How I pray that God will cause
you, who do not know my Redeemer, to trust Jesus Christ the Lord. Come to Him now. Come to Him
now, right where you sit, with no preparation, no condition. Don't move a muscle. Don't even
move your lips. Come to Him. Oh, God help you
to trust His Son. But pastor, don't I have to feel
something? Come to it. But don't I have
to repent? Come to it. But don't I have
to lament my sin? Come to it. Come to it. There
are no conditions, no prerequisites, no qualifications for faith in
Christ. Believe on the Son of God and
thou shalt be. Indeed, he that believeth on
the Son of God hath everlasting life. What will it take to get
you to trust him? What will it take? Something
I can't do, and I won't fake it. Something I can't persuade
you to do, and I won't try to get you to fake it. must be revealed to you and in
you by His Spirit. I quit a long time ago begging
sinners to do what they can't do, but I hope I never quit begging
God to do for you what He can do. Oh Lord, reveal Your mighty
arm. John Newton put into words that
which I have experienced in so many of his songs. One is not
in our hymn books, one of my favorites. In evil long I took
delight, unawed by shame or fear, till a new object struck my sight
and stopped my wild career. I saw one hanging on a tree in
agony and blood. He fixed his languid eyes on
me as near his cross I stood. Sure never till my latest breath
can I forget that look. It seemed to charge me with his
death, though not a word he spoke. My conscience felt and owned
the guilt and plunged me in despair. I saw my sin. His blood had spilt. My sins
had nailed him there. A second look he gave which said,
I freely all forgive. This blood is for thy ransom
paid. I die that thou mayst live. I want to take you one more time
back to the place called Calvary. I want us to sit down at the
foot of the cross and gaze upon our crucified Redeemer until
our hearts are broken and healed by looking to Him, until our
souls are made to see our filth manifest in all its vileness
and washed away in His precious blood, until we are made to mourn
and made to rejoice for Him who loved us and gave Himself for
us. Let's go to Zechariah chapter
12 and verse 10. We'll take our seat on this spot
of ground and gaze upon our all-glorious Savior in this display of his
greatest greatness, grace and glory when he suffered and died
as our substitute. The prophet Zechariah is speaking
of that day when Christ comes to save his people. by the sacrifice
of himself. That day when Christ Jesus rose
again and ascended on high and pours out his spirit upon men
in the fulfillment of covenant grace. That day when he comes
to chosen sinners at the appointed time of love whom he has redeemed
and pours out his spirit upon them. Oh, may this day be that
day of which he speaks. And I will pour upon the house
of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace
and of supplications. And they shall look upon me,
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth
for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one
that is in bitterness for his firstborn. That is God's promise,
God's promise of grace, which he fulfills in this gospel age
day by day as he adds to his church such as should be saved. It is his promise of grace to
pour out upon poor, needy sinners his spirit of grace and supplication. Why? Because they are redeemed
by Christ's precious blood. Because the Son of God died in
our place upon the cursed tree, now He pours the blessing of
Abraham, the Spirit of grace, upon His people. Now let's look
at this blessed, blessed text, line by line and word by word. Just hold your Bibles open here
at Zechariah chapter 12, verse 10. First, the Lord Jesus here
speaks of a great Mighty pouring. He says, I will pour. I will pour. And when he pours,
he pours. He pours buckets of grace. He who delighteth in mercy is
never niggardly in dispensing mercy. No small gift is ever
found in his hand. He always gives liberally, James
tells us. He is rich with grace. to all
and upon all who call upon His name. Our Lord Jesus, the God
of our salvation, our mighty Redeemer, is abundant in His
kindness. He is plenteous in mercy. With
Him is plenteous redemption. Where sin abounds, His grace
superabounds. And the Scripture speaks of His
grace as exceeding abundant, that is, overflowing the banks
of our needs. His grace, His mercy, His love
are seas of infinite depth, seas without a bottom, fountains with
no end constantly flowing out to His hope. Turn over to Ephesians
1. Hold your hands here in Zechariah.
I want you to see this. The Apostle Paul speaks of the
riches of His grace, the riches of His mercy, and prays that
we might know them. That's what I want for myself
and I want for you. Oh, that we may know our Redeemer
in all the fullness of His grace. In Ephesians 1, he's described
the rich bounty God has given us in Christ before the world
began in His sovereign election and predestination. And then
he says to the Ephesians, he said, I've heard about your faith
in Christ. And because I've heard what God's done for you, I pray
He'll do more for you. Look at verse 15. Wherefore,
I also, After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love
unto the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention
of you in my prayers." And this is what I'm praying for, that
the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
of Him. The eyes of your understanding
being enlightened, that you may know, oh, I want to know, don't
you? I want to know more and more
until it consumes my heart that you may know what is the hope
of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance
in the saints. Not the riches of the glory of
the inheritance of the saints. That's one thing. but the riches
of the glory of Christ's inheritance in his saints. We are the heritage
of the Lord. We are his portion, he said.
Read on. And what is the exceeding greatness
of his power to usward to believe according to the working of his
mighty power? It is I pray that God will cause
you ever to know and increasingly to know that we believe according
to his working in us by his mighty power. And I want you to know
and know more and more that power working in you. Chapter 3 of
Ephesians, verse 16, he speaks of his prayer for them again,
his prayer for us again, that he would grant you according
to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by
his spirit in the inner man. that Christ may dwell in your
hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend the incomprehensible, comprehend
with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth
and height, and to know the love of Christ, oh, to know the love
of Christ which passeth knowledge, and when you do, You'll be filled
with all the fullness of God. In that day, He shall pour, pour. Now watch this. Look at the next
line. He shall pour, or I will pour
upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Did you read that? He speaks
of a specific people, a chosen people. Well, I believe that
He pours out His Spirit on everybody. Well, you believe wrong. Well,
I believe he gives everybody a chance. You believe wrong.
Well, I believe everybody has an opportunity to be saved. Read
this book. You believe wrong. He speaks
of a people upon whom he shall pour his spirit. And he pours
his spirit upon those who are here described as the house of
David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Do you mean he's going
to cause all the Jews in the world to be saved? Well, if you
read it and apply it to literal Israel, to David's literal house,
you must read it that way. You must read it that way. Well,
no, no, no, no, that's not what it means. It means he's going
to pour it on those Jews who are living in that day. That's
not what it says. He says he will pour his spirit
upon the house of David. The house of David Peterson includes
those folks sitting right there and the ones in the military,
all of them. Just because Josh is not sitting
there, he's still in your house, part of your house. That's exactly
what he's saying. I will pour on the house of David
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem everybody whose origins are in
Jerusalem. Everybody. Well, Brother Don,
we know not all the Jews are saved because Judas is in hell.
You know that, don't you? Obviously, then, this is not
talking about literally the physical house of David and the physical
inhabitants of Jerusalem. I want you to see this, I want
you to see it clearly, and I want you to see it for yourselves
in the Word of God. God's promises to David and his
house in the Old Testament were promises concerning a house,
a kingdom, a family, and a throne that would be established forever. In 2 Samuel chapter 7, you don't
need to turn there, but do turn to Acts chapter 6, 2 Samuel chapter
7. Nathan the prophet comes to David
and tells David what God's going to do for him. David said, I
want to build a house for the Lord. And Nathaniel said, keep
your timber. God's going to build a house
for you. I'm going to build a house. And
he said, the house I build for you shall be established forever,
the family established forever, the kingdom established forever,
and the throne established forever in your son. And the typical
son was Solomon, from whom he promised he would never depart. But that Solomon, like his father
David, were both typical of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the house
promised was the house of God's church, his elect. Elect and
church are synonymous terms used as one in the scriptures. Now
get at that. When the scripture speaks of
God's people in this world, he calls them his saints, he calls
them his church, he calls them his people, and more than anything
else, he calls them his elect. Elect. Let's look at it now.
Acts chapter 2, verse 29. Peter is explaining to us by
divine inspiration that which took place on the day of Pentecost
when the Lord Jesus Christ the King, that is, the one spoken
of by David, represented by David, was made to sit on his throne,
established from the foundations of the world, but now publicly
established as he, the mediator, had accomplished all his work.
Acts 2 verse 29. Peter says, Men and brethren,
let me freely speak. I want to speak unto you of the
patriarch David. Now I want to tell you about
David. Let me tell you who he is. He's dead. He's dead. He's dead. He is both dead and
buried in his sepulcher. His grave is with us to this
day. He's buried right over yonder. Therefore, therefore we know
he's not talking about himself, but being a prophet and knowing
that God has swore with an oath to him that of the fruit of his
loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit
on his throat. Oh, one of these days Jesus is
going to come again, and he's going to set up a little peanut
throne over in Palestine, and he's going to set that up, and
Jesus is going to say, whoopee, Jesus is king. Not on your life. Not on your life. He's not interested
in a little throne over in Palestine. He sits on the throne of the
universe. Why would he give it up for that? What nonsense. He said he would raise up Christ
to sit on his throne. He's seeing this before. That
is to say, David way back yonder in Psalm 16 knew what he's talking
about. He saw Christ sitting on his
throne way back then, just like Isaiah did in Isaiah chapter
6. He spake of the resurrection of Christ. Well, what on earth
has the resurrection of Christ got to do with David sitting
on his throne? Hang on, I'll tell you. That his soul was not
left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus,
hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses. Therefore,
being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received
the promise of the Father, the promise of the Holy Ghost, he
hath shed forth this which you now see and hear. For David is
not ascended into the heavens, but he saith himself, The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy
foes thy footstool. Therefore, let all the house
of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus
whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." Turn to the book
of Galatians, if you will. The promises of the Old Testament
to the house of David and the throne of David are talking about
the promises of God to his church, concerning his church, to his
son and concerning his son. the promises of grace and salvation
to all Israel. That is, it is a promise that
all the Israel of God, as they're called in Galatians 6.16, all
Abraham's spiritual seed, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
shall be saved. Paul told us in Romans 2, he
is not a Jew, which is one outwardly. I have a very dear friend, Brother
Jerry Salzberg, he'll be with his conference again this year.
I didn't know it for years. God saved him some years ago
when he was listening to sermons on radio. But Brother Jerry told
me a few years ago he's a Jew, physically, really is a Jew. And now that I think about it,
he looks a little like it. He's got the facial features,
he's got the hair, he's got the skin tones, all those things.
I might have known Salzburg was a Jewish name, but I didn't,
just didn't register. But that's meaningless. That's meaningless. You mean there's no advantage
to being a Jew? Not outwardly. Not outwardly. No. Not outwardly. Matter of
fact, to be honest with you, I'm sure thankful I ain't one
outwardly. It's bad enough to be a southerner. I mean, those
folks Texans, they Texans, rough treatment, have historically.
But he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly. Not really. Not
really. Neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh.
That's not real circumcision. That was just a sign. That was
just a picture of something. And being an outward Jew was
just a sign, a picture of something. But he is a Jew which is one
inwardly. Inwardly. And that circumcision
which is done in the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter,
whose praise is not of men but of God. Well, who's he talking
about? Galatians chapter 3, verse 13.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is
everyone that hangeth on a tree. Now, the sentence doesn't end
there. Look at the next word, that. Here's the reason Christ
hung on the tree. Here's the reason Christ was
made a curse for us. Here's the reason Christ died
for us, shed His blood, and redeemed us. That, the blessing of Abraham. You remember what God said to
Abraham? in thee and in thy seed. Not seeds as of many, seed one. In thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed. Christ, Abraham's seed, died
for Abraham's seed. He took not on him the nature
of angels, but he took on the seed of Abraham. And he did so
that Abraham's seed might receive the promise The blessing God
promised Abraham. Abraham took Isaac up to Mount
Moriah, knowing that in that boy, he knew, he knew in that
one boy, that one child of his, that one son of his, that one
son of promise, he knew that Christ, his Redeemer, was coming
into the world through the loins of, through his loins and through
the loins of his son Isaac. And God said, now take him up
to the mountain and kill it. And by faith, Abraham took that
boy up to Mount Moriah and killed him and received him as one raised
from the dead. No, he didn't really. God said
he did. God said he did because in his heart it was done. He
staggered not at the promise of God. He fully believed that
God who gave him that boy when he was 100 years old could raise
him from the dead and would. And he fully believed. that his
son who's coming through that boy would be put to death by
his own hand and raised from the dead that the blessing of
his grace might be poured upon his people. We don't. Verse 16,
Galatians. Galatians 3, 16. Now to Abraham
and his seed were the promises made. He saith not unto seeds
as of many, but as of one unto thy seed, which is Christ. Verse 29. Now watch this. Hang
on to your seat. Brother Shepard used to say,
hang on to your seat, we're fixing to jump a creek. And if you be Christ,
are you? Are you? Rex Bartley, do you
belong to Christ? Are you in Christ? Then are you
Abraham's, what does it say? What does it say? Say it out
loud. Seed. One. Not many. One. You mean we're one with Christ? Who's Abraham's seed? Yeah. Now
what's the next line? And heirs. That's a good show. One with Christ, really and truly
one with Christ, yet heirs according to the promise. And therefore
the scripture says, and so all Israel shall be saved. Here in
Galatians still, look at verse 26. The church of God. God's elect aren't all in the
church yet, I beg your pardon, been in the church from eternity.
We were his bride before the world began. His church before
ever he created the world. He speaks of his church as that
which is above already. Look here. The church of God
is Jerusalem. God's elect are the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. Look at Galatians 4.26. But Jerusalem
which is above is free. She's represented by Sarah, which
is the mother of us all. Now, the long and short of that
is what Paul says in Philippians 3.3. We are the circumcision. We are the circumcision, which
worship God. What does circumcision represent?
The circumcision identified people as God's covenant people to whom
God bound himself with an oath. to whom all the blessings of
God are promised. Now, where's the circumcision?
Where's the circumcision? Not in the flesh. That's got
nothing to do with it. Not in the waters of baptism.
Got no connection with baptism. Circumcision was a sign of the
Spirit who is the seal of the covenant given in the new birth.
We are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit and
rejoice in Christ Jesus That is, believe on the Son of God,
trust in Christ, glory in Christ, and have no confidence in the
flesh. All right, now back at our text
in Zechariah 12. I will pour out upon the house
of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will pour out
upon my elect, he says. I will pour out upon chosen sinners
out of every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue. I will pour
out the Spirit of grace and of supplications. The gift of the
Holy Spirit in salvation is the blessing God promised to Abraham
and to his seed in Christ. The God of glory has chosen and
blessed the people of every nation, kindred, tribe and tongue throughout
the earth called the Israel of God. And all the Israel of God
shall be saved when God pours out his spirit upon them. No
sooner and no later. And all that the Father gave
to Christ in eternity shall be called, justified, and glorified
in Christ by the grace and power of Christ through the Spirit.
He will indeed pour out the Spirit of grace. That is the Spirit
of God by whom all grace comes to sin. When will you believe?
When will you trust God's Son? When will you repent of your
sins? When will a dead sinner live
before God? Not when the choir sings softly
in the background, softly and tenderly, Jesus is calling. Not
when the preacher tells a sad story and gets folks to cry and
come to the front of the church and deal with some confessional
booth, they call it, coming to the preachers. Maybe we'll go
to a Pope, kiss his finger, and make a confession to him. No.
No. Not now when you have a great
evangelistic campaign and all the churches get together and
we have folks sitting out in the different spots in the stadium
so that when they get ready to sing Just As I Am, they go and
start tugging at folks and get them to come down and make a
profession of faith. No. When will a sinner live? When
God pours out His Spirit, the Spirit of grace upon you. Then, surely then, and not till
then, the Spirit of God is the spirit of grace, grace that was
given us in Christ before the world began, grace predestined
to be obtained by us in old eternity, grace obtained and held by our
Lord Jesus Christ by the merit of his precious blood, and grace
that's given in the new birth. You don't get God to give you
grace by believing on Christ. No, no, no. If you believe on
Christ, if right now by some irresistible, unexplainable,
omnipotent force in your heart you find yourself believing on
the Son of God, it's because he poured out his Spirit of grace
on you. He poured out the Spirit of grace,
all grace. When the Spirit of God comes,
he brings regenerating grace. Convincing grace, convicting
grace, converting grace, illuminating grace, pardoning grace, believing
grace, sealing grace, all grace. He's the spirit of grace. It's
something he performs, and he's called here the spirit of supplications. The spirit of supplications.
Now, what's that mean? That means if you're made to
supplicate God's throne, it's because God poured his spirit
into you. You can say your prayers without the Spirit, but you can't
pray without Him. You can go through the motions
without Him, but you can't pray without Him. David said, Therefore
thy servant hath found it in his heart to pray this prayer
unto thee. God poured His Spirit upon him. Spirit of supplication. God will save His people. And
God will save His people by His grace. And He does so by causing
them to seek Him and supplicate Him for grace. Let me show you
a couple passages. Turn to 2 Chronicles. Here's
a passage that President Reagan used to quote. He got it from
Armenian preachers he listened to. He was a good president.
His theology was horrible, like most presidents who pretend to
be religious. 2 Chronicles 7, 14. Preachers everywhere get
folks pumped up for revival. Every time they have a church,
Baptist churches have for the last 50 years had spring revivals
and fall revivals, or they called them that. And they'll quote
this verse of scripture or put it on posters and place it all
around town. Got nothing to do with the nonsense
they're talking about. If my people, which are called
by my name, whom he did predestinate them, he also called. If my people,
the seed of David, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, my elect, which
are called by my name, shall humble themselves like that publican
in the temple and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and
will heal their land. If right now you humble yourself
and seek his face, he will hear from heaven, forgive you, he'll
heal you. Turn to Jeremiah chapter 29.
Brother Doug, you just told us that men are not going to be
saved unless Unless God pours out His Spirit upon him, I sure
did. Now, I didn't tell you that. God told you that. Well, now
you're telling us man must supplicate Him in order to be saved? Of
course I am. No, no, no. I didn't say that. God told you
that. Read on. Jeremiah 29, verse 10. For thus saith the Lord,
that after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you
and perform my good word to you in causing you to return to this
place. Now, he's talking about the very same thing Zechariah
is talking about back here, Zechariah 12. The very same thing. The
captivity in Babylon was just a picture of the believer's deliverance. He says, now, I will cause you
to return to this place. Verse 11, for I know my thoughts
that I think toward you, saith the Lord. Thoughts of grace. Merle Hart, he set his heart
on you before ever the world was with thoughts of grace and
never changed his mind. I know my thoughts. I know your
thoughts. Those are unimportant. I know
what you think. That's insignificant. I know
my thoughts toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of grace,
thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you an expected end. And I'm here to tell you what
he gave me. when he gave me his grace and
gave me his son. Darwin was not the end I expected.
I expected to be in hell by now or in prison somewhere between
here and hell. Oh, but the expected end that he expected because
of the covenant ordered in all things ensured before the world
was. Then, then, when I give you this expected end, you shall
call upon me. And you shall go and pray unto
me, and I will hearken unto you." Then, when I give you this expected
end, the preacher will give you a decision card and tell you
to sign up for church. Sign up for Jesus. Put your name
on the dotted line. Sign a contact with Jesus. The
preacher will say, repeat after me, Lord, you know I'm a sinner.
Lord, you know I'm a sinner. Lord, I want to be forgiven.
Lord, I want to be forgiven. God, I don't want to go to hell.
God, I don't want to go to hell. God, save me for Jesus' sake.
He's taking you by the hand and leading you to hell. No, sir. When God pours out His Spirit
and brings you to an expected end, you shall pray. You will
find yourself praying. You will find yourself praying.
And if God teaches you to pray, you don't need me to teach you
how. Exactly right. And if I have to teach you how,
God hasn't taught you how. That's right. You go down to
the penitentiary where they're fixing to execute a fellow and
listen to him. Listen to him beg for mercy. Well, nobody taught him how to
do that. Nobody. Now, what you need to do is you
need to get on your knees for the governor and beg him to have
mercy on you. You need to beg him to spare
you. No, nobody teaches him to do that. He knows his need. He
knows his need and he knows how to beg. And if God causes you
to know your need, he'll cause you to know how to beg for his
mercy. Then you'll pray and I will hearken to you and you shall
seek me and shall find me when you seek me, search for me with
all your heart and yet, Let no one forget if we pray, if we
seek the Lord, if we supplicate the throne of grace, it is the
result, not the calls of the Holy Spirit coming to us. Supplication
arises in the heart when the spirit of grace and supplication
is poured into our hearts. And as he is continually poured
in our hearts, grace is continually poured in our hearts. and prayer
and supplication continually pours forth from our hearts.
Now look at the text again. And. Oh, I love it when God says,
I shall and you shall. I will and you will. It's never I shall and I hope
you will. It's never I shall and maybe
you will. He says, I will pour out upon
the house of David the Spirit of grace and of supplications,
and they, every blessed one of them, they. Who? Those on whom
I pour my Spirit. Oh, the Spirit of God is trying
to get you. If He's trying, He'll get you. That's right. If He
wants you, He'll get you. That's exactly right. I preach
the way you talk. You make it sound like salvation
is Altogether, God's work. I'm glad you heard me just that
way. That's exactly what it is. You're sitting here right now
rejoicing in your heart in his free grace because he wanted
you. You didn't want him. You didn't
want him. You hated him. You despised him. And that makes the difference.
And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced. Our Lord Jesus
says, look unto me. and be you saved, all the ends
of the earth, for I am God. You don't have to have a college
degree to look. You don't have to be able to read to look. You
may be and are destitute of all virtue, but you can look. You
may have no merit, and you don't, but you can look. Looking requires
just this, a personal need. That's all. That's all. It's
not a look of the eye. No, no, it's talking about faith.
And faith has got nothing to do with your hands or your eyes
or your ears or your feet. Faith's got nothing to do with
whether you get up from your seat and walk down here to the front
of the church building or get up and walk to Rome. It's got
nothing to do with that nonsense. Those things are works and not
faith. Faith's got everything to do with what goes on in here.
It's a matter of the heart. It's a matter of the heart. And
if you need mercy, You'll look to Christ for mercy, and you
won't look until you need it, and you'll never need it until
God makes you need it. You see, salvation is altogether
in him. He that hath the Son hath life,
and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced. I see the
crowd in Pilate's hall. I mark the angry men, their shouts
of crucify appall with blasphemies between. And of that shouting
multitude, I feel that I am one. And in the din of voices rude,
I recognize my own. I see the scourges tear his back. I see the piercing crown. And of the crowd who smite and
mock, I feel that I am one. Around yon cross I see the throne,
mocking the sufferers groaned, yet my own voice, it seems to
me, there mocked my Lord alone. T'was I that shed the sacred
blood. I nailed Him to the tree. I crucified
the Christ of God. I joined the revelry. Yet not
the less, His blood avails to cleanse my sin away, and not
the less, The cross prevails to give me peace this day and
they shall mourn for him. We always get the cart before
the horse. We always get everything backwards
with regard to spiritual things. You sit and wait for a feeling,
an experience and make repentance a condition of believing. That makes repentance a work,
not a gift of grace. Now, there's no faith without
repentance and no repentance without faith. But faith comes
and repentance comes as a result of the outpouring of God's Spirit,
not the cause. It's never the cause. Our faith,
our repentance, our believing is not the cause of grace. It's
the sure evidence of grace. Do you find yourself believing?
Do you find yourself looking to Christ? Do you find yourself
mourning your sins? The more you see Him, and the
clearer you see Him, the more you mourn your sins, and mourn
for Him whom you pierced by your sins. Now, let's get down to
verse 1 of chapter 13. I've got to say this real quickly.
In that day, in that day, just as sure as you look to the Savior
in that day. Are you looking? Ross, are you
looking in that day? Will you look in that day? Look away to the Son of God in
that day. There shall be a fountain opened
to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for sin and uncleanness. Oh, I see a fountain open to
cleanse me perpetually, forever of all my sin. There is a fountain
filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners
plunge beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains. Oh,
God, plunge our souls to death beneath the flood. Amen. Let's
stand together and try to see that. Number 222, there's a fountain
filled with blood.