Good morning. If you could turn
with me to Matthew 6. We're going to be starting on
verse 24. Listening to Greg this morning,
it reminded me that the gospel is very simple. And if these
verses could say a thing in one sentence, I think it is. What
the Lord requires, he provides. No man can serve two masters,
for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he
will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and mammon. Therefore, I say unto you, take
no thought for your life what you shall eat or what you shall
drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Is not
the life more than meat and the body than raiment? Behold the
fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not
much better than they? Which of you, by taking thought,
can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not,
neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that
even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass of the field, which
today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much
more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore, take no thought,
saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal
shall we be clothed? For all these things do the Gentiles
seek. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of
all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you. Take therefore no thought for
the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Dear Lord, we thank you for this
day and for the message that you brought us. We thank you
for Greg, who preaches to us a simple message. We pray, Lord,
that this second message be just as simple and that you give Greg
the words to preach and give us the ears to hear. In your
most holy and perfect name we pray, amen. Let's all stand together once
again. We'll sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin,
the hymn on the back of the bulletin. ? Chief of sinners though I be
? Jesus shed his blood for me. Guide that I might live on high. Live that I may never die. Pass the branches to the vine. I am his and he is mine. ? O'er the heights of Jesus' love
? Higher than the heavens above ? Deeper than the depths of sea
? Lasting as eternity ? Love that found me wondrous caught
found me when I sought Him not. Jesus only can impart palms to
heal the smitten heart, peace that flows from sin forgiven,
joy that lifts the soul to heaven. ? Faith and hope and walk with
God ? ? In the way that men have tried ? ? Chief of sinners know
my name ? ? Christ is all in all to me ? ? All my wants to
him are known ? All my sorrows are His own. Safe with Him from
earthly strife, He sustains the pig in life. O my Savior, help
afore, By Thy Spirit and Thy Word, and my wayward heart would
stray. Keep me in thy narrow way, grace
of time of need supply, while I live and when I die. Please be seated. We open your Bibles with me to
1st Samuel chapter 10. 1st Samuel chapter 10. Samuel is presenting Saul to the people of Israel as the
king that God has chosen. Everybody rejoices and in verse
24, they cry, God saved the king. God saved the king. I guess that's
where the Brits get that praise from, which Americans, we don't
know a whole lot about that, but there it is. God saved the
king. And so Samuel tells the people
all that the Lord had told them, told him. And there was a group
of men called the sons of Belial. Now Belial means evil. So these men represent the unbelievers
in Israel. And their hearts were not with
the rest of Israel crying, God saved the king and rejoicing
over the king that God had chosen. But rather they said in verse
27, how shall this man save us? That's the title of my message
this morning. How shall this man save us? And the few comments
I've already made about the historical setting will be the end of that.
Because we know that in the volume of the book, it is written of
Christ. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
our Saul. Saul's name being translated
is one to be desired. One to be desired. And when the
Lord is pleased to reveal himself to the hearts of his people,
he is the desire of their life. He is the one to be desired.
And we rejoice with the children of Israel. God saved the king.
But we also are reminded often of the answer to this question.
How exactly shall this man save us? I need to hear that message. The answer to that question is
the gospel. It's the gospel. And that's what we're to always
preach. Christ and him crucified. And therein is the means by which
our desired one shall save us. Now I want you to notice that
Saul, in our story, though they despised him, and though they
brought him no presents, the presents that we bring before
the Lord is the calves of our lips. It is our praise, our worship,
our adoration. And they refused to do that.
but he held his peace. You see that? And the accurate translation
of that very last phrase is he acted as if he did not hear them.
He ignored them. He left them to themselves. The worst thing that God can
do for you or for me is to leave us alone. Just leave us to our
own devices, leave us to our own opinions, leave us to our
own way, to not arrest us. We were talking during the break
about the point I made in the first hour about Saul of Tarsus
being arrested on the road to Damascus and how he was made
a prisoner and how oftentimes he calls himself, he calls himself
a prisoner of Jesus Christ. Believers live their whole lives
prisoners of the Lord Jesus Christ. But if he doesn't capture us,
if he doesn't arrest us, if he doesn't stop us in our tracks,
if he was to allow Saul of Tarsus to be on his way and do what
he was doing, he would have been a blasphemer and an injurious
man as he confesses he was to the last breath of his life.
and we've been separated from God, for all you and I need God. By nature, we are sons of Belial. By nature, we are sinful. By
nature, we will raise our fists to heaven and say we will not
have that man reign over us. By nature, we will resist and
resent God at every turn. If the Lord doesn't arrest us
and put into our hearts that cry of faith, God save the king. How shall this man, how shall
this man save us? Although Saul failed in his ability
to save Israel, the next king, his successor,
David, did save Israel from all their enemies, established peace
in the land, The only time of peace that national Israel ever
enjoyed was under the reign of King David and Solomon, his son. And David, we know, is a picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is called the son of David, the
sweet psalmist of Israel, the shepherd of his sheep. And Solomon,
David's son, is a picture of the Holy Spirit, the man of peace,
and the only peace that we have, though Saul as a man could not
achieve it, the child of promise did, the Lord Jesus Christ. So when we ask this question,
how shall this man save us? I hope that the Lord will put
into each one of our hearts a need to be saved. a need to be saved. Left to ourselves, we will be
just like everyone else. We will conclude that our need
for God and our need for salvation is nothing more than helping
us in our daily struggles. We will prove true what Karl
Marx said, that religion is the opiate of the people. That's
true. It's true. And if the Lord leaves
us to ourselves, we'll use religion and we'll use God to numb ourselves
to the struggles of this world and to embrace a false hope and
have no hope of salvation. I remember years ago, some of
you young people can't remember this, but in public schools there
actually used to be a time where the principal would come over
the loudspeaker and lead the entire student body in prayer
before class started in a public school. And of course that came
to an end and you know, that's fine because those prayers were
not good prayers anyway, but there
was an acknowledgement of God. And I remember someone saying,
as long as there's tests in schools, there'll be prayer in school.
And I thought, yeah, that's probably true. Probably true. Foxhole
religion. And that's what we'll find ourselves
doing. We'll pray to God. We'll make God our helper in
this world to help us through the struggles of life and make
life a little better. That's what men do with God.
And that's what you and I would do with God if God leaves us
to ourselves. No. What the Lord has to do for
you and for me is he has to send his Holy Spirit and convict us
of our sin because that's what we need to be safe from. We need
to be safe from our sin. And the Lord said, it is expedient
for you that I go away for if I go not away, the comforter
will not come. But when he comes, he will convict the world of
sin because they believe not on me. The root of our sin problem
is our unbelief. And that's what we need to be
safe from. And seeing how sin is all our fault, we need to
be safe from ourselves, don't we? We need to be safe from ourselves. And seeing how Satan is the power
behind all sin, we need to be safe from those evil forces. that are unleashed on this world
lest they take us captive. And seeing how the penalty of
sin is death, we need to be safe from the law. How shall this man save us? We can only answer that question
If we see our need to be saved from three things, the penalty
of sin, the power of sin, and the presence of sin, we need
to be saved from that. Romans chapter 5 verse 9 says,
being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath
that is to come. If God leads us to ourselves
and we turn God into a heavenly bellhop that we just
ring when we're in trouble and have some need for some temporary
relief and we don't see by the Spirit of God, that we're hell-deserving
sinners and that there is a penalty to sin, then we'll not ask this
question, how shall this man save us? Truth is, it is appointed unto
man once to die. And the older we get, the more
real that experience becomes. It is appointed unto man once
to die, and after that, the judgment. How can I stand in the presence
of a holy God and find acceptance before him? I must be saved. I must be saved. The wages of sin is death. Separation
from God. If I'm going to be saved, This
man must save me. I shall in no wise clear the
guilty. I'm a sinner. I'm guilty before
God. I violated his law. I continue
to violate his law. If God should mark my iniquity,
if he should charge me for one One infraction, something that
I might consider minor, I'm going to hell for it. I must be saved
from the wrath that is to come. God's justice is exact. All sin must be punished and
it will be punished to the full extent of the law. 1 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse
10 says, We wait for his son from heaven, which he raised
from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to
come. You see, there's no reason for
us to be concerned about how this man is going to save us
until we see a need to be saved. First Thessalonians chapter five,
verse nine says, for God hath not appointed us to wrath. He's
not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord
Jesus Christ. For Christ also once suffered
for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. That's our need. Our need is
to be brought to God. Your sins have separated you
from your God. There's no way I can come into
the presence of a holy God. His eyes are too pure to look
upon sin. I can't find any way to God except
this man save me. This man save me. We must be saved. from the penalty of sin. And
that is exactly what the Lord Jesus Christ did when he went
to Calvary's cross. The full, full wrath of God's
justice was poured out on him. He's the only sacrifice that
could do that. Only one who was holy and undefiled in himself. God made him sin for us that
we might be made the righteousness of God in him. The only hope that I have to
be saved from the sure, inevitable penalty of sin is that this man would save me. That God would look upon him
and be satisfied with the travail of his soul. And that God would
give me the grace to look upon him and be satisfied, not to
try to add anything to what he did. That's what we do by nature. And we continue to do it, don't
we? Even as believers, we know there's nothing we can add to
Christ, and yet we have these thoughts of somehow improving
our salvation by something that we do. The only hope that I have to
be saved from the penalty of sin is that the Lord Jesus Christ,
by the sacrifice of himself, put away my sin and that I stand
before God holy and undefiled in him. What am I going to add
to that? Secondly, I must be saved from
the power of sin. I must be saved from the power
of sin. What I mean by that is, what I believe God means by that,
when we come into this world, we come into this world spiritually
dead. A dead man can do nothing. He
must be given power. He must be given life. Lazarus could not come out of
that tomb had the Lord not spoken his name and said, Lazarus come
forth, he was dead. A blind man must be given power
to see. A deaf man must be given power
to hear. An unbeliever must be given power
to believe. We come into this world with
sin having such power over us that we are unable to believe. We are unable to see. We are
unable to hear. We must be saved from the power
of sin. God must regenerate me. He must
breathe life in my soul. He must make me willing in the
day of his power. Scripture says that in that while
we were yet without strength, without strength, not that we
didn't have, not we had a little bit of strength. Well, I've got
a little bit of will. I can add that to what Christ,
no. When we were yet dead in our trespasses and sins, when
we were yet without strength, Christ died for the ungodly. And when we hear that word ungodly,
oftentimes we think about it as being some sort of shameful,
licentious lifestyle. The word ungodly is the word
unable to worship. That's what it means. Christ
died for the ungodly. Yeah, we live shamefully enough. But here's the truth by nature. All men are ungodly. They're
unable to come into the presence of God. I must be saved from
the power of sin or I'll never be able to come to God. If he
doesn't deliver me from the power of sin, and the sin that doth
so easily beset us is the sin of unbelief. We can't believe
the gospel. Unless the Lord saves us, not
just from the penalty of sin, but he must save us from the
power of sin. And this is what he does in the
new birth. Nicodemus, you can't see the kingdom of God. You cannot
even perceive of it. You have no understanding at
all. I talk to you about being born again, and you think I'm
talking to you about as an adult going back into your mother's
womb. No, Nicodemus. Except a man be
born of the Spirit, he cannot perceive the kingdom of God.
You're dead in your trespasses and sins, Nicodemus. You're a
leader of the Jews. You know the scripture. You know
the Bible. You're a religious man. You think
you know God, but you're dead. You must be saved from the power
of your sin. For as in Adam, all die. We died in our father, Adam,
and we're born into this world spiritually dead, and we must
be made alive. And that's a work of salvation.
That's a work of salvation and child of God. You say, well,
I've been delivered from my unbelief. I believe God. And you still
struggle with unbelief every day, don't you? And the only
hope that you have to be delivered from the power of your sin right
now, as a believer, is to be saved by grace. To be saved by
grace. You can't. You know, religion,
they have revivals, and men rededicate their lives, and they pull in
people's heartstrings, and we try that, don't we? We try that,
I'm gonna renew my commitment to this and to that, and I'm
gonna go to church more, and I'm gonna read the Bible more,
and we ought to go to church more, and we ought to read the
Bible more, and we ought to pray more. But when we do it as a means
of trying to be saved from the power of our sin, it becomes
a work. How shall this man save us? from
the power of sin. A man can receive nothing except
to be given to him from heaven. God has to, you see this matter
of salvation is continual, isn't it? It's continual. To whom coming,
we're always coming to be saved. Child of God, is there anything
you pray more? Lord, save me. Save me, save me from myself. Save me from the power of evil.
Save me from unbelief. Save me from the fleshly attractions
that I have to this world. Lord, save me. You've got to
do it. This man must save us. We can't
save ourselves. Turn with me to John chapter
one. John chapter one. I hate when I do that. I wrote
the wrong text down for my example, scriptural example, so we'll
skip over that for right now. No man can come unto me except
to be given to him of my father. He must be drawn. Regeneration is a work of grace
and revival is a work of grace. And we're always in need of the
Lord saving us, saving us from the power of sin. Our sin is ever before us, is
it not? David said that. He said, my sin is ever before
us. Paul put it like this in Romans
chapter seven. He said, the will is present
with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not. Oh,
wretched man that I am. The child of God is so painfully
aware of their sin. And we've seen enough of the
breakout of our sin in our behavior to know that I've got to be restrained
from my sin. I've got to have the Lord deliver
me from the power of the sin that's in my heart. So the law is spiritual, we know
that, but I'm carnal. Paul said, I'm carnal, sold under
sin. This struggle with sin is my
daily struggle, the spirit warring against the flesh and the flesh
against the spirit. Lord, you're gonna have to save
me from the power of my sin. My sin will overthrow me. My
sin is always with me. And standing in the presence
of God, I'm nothing but sin, I know that. Outside of the Lord
Jesus Christ, I have no righteousness. My righteousnesses are as filthy
rags before God. Everything about me is sinful.
But if the Lord doesn't restrain my sin, it'll take control of the members
of my body. Lord, I need to be saved from
the power of my sin. And I believe that's what Romans
chapter, I wrote down the wrong text a minute ago, but let's
turn to Romans chapter six, Romans chapter six. And I wanna deal
with this passage very carefully because I believe that sin is
being expressed here, not as a sin nature, not as a sin nature,
which we always have. We've got that old man, that
dead man strapped to our back. We have sinful feelings and sinful
thoughts. And we speak sinful words and
we do sinful things. And the only righteousness that
we have and the only hope of salvation is that God would save
us and give us the righteousness of Christ. And as believers,
we live the rest of our lives with this sin nature, which never
goes away. The new birth doesn't improve
the sin nature. It doesn't improve the sin nature.
The sin nature is just as evil. And the more we grow in grace,
and the more we see of the beauty and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the more we see of our own sin, don't we? The more we hate our
sin, and the more afraid we become of ourselves, and the more uncertain
we become of ourselves, and the less confident we become in ourselves. Now that's growth in grace. That
is the experience of the child of God. And the thing that fear
that causes the child of God to fear is the breaking out of
that sin in a way that would shame them and shame Christ,
shame the gospel. And I believe that's what the
Lord's talking about here in Romans chapter six. You have your Bibles
open, look at verse 10. For in that he died, he died
unto sin once, but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise,
reckon, and that word reckon means consider it to be so because
it is, it is so. Reckon ye also yourselves to
be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that you should obey it in the loss thereof. What's the hope of that? The
only restraint for sin is grace. The only restraint for sin is
that sin's been put away, is that the power of sin has been
broken, that we are dead in Christ, that the penalty of sin has been
satisfied. to try to fight sin with the
law. The strength of sin is the law. You put yourself under the law
and it's only gonna aggravate your sin. Child of God, the only
restraint that you have for that sin nature that you deal with
every day, being restrained, is the grace of God in Christ
Jesus, looking unto him. looking unto him to restrain
you. Simple example. This happened
to me two days ago. Air conditioner man comes to
my house. I like this guy, tried to talk to him about the gospel
on several occasions. He's really nice guy. Last time I tried to talk to
him, he said, I'm an atheist. I'm an atheist, it's okay. Good
AC guy. So somehow smoking came up and
he said, yeah, I used to smoke. And he said 27 times. He said 27 times I tried to quit. And every time I tried to quit
smoking, I would tell somebody. I'd tell my wife, my kids, my
friends. I'd tell them I quit smoking.
And 27 times I went back. And as he's talking, I'm thinking,
wow, what an illustration. He said, finally, about 10 years
ago, he said, I decided to quit smoking. I didn't tell a soul.
I hadn't smoked in 10 years. And I said, what a perfect example
of being a, he put himself under the law when he started telling
people that he had quit smoking. He put himself under the law.
He had an expectation now that he had to live up to. And it
failed him every time. And finally, when he just got
himself out from under the law and just said, you know, I'm
just, now I'm not using smoking as a sinful thing, you ought
to quit. I'm just telling you, you see
the truth in that example? You see how that works? You put
yourself under the law and the law is the strength of sin. The Lord Jesus Christ, grace. Grace, the only power, the only
power that we have to restrain, that's what, go back, maybe that
was an awful illustration, I don't know, it seemed relevant to me.
Look at verse, Look at verse 13, neither yield
ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin,
but yield yourself unto God as those that are alive from the
dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God, for
sin shall not have dominion over you. Why? Because you're not
under the law, you're under grace. Now what the Lord's saying to
us, believer, brothers and sisters, child of God, you live with that
sin nature every day. And the thing that scares you
the most about your sin nature is that it would take control
of the members of your body and that you would live it out in
a way that would shame you and shame others and shame the gospel
and shame Christ. And you want that restrained.
You hate your sin. Don't try to restrain your sin
with commitments and legal matters. It's only going to strengthen
it. The only strength, the only grace
for sin is Christ. Wrecking yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin has been put away. The penalty of it is satisfied. It's the love of Christ that
constraineth us. You know, you hear people talking
about repent of your sins. What does that mean? Usually
when people speak of repenting of your sins, they're saying,
stop sinning. And usually they put repent of
your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and then you'll
be saved. You know, repent of your sins is nowhere to be found
in the Bible. Repentance is a changed mind.
It's a work of grace in the heart. When God gives you repentance,
you see that everything about you is sinful. You see that in
your heart, you've never quit any sin. You see that the Lord Jesus Christ
is the only one without sin. And the only hope of your righteousness
before God is to be found in him. And that the penalty of
your sin, I remember one of the, I used an illustration of Annie
in the first hour. preaching the gospel to her fifth
grade class. And I remember one of the things
she said to her class, she said, she said, you don't have to be
good for God to love you. That's The love of God, you see, but
that's where we live, isn't it? We think, well, you know, if
I'm, we've got this Santa Claus view of God, you know, that he's
making a list and checking it twice and gonna find out who's
naughty and nice and gonna, you know, see who's been good so
he can be good to them and who's been bad, he's gonna be bad to
them. That's our nature. It's legalistic. And it's the power of sin. That
is the power of sin. If I think that I have to be
good in order for God to love me, that's the power of my sin. If I have to live up to an expectation
in order to be accepted by God, that's the power of sin. If God loves me, Is there any strength? Is there
any power greater than that? Is there any power in all the
world greater than the love of God? Is there anything that would
restrain me from putting into practice the nature that I have
any more than grace? That's what Romans chapter 6
is talking about. You're not under the law. You're
under grace and therefore sin shall not have dominion over
you. You say, but I can't ever get
away from it. No, I can't either. And the apostle Paul couldn't
and David couldn't. It's ever before us. But you don't wanna practice
it, do you? In that, I'll leave it at that. This man, this man is the only
man. Mark this man, for his end is
peace. Mark this man. And this man is
the only man that can save us from the penalty of sin from
the power of sin so that we can believe God and so that we can
have our sin nature somewhat restrained and serve God rather than serve
sin with the members of our bodies. Thirdly, the presence of sin. Child of God, what thrills your
soul more What thrills your soul more about heaven than to know
that you will see him as he is and be made like him? You see, until the day in which
you draw your last breath, you're going to be dealing with sin. But here's our hope. Here's our
hope. You know, when God describes
heaven, in his word, he tells us more about what heaven is
not than he does about what heaven is. You know, when the world thinks
about heaven, they think of, you know, pearly gates and streets
of gold and, you know, sunshine and all that. God tells us that
it is, well, turn with me to Revelation chapter 22. Revelation chapter 22. You know, the world thinks about
heaven as being reunited with loved ones as if you're going
to recognize someone in heaven and identify them with somebody
you knew here. If there's any memory of this
life in heaven, heaven's not going to be heaven. When the
Pharisees came before the Lord and said to the Lord, They gave
him that ridiculous scenario about a man who had a wife and
he died and passed his wife down to seven of his brothers. And
they said, whose wife is she going to be in the resurrection?
And the Lord said, oh, you do err. You do err and are ignorant
of the scriptures. You don't know God. You don't
know what the scripture said for in heaven. All men are going
to have perfect love. It will be like the angels that
we're not going to be marrying and giving in marriage and having
the kind of relationships we have in this world. We're going
to have perfect, perfect love in heaven. But that's the way
men think about it. And why will there be perfect
love? Because there will be no more sin. No more sin. No more breaking out of sin.
No more struggling with the internal nature of sin. No more sin. That's what's going to make heaven
heaven. We're going to see him as he is and be made like him.
You have your Bible's open Revelation chapter 22, look. And he showed
me a pure river of life, water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding
out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. And in the midst
of the street, of it and on either side of the river was there a
tree of life which bear 12 manner of fruits and yielded her fruit
every month and of the leaves of the tree there were no, there
was, there were, they were for the healing of the nation. Now
the tree of life, the river of life, these are all symbolic
pictures of the Lord Jesus himself. He's going to be heaven. And
there shall be no more curse. What's the curse come from? Sin. But the throne of God under the
Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him, and
they shall see his face, and his name shall be on their forehead.
And there shall be no night and no candle, neither the light
of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall
reign forever and ever. Turn over just a page to the
left to Revelation chapter 21. And I saw a new heaven and a
new earth. Verse one, for the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away and there was no more sea. What is sea? Separation from God. What is
our separation from? Why are you separate from God
now? I mean, we're united to him through faith in Christ,
but we live, we look through a glass dimly where there's so
much separation, even for the child of God. Why? Because of
sin. Your sin has separated you from
your God. But in heaven, there's no more
sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them, and be their God, and God shall wipe away their tears from
their eyes." No more tears in heaven. Where do tears come from,
sin? and there should be no more death.
What does death come from? Sin. And there should be no more
sorrow. What does sorrow come from? Sin.
And there should be no more crying. Where does crying come from?
Sin. He's gonna save us from the very
presence of sin. And sin is our problem. Every problem you have, they
say follow the money. You want to get to the root of
the problem, follow the money. No, follow your sin. That's the source of it all,
isn't it? The source of it all. Child of God, the Lord has defined
heaven by what it is not. No more tears, no more pain,
no more sorrow, no more wars, no more death, no more fear,
no more affliction, No more sickness. No more hurt feelings. No more
trouble. No more pride. No more jails. No more keys. You got keys in your pocket right
now. Why do you have keys? Because of sin. If there was
no sin in the world, you wouldn't have to have a key for anything,
would we? There wouldn't be any keys in heaven. Everything's
gonna be wide open and free. Why? Because there's no more
sin. And this man, the Lord Jesus
Christ, do you need to be saved from sin? The penalty of it? Hell. The power of it? and the presence of it. This man, the one to be desired, the one who took all the sin
of all of God's people and put them away, he conquered death, He opened
the grave, he defeated Satan. He fulfilled the law, he satisfied
justice. He put away sin. Some will say like the sons of
Belial, how shall this man save us? Others will say with Peter sinking
in that turbulent sea of trouble. Lord, save me, save me. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for the hope of salvation that you've given us in Christ. Lord,
save us for Christ's sake. 2-12 in the hard back tempo.
Let's stand together. Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again? No other fount I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. For my pardon this I seek, Nothing
but the blood of Jesus. For my cleansing this I plea,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No mother found I know nothing
but the blood of Jesus. Nothing can poor sin atone, Nothing
but the blood of Jesus. Not of good that I have done,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Amen. That makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know, Nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my hope and peace,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my righteousness,
nothing but the blood of Jesus. Precious is the flow that makes
me white as snow. No other doubt I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. Please be seated.