Have you been to Jesus for the
cleansing power? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Are you fully trusting in His
grace this hour? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood? In the soul-cleansing blood of
the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Are you walking daily by the
Savior's side? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Do you rest each moment in the
crucified? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood? In the soul-cleansing blood of
the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? When the bridegroom cometh, will
your robes be white? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Will your soul be ready for the
mansion's bride, and be washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood,
in the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless,
are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Lay aside the garments that are
stained with sin, and be washed in the blood of the Lamb. There's a fountain flowin' for
the soul unclean. O be washed in the blood of the
Lamb. Are you washed in the blood? In the soul-cleansing blood of
the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? I'm going to be reading in Psalm
51. Psalm 51. To the chief musician, the Psalm
of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he had gone
in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according
to Thy lovingkindness. According unto the multitude
of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly
from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge
my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee,
Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight.
that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear
when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth
in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou shalt make me
to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall
be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness,
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy
face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in
me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence,
and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the
joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors
thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver
me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and
my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open
thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou
desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it. Thou delightest
not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure,
unto Zion, build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou
be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness with burnt offering
and whole burnt offering. Then shall they offer bullocks
upon thine altar. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.
Our gracious Lord, we thank you for your grace and mercy that
we see here in your word for sinners, guilty, vile, wretched
sinners who have no righteousness of their own. Lord, that describes
all your people. We are sinners, Lord, and we
need the grace and mercy which you freely give in your Son,
Jesus Christ, whom you sent to lay down his life for the life
of his people. to put away their sins forever,
and to obtain for them eternal redemption, life in Him, and
inheritance in Him, and fellowship with our God. Lord, we thank
you for this grace. We thank you for your salvation
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And Lord, we thank you that we
may come to you in prayer, that we may thank you, that we may
worship you in spirit and in truth with the knowledge of what
you've done for us in the Lord Jesus Christ. how that you've
made known the mystery of your salvation and grace to us hidden
in the Lord Jesus Christ, established, made in eternity past, before
the foundation of the world. Lord, we thank you for this and
we thank you that we may lift up our brethren to you in prayer.
We pray for Brother Scott as he recovers from a bad sickness. We pray and ask that you would
bless him, that you would heal him, that you would help him
Lord, to be able to care for himself and to get well. Lord, we pray for Brother Ron. We thank you for the good news,
Lord, that the cancer is gone and in remission and that he's
doing well. We thank you so much for that
news. And Lord, we pray that you continue to heal him. Lord,
there's many sicknesses and illnesses that hit our bodies, some known
but are kept quiet and others that are not known. Lord, we
ask that you would keep us. that you would provide for us,
that you would heal us, that you would nourish us and strengthen
us in the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, that you would help us,
especially when we are spiritually sick, when we are cold and weak
and in darkness and unwilling to turn to you. Lord, have mercy
upon us. Be gracious to us. Draw us to
Christ, Lord. If you don't draw us, then we
will never come. Lord, we pray that you would
continually turn us from death, turn us from dead works, turn
us from wicked works and things that cannot save, and turn us
to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior, our husband,
our friend, our all. Lord, we pray that you be with
us tonight. Bless us with your presence. Help us to sing. Help
us to worship you, to hear your word, and to rejoice in the salvation
you've freely given us in Christ Jesus. It's in His name we pray
and give thanks. Amen. If you would, turn to 110, and
let's sing, Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed, 110. Sorry. Give me another minute here. The lesson did my Savior preach, And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I? Was it for crimes that I have
done He groaned upon the tree Amazing pity, grace unknown And
love beyond degree Well might the sun in darkness
hide, And shut his glories in, When Christ the mighty Maker
died, For man the creature's sin. The drops of grief can ne'er
repay the debt of love I owe. Here, Lord, I give myself away,
this all that I can do. Thanks. Good evening, brethren. We're
going to go to Colossians chapter 1. Colossians 1. Last week when I was preparing
the message from the text that I preached from this last Sunday,
when I read verse 22, it tickled my heart. It just gave me such
joy. to think of the grace of my God
who loved me and gave himself for me, and not for me only,
but for my brethren. And when I read this, it just
gave me such joy. Paul says in verse 22, speaking
of Christ in the body of his flesh through death, to present
you holy, unblameable, and unreprovable in His sight. And so, the Lord is saying to
us that in Christ, because of Christ, you that are in Him,
who are you that are in Christ? You that love Him, you that believe
Him, you that follow Him by the grace and power of God. you that are in Christ, when
holy God looks at you, He finds no fault in you. He sees no sin,
because it's been put away in Christ. He's forgiven you of
all your sins, all your trespasses, all your iniquities, all your
transgressions are put away in and by the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And this is what Christ came
to do. And so, it gave me great joy
to think on these things. It really touched my heart. And
so, I want to spend this evening looking at this precious truth
with you from the scriptures that it would, and I pray that
it would bless your heart. that it would comfort you and
cheer you and give you gladness in the Lord Jesus Christ. Because this is the hope of every
believer, which our God gives to us, which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And we shall not know glory,
we shall not stand before the glory of our God, rejoicing in
Him in that day, except we be clean and washed and cleansed
from our sin in the Lord Jesus Christ." So, the Scriptures teach
us that by His death, He obtained our eternal redemption. He obtained the forgiveness of
our sins. He sets at liberty the sons of
God. Liberty from the bondage and
ruin of sin. and the sons of God includes
you ladies. There's neither male nor female
in Christ. We are all the sons of God, and
that's because we receive the inheritance. The inheritance
goes to the Son. And all who believe Christ and
come to Him, all who come to God, believe in Christ, they
have been cleansed. They receive the inheritance
of God in Christ. He's called us with a holy calling
through regeneration to present you holy, unblameable, unreprovable
in His sight." So, our Lord tells us that this was His purpose
before the foundation of the world, before He laid the foundations
of the earth. Our God chose a people in Christ
to be blameless, to know Him, to stand before Him for all eternity
as His own peculiar people. Let's turn over to Colossians
chapter one. Go to Colossians chapter one
and we're going to pick up in verse three. I'm sorry, Ephesians chapter
one. Ephesians chapter one. And we're going to pick up in
verse three. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ. What our God is telling
us there of all our spiritual blessings given to us in Christ
is that, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, we receive no blessings
from God. There's no blessing, there's
no fellowship with God, there's no understanding of God, there's
no forgiveness of sins outside of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
doesn't give us any blessings except in the Lord Jesus Christ. If you would know God, if you
would know the forgiveness of your sins, if you would know
Him who created you, we must come in the Lord Jesus Christ. If you know someone, Maybe it's
you, but if you know someone who you think is a good person,
who is a spiritual person, who does good works, is a kind person,
they show love and kindness and patience, they have joy and seem
to be at peace. If they don't know the Lord Jesus
Christ, then they don't know God. They may claim to know God,
they may come to God in their own way, but they're not coming
to God. not outside of Christ, because
God only receives His people in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
where He's gracious to them. And so, He tells us now His eternal
purpose in verse 4, according as He hath chosen us in Him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love. So before we ever fell in Adam,
before we ever transgressed against our God in the Garden in Adam,
God had chose a people in Christ. He chose them to be holy. He
chose them to be without the spot or stain of sin. He chose
them to be without blame, a people who know the love of God. who
love him because they are loved of God. And they will be made
to know who the true and living God is. God purposed this, and
so he predestinated the whole work. And in wisdom, he committed
the whole work to the Lord Jesus Christ. He put the whole of salvation
in the Lord Jesus Christ. He didn't leave it to his child. He didn't leave it to the sinner.
He gave it to Christ to fulfill completely. Look at verses 5
and 6. Having predestinated us unto
the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to
the good pleasure of his will. So God purposed this salvation
within himself. He chose whom he would by his
own choosing apart from any outside influence. Meaning he did not
look down through the annals of time and history and see what
we would do under certain circumstances and if we did the right thing
then God chose us. No. That's a man-made lie. God chose us independently of
what we do or don't do. He chose us according to His
own love, His own choosing, and He put us in the Lord Jesus Christ
to save us, to deliver us from death and darkness, to give us
light and life in Him. Verse 6, to the praise of the
glory of His grace. It's of His grace. It's of His
doing, not of our works, but of His grace, wherein He hath
made us accepted in the Beloved. Now, as we go on here in Ephesians
1, we see here how He accomplishes this salvation in His people,
who fell in Adam, who are sinners, who are ruined by sin. who have
no light, no life, nothing in them to recommend them to God,
no righteousness before God. Verse seven, in whom, he's speaking
of in Christ, in whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of what? His grace. His grace, again, not our works,
just reaffirming to us over and over and over that it's all of
grace, that our eyes will be taken off of us and what we do
and our religious works and our eyes will be put on Christ who
did this whole salvation for us according to the will and
purpose of God. And so it's freely given to us
in Christ, whose death on the cross was according to the scriptures
which the Father gave to us, and purposed and shows us what
He was doing in Christ for us. Christ died a vicarious death,
and that means he died as the substitute. He stood in the place
of his people as the God-man mediator who came as the surety
for his people to pay their debts, to put away our sin, to die our
death, to bear the curse of the law for us, and to put away our
sin forever, to cover it, to remember no more. wherein, verse
8, he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having
made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. And so this mystery
that Paul is speaking of here is the gospel now made known
in the face of Jesus Christ. that which is hidden to the natural
man, that which is foolishness to the natural man, that which
is foolishness and unbelievable to those who think they can come
to God by their works, that is the mystery now revealed to us
in Christ. And he makes it known to sinners
how we may be justified with God and be found blameless standing
before holy God. Because that right there is an
entire mystery. It's a complete mystery to the
natural man. He doesn't know how God may be
just and merciful. He doesn't know how righteousness
and peace kiss one another and are aligned with one another
perfectly in Christ. He can't imagine God forgiving
him except he does something for God. and he doesn't see how
that all that he does for God, if he is a child of God, is wrought
in him, worked in him by grace, by the grace of God in Christ. Now we can't touch on every spiritual
blessing that we have in Christ, but what we can do is we can
see in these verses that we'll look at tonight, how that they
describe this blessedness of our God, who purposed to present
you holy, and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight. We see in these scriptures that
we'll look at tonight how he did this. He did it in the Lord
Jesus Christ. We see who he did it for, for
his people. We see what he did for them and
why he did it for them, why he needed to do this salvation for
his people. And then we see when he makes
it known, or how he makes it known, in the preaching of the
gospel. So let's return now to Colossians
1.22. We read here how he did this
gracious work of salvation for us in Christ. Verse 22, in the
body of his flesh through death. Now we have the purpose. The
purpose is to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in his sight, but how he did it is in the body of his flesh
through death. And this is why Christ, the Son
of God, came into the world. This is why He took upon Him
flesh made like unto His brethren, that He may come and die in their
room and place. That He worked all righteousness
with us, for us. And He came to bear our curse,
to pay our debt to the justice of God. You know, when John the
Baptist saw Christ coming, and he was with a couple of the disciples
who would follow Christ, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God who taketh
away the sin of the world. What a powerful thought. What
a moment that must have been. And what a glorious moment it
is for each sinner, each of us, when we see Christ is the Lamb
of God, He's the Savior, He's the one by whom the Father saves
His people. Lord save me, cover me with Thy
blood, Lord. He's the Lamb of God, and when
we see Him as John the Baptist saw Him, what a glorious day
that is, what a blessed day that is to see Christ our Savior. He died bearing the sin of His
people as the Lamb of God. He died and put away our sin. He cried, it is finished. meaning
all the work was done. The redemption was complete.
His blood atoned for the sins of his people, and he delivered
us out of the hands of justice and brought us into fellowship
with our God. He came to make satisfaction
unto God for his people, to reconcile us by the propitiating death
of himself for us, when he shed his blood to atone for our sins
and obtained our pardon with God. He came to justify us, to
bring us into the family of God through adoption. to call us
within holy calling, through regeneration by His Spirit, to
convert us, turning us from dead works that cannot save, and trusting
in the flesh, trusting in foolish things, and looking to the Lord
Jesus Christ, believing Him. Christ did all this, and He brings
us safe unto Himself all the way through this wilderness,
and brings us safe upon the shores of heavenly Jordan. where we
receive that inheritance in Him. So all these spiritual blessings
which our God has given to us in Christ are to present you
holy, unblameable, unreprovable in His sight. That's what He
did. That's why He came. That's what
He accomplished in Himself. Now who Christ did this for? These are described in verse
21. Look up in Colossians 121, those first two words, and you. How wonderful are those
words, those words sound when you're afraid and trembling because
you see your sin. When you doubt, when you wonder,
would God do this for me? To you who hear these words,
to you who read these words, and look to Christ knowing He's
the Savior, Lord save me by His precious blood. These words are
to you, and you, even you, a sinner like you, a sinner who has no
righteousness, a sinner who has no right to come to God, but
for Christ's sake, and you. He did this for you because God
gave you to Christ to redeem you, to purify you, to heal you,
to save you with his own blood. Our God makes it personal. He
makes it personal. The scriptures tell us that those
who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. And those who believe him The
Spirit reveals to us that love and fellowship and hope in the
Lord Jesus Christ. He'll teach you. Just keep looking
to Him. Believe Him. Follow Him. Don't
depart. Don't go off into the world.
Don't trust your own flesh. Look to Christ. Trust Him. And
God reveals over and over the preciousness of Christ to you,
His child. And He keeps you. not departing
from Him, not going away from Him. And He's the one that draws
you to the Savior by His power. Hold your place here in Colossians
1, and let's turn over to John chapter 6. John 6. We'll pick up around verse 43. Christ was speaking, revealing
to the Jews that were gathered there that He is the bread of
heaven, that He's that bread which the Father gave to the
children of Israel in the wilderness. And when the people heard that,
they couldn't hear it. The people couldn't hear it.
I don't mean that they couldn't hear him because they were too
far back in the crowd. They would not hear it. They
would not hear that Jesus Christ is the salvation of God. So they murmured. They were offended
and they murmured. And he said in verse 43, He answered
and said unto them, murmur not among yourselves, because murmuring
is such a gross and violent sin against others, not only to yourself,
but when you're whispering and you're complaining about what
that guy is saying, the people aren't hearing him. And they're
doubting him then. And they're not believing the
God of their salvation, the only one who can save them. They're
now murmuring themselves and complaining. And they're not
hearing. They're not hearing what Christ is saying. But he
says in verse 44, no man can come to me except the Father
which hath sent me draw him. And I will raise him up at the
last day. Now, we know that they could
not hear what Christ was saying. They didn't hear the blessedness
of the words which you that believe him hear, that he is the salvation
of God. And you that believe, that is
precious. Christ is precious. He is your
hope. But in verse 60, were told many,
therefore, of his disciples. These were people who at one
time followed Christ. Many of his disciples, when they
had heard this, that he's the salvation of God, and that by
him we live, by him we live, said, this is in heart saying,
who can hear it? And they left him, and they followed
him no more. But the thing about grace is
that God always has a people. Even in the darkest hour, when
it seems like there's no other believers, Christ, as he said
to Elijah, I yet have 7,000 who have not yet bowed the knee to
Baal. He has a perfect, complete number. The number 7,000 is not as important
as the fact that it means completion. I have a complete number. I have
a remnant, an elect remnant, who love me. who are my people,
whom I love, whom I chose and put in Christ, and they shall
never fall away. And so he says back up in verse
47, John 6, 47, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth
on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. And I know what it is to struggle,
to doubt, to fear, and to be afraid, that I'm not a child
of God. And it's always when I'm looking
at myself, and I'm looking at my works, and I'm looking at
my thoughts, and I'm trying to find some bit of hope in myself,
rather than looking to Christ. who assures me that I am the
bread of heaven, he says, and all who believe on me have eternal
life." They have everlasting life. Naturally, we're always
looking for a better religious track record. We're always looking
for a good track record in ourselves. We always want to know that I
can look to me and find something in me that gives me some assurance,
some hope that God loves me. But look at what Christ said
in verse 49. He said, your fathers did eat
manna in the wilderness and are dead. The Jews had a long religious
track record. They had a long religious history,
and he says they're now dead, spiritually, eternally dead. Religious track records are not
anything to be assured of, to find assurance in, because man
deceives himself all the time. Our God saves in the Lord Jesus
Christ alone. He is the bread of life. He is
the bread of heaven whom the Father hath sent. Believe him. Verse 50 and 51, this is the
bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof
and not die. I am the living bread which came
down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give
is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." And
so there's a people who are trusting their works. This very night,
this very day, there's a people that trust what they have done.
rather than trusting the Lord Jesus Christ and what He has
done. And they think that believing
Christ and trusting Him alone is foolishness. But you, who
is not foolish at all, who hope in Christ, who look to Him, He
is your salvation. He is the life of God given to
save sinners. And He came into the world to
know the grace and mercy and glory of God, to save his people
by grace, by grace. Now back in Colossians 1, 21,
where we read, and you, we see why Christ came, why he had to
save his people. And you that were sometime alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works. yet now hath he reconciled."
So what we see here is that we, by nature, even the children
of God, are filthy, vile sinners who have no righteousness of
their own. God didn't choose us because we're good, because
we're better than others. He chose us because we're sinners
who need his grace, who need his mercy, who need his salvation
given in Christ. He purposed it to be that way.
He chose us in Christ, bringing us to see that we have no righteousness
in ourselves. And so we're corrupt, not by
nature, we are corrupt in our minds and in our thoughts of
God. Our practices were always false
and fruitless and darkness. And those things which man calls
his righteousness, which we hope is our righteousness, God says
those are wicked works. Those are the wicked works. those
things that we trust in, that we count as righteousness, our
righteousness before holy God. Our Lord says those are wicked
works. And this is why Isaiah, what
Isaiah wrote of when he said, but we all are as an unclean
thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. And we all do fade as a leaf. We dry up and crinkle up and
crumble and blow away just like a leaf that falls from the tree.
And our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. God is holy. God is perfect. His eye sees
all things. He sees right through us. He
sees how fake, how phony the natural man is. He knows the
games that we play, the things that we fool ourselves with.
He's holy, he's perfect, he knows all things. And he in Christ,
though we are sinners, he chose us in Christ before the foundation
of the world to present us holy, unblameable, unreprovable in
his name. That's how perfect, how complete
the salvation that our God has given to us freely in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now let me show you what He accomplished
in them. Turn over to Revelation 14. Revelation
14. here again we're seeing what
our Savior has done to present us holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in His sight. Now John here sees the redeemed
in heaven So we've seen God's purpose, we see Him sending Christ,
and now we see us in heaven, the redeemed in heaven, rejoicing
in the salvation of their God. Because the blood of Christ has
removed and delivered us from all trespasses. All trespasses,
and all trespasses are any time we walk on forbidden ground. Any transgression, any iniquity,
which think of inequity, anything that's unjust, untrue, unrighteous,
that is a lie and wicked and is a transgression against our
God, that's a trespass. And Christ has put away all trespasses. Forgive us our trespasses, Christ
said. Forgive us our trespasses because
we've walked on forbidden ground and we are to be punished. Accept
God, forgive us. in the Lord Jesus Christ. And
Christ obtained that forgiveness. Now look at verse 3, Revelation
14, 3. And they sung, as it were, a
new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the
elders. And no man could learn that song
but the 144,000 which were redeemed from the earth. No man knows it because no man
understands it. Every man's looking to his own
works. He's looking to his righteousness. He's looking to his religion
and trusting what he's done to recommend him to God. But there's
a people who are singing a new song, another song about redemption,
the redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we see that he lists
there 144,000. Again, the number is not important. What it specifies to us, what
it says to us is there is a Perfect. There is a complete number, a
fullness of the body of Christ. And that's who's pictured here.
These, verse four, are they which were not defiled with women,
for they are virgins. In other words, they've been
delivered from the whore of Babylon and her false gospel. They've
been turned from it, so they don't follow the whore of Babylon.
They're not believing a lie. They hear the truth. And it says,
these are they which follow the Lamb. withersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among
men, from among the disobedient, from among the inhabitants of
the earth, the children of wrath and disobedience, being the firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb, and in their mouth was found no guile,
for they are without fault before the Lamb of God." They're without
fault before the throne of God because Christ redeemed them.
and he accomplished their salvation. He fulfilled the eternal purpose
of God as Father to obtain the pardon of their sin, to present
you holy, unblameable, unreprovable in the sight of holy God. Now, because Christ has finished
the work, he sends the gospel forth, and that's when he makes
it known, when he makes you to hear the call of the gospel,
when he calls you by the gospel, attending that word with power. and command you to believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, convincing you that in Him and Him alone,
you shall be saved. And when He comes with power,
you shall hear that word and believe. You'll come sitting
right where you are, looking to Christ, believing Him that
He is your salvation. And this is the when, verse 6,
Revelation 14, 6, And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell
on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people. And so we see that glorious fulfillment
of Christ, what he had accomplished for his people in redemption.
And this word now goes forth, calling his lost sheep, calling
them out of darkness, calling them out of the broad way that
leads to destruction, and bringing them, drawing them, dragging
them by grace to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now turn over to Ephesians
5. Ephesians 5. this everlasting gospel has been
delivered to you that believe. We see this encouraging word,
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church,
his wife, his bride, and gave himself for it, that he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
Why, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should
be holy and without blemish. This was the purpose of God,
and this is the purpose accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ. He
shall not fail. He always saves His people. He's
the successful Savior, and He's accomplished our redemption,
and it's for that very purpose. When you stand before Holy God
on that day, you shall stand before Him in the blood of Christ,
holy, unblameable, unreprovable in His sight, in a spotless,
white-robed garment, the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe
Him. Trust the blood of Christ to
deliver you from the wrath of God, to present you spotless
unto your God and Savior. His blood is sufficient to save
all who come to Him, even the vilest, filthiest, dirtiest sinner. Christ's blood is able to cleanse
from all sin. He's able to save to the uttermost
all that come unto God by Him. Now let me close with one more
verse of Scripture. And it's in Jude, that's the
book just before Revelation, the book of Jude. And there's
only one chapter, and we're gonna read verses 24 and 25 together
in closing. Now unto him that is able to
keep you from falling and to present you faultless before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, And to the only
wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power
both now and ever. Amen and amen. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you
for your great grace, your wonderful salvation, your sufficient, whole,
complete, fulfilled salvation in the blood of Christ. Lord,
we thank you for your grace. We thank you for your power and
glory which has delivered us from darkness, turned us from
trusting vain, filthy works, corrupt works, vile works, wicked
works that cannot save, and turned us to Christ who alone saves
his people, the people of God, from their sins. Lord, we thank
you for this salvation. We thank you for mercy and patience
with us and not leaving us in darkness but bringing us out
and drawing us to Christ to feed upon the bread which comes from
heaven the Lord Jesus Christ whom you sent that we eat his
flesh and drink his blood even as you purposed it in yourself
and have given us your spirit whereby we walk in faith feeding
upon him Lord, we thank you for this. We pray that you would
bless our hearts, tickle our hearts, Lord, with this glorious
thought, that we stand before you even now in Christ, wholly
unblameable and unreprovable in your sight. We thank you for
this grace. It's in Christ's name that we
pray and give thanks. Amen. Our closing hymn will be Heavenly
Sunlight, 472 Heavenly Sunlight. Hoping it's sunlight all of my
journey Over the mountains, through the deep vale Jesus has said,
I'll never forsake thee, promise divine that never can fail. Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight,
flooding my soul with glory divine. Hallelujah, I am rejoicing, singing
his praises, Jesus is mine. Shadows around me, shadows above
me, Never conceal my Savior and God. He is the light, in Him
is no darkness, Ever I'm walking close to His side. Heavenly sunlight,
heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. Alleluia, I am rejoicing, singing
His praises, Jesus is mine. Bright sunlight ever rejoicing,
pressing my way to mansions above. Singing these praises gladly
I'm walking, walking in sunlight, sunlight of love. Heavenly sunlight,
heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. Hallelujah, I am rejoicing, singing
His praises, Jesus is mine. Thank you.