I realized last time I was in this pulpit, I said we were going on to chapter nine, but there's a nugget that I had passed over. And I want to spend just a little bit of time on that nugget that is found in the book of Acts chapter eight.

You remember the Ethiopian eunuch. You remember that God sent a preacher, a servant, down there to him. Now this servant knew something about God and he knew something about how God saves people and he sent this person who knew God and knew how God saves his people to someone that was very religious but had no understanding about how salvation is.

He sent this man, Philip, down to an Ethiopian eunuch, and this Ethiopian eunuch is a very rich man. He works for a very wealthy queen. He's been on his way in a chariot up to and now is returning from religious services in Jerusalem. He is wealthy enough to own or have at least with him a copy of some of the Bible. Whether he had it all at that time, it doesn't tell us. But he did have this passage of scripture, and that is the 53rd chapter of the book of Isaiah.

And so if you'll look with me here in the book of Acts, chapter 8, Acts chapter 8, we want to begin reading here where Philip asks, do you understand, verse 30, And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah.

Isn't it a blessing to be someplace where you can read the word out loud? It's meant to be read out loud. And if we're alone and read it out loud, or if we have someone with us, it's meant to be read out loud. And here is a man with probably a great group of people with him reading heard him read the prophet Isaiah and said, understandest thou what thou readest?

Now, to me, it is interesting that Philip knew exactly where this passage of scripture was from. He was well-versed in the book of Isaiah. And then he says, and he said, do you understand what thou readest? And he said, how can I accept 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, and like a lamb done before his shearer, 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? And Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him, Jesus.

Now that's an Old Testament passage of scripture with some proper pronouns in them, he and him. And we would not do harm by going through and in most of them, putting a capital there because it is speaking about God. And as Philip alludes here, it is speaking about God, the Lord Jesus Christ, God, the son.

Now, in that passage of scripture, in verse 33, it mentions in his humiliation, in his humiliation. I don't know about you, but once in a while, particularly when I was growing up, I was humiliated. You know, when I was going to a one-room schoolhouse and I started out as a first grader and we had eighth graders there, sometime it was their job to humiliate us. And you know, we were trained in that by the time I got to be an eighth grader, I knew how to do it for the first graders. We practice humiliating.

Now this passage of scripture that we have here, I don't condone it anymore. Please don't go home and say Norm condones humiliation. But this passage of scripture speaks to us about God, the very God, being humiliated. Now, when we think about it, we find out that God has been in his glory for all eternity. It's an immeasurable amount of time. In our mind, there has been, and as some of the old writers said, old eternity. God, the very God, in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, have been in existence for eternity. Now, I know that I butchered up the very substance of God by just saying it in that way, but I can't place it any better. He had been in eternity as God.

And for a season it was appointed unto him by the covenant of grace, the Lord Jesus, it was appointed unto him by the covenant of grace to be humiliated, and that humiliation was that God would come in the flesh. Can you imagine for a moment what it was like for God, the very God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and I can say the same thing about the Father and the Holy Spirit, that for eternity they were eternal beings in their glory. And I can't imagine the glory. The angels that are there cannot imagine the glory that they see, but they were in their glory. And here in an appointed time prescribed by almighty God, the son gave up the glory that he had with the father and came down to this earth in humiliation. What does that mean? This very God that had been eternal, that had never sat down at a meal, that had no interest in breathing, that was in requirement, now is put into a body of an infant child that was put into the womb of Mary and here he is born into this world and in such humiliation he is required to be confined to a body by the covenant of grace. Oh, the humiliation.

Now, that is just the beginning of his humiliation. In his humiliation, that's just the beginning, that he would give himself up for that confinement that he had never had in the world. And you know what? He took upon himself the form of a servant. And in that servitude, this one, who is God, come in the flesh. Emmanuel, God with us. I have trouble putting those two together. And you know what? For centuries, God's people have had trouble putting God-man together. It's a miracle of God's grace. But he put in this child the very spirit of God. I can't explain it. But here we have the God-man, and this we find out about this God-man, he wearied. Can you imagine God wearying over anything? I have to, because here we have the God-man, and it says he grew weary. Did you know it also tells us that he was hungry? Do you know it also says that he was thirsty? He needed sleep. Here we have the God-man come in the flesh. God come in the flesh, humiliated to that extent that he would be like unto his brethren.

Now I'd like to say a few things this morning. In the short time I have left, there were three times that Jesus Christ was humiliated, brought before people, in his naked condition. This is humiliation, God naked before man. Now turn with me if you would, keep your place there because we'll be back, but turn with me if you would to the book of Hebrews chapter four, Hebrews chapter four. Now this verse of scripture applies to every one of us, but it particularly applies to our Savior, the Lord Jesus. I never looked at it like that. before, but I want to look here in Hebrews chapter four, verse 13. There is a message here for you and I. You know, God knows everything that goes on in every one of our lives. He knows every thought that we have. He knows every dream that we've had. He knows every bad thing, everything. There's nothing hid from it. Well, it goes on to say, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight or made known in his sight. No creature, there's never a creature, no creature. Did you know God said he knows when a sparrow hits the ground? He knows the number of the hair on our head. And that's just not in this generation, that's in all the generations behind us and all the generations in the future. Now, can you comprehend that God?

And then we find out that God was humiliated in his humiliation. Here it tells us, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in this sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Now, when we look at this this morning, I pray that we can leave and say that it was the most important view that ever took place. Not that God saw us particularly, but God saw his son. on our behalf, humiliated. That God saw him, he was naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom he has to do. Who did Jesus Christ deal with on the cross? With his father. He wasn't dealing with us. He was dealing on our behalf, but he was not dealing with us. He's dealing with his father in his humiliation.

All right. Over there in the book of Acts, it tells us about that humiliation. From every aspect of his life, he was humiliated in the sense that for eternity he had been on his throne Angels bowed before him. He didn't take a drink of water. He didn't need a bite of food. He didn't need an ounce of oxygen. He didn't need nothing for his existence. And now in this time, he comes down to this earth and he becomes like his brethren. And we're gonna read a passage of scripture that says that. He came in that such a way.

Now there's three times that I have found in the scriptures. If you find another one, I'd like to put it in my notes. I love it when people come up to me after the services and say, did you see this verse? Now it doesn't offend me at all because I say, hold it, I want to put that in my notes. Because there's a lot of verses and we don't know them all, nobody does. And someone has an insight given to them about the scriptures, I want to know about it too. I want to be teachable.

All right, there's three times in the scriptures that I read that my savior was especially humiliated, especially humiliated, not just because he needed food or air or water or a rest, but he was especially humiliated because God come in the flesh is exposed like this.

The first time that I find that, and you can guess with me, you know with me, is found in the book of Matthew and also in the book of Luke. That was at his birth. You know what? He's born just like we were. Job said, naked I came forth from my mother's womb. We are born humiliated.

Please put some loincloth on me. Well, what's the first thing that Adam and Eve did after they sinned? The Bible tells us that God created them male and female and they were both naked and they were not ashamed. And then they ate the forbidden fruit and they left and ran out into the garden and hid themselves and covered themselves with fig leaves. And when God came down in the cool of the evening and said, Adam, where art thou? They said, we hid ourselves because we're naked.

And you know what God said? Who told you that? And you know what Adam's response was? The woman you gave me. Well, God did something very special that was pictorial of what is necessary for every one of us to have our natural, sinful, nakedness covered, and that is he covered Adam and Eve with coats of skins. Now, that was pictorial, and that was typical of the absolute necessity that we have his robe of righteousness.

We need righteousness to enter into the presence of God. We must have his righteousness to enter into the presence of God because our righteousness is as filthy rags. It's unacceptable. We are absolutely necessitated to have his righteousness when we enter into his presence and the only way that we'll get his righteousness is that he gives it to us.

He did not ask Adam and Eve to clothe themselves with the skins of animals. He said, the scriptures say, he clothed them without resistance. I'm thankful that when God saves his people, he saves them without resistance because he's almighty. He doesn't put up with it. Oh, God wouldn't go against my will. He better go against my will. He better. If he doesn't go against my will, I'll end up in the pit. So he came and closed them. All right.

In the book of Luke chapter two, verse six and seven, we read these words. Luke chapter two, verses six and seven. In his humiliation, He's gonna be naked before him with whom he has to do. He has to do before God. He must deal with God, his father. There's no way that he can deal with us and take care of the problem. He has to deal with the father. His father is the offended party. Sin has been made against the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but we have His as the offended party, and the Son must come in His humiliation and deal with Him with whom He has to do.

Here in the book of Luke, chapter 2, verses 6 and 7, we read these words about our Savior, the Lord Jesus. And so it was that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. Now we know the story. She brought forth her firstborn son. Now, there are many people who say that was her first and only son, but that's not what the Bible says. I'm gonna have to go on what the Bible says. The Bible tells me she had more boys and more girls. She had more children. She's gonna be a normal mama. She's gonna be a normal wife. Now, I'm not saying that some people cannot have children, please. That's just the way it is in some people's lives. But she had more children.

She brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes. Why? He's naked. And those clothes are very special. That's the way that the shepherds identified him. Go find this king wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And when they came in, they found him wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger and went away rejoicing. This is God their Savior that is here wrapped in the swaddling clothes and laid in the manger.

Now it's very interesting if we go over to the book of Ezekiel chapter 16, you might want to write this down. Ezekiel 16 4, it tells us over there that when natural man is born, we're cast out in the field. It talks about, it's pictorial, cast out into the field and we haven't been washed, we haven't been salted or purified, and we haven't been swaddled. You know, before God, we are naked with whom we have to do. And this swaddling that shares with us in this passage of scripture shares with us that God does the swaddling. He's the one that is swaddled for us. By nature, we are not. We have no protection against the elements of God's wrath. We are naked before him with whom we have to do. It doesn't matter whether we're in robes or in, in rags, we still need to be covered by the righteousness of Christ. So here we have him before God and before men, before his parents, that he was naked.

And it tells us, go travel with me to the book of Hebrews, if you would, chapter two, verse 14, Hebrews chapter two and verse 14. We read these words about this, our savior, the Lord Jesus. It tells us here in Hebrews chapter four, And verse, excuse me, chapter two and verse 14, for as much then. Now, I'll try to give you time to get there. I'm sorry. For as much then, Hebrews chapter two, verse 14. This is the reason that he was humiliated and came as an infant born of a virgin. He was born like you and I are. He was delivered from his mother's womb.

My feeling about it is Joseph did a lot to help there. Like many daddies have done. My oldest sister was born and dad called for the doctor And by the time the doctor got there, my sister was already born. He'd already had to take care of it. He'd already cut the umbilical cord. He'd done everything that necessary. The doctor showed up and still charged him $5. Travel time.

All right, notice here, for as much then, Hebrews 2, verse 14, for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. Now that's you and I. We're descendants of Adam. Now Adam was a very special creation, but he was flesh and blood. His wife Eve was a very special creation, but she was flesh and blood. And here it says, for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same. He had to be like us in this sense.

Now I'm thankful that we read he was tempted in all ways that we're tempted yet without sin. He didn't have that problem that we have. We have a natural tendency to sin. I came forth from my mother's womb speaking lies. Now I may not have said a word, but I came forth from a natural state of sin from my mother's womb. I grew up that way. I didn't have to be taught to sin. I didn't have to be taught to lie. I didn't have to be taught anything about sin. It's a natural part of us growing up. Now my brother may have helped me with some of the words. But I grew up as a sinner. I was born a sinner, grew up as a sinner, and I'm still a sinner.

Now notice this. Likewise took part of the same except for sin. that through death, now that's one thing God could not do. God is an everlasting existence. But this one, our Savior, the Lord Jesus, when he was humiliated by being put in the body that was prepared for him, he was given the privilege of dying for his people. Now we say privilege. If he hadn't of, we would have never been saved. Someone had to take care of our sin. It's either going to be you and I, or it's going to be Christ. Those on the left hand side are going to spend eternity taking care of sin and never get it paid for. Those on the right-hand side, Jesus Christ went to the cross and paid for their sin, every last sin, past, present, and future, and they will never answer for a sin. He took care of it.

Now, it doesn't mean that we don't sin and we don't go into our prayer room and say, Lord, forgive me. But I asked a young fellow one time that was arguing with me over this, and I says, what happens to a believer that doesn't confess their sin? Are they brought under condemnation? I don't know. Well, no, they're not. I believe God is merciful to us and brings it to our attention. But if there is a sin that we didn't know about and we didn't confess, it's covered with the blood. Take it up with him. All right, goes on to say here that through death, he might destroy him that had power of death, that is the devil. He had power to destroy him that had death. That is the devil.

Turn with me just a little bit in that same chapter, verse 17. Wherefore, in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren. He was humiliated by being put into a body, a baby's body. He had to grow up just like everyone else grows up. We have an account of him, very soon we'll look at that, at eight days and then at 12 years. And then we find him when he came to John to be baptized, at about 30. So we don't have his full life laid out here. We have the most important things that God wanted us to understand about him, but we don't have everything.

But here he says there, wherefore in all things it behooved 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 the people. There must be an advocate. And we find out there is one mediator. Now you and I cannot mediate for our sins. We just don't have the right exchange rate. We just can't make it. But there is one mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus. One meeting.

Now notice this, he might be a faithful, a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. This one who was humiliated by taking upon flesh must be like those he came to die for in every sense of the word, except he did not have their contamination of sin. It's why Joseph couldn't have been daddy. Dads pass on the genes. Joseph couldn't have been the daddy. If he's going to be the savior, Joseph couldn't have been the daddy. We find out that God in his great way of grace said, the spirit will come upon her and he will put his seed in her womb. So that seed of God united with that seed of Mary and they became the God man.

And she carried him for nine months, just like you and I were carried, plus or minus a week or two, depends on who you are. And she came forth with that firstborn son and had a babe in arms, wrapped in swaddling clothes and placed in a manger until she nursed him. Jesus, it's written in the Old Testament in the Psalms, I did hope while I was upon my mother's breast. You know what that means? I knew everything that was gonna take place even though I was an infant nursing at my mama's. Nothing was hid from him even in his infancy. He knew everything that was going on. He knew what his mission was here. He knew he had 30 years and he was going to go to preach the gospel, to call out 12 disciples. 11 of them were his great faithful saints. One was an imposter, go to the cross and die. He knew that from his conception. He knew that in eternity, he knew it all.

Here we have him humiliated. The word was made flesh, we read in John chapter one. Philippians, he took upon him the form of a servant. Boy, you don't find many kings saying, you know, I think I'll go out and be a servant. But this king came as a servant. He is the truest deacon that ever walked the face of the earth. He is the cleanest, clearest servant. He had absolute, complete knowledge of all things that were going on around him and in us. He could look around and see everyone that he was going to save, everyone that he had saved, and he could see everyone that would never be saved. What a state he's put in. His vision is perfect. Boy, mine isn't even perfect with these on. His vision was godly.

Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he sayeth, sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou hast prepared for me. That's in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 11.

All right, the second time that we find our savior naked before the world is found in Luke chapter 2, verse 21. Something had to happen to him as prescribed by the law. If you'll turn with me over to the book of Luke chapter 2, Luke chapter two, Jesus Christ was going to honor the law. We can't. We may try, but we can't honor the law. We even in our safe condition may say, I certainly like to keep the 10 commandments. That's my goal, realizing I can't. and never saying, because I kept one of them today, it made me more righteous with God.

Our righteousness is not bound up in us. Our righteousness is bound up in Christ. He is our peace. He is our righteousness. He is everything that God demands of us in Him. So we have it in Him. So it's not us trying to accomplish anything. But when we're saved, Lord, Help me not to see them. Lord, I don't want to sin anymore. Lord, help me here. Forgive me of my sin. I would really like to keep the Ten Commandments, but I'm thankful you did on my behalf, because I can't keep them. If I offend one in one place, I am guilty of it all, unless he takes care of it. But I'm not opposed to the Ten Commandments, but don't ever put them up for righteousness. You know what that tells me if I'm trying to keep it for righteousness? Jesus Christ is not sufficient. And if he's not sufficient, we have a problem. And it's worse than saying Houston, we have a problem. He is our righteousness. Don't ever say I'm keeping the law for righteousness sake. I'm keeping it so I'll be more sanctified. You can't be more sanctified than Christ is, and he's our sanctification. But he still would be pleased. Oh Lord, help me not to lie today. And guess what? We just did. What's gonna happen? I'm still covered by the blood.

All right. Here in the book of Luke, the book of Luke, the second time that our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, was naked is found in Luke chapter two, verse 21. Eight days were accomplished. Now, if you know the Old Testament law, you know what had to happen to a male child on the eighth day. He had to be circumcised. And Jesus Christ was not going to be any different than any other. Jewish boy, on the eighth day, it says, 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. And Jesus means they shall call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins.

But on the eighth day, he is taken and he is circumcised. Now, in his humiliation, Why would the God-man go through that? Well, there is a very good reason for it, because he was going to be naked before the law. He was going to fulfill every jot and every tittle. He said, I came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law. He fulfilled it on the behalf of the church. He fulfilled it when he was in this life. He never had any wicked thought go through his mind. Even when people were challenging him, even when he was crucified, He did not reach out, even like his own disciples said. Do you want us to call down lightning from heaven and destroy these folks? You know, the Lord said, I've got 12 legions of angels if I wanted help, but he's in charge of what's taking place. He is the Lord of glory.

So here he is, he is naked before the priest that he is going to be circumcised with. And it tells us in the eighth day of the flesh, his foreskin shall be circumcised as in Leviticus chapter 12 and verse three. So he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. He was going to be the only person that was ever born, that could keep the law, and in his great glory as being God, could keep it for you and I. He could impute the blessing of keeping the law to the church. He could say, I've kept it for you. And he could be right in it. He's God, doing what he came to do.

For Christ is the end of the law. for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Now, if you want to keep it, keep it because you want to not sin, but not because of righteousness. I'm not going to get more righteous today because I kept one segment of the law. I'm not going to get more righteous. You can't get any more righteous than the righteousness of Christ. And once we start bragging about what we are doing, we are saying, we are declaring emphatically, Christ is not sufficient. I must add my little bit over here.

Well, we find out that Christ is the law. The Lord was the one of perfect righteousness. The law had no power over him. The law could not accuse him of anything. The law could accuse us of something every time. Every one of those commandments. Jesus spoke to a group of people, he says, it's not your hands that does the crime. It's not your hands. It's not your feet. It's your heart. If you've hated in your heart, you've already done it. If you looked on a woman and you've already done it, and that could go on and on. I loved what Brother Henry said one time, you don't become a bank robber by robbing a bank. You're a bank robber and that's why you rob a bank. You've already got it made up in your mind. It's your thoughts, it's your heart.

So I'm so thankful that Jesus Christ fulfilled the law on my behalf. And it's not chargeable to me. It can't be brought up to me. God took care of it. All right. So Christ is the end of the law. When Christ came, he had perfect righteousness. The law never said, I found something wrong with you. The law was silent. He had no sin.

But the Lord, we read over there in the book of Isaiah chapter 53, the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. Now he was covered with a robe and this was an ignorant robe, our sin. I've tried to capture in my mind what it looked like when God the Father gathered up all the sin of all his people in all ages. To me, in my mind, it's kind of like one of those pictures of those grasshoppers that just swarm. And here is the swarm of sin and they're all directed in one direction. They have one leader, and the leader is directing the whole swarm of sin to the person Christ Jesus on the cross. He, God, laid on him the iniquity of us all. I cannot imagine what it was like, but he had all our sin laid on him. He had no sin of his own. He didn't have to die for his own sin. He died for the sins of his people.

The third time that Jesus Christ was naked before men, read with me if you would, over in the book of Matthew chapter 27. His humiliation. His humiliation. He was humiliated. He was humiliated at his birth, the God man. God come in the flesh. He was bound by human flesh. He was humiliated when he was brought before the officer there on the eighth day. But he shares with us, he is naked before the law. The law could inspect him and inspect him and inspect him. And the words of Pilate reverberate at this time, I find no fault in him.

Here in the book of Matthew chapter 27, verse 35. Join me there if you would, Matthew chapter 27 and verse 35, we read this about the last time that we know of that the Lord was humiliated on this earth and ever will be. Matthew chapter 27, verse 35, we read these words. They crucified him and parting 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 did they cast lots."

It was prophesied in the Old Testament. It was fulfilled in the day that Jesus Christ went to the cross, and they took his garments off of him and nailed him to that cross, just like he came into this world. They took his garment. Now there was a garment there that was very special. They couldn't find a seam in it. So instead of cutting it up like they normally would have, they gambled over it. And one of the soldiers went home with a seamless robe.

Jesus Christ was made naked before men, but more than that, he is going to be naked before God with whom he has to do. It's symbolic of him, what he must do in order to save his people from their sins. He must be before God, the one with whom he has to do. He is going to answer to God on this cross for the sins of his people.

We find out there in the book of Luke, go ahead just a little bit, Luke chapter 23, if you would. In Luke chapter 23, we find the same incident, but there's some more words added. Luke chapter 23, verse 33 and 34. It says here, Luke chapter 23, verse 33, 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. And he said, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment and cast lots.

So here we have our savior. There's no creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. And it truly is emphasized here when the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross, he's not covered in any way. The only covering that he receives on the cross is what? Our sins. Our sins. That's his covering. He hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Turn with me to the book of Ephesians chapter five, if you would. Ephesians chapter five. Ephesians chapter five and verse two, we read this. and walk in love. Ephesians chapter five, verse two. Walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to who? Did he give it to the church? No. Did he give it to the Romans? No. Did he give it to the Jews? No. Who did he give this sacrifice to? A sacrifice to God.

As he was humbled, humiliated before men and God on that cross, he bore our sins in his own body on the tree. Now there are seven times, seven times that we have record of that Jesus spoke from the cross. The first one we just read there in the book of Luke, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. The last one, he says, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Do you remember what the middle one was? My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Now have you noticed the difference between the front one and the back one and the middle one? Who's being addressed? In the first one, father. Last one, father. Why was he not addressing in the middle one, father? Because God is dealing with him in his sin. Not his sin, but our sin. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou far from the words of my roaring? He was bound by our sin and God the Father poured out his justice upon him, his wrath upon him. Eternal wrath poured out on him in three hours. And you know what Jesus Christ could say at the conclusion of that transaction? It is finished. His payment is made. He had been humbled enough.

You know what they do with him when they take him off the cross? They wrapped him in fresh linen, buried him in a borrowed tomb. He's wrapped up again. No longer and never again will he be in that circumstance before God the Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit. He was there for a season. He was there appointed for a season. He was on the cross for a season. And in that time, he took care of all the sin debt of all his people for all eternity. And he could cry out. And that word in the original means it's paid. The payment is made, the bill is paid. And that is such a glorious thing for the church to say, my bill is paid. My bill is paid. Hallelujah, my bill is paid. He took care of it at the cross, gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God.

For he died once when he offered up himself, hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. But this man, after he'd offered one sacrifice for sins forever, He's a propitiation for our sin and not for our sin only, but for the sins of the whole world. Don't go down the road of the world. Find out what propitiation means. Then you will find out who he died for. It means he paid completely for them. Now, if he paid one bit for a person that eventually goes to hell, what good did his payment do for that person? Nothing. Don't go around saying Jesus died for everybody, because if he did, everybody's going to have to be saved. If his death is worth anything, if his humiliation is worth anything, he did it effectually and he died for his people and paid all their sin debt.

Father, forgive them. And I'm thankful he does. So in his humiliation, he was humiliated in his birth, God come in the flesh. He was humiliated before the law. Naked before the law, fulfilled every jot, every tittle, nothing was owing, nothing was left out, nothing was lacking. He did it all. And then he was humiliated before God the Father. on the cross, but he paid the very last farthing. He paid it all. And when they took him down, they covered him up and said, never again. He's taken care of it completely.

Brother Mike, if you'll come.