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Now here's our pastor, Todd Nybert. I've entitled this morning's
message, Sins Purged. That ought to be something that
you and I are greatly interested in, sins purged. I'm reading from Hebrews Chapter
1, where it says concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, who being
the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His
person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, When
He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on High. the purging of sins. Now, who is this one who is said
to purge by himself our sins? Well, let's look at the description
given to him in this passage of Scripture. I want to begin
reading in verse 1 of Hebrews chapter 1, God, who at sundry
times and in diverse manners spake in times past, under the
fathers by the prophets. The times past He is referring
to are all the times between Adam and the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. He did indeed speak through the
prophets, but He hath in these last days Now, the last days
are all of the days between the first and the second advent of
the Lord Jesus Christ. When He first was born in that
Bethlehem in the manger, to the time He returns with His holy
angels, His second coming, All those days between those two
events are the last days. We're living in the last days.
The Apostle Paul was living in the last days. When is the Lord
going to come back? We don't know, but we know He
is coming. And then time shall be no more,
but the writer tells us, He hath in these last days spoken unto
us by His Son. Jesus Christ is God's final Word. He said, This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him. He is the prophet. He is the
Word of God. God hath spoken by His Son, whom
He hath appointed air of all things. This One who is said
to have by Himself purged our sin is the air of all things. That means everything belongs
to Him. He is the reason. All things are for His glory. He's the heir of all things. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof. He is the heir of all things
by whom also He made the worlds. Do you know that Jesus Christ
is the creator? He made the universe in all of
its vastness. He is the one who created the
atom in all its minutia. All things were made by Him and
for Him. in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things
were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that
was made. He is the all-powerful Creator. That is the One who is said to
have by Himself purged our sins. Now let's go on reading. Verse
3 says, who being the brightness of his glory. This one who is
said to have purged our sins is the very brightness of God's
glory, the shining forth of God's glory, the sparkling of deity. He's not reflected. He is the
glory of God. He's not reflected glory. He
is the glory of God. Now, who is this one who is said
to have purged our sins? He is the one who is said to
be the express image of His person. He is the transcript of God. He, when God speaks, This is
who He is. He's the express image of the
invisible God. Jesus Christ is not like God. He's not a whole lot like God.
He is God. He's the mighty creator. This
is the one who has been said to have by himself purged our
sins. And next, it says that He is
the one who upholds all things by the word of His power. Now understand this, everything
that takes place is His will being done. He is in absolute
control of all things. the reason everything happens
ultimately is His will. Now, I know there's secondary
causes and so on, but it's still His will being done. He's absolutely sovereign. He
has a will. He has the power to make His
will come to pass, and that's exactly what He does. You know,
But when people say, won't you let Jesus be Lord of your life?
He is Lord. He's Lord of the dead. He's Lord
of those who are dead in sins. He controls everything about
them. He's in control. He's the Lord of the living.
He is Lord. He always does His will. Now, before time began, He purposed
everything that would take place in time. He said, I have purposed
it. I will also do it. I have spoken
it, I will bring it to pass. He is the one, the one who is
appointed heir, the one who made the worlds, the one who is the
brightness of God's glory and the express image of His person,
the one who upholds all things by the word of His power. He
is the one who by Himself purged our sins. He by himself purged
our sins. Who is included in the word our? He purged our sins. Now, I have
to ask this question, because not everybody's sins are purged. There is a place called hell,
and it's populated. And their people are paying for
the sin that He did not purge. They're paying for their own
sin. And it can never be paid. That's why hell is eternal. The
price can never be paid. There is the place where God
meets out His justice. And the people in hell, their
sins were not purged. If they were purged, they wouldn't
be in hell. Who is included in this word, our? Well, everybody
whose sins are purged. You see, when Christ died, He
was not dying for all men without exception. If He was, all men
without exception would be saved. He was dying for the sins of
the elect, His sheep, His people. Matthew 121 says, Thou shalt
call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. Their sins are purged. They are put away. They are canceled. They are made to not be. That's what this purging is.
And it's important for us to understand who the hour is, because
if He purged the sins of all men, and some of those men end
up in hell, His purging is meaningless. It's useless. It didn't get the
job done. But no, he purged away the sins
of his people. He said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. I came down from heaven not to
do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this
is the will of him that sent me, that of all which he hath
given me I should lose nothing. but raise it up again at the
last day. Christ loved the church and gave
himself for it. Now, let me tell you what all
these people have in common, these people who are included
in this hour. Christ purged our sins. This is what these people have
in common. They are all filthy, and defiled by sin and need to
have their sins purged. There's nothing they can do about
their sins. There's nothing they can do to
make themselves clean. These people have this in common. They are all defiled. dirty because of sin and sins,
and they need Him to do what only He can do, purge them of
their sins. Now, do you need your sins purged? Listen very carefully. When He
had by Himself purged our sins. Now, let me tell you what He
did by being nailed to Calvary's tree. This is true with regard
to everybody He died for. He descended us. He made that
sin to not be. You know, my wife has some kind
of cleaner that is called degreaser. She doesn't put that on just
to wipe off the table. That's when something is soiled
and filthy and dirty. She uses a degreaser. where the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ desinned all of His people. He made their sins to not be. All of the sin, all of the filth,
all of the evil we are, He was made to be on Calvary's tree. II Corinthians 5.21 says, For
he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. Now that's what he did. He put
away, he made to not be the sins of his people. By that one mighty
act on Calvary's tree, He made my sin to be purged, cleansed,
washed away. It's no more. Now, perhaps you've
heard of purgatory, that place where people supposedly go and
spend time until their sins are finally purged. I guess somebody
pays enough money to get them out, and finally they get out.
There's no such thing. There is no such thing. but he
by himself purged our sin. In Gethsemane's garden, before
his death, he's been given a look at a cup. Do you remember when
he said, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass for me? What was in that cup? That cup
was the sins of His people. He was going to be made to drink
that cup. He bore our sins, the Scripture
says, in His own body on the tree. And He said, Father, if
it be possible, let this cup pass from Me. Nevertheless, not
My will, but Thine be done. You see Him drinking this cup.
being the sin bearer and purging and putting away the sins of
His people. This was the work that the Father
had for Him to do. It was the will of God, by the
which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. When He bowed His head on the
cross and said, it is finished, All of the sins he was dying
for were purged, were paid for, were put away, were made not
to be. 1 John 3, verse 5, he was manifested
to take away our sins. And in him is no sin. If I'm in Him, I have no sin. My sins are not just as if I
never committed them. My sins have never been. You say, well, you've committed
them. He made them to go away. He put them away. When He purged
them, it made it to where I stand before God as having never committed
those sins. That's what justification is.
I'm made to stand before God having never committed those
sins. He put them away and made them
not to be. And that's how thorough this
purging was, when He had by Himself purged our sins. He made everybody He died for
holy and unblameable and unreprovable in the very sight of God. Now,
that's what He accomplished on Calvary's tree, the purging of
our sins. And I don't want you to miss
this. when He had by Himself purged our sins." This verse
needs this statement for us to understand it and for us to understand
the gospel. We can't really understand the
gospel apart from what this passage of Scripture says, when He had
by Himself purged our sins. On Calvary's tree, He was by
Himself. He didn't have the Father's presence.
He didn't have the Father's smile. The Father forsook Him. My God,
my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? He was forsaken by God, and
He had no help on the cross. He was by Himself. He had no
angels helping Him. Now, you may remember that when he was
in the garden before going to the cross, the angels came and
ministered to him and helped him as he was sweating great
drops of blood. While he's on the cross, there's
no angels with him. His disciples have all forsaken
him and fled. There wasn't any disciple saying,
we know you're doing this for us and we love you for it. He
was by himself. Now, This is so important for me and you to understand,
if we're going to understand what saving faith is. In this great work of the purging
of sins, he did it by himself. He did it by Himself, not by
enabling me or you to do something that would activate what He did
or enhance what He did. Here it is, but it won't do anything
for me unless I do something to make it work for me. No, no. If any part of my salvation is
dependent upon me doing something, If my salvation is contingent
upon me coming up with faith, if it's contingent upon me coming
up with repentance, if it's contingent upon my holy living, if my salvation
is dependent on me to do anything, I have no hope. And my dear friend, neither do
you. If salvation is any way in any
way dependent upon something near you do, there's no hope
whatsoever of near you being saved. But thank God, it says,
he by himself purged our sins. No doing for us. Get that thinking out of your
mind. It's not doing. When he said,
it is finished, it was done. Salvation completely accomplished. Now, when He had by Himself at
a point in time, at a particular place, Golgotha's Hill, when
He had by Himself with no contribution whatsoever for me or you, when
He had by Himself purged our sins. Now, that's what He did
on Calvary's tree. What does the text say He did?
He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. He sat down. Let's think for a moment about
the sitting Savior. He sat down. Now, in the Old Testament, you
had the tabernacle. which was given to picture and
illustrate who Christ is, every part of that tabernacle gives
us some view of His person or His work. And inside of the tabernacle,
first when you went into the courtyard, there was the altar
for sacrifice, that had to come first. Then before you could
enter the tabernacle, there was the basin to the priest would
wash their hands in. And then inside you had the table
of showbread, you had the altar of incense, you had the candlestick,
you had the Ark of the Covenant behind the veil, which separated
the holy place from the holy of holies, and you had the mercy
seat over the ark. And the priests went in daily,
offering up the same sacrifices. But there was something, a piece
of furniture that was absent, and that piece of furniture was
a chair. The reason being the priest's
work was never done. What they did, didn't put away
any sin. Now let me read this passage
of scripture from Hebrews chapter 10, verse 11. And every priest
standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifice, which can never take away sins. But this man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down 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." I'd like to read a passage from
Hebrews 9 now, beginning in verse 11. But Christ, being come and
high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
the tabernacle I was talking about just a few moments ago,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood,
he entered in once into the holy place. having obtained eternal
redemption for us. Now, notice, it doesn't simply
say he obtained redemption. He obtained eternal redemption,
a redemption that has no starting point, a redemption that has
no ending point. And that lets us know that there's
nothing that we can do to activate it because it's eternal. He obtained
eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling unclean sanctify
to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works and look to his
works alone? Now, I want to ask you a question.
I want you to think about this. How satisfied is the Father with
the work of the Son? Now think about that. How satisfied is the Father with
what His Son offered Him? He offered Himself without spot.
He brought His blood into the holy place. How satisfied is
God with Christ? He couldn't be more satisfied.
He's not looking for anything else. He's completely satisfied
with what Christ did. Now, how satisfied is Christ
with what He did? Well, the scripture says in Isaiah
53, he shall see the travail of his soul. And that's what
happened on Calvary's tree. There we know what the travail
of his soul was when his father forsook him because he was bearing
the sins of his people. He shall see the travail of his
soul and be satisfied. Christ is infinitely satisfied
with what He has done. He left nothing undone. He left
nothing incomplete. He left nothing out there for
me or you to do. He by Himself purged our sins. Now, what that lets me know is
that there is nothing for me to do to gain God's favor or
satisfaction. Christ gained God's favor for
me. He purged my sins, and there
is nothing for me to do. Christ is infinitely satisfied
with me through His own work of purging my sins. In Him dwells
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you, speaking of
every believer, are complete, nothing lacking, nothing you
need to do to enhance what He has done, nothing you need to
do to activate what He has done. Don't think of what you need
to do. That's an insult to what He has
done. Don't think, oh, if I can just
get my life straightened out and if I can just become a better
person, if I can just overcome this sin, then I can believe
that God has done something for me. All that is is works. That's all it is. What are you
to do? Nothing. But won't that lead
people to a life of carelessness and sinfulness? No, it won't. It'll make you love Christ. You
believe His gospel. What are you to do? Absolutely,
positively, nothing. Do not think there's something
you must do to make His work work for you. Do not do anything. Do not even think of doing, because
it is done, it is finished. He by himself purged our sins. And now he's seated. His work is finished. There's
nothing left for him to do. And my dear friend, there's nothing
left for you to do. Now somebody says, how can I
know if he did this for me? I can tell you exactly how you'll
know. You'll trust Him only as everything in your salvation.
Now, if you're looking to anything else, I can't give you any assurance
that He's done anything for you. But if you look to Him only,
if you say, my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood
and righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but
wholly lean on Jesus' name. If you look only to Him, as everything
in your salvation, not your doing, but His doing. What He did is
for you. Now, we have this message on
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