The title of my message is Eight
Stubborn Statements. And I want to speak them with
such clarity and such dogmatism that you remember them. And I
pray that God will write them on your hearts. These eight statements
are statements I believe to be of immense importance. Here in
the eighth chapter of Isaiah, beginning at verse eleven, and
going through verse sixteen Isaiah gives every prophet and preacher
the instructions that God gave him as his prophet standing in
this pulpit to speak to you in the name of God Almighty as God's
ambassador it is my responsibility it is my responsibility to faithfully
declare and deliver the Word of God to you without addition,
without subtraction, without adornment, just to declare the
naked Word of God. With simplicity and plainness
of speech, I am responsible to give to you that which God has
written in His Word and to give it to you with a message fresh
for your souls this hour. In verse 16, this is God's commandment
to me, to me. Wherever it's possible, when
you read God's word, read it with personal application to
yourself. This is God's commandment to
me and to every man who stands to speak to men in his name. Bind up the testimony seal the
law among my disciples the testimony he's talking about here is the
word that God had given him the word God gave to his prophet
particularly as it relates to his son as is clear when you
read chapter seven eight and nine together back in chapter
seven verse fourteen this very very familiar text of scripture
is found Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign Behold
a virgin shall bear a sub conceive and bear a son and shall call
his name Immanuel God with us in chapter 8 verse 14 we read
and He this one Immanuel the Lord Jesus He shall be for a
sanctuary But for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of of
offense to both houses of Israel for a gin and a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble
and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken. This great God who comes in our
nature, the Lord Jesus Christ, the prophet said, shall be to
you who believe a sanctuary. and to the rest a snare. The testimony of God is the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the prophet says, bind it.
It is the preacher's responsibility to bind up the testimony. to bind it up as something indescribably
valuable, lest anything concerning it be lost, taking great care
that nothing revealed be neglected. By diligent study, by prayer,
by preparation, the servant of God is to bind up in his own
heart and mind the precious treasure of Holy Scripture so that he
can bind it up for his disciples. And then he must, by preaching,
seal the law, the testimony among my disciples. The law spoken
of here is the very same thing referred to by testimony. It's
not referring to the Ten Commandments. It's not referring to the moral
law given in the Old Testament or to the ceremonial law or all
the laws of rituals and so forth. But rather, he's referring to
the whole Word of God. particularly to the whole doctrine
of Christ, so that it becomes the responsibility of every gospel
preacher to establish God's saints in the truth of the gospel. That's
what preachers are sent to do. When God's pleased to give you
another pastor, I pray that God will give you a man who will
establish you in the gospel of Christ. A man who is gifted to
preach the gospel is not given a gift of understanding that
causes him to understand everything written in this book. You needn't
to expect that. And a man who pretends to understand
everything written in this book is not being honest with you
or with God. But those who are called of God
to preach the gospel are given a complete understanding in this
book. Now, know the difference. Know
the difference. There are many things written
here I don't understand. Somebody comes and asks me, what
does that mean? Maybe one of these days I can
tell you. I just don't know. That's true of many things. The
more I study this book, and I've been studying it now every day
for 40 years, and the more I study it, the bigger it gets. But I'll
tell you something I do know. I know what the whole book's
all about. I have a complete understanding of the book. The
message of the book is Jesus Christ and Him crucified, as
Brother Jack pointed out last night. He is the message of the
book. Not the most important message.
Not the dominant message. Not the central message. He is
the message of Holy Scripture. And it is my responsibility today,
and it is my responsibility every time I stand to preach, and the
responsibility of every preacher, to establish God's people in
the truth of Jesus Christ. Hold your hands here and turn
to Ephesians chapter 4. Ephesians 4. I want you to see
this and see it clearly. I said to one of you men, sometime
in the last two or three days, A church can get along fine without
a building to meet in. You can meet in the field. A
church can get along fine without all the things that we consider
needful and necessary, except for one thing. You can't get
along without a pastor. You can't get along without someone
to proclaim the gospel of God's grace to you faithfully and boldly
by the Spirit of God. Pastors are the ascension gifts
of Jesus Christ to his church. What a statement. What a statement. Now either I have said that because
I'm an arrogant, presumptuous, self-serving deceiver of your
souls, or I've said that because this is what God says in his
word. A new in-between grant. Psalm
68 is the passage the Apostle Paul is quoting here in Ephesians
4 verse 11. He gave some apostles and some
prophets and some evangelists. In the Old Testament there were
prophets and in the New Testament there was a prophet by the name
of John the Baptist and twelve apostles. And some evangelist. That word evangelist is not talking
about a Jimmy Swagger who runs up and down the road robbing
folks and preaching here and there and getting your money.
That word evangelist refers to Walter and Cody Groover in Mexico.
Talking about missionaries, men who go about establishing gospel
churches. Timothy was admonished to do
the work of an evangelist. This is what he's referring to.
He's talking about men specially gifted for the establishing of
gospel churches. and some pastors and teachers.
The word is pastors slash teachers. Now talk about two different
offices. I'm pastor of Grace Church in Danville. That means
that I'm responsible under God to be the teacher of that assembly.
And we are blessed of God to have four men in the congregation
who are very gifted preachers. Very gifted preachers. Brother
Lindsey Campbell, some of you have heard the name. He teaches
the adult Bible class, does it every Sunday. I write out our
literature, write the lessons. Lindsey teaches the adult class.
And I'll tell you what, Brother Lindsey has never done, and none
of the four men who preach for me, Lindsey is one of them, have
never done. Not one of them has ever gotten
in the pulpit and said, well, I know Brother Don doesn't believe
this, but this is what I believe this is. And they don't dare. They don't dare. And I've never
said to them, don't do it. They don't dare. How come? Because
that would be the last time. That'd be the last time, as long
as I am pastor. Because I am the one responsible
under God for the instruction of that assembly. And those men
who teach with me, teach under my instruction as pastor. That's
what it is to be pastor. Read on. He gave some pastors,
teachers, And this is why I did it, for the perfecting of the
saints, for the work of the ministry. And the work of the ministry,
let me just pause. I may get to what I prepared,
may not. But the work of the ministry is not visiting folks
in the hospital. It is not counseling folks and
having counseling sessions. Now, don't misunderstand me.
Please don't misunderstand me. I want our folks in Danville,
and I want you. I want you. Feel free to call
me anytime for anything. I want to carry your burdens.
I want to share the pains and the joys of your lives. But I'm
not a priest and don't want to be. I'm not a priest and don't
want to be. That means I can't, I cannot,
I cannot represent you before God or God before you. My object in preaching is to
so instruct God's people in the gospel that you don't need me
as an intercessor. You have a priest. You have an
intercessor. And all of this business of counseling,
all of it, on the preacher's part, this is the motive. Preachers
really want to be priests. They really want you to need
them. They really want you to think you can't do business with
God without them. And on the part of people who
seek the counseling, they really think the preacher won't say
the same thing face-to-face that he'd say in the pulpit. They
really think he will agree with them on what they want to do,
what they're struggling with, and he'll tell them exactly what
they want to hear. And sadly, most will. The work of the ministry
is study. The work of the ministry is study. Studying this book. Seeking a
message from God. With your heart prostrate before
Him in prayer. And it is labor in the word.
He gave them for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of
the ministry. For the edifying, the building
up of the body of Christ. Not building up in numbers, God
does that. but the building up of your souls,
the building up of your faith, the building up of your understanding,
till we all come in the unity of the faith, not just the unity
of faith. I happen to think President Bush
is a good president, but his religious notions are kind of
foolish. All the politicians talk about
people of faith. You know, Mohammed was a man
of faith. And Jesus was a man of faith,
and I'm a man of faith. What foolishness? No. We build
folks up in the faith. And there is only one faith,
and that's the faith of the gospel. All else is a delusion. And of
the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect or complete mature
man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Oh, I want you to walk before God in this world in the faith
of the gospel with the heart established with the fullness
of Jesus Christ. That we henceforth be no more
children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind
of doctrine. by the slight of men and cunning
craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive and they lie
in wait to deceive in pulpits just like that one all over texas
and all over kentucky too they lie in wait to deceive with cunning
craftiness turn to second timothy chapter four second timothy four I charge thee, therefore, before
God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and
the dead, both the believing and the unbelieving, at his appearing
in kingdom. Preach the word. Be instant in
season and out of season. That is, preach the word when
folks like it and when they don't. Preach the word whether folks
pat you on the back or want to slug you. Reprove, rebuke. Exhort with all long-suffering
and doctrine For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine But after their own lush shall they heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears that is though they'll hire preachers
to come tell them what they want to hear and They shall turn away
their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables Some
of you folks are old enough to recall reading Aesop's Fables. Aesop's Fables, those are great
stories. They're factual lies, but they're
stories designed to teach moral truths. Wow. How do you teach moral truth
by telling a lie? But that's what Aesop's Fables
are. And that's what the whole of the religious world hears
every day. Factual lies that are intended
to teach folks to be religiously moral. Smile, God loves you. Find me
one place in this book where God ever told anybody out of
Christ he loved them. God loves everybody. That's a
lie. If God loves everybody, the love
of God ain't worth spit. Cause some folks still go to
hell. Christ died for you, wants to save you. Christ shed his
blood for everybody. Why? It's a lie. It's a lie. If Christ shed his blood for
everybody, his blood is not worth any more than your blood. Cause
some folks for whom he died go to hell. The Holy Spirit wants
to save and is trying to save everybody. That's a lie. That's
a lie. They're talking about a God who's
no God at all. They're talking about a God who's
helpless, frustrated, and defeated. And such a God is no God at all.
And is not to be treated with respect, but with contempt. And
those who speak for him are not to be treated with respect, but
with contempt. Paul says, preach the word. Be
instant in season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with
long-suffering and doctrine. Back here in our text, Isaiah
8. Standing before eternity-bound
sinners, speaking in the name of God, as I do this morning. It is my responsibility to declare
the Word of God with simplicity and with clarity. And when I
do, I claim for myself the right to be heard. I don't preach without
preparation. I don't give out leftover rehashed
sermons. If I have to stay up all night
working, I stay up all night working and sleep another day.
I don't simply repeat that which I've heard someone else say.
I read a statement by a preacher just a couple of weeks ago. I
was flabbergasted. He said, I've changed my doctrine.
I used to preach this, but the only reason I did was because
I heard other men say it. My soul will be shot between the
eyes. I don't just repeat to you what I've heard somebody
say. I don't just repeat to you what I've read in a book. When
I come to the pulpit to preach the gospel, what I preach to
you in 30 or 45 minutes or an hour is the result of many hours
labor and study and prayer. That gives me the right to be
heard. But it doesn't give me the right to be blindly followed,
believed, and obeyed. I don't claim that right for
myself and I don't claim it for any other man. Blind loyalty
and allegiance is no loyalty and allegiance at all. No man,
no matter how sincere he may appear to be, myself included,
is to be given unqualified allegiance. Try the spirits, John says. Many antichrists have gone out
into the world. If you care for your soul and care for the souls
of those you influence, try the spirits and try them by this
book. If what I preach to you is written
in this book, if it is written in this book, you must hear me
and obey me. If it's not written in this book,
you dare not hear me ever again. Because I don't know whether
it's written there or not. When I get done, you're going to know
whether it's written in this book or not. Because I'm going to preach with
such plainness you can't mistake it. It's your responsibility
then to try what I say by the word of God. Look at verse 20
of Isaiah 8. To the law and to the testimony. To the doctrine of Christ revealed
in the testimony of God as it is given in the book of Holy
Scripture. if they speak not according to this word well he's
a good preacher he doesn't preach like you do but he's a good preacher
then one of us is not a good preacher it's just that simple
he's a good preacher he doesn't believe the gospel you do but
he's a good preacher if he doesn't believe the gospel i believe
one of us believes a false gospel and can't be a good preacher
read on if they speak not according to this word Here's the reason
why. They're blind as bats spiritually. It is because there is no light
in them. Paul said, if any man preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto
you, let him be damned. Now I've come here to bind up
the testimony and seal the law, to bind as a precious treasure
the truth of God. in your heart and minds, and
to seal to your hearts and minds the treasure of the gospel, to
seal to your hearts and minds this testimony and this law of
our God. I do it with eight plain, dogmatic,
stubborn statements. Eight statements that go right
to the heart of Christianity. I urge you to hear them. Here's
the first one. Either this book, what you're
holding in your hands right now, this blessed book, either this
book is in its entirety the holy, inspired, infallible, inerrant
Word of God, or it's entirely a lie. There's no in-between
ground. No in-between ground. It is either
that word which is able to make us wise unto salvation, or it
is that by which the souls of men and women are eternally deceived
and damned. If this is not the word of God,
as it claims to be, throw it away. Just toss it. If it is the word of God, as
indeed it is, It claims as such total sway over our lives. Total sway. It is our only rule
of faith. People all the time ask me what
our creed is, what our confession is. Sometimes folks ask me to
write out creeds or confessions. This is it. This is it. What about the creeds and confessions
of the church in the past? They were all written by men.
This one was written by God. He just used men for the pens. That's all. Holy men of old spake
as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. All scriptures given
by inspiration of God. God breathed. Brother Don, do
you really believe that? If I didn't believe it, I'd quit
faking it and I'd go do something else. Turn to Psalm 119. Turn to Psalm 138 first. Look
at this. Psalm 138. Verse 2. I will worship toward thy holy
temple and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy
truth for this reason. Have you got
it, Glenn? Have you ever noticed this? Thou
hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Wow! That gives this book some authority. Because if this book Is not viewed
and read and heard and received and believed as the word of God
God is not worshipped God is not honored God is not believed
God is not trusted and those who pretend to despise to worship
God while they despise this book Despise the God they pretend
to worship now look at Psalm 119 verse 128 Since you've magnified
your word above all your name 28 128 Therefore I esteem thy precepts
now watch this I esteem thy precepts all thy precepts concerning all
things to be right Well, what do you think about
this trend or that in society well, let's see what God says
that's right. I But that's so out of step with
the times. I've been out of step with the
times since the day God saved me, and I intend to stay out
of step with the times. I've never been on the outside
looking in. I'm on the outside of the religious
world because I want to be. I'm not looking in hoping to
be accepted. I honor God's word concerning all things. It is
that which I esteem to be right. And I hate everything opposed
to it. I hate every false way. Number
two, either God, either God Almighty is an absolute
sovereign, in total control of all things, at all times, or
He's no God at all. There is absolutely no in-between
ground between God's absolute sovereignty and absolute atheism. Are you saying, Brother Don,
that these folks who deny God's sovereignty are atheists? Arminians
are worse than atheists. They pretend to believe God.
Arminianism is nothing but atheism in a religious cloak. That's
all on earth it is. I know that the Lord is great,
and that our God is above all gods. Whatsoever the Lord pleased,
that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and in all
deep places. Where does God rule? Everywhere.
Who does God rule? Everybody. When does God rule?
All the time. Nobody wiggles without God's
decree. Nobody breathes without God's
decree. Nobody moves without God's decree. Not even in the thoughts of their
hearts. The king's heart is in the hands
of the Lord. And like rivers of water, he
turneth it whithersoever he will. Our God is in the heavens. He
hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Number three. Either man is totally depraved. You be turning to Psalm 14, I
want you to see it. Either man is totally depraved. utterly
dead in trespasses and sins. There's nothing wrong with him
and he needs no Savior. Just that simple. How many times
do you hear preachers say, all you have to do is you make the
first step, God will take the rest. The papist years ago gave
out a legend about a fellow by the name of St. Dennis who was
beheaded. And they said that after he was
beheaded, when St. Dennis was beheaded, he picked
up his head and walked for a thousand miles. And you know folks really
believe that? But that wouldn't be any problem.
I could believe that if I could believe he picked up his head. Now folks say to the center,
you take the first step, God will do the rest. You make one
move to God, God will take every move to you. If you can make
one move to God, you don't need God to move to you. Because you're
not dead. A dead man can't do anything. Well, don't you think we have
to believe? You don't believe in order to be born again, you
believe because you are. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath everlasting life. Sinners are dead. Dead. Therefore, we don't accomplish
anything by compromising the gospel and getting them to put
on a religious garb and join the church and act religious.
What men need is not a dose of religion, but life. What people
need is not a moral reformation, but life. Life that only God
can give. Look in Psalm 14. Psalm 14. Verse 2. The Lord looked down
from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any
that did understand and seek God. Does that sound familiar?
You can read it again in Romans chapter 3. And this is what God
said. They are all gone aside. They are all together become
filthy. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. God says concerning the whole
human race, they all at one time, in the sin and fall of our father
Adam, turned aside, went astray, and became filthy. Did you ever
notice, let me ask you, what happened when Eve took that forbidden
fruit? Not a thing. She didn't suddenly
die spiritually. She didn't suddenly perceive
good and evil. Her eyes were not suddenly opened
to see that which she had not seen before. She did not recognize
that she was naked before God. She did not try to hide in fig
leaves. Why? Because God did not give
his covenant with Eve. Eve was in a covenant God gave
to Adam. And when Adam took the fruit,
her eyes were opened to see good and evil. and she saw that she
was naked and she began to hide from God and she ran from God
and she died in Adam all died died and there's nothing but
corruption that comes forth from death forth either God chose
to save some of Adam's fallen race chose some of Adam's race
to salvation and eternal life in Christ before the world began,
as this book says he did, or there's no possibility of salvation
for anyone. It amazes me how features can
speak contrary to the word of God. I'm talking about just blatantly
contrary to the word of God, and still folks say amen and
send him two or three dollars. This is what the scripture says.
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Jacob have I loved,
but Esau have I hated. How much plainer could language
be? How much plainer could it be? What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with
God? That's what everybody says, but we say God forbid. For he
saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and
I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then
it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but
of God that showeth mercy. For the Scripture saith unto
Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I
might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared
throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom
he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Fifth,
either the Lord Jesus Christ Actually, effectually redeemed
his people from their sins when he died at Calvary. Or he is
a false Christ and you're yet in your sins. No in-between ground. No in-between
ground. I know folks say, well, Jesus
died for everybody. If he died for everybody, either
everybody's in heaven or he's not Christ. If he tried to save
everybody, either everybody's going to be saved or he's an
anti-Christ. If he shed his blood to make
atonement for all men, and all men do not have their sins atoned
for, then he is Antichrist and not the Christ of God. There's
no in-between ground. This is what scripture said.
He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
shall never be discovered a miscarriage. Every soul for whom he died,
he will have with him in glory. Every sinner he came to save,
he actually has saved and actually will save and actually will continue
to save by the merit of his blood shed for him. Jesus Christ is
no failure. The book says he shall not fail. Men talk about Christ and say
they worship him as God and then talk about him failing. It's
absurd. Number six, sinners are regenerated, born
again, called to life and faith in Christ by the irresistible
power and omnipotent grace of God the Holy Spirit. For there
is no such thing as salvation. The wind blows where it will.
You hear the sound of it. You cannot tell whence it cometh
or whither it goeth. So is everyone that is born of
the Spirit. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth
nothing. God, the Holy Spirit, doesn't
come and nudge sinners toward Christ. He doesn't come and gently
persuade sinners to believe in Christ. He doesn't come and elevate
sinners to a state where they can choose to receive or reject
Christ. He comes to the dead and gives
life to whom He will, exactly according to the purpose of God
Almighty. Number seven, and I would I'd
like to spend an hour here, but I'll spend a couple of minutes.
Either God's people, every believing sinner, either God's people are
entirely free from the law as the scriptures declare us to
be, or we're yet in bondage to the law and obligated to keep
the law in perfection. What does the book say? Everywhere I go, of course, people
find out ahead of time I'm coming, a lot of times, and they'll be
prepared with questions, because they hear this heretics come
into town. Well, Brother Don, what sense do you think believers
are under the law? This sense right here. You're
not under the law. Well, don't you think there's
some sense in which God's people are obligated to obey the law?
We are not under the law. He says it twice in two verses.
You are not under the law. Just in case you didn't understand
that, I mean, we are not under the law, but under grace. Wherefore,
my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of
Christ. Dead to the law. Dead to the
law. Take a fellow who's committed
mass murder and put him in prison, give him a life sentence, and
25, 30 years later, When he's an old man, they put a little
drug in him, put him to sleep, and they call it execution. I
guess it is. But once he's breathed his last breath, he's dead to
the law. We found out he did something
else. What does that make to him? He's dead. Oh, we got another
crime we want to charge him with. We'll bring this up and charge
him posthumously. Charge all you want to. He's
dead. The law has no effect, no bearing, no power, and no
influence. That's what it is to be dead
to the law. Well, you preach like that, folks
go out and live like they want to. I wish I could live like
I want to. Christ redeemed me from the curse
of the law. We're dead to it. Law is our
schoolmaster unto Christ. Christ is the end of the law
to everyone that believes. Well, Brother Don, if you don't
preach law and Sabbath keeping and tithing and commandments,
how do you keep people in check? I don't. I don't. How do you get people to do what
they ought to? I don't. I don't even try. Grace
does, though. The Spirit of God does. I tell
folks right frequently, you know, we meet here Sunday morning,
Sunday night, and Tuesday night. If you're hungry, I promise you
I'll have some bread on the table. If you're not hungry, stay home.
Just stay home. Pass offering plate, worship
God with our giving. Somebody says, you're all not
going to take money from us. Why don't I tell them to keep
it? Just keep it. If you don't want to give, don't
give. I don't want it, God won't have it. Don't give. Well, you
can't do that. I've been doing it all my life.
Things seem to be functioning pretty well. This is what we
believe. God's people worship and serve
Him without any constraint but the constraint of the love of
Christ. It's that simple. It's that simple.
One more thing. Turn to Philippians chapter 1. Either every saved sinner will
persevere to the end, he will keep believing, being preserved
and kept by God's infallible, immutable grace, or none shall. The perseverance, the preservation
of God's saints is demanded by the purpose of God, by the purchase
of Christ, and by the power of God's Spirit. I think Tyler told me yesterday,
you're 27 years old. Somewhere in recent years, God
gave you life and faith in His Son. If you live to be a hundred
after I'm dead and gone, I fully expect to see you in glory. Fully
expect to see you there. How come? Oh, he's such a strong
believer. Nah. Oh, he's such a dependable
man. Well, he's that, but not that.
That's not the reason. How come? Because I'm confident
of this very thing. That he which hath begun a good
work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. That's all. We're kept by the
power of His grace. Does that mean God's saints don't
mess up? No. No, we flat mess up. Oh, how we mess up. That mean
they don't ever appear to be unbelievers? Oh, no. Oh, no. True believers often appear to
be unbelievers. And real unbelievers often appear to be believers.
For instance, our Lord said, let the wheat and the tares grow
together. Leave them alone. You can't tell the difference. Well,
I can tell who's a believer and who's not. When you said that, I got a pretty
good suspicion you're not one. No. All we can judge by is outward
appearance. And outward appearance is easy
to put on. That's nothing. I have in mind
a very dear friend of mine, a man who seemed to be so strong, so
stalwart, so faithful, so dependable, made great sacrifices. And I baptized him. I baptized
him. And he fell by the wayside. Lived in the same town with him.
And I didn't see him for 11 years. I'm talking about live closer
to where he lives than any of you folks live together. And
somehow we didn't cross paths, didn't see him for 11 years.
I presumed he was gone. I presumed he was gone. And I've
never asked one time what went on with him. Don't intend to
ask. Don't know what trials he had.
I don't know what difficulties he had. But the Lord God put
him in Satan's hands to be sifted with Satan's sieve. but he prayed for him that his faith fail not and eleven
years later that same man walked through the doors one morning
and been with us ever since just as faithful just as strong just
as committed as ever God knows what he's doing with his own
and he will keep them in spite of themselves Because he declares,
I am the Lord. I change not. Therefore you tricky,
shifting, deceitful, cunning, crafty, sinful sons of Jacob
are not consumed. Well, Brother Don, you preach
like that, that will cause folks to go out and live like hell.
Folks who don't know him, it will. The folks who have experienced
such grace, oh my soul, that grace melts
our hearts before our God and causes us to seek to walk before
Him honorably. Amen.