Turn with me to Psalm 68, if
you will, please. Psalm 68. I'm going to look for
a minute at verses 18, 19, and 20. Now, this psalm we know is
a prophecy declaring the accomplished work of our Redeemer, His ascension
up to heaven's glory upon the completion of His work as our
Savior after He had risen from the dead. Now, we know that because
the Holy Spirit tells us that's the meaning of the psalm in the
fourth chapter of the book of Ephesians, beginning at verse
7. Here in verse 18, the psalmist says, Thou hast ascended on high. having accomplished everything
he came here to accomplish. That is, having put away our
sins by the sacrifice of himself, having brought in everlasting
righteousness by his obedience to the Father, having fulfilled
all things written of him in the scriptures, having accomplished
the mission for which he was sent into the world as the God-man,
our mediator. Having obtained eternal redemption
for us, our Lord Jesus ascended up on high and took his seat
on the right hand of the majesty on high. He took possession of
God's throne as a man, as our forerunner, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. Read on. Thou hast led captivity
captive. What on earth does that mean?
Well, we don't have to guess about it. Paul tells us he blotted
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his
cross. And having spoiled principalities and powers, having spoiled every
enemy of his own right to be God and of our souls. Having spoiled principalities
and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over
them in his cross. That includes Satan and death
and hell. Thou hast led captivity captive. Next we read, thou hast received
gifts for men. He received gifts. What gifts? All the gifts of grace, salvation,
righteousness, justification, peace, pardon, eternal life,
acceptance with God, everlasting glory. He received gifts for
men. He received them because he earned
them, and he received them to dispense them at the appointing
of his own pleasure to chosen redeemed sinners because he is
the redeemer. Now watch this. I love it. Yea,
for such things as you are too. Yea, for the rebellious also.
He received gifts for men. What kind of men? The kind you
wouldn't expect. What kind of men? The kind you'd
cast into hell. What kind of men? For the rebellious
also. For the rebellious also. That's
about as clear a description of sin and sinners as there is
in this book. The essence of it is rebellion. The heart of man is enmity against
God. We are all born rebels. born
rebels, set to the destruction of God if we can, set to take
over the throne of God if we can, set to shove God off His
throne and make ourselves God if we can. Proof of it's in the
pudding. You hear men object to things
the scriptures declare about God, His holiness, His justice,
His sovereignty, His truth, His discriminating grace, His discriminating
love, His discriminating mercy. And yet those same folks who
object to it, who rebel against it, would love to do the same
thing themselves if they could. Their only objection is that
God does what God does, and they can't. That's the only objection.
You see, man's chief problem is he hates God. He hates the
fact that God is, hates the fact that God is God. He's rebels. But Jesus Christ came here to
save rebels. And he will subdue his people
beneath him. The prophet said, all that are
incensed against him shall bow before him. Now you listen carefully
to this picture. One of these days, you are going
to bow to his throne absolutely. You're going to bow to him. You're
going to bow down, kiss his feet, and say, you're the king, you're
God, and you're the only one has right to be. Either because
you love it, having been subdued by his grace, or in the terror
of eternal damnation, having been subdued by his justice. But either way, you're going
to bow. Bow now. Bow now. Thou hast ascended on
high. Thou hast received gifts for
men, yea, for the rebellious also, to this end, that the Lord
God might dwell among them. He received gifts of grace and
eternal salvation for chosen sinners, even for rebels like
us, that God the Holy Spirit might come here in justice and
in truth and dwell with us in grace, and that God Almighty
might forever dwell with man in perfect holiness in the world
to come, that God might dwell among them. Now, as the result
of this, He daily loads us with the benefits of grace. Blessed
be the Lord who daily loadeth us. Isn't that good? He loads us and loads us and
loads us and loads us. My cup runneth over. He prepares
a table before me in the presence of my enemies. He loads me all
the time, every day, with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Now pause for a little while
and roll that over. Before you ever knew him, Bob,
he was loading you every day with the benefits of his accomplished
work. And He continues to every day. Every experience we have
is but another shovel full of those benefits loaded into our
little buggy. That's all. Every experience
we have, secretly and sometimes manifestly, but always, uninterruptingly,
He daily loadeth us with benefits. Read on. He that is our God, He and none
other, this God we've been talking about who's ascended up on high,
this God who came here to save us and saved us. He that is our God, He and He
alone is the God of salvation. And to Him, to Him alone belong
the issues of death. To Him belong the issues, the
results of His death. They're His. And He gives them
to us by His boundless grace. Now, I want to talk to you this
morning about salvation. I presume one reason you're here
is because you hope to be saved. You hope to be saved. I know that nobody here this
morning is so foolish as to imagine that the waters of baptism have
anything to do with salvation. You know better than that. You're
not so foolish as to imagine that when you come together tonight
and eat the bread and wine at the Lord's table, that has something
to do with saving your soul. You know better than that. You're
not so foolish as to think that you add something to the grace
of God or add something to the work of Christ for your salvation. You know better than that. You're
not so foolish as to imagine that somehow or another you save
yourself. You know better than that. But
I'll tell you something that some of you, I'm sure, struggle
with. You think salvation's got something
to do with a feeling or an experience. And when you
lay down at night and your conscience begins to scream, you try to
silence it by saying, well, I had this experience. I've been there. Everything's all right. I made
my profession of faith. Or I've had this walk with the
Lord or that. Or right now I feel close to
him. Salvation is not an experience,
though we experience God's grace. Salvation is not a feeling, though
we feel God's goodness. Salvation is a living union with
a real person called God the Son. It is a living union with a real
person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is the continual outflow of
life from our head to his members. The continual outflow of life
from the vine to the branches. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou
hast sent." Now, when we talk about salvation, let's try to
find out what God says about it. It doesn't matter what the
Baptist Church says, or the Presbyterian Church says, or the Mormon Church
says, or the Catholic Church says. What men say about it is
utterly meaningless. Utterly meaningless. I wish we
could forget creeds and confessions of faith, every one of them,
when we come to study this book and find out what God says. Forget
what mama and daddy taught you. Mama and daddy were sinners just
like you and just as confused as you are by nature. Mama and
daddy didn't know God anymore. You knew God by nature. Grandma,
grandpa, same boat. Forget what they say. And find
out what God says in his word. What does God say about salvation?
Now, when I'm talking about salvation, this is what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the deliverance of our souls from sin. All sin. Forever. from all the evil consequences
of sin forever. The bondage and tyranny and dread
of the curse of God's holy law because of sin forever. Deliverance into life and liberty
in Christ. Deliverance into everlasting
glory with the smile of God on my soul. Anything less than that is just
religion. It ain't salvation. It ain't
salvation. Oh, pastor, I'd do anything to
have a conscious awareness that God smiles on me all the time. I'm sure you would. I'm sure
you would. There's not any sacrifice you
wouldn't make for that. That's the reason you read in
history about heathen tribes all over the world. Our forefathers,
we love to talk about our forefathers, don't we? Our forefathers used
to sacrifice their babies on heathen altars because they'd
do anything to have God smile at them, give anything. I'm sure
you would. I'm sure you would. If I could
convince you that by cutting off your right arm with no anesthesia,
God will smile on you forever, you'd whack it off right now.
That's not a difficulty. That's not a difficulty. Men
will do anything to ease their conscience. Would you do nothing? Would you do nothing? Long for no experience? Seek to have no feeling. Do nothing. That's the only way
you'll ever get God's salvation, is do nothing. Quit doing and start looking. Quit doing and trust. Quit doing and believe. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. Look away from yourself. Look
away from yourself. I mean totally look away from
yourself to Christ alone. And you're going to walk out
those doors with God smiling on you, consciously aware of
it. Believe him. All right, now let's
turn to Genesis 49. I want to show you how God describes
this thing called salvation. I want to give it to you very
briefly. We're just going to look at nine
statements in the word of God and see how God describes this
thing called salvation. Genesis 49 verse 18. Here's the
very first time the word's used in the scriptures. Now if we
have nothing else to go on except what's called by theologians
the law of first mention, that'd be enough to tell us what salvation
is. The first time it is used, Jacob is here giving a prophetic
word concerning his sons Regarding the twelve tribes of Israel,
but it is a word that reaches far beyond Jacob's physical sons
in those physical tribes It is talking about us the sons of
Jacob who are the Israel of God and there Jacob says I have waited
for thy salvation Now that's the first word thy salvation
If we have nothing else to go on, that's enough to tell us
that when the Bible talks about salvation, it's talking about
something that is the peculiar property and the peculiar prerogative
of God alone. Salvation is of the Lord and
salvation is the Lord's. Moses said to the children of
Israel, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Jehoshaphat,
the king, said to the children of Israel, you shall not need
to fight in this battle. Set yourselves, stand ye still,
and see the salvation of the Lord with you. Salvation is something
that God does. Jonah was in the whale's belly.
He was down there in the depths of the sea at the bottom of the
mountains, utterly Utterly incapable of delivering himself. Utterly
incapable of ransoming himself. He was in the belly of hell.
He was in the grave. The billows of God's wrath overwhelmed
him. And when the billows of God's
wrath overwhelm you and you find yourself in the belly of hell
itself, you will understand salvation is of the Lord. It is God's work
and God's work alone. God's possession and God's possession
alone. God's gift and God's gift alone. So then, it is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
But Brother Don, surely there's some place for my will in salvation.
What did we just read? It is not of him that willeth. But doesn't a man have a will? Yeah, he's got a will. Who would
deny that? Who would deny that? Problem
is his will is just like he is. It's corrupt and full of bondage. And he can't do anything contrary
to his nature or desire anything contrary to his nature. Man's
will is never, never, never free. His will is what he is at his
very heart, down to what he is. Well, I believe in free will.
No, you don't. No, you don't. You just hear
folks talk and you want to fuss with God. You don't believe in
free will. Lays potato chips. I remember when I was a boy,
some of you folks are old enough to remember these commercials
before they started selling everything with sex. Bet you can't eat one. Sold potato
chips all over the world. Bet you can't eat one. Try. What? Who can't do that? Give it a
shot. I can. You just want to turn my back,
you have to. How come? Because your will is
the most fickle, weak part of your makeup. That's the weakest
thing about you. That's the weakest thing about
you. Men stay in such trouble the whole time. The weakest aspect
of man's being is his will. And yet the religious world makes
a god out of his will and says that he by his will is able to
control God Almighty. Salvation is not by your will,
it's by God's will. And if God leads you to your
will, you're going to hell. The only thing that's going to
stop you from going to hell is if God stops you from your will.
If He stops you from having what you want, what you decide, what
you determine. All right, turn to Hebrews chapter
five, verse nine. Salvation is thy salvation. Here
in Hebrews chapter five, verse nine, we read that the Lord Jesus
Christ is the author of eternal salvation. Being made perfect,
he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
believe. Now listen carefully again. Yes,
salvation was purchased for us by the blood of Jesus Christ
at Calvary. Yes, salvation is wrought in
our hearts, in the hearts of every chosen redeemed sinner
by the regenerating work of God the Holy Spirit at the appointed
time of love. And yes, salvation is the eternal
work of God Almighty, eternal. It was devised and secured, predestined
and purposed, And in the mind and purpose of God, it was performed
in the covenant of grace before the world began. You say, well,
preacher, how can you explain that? You know what? I can't. I gave up trying to explain eternal
things a long time ago. I just proclaim them. Said, well,
I just won't believe anything I can't understand. I don't understand
how a brown cow can eat green grass and give white milk and
yellow butter, but I drink the milk and eat the butter. And
I'm happy to do so. I'll leave it to somebody else
to investigate the biology of all that. We bow to what God
says, understand it or not. We bow to what God says. Whether
we can reconcile it with other things or not, we bow to what
God says. Now, read your Bible. Read your
Bible. Read your Bible. Not just what
men say about your Bible. Read what God says in his word,
and you will understand that salvation is an eternal work
of God. Listen to this. Now, let's look
at these passages. Turn with me to each one of them. Revelation
13, verse 8. Revelation chapter 13 verse 8 John is describing a vision for
us a vision of this day in which Antichrist arises and everybody
in the world goes after him everybody Everybody the whole world goes
after him everybody in your family will go after him and everybody
in my family will go after him except for one group of people
Revelation 13 8 all that dwell upon the earth shall worship
the beast and the false prophet and whose names are not written
in the book of life of the Lamb. Now, what does it say? Slain
from the foundation of the world. God Almighty looked upon Christ,
our surety, when the Son of God struck hands with the Father
in the covenant of grace and said, I will be surety for them.
God said, He's dead, buried, risen again, and all things are
in His hands. He's the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. Look at the book of 2 Timothy.
We were chosen, predestined unto salvation, and blessed with all
the blessings of salvation in Christ before the world began.
God hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him before
the foundation of the world, having predestinated us unto
the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to
the good pleasure of his will. in whom we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of sins. And in all this, He has
made us accepted in the beloved. Accepted. What does that mean? What does it mean? That's just
babiestos. God declared in Ephesians 1.6,
that He made you accepted in Christ long time before you ever
went astray from your mother's womb, speaking lies. Long time
before you ever fell in our Father Adam. Now, did He accept you
as righteous or unrighteous? Did He accept you as justified
or unjustified? Did He accept you as redeemed
or not redeemed? Well, preacher, that's ridiculous.
The only way God accepts folks is in holiness and righteousness
and justification and redemption. That's what I said. He saved
us eternally. Look here in 2 Timothy 1. Paul
is describing the gospel for which he was imprisoned. He says,
God hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,
get it now, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
began. Now look at verse 10, but is
now made manifest by the appearing of our savior, Jesus Christ,
who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel. When a sinner is born of God,
if today, if today, God gives you faith in Christ, so that
right now, you, sitting right where you are, for the first
time in your life, look to Christ. You believe Him. God says, he
that believeth on the Son shall have everlasting life. Is that
what God says? Is that what God says, Linda?
That's not what He says. God says, He that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life. Hath everlasting life. Your faith
didn't give you life. Your faith is the result of life.
So if a man has life because he believes, it's sort of like
saying a baby lives because he breathes. He breathes because
He's alive. And believers believe because
they're alive. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. Now, believing on Him, God Almighty
has brought to me, to light, salvation and light and immortality
by the appearing of Jesus Christ in my heart by the revelation
of His grace by the Gospel. That's what Paul says. Oh, preacher,
you mean You mean when God saves a sinner, actually what happens
is he just experiences what God did for him in Christ before
the world began. Man, that's good. You got it.
You got it. Oh, you mean he just comes to
the understanding that he's saved? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no. God Almighty. experimentally
brought me up out of hell 37 years ago. Took away his wrath from my conscience
37 years ago. Gave me life 37 years ago. Made me righteous 37 years ago. Smiled on me 37 years ago. 37 years ago, I experienced what
God did for me before the world began. You understand the difference?
And I am experiencing right now what God did for me before the
world began. We were accepted in the beloved
before we were ruined in our father Adam. Paul tells us in
Romans 8, 29, and 30 that we were loved of God, justified
of God, called of God, sanctified of God, glorified of God before
the world was accepted in Christ Jesus and blessed. Our salvation
in time is neither more nor less than the outworking of eternal
salvation. All right, look at Psalm 37. Psalm 37. Here God, the Holy Spirit, describes
salvation in another way. He calls our salvation the salvation
of the righteous. Verse 39, the salvation of the
righteous is of the Lord. This is the gospel of the grace
of God. The righteous one spoken of here in verse 39 is the perfect
man described in verse 38, or verse 37 rather. He is that one
perfect, made perfect in Christ. The only difference between him
and the transgressor who shall be destroyed in verse 38 is the
difference that grace has made. Mark the perfect man, he said
in verse 37. Behold the upright, the end of
that man is peace. Look up here, look up here, look
up here. Look right here in my face. You're
looking at a perfect man, an upright man who's nothing but sin and corruption,
transgression, iniquity, vileness, God said Job was, didn't he?
A perfect man. Upright. Upright before God. Because the man you're looking
at is made perfect and upright through the imputing of Christ's
righteousness to me. And I am made to be the righteousness
of God in him. The end of this man. The end of this man, no matter what there is between
here and the end, the end of this man is peace. You can mark it down. The transgressor,
he's going to perish. And the only difference between
this man and that transgressor is the difference grace has made. Here is our experience. Verse
39 again, He is their strength in time of trouble. Well, preacher,
how can you talk about salvation of the righteous? Because the
perfect, the righteous man, as long as he's in this world, is
in constant need of God's salvation. I just caught you looking at
me, Rex. Why isn't your still here? Follow in Christ. Believe in Him. How come in a
fit of anger you didn't kill one of your children or your
wife? How come you hadn't denied Him? Only because God upholds
you. That's all. That's all. That's
it. He's our strength, especially in time of trouble.
The Lord shall help them and deliver them. He shall deliver
them from the wicked and save them. And here's the great evidence
of all this grace. Because they trusted Him. Because they trusted Him. You
don't need to turn here because we looked at it just a couple
of weeks ago, Jude verse 3. Jude speaks of our salvation
by divine inspiration and calls it the common salvation. Common
salvation. Not common in the sense that
it's offered to all or it's available to all. Not in the common in
the sense that it's universal or cheap. Oh, no, no, no. Common
in this sense. Every one of us who are saved
by God's grace experience the same grace. We don't all experience
it the same way. Now, sometimes you'll hear fellows
talk about grace and salvation, and they've been told that you
have to experience things the way I have. Bunyan's Children's
Progress is a great, great book. If you haven't read it, I recommend
that you read it. It is a great, great book. But don't make the
mistake of imagining that you're not saved because you haven't
experienced everything Bunyan experienced. Your name isn't
Bunyan. You haven't been in Bedford jail
for 12 years. You haven't been through those
same experiences, but we've experienced the same grace. It's well illustrated
for us in the book of Mark. In chapter 7, our Lord has his
disciples that brought blind men to him and asked him to heal
them. And the Lord spit in his eyes, led him out and away from the
folks, took him by the hand, led him away, and spit in his eyes. And he said, what do you see?
And he said, I see me and his trees walking. And then he touched
his eyes. And he said, how do you see now?
He said, I see all men clearly. In chapter 10 of the book of
Mark, the Lord's coming out of Jericho and this fellow named
Bartimaeus who cries, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy
on me. And the Lord Jesus said, your faith has made you whole.
And he saw. Now they were both blind men.
They both experienced recovery from their utter desperate state
by the work of Jesus Christ alone. But they didn't experience it
the same way. Now, if those two fellows were like us, I can picture
them meeting up some day down the road a few years after the
Lord Jesus ascended back to glory. And this first blind fellow meets
up with Bartimaeus, and he said, hello, my name's Joe. And Bartimaeus
said, my name's Bartimaeus. They called me the blind son
of a blind man. He said, oh, you must have met
the Lord Jesus. Yeah, I did. Because I'm not
blind anymore. What did he do for you? How did
the Lord give you your sight? Whenever somebody says, well,
now tell me how the Lord saved you. Tell them a story. All they're
doing is wanting to ask you questions so they can judge whether you're
saved or not. Give them something that you own. How did the Lord
give you your sight? Well, I cried, Jesus, Son of
David, have mercy on me! And he said, your faith has made
you whole, and hope of mine has been seen ever since. He didn't
take you by the hand and lead you out by yourself. No. He didn't spit in your eyes first.
What? No. At first, did you see me in his
trees walking? No. As soon as I opened my eyes,
I saw everything clearly. After spitting in your eyes,
he didn't do that? After seeing things dimly, you didn't see
it? Did he touch your eyes with his
fingers? No. Well, you ain't saved. You must
still be blind. And so now they've got two different
Baptist churches, spit-in-the-eye Baptist church and a non-spitted
Baptist church. What stupidity. God's people
all experience common salvation from a common Savior. with a
common righteousness, with a common atonement, with a common inheritance,
with common grace and glory forever. But they don't experience grace
the same way. So when you hear me talk about
having gone through some experiences in my soul, thank God. I thank God for the
experiences. But the experiences, Lindsay,
are not my hope. That's not my salvation. That's
not that which gives me confidence before God will preach. I don't
feel the same things you feel. You haven't been the same place
I've been. You haven't walked the same path I've walked in.
Salvation is by God's free grace, and it's the common salvation. What do you imagine? I'm not
going to come near getting done, but I'll give you a couple of things.
What do you imagine is the way in which God's salvation is most
commonly described in scripture? What word do you suppose is used
more often than any other in connection with God's salvation?
If I were a betting man, I'd make you good odds there's not
a man or woman or child in this building who'd give me the answer
to the question. I started to ask Shelby late last night and
I thought she won't sleep if I don't tell her and I ain't
gonna tell her. I'll guarantee she'll know the answer. Guaranteed.
Guaranteed. Turn to Psalm 118, verse 21. That which is the most common
way salvation is described I've mulled this thing over yesterday
so much, has got to be the sweetest way it's described. Look at this.
Psalm 118 and verse 21. I will praise thee for thou hast
heard me and art become my salvation. My salvation. That's the way Moses taught Israel
to sing when they were on the glory side of the Red Sea. He
said, the Lord is my strength and my song. He's become my salvation. This is how David spoke most
often of God's salvation. He is my salvation. Habakkuk
said, I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my salvation. Oh, how I love the way. Our great,
gracious, all-holy God teaches us to use this personal, possessive
pronoun in connection with His great gift of grace. I'm talking
to you about my salvation. My salvation. My salvation is
a person. Not a doctrine or a decision
or experience. A person. Jesus Christ, the Son
of God. My salvation is mine because
God gave it to me and wrought it in me. And my salvation is
mine because I continually draw the water of life out of the
wells of salvation. It's mine because I receive it,
believing on the Son of God from whom I have now received the
atonement. It's mine because I take it. Take it. You mean preachers,
you take Christ? Oh, I do. I sure do. I sure do. I take Him. I take Him. He chose me and I wouldn't have
it until He made Himself known to me. And now that I see Him, I cry, give me Christ or else
I die. I've got to have Him. See that? I'm fixing to take some water. Now you just try to get it. It's
mine. It's mine. And Jesus Christ gives
to all who take Him. That's the word. To all who receive
Him. the right, the right before God
to be called the sons of God. My salvation. Turn to Philippians
2. Philippians 2 verse 12. Here's a description of salvation. It's almost as good. Paul speaks of our salvation
here and says it's your own salvation. He says work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling. The meaning is not you work out
so that you can be saved. The meaning is you work outwardly
that which God has wrought and is working inwardly. And the
context describes it. He says love each other. Comfort
one another. Rejoice in the Lord. Work out
your own salvation with fear and trembling. Let this mind
be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Work out your salvation
with fear and trembling. Now here's the assurance. For
it is God that worketh in you. Do you believe on the Son of
God? Do you trust Him? Do you? Oh, preacher, I believe,
but my faith is so little. Mine too. Do you trust him? Oh, brother Don, I trust him,
but there's so much unbelief mixed with my trust. Mine too.
Do you lean on him? Oh, I have no one else on whom
to lean. I must lean on him. But I lean so much away from
him. Me too. Who is your righteousness? Who
is your atonement? Who is your Savior? What is your
hope before God? Oh my God! Christ! Only Christ! It's God that works in you. Both to will and to do of His
good pleasure. And when it gets done, you're
not just going to look, you're going to see perfectly. You're
not just going to lean, you're going to lean completely. You're
not going to just call Him your righteousness. You're going to
walk before Him forever in perfect righteousness, even His righteousness. His salvation is a salvation,
Peter says in 1 Peter 1.5, ready to be revealed soon. I have not seen nor heard
Neither have entered into the heart of man the things that
God has prepared for them that love him. Oh, but soon, soon,
soon, Israel shall be saved in the Lord with everlasting salvation. Amen. Let me read you something. Brother John Mitchell's daughter,
Susie, sang this great, great hymn while we were up in Great
Falls, Montana a couple of weeks ago. And I had her send me a
copy of it. As soon as I get it photocopied and give it to
some of you folks who sing, we'll hear it, might even learn it.
But listen to this. We read of a place that's called
heaven. It's made for the pure and the free. These truths in
God's word he has given. How beautiful heaven must be.
In heaven, no drooping nor pining, no wishing for elsewhere to be.
God's light is forever there shining. How beautiful heaven
must be. Pure waters of life there are
flowing and all who will drink may be free.