Lost and Found

Luke the second chapter. We'll
come to the text in a moment, but I'd like to begin over here
just a moment. Luke chapter two. Now an old
time preacher once said, we preachers take for granted that our congregations
are well acquainted with the gospel of salvation. We take
for granted that our heroes know the way of life, while in reality,
most people are totally ignorant of the whole system of grace
and salvation. Most people are totally ignorant
of how God saves sinners. They know not how men became
lost, nor do they know how that men can be saved. So he continued,
it is better to suppose too little knowledge and explain the way
of life clearly than to suppose too much knowledge and let men
perish ignorant and without instruction. It is better to suppose too little
knowledge and explain the way of life clearly than to suppose
too much and let the ignorant perish without instruction. We
have an example of that here in Luke chapter 2 verse 41. Now his parents, talking about
the parents of the Lord Jesus Christ, Joseph and Mary, went
to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when
he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the
custom of the feast. And when they'd fulfilled the
days, when they'd stayed there as long as they were supposed
to, as they returned, going back home, the child Jesus tarried
behind in Jerusalem. And Joseph and his mother knew
not of it, but they, supposing him to have been in the company
when a day's journey, and then they began to look for him, and
he wasn't to be found. They supposed that he was in
their midst. They supposed that he was accompanying
them on their journey. They supposed he was. And they
knew not until the end of the day that he wasn't there at all. He wasn't there at all. I don't
want to stand up here and preach to this congregation year in
and year out, supposing that everybody knows the gospel and
the way of life, and then come to the end of this day's journey
and realize they didn't know at all. They just supposed that
Christ was with them and they were in Him. So I'm going to,
in this message tonight, assume that I am speaking to those who
are totally unacquainted with my subject. who know nothing
about it. I'm going to deal with six questions,
or six topics. How man got lost in the first
place. Secondly, what it means to be
lost. And then thirdly, who is lost? And then in the fourth place,
well, how are men saved? And then fifthly, what does it
mean to be saved? And then in closing the message
from our text, who then can be saved? Now the first question
is this, how did man get lost in the first place? Do you know
what happened? Scripture says, whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Why do men need
to be saved? Well, they need to be saved because
they're lost. That's why they need to be saved.
The Scripture says Christ Jesus came into the world seeking to
save the lost. Well, how did man get lost? What
happened? Adam in the garden needed no
salvation. When God created Adam in his
image, the scripture says he made him upright. Adam in the
garden was not lost. He was perfect, he was pure,
he was clean, he was holy, he was created in the image of God.
He didn't need to be saved. He needed no salvation. He wasn't
lost. But Adam cast out of the garden,
guilty, fallen, blaming someone else for his condition, out of
fellowship with God, dead and dying, Adam needs the Savior,
because Adam's lost. Adam's lost. In the garden, he's
not lost. Out of the garden, he is lost.
Well, what happens? What happened in the Garden?
Adam, as our representative, rebelled against God. And when
Adam sinned, when Adam fell, the whole human race fell. We
stood in him, we fell in him, we sinned in him, we died in
him, we became lost in him. I can show you that from the
Bible if you'll turn to Romans 5, in the fifth chapter of Romans. beginning with verse 12, Romans
5, 12. Listen to it, "...wherefore as by one man sin entered into
the world." Now, God never did create but one man. He didn't
create you. You were born from that man.
He created one man. He created Adam. The word Adam
means M-A-N, man. And when he created Adam, he
created Adam as the federal head of the whole human race. When
he created Adam, he created Adam as the representative of the
whole human race. Adam was our representative.
Adam was our federal head. We stood in him. We had fellowship
with God in Him. We were in Adam's loins at that
time. And when Adam fell, we fell.
When Adam sinned, we sinned. When the sentence of death was
passed upon Adam, it was passed upon us. That's what the Scripture
teaches. Wherefore by one man sin entered into this world,
and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men. Right then. When Adam fell, we
fell. When death passed upon Adam,
it passed upon us. And so death, legal death, spiritual
death, eternal death, passed upon all men. Turn to Romans
5, verse 18. How did man become lost? Romans
5, 18. Therefore, as by the offense
of one, judgment came upon all men. to condemnation. Isn't that
what Scripture says? By the offense of one. Who was
that one? Adam. Judgment and condemnation
passed upon all men. Look at verse 19. For as by one
man's disobedience many were made sinners. Turn to 1 Corinthians
15. 1 Corinthians the 15th chapter
and the 21st verse. Listen to this. For since by
man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
There are two atoms. The Scripture talks about the
first atom and the second atom. The first atom is of the earth,
earthy, out of the dust of the ground. The second man, second
atom, is the Lord from heaven. As we have borne the image of
the earthy, we shall bear the image of the heavenly. Look at
verse twenty-one now, or twenty-two. For as in Adam all die, in Adam
we die. Isn't that what Scripture teaches?
In Adam we die. Death was imputed unto us, sin
was imputed unto us, guilt was imputed unto us, and death and
guilt and sin was imparted unto us. Turn to Psalm 51. Now watch
this, Psalm 51. You know what imputation is.
Imputation is reckoning or charging it to one's account. When Adam
fell, we had guilt and sin and death charged to our account,
the whole human race. You know what impartation means.
It means actually to convey a certain thing to another. And that's
what we got from Adam's seed. When Adam sired his first son,
that son was born in Adam's likeness. a guilty fallen creature. When
that first son was conceived in the womb of the mother Eve,
that first son was conceived in sin, shapen in iniquity, brought
forth speaking lies. Just as God made Adam in His
image, Adam's sons were born in Adam's image. Now look at
Psalm 51, verse 5. David said, Behold, I was shapen
in iniquity. And in sin did my mother conceive
me." I need not go over and over this, that the act of conceiving
children is not sin. I think most people here tonight
are intelligent enough to know that. But what David is saying
here is that the child who is conceived is conceived by a sinful
father, and therefore he's conceived in that father's likeness. That
father cannot impart unto him holiness, he doesn't have it
in him. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which
is born of man is in man's image. So the only thing that you can
impart to the son you conceive is your guilt, and your sin,
and your evil. If that son is ever given divine
life, he'll have to be born again, born of God. If he's ever to
receive a divine nature which Adam lost, a holy nature which
Adam lost, a new nature which Adam lost, he'll have to be born
again. You see that? Turn to Psalm 58. Now, I'm assuming you don't know
a thing. I know these are elementary things, but I'm just assuming.
I'm preaching to people who don't know anything about how man got
lost. Now, Psalm 58, 3, the wicked are estranged from the womb,
separated from God from the womb. Enemies of God from the womb.
Got a battle going with God from the womb. They go astray as soon
as they are born. Speaking lies because they are
born of a lying father and an evil father. And that's how men
got lost. That's what happened in the garden.
Adam stood over there in the garden. God made him out of the
dust of the ground and breathed into his body the breath of life.
He became a living soul. He had a righteous nature, a
perfect nature, a holy nature. He was created in the image of
God. He turned against God. He turned to Satan. Following
the temptation of Satan, he took the forbidden fruit. He wanted
to be above God. He wanted to be equal with God.
He wanted to be his own God. And so when he took that forbidden
fruit, he fell. He lost the image of God. He
lost that perfection and righteousness. He began to die physically. He
died legally. He died spiritually. He faced
eternal death. And when he begat his first son,
he gave that first son all he could give him. sin and guilt
and shame and disease and death and alienation from God. And
it's come down through every father and mother and son right
on down to this present day, and that was the way I was born,
and Cecil, that's the way your son was born two weeks ago. Alienated
from God, born in sin, shapen in iniquity. He came forth from
the womb dead in sin. He has no life. And the only
way in the world he'll ever have new life is for God in mercy
to look upon him and give him life. The Holy Ghost to breathe
into him, the breath of God. All right, what does it mean
to be lost? Here's the second question. Now
that, I've established that first one, how man got lost. That's
how man got lost, that's what happened. All right, what does
it mean to be lost? Well, look at Ephesians chapter
2. Ephesians 2, verse 12. Here's a verse of Scripture that
describes what it is to be lost. Three words. Look at it. Ephesians
2, verse 12. At that time, before you were
saved, before you were born again, before God called you, you were,
number one, without Christ. Without Christ. And he says,
You were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, you were strangers
from the covenant of promise, and you had no hope! And you
were without God. That's what it means to be lost.
It means to be without Christ, without hope, and without God. Now, brethren, to be without
Christ. Christ is our wisdom. You know what Scripture says?
Christ is wisdom. You go through the book of Proverbs,
and it talks about wisdom this and wisdom that. You know who
that wisdom is? That's Christ. And a man who does not have Christ
is in spiritual ignorance. Now, he may know how high the
Empire State Building is, and he may know how fast sound moves
and how fast light moves and all these carnal material things,
but he's without spiritual wisdom. He's living in ignorance. Without
Christ, Christ is our righteousness. That's what the Scripture says,
Christ is God's righteousness, so without Christ, I have no
righteousness. I am unholy and I am unclean,
like the leper of old, who outside the camp, walking alone, when
someone came near would cry, I'm unclean, don't come near
me, I'm unclean. Without Christ, we're unclean.
Christ is our redemption. So without Christ we're under
the curse of the law. The curse of the law hangs over
the head of every man without Christ. He that believeth not
on the Son is what? Condemned. Christ is our sin
offering. So a man without Christ has no
sin offering. He has no sacrifice. He has no
atonement. A man without Christ has no mediator. Christ is the only mediator,
the Scripture says. So to be without Christ, you
have no one to plead your cause. You have no one to intercede.
But rather, when you come near, He says, I know you not. To be
without Christ is to have no priest, no one to represent us
at the mercy seat. To be without Christ is to be
without God's love. Because the scripture says, the
love of God is in Christ Jesus. And he that hath not the Son
of God, the wrath of God. You know what it says? Abideth
on him. To be without Christ is to be
without influence into the presence of God. For he hath opened for
us a new and living way into the throne of God's grace. So
if you don't have Christ, you can't come. You see what it means
to be without Christ? And it says, having no hope.
Men who are lost have no hope. They have no hope of forgiveness.
They have no hope of the resurrection of life. They have no hope of
eternal life. They have no hope of heaven.
They have no hope of eternal rest. They have no hope of reuniting
with loved ones. They have no hope of mercy. And to be lost is not only to
be without Christ and without hope. A lost man is without God. He's without God. I never preached this hard. You
listen to Christ here. He says in verse 41 of John 8,
you do the deeds of your father. And they said unto him, we be
not born of fornication. We have one father, even God.
Isn't that what they're saying today? God is the father of all
men. Jesus said, if God were your
father, you'd love me. For I proceeded forth and came
from God, neither came I of myself, he sent me. Why do you not understand
my speech, even because you can't hear my word? You are of your
father the devil, and the lust of your father you'll do. He
was a murderer from the beginning, and a bold not in the truth,
because there was no truth in him. And when he speaks a lie,
he speaketh of his own, he's a liar, and the father of liars."
You are of your father the devil. If you are without Christ and
without hope and without God, that means your father is the
devil. God is not your father. He's your creator, he's your
king, but he's not your father. If you're without God, you're
not only without the love and mercy of God, without sonship,
but you're without communion with God. Unsaved men have no
access to the throne of grace. Unbelieving sinners have no access
to the throne of God. They cannot pray. The only prayer
of an unsaved man that God will answer is a prayer for mercy
in Christ. Mercy in Christ. It may be God
will grant what an unsaved man wants in order to fulfill his
purpose, in order to add to that man's condemnation, in order
to make that man more responsible, but God Almighty does not receive
into his presence by prayer or any other way an unbeliever.
He that cometh to God must believe that he is. You know what Scripture
says? He that cometh to God must believe
that he is. Christ said, I am the way, the
truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by me. Isn't that what he said? No man. No man. Without God is without
the knowledge of God, without communion with God, without the
love of God, without the mercy of God, without the comfort and
purpose of God. The believer knows this. That
if some great trial or some great tragedy comes into his life tonight,
tomorrow, well, it'll work together for his good. But you people
without God don't know that. And that's not true of you. Everything
works together for your destruction. It works together for your condemnation. It works together for your ultimate
damnation. The believer who's the son of
God knows that God works everything out for his good and for God's
glory, and nothing can happen in my life except by the will
of my Heavenly Father. But you don't have that promise.
You don't have that promise. That's what it means to be lost
without Christ, having no hope, and without God. Now, who is
lost? I want to read you something
that Charles Spurgeon said back in 1856 or 1857 in one of his
volumes on this subject of who is lost. He says, when Adam sinned
against God, he needed a Savior. We, as his offsprings through
his sin, are born into this world needing a Savior. But let us
not throw the blame for our condition on Adam. No man has ever been
sent to hell for Adam's sin, unless Adam goes there. Children
dying in infancy are without doubt saved by God's sovereign
grace through the atonement of Christ. They are innocent of
actual sins. But you and I are not children. We do not need to talk of Adam's
sin except to trace our beginning back to it. We need not talk
of Adam's transgression as if we were under the wrath of God
because of what Adam did. We're under the wrath of God
because of what we've done. We need not talk about Adam's
sin. Let's talk about our sins. Who is lost? Sinners. And you and I are sinners. Listen
to the Scripture. Oh, we like sheep have gone astray.
We've turned everyone to his own way. Romans 8, 23. All have
sinned and come short of the glory of God. Turn to Romans
3. Let me show you something here. Romans, the third chapter. We need not talk about Adam's
sin. Let's talk about our sins. Let's don't talk about his rebellion.
Let's talk about our rebellion. We're not on the road of death
and destruction and damnation tonight simply because of what
he did, but because of what we are. We're sinners by choice. Not only by birth, but by choice.
Not only by conception, but by practice. It says in Romans 3,
19, Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith
to them that are under the law, that what? Every mouth may be
stopped. and all the world become guilty. Guilty. Guilty. We have broken the commandments
of God and we stand guilty. And God Almighty would be just
to damn us. Who's lost? Without Christ, you're
lost. Without Christ, I'm lost. Without
Christ, All of us are lost. All right, the fourth question.
How are men saved? How are men saved? All right,
turn to Ephesians chapter one. Now let's just answer this question.
How are men saved? In Ephesians chapter one, let
me start off where God starts off. Let me begin talking about
salvation when God began talking about salvation in eternity past. God in eternity past, before
the world was created, purposed, determined, decreed, planned
to save a people. For His glory and for His praise,
to the praise of the glory of His grace, He determined, He
decreed, He purposed, He planned to make those people just like
His Son. He made His Son the surety for
those people to whom He would reveal His grace, and those people
whom He gave to Christ. He made Christ their surety,
just like Adam was our representative in the flesh, Christ is our representative
in the Spirit. Now look at Ephesians 1, verse
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly places in
Christ. according as he hath chosen us
in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before him, in love having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ according to
the good pleasure of his will." God decreed to save some people. God determined to save some people. God predestinated that some people
would be like His Son. That's where it all started.
Turn to 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2. In 2 Thessalonians, chapter
2, verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord. Because
God hath from the beginning, in the beginning was the Word,
the Word was with God, in the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth, God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
All right, God chose some people, that's what the Bible says. Christ
said, I've come to do my Father's will, and this is the will of
him that sent me, that of all which ye have given me I'll lose
nothing. When he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane prior to
going to the cross, he said, I pray for these which thou hast
given me. I pray not for the world, I pray
for those which thou hast given me. All right, in due time, turn
to Galatians 4. Now God determined to save some
people. Christ was the Lamb slain before
the foundation of the world. That's what Scripture says. Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning. He said, I declare
the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things
that are not yet done. The fall didn't take God by surprise. It was all in His permissive
will. The fall of Adam, the sin of Adam, did not take God by
surprise. It was in His permissive will.
God permitted it. For before the fall, God had
already determined to save fallen man. All right, in Galatians
4, so in the fullness of time, verse 4, God sent forth His Son,
made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were
born under the law that we might receive the adoption of children.
Now, from the time that Adam fell, God began to show him the
coming of Christ. The very first thing God said
to Adam and Eve after the fall was that Eve would bear a son.
that woman would bear a son without man's help. The first thing he
said, he said, the seed of woman shall bruise the serpent's head.
There'll be a virgin-born son come into this world sometime
and destroy the serpent's power. And from that day all the way
through the Old Testament, every lamb that was slain showed Christ,
the Lamb of God, being slain for sin. Every incense that was
that was burned and offered up as a sweet-smelling savor in
God's nostrils was a picture of Christ. All of these things,
all of it, and finally in time, in the fullness of time, Christ
came down here in the flesh. And He was born as a man, God
in the flesh, and He was born under this law. Now turn to Romans
5, the scripture I read a while ago. In Romans 5, 19, now listen
to this. Christ Jesus the Lord was made
flesh, God in human flesh, the God-man. And he was tempted,
the Scripture said, in all points, as we are, yet without sin. And
here's the reason. In Romans 5, 19. By one man's
disobedience, many were made sinners. So by the obedience
of one, shall many be made righteous. You see, when Adam stood back
there in the garden, he was our representative. He was our federal
head in the flesh, and we fell in Him. When Christ came down
here in the flesh, bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh, made
like unto His brethren in all things, tempted and tried, when
He stood on this earth, He stood as our representative. He stood
as our federal head. And when He obeyed the law, it
was imputed unto us, reckoned to us, charged to our count.
And when he died on that cross, his righteousness was imputed
to us, and in the new birth, his holiness, his new nature
is imparted unto us. And in 1 Corinthians 15, now
this will make this verse mean more now. 1 Corinthians 15, verse
22. For as in Adam all died, all
whom he represented, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,
all whom he represented. Then our Lord went to the cross
of Calvary, and there he bore our sins in his body on the tree. The righteous, the Holy One,
who knew no sin, was made sin for us, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. He was buried, He arose again,
He ascended to the Father's right hand, there He intercedes for
us. He said, if I go away I'll come
again and receive you unto Myself. That's how men are saved. How
does man get lost through representation? How did man become saved? Through
representation, substitution. Christ did for us what we couldn't
do for ourselves. All right, what does it mean?
Now the fifth question, what does it mean to be saved? It
means, first of all, to escape the punishment of sin. In Romans
chapter 8, verse 1, there is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. It means to escape the punishment
of sins. If Christ bore my sins, I bear
them not. If Christ took my judgment, I
face it not. If Christ bore my death in hell,
I'll never bear it. There is no condemnation. Paul
said, who is he that condemneth? Christ has died. yea, rather,
is risen again, who is interceding at the right hand of God for
us, whoever liveth to make intercession for us. I am free from the penalty
of sin. I am free from the punishment
of sin. And also, to be saved means to
be a new creature in Christ. Turn to 2 Corinthians 5. In 2
Corinthians 5, verse 17, the Scripture says, Therefore, if
any man be in Christ, He's a new creature. He loves God and he
loves men. He believes God. He bears the
fruits of the Spirit, faith and meekness and love and longsuffering. His mind has been changed about
himself, about his sins, about God. His manners have changed. He walks in paths of holiness.
the bent of his will, the trend of his life, his holiness unto
the Lord. His manners are new. He's a new
creature in Christ Jesus. He knows God. He walks with God. He grows in grace and in the
knowledge of Christ, and if he grows not, he knows not God. To be saved is to be delivered
from the penalty of sin and from the punishment of sin, but also
from the power of sin. It's to live in a new kingdom. It's to live under the scepter
of a new Lord. It's to become a servant, not
to sin, but to a new master, Christ Jesus. Alright, now to
our text, Romans chapter 10. Who then can be saved? Who then can be saved? It says
in our text, whosoever. Now that's a big word. Jew, Gentile,
rich, poor, learned or ignorant, white or black, old or young,
bond or free, male or female, whosoever under heaven, this
side of hell, whosoever hath breath in his body, whosoever
shall call. What is it to call on Christ?
The next verse says, How shall they call on him in whom they
have not believed? First of all, it's to believe
on Him. To call on Christ is to believe on Christ, to believe
the record God has given concerning His Son. It's to believe in His
ability to save, in His efficacy, in His substitutionary work.
It's to believe. To call on Christ is to need
Him. Usually when someone calls out, help, he needs help. Somebody
come and help me! He calls because He needs you. To call on Christ is to need
Him. To call on Christ is to trust Him. When you call out
in the middle of the night, a child wakes up in the night having
a bad dream, he says, Mother or Daddy, because he trusts that
person. To call on Christ is to believe
on Him. It's to need Him. It's to trust
Him. But now here's the key word,
and I want you to look hard at it. Who can be saved? Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord." Upon the name. Here's the key word in this thing.
The key word is the name of the Lord. It is not to call on just
any God. It's not to call on any Savior. It's not just to call on anyone
who bears the name Jesus. It's to call on Him who was given
that name, to whom that name applies. It's all the way through
the scripture it talks about that. This one, born of Mary,
the angel said, Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall
save His people. In Luke 24, verse 47, he said
to his disciples, you go and preach the gospel, you go preach
repentance, you go preach remission of sin, in my name. Not in the name of the church,
not in the name of religion, not in the name of some Messiah,
in the name of Christ. And then in Acts 4, 12, the scripture
says, neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none
other name under heaven. given among men. And then in
Philippians chapter 2, I want you to turn to this one, verse
9 and 10. Now watch this. The key is name. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord. Not just any Jesus. Paul said
they'll come preaching another Jesus by another spirit and another
gospel. You're going to have to find
out who he is. Who is this one who has the power
to save? Who is this one who has the name
of salvation? Who is this one upon whom, whose
name I can call and receive forgiveness? Look at it. Philippians 2. 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 in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father. Whosoever, whosoever shall call,
Lord have mercy, uh-uh. Whosoever shall call, I want
to go to heaven, I don't want to go to hell." No, sir. Whosoever
shall call upon that worthy name, upon that exalted name, upon
that kingly name, upon that redeeming name, upon that substitutionary
name, the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. How sweet the name
of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear. It soothes his sorrows,
heals his wounds, and drives away his fears. Dear name that
rock on which I build, my shield, my hiding place, my never failing
treasure filled with boundless stores of grace. Now listen to
this. Jesus, my shepherd, husband, friend, my prophet, priest, and
king. My Lord, my life, my way, my
end, except the praise I bring. That's the name I'm talking about.
It's not a doormat named Jesus that you walk all over here and
you're going to give him a little praise yonder. It's not a fire
escape named Jesus that you've got just in case you might need
him someday. It's not an insurance policy
that you have called Jesus in a dresser drawer somewhere. This
is the name which is above every name. This is the name above
every name. Whosoever, Jew or Gentile, male
or female, bond or free, whosoever shall call in sincerity, in need,
in trust, in faith on the name on the name. Who is he? He's
King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He's not a little frustrated,
defeated, disappointed martyr who came down here hoping somebody
would let him have his way. He's the exalted King, the name
of Christ. The thief on the cross found
that out. He's the one God saved who said,
Lord, you're not going to stay dead. You're coming into a kingdom.
Remember me, Lord. He's the one the leper found
out about when he came down and said, Lord, if you will, you
can make me whole, if you will. He's the one blind Bartimaeus
saw in his darkness when he said, Jesus, son of David, have mercy
on me. King, son of David. He's the one that the Canaanite
woman came to when he said, it's not fit to give children bread
to dogs. But she said, Lord, you're my
Lord and I'm a dog. But the dogs eat the crumbs that
their masters push off the table. So just push me some crumbs,
Lord. He's the one that Roman centurion
discovered when he said, Lord, my son's sick. And the Lord Jesus
said, well, I'll come down to your house and heal him. And
he said, Listen up. You don't have to come down to
my house. All you have to do is say the word. Lord, I'm a
man under authority. I know what it means to have
authority. I have service, and I say, servants, you do this,
and he does it, and I say to another, and you do this, and
he does it, and I say to another, and you do this, and he does
it. All you have to do is bid that diseased depart, and it'll
leave. And the Master said I hadn't found faith like that in Israel.
You go home, your son's living. That's the name I'm talking about.
That's the name. And that's the man that's going
to be saved. That's the man who discovers that. This little old
ten cent store religion, people running up and down the country
singing and patting their feet and beating their guitars and
having a whoopee time and calling it religion. I'm telling you,
this is the people that are going to be saved. The ones who find
out who He is, who He is. And they can in humility and
submission, they can find their places at His feet. Humble and broken. God save us
such as be of a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart.
God resisteth the proud. God Almighty will damn the proud. But Jesus Christ has a name,
that worthy name. and whosoever shall call upon
the name, he hath been given a name above every name." Do
you know that name? You call on that name, and you
call on him in the right way, and God'll save you. God'll save
you. But that's who he is. Our Father in Heaven O Lord, show us ourselves fallen,
wretched, sinful, hell-deserving creatures, our minds twisted,
our affections warped, our wills perverted, fallen into the deepest
mire of sin, death and disease in our bodies, needing a savior,
needing to be lifted from the pit. the darkness and the dunghill,
but having no strength or power in ourselves and having no help
in the flesh, we look to the throne, to the King of Kings,
to the Lord of salvation. We look to Him who is able to
save King of Kings and Lord of Lords because He has fulfilled
all that salvation requires. He can save us by His mercy and
grace. or He can justly leave us in
our sins and pass us by. But we call on that name, the
name of Christ. We plead for mercy in His name. We cry, O Lord, Thou hast authority. Thou canst say even to sin, depart,
and it has to depart. To disease, depart, and it has
to go. And to death, You can turn it
into life. So we cry unto Thee. We are in
Thy hands. to do with, as it please it thee. May it please thee, O God, in
Christ, for His sake, to show us mercy. We ask it in His name,
the lovely name, the name above every name. We ask it in His
name. Amen.

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