Chapter one. Now, it never fails that when someone tells you they're going to come to the services. They don't show up. Quite often, you tell me someone is coming and you talk to someone and say they're they tell you they're coming and you're excited about it. You want them to come. I want them to come. But invariably they don't show up. And I'm a human being, you know, I think of certain ones and visitors coming and while I'm preparing a message and I think they're going to need to hear this. I think this will be good for them to hear. I don't know who's going to show up. I hope the Lord brings somebody new in to hear the gospel. And while I'm prepared and I think that I can't help but think that all this will be good they'll like they'll know I might not like this but they need to hear this well they didn't show up. But you did and you've heard these things a thousand times same old same old. But you've told me, John, time and again, don't change the message. The first Corinthians, as we say at Corinthians, Corinth is a city, modern city back then, that had all the problems that we have today. These were people like you and me. fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, who, by the grace of God, by the grace of God Almighty, they heard the gospel through a faithful, true, God-sent preacher named Paul. They heard this gospel from him. God sent him to preach. And they believed, some of them, by the grace of God, believed God saved their souls and raised up a church. in the middle of this decadent, ungodly city named Carth. No different than now, is it? And they were in the minority. They were just a—it may have been fairly large, but not comparatively small compared to religion. Ron, the place was full of religion, like a modern city is. All sorts of religion. But this church was in the minority. They believed the truth. God had turned them from their idols to serve the living and true God, the gospel truth, Christ. And this letter is addressed to them. This is God's Word through a man, but it's God's Word, and it's to us. He begins, verse 1, Paul. Paul. No titles. No title there, is there? There are people all over the land today who are sitting under men who hold grave titles, who insist upon having them and being called by them. Reverend so-and-so, Bishop so-and-so, Doctor so-and-so. Paul the Apostle was the greatest man to live other than our Lord and perhaps John. But he said, Call me Paul. Call me Paul. Some of you call me pastor out of respect. I appreciate your attitude but I am not comfortable with that. I really am not. I don't feel worthy of the title. You do it because you're respectful and I appreciate that. But I'll never get comfortable with that. You men pray for me and pray for your pastor. I'm so thankful you consider me as such. But it just, I cringe when I hear it. I really do. Paul. Paul. And he says in verse 1, Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God. Nearly every single epistle that Paul wrote begins this way. Paul, he doesn't say the Apostle Paul, that's a title. And I sometimes say that wrong Paul the apostle. That nearly every epistle he writes begins this way Paul called to be an apostle by the will of God nearly every single one I look at that. Look at Galatians with Galatians one that we've been looking at and that is on purpose. Paul is defending or rather confirming his call to the ministry. His call to preach that it was indeed of God, that Christ actually chose him and called him. And I need to hear that. I need that confirmed in me. I need to know. I need to believe, you do, that this man named Paul, though he was just a man, Yet, Nancy, he's God's man. God chose this man. God called this man. He's God's man. He's Christ's apostle. He didn't make himself that way. I need to know that, don't you? He wrote a... God used him to write a lot of scripture. And I need to know and believe that this is not the words of a man. Not of any private interpretation. But this holy man of God was moved by God. And this is indeed the word of God. So as to not call into question what's written. Not argue and say it's just the words of a man named Paul and you can take it or leave it. No. No. So we need this confirmed in us. And to a great degree, you need it confirmed in you that the man you're listening to right now. Again, I tremble to say this. But if this is not of God, people, we'd better get out of here. Honestly. Right? Galatians 1, Paul said, in verse 1, he said, Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father. Paul said, I didn't make myself an apostle. I didn't apply for the job, he said. Nobody made me an apostle but God, but Jesus Christ. Look at verse 12. He says, verse 11, I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which is preached of me is not after man, neither received I out of man. Neither was I taught it. Paul didn't go to school to learn it. All you go to school to get his credentials. One time in the book of First Corinthians, he said, Do I need letters of commendation to you? Do I need degrees? Do I need? Do I need a degree from such and such seminary so that you'll hear me? You know, people need that today. People need that. People need that. They ask me all the time. They ask mostly ask my wife and ask you, Where did your preacher go to seminary? Where did he go to study to be in the ministry? When did he decide to enter the ministry? I ask that all the time. And there's not one man in this book, not one, who went to school to learn to be a preacher, who went and got him some credentials, who decided to be in the ministry. Not one. Yet all these fellows out there, and Feller, Fellinas, Go to school and go after it. Now, that's not of God. There's not one in this book. Not one, Sherry. And Paul said it this way. He said, we have this treasure in earthen vessels. Vessels of clay. Men just like you. They saw the fishermen. They said, we know these men. We went and bought fish from them. We know Simon. I bought a mess of fish from him. Where'd he get this knowledge? Where'd he get this wisdom? Where'd he get this authority by which he preached? They've never learned letters. They've never been to the school of Gamaliel. They've never been to these schools that we've gone to. Where'd they get this? Paul said that the excellency of the power might be of God. so that you clearly see this fisherman couldn't do that himself. God must have called him. Every man I know, every true preacher I know, is a nobody from nowhere whom God raised up, called, equipped, sent, blessed, and proved. Brother Scott Richardson is a prime example. Fifty-some years, he's a coal miner. He worked in a coal mine in West Virginia. There's not one in a million persons in this country that you would give a dime for a coal miner from West Virginia, let alone sit and listen to him. But, buddy, he's God's man, of whom the world is not worthy, Brother Henry, not worthy. no less than Elijah. That's right. No lesser than Isaiah. Who was Elijah? Who was Elisha? Elisha was a farmer. A farmer. They said, they called To be an apostle, go back to the text, no prophet or apostle or preacher decides to be one, applies for the job. You don't want a man who you hire. That'd make him a hireling, wouldn't it? Well, if something happens to me, You don't want somebody who really wants this job. Oh, you don't. You sure don't want somebody who is going to be a step up for. No man, I know. Preacher. Really called and blessed of God who didn't make a great sacrifice to go preach where he went. Not one. Not a step up. Sacrifice. Christ called those apostles and every one of them had to leave homes and families and make great sacrifices. Oh, but the Lord blessed them. Greatly blessed. You don't want a man who seeks this job. You want a man like Moses who said, Don't send me. There's other men more capable than me. Honestly. Something could happen to me. And you don't want a man who wants this job. You want somebody whom God's necessity is laid upon. But he said, I am called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, as is everything. Everything's by the will of God. Everything's by the will of God. Nothing is up to chance or fate. Nothing is up to the will of man. I quote that that proverb all the time, don't it? Quoted all the time. The law is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. That thing is by the will of man. Man proposes, but God disposes. What will you do? Here's a lot is cast in the land. Here's what I will do. You will do what God has already willed to be done. That's the way this whole world operates. Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad? That gives his people peace. It's not out of control. It's under divine control. Everything ordered and sure and nothing can change it. Aren't you glad? By the will of God, and he brings up this fellow named Sosthenes, our brother. He includes this man Sosthenes, the Lord had him include his name there, our brother. They knew, Corinth knew, if I said this, if I was writing a letter to you and I said Paul and Tom Hardy. And to the church at Central you you know that while you love him you know when you know all about him or something about me and you love me a man you steam highly what I knew this stuff today and who he was was he was a former Jewish leader of the synagogue. The story is found back in Acts chapter 18, but he was in Corinth, living in Corinth, and he was a Pharisee, I guess, a leader, a ruler of the synagogue, a religious man who the Lord saved him through Paul's preaching. Paul was there 18 months, and the Lord saved this leader, this Jewish rabbi or whatever he was, Kelly, the Lord saved him from religion. And. He joined with Paul and he he he loved Paul supported Paul and you know what happened. The rest of the Jews took him and beat him. Beat him up. For the truth. He suffered great persecution. He was hated for the truth's sake as all Christ said as all his disciples will be. He said you shall be hated for my name's sake. Now you think Sosthenes wanted to be beaten up? You think he wanted people to hate him? No. But he was, and it's just a sad fact that people hate the truth and hate those who proclaim it. They become their enemies. Why? For telling the truth? Yes, they do. People hate them. Men aren't the only real honest men there are. You know what? The only real honest men there are, and yet people hate them for it. Sad, isn't it? The only men that are really In it, Henry, for the glory of God, not for their own glory, but the glory of God coming in the name of God, in the name of Christ. Wanting people's souls to be saved, not wanting their money, wanting their souls to be saved. You have to pay them for it. Say it, isn't it? It's true. If there's no hatred, there's no truth. You know that? If there's no persecution, there's no truth. If everybody thinks, well, a sweet little preacher so-and-so, he ain't telling the truth. And nobody wants to be hated. Sassanid was beaten up. And the people at Corinth, these other blessed believers, this man was their friend then, their brother. And so Paul says, and Sassanid. At the mouth of two witnesses, two or three things established. Are you with me? I'm talking about here, and I'm just talking about a man who was beaten up, almost lost his life for the gospel sake. We're living in a lap of luxury with no persecution, with no trouble at all. There's just very little cost. So, you know, it's not just a name. It's not just a name. If we'd look carefully at God's Word, these people knew. And so they sat up. As they read this letter, Jeanette, Paul wrote, insostinate. Oh, how is he? They sat up and listened. And verse 2, he says, unto the church of God. The church of God, church, church, this is not a term to be thrown about, used lightly. Church, it's all through scripture, but it's not to be used lightly. Church is not a building. I'm trying, I long ago began to try to quit calling these buildings churches. Church is not a building. Church is not an organization. But it's the elect, redeemed people of God. Those of God in Christ. God's blessed church. The word is a precious, endearing term, Brother John. Church. I hate the way it's bandied about today. I hate it. I hate it. Especially when they refer to false religion as the church at Rome. Oh, it's not the church. It's the great whore. I just quoted the Bible. It's so strange today in this area that when you say something like that, they say, oh, you shouldn't say that. What do you mean? I shouldn't say what God's Word says? Oh, through Revelation calls it the great whore. It's not the church at Rome. It's the great whore. It's Antichrist. This is unto the church of God. God's church, God's family, go back, go to Acts chapter two with me. Acts chapter two. I'm losing some of you. I don't know why. Oh, it's not by might or my power, is it? It sure not. By the spirit of God. The church of God, God's church, God's people, God's family. Acts chapter 2, and I hear this all the time, and some people say it ignorantly, but they say, so-and-so joined the church. You don't do that. Nobody does that. You don't join God's family. Any more than a little child decided to join his mother and father. You know, join the church. Salvation. What we're talking about, being included in the kingdom, the family of God, we're talking about salvation is being put into God's family by a supernatural, amazing work of God's grace. It's a new birth. You must be, our Lord said, marvel not. Don't think this strange. You see how a man born of a woman must be born. Well, marvel not. Why should this be strange to you? Marvel not when I said you must be born from above. This is God's family. You didn't decide to get in your mother's womb. You don't decide to get into Christ. You don't get saved. Somebody saves you. splitting hairs or arguing over words. This is a difference between truth and error, between salvation and religion. You don't join the church. Salvation being put in the church is God. First Corinthians is going to tell us this. Chapter one, verse thirty-one says, Of God are you in Christ. Be in Christ, be in the church. his body. So I've got Acts chapter 2 verse 47. And I promised myself I wasn't going to holler and scream or get too excited this morning. You shouldn't promise yourself anything. But verse this, I'm very passionate about this. I hope I never cease to be. I'm ashamed of my preaching for the most part. I'm not just, this is not a job with me. Verse 47, he says, the church was praising God and having favor with all the people, and the Lord added to the church, daily, such as should be saved. The Lord added to the, you don't join the church, the Lord puts you in Christ, in His body, in the church. Daily, such as should be saved. What does that mean? that deserved, oh no, not deserved to be, but that should be according to his covenant, according to those he chose in Christ before the foundation of the world, put their names in the Lamb's Book of Life, they should be saved. Yes, they will, in time. They'll be put, added to the church. Well, here's so-and-so's name in the book, he should be saved. Yes, and he will. That's what that means. And overnight thirteen forty eight who many corrupt who corrupt the word of God turn this around but it says in acts thirteen forty eight as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. And many turned that around these these charlatans twist the word like Peter said turn it around to actually say as many as believe were obtained to turn a lot it doesn't say that. that as many as were ordained to eternal life by God himself believe. And the Lord adds to his church. So he's writing here, I told you I didn't get past the first two verses, to the church. So if you're in the church, oh, blessed are you. You've been joined, been joined to Christ. And he says, he's writing to the church. Now this book is written to and applies to the church. First Corinthians is written to the church. And he says on down there in every place, verse two, those in every place that call upon the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, the church everywhere. Over in the book of Revelation, you've read those letters, haven't you? At the end of every letter at the beginning it says to the angel at the church of so-and-so, Laodicea, Philippi, so on, Ephesus, unto the church. That is to the angel, that's the pastor, the preacher, God speaks through that man to the church. Well, to the church, God's people. It's not to the world. This letter is not to the world. All this, this letter's full of warnings, rebukes, reproof, corrections, instructions. It's full of comfort, full of promise after promise, blessed, blessed promises. It's not to the world. It's to the church. And then the revelation at the end, he says, He that heareth, let him hear what the Spirit sayeth to the churches. And you've heard me say this so many times, and you're so blessed. Margaret, very few people know this. But God's Word doesn't apply to everybody. It's to the churches. And these fellows are out there telling everybody, without exception, these things. And they're lying on God, and they're lying to people. and that makes him a liar. This is to the churches. This is to the church. This is to the redeemed, God's people. God's Word has very little to say to anybody other than believers except repent. And those whom God Almighty grants repentance, it's the goodness of God that leads one to repentance, not the preacher. not the revival, the Spirit of God, those whom God grants repentance toward God, that's who it's toward, but what they are, not just what they've done. And faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I mean faith, true belief in Christ, looking to him and him alone. Those whom God Almighty grants that to—oh, there's blessed promise after promise—to the Church and to the churches. I'm right. Church at Central or Franklin Street, or whatever the name, God knows. All the promises. And you've heard me use the other way, I'm not going to give it again. Verse 2, he says, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. Three things here he says that are a description of salvation. description of what it means to be in the church or say he says sanctified in Christ called and calling. And they call three things all right that's what we're going to dwell on for the next few minutes OK. I've only been thirty minutes. Sanctified in Christ called sites sanctified the word sanctify Means this nearly every time you see it, it means it set apart for holy use. The word consecrate is a similar word. It means chosen by someone and put to holy use, put to good use of no use before. Unholy before no good for anything or anyone, but. Somebody. Made something out of it. Sanctified. Set them apart. Plucked as a brand from the burning. Made a difference. Sanctified. Set apart. Chosen discriminately. Boy, our world hates that word, doesn't it? It shouldn't discriminate. God's word is discriminating grace. God's salvation is discriminating grace. Doesn't mean discriminate against anybody. But for some. If he doesn't. A sanctification here is to be set apart by God. Go to 2 Thessalonians with me. 2 Thessalonians 2. It does not say, it did not say, those who sanctify themselves. unto those who sanctified himself he did not say that. It says to them that are sanctified the huge difference in. That means somebody else did it to you. Them that are sanctified second Thessalonians two oh you know and love this verse you know what verse I'm going to don't you. But them that are sanctified, this sanctification is often spoken of throughout the scripture. In fact, it's really the theme of this book. You could say that the whole thing of salvation is about God sanctifying some human beings. set him apart, created in Christ Jesus unto good work, holiness, set apart for holiness, holy you, set apart. The theme of God's will, it began with Israel of old, that bunch of no good brothers of Joseph, remember them? Boy, they were worthless, weren't they? But God. Those are the ones he chose. Sorry lot, weren't they? Israel of old Jacob really started with Jacob Abraham idolatry son as Jacob. But it started with Israel of old and all the way through God's word how God chose a people set him apart. Same as election you know that same select set apart over the exodus eleven it says you're going to know how that God put a difference. This is sanctification. God says, I put a difference between you and the Egyptians. To the natural eye, you can't tell a difference. Before I came, there wasn't any difference. But I'm going to make the difference. Who maketh thee to differ? 1 Corinthians 4, 7, 6. See what all verses we're going to look at, Sherry? Oh, it's a rich book. God, how that God doth put a difference, sanctify, elect according that set him apart, set his love, his mercy, his grace upon, gave them to Christ, put them in Christ to be saved, set apart. Look at 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 13. Paul said this to the Corinthians, I thank God always on your behalf. He says it to the Thessalonians, we're bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren. Beloved of the Lord. You'll never hear a true grace preacher, a true preacher ever get up and thank people for coming. If he does, it's a slip of the tongue. He thanks God, he knows why. The only reason we're here at all, the only reason we love the truth, the only reason is God set us apart. This is what sets apart God's people from the world. They love the truth. They receive the love of the truth. Why? Well, the whole world hates it. Honestly, most of the world hates what we've been saying this morning, don't they? Why do you love it? John, you're sitting there doing this the whole time. Why? I preached at the time, and again, the people were going to knock me out, and if they could, they'd take me down and beat me up like Sassanese. Why do you love it? God made you to differ, John. This is the truth. I'm just reading the Word, aren't I? Why do you love it? You've received from God the love of the truth. We're bound to give thanks always to God for you, John Cheesley. Because God hath from the beginning, look at verse 13, chosen you, election, adoption. Because God, beloved of the Lord, for love, that means love before the world began. God hath from the beginning chosen you to do what? Save you. We're not worth saving, Mack. We're not worth it. But God. The Savior. God's going to... Oh, man. This is reality. The whole world's in for a shocking... Everybody likes reality shows today, don't they? I don't like the reality of the Word of God. And the reality is that Jesus Christ is coming to destroy this world full of people. But God chose you to save you. How? Verse 13, through sanctification of the Spirit, See that? Set you apart. Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Paul have I loved, but Daniel. That's my brother's name. I hope that doesn't apply. I don't even want to say it. Well, you could. You got a brother or sister? Are you any different? Henry, you got brothers and sisters? Were you any different than them? You better than them? Do you love the gospel? They don't. Well, did you decide to love the gospel? Through sanctification spirit, God Almighty sent, one day, in great mercy, of all the towns for you to wind up in, Brother Kelly, sent you here. There's horses, barns everywhere, horse traders everywhere. Why here? But God. set you apart. Huh? Sanctification of spirit. God Almighty said there's one whom I've loved before the world began. Right there. Sitting at a well. Sitting up a tree. Sitting on a horse. Or whatever. In a filling station. Holy Spirit, go. Get him. Fetch him. bring him to me. He's mine. I love him. Tell him I love him. Break his heart. Bend his knee. Open his mouth. Dig his ear. He's mine. Sanctification. A doctrine. Set apart. sanctification of the Holy Spirit, and belief of the truth. See, this is what sets apart God's people. Belief of the truth. Belief of the truth. It's the call. Look at our text, back in our text. Now, that didn't get through the second verse, did it? Called to be saints. It's the call. There are two calls, basically. Two calls. There's a general call. And I wanted to talk to you about the sanctification of the father, son, and spirit. I will. God sets us apart by divine election. The son sets us apart by his blood redemption, his righteousness infused. His son of God died for the elect. His blood was applied to his people. That's called particular redemption. Tell it the world all over. Go ahead, tell them. Jesus Christ died for his sheep, and every single one he died for will be saved. And Jesus Christ imputed his righteousness, too. They are holy, unblameable, and unrepentant. He paid the sin debt. fulfilled the law and made them perfect. Tell it. They don't have any. He has it and he did it. All right, tell them that. And the Holy Spirit also sets apart by this gospel call. He comes, sent by the Father, sent by the Son, through the preaching of the gospel, that's what he uses, and grants repentance, faith, regeneration, a new creature. new birth, birth from above by this seed implanted, righteousness imparted, that is a new nature, fruit unto holiness. It's a threefold sanctification, okay, I said. And they are called, it says, to be saint. This gospel call is twofold. There's a general call and then there's a particular call or effectual call, the old Saints used to call it the old Puritans. Didn't you like that saying? Did you read that saying by the Puritans in a bulletin? I've had that for weeks, been saving it. Did you read it? It says the Puritans were fond of a saying by a man named Bernard, not Barnard, Bernard. Hast thou appealed to the gospel? To the gospel shalt thou go. Don't you like that? Huh? All God's people appeal guilty appeal to the gospel. That's why you got your appealing to the past out within the gospel shall we go. To the law. Well, he said, I say here's two things general call in a particular call our Lord said that here it is many are called. That's a general. But you are chosen. And he said that right after the apostle said Lord are there few that we say. He said how hardly should I have it's harder easier for a camel to go through the eye of an eagle. With man it's impossible. Lord are there few that we say. Many are called. The general call Paul said this in Romans ten. that many like to quote one verse. Don't they John one verse about all I know in Romans ten verse thirteen who serves your call. I don't have a clue where that came from. You do. I've told you time and again where that comes from heaven. That's right. Joel chapter two verse thirty two. Can't just quote one verse. Well In Romans ten. It says that all says have they not all heard. This faith come about here have they not all heard yes barely the whole word sounds gone throughout all the earth even to the ends of the world. And now more than ever have they not all heard. There's a zillion copies of this all over the planet. I venture to say there's not a country or nation anywhere on the top side of this earth that doesn't have a copy of it. Not one. Have they not all heard? Yeah. Now, the call is not an invitation. This general call, and you go ahead and look it up in your concordance or whatever, when it says bid them, that's not invite. It does not say that. It's by design that he never says invite, because it's not an invitation. It's a pronouncement. You see, kings never, no sovereign who's ever lived has ever asked anybody to hear him, let alone the king of kings. God doesn't invite people. And I will take issue with any man that says so. It's a pronouncement. It's a declaration. God commandeth. Didn't that say that, Brother John? Commandeth men everywhere to do what? Repent. Doesn't ask you to repent. Does a judge sit on the... Brother Ed, does a judge sit on the throne and ask the man to plead mercy? A guilty death row criminal? Call it red-handed. If you'll let me, I'll have mercy. How ignorant can you get? This gospel call that all have heard is a proclamation. It's a shame God's not a beggar and His men aren't either. No, sir. We don't resort to all sorts of tactics and all to get people to come in. What kind of God do they have, anyway? What did God do before they had TV and all that? How did he get the word out, huh? They don't have God at all. God says, I'll say, the wind. Bring my sons. Say to the north, give them up. To the south, bring my sons from afar. Bring them. There's a general call. Have they not all heard? Yes, barely. They've heard, but then there's an effectual call. What many of you receive. Effectual just means he brought you. Drew you. Many are called, but few are chosen, apprehended. The word has a good word in it. Apprehended, laid hold on. A buddy of mine, my dad, used to call me. And sometimes he wouldn't come. And then Brother Ron, he would effectually call me. You know what I mean? Sure you do. He'd call me, a general call, come! I wouldn't answer. And then it was very effectual. I can't. Lay hold of me. Aren't you glad it's this way? Aren't you glad that God Almighty violates your will? Against your will? Aren't you glad I will not have this man reign over me? Aren't you glad, Nancy, that God said, yes, you will? Paul said, I've been apprehended. He's never more glad or happy to be incarcerated in his life. Old Barnard used to say, nobody's so free as the Lord's captive. If you are chosen, all God's people come when he calls them, come unto me. But they won't come if you don't. No, goats won't, but sheep will. Because Christ said, all that the Father giveth me shall come unto them. See, he's a witness, a leader, and a what? Commander. That day, when that pack of dogs, you remember, that pack of dogs was outside, fit for nothing, need to be shot every one of them, and my dog was right in the middle of them, acting like a dog, an old dog acting like a young worthless dog. How do you know the difference? How do you know the difference between my dog, a good dog, as good as dogs can get, a bought dog, an owned dog, a taught dog? How do you know the difference? Right here. And I didn't have to call his name. Bill, come! And one dog would come. I didn't have to call his name. And I could, all day long, I could holler at those other dogs. Come! And they'd run. But one dog came, humbled, broken, but saved, to my feet. That's my dog. That's how you know. That's my dog. He said, all that the Father has given me, they shall come to me. This is the effectual call. You, everyone in here who's heard and believed the gospel of God's grace, heard it from a man who just stood up and declared who God was, didn't you? Declared who Christ was. Declared what we were. A man that stood up for 45 minutes and called you a dog, and called you a worm, and called you worthless, and said all manner of evil things against you. And you received it. You took it. And it's hard to believe, but you loved it. And you came, and you stayed, and he still calls you a whiner. And you still take it. No man you heard, whoever you heard the gospel from, stood up and asked you to do anything, told you to accept Jesus, told you to come down the aisle. Now, Sheriff, keep playing 100 verses or just as I am. Nobody in here heard a man ask you, beg you, plead you, tell you anything. Just declare. Right? Peter stood at Pentecost that day and all he did was declare who Christ was. And he sat down. Johnny sat down. And buddy, they came running to him. What must we do? It's already been done. You see, that's why it says, unto them that call upon the name. That's why they're calling. They've been called. That's why they're calling. They call. Unto them that call. That's a continuum. It's not a one-time thing. You don't run down the church aisle and commit and consecrate and dedicate and all that. No, no, no. It's calling unto the Lord for mercy. In fact, let the blood of Jesus Christ be put on the mercy of God against the only one that is evil. And I said, you'll be just when you speak and clear when you judge me. Oh, God have mercy upon me, according to your tender mercy in Christ. And you keep calling because you're a sinner all your day and you keep calling to him coming, you keep coming. You keep calling, you keep believing, you keep coming to hear the same gospel, and you keep calling. All them that call. And the reason you call is because you've been called. Not by me, but by God. Hitting first grit is wonderful. We're just scratching the first few verses. OK. Brother Gabe, you come up, please.