Evening everybody. If you would
open up to Mark chapter 7. Mark chapter 7. When you get there, look down
in verse 31. We'll read to the end of the chapter here. Mark 7, 31. It opens with these two words,
and again. Departing from the coasts of
Tyre and Sidon, he, speaking of Christ, came onto the Sea
of Galilee through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And
they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment
in his speech. And they beseech him to put his
hand upon him. Now, consider this man's infirmity
for a second. He's deaf, and that is likely
from birth. He can't hear a word, and he
can't speak either. My understanding of deafness
is this. If a person cannot speak, it's likely because they are
deaf from birth. You learn to speak through hearing.
Therefore, if you are born deaf, you never gain this ability to
speak. But this man's case is even worse
than probably what meets the eye right here, what we can see.
If you notice, he doesn't even know where to go for help. It
says they had to bring him to Christ. Whoever they is, his
family, his friends, whoever they are, they had seen the miracles. They knew of this man who could
heal the sick and cleanse the leper and raise a man from the
dead. They knew of him and they brought him to Christ. This man
had to be brought. But this man, he is deaf, he
can't say a word, and he doesn't even know where to go for help. That's how bad his situation
is. Now look at verse 33 and let's see what the Lord did for
this man. And he took him aside from the multitude and put his
fingers into his ears. And he spit and touched his tongue. Think about what's going through
this man's mind right now. The Lord puts his fingers in his
ears. How awkward that would have been. And then he spits
on his hand, the Lord did. And he reaches out and he touches
that man's tongue. What would this man have thought? What would
have been going through his head? But look what else happened here.
And looking up to heaven, verse 34, he sighed, and said unto
him, Ephapha, that is, be opened, and straightway, immediately.
His ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed,
and he spake plain. And he charged them that they
should tell no man, but the more he charged them, so much the
more a great deal they published it." That's certainly the case
when the Lord reveals himself to a man. He has to tell other
people about it. Just want to tell them about
this great Savior, just itching for it. But look at how these
people responded to all this. They saw all these wonderful
things, and look what happened in verse 37. And were beyond
measure astonished, these people, this man, all of them, saying,
and listen to these words, he hath done all things well. He maketh both the deaf to hear
and the dumb to speak. I'm going to read you a very
familiar verse of scripture. Todd has quoted it several times
in the last couple of months, but listen to it again. This
is 1 Peter 3.15. Peter says this, But sanctify
the Lord God in your hearts and be ready, always, in season and
out of season, to give an answer to every man that asketh you
A reason, a singular reason of the hope that is in you with
meekness and with fear. How would you answer? Say someone
who is in your sphere of influence, somebody you work with, someone
you're close with that does not know God, and they're going through
a very troubling time. And they come to you and they
say, you are always in some way optimistic. There's something
about you. There is something in you. There
is a reason I'm not sure of. There is some hope in you. You
have this great hope that basically everything's going to be okay.
Why do you have that hope? What is the reason for that hope?
Because I don't have it, and I want to know. If I had just
a few words, just a breath, to answer that question, here's
how I would answer it. He, Christ, hath done, finished,
all things, all things that are necessary for my salvation. And
he has done them all incredibly well, so well that God the Father
accepts even me. Now, as far as hope goes, because
Peter says this, give a reason, a singular reason for your hope.
Here's my hope, and I think I can speak for just about every believer.
This is my hope. This is it. That when I die and I stand before
that holy and that just God, that God who demands, He will
take nothing else but perfect righteousness, sinlessness, purity. That is His demand. He is a just
God. You must meet that standard.
That when I stand before Him, on Judgment Day, he is going
to look at his son. I'm up for trial, but he's going
to look at his son, and his son is going to say these words.
The son then turns to me, and he says this, Come ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world. acceptance with God, despite
everything I've done, and everything I've thought, and all the terrible
motives that have come out of this heart, despite all that
I will have true acceptance with a just and holy God, and I will
see my Savior face to face. And it's a two-fold hope. Here's
the other fold of the hope, it's this, that everything that happens
from now until that day is all working together to bring the
greatest glory to that One who saved me, and to bring me to
that expected end. that everything is going to be
just fine. It's all going to be well, very
well. What's the reason for that hope? He hath done all things
well. That's it, a singular reason,
a reason, just one. Now let's consider that statement
for a minute. Number one, he, he, who is he? I struggle to find the words
to express what I'm going to try to say here in a minute.
There is a man in glory. There's a God-man. There's a
man of flesh and a man of bone. He is a man, a God-man. And I am thankful, folks, for
everything he's given us. I'm thankful for this book. I'm
thankful for doctrine. those reoccurring themes in this
book that tell us this is the Word of God. This is the truth
of God. Paul says it over here. You see the illustration over
in the Old Testament. You see it over here in Philippians.
It is over there in Romans too. I am thankful for doctrine, but
doctrine did not bear my sins in His body and die for me. And I am thankful for faith and
repentance, but faith and repentance did not love me before the foundations
of the world were ever built. A man did. One day when we get
to glory we are going to touch, and we are going to handle, and
we are going to see a man, a person. A person is our Savior, and that
is Jesus Christ. And the question is this, what's
He like? And we can spend all night on
that. You couldn't preach enough to cover His attributes. I'm
going to give you two things about Him tonight, two things.
Number one this, He is absolutely sovereign. He is utterly in control. all men believe that to some
respect. God is in control, there is a reason for everything, that
type of thing. But how sovereign, how in control is Jesus Christ? I'm going to give you three scriptures
here. You've heard all of these before but listen to them. Let's
do them like it is the first time. This is this, Daniel 4.35,
and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.
And He, Christ, doeth according to His will in the armies of
heaven and amongst the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay
His hand. Nobody can reach out and do anything
to him or say unto him, what doest thou? They don't even write
a reply. That's how sovereign he is. He
has all power and no one can stop him. Listen to this. This
is Psalm 115, two and three. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens.
He hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. And consider the illustration
there. a heathen, a man of this world
who has all the temporal advantages. He's strong. He's intelligent.
He's got a good job. All the natural advantages of
this world he has them all and he's standing on the neck of
one of the Lord's people. He says, where's your God? You're
His person. I'm standing on your neck. It
appears I'm the victor in all this. Where's your God? And the
Lord's person looks up to him and says, he's in the heavens
and he is doing, hath done, whatsoever he pleased, even this right now,
this seemingly bad thing. This is good, I just can't see
it right now. He's that sovereign. I'll give
you this, listen to this. This is Amos 3.6, it says, shall
a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it. That's how sovereign. Who's responsible
for evil? Whose fault is that? That is
my fault, and that is your fault. If there is evil, a man did it.
That man is responsible for that evil, and God is absolutely sovereign
over every single bit of it, just to bring good out of that
evil. how sovereign he is." And you
say, why do you spend so much time on that? Why is that such a big
deal? It's for this reason. I can tell you that this God-man,
Jesus Christ, is savingly kind to sinners. And I'm going to
use that word sinner interchangeably with another word in this message,
elect. And I get to do that because
they are one and the same. You read it Claire. Interchangeably,
sinners elect. I can tell you that He is savingly
kind to sinners, and I can tell you that He is gracious to sinners,
and He has purpose to save sinners. And it means absolutely nothing
if He's not sovereign. If He is not in control that
means He can purpose to save me, He can do whatever He thinks
He needs to do to save me, and I can perish anyways. It means
absolutely nothing. But because He is sovereign He
is in absolute, utter control. If He is purposed to save me
I must be and that cannot change. And that brings me to the second
thing about Him I want to tell you, He is utterly reliable. Now look back up at verse 31
and consider those first two words it starts with. It says, Now why would the scriptures
point that out? And again, it's for this reason. It's bringing
to remembrance what he was doing. He was doing what he would always
do. He was doing what he could be
relied on to do. He was doing what he could be
predicted to do. He was going along and he was
cleansing lepers and he was giving blind man sight. And he was given
deaf man hearing and the ability to speak. He was raising men
from the dead. This is what he could be relied
upon to do. This is what he always did. I
say this with all reverence. He is utterly predictable. Predictable. what he promises he will do. And all these lepers, all these
sick people, all these infirm people, they all came to him
and he came to all these sick people, all these lepers, all
these infirm peoples, and those two things always come together.
He goes to you and you come to him because he draws you. That's
it. And I challenge you to look in
this book and show me one illustration where a sick person, an infirm
person, came to the Lord for healing and he didn't heal him.
It doesn't exist. It says this in Luke 9 11, it
says, and the people when they knew, when they knew Him, followed
Him and He received them and spake unto them of the kingdom
of God and healed them that had need of healing. All of them. Every one of them
who had a need of healing. You know what He did? He healed
them. And He can be utterly relied upon to do that. If you are a
sinner in need of healing, He's utterly reliable. He will not
turn you away. He has promised in this book,
if you need healing, come to Him. You will have that healing. And here's the greater thought
in all this. If you do ever come to Him, if you ever find out
you are an infirm person, sin sick, it is for only one reason,
because He has saved you. He saved you from the foundations
of the world. He, that's the first point. Here's the second
one. He, Christ, hath done, finished all things, all things necessary
for a sinner's salvation. Turn over here to Colossians
chapter one. Let's just see something here. We're gonna read a few verses
here. This all speaks of the activities and the doings of
Jesus Christ. What I would have you notice
is this, never in these verses of scriptures does it say that
Jesus Christ is going to do anything. It only says he's already done
these things, and they are presently done. Look here, look at verse
16, Colossians 1, 16, for by him were, past tense, all things
created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities
or powers, all things were created by him and for him." He created. He created the heavens and the
earth, the water and the firmament. He created beasts. He created
every man. And I think this is amazing.
When he made Adam, he made the entire human race. He made every
man in one man, a whole posterity in one man. And when he was done,
he looked at it and said it was good. And he sat down and he
rested. Not because he was tired, because he was finished. And
he created this by himself and for himself. And I like simple
things. I like everything simplified.
I think about this from time to time. I'm sure you do too.
Why is there grass out there? Why does the Lord make grass?
Why trees? Why do we have stars over top
here? Why is all this? Why is there
dirt underneath that grass? I can tell you this folks, it
is as simple as this. There is dirt out there for one reason.
So that some 2,000 years ago a Roman soldier could dig a hole
in it, and drop a pole into it, and suspend the Lord Jesus Christ
between heaven and earth dying on that cross that He might achieve
His chief glory. That's the purpose. simple purpose
of all things that Jesus Christ would have the preeminence, the
glory in all things. He created by Himself, for Himself. Go on to verse 17, and He is
before all things. All of the gospel, all understanding
can be found in these few words that are in Hebrews 4.3, and
here is what they say, the works were finished from the foundation
of the world. What does that mean? That means
before there was an earth, and before there was a person, when
it was just God and the purpose of God, God's purpose being to
glorify himself in the person of Jesus Christ to the salvation
of a particular people, he gave those people to Christ. Christ
agreed to be their surety, and as soon as that contract was
signed, That covenant was ratified. It was over. He was before all
things. All things that were necessary
in salvation were found before the foundations of the world
were ever created. Now all those things had to play
out in time. In time Christ had to come and He had to live that
righteous life. He had to come and He had to
die for the sins of His people. In time the Holy Spirit has to
come to each individual child of God and give Him life. All
these things have to happen in time. But the works were finished
He's before all things. We're finished from the foundation
of the world. That's why He bears that title,
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Everything was
known in eternity past. He is before all things and by
Him all things consist, literally concreted. All things being as
people, we are all concreted into Christ, immovable, established. Established in righteousness,
in justification, in sanctification, in sonship with God, in Christ
Jesus. We are anchored within the veil,
we can't get out. That's just the way it is, and
we have always been that way. Go on reading, verse 18. And he is the head of the body,
the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he might have the preeminence, that he might
have the glory. And here's how that glory was achieved. Look
at verse 19. For it pleased the Father that
in him should all fullness dwell and having made peace. Past tense, already done. Through the blood of his cross,
by him to reconcile all things unto himself. By him I say, whether
they be things on earth or things in heaven." Having made, past
tense, over, presently done, every sinner, every member of
the elect, exact same thing, it's finished. Christ has made
your peace with God. You have been reconciled to God
by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now the commandment
to you is this, be reconciled to God. He ain't angry at you. The reason for anger has been
removed. Don't be angry with Him. Come, be received as a son,
a royal son. Now all those things speak of
the activities of Jesus Christ. Now Paul is going to talk about
the you, who he did this for. Look down at verse 21. And you, This is not addressed to every
man. If it was, every man would be saved. This is to the elect. This is to God's people. This
is to sinners and you. What is our contribution in all
this? And you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your
own mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the
body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable
and unreprovable in his sight. This you whom he saved, who he
has made peace with God on behalf of, what did we contribute? Well, we alienated ourselves
from God. We made him our enemy by our wicked works, and I surmise
from that that we provided nothing than the sin that made the salvation
necessary in the first place. That's it. Now, you might look
at that and say, that's kind of a dreary thing to read. I
think that is the most wonderful thing I've ever read in my entire
life. Because if you want to know if
you're you, it's simply this. If you can bring nothing to the
table but sin, I've made myself the enemy of God, I have alienated
myself from him, I have done all these things, I can bring
trespass, I can bring transgression, I can bring sin, that's the only
thing I can bring to the table, that means you're you. You're
you who Christ has made, past tense, your peace with God, it's
over. He, he hath done all things and
he hath done all things well. I said that hope was twofold. That would be accepted of God.
And also this, that everything that has happened and is happening
right now, it's all to bring Christ the greatest glory and
to bring me to that expected end. things, hurtful things,
painful things, joyful things, all those things. And we have
this promise Romans 8.28, and we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the
called according to His purpose. That is the promise to the you. Let me give you a story real
quick. Todd preached on this not too
long ago so we won't turn to it. The end of Genesis 42 Jacob
says these words, all these things are against me. You remember
what happened? It's a man named Joseph down
in Egypt, the long lost son of Jacob. He's the most powerful
man in Egypt. There's a famine in the land.
If you want corn, Egypt's the only place you can get it. And
you've got to go to Joseph to get it. Jacob thinks Joseph is dead,
a long time ago. Jacob sends the rest of his sons
down to Egypt to get corn. Joseph sees those brothers. He
recognizes them. They don't recognize him. And
Joseph decides he wants to see the whole family. So he hatches
a scheme, an elaborate ruse. He takes those boys and he takes
Simeon. And he says, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to
hold Simeon in prison. And you're going to go get your brother
Benjamin. bring him back so I can see him, I'll know you're not
spies. I'll know you're true men." He knew who they were.
All he was trying to do was get the whole family down there to
him, that was it. But I'm going to hold him. So the boys go back,
they go back to Jacob. They tell Jacob what happened.
Jacob said, Joseph is not, he thought Joseph was dead. Simeon
is not, he's as good as dead. And now you'll take Benjamin
from me. All these things are against me. I can't blame him
the least. with those circumstances I would
have said the exact same thing, all these things are against
me. What he didn't know is that mean
old man in Egypt, that was his long lost son that meant him
absolutely no harm whatsoever. He didn't know that in a very
short time the whole family was going to travel down there to
Egypt. They would all be reunited. They would become incredibly
wealthy men and the Lord would bring a great posterity those
12 tribes right there. He could not see that in the
moment. He couldn't see what was long
off. All he could see in front of
his face was, all these things are against me. But the truth
of the matter was that all these things were all working for him,
he just couldn't see it. He did all things well. He hath
done all things. He did it well. It's all well.
It's all working for our good to bring us to that expected
and the very salvation of our souls. Now that is the hope and
the reason of the hope. Let's consider this man for a
second. This man the Lord dealt with, very simple, he's deaf. He cannot hear a word, and that
is likely from birth. He was born that way, and he
represents the natural man, the way we are all born into this
world. The natural man has no spiritual
abilities. He cannot love, he cannot believe,
he cannot see, blind, but he is also deaf. absolutely deaf. And you know what that means?
That means he cannot hear the gospel as good news. It's always
bad news to him. He cannot receive it as good
news. And I'll give you a couple of
examples of that. To the believer, to a sinner,
election is the best news ever heard. It means God is sovereign
in salvation. If he reaches out and he grabs
me and he draws me to himself, I cannot get away. If I belong
to him, he will have me. This one who would not come to
him, this one who would not seek him, the sovereignty of God,
election, it's the greatest news ever heard. But to a man who
is deaf, he is spiritually deaf, these are hard words. These are
hard words to him, according as he has chosen us in him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will. To every believer, it's great
news. To a natural man, that means I don't have any control.
That means I'm not in the driver's seat. You can know whether you're
elect or not, are you a sinner? I'm not a sinner. I don't have
anything for you." And here's what the natural man does when
he finds something he doesn't like, he twists it, he twists
the truth. He says this, well what that
means is there's a whole bunch of folks out there who are begging
for mercy, who want to be saved by Christ, but he's going to
pass them by just because he didn't like them. It has never
once happened. The very reason a man cries out
for mercy. The very reason a man comes to
Christ. The very reason a man wants to
be saved by Christ in the first place is for one reason. Before
the foundations of the world were ever built God chose him
in Christ. Chose him unto salvation and
he's coming in time to draw him to himself. That's the truth
of the matter. And the natural man will twist
that every single time because he doesn't like the implication
of not being in control. I give you this. Christ died
only for His elect. Now to the believer that's the
best news you've ever heard. For sinners, for His elect, He
died and He accomplished their salvation. It says this, Matthew
121, And He shall bring forth His Son, and thou shalt call
His name Jesus, for He shall save His people, not all people,
His people from their sins. If you are a sinner you are one
of His people, that means He saved you. And if He died for
all men it robs us of our hope. It means you can die for somebody
and they can end up in hell anyways. Those things which are precious
to the sinner, precious to the Lord's people, the natural man
cannot receive them. He is deaf. This man has another problem.
Not only is he deaf, he can't speak. He has a speech impediment. And that impediment is found
in verse 35, look down there. of your text, Mark 7. Mark 7, 35 says, And straightway
his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed. That word string, bondage, that's
what it means. The natural man is in bondage,
bondage to a sinful, dead nature, therefore he can't speak right.
So what do you mean he can't speak right? He can only say
one word. You know what that word is? I. I got saved. I allowed Jesus Christ to be
my personal savior. I haven't done that bad. I've
done some good things. I am saved because I. That is
the impediment of the natural man. It's all about me, what
I have done. Now, let me give you an Old Testament
story on this. Turn over to Judges chapter 12.
I want you to see this. I think this will express the
point. I'll give you the back story
here. The Gileadites and the Ephraimites end up in a skirmish,
and the Gileadites win. And so the Ephraimites, they've
got to go back across the Jordan and get back home. So the Gileadites
have this plan. They said, we're going to beat
them down to the Jordan, and we're going to kill these guys as they
try to cross the river. And here's the problem. You can't tell a
Gileadite from an Ephraimite just by looking at them. They
all look the same. So they have to have a way to
be able to tell one from another. Let's see what they come up with
here. Look at Judges 12, look at verse 5. And the Gileadites
took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites. And it was so
that when those Ephraimites, which were escaped, said, let
me go over, that the men of Gilead said unto them, art thou an Ephraimite? If he said nay, no. Then said
they unto him, say now Shibboleth. And he said Sibboleth, for he
could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him
and slew him at the passage of Jordan, and there fell at that
time of the Ephraimites 40 and 2,000. What was the difference? Shibboleth or Sibboleth? What's the difference? The age. I'm no theologian, but Todd has
expressed this to us how many times. The Jews, that age, what
does it represent? The breath of life. Abraham. Before he was Abraham, he was
Abram. Until the Lord revealed himself to him, he was Abraham. He gave him the H, he gave him
life. Sarah, his wife, S-A-R-A-I. Until the Lord revealed himself
to her, and then it was S-A-R-A-H. He gave her the H, the breath
of life. What's the point of what I'm saying here is, the
word you'll speak will always be I. I did this, I did that,
until the Lord gives you life. unless he does sovereignly come
to you and give you life. When he does, it is a drastic
change. It goes from I, I, I, to what? He hath done all things well. That's the change right there. Now, I want to spend just a minute
or two looking at what the Lord did for this man. Now, we'll
talk about it along the way. This is the first thing he did
for this man. He took him aside from the multitude. And when
the Lord is dealing with a man, when he gives him life, that's
exactly what he's going to do. He separates him from other men.
You find that you just don't fit in anymore. You find that
all these people around you saying, I did this, I did that, I've
got this. You're not part of that anymore.
You don't fit in. That's not your language anymore.
It has to be Him. He hath done all things well. That's the first thing He did
for him. He separated him. Here's the second thing. He put
His fingers in his ears. Best I could tell when we're
talking about His fingers, He's talking about His divine power. This is what Luke 11 20 says,
But if I, with the finger of God, cast out devils, no doubt
the kingdom of God is come upon you. His fingers in his ears,
his power. It takes power to save a sinner. And here's what you find out.
You're powerless and it has to be all his power. Third thing,
he spit on his hand and he touched that man's tongue. What's that
all about? It's about a transfer. Something
from the Lord went to that man. Something from that man went
to the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5.21, For he hath
made him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made
the very righteousness of God in him. This is how a sinner
is saved. Christ has to bear that man's
sins. He has to die under the wrath of God, and the very righteousness
of Christ becomes that man's righteousness, and that's real.
There's nothing put on about that. That is truly the case
because of union with the Lord Jesus Christ. But you know, this
is a reoccurring theme in scripture. I think this is the third time
in scripture where the Lord used spit when performing a miracle
on a man. Why? Why spit? That's odd, isn't
it? Here's what I think. If you went to the doctor, the
doctor said you're sick, but I have a cure for you. You're
not going to like it. Open your mouth. I have to spit
in your mouth. And just recoiled, which is what
I was hoping for. Yeah, exactly. It's gross. It's disgusting. This world wants to talk about
love. It wants to talk about community building. It wants
to talk about helping people create better lives for themselves.
But no one wants to talk about blood. We have a very, very messy religion. No one wants to talk about a
father forsaking his son. No one wants to talk about a
son being forsaken by his father. Those things are messy. Those
things are dirty. Nobody wants to talk about those
things. Genesis 22, Abraham and Isaac go up on that hill. The
Lord says, sacrifice Isaac to me. He's bound, he's lying on
there, and Abraham's got that knife, and he's staring into
the eyes of his son. That son he loved, loved him
with all his heart. And he's got that knife ready
in his hand. And he knows the Lord's going to raise him from
the dead, but he still recognizes what he has to do. He has to
take that knife and cut his son's throat. And you got kids. How
awful, absolutely awful that feeling must have been. And it
is nothing like what God the Father experienced when He was
pouring down His wrath upon His only begotten Son. That's messy,
dirty business that nobody wants to talk about. Think about Isaac
laying on that altar, staring up at his father whom he loved,
and he figured the last thing he was going to see was going
to be this man whom he loved take a knife and plunge it into
his throat. How awful. That must have been
how messy and how dirty it was. But this is the means of salvation.
Make no mistake about it. We have a bloody religion because
we are that bad. That's it. That's why it's spit
because this is a messy bloody religion. But from this messy
bloody religion comes purity and goodness and holiness and
righteousness. The best coming from the worst. The fourth thing he did was this,
he looked up to heaven. He's got his fingers in this
man's ears. He had spit and touched his tongue and now he looks up
to heaven. Why does he change his gaze?
Because what he is about to say is not to the man. The man is
just an object right now. He's going to speak to his father.
He was making intercession for this man. just the same way Lord
Jesus Christ makes effective intercession for all his people
he comes in the presence of his father and because of who he
is he always gets what he wants and he sighed. Was he tired of this guy? Was he over this? Was he angry
at him? No. He sighed because he is a high
priest who is touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
He knew exactly what he was going through. And he finally said
this, he looked up and said, afatha, be opened, and straightway,
immediately, what he commanded came to be. And because Christ
goes in the presence of his Father, and he says, save them, and here's
the reason, I did what you gave me to do. Straightway, all the
elect are received, and it's all for his sake. Now, what's
your answer to that? What's your word? It is either
I, where it's, he hath done all things well. If it's he, he. You got the H. You're a child
of God. I'm going to leave you there.