just. Critics are examining big changes to the difficult Special Forces course the course soldiers must pass to join the elite special forces has traditionally been very tough but now Army commanders are making big changes to it the goal is to meet evolving national security threats and to shift from a culture that weeds out struggling soldiers to one of the trains them to do better while some special forces say hold on they claim the brass wants to make it easier to pass was a way to boost recruiting numbers and ensure women will eventually qualify and they worry the Green Berets will become weaker and dangerously less capable than ever before. Bresso Fox news some new movies are out this weekend but were they any match for this weekend's top film still number one by quite a bit when you bring me out King he introduced me as Joker more moviegoers introduced to watch Phoenix's scary performance in Joker It made another 55000000 its 2nd weekend in theaters a computer animated comedy opening in 2nd it's hideous It's horrible hits home. That music sound familiar the Addams family making 30 point. 3000000 in 3rd countries this summer haven't you the 4th your own government Trinitarians. Us News Will Smith stars in Gemini man it took in 20500000 abominable forthwith 14100000. Downton Abbey making another 4900000 to finish 5th or Fox News cleanup at a rescue efforts efforts are still underway at the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans after the building collapsed while under construction this man was an eyewitness heard some some noise you know I looked up the street there was here's our Pastor Rick Warren of. The scripture for today's sermon has found in Matthew 15 verses $21.00 through $28.00 Then Jesus went that it's and departed into the coast of Tire and Sidon and behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast and cried and to him saying Have mercy on me oh Lord thou son of David My daughter is grievously vexed with the devil but he asked her not a word. And his disciples came in be sought him saying send her away for she cry if after us but he answered and said I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel then came she and worshiped him saying Lord help me but he answered and said it is not meat to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs and she said truth Lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table then Jesus answered and said into her Oh a woman great is that I faith be it unto the even as that Wilt and her daughter was made whole from that very hour I have been titled this message saved by sovereign grace I am so thankful for this scripture I am especially thankful for the last verse the Lord Jesus gave this woman everything by which she came to him this scripture teaches the sovereignty of God in salvation it teaches the opposition that God's sovereignty naturally raises in the hearts of desperate centers it teaches how God given faith persists in coming to Christ and it teaches that the Lord Jesus Christ admires his own work of faith in those he saves this scripture teaches the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ the main point here is that the Lord Jesus saves sinners by his sovereign grace in spite of what we are and in spite of what we have done it teaches that we are saved in the way of inward trouble and struggle that comes because of inward sin the opposition of the devil the light of all that God requires of me in His Word and in the face of his absolute sovereignty. Grace triumphs over all of these to save guilty condemned and helpless centers isn't this good news consider 1st that this woman's great need drove her to Christ Now this I know from the Word of God and my own experience I will only call when I am needy I only depend on God strength when I have none of my own I only look to Christ when I have nowhere else to go I only believe him when I see that my sin is all my fault and I see that he is the great savior of great centers. But it is Christ who 1st came to Tire and Sidon Notice how he says in verse $21.00 Jesus went then and departed into the coast of Tire and Sidon the Lord comes to where sinners are we only come to Christ because he 1st comes to us Isaiah 651 says I am sought of them that ask not for me I am found of them that saw me not I said Behold me Behold me on to a nation that was not called by my name if you are a believer you know this to be your experience the Lord Jesus Christ sought you when you were not seeking him I was seeking many things even seeking religion but they were all false I did not know God I did not know my last ruined helpless condition and I especially did not know and did not trust God salvation just as those of Tire and Sidon every believer knows this God says Remember the pit that was dig. He comes to me before I come to him he seeks me and then I seek Him I call upon him because he calls me I come to him because he draws me and tells me to come this woman needed mercy she sought mercy and she cried to Jesus for mercy we will never be saved until we come for mercy to Christ mercy is God taking pity on me when my sin deserves his wrath I will only cry for mercy when my sin is all my fault and I see that he is the absolute sovereign that I am in his hands to save or to leave to judgment and that he saves all by himself with no help from me I must look to him in Christ and find everything he demands of me and the answer to God for all my sins only then will I cry for mercy she called Jesus Lord she own him as her sovereign Jesus told His disciples you call me Master and Lord and you say well for I am she called him son of David the anointed king over God's people we need a king to deliver us from the enemy of our sin from the devil from death from this world and from the curse of God's law. We need a king that provides all things for us we need a king their rules over all our enemies especially our sin we need a king that commands our salvation Jesus Christ is that King only he can deliver me from my sin provide everything for me command my salvation and rule me to cause me to believe and walk in His ways I therefore call upon him as the Lord Jesus Christ by him alone God save his people from their sins her daughter was grievously vexed she was troubled tormented by a devil it was for her daughter that she came to Christ believing mothers and fathers have no greater concern than that the Lord save their children the great enemy of her soul meant to destroy her daughter she therefore comes to him who alone can save from evil evil from within evil from without the Lord taught us to pray Deliver Us From Evil but Jesus did not answer her not even a word this begins the experience that sinners have in coming to Christ with their great needs and yet finding God's own sovereignty in salvation to be an apparent barrier only sovereign grace saves we are not saved unless we are saved by sovereign grace. When we hear of sovereign grace especially when we have a great need for this saving grace we become concerned that we might be excluded in left out because our salvation depends entirely upon God's will to show mercy and Christ's saving work to take away the sins of his people and to make them righteous before God and it concerns us that God the Holy Spirit must give life from the dead he must birth us as God's children or we cannot see or entered the kingdom of God He makes children to God as it pleases Him Jesus told us the wind blows where it listeth wherever it pleases the woman then went to Jesus as disciples and cried after them when she heard no word from Christ she went to the disciples when we want Christ to save us and don't know that he has or that he will we may go to men even those men who are his ministers the disciples had seen Jesus ignore her and she was a bother to them so they asked Jesus to send her away they prayed to Christ against her we will never receive from men the mercy and the attention we need and must have from Christ alone in response to what the disciples asked Jesus to do and in the hearing of this woman Jesus answered and said I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel God the Father gave his elect people to Christ for Christ to redeem and bring to glory he made his son a surety for his people. As Jacob been trusted Benjamin to do to stand before Joseph and save Benjamin from prison in Egypt and bring him again to Jamaica so God the Father gave his adopted sons to Christ and trusting Christ to stand before God's justice and answer every accusation even substituting himself for them under the judgment of God that he might save us from the prison of our sin and unbelief and the wrath of God the deception of the devil and at last bring us to glory as his beloved son's God made Christ the surety of his people this is what that means God gave and intrusted them to him God looked to him to answer all for them to pay every debt their sins deserved and to fulfill every requirement for their obedience. The lost sheep of the house of Israel are those throughout time and history that were given to Christ in eternity Christ saves them only he was sent for them only when we hear this we may think that our salvation is less secure less possible because it does not depend in any way upon us but depends entirely upon God's purpose God's eternal will Christ's redeeming work and the sovereign operations of the Spirit of God who gives life and faith as it pleases Him We may hear the truth of this from God's own word even while we have an immediate and desperate need to be saved what should we do. The one thing this woman did was not give up her need was great Christ's mercy is great his power is able to save sinners to the uttermost there is none other willing and there is none other able to save but him so she came to Him in whom alone all of her hope or I like Abraham against hope she believed in hope because the Lord the King and God himself stood before her in human flesh the one Mediator between God and man and she needed salvation for her daughter having her Jesus say that he was only sent to the lost sheep of Israel and knowing that she was not of Israel but was of a well known idolatrous people what did she do she did not say I have not been an idolater like those in my city she did not say I am a believer and I know the right doctrine therefore have mercy on me she did not say I'm a loving mother and have come for my daughter therefore consider my love she didn't say any of these things what she did we must do every sinner who knows what they are that sin is all their fault and who knows that Christ is the absolute sovereign God who alone can save at his will and by His power all these come and worship him so we read here that she came and worship him and what did she say Lord help me. She worshiped him she prayed a perfect prayer yet what did Jesus say what did she hear him say what did she experience in coming in this way to Christ know this well that she truly did worship him she truly did ask for help from him and she truly did ask for mercy for her daughter yet he answered and said it is not right to give the children's bread to dogs he said 2 things by this 1st the bread of mercy is only for the children of God 2nd he called her a dog at this point even before this I would have given up I would have sunk in despair of God's sovereignty being the cause of God leaving me in my sin and turning from me and not saving me but this scripture is given for the very purpose of showing those who are undeserving and naturally not part of God's people who hear of God's sovereign saving grace in Christ come to him as this woman did come to him as this woman did that is the Word of God to us now she answers our Lord and she says truth Lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from their master's table she agreed with Christ all that you say is true you are sovereign I am not part of that nation and that people whom God favors I am not among the children I am a dog she agreed with Christ. This is called Confession confessing what I am is agreeing with God confessing that I am a center that my san is sin against God is agreeing with God It is agreement with God that he saves at his will by his work by His power alone for Christ's sake alone out of his grace alone but what we don't realize as we face the terror of our sins and are frightened by the prospect of God's sovereignty is that the way in which God saves is in the way of faith God gives faith faith is his gift and the faith that Christ gave this woman is his gift to her but faith is not known until it is tried he tried her faith in order that he might blow or a fire him self in his person and his sovereign salvation but also that we might see the greatness of his work of faith in the heart of sinners when God finished creating the heavens and the earth in Genesis 131 he said that he looked upon all that he made and saw that it was very good this is what is happening here Christ has given this woman to know that he is Lord that he is Christ that He is God who deserves her worship and he gave her to know that he alone could deliver her daughter from evil and he had given her to know that the way in which he delivers is by coming to Him in faith but he tried her faith the very truth of his sovereign rule and how he saves becomes an apparent barrier an obstacle. I know I'm a sinner I know I'm a great center I know that I sin because of what I am I know that my nature of sin is the root problem and I know it is all my fault I see that Christ came to save sinners and that he is able to save sinners yet I know that he saved only those God chose from before the foundation of the world and gave to him to die for them and bring them to glory now my experience of this great need and the truth of who Christ is and his accomplished redemption stands before me how can I enter here what am I to do this woman does the right thing she came she cried she worshiped she asked for help she agreed with all that he said about himself and about her she was a dog he is the Lord he saves whom he will but she did not stop when she was weak she looked to him still when all hope with end and hope without was lost she looked to him still when my sin and this world and the threatening peals of God's judgment and the devil himself stand up against my soul what does God given faith teach me to do look to Christ come to Christ believe him see that my salvation is in him alone so she said truth Lord yet the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table I need a crumb of mercy let fall one crumb of your saving mercy and it will be enough I am a dog but I am your dog. When we see the wisdom with which this woman speaks we are amazed yet this is the faith Christ gave her the faith to see him as all and come to him for all when she had nothing and it seemed that even God's own word and requirements stood as a barrier between her and his mercy remember to take up a man came at night and wrestled with him that man was the Lord Jesus Christ the one who is God and Man Christ touched Jacob where he was strong in his thigh when Jacob's thought I was out of joint he held on to the Lord Jesus with a death grip and he said I will not let the go except Bless me you are my only hope I need you to bless me without your blessing I have nothing when he was weak then he depended on Christ alone when this woman was held by Christ as a dog then she took her place as a dog begging for a crumb of his saving mercy our Lord did what he did when he created this world he looked at her faith and said Oh a woman great is that I faith be it unto thee even as that Wilt and her daughter was made whole from that very hour. Christ gave her that mercy that she came to him for he granted to her all that she wanted in the depths of our guilt and helplessness in the face of all that would oppose our souls even in light of what God requires from us in His word repentance and faith and love what is the one thing we must do we must seek all in the Lord Jesus Christ God says in Hebrews $116.00 that the one who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him come to Christ for everything and keep coming faith doesn't come but once Faith comes continually faith is not a decision faith is not accepting jesus faith is looking to Christ and coming to Christ for all faith is finding all in Christ when this woman came in this way even though the revelation of God's sovereign salvation seemed to preclude her her God given faith caused her to come still she kept looking she kept coming in God's sovereignty doesn't keep us from being saved our sin condemns us it is our sin that separates us from God If we are lost it will be all our fault. Do you believe that do you believe that if you suffer the eternal wrath of God for your sin that it will be all your fault the wages of sin is death death is the payback for our sin the only thing that will keep me out of heaven is my own will but the only thing that will bring me to heaven and keep me out of hell is the will of God My Will alone keeps me out of heaven Jesus said in John 539 you will not come to me that you might have life but it is only God's will that keeps me out of hell. Jesus said all that the father gives me shall come to me that is the will of God But our experience in this salvation is to learn over and over that we are nothing but centers our nature and our thoughts and our words and our deeds are full of send it God comes to us in the Gospel of Christ and gives us this saving faith to look only to him and find our all in him and we hear this blessed that promise him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out what is sovereign grace Sovereign Grace is God being God in salvation what does sovereign grace mean perhaps the shortest explanation in Scripture is found in Jonah $29.00 salvation is of the Lord. Listen to what God says about his sovereignty and salvation Romans 9 verses 11 through 13 for the children being not yet born neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him that call it it was said and to read Baca the elder shall serve the younger as it is written Jacob Have I loved but Esau have I hated what is your response to this scripture do we try to explain it away does it make us mad do we Q.'s God of being unfair do we make God to be a villain and ourselves victims all of these reactions and more come from our natural sinful self but faith says and does what this woman said and did this woman came face to face with the sovereign Lord God did she say well if God is sovereign he'll save me no matter what I do so I'll go my way and if I go to hell it will be God's fault if you take part of God's word as true that he is sovereign but use that word to accuse and hate God no sovereign grace means that God saves whom he will and saves how he will and saves when he will and saves because it is His Will sovereign grace means salvation from 1st to last is of the Lord sovereign grace means God does everything in salvation and we are the objects of his saving grace in sovereign grace God wills not man in sovereign grace God decides not man in sovereign grace God chooses not man in sovereign grace Christ died for and actually saved his people from their sins. Not man in sovereign grace the Spirit of God calls dead sinners from death to life in sovereign grace God gives faith to his elect those for whom Christ died we have no inherent faith faith is not natural to sinful men it is only the fruit of the Spirit of God in sovereign grace God keeps and preserves us in faith we do not keep and preserve ourselves in sovereign grace God conforms us to Christ image and presents us to Himself without fault to his and our exceeding great joy salvation is by sovereign grace there is no salvation that is not sovereign grace when God saves a center it is in spite of all that we have done in spite of all that we are and on the ground of the obedience and blood of Jesus Christ alone and by the almighty power of the Spirit of God through the preaching of the gospel of his grace the sovereignty of God does not keep me from salvation it is the sovereignty of God that saves I would not and could not choose Christ but God chose his people before time began he gave them to Christ to save and our Lord Jesus Christ died for them. Jesus Christ is a God and man God took the offense of our sin that separated us from Him He took it in his own person the person of his son and bore it and his own real human body and soul this is sovereign grace he does all not only does my salvation depend only on his will and choice and not only is my salvation only because Christ actually made atonement for all my sins and perfected me forever by his offering to God but he must bring the news of this sovereign saving grace to me and persuade me of my guilty ruined lost and helpless condition and convince me that he has done all to save his people that he actually purged their sins by himself and he must give to me and cause me to come and look to him alone and looking to Christ I find all that I must have to be delivered from evil I find that all I need has already been given me before the world began in Christ and all that he did in living and dying is all of my salvation I therefore come to him and call upon Him and trust Him only and when all inside of me and all that is outside of me tells me there is no hope for me I look again and see that he has answered God with himself for all that God requires of centers and I take his word to my bosom that Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out and I see in this woman that he gives mercy to those who thus come and so I look to him I believe him and I rely on him alone for everything in my salvation. Even and especially this saving faith that enables me to see that my savior is sovereign and can save this perverse sinner in spite of all that I am because from 1st to last he saved by his will by his work by his call by his perfecting by his preserving grace and this alone glorifies God. As the hammer writer said love with everlasting lead by grace this love to know gracious spirit from above has taught me it is so oh this full and perfect peace oh this transport all divine in a love that cannot see I am his and he is mine. You just heard a sermon by our Pastor Rick Warren you may contact us by email. Or download a copy of the sermon by visiting our website at y s Grace Church. To. See. God's. Grace Church would like to invite you to listen to a sermon by Pastor dawn. Danville Kentucky for information about how to obtain a copy of this sermon please visit our website Ask Grace Church dot com And now here is Pastor Dawn Fortner. Great God who woulda and it is a. Great Justice and exactly what he does or justice never considers. Age or. Justice never considers extenuating. Justice he has every May and exact. That which is his do it shows no favor he gives no mercy grace grace is the free favor of God toward us in Christ it is unmerited unwarranted and unexpected grace is purely a matter of charity that's all it is a matter of fact the word charity comes from the word that is commonly translated grace it is purely a matter of charity exercise some have been made and spontaneously arising purely from the heart of God God's grace and mercy toward us has nothing to do with what we are what we do it is all together God's sovereign that arising spontaneously from his heart it is attracted by nothing in us but repelled by everything about us divine grace is God's free favor bestowing all of the gifts of his kindness mercy and love upon last 'd centers for Christ's sake. It is not just shown to those who have no merit Grace is shown to those who have much the merit it is not merely bestowed upon the ill deserving graces bestowed freely upon the hell deserving if ever we grasp the gospel if ever we understand the teaching of this book with regard to God's free sovereign grace in Jesus Christ then all notion of merit will vanish from our hearts we may be made to understand that the creature has absolutely no merit before God Almighty none whatsoever we we deserve nothing from God but His wrath let me make that is personally I possibly can if I could if I could sit down beside each one of you non-brand your shoulders and look you square in the eyes I want you to hear me just like I was talking to you at that you deserve nothing from God but eternal damnation you understand you have no merit before God Almighty you have no where they forgot all mighty except as the objects of his just wrath that's true of you and that's true of me we are justified listen now relay by His grace by grace are you say salvation is the work only of God's free grace in Jesus Christ the scripture tells us that as plainly as and has repeatedly as it possibly can throughout the Old Testament as well as the near Now there's an old saying one picture is worth a 1000 words Well let me give you one picture turn to 2nd Samuel Chapter 21 and verse 7 David has killed the last sons of Saul house. Remember Saul did not honor the treaty made with Israel made between Israel and the Gibeonites And now because of Charles' treason against the give unites God requires David to give to the Gibeonites that which they require they said we'll have 7 sons of Saul give us his 7 sons will hang about and that put an end to the matter and to David takes all the last 7 Psalms except one and he was the 8 he was the one son who didn't count he was one son nobody looked at it was the one son nobody cared for he takes all of us all sons except Mr Bush and hangs them up to die as a matter of divine justice the slaughter of small fans was justice the slaughter of Saul Sands was exactly what was due to stand fast as a matter of right justice and truth now look at the text 2nd Samuel 21 verse 7 but the king spared the bush but God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us by grace he has saved us through Jesus Christ the Lord. The king spat with the Bushes the son of Jonathan the son a saw because of the legs that was between them between David and Jonathan the son of saw now who was this prince Mr Bush if he is Jonathan's last surviving son the last living survivor of Sal's royal house when the news reached the palace that Sal and Jonathan both were slain on the battlefield to blow up the Finnish Yes nurse picked a map you just brought 5 years old and she she played for refuge to get out of the way for she knew a certainty that the hassle Shadows Fall on and sorrow son in the customary manner would surely be slain and so she fled with the baby seeking that same his life but as she did in her panic the baby fail and when a fairly crippled both esteem and he was from that day own lame on both his feet after him back with me if you will to the passage we read earlier in 2nd Samuel Chapter 9 when you open those passages scripture 16 years had now passed since David and Jonathan had made their covenant together you can read about that covered in Chapter 21 a 1st Samuel Law Chapter 20 rather for same you I think it is longer verses 14 through 17 or 18 Jonathan knew that God had given the kingdom to David and he knew that in order for God to give the kingdom to David he had that he understood that Jonathan understood that he was going to be killed one way or another and he was perfectly content because he loved David but he took David aside he said Now David swear to me swear to me that you will be merciful gracious and kind to my sons after they swear to me that you are not destroyed by halves and David said I did and the love between Jonathan and David were told in scripture was greater than the love of a man and a woman one for another Jonathan loved David as his own soul and David loved Jonathan as his own so. And then a 2nd time Jonathan called David out in the field when he when he understood that the kingdom was about to be taken from the House of Saud he said in a David we may cover this where he had to swear to me that you will not destroy my family and so they even now seeks an opportunity to fulfill His Covenant responsibilities to his beloved companion Jonathan and he sent for Mr Bush and brought him to the king's palace I read this text the scripture and I have I think to myself if I had been the bush and I had been in hiding all these years and suddenly I found that the king found out where I was. I suspect if I had if I could still get anywhere to do so I'd crawl into a hole invited had some more that's exactly what happened when I found out God had failed me when I found out God I was a part of me. Must have trembled terrified he must've been horrified the king has found me and says for me to come to the palace now that was an invitation this man was king and I've got to go to the palace whatever he does to me he's the king I've got to go to the palace and then I think to myself when a blasted surprise has this man. When he thanked them for David and said Behold the servant here I am in your hands you're the king of your servant you can do whatever you want to and David saw the fear and trembling on his face he said. Don't be afraid I'm not back you need to destroy you I've got you here to be merciful to you to the kindness of God to you for Jonathan saying. Now follow along with me as I show you have the story sets forth the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ behind the noble kindness of David toward Mr Bush in the gospel of God's marvelous grace towards us shines forth most beautifully when the poor crippled son of Jonathan was baffled little batted use of them and made to sit at the king's table you will see as we go through the story that their words could never begin to express this man's gratitude and when a slain to say an unsaved is set free from the curse of God's law and set free and righteousness to serve he has this crisis the Lord made to be an heir of God and joy care with Jesus Christ may just say at the king's table is one of the king's songs in turn it to yourself will be insufficient to express the gratitude that is due to his name from our own word the hearts David's kindness then to Jonathan our commitment to shepherd Jonathan say is a beautiful clear picture of God's loving kindness and tender mercies to centers for crushing the Michaud you who go alone I'll call your attention to for 5 things 1st Mr Bush f. Shows us God's grace and mercy by displaying his condition with Little Chef was it a very miserable condition when the King sought him out he was half a gatherer unworthy of David's attention his regard or his favor but they did freely show kindness to Mr Bush as for Jonathan saying he didn't have a thing to do with this is bullshit. They didn't even know who bought the book it was until it brought him into it that he wasn't even aware of the famous us existence until they brought him into his palace so his kindness where this man had absolutely nothing to do with this man himself it was all together for the sake of another for Jonathan sink and so it is that God Almighty grace and mercy to us not because of us but because of Christ Jesus His Son for Christ's sake and his condition that business us condition is a pretty good representation of our condition by nature his name if the Bill Scheft mean shameful shameful is given another name in the book of 2nd Chronicles measured by all that is it is a quarrel or of shame. Mean shameful and a shameful thing he was he was poor destitute helpless Well indeed may all the sons and daughters of Adam wear the name method. That your name that showed that shortening my name Bush a shameful things we are this is what Scripture says we are all as an unclean thing doesn't mean we've got some smudge isn't fingerprints on us. Our shine my shoes or this one I came back in has actually taken a shower and had some black polish on my finger that's not what's the matter has never come out as told about. I don't clean as one who has not only fallen into an open sewer one who has reveled in the open sewer and comes out for others and an appeal to the nemesis Mr Buffet and the mechanic Wow You never discussed Bobbie Esther's that's what you are who God Almighty by nature. An unclean thing the stimulus from the so early of the 1st even to the crown of the hair there's no soundness in us but wounds and bruises and putrefying sing sores man at its best the stage and manganese that is banished 3 piece suit in comes to church on Sunday morning with a Bible tucked under is our man at his best estate is all together man and just a puff of wind a shameful thing like the leper we have an incurable disease back to high but we are defiled your name and mine is myth image you have a shameful thing in our in will in Word in deed change for me to share with not only Shane for he was the king the enemy this man who'd want to salsa a natural enemy to David having from David that David wasn't his enemy but he was David's enemy. This man was one who will represent all of God's elect in this world by nature we are the sons of Adam and all the sons of Adam are the enemies of God The Scripture says the carnal mind is. Against God Now that doesn't mean that the Condamine has some some objection to God that's not really all it means the carnal mind the kind of heart every thought every aspect of your reason every aspect of yourself every aspect of your being despises God Almighty or man hates God that's I'm a teacher now I don't mean by that me and hate their notions of God They like the little rabbit gods they like the little totem pole God they like a little god they can use whatever they want to they they like their ideas and notions about God cause they make their god like themselves can opinion Sequim main things you can take his God and do with him what he will and so love that idea of God but man by nature despises the fact that God My sense on the left is claim of heaven and you are in his hairs and either save you or Damn you it's all together here man despises the fat the God is perfectly right just and demands perfect righteousness he is perfectly holy and demands perfect holiness man by nature then is God's enemy and we were like the people here hiding from God when He saved us but God never was never really and never shall be the enemy of his people. I get letters from folks who try to get things sorted out theologically in a. Thing about God's immutability it's about the Scripture says we're children of wrath even as others the Scripture says we were in a mist of God knocking but as the Scripture says we were in our works children of wrath even as others and in our minds in enemies to God Almighty the problem was not with God The problem with us and we lived in this well from my youth going clear from my mother's will speaking live with that is just when God's knew but God never was angry with his people God never was looking on his servant as the objects of his wrath you see in salvation God does not he does not seem to be the half he takes the less the question is rather than in his place and must always look upon his children as the objects of his love and favor and Grace looks on us in Christ from the foundation of the well that way and slain the poor girl began just as God looks around us in mercy and grace and then reconcile that when we were yet enemies by the death of his son now he besiege is lost lane my question centers to be reconciled to him. He sent me here today to preach the gospel of his Grace to you and as he does this is what he says he says stretched out my home and I call to you and mention. God condescends the step beyond the message to get to do then sense and calls us reconciled to. God you couldn't. Quit your rapid change start you can't possibly way and be reconciled to God You see the problem with unbelief is not that many women do not just simply do not believe that Jesus came all that Jesus is the Son of God or that Jesus died at calvery The problem is that you hate God and you believe in his face now whenever you are whenever you reconciled to God you take this to his face and you babble for him and so behold I show. Mr Bush yes. This man became lame through a fall the converse 3 here 2nd Samuel 9 you can read of the actual event itself in 2nd Samuel Chapter 4 verse 4 but here we are told the king said is there not yet any of the houses Sabbath I may show him the kindness of God and Him and Ziba said into the King Jonathan has the other stone which is lame own history that's pretty good picture of us God created man of pride but we fail and when we parent our Father Adam we became lame spiritually altogether help with spiritual as 3 now Savior says no man can come into me. I know folks like to latch on to the text where he says you will not come to me that you have lied and that's true you want those you want but the problem is not just with you wail the problem with you will is in your ability no man can come to me because you're lame spiritually you don't have the ability to decide for Jesus you have the ability to decide to come to class you have the ability to lift yourself in the gates of hell to the gates of Paris no man can come to me except the Father which has sent me draw here a preacher you keep preaching right there you make us think Will you shut up to God's message and the salvation bad together after him it has nothing to do with I wish my decision I wish you had exactly what I said either God Almighty will come your way and call you by His grace or your pass you by and it's totally up to him totally up here and if you Bashir was in a far far country the reverse for the king said desirable when is it and Ziba said to the king behold he is in the House of Maker the son of m e l in the d. Bar the symbol he has was a long way off from the king far away from Jerusalem he was down and loaded by there was no prophet that the preacher down there he was far from the place a Blessing Far off in the place of sacrifice all from the place of work. From God down in the House of Maker the where maker means so. We've sold ourselves to Satan members a boy will move. Our affliction come on and talk about men making a deal with the devil we made a deal with the devil a long time ago we sold our soul to the devil. So are our souls in bondage to see him and I father at him and every day we leave him in rebellion to God use who are without faith in Christ you're not in a position of indifference you said here this morning for whatever reason but you said here this morning didn't he used to contain Yes a path of rebellion and hatred against God I might add selling yourself willingly into bondage a loaded bar it means the place of no bread no bread you remember that product. He wasted his substance in riotous living and he would join himself to a citizen of that country not guilty to join himself to a self-righteous legal is preacher and he said you want to go back your father has you work your way back in his good graces complete model and he went to the man dogs and he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did he that had no possibility of that happening when will you learn when you are loaded are no brain is written across the fields of this world I'm all right but there is no satisfaction for our souls here in this world at the lady of the. Oh I love that girl and she loves me but one of these days that's going to cause a lot of dissatisfaction for one of us or that one of these days of we're going to part one another. And little girl over Lexington. I love that girl but there's no satisfaction for my soul that's just temporary that grand baby we're expecting. I expect we'll go back crazy by the us doesn't get grandchildren but there's no satisfaction no satisfaction. There's no satisfaction for your immortal soul in this well we've ever been if not in husband or wife or son or daughter our grandchildren suddenly not and all the money in the bank of a house you can bet and all the property you can amass no satisfaction no if you seek put in this world you'll never find God status the solitary in families he brings out going to Bam with chains but the rebellious dwell in a lie. For God since I am 16. Man you used to live in your rebellion against God in you you seek satisfaction in your pleasures and then your last time in your ambitions and you I'm gonna make up for myself and that's what I'll show everybody you live in a dry. Land. Ain't I wouldn't that wouldn't pursue the folks who didn't like it. There's no satisfaction here no satisfaction Secondly the feeble shit shows us God's grace and his calling he was called by the name of the 1st. Then King David sent and fetched it fetched him out of the house and make the son of any elf Motiva David some material share and fetched Matilda share he didn't estimate he would pretty please like to come he fetched it and when God the Holy Spirit comes to last doomed them centers the only way they ever come to Christ is him to fetch them thank God for his fetching Grace he said his spirit to seek and find his people who have strayed far away from him and he always finds them he always brings them how he says follow me and they follow him he says come and they come. The fibber chicane to David and reverent submission in verse 6 he fell on his face and did reverence and David said Mr Bush yes and he answered behold that I said. This man came into David and he knew his only hope was that they would be merciful that what he did is he just he threw himself that they could see and when they would spoke. I'm going to do with me what you will and believe it broke his status by saying the famous Yes Fear not I will surely show the kindness I wonder if you can believe that hell will you oh will you now cast your shadow at the heat of King Jesus as his servant in the hands of this great king I promise you if you will if you will it's because he stretched you to himself and he'll be Seaview just like they did receive Mr Boucher miscible Sheth was received in all his deformity just like he was without any improvement. Without any shame they didn't see this poor people had and the Lord probably 3 feathers in Christ but as. With the Ok and with no correction with nothing that they did to me and thereby. Remaining u.s. 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