But there's no question that
Ezekiel chapter 16 is God speaking to the Jewish nation and describing
their sins and their abominations and their idolatry. He says that
in verse 2, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations. And then throughout this chapter
to reveal his continued love and mercy and spite of their
sins and their idolatry and their abominations, God's mercy in
their guilt. He said, I am the Lord, I change
not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. But the best
writers, now the Scripture is always bifocal. That is, when
we look at a chapter like the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel,
and we know that it's talking to the Jew primarily. And we
know that God is dealing with the problem of their sins and
His mercy and their guilt and His grace. Yet all of this Old
Testament was not just written as an historical account of God's
dealing with the Jews, otherwise it wouldn't have been preserved.
There's no need for us If it has no application, if it has
no reference to us, there's no need for God to save it, to preserve
it, to keep it, and to call it His inspired word profitable
for rebuke, for reproof, for instruction in righteousness,
and so forth. So the best writers of the past
all agree that not only is God speaking of the fall of Israel
and the guilt of Israel and His mercy to Israel, But we have
here an extraordinary description of the human race and of the
way in which divine mercy deals with the sinner when utterly
helpless, utterly lost, and bids him live. Now, let's look at
three things in the message. First of all, the misery of mankind. Now, this is not popular preaching,
and this is not popular doctrine. And this is not appealing to
the flesh, but this is the Word of God. First of all, in this
scripture which I read, we see a picture. The heathen, heartless
parents of a new baby. He says that thy father was an
Amorite, thy mother an Hittite. They were not Jews, they were
heathen. They were heartless, heathen, atheistic people. And this little
baby had been born to this mother and father, and in the moment
that the baby was born, evidently was born out here in the field,
and they just left it out there. The baby's navel was not cut
nor tied, and it was not washed, it was lying there in its blood,
in the blood of birth, just left there in the field. And there
was no covering over it. It was lying there in its nakedness,
a newborn, tender-skinned infant, just left there in the field,
left to perish, left to die. And the parish just walked off,
and there the baby lay in the hour that it was born, left in
its nakedness, left in its blood, not salted, nor swaddled, nor
cared for, nor washed in any way, but just left lying there.
Now, this was a practice among heathen nations. I read this,
that many times the deformed infants were treated this way. When a child was born and the
parents saw that it was deformed in any way, it was just discarded,
deserted. And they tell me also that some
of the Spartan nations would do that with their weak children.
But the Jews were free from this sin. They didn't do this. The
Jewish people who followed God did not do this. It was a practice
of their neighbors, but they could see the picture. They had
seen it done before. They understood what the prophet
Ezekiel was talking about here. They got the picture. In the
hour that this baby was born, it was left in the field. So
the first thing we see about man's ruin about man's sin is
that it was an early ruin. It says, In the day that thou
wast born, in the day that thou wast born. Now a proud man might kick against
this doctrine, and proud man might say that I will not have
it and I will not believe it. But the Scripture teaches that
we're born in sin and shapen in iniquity. Turn to Psalms 51,
and I know this is familiar Scripture to many of you, but to some of
you it may not be. But in Psalms 51, David said
in verse 5, Behold, I was shapen, I was formed in iniquity and
in sin. Did my mother warm me? That's the actual word there.
In other words, in the womb, in the formation of the infant,
in the nine months that that infant was developing, it was
born, conceived, begotten, warmed, and shapen in sin. Turn to Psalms
58. In Psalms 58, verse 3, the Scripture
says the wicked are estranged from the womb. separated from
God, from the womb. And they go astray as soon as
they be born, speaking lies. Now, we see this baby out in
the field. In the day it was born, it was
deserted. In the day it was born, it was
lying there in its blood to the loathing of its person. And that
is a picture of all mankind. In the day that we're born, we're
sinners separated from God. We didn't come into this world
as Adam came into the world, holy and upright. We came into
this world defiled, corrupted, and depraved. We didn't come
into this world as one who might stand or one who might fall. We came into this world already
fallen. We didn't come into this world
with a spark of light and life to be fanned, but we came into
this world in darkness under the wrath of God. From the beginning, lost. From
the beginning, dead. From the beginning, guilty. From
the beginning, depraved. There's no truth in this Bible
that's more humbling to human flesh than natural depravity
and original guilt. But it's the main point at which
you must start if you learn the gospel. And it's the main point
of attack from those who don't believe the gospel. If a man
learns the gospel, he's got to start right. If he doesn't start
right, he'll not learn the gospel. Now, man's ruin is an early ruin. From beginning, we're depraved.
From beginning, we're corrupted. And then, man's ruin is a complete
ruin. Now, if this had been a small
child lying there in the field, it might get up and totter around
until it finds some help. It might pull some leaves off
a tree, it might find a place to drink water, it might find
someone to give it assistance if it is a small child able to
walk. But this is not a small child.
This is not a little lad. This is a totally helpless infant. Even the clay in the potter's
hand and on the potter's wheel is not more helpless than this
infant. This infant can feel the pain,
but it can't do anything about it. This infant can be made aware
of the burning sun on its skin, but it can't do anything about
it. This infant may be aware of the
blood caking over its mouth and in its eyes, but it can't do
anything about it. This infant may be aware of the
wild beast that comes and begin to gnaw at its foot, but it can't
do anything about it. It's helpless, totally, completely
helpless. He might scream, but he cannot
help himself, and if anything is done for him, If he's lifted,
if he's washed, if he's fed, if he's swaddled, if he's clothed,
if he's covered, if he's protected, it's got to be by another hand
and not by his own. Now in the book of Ephesians,
chapter 2, the Scripture says this, in Ephesians, chapter 2,
And you, and you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and
sins. wherein in times past you walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation
in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires
of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of
wrath, even as Man is so lost by nature that
Jeremiah said the Ethiopian can more quickly change his skin
or the leper his spots than man can do good. If there is a resurrection,
it must come from God. If there is a salvation, it must
come from God. If there is a miracle, it's got
to come from God. The infant is helpless. Its ruin
is early, its ruin is complete. And thirdly, the ruin of that
infant is a lonely ruin. Look here at Ezekiel chapter
16. It says, In the day thou wast born, thy navel was not
cut, and none of these things were done. Verse 5, And none
eye pitted thee to do any of these things unto thee. That
baby was in a solitary condition, no body around to help him. Now
parents may pity a lost child, but they can't give it life. And ministers may desire the
salvation of a sinner, but ministers cannot save sinners. And angels
may rejoice when sinners are saved, but angels cannot beget
life. And no human tear can make atonement
for sin, and no human zeal can clothe the naked sinner with
righteousness, and no human love can lift from the grave, and
no human words can put away sin. What shall we do, the Scripture
says, if God refuses? Nothing. None I pitied thee. And then another thing about
man's ruin is it's a loathsome ruin. It says here, now look
at this again. It says, None I pitted thee,
verse 5, to do any of these things unto thee, to wash thee, to supple
thee, to salt thee, to swaddle thee, to help thee, to heal thee. None I had compassion upon thee. You were cast out in the open
field to the loathing of your person. This is an ugly picture. It's
not like the pictures we usually show of our children. When a
new baby is born in this church, they dress it up in a lovely
little blue. If it's a boy, pink. I guess
if it's a girl, dress and comb its hair and put a little ribbon
in it, you know, and put some lace around it and a nice white
blanket and then stand back and take a picture and show everybody
the picture of the new baby. But when God gives a man a true
picture of himself, he doesn't dress him up in his self-righteous
rags, but he gives him a shocking revelation. We think ourselves,
somebody said, to be angels when we are akin to devils. Our beauty
is ashes, and our glory is shame, and our health is rottenness,
and our heaven is hell, and God says, here's the way you look,
Here's the way you look. In the day you were born, you
went astray, speaking lies. In the day you were born, none
eye pitted thee. In the day you were born, you
were cast out into the open field. In the day you were born, you
were left to perish in corruption and sin. In the day you were
born, nothing was done to thee, and you were left to the loathing
of your person." Shocking, shocking, shameful. And then man's ruin
is permanent. What's to become of this infant?
What will be the results of this deed? Well, the sun will beam
down upon it until the little heart will finally quit beating.
And then probably it will rain upon it, on the dead body of
this baby, and then it will The darkness will come and the cold
wind will blow, and then as the scent of death goes up from the
dead body, the beast and the birds will smell it, and they'll
soon come and they'll devour the carcass of the baby and leave
the bones to bleach in the sun. That's all that can take place. And my friend, it's not a question.
Man that is born in sin, in the day you were born, shapen in
iniquity, conceived in iniquity, warmed in sin. When you were
brought forth from the womb, you came out speaking lies. You're
in a helpless, dead state. None eye pitted thee to do any
of these things for thee. To the loathing of your person,
there you go through life, and the sun shines on you a while,
and the rain shines on you a while, and then the snow falls on you
a while, and then that heart stops beating, and then the smell,
the scent of the dead carcass goes up, and then the birds and
the beasts and the prey of hell come and pick your skin and your
flesh until nothing is left. It's not a question of whether
man is lost or not. He is lost. It's not a question
of whether man will go to hell or not. He's going to hell. It's
not a question of whether man will perish any more than it's
a question of whether this baby will perish. Of course it'll
perish. Of course it'll die. Of course
it'll be devoured by the beast. It's just a matter of whether
or not somebody's going to do something about it. That's the
whole question. If the baby is left to itself,
it'll stay in this loathsome state. If the baby is left to
itself, it'll stay in this horrible condition. If the baby is left
to itself, it will finally perish as food for the wild beast. It's
not a question of whether or not it'll perish, it's just a
matter of when, or if somebody will come by and maybe do something
about it. Well, let's look at the second
thing now. It says here in verse 6, I passed by. God says, I passed by. Now the first thing I see here
is that the baby was not seeking the help of the one who passed
by. And the sinner is not seeking God. Here the baby is lying in
its inability, and not only in its inability, but in its ignorance. It doesn't know what to do. It
doesn't know what it needs. It knows it needs something,
but it doesn't know what it needs. The baby is not only lying there
in inability, it's lying there in ignorance. It doesn't know
anything about what's out yonder. It doesn't know anything about
milk, or food, or mercy, or medicine, or fire, or warmth. It doesn't
know these things. It can't seek these things because
it's not aware of these things. And the sinner that's born in
darkness knows nothing of light, and the sinner that's born in
death knows nothing of life. He doesn't know what to seek.
And the sinner that's born away from God knows nothing about
God, and the sinner born in disease knows nothing of help. That's
one of the problems, and that's one of the things preachers need
to learn. Preachers, most of them I hear,
seem to preach with the assumption that the whole world knows who
Jesus Christ is, and the whole world knows what the Word of
God is, and the whole world knows what they need, but they don't
know what they need. They have no idea what they need. It's
up to us to tell them. And God says, I passed by thee,
I came by thee. You were not seeking me, I came
by you. There's none that seek God. Our Lord said, this is condemnation. Light came into this world, but
men love darkness rather than light. How often, Christ said, would
I have gathered thee as a hen doth gather her brood, but you
would not. You will not come to me that
you might have life. The sinner does not seek God. God says, I pass by. There you are. And God says,
I pass by. And look at the next line. And
I saw you. I saw you. God sees you as you
are. Now on Sunday, we dress up in
our Sunday go-to-meet-and-clothes, and we get us a Bible and put
it under our arms, and we go to church and we put a real pious
look on our face, but God says, I saw you polluted in your blood. God does not look on the outward
countenance, God looks on the heart. And God says, I see your
thoughts, and I see your evil, and I see your imagination. God
looked down from heaven and saw that every imagination of man's
thoughts was evil continually. I saw you, God said, polluted
in your blood. That's the way God found you,
and that's the way God saw you. You know, so many people think,
well, I'm going to get myself all fixed up, and then I'm going
to give my life to God. I'm going to get myself all cleaned
up, and I'm going to wait till I've sown my wild oats or had
my fun, and then I'm going to get ready and get myself prepared
to join forces with religion and with God. But God says, I
passed by and I saw you like you are, polluted in your blood. And there was nothing, no beauty
about this baby to cause God to cleanse it. There was no glory
about this baby. then why does God show mercy
to such as we? Well, he said this, he said,
I passed by and saw you in your blood. But then he said this,
I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion. So then, it is not of him that
will it, It is not of him that run it, it is of God. There is no motive for the mercy
of God toward a dead sinner except the good pleasure of his own
will. The leper said, Lord, if you
will, you can make me clean. It's all dependent on your will. And the Lord Jesus prayed, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, I thank thee that thou hast hid these
things from the wise and the prudent, and thou hast revealed
them unto babes. For even so, Father, it seemed
good in thy sight." He said, Brother Mann, what you're doing
is you're picturing salvation completely and wholly and totally
of God and not of man at all. I hope that's the conclusion
that you've come to, because that's what the Bible teaches.
That's exactly what the Bible teaches. Man cannot save himself. I know this now, and let's be
honest about it. There was an evangelist who said
on the television the other night, God's put in a bid for you, and
the devil's put in a bid for you, and now it's up to you.
That's not so. God comes here, God's done all
he can do, baby. Now, if you'll make the first
step, God'll cleanse you, and God'll anoint you, and God'll
wash you, and God'll give you life. That's not what he says
here. He said, I passed by you, and
the day you were born, helpless, totally helpless, lying in your
blood, polluted, in death! You might as well tell a man
to get up out of his coffin and walk as to tell a sinner to get
up out of his deadness and come to God. Somebody said, well,
you take the first step and God will meet you. If I can take
the first step, I don't need God. If I can take one step,
I can take two. If I can take two, I can take
three. And if I can take three, I can take four. And if I can
take four, I can take all the rest of them, and I don't need
God. But I need God because I'm polluted in my blood. I need
God because I'm hopeless and helpless. I need God because
I don't know I need God. I don't know I need God. And
God's even got to create the need. And God's got to create
the awareness. You see, my heart will pant after
a false God if God doesn't create in me a desire for the true and
living God. Man left to himself will bring
God down. God left in his glory and grace
will lift man up. I passed by you, God said. Now watch it. Who spoke the first
word? He said, I passed by you and
saw you in your blood. And I said unto you, he emphasizes
again, when you were in your blood. And he says it again,
I emphasize again, I said unto you, when you were in your blood.
I said, capital L-I-V-E, live. Live, sinner, live! Live, sinner, live. Now verse
8 declares, I passed by you, and I looked upon you, and it
was the time of love. Who loved whom? Herein is love, not that we love
God. Did the baby love its benefactor?
It will someday. But it doesn't now. Does the
sinner love God? The sinner doesn't even know
God. How can the sinner love Him? Herein is love. Not that we love
God. He loved us. I passed by you,
and it was the time of love. And I said to you, in your helpless,
hopeless condition, live. I said unto you, when you were
in your blood, live. Now what is all this teaching?
It's teaching four things. Four things. It is teaching,
first of all, that the call of God is a sovereign call. That any time a sinner is saved,
that it is a sovereign salvation, that God did it on purpose, that
God did it that God Almighty did without the aid or assistance
of that sinner. That's so. There was darkness over all of
this earth. I don't know, I think there's
some time between Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 and verse 2. Turn over
there just a moment. In Genesis chapter 1, the people
talk about the earth itself being millions of years old, and there's
a good possibility it is. It says in Genesis 1 verse 1,
in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And
the earth was without form and void, or the earth became without
form or void. Now Genesis 1 verse 1, God never
created anything without form or void, without shape. When God created the earth, I
believe that He created a perfect earth. But something happened
and the earth became without form or void. What could have
happened? The only thing I know that could
have happened was the fall of Satan, the fall of Lucifer, who
was the prince of the pious, who seemed to have dominion over
this earth that God had made. And when he fell from heaven,
all over which he had dominion fell with him and became without
form and void. And darkness was upon the face
of the deep. Well, God never created anything
in darkness, but this is the picture now. Here the earth,
and all about the earth has no form. It's void, it's empty,
and there's darkness everywhere. And then suddenly God said, let
there be light. And there was light. And this
shapeless mass, this thing without form and void over which darkness
completely covered it, God said, let there be light, and there
was light. Now then, turn to 2 Corinthians. In the book of
2 Corinthians, and I believe it's chapter 4. Let me show you
this right here. 2 Corinthians chapter 4. Verse 6, what's this? For God who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness. That's the picture, you see the
picture of creation. Here God, here is creation without
form, void, dead, darkness. That's the condition of the sinner,
like that baby in the open field, dead, in darkness, in corruption,
without shade. just swollen, a mass of flesh,
no beauty at all. And God came by and said, And
the same way God spoke out of darkness, when this world, without
shape, without form, and void, and darkness everywhere, and
God said, Light! And it's God who commanded, read
on, the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our dead,
darkened hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the
glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. I know what the world
is trying to do. I know what preachers are trying
to do. They're trying to teach men the
gospel. They're trying to teach men the
way of life. And brethren, while we must preach
it and proclaim it, only God can reveal it. That's right. and there may be two or three
hundred people who will sit in front of a preacher and he'll
preach, man's a sinner, man can't save himself. God in love and
grace gave his son to die on the cross as our substitute,
as our sin offering, as our savior, and he was buried as our scapegoat
and bore our sins away into the grave and rose again and is ascended
to the right hand of God and there he intercedes and there
he pleads for us so that God might be just and justify the
ungodly, and He will someday come and take us to glory. And
some people sit there and say, I see it! I see it! It clears
the veil! I see how that God Almighty has
to crucify His Son to save a sinner. I see that! I believe that! I
receive it! Another fellow sit there, you
know. Now, if I go to heaven, I'm going to have to do my best.
And if I go to heaven, I'm going to have to quit going to the
movies, I'm going to have to quit gambling, and I'm going
to have to clean up my life and do the best I can, and join the
church, and then when I come to die, I'll have a hope. You
say, you mean people get that out of the same—exactly. That's
what they get out of the same message. One man will see substitution,
and another man won't see a thing but his own self-righteousness.
Why? He's dead in darkness and blindness. And the only one who
can reveal the gospel, verse 3, look at 2 Corinthians 4, 3,
"...our gospels hid." It is hid to them that are lost. You can find a good, moral, pious
woman who cannot see the gospel. She can hear it ten thousand
times, and she can't see it because she's blinded by the God of this
world. The God of this world. You better
pray that the God of glory will release you from the power of
the God of this world and open your eyes, because the gospel
is not taught by men, it is revealed by God. God said, Let there be
light, and in the same way God hath shined in these darkened
hearts to give us the glory, the light of the glory of Christ.
Or another illustration. Lazarus is in that grave, and
he's dead. He's been dead four days. And
they didn't embalm him in those days. They didn't have any way
to embalm him. I don't reckon they didn't embalm
him, because his sister talked about his body stinking. So he
was in that grave, dead. Now, Lazarus can't give himself
life. His sisters can't give him life.
And the Scripture says the Lord Jesus Christ stood outside that
tomb, and he says, somebody rolled away that stone. And one of the
girls said, Lord, he'd been in there four days. He smells. The Lord said, I said, roll away
the stone. So they rolled away the stone.
And then Christ spoke, Lazarus, come forth. And they stood there
and watched. And in a moment, coming through
the opening, of that grave was a man wrapped in grave clothes. And our Lord said to the people
with him, loose him, unwrap those grave clothes and let him go. That's salvation. You who were
dead in trespasses and sin, you weren't seeking God, you were
lying in your pollution, in your blood, in your darkness, in your
death. And our Lord said, And brother,
not until he said live did you get up and walk out of that grave.
Now preachers can tell sinners, walk down the aisle and God will
save you. No, He won't. God's got to save
you before you can walk down the aisle. Give your heart to
Jesus. Jesus don't want your heart.
He said, I'll create a new heart. He doesn't want that old wicked,
vile, divided, double, perverse, black, dark, sinful heart of
yours. He said, I'll create in you a
clean heart and a right spirit. This was sovereign. Secondly,
it was all-encompassing. When our Lord came by that baby
there, He said, Live, and not only that, but He gave judicial
life, He gave spiritual life, He gave eternal life. Everything
that baby needed, the Lord did it. Look down here, turn back
to Ezekiel. Everything the baby needed, he
says in Ezekiel 16. He said here in Ezekiel 16, in
verse 8, he said, I spread my skirt over you, and I covered
your nakedness. And he said, I entered a covenant
with you, and you became mine. I adopted you. You see, that
baby still belonged to that old heathen, that old Amorite mama
and Hittite daddy, and the Lord said, I adopted you into my family. And then he said, I washed you.
I washed away all the blood. And verse 9, Then I anointed
you with oil with the Holy Spirit. And then he said, I clothed you
in verse 12, I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in
your ear, and I put a crown on your head. I did that. No, that
sinner didn't work for that crown. That crown was given to him.
I did all that, all encompassing. And then it was irresistible.
Irresistible. When God says live to a sinner,
all the devils in hell can't keep him in the grave. When God
says, live to a sinner, that sinner lives. Now then, yesterday
I was sitting in here in the study, studying my message, and
one of the men of the church called me, or I called him, and
I said, let's get some lunch. He said, well, he said, I'll
tell you what I'll do. He said, tell me what you want. I said,
boy, I'm hungry. He said, tell me what you want,
and I'll come by a hamburger stand and I'll get it and bring
it to you. So he came by, I told him what I wanted, he came by
a hamburger stand a few minutes, he came in to study, and he had
hamburgers and french fries and coke. And we were sitting there
eating those hamburgers and french fries and coke, and he said,
you know, he said, as we were talking, he said, I don't completely
understand the death of Christ for his people only. I don't
understand what relationship the death of Christ and the gift
of life has to do with the people out yonder who are unbelievers,
who are wicked, who are going to hell. He said, I don't believe
Christ died for people who were already in hell. That's beside
the point. But he said, what relationship
do they have with this gift? I said, well, let me tell you
something. Who'd you buy this hamburger
for? He said, you. I said, who'd you have in mind
when you bought the hamburger? He said, you. I said, why did
you buy me the hamburger? Because I wanted to. Why did
I accept it? Because I was hungry. Because
I was hungry. Now he didn't buy hamburgers
for everybody in Ashland. and then go around asking to
every door, do you want a hamburger? No, I don't want a hamburger.
Well, he'd be left with a whole lot of hamburgers, wouldn't he?
Or he'd give away some of them because he'd find some people
hungry. And some people would just take it just to be nice,
you know, to keep him from hurting his feelings. But he bought hamburgers
for one person because that one person was hungry, and because
he wanted that one person's hunger to be satisfied, and he brought
the gift. And when he brought the gift,
I received it, because I was prepared to receive it. God Almighty
didn't just send His Son into this world helter-skelter hoping
that somebody would accept Him as Lord and believe on His death.
The Lord Jesus Christ came down here on purpose, according to
God's covenant and purpose, to save a people whose hearts were
prepared to receive Him because they were hungry. And it was the gift of His love
and the gift of His grace. And then last of all, it was
a complete gift. A complete gift. On the resurrection
morning, one of these days, on that resurrection morning, all
that God has set out to do in the salvation of His people will
be complete. Let me show you that. In John,
I believe it's chapter 5. In John, chapter 5. Let's look
at that. It may be 6, but I think it's
John, chapter 5, verse John chapter 6, verse 40 it is. John 6. And this, verse 39, this is the
Father's will, which hath sent me, and of all which he hath
given me I lose nothing. God's not going to fail. He set
out, He passed by this baby and saw it in its blood. He said,
Live. And that baby is going to reign
with Him. He's not going to lose a one
of them. He said, And this is the Father's will which sent
me, that of all which he hath given me I'll lose nothing, I'll
raise it up at the last day. Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Does your soul pant after Christ? Do you want Christ more than
anything in the world? Then that unspeakable gift is
yours, for God created that hunger And God Almighty sent that gift.
And God Almighty will enable your heart to receive that gift.
And God Almighty will complete that which He has started. Turn
to the book of Philippians. Let me show you another verse.
In the book of Philippians, He will not fail. He will not start
the task and fail to complete it. Philippians chapter 1. Listen
to this, verse 6. I am confident, Paul says, I
am confident of this very thing, this is what I'm confident of,
that he which hath begun a good work in you, he that came by
and loved you, he that came by and gave you life, he that came
by and washed you and swaddled you and suppled you and salted
you and raised you and put a crown on your head, he that hath begun
a good work in you, he's not going to quit until he completes
it. He will perform it until the
day of Jesus Christ. He'll never leave you, He'll
never forsake you, but He'll finish what He started. Our Father,
take Thy word, and exalt and glorify Thy matchless name. Thou
art the King of kings and Lord of lords. Thou art able to kill
and to make alive. Thou art able to wound, and Thou
art able to heal.