Well, good evening, everyone. If you would open your Bibles with me to Hebrews chapter 5. Hebrews chapter 5, we're going to read the first 10 verses. For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity? And by reason hereof, he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins. And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not himself, to be made an high priest. But he that said unto him, thou art my son, today have I begotten thee. And he saith also in another place, thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek, who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, and that he feared. Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him, called of God and high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

All right, Sean. Okay, if you would, turn in your hymnals to song number 87. sing Joy to the World, song number 87.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come.
Let earth receive her King.
Let every heart prepare Him room.
And heaven and nature sing.
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, the Lord Savior reigns.
Let men their songs employ,
while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
repeat the sounding joy.
Repeat the sounding joy.
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground
He comes to make His blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace
and makes the nations prove
the glories of his righteousness,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders, wonders of his love.

Hey, if you would now turn to song number 112, Blessed Redeem.

Up Calvary's mountain, one dreadful morn,
walk Christ my Savior, weary and worn.
Facing for sinners, death on the cross,
that he might save them from endless loss.

Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,
seems now I see him on Calvary's tree.
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,
blind and unheeding.

Father, forgive them, thus did he pray.
Meanwhile, his lifeblood flowed fast away.
Praying for sinners while in such woe,
No one but Jesus ever loved so.

Blessed Redeemer, Precious Redeemer,
Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree.
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,
blind and unheeding, dying for me.

O how I love Him, Savior and Friend!
How can my praises ever find end?
Through years unnumbered on heaven's shore,
my tongue shall praise him forevermore.

Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,
seems now I see him on Calvary's tree
wounded and bleeding for sinners pleading
blind and unheeding, dying for me.

If you would, open your Bibles with me now to Exodus chapter 29. Exodus 29, we'll read the first seven verses. And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them, to hollow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office, to take one young bullock and two rams without blemish, and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened, tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened, anointed with oil. of wheat and flour shalt thou make them. And thou shalt put them into one basket and bring them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and shalt wash them with water. And thou shalt take the garments and put upon Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod. and thou shalt put the miter upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the miter, and thou shalt take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

We thank God for his word. Let's bow together. Our Father, we're so thankful to be able to meet together here tonight in the middle of the week to gather together out of the world And Father, to be able to read your word, to open it and to study it, to have Christ preach to us from it, to be able to sing the songs of praise, thanksgiving to our glorious Redeemer. Father, what a blessing this is. And I pray that you would not allow us to take it for granted, but to cherish these times that we have to meet together and to worship your matchless name.

And Father, I beg of you that you send your spirit upon us tonight and enable us to do that. Enable us to worship you from the heart. Enable us to forget about all the cares and responsibilities and difficulties of this life. And Father, for this time, enable us to set our affection upon the Lord Jesus Christ, to learn of him, to hear him preach, to see him exalted, And Father, we pray you'd give us a heart to believe him, to run to him, to cling to him, to trust him as our all and in all.

Father, how can we ever thank you for your wisdom in sending a savior who can actually save his people from their sins? How we thank you for your mercy and your grace and your pity to lost, hell-deserving sinners from Adam's race. and choose to redeem us by the doing and dying of your only begotten son. Father, there's not human words to express our thanksgiving and the glory of such a salvation. But father, we thank you and pray that you'd bless the preaching of your word, the preaching of your son here tonight.

Father, we thank you for this place and ask that you would Preserve it, I thank you for each family, each home represented. And Father, I pray you'd bless us. Bless us individually as families and bless us as a congregation. Father, don't take your presence from us, we pray. But continue to bless your word as it's preached here. And Father, all these things we ask and we give thanks in that great name that's above every name, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

Now I have another message tonight that I will tell you I'm very excited about. The title of it is Christ consecrated to save a people. Now I'm going to tell you what I want us to get out of this message and then I'm preaching, see if this is not what you get out of the message. The utter amazement that the son of God would consecrate himself, that he'd set himself apart to do the job of saving sinners like us, saving sinners that the Father gave him to save, that he'd set his glorious person to accomplish that job, that he would not do anything else but accomplish that job to save his people from their sins.

I have been just floating around in my study all week as I think about what this passage is teaching us. Now in verse one, the word hollow is there. And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hollow them. That word means to dedicate, to set apart. Aaron and his sons were going to be dedicated. They're going to be set apart from the rest of Israel, even from the rest of the tribe of Levi to serve as the high priest and the priest in the tabernacle. And you know, that's a picture of Christ, our great high priest. Before God created anything, the father, He dedicated his son. He set his son apart to be the savior of the people that the father chose to save. And when it came time for the father to choose a savior, to dedicate him, set him apart, to do this job of salvation, he chose wisely, didn't he? He chose the only one who's capable. He's the only one who's able to save. And the amazing thing is this one who's able to save, was willing to do it. He knew what it would cost him, and he was still yet willing to dedicate himself, to set himself apart to this job of saving God's elect from their sin.

And in verse nine, we didn't read down through there, but it says at the very end of the verse, thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. That word consecrate means to fulfill. It means to accomplish, to complete, The father dedicated a savior. He dedicated his son, set his son apart to save his elect people, and the son fully and completely saved them from all of their sins. The father trusted the son. He set him apart to do this job, and he trusted his son to do it. Now, if the father trusted the son, don't you think it would be wise if you and I did, too? Trust him. because he's the one that's been set apart to save sinners like us. And this ceremony that we just read pictures Christ our Savior being consecrated, set apart to save his people from their sins.

And the first thing about this high priest is this. He was chosen from among the people. The high priest has to be part of the people that he's representing. He has to be like them. He has to have their nature so he knows what it's like to be them. Don't turn to this. This didn't really hit me till I was reading it to open the service, but in Hebrews chapter five, this shows you why we need a high priest taken from among the people to be like us. Verse two says, who can have compassion on the ignorant. I need a high priest who has compassion for the ignorant, because here I am. Compassion on the ignorant. And on them, they're out of the way. Charlie, that's the way I came into the world. I came into the world out of the way. I need to have a high priest who has compassion on that. For that he himself also was compassed with infirmity. Now you know our Savior. He had no infirmity. There's no weakness and nothing that he could not do. Even when he's in the flesh, he is God, right? But he limited himself to be in the flesh. He limited himself to do the things that people in the flesh can do so that he was just like his people, so that he could be our representative.

Look back at one or two pages there at Exodus 28. That's why Aaron was the high priest. Moses didn't choose Aaron, you know, to be the high priest because, you know, this is nepotism. This is my brother, so I'll make him the high priest. God set him apart to be the high priest. Verse one of Exodus 28. And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. Aaron was the high priest, and his sons were the priests, because the father appointed them to be. The father set them apart to be the high priest for the people. Now look back in Hebrews chapter five. In the very same way, the father appointed his son to be the high priest, the great high priest of his people.

Verse four says, and no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. Aaron never would have took this job upon himself. God gave it to him and put him in it, separated him to do it. So also Christ glorified not himself, to be made an high priest. But he that said unto him, thou art my son, today have I begotten thee, as he saith also in another place, thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

Christ is not a priest after the order of Aaron, because he's not from the tribe of Levi. He's a priest after the order of Melchizedek, who has no beginning and no ending. This is the eternal high priest. And he was taken from among the people. But God's not among the people. God's not like us.

So the son, when he dedicated himself to be the savior of his people, he agreed to humiliate himself to be clothed in human flesh, just like we are yet without sin. Now you think about that. I mean, this is, this is the time of year people think about the incarnation of Christ. And I'm glad that at least there's a time of year that they do, even though most of them don't get it.

But you think about this now. The son of God, the glory of heaven, agreed to limit himself to have the body of a man, to be formed as an embryo in the womb of the virgin, to be born as a baby who is dependent on his mother's milk, He grew up as a child who was in submission and obedient to his parents, even though they're his creatures. To live a life where he's examined his public ministry, nobody was examined more closely than the Lord Jesus. They found no fault in him, a sinless man. And then they put him to death in the most shameful, humiliating way they knew how to do it. And he agreed to do all of that for the likes of you and me.

Now just think about that. That's the high priest who's able to save. You know what that makes me want to do? I want him to beg him to be my high priest, or represent me to God. Don't let the father ever see me. You represent me to God. I'm begging him, be my high priest, because I have no other hope but him.

The second Christ, our great high priest, was consecrated to be the sacrifice for the sin of his people. He didn't come to offer a sacrifice to you and me. He came to be the sacrifice, the sacrifice offered to God that the Father would accept. In verse one, he says, at the end of the verse, he says, take one young bullock and two rams without blemish.

Now, all throughout scripture, bullocks and rams are used for sin offerings. There has to be a sin offering. There has to be blood shed to pay for the sins of the people. It's the blood. that maketh an atonement for the soul. It's not our morality. It's not us quitting doing this sin or that sin or the other sin and dedicating ourselves to God. It's the blood that maketh an atonement for the souls.

Now all these bullocks and rams and sheep and turtle doves and all these animals that were offered as sacrifice, rivers of blood shed, weren't they? But they're just pictures. They're just pictures of Christ to come who would offer the sacrifice for sin. And I know rams were offered for many different kinds of sacrifices. But I tell you the one that first, the thing that first comes to my mind when I hear about a ram being offered as a sacrifice is he's a substitute. Remember Abraham and Isaac going up there to the mountain. My father, here's the wood, here's the fire, but where's the lamb? That's the question, isn't it? Where's the lamb for the burnt offering? And you know Abraham's answer, my son, God will provide himself a land for the sacrifice.

And right when Abraham was getting ready to slaughter his son Isaac, according to God's command, God stopped him. And Abraham looked, and what was behind him? A ram caught in the thicket by its horns. A ram caught in the thicket by its power. You know, those rams, they just batter each other. Those horns are their power. He was caught. by his power, just like our Lord Jesus Christ was constrained by his power to save.

And Abraham took that ram and he offered him up in the stead of his son Isaac as a substitute. Isaac lived because that ram died in his place. I promise you there's two men that ever lived in this world that understand substitution crystal clear. It's Abraham and Isaac. You and I need a substitute. and the son of God himself consecrated himself to be our substitute, to die the death that we deserve.

I wish I could say how glorious that really is. It's so frustrating to not, there's just not language to say how glorious that is. But if by faith you've seen Christ crucified as your substitute, you know exactly what I'm talking about, don't you?

And then the Bullock, the Bullock is a picture of strength and patience in work. Christ was consecrated to be the servant, to do the work that his father sent him to do. And he did it with such strength. He did it because he's the one mighty to save. You and I really don't have any idea how horrible sin is and how difficult it is to put away. God had to send one consecrated to save his people who's mighty to save. And our Savior did it. And he did it with such patience, such patience for sinners, didn't he? Really patience, even for unbelievers. He didn't strike them down. He didn't call lightning to come on them from heaven. He didn't call 12 legions of angels to come and destroy the whole place.

He was hated of men, despised and rejected of men. He came into his own, his own received him not. And even those that believe him. How often is our weak faith so shameful? And he's so patient. He's got the patience to save sinners like you and me. And when the work was done, he went to be the sin offering for the sin of his people. And he wouldn't be talked out of it because he had consecrated himself to this job to be the savior of his people. And the only way that they could be saved is by the sacrifice, the crucifixion of the lame without blemish and without spot.

I would, well, that's probably not a fair statement, but I was going to say that only a believer really ever fears being cast away or being lost and not accepted of God. But believers do that probably more than anybody else. I just worry. Look at me. How can I say I believe God? How can I say I trust him? How can I say that I know him? I'm just so worried he's gonna cast me off. I'm just gonna be found wanting.

Here's your comfort, and I want you to hang on to this. If the holy son of God consecrated himself, he dedicated himself to be the sacrifice for your sin, your sin can never condemn you. He washed you white as snow. That's the high priest, I want to be my high priest, how about you? Then third, Christ consecrated himself as the bread of life. Look at verse two in our text. An unleavened bread and cakes, unleavened, tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened, anointed with oil. Of wheat and flour shalt thou make them, and thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams.

Now you know very well that that unleavened bread is a picture of the sinless body of our Lord Jesus Christ. And that unleavened bread was meant to be eaten. The unleavened bread that they put in the holy place for the priest and his family to eat, the unleavened bread of the Lord's table, that's meant to be eaten, isn't it? Eaten by believers.

And I've shown you this many times from scripture, How eating is a picture of believing. When the Lord said, whosoever eateth my flesh, he wasn't talking about being a cannibal. That's silly. He was talking about believing him. And in believing Christ, we have union with him. Just like when we eat that bread, pretty soon, you can't differentiate between the bread and our flesh because the bread is broken down, the nutrients of it is broken down, and go into all the parts of our body, all our cells and, you know, these things. It's what feeds us and what keeps us alive. That bread has union with us. That's the believer. The way we have life is union with Christ. That's what this bread is a picture of.

But this bread is not simply unleavened bread, is it? It's anointed with oil. And the oil is a picture of God the Holy Spirit. Now the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, they're one. They're one God. They're three persons, but they're one God. They're one in will. They're one in purpose. And this is their purpose. This is what they have dedicated, set themselves apart to do, is save God's elect through the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And Christ, our sacrifice, If he's gonna be able to bear our sins and put the sin of his people away, he's got to be holy. We looked at that last week. It's the holiness of Christ, his purity that enabled him to bear the sins of his people. Even when he was made sin, it's his holiness that enabled him to hold all that up. He wasn't made a sinner, his holiness was not defiled. Everything that Lord Jesus Christ did is holy In this picture, he's anointed with the Holy Spirit. And the Spirit's not just put on him, he's one with the Spirit. That's what enabled him to be able to do everything that he did and be the successful savior of his people.

And the Lord told Moses, you put all that, put all that bread that's anointed with that oil, you put it in one basket. And you take that one basket with these sacrifices, It's all right there. It's all right there in picture, isn't it? The gospel, it's all right here. It's in Christ. You want to understand the gospel? Look to Christ. You want to see the fulfillment of it? Look to Christ. You want to know anything about the gospel? Look to Christ. God made it so easy for us to understand it's all in one place. It's all in one person, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the simplicity of the gospel. It's Christ alone. It's Christ alone. That's the simplicity that I need. That's the simplicity that a sinner needs. I want to trust the Savior that is consecrated to set aside to be the bread of life, the one that we can believe and trust in and have life.

Then fourth, there's a washing, which is a picture of the purity of Christ. Verse four. At Aaron and his sons, thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. Now this was just a ceremony, but it had to be done. Aaron and his sons, they had to be ceremonially pure. This was just, it didn't cleanse them of any sin or anything. It was just, they were ceremonially pure so that they could serve the Lord in a picture, in a picture of Christ. And they're a mighty poor picture. I mean, someday when you meet them, I bet they'll be the first people to tell you I was a mighty poor picture of Christ.

But this washing really did give us a good picture of Christ. I think about this, I don't know why I've been thinking about this so often recently, I've always believed that the Lord Jesus Christ, he's holy, he's sinless, he did no sin, he knew no sin. I mean, from the time I ever understood language, I knew that. I mean, I just, I don't ever remember not knowing that. And I really believe that.

But isn't it amazing? That's not just some point of doctrine that we talk about. You think how amazing this is. that a man lived in absolute purity. He never sinned. People argue about, well, could he have sinned? No, he couldn't have sinned. His nature is holy. He never thought about sin. He never wanted to sin. He never had an impure thought. That is so far separated from our experience.

You know, if you knew someone who, you really highly respected this man. You had someone, you just, boy, you respect him for the way he conducted himself and with his family and at home and out in, you know, the work and play. He really, I mean, this man's earned, he's rightfully earned respect. And he got caught doing something wrong. And if he lies about it, nobody's ever going to be the wiser, and he'll get away with it. And he thinks, I can save my reputation by lying and just getting out of this. And he thinks about it. He's like, no, I'm going to do the right thing. And he tells the truth, pays the consequences. And we think, wow, now there's a stand-up guy. I mean, this guy, isn't that a stand-up guy? He just sinned. Just the thought of sin. Our Savior never even thought it. That is so separate from our experience.

I guess that's why one of the definitions of the word holy is other. Isn't he other than us? But I sure am thankful because his holiness, his righteousness is mine. Because he gave it to me. His holiness enabled him to bear my sin and put it away because he's the sinless sacrifice. And this is the high priest that we need, we need.

Let me show you that Hebrews chapter seven. Hebrews chapter seven. In verse 24, but this means, because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore, he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such a high priest became us. He's becoming for us, he's fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, made higher than the heavens. Who needeth not daily as those priests to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people's. For this he did once when he offered up himself.

This is the high priest that becomes us. This is the high priest that I need. He becomes us because he's the only one who's able to save us from our sins. And I tell you to trust him. You trust him. And those of you who do trust him, Let me encourage you. Enjoy the peace and the calmness of heart. Enjoy the rest. Rest from trying to keep the law. Rest from trying to please God. Rest from worrying that God's gonna cast you out. Enjoy that peace by trusting in Christ. The only way you can have that peace is trusting Christ. Now enjoy it. It's yours. Christ earned it for you. He said, my peace I give to you. Now enjoy it. Take advantage of it by trusting Christ, because he's exactly what we need. He's exactly what we need. And to those that don't believe, I tell you, trust him. Trust him right now. He's exactly what you need.

Then the priest's garments are pictures of Christ. Look back at our text, Exodus 29. Verse five, and thou shalt take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod. And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown, and that holy crown was that golden plate that said holiness to the Lord, and put that upon the mitre.

Now you notice this, When it came time for Aaron to be dressed as the high priest and be consecrated, dedicated to be the high priest, he didn't get dressed in his tent and then walk on over to the tabernacle. He came to the tabernacle and was washed. I'm assuming stripped down naked and he was washed. And even then he didn't take those garments and put on them. Moses took them and put them on Aaron. And Aaron willingly accepted all, everything that those garments meant.

Well, that's Christ, our great high priest. This office of the high priest was laid on him by the father. We just read he didn't take it to himself. The father laid it upon him and he took it willingly. He willingly took on him flesh with all the limitations of the flesh and he willingly lived among sinners. So that he was the high priest taken from among them, he lived among sinners. You think how that had to vex his holy soul. I mean, can you imagine? But he willingly did it. And he was holy and pure the whole time he did it. That's what those white linen threads are always a picture of.

He took that ephod, remember the ephod had those two, was two pieces with the two buttons on his shoulders, six names of Israel here, six here. He willingly bore the weight of his people. And I want to tell you what, we're a load to carry. We're a load to carry. Our sin, our rebellion, and I'm talking about after God saves us. Our sin, our rebellion, our weak faith, he carries us on his shoulders so it does not drag him down and stop him from saving his people.

He willingly, that curious girdle, remember there's a picture of the servant doing the work, he willingly became the servant of his father. To do this work of redemption, even though he's fully equal with the father, he subjected himself to become a servant of his father because he's dedicated to this job of saving you and me. And he did it in love for his people.

He willingly put on that breastplate that had the 12 tribes and names over his heart. He did it in love for his people. He willingly did everything that he did to save a people that he loved from all of eternity. Now God did that. God did that. Isn't that worth trusting? Isn't that the high priest that you want to represent you, that will bear all of your weight, that will do all the work that's required of you and do it in love for you? That's the high priest I want. He's worth trusting, isn't he?

And then the last thing is this anointing oil, verse six. And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. And thou shalt take the anointing oil and pour it upon his head and anoint him." Now when Moses took this anointing oil, what the writers all say is Aaron took off the mitre and the gold plate, holiness to the Lord. and he anointed his head and his hair and that oil just ran all down his garments and just he anointed him so much that it was just dripping off the bottom of his garments. He didn't just pour just a little bit of oil.

And that ceremony, everybody understood exactly what it meant. Aaron is being set apart to be the high priest, just like they anointed the king. Everybody knows what it means when they anoint the king's head with oil. He set apart to do this job of being the king. Same thing's true of the high priest. And the oil is a picture of God the Holy Spirit. It's a picture of God giving Aaron the ability to do the job.

Well, that's a picture of Christ. He was chosen by the father to be the high priest. And the father didn't send a boy to do a man's job. he was qualified to do the job. He's the only one able to do it. And if you look at Psalm 45, Psalm 45, Christ our Savior didn't receive this anointing of oil as a picture of the Holy Spirit. He received it without measure. So that, what that means is he received it without measure that he's one with the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 45, verse 7. Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. And all thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Christ was anointed by the Holy Spirit without measure. Every believer is anointed with measure. We have the Spirit. Every believer has the Spirit dwelling in us, but it's a measure. Christ has it, this Holy Spirit without measure, because he's one with the Spirit. I mean, I don't know any other way to explain that. Of course he has the Spirit without measure. He's one with the Holy Spirit.

And since he's one with the Spirit and one with the Father, He's qualified to do the job of the high priest, to offer the sacrifice that saves. Not a sacrifice as a picture, but the sacrifice that saves. He's sinless, so he can bear the iniquity of the elect. If he has a spirit, the Holy Spirit without measure, of course he's holy. That gives him the power to take away the sin of his people. He's got the power to save. He's got the power to give life. He's got the power to cleanse. When he preaches, he preaches the words of life so that sinners hear and believe.

Now that's the high priest that I need speaking to me and for me. How about you?

Now I'm going to go back to how to open the surface. This is the Savior, the Son of God, who willingly consecrated himself. He set himself apart to do the job of saving sinners like you and me. And he did it from all of eternity, even though he knew what it would cost him. Not just the physical pain, not just the humiliation before men, but the humiliation before his father. The humiliation of being made sin before his father, that awful, awful feeling that he had when his father turned his wrath upon him and he made his soul an offering for sin. He knew the horror of what would cost him and he dedicated himself to do that to save sinners like you and me. And when the time came to do it, you know, I've known men who I've worked with and they've, they kind of, in that way, dedicated themselves, I'm going to do this job. And they came time to do the job, and they're nowhere to be found. When it came time to actually do the job, our Savior didn't shrink away. He went to Calvary and offered the sacrifice that redeemed our souls eternally.

Does that make you thankful? I mean, we're not in the habit of shouting hallelujah and throwing a songbook, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. What a savior.

All right, let's bow together. Our father, how we thank you for this time you've given us to look into your word. And oh, how we thank you for Christ, our great high priest, the priest who becomes us, who is everything that we need and everything that you require to save your people. make them accepted in him. Father, how thankful we are. Father, I pray you give each one of us here tonight the faith to believe him and to leave here tonight resting in, enjoying in Christ our Savior. For it's in his blessed name, for his sake we pray, amen.

Now, I'll give you a little, before Sean comes and leaves us in the closing hymn, a commercial for next Wednesday. This tonight was Christ consecrated to save a people. Next Wednesday, Lord willing, we're gonna look at a people consecrated to Christ. I wanna know, am I set apart, dedicated to and consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ? And Gary, I'm not gonna start preaching it now. We'll wait till next Wednesday, okay? All right, Sean.

Okay, if you would turn to song number 252 and stand as we sing Only Trust Him.

252.

Come every soul by sin oppressed,
there's mercy with the Lord.
And he will surely give you rest
by trusting in his word.

Only trust him, only trust him.
Only trust Him now.
He will save you.
He will save you.
He will save you now.

For Jesus shed his precious blood,
rich blessings to bestow.
Plunge now into the crimson flood
that washes white as snow.

Only trust Him, only trust Him,
only trust Him now.
He will save you, He will save you,
He will save you now.

Yes, Jesus is the truth,
the way that leads you into rest.
Believe in him without delay
and you are fully blessed.

Only trust him, only trust him,
only trust him now.
He will save you.
He will save you.
He will save you now.