Let's turn to Hebrews chapter
10. Generally, whenever I begin to
second guess myself and think, well, maybe you're bending a
little overboard in this direction. Maybe you need to back off. Maybe
you need to not be quite so dogmatic. God in his providence sends something
my way to make me kind of perk up with boldness and determination,
plod along in the same path. I have been studying and preparing
this message for a couple of weeks now, had my mind on it,
announced it to you Sunday morning. And then yesterday morning, I
received a book that was sent, I presume, for me to review.
Don't think the authors are going to like it, but I was sent the
book to review about the cross. And it was a very typical, very
typical book, written by a man who gives lip service to the
grace of God, But so far as I've been able to tell so far, and
I've just scanned through it, I haven't read it carefully,
he seems to be very, very, very careful to state things concerning
the cross of Christ in such a way as to be certain that he offends
no one and takes the offense out of the cross while not openly
denying the doctrine of the cross. And such a confession is worse
than out and out denial. The Apostle Peter, I've told
you many times, he and John stood before the Sanhedrin and there
were many ways they could have answered those fellows and got
along fine with them. They were arrested because of the healing
of that lame man and they said, by what name and what authority
have you healed this man? And Peter could have said to
them, He could have said, now we did this by the name, power,
and authority of the Lord God Jehovah. And they would have
said, Amen, that's good. We believe that. We're right
there with you. But Peter understood that they
despised the God he worshipped. He understood that they did not
know who the Lord God Jehovah is. And therefore Peter spoke
to them plainly and said, Be it known unto you that by the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, this man
stands right here in front of you. Now you do what you want
to. You do what you want to. He, rather than compromise the
gospel, confessed Christ for the glory of Christ. Not because
he's mean-spirited, not because he's some kind of an augur, but
because he was concerned for the glory of God, and those men
standing before him were determined to rob God of His glory. Now,
I want us this evening to begin by reading Hebrews chapter 10,
verses 28 and 29. Hebrews chapter 10 verses 28
and 29. Here the Holy Spirit declares
that those who despise the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace
in Christ shall be in the day of judgment worthy of much sorer
punishment, much more severe punishment. than those who despised
God's law given by Moses at Mount Sinai. Now look at it. He that
despised Moses' law died without mercy. Man has the law. Now remember, he has no ability
to obey the law. He cannot fulfill the law. He
cannot do what the law requires. But he who despised Moses' law
died without mercy. No mitigating circumstances.
The law doesn't consider age. The law doesn't consider circumstance.
The law doesn't consider mental ability or inability. The law
doesn't consider anything. The law demands perfection. He that died despising Moses'
law died without mercy at all. Read on. Under two or three witnesses
of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought
worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing,
and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace. Now, there are
many, many, many proper applications, very sober applications of that
which we just read. It is a warning by which many
are warned against turning away from the gospel of God's grace.
But here God Himself speaks of men who have deliberately, this
is not an accidental thing, this is not something that they just
kind of slipped up on and they did it accidentally, but rather
men who have deliberately stomped under their feet, trodden underfoot
the Son of God. Who have deliberately counted
the blood of the Son of God, the blood of the covenant, an
unholy thing. and have deliberately done despite
to the spirit of grace. Now I've come here this evening
with this purpose. I want to tell you and show you
from the word of God that those words very accurately describe
the religion and the preachers of our day. And let me be clearly
understood for any who get this message on tape or see it on
television. Those words very accurately and very properly
and very truthfully describe the religion and the preachers
of Danville, Kentucky. That's exactly right. That's
exactly right. I'm not about to take it back
for anybody. I want you to hear every word of this message. I've
chosen my words deliberately and purposefully. I've chosen
them either by the Spirit of Christ or by the Spirit of Antichrist. You decide. And I'm prepared
to meet you at the Day of Judgment and give answer to God exactly
according to what I said. Now there's no alternative between
the two. There's no mediating ground between the Spirit of
Antichrist and the Spirit of Christ. Either I speak to you
tonight as God's messenger to your soul by the Spirit of God,
or I speak to you tonight as a messenger of darkness, delusion,
and Satan by the Spirit of Antichrist. And this charge I've come here
to lay and to make publicly. I make it boldly. I intend to
do what I can to make it and sound it out in the widest possible
arena, so that in circles of preachers and religious folks
alike, this message will be heard. God helping us. I want you to
hear what I have to say. All preachers of Arminian freewill
works religion, all preachers of the damning, blasphemous doctrines
of universal redemption and universal atonement. That is to say, all
who believe and teach, all who preach that the Son of God died
to redeem and save all human beings. Even those who perish
at last under the wrath of God in hell, under this charge, I
must declare they are guilty of this crime. They blaspheme
God Almighty. They blaspheme God Almighty.
They tread under their feet the blood of the Son of God. They
count the everlasting blood of the covenant an unholy thing. And they do despite unto the
Spirit of grace. There is not today, never has
been, and never can be any doctrine in all the world more dishonoring
to God, more blasphemous to the Lord Jesus Christ, more contrary
to the spirit of grace, more damning to the souls of men.
than that doctrine I just described, universal atonement, universal
redemption. Now be sure you understand what
I'm saying when I use the terms universal atonement or universal
redemption. I'm not going to argue with anybody
about terminology. I'm not interested in that and
I'm certainly not interested this evening in trying to persuade
rebels against themselves of the truth of God. I'm not here
to answer our many and babbling free willers. I'm here to help
and encourage and strengthen you in the faith of the gospel
and give you a clear understanding of the urgent necessity of what
we're teaching concerning the redemptive work of Christ. Universal
atonement is the damning delusion of men which teaches that the
Lord Jesus Christ made atonement for the sins of all people. Now
you know what atonement is. The word basically means to cover,
but it is a covering which brings together. You remember in the
Old Testament when the high priest went in on the day of atonement,
he sprinkled blood on the mercy seat and thereby covered the
broken law of God and brought together in reconciliation God
and man. God said, I will meet you on
the mercy seat where atonement is made. And so the high priest
sprinkled the blood and made atonement. You might translate
the word or define the word like this, at-one-ment. That is, at-one-with. So that
those who are atoned for, those for whose sin atonement has been
made, are at-one-with God. And God is at one with them.
But the doctrine of universal atonement declares that Jesus
Christ made atonement for the sins of all men, but really atoned
nothing. that he shed his blood for the
sins of all men, but really brought no one to God. He only made it
possible that all men could be brought to be at one with God. He merely made it possible that
all men could be brought at last to be reconciled to God in atonement
if they would obey his voice and by their will make the work
which he performed effectual for themselves. Universal Redemption
is very similar. The terms are similar. It is
that doctrine which says that Christ shed his blood for everybody.
As much for Peter as for Judas. As much for Esau as for Jacob. as much for you and me and those
in hell alike, so that there is no difference at all between
the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ, the redemptive work of the Lord
Jesus Christ, as far as those who are in hell and perish under
the wrath of God, and those who at last are in heaven and enjoy
the bliss of God, there's no difference at all in what Christ
did for them. Now the consequence of that doctrine
ought to be obvious to anyone who is not blinded by religious
delusion and darkness. Now I don't know a preacher in
this town, I don't know one, who does not believe exactly
what I've just stated to you. I hope that each of you who know
preachers, family, friend, foe or otherwise, Preachers who are
guilty of preaching such doctrine, I hope you'll get a copy of this
message and give it to them. Maybe God will be pleased to
save them. Maybe He will. If you want to give it to them,
you can't afford it, I'll pay for it and I'll give it to them. But
I trust that you'll make certain to hear it. It is clearly the
teaching of Scripture. that the Lord Jesus Christ actually
and effectually accomplished the redemption and made atonement
for every sinner for whom he suffered and died at Calvary.
The death of Christ is not Just a wager that God bet on man's
will. It's not a crapshoot. It's not
something where everything's left to chance. Christ died,
He shed His blood. Now, He wants to see what's going
to come as a result of it. Not at all. The death of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the shedding of His sin-atoning blood was
the effectual, infallible securing of everlasting redemption for
all His people. by which our salvation was guaranteed
when he shed his blood at Calvary. Nothing was left to chance. Now
the title of my message this evening, if you're taking notes,
is The Blasphemies of Universal Atonement. I've drawn up a list
of indictments. I lay them against every preacher
who dares to preach and teach universal atonement or universal
redemption. Let me give them to you one at
a time. Perhaps some of you still imagine that your pastor is a
bit hard-nosed about this thing, a little too strict, a little
too straight-laced, a little too dogmatic. Well, you're not
by yourself. But if you will give me your
attention, I promise you, if you'll hear what I'm saying and
look in the Word of God, you'll see that I haven't come close
to being strict enough. I haven't come close to being
dogmatic enough. I haven't come close to being
straight-laced enough. These issues are vital to godliness,
vital to the knowledge and life of a believer with Christ in
God. First, I lay this charge. at
the door of every preacher of free will, works, religion, at
the door of every preacher, every man who teaches, every church
that declares that Jesus Christ made atonement for all the human
race, that he redeemed all the human race, I lay this charge
at their door. They blaspheme God in that they make man to
be his own savior. If Jesus Christ did no more for
Peter than he did for Judas, and Peter saved and Judas is
lost, Bobby, the difference between Peter and Judas is not what Christ
did. Does that make any sense to you? If the Lord Jesus did
the same thing for you that he did for that fellow who perished
under the wrath of God this morning, and you're saved and he's lost,
the difference is not what he did for you, but what you've
done for him. If the Lord Jesus only provided
atonement but did not secure it. If he only provided redemption,
but did not secure it. If he only provided salvation,
but did not secure it. If he only provided pardon, but
did not secure it. Then he did not accomplish anything. You must put the finishing touches
on it. And that's exactly what men teach in our day. They declare
to us that the Lord Jesus Christ made it possible for everybody
to be saved. He made it possible for everybody
to be justified. He provided for men a possibility
salvation. And now man, by his faith, by
his works, by his merit, by something he does, comes along and gives
merit and efficacy to the blood of Christ. I heard a preacher
describe it like this. He said the cross of Christ is
like a stick of dynamite. The dynamite, in order to have
power, in order to have efficacy, must have the fuse lit. And you,
by your faith, must light the fuse. He blasphemes God. He blasphemes God. And those
who follow him are lost in their unbelief. They would tell us
that man must do something to justify himself by his works,
whereas the Word of God declares that He justified us. They tell
us that man must do something to make himself righteous before
God by his obedience, whereas the Word of God declares that
we are made righteous by God Almighty in exactly the same
way as Christ was made to be sinned for us by divine imputation. They tell us that man must somehow
regenerate himself by an act of his free will. What utter,
utter nonsense. What utter nonsense. Dead men are dead. They're just
dead. That doesn't need any explanation,
does it? I never saw anybody in my life expect anything from
a dead man except some city school girl who believed in ghosts and
she happened to be in a funeral parlor and she's scared to touch
that dead body. Well, that's silly. Dead men
don't do anything. Dead men don't wiggle, they don't
breathe, they don't think, they don't walk. They're dead! And
a dead sinner cannot regenerate himself. Regeneration comes to
sinners by virtue of Christ's death or by the merit of His
atonement as He, through His blood, now pours out His Spirit
upon the sons of Abraham that they might receive the promise
and blessing of God's covenant. Others who would deny that we
are justified or made righteous or regenerated by something we
do, would yet at the same time declare that man must somehow
sanctify himself by his personal holiness. God has now given you
a new life, but you've got to take it now by the bootstraps
and stretch that life out until at last you make yourself holy
and you become holy before God, ripe for heaven. I hear men talk about sanctification
and declare that somehow man by his Bible reading and prayer
and asceticism and his separation and his legality, his Sabbath
keeping and his religious works, he just makes himself so holy
until at last he's sanctified. And I'm going to tell you the
truth. If that's your experience, if
that's your experience, one of us doesn't know God. Buddy, that's
just not my experience, and I know it's not yours. The believer's
sanctification is Christ. All the holiness we have is what
He is and Him living in us. Our own nature just as vile,
corrupt, and haunted as ever it was. And this book doesn't
teach it. So it doesn't much matter what
your experience of mine is. This book declares that we're sanctified
by His blood. Sanctified by His grace. The
Word of God declares that the Lord Jesus Christ actually did
put away the sins of His people. And actually did obtain eternal
redemption for us by His blood. Listen to this. Hebrews chapter
1. When He had by Himself Purged
our sins. I love that word. Purged our
sins. He sat down at the right hand
of the majesty on high. I will lay it to sloppiness rather
than the size of my waist and chest, but eating spaghetti,
I get lots on me. Always do. Just can't eat it
without getting it on me. I've had it all over this shirt.
See any spots? That's called Mrs. Fortner takes
that shouted out of whatever it is she has, and takes her
knuckles and rubs them raw, and gets all that stuff out of there.
It's called purging the stain. That's what Christ did with His
blood. He purged our sins from the record books of heaven. He
purged our... All of them! Gone! Forever! Purged! He's covered up and gone!
He's not just put in the corner and gone! He purged our sins
and sat down on the right hand of God. I lay this charge as
well. At the door of every preacher
of universal redemption, they reduce the love of God to nothing. I know, perhaps even to some
of you who don't think through things immediately, when you
see them, you say, well, it looks to me like they enhanced the
love of God because they declared that God loves everybody. Now
stop and think for a minute. Stop and think for a minute.
I said, Roger Chris, I've known you since you was that high. You live to be as big as you
are now because your daddy once in a while interfered with you.
Once in a while wouldn't let you do what you wanted to do
because he loves you. And yet men tell us that God
Almighty loves men and he does not exercise his sovereign power
as God to save the objects of his love because he loves them
too much to interfere with their will. Well, that's stupid. It's not
just unbiblical. It's not just contrary to the
character of God. It's not just blasphemous. It's plum stupid.
It's plum stupid. You take a little girl and she's
getting ready to rush out across the street. I know in our society,
you let her exercise her freedom. You don't want to help her that
child any. You better help her that child or she's going to
die. You better stop that child, she's fixing to run out in front
of a mad truck. Oh, but we wouldn't interfere with her for anything.
Love does. Love does. Save me from that
love which has the power to keep me from hell and lets me go to
hell anyhow. Save me from that love that has
the power to keep me from hell and yet casts me into hell. The
Word of God highly commends the love of God displayed in the
death of Christ. And we, in our experience of
redemption by His blood, rejoice to sing, could we with ink the
oceans fill? And were the skies of parchment
made, were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe
by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the oceans
dry, nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from
sky to sky. But love that will not interfere
with your will is no love at all. Love that will not arrest
you and keep you from your hell-bent mad rush toward hell is no love
at all. Unworthy of the name God. Not
even worthy of the name of some idol god, much less the Lord
Jehovah. Thirdly, the notion of universal
redemption. Reduces the wisdom of God to
foolishness. When the Apostle Paul spoke of
redemption, he said, who has known the mind of the Lord? Who
has been his counselor? He said, God cast off the nation
of Israel, in order that he might send his word to you Gentiles,
that all Israel, that is all God's elect, might be saved.
And he said, who's first been his counselor? Who taught God
to know wisdom? Oh, the depth of the riches both
of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his
ways, his ways of past finding out. Well, what wisdom is there
in making a plan that you know shall never be fulfilled? What
wisdom is there in paying for that which you know you shall
never have? What wisdom is there in providing salvation for those
who were already in hell when the sacrifice was made? Well,
that's nonsense. It's totally contrary to reason.
You see, religion, I don't know what it is about religion, but
when men and women get wrapped up in religion. Brother Donny
Bell said one time, he said, if I could open this book and
he would preach that the devil is a groundhog and hell is an
ice house and somebody would say amen and give him two dollars.
And I just about right. Folks check their brains at the
door. I mean, they just listen. They don't even bother to think.
What wisdom? Bob, would you pay for a house
you'd never live in? I don't think so. Would you go
down to the car lot and buy a car you never drive? I don't think
so. Would you buy a wedding ring
and pay for a wedding and know the girl is never going to say
yes? I don't think so. Not me. Now you might be that
dumb, but not me. I know God Almighty is not. The
Lord God Almighty in infinite wisdom, who is wise in all His
ways, whose knowledge is past finding out, from eternity in
the counsel of grace and peace, laid the foundation and the plan
for everlasting redemption, and gave His Son to be our Redeemer,
knowing the foundation of God stands sure. The Lord knows them
that are His, and not one shall perish. Fourthly, this notion
of universal redemption is a denial of the justice of God. I won't
repeat myself here. You've been listening to me for
a few weeks now on this subject. Redemption, according to the
word of God, is primarily a matter of justice. Listen to the wise
man. By mercy and truth, iniquity
is purged, but not otherwise. God said to Saul that sinneth
it shall die, that means we shall die. God declares that he will
be merciful to whom he will be merciful, will be gracious to
whom he will be gracious, and yet declares I will by no means
clear the guilty. How can both be true? Only when
justice is satisfied, and justice satisfied by Christ's shed blood,
mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. If Christ was punished for my
sins, and I yet must be punished for my sins, where is the justice
of God? I love Toplety's hymn. He said,
Complete atonement thou hast made, and to the utmost farthing
paid, whate'er thy people owed. Payment God cannot twice demand. First, at my bleeding shirt is
hand, and then again at mine. That means, Rex, if he paid for
your sins, God cannot. What a word! God cannot in justice
look to you for satisfaction. That's exactly what it means.
Those who preach otherwise deny God's justice. Those who preach
universal redemption blaspheme God in their preaching by reducing
the omnipotence of Almighty God to impotence weaker than the
will of man. Dr. M.B. Magruder, some of y'all
know him. I was preaching on this subject
to man's will and God's will and salvation several years ago
up in Louisville. He came up to me after service was over.
This fellow, he's an old man, but he's a shot cookie. Boyle
read. He said, it's astonishing to
me, always has been, that the Arminian We'll choose that which
is the weakest aspect of man's character and build his religion
on it. What about you is weaker than
your will? My thoughts are stronger than
my will. A man's will? The most insignificant,
unstable, useless thing about him. Willing something never
makes it happen. Never. Never. Well, you've been
bit by a snake. Well, I don't believe I'll die.
Just watch and see. I believe I'll jump off that
seven-story building and fly. I want to. It's my will. I don't care what you've been
smoking, you can't fly. It ain't going to happen. And
yet men tell us that God Almighty so wills the salvation of man. that he has poured out his wrath
upon his son and leaves it to the whim of man's will whether
or not the blood of his son is effectual. That's blasphemous. Sixthly, those who preach universal
atonement blaspheme God by asserting that the immutable God is, after
all, fickle. mutable and changeable. I read a statement, oh, it's
been a few years ago now. I forgot the man's name. His
book's over at the house. Very popular preacher. Quoted
frequently by a lot of men who claim to be Reformed, whatever
that means. And he said, I fully believe
that God loves every man until he dies. And that after he dies, God in
judgment turns from love to wrath to hate man because of his sin. That doesn't sound remotely close
to the character of God. This is what God says about himself.
I am the Lord. I change not. But what about
Jacob's will? We'll see about that. But what
about Jacob's nature? We'll see about that. But what
about Jacob's sin? I take care of that too. I'm
the Lord. I change not. Therefore you sons
of Jacob are not concerned. Our God is that one of whom it
is said, he is of one mind who can turn him what his soul desireth,
even that he doeth. He is that one who is without
variableness, neither shadow of turning. Our God changes not,
and to suggest that he does is to blaspheme his name. I lay
this charge of blasphemy against all who teach that Christ died
for all, even those who perish in hell. I lay this seventh charge
because it robs God of His glory and salvation. If there is to any degree anything
in Lindsey Campbell, done by Lindsay Campbell or even imagined
by Lindsay Campbell, which makes him somehow superior to any reprobate
in hell, then Lindsay Campbell has every reason to boast before
God. Every reason. If Jesus Christ did the same
thing for the damned as for the saved, then their salvation has
nothing to do with his redeeming work. It has everything to do
with their free will and their work. And that's utter blasphemy. The eighth charge is this. Universal
atonement is blasphemous in doctrine because it denies the satisfaction
of Christ. This book teaches that by his
death, the Lord Jesus Christ satisfied all the types, all
the prophecies, all the law of the Old Testament, and that he
satisfied the justice of God Almighty by his one great sacrifice
for sin. But Universal Redemption says,
no, he didn't really satisfy the types, because those types
in Israel Show me one place where blood was offered by a high priest
for any man on God's altar and that man died. Show me one place. They say, no, he did not satisfy
the law of God. He did not fulfill every requirement
of the law. There's yet something to be done
else he would not himself require anything from you. But Jesus
Christ is the end of the law. He satisfied it. He didn't satisfy
the justice of God, if God still requires something from you.
No sir. But the scripture declares he
satisfied God's justice. Universal redemption. Knightly
is a blasphemous damning heresy. Because it affirms that there
are multitudes in hell for whom Jesus Christ died in vain. I never shall forget leaving
town one Sunday night years ago. Shelby and I were driving somewhere.
And usually when I wanted to get my blood pumping, I'd turn
on one of these preachers. And I turned on Al Giesler. He
was pastor at First Baptist Church. And this is what he said. He
said, Oh, what a shame it will be in the day of judgment that
Jesus died in vain for so many. I agree. What a shame it'll be. Not to you, but to Him. If I endeavor to do a work and
I fail to do it, it does not bring shame upon those for whom
the work was done, it brings shame on me. And if Jesus Christ
shed his blood to redeem so much as one soul in hell, then the
shame of that person's damnation lays on his shoulders, not on
the damned. Tenthly, universal redemption
is a doctrine most clearly unscriptural and blasphemous inasmuch as it
separates the priestly work of Christ. Declaring that the Lord
Jesus Christ sacrificed himself as a high priest for people for
whom he refused to pray. He said, I pray not for the world
twice he said that. But if you open this book up,
go back to the book of Exodus, I believe it's there in chapter
32, you'll find that Aaron, when he was making intercession, and
when he offered sacrifice, he bore in his breastplate the name
of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. He made intercession
for the same people for whom he made sacrifice, as did our
Lord Jesus Christ. Eleventh, universal redemption is blasphemous
in that it makes the cross of Christ a miscarriage and asserts
that he shall never see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied. John Wesley was a greater heretic,
I presume, than his brother. In our hymn books we sing that
song, depth of mercy can there be. Charles Wesley wrote the
hymn this way, there for me the surety stands, holding forth
his wounded hands, Jesus pleads for me. He turned it in to his brother
for correction. As he did all of his hymns, his
brother said, instead of pleads for me, he weeps still. Weeping
still. Listen to me. The days of his
weeping are long since gone. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
a weak, frustrated failure. He's not a defeated reformer. But rather, He is a satisfied
redeemer. And the book says, He shall see
of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied. Now I declare
to you, and I declare to everyone I have opportunity to preach
the gospel to, that if Jesus Christ has redeemed you he gonna
get you he gonna get you he gonna get you and I'm satisfied to
leave you in his hands till he stretches forth his hands to
get you and leave you in his hands forever Christ shall see
of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. I'll give
you this twelfth thing. Universal redemption is as useless
as it is blasphemous for two reasons. It gives sinners no
hope to look to, no reason to trust, no basis to hope in the
Lord Jesus Christ. If Christ died for all men, shed
His blood for all men, made atonement for all men, paid for the sins
of all men, and some yet perish under the wrath of God. Why should
I trust Him? Why should you trust Him? Doesn't
make any sense to me. I believe if I was putting my
money in a bank, I'd put it in a better bank than that. And
I know if I'm hanging my soul in a man's hand, I'm going to
hang him in a better man's hands. I hang my soul in the hands of
Him who by His blood has obtained eternal redemption. Oh, let Israel
hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with
Him is plenteous redemption. This is what we declare. You
have received of the Lord's hand double for all your sins. Your iniquity is pardoned. Your
warfare is over. Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
has brought in everlasting righteousness and put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself. Now if you can trust Him, He
did it for you. If you can believe Him, He did it for you. This
doctrine of universal redemption again is as useless as it is
blasphemous. Because it offers believers no
reason to love, obey, and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. I don't hesitate to call on you,
every one of you, men, women, and young people. I don't hesitate
to call on you who've experienced God's free grace to devote yourselves
to Christ. I don't hesitate to tell you
in the midst of trouble, to lay your soul upon the Master. I
don't hesitate to say there's something more important to you.
Something more important for you. Something more important
in your life than your life. Something more important than
your feelings. Something more important than
our experiences. Something more important than our wives, our
husbands, our children. Something more important! And
that thing that's more important is the glory of God and the will
of God. Bob Potts, you've been bought
with a price. You're not your own. I've been
bought with a price. I'm not my own. Everything I
am belongs to Him twofold. By right of creation and by right
of redemption. Therefore let us glorify God
in our body and in our spirits which are God's. One last thing. Universal redemption is utter
blasphemy. because it denies the deity of
Jesus Christ, the Godhead of our Savior, as blatantly as any
Mormon or Russellite living. That's right. It's no worse to
say that Jesus Christ is not God than to say that he acts
like one who's not God. In fact, the other fellow, I've
got more hope for him. There's no worse to deny that
Jesus Christ has effectually redeemed His people than it is
to deny that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin. Either way,
you deny His Godhead. The Lord Jesus Christ, of Him
it is written, He shall not fail. And if He fails, at anything
He puts His hand to, He's not God. And you're yet in your sins. And you need to find you another
Savior. If he fails at anything, he attempts, he's not God. That's
utter blasphemy. Bless his name. He shall see of the travail of
his soul. He shall be satisfied by his
knowledge. Shall God's righteous servant
justify many? Not to exactly how many. exactly
as many lay as they whose iniquities he bear in his own body on the
tree. He'll justify. He'll justify. Because he can't fail. He can't
fail. Let's sing Jesus paid it all.
125. I believe that would be a good benediction. Jesus paid
it all. I hear the Savior say, Thy strength
indeed is small, Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in me Thine
all in all. Jesus paid it all, All to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. Lord, now indeed I find Thy power
and Thine alone. can change the leper's spots
and melt the heart of stone. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. I wrote a bunch of letters today, and several of them, a couple
of them, pleading and urging with those to whom I was writing
to believe on the Son of God. And as I wrote, These thoughts were in my mind. As I've experienced it, Lord,
now indeed I find your power and yours alone can change the
leper's spots and melt the heart of stone. But I'm telling you, he is canned.
He is canned. For nothing good have I whereby
thy grace to claim. I wash my garments white in the
blood of Calvary's lamb. Now let's sing the last verse.
We'll be dismissed with that. And when before the throne I
stand in Him complete Jesus died my soul to save My lips shall
still repeat Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.