Good evening, let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 224. Number 224. I know not why God's wondrous
grace to me he hath made known, nor why unworthy Christ in love
redeemed me for his own. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. I know not how this saving faith
to me he did impart, nor how believing in his word brought
peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. I know not how the Spirit moves,
convincing men of sin. Revealing Jesus through the work,
creating faith in him. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able To keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day, I know not what of good or ill may be
reserved for me. of weary ways or golden days
before his face I see. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day. I know not when my Lord may come
at night or noonday fair, nor if I walk the veil with Him or
meet him in the air. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. Thank you, be seated. Hymn number
212, number 212. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing but
the blood of Jesus. For my pardon this I see, Nothing
but the blood of Jesus. For my cleansing this my plea,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing but
the blood of Jesus. Nothing can for sin atone, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. Naught of good that I have done,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. This is all my hope and peace,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my righteousness,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. Romans chapter 5. I was greatly blessed by Cody's
both messages Sunday. Lord's really got his hand on
him. And his mother gets out of the
hospital tomorrow. Gonna go stay with a friend. I love the way he dealt with
it Sunday night, the way he faced it, dealt with it. You know,
and the thing is, when that sin question's taken care of, everything
else goes with it. Everything else goes with it.
When that's taken care of, that changes the whole thing. Well, Romans 5, let me start
here in verse 12. were asked for by one man, sin
entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon
all men, for that all have sinned. For until the law, sin was in
the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless,
death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned
after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure
of him that was to come. But not as the offense, so also
is the free gift. For through the offense of one,
many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace,
which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And
not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment
was by one sin, one man, to condemnation, but the free gift is of many
offenses unto justification. For if by one man's offense death
reigned by that one, much more they which receive abundance
of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ. Therefore, as by the offense
of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, to judgment. Even so, by the righteousness
of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of
life. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered that
the offense might abound, But where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound, that as sin hath reigned unto death, even
so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life
by Jesus Christ our Lord. Our most gracious, blessed God
of heaven and earth, our Savior, our God, our Redeemer, the one
who loved us and gave himself for us, our blessed Savior, who
is God over all, blessed forever. Lord, thank you for allowing
us this time together this evening, and I pray that you'd be pleased
to meet among us, enable me to deal with these scriptures honestly,
faithfully, Christ-honored and Christ-exalting, giving man his
proper place and God his proper place, And Lord Jesus, we pray
for those who have a need among us. We know some in our congregation
that has heavy hearts and great trials and great burdens. And
so, Lord, we ask that you would give them grace. We know that
your grace is sufficient, you did abound. And Lord Jesus, we
pray for those who are not with us through your providence and
ask that you'd keep them and meet their needs. And for my
dear preacher brethren that's standing tonight, God bless them,
Lord use them. And I thank you for brother Cody.
Thank you for the ministry you've gave him, the gospel you've taught
him. And I pray for his dear mother. Lord, I know that your
will will be done. And so uphold her, cause her
to stand, be her strength, be her comfort, be her assurance,
be her stay. Uphold her by your free and sovereign
grace and be with his family and meet the needs of that people,
that family who ask these things in our Lord Jesus' name. Amen. Hymn number 128, 128. Wounded for me, wounded for me. There on the cross, he was wounded
for me. Gone my transgressions, and now
I am free. Oh, because Jesus was wounded
for me. Dying for me, dying for me. There on the cross, he was dying
for me. Now in his death my redemption
I see. All because Jesus was dying for
me. Risen for me, risen for me. Up from the grave, he has risen
for me. Now evermore from death's sting
I am free. All because Jesus has risen for
me. Living for me, living for me. Up in the skies, he is living
for me. Daily he's pleading and praying
for me All because Jesus is living for me Coming for me coming for
me. One day to earth he is coming
for me. Then with what joy his dear face
I shall see. Oh, how I praise him, he's coming
for me. And when I read these verses,
the first thing it says there in verse 12, wherefore, wherever
you see a wherefore or therefore, you gotta go back. And what he's
doing, he's continuing all that Christ done for us. And the reason
he had to do this for us, because of one man, one man's sin, one
man's fault, one man's disobedience. And God has only viewed the human
race through two men, only two men, through Adam and through
Christ. And it says there in verse 14
that Adam's transgression, who is the FIGURE of Him that was
to come, Christ who is to come. And so by this, you know, we
have the Atonement by Christ and Just what Christ did for
us, He did by Himself. You know what it takes to be
a sinner? Absolutely nothing. Just be born. Just be born. And I can't word for us by one
man, just one man, sin come into this world. It happened in the
Garden of Eden. There was a covenant of works
made there, and Adam fell, and he fell very badly. And so death,
came by that sin. You know why we're all gonna
die? Because of sin. You know why there's thorns?
Because of sin. You can't go pick a blackberry
without getting a thorn. Roses have thorns. Everything
you know in this world is under a curse. We have to fertilize
things because the world's under a curse. We have to pull weeds
because the world's under a curse. And we were under a curse. We
was cursed in Adam. We became sinners in Adam. And this is why we die. So death
passed upon all men. When God told Adam in dying,
thou shalt die. The day you eat there, thou shalt
surely die. Dying thou shalt die. He started
dying that then, and he died, and when you follow Adams, go
through Genesis, and it says, so and so, and he died. So and
so, and he died. So and so, and he died. You know
why men die? It's because of sin, even believers. We're gonna die because of this
body of sin. And that s what He s talking
about here. And so that all have sinned. Not only did Adam sin,
but death passed upon all men. Why? Because all of us have sinned. All of us have sinned. And you
know, we all know that. We ve been
on knowing that for a long time. And I ll say this, if you miss
what happened in the Garden of Eden, if you miss the fall What
took place when Adam disobeyed God? If a man misses that, he's
gonna miss everything else in the Bible. Everything starts
right there, a man's relationship with Adam. And God, God himself
told us that man, sin come into this world by that one man. When
God said, don't you eat of that tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, He said, well, you know, and when he ate that, he
didn't know if his life was gonna be good or whether it was gonna
be evil. When they took of that fruit, they found out that it
was nothing but evil. And when that evil come upon
him, that same, because God, he represented us, we all became
sinners the same way. David said, I was shaping in
iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. And then he goes
on to say this, until the law, for until the law, sin was in
the world. Now what he saying here is before
God gave the law on Mount Sinai, but he said, his sin is not imputed
where there's no law. But listen to what he says here.
So there wasn't no law. You can't impute sin where there's
no law, but listen to what he says here. Nevertheless, Nevertheless,
death reigned. Death reigned. How long did it
reign? From Adam all the way to Moses before the law was given. All the law did was show us how
sinful we really were. And then he goes on to say this,
Death reigned even over them that sinned not after the similitude
of Adam's transgression. Now what does that mean? That
they did not deliberately sin against God. I mean, children
didn't do it. We know, when we get, when we
get a, I don't like an age accountability, but here's the thing about it.
Children don't know really what they're doing. They're just stupid
little children. But when a man, they don't sin
after the similitude of Adam's transgression. And similitude
of Adam's transgression was he deliberately disobeyed God. He
took of that tree of fruit and evil. He took of it and he fell
and he caused all of us to fall in it. But here's the thing about
it. They didn't sin like Adam sinned
by going to the tree of good and evil. And I'll tell you,
and children don't do it. Infants don't do that. They don't
sin as a medium of Adam and Eve. But we did when we got older.
We sinned. We found out what was good and
we found out what was evil. You know what we always chose?
We chose evil. We chose the sin. And so who is the figure of him
that was to come? Now I love this right here. I
love this right here. Now listen, see there's two men
represented here. There's the one that we became
sinners in. There's the one that we disobeyed
God in. There's the one we fell in. There's
the one that death come upon us all. There's the one we all
sinned in. But let's watch this. But not
as the offense. Not as that one offense. Listen
to this. So also is a free gift. Do you
notice that? Death come upon all men, but
this, what we're gonna get from Christ is free. For if through the office of
one, one man, and that one sin, many be dead. Now listen to this,
and this is that, we use that much more. Much more, much more,
the grace of God. We're over here, we're lost in
Adam. We sinned in Adam, now we got
Christ. Not as that offense was, which
where wages of sin is death, Christ goes on. Of all those
offenses, I'm gonna give you a free gift. Not as those offenses,
you're dead enough, but I'm gonna give you grace. Grace, much more
the grace of God. And listen to this, the gift
by grace, which is by one man. Who is that one man? Look what
he says. Jesus Christ, that grace hath
abounded to many. Over here, we sin. Over here,
we got a free gift. Over here, we got grace. Over
here, we got an abundance of grace, abounding grace. And all out. And then he goes
on to say, And not, and not as it was by one that sinned, so
is the gift. The judgment was by one, by one
man's sin, by one man, and by one man to condemnation or to
judgment. But now listen to this, one sin
put us in all this condition, one sin. But look what he says
here now. What one sin brought us to condemnation,
one man brought us to condemnation, but the free gift, not just one
sin, not Adam's sin, but of many offenses, lots of sin, lots and
lots of sin, great, lots and lots of offenses, but that free
gift gives us justification. Of all the sins we've committed,
lost in Adam, now in Christ. That one sin condemned us all,
but Christ comes along and his free gift and his grace takes
care of all your offenses. Oh, under justification, under
righteousness is what he's talking about. For if by one man's offense,
that one sin, death reigned by that one sin, Now listen to this
now, and he used this word again, much more. He's used this five
times so far in this chapter alone. And he always says what
we got there, but this, I'm gonna tell you something, much more
that you got. Much more, they which receive
one sin, but they which receive abundance of grace. One sin,
one offense, but now we're gonna receive abundance of grace. and
of the gift, listen to this, of righteousness, grace and righteousness,
an abundance of it. And oh my, just like death reigned
in Adam, now listen to what he said, grace and righteousness
shall reign in life, not death, reign in life by one and one
man, Jesus Christ. One sin condemned us all. Christ
gives abundance of grace. It s free. Justifications by
that. Oh, abundance of grace. Therefore,
in verse 18, Therefore, as by the offense of one, that one
sin, judgment came upon all men to condemnation. That word condemnation
just means judgment. Even so, even so, by the righteousness
of one, The righteousness of Christ, the righteousness of
God, the free gift came upon all men, listen to this, under
justification of life, justified before God. If God be for us,
who can be against us? And then he goes on to say this,
and then I'm gonna get to my message here in a minute. For
by one man's disobedience, one man's disobedience, many were
made sinners. So, so by the obedience of one,
shall many be made righteous. We were made sinners by one,
made righteous by another. And then he said, this is the
reason the law entered, that the offense might abound. Remember
up there it said, justification of many offenses, free gift,
free grace, by many offenses. Moreover, the law came in, that
the offense might abound. But now listen, where sin abounded,
and the offenses abounded, and are offensive to God, and offensive
to ourselves, and offensive to everything that's high and holy,
more with the law that the offense might abound. But listen to this,
but where sin abounded, where sin abounded, and it did, grace,
grace did much more abound. that has sin reigned unto death. Now, what's gonna reign in life?
Even so, grace reign through righteousness. Listen to this,
not only life, but unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our Lord. Now, I wanna say a few things
about this. Adam's fall. Adam's Fall clearly
teaches us the inability, inability and man's great, great defects
in the best of conditions, man in his best states, altogether
vanity, altogether. Adam's Fall clearly teaches that
man does not have any ability to give himself grace, to give
himself righteousness, to justify himself or do anything else.
Put away sin, he can't do it. Oh, that man, the second thing
we learn about Adam s fall is that man is immutable. That means
he changes like the weather. They said about Reuben, he s
as unstable as water. And I tell you what, man is immutable. He s up, he s down, he s in,
he s out. Paul said, the will is present
with me, but how to perform, I don't know how. One day I'm
against something, next day I'm for it. One day I hate it, next
thing I do, I love it. So I'm just in this quandary
all the time. And I tell you, man will promise
one thing and have the best intentions and do another. He's a mutable
creature. I mean, we're up, we're down.
We're in, we're out. Our emotions go all over the
place. Oh my. And the third thing we learn
about Adam's sin is this, that if a man's to be kept from committing
spiritual suicide like Adam did, he must be kept by power outside
himself, and he ain't got that power to keep himself. Our Lord
Jesus Christ, He Himself said, I'll keep them in my Father's
name, and I'll keep them in my name, and I'll keep them in my
hand, and my Father will keep them in His hands. And that,
beloved, that shows us how we're kept. We're kept by the power
of God. We're kept by the promise of
God. And if God don't keep us, oh,
there's no keeping of anybody else gonna keep us. And Adam's
fall shows us the riches and the grace of the glory of the
gospel. Adam's fall shows us how it was
necessary for our Lord Jesus Christ to come into this world.
What if God had just left us alone in Adam and not had sent
Christ into this world? But that's the thing about it.
It shows us the glory of the gospel and the riches of God's
grace. And it shows us the necessary,
the coming of that figure of him that was to come. Oh my. that Christ was necessary for
us to come. And I'll say this, and I've told
you this so many times, the reason Christ had to be born of a virgin
is so He would not be related to Adam. If He'd have been related
to Adam, He couldn't have saved us. So he had to be born of God,
he had to be born of a virgin so he wouldn t have any Adam
s sin in him, any Adam s blood in him. He had the blood of a
virgin, he had the blood of God Almighty, and he purchased the
Church of God with his OWN BLOOD! It was God s blood, and I tell
you, it was necessary for him to be virgin-born in order to
save us. And I tell you what, If a man
is saved from himself, Christ has got to do it. That's why
He had to come. Grace reigns, sin reigns unto
death, grace reigns unto righteousness. And oh, it's like Joseph and
his brethren. That's a perfect illustration.
His brethren hated Joseph because he was the apple of his father's
eye. His father loved Joseph. More than all the other boys.
So them boys HATED Joseph. Hated him. And they hated Christ. And what did they do? They sold
him into slavery. And then he got down there, and
he was in Potiphar's house, and Potiphar's wife tried to get
him, and then the next thing you know he runs, and then he's
put in prison! How in the world is he going
to be saved? He's in jail, he's in prison. How's he gonna get
out? He ain't got a key to unlock
the jail. His will can't get him out. His power can't get
him out. Or how's he gonna be saved? Same
way anybody is. God brought him out. God brought
him out of jail. And you know where he put him?
On the throne. You know what he put him over?
Everything that anybody had. If you had something to eat,
Joseph had to be the one to give it to you. If you got anything from anybody
in Egypt, Joseph had to be the one to give it to you. God brought
him from the lowest place, put him in the highest place, just
like our Lord. God took him down to the lowest
depths and raised him and set him at his own right hand. And
then his brethren, they go down there, they're starving to death,
And they go down there, and then all of a sudden, they find out
that Joseph, the one that they hated, Joseph that they put in
jail, Joseph that they sold, they're standing in front of
him. And they said, oh my, he gonna kill us, sure as the world.
He gonna destroy us, sure as the world. Oh, we're hungry. I've got food
for you. And boy, I tell you what, how
in the world are they gonna be saved? They're right there in
the presence of the man they despised and hated and sold.
And how in the world, if they get anything, they're gonna have
to get it from him, the man they despised, the man they hated.
And here they come. How are they gonna be saved?
Joseph's gotta be the one to save them. Joseph's got to feed
him. Joseph's got to protect him.
Joseph's got to provide for him. And Joseph's sitting wagon after
wagon after wagon down there to get his daddy. And that's how anybody's going
to be saved. God's got to do it. He's got
to bring us up out of prison. And that's what Adam's fall teaches
us, that we can't get out. We can't get out. And listen,
I'll tell you what, I'll hurry on here. There's a fundamental
and vital difference between Adam and the believer, and between
Adam and what Christ did for us. You know, Adam was never
in Christ. We were chosen in Christ before
the foundation of the world. We were created in Christ Jesus.
And second thing was he was never redeemed by the blood of Christ. Oh no, we have been. The blood
of Christ cleansed, we sung that tonight. Power in the blood,
what can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh my, and I tell you, he obtained eternal redemption for us, our
Lord did. And Adam had no one to intercede
for him. Nobody took up Adam's cause.
But Christ took up our cause. Christ intercedes for us and
for believers also. Look over here in Romans 8.33. This is what I'm talking about.
Oh, Adam had nobody to do anything for him. A lot of vital difference
between Adam and the believer, the one that received this abundance
of grace. He says here, Romans 8, 33, Who
shall lay ANYTHING to the charge of God's elect? It's God that
justifies. Who is He that's going to condemn
them, judge them? It's Christ that died, yea, rather
that's risen again, and is even at the right hand of God, and
what's He doing? Make an intercession for us,
make an intercession for us. And you know, Our Lord Jesus
Christ, when Simon Peter told him, oh Lord, I don't care what
happens, anybody else does, I'm gonna go with you and die with
you. Simon, Simon, Satan sought to sift you as wheat, but I prayed
for you. I prayed for you that your faith
fell not. Oh my. Adam had natural power. He stood by his own free will.
If there's only man that's ever had a free will in this world,
it was only Adam. Adam was the only man that had
a free will. Adam was the only man that ever
stood in his own righteousness, except the Lord Jesus Christ.
Adam stood in his own strength, by his own ability, by his own
power. But he had no, all he had was
natural power, his free will, and his own strength. We have
the power of God. We have the spiritual power of
God, a supernatural power that regenerates us and saves us.
And it's God that works in us both to will and to do of His
good pleasure. Look in Hebrews 13, 20. Let me
show you about God's will. Oh, what we have in Christ is
so much more than what we lost in Adam. And that's what I'm
trying to establish here. not doing a very good job of
it, but I hope I'm making it, and I hope it's okay. Look what
He said here in verse 20, Hebrews 13, Now the God of peace that
brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great
Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting
covenant, listen to this now, make you perfect in every good
work to do His will, now listen to this now, how's that gonna
work out for us? Working in you. He's gonna make
you perfect. Good work. To do His will. Working in you, that which is
well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory
forever and ever. God make you perfect. God do
His will. How are we gonna do it? in us. He which hath begun
a good work in you. What's he going to do? He's going
to finish it. He's going to finish it. Oh,
Adam had no promise of God's preservation. Oh no, God wasn't
going to preserve him. No, no, Adam stood alone. And
the saints do though. We're preserved by God Almighty
Himself. I want you to see this in Isaiah
41. Let me see what time we got. Isaiah 41. Go over here in Isaiah
41, talking about having the promise of God preserving us,
keeping us. 41.10. Oh, they're so, what a great
and vital difference between Adam and those that Christ died
for, those that God gave grace to in Christ. Look what he said
in verse 10. Fear thou not, for I am with
thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy
God. I will strengthen thee. Yea,
I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with
the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed and confounded. They shall be
as nothing. And they that shall strive with
thee shall perish. Thou shalt seek them and not
find them, even them that contended with thee. They that war against
thee shall be as nothing, as a thing of naught. Sin and death
won't do anything. Look what he says, for I, the
Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, fear
not, I'll help you. Fear not, thou worm, Jacob, and
ye men of Israel. I will help thee, saith the Lord,
and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. God go preserve us. You know that first verse that
I read there? That's where the song, How Firm
a Foundation, come from. That's where it started at, right
there. That's what it means. All right, let me hurry on. Adam
stood before God dependent upon his own righteousness, and when
he lost that, he lost everything and every blessing that went
with it. But not us, all of our blessings
are given to us in Christ Jesus, and they're given to us by grace,
and they're the free gift, the free gift. And the believer's
righteousness is not in Adam, in our dependency upon Adam.
He lost it, he lost it. He lost the understanding of
what it means. Not only did he lose righteousness,
but he lost understanding of what it means. You don't even
know what righteousness means. You know how many people, preachers
in this world, don't know what righteousness means? All they
know about righteousness is that you gotta live right, and if
you live right enough, you'll be okay. If you don't live right
enough, you won't be okay. The Armenians, they use Adam
and his fall as a proof that a man can be lost again. He is
in a perfect place and he lost it, and that's why they believe
because he fell, we can fall, and because he was lost, we can
be lost again. But oh no, Adam stood before
God dependent upon his own self, dependent upon his own righteousness.
And he lost even that and all the understanding of it. But
the believer has a righteousness. What righteousness is? It's the
righteousness of God in Christ. He stands before God in another's
righteousness. And that righteousness, you cannot
lose it. There's no way in the world you
can lose it. You didn't earn it, you can't
lose it. You didn t have it coming to you, you can t lose it. If
you could, you would, and it s the righteousness of God Himself. Oh, Jeremiah said, The Lord our
righteousness, God made Christ unto us wisdom, righteousness,
Oh, bless His name, I'm so thankful that God did. And I'll tell you
what, it says there in verse 19, Romans 5, 19, for by one
man's disobedience, many were made sinners. By the obedience
of one, shall many be made righteous. And we can't lose this righteousness,
we can't forget, forfeit this righteousness. It's the righteousness
of God. It's of grace and not of works.
Adam was under a covenant of works, do and live, fail and
die. A covenant of strict justice,
unmixed with mercy and no provision for failure. In free will, you
have to be sinless because there is no mercy, no provision for
failure. You'd have to be lost again.
But you know what it is to fall from grace? It changed anything about Christ
anyway. Add anything at all to Christ,
and you fall from grace. Fall from grace. Adam had to
keep himself. Christ keeps us. You know, with the saints, God
made a better covenant. Grace reigns through righteousness,
not at the expense of it. There's two locks on the door
of grace. Two locks. I'll keep you, and you want to
be kept, is what it says. And let me say this in the end. By Adam's sin, death. By Christ, righteousness, life. By Adam's sin, separation from
God. By Christ, reconciliation to
God. In Adam, we had enmity. In Christ,
we have peace with God. In Adam, we had uncleanness and
corruption. In Christ, we have sanctification,
holiness. In Adam, we have lived in darkness.
In Christ, we're in the light. He is the light. Lost freedom
of will in Adam. Now we're free to worship Christ,
to love Christ. and to live for his glory and
his honor. We couldn't do that at all without him, without him,
couldn't do it, couldn't do it. Well, two men, two men, you know,
either in that, I heard a fellow say one time, Scott Richardson
sitting in our backyard, we're sitting at a picnic table, There
was a young man sittin' there, and Scott called him brother,
and he said, oh, oh, said, I'm not a brother, I'm not a believer.
Old Scott said, well, if I don't catch you in Christ, I'll catch
you in Adam. And that's right. And you know, and that's true.
That's true. And that's why, that's why this
righteousness that we have, this grace that Christ give us, this
abundance of grace that Christ gives, that grace reigns. where
sin once reigned, grace reigns now, and it reigns unto life,
it reigns in righteousness. And there's no way in the world,
he said it's a free gift, rice is a free gift, and grace is
given to us in abundance. Everything we lost in Adam, we
got 10,000 times more over in Christ, not even comparable,
not even comparable. Our Father, our Lord, and our
God, I pray that you and your sovereign mercy would take these
words that's been said tonight and use them to your glory and
the good of the hearers. And I do pray for those who have
heavy hearts and have troubles in their homes
or in their lives, in their minds, Lord, please, give an abundance
of grace. You said you'd give an abounding
grace, so let grace abound in these people's lives, these dear
saints' lives. Let grace abound in it. Oh, Lord,
I know what it's like to be under great fight of afflictions. I know, and I know everybody
else does, but, Lord, Your grace has always, always upheld us. And we've never lost anything.
And we never will. Because everything you gave us
was free. We didn't earn it. What you gave
us, we didn't deserve it. But, Lord, we thank you for it.
Oh, how we thank you for your grace. Thank you for your righteousness. Thank you for your obedience.
Thank you for being our savior, our redeemer. And you tell us
not to fear that you're for us, not against us. How we bless
you in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. There's just something about
that name. Master, Savior, Jesus. like the fragrance after the
rain. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, let all heaven and earth
proclaim. Kings and kingdoms will all pass
away, but there's something about that name. See you Sunday, God willing.
Good night, God bless you.