace that God would
use me to preach Christ to you. Oh, what grace that God would
use you to preach Christ to another. Unto me, who am less than the
least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach
among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. If Christ is
made of God unto us wisdom, he has made us wise, and the wise
men declares, he that winneth souls is wise. Turn to Matthew
28. This is our Lord's commission
to his church. This is what the risen Christ
commands his church to be. This is the responsibility of
Grace Baptist Church, Danville, Kentucky. And it is the responsibility
of every member of this body of believers. This is the responsibility
of Eggleston Baptist Church in Eggleston, England. This is the
responsibility of every member in the church, not just the pastor,
not just the elders, not just the deacons, not just the teachers
of every member. Go ye, therefore. Let me give
you a better translation, and it is a better translation while
you're going, while you're going. This is not a command for an
army to go marching against the gates of hell, though certainly
we're given such commands. This is rather a declaration
of instruction while you're going through this world, while you're
going about your daily business, while you're going about the
business of providing bread for your family, while you're going
about the business of getting an education, while you're going
about the business of entertaining your family on a week of leisure
in vacation. As you go through this world,
teach all nations. Preach the gospel, instruct men
in the cause of Christ, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe,
to believe and do and practice all things whatsoever I've commanded
you. And lo, I'm with you always,
even unto the end of the world. Turn to first Peter chapter three.
Well, surely this doesn't mean that in every aspect of life,
We should have in our minds this business of ministering to men.
Oh, yes. In every aspect of life. 1 Peter chapter 3. I hope my friend Bobby won't
be upset with me using a personal illustration. Most of you will
remember when he asked Judy to marry him. She came out here
and talked to me, asked me if I'd marry him. I said, of course
I will. And I said, now, you're fixing
to marry a religious man who doesn't know God. No point in
fooling yourself into thinking he does. Don't you nag him. And don't you badger him about
coming to church. Ask him to come, fight him to
come, make him welcome to come, but don't nag him about coming. Maybe God will be pleased to
save him if you'll be a good wife. There he sits. Listen to the
instruction. Likewise, ye wives, are you there? First Peter three. Be in subjection
to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, They also
may without the Word be one. What? They also may without the Word.
Now, Peter is not suggesting that they'll be converted if
you just live good before and never mention Christ to them.
He's saying that there's something for you to do that they may hear
the Word. He says, so that they without
the Word may be one by the conversation, by the life, of the wise while
they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. James tells us, brethren, if
any of you do err from the truth and one convert him. Now, James
is not telling you you can convert a man. You can't do that. You
can't do that. Well, you can too if God uses
you. I defy you to go plow up some
ground without something to plow it with. And I defy you to get
the plow to plow the ground. It won't do it. But you take
the plow in hand and stick it on the back of your tractor and
down through the field you go and you plow the ground. And
the plow is what turns the field. But it can't do it without you
using it. And so it is with us as instruments
in God's hands. We can't do anything. There's
no power in us, no ability in us, but we have the responsibility. And God Almighty uses men to
do that which he has ordained to accomplish. If any man convert
him, let him know that he which converted the sinner from the
error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
multitude of sins. Oh, how I pray God will be pleased
to use this instrument to convert you today, so that this day you
who came in these doors without Christ, without life, without
faith, full of guilt, full of darkness, full of despair, may
walk out the doors with life, with faith, with light, without
guilt, with no condemnation, with your sins all covered, that
you may go down like the publican in the temple justified to your
house. Justified. No one in this world especially
none of God's people, liveth unto himself. Not you, not me. All of us influence everyone
around us for good or for evil. It is my prayer, and I hope it
is yours, that God will use us for good influence. I try to
pray. deliberately, every time I'm
privileged to go to somebody's house, spend some time with them,
or I know someone is coming to my house to spend some time with
Shelby and I, Lord, make us a blessing. Make us a good influence. Those two grandchildren over
yonder, my son and daughter, I keep praying, God, Make our
influence over them good, not evil, because it can be horribly
evil when you intend no evil. Make our influence good, and
you can't be better influence than by influencing folks with
the gospel of God's grace. If indeed we would win souls
to the Savior, we must have wisdom from above, for their wills must
be conquered, prejudices overcome, and thoughts must be changed.
The work is impossible to us. The work is impossible if left
to us. But our labor is not in vain
in the Lord. That which God is pleased to
do, he does with such things as we are for the glory of his
name. If we don't have his blessing
upon it, then everything we do is less than vanity. Every effort
we make as a congregation or as individuals is meaningless.
Every sermon preached, utterly worthless. But if God's pleased
to speak, He uses such things as we are
to gather in His elect around the world for the glory of His
name as jewels in the crown of our Redeemer. God give us grace
to give ourselves to this work. God give us wisdom to devote
ourselves to this so that whatsoever you do, do it with all your might. Whatever you do, do it for the
glory of God. Do it for the gathering of his
people for Christ's sake. Now back to John chapter 4. The Lord Jesus is held before
us here as a great Wise, so winner. We're told in verse four, and
he must needs go through Samaria. He must go through Samaria because
there is this Samaritan woman for whom the time of love has
come. And not only her, a good many people in the city for whom
the time of love has come as well. And the Lord Jesus declared
to his disciples that this is my meat. My meat is to do the
will of him that sent me and to finish his work. This is my
satisfaction. More about that, Lord willing,
later. In this chapter, we see our Lord Jesus using great skill
and patience, showing great love and wisdom, seeking this single
soul for himself in private, with no fanfare, nobody standing
around to applaud him, nobody to brag on him, nobody to check
off to see he's got another one to his credit. No, just him and
the woman. He goes about his father's business
to bring her to himself. His disciples marveled that he
talked with her, but they seemed to have forgotten who they were
and what they were when the Savior found them. God, let me never
forget. Look to the rock whence you were
hewn, and the hold of the pit from whence you were digged.
You know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom
of God, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, and so on. And that's just what you were.
But no more. You're washed. You're sanctified. You're justified. By the name
of our Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God, you're redeemed
with the price, the precious blood of Jesus Christ. You're
not your own. So glorify God in your body and
in your spirits, which are God's. What's he talking about? Glorify
God in your body and in your spirit. Live your life. to make him known. That's our
business. You don't glorify God by what
you drink or don't drink. You don't glorify God by wearing
your hair a certain way and talking funny. You glorify God by making
known his son, by proclaiming his son. That's our business
in this world. Oh, let us ever, ever marvel,
but not as these disciples did. that he talked with the sinner.
Let us marvel that he came and talked to this sinner. He talked
to this group of sinners. Here's a marvel, Skip Gladfelter.
He came to talk to you. Came to redeem you with his blood,
robe you with his righteousness, and give you the knowledge of
himself. Oh, now there's a marvel. He came to redeem me. He came
to call me by his grace. He came to give me life and faith.
He came and spoke to me by his spirit. He came to reveal himself
in me. Now look at how he did it with
this woman. There's three or four or five things here. I think
are indicative of how we can go about this business that God's
put in our hands. The first thing he did is he
befriended her. He went to where she was And
he treated her as a friend. Now, remember who she was. The
reason she came out to this well in the middle of the day was
so nobody would see her, because she knew who she was. She was
a woman with a reputation. Oh, you don't dare do that. People
think you're one of them. Eh, let people think what they
will. Go find the sinner and befriend him. Go find the sinner
and befriend him. And Shelby and I, living in West
Virginia, there was a black man who owned a piece of property
directly next door to where we lived. Black take a stab at what
it was, what it maintained. In our backyard, a junkyard. A junkyard. All kinds of stuff
in the junkyard. And he and his wife, became friends. He was a Catholic. They attended
a Catholic church, had most of their lives. And we hoped to
witness to them. Occasionally, he would come hear
me preach. Kept trying to witness to them.
When I had cancer, we had to garden out and things coming
in. One day, Shelby came home from the hospital. All the potatoes
were dug, brushed off, and stacked in a neat pile. He'd taken care
of it. And this is what he said to us
one day. He said to me, I think Shelby
was present. He said, you're the only man who's ever lived
in that house who treated me like a man. Go befriend the sinner. Maybe they'll listen to you talk
about the Savior, but they won't if you don't. Did you hear me? They won't if you don't. The Lord got this woman interested
by engaging her in conversation. Well, I wonder what she'd like
to talk about. Wonder what she'd like to talk
about. Well, she's got a water pot.
She's out here. Well, maybe she'll talk about some water. He talked
to her about something she was obviously interested in, but
he wasn't just talking about the water. He talked to her about
those things she was interested in so that he might direct her
thoughts to better water, so that he might direct her thoughts
to better things. And that's exactly the instruction
given here. Talk to people by getting them
to talk. Talk to people by getting them
to speak to you, befriending them and arouse their curiosity
about the things of God, not by beating them over the head,
trying to buttonhole them and make a decision. And third, the
Lord talked to her about something that was relevant to her. That
which was on her mind. I repeat myself a little bit
here, but you remember Nicodemus asked him about the new birth. So the Lord talked to him about
giving new life, new beginning, a new creation. The man who was
born blind talked to the Savior about light and the Lord Jesus
in John chapter 9 revealed himself to that man as the light of the
world. This woman spoke to the Savior
about the water she'd come to draw and the Lord Jesus made
himself known to her as the water of life and the Lord Constantly
kept bringing her back stressing to her the good news Yes, he
dealt with sin he dealt with sin. I uh, I hear people all
the time They'll write or they'll talk to I like to hear preacher
preach about hellfire damnation I don't know why I think folks
sometimes get tickled to death. Somebody's going to hell what
a morbid sense our Lord Jesus Never let this woman get him
sidetracked by her debates. He didn't debate. She talked
about this mountain and our fathers and our traditions, and he didn't
deny them, didn't fuss with them, didn't, no, no, that's wrong.
That's not right. You folks are all going to hell.
That's not what he did at all. He kept bringing her back to
himself. talking to her about himself,
talking to her about who he is, and pressing the knowledge of
himself upon her. She talked about water, so he
did. Refreshing, cleansing, thirst
quenching, everlasting water. And then the master pressed his
claims upon this woman. When all was finished, he said,
I am he. Now, we've been talking about
the Messiah. We've been talking about the coming woman seed.
We've been talking about the coming of one who would redeem
and save his people. We've been talking about God
the Son coming in human flesh. We've been talking about that
one that met Joshua, by the way. That one who met Manoah and his
wife. That one who met Moses by the bush. That's what we've
been talking about. Hear me, honey? You're looking at him.
I am pointing this woman to himself. Now, as you witness the folks,
try to minister to them, point them to Christ, not to this doctrine
or that, not to this creed or that. I will often hear folks
ask me, and you do as well, well, what's the difference between
your church and our church? Don't bother trying to tell them.
It ain't going to help. I promise it's not going to.
How many of you have tried to tell somebody the difference?
How many of you, young or old? How many of you have succeeded? It doesn't help. All it does
is confuse things worse. You can talk to them all you
want to about the differences, and they'll look at you like,
well, what on earth are you talking about? Tell them about the Redeemer. Tell them about what he's done
for you. Tell them about his grace and
his mercy. It's hard for folks not to understand forgiveness.
It's hard for folks not to understand the kind of love you just sang
about. It's hard for folks not to understand someone known by
you who's so glorious, so majestic, so wonderful, so good that you
just feel like you can't possibly describe him adequately. Oh,
I'd like to know him. It's hard, folks, not to understand
someone who's been forgiven, speaking of forgiveness. And
that brings me to the last thing. This woman, this saved sinner,
went about the work of wisdom as a soul winner, and this is
what she did. Verse 29, she said, come see. Come with me. Come with me. Well, Preacher, I can't get folks
to come to church. Take them out to dinner. Let's have dinner
together, Sunday dinner. By the way, I pick you up and
we'll go to church and hear the gospel. Oh, well, no, I'd rather
stay at home and starve. They might, but somebody might
just take you up on it. Come and see. Come see a man. Oh, this one, he is a man indeed.
But a man like no other man, this is a man who told me all
things that ever I did. This is a man who convinced me
of who I am, what I am. Come see this man, this man who
has convinced me that he is the Christ. who has convinced me
by the grace of experience from him, by the forgiveness I found
in him, he's convinced me that he's the Christ. The Lord Jesus
told her to go call her husband and come again, but he didn't
specify which one. So she went back to the city
and she called the men of the city and said, come see a man. And a bunch of them did, a bunch
of them did. and they came to believe him
for themselves. She told others what the Savior
had done for her. That's called witnessing. Turn
back to Mark chapter 5 for just a minute. I'll wrap this up. Our Lord Jesus had saved this
maniac of Gadara, and he had brought such a change in this
man When the folks came out of the city and saw him sitting
clothed and in his right mind, do you know what the book says
about them? They were afraid. He had been running around naked,
cutting himself and screaming like a madman, and they got accustomed
to that. Here he sits clothed and in his
right mind, and everybody in town is afraid of him. I expect
I would have been. What on earth has happened to
this fellow? What's going on now? And verse
18, And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed
with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. Lord, take
me with you. I can't think of anything better
than that, can you? I just want to be with my Savior.
I want to be in your company. Take me with you. How be it Jesus
said no, he suffered him not. But saith to him, go home to
thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord hath done
for thee and hath had compassion on thee. Go tell folks what great
things the Lord's done for you. Just call it feel's eye. That's
the reason you started that grace for the day to start with, isn't
it? Go tell folks what great things the Lord's done for you.
Well, Brother Don, I don't know whether I can do anything or
not. Do what God puts in your hand to do. Do what God puts
in your hand to do. For Christ's sake, to make the
gospel known. You who are here without my Savior, I bid you come and trust the Son of God right
where you are. This woman, she said, come see
a man who had told me all things that ever I did. Is not this
the Christ? He received me. And the inference
is this. Since he received me, I'm just
dead sure he'll receive you. I'm just dead sure he will. I'm
just dead sure he will. Not only am I sure of it because
I've experienced his grace, I have even more. He said, him that
cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. 150 years ago, there was a young
lady by the name of Charlotte Elliott. 33 years old, who was mad at God. She was mad at God. Her brother
was a preacher, but she was mad at God. She had, by some accident,
become an invalid. And she was persuaded to go hear
a fellow preach. And the preacher spoke to the
congregation and said, come to Christ just like you are. Make no attempt to make any improvements,
come just like you are. And right where she sat, she
came to Christ just like she was. And she went home that night
and wrote these words. From her soul that was flooded
with grace came this great hymn. Just as I am without one plea,
but that thy blood was shed for me. And that thou bidst me come
to thee, O Lamb of God, I come. Reckon he'll receive me? I promise
you he will. I promise you he will. Well,
that's not much of a promise. He promises you he will. Come
and see. God help you to. Amen.