Romans, and the second chapter, and we're going
through from verse 17 this evening to verse
29.
Romans, chapter two, verse 17, right through to
the end of the chapter.
Can I recapture just a few things from
the beginning of the book to where we
are now, just to get us really into
the real spirit of things where we are
in the chapter this evening.
You remember that in the first chapter, in
the first fifteen verses, Paul brought our salutation
to the saints at Rome, and then he
introduced why he was taking his pen under
the spirit direction to write to the saints
at Rome.
We have the introduction and the salutation.
And then you remember from verse 16, right
through to the end of that chapter, we
saw the wrath of God falling in judgment
upon the unrighteousness of men.
And at the end of that first chapter,
we saw to our amazement, it really shocked
us.
In fact, I called it a paralyzing picture
of the depths of the cesspool of iniquity
that men and women of Adam's race can
fall into.
And we saw the wrath of God coming
upon the unrighteousness of men.
And then when we came to the first
sixteen verses of chapter two, we saw the
wrath of God moving against the self-righteousness
of man.
And we began to balance it out, whether
unrighteousness that went into the cesspool, or self
-righteousness that made a stand of its own
before God, we began to balance which was
the greater sin.
And I think that Paul, the Pharisee, gave
us the answer, because he lived, the Pharisee,
after the strictest thoughts of the Jews, and
he called himself the chief of sinners.
And now we are going to finish the
second chapter by seeing the wrath of God
coming upon the religious Jew.
These thirteen verses deal with the Jew this
evening.
And if ever you have an argument with
a Jew, and he begins to discuss things
with you, try to get him down to
the end of the second chapter of Paul's
letter to the Romans, and just read it
to him.
And you'll find you have ammunition in your
hands that will shake him.
You see, when Paul writes this word about
the Jew, I think he brings before us
the personal privileges of this peculiar people, the
Jews.
And you'll notice that I have numbered five
personal privileges that really belong to the Jew.
Five personal privileges.
And then Paul not only penned these five
personal privileges, but he speaks about the professed
practices.
Just the professed practices, remember.
The Jews are great boasters, but when you
begin to examine exactly what he does, you'll
find them out.
And again we have five professed practices of
this peculiar people.
And then when Paul gets all this over,
he begins probing.
And I tell you, when the apostle begins
probing the depths of the human heart, he
can really do it.
Ask questions that would shake any Jew in
the world today.
And I've tried it all the time.
I used to go to have discussions with
an old Orthodox Jew every Friday evening.
Carried this on for months.
And I can remember when I put these
questions to him and shook him to his
deepest depths.
When you know where to go, you can
do the job.
Paul's probing of this peculiar people.
And then at the end of the chapter,
he brings us perplexing pictures of this peculiar
people.
And then puts some powerful points to this
peculiar people.
And so there are the headings of the
second half of chapter two.
Now let's really begin.
We're beginning at verse seventeen.
And the first privilege that Paul outlines here
about this peculiar people is, he says, Behold
thou art called a Jew.
Or there's another translation of that phrase.
It says, Behold thou boast proudly the name
of Jew.
You know, this is something that every Jew
is very proud of.
He's proud to be called a Jew.
This name is a name that he's very
proud of.
And you know, in these days in which
we're living, there are people who are proud
of names.
Some Baptists are proud that they're Baptists.
And some Brethren with a capital B are
proud that they're Brethren.
And some of the old Methodists are proud
that they're Methodists.
And of course you can go over the
whole tribe of denominations.
And you get people who are proud of
a name.
You see, this name Jew, it means praise.
It's very closely related to Judah, which means
praise.
And it means one who brings praise to
God.
But it's possible to be proud of this
name.
And it's possible to be proud of the
name Methodist and never know the Savior that
John Wesley worshipped.
Possible.
So we'll have to be careful about these
so-called privileges.
But let's get on with this.
He says, verse 17, Behold, thou darest proudly
they were Jew, and restest in the law.
That is, restest in the fact that he
had the law.
Boy, he would boast about that, you know.
You see, the Jew would tell you very
quickly if you were arguing with him, the
law was privileged.
Isn't it right?
And it's possible for you to have a
privilege just like that and to boast that
you have the law, that you're resting in
having it.
It really belongs to you.
It came to you.
It came from the Jewish nation.
But it's one thing having the law and
the law having you, isn't it?
It's another one.
You know, some people even boast about their
denomination.
Why they talk about, we have a man
that preaches the gospel.
You know, I know folks in this very
meeting who boasted up the street about the
picture we have and our denomination.
Their sinners have said this thing altogether.
On their way to hell, without occasion, boasting
about the gospel that's preached in here.
Man, you're like the old Jew of days
gone by.
Boasting about having something, but the something hasn't
got you yet.
So Paul was getting down to things, wasn't
he?
Watch how very carefully he goes through this.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest
in the law, and makest thy boast of
God.
You know, the Jew always boasts of God.
No wonder the Lord Jesus said, this people
draweth nigh unto God with their lips.
Ah, but their hearts are far from them.
You know, we get a whole lot of
religious people rolled up in religiosity, and they're
just like that.
You see, I'm looking away in the far
day at the Jew, and I'm trying to
bring it over to today, and apply it
to people who attend church.
And they're always talking about going to the
house of God, worshipping at the throne of
God, and singing the praises of God.
And it's only talk, you know.
They don't know God at all.
They're making a boast.
Oh, I know they boast, I say.
But they've never turned to God from their
idols to serve the living and true God.
In fact, the Bible says that.
Is there a religious epithet in the meaning
just like that?
You do a lot of talk, but you're
only an old fallacy on your way to
heaven rolled up in religious fun.
You become God.
Terrible thing to find out, isn't it?
But it's true, you know.
Paul said there were people without Christ, without
God, having no hope in the world.
So Paul knew exactly what he was talking
about when he talked about the Jews.
Of course, there was a time in Paul's
life when he was a Pharisee, and all
these things applied to him, so he knew
it very well.
He said, Behold, thou art called a Jew,
who resteth in the fact that thou hast
the law, and makest thy boast of God,
and knowest his will.
Now this is something that the Jew always,
always brought to the forefront, that out of
all the nations on the face of the
earth, the Jewish nation had the will of
God.
That they were in the very center of
the will of God, and up to a
point they were right, remember.
God chose them out.
God made them a separated people.
God took them for his own peculiar people.
Ah, but friends, it's one thing to know
the will of God, and it's another thing
to be willing for the will of God.
And the old Jew was not willing for
the will of God, why God had to
put him out of the land, down to
Babylon, down to Syria.
He had to judge him again, and again,
and again, because he was unwilling for the
will of God.
And you know, we know sinners.
Sinners who would fight for the evangelical truth.
Sinners who would stand behind the true fundamentalist,
for the lost bits.
And they knew the will of God, the
born, the dead, and the...
for the will of God.
That was...
My dear friends, these are tremendous things.
These are so-called privileges.
Watch this last one, and it's a tremendous
one.
Verse 18, And knowest his will, and approvest
the things that are more excellent, or, as
another translation makes it clearer, approvest the things
that are different, being instructed out of the
law.
You know, the old Jew knew all the
differentiations of truth.
And you know, I know quite a lot
of people, even emerging.
And you couldn't bluff them by telling them
that if the minister sprinkled a drop of
water on their brow, that they would put
their head in a pond, where you could
never get out.
They knew for the difference.
And you couldn't tell them, if you plunged
them in a tank and filled them in
water, you couldn't tell them they weren't careful,
because they knew...
And my dear friends, they're able to differentiate
between these great truths.
And they know beyond a shadow of a
doubt that neither is there another name only
in Jesus.
Ah, but they're not, did you?
Man, the old Jew knew a lot.
But he didn't make a change in his
practice.
No, he was a godless, sinful, God even
had to call him abominable, wretch, on the
sounds of time.
You see what Paul's getting at.
You see, friend, it doesn't make a matter
how many truths you have grasped in your
head.
If you've never opened your heart to the
Saviour, you're still on the way to hell
with the way to heaven in your head.
That's a horror for you, to be on
the way to hell with the way to
heaven in your head.
You see, these privileges, when they're understood, and
when they're known fully and comprehended, and when
they're despised by the heart, my, they only
sink you into a deep old pit.
That's all.
That's what Paul's getting at.
The wrath of God will come upon people
like that, and their hell will be deep.
For there are the privileges of this peculiar
people.
Now, watch the practices.
Paul numbers five practices.
He says in verse 19, And art confident
that thou thyself art a guide of the
blind.
You know, the Jewish nation, well, all its
teachers at least, they set themselves up as
to be the guide of the blind when
times are wrong.
They can rape many of our colleges and
seminaries who've got men at the top who
deny the fundamentals.
They're only blind leading blinds.
That's what they are.
My, the Jews blind themselves and yet profess
to be a guide of the blind.
The Lord Jesus brought this out, it's the
blind that's leading the blind, and you'll both
fall into the pit.
The Lord Jesus can see these things.
And then the Jews profess something else.
Verse 19, And art confident that thou thyself
art a guide of the blind.
A light of them which are in darkness.
My dear friends, there's nothing so horrible in
this world than a man who is blinded
by the God of this world and who
is in the kingdom of darkness and who
is a child of darkness professes to be
light for them that sit in darkness.
Nothing so horrible.
Friend, mind you, we've got a crowd of
them in the fortress in this country.
We've got a crowd of them.
I am a prophet of light.
You are still a slave of light.
My, I know a wee fellow that went
to tell the minister that he had got
saved.
He stood back in horror.
There is no such thing.
Oh, but there is, isn't there, wee fellow.
My, I was there when it happened.
And I ought to know.
I was washed in the blood of the
Lord.
And, you know, the old minister nearly put
him through the wall with anger.
He said, I detest the blood of Christ,
and I detest.
And the wee fellow said this.
He said, take the cup from the table,
mate, from the Lord, and move forward.
No, in the back.
But they wouldn't remove the cup, because the
folk would catch them all.
But here's a, here's a man professing to
be light.
He's in the kingdom of darkness and going
down to deeper darkness himself.
God save our prophets.
God save them.
Once again, the professed practitioner said, verse 19,
And are confident that thou dost therefore the
guide of the blind, a light of them
which are in darkness, an instructor of the
foolish.
My, you only need to go through the
Old Testament and find that often the word
fool is there.
My Abner guide of the fool guides.
Can't you see Nicodemus at the rule of
the Jews?
And he comes to Jesus by night, and
the moment that Jesus introduces the great subject
of the new birth, he doesn't know the
first thing about it.
He can't understand to be an instructor of
the foolish in himself.
We've got thousands of them around us.
God save us from them.
Once again, an instructor of the foolish, a
teacher of beds.
My, when some of the Gentiles came as
proselytes to the Jewish nations, my, these old
so-called teachers, they took them under the
wing.
Yes, they were the teachers of beds.
My dear friend, can't you see all this
re-echoing in our age in which we
live?
They've just come down to us tonight.
You just need to substitute the gospel for
the law, and you see them at the
law professing the berith, and that and the
other, and they were as dead as could
be and didn't know God at all, and
were far from Him, and they were blind
leaders of the blind.
And when you bring the gospel in, we're
in the same boat tonight.
Horrible situation, isn't it?
Here's the last thing that they professed.
They professed to have a form of knowledge,
verse 20, and of the truth in the
law.
My, that's where we're living tonight.
We're living in those days, I tell you,
when there is a form of godliness, but
denying the power.
Living like that.
Like this.
So Paul was really hepping out, wasn't he?
He was really getting into the Jew.
Now he begins to apply this.
My, when Paul begins to prove things, it's
powerful.
Verse 21, Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest
thou not thyself?
As you know, friends, without taking time to
apply this where Paul applied it, let us
apply this to ourselves.
And I'm not talking now about modulus, or
dead minister, or old policy.
I'm talking now about real born-again believer.
Do you profess to teach?
Do you apply the teaching to yourself?
That should shake the whole bunch up.
When you profess, it does no good to
my religion without reality.
It will take you to hell.
God wants real men.
Real men.
Really living.
Really standing.
Really witnessing.
Really shining.
Do you profess to teach?
Do you apply the teaching to yourself?
He's come to the bench with a fellow
who tries to tell him about God.
Have you applied this?
Does he see Christ in you?
That's where Paul's getting to with the Jew.
And we're bringing it to ourselves this evening.
What's this?
He says, Thou that preachest, a man should
not steal, but thou steal.
I tell you, that's a powerful one, isn't
it?
I tell you, we're living in days.
You know, I went once.
I told you this before, I don't remember.
I went once to preach in Dublin.
Great big convention.
And I didn't ask enough questions before I
went, and I landed into our Sinless Perfection
Convention.
It was a powerful place for a boy
like me to be, wasn't it?
And they were all very gracious and very
gentle, and they said, Mr. Mullen, you'll be
the last preacher.
That was God that was directing things then,
all right.
My arm had to sit and listen through
two or three stormy messages of boys that
hadn't sinned for twenty years and thirty years
and all the rest of it.
Oh, I never put in such a day
in all my life.
But you know, I was in the corner
now, wasn't I?
And I felt, well, I'll need to take
my coat off in this convention, and I'll
really need to set about a few things.
And I just took about ten messages and
put them into one, and I preached for
about an hour and fifteen minutes, and I
tell you, I shook the place.
And the boys that were behind me, too,
sat back at our table and said, I'm
afraid none of you do.
And when the convention was over, and they
were sort of glad to get rid of
me, one of the fellows who preached the
loudest about sinner protection, he came up very
timidly and he said, I'm going to Belfast.
He said, give me a lift in the
car.
I said, certainly.
He said, Mr. Mullen, I'll only get into
the car with you if you promise that
we won't argue about this.
I said, well, brother, that's up to you.
If you'd rather have it that way, we'll
race to Belfast and talk about the water.
So we talked about everything under the sun,
but we didn't get round to this discussion.
And when I went in with my ticket
up the border and got it punched and
came out and drove the car up to
the next place and got it seen to
there and we went into Ulster again, he
smiled and said, I diddle them fellows, he
said.
I said, you what?
He said, I diddle them fellows.
They'll have six pound of butter in the
bag and you're not allowed to bring it
through.
Only sinless perfection.
I said, brother, whether I promised you to
talk to you about this or not, the
promise is all off now.
Oh, I tell you, this is it, isn't
it?
No!
No, he can't let me in!
Do you see that?
Why, I tell you, it's easy talking on
the platform.
I say that's right!
On the platform.
I say that's right!
Right.
You know, you can make so little of
sin and nothing sin until you bluff yourself
you're not sinning.
Stealing six pound of butter out of the
free spit.
Man, I'm a wretch and I'm no use
but a wooden spoon butter out of the
free spit if I never had it.
My, that won't do.
Listen to Paul again.
Can't he really talk things?
Verse 22, Thou that sayest to man, should
not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?
You know, he knew the Jewish race.
And I think that he knew the Pharisees
inside out.
You see, I'm still persuaded that that day
the Pharisees brought the woman taken in adultery
and the Bible says, taken in the very
act.
They brought the woman and threw her in
the dust.
And they said the law said, she should
be stoned, the law said nothing of the
kind, remember?
That's where a lot of people get wrong
in this wee story.
The law said that the two of them
should be stoned.
But the problem is, why did they leave
the woman when she was taken in the
very act?
They took the man.
I'm still persuaded he was a Pharisee.
And the Pharisees put that poor woman in
the forefront.
And the Lord knew exactly what they were
doing.
Dost thou teach, thou shalt not commit adultery,
and dost thou commit adultery?
My request to you is, we need to
walk this thing straight.
And God expects us to do.
God expects us.
Watch this one too.
This is one that's really puzzling sometimes to
some of the even expositors.
We're at verse 22 at the end of
the verse.
Thou that abhorrest idols.
Did the Jews really abhor idols?
Yes, they did in Paul's day.
You see, God was the first tribe among
the Jews that set up an idol for
the whole nation.
I know the golden calf was set up
away in the wilderness, but we're talking about
them in the land of Plymouth.
And Dan was the first tribe that set
up an idol.
And you know, brought the nation into idolatry.
And because they began to worship idols on
their every green tree, God took them down
to the land of idols, down to Babylon,
and He gave them seven million idols until
He lost it all.
And when they came back, they abhorred idols.
And I'll tell you this, the Jew still
does.
You won't get the Jew back at idols
again.
And I'll tell you this, when the Antichrist
lost the nation, and they give them their
support, the moment that he's set up the
idols, they'll leave him.
They'll know he's not right.
Ah, but the Jew and Paul, they abhorred
idols.
But they could go into these idolatrous temples
and commit sacrilege.
You know what that means?
They would enhance to the body that was
given to idols.
They could do that.
Some people can preach loud, you know, and
do the very thing that they're preaching about
in the quiet.
So Paul's probing, isn't he?
And he's probing very deeply.
Why it would take us to be probed
deeply.
Judgment must begin at the house of God.
Now look at verse 23.
He says, If thou dost makest thy boast
of the law, through breaking a law dishonorest
thou God.
For the name of God is blasphemed among
the Gentiles through you.
My dear friends, I think it's a good
picture.
You could take for an hour from that
text.
But the name of God is blasphemed among
the Gentiles through you.
You know, if you were in the inquiry
room where I spend a tremendous lot of
my time listening to stories of men convicted
of sin, very often you would hear something
like this.
Oh Simone, I really love to be saved.
But we've got a fellow in our office
and he professes to be saved with all
the things that he does.
He's just honoring the name of God before
these people who need God.
Is the name of God being blasphemed among
the Gentiles through you?
Why wouldn't we need to be at our
work at the proper time?
Why wouldn't we need to be honest with
everybody?
Why wouldn't we need to be walking in
a narrow road?
Why wouldn't we need to be kept every
moment of every day of the 24 hours
by the power of the Holy Ghost?
You wouldn't like me to have written over
you from that, would you?
But the name of God is blasphemed.
And how often some of the greatest Christ
and the church of Jesus Christ has tumbled
and the name of God has been blasphemed
from one end of the world to the
other.
My dear friend, it would shake you to
your very foundations to listen to Paul Prober.
You see, he's bringing before the Jews some
things that ought to perplex them.
He says in verse 25, for circumcision verily
prophetess which thou keep the law but if
thou be a breaker of the law thy
circumcision is made uncircumcised.
You know this sign that was given to
the sons of Abraham?
They were all circumcised each day.
I don't need to go in and explain
it for you.
You know all about it, I trust.
But this meant that they were separated unto
God.
It was the cutting off of flesh.
And it meant that this nation was separated
to God.
But what's the use of this sign?
Some of the black fellows they say that
ancient sprinkling takes the place of circumcision.
Well, I don't know how to get the
girls in.
I just don't know.
That's their job.
Because only the boys were circumcised.
You know that.
And I don't know how to bring the
girls in.
But we're not to debate this.
My supposing we allow them off for this
and it's a lie from hell, you know.
Supposing we allow them off for this.
All right, we'll introduce sprinkling.
What use is it if the child doesn't
show you light?
That's a small problem.
Or just look round your whole countryside and
see all the sprinkled ones in the pub
and in the bookies every time.
My Paul was a great preacher.
And there was no dodging what he was
telling us.
Sometimes it lies before our nose and we
miss it, you know.
That's why it's good to be at the
cross.
It's just the word of God we're preaching.
Now, he doesn't just stop there.
He just goes a little bit further.
He says this in verse 26.
And therefore if the circumcision keep the righteousness
of the law therefore if the uncircumcision that's
people who have never been circumcised keep the
righteousness of the law shall not his uncircumcision
be counted for circumcision and shall not uncircumcision
which is by nature if it fulfil the
law judge thee who by the letter uncircumcision
does transgress the law.
You know friend, isn't it a horrible thing
when some poor, destitute soul who's never been
through any who's never been steeped in anything
that's ritualistic lives before his fellow man better
than all the production of the flesh.
We must pay him to that.
You know there are men in this world
tonight and they walk honest and they walk
noble and they walk right.
Remember that won't get them to heaven.
But it just shows you that this ritualistic
stuff never produced them ever.
You see Paul getting down to the finish
of this thing because this to me is
tremendous.
Verse 28 We saw those perplexing pictures as
we passed by.
The name of God was blasphemed and the
law of God was broken and the truth
of God's circumcision was belittled and now he
comes to these powerful points and we need
to take time with him.
He says, for he is not a Jew
which is one outwardly.
Neither is that circumcision which is outward in
the flesh.
You see Paul always had this in his
mind that God looketh not on the outward
appearance.
God was always looking in the heart.
You know that's why God blessed Jacob.
You know one of the most crooked characters
we have in the Old Testament is Jacob.
Oh I know he did many things wrong.
He told lies to his father and he
diddled his brother and he winked his master
and all the rest of it.
But you know all the time when he
diddled his brother and told lies to his
father and he winked to his master all
the time Jacob's heart was longing for the
blessing of God.
I know he was going a long way
about it.
I know all about that.
But God knew what Jacob was after and
he eventually worked with Jacob until he broke
him down and brought him into the blessing
of God.
And when Jacob was finishing his course the
book says he died worshipping on his staff.
That's how he finished it.
Wonderful to finish the last mile down here
worshipping God.
You know friend we need to always watch
the outward appearance.
Mind we can put on a lot of
bluff and polish can't we?
Ah but you don't bluff God you know.
Never bluff God.
God sees your heart.
Thou God seest me.
Never forget that.
We live under the eye of Him and
all things that we do are naked and
open under the eyes of Him with whom
we have to do.
Watch how Paul finishes this.
Verse 29 But he is a Jew which
is one inwardly and circumcision is that of
the heart in the spirit and not in
the letter whose praise is not of men
but of God.
This is true praise.
This is the word Jew coming out of
the...
Ah yes.
He's the real Jew whom God can praise.
You know friends we need to get this
into this day and hour in which we
live.
You know I remember going up this street
not so very many years ago and a
man stopped me one morning and said to
me Mr. Monk can I ask you a
question?
I said yes you can.
He said if a man is casting out
devils every night is he at the peak
of his spiritual power?
I said he may be on his way
to hell.
And you know I can see him stepping
back on the footpath and look at him.
He said how dare you?
Oh I said I would dare all right.
I said I'll show you something the Lord
Jesus said in that book I turned over
to Matthew chapter 7 and it's the end
of the chapter and Jesus said when the
door is shut you know there'll come a
man to your right come a man to
the edge of death and the door will
be shut.
And Jesus said when the door is shut
the master has risen to him and shut
you the door many many will stand without
knocking saying Lord open on us we have
eaten and drunk in thy name and in
thy name we have cast out devils and
in thy name we have done many and
from the other side of the door we
cast the accusers I never You see you
can put on a terrible lot of outward
shoes you know there are people being invited
to communion all over the country and there
are people tripping out to communion every Sunday
and they haven't yet accepted Christ and they're
only eating and drinking damnation to their own
soul it's all a hoax you
know you can give your money you can
build new wings for the church you can
put up new lights in the church you
can give a new bible or church you
can do so and then go to hell
there's somebody in here that God's talking to
there's some farce in this place tonight the
Lord's talking to you and you know where
he's talking to you man you've prayed at
this outward block for a long time and
in your heart and soul you know you've
never yet bowed your knee and truly honestly
wholeheartedly accepted Christ as your saviour because you're
a poor lost sinner going to hell you've
never come to ah yes well I tell
you you know it's the inward thing it's
not the outward thing it's the heart ah
it's with the heart that man believeth onto
the righteousness that's about to be revealed in
this wonderful book of Romans it's with the
heart ah yes friends it's not the letter
you know it's not the old letter my
it's the spirit dear Christian friends from this
night forward let us ask God to fill
our hearts and souls with faith and love
and joy and obedience that wherever we go
we reflect on our obedience just stop this
old bluff and ask God to make you
real for religion without reality take you to
hell tremendous points worth remembering the
next week we're sailing into chapter 3 and
here Paul works so hard to show the
whole world guilty before God and he draws
the man he looks at his tongue, his
throat his heart, his hands, his feet he
shows the disease in every part of the
human being brings the man guilty with every
mouth talk and when he gets the whole
world there he can start and tell them
in the other wonderful chapters of the book
the righteousness of God that can become theirs
by faith in Christ and only by faith
in Christ so we're starting into the real
teaching of the book next week, let's bow
together let's just be still for a moment
or two we're not singing anymore tonight let's
ask God to search you search me oh
God and know my heart today call
me and know my thoughts I pray see
if there be some wicked way in me
dear believer if you must confess something this
evening confess it ask Him to cleanse you
from every sin and to really set you
free from bluff we're all said friends in
the meeting while we're thinking about ourselves and
shaking in our shoes while we do it
art thou that Pharisee in this meeting?
art thou the one who professes so much
and yet tonight you're without God and without
Christ and without hope oh guilty sinner let
me take you to the cross Jesus died
that that burden of iniquity of yours might
be carried away and that you might get
salvation through faith in the Savior who died
and rose again and remember neither is there
salvation in any other oh God thou art
speaking to saint and sinner in this meeting
thou art speaking to teacher and pupil oh
God we want to come before thee Lord
we see you so unworthy at times and
yet Lord just because of the work of
Calvary and our faith in Him who died
and rose again we believers know tonight that
we're accepted in the beloved oh God we
thank thee that a man shall be in
hiding place we thank thee that we can
say this tonight thou blessed rock of ages
I'm hiding in thee Lord we're so glad
we're found in Christ we have nothing nothing
of our own we have nothing to bring
we're destitute we're naked we're undone only in
Christ is our hope oh God thou art
speaking to sinners not self-righteous or pious
or religious for a fatal worker in the
church sitting at the communion table and never
knew anything about the saving grace of Christ
Lord bring that one right through and make
him right with God tonight so that God
can look down and even praise him for
being in Christ let it be in the
heart tonight let it be in spirit tonight
yea Lord let it be real part
us in thy fear and with thy blessing
through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen