here to preach for us, and I'm
very excited about that. We'll have a get-together Sunday
night after the services with Cody and Winnip, faithful missionaries. I have entitled the message for
this morning, What is it to confess Christ? Now, we know that this
is a salvation issue. That makes it an all-important
issue. Paul said in Romans chapter 10 verses 9 and 10, if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. So this thing of confessing Christ
is a salvation issue. Now I'm not saved by confessing. I'm saved by Christ dying for
me. And I'm not saved apart from confessing. The Lord said, he that denieth
me, him will I deny. And that means on judgment day. If I deny him before men on judgment
day, he'll deny any connection with me before God and before
the angels of God. Now we're saved by grace through
faith. Ephesians chapter two verses
eight and nine says, by grace are you saved? Aren't you thankful
for that? By grace are you saved? Let me remind you. I'm not saved
by my good works anymore than I'm saved by my sins. I'm saved
by grace. Altogether by grace. Aren't you
thankful for that? By grace are you saved through
faith. There is no salvation apart from
faith. There is a kind of faith. that
is not saving faith. I want to make a few comments
about that before we get into this thing of confessing. These
things go together. We read in John chapter 2 verse 23, now
when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, the feast day, Many
believed in his name when they saw the miracles which he did.
They had a faith from what they saw. They saw evidence that was
irrefutable. They saw the miracles that he
did, but Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he
knew all men and he needed not that any man should testify of
man for he knew what was in man. Now they had a faith, but the
Lord wouldn't commit himself to them. He didn't believe in
them literally. He didn't believe in them. There is a kind of faith
that would be, I guess, what James would call the faith of
devils. You believe that there's one God, James said, you do well.
You ought to believe that way. There is only one God. The devils
believe that and tremble. A faith that is an acknowledgment
of an assent to the facts of the Bible is not saving faith. Now, let me repeat that. I want
you to listen to this very carefully. An acknowledgement of and an
assent to the facts that are in the scripture is not saving
faith. If you can read and if you have mediocre intelligence, and if
you have an open mind and don't close your mind to what's said
in the Bible, you will give us in to the fact that the Bible
does teach that men are dead in sins. It says that. It does
teach that God elected a people before time began to be saved.
You can't deny that if you read the scripture, not if you're
honest with it. If you say, well, the Bible doesn't teach election,
you're just closing your eyes then. I remember one time I read
what Charles Spurgeon said, a fellow said to him, I've read the Bible
twice through on my knees and I've never seen election. He
said, well, no wonder you're uncomfortable. Get in a chair
and read and see what it really said there. There's no doubt
that if you read the Bible, the Bible teaches that Christ laid
down his life for the sheep. There's no doubt that God's grace
actually saves. It's invincible and irresistible.
If you read the Bible, you can see these things and give assent
to them. But that's not saving faith.
That's just reading something. That's like me reading two and
twos for you. I believe that. I believe that. I give assent
to that. That is not saving faith. Now, you ought to assent and
acknowledge everything God says. We do. But that is not saving
faith. You see, saving faith always
has these two elements. Very important. First, with saving
faith, there is committal. And second, with saving faith,
there is confession. First, there is committal in
saving faith. Paul said, I know whom I believe. And I'm persuaded he's able to
keep that which I've committed to him against that day. Commitment. What does that mean? A belief in works, a belief that
salvation is in any way to any degree dependent upon what you
do is a failure to commit. You've not committed your soul
to Christ. You've left something out. You've
got a plan B. You've got an ace in the hole. When you commit, you have no
plan B. Your only hope is who Christ
is and what he did. And you commit the salvation
of your soul to what he did. Kind of like looking at an airplane. You can know the facts about
the plane. You can understand some of the laws of aerodynamics. You can know how there's different
speeds of air that creates a vacuum and lifts the plane up. And you
understand that. And you can even believe that
probably if I get in that plane, it'll get me to my destination.
But the only time I'm going to get anywhere is when I commit
myself to the plane. I get on board and I trust the
plane to get me there. If the plane gets there, I'll
get there. If it doesn't, I won't. Now that is a crude illustration
of what it is to trust the Lord Jesus Christ. You commit the
salvation of your soul to Him. You don't have any other hope. If he said it, when he said it
is finished, my salvation is finished. And if I have anything
other than that, I failed to commit. With saving faith, there's
always a commitment. I commit the salvation of my
soul. Have you ever done that? Have
you ever just let go of everything else and trusted Christ only?
Your works, you don't look to those. You really don't. You
don't look to your experience. You don't look to the strength
of your faith. You don't look to your knowledge. You look to
who He is and what He did alone as all that's needed to make
you perfect before God. That is commitment. In saving faith, not only is
there commitment, there is confession. If thou will confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised
him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Turn with me to John
chapter 12 for a moment. Verse 42, John chapter 12, verse 42. Nevertheless,
among the chief rulers, also many believed on him, but because of the Pharisees,
they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the
synagogue. For they loved the praise of men more than the praise
of God. They believed, but they refused
to confess. Now that is the faith of demons. That's the faith they never committed
and they never confessed. This was not a saving faith. Now what does confession mean?
What does the Bible mean by this word confess or confession? Well,
the word means literally to speak the same thing, to be at agreement. People talk about confessions
of faith, and I'll be honest with you, I don't like confessions
of faith, I like the Bible. Matter of fact, when I read Confessions
of Faith, maybe something's wrong with me. I was asking myself,
is something wrong with me? But I get bored silly reading those things. I
mean, they're spoken in such a technical language. It just
doesn't do anything for me. Boy, I love to read the Bible,
though. The Bibles are confession of faith. But a confession of
faith is supposedly a statement concerning what we all believe
and what we're all at agreement on. That's what confession means. It's speaking the same thing. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 23 says,
let us hold fast the confession of our faith. And actually there,
the word faith is the word hope. I'm not real sure why the translators
translated it faith because it's the word hope. You can't separate
hope and faith, I know, but think about it. Let us hold fast. Us
as every believer, let us hold on to, let us hold fast the confession
of our hope. Well, what is our hope? Every
believer has the exact same hope. If you're a believer, you have
the same hope I have. There's not a shred of difference in our hope. We
don't have different beliefs. We believe the same thing. Here's
my hope that Christ died for my sins. That's my hope. If God be for us, who can be
against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him
up for us all. How shall He not with Him also
freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? God justified them. That's my
hope. Justifications work in God. I had nothing to do with
it. He did it. Who is He that can condemn? It's
Christ that died. That's the only answer I need.
It's Christ that died. Yea, rather that it's risen again.
Who's even at the right hand of God? Every believer has the
same hope. And we're to hold fast the confession
of that hope. Now, a confession has something
public about it. It's a confession before men.
It's only what I confess before men that I really believe. You
know, a preacher, what is it he really believes? Only what
he preaches publicly. You might come up to a preacher
and he might say, well, I believe what you believe, but it doesn't
come out in his preaching. He doesn't believe it. He's ashamed
of it. He's ashamed to confess Christ.
The only thing a man really believes is what he publicly preaches.
What somebody really believes is what they publicly identify
with. You're identifying with this message publicly right now.
This is the message you want to hear. Somebody that goes somewhere
else and says, I believe what you believe, but they go to a
church where that truth, that doctrine is not preached, they
don't believe it. They may say they do, but they
don't. There's no public identification with that message. If thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart,
God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. A confession
has something public about it. And a confession is an admission. It's the same word used with
reference to the confession of sin. I admit it. I'm confessing my sin. If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Somebody once
said if they arrested people for being a Christian, would
they have enough evidence to convict you? It's a searching
question, isn't it? In Acts chapter 24, verse 14,
Paul said, This I confess to thee, that after the way which
they call heresy, they say that's heretical. I confess you, I plead
guilty here. That's what you're doing when
you confess, you plead guilty. After the way which they call
heresy, so worship I, the God of my fathers, believing all
things which are written. We confess that, don't we? We
plead guilty. But you know, confession is more
even than an admission. It's more than agreement. A confession
is more than a grim acknowledgement of the facts. There is a celebration
of praise in our confession. What do I mean by that? The Lord
said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that
you've hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed
them unto babes. I thank Thee, O Father. Now,
that word thank Thee is I confess to Thee. It's actually translated,
confession, is thanks. It's a giving of thanks. It's
something you praise God for. What I confess, who I confess,
I love and I praise God for. You know, I'm proud of the gospel
we believe. I really am. This is a gospel
worthy of God. I'm proud of the grace of God.
I'm proud of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm proud of the way He saves.
I love it. It's perfectly suitable for me.
And I confess what I love. And here's another way I confess.
The word is actually translated promise. where Herod promised
with an oath that he would give the little girl dancing for him
whatever she wanted. But the point of it is, when
I confess something, I promise, this is what I believe. This
is from the depths of my heart. This is what I believe. So that's
what it is to confess Christ. It's speak the same thing of
every other believer. It's an agreement to speak the
same thing. It's an admission of guilt. I
plead guilty. I really do believe that. It's
a public thing. It's not being ashamed before
men. We're proud of the gospel we believe. It's not something
that we ashamed of and ashamed to confess before men. We're
proud of the gospel. It's something we love and it's
something we're real about. We promise we believe. Now, the
Lord spoke of confessing him before men and denying him before
men. Now, the body of our confession
is him. We confess Him. What think ye of Christ is always
the issue. Turn back to Luke chapter 9 for
a moment if you would. Verse 26, for whosoever shall be ashamed
of me and of my words. Now one thing you can't separate
Christ from is his words. The person is known, is revealed
by the words. I remember one time I heard a
man say, I don't want to hear any more doctrine. I want to
hear about Jesus. That ignorant, that's all you
can call that, ignorant. Anything you say regarding the
person of the Lord Jesus Christ is doctrine, it's his doctrine.
You cannot separate Christ from his words. I want to Preach a
person, and I do. I want to preach the person of
Christ. It's not a what, it's a who. And the who is revealed
by the what, isn't he? He's revealed by his words. The
Lord said, for whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words,
of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he shall come in
his own glory, and his father's, and of the holy angels. Our confession is Him. Our confession
is everything in this book. What's a man got to believe to
be saved? Everything God says. If God says something and you
don't believe it, you know what that makes you? An unbeliever. Believers believe everything
God says. They bow to everything God says. Our confession of faith is this
book. deny anything in this book and
you deny him. Now, when Peter denied Christ,
I want you to think about that. The Lord told him, you're going
to deny me. You're going to deny me three times. When Peter denied
Christ, why is it that the Lord didn't send him to hell? I mean,
he said, whoever denies me before men, him will I deny before the
angels of God. Him will I deny before my heavenly
Father. Why wouldn't Peter deny? Well, Peter didn't deny Christ. Peter denied his association
with him. He caved in through cowardice and the fear of man.
Which of us hadn't done that? When have you been silent when
you should have spoken? Everybody in this room has caved
in through the fear of man before. But it wasn't a denial of the
person of Christ. He didn't say, I don't believe
he's God. He didn't say, I don't believe
he's all in salvation. He didn't say, I don't believe
anything concerning him. He was denying his association
with him. He was caving in through the fear of man. And what a horrible
thing that is, but that's not an actual denial of the person
of Christ. That's not a failure to confess
the person of Christ. Now, when we confess Christ according
to the scriptures, when we give agreement to, when we rejoice
in, When we confess publicly, when we admit to guilt of this,
when this is our life, this is what causes us joy. First of
all, I love this passage of scripture in 1 Timothy 3.16. You know where
it says, without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.
I love that verse of scripture. Without controversy, great is
the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. He was justified in the Spirit.
He carried out the great work of justification by the Spirit
of God perfectly. He was seen of angels. They watched
Him in adoration and wonder every minute He was upon this earth.
He was preached to the Gentiles, preached to folks like me and
you. What a mystery! What a glorious mystery! He was
believed on in the world and received up into the glory. without
controversy, is literally confessedly. Confessedly. This is who we confess. This is the great confession
of our faith. God was manifest in the flesh. We confess that. Jesus Christ
is God. He's God. He's the creator of
the universe. He's the one who holds everything
and everybody in the palm of His hand. He's almighty. He's omnipresent. He's sovereign. All that God is, He is to this
extent. He said, He that hath seen me
hath seen the Father. His name should be called Wonderful
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace. Do you confess that? Do you really believe that Jesus
Christ is God? God manifest in the flesh? Who
accomplished justification while the angels watched in adoring
wonder? who was preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the
world, and received up into glory. When he was received up into
the glory, all of God's people were received by what he did.
We confess that. 1 John chapter 4, verse 15. I'd like you to turn to these.
1 John chapter 4. Whosoever, verse 15, 1 John chapter
4, verse 15, whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son
of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Now, we're in agreement there. He's the Son of God. He's the
uncreated, eternal Son of God, the second person of the blessed
Trinity. Now, we admit to guilt. Yeah,
that really is what we believe. We confess. We love that He is
God, the Son of God. Makes us happy. And this is what
we really believe. Now, we confess the same thing
that that Ethiopian eunuch confessed. What hinders me from being baptized?
Well, if you believe with all your heart, you may. I believe
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Do you believe that? Do you confess that before men? Look in John chapter 9. Now, here we have the story of
the blind man that was healed. His parents, asked his parents,
how did your son get his sight back? And they knew. They knew
exactly how his son got his sight back, but they were afraid to
confess how his son got his sight back for this reason. Verse 20,
his parents answered them and said, we know that this is our
son who was born blind, but by what means he now seeth, we know
not. Or who hath opened his eyes, we know not. He's of age, ask
him. He shall speak for himself. These words spake his parents
because they feared the Jews. They knew exactly how he was
healed, but they wouldn't tell. For the Jews had agreed already
that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put
out of the synagogue. Excommunicated. Now here is,
we confess He's God. We confess He's God's Christ. He's God's prophet. He brings
us the Word of God. He is the Word of God. When God speaks, This is what
comes out of His mouth, Christ. He's the Word. He's the conception
of God. He's all that God is. We confess
He's God's priest. The only way we can be brought
to God is by Him bringing us to God. The only way I can come
into the Father is if He takes me and brings me into the Father's
presence. I don't even come pleading Him.
Although I do plead Him, I say, Lord, hear me for Christ's sake,
save me for Christ's sake. But the only way I get into the
Father's presence is by me being in Him and Him coming into the
Father's presence, and there I am. He's God's priest, and
oh what a priest He is. If He brings you into God's presence,
you have to be accepted. You have to be approved of and
loved. And He is God's King. We love to sing of Christ our
King. And hail Him, blessed Jesus.
For there's no word here ever heard so dear, so sweet as Jesus. Turn back to 1 John chapter 4. Verse 1. 1 John chapter 4 verse
1, Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits,
whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone
into the world. I hope we'll all take heed to
that. Don't believe somebody just because
he claims to be a preacher. Try him, what he's saying. Try
what he's saying with the Word of God. Many false prophets have
gone out into the world. Verse 2, Hereby know ye the Spirit
of God, every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh, is of God. Now let me give a little note
on that. In John's day, you had these people called the Gnostics.
They were saying that Christ did not come in the flesh, because
if He would have come in the flesh, that would have made Him
sinful. They believed all matter to be
sinful, and they said if He comes in the flesh, that would make
Him sinful. And far be it from us to ever make Him sinful. We
don't want to do that, so He didn't come in the flesh. He
came in a spiritual manner, but He never was flesh, because that
would have made Him sinful. That's what John was combating
at this time, Gnosticism, and it comes in so many forms. Just
so many forms. I think some would say, well,
Christ wasn't actually made sin because that would make him sinful.
That's Gnosticism is all it is. Yes, he was made sin. That's
mysterious, but he was made sin. That didn't make him sinful as
far as his person. It didn't mean he sinned. It doesn't mean that. But that's
the view of Gnosticism. And that's what he was combating
at this time. But look what he says. Hereby know ye the Spirit
of God, every spirit that confesseth, this public confession, that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that
confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of
God. And this is that spirit of antichrist where if you've
heard that it should come, and even now already, it's in the
world. Now, in making this confession,
I'm confessing right now publicly before you, Jesus Christ came
in the flesh. Number one, He was before He
came. He's the eternal Son of God.
I'm confessing, He came in the flesh. God was manifest in the
flesh. He actually, God became man. And I confess, whatever it was
He did, or whatever it was He came to do, He did do. Thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins. When he said
it is finished, his people, every single one of them, were saved,
past tense, from their sins. Their salvation became history
before it even took place. Isn't that glorious? That's the
confession of our faith. We confess that. We believe that.
And then, in Romans chapter 10, verse 9, if you'll confess with
your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." We confess,
He's Lord. You confess that. From your heart,
you say, Jesus is Lord. He's the Lord. I love that passage
of Scripture in Philippians chapter 2, where Paul says, Wherefore
God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is
above every name, that at the name of Jesus, Every knee should
bow. Things in heaven, things in the
earth, and even things under the earth. Demons, people in
hell. Every tongue is going to confess that He is Lord to the
glory of God the Father. He's the Lord. He's the Lord
of creation. He spake the world into existence.
He's the Lord of Providence. That means He's controlling everything
that's going on. Always has, always will. You're in His hand.
You don't make a move without Him. The very fact that your
heart beat this last moment, it's because He caused it to
beat. The thoughts that are going through your mind, He's in control
of, either by way of grace or by way of judgment, but He's
in control of everything. Where you go, what you do, it's
up to Him. If you're saved, it's up to Him.
If He passes you by, holy and reverend is His name. He is the
Lord. You believe that? Do you confess
that? I'm confessing with my mouth the Lord Jesus. Hebrews
10.23 speaks of the confession of our hope. Now what, our hope?
We're in agreement here, aren't we? What's the only hope you
have? The only hope I have is that
Jesus Christ died for me. That's the only hope I have.
You know the message that's preached in our day that Jesus Christ
died to make salvation possible for everybody and made a payment
for everybody's sin? That takes away my hope. If somebody
he died for ends up in hell, that takes away my hope. My hope
is that who he is and what he did is all that's needed. If
you tell me he can die for somebody and then wind up in hell, that
means his death isn't the hope. My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. And then I love in Acts
chapter 24, verse 14, where Paul said this, I confess to thee
that after the way which they call heresy, most people probably
in Lexington, Kentucky would say what we believe is heretical.
That's heresy. It's not what I believe. Well,
I confess, that's what I believe. After the way they call heresy,
that's how I worship. Not just what I believe, it's
how I worship. Believing all things which are
written in the law and in the prophets. I plead guilty. Guilty
as charged. Do you really believe that? Yes,
I do. I plead guilty. I plead guilty. And then in Mark
1.5, it says they were baptized of him, talking about John the
Baptist in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. Now, understand,
that doesn't mean they got up in front of everybody and started
confessing their sins. Have you ever thought about what
an unclean practice that is, where churches have people come
up and confess their sins to the congregation, and that is
just unclean. That's all you can call it, unclean
and evil. Why would you want to, you know,
People just want to hear it. You know, that's horrible. That
doesn't mean they were confessing their sins before people. But
here's what it does mean. I'm confessing that I am so sinful
that the only way I can be saved is if when Christ lived, I lived
and He lived for me and I was in Him. And when He died, I was
in Him. And when he was raised, I was
raised. I'm so sinful that I cannot be
saved apart from the gospel that's depicted in baptism. You confess that? Would that
be you? You know that in and of yourself,
you're so desperately evil. You really believe that? that
the only way you can be saved is if Christ lived for you, if
Christ died for you, if Christ was raised from you. Now, in
closing, how do I confess him? How do I confess him? Well, the
first way I confess him is by baptism. They were baptized of him confessing
their sins. My public confession of Christ,
I mean, most folks think public confession of Christ is going
down to the front of the church and getting before everybody
and making some kind of confession in response to the altar call.
I remember when Walter Gruber first visited this church, he
said, I see y'all got one of those slanted floors. You can
roll them down to the front real easy that way. He's making a joke
about it, but the whole thing of an altar call is foolishness.
It's foolishness. The whole sermon is a call to
come to Christ. But I confess him publicly by
believer's baptism. And secondly, I confess him by
identification with his people and his gospel. Hebrews 10.23,
let me quote it to you. Let us hold fast the confession
of our faith without wavering, or the confession of our hope
without wavering, for He is faithful to promise. And let us consider
one another, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. Now, in confession, there is
the assembling of ourselves together. I'm confessing Christ by being
here. I'm identifying myself and my
family with this message. Birds of a feather flock together,
don't they? That is our confession of Christ.
And thirdly, I confess Him when I confess Him where He's being
denied. If I'm not standing up for him
where his truth is being denied, I'm failing to confess him. And last, and this is just as
important, I confess him by my life. If they arrested people for being
Christians, I repeat that, would they have enough evidence to
convict you? Would you be arrested for being
a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ? Would you be convicted
because of your life, because of your conduct? You know, there's
so many things that my life says about what I think about Christ.
You know, if I love, what does love do? I want everybody to
listen to this real carefully. What does love do? It gives. It gives. My giving. I'm giving as unto the Lord.
My giving says more about what I personally really think of
Jesus Christ, I guess, than anything else. Giving proves the sincerity
of your love. What I give. How much I give.
says what I really think of the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, that's
what love does. Love gives and finds pleasure
in doing so. We're giving as unto the Lord.
It's better to give than to receive. I say what I think of Christ
by my support of his gospel, my being here, my seeking to
be a witness to others, my life, my life, how I treat others as
far as graciousness, forgiving others, being kind, being compassionate,
not being judgmental, not holding people's feet to the fire all
the time, trying to bring people under law. I confess Him by my
conduct. Now, I want to confess Him, don't
you? In Titus 1.16 it says they profess
that they know God, but in works they deny it. being abominable
and disobedient and every good work reprobate. Now let's, I
want to close with this scripture. Turn to 2 Timothy chapter 2. 2 Timothy chapter 2. Verse 11, it is a faithful saying. This had reached the status of
a saying in the early church. It's actually composed in the
form of a hymn. This was a hymn of the early
church. Here's what it says. For if we
be dead with him, we shall also live with him. Isn't that the
gospel? If I was in Him when He died,
I'm also going to live. Next it says, if we suffer, we shall also reign
with Him. If we suffered in Him and if
we suffer for His sake, we're also going to be reigning with
Him in the heavenlies. And then it says, if we deny
Him, He will also deny us. If we deny him, that's what's
going to happen. On Judgment Day, he will not own us. He'll say, depart from me ye
that work iniquity. I never knew you. I think of
those people who on Judgment Day, they say, Lord, we preached
in your name. We cast out demons in your name. In your name, we
did many wonderful works. And shall I say unto them, I
never knew you. Depart from me ye that work iniquity. They had
all kinds of religion, but they never confessed him. They never
confessed him. And then it says, if we believe
not. Verse 13, yet he abideth faithful,
he cannot deny himself. If we believe not, if we're so
floundering and all we can cry, I believe, help thou my unbelief,
I feel so overcome with unbelief and fear and anxiety and lack
of trust. It says if we believe not, he abides faithful. Now remember,
it's not the strength of your faith that saves you, it's the
object of your faith. If we believe not, he abides
faithful. You see, he cannot deny himself.
And if he would deny you, he'd be denying himself. You're part
of himself. You're united to him, one with
him. Can he deny somebody who's part of himself? Absolutely not. May the Lord enable us. to confess
him. Dwayne, do you know how to lead
in Jesus shall never be a mortal man, ashamed of thee? Hymn number
400? If you don't, I'll lead it because I want us to sing
that in closing. We don't sing it very often,
but you know, okay. Well, let's pray and then I want to close
with that hymn. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we ask in Christ's name that each person in this room will
be given the grace to commit all their salvation
to Thy blessed Son and to confess Him. Bless this message for Your
glory and our good. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Hymn number 400. Stand and sing.