Now then I invite you this morning
to turn back in your Bibles to the book of 1st Samuel. The book
of 1st Samuel chapter 30. If you would please turn back
there. We have several that are absent
this morning and we want to be praying for them. And next week
brother Chet Baker and his wife will be with us. And we're looking
forward to their fellowship and meeting. And so I hope that you
all will be able to be with us and the Lord will prepare our
hearts together for a good time. I'd like to begin reading with
verse 11 of 1 Samuel chapter 30 and read down through verse
13. Verse 11 through verse 13. And they found an Egyptian in
the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and
he did eat. And they made him drink water. And they gave him a piece of
a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten,
his spirit came again to him. For he had eaten no bread, nor
drunk any water three days and three nights. And David said
unto him," listen to this phrase, "'To whom belongest thou?' to
whom belongest thou, and whence art thou? And he said, I'm a
young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left
me, because three days ago I fell sick. On a searching question,
we find here in verse 13, to whom belongest thou? I want to speak this morning
as simple as I can. I recognize, as we mentioned
a week or so ago, that in every congregation of believers there
are those that are at different stages of growth. And I'd like
to speak very simply this morning. This is a very searching question
that we find here in our text, to whom belongest thou? And I
want to use it a little different than David used it. We know that
David was simply inquiring of this young man that they found
out here on the trail. He was simply inquiring about
to whom he belonged and where had he come from. And it was,
of course, with the view in mind that he would find the way to
the enemy and find that trail that would lead down the path
unto the enemies that had just invaded and burned Ziklag and
had taken captive David's wives, along with the wives And so this morning as we look
upon this question, I recognize that known unto God are all of
his people from the foundation of the world. I recognize that
God's people have been chosen of old and that salvation is
not a biological miracle whereby God is changing goats into sheep. It's not so. God's sheep were
chosen in old time and were given in the Christ came and died for them
and died for them alone and the Spirit of God in time is pleased
to effectually work in his people the truth of grace and to give
them an understanding of what the Lord Jesus Christ did on
Calvary's cross. But as we begin this we recognize
the serious obligation and responsibility that we have to challenge the
hearts of those to whom we preach. They're those that gather with
us that do not, this morning, know to whom they belong. They
do not know whether they belong to God or whether or not they're
a child of the devil. They're not aware of that, it's
never been pointed out to them, and they've never been challenged
along that line. And so I hope this morning to
be able to challenge your heart that you might see clearly this
morning where you stand and to whom you belong. Now, I want
us to think a little bit about this question. I want to aim
at something this morning that directly affects our eternal
position. and are standing before God. I want in the first place to
open up this question in a different sense than that which David used
it, which it was asked by David. And then I'll try to guide you
into your response and into your answer to this question, to whom
belongest thou? And then lastly, I'll try to
give you some good advice. some good advice, both to you
that have an assurance of your faith and have a good hope through
grace, and those of you who are strangers to the grace of God
and to the truth of His love and mercy in Christ Jesus. So we begin then this morning
with the question, to whom belongest thou? Now my friends, this of anybody in the world because
there is an owner. There is an owner both of the
church of the living God and also of all those in the world
that are strangers to God. Both are owned, both have an
owner. As for the church, the people
of God, we belong to Christ. We belong to the Lord Jesus Christ
by virtue of His death on Calvary and by virtue of His having bought
us. As Paul said, you're not your
own for you are bought with a price. Now the church is Christ's body,
the fullness of Him that filleth all in all and the world too
is not without an owner. Everybody in the world, as we've
suggested, has an owner also. Those that are not in Christ,
and those who have no hope in the gospel, and those who know
not the saving power of His effectual grace. Now we read of one in
the Bible whose name is the Prince of this world, the Prince of
the power of the air. It is said by Paul in Ephesians
that his spirit now worketh in the children of disobedience. Yes, God has his people in the
world, and all other men, they're not to be regarded as orphans.
Oh no, my friend, all others in the world are not orphans,
they have a father also. And Christ says to them, you're
of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will
to do. Now there are no unowned men
in the world. To whom belongest thou? There are no unowned people in
the world. Now, were every one of us children
of God, or were children of the devil? Were every one of us either
ranked under the banner of Prince Emmanuel to serve him and to
fight his battles, or else beneath the black one of hell, the devil
himself, to do evil and to perish everlastingly in our sins. To whom belongeth thou? To whom do you belong this morning? It is a very proper question,
I think, to ask of every man and woman. This is a very proper
question. And I want you to notice this,
too, that this question, too, is one which I believe can be
answered. I know that there are many who
claim that it's a very presumptuous thing to lay hold of good hope
and to say that you feel in your heart that you're truly the Lord's
and that you're owned by Him and that you belong to Him. Now,
beloved, a man must belong either to one to whom he belongs. He surely
has some evidence as to whom he belongs. Now I'm not troubling
you with a question this morning which is so mysterious that it
cannot be answered. This is a question which indeed
is plain and pointed, but it can be answered. To whom belongest
thou? You either belong to God or else
you belong to his enemy. You belong to the enemy of God,
to Satan himself. You're either bought with the
precious blood of Christ, or else you're still a bond slave
of Satan, which are you? To whom belongest thou? Now if it were possible to be
in a neutral state, this might be a very puzzling inquiry. But beloved, this is not a puzzling
inquiry. My friend, you cannot be in a
neutral state about this. You're either a child of God
or you're a child of the devil. I recognize that I don't know
who the elect of God are. I recognize that I don't know
their addresses in the city of Great Falls. I don't know where
you go out here and just find God's elect because the tares
are yet growing up amidst the wheat and we're not able to separate
between the tares and the wheat. But yet inside of the hearts
and souls and minds of those that God has already been pleased
to call out of the world, out of sin, unto Himself, these have
that in them, that witness in them, that they are indeed a
child of the living God. Now, beloved, listen to me. You're
either in or out of Christ. You either saved or lost. It's
damnation or salvation. It's heaven or hell. It's one
or the other. You're on one side or the other. And where do you stand this morning? To whom belongest thou? Now,
all attempts to serve God and to serve the world must end in
bitter failure. You cannot be on both sides of
the fence. Now, Mark Anthony We're told
in history, he yoked two lions together and drove them down
through the streets of Rome. But no man shall ever yoke together
the lion of the tribe of Judah and the lion of the pit of hell.
Nobody can yoke them together. Now listen to me, no man ever
tried to walk down both sides of the street at the same time
unless he was drunk. And certainly this morning it
is evident to me that we ought to be questioning ourselves as
to who we belong. Do we belong to the Lord or do
we belong to the devil? Now listen to me, this is a question
I dare say that most of you can answer. I believe this morning
that in your heart you feel something or other. If you're a child of
grace, you feel something or other toward the Lord. You have
some little thing at least in your soul that draws you out
toward Him. and toward His Word and toward
His truth and toward the glorious message of the gospel of redeeming
grace. Something about, in your soul,
there's something there that draws you out toward Him that
gives you an indication. Now do not play, beloved, with
your eternal interest and say that you just simply don't know.
Many people do know, but they just won't admit where they stand. You do know, I believe, many
things this morning, and I think you have an inkling as to where
you stand and to whom you belong. Don't say you'll have to study
it. You know just now, I think, how to answer the question, to
whom belongest thou? Now you know this morning whether
you're a child of God or not, or else you are saying, "'Tis
a point I long to know, and oft it causes me anxious thought,
Am I a child of God or not? Do I belong to Him or don't I
belong to Him? Now beloved, you will never be
happy until you're able to say, I know to whom I belong. You'll
never be really happy down in the depth of your soul. You'll
never rest well till in answer to my question, to whom belongest
thou? You can say, I belong to the
Lord Jesus Christ. I truly belong to Him. I'm bought
by His death. on Calvary's tree. I am His in
life and shall be His in death and His throughout eternity. I belong to the Lord Jesus. And
then remember what a weight that hangs upon this question with
regard to your eternal destiny and your eternal interest. It
will all depend at the last as to whether you shall enter heaven
or hell on this question, to whom belongest thou? Whenever
it was settled with God, we know it was settled before the world
began. We know it was settled in old
eternity before the morning stars sang together. It was settled
back yonder before man was ever thought of in the mind of God.
But beloved, in this world, I believe that God is pleased by effectual
grace to work and to call His people unto Himself and to make
Himself known to them. Now, if you belong to Christ,
this will be your reception out yonder in eternity. Come, ye
blessed of my Father, and inherit the kingdom. Well, I know that if you had
been the property of the Lord Jesus Christ, He surely would
have known His own property, seeing that He knows all men,
and He knows everything that can be known about a man. Surely
He would know whether you were His property or not. He'll disown
you and tell you, you're not mine. Depart from me, he cursed,
into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels,
groans and cries and awful despair and burning wrath and piercing. Almighty vengeance shall be your
everlasting portion. Why? Because you're not the Lord's. You don't belong to Him. He doesn't
own you. You do not belong to Him. Be
careful, then, that you answer this question very solemnly,
as in the sight of God, for on this slender thread hangs everlasting
things. Now, beloved, now this question
here this morning will press hard upon you. It's going to
press hard upon you. You may say, well, Preacher,
don't press me this morning. Don't press me to make a... Don't
make an issue out of this. I really am uncomfortable, Preacher,
for you to talk too much about to whom I belong because I'm
a little bit hesitant, Preacher, and so be careful. But, beloved,
this question is going to press hard upon you when they wipe
the clammy sweat off of your brow. and death begins to glaze
your eyes. It'll press hard upon you, sinner,
when the death rattles begin in your throat, and you face
this question and conclude that you're not owned by Christ, and
you're without God and without hope, soon to perish everlastingly
and eternally. My friend, this will press hard
upon you. But O child of God, what a tremendous
soulless it is to be able to look back in that hour when we're
about to depart this life, to be able to feel when the even
tide has come and you're about to sleep that last great sleep,
I belong to Christ and I go to rest upon His bosom till the
trump of the archangel shall startle my slumbering ashes and
shall bid them rise in the image of my dear and precious Redeemer. What a soulless that is to be
able now to lay hold of that and to feel somewhat of the joy
of that. I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ
and though I die, yet shall I live. I am Christ and the worms destroy
this body, yet in my flesh, Job said, shall I see God. I shall see God because I belong
to Him, because He's mine. And He has made me His throughout
eternity and will be and forever. The results of that affect my
eternity. Well now, I'm to try to help
you this morning in making a response to this question. I'm supposed
to try to help you a little bit with this. Now, there are several
things this morning that I might ask you. several things that
I might ask you that might help to ascertain whether or not you
belong to God or whether or not you belong to the devil. Exactly
where you stand, I could ask you, are you born again? And
you could say, well, preacher, I'm not sure. I don't really
know whether I'm born again or not. We know that all those that
enter into the kingdom of God, we're told that they must be
born again in John chapter 3. Well, we can also ask you, what
company do you keep here in this world? Are you one of those that
love the company of the world? Do you love the world? The Bible
says if you love the world, you're the enemy of God. But that's
one thing that we might ask. Well, we might ask, how do you
talk? Do you use any profane language? Do you swear any? You say, Preacher, I don't swear.
You might not swear. Well, that's That's fine, that's
wonderful. But I do know some of those that entertain some
hope of the gospel that uses some language that I don't approve
of. And I certainly believe that when God washes a man's heart,
it won't be long before He'll wash his mouth. I believe God
will do that. I think that that's true. Well,
what kind of habits do you have? And you say, I could ask you
that. And you may tell me this morning about your habits. And
I could go and maybe I could ask your wife about you and what
she thinks about to whom you belong. Or I might ask your husband,
to whom do you think your wife belongs? Or I might ask the parents
about the children, to whom do you think your children belong? And they might offer me various
and sundry answers, but I don't really put much stock in that.
Then we could ask, well, what do the angels? that look down
upon us. What do they think about us?
Who do they think that we really belong to? Do we belong? I mean,
they see everything we do when we're upstairs, when we're downstairs.
I mean, when we're out of the world, away from everybody, they
see all of us and see everything that we do. And certainly, all
that we do is known unto Him because the Bible says all things
are naked and open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. But beloved, listen to me this
morning. We can question the preacher. And we could ask him,
well, ask my preacher. I don't know too much about my
own situation. Ask the preacher. And the preacher,
he could say, well, I think they belong to the Lord, but I'm not
sure whether they do or not. They might even belong to the
devil. I'm really not sure. But beloved, all of this examination
that we're talking about, this is not good enough. It's not
good enough. Because some people, let me tell
you in plain honest English, are painted hypocrites. Some
people, I mean, they counterfeit about every mark of the true
believer. I mean, they can counterfeit
it, and some of the folks that I know can just simply, I mean,
walk a straight line. I mean, they can take the breath
analyzer test and pass it, and they can just simply pass in
flying colors about any test that you would subject them to.
But I want you to know this, this is not good enough as far
as I'm concerned. Now let me talk to you a little
bit about this. This business of being owned
by the Lord, this business of being owned by Him, as we've
suggested already, this is an eternal matter. It's an eternal
matter. It started with God. It didn't
start with us. It started in election. It's
God's elective grace that designates us to be either sheep or goats.
In this world, it's God's grace that makes the difference, that
separates us and makes the difference. Now listen to me. John 6 and
37 says, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and they that come to me I will in no wise
cast out. Now you just think a little bit
about that word come. John 6 and 44 and 45 says, No
man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw
him. It is written in verse 45 in
the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God and every
man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of me cometh
unto me. That hath learned of the Father
cometh unto me. Now then we have this word come. Now our desire For the Lord Jesus
Christ and our desire after Christ, our longing for Him, our desire
for Him, and our coming to Him, because we're always coming as
the Lord's people to Him who loved us and gave Himself for
us, my beloved, more than anything else, Shows, I believe, and indicates
whether or not we belong to Him or not. Now this is something
that I want you to listen very carefully to me about. Now these
desires that we have, this coming to Christ, this desire for Him. Listen to me this morning. Is
my desire for Christ, number one, is it an ardent desire?
Is it an ardent desire? Has Christ the supreme place
in our hearts? Do we esteem all things but done
that we may win Christ and be found in Him? I mean, is Jesus
Christ our all in all? Is He everything to us? Is Christ
our all? Is He the song of our heart?
Is He the praise that comes forth from our lips? Christ, is He
the all in all of our hope? Is He the foundation of our hope? Do we rest on Him? Have we bottomed
on Christ? Have we come to Christ in our
hearts? I'm not telling you to move a
muscle. I'm not telling you to. I'm just telling you in your
heart. Are you coming to Him with an ardent desire? Now, we know in Matthew 21 and
8, when Jesus was nigh Jerusalem, that a very great multitude,
the Scripture says, spread their garments in the way. Now when
Christ has that supreme place in our hearts, we will take the
garments of self-righteousness and sin off our backs, and we
will put them under the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
yea, we'll even trample on them ourselves. Because we, beloved,
we know that Jesus Christ is the Savior. He's the only Savior. He's the all-sufficient Savior.
He's the appointed Savior, the Savior sent into this world by
the Lord to save His people from their sins. Now when Christ has
a supreme place in our hearts, then, beloved, our desire toward
Him is ardent. It is an ardent desire. Well,
also is our desire a universal desire? Now I mean by that is
everything about Christ, is it desirable in our eyes? Everything
about Christ. Now to the hypocrite, the hypocrite
is for a divided Christ. Well, the hypocrite would be
glad to have Jesus as a fire insurance from hell, but he wants
nothing to do with the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ upon
his life. The true believer loves the government
and loves the grace of the Lord Jesus. He loves His sovereignty
and His mercy, His lordship and His priesthood. The true believer
loves everything about the Lord Jesus Christ. Those that belong
to Christ love everything about Him. Now, number three, I want
to suggest that our desires after Christ, I believe, will lead
us to effort. It'll lead us to effort. Now
what do I mean by that? I mean that we will use all the
means of grace to accomplish that desire that the Lord has
put into our hearts. All the means of grace. He's
revealed in his word Do we read His Word? Do we read His Word? He is preached in the Gospel.
His glorious person is identified with Him. Have we been scripturally
baptized? Now the Bible says that He will
be found of those who seek Him. Do we seek Him? Now what I'm saying to you this
morning, that if Christ, if our desire for Christ moves us and
effects us to the point where we react as we ought to, as I've
described to you here, then, beloved, we can say, I believe
with some degree of certainty, that truly in our hearts we belong
to Him, that our souls belong unto Him. And then I'd like to
say further, in the fourth place, I'd like to ask you if your desire
after the Lord Jesus Christ is a permanent desire, or is it
a desire this morning in your heart that was, is it a sudden
fit of emotion, a sudden fit of fear, a sudden fit, just an
impulse What is your desire after Christ? I've met a lot of people
in my time and they got real interested and they seemed to
have somewhat of a desire toward the Lord Jesus Christ and then
it wasn't long before, I mean, they just, well, when they first
started out, they got up and knocked a home run. But then
in a little while, they just simply faded out and there wasn't
anything left. Well, does somebody want to suggest
that they got saved and then got lost? Well, we know that
that's absolutely absurd. There is no such thing as that.
When God saves a sinner, he's saved for all eternity, because
God purposed to save him from the foundation of the world,
and Jesus Christ has done everything necessary to save him, and he
cannot ever be lost. He cannot ever be what we hear
sometimes people say unsaved. It just don't work that way.
Because God from old eternity eternally justified them and
their His people sealed unto Him forever. But there are a
lot of people that just start out, don't you see? In the way,
they start out, but they're not truly the Lord's people. And
they've never been touched by the finger of God, neither by
the grace of God in their hearts. Now if our hearts and our longing
For union with the Lord Jesus Christ is a true work of grace. Then, beloved, we'll never be
satisfied until we awake at last in His likeness. In His likeness. Never will we be satisfied until
we awake in His likeness. And so our desire will be a permanent
one. Our desire toward Him, very permanent. Now nothing that this world has,
nothing that it can afford can possibly ever take us from Him,
and the desire for Him, and the desire for His ways, and the
desire for His truth. Now, do our desires after Christ,
do they spring from a deep sense of our need of Christ? You know, there's so many, many
people that they seem, these people that I was talking about
a few minutes ago, that seem to have some sort of a desire
toward Christ, But their desire for Him is not a desire that
is created in them by the conviction of the Spirit of God. Their eyes
have not been opened to see their misery and sin and to feel the
burden of sin or to understand their inability and to make them
sensible to the remedy that's only found in the person of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, beloved, listen to me this
morning here. This morning, if your desire has been created
by God in your soul, the only thing that can satisfy it is
the Lord Jesus Christ, and this is a desire that will continue
on and on, and your desire and longing for Christ will continue
to abide in your heart. Now, listen to me this morning.
Bread and water are made necessary by hunger and thirst. Christ becomes precious to those
who need Him. It, my friend, is amazing to
me how little that some people, how little that some people claim
to need the Lord Jesus Christ. They carry Jesus around, a lot
of religious folks do, like some people do, a spare tire in their
car. And you know, if they have a
blowout, they need it, but otherwise they don't, and they're getting
along pretty well themselves, and they don't really need Jesus
Christ. They're righteous in themselves,
and they pay their bills, and they're respectable people, and
therefore they don't really need Christ. But we sinners here at
the New Covenant Baptist Church, we need Christ. We need Jesus
because we're all fallen in sin and there's not one among us
that has enough righteousness to get himself out of this world,
past the judgment seat of God into eternal glory. We all need
Jesus. We cannot and we cannot save
ourselves. A man who is a sinner in his
own sight and his own estimation is a man who desires Christ.
Now a sinner is a sacred thing, the poet said, the Holy Ghost
has made him so. A sinner is a sacred thing. To
find somebody who has felt that deep sense of misery and has
come to the end of themselves and know themselves to be foul
sinners and dead sinners before God and they need that glorious
truth of the gospel to to enliven them and to quicken their hearts
and to bring them to the place where they can rejoice in a full,
complete salvation. Now then, that's all I can say
about this. I would like to say that that
man who is a sinner, made so by the Holy Ghost, to him the
Lord Jesus Christ is precious. Yea, even in 1991, the world
in the state that it's in, Jesus Christ is precious unto all those
who've been made sensible of their guilt, misery, and sin,
and their nothingness before God. Jesus Christ is precious
unto them. Now let me give you, in the last
place this morning, some good advice. I want to just give you
some good advice in closing out our message this morning. The
first, I'd like to address those of you that profess to belong
to the Lord. You say, I know to whom I belong. I believe with all my heart that
I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, let me say that I give
you this advice. If you truly belong to him, if
you profess to belong to him, if you claim that he's your father
and that you're his child, then my advice to you would be to
obey him. If anybody or anything seeks
to be master over you, then my friend, do not allow it, for
you are His. Let His Word be your law. Let His wish be your will. Obey the Lord Jesus Christ. If God be your Father, then where
is His honor? His honor is to be found in the
obedience of His dear children. Now you belong to Christ? Then
trust Christ. Trust Him. rest nowhere else,
rest nowhere else but on the Lord Jesus Christ. Day by day
stand beneath His cross and view Him as your all-sufficient Savior,
Lord, Redeemer. The songwriter said, beneath
the cross of Jesus I think would take my stand. The shadow of
a mighty rock within a weary land, a home within the wilderness
of rest upon the way from the burning of the noontide heat
and the burden of the day. My friend, if we belong to Christ,
if he has truly bought us on Calvary's cross, then let us
rest Let us rest ourselves wholly in Him. Seek no other confidence. Look to nothing else but unto
the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ and find full consolation and
rest and find the deliverance of your soul completely and entirely
in Him. Get your eyes upon Jesus and
fix them there. Now if you belong to Christ,
I want you this morning to be decided for Him. I don't ask
anybody who is professionally a child of the devil to make
any decision. Salvation is not by decision. Salvation is not by chance. Salvation
is not by choice. Certainly not the choice of the
sinner. Salvation is the choice of God and it's His decision
that determines whether we be children of God or not. But let
me say this, that to the child of God in this world never halt. or raise a question about your
allegiance to Him. Be decided, if you're a child
of God, be decided to whom your allegiance belongs and see to
it that it's toward Him. Keep close to Him to whom you
belong, so close to Him that you may grow up in His image
and become like unto Him whose you are and whom ye serve, that
you might be like Him, that you might be conformed to His image. Now then, I'd like to say just
a word to those who cannot say that in their hearts they belong
to Him. Let me give you just a little
bit of advice. I have a word of advice to give
to you that I believe this morning that I should whisper in your
ear. A word of advice to you. I do
recognize the inability of the sinner, and I've read to you
out of John chapter 6 that no man can come except to be led
of the Spirit, except to be drawn by the Spirit of God. I have
told you these things and I believe them, but let me whisper in your
ear this morning, those of you that are children of the devil,
as best you can discern, I think that you ought to leave your
master. I think you ought to leave him. And I know it'll take
divine help and enablement for you to leave your master. Now,
beloved, listen to me this morning. He's a bad master, Satan is. He's a very bad master and he
treats you shamefully. And the joys that he does give
you in this life are all rotten to the core. They're every one
of them. I say rotten to the core and
remember this that Satan will desert you one of these days.
You say well he stays close at hand now. Yes he does. But I
mean when you come to die. I mean that Satan will desert
you. I once knew a farmer out in Indiana
and this farmer had a team of horses. And when I was just a
young fella, well I was actually just a boy, and this farmer was
a neighbor of ours and he had this team of horses and he hauled
hay to his cows. In the wintertime when snow was
on the ground he hauled hay to the cows with this team of horses
and then after he worked them all morning long then he'd come
back to the barn and he'd turn them out into the pasture at
the side of the barn. There was snow on that pasture
and just turn them out there in the pasture and and they'd
have to get out there and scratch around with their hooves trying
to find something to eat. That's how that farmer treated
that team of horses. I mean that's all they got out
of it was what they could scratch out and that's the very way that
the devil uses his servants. That's exactly how he uses them.
He'll use you up in life and then desert you at the time of
your death and leave you with nothing. And my advice to you
this morning is to do just what the prodigal son done. And the
prodigal son, my friend, he did not give the owner of the swine
at two weeks notice saying I'm going to go when the thought
came to him I will arise and go to my father he just got up
I mean he went away he went home unto his father is what he done
and my advice to you this morning is come home to the Lord Jesus
Christ. Come home to Him. I mean, if
you have it in your heart to do it. I mean, if there's any
desire, kindle there by God's divine Spirit. If there's anything
in you that is moving you in that direction, come home. Come
home to Jesus. Come home to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now then, I believe this morning,
that's my advice to you. That you ought to change masters.
That you ought to leave the devil and not be his servant anymore.
and be the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ by divine enablement
and by divine help. The Bible says let the wicked
forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him
return unto the Lord and the Lord will have mercy upon him
and to our God for he will abundantly pardon and so the Lord will have
mercy and God I believe this morning would move us to as we
think upon this subject to whom belongest thou That we can see
that our message is unto the Lord's dear children and family,
and to the examination of their hearts where they stand. And
then a word here, this word we've given here at the last. unto
those that are strangers to the truth, and strangers to grace,
and strangers to the gospel, and strangers to the church of
the Lord Jesus Christ, that my advice to you would be, come
home, come home to the Lord Jesus Christ. And I hope this morning
that this message that it will be helpful and useful and that
God will make his word live to your heart and cause you this
morning to have within you those desires that would move you in
the direction of his eternal will and grace. Let's have a
song