Good morning, brothers and sisters.
If you would, for our call to worship this morning, turn with
me to Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter 9. We'll begin
at verse 15. Very, very familiar passage. For he saith to Moses, I will
have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, even for this same purpose
have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that
my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath
he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, why
does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
Nay, but, O man, who art thou that replies against God? Shall
the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made
me thus? Hath not the potter pyre over
the clay of the same lump to make one vessel one to honor
and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show
his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and that he might
make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy,
which he had afford prepared under glory? Our most heavenly
Father, we thank you again this day for the many mercies you
show to us, Lord, Mercy beggars, undeserving sinners, but Lord,
through your will and forbearance, you give us all things. We'd
ask you to be with us. We thank you for the message
we heard this morning. We'd ask you to bless it to our
hearts. Be with our brother as he brings forth the next message
and cause it to go forth, Lord, with power. Allow us to see through
a glass darkly and we might know about you. Be with the sick and
infirm, Lord, that are among us that struggle daily. We'd
ask you to give them strength, show mercy to them, Lord, as
you see fit. We thank you for all these things
in the most holy and perfect name. Amen. We'll stand again, and if you'll
grab your hardback hymnal, turn to 168, we'll sing Even Me together. Lord, I hear of showers of blessing,
Thou art scattering full and free. Showers the thirsty land
refreshing, Let some drops now fall on me. Even me, even me,
Let Thy blessing fall on me. Pass me not, O tender Savior,
let me love and cling to Thee. I am longing for Thy favor, whilst
Thou calling, O call me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Pass me not, O mighty spirit,
thou canst make the blind to see. Witnesser of Jesus' merit,
speak the word of power to me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Love of God so pure and changeless,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Weakness of God so strong and
boundless, magnify them all in me. Even me, even me, let thy
blessing fall on me. Pass me not thy lost ones bringing,
bind my heart, O Lord, to thee. While the streams of life are
springing, blessing others, O bless me. ? Even me, even me ? Let
thy blessing fall on me Be seated, please. Thank you, Joy, Adam. Let's open our Bibles together
to 1 Samuel chapter 26. Perhaps you've read the end of
a story before you started the beginning of it, see how it all
ends up. If you'll take your spiral hymnal
right now with me and turn it to number 27, we're gonna close
this service by singing this hymn together. In Jesus we are free. Free from
the law's great curse. In Jesus we are free. For Christ
became a curse for us and died upon the tree. The rituals of
the law and all the law's commands have been fulfilled in Christ
the Lord, established by his hands. I hope that in the next few minutes,
that hymn will have a blessing to give to our hearts. The Lord
will bless our hearts by it when we stand to sing it together.
In 1 Samuel chapter 26, we have an Old Testament type. We have
a picture, David and Saul. Saul is pursuing David relentlessly. And we have in this chapter the
final pursuit. Saul, in his jealous rage, is
out to kill David. Saul has 3,000, the scripture
says, choice men, warriors. David, in contrast, has 600 men
who came to him who were discontented and in debt and distressed, just
a motley band of men who had no place else to go. And we see in this picture the strength
of the law over us and how relentless the law is
in pursuing us apart from the son of David, the Lord Jesus
Christ, being honorable. And that's what he is in this
chapter. David is honorable. David has an opportunity to kill
Saul, but he doesn't. And David and Saul part ways
at the end of this chapter. And the scripture says that David
went his way And Saul returned to his place. You see that in
the last verse of this chapter, David went his way and Saul returned
to his place. Saul had no place else to go
but his place. His place was to reign. And I
want us to see in this type, in this picture, how the Lord
Jesus Christ reconciled with the law. David and Saul never
meet again. We've been looking at Saul and David for the last
several months and they're going to part ways, David's going to
go his way, Saul's going to go back to his place and in the
next couple of chapters Saul's going to die and David and Saul
are never going to see each other again. Saul's name, you remember by
translation, means one to be desired. One who is, the scripture
says, more beautiful than anyone in Israel. He physically stood,
the scripture says, head and shoulders above all the other
men of Israel. And what a picture of the law
he is. We love God's law. God's law is holy. God's law
is just and God's law is good. God's law can't make us holy.
And God's law can't justify us before God. And God's law can't
add any goodness to us. Paul said, and I've quoted this
once already this morning, to will is present with me. God's
law is beautiful. It is a display of his glory. And when we look to God's law,
we see the perfection of the Lord Jesus Christ. God's law
can't save me. It's head and shoulders above
everyone else. I need my David to reconcile with that law. In this life, we have trials and troubles and
tribulations, many of them, disappointments, discouragements, disease, and
death, just to name a few. And there are spiritual enemies
that believers deal with every day. The flesh is weak. That's a spiritual enemy. Satan
is real. Sin is perpetual. And the world in which you and
I live is contrary to everything we love and everything we believe
to be true. In these daily battles with all
the wounds and losses that we experience, there is a war that
we cannot afford to lose, a war that must be won. There is an enemy that if lost
to will condemn our souls to an eternal separation from God. I'm speaking of the curse of
the law. As beautiful as God's law is,
as much as we love God's law, God's law has a curse to it. And that's what I want you to
see in Saul's relentless pursuit of David, the curse of the law. In the very beginning, the Lord
tells us, in the day in which you eat of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, the fruit that's been forbidden, you shall surely
die. And he wasn't just talking about
physical death, he was talking about separation from God. That's
the curse of the law, death. All of sinning comes short of
the glory of God and the wages of sin is death. You see, this
curse of the law has to be met. You and I are not able to satisfy
the demands of God's law. The Apostle Paul thought that
he had when he tells his testimony of his life before the Lord arrested
him on the road to Damascus, he said this of himself, he said
concerning the law I was blameless. Now what he meant by that was
no other man could look at my life and find an outward violation
of God's law. I was head and shoulders above
everyone else. And then in Romans chapter 7 he said I was alive
once without the law But when the commandment came,
when the Spirit of God took the meaning of the law of God and
brought it home to my heart, when the commandment came, sin
revived and I died. The law slew me. The law of God's inflexible. It demands absolute perfection. Paul tells us in that same passage
that the law was never given to save. The law was given in
order to make sin utterly sinful. The law was given for the purpose
of killing us, not making us alive. causing us to have our mouth
shut before God. That's what the law does. It
gives us no defense. It requires absolute perfection.
They asked the Lord, which is the greatest of the commandments?
To love the Lord your God with all of your heart and all of
your mind and all of your soul. And implied in that answer clearly
is all the time. The truth is we've never learned,
we've never for one moment loved God with all of our heart and
all of our soul and all of our minds. And we've never loved
our neighbor as we do ourselves. That's what the Lord summarized
the law. You and I have never been able to keep any part of
God's law, but God's law stands firm. Turn with me to Galatians
chapter three, Galatians chapter three. And you can mark this passage,
because we're going to come back to it in a moment. Verse 10, for as many as are
of the works of the law are under the curse. What is the curse
of the law? Death. eternal separation from
God. And by the way, let me say this,
and hear me clearly on this, please. No man speaking, the scripture
says, by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus Christ accursed. No man can say that. Now, to
be accursed means to be under the wrath and judgment of God
without any hope of redemption. To even suggest that the Lord
Jesus Christ suffered the wrath of God for one individual who
will end up in hell is to call the Lord Jesus Christ accursed.
You see that? To even suggest that the judgment
and wrath of God that the Lord Jesus experienced on Calvary's
cross was not effectual in saving one person. One person for whom
he died. See that's the modern gospel
isn't it? Christ died for everybody. God
loves everybody. That's calling Jesus Christ accursed. And no man speaking by the Spirit
of God can call the Lord Jesus accursed. So if a man says that
Christ died for somebody who's going to end up in hell, they're
not speaking by the Spirit of God, they're speaking by another
spirit. Try the spirits and see whether they be of God. Galatians chapter three. For
as many as are under the works of the law are under the curse,
for it is written, cursed is everyone that continueth not
in all things which are written in the book of the law to do
them. God requires perfect obedience to his law, not just in outward
behavior as the apostle Paul was so proud of. Concerning the
law is blameless in the eyes of men. But when the eyes of
God pierced into my heart, Then sin revived and I died. I knew
that I'd never kept God's law. He slew me by his law. That's where God requires the
keeping of the law. Not just whitewashing the tomb,
but it's full of dead man's bones. Cleaning up the outside of the
cup, but it's full of corruption. You see, the problem's in the
heart. Man looks at the outward appearance, God looks at the
heart. God sees that in your heart and in my heart that it's
deceitful and desperately wicked. No man has ever been able to
keep God's law in any way from the heart in a way that satisfies
the justice and the holiness and the righteousness of God.
Only Christ could do that. David's gonna reconcile with
Saul. And we need the Lord Jesus to reconcile with the curse of
the law because that's one, we might lose a lot of skirmishes,
we might lose a lot of battles, but we can't lose that war. That
war has got to be won. It's got to be won and only Christ
can win it. The law is persistent. The law will pursue a man after
the grave. Physical death will not stop
it. There's no statute of limitation when it comes to God's law. God's
law will pursue the soul of a man who has hoped in his obedience
to the law for his salvation, the law of God will pursue that
man for eternity. And you know what I'm talking
about. The law of God's omniscient. There's no cold cases with God's
law. There's no cases filed away and
forgot about. The law of God sees everything
and knows everything, has perfect knowledge of every thought and
every word and every deed that you and I have ever done. That's
God's law. How are we going to deal with
that? And God's law is omnipotent.
It's all powerful. It lacks no ability to exact
the full penalty. for the violation of God's law. That's what you and I have pursuing
us. Psalm 111, David said, his work,
speaking of Christ, is honorable and glorious and his righteousness
endureth forever. And then Isaiah said in Isaiah
chapter 42, the Lord is well-pleased and thereby Lord, he's speaking
of the father. The father is well-pleased. This
is my beloved son, in him I'm well-pleased. Hear ye him, he's
the one who's kept the law. The Lord or the father is well-pleased
for his righteousness sake. He will magnify the law and he
will make it honorable. The Lord Jesus Christ magnified
the law. The purpose of the law is not
to save. The purpose of the law is to
show the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the one who magnified
it. He's the one who kept it. He's
the one who made it honorable. He's the one who satisfied the
curse of it. The Lord Jesus himself said,
I came not to destroy the law. I didn't come to destroy it,
I came to fulfill it. I came to satisfy all of his
demands. This past Wednesday night, we
were looking at John chapter two of the first miracle that
our Lord performed when he went to the wedding feast at Cana
and he changed the water into wine. And the Bible calls that
the beginning of miracles or the arch miracle or the one miracle
that explains everything. If you understand the miracle
of the wedding feast at Cana where the Lord Jesus took the
water in those wash pots, filled them to the brim and then drew
out water and brought it to the master and it was the best wine.
The Lord Jesus is declaring what all the Bible speaks of. You
and I must have someone to fill the requirements of the law and
to bring forth a new wine, new wine. And the new wine can't
be put in old wine skins. A new heart has to be given to
hold the new wine. This is God's work of grace.
Lord, I've got to be delivered from the curse of the law. I've
got to have a heart of faith. to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, to be able to look to him and rest in him. Oh, Lord, how dependent I am. This law, I don't want to deal
with. I can't have anything to do with
your law. The Lord told the children of Israel, if anyone even touches
the mountain or gets close to the mountain, let him be put
to death. Speaking of Mount Sinai. If an
animal was to touch the mountain, it was to be pierced through
and put to death. Nothing can touch God's law. God's law kills. God's law, as
we said, it's persistent, it's inflexible, it's omniscient,
it's omnipotent. You don't want to have anything
to do with God's law. If the Son make you free, You're
free indeed. Free from what? The rigors and
the curse of the law. That's what he came to do, to
set us free, to put us under grace, to give us Christ as our
Lord. He's the one that we look to.
He's the one that we follow after. You know, the law says this, an eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. And so, consistent with this
inflexible law, if you lived in the Old Covenant, the Old
Testament, Old Testament Israel, and you very, the scripture gives
an example of a man whose men that are working together, cutting
down wood with an axe, and the axe head flies off the handle
of one of the men's axe and hits another man in the head and kills
him. I mean, how much more accidental can a death be? But the law requires that the
man who was killed, his next of kin, he's called the avenger
of blood, that that man has to pursue the one who accidentally
killed him in order for the law to be filled. Why? Because eye
for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life. You kill my
brother, I've got to kill you to fulfill the requirements of
the law. And then the Lord made provisions. You remember what
those provisions were? They were called cities of refuge.
The cities of refuge were scattered all around Israel. And there
were signs pointing to the cities of refuge. You got into the city
of refuge, you were safe. You were safe in that city. The
avenger of blood could not pursue you as long as you were in that
city. That city of refuge is Christ.
Oh, we must flee to Him. The avenger of blood, how much
of our sin is not even thought about? We just, our sin is, now
I'm not saying we accidentally sin but we just, it's just natural. The law requires retribution,
full retribution. First Samuel chapter 26, David's
final encounter with Saul. In the end of this chapter, go
back with me if you will. In the end of this chapter, Saul
will confess David's righteousness. He will place the sword of his
jealousy and of his wrath back into its scabbard and he will
go back to his place. And that's what you and I need.
We need for Saul, this man whose head and shoulders above everyone,
this man who was relentless in his pursuit for justice. We need
him to put the sword of his wrath back into its scabbard and go
back to his place. and for us with our Lord David
to go to his place, his place. First Samuel chapter 26 on the
Ziphites, and I looked that word up, the Ziphites were smelters. They were the ones who purified
metal by fire, separating the impurities from the precious
metal. They were the ones who pointed
Saul to where David was. And the scripture says that the
Lord Jesus Christ suffered the fire of God's justice to purify
himself and his people. He quenched that fire. He put
that fire out. The smelters are the ones who
send the law. Tell them where David is. Go
get him. They came and saw to Gibeah,
saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah? Hachilah translated means dark, which is before Jashiram. And Saul rose and went down into
the wilderness of Ziph. Now Ziph just means wilderness. So where's David? David's in
a dark wilderness. And the smelters have pointed
him out to Saul. Now Saul knows where he is. We have no idea. The Lord Jesus
Christ is called He's the man of many sorrows. You and I live in this world,
we're so anesthetized, we're so accustomed to our own sin
and to the sin of this world. I mean, it takes something really
bad to bother us much. We're just, we're used to it,
aren't we? When the Lord Jesus Christ left
the glories of heaven, came into this world and suffered the contradiction
as we saw in the previous hour in Hebrews chapter 12, the contradiction
of sinners. No wonder he's called the man
of sorrows. That wasn't just the sorrows that he felt on Calvary's
cross. His whole life was a life of
sorrows. He saw, he saw all the sin of this world, this dark
wilderness, like you and I have never seen
it. Saul arose, look at verse two,
and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having
3,000 chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness
of Ziph. And Saul pitched in the hill
of Achila, which is before Jashirim, by the way, but David abode in
the wilderness. And he saw that Saul came after
him into the wilderness. And David therefore sent out
spies and understood that Saul was come in very deed." David
wanted to make sure this was true. He sent out spies to confirm
the report that Saul was pursuing him. You know, I thought about when
I read that. All men know that there is a God with whom they
must do. All men know that. People say
that they're atheists. They're just lying to themselves.
Well, they say there's no atheists in foxholes. There's no atheists
on death beds. They know there's a God with
whom they must do. They're holding on to the hope.
that he's not really pursuing me. David sent out spies to confirm
that Saul was pursuing him. And those spies came back and
he said, yes, he is indeed. But the problem with most men
is they won't send out spies to confirm their suspicions.
They will make a covenant with death and with hell, there'll
be an agreement. And they'll listen to a false message of
hope based upon their law-keeping, something that they've done,
where a false prophet will say, peace, peace, when in fact there
is no peace. And they won't make the effort
to send out spies and confirm the report. Saul is in pursuit
and he's got 3000 chosen men and he's right here in the very
wilderness that you're in. He's coming for you. Oh, may God give us the grace
right now to send out spies. That's what we're doing. We're
sending out spies into God's word. Is it true? Is it true? What am I saying to you? Don't
take my word for it. Don't take your word, don't somehow agree with your
suspicions. What does God say about it? If God says it's true,
then it's true. If God says I'm a sinner, I'm
a sinner. You say, well, I don't know if I feel the depth of my
sin as much as I need to feel it in order to be saved. You're
never going to feel the depth of your sin as you ought to feel
it. God says you're a sinner. David sent out spies. They came
back with a report. Yes, Saul's coming. And David said, look, in very
deed he is coming. Why? Because the report was confirmed
by a word. David didn't yet see Saul, he
didn't see the army, but he believed the report. Brethren, faith is
just believing God. Don't settle for anything short
of what God has said. And when men do send out spies
into God's word to find out what the truth is, Oftentimes they're
like the 10 spies that came back from when Moses sent them into
the promised land and they came back and said, there's giants
in the land, we can't take it. And they believed, they didn't
believe Joshua and Caleb, they believed the other spies, didn't
they? They believed, they took the
word of the majority. Oh brethren, what we believe
about the gospel, what we believe about God and what we believe
about ourselves, what we believe about salvation, it's not very
popular. We're a remnant. What we believe is a very small
part of what most men believe. Don't believe the, believe Joshua. Believe Caleb. They came back
with the truth. The other men, what happened
to those Israelites who believed the report of the 10 spies who
refused to trust God and refused to take the promised land? What
happened to those? They all died in the wilderness. They never made it to the promised
land. They suffered the full curse of the law. because they
did not believe God. We're sending out spies right
now. May God give us the faith to believe the report and say,
truly, indeed, Saul's coming and I can't stand up to him. Look at verses 10 and 11. David said, furthermore, as the
Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him. Now David takes Abishai,
his nephew, and he goes into the camp of King Saul at night
while Saul's asleep. And David takes Saul's spear
and crews of water, the weapon of death, he takes it. And Abishai
wanted to kill David right there. David's sound asleep, we're standing
right, he said he took it from his bolster. A bolster is a pillow.
So the spear was actually sticking in the ground right at the head
of Saul. And the cruise of water was sitting
right there on the other side. And David picks them both up.
And Abishai said, let me slay him right here. And David honorably
says, I'm not going to put my hand to God's anointed, let me
just take his weapons away. I'm going to trust God to take
care of Saul. It's not my place. God anointed
him king, it's not my place to kill him. And look what David
says in verse 10. Verse nine, and David said to
Abishai, destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand
against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless. David said, furthermore,
as the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him or this day shall
come to die or he shall descend into battle and perish. David trusted God alone to justify
him with Saul. Turn with me to the book of Jude, right before the book of Revelation. And God is revealing these false
prophets who would speak a word of peace when there was no peace. They're liars, they're not speaking
for God. They're giving men a false hope
to believe that somehow the law's not really after you. The law can be satisfied. The law, somehow, you can meet
its requirements. Just do your best and God will
be satisfied. No, this is the message of the
false prophets. In verse 9, yet Michael the archangel, this word Michael, this name
Michael, who is like God? We have a picture here of the
angel of the Lord. I believe what's being spoken
of here is none other than the Lord Jesus himself who was arch
over all the angels. Yet Michael, when contending
with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses. Now the body
of, not talking about the physical body of Moses, talking about
the law. So the devil is wanting to dispute with Christ over whether
or not the law has been kept. Michael, the archangel, when
contending with the devil, He disputed about the body of Moses
and he does not bring an accusation. He does not bring against him
a railing accusation and said, the Lord rebuke thee. What do
we have a picture of? Go back with me to our text. What did David say in verse 10?
David said, Lord, God will take care of Saul. It's not my place
to kill him. The Lord Jesus Christ said, you
got an issue with the law, Satan, accuser of the brethren? You
go take it up with my father. For he saw the travail of my
soul and he was satisfied. He saw the obedience of my life.
He saw my righteousness and he said, I'm satisfied. The Lord rebuke thee. And that's
what we need to do. The accusations of the law come. We don't need to take up a defense
against it. Turn with me to Romans chapter eight, Romans chapter
eight. Look with me at verse 30. Moreover, whom he did predestinate,
them he also called, and whom he called them he also justified,
and whom he justified them he also glorified. What shall we
say then to these things? Here's what we say. If God be
for me, who can be against me? If God's satisfied, then the law cannot, I don't
need to try to, I don't need to try to satisfy the law. I
don't need, oh God, God. David said the law, David said
Saul's gonna die in a battle. And that's exactly what happened.
We're dead to the law. Christ satisfied the demands
of the law in the battle that he fought on Calvary's cross.
And of God before us, for Christ's sake, who can be against us? Who can lay anything? Look at
verse 33. Who can lay anything to the charge
of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who
is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea,
rather than is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress
or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? For it is
written, for thy sakes we are killed all the day long. We are
counted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him who loved us. David forbids Abishai from killing
Saul and says God will take care of him. We'll trust the Lord
to look to the sacrifice that Christ made to satisfy the demands
of God's law. Look back with me to our text
at verse 11. The Lord forbid that I should
stretch forth my hand against the Lord's anointed, but I pray
thee, take thee now the spear that is in his bolster and the
crews of water and let us go. And David took his weapon of
death and David took his water. And David went to the other side
of the valley and David cried out. And Saul, look at verse 17. And Saul knew David's voice and
said, is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, it is
my voice, my Lord, O King. David made the law honorable. Christ made the law, David was
honorable. And no one else knew that this
was David, Saul knew it. The law only bows to the voice
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now therefore I pray thee, verse
19, let my Lord the King hear the words of his servant. If
the Lord has stirred thee up against me, let him accept an
offering. So David's reasoning with Saul,
he's saying, if it's God that put you in pursuit of me, then
let God receive an offering to satisfy that pursuit, that guilt
that I have. It was God. It was God that sent
the law in pursuit of Christ. And it was the offering that
the Lord Jesus made of himself on Calvary's cross that he presented
to his father that satisfied the requirements of the law. But if they be the children of
men that have sent you after me, If it be the voice of a man
that says, I've got to do something to satisfy the requirements of
the law, then let him be accursed. Let him be accursed. When our Lord hung his head on
Calvary's cross and said, it is finished, he was declaring, to Saul. Everything that God
requires, everything that God requires to satisfy the demands
of the law, I have fulfilled. I came not to destroy the law,
I came to fulfill it. Look with me at verse 23. David speaking now. David says,
I've got the king's spear. Send one of your one of your
young men over to fetch it. And verse 23, and the Lord render
to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness for the
Lord deliver thee into my hand today, but I would not stretch
forth my hand against the Lord's anointed. And behold, as thy
life was much set by this day in mine eyes. And notice the
next phrase. David doesn't say, I spared your
life, you spare my life. David says, I spared your life.
So let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord and let
him deliver me out of all tribulation. Oh, theirs we have, brethren,
the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord did not sacrifice his
justice in order to save his people. The Lord Jesus himself
satisfied the requirements of God's holy justice that we might
be saved. Then Saul said to David, blessed
be thou my son David. Thou shalt both do great things
and also shalt still prevail. So Saul's confession back to
David, God's blessed you. You're going to do great things
and you're going to prevail. And David went his way and Saul
went back to his place. Now in closing, if you'll turn
back with me to the book of Galatians chapter three again, Galatians
chapter three. Again, verse 10, for as many
as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is
written, cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things
which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that
no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident. for those that are justified
must walk in faith, looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher
of faith and of our salvation, the one who is the end of the
law for righteousness. The law is not a faith, but the
man that doeth them shall live in them, Christ, hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For
as it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth upon a tree. The Lord Jesus Christ parted his way and the law went
back to its place. Free from the law's great curse,
in Jesus, we are free. Adam, you come, number 27 in
our spiral hymnal. Let's stand together. Free from the law's great curse,
in Jesus we are free. For Christ became a curse for
us and died upon the tree. The rituals of the law and all
the law's commands have been fulfilled in Christ the Lord,
established by His hands. No covenant with the law can
now with us exist. In Christ we stand by grace,
both free and ever blessed. No more the dread of wrath, no
more constrained by fear. We worship and we serve our God
with gratitude and cheer. In Jesus we are free. ? In Jesus we are free ? ? Free
from all sin and from all guilt ? ? We live in liberty ? ? We'll
join the happy song ? ? With all the blood bought throng ?
and sing the praises of the Lamb, whose grace makes us His own. We're going to observe the Lord's
table while we're waiting for some people to get back. If you'll
turn back to number 17 in the spiral-bound hymnal. Number 17. Be seated.