the 19th century Irish Plymouth
Brethren preacher, C.H. McIntosh, once told of an old
woman who was a believer trying to witness to a friend, a lost
religious man. And the old saint said to her
friend, there's a wide difference between your religion and mine.
How is that, he asked her. She replied, your religion has
only two letters in it. Mine has four. This poor man,
her friend, was one of those religious people like the rich
young ruler who hoped to get to heaven by things they do,
by observing ordinances, keeping the commandments, doing various
religious ceremonies, and doing good works. By what the apostle
describes in Hebrews 9 as dead works, he hoped to win his way
to heaven. And so he didn't understand what
this woman was saying. He asked her, what do you mean
by two letters and four? She replied, your religion is
D-O-D. Mine is D-O-N-E, done. Do is the religion of the legalist,
the religion of works, the religion of Babylon, the religion of Christianity. Do is the false gospel of Antichrist,
the lie of Satan by which many women are damned. Done is the
proclamation of the gospel, the good news of grace, the truth
of God. If you'll open your Bibles again
to Hebrews chapter 10, as God will enable me, I want to talk
to you plainly about done. Four golden letters, D-O-N-E,
precious letters, precious word, done. Who can describe the relief
that's granted to a guilt-ridden heart when it discovers that
all is done? Who can speak of the joy found
by the soul that has been toiling, toiling perhaps for years for
what he could never accomplish and finds out that it was done
more than 2,000 years ago on the cross. Christ has done all. Religion without God, religion
without life, religion opposed to God, opposed to grace, opposed
to Christ is all do. Some years ago, when our daughter
was in school at UK, she had to do a practicum down in western
Kentucky, and where she was gonna be staying at Owensboro was about
80 miles from Madisonville, and I didn't much want her to go
80 miles by herself, so I suggested she try a Reformed church down
there. So she went on Sunday morning,
and she called to tell me about it, and I asked her what it was
like. She said, well, It was kind of like taking a sex education
class in school. And tonight, she called the preacher's
name, I'd known him all his life, said he's gonna be preaching
on the blessings of a bad marriage. Everything they said was do,
do, do, do. And all that's preached commonly,
whether folks call themselves reformed or call themselves something
else, All that's preached commonly in pulpits throughout the world
is what you must do. I know folks who have a creed
that say they believe in salvation by grace, but everything that
comes out of the pulpit is focused on you. Focus on controlling
you, manipulating you, telling you how to do good and how you
must do good. And if you don't, you're not
saved. You can't have any assurance. You don't have a real faith in
Christ. I want this morning to declare as plainly, as boldly,
as clearly as I can, from the very Word of God, The letter
of the word and the spirit of the word, done. That's my subject,
done. Oh, if God will give you grace
to see that salvation is done by Christ. The Lord Jesus came
here to do a work and it's done. He has put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. He has magnified the law and
made it honorable. He has vanquished Satan. He's
taken the sting out of death and removed victory from the
grave. The Lord Jesus Christ has glorified God in the very
scene where the Almighty was most dishonored. He has by his
life of obedience brought in everlasting righteousness. All
of that is wrapped up in this word, done. Done. Our text is Hebrews chapter 10,
verses nine through 14. Done is God's proclamation of
emancipation in the soul of every sinner who trusts Christ. Oh,
may God proclaim the liberty of grace to you this hour. Hebrews chapter 10, verse nine.
Then said I, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. he taketh away
the first that he may establish the second by the which will
that is by the Lord Jesus Christ doing the will of God did you
get that by the which will by the Lord Jesus Christ doing the
will of God not by you doing it not by me doing it by him
doing it by the which will We are sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. That is not to suggest
once for everybody, that's heresy. But once with finality, once
and finished. And every priest standeth daily,
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins. But this man, After he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat Dale on the right hand of
God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. By him doing the will of God,
which consummated in this one offering for sin, he has perfected
forever that are sanctified, chosen of God, separated unto
God from eternity by God's free and sovereign grace. Now I'll
come back to this passage of Scripture in just a few minutes,
but first I want to show you five pictures of my Redeemer. I want to tell you five things
about Christ which are the basis of my hope before God. These
five things are those things which give me peace and assurance
of everlasting salvation with God Almighty. They are all things
accomplished by the Lord Jesus. First, I have hope before God
because Jesus Christ, God's own Son, stood as my surety in the
covenant of grace before the world began. The Lord Jesus stood
forth before time began as the surety of his people. He stood
forth as a voluntary surety, becoming himself the bond slave
of God the Father, God the Son, served God as his servant. Our Lord Jesus stood forth as
the shepherd of the sheep. And the Lord God, Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost trusted his elect, all his chosen. all his sheep
into the hands of Christ the Son before the world began, as
our Shurah did. He's looked upon as the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world because in the mind
and purpose of God he was the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. Now I recognize when you and
I start to think about eternity and infinity, we're way, way,
way, way yonder beyond our abilities. I don't know how to speak about
things done in eternity. I don't know how to speak about
the infinite incomprehensible Jehovah. I do not suggest by
any means that our Lord Jesus possesses an eternal manhood. That is that he was eternally
a man. That is not the case. A body was prepared for him in
time in the womb of the Virgin. But he stood forth as our mediator,
our representative, as the God-man substitute, the Lamb of God from
eternity. And the Father trusted us into
his hands. We are called to trust Him whom
God trusted from everlasting. And when the Father looked upon
the Son and trusted Him as our surety, when the Father struck
hands with the Son, the works were finished from the foundation
of the world. Now Skip Gladfelter, if it was
done before the world began, you can't do anything to add
anything to it or take anything away from it. Now if that won't
sail your boat, I don't know what will. The works were finished
before the world began. You can't contribute to it and
you can't mar it. It was done by God from eternity. In the fullness of time, our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, stepped into time into humanity. The Son of God, the Lord Jesus
Christ, came into this world as a man. Oh, what hope there
is for men like you, for men like me. What hope there is for
sinners, the Son of God came into this world as a man, a real
man, for God to send his Son into the world. certainly means
that he came here for the purpose of showing mercy. As our Lord
Jesus declares, God sent not his son into the world to condemn
the world, but that the world through him might be saved. The word was made flesh, that
he might take the sons and daughters of Adam. meaning women who live
in this body of flesh, corrupt, fallen flesh, that he might make
us the sons of God and bring us into glory. Third, I have
hope before God because Christ, my Redeemer, my substitute, my
representative, my head, obeyed the law of God for me all the
days of his life. He came here to do the will of
God. The will of God, not only that
which was his expressed will in the volume of the book of
Divine Predestination before the world began, but that which
is God's expressed will in all the pages of Old Testament Scripture. He came here to obey the law. He came here to fulfill the prophets. He came here to fulfill all the
types. And our Lord Jesus, while He
walked on this earth, lived in perfect righteousness as the
God-man. He lived in perfect righteousness
as the God-man. It is that righteousness, the
righteousness of God, the righteousness of that man who is God, which
God has imputed to me, which God imputes to every sinner who
believes on his son. But before righteousness could
be lawfully imputed, before God could look at Don Fortner and
say, he is righteous, Before the Holy Lord God could look
at you and declare you righteous, before God could speak peace
in your conscience and declare you righteous, sin must be punished. Justice must be satisfied. Punished to the full extremity
of God's holy wrath. Punished to the full extremity
of infinite justice. We read in the book of God, it
pleased the Lord to bruise him. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. The word pleased really is satisfied. Satisfied. When I'm really thirsty,
I can take a drink of tea, that's pretty good. And I can have a
drink of lemonade, that's pretty good. I can even get a Coke and
that's pretty good. But if I'm really thirsty, I'll
tell you what satisfies my thirst real quick, is a drink of cold
water. Now I'm satisfied, I'm pleased. The only thing that can ever
satisfy the anger and wrath and justice of the holy God is blood,
the precious blood of his own darling son. Now hear the scripture. God has no pleasure in the death
of the wicked. God has no pleasure in the death
of the wicked. That does not mean, as the Armenian
will worship heretic would have you think it means that God does
not will to punish the wicked. If he didn't will it, Merle,
he wouldn't do it. That does not mean it is not God's purpose
to punish the wicked. If he didn't purpose it, it wouldn't
happen. God's not by any means forced to do anything. What does
it mean? He has no pleasure in the death
of the wicked. The death of the wicked in the pit of the damned. in the unquenchable fires of
hell can never satisfy the justice of God. But Jesus Christ, with
one tremendous draft of love, drank damnation dry. He satisfied
the wrath of God. God, by an infinitely just, infinitely
wise and gracious transfer, transferred my sin to His Son, my substitute. And when He made His Son to be
sin for us, the Lord God punished His Son justly for sin. And having punished His Son to
the full satisfaction of justice, God Almighty graciously wisely
and justly transfers the righteousness of Christ to his people and makes
us the righteousness of God in him. And here's the fifth thing. I have hope before God because
that Christ, that God-man who lived and died for me, arose
from the grave ascended back into heaven and has been exalted
as king over the universe. Because Christ sits in heaven,
He's able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by Him. He who is our Savior is not a
helpless puppet god, a helpless puppet savior waiting on you
to do something. He who is the sinner's savior
is king of glory. He sits on the right hand of
the majesty on high and seated on his throne of grace. He who
rules the universe is able to save to the uttermost any and
every sinner who comes to God by him. Come to God now. Come to God now. Now if I were
to say to you, God commands you to come, and you can if you want
to, then I would be ascribing to you the power of God no dead
sinner has. I would be making room for you
to boast and brag and say, I made myself to differ from others.
I decided to let Jesus save me. Oh, what blasphemy. No, I tell you, God commands
you to come and you can't do it. Some of you have been trying
for a long time. You can't do it. You can't breathe
prayer from your heart. You can't breathe life into your
soul. You can't decide to believe on
Jesus. But God commands you to do it. And what God commands, God can
do. Oh, wind of heaven come, blow
upon these dead that they may live. And if God says to the dead,
come forth, the dead obey his voice and come to him. Now I
bid you again, come to Christ. Come to Christ. If right now
you find yourself coming to him, If right now you find yourself
trusting him, if right now you find yourself, preach I don't
know how, but I believe on the Son of God,
it's because God gave you faith in his Son. That's the witness
of the Spirit within, that Christ has done all this for you. Now,
let's look at Hebrews chapter 10, verses nine through 14. Let
me show you four things. in this blessed, blessed portion
of Scripture. First, the text speaks of the
expiation of our sins. And then it speaks of the exaltation
of our Savior. And then it speaks of the expectation
of our sovereign. And then finally, of the extent
of our sanctification. I'll be very brief, but Lord
willing, I'll come back to this again tonight. First, we are
assured in verses nine and 12 of the expiation of our sins.
Look at verse nine, he taketh away the first that he may establish
the second. Verse 12, this man, after he
had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the
right hand of God. Our Lord's work of redemption
is done. His atonement is complete. The
sins he bore in his body on the tree had been fully, completely
purged away, entirely removed by an effectual atoning sacrifice. All that Christ came here to
do, he has completely done. This man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down. He sat down on the
right hand of God. Sat down on the right hand of
the majesty on high. sat down in the holy of holies
in heavenly glory on the throne of grace. That's where Isaiah
saw him. In the year that King Uzziah
died, Isaiah said, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. He saw
Christ in his glory. We know that's what he saw because
in John 12, our Lord Jesus said, Isaiah spoke of me when he saw
my glory. His glory is the accomplishment
of redemption. He saw the Lord Jesus seated
on the mercy seat over the Ark of the Covenant, covering the
broken law of God as the Lamb of God seated upon the throne
of grace. And by his one sacrifice, the
Lord Jesus Christ has thoroughly removed our sins from us. In this ninth verse, And the
apostle says, he taketh away the first that he may establish
the second. That's the doctrine of this entire
chapter. Our Redeemer took away the old
ceremonies, sacrifices, priesthood, and ordinances of carnal worship
when he came to do the will of God. While they lasted, all those
rudimentary things, all of those carnal elements of worship, which
is what terms Paul uses to describe the law. All those things regarding
worship in the Old Testament that were visible, all those
things that were done by men, all of those things were taken
away, taken away. There's now no keeping of Sabbath
days. There are no offering of sacrifices. There's no laws with regard to
bond slaves and year of jubilee and all those things. Those things
are done away. They're done away because they're no longer needed.
They're no longer needed. We don't need the picture. when
we have the substance. Now, I still enjoy looking at
the pictures. We've been looking at pictures
for a while. I'm preaching to you through the book of Leviticus
and looking at pictures. The pictures are great, but the
pictures, we just enjoy looking at. I have pictures of my wife
and my granddaughter, my grandson, my daughter, my son-in-law sitting
on my desk, and I enjoy looking at them. I enjoy looking at pictures
of my wife when I'm sitting with her right behind me in the next
office. I still enjoy looking at the picture. Now, if you should
catch me picking up one of those pictures and hugging it and kissing
it or taking it to bed with me, check me in. Something's wrong. When she's
sitting there, What are you doing, dog? Have you lost your mind?
Pretty good indication. Pretty good indication. And I'm
telling you that men and women who hug up the Lord and the ceremonies
and the rituals, they've lost it. They popped a cork. They're spiritually insane. Christ
has come. We don't need the pictures. We
don't need the ceremonies. And if you hug up the pictures,
it's because you haven't seen the real thing. If you still
cherish the pictures, it's because you've never met the person.
Those things are no longer needed. We don't need to offer blood
sacrifices. We have one. We don't need to
keep a Sabbath day, we have one. We observe it by faith in Christ.
We don't need commandments. We live by the law of God written
in our natures. That is the new man created in
us in Christ Jesus, that man in us created in righteousness
and true holiness. That's what motivates and guides
us, Christ living within. And the whole of God's word gives
us his will by which our lives are molded and governed and directed
and taught. Not only are those things not
needed, the scriptures tell us plainly that those things are
forbidden. Colossians chapter two, Paul
said, don't let anybody put you in
bondage. concerning these commandments
and Sabbath days and holy days and new moons and touch not and
taste not and handle not. Don't let anybody put you in
bondage with that stuff. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't
let anybody do it. Christ has made you free. Christ
has made you free. We have a picture of this Liberty
that's ours in Christ. When he said it's finished, the
veil in the temple split smack dab half in two. And when God opened up the veil
by the blood of his son, God said to sinners, come on in.
And we draw nigh to God by faith in Jesus Christ the Lord. Our
Savior, having fulfilled the law for us, not only the types
and pictures, but every commandment of the law, is now the end of
the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. So that
the law of God, the law of God that commands Mark Henson to
love God with all his heart, soul, mind, and being, and love
me just like you love yourself. Now that's a command. That's
a command. And you don't do it. You don't either, just in case
you think you do. Which of you loves God with all
his heart, soul, mind, and being? Come on. Raise your hand and
I'll sit down and let you preach for the next year. Which man dares make such a proclamation? Which of you loves any neighbor
as you love yourself? Now, oh, I feel so guilty. I just can't have any assurance. I can't take the Lord's table.
I can't pray. I can't be baptized. I can't
come to church. I can't read my Bible. I'm so
unworthy. What hypocrisy. What hypocrisy,
what a pretense, what a sham. We don't look to ourselves for
acceptance with God, I look away yonder to Him. my Redeemer, with whom I
am one who loves God with all his heart, soul, mind, and being,
and in him, me too, and loves his neighbor as himself, and
in him, me too, so that there is therefore now no condemnation
to them that are in Christ Jesus, none. The law doesn't say to
David Peterson, you're still guilty. The law says not guilty.
The law says righteous. The law says holy. The law says
perfect. Because Christ has fulfilled
all for us. When our Lord Jesus took away
the types and brought in and established the perfection of
his obedience, he brought in something better. He brought
in real, perfect, complete, everlasting atonement When he took away the
old mosaic legal covenant of works, he brought in a new everlasting
covenant of pure free grace. He took away the first that he
might establish the second. And that's far, far, far better. Once we've seen Christ, we don't
miss Aaron. Once we've seen the simplicity
of the gospel, we never, pined for the complexity and bondage
of the law. If ever a sinner enters into
the holy place, he will never again wish to rehang the veil.
No one who's experienced the liberty, the freedom, the emancipation
of grace will ever return to the bondage and the terror and
the condemnation of the law. Stand fast, therefore, in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. All right? Another
thing. Our Lord Jesus Christ, our blessed
Savior, who has put away our sins, is our exalted Savior. Exalted to the right hand of
the majesty on high. Exalted to the right hand of
God. I'm talking, of course, about
Christ the God-man, our mediator. He was from everlasting. He is
from everlasting. He shall be to everlasting God. And being God, the Father could
not give him anything. He thought it not robbery to
be equal with God, but one with God. He and the Father are one. Being God, he sat from everlasting
on his high and holy throne in heaven. But as a man, he earned
the right to rule the universe. He is our exalted savior. Our Lord Jesus Christ, as the
God man, was spoken to by his father in Psalm 2. He said, ask
of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.
And the Lord Jesus in John 17 said, Father, I finished the
work thou gavest me to do. Now glorify thou me with thine
own self. Now listen to what it said, with
the glory that I had with thee before the world was. This is
life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God and
Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. Jesus Christ, the God-man, earned
the right to rule the universe, and was given that right to rule
the universe before the world began, because the works were
finished from the foundation of the world. You remember in
John 5, our Lord Jesus tells us, the Father hath given all
things to the Son. He's put in the Son's hand the
reigns of the universe, and He did that from everlasting. Christ
Jesus, our exalted Savior, when he had finished his work, ascended
up into heaven. And Peter said, boys, this is
what Joel was talking about. Christ has come. The King is
here. David is seated on his throne. God's fulfilled his word. Christ
Jesus, the God-man mediator, rules the universe. He rules
everybody. He rules everybody. That's the
third thing. Our exalted Savior is the sovereign
God, our King. Sovereign. sovereign that means he has his
way everywhere he who is our exalted Savior is that one who
is our sovereign and he expects something he expects something
look at our text again Hebrews chapter 10 and verse
13 from henceforth expect expect till his enemies be made his
footstool. That which is your footstool,
it's pretty well under control. It's pretty well under control.
Most of you been to the house, and I don't know a better way
to tell it than to tell you what I told you before. When I get
done with my day's work, I get over to the house and I get in
that big blue chair right next to the door and sit down. And
when I'm really relaxed, I kinda slide down in the seat and put
my feet up on that blue footstool. And you know where that footstool
goes? Just wherever I shove it. You know what it does? Just whatever I do with it, nothing
else, nothing else. The Lord Jesus Christ is seated
in heaven and he has made everything here his footstool. He's expecting that his enemies
be made manifestly his footstool. Hold your hand here in Hebrews
10 and turn back to Isaiah 45. Isaiah 45. Now let me tell you
something. you're going to bow to King Jesus. You're gonna bow to him. You're
gonna acknowledge that he's Lord. You're gonna acknowledge that
he's God, God in the flesh. You're gonna acknowledge that
he's the holy, righteous, just, and true God. Either now, as
you seek his grace, or in the day of judgment, but bow you
will. This is not an optional thing,
this is a certain thing. Isaiah 45 verse 20. Assemble
yourselves and come. Draw near together, ye that are
escaped to the nations. They have no knowledge that set
up the wood of their graven image. They have no knowledge. Now they
might be nuclear scientists, but they don't have any knowledge.
They may be very sharp in metaphysics, but they don't have any knowledge.
They may be tremendous mathematicians, but they don't have any knowledge.
They may have the highest degrees of learning to be gained by all
the universities in all the world, but they have no knowledge. What
does it say? They have no knowledge. No spiritual knowledge, no lasting
knowledge, no real knowledge, no knowledge of God, no knowledge
of themselves, no knowledge of the world, no knowledge of history,
no knowledge of the future. They have no knowledge. They
set up the wood of their graven images and pray to a God that
cannot save. Step right across the street,
ask the fellow as he comes out of the pulpit this morning, Ask
him as he comes out of the pulpit this morning, what does it take
for a sinner to be saved? Well, God's done everything he
can do, the rest is up to you. They pray to a God that cannot
save. Jesus wants to save you if you'll just let him. They
pray to a God that cannot save. God, the Holy Spirit's trying
to get everybody to come to Jesus, but he's giving you your free
will. They pray to a God that cannot
save. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about
whether you baptize barbarian folks or whether you sprinkle
water on a fellow's face and call it baptism. I'm not talking about whether
you baptize one time backward or three times forward. I'm talking
about praying to a God who cannot save. That's idolatry. That's blasphemy. That's damnation. He says, look to me, you who
have no knowledge, who pray to a God that cannot save, tell
ye, bring them near, let them take counsel together. Who hath
declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that time?
Have not I the Lord? There is no God else beside me. Any God whose religion is spelled
D-O, he's not God. He's not God. There's no God
beside me. You spell my religion D-O-N-E,
done. There's no God beside me. What
kind of God are you, God? A just God and a savior. The only way I save sinners is
by justice. Justice. I recall as a young
boy, I didn't go to church much, but I made a profession of faith
when I was seven years old. And I recall the fellow who was,
the fellow who worked with young people wound up having some trouble
with young people. But an older man, he said, don't
give me justice, I want grace. And that sounded pretty good
to the ears of a seven or eight year old boy. But that ain't right. That ain't right. God won't save
you except by justice. He won't save you except he'd
be a just God and a savior. God won't compromise himself,
his glory, his law, his righteousness and his truth just to have mercy
on you. Oh no, he wouldn't even do that to have mercy on his
son. When he found sin on his son, justice said, kill him. And if he finds sin on you, justice
will say, kill him. But our God's a just God and
a savior. A Savior, who by justice and
grace, through his own precious blood, saved sinners. He says,
I'm a just God and a Savior. There's no other God but me,
none beside me. Verse 22, look unto me and be
ye saved. All the ends of the earth, for
I am God and there is none else. Look to Christ and be saved.
There's no other God, no other Savior. I have sworn by myself. The word is going out of my mouth
in righteousness and shall not return. Now listen to what it
says. Remember we read in Hebrews 10, he's expecting to his enemies
be made his footstool. Unto me shall every knee bow
and every tongue swear. Everybody's going to, sooner
or later, either seeking his grace or in the day of his wrath. Every tongue's gonna bow. Every
tongue's gonna swear. Surely shall one say, in the
Lord have I righteousness and strength. That's what it is,
to bow to Christ, seeking his grace. In him, in him, Don Fortner,
this man, This man, this vile, sinful,
corrupt, ignominious, dirty, filthy, wretched man, in him
I have righteousness and I have the strength of Jacob to prevail
with God. He calls me Israel, a prince
with God. Even to him shall men come. What
men? All that are incensed against
him shall be ashamed. I bow before him with shame, all shame, confessing my sin. And if we confess our sin, what
does he say? He's faithful and just to forgive us our sin and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We ought not get too terribly
upset when folks accuse us of being sinners. I like to watch
Westerns, as you know, especially the old ones where folks don't
cuss too much, although they'll shoot each other. But the outlaws, The outlaws,
you know, who's standing there, are you calling me a liar? And
he's lying through his teeth. But he's upset because somebody
called him a liar. Don't act like that. Don't get too upset.
Because you are one. That's what we are. Take your
place. That's what you are. That's what
I am. That's our nature. Our nature is deceit and corruption. The sooner you confess it, the
better for you. God has mercy only on folks who
confess their sin, who confess their sin. That's what I am.
You take sides with God against yourself in shame, and God takes
away your shame. But if you refuse to do so, the
day is coming, the day is coming, you're going to be ashamed before
Him. ashamed forever in the darkness
and blackness of hell's everlasting torment. Verse 25, In the Lord
shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glorify
from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. Our Lord Jesus Christ will cause
all men to bow before him, and that one who causes men and women
to bow before him in justice, today causes sinners to bow before
him in grace, and in him all the seed of Israel shall be justified. and all the seed of Israel will
glory in Him. Not in their church, not in their
creed, not in their experience, not in their feelings, not in
their works, in Him. No flesh glories in His presence.
He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. All right, the text
speaks of the expiation of our sin, the exaltation of our Savior,
the expectation of our sovereign. And then in verse 14, The Spirit
of God tells us about the extent of our sanctification. For by one offering, He hath started to make perfect. Do any
of you have a translation that reads like that? Even a bad one? By one offering, He's begun the
process of making perfect. Does anybody have a translation
that reads like that? Even a bad one? Oh, no, Pastor. No, it says
perfected. Are you listening? That means
done. D-O-N-E, done. He hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. Did you ever see a perfect man?
Jimmy, did you ever see a perfect man? Go home and look in the
mirror. Perfect! Not by what you've done,
no. Not by what you might do. Perfect
in Jesus Christ the Lord. Perfected forever in Him. Oh, How would you like to go home
with a clean conscience? I mean clean before God, a clean
conscience. A heart that knows nothing of
condemnation, with no dread of God. with a joyful expectation of
leaving this world and entering into eternity. Oh, preacher,
that's not possible. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. To believe on the Son of God
is to be made perfect before God. So much so that this is
what the book says. Of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God has made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord. Oh, may God give you grace now
to believe on his Son and go home perfect. Lord willing, I'll
pick up on verse 14 tonight. My subject will be perfected.
If you want to know what it is to be perfected, you come tonight. If you want anybody else to know,
bring them with you. All right, let's turn to Psalms and