Good morning. We're going to
be looking at a passage of Scripture in Hosea, Hosea chapter 14, if
you'd like to find your way to that passage of Scripture, Hosea
14. And I want to thank your pastor
for this privilege. I love your pastor dearly, and
I'm so thankful for the for the friendship and the love that
God's knit, not only between us, but between many of the folks
here and the folks in our church in Florida. It's a real, real
world blessing to me. Donnie Bell, thank you, brother,
wherever you went for that message. I'm so comforted to hear the
gospel of God's free grace preached from a sinner. I need to know
that. I'm a beggar and need a bread,
and I need to know the man that's telling me about where to find
that bread is equally a beggar, and I'm so thankful. Donnie said,
maybe one of the most gracious things anyone's ever said to
me on the way here this morning. He said, well, brother, he said,
if either one of us are able to preach this morning, let it
be you. And I thought, wow. If the Lord only allows one of
us to preach this morning, he's already preached. And I need
God to call me irresistibly. I need for him
to make me willing. I know enough about myself to
know that I won't come unless he causes me to come. I've entitled
this message, An Irresistible Call. My greatest fear is that
God would leave me to myself, that I wouldn't be able to hear,
that I wouldn't fear God. that I wouldn't call upon him
to save me. And if he leaves me to myself,
that's exactly what will happen. The prophet said, turn me, Lord,
and I shall be turned. Cause me to come unto thee. And the scriptures make it clear
that no man, no man, seeketh God at any time. If we're to know him, he's going
to have to seek us. He's going to have to make us
willing. He's going to have to shut us up to Christ. He's going
to have to do for us what he did for Lot when he lingered
in Sodom. He took him by the hand and he
drug him out. I know that's what he's going
to have to do for me. I know that the hearing ear and the
seeing eye are both from the Lord. If we're to see Christ,
if we're to hear the gospel, the Lord's gonna have to give
us eyes to see. He's gonna have to unstop our
ears. And we have at the conclusion of this book an example of that
very irresistible call and how I hope that the Lord will do
this for me. I hope that the things that we've
heard this weekend will be made effectual to my heart, and I
hope and pray that our Lord will do that for you as well. Hosea
concludes this book in verse 9 when he says, who is wise? The scripture describes all men
as either being wise or foolish. The wise man is the one that
God has done a work of grace for. He's the one that has been
able to see Christ. He's the one that believes the
gospel. The foolish man is the man that's
been left to himself. All of us come into this world
as fools. Unless God makes us wise, we'll
die that way. And so he says, who is wise and
he shall understand these things. If the Lord's pleased to make
you wise, you'll have some understanding. Who is prudent, he shall know
them, for the ways of the Lord are right. The Lord Jesus Christ
is the only way to God. He said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No man can come to the Father
except by me. The ways of the Lord are right. There's nothing right in us,
nothing right in me, but all the rightness and the righteousness
that there is in Him. And the just, Those that have
been justified will walk in them, but the transgressors shall fall
therein. Now the Lord makes it clear that
it's not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but
of God that showeth mercy. The Lord has to make us willing.
And there's no mixing of man's will and God's sovereignty. I
received a publication this past week, or a week or two ago, from
a reformed Calvinist group. And they've got a new book out.
And the title of the book is, What About Free Will? And here's
the summary of this book. The author has done a splendid
job in explaining what's at stake in the debate over free will. Presenting a compelling biblical
case for the compatibilist view. Now I had to work on being able
to pronounce that word. The compatibilist view between
man's free will and God's sovereignty. And I'm here to say to you this
morning, there is no compatibilist view. Man is dead in his trespasses
and sins. If the Lord doesn't make us willing,
and if he doesn't do that by his free and sovereign grace,
we will never come. There's no compatibilist view. It's interesting to me that this
publication that this group puts out is called Academic. That's the name of it. And I
looked up the word academic and here's the definition. Theoretical,
not practical, not leading to a decision, not realistic or
useful. That's the dictionary's definition
of academic. And that explains why professors
sit around navel gazing and their students are googly-eyed and
massaging one another's ego and pooling their ignorance trying
to figure out what's up. The Word of God is never presented
that way. The truth of the gospel is, thus saith the Lord. It's not academic. It's not theoretical. and it is useful. It's eternally
useful. And apart from God giving us
ears to hear, causing us to come to Christ, we will die in our
sins. No, I don't want to be left to
that place. I don't want you to be left to that place. I want you to notice with me
at the beginning of Hosea chapter 14, the spirit of this irresistible call. And I draw attention to this
in the first word in verse 1 of Hosea chapter 14. Now don't mistake that to think
that God is somehow begging men desperately to let him have his
way. Won't you make Jesus Lord? Too late, God's already done
it. He's Lord over the living and he's Lord over the dead.
You don't accept him, he accepts you. You don't choose God. We're in an election cycle right
now where men are shamefully running around the country begging
men to choose them to be their leader. I can't imagine a more
shameful profession. But people think God's that way. That God's going around like
these politicians vying for boats. It's not so. It's not so. God is uncontested and unthreatened
by us men. He occupies the highest throne
in all the universe, and he reigns sovereign over the armies of
heaven and over all the inhabitants of the earth. And no man can
stay his hand, and no man can say, what doest thou? He's God. He's God. But that having been
said, I'm encouraged that as God, He doesn't threaten me to
come to Him. Turn with me in your Bibles to
Galatians chapter 3. I want to point something out
to you. I know your pastor has pointed
this out to you, but perhaps there's somebody here that wasn't
here then. Whole religious movements have
been built around three words that are in Galatians chapter
three that aren't even in the original text. And I too am thankful,
as Don mentioned last night, for the King James Version. And
one of the reasons is that the translators, when they added
words to the text in order to make it more readable, they put
them in italics. And these italicized words have
been mistaken by men to be part of the text. And they've actually
built whole religious movements out of them. So it's amazing
to me. But here it is. Look at verse
22. But the scriptures hath concluded,
all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might
be given to them that believe. Oh, that's what I want. I want
the faith of Jesus Christ. My faith is not sufficient, and
without faith it's impossible to please God. For they that
cometh to him must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder
of them that diligently seek him. Oh, Lord, give me thy faith. But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should hereafter
be revealed. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster. Now the children in the home
were under the authority of the schoolmaster. The law was our
schoolmaster. Before faith came, we were under
the law. You see those next three words?
They're not in the text. and it won't damage your Bible
just to scratch them out. They don't belong there. And
as is oftentimes the case when these italicized words are put
in, they actually detract from the meaning of the text. It's
not the schoolmaster which was the law that brought us to Christ.
We don't preach the law in order for men to feel threatened by
the law and therefore run to Christ. What he's saying is you
were under the law. But now you're under Christ? Oh, it's real. The Lord doesn't have to hold
the hammer of the law over the heads of his children and threaten
them with judgment. It's the goodness of God that
leadeth to repentance. It's the love of Christ that
constraineth us. He draws us with cords of a man. He allures us. Hosea allured
Gomer to himself. That's how he brings us to himself. It's the love of Christ that
constraineth us. Oh, I'm scared when I hear someone
talk about the judgment of God, but I've never found my heart
moved in love towards Christ when men talk about judgment
and hell and retribution. Oh, tell me about the love of
Christ. Tell me about how he draws me and woos me. This is the beginning of the
irresistible call. Any other response is just going
to be temporary response. It's not going to last. It's
not going to last. I love it when Peter Peter stood
up so bold in his own confidence and said, Lord, they may deny
you, but not me, not me. Oh, Lord, Peter needed to learn
something about himself, didn't he? And not only did he deny
him, but he denied him with cursings three times. And the scripture
says that as soon as he did that, they took our Lord from where
he had been thronged, where he had been, where he'd been beaten,
the crown of thorns had made his bloody mess. And they brought
him across the area where Peter was standing by the fire. And
here's what the scripture says, the Lord turned and looked upon
Peter. And Peter remembered and went
out and wept bitterly. What kind of look do you suppose
that was that the Lord Jesus Christ gave to Peter? You think
it was a look of anger? You think it was a look of condescension?
You think it was a look of, of, oh, Peter, look, I told you you
were going to do it. Oh no. What Peter saw in the
eyes of the Lord Jesus Christ was nothing but pure grace and
pure love. And it broke his heart. It broke
his heart. Oh, Israel, return unto the Lord
thy God. Here's how the Lord brings His
children to Himself. It's always this way. The irresistible
call is a call of grace. It's a call of love. When David
sent Ziba to fetch Mephibosheth. Don't you know Mephibosheth was
shaking in his boots all the way back thinking David was going
to kill him? And when David saw Mephibosheth,
what did he say? He said, Oh, Mephibosheth, Mephibosheth. But he saw the likeness of Jonathan
in the face of Mephibosheth. And Mephibosheth's response was,
what would the king have to do with such a dead dog as I? Oh, Mephibosheth, I love you.
Come here. Sit at the king's table. Hide
those crippled feet under my tablecloth. I'm going to provide
for you." When Nathan confronted David,
he didn't stick his finger in David's chest and say, David,
thou art the man. You need to repent. Oh, I'm sure
that Nathan, the prophet of God's, eyes were filled with tears when
he confronted David. David, don't you see? You're
the man I'm talking about. Has the Lord spoken that way
to you? Or do you still hear the voice
of God as some threatening voice of warning and judgment and thunder? It's not how he calls his people.
He allures them. He woos them to himself in love. He doesn't use the law. He doesn't use the law. He said,
I know the thoughts that I have for you, thoughts of peace and
not for evil, that I might bring you to an expected end, unhopeful
end. Oh, that's, that's the only thing
that works for me. The only thing, the only thing
that brings me to Christ is His grace, His love, His mercy, His
understanding, Him saying to me, I remember that you're made
of dust. I have pity upon you. Anything
else? Oh, it might straighten me out
for just a little while, but then I soon forget. Oh, Israel. So the spirit in
which this irresistible call is made is in the spirit of grace. It's a spirit of love. It's an
affectionate God who loves his children with an everlasting
love. And he draws them with cords of kindness. Who is it
that the call is made to? Well, the scripture says right
here, Oh, Israel. The call of God is made to Israel. He's talking about spiritual
Israel, for the scripture says they are not all of Israel, which
were of Israel. He's not talking about physical
Israel. He's not talking about that nation
over there in the Middle East. He's talking about the Prince
of God, the children of God. This is the spiritual Israel,
not those who have been circumcised in the flesh, but those who have
been circumcised by the Spirit in the heart, the children of
God. You say, well, how do I know
if I'm a child of God? How do I know if I'm part of
Israel? The Lord said to Pilate, he said,
for this cause came I into the world. For this reason was I
born, that I might bear witness unto the truth. They that are
of the truth hear my voice. My sheep hear my voice, and they
follow me. How do I know if I'm of Israel?
Because I've heard him call. I've heard him call, and I've
been shut up to Christ. I've got no place else to go.
I've been brought by his grace, by his irresistible grace, to
him. I grew up with two brothers.
I was the middle child, most well-balanced, of course. And
oftentimes, we would play with our neighborhood friends out
in the yard doing something, ball or whatever. And about evening
time, my mother would come to the door, and I can remember
her saying, boys, come in. It's time to eat. Now me and my brother John and
my brother Bob knew exactly who my mother was talking to. The
rest of those boys paid no attention to my mother's voice. They just
kept on playing or went somewhere else. But Bob and John and Greg
knew exactly whose voice that was and knew exactly which boys
she was talking to. She had dinner fixed. We were
hungry. She knew that we needed to have
a bath and get cleaned up before we went to bed. And she knew
that we needed a good night's sleep in order to be prepared
for the next day. When the Lord calls His Israel
to Himself, He calls them to feed them with the bread of life. He calls them to wash them with
the water of His word and put away all their sins through the
shed blood of His dear Son. He calls them in order to provide
for them a place of rest, rest for their souls. No fear of wrath,
no fear of judgment. There is now therefore no condemnation
to them that are in Christ Jesus. Have you heard his voice? Are
you hungry? Are you dirty? Do you need a
place of rest? Have you heard the voice of your
heavenly father, the voice of your savior, the voice of your
brother calling you to come in? Come in. Oh, Israel. He makes his people willing. You're still thinking about it?
You're still saying, uh, I'll not have that man reign over
me. You're still rebelling against the gospel of God's free grace
and refusing to come to Christ? then you have reason to wonder
if you are part of Israel. But if this affectionate, effectual,
irresistible call from the voice of God has been heard in your
heart, you come in. You just come in. You come. O Israel, return unto the Lord
thy God." If we have a problem in a relationship
with another person in this world, I don't care what the situation
is, there's, if I've learned anything in 61 years, I know
that there's fault to be had on both sides. It's never one-sided. It's never one-sided. So if you're
at odds with somebody, figure out what you did in that and
apologize for it. If you're at odds with God, you
bear 100% responsibility. He hasn't moved. He said, I am
the Lord and I change not, and therefore you sons of Jacob are
not consumed. When we're at odds with God,
your iniquity has separated you from your God. It's all my fault. And the more you grow in grace
and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more sensitive
you become to that sin, and the more often you see your need
to come to Christ, to return to Him coming. Oh, perhaps you're
here this morning and you've never come to Christ. Your warrant
for coming to the Lord Jesus Christ is the command of God
to come. And if you've heard His voice, come, come. Perhaps like King David, you've
spent a long period of time hiding from God and hiding your sin
and refusing to come. Return. Return unto the Lord. Peter, that I mentioned just
a few moments ago, There was only a few hours between the
time that he stood up for the Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane
and took off the high priest servant's ear, and then just
within a few hours he denied Him. And oh, he needed to return,
didn't he? I found myself this weekend returning
to the Lord in every message that we've had the privilege
of hearing. My heart just, oh Lord, enable
me to return. I'm so prone to wander. I'm so
prone to leave the God I love. If the Lord leaves me to myself,
if he doesn't cause me to come, I won't return. What's he called us to do? To
come, to return. Who has he called us to return
to? Notice in our text, oh, oh Israel,
oh my children, come in, feed, wash, rest. Return unto the Lord thy God. for thou hast fallen. Notice
who it is that we return to. Now anytime you see L-O-R-D,
all in caps, you know this. It's the word Jehovah. It's the
name that God gave to Moses at the burning bush when Moses asked
the Lord Jesus Christ, whom shall I say sent me? And the Lord said,
tell them that I am has sent you. Now that's his covenant
name. That gives us some understanding
of the fact that he changes not, that he established a covenant
of grace before time ever began. That the Lord Jesus Christ is
that lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world.
God sovereignly elected a people. He placed them in Christ. He
wrote their names indelibly in the Lamb's Book of Life. Tell
them I am. Salvations of the Lord. I'm the
one that's gonna do it all because I am all. And so return to the
Lord. It's a declaration of his willingness
to save based on his covenant of grace. Now notice the next
word he uses to describe himself, returning to the Lord thy God.
Now that's the word Elohim and that means power and authority,
it means ability. And what the Lord's telling us
here is that we're to return to the one who is willing and
able to save. That's who we return to. Oh Israel,
return to the Lord. He's willing to save. He's committed
himself to save. And he is able to save. He's the only one that can make
you just before God. The only one that can make you
justified and maintain His justice. He's the only one that can put
away your sin. He's the only one that can hide our sins from
Himself, and that's what He does. I've got the power to save. I've
got the power to make you willing. I've got the power to forgive.
I've got the power to love you. I've got the power to keep you.
I've got the power to present you faultless before the throne
of God. Come to the only one who has the willingness and the
power to save. Oh, Israel, that we would be
able to hear this affectionate, irresistible call of God, who
is the Lord, who allures us to himself. And he says, your iniquities. Why does he call us? Because
he sees the misery of our condition. We're his children. He sees the
misery of our condition. He looked at Peter that night
and said, Peter, it's okay. I'm doing this for you. I'm doing
this for you. He sees the misery of what we
brought on ourselves. What does he say? He says, for
thou hast fallen by thine iniquity, by thine iniquity. Now, iniquity in the Bible is
not a word that's used to describe the things that we're ashamed
of. It's not. The Lord said, he said, Donny,
you quoted this verse, if the Lord should mark iniquity, who
shall stand? You know what that verse means?
That means if God takes the very best thing you've ever done,
The very best prayer you've ever prayed, the most sincere act
of kindness that you've ever done, the best thing, the thing
that you're proud of. If he takes that and uses that
as a measure of judgment, you're not going to be able to stand
before God. There's enough sin in our prayers
to send us to hell. He says your iniquities have
separated you from your God. It's not the things that men
that are ashamed of that keep them from coming to Christ. People
get sick and tired of being sick and tired. People turn over new
leaves and they quit doing things all the time. You know, you can
reform your life. You can change your outward behavior
once it gets painful enough. but for the Lord to reveal to
you that the best thing you've ever done, man at his very best
state, is altogether vanity. That's what God's saying. It's
your righteousness that separated you from your God. And all of
your righteousness are filthy rags before God. Oh, if the Lord
makes you a sinner, you're gonna come to know that. You're gonna
come to realize, Lord, I've got nothing. from the top of my head
to the bottom of my feet. I'm a leper? There's not a clean
square inch of flesh anywhere on me. Oh, Lord. I'm in need of a righteousness
outside of myself. I'm in need of a Savior. I'm
in need of one who's able to stand in my stead before God
and present himself before a holy God for all my righteousness
before God. Oh Israel, return unto me, the
Lord thy God, for your iniquities have separated you. Thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity. And don't you love that the Lord,
you say, well how do I come? How do I come if I, if the Lord
is speaking to me, what do I, what do I say? Have you ever
been intimidated around someone and you really didn't know how
to talk to them? You didn't know what to say. You just were kind
of tongue tied. And if that's true among men,
if we have those experiences among men, what are we going
to say when we stand before God? He's given us words to say. I'm
so glad for that. He said, return unto the Lord
thy God and take with you words and turn to the Lord and say
to him, take away my iniquity. Oh Lord, take it away. Hide my
sin under the blood of thy dear son. Let His sacrificial death
on Calvary's cross be sufficient for you to put away all my sin. Yes, the best thing I've ever
done, if you were to mark it, would condemn me to hell. Lord,
put it, put it away. Separate it from me as far as
the east is from the west. Lord, remember it no more. If
it's to be done, He can only do it through the sacrifice of
His Son. or take away my iniquity. Don't let me put my hands to
the work of redemption. And look what he says, and receive
us graciously. Receive us graciously. Lord,
I've got no claim for your favor. If it is of grace, it can no
longer be of works. Otherwise, grace is not grace.
You put one drop of your work in the ocean of God's grace,
and you're going to pollute the entire ocean. One drop. We live in Florida. You can go
down to the ocean, and you can put a drop of anything in that
ocean. I mean, the most toxic material you can think of, you
could put it in that ocean. Well, you could put gallons of
it. It'd just be absorbed into the ocean. The oil leak we had
down in the Gulf of Mexico was a testimony of that, isn't it?
One drop, one drop of your works into the finished work of the
Lord Jesus Christ and you're going to pollute the whole ocean. For by grace are you saved through
faith and that not of yourself. It's a gift of God. not of our
works, lest any man should boast." There's no boasting before God,
except to boast in Christ. He gets all the glory, doesn't
he? He gets all the glory. Lord, I'm a mercy-begging dead
dog sinner with no righteousness whatsoever before Thee. And if
I'm going to find acceptance before You, it's only going to
be in the Beloved, in the Lord Jesus Christ. Look what he says, so will we
render the calves of our lips. We're not offering the bull and
bullocks of the Old Testament sacrificial system, we're offering
to him the calves of our lips. Here's what the scripture says,
by him therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually. That is the fruit of our lips,
giving thanks and praise to him. By your words you will be justified,
and by your words you will be condemned. With a heart man believeth
unto righteousness, with a mouth confession is made unto... What
is our confession? What is our confession? Christ
is all, and He's in all. He's all my salvation. He's all
my hope. He's all my righteousness. He's
all my justification before God. He's my sanctification. He that
sanctifies and they that are sanctified all is one whereby
he's not ashamed to call them his brethren. Oh, I've got to
be found in him. I must be found in him, not having
my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that righteousness,
which is by the faith of Jesus Christ. That's how we come. It's how
we come all Israel. This is an affectionate, irresistible
call to the children of God who hear His voice and they come,
they follow Him, and they understand that He's willing to save because
of His covenant promises as Lord and He's able to save because
of His power as God. Take with you words and turn
to the Lord and say to Him, take away all iniquity, receive us
graciously, and so we will render the calves of our lips. Asher shall not save us. Now, Asher is another name for
Assyria in the scriptures, and translated, it means steps. Don't we love steps? The Lord said if you build an
altar and you make steps on it, all you're going to do in scaling
the steps of that altar is expose your own nakedness. But we want
steps. Give me a prayer. I can pray.
Donny, I love what you said. If God makes you a sinner, you
don't need somebody to teach you how to pray. Lord, have mercy
upon me. But we love steps. We love programs. We love procedures that we can
follow to somehow work our way into the presence of God. I grew
up that way. I grew up a Roman Catholic. We had lots of steps.
I mean, we had beads on the rosary. We had plaques on the wall. You had to go around and kneel.
We had candles to light. We had statues that we had to
kiss the feet of. You say, how silly is that? How
silly is that? It is superstitious, silly religion,
man-made religion, but not any more silly than any other steps. The steps that I came up with
after that, well, I'm just, you know, what, I'm going to, I'm
going to memorize scripture, and I'm going to, I'm going to
follow the precepts of God's Word, and I'm going to have precept
upon precept, and line upon line, and here a little, there a little,
and that'll become my steps. Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
28. Verse 9, whom shall he teach
knowledge and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them
that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast. Now
if you go to Hebrews chapter 5 and chapter 6, scripture makes
it clear that these baby steps is just the basic understanding
of doctrine. It's the basic understanding,
it's the ABCs of the gospel. It's the basics of total depravity
and irresistible grace and limited atonement and all these basic
truths of Scripture. And men will make steps out of
those. They'll make steps out of them. For a precept must be
upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little. And that is the way the Lord
teaches His children, a little bit at a time. For with stammering lips and
another tongue will he speak to this people." These people
that are at academic, they know the doctrines of grace. They
know the ABCs, intellectually at least, they've got some understanding. They don't know Christ. They
don't know Christ. If they did, they wouldn't be
talking about a compatibilist view of free will and God's sovereignty.
They'd be hanging all their hopes on the person and work of the
Lord Jesus Christ. But they've got, I had precept
upon precept, line upon line, hear a little, but I didn't hear
the gospel. And that's what it's like. When
a man preaches the gospel of God's free grace, when he declares
the finished work and glorious person of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the natural man can't hear it. Why? Because he's still looking
for steps. He's still looking for something he can do. He still
believes that good people go to heaven and bad people go to
hell. He believes that. You know, just the opposite's
true. Just the opposite is true. Good
people go to hell. Bad people go to heaven. Learn
what that means. And you'll quit your steps. For with stammering lips and
another tongue will he speak to this people to whom he said,
this is the rest. This is the rest. What? Christ is the rest. He's our
Sabbath. Find your rest in Him. He's finished
the work. It's done. There's nothing left
for you to do. The work was finished before
the foundation of the world. To whom He said, this is the
rest wherewith He may cause the weary to rest, and this is the
refreshing, This is the refreshing, this is the bathing in the grace
of God, yet they would not hear. Why wouldn't they hear? Because
they were still building precept upon precept, line upon line,
here a little, there a little. They took the very Word of God
and they made steps out of it. That's what the Pharisees did.
Look what he says. But the word of the Lord was unto them, precept
upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little.
Men who give up on superstitious smoke and mirrors of religion,
like I had growing up, and they'll turn to the scriptures and they'll
do the same thing with the work of God, with the word of God
that they were doing with those statues and candles and everything
else. Why? Because men love steps.
I got to do something. I got to do something. that they might go and fall backwards
and be broken and snared and taken. Oh Lord, don't let me make steps
out of thy word. Don't let me be like those Pharisees
that you said to them, you search the scriptures. Boy, they knew
precept upon precept. They knew line upon line. They
have a little here, a little there. And the Lord said to them,
you search the scriptures because you think in them you have eternal
life. You've made steps out of them.
But these are they which testify of me. This book. It's not steps. It's not a rule
book for Christian living. It's not God's way of saying
to you, well, you know, you do this and do that and avoid this
and avoid that. You can make it. This book, in
the volume of the book, it is written of me. This book is a
revelation of the glorious person and finished work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Asher shall not save us. Nothing
you do. It's all been done. It's all
been done. Oh, Lord, would you call me irresistibly? If you don't make it irresistible,
I'll resist you. If you don't cause me to come
to you, I won't come. Oh, Israel, return. Come. Come to the covenant keeping
God. Your iniquities have separated
you from Him, and you don't want any iniquity between you and
God. You don't want the best thing
you've ever done. For if He should mark that, you won't stand. Your steps won't save you. He's going to do all the saving,
or He won't do it at all. He's going to get all the glory,
or He's going to let you have it. pastor.