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Open your Bible please if you have them with you to the eighth chapter of the book of Rome Romans chapter 8 Our future lesson will begin with verse 28
Romans 8 28 here the word of God We know that in everything God works for good for those who love him Who are called according to his purpose For those who need for new he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son In order that he might be the first born among many brothers And those who need predestined he also called and those who need Call he also justified and those who need just a fatty also glorified I wasn't sure we say to this If God is first who is against us He who did not spare his own son But gave him up for us all Will he not also give us all things with him Who should bring any charge against God's elect It is God who justifies who is to condemn It is Christ Jesus who died. Yes, who is raised from the dead who is at the right hand of God Who indeed they received for us Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword As it is written for that sake we are being killed all the day long We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered Know in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us For I am sure that neither lie death nor life nor angels nor principalities Nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor heights nor depth nor anything else in all creation We'll be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord Now beginning tonight and probably going on through the remaining nights of These meetings will be coming to the eighth chapter the book of Romans As a matter of fact you might award me some sort of badge of courage because we're gonna key off every night from verse 33 I won't ask everybody here to hold up their hands. We heard a sermon preached on text 33 Not too many have We shall bring any charge against God's elect It is God who justified Now the reason I mention courage in connection with this is because of that word elect
But what a wonderful word for a long time it's not a frightened people
But the fear leaves as we see what the scriptures say about it And what happens is this a sense of blame you all A sense of wonder that isn't a question mark. It's an explanation kind of wonder
And a sense of reverence for God begins to come
A sense of history because we know we're dealing with something we can't really understand That clearly sees Presumption begins to go because all confidence in
In man finally comes to it Proper degree and full confidence in God comes and as this truth begins to unfold and one follows the two scriptures Lest for God Lest for Christ Lest for fellow Christians and a brand new appreciation for everyone who believes in Jesus
And a new left for those who are out of Christ begins to come and an increased confidence And the half of those for whom one has been praying That they might be saved begins to come Everything begins to happen that people are afraid won't happen because of this Nearly every tightening Reaction that people have for this doctrine of election As scripture begins to teach it Freeze that instead of those very things we are afraid would happen These blessings that I just mentioned all begin to come But now what I want to do tonight if we make an introduction what we're going to do is key apple verse 33 and go into the first Spectrum of the eighth chapter in these nights that are ahead That I'd like to do tonight is if you're the setting for the eighth chapter I mean Where it sounds and it's proper Point here in the development that Paul is giving to the truth that he's giving in this book First of all, I'd like to do that just talk about the setting of this eighth chapters Then I'd like to talk about the charges that are mentioned here In verse 33 who shall bring any charge against the elect of God I want to advertise three charges that are brought against God's people And we'll spend the rest of the week looking at how Paul gives us the answers to those charges And then we'll seek to identify the elect that are spoken out here First we're setting now for this eighth chapter There's 27 books in the New Testament and 21 of them are letters Most of the New Testament consists of letters Over half of those letters 13 of them were written by Paul Now nine of Paul's letters went to churches for or went to individuals And out of the nine letters that Paul wrote to churches two times he wrote to churches he had never visited He wrote to churches in cities where he had never preached His letter to the Colossians and yesterday morning and evening we looked at the Colossian epistle And Paul was writing to a church he never visited Christians he'd never met a village he'd never been to And then to the church at Rome Paul had never visited Rome he'd never been to Rome He had been not been instrumental in the brain of that church in the beans And so we'll be talking this week yesterday and tonight and the nights ahead About the two episodes that Paul wrote The churches he'd never visited And not only that wow they're similar in that sense they're different in this The Colossian church was the least significant choice that Paul addressed the letter to That doesn't mean his letter is least significant. I'm just saying Colossia was the smallest little village that Paul directed the letter to the least significant the least important And Rome is the most significant and the most important This letter to Rome goes to a congregation established in the capital city of the whole world
The nerve center of the whole civilized world of that day
Now I didn't Paul write a letter to Rome Well at recent we've decided to visit Rome and chapter one and toward the end of the book He talks about his earnest desire He says I've been praying to God He urges the Romans to pray to God did he like the privilege of coming to Rome and preaching the gospel And the heartthrob of Paul's passion comes out in chapter one particularly in verse 16 The earnest desire he's got to in this great godless gaudy Rome preach the gospel Paul had a yearning to stand in the great power capital of the world and preach about a power that was greater than Rome had ever heard of He says I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is a power of God unto salvation that everyone did believe And Paul anticipated look forward to hope or pray for the time when he could stand right in that capital city of the world Where it's power with worship there's no way else in the world and proclaim a power that Rome knew nothing of
And this is the time that had made a brand new creature out of Paul If you've ever heard that verse preached on you've always heard it said that the verse for words for power There's a Greek word I word dynamite comes from We think of explosives when we think of dynamite When we think of explosives we think of things being blown apart blown down blown off We're using to think of explosives in terms of destructive force or Paul isn't talking about that kind of explosive Wouldn't it be wonderful if somebody could invent an explosive a dynamite of some sort a charge of some kind This could be set off and blow everything back the way it ought to be A tornado goes through and somebody would have some sort of a Charges it could be set off and put the trees all back in the lives to back alive again and bodies back together again A bomb goes off and great devastation is wrong wouldn't it be wonderful if someone had some sort of a Constressy sort of exposing this could be set off behind it and put everything back the way it was or even better That's the kind of power Paul is talking about The power that can undo the power of sin and put men's lives back together around God again in Jesus Christ and make them brand new creatures and all just He wanted to go to the Roman preaching But he'd been prevented in doing it. So He decided to write a letter. He wrote the letter evidently Just to have a communication with Rome until he got there or in KC never did get there So he writes and he says of the letter what he would like to sit in person Now probably behind the letter that Paul writes to Rome is his desire to give apostolic Foundation to the message that Roman church would be founded on That Roman church had not been visited up to this found on a possible Probably it had its seed and Converse it had gone from the holy land on back over the road and Paul writes to give them the apostolic truth about God's plan for saving center And so in the Roman epistle we have Paul giving the greatest systematic clearest fullest presentation of God's great seeding design to be found all put together in one place in all the Bible
And Paul's format comes through here It's similar to his preaching, but here he puts it all together He began with the keynote of God even calls to the gospel as the very beginning in the first land that he writes the gospel of God He talks about the revelation of God that so clear and certain that every man is responsible to believe in him He talks about the righteousness of God and the wrath of God against everything that's unlike him And then he begins to talk about men who are under God's wrath because While all men know that God is even the easy act
in sin he holds down that truth Will not really honor God recognize God live for God yield the God because he cannot because he's broken in sin now and Dead in his heart dead in his will dead in his mind dead in his emotions Dead in Christ's past is in sin Then Paul begins to draw a picture on the judgment that certain how every man must stand before that judge better No man can pass it and then having drawn that picture The beginning about the middle way in chapter 3 and emerging in a great crescendo in chapter 5 All begins to draw the great dimensions of the grace of God That great crowning state God so proves his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us That's all for me He begins with a great and holy God and man who stands under East condemnation He makes the bid for the penance and condition And then for the healing of the convicted heart the great display of God's great love in Jesus Christ I guess he dies from Jesus That's the way Jesus did We have clear concept to me and he came to Jesus Nicodemus came to Jesus and immediately Jesus began to make him is uncomfortable as he could Jesus began to hold up the Nicodemus the fact that he was unacceptable of a God He had no ability to get right with God. He was a sinner before God had no hope in himself or in his own nature
And then his Nicodemus began to give some of the evidences of repentance a great deal of ignorance But some evidences of penance he began to ask how Lord how can this be how can one be born again How can it come When the Lord Jesus does what's good to always does The love of God is God's bomb to the convicted center That is close before swine To a rebellious Unconvicted and repetitive center Then Jesus began to spread out before Nicodemus whose heart is already recognizing their disobedience is in him He's already wondering how can he get out of How can God do this in Jesus calls these eyes to look up at this great God of love for God's soul of the world He gives only forgotten signs But another man came to Jesus Now rich young real and he cries out what must I do to have eternal life and once again Jesus does not begin by trying to make him comfortable before God he begins by trying to make him uncomfortable He brings the love on him and he shows him some commandment one to the last commandment that this man is a sinner
And the rich young really went away silently Somehow he had hoped to be able to hang on to what was between him and God and have God to you
And do you know that the Bible tells us that Jesus is beholding him loving But he never told him he did Because love Is God's bomb to the heart that recognizes sin and wants health
Now how emerges is its great age chapter As sort of the crowning chapter of the display of salvation begins in chapter 1 and runs through chapter 8 And a different division in a sense comes after that Justification sanctification and then chapter 8 which is sort of the crowning of it all here We have the blessings of the believer displaced Here's all spread out Before the eyes of those who've now come into Christ by justification in sanctification Here's a blessing to belong to the believer. These are what we'll be looking at Now then in chapter 33 Paul says what charges who will bring charges against God's people Who will bring charges against God's elect Well Charges have been brought against God's people Always have and I am going to mention three because these are the three we're going to be looking at beginning tomorrow night All three of these Paul speaks to you in this chapter Romans Here's charge number one The pagan will say to the Christian you Christians aren't really different from us Your centers just like we are Now what do we say to a charge like that? The Paul gives the answer Another charge that's made is this you Christians You're not any different from you need the rest of us You suffered just like we did Or what do we say to that? For a Paul gives the answer or the pagan says you Christians means bad just like we do Now what does the Christian say to that? We are sinners We do suffer and we do die For the inner we different from those who are out of Christ All the difference between Lighting darkness We'll look at those beginning tomorrow night Those are the charges of you taking up But now thirdly to that word elect We cannot just pass over that as we get more in there Who is listening anyway? Well The simplest definition that we could get to it Our explanation about who the elect are would be found in The swan of the chapter Romans
Those are for now most condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus Those who are in Christ Jesus are God's elect these are God's people Now those who are in Christ Include two groups Those who already are in Christ right now That would include all those who are in heaven Who lived on earth come to faith in Christ and have now been called into heaven Had to include all the people on earth who already have come to rest their faith in Christ We don't know how many that is We don't know how many are in heaven don't know how many on earth We think they're more in heaven than they're on earth But put them both together they are a great number of God's people Those who are in Christ would include those who already have come into Christ But that this also would include those who are yet to come into Christ who will come into Christ who God will bring into His Son Jesus Christ Midnight maybe tomorrow maybe next week
The number when Jesus was praying and The 17 chapters just before the cross he prayed I have manifested my name to the men zoomed out gave us me out of the world I am praying for them. I'm not praying for the world, but for those who now has given me He's thinking now that group of believers already given to him Do come to him in faith and then he goes on to say I do not pray for these only but also for those who believe in me through their word He was including there all those who in the years to come through the preaching of the gospel which come into Christ So in the forest God's elect includes everybody who has ever come into Christ who is in Christ who will come into Christ and faith and faith But now how to men get into Christ You see here is Clear that word elect begins to emerge in its peculiar and particular and blessed and wonderful significant You know I was things for a long time and enjoyed it and loved God and witness for Jesus and called men to Christ and was used by God to introduce many a man to Christ before I really really knew I got ever saved me I knew a good deal about it I'm still learning Friends I don't want you ever ever listen to a preacher whose other changes preaching more than I have across three years And I mean for the better because whenever I found something in the Bible that showed I wasn't preaching or I changed my preaching I've been kind of humiliated about it, but gratified too
Now how do men come into Christ What a story Michelin Paul and in the sense of all before it died Here's the way men come into Christ Let me read a summer. Let me read the statement is cut to and let me give a summary Look at verse 28 we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him who are called according to his purpose For those who me for nearly also predestined To be conformed to the image of his son In order that he might be the first born among many brethren and those who me predestined He also called and those who me called he also just a fat and those who me just a bad he also glorified Now when you look at this passage You look at the others particularly the Paul gives this is dealing with this great subject These lines begin to come very clear This is the way centers come into Christ First of all, they're chosen in him How do we come into Christ? First of all, we're chosen in him That's the word elect means chosen the same Greek word is used both ways sometimes it's translated chosen sometimes translated to let some of you may have a That reads likely a social bring any choice against God's chosen They're chosen in him Peter for instance in here's first to people addresses the Christians he's writing to you like this Peter in a possible of Jesus Christ to the exiles of the dispersion in part of Galatia Capadocia, Asia, Bosinia chosen and destiny by God the Father sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ And Paul writing to the Cecilonians is heartless so still frailed over the great conversions that God had given in Thessalonica Right in this but we are bound to give thanks to God this is second Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 13 We are bound to give thanks to God always for you brethren the love of the Lord because God chose you from the beginning to be saved Re-sanctification of the Spirit and believes in the truth And that's why Paul speaks here of these people as being God's elect because God does the electing you They're chosen by God that's the teaching of Scripture God initiates our great salvation And he does it out of an infinite grace Now when did God choose us? Well, we don't have to look hard to get the answer to that because Paul tells us in Ephesians chapter 1 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ We have blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places He's going to listen now some of these great blessings Paul says look We praise God we bow in thanksgiving before God because those of us who are in Christ know that God has blessed us with every blessing that heaven can give And the first thing that he mentions is this because this is where it all begins The first thing God ever did for us was this Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world over then Revelation chapter 13 verse 8 and chapter 17 verse 8 the Lamb's Book of Life is spoken of and it speaks of those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world That is we were saved decent we were chosen by God DC that means before our conversion Before our conception and our mother's womb Before the coming of Christ into this world in the flesh Before the heaven in the earth river cleave We were chosen in him before the foundation of the world man's staggering. We can understand this We just see what scripture says and down reverence before a great God Through in loving kindness had us in his thought way back yonder Why did he choose Well-operative like this first that He bestowed us in love to be son through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will All in the eighth chapter he says It was by his foreknowledge Now friends that we understand don't we That it's not because of anything that God saw in us It isn't because God could look down through history's time and see in Sam Patterson any good So that he'd say we'll look at him Now he's different You're man All friends no no God. I know you didn't do it like that It wasn't even that he saw me believing in Jesus Because I did believe in Jesus 35 years ago Next month the last day if you were you're on leave here An old fashion center on the other three and God heard me and saved me in the old fashion way
And I know where that faith came from The work of God spirit or tonight that still would not be believing nor preaching to you What is this foreknowledge of Paul is talking about It's the same foreknowledge that if you know Jesus did you know that Jesus has called the elect of God to Peter speaks with Jesus as being that person so let's go on of God that means he was chosen to be our Savior And in Acts chapter two Peter in his first term and says this Jesus Delivered up that is crucified according to the death and its plan and the foreknowledge of God You see Jesus didn't come and die for our sins because God foresaw that he would He came and died for our sins because God fit him for the operation He said I've come to do the will of him to fit me
He said him would fit me Listen to all that and so this foreknowledge of God is a foreknowledge that comes not out of foresight now prophets foresaw things like Francis in the 31st verse of the second chapter of Acts speaking of the prophet it said he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of Jesus But God spoke out of his purpose and plan Jesus was chosen by God deliberately God the father chose his son and fit him just as God the father chose us to be in Christ and drew us into his son That's what Jesus says in John chapter 6 for instance
And so you see Like Paul reminded Timothy any second letter It isn't because of anything that God saw in us foresaw after sawing the other kind of saw in us It was because of two marvelous things that we can never take away friends The doctrine of election is to God the fool who is ago is because of his love
That's the only explanation for it and his purpose that's where his electing work comes from Not because of anything in me, but because of what's in him a reservoir of love beyond measure that could cause on God That is responsible only to love what is holy To turn his love and directed toward a despicable character like Sam Patterson and give me what I don't deserve his love To save me It was out of his love and purpose that he Destiny of us to be standing from suspect and those of us who believe in Jesus friend We cannot take away from God what he is given To belong to himself so that we will see the glory of the God who has drawn us to himself And do nothing to rob him of any of the glory that belongs to our magnificent love That the spouses have got the love center She's called redeeming faith Like he's that and is doing today
Hmm There's the elect not everyone because not everyone believes in Jesus doing We're all like they would The few no no Jesus said everyone who believes is God's gift to me or the father is generous with his son And so the Bible tells us that God has given in his great electing grace a multitude with no man can number And the book of Revelation we have such a staggering comment And this is only a part of the people being described. This isn't the whole body of the state This is just one portion of the body a group of people that were saved in one generation That's all this being described here and I looked and saw a great multitude that no man could number from every nation from all the tribes and people's and tongue standing before the throne Oh God generosity is so magnificent of this man's Adam and Eve For he reached out his hand is all there all the way down through human history God has been giving to his son a multitude to be his people forever and a great kingdom of glory the magnificent of his saving love The magnitude of his sacrifice all kind of different people That's the same Paul kept majoring on they did and John is talking about it here in the revelation as he speaks to the song that he hears in heaven in the fifth chapter Romance he has a beautiful Refrain that he's that he goes into his account of he hears this where he arched out to take the scroll and open it Seal for thou us clean and by thy blood this ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation and it's made the Kingdom in priest to our God God reaches out into every spectrum every race every color every social Stratta every age little tiny babies little children Teenagers old old people little aged people educated people Uneducated people God in his infinite grace is reaching out in the every spectrum of humanity and drawing of people to Jesus Christ And these are God's people and God's are like
How do we come into Christ? We were chosen in him out of an infinite love and a purpose That belongs to God's great mysterious secret will And then we come into Christ because we're called into him That's what Paul is talking about here if you look in Romans 8 28 we know that in everything God works for good for those who are who love him who are called according to his purpose You know, there are two calls in the Bible and both of them are so wonderful. They trail the heart one is the gospel call the general call of the gospel Such as I'm preaching from my oral lips out over you tonight God is the one who commanded that this general call of the gospel be given God Commended it in his infinite grace to go to every human being Out of pure grace God has given every human being The right to hear the gospel Nobody deserves But in the great commission God has sent his people to tell the gospel to every preacher Not only that Paul tells us and Paul preached out of this heartbeat Paul taught God Desires that all men come to the knowledge of the tree Paul believes everywhere he frees wherever he frees Forever the gospel without of his lips and he held up Christ and he called men to repentance and faith the heart of God Honestly desire that every person in that congregation They're every person under the sound of his voice come to Jesus Christ Every time the gospel is preached in the general call of the gospel such as the preaching of the sermon God is reaching out as a sip of mercy the gospel His hand reaching out offering the blessings of Jesus Christ to all who repent and believe and honestly deserves it all Indeed but none can and none will They didn't see and so God reaches his hand on out in a marvel of grace that no man can explain or understand and takes a multitude of people That no man can numbers And draws them on into his kingdom and his son and transfers them from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear side
That's the effectual call That's when the Spirit of God really goes in and gives the new heart that enables a person at last to see their sin so they will
and see Jesus So that they will invite Their wills are now set free to the two things they can't do truly repent of sin and truly recognize and receive Jesus But now they can and they do and we have and we give God the glory Now about four weeks ago I was preaching in Chattanooga and the little chapel bin Hayden Church has a little chapel right downtown It's all of the crossroads It's a little place where you think the work could never go We've got to find graduate or form seminary doing a great work there and God's doing a magnificent work One night after the service the man came back to the study and told me said I came to Jesus Christ tonight Not talked with him and found out that he had a certain ring of assurance about That he had actually opened up his heart in the course of that service And I had been thinking about it a good while and then he told me said mr. Patterson I'm so glad. I'm so glad. God saved me right here Right here at the crossroads and he called the names of those two streets out our remember and he said I want to tell you why He said you know back before this chapel was ever built here there used to be years ago 25 30 years ago He said there was a cafe here that was sort of a drinking place and he said me and my crowd and a whole lot of it Used to me here and we drank and fight and get drunk said it was a rough place And he said I'm telling you the truth Many a night I've gotten drunk right here on this spot and that cafe got named to a fight got beaten and done consciousness and many a night I've been dragged right down that alley right there I've been dragged down there and left for dead and woke up as late Okay, so that's happened to me many a time He said I want to tell you it means a lot to me this tonight It was God who dragged me out of my sin To his son We're here on the same spot You know what he was referring to is the verse I've been speaking on
No man can come to me Jesus except the father grog But that's who we are cleaning so did God the others we've come to Christ We were called and so we clean and face He God doesn't do our believing for us. He doesn't do our repenting for us. We do it The sinner does it to sell a piece and to sin a believe Because God has dealt with him hard his heart to give any my heart now That's disposed to do it and he does it out of his now freedom
And he does it without fail He recognizes his family. He's opinionated He turns from it to God forever Rediction and a new reign of light for mercy and help
And this is because God has dealt with his heart And whenever a man turns in repentance to God God's offer is always the same just son And so faith is receiving him Repentance is turning from one sin in reudiation of that way of life Self-review We did it. We want God's reign if God will forgive us and have mercy and we turn to him for mercy And God offers these signs Convicted by the Holy Spirit of our sin We receive the bomb of Gilead except his son Rest on him who's that for us
As the basis of our being made right with God and receive him Rest render our allegiance up to him to be our Lord and King The one who will serve and follow as he gives us grace Now then Paul says look at verse 31 What sin? What should we say to this then? Now it is good to be careful what you say to this
Maybe someone will say well what I say to this is this
If this is what God does He's not just There's something unbecoming about One of us calling God the judgment Isn't But friend listen If you ever are just posed Yourself To the man justice of God Don't include me in it. I don't want it justice That's the very thing I don't I don't want to stand before God said I have the man. Did you treat me justly at the man? Oh, it's not give me justice I'd go to hell I'd be lost So with you beg but of love to a single rebellious human being He doesn't love Satan. He doesn't love the fallen angels There isn't a fragmented scripture that says that he does and that doesn't mean he's a bad God He can be absolutely just and never give love to those creatures But he could just as well Have never given love to us Oh, I don't got to be just with me. That's no hope if I got justice I get damnation. I get here. I know I deserve to be lost. I know
I want mercy. That's what I want mercy
So it's what you say is this though? Oh Yes, this is the way it is Yes, this is the way it is with God Is where mercy from me Will he hear my weak prayer? I know he doesn't know me anything I know if God has saved every other human being and and let me out I'd get what I deserve. I couldn't bring any charge against him. I know all of that
But I do want to be sick If there's mercy for sinners, I want mercy Can there be mercy for me? Now that's what you say Then the answer is yes for him. Yes, yes, yes It's like that song put you For those kind of people I listened to it for a long time on a radio trying to put the words together and I was late getting it But I've got to put together pretty well now. I like the melody of this song I don't know why I'm pleased. I don't like the music I get, but that's that is Now begin to listen to the words and I put it together Now think the story is like this. The man just gives me out of jail
And he's writing a letter to his sweetheart or his wife. I don't know which that is And he tells her he says now I'm getting out And if you want me to come home I'm well beyond the best coming to town at a certain time And if you want me to come home You tie yellow ribbon around the old oak tree
And in the song the man has everybody on the bus Looking for that oak tree and he's kind of scared to looking self-cars He knows he might have a good reason not wanting back again Serving right and you know if the song goes on the bus comes down the street and the oak tree comes up there And everybody left out at cry because the yellow ribbon on the old oak tree and all hundred of them I mean, she's really sad I want you Get off Come home Not for the person who appeals to God for mercy Around that cross is just written Listen to this God speaking Turn you turn you Before I will you die I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked God grew justice in showing mercy
Listen to this Jesus come unto me all you that labor and are heavy ladies You know the burden of your sins and you want release from the house Come unto me Now I'll give you Take my yoke upon you Or Jesus again If any man there's If you really hunger for God's forgiveness and righteousness Come Glenn Or out of any of the Bible Remember how we split The spirit about say Tom period That's good But that's not Saying the whole thing So the Holy Spirit leads John to go ahead and let him who says
say come period And The Holy Spirit and ladies stop there Because enough hasn't been said yet to give the full importance And let him who is thirsty come Let him who desires and that's when God let the invitation stop because that's who the invitation is for Those who hunger and thirst
Deliverance and mercy from sin And forgiveness from God and you lie to me Now friend, that's the way your heart is tonight. The door is wide open. Jesus stands to receive you
This can be the night of your salvation You have to serve your sinners you know it and serve them in destiny Now we're going to vow before him because he stands in our midst
If you're here tonight then you know that this is the disposition of your heart You recognize that you're a sinner You know that you justly deserve God's judgment You know that you know that you've never lived one day in your life fully to his glory Like everybody else you know it You know that God doesn't owe you anything. He's under no obligation to you at all. You know that
You recognize it and you want two things You want forgiveness You want that good God to have mercy on you And you want everything that he accomplished in Christ to be yours You want it You want forgiveness But you have so much God's a reign over your life You want a quick being a maverick You have a quick run in your own life You really want God's great son Jesus Christ to be your shepherd and guide and leader Your Lord and King And friendy stand for your taking the night come to him in your heart that's the only place you can come with the heart man believes under righteous
Not you're here tonight and you know you've never thus come to Jesus and you know yourself if you can't do it tonight
You won't do it And you can't do it You know you're not going to right now that will you feel about it?
Play while we bow and prayer A blind man did once to Jesus he said oh son of David had mercy on me and Jesus said what shall I do and he said I'm blind Oh Lord let me see And Jesus did You can't see him So that you really want him and you're willing tonight to yield your life up tonight While we bow and prayer ask God to have this mercy on you to give you a heart to really want Christ and to come to him All right, let's bow before him now as we pray Blessed Lord Jesus Savior centers Who receives all who come to him oh blessed Savior In your great might and your bliss tonight
Take in your Saving hand the boy the girl the matter woman to tonight prepared by God's spirit He is ready at last To come for mercy and to receive eternal life as a free gift in receiving you Now I work quiet Come to Christ call upon him out of your heart Come to him the trusting come to him to take him now as your king and lord And you have this promise all that the father gives me will come and him who comes I'll never ever cast all come to him just now in your heart