Alright brethren, Luke chapter
1. There's many things declared
in this passage. But the grand message, from verse 26 down to verse 38,
the grand message is that the Lord Jesus is the Holy One. sanctified one, the separate
one, who is the savior of his people. He separated himself. He sanctified himself that he
might be the truth, the gospel, through which the Spirit of God
sanctifies his people. He sanctified Himself that He
might be the truth through which the Spirit of God gives us a
new heart, a holy heart, and separates us unto Christ to trust
Him. I just wanted to read that to
you for context, but I'm going to speak here on just verse 26. This is one of those passages
I'll read it to give you the context, but we're going to have
to go a little bit at a time. There's just so much here. Verse
26 says, and in the sixth month, Angel Gabriel was sent from God
unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth. Every word in the scripture
is important. And this word right here is important. Every word's given to glorify
the Lord Jesus. the triune God in Christ, and
this word does. Nazareth was the home of Joseph
and Mary. It was their home, and here is
where the angel pronounced the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus. Here is where he was formed in
the womb of Mary. The Lord grew from infancy to
manhood in Nazareth. He began his public ministry
in the synagogue in Nazareth. It's where the people got, you
remember when he preached on election, about the widow in
Sarepta, how the Lord passed by the widows in Israel and came
to her and they got angry and they wanted to cast him off a
hill. That happened in Nazareth. And eventually they expelled
him from Nazareth from Galilee, from Nazareth. He did that of
himself. Scripture says he did not many
wonderful works there because of their unbelief. He departed. But God ordained it and God brought
it to pass that the Lord Jesus will be formed in Mary in Nazareth
and then be brought up in Nazareth, raised up in Nazareth because
the Lord Jesus is the one and only Nazarite. The title is The
Nazarite. The Nazarite. Now, we're going
to look at three things. We're going to consider the word
itself, Nazareth and Nazarite. Then we're going to see how Christ
fulfilled the law and the prophets. And then thirdly, we'll see the
significance of it as far as God's glory and our salvation.
First of all, let's look at the word itself. Now, Nazareth. As time goes by, words get altered,
names get altered by men's pronunciation of those words. And that's probably
the case with the name of this town, Nazareth. That's probably
the case. It's an alteration of the Hebrew
word from where we get the word Nazarite.
The word from which Nazarite comes is netzer. You can look
at Nazareth and see where netzer, that could have come from the
word netzer. Netzer, the word signifies a
branch, a branch. Prophecy declared Christ is the
branch. Go with me to Isaiah 11. Verse
one, Christ is the branch. The Lord said that he planted
Israel a plant of renown and he did everything he could do
to it, but it brought forth bitter wild grapes. So the Lord said,
I'm cutting down the tree. He said, but out of the stump
shall come a tender plant. And here he says, verse one,
He says, and there shall come forth a rod, a stem, a rod out
of the stem of Jesse, and a branch, that word is netzer, a branch
shall grow out of his roots. That's Christ he's speaking about
here. The Lord Jesus is the God-man. He's the God-man, God and man
in one body. As David's God, Our Lord declared
over in Revelation, he said, I am the root of David. That
means he produced David. He's David's God, he produced
David. But then as the son of man, he
said, and I'm the offspring of David. He came through David's
genealogy. And that's what this is telling
us here in Isaiah 11. So that's one word, one meaning
of the word netzer is branch. Now, the word netzer, from which
we get the word Nazarite, translated Nazarite, it also means separated
one. Separated one. And this is where
we see the good news of Christ Jesus being the Nazarite. The Nazarite. Everything about
the law of the Nazarite typified the Lord Jesus. You know, the
whole law of prophets is full of shadows and types of Christ
declaring he's coming. Now the one word that we're going
to see repeated over and over and over in this law of the Nazirite
is that the Nazirite sanctified himself. He separated himself. That's what it means. It would
be like a man who one day says, I'm going to no longer be a part
of society like this. I'm going to separate myself.
and consecrate myself to serve God. And so he would come under
a Nazarite vow, and he would become separated unto God. That's what netzer means, Nazarite
means he's separated and consecrated to God. Now look at John 17. That is our Lord Jesus Christ. Look at John 17 here, and look
at verse, Verse 17, the Lord said, John
17, 17, He's praying to the Father, and He's speaking of all those
the Father trusted to Him, including those that He called out in His
day, but He's speaking of all His people. Interceding, and
He says here, Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth. Now look at verse 19, and He
says, And for their sakes, I sanctify myself that they also might be
sanctified through the truth. Now he asked God, sanctify them
through the truth. And he said, and I sanctify myself
for their sakes that they might be sanctified through the truth.
I said to you at the beginning, Christ separated himself, he
sanctified himself and consecrated himself to God to go to the cross
and bring in everlasting righteousness for his people, and he did it
from a holy, sanctified, holy heart, he knew no sin, and he
did this that he might be the truth, the gospel, through which
the Spirit of God sanctifies his people. That right there
is some of the best news. That just makes me happy inside
to hear that. He said, sanctify them through
thy truth, Father. And he said, for their sakes,
I sanctify myself. And he could have said that I
might be the truth through which they will be sanctified. He sanctified
us by what he did on the cross, and then it's by that gospel,
by him being that gospel, by the declaration of what he did,
that he sanctifies us in heart. And we're going to see in the
Law of the Nazarite that the Nazarite separated himself, he
sanctified himself, he consecrated himself to God. The Lord Jesus
said, I sanctify myself. He sanctified himself. He is
the Nazarite. Christ is the Nazarite. He did
it so he might be the truth and he is the truth. I said to you
in the first passage, we're going to see this in a second. And
I said that verse where the Lord said, I am the truth. I am the
truth. He said, Father, sanctify him
through the truth. There's only one. He said, I
am the truth. And he is the truth because he
sanctified himself to the Father, consecrated himself to the Father,
went to the cross, and accomplished the Father's will. He's the gospel.
He's the gospel. He's the truth. Now, that's how
our Savior fulfilled the law and the prophets. This is the
second thing I want you to see. Everything that was written was
written of him, and this is how he fulfilled the law and the
prophets. Now Matthew declared this in
Matthew 2 verse 23. Matthew said that Christ came
and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prophets, plural, he shall be called a Nazarene. But if you go look through the
Prophets, and the Law and the Prophets, you're not going to
find that written anywhere. It's nowhere written in the Law
and the Prophets, not in those specific words. He should be
called a Nazarene. But in shadow and type, it is
all through the Law and the Prophets. It's written. It's written. Now
remember, the word nature means separated one. One who sanctified
himself, consecrated himself to God, Christ is that one. Now let's go to number six, and
let's see the Law of the Nazarite. Numbers chapter six. I was looking,
I don't think I've ever preached from the Law of the Nazarite.
Number six. I'm not gonna read the whole
thing, but I'm gonna read some of it. I just wanna show you
here how this all typified Christ. Verse one, number six one. And
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, when either man or woman shall separate themselves,
to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the
Lord." Now see there, you're going to see this phrase all
through this. They're going to separate themselves.
That's what it means, netzer means separate, Nazirite means
a separated one, one who separated themselves unto the Lord. Now, no man ever took this vow
of Nazirite imperfection, and no man was ever a perfect Nazirite. The Lord even made provision
in the law when they broke their vow so that they could be continued,
received by the Lord. Nobody ever fulfilled this in
themselves, only the Lord Jesus. In fact, when you read some of
those scriptures that say, he's of Nazareth, or the word
of should be thee. He's the Nazarite. That's who
he is. He is the Nazarite. Now listen,
let me give you this. You don't have to turn here,
but you know it. Hebrews 7, 26 said, such a high priest became
us. who is holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. When
you hear the word sanctification, it doesn't mean really that Christ knew no sin. When he sanctified
himself, he wasn't sanctifying himself from sin. He separated
himself unto God. He's the holy one. That's who
he is. He's separate from sinners. He
knew no sin whatsoever. Now, next, let's see here, number
six. God's gonna give the law of the
Nazarite. When a person separated himself to the Lord, when they
vowed to be consecrated to him, they were to keep this law that
God gave. Now that's the important thing.
They were to keep this law. Now look at verse three. It says,
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink and shall
drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall
he drink any liquor of grapes nor eat moist grapes or dried. All the days of his separation
shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree from the
kernels even to the husk. Now you remember when our Lord
Jesus, now you see what I'm saying here, the Lord Jesus drank wine.
You say, well, he couldn't have been the Nazirite, he drank wine.
No, he's the Nazirite. Listen, when our Lord was going
to the cross, and He's going to fulfill this law and all the
law for His people, and put an end to this law, and bring in
the everlasting covenant of grace, making us righteous and holy
and complete in Him. When He was going to the cross
to do that, we're going to observe the Lord's table. That night,
He instituted His table. And he took wine and he took
bread, and he said, this is a picture of my shed blood and my broken
body. But when he gave him that wine, he said, this is the blood
of the New Testament, which is shed for many. He said, this
is how this New Testament is sealed and delivered. This is
how it's sure and certain for all my people because I'm shedding
my blood. This is the New Testament written
in my blood. And he said to him this, verily
I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine
until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. He
was separating himself, consecrating himself to go to the cross and
do what he promised the Father he would do from eternity. And
he said, I'll drink no more wine till I finish this vow of separation. Number six and verse five, number
six, five, it says, in all the days of the vow of his separation,
there shall no razor come upon his head, until the days be fulfilled
in the which he separated himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy,
and he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. You
know, we saw the glory of a woman is her hair, and all the glory
is on the head of Christ our Lord. just like the Nazarite
let all his hair grow, this was his glory. That was Solomon's
glory. Remember, that was his strength. Or Samson, that was
his strength. This Christ's glory was on his
head. Now look, but see it over and
over, it's the vow of his separation. See it there? He separated himself
unto the Lord. He's holy to the Lord. Verse
six, all the days that he separated himself to the Lord, look, he
shall come at no dead body, He shall not make himself unclean
for his father or for his mother, for his brother, for his sister
when they die. If any of them died, he's not
going to their funeral. He can't. He'll be unclean. It
said, because the consecration of his God's upon his head. All
the days of his separation, he is holy unto the Lord. Listen, the Lord separated himself
to God from eternity. And He came to this world actually
born, or actually raised up in Nazareth, and He is the Nazarite,
and He said Himself, I sanctify Myself, I consecrate Myself to
God. He went to that cross, sanctifying
Himself, saying, I'm not drinking this fruit of the vine with you
anymore until I've fulfilled all that I promised my Father.
Now, He touched dead bodies when He walked this earth. That's
not the point. that we're getting here from
this law. The point of this law is when they took a vow of a
Nazirite, this law is what they had to fulfill. Christ, when
he took his vow as the Nazirite, he fulfilled the whole law and
all the prophets. He fulfilled everything. He fulfilled
everything. Now, verse 13, let's drop down
there. It says, and all this is the
law of the Nazirite. It's the law of the Nazirite.
Not the law of those men and women who became Nazarites in
the day. This is the law of Christ the
Nazarite. This is picturing him. Look,
when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and he shall
offer his offering unto the Lord. Christ said, I'm the door. You
know where that door was? The door of the tabernacle of
the congregation is the cross. He was brought to the cross.
He came to the cross willingly. Look here, and he shall offer
his offering unto the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without
blemish for a burnt offering, and one you lamb of the first
year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without
blemish for a peace offering, and a basket of unleavened bread
and cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened
bread anointed with oil for their meat offering and their drink
offerings. When the days of Christ's separation
were fulfilled, what did He say? Galatians 4 says, when the hour
had come, when the days of His separation were fulfilled, when
the day came, the hour came that Christ was to go to that cross,
He went and He became the sacrifice. When they touched a dead body,
they were unclean and they had to offer a sacrifice for that.
Our Lord Jesus was made sin for his people. That's why he was
perfect. That's why he was fit to do this
work on the cross. He's the only holy man since
Adam, the only one. And he separated himself. That's
what he meant. I sanctify myself. I'm separated
unto you, Father, from all these sinners to go to that cross and
do the work you gave me to do. And he went to that cross. He
became the sacrifice. We saw all those sacrifices that
were to be offered, they all picture Christ. He became the
sacrifice. He is the lamb without blemish. John said, behold, the lamb of
God did take away the sin of the world. Christ is the lamb
without blemish. He's the spotless lamb of God.
That's the only way that he could be made to bear the sin of his
people. When they brought that lamb,
back in the law on the Day of Atonement, when they brought
a lamb, and I guarantee they did it with this one right here
too, in the law of the Nazarite, because they had to do this with
any sin offering. When they brought that lamb,
that priest put his hand on the head of that lamb. They didn't
kill that lamb, that spotless lamb. When they brought that
lamb, that spotless, the priest put his hand on the head of that
lamb, And in type and in picture only, the sins of the people
were transferred to that Lamb. Then they killed the Lamb. That's
manifesting the shadow of Christ. He's the express image. He's
the very Lamb of God that God provided. He is God providing
Himself the Lamb. He's God in human flesh. He's
the Lamb. And when Christ went to the Father
spotless, the Lamb, Then the Father laid on Him the iniquity
of all His people. He hath made Him sin for us who
knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him. He's manifesting God's perfect righteousness. God is
just and He does only what's just. And so before God would
pour out justice on him, God made him bear the sin of his
people and he bore our sin. Then God imputed sin to him and
numbered him with the transgressors and poured out justice on him
in our place. And he is the sin offering for
his people. That's what he meant when he
said, I've sanctified myself that they might be sanctified
through the truth. He is the one sin offering, the righteousness
of God by which we're separated into God as righteous. And then
he's the ram without blemish that is the peace offering. We
saw last time he had made peace through his blood. He's done
it. The only way we can have peace with God and be reconciled
to God is for Christ Jesus to bear that offended justice of
God and satisfy it and make us perfectly holy and righteous.
When God gave those sacrifices, He said the only way it will
be accepted is it has to be perfect. You and me have never offered
anything to God that's perfect. And we won't in this life. But
Christ is that perfect offering. And He offered to God Himself
perfect. And God, He made peace for His
people. He is the peace offering. He
did that by separating Himself and consecrating Himself to God
and going to the cross on our behalf. And then, just like these
meat and drink offerings, his broken body and his blood, his
body was broken and his blood was poured out. He's the meat
and the drink offering to God. The life. What's meat and drink?
It's life. He's the life offering. That's
what he is. And he's the high priest of his
people. When they brought those sacrifices,
then the high priest took them and did with them everything
God required for the Nazarite. Christ is even the high priest.
He didn't offer the blood of a lamb. The Hebrew writer said
he offered his own blood. And this is our high priest who,
when he had obtained eternal redemption for us, he entered
into the holiest of holies. He entered into God's holy presence,
representing his people. This is what he meant when he
said, for their sakes, for the sake of those you gave to me,
Father, for those as many as thou hast given him, that he
may give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. He said,
for their sake. He said, I sanctify myself. I am the Nazarite. I sanctify
myself that they might be sanctified through the truth. Go with me
to Hebrews chapter 7. Hebrews 7. Hebrews 7 and verse 19. Look what it says here. The law
made nothing perfect. None of those sacrifices brought
imperfection. Even these ones we're looking
at in the Law of the Nazarite, none of them made to be perfect
with God. But the bringing in of a better
hope did. By the witch, we draw nigh to
God. By the witch, we're sanctified
to God and can draw near to God. It has to be perfect to be accepted.
It has to be perfect. There can be no blemish, no sin
whatsoever. Look over at Hebrews 10, look
at verse 9. Christ said, for their sakes
I sanctify myself that they might be sanctified through the truth.
This truth is coming to you today. The Lord has sent this and He
is speaking. Christ is the preacher. He is
the prophet. He is preaching in spirit to
the heart of His people. This is the truth by which He
is going to sanctify you in your heart so that you are consecrated
to God. And he's that truth. Here it
is, verse nine said, Hebrews 10, nine. He said, lo, I come
to do thy will, O God. That's what he meant when he
said, I sanctify myself. He said, I'm separated to you,
Father, consecrated to you to do your will. What's God's will? It's the whole law of God. Everything
written in the law is God's will. He came to fulfill it. That's
what he came to do. Verse 10, skip down there, says,
by the witch will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all time. That doesn't mean once
for all people. That means once for all time.
One offering did it. He accomplished it by one offering.
You see that? So what's the meaning of that?
Verse nine, verse nine, look at the second part. He took it
away the first. He took away all that law that
was against His people. He took it all away. And the
transgression of Adam, all our sin, He took it all away. Not
just done away with it, no, He fulfilled it. He filled it full. He gave it everything it required.
The Ten Commandments can't ask anything else of Christ. He gave
it everything the law required. And listen to me now, here's
the good news. Every elect child of God was in Christ, and when
Christ filled that law full, we fill that law full. That's
what Christ meant on the Sermon on the Mount when he said, except
your righteousness. He said, don't think I came to
destroy the law and the prophets. I came to fulfill it. He fulfilled
the law and he fulfilled the prophets. You and me don't fulfill
the prophets and we don't fulfill the law. And he said, now except
you have a righteousness that exceeds the righteousness of
the scribes and the Pharisees. You can't enter into glory. You
can't just give it your best shot like the Pharisees did.
You gotta be perfect, perfect. He took away that law. He fulfilled
it. He fulfilled it full. And here's
what he did. Hebrews 10.9, that he may establish the second. The second is the covenant of
grace. The law never made anything perfect.
He came and fulfilled it. And to bring in another better
hope did. The better hope is, David said this. You saw David's
life. David had sinned. His family
was a wreck. Just his whole life. He lived
in the wilderness He was just but God gave him faith in Christ
and gave it made this covenant with him and David said at the
end of his life He said although my house be not so with God He
said God has made with me an everlasting covenant Ordered
in all things and sure and this is all my salvation This is all
my salvation but we make it not to grow. What's your salvation?
All my salvation is Christ came and established this covenant
of grace. He established. That's what he
meant when he said this is the New Testament in my blood. I
poured out my blood to establish this, to order this covenant
and make it sure for you. He poured out his blood so that
Paul could come to Corinth and say, All the promises of God are in
Christ, yes, and in Christ, amen, unto the glory of God. All the
promises of God, everything God promised, Christ is the truth
of it. He said, I sanctify myself, I
go to the cross and do this work for them that they might be sanctified
through the truth that I am, through the gospel that I am,
and this is what I'm declaring to you now. Now here's the significance,
this is my last point. Because the Lord sanctified himself,
separated himself and consecrated himself to God, he is that truth. That's the first thing. I think
I've established that enough in my message. He's that truth.
He's the gospel. We preach Christ. That's what
Paul said, and we saw that in Colossians 1. We're going to
look at it a little more at another time, but we read it this morning.
Paul said, whom we preach. We preach a person. Christ Jesus,
He is the truth, He is the gospel. And He is the gospel by which
as that gospel is going forth, Christ, I mean, Christ prays
to the Father, the Father sends the Holy Spirit, and the Holy
Spirit creates a new man in us, a holy man in us, and gives you
faith and repentance and love for Christ, and all the gifts
of the Holy Spirit. And when he does that, he sanctifies
you to Christ and to the Father. That's when of God, Christ has
made sanctification unto us. And that's when you're not doing
something to be holy. Christ made His people holy by
His offering at the cross. He circumcised our flesh when
He was baptized in that judgment of God and immersed in the judgment
of God and immersed in the grave and then came out of it. He accomplished
that. And then the Spirit of God comes
and circumcises you in the heart and makes you to see you're perfect
in Christ. Perfect in Christ. And that's
when you're sanctified to Him. That's when you're consecrated
to And if he's speaking that word to you today, you know why
we come to hear this word? Because he keeps us sanctified
to him through this word. Now, I'm just going to give you
this. I don't even think I'm going
to have you turn. Yeah, I will have you turn. Genesis 49. I said to you,
it's all through the Old Testament. And I'm not going to have you
turn to all these different types of the Nazarite, picturing Christ. But I'll show you one. That is
so, so, such a good picture, and that's Joseph. Joseph, Genesis
49. Joseph's such a good picture
of our Lord Jesus, and especially as the Nazarite. I want you to
see this right here. I want you to think about how
he's a picture of Christ. The Lord, well, let me say, Joseph was
his father's favorite. He was his father's favorite
child, son. And because of it, his brethren
hated him and rejected him, sold him into bondage. That typified
our Lord Jesus. He is the father, it pleased
the father that he have all preeminence, that all fullness, pleased the
father that all fullness dwell in him. God's purpose was to
make him the firstborn among many brethren. He's the favorite
of God. And because of that, when he came, the Pharisees,
all his countrymen, all his brethren, according to the flesh, hated
him, rejected him, despised him, and me and you did too, until
he gave us a heart to believe him. But his father Jacob blessed
Joseph, and all the blessings of Jacob went to Joseph. Look
here now, Genesis 49, verse 26, and I want you to see what he
says here. This is what he says here. I'm
just trying to make it plain for you. All the blessings went
to Joseph. The Father gave all the blessings to his son Joseph.
Look here, and look what Jacob said as he was dying, he blessed
Joseph. He said this, verse 26. The blessings
of thy Father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall
be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him
that was separate from his brethren. Joseph was nothing like his brethren. He was separate from his brethren.
And he said, all these blessings are on the crown of his head.
He's the separate one. And just like that, God our Father,
blessed the Lord Jesus Christ, giving him all preeminence. He
raised Christ to his right hand. He's given him a name and power
over all because Christ Jesus is separate from his brethren. He's preeminent above us in that
regard. Perfect. All right. And in the
end, Joseph was exalted to power over the storehouses and his
brethren were brought to him And Joseph gave them life and
saved them. The very one they rejected saved
them. That's what Joseph did. Christ
Jesus calls all who he redeemed to himself. The storehouses are
his. He's over the storehouse, and he's the bread of the storehouse.
And he calls his people to him, his brethren to him, and he makes
you to know, I'm your elder brother. I'm the one who came and saved
you, and now I'm saving you, and I shall save you. That's
what Christ does for his people. Here's my point to you. The Lord
Jesus is the one and only Nazarite. He's the separate one. He is
the holiness of his people. He's the holiness of God. He's
the sanctification who's made sanctification to us. He's made
the Nazarite unto us. And by him alone, in him alone,
we are sanctified to God. It's by him. coming in, abiding
in us, that we are consecrated to God and trust Christ only
to present us to God. There's something else important
about Christ being from the town of Nazareth. Here's something
else that's important. Men hated Nazareth. Men hated
it. Can anything good come out of
Nazareth? They despised that place. They called our Savior
a Nazarene as a term of reproach. They called his people Nazarene,
a sect of the Nazarene, as a term of reproach. He was despised
and rejected of men, and his people were. They called him
a cult of the Nazarenes. That's basically what they were
saying. But our Lord identified himself as a Nazarene. There's
scripture where he said, I am the Nazarene. And on Pentecost,
Peter preached and said, Jesus of Nazareth, whom you rejected,
has accomplished the redemption of his people and God raised
him to his right hand to be the Lord and Christ of his people
and he shed forth this which you now see. He sent the spirit
and he's called in these people through this gospel. He's doing
this. Now brethren, our Savior didn't
come in majestic glory. He didn't come in all the pomp
that the false religionists thought he was coming in. They would
have received him if he came like that. No, he came from this
poor, lowly, despised place called Nazareth. Why did he do that? He did it to show you he doesn't
save through pride. He saves through humility. He
saves by making himself the least. That's how he saved us. And if
you're going to come to him, you're going to have to come
to the one who is named the Nazarene. that one despised and rejected
of men. There's no other name under heaven
whereby we must be saved. And so to come to Him, you're
going to have to come down. You're going to be despised and
rejected of men, but you're going to have to bow, come down, down,
down to His feet. And if you're going to believe
on Christ and you're going to follow Christ, then you're going
to have to bear witness to men that He alone is all holiness. We're made holy because He sanctified
Himself and consecrated Himself to God and went to the cross
and perfected us by His one offering. He's our righteousness, our justification
before the law, and He's our holiness of heart before God.
He is. He is. Look at Hebrews 13, 12,
and we'll end right here. Hebrews 13, 12. You can't be
saved by being proud and going, you know, most of religion, I'll
tell you what they're preaching today. They're preaching about
works and people are walking out of the congregation and they're
puffed up in pride thinking, oh, I've done that. I've done
that. Oh, you have done that. You're
not as holy as I am. You're not going to be saved
by that pride. You're going to have to come down and confess
that I'm the sinner. I can't save myself. Christ is
the only Wisdom righteousness sanctification redemption by
which I'm saved now here it is and you're gonna bear reproach
for that You can be despised like he was but look what it
says Hebrews 13 12 where for Jesus also that he might Sanctify
the people with his own blood Suffered without the gate. He
said I sanctify myself I'm gonna go bear all this for my people
that I might be the truth through which they're saved He did that,
sanctified his people, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth,
therefore, unto him without the count, bearing his reproach. For here we have no continuing
city, but we seek one to come. By him, therefore, let us offer
the sacrifice." Uh-oh, we got to offer sacrifice? We've got
to. We want to. What is it? The sacrifice of
praise to God continually. the fruit of our lips, giving
thanks to his name, and also to do good, and to communicate,
to give this gospel, and your time, and your love, and your
money, and anything you can give to help people communicate, forget
not, for with such sacrifices, God is well pleased. How can
he be well pleased with anything we do? In that perfect sacrifice,
that's the only way, and God's well pleased. We're sanctified
by the Holy One, the Nazarite. You know what you all are? You're
Nazarites in the Nazarite. That's what we are. We're the
church of the Nazarene. That's what we are. All right. Brother Adam and Brother Jeff,