I didn't expect to be back so
soon. But it's a special occasion for
us. I want you to turn over to Romans
chapter 5. I'm going to touch on that in
a minute. The title of this message For
whom did Jesus Christ die? For whom did the Lord Jesus Christ
die? He died for someone. He didn't
just die, he died for a multitude of sinners. Or who is salvation
for? My grandson Cole told his dad,
about a week or two ago, that he wanted to be baptized, but
he was afraid that he'd mess up. I said, you tell him. He will mess up. I said, he will
mess up. But remember, Christ died for
sinners. He died for sinners. And I like
what Tom Harding told me yesterday when I was relaying the story
to him. He said, you tell him that we
can't mess it up. We can mess up, but we can't
mess it up because it all hinges and rests on the shoulders of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Aren't you thankful we can't
mess it up? Adam messed up when he was innocent,
perfect. How much more now that we're
really sinners? You know, Christ died for sinners.
This is what, after nearly 50 years, I need the same thing
I needed in the beginning. Lord, save me. Save me. That's still my cry after all
these years. Christ died for sinners. The
Lord Jesus Christ did not die for good people. He said there's
not any. He said there's not any. There's
not any good, none good. No, not one. And if anyone ought
to know, he would be the one that would know. And we really
learn who and what we are after the Lord saves us. I know more
about what I am now than I did when I started. I know a little
more of my sinfulness now than I did when I started. You know,
I'd made a profession when I was 20 years old. And my brother,
my oldest brother, he said to me, well, you're a sinner saved
by grace. And I said, no, I used to be
a sinner. I'm not anymore. And then about two or three years
later, I heard Henry preach the gospel. And the Lord saved me. And I've been a sinner ever since.
I haven't quit being a sinner. I learned that that's who Christ
died for. He died for sinners. And we're
sinners all the way home. I told someone, I said, I have
stumbled and I have fallen and I have slipped all over that
rock, but that rock hasn't moved. That rock is solid. Christ is
that rock. And you and I will slip and fall
and slide all over it. But that rock is solid and that
rock is Christ. One of the prophets said, there's
no rock like I rock. There are rocks not like I rock.
Salvation is not for people who straighten up. It's for people who can't straighten
up. It's for people who need the Lord to save them. That's who it's for. It's
for people who need the Lord to save them. Not just give them
a little help, but to save them. A drowning
man needs someone to save him. If you remember Peter, when he tried
to walk on water, and he saw the wind was boisterous,
and it says he was afraid and he began to sink. And he prayed
the greatest prayer ever prayed. He said, Lord, save me. That's the greatest prayer I
ever prayed. And I wrote down in my notes, have you ever just
asked the Lord to save you? That's it. You know, the Lord
doesn't save theologians. He saves sinners. It's not how
much one needs to know, it's who. That Eunice said, He said, here's water. He said
to Philip, he said, here's water. What hinders me from being baptized?
And Philip said, if you believe with all your heart. And he said,
I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. That's all you
need. That's all the theologian you
need to be. That Jesus Christ is the son
of God and he's all you need. The Lord Jesus Christ is all
I need. He's all every sinner needs.
He's all the Father provided, and if He's all the Father provided,
do we need any more? We need nothing more. Nothing
more. Let me read Romans 5 again to
you, verse 6 and 8. For when we were yet without
strength, in due time, in due time, God's always on time. Everything in your life, my life,
and in this world is always in due time. Always. When we were yet without strength,
we couldn't do anything. We couldn't help Him. Salvation
is not a cooperative effort between me and Jesus Christ. He does
the saving, I do the sinning. He saved me and I didn't help
him do it. It's not by my cooperation. He
lifted me up out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock
and established my going. He did that. He did that. When we read of God's salvation
in the scriptures, he says, I will and you shall. And that's exactly
the way it is all the way home. But in due time, for when we
were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the
ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous
man will one die. Yet perventure for a good man,
some would even dare to die. But God commended his love. God
proved his love and manifested his love. While we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us. He died for us. Paul said this,
and this was Paul's ministry, and this was Paul's message.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I'm chief.
You know, this is one tribe where everyone's a chief. Everyone's
a chief. Christ died for sinners. He died
for the ungodly and no one else. No one else. If you're not an ungodly sinner,
Jesus Christ did not die for you. You know, when we think of ungodly,
what do we think of? We think of somebody that just
does some of the most horrible things. But I've learned this
about ungodly. I am unlike God. I am so unlike God. God is holy,
I'm sin. God is light, I'm darkness. God is just, I'm unjust. And boy, when I read that one
day and I realized, I'm ungodly, I'm unlike God. You know what that means? He
died for the ungodly, he died for me. He died for sinners. He didn't die for anybody else.
He did die for sinners. He died for the ungodly. I've
got good news. I have good, good news for sinners.
I have good news for the ungodly, but I have no good news for anybody
else. Nobody else. Now, when Jeremy had told me
about that, as soon as I hung up, man, some things started
rolling. I like it when an outline just
comes to you. And sometimes, oftentimes, I
struggle putting it together. But here, what's a sinner? Well,
a sinner is a fallen son of Adam. A sinner is not an angel. You
hear mothers call their little ones, oh, my little angel. Really? I don't think so. Well, he gets
two years old and older. And you start trying to teach
it manners. You got a fight on your hands. You call it the terrible
twos. You know why they call it the
terrible twos? Because you're trying to make a civil person
out of it. And they don't like it. They
don't like it. And that's why they call it the
terrible twos. You're starting to learn some manners and conduct. And
it's like they fight it because of what they are by nature. That
natural rebellion comes out immediately, young. The poison of asp is under
their lip, their tongue. It's what the scripture says. He or she is a fallen son of
Adam, daughter of Adam. One who's dead and trespasses
in sin. This is why we need the Lord
to save us. We're dead. We're dead. I don't know why people have
a hard time understanding what dead means. You know, I know
this. I've had phone calls and someone,
they say is barely alive. They don't have much longer.
I've never had a phone call and say, you know, so-and-so is barely
dead. There's no degrees of dead. If you're dead, you're dead.
And we are born dead, spiritually dead to God. We're dead to God.
We don't have that nature, that spiritual nature that's of God. We can't communicate with God.
Until he saves us, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. It's of the same nature as God.
That's why we are said to be partakers of the divine nature.
We're not just fellowshipers, we're actually partakers of the
divine nature. But until then, we're lost as
lost can be. I think Donny Bell said we're
lost as a white goose in a snowstorm. We're lost. Ephesians 2. Verse 1, and you hath he quickened
who were dead in trespasses and sins. This was your life. And
verse 5, even when we were dead in sins, he hath quickened us
together with Christ. By grace, you are saved. I'll
tell you this, by grace, you have been saved. By grace, you
are being saved. And by grace, you shall be saved.
That's the process of salvation. That's the process. Natural men
and women are born spiritually dead. They are truly, truly the
walking dead. It fits. That title fits human
nature. It fits all humanity. Those who
are lost, they are literally the walking dead. You know when
they have a man on death row and they're walking him toward
the gas chambers. You know what they cry out? You
know what they call that? Dead man walking. He's going
to be executed. Dead man walking. That's what
everyone is who's lost. A dead man or dead woman walking. That's the truth. We don't have
life until God gives us life. Listen here in 1 Corinthians
15, 22. For as in Adam, all die. I died in Adam. I did not do
one thing. I did not do one thing to become
a sinner. I was born one. I did not become
a sinner at a certain age. You know, that's what I heard
before I heard the gospel. The age of accountability. You
know what the age of accountability is? Conception. Conception. And I have no doubt in my mind,
I have no doubt in my heart that those infants that die and those
children that die, I believe they're with the Lord. I believe
not because they're innocent, but because Christ died for them.
They're just as sinful as I am. They wouldn't have died if not. They wouldn't die. If it was
ever such a thing as the age of accountability, they wouldn't
die to that age. But they die in infancy. Why?
Because of sin. Because of sin. That's why. This is how we became sinners.
And that's not throwing the blame off on somebody else. No. It's just telling the truth.
It's getting to the root of the matter. David said in Psalm 51 5, Behold,
I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive
me. Not a sinful act, a sinful seed. I was born in sin and shapen
in iniquity. It says in Romans 5 12, Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin, this
spiritual death, and then physical death. You know, you read in
the papers and obituaries, sometimes they'll put the reason for death,
you know, the source of it, and they'll say, you know, so-and-so
died of a heart attack, so-and-so died of cancer. No, it's sin. Those are second
causes. cancer, heart attack, or sickness,
whatever it is, they are second causes. The root cause of death
is sin. Sin brought forth death. Until we learn that, you know,
they blame everything. They're trying to find a cure
for everything. Billions and billions, over the, as time goes
by, it'll be trillions of dollars spent on trying to cure this
disease. That, you can't cure sin. If
you can cure sin, you can cure every disease there is. There's
no cure for sin that a man can come up with, but God did. God
did. And whenever one of his children,
I can say this to every child of God, God is going to heal
you of every disease and every sickness. Now you may die before
that, when it happens, but it's going to happen. It's not going
to follow you beyond the grave. You know, we've often prayed,
I know different people who's had cancer over the years and
prayed, Lord, heal them. I'm a believer and he did. He
took them. They're completely healed. Completely
healed. We are going to, this hit me
the other day when I was looking at this. We are going to be healed
of every disease, every heartache, every pain. There'll be no more
tears. I brought a message here just
the other day on a new world coming. Spoken of in Hebrews
chapter 2. The world to come. There's really
a new world coming. There's a world to come. And
I mean it's very real. It's as real as this one. And
it's going to take this one's place. God's going to fold this
up. It tells us in Hebrews chapter 1, God's going to fold this up.
Like a garment, like an old garment. And He's going to put it away.
But there's not going to be a void. God doesn't leave things void.
There's going to be a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells
righteousness. This is coming. This is real. I guess it's my age. I hope it's
growing in grace and in knowledge of Christ. But I'm telling you,
my mind is set on that so much anymore. It's just like I was
talking to Tom. I said, we're almost there. We're
almost home. We're almost home. And that's
home. Let me give you an example of
some sinners whom the Lord has saved in the scriptures. I mean,
there's too many for me to write down. And it's amazing to me
that the God of heaven and earth, purpose to save a people, and
those people are taken from a dunghill. They're taken from a whole bunch
of dunghill sinners. That's what we are. Just a bunch
of smelly Dunhill Sanders. And it pleased the Lord to set
us among princes, makes us kings and priests unto God. That's
what he's done. That's why Paul says, set your
heart on things above. You know, I know you younger
people, you got families and it keeps you busy, busy, busy. Boy, I'm telling you though,
set your heart on things above. Set your heart on things above. But let me give you some examples
of sinners saved by Christ. I thought of that woman at the
well, had five husbands. And the one she was living with
was not her husband. I guess she just shacked up with
him. And then one day she came to
the well and met her husband. She met her real husband, her
eternal husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. I brought a message from that
one time, looking for love in all the wrong places. Now I know
that's the title of a country song, but it fit. It fit. She was looking for love in all
the wrong places, and she found it. One day she found it, wasn't
even looking for it. She wasn't looking for a husband,
she wasn't looking for, she'd had enough of them. But then
she found her real husband, and she found real love. And the
Lord saved her. She went back to town and said,
come and see a man that told me everything I ever did. You know, that's good. There's
nothing about me that'll surprise the Lord. He knows everything about me
and loved me still. And loved me still. What about
Mary Magdalene, whom the Lord cast out seven devils? I bet
she was a mean woman. Seven devils, possessed of seven
devils. And the Lord cast him out of
her. You know, she's the first one to hit the burial site on
that resurrection morning. She's one of the first ones there.
She's the one that went back and told the disciples, the Lord
is risen. She's the one that did that.
What about that woman called in adultery? Those self-righteous
Pharisees, You wonder where the husband was. I mean, not the
husband, but the man she was with. Because you know what the
law says? Both of them are to be stoned to death. And she was
caught, they said, in the very act, but somehow they let him
go. And they brought her, threw her
down at his feet. And they said, now, let's see
what you're going to do, because the law says stone her. He said,
does any man condemn you? You remember how they all got
convicted and then they all left? To shorten the story. She said,
no man, Lord. He said, neither do I. Neither
do I. Isn't that the great news? There
you are at the feet of the judge of all the earth. And he says,
I don't condemn you. And if Jesus Christ does not
condemn me, nobody else can. If no one else can. What about
Blind Bartimaeus? Blind Bartimaeus, can't see.
I can't even imagine what it'd be to be totally blind, to never
see. Remember when the Lord opened
up man's eyes and he said, what do you see? He said, I see men
as trees walking. You see, we have a real, by nature,
we have a real distorted view of one another. We have a real
distorted view of men. Rich men, great men. God makes,
puts me, he said, I make rich and I make poor. I told a rich
man that one day. I said, you need to, you need
to listen. God said, I make rich and I make poor. I lift up and
I bring down. God can take it away from you
just as quickly as he gave it to you. But he said, blind Bartimaeus
and the woman with the issue of blood, 12 years. And you know
what's astounding? These are God's children. She
had that issue of blood for 12 years and spent all of her living
on physicians of no value and would rather grew worse. And that's God's child. Lazarus
laying at the rich man's gate. Dogs licking his sore. Would
you think that was a child of God? You'd think the rich man probably
was. You'd be more apt to think the rich man was, not that beggar
laid at his gate. That's God's child. But the leper, when the Lord
came down from the mountain, he said, Lord, if you will, you
can make me clean. He bowed to the sovereignty of
God. You can make me clean. You can save me or you can damn
me. You can do either one. You're God and whatever you do
is right. The lame man by the pool of Bethsaida
who said, I have no one to help me. This is exactly where the
Lord brings us to. We have no one to help us. Lord,
if you don't save me, I'll perish. I'll perish. What about that
demoniac? Running out there in the tombs,
cutting himself naked. Possessed of legion, 2,000 devils,
2,000 demons. Can you imagine that? And the
Lord cast him out and it says he was seated at his feet in
his right mind. No one is in the right mind until
God saves them. That's the truth. A person got
to be out of their mind not to believe God. That's the truth. Now you know what all these had
in common? Hopeless. You ever seen anybody hopeless?
I have. I mean totally hopeless. It's a pitiful sight. Everyone
here was hopeless. Everyone. Is there anyone on
this list you can identify with? Is there anyone you can identify
with? When I was younger, in faith, in Christ, when I was
young, I could say, well, I can identify with this one. I can
identify with that one. Now that 50 years have gone by,
I can identify with every one of them. I'm in every one of them. Every
one of them's in me. Every one. When the Lord saves a sinner, that sinner believes God. And here's something that's just
amazing. That sinner quits blaming everyone else for his or her
sins or problems. Listen to David. Psalm 51.4.
You know this is when he sinned with Bathsheba and had her husband
killed. Against thee and thee only have
I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. Yes, he wronged Uriah. He wronged Bathsheba. He wronged
Uriah's siblings and family You know, he wronged him, but he
sinned against God. He said, my sin's against you.
I may do something wrong to you, but my sin is against God. And David quit blaming him. You
remember when Adam fell, you know what he said to God? This
is how quickly sin will dumb you down. The woman you gave
me. The woman. He blamed God. He
blamed God for that woman, Eve. That beautiful, perfect woman
that God created for him and he saw her and he loved her.
I mean, it was just, there was no, you know, Adam named all
the animals and it says there was none for Adam. There was
none like him. And God created this beautiful,
beautiful woman, this beautiful helpmate for him. And what does he do? He says,
the woman you gave me, that's the problem. You and that woman
is the problem. But when God saves you, you don't
blame anybody else. It's me. It's me. Now, what does a sinner need
save from? You need to save from anything.
I thought of these things. I need to be saved from the guilt
of sin to damn me. There is such a thing as being
damned, you know that? There are people, and I hate
to say this, there's people in hell right now there's no hope
for. You know that rich man that went to hell and he said, Abraham,
would you send somebody to dip their finger in water and cool
the tip of my tongue? You know, he's still there. He's
still there. And he's still thirsty. He's
still there. There's such a thing. There's
such a thing. It's hard to talk about, but
it's so. One therapist said this, he said,
I could get rid of two-thirds of my practice if I could just
get rid of guilt. Only Christ can put away our
guilt. Only He can do it by His blood,
only He can do it. A sinner needs to be saved from
the power of sin. That rules me. It says in Romans
6, 14, sin shall not have dominion over you for you're not under
the law, you're under grace. But he's talking about that sin
nature. It will not rule you no more. It will not rule you
no more. It's not king no more. You see,
sin sets you enthroned in the heart of the human heart and
it reigns. That's why we do what we do.
But he said, that sinful nature you're born with is not going
to rule over you no more. It's been dethroned. I said to Vicki last night, I
said, you know, I never thought about this. I said, I just wonder
if addictions is nothing more than the power of sin ruling
over us. I said, I've never really thought about it before. But
it just comes out in different forms. But it's just the power
of sin ruling over us. Christ said it's not going to
rule over you no more. I broke the power of cancelled sins.
I broke this power. Now we still sin. And sometimes
we can do so grievously. But it's not going to reign over
us. It's not going to rule us. That's not going to be our life.
It will not define us. Grace will define us. I need to be saved from God's
law. You know, God's law is very real. You know that? You die outside of Christ, you're
going to find out how real that law is. Christ is the end of the law
to everyone that believes. He's the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone that believes. But all those outside of Christ,
they're going to deal with God's law. You're going to deal with
God's law and it's going to be every offense, it's going to
be every thought, every thought you've ever had, every action
you've ever done, one by one you're going to deal with it.
It's on the books. It's going to be dealt with.
And then I need to be saved from Satan who blinds me. Oh, he has
the power to blind us, but when God commands the light of the
gospel to shine into our hearts, and we see the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ, that blindness is broken. I see. That's one of the first things
I said when I heard Henry. I see. I see it now. And now
I know more about what I'm talking, what I was saying then. I know
more about it now than I did then. And then I need to be saved
from self-righteousness and self-love. There's nobody we love more than
we love ourselves. Nobody. Until God saves us. And the love of God is yet abroad
in our hearts. And that's a different love than this human love that
we have. Then I need to be saved from
God. I need God to save me from God.
The wrath to come. Only he can save me from him.
Only God can save me from himself. Only he can do that. And then let me close with this.
What happens when God saves a sinner? What happens? Something happens. It's more than a decision. Way,
way more than a decision. That sinner is born of God, born
from above. which is born of the Spirit of
Spirit. You can't be born of God and a change not happen. That can't happen. And one of
the first evidences of it is just exactly what Cole is going
to do this morning. Obedience. Obedience. That's how you can tell someone
is born of God. Obedience to the commands of
God. He that believes and is baptized
with. That's what the Lord said. That's what I'm going to do.
That's what I'm going to do. And then that sinner, listen,
that sinner believes God for the first time. He don't believe
in a God. You know, you go from, here's what happens. You go from
believing in a God or there is God, that God exists. You go
from believing that God exists to believing God. Abraham believed
God. He didn't believe in a God. He
believed God. And it was counted to him for
righteousness. All of a sudden, God becomes real to you. God
becomes very, very real to you. Jesus Christ becomes very, very
real to you. It leaves the fact category. You learn all these facts about
God. You know, you young ones, you grew up in Bible class and
you learn a lot of things, but it goes from learning, it goes
from learning things about God to believing God. You believe
Him. Thus saith the Lord. There's
a whole lot in this Bible I don't understand, but I believe God. And then it's this, and I'm going
to close here. It's this. It is a total, all-out
commitment to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is my life. He's
not a part of it. He's my life. He's the reason
I breathe. He's the reason I exist. He's
my reason for everything. All things are created by Him
and for Him. I have no reason to exist except
for Jesus Christ. Lord, Thy will be done. It's
not, what am I going to do? What kind of career am I going
to get? It's, Lord, what would you have me do? Open those doors
and shut those doors. open them and shut them. A whole
lot of things have happened in mine and Vicki's life over the
years, paths that I never had any inkling that we'd go down,
especially doing this. She told me once, she said, I
didn't plan on marrying a preacher. Well, we'll see if you did or
not. Sometimes I feel like I've never preached a message. But
it is an all out commitment to Jesus Christ. And my dad said
this when we moved to North Carolina. And dad knew better, but I'm
telling you, I've learned this. After you get up in the years,
he's about 90 years old, up late 80s, when he said this, he started
to lose some judgment. He did. He said, are you going
to leave us in our old age? And I said, Dad, you know the
word of God said, he that loves mother, father, sister, brother
more than me is not worthy of me. I said, I have four sisters
and two brothers, you're fine. And I said, you know better than
that. You know better than that. But this is true. He that loves
mother, father, sister, brother more than me is not worthy of
me. He said it another time, count the cost Count to cost. You know, our Lord's not like
these, uh, the army, uh, uh, commercials be all you can be.
And, you know, they make it look really great. Travel the world.
The Lord said, you want to go home, count to cost. See if you
can finish what you started because the journey's not easy. You know,
today's religion makes it look fun. Being a Christian. It's
a journey and it's a tough journey and it's a warfare. I never had
a warfare until God saved me. I never had, listen, I never
struggled with sin until God saved me. All I struggled with
was how to do it. How to figure out and accomplish
what I wanted to do. Fulfill the lust of the mind
and of the flesh. That was my struggle. Then after
God saved me, it was struggling to fight against it. Because
it's still there. Oh, it's still there. And it'll raise its ugly
head until God puts it in the grave. Paul said this on the
subject of being committed to Christ. Solomon said this, I am his and
he is mine. That's it. Jeremy and Aubrey
was married here a few weeks ago. You're going to have a dinner
celebration to that. And this one thing happens when
a couple's married. I'm his, I'm hers, and she's
mine. She is my wife, and I am her
husband. That's ownership. Somebody don't
like it, get over it. That's ownership. I'm his, and
he is mine. And we say in those vows, forsaking
all others. forsaking all others. We have
no other than Christ, do we? Christ is all in all. He's all
in all. And Paul said this, for me to
live is Christ who dies again. It'll be the best day of my life,
the best day of every believer's life, will be the day you die.
It'll be better than your birthday. The day you die and you say farewell
to this old world. And that would be the best day.
But this grows with grace and knowledge of Christ. For me to
live is Christ, to die is gain. What happens when God saves a
sinner? That sinner is saved. That sinner saved and saved forever.
Safe in the shepherd's fold. You know what happened when the
Lord went out and He took that lost sheep, went and found that
lost sheep? Remember He left the ninety and
nine? You know when He went out and He found that lost sheep?
You know what He did? Did He put a rope around his
neck and lead it? He put it on his shoulders and carried it home. Saved and saved for time and
eternity. Lord, save me. Save me in every
sense of that word. Save me. I say that every bit
as much now as I did the first time I asked the Lord to save
me. I've asked him many, many, many times since. Save me. All
right. Kind of get put on the spot trying
to figure out what to say after a message like that. And there's
only one thing to say, amen. Amen. Isaac, you come lead us
in a hymn as they prepare for the baptism. Let's turn to page 222. Yeah. There is a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunge beneath that
flood, lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty
stains, lose all their guilty stains. And sinners plunge beneath
that flood, lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced
to see that fountain in his day. And there may I, though vile
as he, wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. And there may I, though vile
as he, wash all my sins away. dying lamb thy precious blood
shall never lose its power till all the ransomed church of God
be saved to sin no Be safe to sin no more, be safe
to sin no more. Till all the ransomed Church
of God be safe to sin no more. E'er since, by faith, I saw the
stream, The high-flowing wound supply. Redeeming love has been
my theme, and shall be till I die, and shall be till I die, and
shall be till I die. Redeeming love has been my theme
and shall be till I die. This is the first act of obedience
right here, following the Lord in baptism. Our Lord commanded this, two
ordinances, the Lord's Supper, at which table and being baptized. And this is where it starts with
obedience to the command of the Lord Jesus Christ. Told in obedience to the command of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and upon your confession of faith
in Him, I baptize you, my brother, In the name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit. Meet your new baby brother. Take
care of him. You pray for him. All right,
come on. Let me just read a passage of
scripture here before Isaac comes to lead us in a song. The eunuch, not the eunuch, the
jailer, remember the Philippian jailer, says, they spake unto
him the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house.
And he took him the same hour of the night, washed his stripes,
and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he brought him into
the house, he set meat before them and rejoiced. Rejoice. Doesn't our heart rejoice? You know, it should. There's
rejoicing in heaven. over one sinner that repented,
rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. Well, we're going
to, I think that's a good thing, isn't it? To rejoice, to rejoice
with our brother, confessing Christ. We're going to go back
and we're going to have a dinner and celebrate the wedding of
Jeremy and Aubrey. But Isaac, you come lead us in
one more hymn, and then our brother Jason will come and lead us in
a closing prayer.