someone said, if Holy Scripture
was a ring and the epistle to the Romans its precious stone,
the eighth chapter would be the sparkling point of the jewel. But that's my text for this evening,
Romans chapter 8. It is indeed one of the greatest
chapters in the Bible, It is one of my most treasured possessions
in this world. I rejoice, of course, in the
Word of God in its entirety. But there are, for each of us,
passages that stand out and speak specifically to our heart's needs
at various times. In this eighth chapter of Romans, I feel like a man standing on
a mountain over in Cumberland Gap. You can walk out a trail
and stand up on that high mountain and you can see Virginia, you
can see Kentucky, you can see Tennessee all from one spot there. Well, standing here on this mountain,
I can see what I am by nature, what I've experienced in God's and I can see the lofty works
of God's providence, and I can see out into the future, beyond
the swelling of the Jordan and beyond the trials and the difficulties
that lie ahead, I can see into the blessed reign of God's promise
in Beulah Land, that blessed home to which I'm present. And
I can see in it all the hand of God, the glory of God, the
majesty of God. Undoubtedly, this is the chapter
of chapters in the life of a believer. Where can we find a more sure
foundation for our faith? Where can we find greater assurances
of the I don't hesitate to tell you that I could spend a long
time preaching from this chapter, and I wouldn't have to look for
any material, and I'd never begin to exhaust the chapter. It is
a brief, clear confession of all that I believe. It is a brief,
clear declaration of the faith of the gospel. I have at various
times preached on different portions of this chapter. But tonight
I want us to just begin at verse 1 and go through the chapter.
Let me give you some highlights. Just give you a few highlights
from the chapter that stand out to me. Things that I trust will
be refreshing to your soul and to mine. The Apostle Paul had
concluded in chapter 7 after making that statement concerning
himself. He said, I know that I'm carnal,
soul under sin. I know that that which I do,
I don't want to do, and that which I want to do, I can't perform. But the very things I hate, those
are the things that I do. He said, I consent to the law
that it's good, but I recognize that in me, in my flesh, in this
body, in my natural being, there is not One good thing. Thank you. Thank you. I would
to God they say you and I could learn that. There's not a cotton
picking good thing in us. Nothing. Not a good thought,
not a good intention, not a good desire, not a good work, not
before a holy God. Nothing good. Nothing. The very best thing we think,
not to mention the best thing we do, the very best thing about
us, before God Almighty stinks like a filthy rat. It's not fit
for anything but His wrath and His judgment. Paul said, I know
that in me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. He said,
oh, I'm born of God's Spirit, and to will it's present with
me. I want, I want to be like my
God. I want to be like my Savior.
I want to be conformed to Christ in all things. To will is present
with me. But how to perform that which
is good, I don't know. I don't know. Now look down in
verse 24, chapter 7. He says, O wretched man that
I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this And then he lifts himself up. I can almost begin to see a smile
on his face, a sparkle in his eye. I can hear him clapping
his hands. He said, oh, I thank God. I thank
God. It's not in me. It's not up to
me. But through Jesus Christ, our
Lord, so then, with my mind, I serve the law of God. with
my flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now, right
now, no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. What
a way. I know this, this I know. There
is no condemnation to any belief. Can you, can you imagine that?
God Almighty will not, does not, shall not, ever condemn a believer. There is therefore right now
no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. The true
believer is freed from all condemnation because he is freed from sin. Our sin has been nailed to the
cross of Christ. It's been laid on him, the scapegoat,
and he carried it away. Now, since he carried our sin
away, Since there's no more sin, there's no more curse. Since
there's no more guilt, there's no more condemnation. Do you
understand what I'm saying? We're guilty in ourselves. We're
sinful in ourselves. We have every reason to condemn
ourselves. But Jesus Christ has borne our
sin away and now there's no condemnation. No condemnation. Oh, my soul. There's not a word anywhere in
all the English language that's more thrilling to my soul than
this. In Christ, no condemnation. That does my heart good. You
see, the apostle tells us that there is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. to them which walk not after
the flesh but after the spirit." They seek the Spirit of God,
seek to live by the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of
life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and
death. For what the law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh. The law had no power to
The law had no power because of my weakness in the flesh to
give me acceptance with God. What the law could not do, God
sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh. By his sacrifice for sin, he's
already condemned it. My friends, God Almighty deals
with his children always on the basis of that act which took
place at Calvary 2,000 years ago, always. I try to stress this fact to
us and to me. God judged our sin. He condemned our sin. He punished
our sin to the full satisfaction of his holy justice in Christ. And Lindsey Campbell, he'll never
punish you. Never. You say, what's the cause
of all the sorrow, the pain, the trial? Oh, he chases us. And he corrects us. And he afflicts
us. Not because he's angry with us,
but because he loves us. Not because he's wanting to vent
his justice against us. That's been satisfied. He has
no anger for us, but because he loves us and he will have
us to grow. in the likeness of His Son and have us to walk before
Him in faith. And He would take from us those
things that are not good for us. And He would take from us
the feelings and the emotions that are not good for us. And
He calls us to mature in Christ, but never because He's angry
with us. Never because He's angry with
us. We sometimes get to, we get to thinking like folks who don't
believe what we do. We say we believe that Christ
put away sin. We believe in the effectual atonement
of Christ and we begin to act like Arminians who don't believe
Christ did anything. We have some sorrow come, some
trial, and we get feeling bad, you know, we've done something,
we try to make up for it. We want to amend our ways. We
want to do something to kind of get things straight so we
can get over this sorrow, this trial, this difficulty. I mentioned
this Tuesday night, and I bring it up again because I want to
be very clear. We act like papists. We act like papists. You know
what a Catholic does when he's done something wrong? He goes
to his priest and he confesses his sin. And the priest will
tell him, say, well now, you go home and you go through the
rosary and you say your Hail Mary's and you do this for penance. You do penance. Whatever it is,
you give something to the church, or you work for the poor, or
you go and do this, or you go and give that, you do it to make
up for your sin. And by this, you hope to have
God's anger turned away. We do the very same. We get feeling
bad and we begin to, we say, well, I need to pray more. So
set the alarm clock, get up 15 minutes early and pray. I need
to read my Bible more. So we'll decide, well, I'm going
to start reading my Bible. Please don't misunderstand me.
By all means, pray. Seek God. By all means, read
the Word. But don't ever do it. Try to
make up for your sin. Don't ever do it. Try to win
God's favor. Do you see the difference in
what I'm saying, Darrell? We don't win God's favor. Christ
won God's favor. We don't earn something from
God. Christ earned it for us. And God always will. Always. And he always has. Now I'm preaching beyond what
I can begin to talk about and explain. When I was a boy, I used to get so frustrated I'd
think to myself, sometimes I know my daughter thinks the same thing,
and your sons and daughters think the same thing. kid does something
work and then you come in and rather than seeing what they've
done you see how they did it and you wow I've told you a hundred
times not to do that and kid looks up at you like well can't
I do anything for you? Now let me tell you in yourself
that not anything on this earth you can do to please God not
anything not anything but in Christ You never cease to please
Him. He always looks favorably upon
His children. Always. Always. It never varies. It never varies. But, Pastor,
doesn't anything depend upon us? No, sir. Nothing depends. Nothing. I don't want to shock
you. I won't shock you. You've heard
me say it before. It'll shock some folks. when
David was going up to the city of God, bringing that ark up,
leaping and dancing and praising God. He saw in that ark Jesus
Christ and redemption by Christ, the pardon of sin in Christ.
He leaped and he danced and he calls the people to be merry
because he's bringing up in symbol and in type Christ the ascenatoning
high priest to the place of his glory. He's bringing him up to
the seat of Jerusalem. God was pleased with David. He
was pleased with him. He pleased with him. Another
time, I see that same David looking on a woman. And he thought to himself, man,
I never saw a woman like that in my life. And he took her. And he murdered her husband. And in murdering her husband,
thousands in Israel died. And God was just as pleased with
everybody in that vile act as when he was carrying the Ark
of the Covenant. Now, David lamented his sin. David hated his sin. God dealt
with him over his sin to correct him. But God Almighty accepted
David not for what David did, but for what David's son, Jesus
Christ, did in his faith. Do you understand that? That's
called substitution. Our acceptance is in Christ.
There is therefore now no condemnation. How soon? Soon as you believe.
Before that. Before that. Before we ever sinned,
He forgave us. Before we ever went astray in
our Father Adam, He looked upon us in Christ. But what Paul is
telling us, he's saying, child of God, the moment you look to
Him, the moment you believe in Him, God Almighty, by His Spirit,
causes the blood to be sprinkled on your countenance. and your
guilt is condemned, says no condemnation, no condemnation. I remember well the first time
God in heaven said to my soul, now unfortunately, no condemnation. And it's more thrilling to me
this moment than it was For now, after all these years of my ungrateful,
continued sin, I still hear him say to heaven, no condemnation.
No condemnation. No condemnation. One condemnation. Well, I've got to go on or we
won't get through these 39 verses. Not only do I know that there
is no condemnation in Christ, I know that all who are in Christ,
all who are the sons of God, have the Spirit of God. Look
at verse 9. You're not in the flesh, that
is, you don't live by the rule of the flesh. Yes, you do flesh
the things, and yes, the flesh is very much, very much a part
of you, so that everything you do is tainted with sin. But you
don't live by the principle of the flesh. You don't live by
the principles of the corruptions of your heart. But rather, if
so, be the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of you." I hear these fellows
talk about the charismatic gifts of the Spirit,
or know whether or not you've received the Holy Spirit. The
way they determined that's whether or not you fell out on the floor
and began to speak some kind of gibber jabber. Somebody slapped
you on the back and you said, well, that's called the baptism
of the Holy Spirit. If you ever trust Christ, if right now, if
right now, this night, God will give you faith to trust his son,
that faith is the direct evidence that you have the Spirit of God
in you. You can't call Jesus your Lord. but by the Holy Spirit.
Now when I say that, when Paul said that, he's not saying, he's
not saying you can't form the Word and say Jesus Christ is
Lord without the Holy Spirit. Now you can't do that. You've
got to have God's power to do that because you're frail, fickle
pieces of flesh. But what Paul is saying is this.
He's saying, Merle, you cannot in your heart bow to Christ as
your Lord without the Spirit of God. If you bow to Christ,
It's because the Spirit of God made you a new creature in Christ.
That's what he's saying. If you have not the Spirit of
God, it's because you're not a son of God. Because God sent
his Spirit into our hearts, causing us to cry, Ever Father! And now
the Spirit of God bears witness. Look in verse 14. As many as
are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. The
Holy Spirit leads us in this world. He directs us. He leads
us in the Word and by the Word. He leads us by His powerful influence
in our hearts. He leads us into the will of
God. He directs us to walk in God's
will. He leads us to Christ. He leads
us to Christ. He leads us to Christ. He always
leads us to Christ. Now let me tell you something.
Anything that leads you away from Christ is not the Spirit
of God. Anything that leads you away
from Christ is not the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit assures
us of our adoption. Look in verse 15. For ye have
not received the Spirit of bondage, you gain the fear. He said the
Spirit of God didn't come and call you to be afraid of God.
You reverence Him, but you're afraid of God. You're not in
bondage. But you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby
we cry, Abba, Father. We cry and look for God. The God of glory, the infinite, incongruous, eternal,
righteous, sovereign, all present, all seeing, all knowing, He's
my father. He's my father. You know how I know that? Because
the Spirit of God calls me to call Him my father. I trust Him
as my father. The Spirit itself, Himself, beareth
witness with our spirit that we're the children of God. The Holy Spirit is in us as a
spirit of life in Christ. He's in us as a spirit of freedom,
a spirit of adoption. He bears witness with us that
we're born of God. And he assures us of our heavenly
inheritance in Christ. He says, if your children then
heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that
we suffer with him. that we may be also glorified
again. I know then that in Christ there
is no condemnation. And I know that all who are in
Christ have the Spirit of God. He's our seal. He's our comforter. He helps us with our infirmities.
He teaches us to pray. He even picks us up so our prayers
sound right when they get to God. He's our But I know in this world, we
live in a world of pain, sorrow, affliction, pride. Some of you don't know what I'm
talking about. You just don't know. You don't
have any idea what this matter of affliction and trial is. But you're gonna know. You're
gonna know. You're gonna know what it is
to weep and to hurt. To hurt with such a hurt that
you can't begin to express it to anybody. The only one in all
the world that can understand what you feel is God, our Savior,
who is a man like us. You're gonna know that. This
world And life in this world is full of sorrow and pain. I'm
not a pessimist. You know better than that. But
I recognize things as they are. You don't live in this world
among men like yourself without pain, sorrow, difficulty, glitch. Let me tell you something. There's
a better day coming. There's a better day coming.
Look at verse 18. I reckon, I reckon, Now, this
is a pretty good record. I've added up all the sufferings
of this life, and I've placed them over here in the balance
with the glory that shall be revealed. And I reckon that all
of this is not even fit to be laid in the same balance. It's not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us. for the earnest expectation of
the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of
God. For the creature was made subject
to vanity and not willing rest. But by reason of him who hath
subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall
be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God. that the whole creation roams
and travails in pain to gather unto man. And not only they,
but we ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves grown within ourselves waiting, waiting, waiting. This is what I'm doing. You read
it a little bit ago, Merle, waiting. Just expect it. It doesn't mean
I'm sitting back half-asleep, that's not what it means. It
means I'm sitting on the edge of my seat. I'm waiting, waiting,
waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body. Now
let me tell you, there is a day coming. There is a day coming
when this world shall be created new. There's a day coming when
God's glory is going to be seen even in the physical creation.
when God's glory is going to be seen and clearly demonstrated,
so that he's going to make everything in this world altogether new. There is a day coming when the
curse of sin upon God's earth shall be removed, and for this
the whole creation groans. And in that day, that's the day
of the resurrection, when all things shall be reconciled to
God, and then our redemption will be complete. That's when
it'll be complete. Salvation is not merely the experience
of the new birth. And it's not merely the experience
of faith in Christ. Salvation includes God's eternal
purpose. And it includes redemption. And
it includes regeneration. And it includes faith. And it includes perseverance.
And it includes our being taken up into glory. And it includes
even the redemption of this body. You know, Christ Jesus purchased
this piece of flesh. He purchased it. He bought it.
He didn't just buy my soul. He bought me. And he's going
to have this body. So that in the last day, I say,
well, Job, I know that my redemption is coming. And that he shall
stand in the last day upon the earth. And I'm going to see him
with these eyes. I'm going to see him before my
face. I'm not going to have anybody tell me what he looks like. I'm
going to see him. I'm going to see him. For he's
going to cause this body to be gathered from the dust and join
to my glorified soul and I shall see God in that day of my redemption. In that day. We've all been part of God. And
Paul tells us that there's a better day coming. And the sufferings
that we now endure, why, they're not worthy to be compared with
the glory that shall be revealed in them. Turn over to 2 Corinthians
4. Let me show you something. 2 Corinthians chapter 4. Now, you read this whole fourth
chapter. Paul talks about being troubled
and perplexed, persecuted, cast down. He talks about bearing
in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus. And then he says
in verse 17, for our light afflicts. What on earth is he talking about,
Paul? Now this man's been doing, he's been constantly suffering
Ever since he was converted, from the time that he said, Lord,
what will you have me to do? He began to suffer. From the
very time he bowed to Christ, his life was a life of constant
sorrow, constant heartache. He said, I'll light a flick,
which is but for a moment. It's just going to last a second
or two. So, worketh for us a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at
the things which are seen." He said, well, I'm not looking.
My eyes aren't fixed on these things here below. We look not
at things which are seen, but things which are not seen. For
the things which are seen are just temporary. The things we
can't see, they're eternal. And we know that. We know that
if our earthly house, that this tabernacle were divine, We have,
right now, we have a building of God, a house not made of things,
eternal in the heavens. I know something else. I know that God Almighty rules all things in providence for the good of His people. We know, verse 28, we know. We know that all things, what
does that include? Probably that includes everything. Everything. Not just everything
in your life, everything in everybody's life. Everything. Every thought. Every, every falling particle
of dust in the universe. Everything in the earth, everything
in the earth, everything in the seas, everything in hell, everything
works together. Like a huge piece of machine,
everything fits together and it's working, working, constantly
working, constantly working, moving, moving with steady precision
toward the end result of you, to them that love thee, to them
who are the cause according to His will. Pastor, do you really
believe that? I believe that with all my heart.
With all my heart. And I really do. I just
believe. And there's nothing in this world
that comforts and secures my heart like this. Nothing. You read the 19th chapter of
Job. Job said to his friends, he said,
pity me. Pity me. You look with compassion
upon me." Now, remember all that had happened. He lost his sons
and his daughters. He lost his cattle and his camels. He lost his health and his wealth. He lost his friends, and his
wife said, won't you trust God and die? He lost his reputation. He lost everything. He said,
the hand of God has touched me. The hand of God has touched me.
Savvy, the hand of God touched you this way. The hand of God. Yeah, the hand of God. Now, that
doesn't take away the pain. That doesn't take away the sorrow.
But it gives you a comforting pillar to lay your soul upon. My father has done that. That makes you good. That makes
you good. You know, I expect my daughter
to do that. She comes to me and she says,
Dad, there's a bunch of kids that are going to go over here
and they're going to do this. All right, if I go, no thanks. I don't want you to
go there. Now, sometimes I explain to her why. And sometimes I don't
explain to her why. It's my prerogative. She got better sense than to
ask me why. But sometimes I voluntarily say, you know, Quiet, you can't
go. And another time she comes and
she says, Dad, a bunch of the kids are going to go over here.
Dare if I go? Oh, yeah, that'd be fine. How
much money do you need me to take you? And I just expect that
girl to say, my father knows that. That's reasonable, anybody. I love the girl. I prove my love
to him. I expect her not to murmur because
she can't go here, and not to complain because I let her go
there, and wouldn't let her go here. I expect her to say, my
dad, he knows best, and he loves me, and he's surely going to
do what's best. Now listen to me. God my father knows what's
best. He knows what's best. And he
does what's best. And I trust Him. I trust Him. I do. God rules
everything according to His own purpose. He rules everything
for the good of all His children. And He rules everything for the
eternal glory of His own great name. That's good. I was listening
to a preacher the other day. He said, I think I told you this,
he said, he said, now, honey, if that don't, if that don't
stir your bowl, you need to get you another bowl. If that don't
stir your bowl, you need to get you another bowl. God rules. Just be easy. God rules. Say something else. I know all
of God's people are perfectly saved in Christ. Every one of
them. Every one of them. I'm laboring in this world. I've
given my life. I give my life daily to this
purpose. The salvation of God's elect
for the glory of Christ. That's what I'm laboring for.
And I'm laboring, Rex, with confidence because all of God's elect are
already saved. So that's hard-shelled doctrine.
I don't care what kind of doctrine it is. It's Romans 8 doctrine. Paul said, for whom he did foreknow
those people that he embraced in his heart of love before the
world was. He also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his son, that Jesus Christ, his son,
might be the first preeminent fellow in the family. that his
son might be the chief one in the whole family, the firstborn
one among many brethren. Moreover, those whom he predestinated
to be like Christ he already called, and those whom he called
he already justified, and those whom he justified he already
glorified in his eternal purpose. He's already done it. So that's
talking prophetic. That's a strange twist of language.
He's got it in the past tense there, doesn't he? It's already
done. In the mind and purpose of God, God looking on his people
in Christ from eternity, he said, they're going to be like this.
That means in his own mind and purpose, they're already that
way. They're already that way? He's already called them, already
justified them, already glorified them on the basis of his Son,
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God saves sinners. He saves sinners according to
His purpose. And He saves sinners in a way that will get all the
glory and honor to His own name. And He saves every sinner, He
intends to save. Every one. Every last one. Now, I'm going to tell you something. That suits me. That suits me. If that shuts you out or shuts
me out, that's it. I wouldn't have God to change
his purpose to satisfy you or to satisfy me. He saves whom
he will according to his eternal purpose. And I'm laboring for
the purpose of seeing those people whom God in eternity loved being
made today by the gospel all in love with the living God and
every one of them down. Every one of them shall. I know this too. Nothing, nothing in heaven above, in the
earth beneath, or in hell under the earth, nothing can ever separate
Christ from the people he loves. The Apostle says in verse 35,
who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation
or distress or persecution or famine, nakedness or peril of
sorts? Are we treated like sheep to
be butchered every day, killed all the day long, counted as
sheep for us long? But in all these things, We are
more than conquerors through him that loveth us. For I am
persuaded, Paul said of this thing, I'm just dead certain,
I see the planet and seen it. I'm persuaded that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord. Oh, what wondrous, matchless,
free, sovereign, eternal love. Our trials, our troubles, our
heartaches, so far from separating us from the love of God, they
only clarify His love. In all things, I stand convinced, he who descends from the throne
of glory into the womb of a virgin, and
from the womb of a virgin into the man of sorrow, and from the
man of sorrows down into the hell of Calvary, and from the
hell of Calvary down into the tomb, the lonesome, cold, dark
tomb, that One who descended from eternal glory to death to
redeem my soul, will never cease to love me." Is there not any love like that
in all the earth? Mothers may forget their own
to cherish, but he'll never forget his own. What if they sin? Nothing shall
separate us from love of God. What if they sin again? Nothing
shall separate us from love of God. What if they fall? Nothing shall separate us from
love of God. What if they fall seven times
a day? Nothing shall separate us from love of God. I know people, somebody would
get this tape somewhere, some way down the road, and I'd say,
well, who preached that? Why, he's preaching that you
can go out and sin all you want to. I don't mean to be mean. I've
sinned a whole lot more than that. A whole lot more than that. But I am telling you, I believe, I believe I have a
good hope. Bobby, I believe Jesus Christ
is my substitute. And believing that, not all the
hell that's in Don Fortner can separate me from his love. Not
all the demons of hell, not all the evil of this world are the
evil of his heart. Nothing shall separate us from
the love of God. After how on earth can you be
so sure of these things? Well, I'll tell you. If God be
false, who can do it? He that spared not his son, verse
32, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with
him also freely give us all? Who on this earth, who in heaven,
earth, or hell, shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
God said they're not guilty. It's God that justifies. Who
is He that condemns? Who's going to charge one of
God's with sin? Who's going to charge one of
God's elect with sin? Who's going to? It is Christ
that died, and by His death He put away our sin. Yea, rather
than is risen again by His resurrection, He has been justified Himself
in the Spirit. who is even at the right hand
of God, by his session at the Father's right hand, he demonstrates
his total dominion as the reward of his sacrifice, who also maketh
intercession for him." Can you see him? I'm not talking about some kind
of a vision. I'm talking about the picture that's given in this
book. Can you see him? The God-man seated in glory. Do you see it? That one who is God's own son in human
flesh. I see holiness written across
his body. holding us to the will. He's
God's High Priest. And I see a breastplate of him.
He's wearing it. And in that breastplate is inscribed
the names of his elect. The people of his choice is Israel. Oh my soul, I see my name. This is how you spell it. S-I-N-N-E-R. That's the people he died for.
That's the people he intercedes for. That's the people he loved. What's your name? Huh? What's
your name? Your name sinner? Is your name
sinner? He died for sinner. Is that your
name? He redeemed sinner. He justified sinner. He intercedes for sinner. He'll
ever love sinner. What's your name? I know it. Jesus. Son of God. Save sinner. And this sinner
rejoices to know him, I trust you. I trust you. I would to God, right now, you
could trust me. I know this, if you will, you
can. And if you can, you will. And
if you can and will, it's because he made you willing and gave
you the ability to do so. Trust the Son. Come, you sinners,
poor and needy, weak and wounded, sick and sore. Jesus ready stands
to save you. Full of pity, join his power. He's able. He's able. Come, trust
the Son of God. He alone has the power and the
right to do so. Father, make your word effectual
as you will, to the comfort of your children and the glory of
your son. And if it'll please you, make your word this night,
the word of life to perishing men, for Christ's sake. Amen.