The Potters House

I invite you to turn this morning
with me to the book of Jeremiah, the 18th chapter. Jeremiah chapter
18. And I want to read the first
10 verses of this chapter to you this morning. We begin with verse 1, Jeremiah
chapter 18. The word which came to Jeremiah
from the Lord, saying, Arise and go down to the potter's house.
And there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down
to the potter's house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of
the potter. So he made it again another vessel,
as it seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of
the Lord came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do
with you as this potter, saith the Lord? Behold, as the clay
is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. At what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to
pull down and to destroy? If that nation against whom I
have pronounced turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil
that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant
it. If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then
I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them. This morning, God will enable
me to, to talk about the potter's house, the potter's house and
the message that we receive from the potter's house when we go
down to the potter's house. Now I believe that God sent,
we read in the first verse that the word which came to Jeremiah
from the Lord saying, arise and go down to the potter's house
and there will I cause thee to hear my word. I believe that
God sent his prophet to the potter's house so that by observation
and by inspiration he might receive God's message. That he might
receive the message of God that was to be delivered unto the
Lord's people. Now the potter had a lump of
moist clay on his wheel when Jeremiah got down there to his
house. which he shaped very quickly
and with great ease according to his own will, but something
was found in the clay. Something was wrong with the
clay. There was a stiffness or there was a pebble or there was
some displeasing quality about the clay and the vessel that
he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter. So he
made another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to make it. Now if the clay is not used for
one purpose, then it will be used for another. If it could
not be molded into a vessel of honor, it will be molded into
a vessel of dishonor according to the will of the potter. Now the clay here represents
the house of Israel. Israel had been dug, as it were,
from Egypt, like clay is dug from the pit. And God brought
them up into the land of Canaan, where he gently shaped and molded
them. But they were stiff, and they
were an unyielding people. And they had a heart of stone
in them. Therefore, that nation was marred
in the hands of God. And he turned his grace toward
the nations of the world. Now, Paul, in the passage that
we read this morning, In our scripture reading Romans chapter
9 Paul Tells us or he enlarges this message and he tells us
that the clay represents all men If you would hold your finger
here in Jeremiah and turn back to Romans chapter 9 He tells
us that the clay represents all men. Let's read from verse 18
down through verse 24 now look at it here therefore hath he
mercy on whom he will have mercy whom he will he hardeneth and
Now will say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who
hath resisted his will? Nay, but, O man, who art thou
that replyest against God? Shall the thing form, say to
him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the
potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel
unto honor and another unto dishonor? What, if God willing, to show
his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and that he might
make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy
which he hath afore prepared unto glory, even us? whom he
hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles."
Now then, this is, I believe, where the Apostle Paul sets forth
to us that the Lord makes all men out of the same lump of clay. There's no difference in the
clay. God makes all men, one vessel
unto honor, another unto dishonor. In verse 24, even us he's speaking
of, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of
the Gentiles. Now clay is a raw material. It is infertile mud, if you please. And it's useless. It's a very
useless substance, except in the hands of the pauper. Now, that is what you and I are. And as we consider ourselves,
we're useless clods of red earth. We're sons and daughters of Adam.
And God, as it were, dug us from the pit of fallen humanity. And
by the hand of his omnipotent grace, God has been pleased to
fashion us into the image of His own dear Son, and He's filled
us with His mercy. That is, if we're God's children.
That is, if we really experience that call by the irresistible
grace of God, and if we've been brought into that place where
we've had faith given unto us, and where we've been enabled
to embrace the Son of God with all of our heart, where we've
been enabled to trust Him and to rely upon Him. Now then, we
who believe are vessels of mercy. And Paul tells us that there
in Romans chapter 9. And we're made and prepared by
God to be filled with His mercy. To be filled with the mercy of
God. How wonderful it is to have experienced the mercy of God
in redemption. The Lord said, I'll have mercy
upon whom I will have mercy. And so God has been pleased to
fashion some lumps upon His wheel. and fashioned these lumps and
made them into vessels of mercy. Vessels that he would fill with
his mercy. Vessels that he would use for
his own glory and praise. Now the wheels that we read about
back here in Jeremiah chapter 18 and in verse 3. Then I went down to the potter's
house and behold he wrought a work on the wheels. Now the wheels
here that Jeremiah saw, I believe, are the purposes, the promises,
and the providence, and the power of Almighty God. I believe that's
what these wheels are. All the circumstances, the experience,
and the events of our lives here in this world, I believe that
these are these wheels. This is what God is using. And God molds and shapes His
people into the image of Jesus Christ according to His will. And God is doing this on these
wheels, the wheel of His providence, the wheel of circumstances, the
wheel of events that take place in this world. God is using all
of this to fashion us into the image of His own Son. Now if
you were to turn back to the 8th chapter of the book of Romans,
I'd like for you to look with me at a couple of verses here. Verses that are familiar, but
they're verses that certainly go along this morning with our
subject. Let's read verse 28 and 29. Listen
to what it says. And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are called
according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, or
forelove, He also did predestinate, or He set the goal, He set the
horizon, as it were, that they would be conformed to the image
of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. So it is God's will that those
that are vessels of mercy, God shapes and fashions them that
they be in the image of His Son. God loves His Son, He likes His
Son, and when He looked upon His Son, He wanted all of His
people to be just like Him, so God predestinated that on the
wheel of providence, that all of His people would be eventually,
that they would all be fashioned into the image of his own son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you watch carefully at
what God's doing in your life, and if we'll observe what God
is doing in test and trial and in the circumstances that come
across our path, all of them have a tendency to make us to
be like the Lord Jesus Christ in character. And sometimes we
don't like it. But we're forced to act like
the Lord Jesus Christ would act. We're forced to forgive at times
when we wouldn't want to forgive. But yet, that's the character
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we're put in a position where
we must. that we must bow to the will
of God. And it's just like the Lord Jesus Christ. He come into
this world, He had no will but His own, or no will but the Father's
will. He didn't have a will of His
own. He bowed always to the will of God in His life. And we find
that in our lives, we must bow to the will of God. We must submit
ourselves. And so all of the tests and trials, circumstances,
events of life have this tendency to shape us and to mold us into
the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the wheels of providence
and grace move according to God's eternal purpose of predestination. They move according to God's
purpose. Now, God has a purpose, and that
purpose is to shape you, and to mold you, and to make you
into that vessel of honor, into that vessel that would be of
practical use in His kingdom. So I say that the wheels of providence
and grace move according to God's eternal purpose of predestination. Now, the potter here spoken of
in chapter 18 of Jeremiah is the Lord God Himself. It's the
Lord God Himself. And you and I are as clay in
the hands of the Lord God Himself. Now He owns us. He has and always
exercises the right to rule us. He has the right and He always
exercises the right to use us and to shape us and dispose of
us as He will. Now remember that, this is the
potter I'm talking about. He has the right because he can
do what he will with his own and he does own us. He owns those
vessels that are upon the wheel, those vessels that he's fashioning,
he owns them and he always, now listen to me now, he always exercises
his right Say what you will, but God will exercise his right,
and he will not bow to the whims of men and say, well, okay, I'll
give up and forfeit my sovereignty unto your free will, and you
can do what you will and what you want to do. No, no, no. God,
from all eternity, had a purpose, a plan, and He predestinated
that purpose, and He decreed that all things would finally
work out to the end that He decided they ought to work out to, and
that's exactly what is coming to pass in this world. I say
He always exercises the right to rule His people, or to rule
all men, if you please. He says, cannot I do with you
as this potter? Jeremiah 18 and verse 6. Cannot
I do with you as this potter? I can do with you just like this
potter is doing. Behold, as the clay is in the
potter's hand, so are ye in mine hands. Now, God is not in the
hands of men. You are in His hands. And you
need to keep that in your mind. You are in the hands of God.
God is not in your hands. In this religious world today,
most preachers, they are telling men and women that God is in
their hands and that they can do with Him whatever they want
to do. But my friend, this is wrong. This is heresy. This is
blasphemy is what this is because men are in God's hands. God is not ruled by your will. You are ruled by God's will,
and this needs to be remembered. It needs to be understood. You
are ruled, I say, by God's will. God is not ruled by your will.
Your will is not all-powerful. It's not omnipotent. God's will
is omnipotent, and men are ruled by His will. And we need to keep
this. I'm talking about the potter.
I'm talking about the potter when Jeremiah went down to his
house, and he's the one that said, Can I not do what I will?
I can do what I will with you because you're the clay, I am
the potter. Now then, I come here to the
part of God's message that came from the potter's house. What
was it that Jeremiah learned? He went down there to hear the
words of God. He went down there to hear something
about God. And God sent Jeremiah to this
man's house to show him, I think, two things about himself. Two things about himself. And I want to talk about those
two things that God sent Jeremiah down there to hear so that he
would be able to tell the house of Israel. Now, then the first
thing that I see here, and I believe this comes through just very,
very clearly, and I want you to hear it. You have to hear
it here because I don't think there's anywhere else in this
town where you're going to hear it. I think if you hear it, you'll
hear it here. I don't really know of anybody
else that's saying these things. These things must be said. They
have to be said. And I want you to listen to me
carefully this morning. The first is this, that the Lord
our God is irresistibly sovereign. He is irresistibly sovereign.
That comes out in this. The God of the Bible is totally,
He is absolute, He is irresistibly, He is uncontrollably, universally
sovereign. That's what these verses teach
us. And we're to understand this, that He created all things, that
He owns all things, that He rules all things, and that He disposes
of all things according to His own pleasure. Now listen to me. Even you and me and I want you
to understand that we want to bring it right down to where
we are I don't want you going out of here thinking that God's
got something to do with everything else But you no, no, no. No God's
got something to do with all of us. I He owns, He created,
He rules over and disposes of all things according to His own
will, even you and I. And we need to submit ourselves
this morning to that. My, what a struggle there is
that goes on in the hearts of men and women in this world when
God begins to work in their hearts and begins to show them the truth
of His sovereignty. As long as men think they're
just doing business with the devil, they're just up in the
cloud. I mean, they're fighting with
the devil all the time. But listen to me, there's a God
in heaven that rules everything, and the devil belongs to God
too, if you please, and God rules over him even. And you're dealing
with the first cause of all things, and the first cause of all things
is the potter. He's the first cause. And so
you're dealing with him. God rules everything absolutely. Absolutely. In creation, in providence,
and in grace. God is sovereign. God is incontestably
sovereign over all his works and all his creatures. Turn it
with me if you please. Some of you might remember these
verses, but they're found in the book of Daniel. Turn with
me, if you will, to the book of Daniel, chapter 4, and I want
us to look here at some verses which I think will be interesting
to your heart. If you've never heard them, I
think most of you all here have heard them, and you need to think
upon them and memorize them, because this is the truth of
God if I ever told it. Listen here. And at the end of
the days, verse 34, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven,
and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most
High, and I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose
dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation
to generation. And all the inhabitants of the
earth are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth. Get that. And among the inhabitants
of the earth. God's not only in heaven lighting
the lamps of heaven at night. God not only is putting out the
stars at night, but God's on this earth and he's working in
the inhabitants of the earth. And none, the scripture says,
can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? And of
course we could go ahead, let me read the other two verses,
and at the same time, Nebuchadnezzar speaking, my reason returning
to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honor and brightness
returning to me, and my counselors and my Lord's sultan to me, and
I was established in my kingdom and excellent majesty was added
unto me. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise
and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are
truth and his ways judgment and those that walk in pride he is
able to abase. I like the way the Lord brought
this man to the place where he could extol the name of this
sovereign God that rules among men and rules all things. Oh, if we can ever come to the
place where we understand that God exercises His sovereignty,
and He does so with the greatest of ease, with the greatest of
ease. We cannot resist Him. You cannot
fight with God, argue with God, and when dealing with God, you
must bow. And I'll tell you, there's a
couple of words. that you need to remember, you need to fit
it into your vocabulary, and you need to understand their
meaning. Submission. Submission to God is one of those
words. Being willing to submit and being
willing to just give, as it were, to give in. unto the will and
ways of the Lord. Submit yourself unto God. Submit yourself. Discipline is
the other word. Discipline yourself and don't
fight with God. Discipline yourself and bow your
knee to His Lordship and submit yourself. Submission and discipline
is what you need. And I've met people, I know people
today that's past 80 years old and they never considered those
words in their life. They're still fighting with God.
Every breath they breathe, they still cannot submit themselves
and contentment is far from them. They know nothing about contentment.
Live 80, 85 years in this world and never come to any degree
of contentment. Never be able to submit themselves
unto the hand of the God that rules all things in this world. And my friend, we're in bad shape. If you cannot submit, if you
can't be submissive, if you never get to the place where you can
just say, Lord, thy will be done, and bow your knee to it and submit
yourself and mean it in your heart, you don't have an answer.
One turn of the potter's hand, one spin of the wheel just completely
alters the shape of the clay. Makes it or mars it or makes
it anew. God does it as he wills and as
he pleases. Our times and our lives are in
the hands of God. The nations are in his hands.
There's some verses that really impressed me over in the book
of Job. If you would turn back there
in the 12th chapter of Job, here's one verse, verse 23. It says
this, Job 12, 23, he increaseth the nations and destroyeth them. He enlargeth the nations and
straighteneth them again. This is the hand of God. Now
turn to chapter 34. Chapter 34 here of the book of
Job and look at verse 29. Verse 29, would he giveth quietness,
who then can make trouble? And when he hideth his face,
who then can behold him, whether it be done against a nation or
against a man only? Then if you look in Isaiah chapter
45, here's a verse that has always just captivated my heart and
my mind. Isaiah 45 and verse 7, and listen
to what it says. He says, I form the light. I
create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do
all these things and then you could read the 46th chapter and
there's so many good verses but I'll not get into reading those
out of Isaiah 46 but there's some tremendous verses there
which sets forth the absolute unfailing purpose of God in all
things that God's running this thing now then God will be glorified
I believe in all of his works God will be glorified in everything
that he does. Whenever he enlarges the nations,
when he straightens the nations, when he takes a man like Nebuchadnezzar
and raises him up, and then he takes him when he's in his pride
and brings him down. Whatever God does, he'll be glorified
in all of his works. Vessels of honor, vessels of
dishonor, both reflect the potter's wisdom and the potter's skill. Vessels of wrath and vessels
of mercy show forth the praise of God. Say what you will, Pharaoh
brought glory to God. God hardened his heart and he
was a rebellious, a wicked man and he said, the Lord, why should
I know the Lord? Who is he? And God hardened his
heart and he brought glory to God. God honored himself. through
all of that. And so vessels of wrath, vessels
of mercy, they show forth the praise of God. The Lord has made
all things for Himself. Yay! The Bible says in Proverbs
16 and verse 4, even the wicked for the day of evil, God has
made them all for Himself. Now I'm just telling you this
morning about this potter and about the message that comes
out of his house. Now, but God's glorious sovereignty
I believe it's most clearly revealed in his works of grace. I believe
there's where you see the clear revelation of the omnipotence
of God in the works of his grace. Now you can read Over and over
again and see if you don't agree with me You could read Romans
8 28 through 34 and we're not going to do it But you could
read these verses over and over and over again And you you'll
agree that God has in his works of grace clearly revealed the
the great skill and ability of the Potter God has revealed that
All right now the first lesson from the potter's house then
that is thou God is irresistibly sovereign and I hope that we
can rejoice and worship. I hope we can. You know it's
a marvelous thing and I never forgot that little story that
I heard about this old preacher out there in South Dakota. Him
and another fellow was running along a gravel road one evening
And they ran off the road. The old preacher, he couldn't
see very well, he ran off the road. And they turned the old
Ford over and there was a spring in the seat. And the seat was,
I guess the cover was off of it anyway. A spring was loose
there in the seat and it was open and sharp on the end. And
it went through the old preacher's lung. And there he was and the
fellow was trying to comfort him and help him. He's having
trouble getting his breath. And the one preacher said, boy,
this is awful. And the old preacher said, God's
sovereign and we'll be grateful. God's sovereign, we'll be grateful.
And you know, it'd be a wonderful thing if we could just worship
the Lord right here. And that's the first lesson comes
from the potter's house. God is irresistibly sovereign.
And it'd be wonderful that in your times of great perplexing
troubles that you have and times of your problems and your distress,
if you could just say, God's sovereign, we'll be grateful.
We'll just trust the Lord and we'll wait on him. And we'll
see his hand coming and accomplishing what he purposes and what he
wants to do. We'll see it sooner or later.
Now then, the second lesson is this. And I think this is a very
important lesson, and I want us, every one of us, to get it
this morning. And I hope that you do not, this morning, that
you do not twist what I'm saying or that you fail to listen. You
listen carefully to what I'm saying here in this second point.
The second lesson is this, that in the exercise of His sovereignty,
God is always, He is always equitable and just. He always is. Now then, I want you to look
at verses 7. I want to read verse 7 and 8.
At what instant, here in Jeremiah 18, at what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to
pull down and to destroy it. If that nation against whom I
have pronounced turn from the evil, I will repent of the evil
that I thought to do unto them. Now listen to me now this morning.
You listen carefully to these statements. I'm not going to
repeat them. You just listen to them. God
dispenses his favors sovereignly and unconditionally. His favors
God dispenses sovereignly and unconditionally. Anyone who speaks
contrary to this is ignorant both of the scriptures and of
the character of God. But God does not punish men unconditionally. Now, you think about this a little
bit. God does not punish sinners unconditionally. God has not
arbitrarily... His sovereignty is not arbitrarily... God's sovereignty, listen, He's
not arbitrarily predestined anyone to hell. I want you to understand. Anyone who teaches such a doctrine
I believe is ignorant both to the scriptures and the character
of God. Listen to me. Salvation is unconditional
without works. Grace is free. But wrath and
judgment and eternal damnation are conditional and they're based
entirely upon the works of wicked men. If a man goes to hell, he
ought to go to hell. If a man is cut off from all
eternity by God and sent off to a devil's hell to be with
the devil and the angels throughout eternity, that's because he deserved
to go there. And God is not sending him there
just saying, well, I just think I'll just send you to hell. You're
okay, you're an all right guy, but I'm going to send you to
hell. No, sir. If a man goes to hell, he deserves
to go there. There ain't nobody goes to hell
that don't deserve to be in hell. Every one of us, every one of
us ought to have went to hell. It was God's sovereign grace
and mercy that made us into a vessel of honor. And God is pleased,
as we read there in Romans 8, to endure with much longsuffering
the vessels of wrath. that are fitted to destruction.
Listen, all you've got to do to have somebody that is ripe
for hell is just to leave him in a state of nature. Just to
leave him as he is to be found in his father Adam. You know
who Adam was, your daddy and mine that stole the master's
fruit in the garden, ate the master's fruit. You remember
that. You remember Adam. Well listen, everybody who's
left in him and you let him live out his days And Carl, he'll
be right for hell when he dies. And that individual deserves
to go to hell because he lived in a life of rebellion against
the God of the Bible. Vessels of mercy are prepared
for glory by God. Vessels of wrath are fitted for
destruction, I say, by their own wicked works. God endures
them with much long suffering. Which it leads me to believe
that God puts up with their rebellion and their sin. He's long patient
until they're ripe for judgment and ripe for hell. God is always
equitable and just. I want you to know that. The
God of the Bible is not unjust ever. Paul said, you know, as
he spoke of those that would say to him, then why is it that
he's yet finding fault? Who hath resisted his will? Nay,
but, O man, who art thou that replyest against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made
me thus? Listen, in Psalm 89 and verses 13 and 14, thou hast
a mighty arm. Strong is thy hand, and high
is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the
habitation of thy throne. Did you get that? Justice and
judgment are the habitation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall
go before thy face. Now when God threatens wrath,
if the sinner repents, if the sinner turns, if he will repent,
Justice demands that if that sinner returns and if he repents
of his sin, God will have mercy upon him. Let's read here Jeremiah
18 verses 7 and 8. Look at this. If that nation
against whom I pronounce turn from the evil, I'll repent of
the evil that I thought to do unto them. And in what instant
I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build
the planet, if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my
voice, then I'll repent of the good wherewith I said I would
benefit them. I'm talking about justice. That's
what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the way God
deals with men in absolute strict justice. That if a man will return,
if he will repent, God will be merciful. We know that none will
repent, none will turn, except those whom God turns. And that's
the amazing grace of God that we talk about all the time, that
turned us. But those who are left in a state
of nature, God is just with them. He is absolute, deals with them
in strict justice. Now then, when he bestows mercy
and goodness, If a man despises his goodness and goes on without
repenting, then the Lord will turn against him in his wrath.
And that's what verses 9 and 10 says. But now I want to read
you another verse. Turn to Romans 2. Romans chapter
2 and dealing with this subject that we're dealing with this
morning here. We're talking about God being
absolute just in the exercise of his sovereignty in Romans
chapter 2 and I look at verse beginning with verse 4 and if
you'll permit me I'll read down through verse 11 Romans chapter
2 or despiseth thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth
thee to repentance, but after thy hardness and impended heart
treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and
the revelation of the righteous judgment of God. who were rendered
to every man according to his deeds, to them who by patient
continuance and well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality
and eternal life, but unto them that are contentious and do not
obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation
and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew
first and also of the Gentile, but glory and honor and peace
to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to
the Gentile, for there is no respect of persons with God. God is an absolute just God. His judgment is a judgment of
righteousness. God will, in dealing with men
in strict justice, God will give them exactly what is coming to
them. And nothing shall be withheld
that is due those sinners outside the Lord Jesus Christ. None can
save themselves, but if they would attempt to save themselves
outside of the grace and mercy of God, then my friend, we know
they shall fail, we know they shall not get in to the kingdom
of God, but yet God is absolutely just. God will give every sinner
his due in that day. Now, I want you to turn to another
scripture, Revelation chapter 20. Revelation chapter 20, and
I want you to listen as I read from these verses here concerning
this second message that came from the potter's house. Revelation
chapter 20, beginning with verse 11, I read through verse 15.
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from
whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was
found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and
great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and another
book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were
judged out of those things which were written in the books according
to their works. God remembers the works of all
men. And here he judges these wicked
dead, these that are unconverted, these whose names are not in
the book of life. God being equitable, God deals
with them in justice and deals with them according to those
things which are written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, death and hell
delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged
every man according to their works. They got exactly what
was coming to them. They were vessels of wrath fitted
to destruction. And certainly God did not intervene
in grace. God did not interpose his will
upon them in grace and turn them from the sin. He left them to
themselves. But they were vessels of wrath.
They were fitted to destruction and God endured their life of
works. And then he brings them to the
judgment and according to their works according to their works
God judges them because he is just And he is an equitable god
and he will not in his sovereignty deal any other way, but in strict
justice All right. Now look at this and death and
hell were cast into the lake of fire This is the second death
and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
into the lake of fire so my friend this morning these are the messages
that i want to leave with you those that we have spoken to
you concerning the message that come out of the partners that
god is absolutely totally absolutely irresistibly incontestably salt
sovereign and that he always exercises that sovereignty in
justice and equity god is a that my friend that we we we can bow
before worship there is no flaw to be found with our God. He
is absolutely perfect in every way. And so I hope this morning
that God's been pleased to teach us some things from this and
that we've been able to worship a little bit as we've gone through
these things and that we can say as we leave this place this
morning, this is our God. This is our God. We bow before
Him. We worship Him. We worship Him
who has been pleased to reveal Himself to us both in his word
and in the person of his own son the Lord Jesus Christ. Father we thank you this morning
for your word. We thank you for the privilege of preaching your
word this morning and we ask that you be pleased to give us
all receptive minds of your truth and that this morning if we feel
in our hearts that we've never been turned may we in our hearts
this morning begin to bow and sue for mercy at the feet of
our God and sue for mercy unto the Lord who is a just God who
will have mercy upon whom he will, but yet if in our hearts
we desire it, it's because he put the desire there, and he's
willing to have mercy on all whom he calls. And if he calls
us and we hear and answer, surely, our Father, we shall receive
the benefits of the death of the Redeemer. Our souls shall
be everlastingly saved, and we shall sing in glory of that one
who is worthy to take the book and to loose the seals thereof
unto him with all power unto the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
Father give us we pray thee this morning that from this message
that we need to assist us and to help us in our struggles in
this life. And above all things, help us
to be submissive and help us to be filled with praise toward
Thee and toward every attribute, every one of Your attributes.
We pray it in Jesus' name and for His sake. Amen.

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