Acts chapter 2. I want to preach upon the subject
speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues. And I couldn't
help but think while I was sitting here. Remembering being in college
lived on Transylvania Park. And I lived by a group called
the Maranatha Fellowship. And they all speak in tongues.
And I felt like they had something that I didn't have. They seemed
to have some kind of sincerity, some kind of whatever it was. But I can remember praying, Lord,
if this is real, I want to speak in tongues. Will you give me
this gift? And I kept waiting for something
to happen. And it didn't happen. And I'm
thankful that the Lord said no to that prayer. Acts chapter 2, beginning in
verse 1. And when the day of Pentecost
was fully come, that's a feast day that the Israelites were
to observe once a year, one of three main feasts that you can
read about in Leviticus chapter 23. And when the day of Pentecost
was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled all
the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as a fire, and it sat upon each of them
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak
with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there
were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation
under heaven. And when this was noise abroad,
the multitude came together and were confounded. because that
every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were
all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, behold, are not
all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in
our own tongue wherein we were born? Parthenians and Medes and Elamites and the dwellers
in Mesopotamia and in Judea. and Cappadocia in Pontus and
Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia in Egypt and the parts of Libya
around Cyrene and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretans
and Arabians. We do hear them speak in our
tongues, our languages, the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed and
were in doubt, saying one to another, what meaneth this? Much has been said over the centuries
about the gifts of the Holy Spirit that were exercised in the early
church. And there were miraculous gifts. They could raise the dead. They could pick up serpents,
be bitten, venomous snakes, and it wouldn't affect them. They
could heal sickness. They could strike men with blindness. They could speak in other languages. The gift of tongues is not, as
many charismatics try to portray it, some kind of heavenly gibberish
that they don't know what they're talking about, but the Lord does.
He hears it, and their spirit is edified, but they still don't
know what they're saying. That's foolishness. I remember
one time somebody who used to speak in tongues, I said, did
you really think you were speaking in tongues? He said, I don't
know. I don't know, but I can tell you how to speak in tongues.
I said, oh? He said, yeah. Say, tie my tie,
tie my bow tie. Tie my tie, tie my bow tie. Say it fast enough, it'll sound
just like you're, it sounds like somebody I've heard on TV before,
you know, tie my tie, tie my bow tie. That's foolishness,
isn't it? It's foolishness. Many claim to still be exercising
these gifts, the same gifts that were exercised in the early church. And what's the easiest one to
replicate? Tongues. I can't go into a hospital
and start healing people, giving blind people vision. I can't
go into a graveyard and raise dead people. I can't do any of
those things, but I can replicate tongues. People do it all the
time and it's looked upon as an evidence of God doing something
for you. You can speak in tongues. Now, before we look at the text,
I want you to turn to Acts chapter eight. Now Philip had gone down into
Samaria and preached the gospel, and many people believed the
message. Many people were converted in
Samaria. So what does Philip do? He calls
down Peter and John to come. You know why? Because he wanted
Peter and John to lay his hands on these people, and they would
receive the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. They'd be
able to speak in tongues. They'd be able to be bitten by
venomous serpents. They'd be able to raise the dead.
They would have these miraculous gifts. Now question, why didn't
Philip lay his hands on these people and transfer these miraculous
gifts? Well, look at verse 18. And when
Simon, speaking of Simon Magus, and when Simon saw that through
laying on of the apostles' hands. Now remember, there were only
12 apostles. And it was only through the laying on of the
apostles' hands that these gifts could be transferred. And Philip couldn't do it. Only the apostles could. And
when the last apostle died, which would be John, no one else was
able to lay their hands on someone and transfer these gifts. These
gifts died out with the apostles. Now I've often thought it seems
like it would be an advantage to have these gifts, but evidently
it's not, or the Lord would have left us with these gifts. But
it is best that these gifts have ceased. The men who claim that they have
these gifts now, and there's a lot of people who make that
claim. Now, unless they're over 2,000 years old and had the apostles
lay their hands on them, which you know that's ridiculous, that
couldn't be so. There are no one with these supernatural gifts,
the gift to speak in tongues. These men are phonies. These
men are frauds. These men are insincere. I have
no respect for anyone who claims to have these gifts. And when
somebody makes this claim, I think, why don't you go into a hospital
then and heal people if you have these gifts? If you do, you should
go into a hospital, people dying of cancer or dying of whatever,
and heal them. And don't say they didn't have
faith to be healed. That's not the issue. You don't have the
gift to heal them is what it is. So I want to get that straight. All this Pentecostal charismatic
Stuff that's going on in our day is a fraud and is foolishness. There is no truth in it, and
someone who makes that claim, I just don't have any respect
for their integrity. What a dishonest phoniness they
bring to the table. Now that being said, I want to
speak on the subject, speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues. You see, when they were speaking
in tongues, They had a message, didn't they? It wasn't just some
heavenly gibberish. They had a message. And that
message was defined as speaking on the wonderful works of God. Now, wouldn't that be a blessing
if the Lord enables me and you to dwell on and enter into and
experience the wonderful works of God. I want in on that, don't
you? I want to know something about
the wonderful works of God. Now back to Acts chapter two,
and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, and remember
the Lord told them to wait in Jerusalem. and Terry until they
were endued with power. And this is what they were waiting
on. They were waiting on this day when God the Holy Spirit
would come as he came. And when the day of Pentecost
was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Isn't that a beautiful description
of the early church? They had one desire, the wonderful
works of God. They were in one place where
the Lord told them to wait, waiting on the coming of God the Holy
Spirit. And suddenly, there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. I guess it sounded like
a hurricane or tornado. And it filled all the house where
they were sitting. and there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as a fire. And it set upon each one of them,
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven. And when this was noised abroad,
that this was taking place, the multitude came together, and
were confounded, because they heard every man heard them speak
in his own language. If I had the gift of tongues,
I could walk into Russia and speak fluent Russian. I might
not know I was speaking fluent Russian. It might seem as English
to me, but it would come across to them as Russian. Or if I would
walk into Mexico, I could speak as fluent Spanish. Or if I'd
walk into China, I could speak fluent Chinese. It might only
appear to me to be English, but what they would hear, they would
hear every man, the words spoken in their own tongue. And this
is the only way the gospel could be spread at this time. The Lord
said, go into all the world and preach the gospel. Well, I got
to learn all these other languages. There's hundreds of languages.
Well, you've got a gift where you can go in another country,
another place, and preach the gospel to them, and they'll hear
the gospel in their own tongue, in their own language, in their
own dialect. That's what the gift of tongues
is. It's not something that you try to show off with and show
everybody how spiritual you are and what God has done for you
by enabling you to speak in tongues. It's the gift to preach the gospel
in other languages so that you could be understood. That's all
the gift of tongues is. That's all. Verse 7, And they
were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold,
are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every
man in our own tongue? wherein we were born. And he
names those 16 or 17 different languages that they were hearing
on that very day, the day of Pentecost. And here is what they
were hearing. They were hearing of the wonderful
works of God. Now, this is what they were hearing
in their own language. The wonderful works of God. Now, this word
is only used one of the time in the New Testament. It's used
in Mary's song of praise after the angel had appeared to her
and told her that she was going to bear the Son of God. And she said, the Lord hath done
great things to me. Now you women, how would you
respond? if an angel appeared to you and
told you that you were going to bear the Son of God. Now, I've never heard someone
who claimed the gift of tongues have this as the message of the
tongues, the wonderful works of God. They may speak of the
wonderful works they have, Lord, Lord, Have we not preached in
your name? In your name have we not cast
out demons? In your name have we not done many wonderful works? Note the quantity. Many. Note the quality. Wonderful. And the Lord says, then shall
I say to them, depart from me. Leave me. I never knew you, you
workers of iniquity. How I would like, you know, if
someone would speak in other languages, the wonderful works
of God, I might be interested in what they have to say, wouldn't
you? The wonderful works of God. Now, when we talk about the works
of God, I hate saying this because I
don't want it to sound so simplistic or academic, but God's works
are divided into three sections. His works of creation, His works
of providence, and His works of salvation. And they are all
His wonderful works. Deuteronomy 32, verse 4 says,
He is the rock. His work is perfect. And that can be said of all of
his works, his work of creation. It's perfect. He looked upon
what he did and behold, it was very good. He was incapable of
improvement. His works of providence. We might
not understand what he's doing, but I don't need to. I know that
his work is perfect. Whatever he does is perfect. Most especially his work of salvation. The Lord said, I glorify thee
on the earth. I finished the work that would
that gave us me to do. Turn with me to Ecclesiastes. Right after the book of Proverbs,
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. And remember, we're talking about
the works of God, not the works of man, but the works of God. Verse
14, I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nothing
can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. And God doeth
that men should fear before him. Now, if anything could be added
to his work, it wouldn't be perfect, would it? It would be improved. If anything could be taken from
His work, it wouldn't be perfect, would it? Nothing could be added,
nothing could be taken from. His work, His work of salvation.
And He does this that men might fear before Him. Now what a statement. I want you to think about this.
The only way a man or a woman demonstrates the fear of God
is by looking only to Christ's perfect work. You find me somebody
who looks to Christ only, His perfect work, and wouldn't dare
add to it, and they wouldn't dare take from it. You find me
somebody like that, I'll find you somebody who fears God. That
is the fear of God. And God gives us His work, His
perfect work, that men might fear before Him. Now here's the subject of speaking
in tongues, the wonderful works of God. Now, I got to trying
to think about how would I list these wonderful works from the
scriptures. This is a message from the scriptures. It's not
me trying to figure out what God's wonderful works are, but
here's where I would begin. When I talk about the wonderful
works of God, I would talk about the wonderful works of his decrees.
What are his decrees? It's what he purposed and decreed
before creation. And everything that takes place
in time happens because He decreed it before time. Ephesians 1.11
says, He worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. Now listen to me, when Christ
is called the wonderful counselor, that word counselor is not a
noun. Like He's some kind of counselor. We can go to Him for
good counsel, good advice when we come to Him so we can learn
from Him and learn what to do. That has nothing to do with what
that word means. That word's a verb. What that means is he's
the wonderful decreeer. He decrees everything. Everything is under his control. He said in Ephesians chapter
4, Isaiah chapter 46, verses 9 through 11. Well, I can't quote
it right now, so let's turn there. Isaiah chapter 46. I can usually quote this verse,
but I guess everybody needs to look at it, because I can't quote
it right now. Verse 9, remember the former
things of old? For I am God, and there is none
else. I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end
from the beginning. And from ancient times, the things
that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, I will
do all my pleasure, calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that
executes my counsel from a far country, yea, I have spoken it,
I will also bring it to pass, I purposed it, I will also do
it. Now, this gives us some idea
of the power and glory of God that He decrees everything that
takes place. Now, there was an article in
the paper this morning about where was God when all those
people got shot in Las Vegas, and that's a terrible thing to
think about. I hate it for those people, for those families, but
God's where He always was on the throne, decreeing and ruling
everything, and I might not understand what He's doing, but He does,
and I trust Him, and whatever He does is right. Somebody says,
how could good come out of this? I've been watching those films
on the Vietnam War, and people would say when their kids were
killed, I don't believe in God anymore. How could God allow
something to happen like this? I don't need to know, but I know
I'm sinful. I know you're sinful. I know
He's God, and me and you are not, and whatever He does is
right. And all of His decrees are going to come to pass. Known
unto God are all His works from the beginning. Anything less
than that is not God. Somebody that doesn't have a
God like that doesn't have the true and living God. This is who God
is. He purposes and decrees everything. And I feel so happy that I don't
feel a need to understand what He's doing because He does. Such
things are too high for me. They're too wonderful. I can't
understand them. So what? He does. And I rest in that because
I trust Him. Hebrews 4.3 says all works Whatever
God has done, all the works were finished from the foundation
of the world. Now, don't you admire a God who
decrees everything, and he controls everything, and it's not hard
for him at all. He's God. I am God, and beside
me there is none else. Now, all the works of creation,
of providence, and of salvation were decreed by God, the wonderful
counselor, the Lord Jesus Christ before time began. And what about his wonderful
works of creation? All things were created by him
and for him. I love that. All things were
created by him and for him. And He is before all things. Whatever it was, whatever it
is, whatever it will be, He was before it. All things were created by Him
and for Him. He is before all things and by
Him all things consist. David said, When I consider the
heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which
thou hast ordained, what is man that thou takest thought of him? What glorious majesty there is
in His creation. And I love thinking about this,
how there was a time when there was nothing but God. That's all
there was, was God. God the Father, God the Son,
God the Holy Spirit, enjoying one another in the trinity of
their sacred persons, perfect fellowship, no needs, absolutely
independent. He didn't need to create because
He's lonely. He didn't need to create because He needed us. He just did it because He's God. And that's enough of a reason,
isn't it? Whatever God does is right. And He spake the universe
into existence. I have no sympathy whatsoever
some belief in evolution. Now, however God says the creation
was, that's how the creation is. I'm fine with that. Somebody
says, did He create the world in six literal days? Maybe. I
mean, that might be what it means. It might be speaking in metaphorical
language and mean something else. I don't know, but however God
did it, that's what I believe. If He did it in six literal days,
I believe He did it in six literal days. If the earth is only 6,000
years old, I believe it's only 6,000 years old. If the earth
is billions and trillions of years old, I believe that. Whatever
is true, that's what I believe. I'm leaving it in His hands.
He created the universe. and how we admire his beauty
in creation. I love that scripture. The invisible
things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal
power and Godhead, so that anybody that does not believe is without
excuse. He created the universe. Oh, his wonderful works. I was
looking up in the sky just a day or two ago, and I was looking
at the blue sky, and I said to, I think, Lynn or Aubrey, I said,
there's no blue like the Lord's blue, is there? It's so beautiful,
there's no way it can be duplicated, you can't put it on canvas. Not
this blue. There's no blue like the Lord's
blue. And there's, well, the Lord's the creator, and we worship
him for that. And then there are his wonderful
works of providence. Ecclesiastes chapter three, verse
11 says, he hath made everything beautiful in his time. Now I
might not see it. It may seem painful. It may seem
very difficult. It may seem, why did he allow
this? What good could come out of this? But He has made everything
beautiful in His time. And one of these days, we'll
see it clearly. And I'm waiting for that. And
I don't have any doubt that I'm going to see that. Romans 8,
28 says, and we know that all things. What does that cover? All things. All things. And we know. I love
the way Paul says we know. I do too, Paul. I know this because
this is worthy of God. This is how God is. I know God
and I know this is the way He is. And we know that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are
called according to His purpose. Judge not the Lord by feeble
sense, but trust Him for His grace. Behind the frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face. That's who He is. Oh, all of
his works of providence. I might not see them, how they're
glorious. I might not see what good comes
out of them, but I know good comes out of them because I know
him. You see, this is worthy of the God of the Bible. It just
fits with his character, his beautiful, wonderful works of
providence. And then most especially, there
are his wonderful works of salvation that are given to us to manifest
to us who he is. You see, God is known, God makes
himself known by how he saves sinners. Now, if you want to
know who God is, how does he save? And if you can find out
how he saves, you could know who he is. Because every attribute
of God that he has been pleased to make known, and I think every
attribute of God, is known and demonstrated in the cross of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the most glorious, God-like
thing God ever did. Through his wonderful works of
salvation, he makes himself known. Now I've got to begin with the
Bible. This book is his wonderful work. It's perfect. It's without error. It's God's revelation of himself. And that's what he claimed concerning
this book. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. Now, this
book is either no different than Milton or Shakespeare, some human
production, or it's the divine word of God. And it claims to
be the word of God. And you know, I used to have
a hard time. How could that be? How could God inspire men to
write a word and that word stay unchanged by men copying it down? How in the world could that be?
Because I know what happens when men, if I tell you something,
you're going to tell somebody else something differently. You're
going to change a little bit. He's going to change a little bit
with somebody else and just keep on going towards not the same
at all. But here we are claiming that this book is divinely inspired
without error. Well, if God can create the universe,
God can inspire men to write a book and preserve it without
error. There's nothing difficult to
believe about that. If you believe God can create
the universe, really that's the only thing to believe, isn't
it? That God created the universe. If you can believe God created
the universe, you're not going to have any trouble believing that the Bible
is the inspired Word of God. And you want it to be that way.
You don't want it to be dependent upon what men say about God.
You want to have it written down by Him so you can see what the
preacher is saying is so. When I hear somebody, I want
to make sure that they're preaching according to the Word of God.
This is wonderful work. How would we know the things
we know regarding God's salvation without this written revelation? How would you know God is merciful?
How would you know God has grace? How would you know God would
forgive sin? How would you know God is the God of predestination?
How would you know God elected a people? How would you know
that Christ actually accomplished salvation? How would you know
of God the Holy Spirit coming and giving life? How would you
know that God is one God and three distinct persons without
this written revelation? It's absolutely necessary. And
this book is of the wonderful works of God. And then I think of the Lord's
great work as our surety. And this happened before time
began. But the Lord Jesus Christ stood as a surety, a guarantee
of the salvation of his people. Talked about that a little bit
in Bible study this morning. But the Lord Jesus Christ, and
this is true of every believer, the Lord Jesus Christ who's called
the surety of a better covenant, talking about the covenant of
grace, the covenant God made with Christ before the world
began, the surety of the better covenant, Christ Jesus the Lord
took full responsibility for my salvation. Now what's better
than that? He took full and complete responsibility
for my salvation. The burden of my salvation is
not on me. It's on him. And how I love it
being that way. It's all on him. He gets all the glory because
he did it all. But guess who gets the benefits
of it? Me. And how thankful we are for him
standing as a surety before time began. It's all seen in the great
doctrine of election. God choosing a people, giving
them to Christ. Christ saying, I'll save them.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. Him that cometh
to me I'll in no wise cast out. But how wonderful is his work
as our surety when all of our salvation he became the surety
for and guaranteed it and took full responsibility. When I think
of that, it makes tension come out of my body. It really does.
I just love that. And then what about the wonderful
work of His incarnation? When the Word was made flesh,
God was manifest in the flesh. The infinite became an infant. And in the flesh, He did what
He agreed to do as the surety of His people. in the flesh,
whatever he did, he did as a representative for the elect. Not for men in
a generic sense. He didn't represent all men.
Whatever he did, he did as a representative for the elect. Those the Father
gave him before time began, those who he agreed to be their surety. And the scripture that I love
that demonstrates this is he said to John the Baptist, when
he told John the Baptist to baptize him, and John said, I need to
be baptized of thee, comest thou to me? And you can understand
why John would be awkward about this. He baptized the Son of
God. He said, suffer to be so now. And I love the way he said
that. I know this seems totally inappropriate
for you, a sinful man, to baptize me, the eternal son of God. I
can see why you feel awkward about that. Suffer to be so now,
for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. And when Jesus
Christ in the flesh fulfilled all righteousness, I did too. You know what that means? That means I kept the law. That means I never sinned. That means I stand before God's
law without guilt. Because what he did, he did as
an us. Thus it becometh us to fulfill
all righteousness. What a great work of God in the
perfect obedience of Christ. And what about the great work
of His death? It was a great work that He died in the first
place. That's another one of those things I can't get a hold of.
How can the God-man die? He's eternal. He never had a
beginning. He's the creator of the universe.
He took upon flesh and He died. He really died. Now, what a great
work. How could he do that? And what
about what he accomplished in that death? His death is called
an accomplishment. Remember when he was on the Mount
of Transfiguration and Moses and Elijah met with him and the
scripture says in Luke 9 31 that they spake of the decease which
he should accomplish. What did he accomplish? The complete
putting away of the sin of everybody he died for. He made it to where
I'm sinless. And I can say, I never sinned.
If He died for my sins, I can say, I have no sin. In Him is
no sin. Full redemption. My debt is paid. Full satisfaction. And what a
wonderful work of God was His resurrection when He was raised
from the dead. He raised Himself from the dead. Now you want to
talk about power. He said, I have power to lay it down. There He
is dead, and as dead, He has power to raise it again. He said,
this commandment have I received from my Father. And what did
He accomplish in that glorious resurrection? Romans 4.25 says
He was delivered for our offenses, and He was raised again for our
justification. When he was raised from the dead,
poor old sinful Cognibert and everybody else he died for was
made just before God, absolutely righteous, without sin. Now you want to talk about an
accomplishment. What about the great work of
regeneration? When he gives a dead sinner life. The hour is coming, and now is,
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and
they that hear shall live. And I am made every believer.
You want to talk about a great work. We're talking about the
wonderful works of God. When He births me by His Spirit, and
I'm made to be born from above, and that I'm made to be born
again, and that I'm made to be a partaker of the divine nature
and that I'm given an actual holy nature that does not sin. That's the nature that loves
God. That's the nature that sees the sinfulness of the old man
and owns the sin. It's this new heart, this new
man, this inner man that He makes. What a great work is that! That I am actually a partaker
of the divine nature. That I have that in common with
God, the same nature, birthed by Him. Are you saying you're
God? Of course I'm not saying that,
but I'm saying I'm partaker of the divine nature because that's
what 2 Peter 1 verse 4 says. Partakers are the born of the
Spirit. To as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become the sons of God, even in them
which believe on His name, which were born, not of blood, not
of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God. Birthed of God. What a miracle
that is. What a mighty, wonderful work
that is. And what about the great work
of being preserved? Kept by the power of God. Kept. I don't know how long I've
been a believer, but I know up to this point, I've been kept. The only reason I haven't fallen
away The only reason I haven't gone back to the world, the only
reason I haven't made shipwreck of the faith, the only reason
I am nothing more than a fake. I guess that was a Freudian slip
just now. The only reason that I persevere is because of the
mighty miracle working power of God that has preserved me
from falling away. What a walking miracle I am.
I'm amazed. I'm amazed that I haven't wickedly
departed from my God. I'm amazed that I haven't left
the faith. I'm amazed. And I know there's one reason,
because of the mighty work of God in preserving this sinner. I know this for sure. If a true
believer could fall away, I would have fallen away a long time
ago. But I'm kept by the power of God through faith into salvation.
Paul said, knowing this, that he that hath begun A good work
in you will perform it, will complete it into the day of Jesus
Christ. And what about the work of glorification? Scripture says I'm already glorified.
Do I understand that? No. But the Bible says I am. Whom he justified, then he also
glorified. And I have no idea what it will
feel like to be glorified, perfectly conformed to the image of His
Son. But I know this. You know when people talk about
being more and more and more conformed to His image? I was
conformed to His image when I predestinated. Predestinated to be conformed
to the image of His Son. And I'm not going to experience
that until I die. But once I die, I'm going to
experience perfect conformity to the image of His Son. And
really, I have it now. If I have a holy nature, I have
it now. Now, perfect conformity to the
image of His Son. That's that nature that does
not sin that we've considered this morning. This is what every
believer possesses. And don't you know, you look
at yourself, you think, no, don't look at yourself. That's the
worst thing you can do. Just listen to what I'm saying. You're
perfectly conformed to the image of Christ. Believe it. You're glorified. Believe it. You're sinless before God. Believe
it. And don't you know that this
is the mighty and wonderful work of God? It's what he did. You
couldn't do this. You couldn't cause it to take
place. But he does. He did. Now, people talk about
the gift of tongues. What about what the tongues say?
That's what I'm interested in. I don't care if it's in Russian
or Portuguese or Spanish or Indian or whatever it might be, what
do the tongues say? Well, we know. If someone speaks
in a heavenly language, and that's what the preaching of the gospel
is, whether it's in English or whatever language, here is the
subject, the wonderful works of God. Let's pray. Lord, how we thank you for your
wonderful works. Lord, your servant David said,
thou has made me glad through thy work and Lord, how glad it
makes us that salvation is thy work and your work is perfect. Nothing can be added to it, nothing
can be taken from it, and you've done this that we might fear
before thee. Lord, let us demonstrate our fear by looking to thy son
alone. Lord, as we face this coming
week, we ask that according to your will, you would open up
doors for us to preach the gospel to other people. Lord, we pray for your blessing
upon the conference coming up at College Grove. Lord, we ask
for your blessing on our conference in December that you would be
pleased to speak in power to our hearts. And Lord, may we
see whatever it is a mighty work
of grace is. May we see a mighty work of grace
in our hearts and in this city, in this country, and in this
world for the glory of your name. Lord, enable us to be faithful. And Lord, we ask that by your
grace you would indeed order our steps in your word. and let
no iniquity have dominion over us. Keep us and preserve us for
Christ's sake. In His name we pray. Amen.