Thank you, Judy, for that song. Let's read together Genesis chapter
38. And it came to pass at that time
that Judah went down from his brethren and turned in to a certain
Adulamite whose name was Hira, And Judah saw there a daughter
of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shuah, and he took her,
that is, Shuah's daughter, and went in unto her. And she conceived
and bear a son, and he called his name Ur. She conceived and
bear a son, and he called his name Onan. And she yet again
conceived and bear a son, and called his name Shelah. And he
was at Shezeb. when she bare him. And Judah
took a wife of Ur, or for Ur, his firstborn, whose name was
Tamar. And Ur, Judah's firstborn, was
wicked in the sight of the Lord, ungodly wretch. And the Lord
killed him. Killed him in such a way that
was manifest to everybody around. God did it. God did it. Act of
judgment clearly set forth. And Judah said to Onan, Go in
unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed
to your brother. And Onan knew that the seed should
not be his. And it came to pass when he went
in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground,
lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing
which he did displeased the Lord. Wherefore, the Lord slew him
also. God killed him in such a distinctly, specific, open
manner that anyone with eyes to see said, God did that. God
did that. Then said Judah to Tamar, his
daughter-in-law, remain a widow at your father's house till Shelah,
my son, be grown. For he said, that is, he made
this pretentious promise. He had no intention of fulfilling
it. Lest peradventure he die also, as his brothers did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her
father's house. Verse 12. And in the process
of time, the daughter of Shulah, Judah's wife, died. And Judah
was comforted and went up unto a sheepshearer's, to Timnath.
He and his friend, Hira the Dulamite, And it was told Tamar, saying,
Behold, your father-in-law goes up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her
with a veil and wrapped herself and sat in an open place, which
is by the way to Timnath. We're not told how it was, but
she, like women still do today, decked herself in such a way
that anybody who walked by said that's a harlot. She wanted folks
to think she was. She wanted to deceive Judah. For she saw that Shelah was grown,
and she was not given him to wife. Verse 15. When Judah saw
her, he thought her to be a harlot, because she had covered her face.
And he turned unto her by the way and said, Go to, I pray you,
and let me come in unto you. For he knew not that she was
his daughter-in-law, And she said, what will you give me that
you may come in to me? And he said, I'll give you a
kid from the flock. And she said, all right, but
what pledge? Well, wilt thou give me a pledge
till thou send it? And he said, what pledge shall
I give you? And she said, your signet and
your bracelets and the staff that's in your hand. And he gave
it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. And
she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil from her, and
put on the garments of her widowhood. And Judah sent the kid by the
hand of his friend, the Adolamite, to receive his pledge from the
woman's hand, but he found her not." Uh-oh. Couldn't find her. Then he asked
the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot that was
openly by the wayside? And they said, There was no harlot
in this place. I have no question they were
fooling themselves, but what a blessing it would be. There's
no harlot here. And he returned to Judah and
said, I can't find her. And also the men of the place
said, There's no harlot in this place. And Judah, I can almost
see him, he shrugged his shoulders and said, well, I've done all
I can do. Let her take it. Leave the matter alone. Let dead
dogs lie. Lest we be ashamed. Behold, I
sent this kid, and you have not found her. Verse 24. And it came to pass, about three
months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar, your daughter-in-law
has played the harlot. And also, behold, she is with
child by whoredom. And Judah said, bring her forth
and let her be burned. Now that doesn't mean burned
at the stake, but rather let her wear the mark of a whore,
burned in her forehead so that everybody looking at her would
say, this woman's been a whore. Let her be burned. It was according
to Levitical law found in Leviticus 21. When she was brought forth,
she sent to her father-in-law saying, By the man whose these
are, am I with child. And she said, you figure out
who they belong to. Discern, I pray you, whose are these,
the signet and bracelet and staff. And Judah said, they're mine.
He acknowledged them and said, she has been more righteous than
I because I gave her not Shelah my son, and he knew her again
no more. Verse 27, And it came to pass,
in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
And it came to pass, when she travailed, one of them put out
his hand, and the midwife took, and bound upon his hand a scarlet
thread, saying, This came out first. And it came to pass, as
he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out.
And she said, How have you broken forth? This breach be upon you. Therefore his name was called
Phares, and afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet
thread upon his hand. His name is called Zeron. Now
how do you feel when you read that chapter? Revolted? Disgusted? Shocked? Horrified that this is written
in the scriptures? Embarrassed? Dismayed by it?
What are your thoughts? If you read the scriptures with
any kind of care, paying attention to what you read as you ought,
you will sometimes come across a passage of scripture like this
one, which seems to be out of joint. It seems to be out of
place. This 38th chapter of Genesis
appears to have absolutely nothing to do with chapters 37 and 39. And yet, here it is in the midst
of them. In chapter 37, we have the story of Joseph and how he
is a type of Christ. It takes up again in chapter
39. But then, right here in the midst of the story of Joseph,
we have this disgusting history concerning Judah his wife, his
sons, and his daughter-in-law, Tabar, by whom he bore an incestuous
child. Without question, the passage
stands before us in glaring contrast to what goes before it and what
comes after it. And when you read the passage,
you kind of scratch your head, and you say, what's this doing
here? Why is this here? How come it's here? The fact
is, when God the Holy Spirit puts something in a place in
Scripture so that it seems totally out of joint, it just sticks
out like a jagged edge, just glares at you, there's a reason
for it. He means to get your attention.
He means to stop and pay attention and seek from Him those things
which are taught in the passage. Now in these 30 verses we are
given by divine inspiration this historic narrative concerning
the life of this man Judah and his terrible sin. And the things
here recorded were written for our learning that we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. So let's see
what the Spirit of God here teaches us. If you're taking notes, as
I encourage that you always do, the title of my message is found
in verse 1. Judah went down. Oh, he did go
down. He did go down. And I'm going
to tell you something. If God ever lifts you up by His
grace, He's going to find you as one who had been come down,
down horribly low. come down horribly low by your
own actions, by your own deeds, by your own will. All right,
now first we see a glaring display of Judah's sin. And the first
thing that's obvious in the text is the fact that this chapter
sets before us the utter depravity of all the human race. Now here
is one thing which characterizes mankind, it always has since
the fall of our father Adam. One black mark which stands upon
the faces of all men. One terrible plague which pollutes
the hearts of all men. One horrible characteristic,
one odious character that's true of every one of us. And that
one thing is sin. Sin. Now, preachers are kind
of like politicians. Politicians these days, it doesn't
matter whether they're conservative or liberal, they lie. They lie. They talk to you and
say, we believe in the innate goodness of man, especially Americans. Americans are just innately good
people. God says otherwise. God declares
that Americans, like everybody else, are innately evil. And
I'm here to tell you that you and I, by nature, are innately
evil, corrupt, deceitful, deceivers, and being deceived. The Scripture
declares the heart, the heart, not that thing that pumps blood
through you, but what you are in your inmost being is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked. Desperately wicked. I often hear people say, well,
if I know my heart, But one thing for sure that you don't know
is your heart. Who can know it? Who can know
it? Oh no, we don't know our hearts.
If we did, we'd all be in the loony bin or commit suicide.
Why? The heart's deceitful above all things. More deceitful than
anything. And it's corrupt, defiled beyond
man's imagination. The fact of our sin The innate
evil and corruption of man is a fact verified by every page
in history. Just read your history books
and read what men do. Sin is what we are. Sin is what
we do. Sin is the character, the family
trait of Adam's fallen race. Though this man Judah was a chosen
sinner, though he was predestined to eternal life in Christ Jesus,
though Judah was a man in the direct lineage of Abraham, one
of God's covenant people, Judah too was a man whose heart was
corrupt and deceitful and God left him to himself to prove
to himself what he was. And God's going to sooner or
later make you know what you are. You will never seek Christ,
you'll never trust Christ, you'll get a little religion, you can
get morality, you can get all kinds of stuff, but you will
never come to Christ until God strips you naked and makes you
see your sin before Him. And He'll do it if He is. One
way or another, He'll do it. This man Judah shows us that
God's elect, like everyone else, are children of wrath, even as
others, deserving of God's wrath by that which they are and that
which they do. We're not told how or why it
came to pass, but this chapter opens by declaring that Judah
went down from his brethren, in verse 1, in direct violation
to God's revealed will. in direct violation to it. We
read later in 1 Corinthians where the apostle commands us by divine
inspiration to be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
But that commandment was given plainly to Abraham as well. Abraham
did not go back to Canaan seeking a wife for his son. He would
not go back to his father's house seeking a wife for his son among
pagans, but rather among those who knew the living God. Scripture
tells us that Judah went down. He didn't just go down, he went
down from his brethren. What does it mean? He took for
his closest friend. And as we read the passage in
chapter 38, every time I read that word friend here, put it
in quotation marks. Ron, he is a friend who is a
friend to your soul. Judah took for his closest friend
an Adulamite pagan by the name of Hiram. I don't have any question he
justified his actions. I don't have any question that
he could vindicate himself very easily and he could explain to
you exactly why he did so, what a fine, fine fellow this Adulamite
was, but Judah is here described as a man in full maturity of
years who willingly compromised what he knew to be the will of
God. He left God's people, he left
God's word, he left God's altar, he left God's sacrifice, and
he went down and joined himself to the Sedulamite by the name
of Hira. Pastor, what's the point? The path of compromise, my friends,
is always the path of sorrow. No exceptions. Whatsoever man
sows, that shall he also reap. Thank God, thank God, thank God
he does not charge his people with sin. And yet while we live
in this world, There are some actions, the consequences of
which you're going to have to live with the rest of your life.
That's just fact. You can't take fire to your bosom
and not get burned. You can't play with a snake and
not be bitten. Let's see if Judah's history
doesn't verify this. Sow to the wind, reap the whirlwind.
He chose a pagan for his friend, and then he looked out the other
and he saw one of those Canaanite women. Man, she's a looker. I
believe that old gal in Sheila's house. Man, I'd like to have
her. And he got her. He got her. He took a pagan for his wife. You young people, I cannot urge you strongly enough. Don't even think about dating
somebody. Don't even think about dating
somebody who won't worship God with you. Don't even think about
it. Don't even think about it. He chose a pagan for his wife.
She was religious, I don't have any question about that. This
Adullamite was religious, the Canaanites were as religious
as Americans are, but she didn't know God. His two oldest sons,
Ur and Onan, followed their father's example. And they lived in outright
rebellion before God in such a manner that God publicly displayed
His wrath and His justice and killed them so that Judah and
everybody around knew that these boys were killed by the judgment
of God. You see, we're not an island. We don't live to ourselves. Lindsay,
our behavior is seen by our sons and daughters and everybody under
our influence. And they're going to follow our
example. They're going to follow our example. And we're responsible for it.
Eli's two sons went to hell because he wouldn't correct them, but
rather indulge them in their sin. And Judah's sons did too. We're not told what Ur's wickedness
was, but it was obviously something for which he manifestly deserved
and received the judgment of God. Onan sin, on the other hand,
is specifically identified for us in verses 7 through 10. Now,
Onan was required under law. I know the law had not yet been
written. It was later written in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter
25, if you want to look at it. But it was a law established
already by God, passed on from generation to generation by word
of mouth in the family of Abraham. It was a law that had reference
only to the family of Abraham. It was a law which existed specifically
with messianic purposes. And that law said this, if a
man's got a brother and his brother dies without, his brother's married
and he dies without his wife having any children, then his
next brother to him is to marry his brother's wife and the first
son to come forth from the womb is to be his brother's son in
whom the heritage, the inheritance of God is given, the firstborn.
Now folks look at that and say, well, how are we going to incorporate
those laws today? They don't apply today. They
were given to Israel and only to Israel for messianic purposes
in prophetic anticipation of the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Well, when Onan was responsible to take Tamar, his brother's
wife, and raise up seed to his brother Ur, Onan said, I ain't
gonna do it. I ain't going to do it." He married
her to avoid public spectacle and shame. He took her and pretended
that he would do it, but he said, no, I'm not going to do it. And
when he went into her, he spilled his seed on the ground. Now,
if you want to read nonsense, read what folks say about that.
Papers that others have taken this as a justification for denying
any kind of use of contraceptives and birth control, and they say
it's a horribly evil thing, and God sent Olin to hell because
he spilled his seed on the ground. Not hardly. Not hardly. That wasn't the essence of it.
There was something more involved. Esau went to hell because he
wanted a mess of beans. Do you really think God sends
a man to hell because he's hungry? Do you really think God sends
man to hell because he spills his seed on the ground? Oh, no.
There was something deeper, something far more significant. We're told
plainly that Esau went to hell and perished under the wrath
of God because when he had the birthright in his hand, he said,
I will trade it for my lust. And he sold his birthright for
a mess of beans and onan. He said, I won't raise up a seed
through whom Messiah will come and thus despise the promise
and purpose of God in the firstborn Jesus Christ our Lord. He said,
No! I'll have my honor in my name.
I won't bow to God. And God sent him to hell. Now
let me tell you something. God still sends sinners to hell
for this reason. Snub your nose at him. You snub
your nose at his son. You say I'll have things my way,
I won't have Jesus Christ, I won't bow to Jesus Christ, I won't
submit to Jesus Christ, I'll serve my lust, my name, my honor,
my praise, my pleasure. And God will send you to hell
if you do. God sends men to hell for their hatred of his son. That's exactly right. And that's
what man's unbelief is. Man's unbelief is man standing
as he hears the gospel of God's grace, as he hears the word of
God's promise with his fists so square in God's face and says,
No! Christ will not be my Lord and
my King. And I'm telling you, he is your
Lord and King. You'll either bow to him or you'll go to hell.
One of the two. That's what happened here with
Olan as well as with his brother Ur. after the death of his first
two sons, Judah promised Tamar that as soon as his third son,
Shelah, was old enough, then she could marry him and he'd
raise up a son. But the scripture tells us plainly he was only
putting on a show. Because when he said that, he
was saying to himself, lest Shelah also die like his brothers did. He must have figured that Tamar
would have to wait around for a long time and she wouldn't
do it. Or he must have figured that she would die before this
boy Sheila was raised up and old enough to marry her. But
anyway, he had no intention of giving Sheila to her. And so
Tamar went back to her father's house and wore the robes of her
widowhood and waited and waited and waited and waited. And Sheila
was finally grown and she's still waiting. But Judah sends no word. He put it out of his mind. He
forgot about it. What could be more terrible than
the consequences? Judah was ensnared in her trap
into committing incest with his daughter-in-law. Here's a man brought up in the
midst of a favored people, the sons of Abraham. A man brought
up surrounded by godly examples. A man brought up under the sound
of God's word. A man brought up at the altar
of God, worshiping God with his family. A man who from his youth
was surrounded by glaring examples of grace and steadfast faith. And yet Judah chose the rebel's
path. And the consequences of his actions
are glaring too. His sons died under God's wrath. But that didn't have any effect
on him. He went right on his rebellion.
You see, judgment never produces repentance. It doesn't happen.
It doesn't happen. Folks get scared and they get
a little dose of religion, but judgment never produces repentance.
Judah went on in his lust, walking after his flesh. Then after the
death of his wife, Judah went down to the Sheepshearers, and
he called his friend, the Adolamite, that same fellow, that same fellow,
after all these years, still his friend, Hira. And Tamar was
sitting in the way, in a public way, and Judah, his wife, was
dead, and he's a lonesome old man, and he says to Hira, excuse
me for a little while, And he walks over to Tamar and he says,
what would it cost me to take you to bed? And she said, what
will you give? He said, well, when I get home,
I'll send you a kid. You can kill him and feed your
family. He didn't know she was his daughter-in-law. She veiled
herself. She covered herself. And she
said, all right, but you'll have to give me some kind of surety.
You'll have to give me some kind of pledge, some kind of guarantee.
He said, what do you want? She said, give me your bracelet.
And give me your signet, and give me your staff that's in
your hand, and when you send the kid, I'll give him back to
you." Judah said, okay. And so, he went into her and
she conceived a son by her father-in-law. And she went back home, put on
her widow's garments again, and waited three months until she
began to show. And then word got to Judah, and someone said,
Judah, Tamar had been a whore. She'd been a whore. And Judah
said, well bring her forth publicly, burn her, put a mark in her so
that she wears the mark of a whore and everybody will know what
she's like. And so when they sent to get Tamar, And she sent the signet and the
bracelets and the staff. And she said, buddy, tell me
whose these are. He's the father of this child. Oh. Now what? who had joined with his brothers
in opposing the marriage of their sister Dinah to a Canaanite,
decided it was good enough for him to marry a Canaanite. This
man, this man who sold to the wind in the lust of his flesh
and went down to Canaan and there took for himself a wife of the
Canaanites, this man who went down and hired a harlot and in
his self-righteousness sat in judgment over the harlot, now
he's found out. Now, this man who's lost his
sons, because of his disregard of God. This man, now who's tried
to cover his shame, he sent this Adullamite down with his goods,
this friend of his, this aider and abetter in his crimes, and
this Adullamite couldn't find the harlot, so he said, well,
leave her alone, let's keep this quiet, lest we be put to shame.
Don't worry about finding out about this. This man who more
feared the face of men than he did the face of God Almighty,
now he's found out. How does he respond? Look at
verses 24, 25, and 26. And it came to pass about three
months after that it was told Judah saying, Tamar, your daughter-in-law
has played the harlot. And also behold, she's with child
by whoredom. And Judah said, bring her forth
and let her be burned. And when she was brought forth,
she sent to her father-in-law Saying, by the man whose these
are, I am with child. And she said, discern, I pray
you, whose these are, the signet, the bracelets, the staff. And
Judah acknowledged them. The word them is in italics.
Judah acknowledged. Judah acknowledged. Oh, at last. He brought down west to see who
and what he is and confess it. Thank God for such humiliation. It is not just that Judah here
acknowledged his guilt. He was caught red-handed. He
didn't have any choice. He acknowledged everything. He
acknowledged everything. He acknowledged. And this is
what it said. She has been more righteous than
me. Because I gave her not to Selah
my son, and he knew her not again no more. Now, I read that and
I think to myself, how can he say that she was more righteous
than me when she conceived the plot? How can he say she has
behaved more righteously than me when she's the one who disguised
herself, set herself in the way, and he went out and hired what
he thought was a harlot? She knew who he was. Now fornication
and the adultery that he engaged in was certainly a horribly evil
thing, but no more evil in its act than her act of harlotry,
her pretense and her betrayal. How then is he saying she has
behaved more righteously than me? Because Judah understood
what she understood and why she did it. Judah had despised God's
promise of the firstborn, the son to come through his loins,
the seed of woman through whom redemption would come, and Judah
had despised it. His son Ur had despised Him.
His son Onan had despised Him. And Tamar understood and believed
God's promise. And if it must be by conniving,
she said, I'm going to have Christ. Nothing going to keep me from
Him. Nothing. Now, that doesn't justify her
actions. Oh, no. That doesn't justify what she
did. Not at all. But it does declare what Judah's
saying here. She has behaved righteously. Not me. Not me. You see, Judah is now brought
to repentance. He confesses his sin. He's converted
by God's grace. He looks to Christ the Lord. As Lindsay said a little bit
ago, we recognize God's purpose of grace. God chose Judah. God
chose him. God determined to save him. But
Judah must repent. Judah must confess his sin. Judah must believe God. Somebody wrote to me the other
day and talked about faith and said, you know, speaking as though
faith is somehow not something we exercise. Our Lord spoke of
that woman who came and confessed her sin. He said, your faith
has saved you. How's that? In the experience
of it. Now let me tell you plainly, God's purpose is notwithstanding,
Christ's redemption notwithstanding, God's grace notwithstanding,
you and I, Bob Pontzer, are responsible to lay hold of Christ and not
let him go no matter the cost. And you'll either lay hold of
him or you'll go to hell. One of the two. Judah here confesses
his sin. He confessed the gospel of God's
grace, the promise that was given. And it is written, if we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, in the backdrop, against
this backdrop of man's sin, there are several other things seen
in this passage. We see the freeness of God's
election. Why did God choose Judah, buddy?
Why Judah? The Lord looked out and saw Judah
was going to make the right decision. No, Judah made the wrong decision.
The Lord looked out and saw that Judah was going to be better
than his neighbors. No, he was worse than his neighbors. The
Lord looked out and saw that Judah in time would come to his
senses and turn to God. Nothing would turn him to his
senses. Nothing. Oh no. God chose Judah because
God said, I'll be his God. I love him freely and nothing
would change it, nothing. Children of God understand this,
understand this. The only distinction there is
between you and your family, you and your neighbors, you and
those who are already in hell is the distinction God has made
by His grace. Who makes you to differ from
another? I don't want to take the pop
out of your suspenders. What do you have that you've not received?
If you've received it, why do you glory as if you had not received
it? Here, against this terrible background of Judas' sin, we
see the wondrous immutability of God's purpose. God had purpose from eternity.
that his son would come into the world through the tribe of
Judah. And so it must be, and so it was. As surely as this
chapter records the faithlessness of men, it records the immutable
faithfulness of our God. We're told in the book of Matthew
that Jesus sat at meats in the house, and behold, many publicans
and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And
when the Pharisees saw it, They said, why eateth your master
with publicans and sinners? I've got news for you. He doesn't
just eat and drink with them, but the 12 gates of heaven itself
are named after him. As if to declare, the way is
open for sinners, and I am the way. Come on. Come on home to
God by me. And we see, too, the wonder of
God's providence. How often, how often, in unbelief,
we can call it anything else we want to, but that's what it
amounts to, in unbelief, we sit down and chew our nails and paste
the floor and wring our hands and say, what's God doing? What's
God doing? Let me tell you what God's doing. He who made all things, rules
all things, uses all things, and disposes of all things exactly
as He will for the saving of His people and the glory of His
name. That's what God's doing. That's
what God's doing. I don't see how. I don't see
how. I see God's judgment fall here
and God's judgment fall there. I see this difficulty in that.
You endure this heartache in that. You go through this disappointment
in that. You wring your hands and you're in unbelief. You cry, God, why? And he says,
I will do all my pleasure whatsoever the Lord purposed. That shall
he do. And it's good. It's good. It's good. Did you hear me? It's good. All things work together
for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according
to His purpose. And His purpose is the ultimate
glorification of His people for the exaltation and glory of His
Son, that He, the Lord Jesus Christ, might be the firstborn
among many brethren. we see the display of God's great
grace. As God dealt with Judah, so he
deals with all his elect in free, sovereign, saving grace. God stepped in the way. God made Judah see himself. God
graciously forced Judah to confess his gospel. God graciously compelled
Judah to lay hold of his side. Oh, God. Oh, Lord God, do for men, do
for men and women here this day what they cannot and will not
do for themselves. Open their hearts, strip naked
their souls, make them to see their sin. Show them your Son
and cause them by the sweet constraint of irresistible grace to flee
to Jesus Christ for refuge and find life in Him. Lay hold of
Him, the covenant promise in whom all blessedness is found. Here is a display of God's amazing
grace to sinners. Judah deserved to go to hell,
just like his sons. Tamar deserved to go to hell,
just like her husbands. But God stepped in. He said,
I've got other plans for you. I'm going to be gracious to you.
And Bobby, not only did he forgive their sin, Not only did he robe
them in the righteousness of his Son, not only did he wash
them in his precious blood, he made Judah to be that one through
whom Christ came, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, whom all
men shall forever praise, either praising him in the glory of
his grace or praising him in the severity of his justice.
But every creature in heaven, earth, and hell is going to praise
the Lion of the tribe of Judah who has prevailed. And he took
Tamar. And if you read the opening verses
of Matthew's gospel, you will find named there three women
in the ancestry, in the genealogy of our Lord Jesus other than
Mary. One was Ruth the Moabitess. Another was Bathsheba the adulteress. And the first was Tamar, this
incestuous woman. Yes, the son of God chose to
come into the world as the seed of an incestuous relationship. How come? Because he chose to
identify himself with sinners whom he came to save. by his
almighty grace. And I'm going to tell you something. He does. He saves sinners. He saves sinners. Sinners! Sinners! I said, oh
pastor, what a sinner I am. I acknowledge my sin. I am nothing
but corruption. Not just what I've done, what
I am in my heart, seeing, seeing, seeing. If God sent me to hell
right now, it wouldn't be soon enough. Come to Christ. He came to save you. That's right. That's right. Well, I ain't like that. I wasn't
talking to you. I wasn't talking to you. He came
to save sinners there. Sinners. I don't qualify for
much. Bless God I do qualify for that.
God be merciful to me, the sinner. Amen.