Leviticus chapter 17. I'll try to bring you up to snuff
a little bit with my own situation. Most of you know I started the
gamma knife or cyber knife or radiosurgery, whatever term you
wish to use for it today. And they did the procedure on
some part of my right lung, the top of it, I don't know which
part it was, but I just lay there for an hour and a half while
they go about their business. I just have to lay still, and
there's no pain involved with it at all. And they're going
to do five of the procedures on that spot, and then starting
tomorrow and going through next Monday, they'll do the others
four times each. That's the schedule anyway. Only really expected consequence
while I'm going through this is a little fatigue, maybe more
than usual, and some fatigue for a few weeks after that, but
I can live with a little fatigue, but I feel good, I feel fine.
All right, turn with me to Leviticus chapter 17, and in the midst
of life in this world, in the midst of difficulty, in the midst
of adversity, In the midst of challenges, in the midst of our
languishing and our unbelief, I can think of nothing more profitable
for our meditation than the blood. That's my subject tonight, the
blood. There is a scarlet thread like
the cord that Rahab dropped out of her window in Jericho that
runs through the pages of Holy Scripture. That thread is the
single thing that binds all 66 books of this blessed book we
call the Bible together. And that scarlet thread is the
precious, precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The scriptures
constantly speak about the blood. Listen to these statements. This
is written in the books of the law. The life of the flesh is
in the blood. God said to Moses, the blood
shall be to you for a token. When I see the blood, I will
pass over you. When the high priest of Israel
went in to offer sacrifice to God, once a year on the day of
atonement, he went into the Holy of Holies with blood, blood atonement. No one can come to God without
blood. No one has ever come to God without
blood. No one can come to God without
blood. When our Lord Jesus instituted
the blessed ordinance of the Lord's Supper, he took the cup
of wine and held it out before his disciples and made this statement. This is the blood of the New
Testament, the blood of the new covenant, shed for many for the
remission of sins. And in Hebrews 9.22, we read
those familiar words, without shedding of blood is no remission. Those statements alone make the
precious blood of Christ infinitely, immensely important. These days,
it's common for preachers and religious leaders and teachers
and professors and theologians and hymn writers to say little,
if anything, about blood. We've become so educated and
so refined, so sophisticated, that talking about blood is considered
somehow improper, if not crude. But the scriptures still declare,
without shedding of blood is no remission. By the blood of
goats and calves, no. But with his own blood, our Savior
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. You know that you were not redeemed
with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain, meaningless,
empty, worthless conversation, but rather with the precious
blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. What can wash away my sins? Nothing
but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. The shedding of Christ's precious
blood was and is absolutely essential to the saving of our souls. Let
us ever cherish the blood. There is nothing in heaven and
nothing on earth so precious to the triune God as the blood
of his dear son. Let nothing be so precious to
me. as the precious blood of Jesus
Christ. Here in Leviticus 17, the Lord
God put a fence around blood. The whole chapter, these 16 verses,
is about God making a sanctity of the blood. He sets the blood
apart from everything else. Now this chapter has nothing
whatever to do with the imaginary sanctity of animal life. In this
day of frog-kissing, tree-hugging, earth-worshipping infidels, I'm
going to make a statement that will, I know, fall upon some
ears with great offense, and that's on purpose. That's on
purpose. I believe in animal rights. I
believe I have the right to own them, trap them, skin them, eat
them, and wear them, whatever you want to do with them. This
book doesn't say anything about the sanctity of animal life. It has nothing to do with ordinary
hunting and killing of animals. It has nothing to do with the
possible health risk of eating red meat or even eating red meat
rare. Leviticus 17, like all the rest
of the Old Testament scriptures, speaks about the gospel. It speaks about the Lord Jesus
Christ. The law of God here speaks about
animals. Animals that were killed, not
in an ordinary way when you're out hunting for game, but killed
as a sacrifice. Killed as something to be offered
to God, something to be sacrificed to God. And these offerings as
sacrifices to God were designed of God to typify and point to
the Lord Jesus Christ and his sacrifice. Now these three lessons
are obvious in this portion of scripture. Be sure you get them. They're of tremendous importance.
Without these three things understood, there's no understanding of God's
word, his gospel, his work, or the person and work of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Understand these three things.
I'll state them now and then spend the message trying to elaborate
on them a little. Number one, all worship of God. All worship of God. except the
worship of God through the Lord Jesus Christ is idolatry. It is specifically called in
the seventh verse of this text of Scripture, making sacrifices
to devils. What a statement. All worship
except the worship of God through the sin-atoning blood of Jesus
Christ, his son, is idolatry. It is sacrificing to devils.
Number two, atonement is in the blood, only in the blood. Atonement is in the blood, only
in the blood of Christ. And number three, in this gospel
day, in this day of grace, God's altar can be found anywhere. In this day of grace, in this
gospel age, God's altar can be found anywhere. All right, let's
look at the first thing and I'm going to deliberately spend the
bulk of my time here. All worship except the worship
of our God through the blood atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ
is idolatry. It is sacrificing to devils.
Christ is the way. There is no other. Without Him,
there is no way to God. Christ is the truth. There is no other. Without Him,
apart from Him, there is no knowing God. Christ is the life. Without Him, there is no life
for your soul. The life of God is not in you. There is no living. Christ is
the door. There is no other. If you would
have eternal life, you must come into the kingdom of God by the
door, Christ Jesus the Lord. All who attempt to come some
other way are thieves and robbers. thieves who attempt to rob God
of that which is His glory, and that which is His glory is the
saving of His people by His Son. And God won't tolerate it. God won't tolerate it. Look at verse one. And the Lord
spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons,
and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, This
is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying, What man soever
there be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox, or a lamb,
or a goat in the camp? Or killeth it out of the camp?
A man goes out and kills an animal, an animal for sacrifice. The
idolatry that Israel learned from the heathen. Following the
Council of Baal, we read of in Numbers 25, the children of Israel
learned to mix the worship of God with the worship of idols
and called it worshiping God. That's what we see throughout
history. And that's what we see throughout
Danville, Kentucky. That's what we see in Baptist
churches, Papist churches, Pentecostal churches, Presbyterian churches,
whatever church-like name you want to give it, that's what
we see. Wherever men and women mix the worship of man's will,
the worship of man with the worship of God, it's called sacrificing
to devils. It is a whoring after other gods,
the worst form of adultery described in scripture. The law here given
is a law regarding God's worship. After giving the law on the Day
of Atonement, regarding the Day of Atonement, God gave this commandment
to Israel. It was a commandment he required
every Israelite to observe and every stranger who observed among
the Jews to observe with them. All who refused to do so were
cut off from the camp of Israel, cut off from the church of God,
cut off from the worship of God, banished from God's church, banished
from God's people, and even put to death. Now remember the context. Back in chapter 16, verses 29
through 34, God declared to Israel that they were to observe the
Day of Atonement once every year. On the 10th day of the seventh
month every year, they were to observe the day of atonement
when Aaron would bring the blood of the Paschal Lamb into the
holy place and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat. This was to be
done as a statute observed in Israel forever, an everlasting
statute. That is a statute that they were
required to keep by God's law. until Israel was no longer a
nation, until the Old Testament scriptures were fulfilled. But
it is indeed a statute to this day. We still come to God, worshiping
him by Christ our Passover, who is sacrificed for us. All God's
is real. All God's is real. Every saved
sinner, Those who are newly born into God's kingdom, if God saves
a sinner this minute, and those who have been walking with God
for 50, 75, or 100 years, every saved sinner worships God on
the merit of Christ's blood, nothing else. Nothing else. Nothing else. Nothing else. Any addition makes
what you call worship, sacrificing to the devil himself. Any addition
is satanic worship. It is the doctrine of Balaam.
Of course, everything required in this statute was typical of
and portrayed our Savior, the Lord Jesus, in his great work
of redemption. In those last verses of Leviticus
16, we're given a picture of the believer's experience of
grace on that great glorious day. High Priest made atonement
for the Holy Sanctuary, for the tabernacle, for the congregation,
for the altar, for himself, for his family, for all the priests,
and for all the people of Israel. That's a picture of particular
redemption, limited atonement, redemption for a specific people. And Jesus Christ, our Redeemer,
died for God's Israel. He died for God's elect. He made
atonement for the sins of those whose sins he actually put away. He redeemed those who were actually
redeemed. He redeemed those whom he chose
in everlasting love before the world began. Those for whom atonement
was made were required then to afflict their souls and do no
work at all by statute forever. That's what faith is. Faith comes
to God, trust in Christ, and quits trying to do anything to
make up for sin. Quits trying to do anything to
appease God. Faith ceases from work and rest
in Christ Jesus the Lord. That day, that great glorious
day when Israel saw redemption accomplished and sin put away
by God's sacrifice was a Sabbath of rest by statute forever. The children of Israel not only
ceased from sin, but they rested on the Sabbath day. Now in that
Old Testament age of law, in that Old Testament age of the
covenant of works, in that Old Testament age when God still
required obedience to law and precepts of law and ceremonial
worship, they had a Sabbath day, but they knew nothing about Sabbath
rest. In this gospel day, we have no Sabbath day, but we do
have sweet Sabbath rest. It is called the rest of faith
in Christ the Lord. It is in this context that God
gives us this commandment regarding blood. I repeat, because it needs
repeating. He's not here talking about the
sanctity of animal life. He's talking about worship. the
worship of God, the sanctity of his throne, the sanctity of
Christ's precious blood, the sanctity of our Savior's sin
atoning sacrifice. He's not talking about diet,
he's talking about worship. He specifically mentions the
killing of an ox or a goat or a lamb because those were the
very animals that were used in sacrifice to God. Now look at
verse four, Leviticus 17, four. and bringeth it, that is the
sacrifice, not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of
the Lord, blood shall be imputed to that man. A man kills an ox
or a goat, a kid, he takes the sacrifice and offers it in the
field and does not bring it to God's altar, does not bring it
to God's priest, does not bring it to God's tabernacle, God says
blood, the blood that man shed will be imputed to him. The blood
that man shed for sacrifice to God, but he doesn't bring it
to God's altar. He doesn't bring it to God's
priest. He doesn't bring it to God's tabernacle. He doesn't
bring it to God's mercy seat. Blood shall be imputed to that
man. What a strong, strenuous, strict
law. He has shed blood and that man
shall be cut off from among his people. This is a prohibition,
I repeat, against idolatry. God did not make a prohibition
against hunting. It's against idolatry. All false
religion I'm pausing just because I want
everybody who hears, you included, I want you to hear what I'm saying.
All false religion is sacrificing to devils. All will worship is
sacrificing to devils. All free will works religion
is sacrificing to devils. Verse four is talking about offering
a sacrifice in the open field and thereby despising God's ordinance,
despising God's altar, despising God's tabernacle, despising God's
priest, despising God's mercy seat. Look at verse five. This
is the reason for this, to this end, to the end that the children
of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open
field, even that they may bring them unto the Lord, unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest,
and offer them for peace offerings unto the Lord. All men naturally
presume. It is just the presumption of
fallen, depraved humanity that it's perfectly acceptable for
us to worship God as we please. Read newspaper advertisements
for church services Sunday morning. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Drive down the road and pay attention to church signs. Folks everywhere
today have contemporary worship. Contemporary worship. That's
contemptible worship. That's worship that holds God
in contempt. That's worship that holds God's
sacrifice in contempt. And I laid that charge at the
door of all Arminian, free will, works religion, call it by what
name you will. It is the worship of devils.
Can't we worship God any way we want to? Surely God will not
object to man offering a sacrifice to him in the open field after
he's always offering it to God. What could be wrong with that?
It couldn't hurt, could it? Indeed it could. Such an act
is an act of blatant, rebellious, God-hating, God-despising idolatry. It's despising God's altar, God's
priest, God's name, God's son. It was an act of defiance, revealing
a man's contempt for God. It's called, through the Old
Testament scriptures, sacrificing to devils. A man might ask, but
can I not offer a sacrifice in one place as well as another?
Is it not all right for me to come to God any way I wish as
long as I'm sincere? No, sir. God promised to meet
sinners one place, just one. He said, I will meet you between
the cherubs on the mercy seat. Be here Sunday morning at 10
o'clock, Lindsay will tell you about it again. One place I'll
meet you, just one. Just one, I'll meet you between
the cherubs on the mercy seat that lid that covers the Ark
of the Covenant and I will be met by you anywhere but there
at the mercy seat. That's the only place God meets
men. Look at verse seven. They shall
no more offer their sacrifices to devils after whom they have
gone a whoring. That's a good name for religion.
That's a good name for religion. They've gone a-whoring. What
are folks gonna do Sunday morning? They're gonna go whoring. That's
what they're gonna do. All over the world, they go a-whoring. This shall be a statute forever
unto them throughout their generations. The lesson is plain to all. There's
one place where God meets sinners. One sacrifice God accepts. One
place where sinners can come to God. only one. And that place
is at His altar, Christ Jesus. through the cross of the crucified
Christ. That place is his mercy seat,
Christ Jesus, who is the propitiation for our sins. God won't meet
you on the ground of your sincerity. God won't meet you on the ground
of your good works. God won't meet you on the ground
of your good feelings. God won't meet you on the ground
of your religious experience. God won't meet you on the ground
of your knowledge. God meets sinners in Christ. nowhere else. Bring anything
else and you'll be cut off, smitten of God, just as God slaughtered
Uzzah when he put his hand to the ark. Look at verse 6. Only
the precious blood of Christ is acceptable to God. Only his
sin-atoning blood is a sweet savor to the Lord. And the priest
shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation and burn the fat
for a sweet savor unto the Lord. The blood and the fat belong
to God. Why was the fat burned? Why the
skins of the animal burned? Along with the blood because
this takes in the whole life. The whole life. Our Lord Jesus
Christ, our God-man mediator, when he gave up his life at Calvary,
when he poured out his life's blood at Calvary, he gave his
life. for the satisfaction of divine
justice, and the fragrant sweet incense of his infinity, his
infinitely excellent sacrifice ascends up to God, has satisfied
his holy infinite justice for us, and his incense ever prevails
with God. Dear Tying Lamb, Thy precious
blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed church
of God be saved to sin no more. God required that blood be sacrificed
and that it be offered only upon his altar. Blood that was offered
anywhere else was imputed to the man who shed it. Men come
and bring a sacrifice in their fine garden. Men come and bring
a sacrifice in their nice palace. Men come and bring a sacrifice
in their forest out in the field, up on the mountain that they
own, and they pick the best spot they've got, and they come and
offer God a sacrifice. God says, kill him. Kill him! How come? Because he tramples
underfoot the blood of the Son of God. He does despite to the
Spirit of grace. He makes the blood of Christ
a common, ordinary, useless thing, and does despite to God Almighty. God says such sacrifices, such
sacrifices are equal to murder. You can read it for yourself
in Isaiah 66.3. God said, you just as well shed
a man's blood. You just as well bring a hog,
slit his throat and offer his blood on my altar. You just as
well cut a dog's neck and bring that dog as a sacrifice. You
just as well kill a man and offer him to me. All false worship,
I repeat, is idolatry. Will we ever learn this lesson?
Look at verses eight through 10. And thou shalt say unto them,
whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers
which sojourn among you, that offer a burnt offering or sacrifice,
and bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
to offer it unto the Lord, even that man shall be cut off from
among his people. And whatsoever man there be of
the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among
you, that eateth any manner of blood, I will even set my face
against that soul that eateth blood and will cut him off from
among the people. The eating of blood here, I repeat,
does not refer to eating a steak rare. If I'm at your house and
you serve me up one well done and I can break it with my fingers,
I will eat it that way. But if you serve it up the way
I want it, it's going to be warm and red. That's the way I like
my steak. And that's all right. This is
not talking about that. This is talking about the common
practice of heathen. It has been the practice of heathen
and pagans throughout history to offer human sacrifice. And
where human sacrifice is not offered, to offer a blood sacrifice
that involved the drinking of blood. And the children of Israel
being taught by Baal to follow the path of Baal, take the things
of God and mix them with the worship of devils. And God says,
this is all this is. You worship God by your will,
according to your whims and your way. You do despite to the Spirit
of God and bring God your works and your experiences and your
deeds. God says you may as well sacrifice
to devils. The idolater is cut off from
the people of God. The application to us in this
gospel age is plain. We must worship God in the way
God has prescribed. We must come to God trusting
Christ alone for everything. We are the circumcision which
worship God in spirit and in truth. Now listen to this, and
rejoice in Christ Jesus. That is, we rejoice to trust
Christ for everything. Brother Don, what's your acceptance
with God, Christ? What's your righteousness, Christ?
What's your holiness, Christ? What's your wisdom, Christ? How
do you find guidance, Christ? Where do you go where Christ
sends? Christ is everything. We rejoice in Christ Jesus and
have no confidence in the flesh. No confidence in the flesh. No confidence in my learning.
No confidence in my experience. No confidence in my family. No
confidence in my background. No confidence in my feelings
before, during, or after conversion. No confidence in the flesh. I trust Christ. How do you know
you're saved? Well, I remember. You messed
up. You go back too far? That was
yesterday. I remember where? That's too
far back. I remember 50 years ago. That's
too far back. How do you know you're saved?
I trust Christ. That's all. Do you understand
that? That's all. Any addition. Any addition is uncovering your
foreskin, identifying yourself as an idolater. We worship God
in the spirit, trusting Jesus Christ alone as our Savior and
our Redeemer. Number two, just briefly, understand
what's taught in verses 11 through 16. Atonement is in the blood. For the life of the flesh is
in the blood. And I've given it to you upon
the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the
blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said
unto the children of Israel, no soul of you shall eat blood,
neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of
the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth
any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall even pour out
the blood thereof, or cover it with the dust, and cover it with
the dust, for it is the life of all flesh. The blood of it
is for the life thereof. Therefore I said unto the children
of Israel, if you shall eat the blood, or you shall eat the blood
of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is the blood
thereof, whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. And every soul
that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn
with beast, whether it be of your own country or a stranger,
He shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and
be unclean until the even, then shall he be clean. But if he
washed them not nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his
iniquity. I call your attention to verse
11. Understand this and you'll understand the rest of the chapter.
The life of the flesh is in the blood. There are people, preachers
and imaginary theologians, will find reasons to draw swords and
fight and build a new denomination over the use of words. There
are people who first, in fact books have been written, we talk
about the righteousness of God, right? Is that talking about
Christ's obedience? Is that talking about his death?
Christ's sacrifice? What's that? Is it his blood?
Is it his life? What is it? It's everything.
The blood represents everything. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. When our Lord Jesus shed his
blood at Calvary, he offered to God a perfect righteousness,
a perfect life, a perfect manhood, a perfect obedience, a perfect
faith. That's what God requires. And
he offered God perfect satisfaction. perfect satisfaction to justice. So that it is by His blood that
we have everything from God. His blood is the foundation of
all and His blood is the fountain from which everything flows to
us from God. Indeed, when Christ offered His
blood, He offered the life of a perfect man That's not all. He offered God the life of God
in human flesh. Jesus Christ, God's son, purchased
his church with his own blood. Acts 20, 28. I have often pointed
out to you, we sing, alas, and did my savior bleed and did my
sovereign die? And Isaac Watts got into a good
bit of trouble with some of his peers who thought that he had
really messed up and had gone astray with regard to the doctrine
of the Trinity because he wrote something they just couldn't
take. Our hymn books don't have it this way, but Watts wrote
the hymn this way. Well might the sun in darkness
hide, and shut his glories in, when God the mighty maker died,
the man for creatures sin. But God can't die, Acts 20, 28
says he did. Acts 20, 28 says he did. Well preacher, you've lost your
mind. No, God can't die. God can't change. But the God
man did. And that man who died at Calvary
offered to God the life of a man who is God. The life is everything. The blood represents the whole
life. the blood sacrifices in the Old
Testament signified everything that God gave in the giving of
his son. Everything that Christ sacrificed
in laying down his life. The sacrifice of a life declares
that life belongs to God. And we come to God bringing the
blood of his son, who is life. And acknowledge to God, my God,
I have robbed you of that which is yours, and I've taken my life
and wasted it in the consumption of my own lust. And I bring now
to you the price of life, the blood of your dear son. Come
into God by faith in Christ, We acknowledge that we've robbed
God of our lives and we bring now through the blood of Christ
our lives to God. Surrendering everything to Him
and God accepts us by the blood. Listen to what the scriptures
tell us we have by the blood. We're justified by the blood.
We have peace with God through the blood. We're washed in the
blood. We are accepted by the blood. We are justified by the blood. We're made righteous by the blood.
We're reconciled to God by the blood. Cleansed by the blood.
Our consciences are made free of guilt by the blood. Everything
by the precious blood of Christ. Now, come back to Exodus 12 for
just a minute. Exodus chapter 12. Listen to
this. The Lord God says in verse 13,
the blood shall be to you for a token. It is a token God has
given us by which he constantly speaks to us and this is what
he says, when I see the blood I will pass over you. When I I will pass over you. I have this wedding ring. I used
to wear a size 18 and a quarter. It was a lot bigger, and I've
had it cut down several times. It's getting too big now, but
always wear it. Always wear it. Sometimes my
fingers shrink a little bit, I'll wear it over here, but always
wear it. I've been wearing it for nearly 50 years now. How
come? I know what it cost. It wasn't
much. It wasn't the best we could do. Her diamond didn't cost much
either. It wasn't the best we could do. But it's a token. She
put it on my hand 50 years ago. And it's a token of unceasing
love and constant commitment. And I can see that, and I appreciate
the ring. I plan to die wearing it. But
I would remember the love without the ring. You see, the token
really is nothing compared to that token. It's nothing compared to that.
And the blood is God's token to me. God's token to you. When I see the blood, I will
pass over you. Sometimes I think I can see it
very clearly, don't you? And sometimes I can't see it
for the life of me. I just can't. I just can't. But my confidence is not in my
sight of the blood. My confidence is in God's sight
of the blood. He looked on the blood and sees
me in the blood from eternity and he never sees me anywhere
else. This is God's token to us. His Son poured out His blood
to God, and God accepts the blood of His Son for everything. And God gives the blood of His
Son to us, and with it gives everything. For in Him, you are
in Christ. God has made into us wisdom and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Now one more
thing. In this gospel day, God's altar
can be reached from anywhere. It can be found anywhere. You
don't need to turn there, but you have a promise given in Malachi
chapter 1 and verse 11. concerning God's altar. This
is a strange promise that God made to his people. But he said,
I will have an altar of pure incense from the rising of the
sun to the going down thereof. But God just has one altar. That
altar is Christ Jesus the Lord. And it is an altar for God's
Israel. among the Gentiles, his elect,
scattered to the four corners of the earth, so that God's Israel
comes to him not at a physical altar, but at a spiritual altar. We have an altar where they have
no right to partake who eat at the sanctuary. Those folks who
have a material altar, now listen to me, listen to me, folks who
have an altar at the front of the church, folks who have an
altar at the house, folks who have an altar at Rome, or folks
who have an altar somewhere else, as long as you got an altar,
any altar you can touch, you don't have any right to this,
as long as you got something else you can lean to. As long
as you got something else you can trust, hang on to it. That's
all you got. You're going to hell with it, but that's all
you got. You have no right to this altar. But God's Israel
worships God in spirit and worships God in truth. And we come to
this altar every day throughout the day. And find at this altar
sweet incense, acceptable to God, and a token by which God
says, I will pass over you. And we draw nigh to God and bring
our offerings to God by the altar, Christ Jesus the Lord. And it's
all by faith. It's all by faith. Every morning,
through the day, every hour of the day, moment by moment, Spirit
of God, give me grace. Give me grace to remember the
blood and to come again afresh, afresh to the altar, by whom
alone, Sinners are accepted of God, by whom alone God is propitiated,
justice is satisfied, and God is well pleased. Give me grace
continually to bring my offering to God by Christ Jesus the Lord. I'll pay my vow. I'll give God what I said I would.
I will take the cup of salvation. and drinking from this cup, call
upon the name of the Lord all the days of my life. Amen.