His music in the cities, His
life and health and peace. He breaks the power of cancer's
sin, He sets the prisoner free. His blood can make the violence
free, His blood I'll have for me. Thank you. You may be seated.
As we turn our hymnals once again to hymn number 362. 362, Rock
of Ages, cleft for me. And I will, as I was born, be
a sinner in the world, till the earth is good and whole. When my tears they have flowed,
how for sin could not atone? How forsaken, now alone, are
the angels of God? ? Come to me for grace ? ? Let
us go to me for grace ? ? That I may identify ? ? My true Savior,
Lord, I die ? ? For my love is raining down ? ? And my heart
is closing in ? ? When I see the Lord in the temple ? ? I shall see Him face to face
? ? Sing the story, sing my praise ? ? Now that ages have passed
me by ? Good morning. Welcome everyone
this morning. I don't know why but the live
stream is not connecting this morning so if anybody asks I'll
have the message uploaded hopefully before the day's over but I just
can't get it to work this morning. I hope you'll keep praying for
Stephanie, the Lord willing, she hopes to come out of the
hospital tomorrow. Remember Roger, Vicki, and Joe,
others, and your prayers. For our reading this morning,
I want you to turn to Psalm 67. Psalm 67. 7. God be merciful unto us, and
bless us, and cause this face to shine upon us, that thy way
may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O
God. Let all the people praise thee. O let the nations be glad and
sing for joy, for thou shalt judge the people righteously
and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, O
God. Let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her
increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, and all the
ends of the earth shall fear him. Let's pray. Our Father, we come in the holy
name of the Lord Jesus Christ this morning. And we say as a psalmist, and
as we have to repeat daily, be merciful unto us. Bless us. For you alone are the God of
mercy. And you alone can truly bless
your people with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. We come in our weakness and we
come in our sinfulness. We come as those who need mercy. We come as those who, apart from
your grace, have nothing. And we ask you this morning that
you would help us. That as a father knows his children
and remembers that they're nothing but dust, you pity us. and give us those things that
we are in need of, most especially spiritual and eternal things. We ask this morning, Lord, that
you would hear us and grant to us worship, that we might learn
of you, that we might be taught of our God, that the spirit of
truth might be in us revealing the things of Christ. And we
pray for these that we mentioned who are sick and others of your
people, scattered as we know them to be according to these
verses that we've read, a people out of every nation, kindred,
tribe, and tongue. Lord, we know that you have saved
a people out of this world for your name's sake and for your
glory. And they shall be to the praise
of the glory of your grace, worlds without end, to testify of your
goodness and your mercy to them, to extol you for all eternity,
for the glories of your majestic person, and for the wonders of
your gracious work in Christ. We hail him as the king of kings,
the king eternal, the king of righteousness, the king of peace,
and we'll give praise and thanksgiving even now, for all that you made
him to be to us. We pray, Lord, that you would
help us this day, that you would cause us to grow in the grace
and knowledge of Christ, that you would strengthen us, that
you would keep us in the hour of trial and temptation, that
you would preserve us until the day of your coming, and that
you would keep us by your hand from the evil that is natural
to us, from the evil that is in this world, and from the evil
one, preserve us, we do pray. For we are without strength in
ourselves. We have no hope in anything that
we can never do or think, but preserve us, Lord, In that one
that you speak of in Jude. Preserved in Jesus Christ. That we might know his mercies. Be saved by his blood redemption. And give honor and praise to
him alone. Lord, the things that we need
most. To be done for us and in us. We cannot do. We cannot help
in doing. But they must be done by you
alone. As God overall. Who is able to
save to the innermost those that come unto God by you? We pray and thank you for all
things for preserving us this week. For your watch care. For all your provision on every
hand. We know that every good and perfect
gift comes down from you as the father of lights, as the father
of mercies, and we praise you in Jesus' holy and righteous
name. Amen. And your Hymn was, once again,
495. God, me, O thou great Jehovah,
and brother Anthony. I am weak, but Thou art mighty. Hold me with Thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me to Thy will. Bread of heaven, feed me to Thy
will. streamed afloat. Epiphanic, cloudy billow, lead
me on my journey through. Strong in heaven, strong in heaven,
be thy still my strength and cheer. Be thy still my strength
and cheer. When I tread the verge of Jordan,
bid my anxious lips observe. Death of death and hell's destruction
can be said for Canaan's soul. Son of Jesus, Son of Jesus, I
have heard your news. so so So, you so ? The deep deep love of Jesus ?
? Has the measure that is free ? ? Only as the mighty ocean
? ? In its fullness is true ? ? Underneath the earth around me ? ? Is the
blood of the Lord ? ? For it's His love ? ? For deep,
deep love ? ? And faith and trust ? ? Is the deep, deep love of
Jesus ? O'er the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Spread his grace from shore to shore. Now he came to pay a ransom,
Who was saved because he bore. Now he watches over O'er the deep, deep o'er the
deep and just is the deep so In the great halls of Jerusalem Amen. Please open your Bibles to 2 Corinthians chapter 13. 2 Corinthians chapter 13. I'll begin reading with you in
verse one. This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three
witnesses shall every word be established. I told you before and foretell
you as if I were present the second time and being absent
now I write to them which heretofore have sinned and to all other
that if I come again I will not spare. Since ye seek a proof of Christ
speaking in me, which to you is not weak, but is mighty in
you. For though he was crucified through
weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are
weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God
toward you. Examine yourselves, whether ye
be in the faith, prove your own selves, know ye not your own
selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates. But I trust that ye shall know
that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that you do
no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that ye should
do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. For we can do nothing against
the truth, but for the truth. If you look back in that fifth
verse, it begins with two words. The Apostle Paul saying, examine
yourselves. The title of my message this
morning is true self-examination. He says, examine yourselves. And he says that in light of
what he has just said in verse 3. He said, since you seek a
proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you is not weak, but
is mighty in you. You seek a proof of my speaking
for God. You seek a proof of me being
sent of God. But he says, rather, examine
yourselves. Examine yourselves. And I thought about it, he did
not say or do as the Pharisees did. He did not say, examine
others. Not how they're living, not what
they're doing, not what they're believing. He says, examine yourselves. And he does not say, examine
yourselves, period. There's not a period after those
words. There's a comma. There's a further
explanation. He does not say, just examine
yourselves. Look introspectively inside yourselves. Because if we ever examine ourselves
and find anything in us, anything in who we are, anything
in what we've done, whether we've been baptized, whether or not
we're a member of the church, whether or not we've given, or
how we are trying to live or what we experienced or what we're doing or what even
we've abstained from doing. If we find anything as a basis
of our acceptance and salvation before God, or our assurance
of it. If we find it in any part in
us, in examining ourselves, we're in great danger. Paul said, I know that in me,
that is in my flesh, dwells no good thing. in any experience
of the flesh, in any doing of the flesh, in anything, because
salvation is by the grace of God. Christ is the Savior of
his people. And furthermore, he doesn't say,
examine yourselves to see if you have faith. That's a real
problem in our day. People have faith in their faith. They have faith in their faith.
They speak of my faith. But Paul says this, he says,
examine yourselves Whether ye be in the faith. Whether you be in the faith. Many people in our days speak
of various faiths. They speak of the Catholic faith,
they speak of the Baptist faith, they speak of the Methodist faith. There are all these faiths and
faith-based things. But Paul puts the definite article,
singular, in front of that word, the faith. There is, according
to Scripture, one faith. And what he's speaking of here
is the word of truth. He's speaking here of the gospel. There is one gospel. Examine yourselves whether you
be in the faith, the gospel. And Strong's concordance defines
that faith in this way. It says, especially relies upon
Christ for salvation. Especially relying on Christ
alone as our salvation. Now hold your place here and
look over in Jude chapter one. That little book right before
Revelation, Jude, the Epistle of Jude, one chapter. Look at
Jude 3. He says, Beloved, when I gave
all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, that
one salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and
exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for thee faith. Not for faith, but that you should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto
the saints. The faith, the truth, the gospel
earnestly contend for the faith. Turn back also to the book of
2 Timothy. 2 Timothy and the third chapter,
listen to what the Apostle says in 2 Timothy 3, beginning in
verse 1. This know also that in the last
days perilous times shall come. That's the day we're living in.
The last days, the days between the first coming of Christ and
the second coming of Christ. God has spoken unto us in these
last days concerning his son. This know also that in the last
days perilous times shall come. Oh, you say we're here because
of all of this moral wickedness and wars and awful things. But I don't believe that Paul
is talking about that kind of peril, though it comes for sure. But he says, for men shall be
lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers
of them that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof from such turn away. For of this sort
are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women
laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning
and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now, Genesis and Jambres withstood
Moses, and as they did withstand Moses, so do these also resist
the truth. What is he talking about here?
Denying and resisting the truth. Men of corrupt minds reprobate
concerning the faith. They don't believe the truth.
They don't preach the gospel. They'll reprobate concerning
the faith. Turn over just a page probably
to the book of Titus when we see the same situation, the same
thought, Titus 1 and verse 1. He addresses these to whom he
writes, or this one that he writes to, Paul, a servant of God, according,
and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith, the faith
of God's elect. He's not talking about God's
elect believing. He's talking about what they
believe. This is the faith of God's elect. He is an apostle preaching the
faith that will be believed by God's elect. The acknowledging
of the truth which is after godliness. And then he says down in verse
13, this witness is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply
that they may be sound in the faith. That they'll be sound in the
faith. And when the news was going around
about Saul of Tarshish, who the Lord has saved and changed, and
he's not preaching what he once preached, but he's preaching
something else. It was said of him this, they were only, only they were
hearing that he who then persecuted us, that's what he was doing,
persecuting believers, He now preaches the faith which he once
ravished, the faith that he was once against, the faith, the
message, the gospel, the Christ that he was once against. Now
he's preaching him and he's preaching this truth. And then when you come to what
Paul says in Philippians chapter one, He reminds these Philippian
believers, he says, only let your conduct be as becomes the
gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or else am
absent, I may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one spirit,
striving together with one mind, for the faith of the gospel."
The faith of the gospel. He says, examine yourselves whether
ye be in the faith. An old preacher said this concerning
this verse. He said the only caution, the only caution to be observed
in doing this, we have to have one caution. And he said the
only caution to be observed in doing this is to form our conclusion. by God's standards, by the Lord's standard and not
our own. You see, we cannot just decide
and determine based on various things whether or not we're in
the faith. So this means that this does
not involve our feelings either. Well, I feel like I'm in the
faith. I feel like I'm a Christian. I feel like I'm a believer. And
it's not going back and looking out inwardly or looking to any
of these things that I have mentioned. We must be cautious in this and
we must raise as the only concluding factor of this God's own standard,
His word, His word. And we are to draw our conclusion
from the Spirit's testimony of the word of God as to what I
am to Christ and Christ is to me and not from what I feel of
those things. What does the Bible say, not
what do I feel. And I guess you say that the
unerring standard, improving ourselves, is God's manifestation
of his love to his people in Christ, not their sense of that
love. So we're found, first of all,
have to conclude, are we what God says that we are? I tell you, by nature, we want
to think a lot more highly of ourselves than God says that
we are in ourselves. And what He says about us in
ourselves is that we are nothing but sinners. He didn't say just that we sin. He said we are sinners. We are sinners. We don't become sinners by doing
what we do. We do what we do because we are
sinners. Nothing but sin in ourselves. Helpless toward God. Helpless to save ourselves. Helpless to be able to pull ourselves
up by the bootstrap. hopeless, and in ourselves totally
unrighteous, described as lost. Brother Mahan used to say, if
you've never been lost, you've never been saved. Lost. Fallen in Adam. without strength. Or we brought to this thing that
we are natural enemies of God. Even enemies of God in our own
minds when we hold up what we are and have done before God
for His approval. He calls them wicked works. Or when we look back at what
we have done in religion and what we have done as moral people. God describes them all as dead
work, fruit unto death. That's what the faith says. And only those that are in the
faith really believe this. take it and they'll have it as
their doctrine, they'll have it as their creed, or they'll
have it as their confession. But if you talk to them, they'll
run always to their own experience, to the fruit of their own hand,
to their own doing, to their own experience, to all these
things as a proof and a reason for their being assured that
they're believers. We are what the faith says that
we are. And this is what Paul calls it. He calls it the faith of God's
elect. It has a choice of Christ, not
our choice. It believes in divine election. It sets forth God's perfect predestination. All these things that ascribe
all the glory and salvation to God, not to us. And they believe this. They believe these things that
give God all the glory, that show Him in control, that lift
up His power and His authority. The people who believe God, who
believe the truth and the gospel, they believe all that the Scriptures
say about God, all these things that are naturally offensive
to men. who make them by nature say,
well, God is just a dictator and God is just a wicked God
and all these things. They believe this because God's
given them faith to believe the faith. They can't believe anything else. I can remember so well trying
as I read portions and passages in the scripture, these things
about God's predestinated purpose and his election and his sovereign
free grace. And I can remember them reading
them and they say, well, they can't mean what they say they
mean because we know that God is like this. No, he's not. This
is the way he is. He chooses us. We don't choose
him. He determines whatever is to
be done. We don't determine it. It's His
will, not free will. Paul writing to the Thessalonians
said, and we are bound to give thanks always to God for you. Who is he describing here? He's
describing those people, God's elect, that believe the faith,
those that have truly faith. We're bound to give thanks always
to God for you. Brothers, beloved of the Lord,
because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth. Christ said, my sheep hear my
voice. They won't hear the voice of
a stranger. But not only do we believe what
God says about us, we believe what the faith says for about
the Lord Jesus Christ. Everybody talks about Jesus.
Bumper stickers. Oh, the coming time of year,
they'll be reading various passages of the Bible. They'll say that
Jesus is the reason for the season, they'll say this and that and
the other, all these things lifting up and speaking of the name of
Jesus. But the faith is what we have
to look to alone about the Lord Jesus Christ. I saw a church sign, often see
them, it says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, the
scriptures say, The devils believe that and they tremble. You believe
that he existed? Oh yeah, you believe this and
you call him my Jesus and all these things. But what you don't
believe is what the faith says about him. You see, only those in the faith believe
that he is as he is declared to be and for what he's declared
to have done in the testimony of God. Not your tradition. That's always the first thing
that seems to have a rub against the faith. Tradition. When the Lord saved me as a preacher
in the pulpit, the very first problems that began to arise
when he called me to declare the faith and preach the faith,
there was something, some traditions automatically had to go. Because tradition always denies
the truth. Well, we've always had an invitation,
no? But saving men won't, they're
not saved by coming to the front, they're saved by coming to Christ. They're saved by Christ. And
all these other ridiculous programs and traditions and things of
honoring people, we're gonna call out everybody's name who
has a birthday this morning. We're gonna have a pin of flour
on the The oldest mother, all this stuff is just ridiculous.
It's not found in the faith. Has nothing to do with the gospel. As a matter of fact, it is contrary
to the gospel. It honors men, not God. I thought about it yesterday,
how many times in my life since the Lord showed me the truth,
have I heard somebody say this? I mean, people who claim to believe
the gospel, people who claim to preach the gospel. Well, so-and-so,
my uncle, my dad, my friend over the so-and-so, he doesn't understand
the gospel like we do. He doesn't know the truth. He doesn't like election. He
doesn't like the things that glorify God. But he loves the
Lord. No, he doesn't. He loves the
God of his imagination. He loves the God of his tradition. He loves that good old buddy,
that piece of silly putty that you can flex in your hand and
make him what you want. The God that Mama believed, or
Papa believed, or old brother so-and-so preached and all, but
he's not the God of the faith. You see, he says, examine yourselves
whether you be in the faith. And the truth is that most of
us, all of us by nature, when we begin to hear the faith, we
hate it. because the carnal mind is enmity
against God. Oh, they'll confess, he's the
son of God. We believe in the deity of Christ.
We believe in the necessity of the word. We believe that a person
has to be born again. It's sad. how much a person can
believe of true things and not believe the truth, not even understand
anything about the truth. It's not tradition. It's not
hearsays. It's not a few true things. It's
a body. the truth, the faith. They say they believe, but they make the God-man to be an absolute failure. because they make his cross work
a failure. They say things like, well, I
believe he created the world. That's true, isn't it? I believe he's the son of God.
I believe he's God manifest in the flesh. I believe he's our example. I believe he's the Teacher of
teachers. I believe he's the king of kings. So many things. But they don't believe what he
did. The faith tells what he did. Tells who he did it for. This is a faithful Savior, and worthy of all acceptation,
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom
I am chief. That's what Paul wrote. He either did that or he failed. You say, well, God knows who
will be saved. Yes, he does. Because he purposed
to save only them that are saved. And the reason that they are
saved, will be saved, is because he purposed it. The Son came
and died for them, and the Spirit of God will mightily call them
to Christ and give them faith to believe what Christ has done. Amen. He's gonna do it. They make His crosswork a failure. They believe He died on the cross
for all but most of them will perish. He did a perfect work, they say. Oh, but you've got to make it
effectual. You've got to accept it. The only sin that's not forgiven
is unbelief, they say. Well, I haven't got a chance
then, because I'm like that man. Lord,
I believe, but help thou my unbelief. They believe their act of faith
determines the success and the efficacy of his work. Evidently, he did most, but you'll
have to do something. No. You see, God-given faith relies
solely upon the person and the work of Christ. Not when I first believe, not
any act of my choice, not any movement of my will, not any
experience wherein I experience something. I've experienced a
lot in my life. Well, I was convicted of my sin. Well, when I was a little boy,
people would talk about death, and I'd go to bed that night,
and I'd pull the sheets up over my head because I was scared,
scared to die. But I was lost. I've been afraid. I wasn't believing. I have real feelings. We chased a man under the bridge
down at Jacksville one night. Gunshots started ringing out.
I was afraid. But none of those things. fear,
whatever the emotion, any of it. We're saved in our experience
when we believe the truth, the faith. We believe, as Paul said
to Timothy, that God has saved us. That it's a finished work. that it's all in Him, all by
His grace. Let me read you, turn over to
Romans chapter 10. I'm gonna read you one of the
most familiar verses in all of so-called evangelism. And that's the 13th verse. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. They say, well, we've
got a whosoever gospel. No, we've got a whosoever will
call upon the name of the Lord." Well, you say, well, in a secret
place, when I was a kid or sometimes I called upon the name. That's
not what that means. It means approach God and worship
God on the basis of one sacrifice and that's the blood and righteousness
of Christ. You know how I know that? All
throughout the Old Testament, it says of Abraham and many others
that they traveled to a certain place and they stopped and they
built an altar, they took a sacrifice, they slew it, They offered up
that sacrifice on the altar and called upon the name of the Lord. Listen. How then shall they call on him in whom
they have not believed? You cannot call on a God that you don't believe
in. You don't worship a God that
you don't believe in. And how shall they believe in
Him of whom they have not heard? I heard all my life, I was raised
in religion, and I heard all my life of somebody named Jesus. time and time and time and time
again. But I never heard of this one. I never heard of this one. And how shall they hear without
a preacher? A God-sent messenger. And that's what this is all about. And how shall they preach except
they be sent? This isn't a fool's errand. This
is God sending his gospel to his sheep at a certain time,
in a certain place, to certain people. They're sent. I'm not here to evangelize the
world. I'm sent for the sheep. My sheep
hear my voice, Christ said, and they follow me. As it is written,
how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace and bring glad tidings of good things. That's what the
gospel is about. When a man brings the gospel,
he brings the glad tidings of good things, the things that
are freely given us in Christ. That's why it's called grace. How can they believe on him whom
they've not heard? How can they hear without a preacher? How shall they preach except
they be sent? But he said, they've not all
obeyed the gospel. For Elias saith, Lord, who hath
believed our report? I'm here to give a report. That's
what the gospel is, a report boil down to its finest essence
a report of what Jesus did and who he did it for when he came
into this world. You want my one-liner? Thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people
from their sins, all of them. He alone, his people, without
a doubt, that's what he did. So then faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. A translation that I have found
helpful and reliable, though it's not the kind that
you can just sit down and read very well, but is Young's literal
translation. And here's how it's translated
in that translation, that 17th verse. So then the faith, so then the faith is by a report
and the report through a saying of God. The faith is by report. That's what I'm doing, reporting. I've got to report. You know,
what a reporter should do is to who, why, when, where, how,
all those things. And yet people claim to believe
that they've never heard it, though they've never heard it. The report says this. Turn over
to Titus. Titus 3. Verse 4. But after that, the
kindness and the love of God our Savior toward men appeared. This is the love, the kindness
of God. Everybody wants to hear about
the love of God. Here it is. Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to His mercy. See those next three words? He
saved us. This is the good news to the
people of God. Well, they say, I like it, universal, that he
came to save all if they'll let him. That's what they say. Let God, let, my friend, salvation
is a done deal. He saved us. And it wasn't by
any works of righteousness that we did. It was as revealed 10,
2,000 years ago. He saved us. Do you hear that? Do you believe that? That's the
faith. He saved us. He hung on a cross
outside of Jerusalem in human flesh and died a death for sin,
the sacrifices for sin. saved us. We're safe. If I can rest in what he did, I'll have real joy. He saved
us. By the washing of regeneration, When we're born of God, he reveals
to us and we find all of our cleansing in the fact that he by himself
purged, that's what it means, cleansed. He by himself purged
our sins. And he sat down on the right
hand of the majesty on high, which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ. our savior, that being justified
by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of
eternal life. He saved us. The faith reveals that he saved
us, that he finished the work. that he did what Daniel said
he would do. He brought in that everlasting
righteousness. He made an end of the sins for
the sins of his people. examine yourselves, whether you
be in the faith. Is this what I believe? It's what I believe, that Jesus Christ is the one
that God chose his people in before the foundation of the
world and blessed them with all spiritual blessings. They're
saved, first of all, because God chose them to salvation in
Christ. Christ, in turn, in a covenant
of grace and mercy, he came into this world and he bore their
sins in his own body. These same individuals And He
saved him. He came to save His people from
their sin. He did just exactly that. He
hung on that cross. It is finished. And the Spirit of God, in time, brings every one of
them whom the father loved, whom the son died for in their place,
brings all of them to Christ, believe me, to the truth through
the faith. Brother Tim James said one time,
it's like he paid a debt for us and then called us and told
us about it. He saved us and called us. That's true self-examination.
If you ever find anything in your life or your experience
or you're doing or not doing to give you an ounce of hope
that you're a Christian, there'll come an hour when that
hope will crumble beneath you. Not even when you stand before
God, it surely will stand be then. But in this life, what
you counted on, you'll be like that old man I
read about once. He sat down and he wrote down
every reason of his experience on a piece of paper. And every time he'd get to doubting,
he'd just open up his paper and read that. And so he lay on his deathbed. And he sent his sons to look
in the top drawer of the dresser to get his letter, get his experience. And they came back to him and
they said, Papa, the rats have eaten your paper. The rats have eaten your paper.
You don't have your paper. What do you have? Nothing. But if you have Christ, if you have the sure knowledge
that the faith teaches God's people that he saved us, I remember hearing a brother
one time say, about the best way, I agree with this, about
the best way to determine whether or not the gospel of Christ is
the gospel is one word, success. Was his work a success? Yes, it was. He saved his people
from their sin. Our father, we thank you this
morning in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. That center can always have hope. Find comfort. Who sees what Christ did? Who sees himself as he's revealed
in the faith? Washed. saved, redeemed, made
righteous, all in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray that you would reveal your truth, that many might be found in the
faith, earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the
saints. And that's who it's for, your
people. We pray in Christ's name. Thank
you. Amen.