Happy Father's Day. Dad, we're going to have a vacation
Bible school this week and pray for the Lord's blessing upon
that, that the Lord will be pleased to reveal himself to the young
people. I always announce in the class,
I expect the Lord to save you. And I trust he will do that. I want you to be a believer in
the Lord Jesus Christ. And tonight we're going to have
Moose Parks preach for us. We're glad to have Moose and
Sandy here, and Missionary St. Croix, and he's going to be bringing
the message for tonight. I've entitled this message, The
Bible in a Chapter. the Bible in a chapter. I read from Acts chapter 7, but
I'd like you to turn now to Genesis chapter 15. This is what Stephen
quoted. What I'd like to do in the weeks
to come is consider everything he said in this message that
cost his life, but this Genesis chapter 15 There's more time
devoted in the New Testament to this chapter than any other
chapter. Acts chapter 7, the fourth chapter
of Romans. Most of Galatians, no, all of
Galatians chapter three and a part of Galatians chapter four, Hebrews
chapter 11, the book of James refers to Genesis 15 and whole
chapters are devoted to this very important passage of scripture.
I dare say there's not a more important passage of scripture
in all the word of God. in Genesis chapter 15. Now in
this chapter, we learn about faith. First time it's mentioned.
What is faith? You'll find out from this passage
of scripture. We find out what the Lord is
to the believer. We hear of the covenant that
God made. We hear of the sufficiency of
the sacrifice. And so you see there are subjects
of infinite importance in Genesis chapter 15. Verse one, after these things, the word
of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision. Now this is the Lord
Jesus Christ coming to Abram and saying, fear not Abram, I
am thy shield. I'm thy protection. I'm thy salvation. The blows go against me. You're
safe. I am your shield, and I am your
exceeding great reward. Now, what could be better than
that? To have him. What could be better than that?
I love the hymn we sing, the bride eyes not her garment, but
her dear bridegroom's face. I will not gaze on glory, but
on my King of grace. Not at the crown he giveth, but
on his pierced hand. The Lamb is all the glory in
Emmanuel's hand. Now he says this to Abram, and
this is what the Lord is to every single believer. I am thy shield. What do you
have to fear? I am thy exceeding great reward. You know when I read passages
like that, it makes differing rewards in heaven so offensive.
What's better than this? Would you add your works to this
and get a higher place? Why, that's ridiculous, isn't
it? Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield
and thy exceeding great reward. Verse two, here's Abram's response.
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless? Now the Lord had promised him
a child earlier in chapter 12 and chapter 13, and it hadn't
happened. This was years later. And this
almost sounds like unbelief. The Lord said, I'm gonna give
you a child. And he said, I go childless. What you've said has
not come to pass yet. It sounds almost like unbelief.
Maybe some of that was mixed in it, I'm not sure. But he did
say, what would thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the
steward of my house is this Eleazar of Damascus? And Abram said,
behold, to me thou hast given no seed. And lo, one born in
my house, a servant, not for me, is my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord
came unto him. He didn't rebuke him for his
unbelief, if that's what it was. He just repeated what he had
already told him. And isn't that what the gospel
is? We're getting to hear again what has already been told us.
And the glorious thing about the gospel is when you hear the
same old message, it comes as new and fresh and powerful. It's not like the words of men. This is the word of God. That's
why it comes as new and fresh and powerful. So he repeats to
him what he'd already told him in Genesis chapter 12 and Genesis
chapter 13. Behold, the word of the Lord
came into him saying, this shall not be thine heir, but he that
shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. Now, verse five, and he brought
him forth abroad and said, look now toward heaven and tell the
stars. Now back then, I bet the sky
was a lot more starry than it is now. No more stars, but you
didn't have cities. You didn't have city lights.
You don't get to see this much around here, but can you imagine
the dazzling display of stars that he saw that could not be
counted? The Lord said to him, look now
toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them.
And he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. The promise, so shall thy seed
be. Now, when he's talking about
this promise of a seed, somebody says, well, that's talking about
the Jewish nation. Well, yes, I wouldn't argue against that,
but it's talking a whole lot more than that. Turn with me to Romans
chapter two. Romans chapter two, verse 28. For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly. Now, somebody says, I was born
in Israel. I can trace my lineage all the
way back to Abraham. I'm a Jew. No, you're not. He's
not a Jew, which was one outwardly. That's not what a true Jew is. Neither is that circumcision,
which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew, which is one
inwardly. And circumcision is that of the
heart and in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is
not of men, but of God. Turn to Romans 9. Now when he's promising Abraham
this seed, he's not just talking about the nation of Israel. He's
talking about the spiritual seed, every believer. Verse six, it's
not as though the word of God has taken none effect for they
are not all Israel, which are of Israel just because they're
of the Israelite nation doesn't mean they're true Israelites.
Neither because they're the seed of Abraham, his natural descendants,
or they are children, but in Isaac said, I see be called.
That is they which are the children of the flesh. These are not the
children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for
the seed. Those God promised to save and
gave his son. Turn to Galatians chapter three.
This is very important. Galatians chapter three. Verse
26, for you are all the children
of God by faith in Christ Jesus, not by being a physical Jew,
but by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There's neither Jew
nor Greek, there's neither bond nor free, there's neither male
nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus, and if ye be
Christ, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to
the promise. Now understand, this seed is
the elect of God, those given to Christ before the foundation
of the world, born of God. This is the seed being spoken.
Now turn back to Genesis 15, verse six, and he believed in the Lord
and it was counted to him for righteousness. Justification
by faith has always been the way God saves sinners. The saints in the Old Testament
were saved the same way the saints in the New Testament were saved,
by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This has always been the way.
This is the way Abel came, looking to the coming sacrifice, knowing
he couldn't be accepted in and of himself. Noah understood that
salvation was only in Christ. He knew that ark pictured the
Lord Jesus Christ. This is the way it's always been. Justification by faith. And do you know that the entire
fourth chapter of Romans is dedicated to this one verse of scripture? Now hold your finger there in
Genesis 15. I want you to turn to Romans
chapter four. Now, leading up to Romans chapter
four, Paul had been proving both Jew and Gentile all under sin,
and he had expounded the gospel in Romans chapter three so clearly,
so clearly. Look in Romans chapter two, he's
talking to people without a Bible. without any revelation from God.
He had named this big list of sins in chapter 1 verse 29 being
filled with all unrighteousness. fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whispers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding,
covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful,
who, knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such
things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure
in them that do them. Therefore, somebody says, boy,
that's a list of really bad sins. Yeah, I agree. Therefore, thou
art inexcusable, O man. Whosoever thou art, thou judgest. You look at these scenes and
you think, what horrible scenes, what horrible people that would
commit such wickedness. This is wrong. This is wrong. You make a judgment. Therefore,
thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest.
For wherein thou judgest another, you condemn yourself. For you
that judge, judgest, do, doest, doest. That's present tense,
right now. You that judge, doest the same
things. Somebody says, not me. You're
a liar. This is what God's word says.
And do you expect me to believe what you say or what God says?
This is what God says regarding all humanity, people without
a Bible. And look what he says in verse
11 of chapter two. Or let's start in verse 14. For
when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the
things contained in the law. It's talking about the Ten Commandments. Everybody born into this world
knows it's wrong to steal. It's wrong to commit murder.
Everybody knows sexual sin is wrong. Everybody knows that.
Everybody knows it's wrong to lie. Everybody knows it's wrong
to be disobedient to your parents and not to respect authority.
Everybody knows that God is, and they ought to love God with
all their heart, and they ought to love their neighbor. You know,
when people quite often say, we need to teach people to live.
No, no. Everybody already knows how to
live. Everybody in this room knows how to live. Everybody
in this room has God's law written in their heart. I want to know how to die in
peace, don't you? I want to know how to face God
and be accepted. That's what I want to know. I
want to know what it means to believe the gospel. Now, he says
regarding the Gentiles, for the Gentiles, which have not the
law, do my nature, the things contained in the law, these having
not the law are law unto themselves, they know, which show the work
of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness. You know this is so, your conscience
tells you this. Their thoughts, the meanwhile,
either accusing or else excusing. Either feeling guilty or trying
to find a justification for what you've done. That's the people
without a Bible. Inexcusable. What about the people
with a Bible? What about the people with a
revelation from God? He says in chapter two, verse
17, behold, thou art called a Jew. and restest in the law, and you
make your boast of God. You've got this revelation from
God. You know his will. You're not like those ignorant
heathen. You approve the things that are more excellent being
instructed out of the law. You're confident that thou thyself
art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which has
the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. God revealed
himself to the Jews. To Abraham, they were given a
written revelation through Moses, David, and so on. What good did
it do them? What good did it do them? Verse
21, thou therefore would teachest to another, teachest thou not
thyself? Thou that preachest to man should not steal, dost
thou steal? Somebody says, I'm not a thief.
You ever robbed God of glory and given it to yourself? You
ever taken credit where credit's not due? That's called a thief. With regard to every commandment,
he says in verse 22, thou that say'st a
man should not commit adultery, does thou commit adultery? Thou
that abhor'st idols. Does thou commit sacrilege? Are
you guilty of idolatry? Thou that makest not boast of
the law through breaking the law, you dishonor. Don't you
dishonor God? Look in chapter three, verse
nine. What then? Are we better than they? Us Jews
with a written revelation. Are we better than those Gentiles,
the heathen? No, in no wise, for we have before
proved, both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin. As it is written, there is none
righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth.
There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good.
no, not one. Amen. You believe that? And then he brings us to the
gospel. Verse 19. Now we know that what
thing soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the
law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become
guilty before God. What a blessed thing that is
when the mouth is stopped. No self-indication, no justification
stopped. Guilty as charged. Guilty before God. Subject to damnation. Subject
to his judgment. And if he passes me by and gives
me no mercy, just and holy is his name. Doesn't mean I want
that, but whatever God does is right. Now understand this, any
objection that you or I have to God's way of saving sinners
is founded upon self-righteousness. That's it. Nothing else. But he announces the gospel.
Verse 20, therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh
be justified in his side, for by the law is the knowledge of
sin. That's all the law does. But now. The righteousness of
God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of
Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. But there
is no difference. And he goes on to define the
gospel. And in chapter four, he says, well, is this applicable
to Abraham? What I've been saying, is this
applicable to Abraham? What about Abraham? How was he
saved? You've talked about the Jews. You've talked about the
Gentiles. You've talked about the gospel. Well, what about
Abraham? And here's where he deals with Genesis chapter 15,
verse one. What shall we say then that Abraham,
our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if
Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory. God becomes his debtor. He gets
some of the glory in salvation. And in reality, if you get some
of the glory, you get all the glory. There's no in between. God either gets all the glory
and you get none, or you get all the glory and he gets none. Verse three, for what saith the
scripture, Abraham believed God. Genesis 15, six. God said, you're
gonna have a seed. that is greater than the amount
of the stars of the heaven. Abraham didn't have any evidence.
He was an old man. Sarah was an old woman. She'd
already gone through menopause. But what did Abraham do? He believed
God. He was fully persuaded. You know
how somebody gets fully persuaded? God persuades him. That's when
you become fully persuaded. I can persuade you into something,
it'll leave. If you persuade me into something,
it won't last. Kind of like those self-help
books people read. You know, you read this self-help book,
and boy, all of a sudden, you're ready to turn your life around. You
can't even remember what it said the next week. Abraham believed God. And it was counted to him for
righteousness. Now, verse four, now to him that
worketh, if salvation, now works means anything dependent upon
you. If any aspect of salvation is dependent upon you doing something,
that's what work means. To him that worketh is the reward
I am thy shield and exceeding great reward. That's the reward,
Christ himself. Now to him that worketh is a
reward, not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Isn't that offensive? To think that God owes you his
son? That's utterly offensive. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly. His faith is counted for righteousness.
Now, hear what that verse says. Have you given up on being saved
by your works? Ain't no help there. There's
no favor from God there. I can't, I cannot be saved by
my works. I can't. I know me. Well, I don't know me that well,
but I know me enough to know this. I can't be saved by works.
To him that worketh not, but believeth on him. Now, listen
to this name for our God. I love all of his names, but
I don't love any name more than this one. He believes on him
that justifieth the ungodly. It takes an ungodly sinner like
me and makes him to stand perfectly just and righteous before God.
To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly, his faith. He's counting for righteousness.
Now, I don't need to tell you, because he goes on to tell us
what that means. That doesn't mean your faith is righteousness.
Christ is righteousness. You believe that? You believe
that? Look what he says in verse six.
Even, he's going to talk about what he meant. Even as David
also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works. Well, isn't that attractive?
To have righteousness imputed to you, given to you, made to
you without your works? Is that attractive to you? Oh,
my soul, that's attractive to me. To have righteousness imputed
to me without my works. Oh, even as David also described
the blessedness of the man done to him, God imputed righteousness
without work saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven, whose sins are covered, covered in the blood, made to
be no more. Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. Now cometh this blessedness then
upon the circumcision only or upon the uncircumcision also?
Is this for Jews only or Jews and Gentiles? For we say the
faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How is it
then reckoned? When he was in circumcision or
in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. Circumcision didn't come along
until Genesis chapter 17, and we're going to consider that,
Lord willing, next week, what it is. But Abraham was saved
the way a Gentile is saved. Peter summarized it like this. In Acts chapter 15 verse 11,
we believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we
shall be saved just like them. Not that they'll be saved like
us, we'll be saved like them. Now go back to Genesis chapter
15. If you go on reading, all of this chapter is about Genesis
chapter 15, but go back to Genesis 15. This is so much in this. Verse six. And he believed in
the Lord, and he counted it to him. The Lord counted it to him
for righteousness. And he, the Lord, said unto him,
I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Caldees to give
thee this land to inherit it. How many times have you wondered
when the Lord told Abraham, get up and leave and go to a land
that I'll show you? Have you ever thought about how
terrifying that would be? How did he do it? Just get up and
leave everything you know and go to a land I'll show you. How
did Abraham do that? Well, we find out how he did
it in this verse. I am the Lord that brought thee
out of her. I did this. The reason you did it is because
I brought you out. Now understand this. Everything
God requires, all of his commandments, he causes them to be obeyed.
He brought Abraham out. Now let's go on reading. And
he said, verse eight, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it? This almost sounds like unbelief
again. The Lord tells him, he says,
how can I know? And the Lord doesn't rebuke him.
He gives him the answer, verse nine. And he said unto him, take
me. Now that is so incredibly important. He didn't say you need to take
a heifer. He said, take me a heifer. And he gives five sacrificial
animals. Take me, a heifer of three years
old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three
years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon, five sacrificial
animals. And this is so important. Take
this for me. Now, what is meant by that? The
sacrifice of Christ. Yes, if you're a believer, it
was for you, but it wasn't so much for you. It was for God.
For God to do something for you, he had to do something for himself.
For him to be just and have favor toward me or you, he had to first
do something for himself. You take me, a heifer. I love it when Isaac says, here's
the wood, here's the fire, where's the ram for a burnt offering?
Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a ram. You see, you know what you can
provide that God would accept? Zilch. Zero. Everything that comes from me
and you would be unclean, subject to the judgment of God. You can't
provide anything, but he does. The Lord will provide. he will provide for himself.
As I said, for him to do something for me or you, he has to do something
for himself and make a way for him to be just and justify the
ungodly. He provides for himself and he
provides himself. He provides himself. Yes, he's
the one who did the providing and he provides himself as the
lamb for the burnt offering. Now, in the matter of our acceptance
with God, how can I know? Don't be so anxious about what
he thinks of you. Be concerned about this. What
does he think about the sacrifice of Christ? Not what does he think about
you? What does he think about the sacrifice of Christ? We should not concern ourselves
with what's so much he thinks about us, but what he thinks
about Christ. The only well-grounded assurance
is when we are assured that God is satisfied with what Christ
did. We find the same assurance that God does. Do you think God
looks to you for anything? He didn't look to you for anything.
He looks wholly to the sacrifice of His Son. He is satisfied with
the sacrifice of His Son. That's why He raised Him from
the dead. He is satisfied. Assurance doesn't come from seeing
something that you think is in you. I see faith, I see repentance,
I see a work of God in my heart. No, no. The only true well-grounded
assurance is being seeing that God is infinitely pleased with
and satisfied with what Christ did. Now that's the only place
a sinner can find assurance. When God raised him from the
dead, he said, I am satisfied with what he did. Verse nine,
he said unto him, take me an heifer of three years old, a
she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old,
a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he took them unto him all
these, and divided them in midst and laid each piece one against
another. But the birds divided he not.
And when the fowls, the ravens, the vultures, the buzzards, the
kites, and when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram
drove them away. Now these fowls, these buzzards,
they could, they liked dead flesh, didn't they? They could eat carrion. I think of the dove, the clean
bird that went out from the ark and had to come back because
it couldn't live off carrion. But the raven, it could eat the
dead, rotting carcasses of dead animals. It's like a religious
unbeliever. He's not a believer, he thinks
he is, but he can live off the dead, rotting carcasses of false
religion, that there's no life in it. But a dove can. Now these ravens came, these
vultures, these buzzards, whatever they were, they were going to
eat the meat. There it was. And Abraham, I
can just see him driving them away, driving them away. Just
maybe he had a stick or something, driving those things away. Now
there've been many ingenious sermons preached on What to do
when the buzzards come and the evil thoughts and the things
that distract you. You need to drive them away.
Well, that's good advice. You ought to drive away thoughts
that distract you. I'm not saying anything against
that, but these ravens were not attacking Abraham. They were
attacking the sacrifice. They were trying to eat and make
less the sacrifice. See, if I take a bite out of
it, it won't be complete. It'll no longer be that which
God requires. They were trying to diminish
the sacrifice. And this is where Satan will
always attack. He's going to attempt to make
the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ somewhat less in your
eyes and make you think more of yourself. That's how He always
works. The sacrifice, the sufficiency
of the sacrifice is attacked. Now let me give you four words
to remember with regard to the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And this is keeping the buzzards away. Number one, it's precious. It's precious. It's of infinite
value. This is not just some doctrine
we give heed to. Oh, we speak of the preciousness
of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's infinite value
in his blood. It's precious because whose it
is. Who is he that condemneth? It's
Christ that died. Anything else need to be said? It's Christ that died. Now, with regard to the sacrifice,
the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, sometimes called limited
atonement. I've heard people complain with
that term. We ought not call it limited.
I don't have a problem with it. Everybody limits the atonement.
Everybody does. Now, the freewheeler limits its
power. It doesn't work unless you do
something to make it work. They limit its power. Now, when
the limited totem, in the sense it's limited in its extent, it
was only intended for the elect. What's wrong with that? It's
what Scripture teaches, and I love it. Call it particular redemption.
Call it substitution. Call it what you want. It's the
gospel, a complete salvation by Christ. When he died, my salvation
became a necessity. It's particular. He said, I laid
down my life for the sheep. Husbands, love your wives as
Christ also loved the church. Feed the church of God, which
he purchased with his own blood. It's particular. It's successful. It really redeems. It really
redeems. It has redeemed. I don't even
like using that in the present tense. It has redeemed. By one
offering, He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. It's
sufficient, it's sufficient to satisfy God. God's not looking
for anything else. He said, when I see the blood.
He didn't say, when I see your faith, your repentance, your
sorrow, your efforts at sanctification. He said, when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. One thing God was looking for. Don't look for anything else.
It's sufficient. You know, it's sufficient that
you don't need law to make you want to follow him. Just this.
That's all that's needed. You know, a believer's heart
is not melt at Mount Sinai, but Mount Calvary, the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Abraham was not going to let
those vultures pick away at it. Verse 12. And when the sun was
going down, and this is what Stephen was referring to in Acts
chapter seven, and when the sun was going down, a deep sleep
fell upon Abram, and lo and horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Abraham was having a nightmare. And he said unto Abraham, know
of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that's
not theirs. and shall serve them, and they
shall afflict them for a hundred years. And also that nation who
they shall serve will not judge. That happened in the Exodus when
he brought them out. And afterward shall they come
out with great substance. All the Egyptians said, take
this, take all of our riches, leave, get out of here. They
wanted them out after what God had done for them. They left
with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy father's
in peace. And thou shalt be buried in a
good old age. Now, does that mean Abraham never
had health problems and just kind of died in his sleep? Maybe. I hope it's that way with me,
but I kind of doubt it. Kind of doubt it. In my experience,
it seems like I always have something wrong with me, and you do too,
but I still go to the grave in peace. Even if I go in pain and
suffering, that's the lot of a lot of God's people to die
like that. but we'll still go in peace because
Christ is my peace. But verse 16, in the fourth generation,
they shall come hither again. They're going to come back to
this place. They're going to go down to Egypt, be there 400
years. And then come here again to the iniquity of the Amorites
is not yet full. They're going to fulfill their
iniquity. I'm going to judge them. But
it hadn't happened yet. When that happens, you'll be back.
And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was
dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed
through those pieces. And that smoking furnace. Is
used to typify. His wrath. furnace of his wrath. Now there is such a thing as
the wrath of God. It's just, it's holy. It's righteous. It's
because he's good. It's because he's good. Don't,
you know, I hate the way preachers, wrath of God, you know, all the
way to hellfire and brimstone. I despise that kind of preaching.
That being said, there is such a thing as the wrath of God.
It's absolutely just. And where did the wrath go? The
sacrifice. And what about that burning lamp?
Light. I have light that God accepts
me through the sacrifice of Christ only. Now this shows how important
this passage of scripture is. The only way we can escape the
wrath of God is by going to the sacrifice of Christ. And the
only light we have that God can accept us is through the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 18, in the same day, the
Lord made a covenant with Abraham. Unto thy seed have I given this
land. Now he didn't say, I'll give
it to you if. He said, to thy seed I have given
this land. Now this is the covenant of grace.
It's the same covenant that David spake of when he said, although
my house be not so with God. And it wasn't. His house was
a mess. His family was a mess. And he
was a mess. I believe more than anything
else, he's talking about this house. Although my house be not so with God. Yet hath he made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, sure because of the
sacrifice. And this is all my salvation
and all my desire, though he make it not to grow. So we see
Genesis 15 is an important chapter, isn't it? Let's pray. Lord, enable each one of us to
look to the sacrifice of our Redeemer the way you do. And let us find satisfaction in him and his sacrifice the
way you do. And Lord, the fact that you rose
him from the dead tells us that you're infinitely satisfied with
what he did and everybody he did it for. Bless us, bless us again as we
meet together tonight. Bless Moose to preach your gospel
and the power of your spirit and give us hearing ears. In
Christ's blessed name we pray, amen.