There are three words found in
the seventh chapter of Hebrews in verse 20 that are often on
my mind through the day, sometimes relentlessly so. Three delightful
words. Hebrews chapter seven in verse
20. Inasmuch that is by the oath
and covenant of God In as much as not without an oath, he was
made priest. He was made. He was made. That's the title of my message
this evening. Throughout the New Testament, the word made
is used to describe that which our Lord Jesus became as our
mediator. in order to save us. The Word
was made flesh. God's dear Son, the Lord of Glory
was made of the seed of David. Just as the first man, Adam,
was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Christ was made a curse for us. He was made of the seed of woman,
made under the law. He has made a surety of a better
testament. In all of those places, the word
that is translated made is a very intense word. It involves experience. It's an actual transformation
of a person or a thing. A transformation from one thing
to another by something done to it. It means cause to be or
cause to become. It's always in reference to an
experience, something actually experienced. He was made. It never means, it never means
he was reckoned to be. It was imputed to him. He was
treated as though or God pretended that this is the way it was.
It means he was made. calls to become what he was not
before. All that the Lord Jesus Christ
is as God. He is, if I can use such language,
by nature. His omniscience, omnipotence,
omnipresence, His holiness, His infallible immutability, all
those things are attributes of God. He is because He's God. But everything he was made to
be, he was made to be as our mediator. He was made to be as
our surety. He was made to be in order to
redeem and save his people. Now, tonight I want you to follow
with me through the scriptures. If you want to, you can just
jot down the passages. But I want us to look at ten
statements in scripture in ten specific passages. And I want
to show you what God the Holy Spirit tells us Christ was made
to be as our mediator. Number one, right here in Hebrews
chapter 7 and verse 22. By so much by the oath and covenant of God. God swore, as he swore thou art
a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. By so much was
Jesus made a surety of a better testament. Now as you read the
New Testament, you'll run across the word testament and covenant
numerous places. And everywhere the word testament
is used, it could be translated covenant. Everywhere the word
covenant is used, it could be translated testament. The two
words mean different things, but they're used from the same
Greek word. Now, our translators did us a
great favor. They translated the words according
to the context by which they're used. A testament has to do with
a person's sovereign will. His will, his decree, his last
will in testament. It's just a one-sided thing.
A covenant is something that involves at least two people.
It's an agreement between at least two people. And everywhere
you read the word covenant in the New Testament, it has a specific
reference to the covenant of God's grace with Christ Jesus,
our Redeemer. Everywhere you read the word
testament, that same covenant is spoken of as God's will. It is God's absolute unalterable
decree. so that the Word of God accommodates
our understanding, to make us understand that God's decree,
God's purpose of grace in predestination, His testament is that which is
His covenant of grace by which our salvation was secured. And
that covenant of grace was made with our surety, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now surety is not a term we use
commonly these days. It's a term that was common in
other days. A surety is one who becomes totally
responsible for another. Totally responsible for the debts
and obligations of another. One man stands in the room of
another and says I will be surety for him. As Judah was surety
for Benjamin when he took him down to Egypt to his brother
Joseph. The Lord Jesus was made the surety
of the New Covenant, the New Testament, God's purpose of grace
for us in Him. When I first came to Danville,
my family and I lived in Junction City for nine years, rented from
a fellow over there, George Greider. Rented a house from him and got
along very well, no difficulties at all. One day, I was visiting
with Mr. Greider, went over to pay the
rent and He owned a furniture store, and he told me a story,
a true story. He said many years ago, I have
no idea who it was, don't need to know. There was a fellow who
did business with him. He'd known him a long, long time.
And his son and daughter had just built a new big house somewhere
in Boyle County. I don't know where it was. And
the man said, he said to George, said, my son has built this house,
and he and his wife would like to get new furnishings for the
house. Would it be all right for him to come down here and
get those things and put it on credit, pay for it on time? And
George said, well, if you say it's all right, it's all right.
Known you a long time. So he gave him $10,000 worth
of furniture. That was a lot of furniture back
in those days. That was a lot of furniture. And a few months
later, the man came in and asked him how he was doing and said,
how's my son doing with his bill? George got the ledger out, and
he said, oh, he's doing fine. Every month. Paid right on time. George
is close, too. And he said, I'll tell you what I'd like to do.
My wife and I have been talking about this. We'd like to take
that debt. We'd like to take that debt.
And if you don't mind, just put it on my account. And George
said, are you sure? There's a lot of money here. Oh, yeah. We've decided we want
to do that. So while the man's standing there, George marked
out the debt under his son's name and put it on the account
of his father so that the debt that was his son's became his
father's. He didn't just act as though
it were his debt. It became his debt. After he
told me the story, George said, you know what the man did? He
said he didn't even go home. He went straight from here to
the courthouse and filed bankruptcy. And you know what I could do?
Nothing. Nothing. I couldn't even call
him and ask him if he wouldn't pretty please pay the debt. He
said it's against the law for me to even call him because he
stood the debt of his son and made his son's debt his debt. So I couldn't do anything. Will
you hear me? Before the world began, God the
Father, the triune Jehovah, struck hands with God the Son, and Christ
became our sheriff. In whom we must first, we trust
him who first trusted Christ. Ephesians 1. The triune God trusted
Christ with all our souls. the souls of his elect with all
our debt to God. And God never looked to us for
anything. He looks only to his son for
all satisfaction to any debt we may have. He's the surety
of a better testament. So that when the father struck
hands with the son, the work of redemption was done and Christ,
the lamb slain from the foundation of the world was accepted as
our sacrifice, as our surety. And we were accepted in the beloved
and blessed in the beloved with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ, our surety. John chapter one, verse 14. Very
familiar text of scripture. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. Why? The most marvelous thing revealed
in this book is the incarnation of Christ for the sacrifice of
himself at Calvary. The most wondrous thing revealed
in this book God stepped into time in human flesh. God became
one of us. Why? Why? For what the law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh. God sending his own son
in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in
the flesh. All his other works God could
do and did do without any cost or sacrifice. He created the
world out of nothing. No cost, no sacrifice involved. He sent a flood. No cost, no
sacrifice involved. He saved Noah and his family.
No cost, no sacrifice involved. Not on God's part. Everything
else God did with no cost and no sacrifice. but for the saving
of our souls it cost God his darling son. God so loved the world and read
it as the context demands God so loved his elect wherever they're
found in all the world that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting
life. In order to save us the word
was made flesh. God came into this world in a
body of human flesh. He lived on this earth in a body
of human flesh as a man. A real man. A real man. And he never ceased to be God.
He never ceased to be God. When our Lord Jesus nursed at
his mother's breast, he had to have his mother's milk to live. He's a real man. And at the same
time, he's God put milk in the breast. When he died at Calvary,
he died as a real man. But he who was nailed to the
cursed tree is God who gave the soldiers strength to pierce him
and nail him to the tree. He's God over all, blessed forever,
but a real man. Don't ever imagine he's not a
real man. It's not just he assumed our
nature, he assumed flesh. God became a man in order that
God might die for men and redeem us. Number three, Galatians chapter
four. When the fullness of time was
come, we're told in verse four, God sent forth his son, made
of a woman, made under the law. Now here the Spirit of God tells
us two things specifically about our Lord's incarnation. He was
made of a woman and he was made under the law. The first statement
speaks of our Lord's virgin birth. Christ was made of a woman. He
is that one of whom the Lord spoke in the first gospel message
when he said that the seed of woman would crush the serpent's
head. Christ was made of a woman. Being made of a woman, he came
here to fulfill all that God Almighty trusted to his hands
as assurity and mediator. Now some things are essential
to biblical Christianity. So essential that to deny them
or not believe them means that you are not Christians but infidels. To deny them is to deny the faith
altogether. God's sovereign character as
God is not something we can agree to disagree on. God's God or
is not. God's God or is not. And all
who know God recognize, believe, and rejoice in the fact that
he is God sovereign over all. The total depravity of man is
something that every child of God knows by painful experience
and acknowledges. Every child of God, anyone who
denies the depravity of the human heart, the utter corruption of
humanity, does not know God, the deity of Christ. All those
things involved in declaring that Jesus Christ is God, that's
essential to faith. There's no saving faith without
that. The effectual redemption of our
Lord Jesus, to deny His effectual particular redemption of His
people is to make the Son of God a failure and to deny His
Godhead, His irresistible grace. God's grace cannot be resisted. Well, you ought not use that
term. That offends people. That's the reason I use that
term. You are not going to resist God
about anything. About anything. And when God
sends His Spirit to call sinners, He calls them irresistibly and
graciously, sweetly, forces them to come to Christ with willing
hearts. That's right. Irresistible grace.
We're not talking about men's ideas of God. We're talking about
God. Talking about God. We speak of God. We understand
certain things are necessary with regard to the faith of the
gospel. And among those vital, indisputable, non-debatable articles
of faith is the virgin birth of our Redeemer. We do not adulate,
praise, or worship Mary. Mary was a sinner saved by grace
just like us. But we do worship, adore, and
praise Mary's Son who is God's Son. He is the virgin born son
of Mary. He came into this world without
the aid of a man in perfect holiness. A perfect man with no sin, no
defilement, no corruption. Then we're told he was made under
the law. Made under the law. Made subject
to the law. Made under the ceremonial law
when he was eight days old. For the Darwin that took him
to the temple and had him circumcised. Because the law said circumcise
the boy eight days. He was made under the law. He was made under
the moral law. Required to love God with all
his heart, soul, mind and being and love his neighbor as himself.
And our Lord Jesus meticulously observed all the commandments
of the law. Ceremonial law and moral law.
He even submitted to the civil laws where He lived. He was made
under the law. Why was He made under the law?
To redeem them that were under the law. He was made of a woman,
made under the law to redeem them that were under the law.
In order to save His people from their sins. in order to redeem
us from the curse of the law by his death. The God-man had
to establish righteousness as a man. He had to establish righteousness. God requires of man perfection. God requires of man holiness. You're responsible to perfectly
obey God's holy law in every detail from start to finish with
never a variation in heart, soul, mind, or deed. Perfect. Must
be perfect to be accepted. Christ came here to make us holy,
righteous. In order to do so, he must satisfy
all the demands of the law bringing in everlasting righteousness
for us. And then by his death, he satisfied all the just requirements
of the law and was made the righteousness of God for us, being himself
the end of the law for righteousness. Someone said he arranged his
own death sentence when he made the law. And then he bore his
sentence, his own fixed penalty in his own body on the tree.
He made the law and he was made under the law. He obeyed the
law in his life and he satisfied the law in his death. And blessed
be his name. Christ is the end of the law. The termination of the law, the
finishing of the law. And if I'm in Christ, I can no
more be made under the law again than Christ can be made under
the law. When you can put my Redeemer back under the law,
you can put me under the law. When you put my Redeemer back
under the curse, you can put me under the curse. Until then,
I'm free from the law. Well, how far do you carry that? Just as far as you can imagine
carrying it. Carry it to the end of time. free from the law, O happy condition,
Jesus hath bled, and there is remission. In Romans chapter
1, the Apostle Paul gives us in the opening verses of that
marvelous passage of scripture, he gives us a very clear description
of the gospel of God, with very instructive language. Paul, a
servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto
the gospel of God, The gospel which he had promised to for
by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, the gospel concerning his son,
Jesus Christ, our Lord, now watch this, which was made of the seed
of David, according to the flesh. Our savior, the spirit of God
tells us God's darling son was made of the seed of David, according
to the flesh. What's that talking about? is
talking about our Lord's rightful claim as the Messiah, the Christ
of God. He's talking about that which
God promised David in his covenant over in 2 Samuel 7. It said,
there'll never lack a man to sit on your throne. Christ was
made of the seed of David. Now I know there are lots of
folks who have the silly notion that our Lord Jesus came down
here so that he could be king over there in Jerusalem and the
Jews would pretty please let him rule over their little peanut nation. And because the
Jews wouldn't let him be their king, he had plan B and decided
to die. That's much hogwash. That's much
hogwash. Christ didn't come here to sit
on a physical throne over Jerusalem. He came here so that he might
ascend to glory, having brought in everlasting righteousness,
putting away sin by the sacrifice of himself, and sat down on the
throne of God as the seed of David. He has a rightful claim. to David's throne which simply
typified and illustrated for us Christ's rule upon the throne
of God as a man. There he sits on the throne of
God, seated on the mercy seat from which all things are ordered
by God's decree is the God-man Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Alright,
now turn with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21. 2 Corinthians chapter 5. in verse 21. I ask you to turn
here because I want you to see this. I make it my practice, wherever
I go to preach, the first time I preach in that place, I preach
from 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21 at some point. That's just my
practice. I don't ever miss the opportunity.
I've been doing it since I was just a young man and plan to
continue it. It is without question the most
astounding revelation of God in Holy Scripture. The most heart-cheering,
the most comforting, the most inspiring revelation of God in
all of Scripture. He, the Lord God, hath made him
His darling son, the Lord Jesus. Sin for us, who knew no sin,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. What an astounding
statement. I know of nothing so vastly vast,
so mysteriously mysterious. Here the Spirit of God opens
to us the Holy of Holies, that which is behind the veil where
no unsanctified heart can intrude. The Lord Jesus Christ knew no
sin. Understand that first. He knew
no sin. He challenged the Jews, which
of you convinces me of sin? And the very worst thing his
enemies could say of him was this. He made himself the Son
of God. Being a man, he made himself
equal with God. And this man receiveth sinners,
and eateth with them. He knew no sin. Pilate said repeatedly,
I find no fault in him. His wife said he was a just man.
And even Judas would not die with the lie on his lips before
he died. He said, I betrayed innocent
blood. He knew no sin. The centurion who saw him die
said, surely this man was the son of God. And yet he was made
sin for us. Now, we've been looking at wondrous
things in the word of God. In all the other passages, the
word made means, as I said earlier, caused to be. Caused to become. Here, another word is used. The Holy Spirit inspired the
Apostle Paul to use a different word, even stronger, for the
word made. Here this word made means wondrously,
mysteriously, inexplicably produced, created, called to become. I don't pretend to know Greek
and Hebrew. Well, I do. I know a little Greek
and a little Hebrew. I knew a Greek one time who ran a hot dog stand
and a little Hebrew who ran a clothing store around the corner from
him. But I have a good friend who is a real scholar. He's a
real linguist. His name is Steve Carpenter.
So I called him one day to ask him about this. He said, it is
such a profoundly mysterious term. It's almost as if he was
saying he were mystically made. He was made in such a way that
you will never understand it. He was made sin, made sin. Oh, what a statement. This word is intense. It carries the idea of wonder,
mystery, astonishment. And if this doesn't astonish
you, I don't know what will. All the sins of God's elect at
one time were made his. And when he was made sin for
us, he was executed by divine justice under the penalty of
sin as one who fully deserved to be executed under the wrath
of God. He was made sin. Christ, his
own self, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. By a marvelous
transfer of guilt, by a marvelous transfer of grace, he was made
sin for us, the people of his love. when the Lord of Glory
died in our room instead upon the cursed tree. He hung there
and died there in ignominious shame because he was caused to
become sin for us. He wasn't made to be something
that looked like sin. He wasn't made to be treated
as though he were sin. No, he was made sin for us. He who knew no sin was made sin
in all its hideous ugliness. Don't try to make it less than
it is. Don't try to imagine it less than it is. Rather read
it as it stands. He was made sin. Sin. That for which God expelled Adam
in the garden. That for which sinners suffer
the wrath of God in hell today, that's what he was made. That
which is the plague of your heart, that's what he was made. That
which you know to be in yourself and yet you cannot begin to imagine
what you are, that's what he was made. That's what he was
made, sin. Had he not been made sin for
us, he could never have been justly punished for sin. Now
I want you to write that down and remember, had he not been
made sin for us, he could never have been justly punished for
our sins. Let's see if I can make good
on that. Listen to the scripture. God's
law forbids a false balance and deceitful ways. You ever wonder
why God gave some laws in Israel? Twice, in the book of Leviticus
and the book of Deuteronomy, God gave specific laws forbidding
the use of a false balance and deceitful weights. That is, balances,
scales, and weights that would fudge. That's what we're talking
about. That's what we're talking about.
You've heard of folks back in the days when they used to weigh
meat at the counter, they'd put the thumb on the scale. That's
called a false balance, a deceitful weight. They're charging you
for what's not really there. That's a false balance, a deceitful
way. God doesn't deal in false balances
and deceitful ways. He that justifieth the wicked,
God says, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are
an abomination to the Lord. Whether you're talking about
the death of Christ or the life of God's elect, it must be according
to absolute, strict, immutable justice. Justice. The Lord God
says of his people, shall I count them pure with wicked balances,
with a bag of deceitful ways? Shall I pretend that they're
pure? Shall I say that they're pure? Shall I close my eyes and
refuse to see anything about them and say, Oh, they're perfectly
pure. There's nothing wrong with them.
Everything's okay. Not on your life. Not on God's
life. Not on God's life. Because our
blessed savior was made sin for us. and punished for our sins
to the full satisfaction of divine justice. He has completely and
forever put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
With His blood, He has forever purged our sins. Did you hear
what Jesus said to me? They're all taken away. Your sins are pardoned and you
are free. They're all taken away. Christ
took sin away when he was made sin for us. By virtue of our
union with him, God's elect are righteous, perfectly righteous. Christ is made of God unto us
righteousness. And we're made the righteousness
of God in him. Righteousness is not something
you can do. Righteousness is not something
you can do. Now, we do things that are looked
at by folks as right. Things that we may look at ourselves
in a relationship with me and say that's right. But righteousness
before God, you can't perform. There's no possibility. No possibility,
but we did. Perfect righteousness in a perfect
surety, a perfect substitute who bore our sin in his body
on the tree. And now by virtue of union with
him, we are the very righteousness of God. Now that's an astonishing
fact. It's something I can't possibly
understand. But I can't believe it and rejoice
in it. I'm astonished and sickened by
the fact that some find these things alarming, dangerous, even
heretical. One of our ladies left here one
day and said, she said, do you know what folks say about you
on the internet? I said, well, I know a little bit. I know a
little bit. I don't pay any attention to
it. I said, well, you do what you want to. I don't pay any
attention to it. These things aren't even debatable,
Fred. They're not even debatable. I can't imagine why anyone would
even think about debating these things. I can't imagine why anyone
sitting here would even question these things. Can that be dangerous? Can that be heretical? which
God Himself has stated. Is it possible to state the doctrine
of the cross in the very language of Holy Scripture and yet misstate
or misrepresent that doctrine? Nonsense. It must be concluded
then that anyone who objects to these sweet revelations of
our God, revelations so plainly given in His Word, has no regard
for the Word of God or for his object. He has some other object
than the glory of God and desires to corrupt the people of God
from the simplicity that's in Christ Jesus. Amen, Brother Fortner,
that's right. That's just fact. That's just
fact. We're going to have a lot of
folks wiggling. I like folks to wiggle. Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
the Lord of Glory, was made sin for us. And we were made the
righteousness of God in Him. Oh, what a wonder! What a miracle
of mercy! The greatest deed of grace, the
most stupendous depth of love, the highest height of wisdom,
the greatest act of God. He was made sin for us. until he was made sin for us.
God could not cry, awake, O sword, against the man that is my fellow.
Smite and slay the shepherd. Justice would not permit it.
And until you're made the righteousness of God in him, you can't enter
into God's heaven. Justice will not permit it. Number six. Galatians 3 13 Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse
for us Christ Jesus the Son of God was
made sin Made sin Now folks get all bent
out of shape and hollered and fussed and carried on about that
This is something more than that. When he was made sin, he was
made a curse. A cursed thing. A cursed thing. A cursed thing. Cursed. Cursed. So that God Almighty
covered the earth with darkness for three hours. And the Son
of God cries, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Because
he's the cursed thing. The cursed thing that can't be
touched. The cursed thing that must be
put out of the camp. The cursed thing that must die.
Christ was made a curse for us when he was made sin. Cursed
under the justice of God, bearing the fury of God's just wrath.
Why? that the blessing of God, the
blessing of Abraham might come on us, the promise of his grace,
the promise of the Spirit. Turn to Acts chapter 2. Now that the curse has been removed
from him, now that he has ceased from sin, been justified in the
Spirit, God the Father has given him the throne of universal dominion
the throne he promised to him as the reward of his obedience.
Look at Acts 2.36. Therefore, let all the house
of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus
whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. This one who was made sin, put
away sin. It justified in the spirit. He
arose from the dead and ascended on high and God gave him power
over all flesh that he might give eternal life to as many
as the father had given him. So that this one who is our Redeemer
sets upon the throne of glory. This one who loved us and gave
himself for us sits on the throne of glory. He holds the reigns
of absolute monarchy in heaven, earth, and hell. That means everything's
all right. That means everything's all right.
He does all things well. He's the king over everything,
king over everybody. The basis of his appeal to sinners
to trust him is his lordship. He's the Lord. That means you
can trust Him. He has all power. That means
you can trust Him. He has all authority. That means
you can trust Him everywhere, all the time, in all circumstances.
And then in Hebrews 7, 20, where we began, He was made priest. He was made priest. Not a priest. Priest. He was made priest. That is, there is no other priest
but Him. Not in the Mormon Church, Catholic Church, or Baptist Church.
There's no priest but Him. He's the priest. He's the priest.
He's the only priest who has a sacrifice God will accept. He's a priest with a sacrifice
God has accepted, who sympathizes with us. This priest, by his
sacrifice, saves all those whose names are written on his breast.
He's that priest. who has satisfied justice and
shall be satisfied by justice. This priest sits on his throne
and that means he satisfies his people. You remember when Aaron
went off in sacrifice, God commanded him to come out and bless the
people. And Aaron went off in sacrifice and he'd take off those
bloody white garments and put on that gorgeous priestly robe
and he'd come out and I suspect raise his hands up over the congregation
and he'd say, the Lord bless thee and keep thee. Now all Aaron
could do was say the words. That's all he could do. Here
is a king who is a priest with his glory on him. And he says,
the Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face
to shine upon thee and be gracious to thee. The Lord lift up his
countenance upon thee and give thee peace. And what he pronounces,
he performs. This Savior, our Lord Jesus,
we're told in 1 Corinthians 15, 45, is made a quickening spirit. The first Adam was made a living
soul. The last Adam was made a quickening spirit. What's that
mean? That means the Son quickeneth whom He will. The Son quickeneth whom He will. I've been praying. Many sitting
here have been praying. that God might be pleased to
quicken poor sinners during these three days. Begging God for your souls. Many of your names have been
called before the throne of grace repeatedly. Begging God to have
mercy on you. Oh, why not twist arms and give
altar calls and invitations and tell sad stories and all that?
stuff. Because I want you to know God.
I want you to know God. Now listen to me tell you, that
all depends on His will. The Son quickens whom He will. And I'll tell you who they are.
I'll tell you who they are. Everyone for whom He stood as
a surety from eternity. Everyone for whom He was made
Everyone who sinned, he bore in his own body on the tree.
Every single one for whom he is a priest interceding in heaven,
he quickens every one of them. Every sinner who comes to this
priest, every sinner who comes to this priest has been quickened
by him. You've been preaching, if I come,
he'll quicken me. No, I mean, if you come, he has quickened
you. Come on, let's see. Come on, let's see. Come to Christ,
you'll find life everlasting in your soul. Come to Christ. Oh, God helped you to come. He's
a quickening spirit. He's a quickening spirit. He
breathes the breath of God into your soul so that you make partakers
of the divine nature, make new creatures by his power. One more
thing. Christ Jesus is made all to you
who believe. For of God are ye in him who
of God has made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption. I sure would like to be wise,
wouldn't you? Wise with God. Wise. Wise to know God and God's
ways. You find that in Christ. So the
most uneducated, the most out of the way, the most downtrodden,
the lowest of humanity, believing on Christ, is made wise unto
salvation by the word of God, wise to know God and his ways. I sure would like to be righteous,
would you? I may have no reason ever to
tremble before God. Righteous. Perfectly, absolutely
righteous. Come to Christ, you'll find perfect
righteousness is yours. Righteousness that can never
be barred. Righteousness that can never
be sullied. Sanctification. The word means
holiness. Holiness. follow peace with all men and
holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Mark Henson,
my friend, you've got to be perfectly holy. Perfectly holy. Holy as God himself. Or you can't live with God. Come
to Christ and you find holiness in him. He is that holiness without
which no man shall see the Lord. Christ in you, the hope of glory
and redemption. Redemption. Complete deliverance. Complete deliverance from all
sin and all the evil consequences of sin into the glorious liberty
of the sons of God in resurrection glory by the price of his blood
and the power of his grace. Come to Christ. Oh God help you
now come to Christ and you will find in him complete deliverance. You will obtain in him an inheritance
reserved in heaven for you. undefiled, that fades not away,
complete deliverance. Why does God do things this way? Why was Christ made all this?
That according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord. Amen.