Brother Mike, please come. Morning. Our scripture reading for this morning is taken from the Psalms. Psalms 116 verses 1 through 19. If you'd like to read along. Psalms 116.

I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplications because he has inclined his ear unto me. Therefore, will I call upon him as long as I live? The sorrows of death encompassed me and the pains of hell got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous, yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserve it the simple. I was brought low and he helped me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken. I was greatly afflicted. I said in my haste, all men are liars. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Oh Lord, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid. Thou has loosed my bonds. I will offer to be the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem, praise ye the Lord.

May the Holy Spirit grant us more understanding of his word. Let me, you know, normally we don't make comment on the scripture reading. But something jumped out at me here in verse 13 of that Psalms 116. It said, I will take the cup of salvation. Do you know our Lord and Savior took the cup of damnation, our damnation, and He drank it dry? He drank it dry. So that you and I could take the cup of salvation and live forever with Him. What a blessing that verse was to me there. I hope it was to you as well.

All righty. Once again, it is a great honor to introduce my brother from the Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of the Dalles, Oregon, Brother Norm Wells. Please come, Pastor, and brag on Christ. I don't even need to ask that. I don't know why I do. It just sounds good. I know you're going to.

Once again, it's good to be here. I look forward to going to the house of God. You know, there was a long time I'd go to church and leave church after I'd spoken and say, I wonder if there's really a God. had no effect on me. I'd pretend to preach the gospel and didn't even know what it was. Well, I found out that there's a lot of folks in the same boat I was in. I'm glad that so long ago, 40 years ago, God allowed me to hear the gospel and he saved me by his grace.

Now I have to say something about yesterday's scripture reading, brother. Bless my heart, I'm going home and get a certain message on this. He read Brother Mike read 1 John chapter 5, and he got down to verse 18, and you know how you read something time over time over time over time over time, and it doesn't do anything? And once in a while, BINGO! The Lord turns the lights on. And you say, Hallelujah! There's so little that we actually know about God, and so little that we actually know about His Word, that we carry with us. But whatever He has given to us, be thankful, because it is a gift of God. Amen. How little or how much is God's gift to His people, and that's how He sustains us spiritually, is through His Word. And that's why we go to the house of God, so we can hear His Word and be sustained.

But he read this verse of scripture, we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not. Now I've had people take me down the road over that, have you? Oh yeah. Oh boy. You know that really means that when God saves us, we cannot apostatize. We cannot apostatize. Now people can make a decision for Jesus and apostatize. And they will leave. But when God saves his people, they cannot apostatize. They cannot sin away their day of grace, in other words. And then it says, he is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

You know what? That verse of scripture tells me something I've been believing since I was saved. The Holy Spirit has no, excuse me, Satan has no power over me. I have preachers tell me all the time, boy, he's going to do this, he's going to do that. He's not going to do anything to any of God's elect. That's right. He's not. He can't. God withstood him. So don't go through life fearing what the devil's going to do, because the problem is really us.

Here's the problem. All right. Let's turn with me. I'm sorry. They're, what, half my time, Brother Don? There's nobody after you. Take all the time you need. Yeah. Yeah. Well, would you turn with me to the book of Acts this morning for just a short reading? The book of Acts, chapter 8.

Now, you know this passage of scripture because it is here where God moved upon a preacher, a man who knew the gospel, to leave a place where the gospel was being preached and people were being saved to one man down in the backside of the desert, where he was called upon, Philip was called upon, to go gather himself to this chariot. This chariot held an Ethiopian man, a religious man, a rich man, a man who had a Bible. Now whether it was just the book of Isaiah, I don't know. But it took a lot of money to own one of these rolls because they were handwritten. But he owned one. And you know, the other thing about it is he could read it. But he couldn't read it with understanding. He didn't know what it was about.

Read with me here in the book of Acts, chapter 8, verse 30. We start these words, let me get here, verse 30, it says, and Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, how can I, except some man should guide me, and he desired Philip that he should come up and sit with him. And the place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. Now you know where that's found. That's Isaiah 53. He is led as a sheep to the slaughter, as a lamb done before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth. In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth.

And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speakest the prophet this, of himself or some other man? I love what we find in the next verse, because this is the answer to all the questions. It says, Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus.

We're gonna find that throughout the Bible, that when people preach, they preach the Lord Jesus Christ. Noah was a preacher of righteousness, and you know what he preached? He preached the Messiah, the Lord Jesus. All right, there's a verse of scripture in there that I wanna take a thought out of and move over to the book of Hebrews and read one verse of scripture, and that's verse 33. In his humiliation, I'd like to speak a little bit this morning about his humiliation, his humiliation for his people. He was humiliated by the sins of his people.

All right, turn with me to the book of Hebrews chapter 4 verse 13. In the book of Hebrews chapter 4 verse 13, we have this passage of scripture that has so much to say, and we think about it for ourselves. You know, it says, Hebrews chapter 14, verse 13, excuse me, verse chapter four, verse 13, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes with whom we have to do.

Now for so long, I've just simply applied that to me. that I stand naked before God and He has all knowledge about me and there's nothing gonna be hid. But you know, it struck me that our Savior was put into this exact same position that, as it tells us there, but in all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of with whom we have to do. The Lord Jesus Christ had much with whom we have to do had an answer to give to that father in heaven in the covenant of grace he had an answer to give and that was he came down to this sin-cursed earth and became sin for his people he was going to be naked before him with whom he has to do in all the glory of his death on the cross he was humiliated places in the Bible where we find that our Savior was naked.

Job said, naked I came out of my mother's womb. We find over in the book of Genesis that God created man and male and female and they were naked and not ashamed. The moment they ate of that forbidden fruit, they were naked and they knew it. And God came down in the cool of the evening and said, Adam, where art thou? And I want to say this again. It wasn't because God didn't know where they were. They didn't know where they were. They hid themselves in the garden and said, we were naked and we hid ourselves. Who told you that? Well, the woman you gave me. Been blaming the wife ever since, haven't we?

Well, in the book of Matthew, chapter 1, we have the first instance was naked. Would you turn with me to the book of Matthew? You know where I'm going to go over here. He was naked at his birth. He was brought out of his mother's womb like you and I were. We didn't come out dressed. We came out naked before Him with whom we have to do. We're naked before the doctor. We're naked before our parents. We're naked there in the delivery room, wherever it might have been.

So here in the book of Matthew chapter 1, read with me these words as we think about in His humiliation. Can you imagine the God of glory, eternal God of glory, coming down and being placed in flesh like we have. That's a mystery. I show you a mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness. It came in the flesh. He put flesh this mystery that came into this world was not tainted by Adam's sin. It was absolutely necessary if he was going to save anyone, he could not have Adam's sin. And so God, in the covenant of grace, had it all worked out. You're going to come born of a virgin.

Alright, here in the book of Matthew, chapter 1, verse 21. Matthew 1 verse 21, the scripture says this, she shall bring forth a son. Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord by the prophets, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. And thou shalt call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is God with us. And that's exactly what happened.

And turn with me to the book of Luke, if you would, chapter 2. Here we have it a little clearer of what took place there in Luke chapter 2, verse 6 and 7. we have these words recorded and so it was that while they were there the days were accomplished that she should be delivered Luke chapter 2 verse 7 and she brought forth her firstborn son born before the world born before Joseph and Mary born before as he came forth from his mother's womb, just like Job said about himself. He came forth, and what was this about? He was going to be just like his brethren. He came for a purpose, and he came for a people.

Now, he was not going to have the sin that you and I have, but he was going to have the body that you and I have. He's going to have a body prepared, a body thou hast prepared. What's that body for? This body was going to be humiliated by our sin being cast upon him, put upon him, imputed to him by the Father so that he could punish him to death, if you please. But he gave up the ghost himself.

We have here that this one, the Lord Jesus, in coming down, he came as a man. He was born as you and I are born. It was a very special birth, yes. yet without sin. Now, we just have to catch that all the time. He was not like you and I in the sense that we are sinful creatures from our very birth. We came forth from our mother's womb speaking lies. He came forth from his mother's womb naked and honest and truthful and righteous altogether. There was not an evil thought that went through his mind. He didn't have any of the diseases, childhood diseases, that we grew up with. There wasn't a cold that came upon him. There wasn't a pimple that broke out on him. There was nothing like we deal with with our children. He was altogether perfect in every way.

They could look at his hands, they could look at his feet, they could look at of all human beings in that very manger that he was laid. He was wrapped in swaddling clothes. He was covered of his nakedness. You know, it reminds me of over there in the book of Ezekiel when it tells about the birth of the church. You're cast out into a field. You bloody field. You're bloody out there. Nobody took care of you. And it says your navel was not caught. cleanse and you are not swaddled. You know I look here, we're not swaddled by nature. Jesus Christ declares here as his mother took care of him, she swaddled him. He is different than every other birth that ever took place on the face of this earth. He never cried out He never sinned in his heart. He never sinned to his parents. I've often thought when the next child was born, oh my goodness, what did we get? We got that sinner now. Jesus was perfect in every way, but now the rest of the children, we found out what the fall is all about. Here they are right in front of us.

In Hebrews chapter 2, would you turn there with me, Hebrews chapter 2. verse 14 in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 we have these words to say a couple of verses we want to read here verse 14 is one of them and it says for as much then Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood that's you and I we're partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that hath power of death, that is the devil. So you and I are partakers of flesh and blood, he also likewise took part of the same. And in that same chapter, verse 17, wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren. He could walk into a group of people and say who he was and ten minutes later they couldn't pick him out. He would move through a congregation and they couldn't find him. He looked, you know the old saying, they all looked alike. He looked just like we look. He grew up, 12 years of age, he went to the temple and he astonished the doctors in the temple not by the questions that he asked. I was told that all through Sunday school. He was asking good questions. No, no, no. He was answering their questions from the scriptures because he was all-knowing about all things all the time.

Here we find in verse 17, wherefore, in all things, behoove him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of his people. He did not just come down, plop down as a grown man. He came as a child, born of a virgin, and if people are ever going to be saved, we must have a mediator like us, yet without sin. We need a mediator that is absolutely in perfect fellowship with the Father, holy and righteous altogether, and we need a mediator that's like us and knows the feelings of our infirmities. And here he is. His name is Jesus. The perfect mediator.

The second time that I find in the scriptures that the Lord was naked is found in Luke chapter 2. Would you turn with me there? Luke chapter 2. Now Mary and Joseph, it wasn't going to be very long after he was born they were going to have to do something because we have a male child on our hands. Under the Jewish law there was a requirement imposed upon pharaohs To get this male child, let's read here Luke chapter 2 verse 21. Luke chapter 2 verse 21. And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. They were required, Mary and Joseph were required to give him to a place within eight days for his circumcising. That's what it tells us here. So he's gonna be naked before the circumciser.

Now what does that tell us about the Lord Jesus Christ as he came? What does he share with us when he shares with us that he's naked before this person that's going to circumcise him? He is naked, absolutely naked before the law. Every requirement that the law ever had to impose on anybody is going to be imposed upon the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is going to have the law as absolutely memorized because he is the author of it, and he's going to be the absolutely fulfiller of every bit of that law. He is going to be righteous altogether. There's not one iota of the law that he left undone. And you know what? When He imputes His righteousness to us, His people, you and I, His people, are imputed His righteousness, and it makes us as if we had kept the law ourselves. But we can't. We need someone else to do that for us. And we need Jesus Christ to do that because He's the only one that came in the capacity as a Savior, born of a virgin, and then brought before the doctor, and here He is circumcised, and He's absolutely going to fulfill everything that the law ever required of anybody.



Anything that God ever required, this one is going to fulfill. Matthew chapter 5. Would you turn there with me as we find the Lord Jesus Christ Himself? Speaking about this, when people brought up the law, it tells us here in Matthew chapter 5 and verse 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law. Matthew chapter 5 verse 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. It says, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. And the church says, hallelujah. Oh my goodness. This our Savior has fulfilled the requirements. He had them imposed upon him, and he symbolized it to the church when he was taken as an eight-day-old baby up and had him circumcised.

Every command that God had ever given, he was going to fulfill completely. He is the holy and righteous son of God, and by that, he can impute to his church, to you and I, his righteousness. And God says, I find no fault in them. Pay for completely.

In the book of Romans chapter 10, would you turn there with me? Romans chapter 10. In Romans chapter 10 verse 4 we read this about the law. Romans chapter 10 verse 4. Don't impose law on the church. Not days, moons, months. Don't impose law on the church. Don't impose law on your brothers and sisters. Oh, they're not acting like a Christian. What does it say here? For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. We're not under law. were under grace. Why? Because he fulfilled it all. It was given to him as a task, as a redemptive task, to fulfill the law on behalf of all his elect ones. Not one would they would be holy in the presence of Almighty God.

No wonder it tells us there in the book of Matthew at that great day, the end day, welcome to the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. How can he say welcome to anybody if their sins are taken care of? Sin, law has passed and they no longer can find fault in them. You know, Pilate said about the Lord Jesus Christ, I find no fault in him. You know, and those two that came to him on the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah, you know what? It says they talked about his decease. I just have in my mind, that they went over all the word of God, and Moses said, you fulfilled it all. The law is fulfilled. And Elijah stood up and says, Master, Savior, you fulfilled all the prophecies. You are declared the Son of God. And he went off to be crucified.

What a blessing we have in the Lord Jesus Christ He was made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. He is made unto us righteousness. What does that mean? No law against you. He fulfilled it. Aren't you glad? Now when you break the law out here on the freeway and the police officer pulls you over, he has a right to do that. But you know what it comes to everlasting spiritual things? The son says, I died for him. He's there making intercession for us. Any accusations come up, all he has to do is hold up his hands. See the nail prints? I paid that price for them. Now I'm just being facetious. Because all that stuff doesn't happen, we do find that he is on our behalf. But he's in front of a judge who's already passed and says, well done, my faithful servant.

All right, the final time that we want to spend just a little time that we have left. The third time that I find in the Bible, at least, that the Lord was naked is found in the book of Matthew chapter 27. Matthew chapter 27. He was naked at his birth to demonstrate that he came like you and I. Might be like unto his brethren. He was naked on his eighth day and circumcised that he might share with us. I'm naked before the law. They can find no fault in me. I've fulfilled it all.

And here in Matthew chapter 27, we read there in the 35th verse, now there's a reason that those guys are gambling over his garments. Now they like him, that's no question, and it is a garment that is very unlike what they wear. There's no seam in it. How they made that, I don't know. You ladies at knit or something, you have a lot more information about that than I do. How they did it. But he had a garment that had no seam in it, and they decided not to rip it up and divide it into fours. They decided to gamble over it. And that prophecy is made in the Old Testament.

Well, here it tells us in the book of Matthew chapter 27, verse 35, and they crucified him and parted his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they did cast lots.

Now, what does that mean about what he is like when he is put on the cross? is naked before Him with whom He has to do. That's right. We think it's serious for us. Ew, it's serious for Him. He is before Almighty God, naked before Him with whom He has to do. And He has so much to do on there that in the end He can say, it is finished.

One other verse that I'd like to read right there is in Luke chapter 23. It's the same incident, but it covers it just a little different. Luke chapter 23, and there in verse 33. Luke chapter 23, verse 33. The scriptures share this. Luke chapter 23 verse 33 and 34, and when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him and the male factors, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment and cast lots.

So one more time, the scriptures share with us that the Lord Jesus, as he was hanging on that cross, he faced his humiliation. My goodness, we just can't imagine what it was like for those people that were mocking him to walk by and see him in that condition hanging on a cross. that here He is suspended between heaven and earth, is naked before Him with whom He had to do. He is naked before Almighty God and He is going to pay the very last farthing for our redemption. He is going to do it all on the cross at this time. He was naked before God, naked in all things before God.

As the only real sacrifice for sin, he offered himself to the Father. In Ephesians, would you turn with me to the book of Ephesians chapter 5? In Ephesians chapter 5, we read this about this great sacrifice of our Savior, the Lord Jesus, and we relish in it and delight in it as we find out what happened on that cross on our behalf. Oh, there may be pains that we have. Oh, look what he had to endure, and after it's over with. Thank you for enduring it. Thank you for going to the cross.

Ephesians chapter 5 verse 2, and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us in offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. What is he doing while he's there? You know, we could go over to the Old Testament and look at all those animal sacrifices and find types and shadows and pictures in every one of them, but the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin. Not one sin was ever forgiven by even one of those sacrifices or by the thousands of them. Not one sin was taken care of. And yet here, Jesus Christ on the cross in such a short time took care of all the sin of all his people in all time at three hours. He's before God Almighty paying the very last farthing.

In the book of Hebrews again, would you join me there? Hebrews chapter 7. In the book of Hebrews chapter 7 we read this about our Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ as he was suspended between heaven and earth. He paid it all. He paid for all our sin debt.

Here in Hebrews chapter 7 verse 27, who needeth not daily as the high priest to offer sacrifice for his own sins and for the people's. If you go to the Old Testament, you find that those priests, high priests, if you were given that high calling of being the high priest, if you were priest and you had that hat on and you had all of those clothes on and you had all everything on your shoulders that represented who you're going into the Holy of Holies for. They first of all had to offer sacrifice for themselves and then for the people. You know that's one thing Jesus Christ never had to do. He never had to offer a sacrifice for himself because he is holy, righteous, and undefiled. He is the Son of God that went to the cross.

It says there, who needeth not daily as the high priest to offer up sacrifice for his own sins and then for the people's, for this he did once when he offered up himself. Throughout the book of Hebrews, verses like this are brought up. Just travel just a couple chapters, if you would, here in the book of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews 9, verse 26. Hebrews 9, verse 26. You know, when the Lord saved me, He taught me one word about the Scripture, and I'm sorry I can't do it in a hurry. You know what that one word is? Context. You know when I was in religion, I had four verses of scripture. John 3.16, never looked at the context. Ephesians, never looked at the context. You always just picked out a verse of scripture and you ran with that. Well, God teaches us context. And in context, we find out that God never promised salvation to the entire world, he promised salvation to the elect.

All right, here in the book of Hebrews chapter 9 verse 26 says, for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world, but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared, and look at this, to put away sin by the sacrifice What do I see? That's what he did when he went to the cross. That's what he did. In the book of Isaiah chapter 53, Isaiah chapter three and verse six, would you turn there with me, the same passage of scripture that the Ethiopian eunuch was reading and then Philip came up there and began to talk to him. Do you understand what you're reading? Well, I can't understand unless some man teach me. And that's what preachers do. Now that doesn't mean they have to be sitting and standing in a pulpit, it means that they know something about the gospel. That's what we need.

In Isaiah 53, there in verse 6 it says this, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. Now if you say I'm the exception, that's just too much of an exception. There are no exceptions. It says here, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Now, I don't know how it happened. I can't diagram it. I can't do much writing about it. I can't get much thinking done about it. As John and I were talking, it bursts our brains. But in some way, while Jesus Christ was hanging on that cross, naked before Him with whom He has to do, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit were able to gather up all the sin of all His people from Adam and Eve down to the very last person that God and lay it upon the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He has laid on Him. God was able to gather it up. Now how He could do that? God does that. And He did it. And He laid it on His Son.

And you know what? When that took place, the fire fell God the Father consumed the sacrifice. Oh, the agony he went through. You know, Jesus Christ spoke seven times from the cross. The first time he spoke, he says, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. The last time he spoke, he says, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. You know what he said in the middle? Why art thou far from the words of my glory? He didn't bring up the word father. He brought up the word God. He entered into the cross with father. He concluded his time on the cross with father. But there in that time when he was naked before him with whom we have to do, he could only address him as God.

God came down and consumed him, punished him. beyond any marring that could take place. And in the end, him that was naked before him that we have to do, he cried these words, it is finished. Payment is made. My people shall be set free. Every sin that hung over Adam and Eve, every sin that hung over Abel, every sin over Moses, all the saints in the Old Testament, God took care of in Jesus Christ. And it was such a way that he could do that for them then and have it as sure as he can take care of it for us now. You know, we're, what, 2,000 years after the cross. How could he take care of our sin? He knew him from beginning to end. He knew all about us. Well what about the ones that are a thousand years if this world should last that long? He knew them too. And he was able to collect them all and put them upon his son. And while his son was hanging on that cross and he was naked before him with whom he had to do, he gave his life a ransom for many. Paid their price. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Naked, hung before God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ on the cross cried several times, but the most important one to me is the final one. He's back in fellowship because of his work on the cross. In closing, would you turn with me to the book of Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40. It just made new meaning to me out of this passage of scripture. Here in the book of Isaiah chapter 40, we just love this verse of scripture. What's the ministry of a minister? Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. That's my ministry in the Dallas. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. Now preaching the gospel is going to go crossways with lost people. It always does. It would just But I cry comfort ye, comfort ye all my people. Well, here in the book of Isaiah, chapter 40, verses 1 and 2, we read these words. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem and to the church and cry unto her. What are we to cry? Oh, good news. We got good news. Jesus Christ went to the cross. He stood before God on that cross naked before Him with Him who had to do it. He took care of it. He says here that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. You know what that means? Where sin abounded, Grace did much more about it. So He took care of it all. Every bit. Every trapping. Every thought. Every dream. There on that cross.

And you know when it was over? The Bible tells us it was purposed. It was promised. That when He came out of that tomb victorious over sin, death, hell, and the grave. Forty days later, he was sent back to where he had come from and sat down at the right hand of the Father. Why? Because God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit were pleased with the work of Christ on that cross.

I direct your attention to Him with whom we have to do. Can I crawl into one more verse? Hebrews chapter 10. Because of that nakedness, what Norm just brought before us in such an elegant way. Look at what it says there in chapter 10 of Hebrews verse 14. For by one offering, That's His nakedness, hanging on that cross. By His nakedness, you and I will never be naked, ever. We're covered, just like Adam and Eve, we're covered in the garden by the blood that represented our Savior's blood. We are perfected for, not just a little part of it, forever. Those who are sanctified.

Oh brother, that was a good message. Thank you so much. Bless me.