unto him against that day. I know not how this saving faith
to me he did impart, nor how believing in his word brought
peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day. I know not how the spirit moves,
convincing men of sin. revealing Jesus through his word,
creating faith in him. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able To keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day. I know not what of good or ill
may be reserved for me. Of weary ways or golden days
before His face I see. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed
unto Him against that day. I know not when my Lord may come
at night or noonday fair, nor if I'll walk the vale with Him
or meet Him in the air. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. Please be seated. Bri Weishi
is going to come now and sing special music. Nearer, still nearer, close to
thy heart. Draw me, my Savior, so precious
thou art. Fold me, oh, fold me close to
thy breast. Shelter me safe in that haven
of rest. Shelter me safe in that haven
of rest. Nearer, still nearer now. thing I bring, not as an offering
to Jesus my King. Only my sinful, now contrite
heart grant me the cleansing thy blight doth impart. Grant me the cleansing Thy blood
doth impart. Nearer, still nearer, Lord, to
be Thine. Sin with its follies I gladly
resign. All of its pleasures, pomp and
its pride. Give me but Jesus, my Lord crucified. Give me but Jesus, my Lord crucified. Nearer, still nearer, while life
shall last, Till safe in glory my anchor is cast. Through endless ages ever to
be Nearer, my Savior, still nearer to Thee Nearer, my Savior, still
nearer to Thee Well, it's wonderful to be back
here again amongst friends. And like Chris, I'm so thankful
for the warmth of your welcome. I'm so thankful for the work
of the Lord in your lives and that witness that goes out and
blesses us as Chris's message has just done so. I thank you,
my brother. I would like you to turn in your
scriptures to Matthew chapter 26. And I was hoping as Chris
started on speaking about the Garden of Gethsemane that he
could have continued on because I was enjoying it immensely,
my friend. It's wonderful. It's wonderful
to hear the Lord Jesus Christ lifted up and raised up. And
that one who made those remarkable promises in that upper room What
remarkable promises we've had from our God. Just let me read
a few of them from John 17. Father, I will, I will that they
also whom thou has given me be with me where I am, that they
may behold my glory, which thou has given me for thou lovest
me before the foundation of the world. Oh, righteous father,
The world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these
have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto
them thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou
hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. As we go from there to Gethsemane,
we see how the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled those promises to bring
those people together, to create those bonds, those eternal bonds
of love, to fulfill that commitment that was made in eternity, to
bring us, as we are here, to a place where we can share that
fellowship. I thank you for the wonder of
sending your pastor and five others of this flock to Australia
last year to bless us. But the great blessing, of course,
isn't it, is in the fellowship of the Lord Jesus Christ, that
fellowship in his blood, that fellowship that we just read
about there that will last for all eternity. And it's a fellowship
in his blood. It's a fellowship in him, being
one with him and united with him. But it's a fellowship that's created
because, as he said in John 17, The believers in this world,
because of his sin-bearing death, because of that precious blood
that was shed on Calvary's tree and in Gethsemane's garden, are
now a perfectly fit and proper and just place for God Almighty
to dwell. That's what creates the fellowship
and that's what creates the wonder of us. So as your sign says,
sir, we would see Jesus. I wanted to take those words
that Tris so wonderfully dealt with on my behalf and our behalf
a little while ago. Watch with me. If the Lord would
just allow us by his grace through his word to see his son, to see
his son, for all of the opinions of men and for all the traditions
of men and for all the works and the worth of ourselves and
religion, all religious activities, to all be put aside, and it's
just us and him. These men were asked to watch
with him, and because of the weakness of their flesh, they
couldn't. But it's my desire that we might just watch with
him in Gethsemane's garden just for a little while this evening,
and that we just might see him we might see him in that hour,
that hour that he promised, that hour in which he was going to
glorify his father and he was going to be glorified, that hour
where we witness the Lord Jesus Christ in that great transaction. And in Gethsemane's garden, in
the midst of all of the depths of the agony, the Lord Jesus
Christ can call his father still my father, my father. On Calvary's tree, he's my God. My God, why hast thou forsaken
me? And the answer is there in the
text in Psalm 22. He's forsaken because God is
holy. When God sees sin, he must punish
sin. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
fullness of day, the inner body, and one of the wonderful and
remarkable things is that so much like God he is, we're in
awe of him, but we also ought to be in awe of the depth and
the wonder of his humanity. He really was touched with the
feeling of our infirmity. He really was in Gethsemane's
garden. He really was feeling the extraordinary
weight of all of that. If we might just watch with him,
I would like us to follow on that journey that begins in Matthew
26.36. We see Jesus, before I begin,
we see Jesus through the hearing of the gospel. We see him through
the eyes of faith and seeing him is to grow like him in 2
Corinthians 3.18, as we behold him, we're made more like him. The purpose of gospel preaching
is just to hold up the Lord Jesus Christ. If you would see him
in the wonder of his majesty, in the wonder and the depth of
his humanity, we can be made like him. The greatest displays
of the glory of God is in situations, as Chris led us through there,
where we are stripped of everything of ourselves. The greatest displays
of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ is when he is humbled,
humbled because of that covenant relationship and humbled because
of the sins of his people being put upon him. Verse 36, this
prayer in Gethsemane. Then cometh Jesus with them. Here we have, of course, our
Lord Jesus Christ set his face like a flint. We never ever get
the impression that he was a victim in any of this. The Lord Jesus
Christ went to Gethsemane, took his disciples, those 11 saved
disciples, and he took them to Gethsemane. He was sovereignly
in control of all of these events. Nothing happened by accident.
As Peter said to those Jews who had crucified him in Acts 2,
it was the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. He
led his disciples into Gethsemane's garden. He led them to this meeting
of them with Judas. He was sovereignly. He went to
Gethsemane. Our God Our God is dethroned
so often in our thoughts. So often in this world, the religious
world dethrones him. But our God, our God, our Lord
Jesus Christ is absolutely sovereign. So he is the one that takes them
there. He cometh Jesus with them unto
a place called Gethsemane and saith unto his disciples, sit
ye here while I go and pray yonder. The place called Gethsemane means
olive press. It was a place, it was an olive
grove. And the picture is a wonderful picture, isn't it, of this sin-bearing
work that he was going to carry out that next morning on Calvary's
tree. Jerusalem is that city of peace,
that Zion, a monument, Zion is called. And down on that eastern
side of Jerusalem city is this brook called Kidron, which means
black. And Kidron was a sewer of sin. All of those passover sacrifices,
that blood and all that awful, all of the evidence of the depravity
of man and the horror of sin flowed into that brook. You mustn't
think of it as some nice little stream with a bunch of olive
trees nearby. It was a sewer and the sewer
led to a garbage tip which was perpetually burning. What an
extraordinary picture of sin, isn't it? That brook Kidron,
that black brook, he crossed that brook. The Jews called that
perpetually burning garbage chip Gehenna, which was their name
for hell. You leave the city of God and
the city of peace, and sin and hell is your portion. And that was what all of us did
in our Father Adam. And that's what all of us do
in our flesh as we come into this world. And he says to the
disciples, sit ye here while I go and pray yonder. And then he broke up the disciples
and had those particular three with him, the three that had
seen him on the Mount of Transfiguration, the three that had been with
him at the raising of Jairus's daughter. And he took those three
with him and he began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then he saith
unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death. Mark declares that he saw amazed
and very heavy. It means at that point that he
had horror of mind, fear and consternation. Luke says being
in agony. in convulsions as in death throes. Cold, clammy sweat. John says that his soul was troubled. His soul was troubled. The Latin
word for that word, troubled, is their word for hell. It's beyond a man standing in
front of other men to other than say the words and try and impart
something of what it meant for the Lord Jesus Christ to be there
in Gethsemane's garden, bearing the weight He says in
Psalm 40 verse 12, he says, mine iniquities have taken hold upon
me, therefore my heart faileth me. Luke said on that cold night
that his blood was as great drops of blood falling to the ground. He says in Psalm 22, my heart is like wax, melted in the midst
of my bowels." He was consumed with terrors. We've got to remember who we're
talking about here, brothers and sisters. This is God incarnate. This is He who could speak to
a storm and say, be still. This is He who could speak to
Lazarus and say, come forth. This is He who flung the stars
into the universe. This is He, according to Hebrews
1, who upholds this world and this universe by the word of
His power right now. This is Him being in agony. My soul is exceedingly sorrowful,
even unto death. Angels came to support Him. My soul is troubled. My heart
is like wax. He declares again and again in
the scriptures that these sins, these sins that
caused this agony in the Son of God were the sins of all of
that bride, that bride that he pursued from all eternity that
Chris spoke so wonderfully to us about. But to have that bride,
to have that bride and to have that bride to behold his glory
and to have that bride to be with him, that bride had to be
made to be like him. That bride had to wear his name
and wear it with honour and wear it with justice. The night before
he had prayed to his father, he says, holy father, This is
a holy transaction. He says, righteous father, this
is a righteous transaction. He went a little further and
he fell on his face and he prayed. He says, oh my father, if it
be possible Let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as
I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto his disciples
and findeth them asleep. And he said unto Peter, What
could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you
enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak. And he went away a second time
and prayed, saying, O my father, if this cup may not pass away
from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. The question, brothers
and sisters, and it's a simple question, is what was in the
cup? What was in the cup? What was in the cup that caused
almighty God in human flesh to have that anguish of soul? For
his heart to be so broken, for the pressure of all of that to
be so heavy upon him that his sweat was as great drops of blood
falling to the ground. As Joseph Hart said, he bore
all almighty God could bear with strength enough and none to spare. He nearly died in Gethsemane. He looked into a cup. It's a cup that his father gave
him. It says in John chapter 18, This cup he speaks of. The scriptures tell us with so
much clarity what that cup is, isn't it? It's the cup of God's
fury. It's the cup of my fury, says
Isaiah 51. It's the cup of trembling. It
is in Revelation 14, it's the cup of his indignation, the wine
of the wrath of God. It is the fierceness of his wrath. What was in the cup? There is
just one answer brothers and sisters. Sin. All of the sin of all of God's
people. The sin that I'm committing now
and the sin that you're committing now. Sin is falling short of
the glory of God. I'm for one here to tell you that
there's nothing that I'm saying tonight that matches the glory
of God, nor brings this to bear in any way at all with the wonder
and the gravity, the depth of love for his father's glory and
the depth of love for his bride, the commitment and the faithfulness
to those promises. Sin was in that cup. and our
God in human flesh in his omniscience knew all of it. All of the sin
of all of God's people, the sin of Adam, the sin of Abel, the
sin of Noah, the sin that you've committed ever since you came
forth from your mother's womb speaking lies, the sin that we
try and hide from everyone. He saw it all. He saw it all
in its horror. And he was the only man who ever
lived on this earth who knew the sinfulness of sin. And he
was the only man ever on this earth who rightly reacted to
the horror of what sin really is. He knew it's horror. He knew
it's dishonouring to God. He knew it's separation that
it was going to bring to him. He knew the punishment that a
holy God must bring upon that sin. An infinite holy God must
be just. When he meets that sin, he must
punish it with all of his wrath. We have so many pictures in the
scriptures of the sinfulness of our flesh. Chris has spoken
about the sinfulness of those apostles. The beginning of sin
is I will. The beginning of the sin for
the fallen race of Adam in the garden was I will. All of those
apostles who in this evening will forsake him and flee away. All of them had said those words
in the upper room, hadn't they? I will. They all said, we'll
be with you to the end. We'll die with you. And Peter
in his boldness said, well, I know what those other 10 are like.
I know how weak that Thomas is, but I'll be all right. I'll be
there to the end. That evening, that evening. He
was as much like Judas as you could have possibly imagined
in his forsaking of his God. In the presence of holiness,
do we ever see sin as it really is seen? Which is why the Lord
Jesus Christ is the only one who ever saw the horror of sin
as it really was. And it nearly killed him in Gethsemane's
garden. It nearly killed him when he
was able to say, my God, my God. Nearly killed him when he still
had the comfort of angels on Calvary's tree. it would put
him to death. Holy God must punish sin. There was a man in the Old Testament
who crossed this Kidron Brook to his death. The Lord Jesus
crossed this Kidron Brook to his death. That man, you might
remember, is called Shimei. He was one of Saul's descendants,
one of the tribe of Saul. Shimei's name means renowned. What a great name for us. That's
all we're seeking, isn't it, in this Adam flesh, is seeking
renown. And Shimei is such a picture
of fallen Adam, isn't he? In reality, Shimei owed all that
he had to David. It was David who won those battles,
not Saul. He owed all he had. He seems
as if he was a wealthy man, he had servants. He owed all that
he had to David, his life and his possessions. And you might
remember the story, another man, another man picturing the Lord
Jesus Christ as David crossed this Kidron Brook, went through
this same place and Shimei came forth. And he came forth in 2
Samuel 16 cursing, he came forth and he cursed David as he came. He says, come out, come out thou
bloody man. And he calls David Belial. He gives him the name of Satan. And he cursed as he went and
he threw stones and he cast dust upon him. One of the reasons that I believe
that these pictures of these men who are so horrible in the
scriptures and so evil and meet such terribly wicked ends is
to show us, obviously, the horror of disobedience to God. But it's
also there, brothers and sisters, a picture of showing us what
we were in our father Adam and what we are in this fallen flesh. We are Shemites. We are. Shimei also has a picture of
fleshly repentance when King David came back having won that
victory, having been betrayed by his son and betrayed by a
close friend. Shimei comes back and he repents
and he falls down before King David. And Abishai says, let's
take off his head right now. You're back. And David said,
this is a time of victory. This is a time of rejoicing.
And David allowed Shimei to stay in Jerusalem this man who cursed him. But
David, in his last words, in 2 Kings, says to his son Solomon,
he says, now hold him not guiltless, but bring his forehead down to
the ground. And Solomon made a promise, and
Shimei made a promise. He says, you stay in Jerusalem,
you don't cross the Brook Kidron and you will be able to live
here in this place under the care of my promise, under my
protection.' And Shimei was told, you cross
the Brook Kidron and you will die. And Shimei, three years
later, as you might recall, lost some of his servants and he crossed
that Brook Kidron to go and get them. And Shimei died. Shimei died under the hand of
Solomon, under the hand of justice. See, we're Shimeis, brothers
and sisters. We've left that city of peace. We've crossed
that Brook Kidron, which exposes all of our sin, which flows into
that ever-burning hell. And unless someone bears all
of that sin, either Shimei dies or the Lord Jesus Christ dies.
That's what's happening in Gethsemane's garden. He's bearing that sin. And we speak of it so lightly. We grieve over it. But so often
we grieve over the consequences of it. And we grieve over being
caught. and found out that the Lord Jesus Christ was grieving
over sin because of the offense it is to the glory of God. And he says again and again,
this cup, if it be possible, verse 39, let this cup pass from
me. He says in verse 42, O my father,
this cup may not pass from me, except I drink it, thy will be
done. It's the cup the father has given
him. He declares it to be this cup,
this cup, this cup, with these particular contents, this cup. And he says, in those verses
we've just been reading, he says, this cup is with me. This cup
is in his hand. And the only way for this cup
to pass away is if he drinks this cup. It is, he describes what's going
to happen to him on Calvary's tree as a baptism. He's going
to be immersed in the wrath of God. because to drink this cup
is to have that cup as one with Him. He was made sin, brothers
and sisters. He owned in the eternal covenant
of promise with His Father that all of the sins of all of the
bride, all of those that God the Father had given to Him,
He took in that eternal covenant as a surety He took absolute
and full responsibility for all of our sins and all of our righteousness
before God. He made that promise that I love
Paul describing in Colossians 1. He says that He will present
us. It's a great picture, isn't it?
He pursues us and He presents us. If you're going to be in
the presence of God, you'll be presented, brothers and sisters.
Presented how? holy, spotless, unblameable,
and unapprovable in His sight. This is the work of our Saviour. He says, If this cup may not
pass from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. The only way this cup can pass
from Him is if he drinks it and drinks it all completely. You see, the wonder of substitution. We Shemites had a substitute,
brothers and sisters, in Christ. We deserved exactly what that
Shemite had earned for himself. See, if the cup is with him,
it cannot be with you. If the cup is in his hand, it
cannot be in your hand, brothers and sisters in Christ. And if he drinks this cup, I'm
drinking this cup. If he drinks that cup, you cannot
drink it, ever. And if he drinks it all, There is none for you to drink. There's none for you to drink.
One of the wonderful pictures of what I think is both our delight
and our responsibility as believers as we gather together is to be
like Abraham. You might recall in Abraham,
in Genesis 15, Abraham was involved in that covenant cutting ceremony
where those animals were laid out, blood sacrifices. And then that fiery furnace,
the wrath of God passed between them and a lamp, the lamp of
the light of the gospel. The gospel comes after the fiery
furnace has done its work in slaying the sacrifice. But that
day, Abraham did two things. When the covenant was being cut,
Abraham was asleep. Just like Chris said to us earlier,
you are to take your rest. While I do this work, you take
your rest. This is a work which is way beyond
the work of any man whatsoever. But the other thing which Abraham
did, prior to that ceremony, and I think all of the faith
children of Abraham throughout time, have both the joy and the
delight and the responsibility to do it. He kept the wild birds. He kept the unclean birds of
the sacrifice. He keeps the sacrifice pure. What is best for the glory of
God is best for our souls. We live in this age where we
continually hear that God loves everyone and Jesus died for everyone
and the Holy Spirit wants to save everyone. Their cup contains
all of the sins of all of the people in the world, which means
when the Lord Jesus Christ drank that cup, salvation is universal. He drank Judas' sins as well
as Peter's sins. And we know that that is absolute
nonsense according to the justice and the promises of our God. The cup is not an infinitely
large cup. It is this particular cup with
these particular contents. The Catholics have a cup with
a hole in the bottom, don't they? It's continually dripping and
the priests are reorganising and gathering that blood and
representing it to the Lord. It's just difficult to speak
of it without horror, isn't it? This cup, when you think of what
the Lord Jesus Christ did and you think of what the religious
world says about this cup, so many in our day who are sort
of conservative want to say that the cup was sufficient for all
if they would believe. It's this cup. He's just said
it. He said it in prayer to his father. This is the covenant between
the Father and the Son. The wonder of our salvation is
a transaction between God the Father and God the Son applied
to the hearts of God's people by the blessed Holy Spirit. And
he says in John 16, he'll take the things of the Lord Jesus
Christ and he will reveal them, he will show them, he will manifest
them to you. He'll take these things of the
Lord Jesus Christ and he'll show them. So the cup is a particular
cup, and the cup is said to pass away from him. He's drunk it, passed away. Gone. Gone, brothers and sisters. Cast
into the depths of the sea. He took that cup. In John 18,
they bound his hands, in all of these gospel accounts, they
bound his hands. When they bound his hands, they bound his hands
with that cup. And he bore that cup in his own
body, and he bore all the contents of that cup, and he bore it to
Calvary's tree. And on Calvary's tree, God the
Father, God the Father in holiness, God the Father in righteousness,
put his son to death and God the Father God the Father caused
his son to cry those words from the cross and the Lord Jesus
Christ said it is finished the cup is drunk the cup is drunk
I love that verse in Romans 4.25, he was put to death because of
our sins and he was raised because of our righteousness. The cup,
the cup is gone. He's drunk it all and the cup
is passed away. It's this blood of the covenant
from which he's set by which he sets the prisoners free according
to Zechariah 9.11. He says in 1 Corinthians 6, you've
been bought with a price. It's the church that he's purchased
with his own blood. There's something else I'd like
you to ponder. I've been a farmer most of my
life and we work in hot, humid conditions often and farmers
get themselves scratched and bleed a lot but when it's hot
and you're sweaty and you bleed the blood goes everywhere and
you try and get rid of it and you can't and the more you try
and clean it up until you get home the worse it gets. It's
good to think isn't it brothers and sisters of what an image
it was that met those men at that garden. Great drops of blood
fell to the ground. Great drops of blood. His hands
were bloodstained hands. The face that he gave for them
to pluck the beard from was a bloodstained face. The hair upon which they
placed the crown of thorns was a bloodstained hair. The robe
they parted was a bloodstained robe. It pictures so many things,
but one of the things that I think is delightful in the scriptures
is it's the blood of the eternal covenant. And it was the lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. And that blood, that
blood that poured from our savior's paws in Gethsemane's garden was
there upon him on Calvary's tree. See, Peter wasn't there at the
cross, but Peter says it's precious blood. It's precious blood, the
precious blood of this lamb. Chris has already dealt with
it so wonderfully. But one of the great pictures
here is that he does it on his own. He must do it alone, brothers
and sisters. He must tread that winepress
alone. He says, the flesh is weak. The spirit is willing, the flesh
is weak. That word weak means powerless.
It means diseased, feeble, unable. in all matters of salvation and
regeneration and conversion and faith and sanctification. The
flesh is weak. God's children will be made to
be weak. No wonder the Lord Jesus said
to them, pray that you will not fall into temptation. In verse
41, pray that you wouldn't enter into temptation. What will happen
to you if you enter into temptation? You'll fall every time, brothers
and sisters. All of that falling and all of
those falls and all of those temptations that have been yielded
to, for all of his people were in
that cup. He drank that cup. He took it
to Calvary's tree. and it's gone. One of my favourite verses in
the scriptures is in Galatians 2.20 It says a little bit earlier
on, Paul says that through the law I've died to the law. I died
in Calvary's tree. I died to the law of God and
the law of God put the Lord Jesus Christ to death. It was a just
death by the punishment of a holy and righteous God upon real sins
and particular sins that were in that particular cup. But the life I now live in the
body, I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. The Lord Jesus Christ in Gethsemane's
garden and on Calvary's tree is a wonderful, wonderful picture
of faithfulness. See, what does faithfulness say
in verse 39? Nevertheless, Nevertheless, despite all of
this, thy will be done. All of our problems come from
the exercise of our will. What an absolute nonsense this
notion of free will is. Every time anyone in the scriptures
wills to do something, the Lord makes sure that there's an immediate
disaster. Peter says, I will. All of them
said, I will. And in a heartbeat, they won't. They never do in the Lord Jesus
Christ. See our faithfulness before God,
brothers and sisters, is His faithfulness. It is a faith. It's a faith that He gives us
and it becomes ours as a possession. But it's His faithfulness. He
was faithful unto death and that's the They're the great words of
faith, isn't it? Not as I will, but as thou wilt. Oh my father, verse 42, if this
cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be
done. What extraordinary faith. He
trusted his father. He trusted his father in the
most extraordinary circumstances of the horror of his real humanity. Please don't forget that, brothers
and sisters. This was a real man. He is the
God-man. But these are the cries of agony,
and this is the blood of a real man. He's bone of our bones and flesh
of our flesh. I love what Hebrews 4 says. He
was touched with the feelings of our infirmities. He knows
what they are. He knows what they have been.
He knows what they are now. He knows what they will be, brothers
and sisters. And never one will come upon
any of his children without him being touched. And never one
comes upon any of his children without him having drunk that
cup. Father, if this cup may not pass
away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. It pleased the father to crush
him. It pleased the Father to give
Him a bride. It pleased the Father. There's something wonderful about
just gazing upon Him and Him giving us the eyes of faith to
simply look to Him. to look away, look unto me and
be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth. Whosoever shall calleth
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Look. And so often
we're asked, how then do you respond? Psalm 116 is a wonderful
description. What shall I render unto the
Lord for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation
and call upon the name of the Lord. I'll take the cup of salvation
and call upon the name of the Lord. May he grant that to you,
brothers and sisters. Thank you, Angus. Blessing to
think about the cup, isn't it? I was thinking about when James
and John wanted to sit at our Lord's right hand and left hand
when he entered into his kingdom. And the Lord looked at them and
said, Are you able to be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized
with? And are you able to drink of the cup that I'm going to
drink of? And they foolishly said, Oh, we're able. And the
Lord said, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized
with, baptism of fire. All of God's people were in Christ
on Calvary's cross, and they suffered the judgment of God's
wrath in their sin, in their substitute, in their savior.
And when he drank of that cup, we drank of it. He is our propitiation, and that
word just simply means that God's not angry with his people anymore.
The Lord Jesus Christ has made peace with God for his bride. What a blessing it's been to
be here tonight. We will start at 10 o'clock sharp
in the morning. Todd will be preaching the first
message in the morning, and we'll have lunch after the service.
So please plan to be here in time to find a seat. There was one other thing I was
going to say, and I can't remember. Oh, if any of our members are
looking for their Bibles, they're all in the second room on the
left, going down the hallway. We picked them all up Wednesday
night and put them in there so that they'd be out of the way. So several people have asked
me where they were. That's where they are. Pillows, purses, blankets,
whatever you might be missing that you leave here. They're
in there. Alright, Tom's going to come
and lead us in number 12 in your spiral hymnal. And then I'll
come and close the service in prayer. Let's stand together.
Number 12. Upon my great and sovereign God,
I cast my soul and rest. My Father's hand controls the
world, and what He does is best. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. In raging storms and
fiery trials, He keeps me from all harm. He walks with me and
holds me in His everlasting arm. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. My God with skill infallible
and great designs of grace, with power and love that never fail,
shall order all my ways. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. My life's most minute
circumstance is ordered by my God, who promised that in all
things He will ever do me good. So be still, my heart, and doubt
no more. Believe and find sweet rest. God's wisdom, love, and truth,
and power combine to make thee blessed. Please be seated. You can remain
standing. Let's pray together. Our merciful
Heavenly Father, we're Thankful that you've allowed us to be
here, called us to this place and given us this great encouragement
of the finished work and successful salvation that thy dear son accomplished
for us on Calvary's Cross. Thank you that he drank from
the brook and that he's the one that lifts up the head. Lord,
we pray that you would give us safe travels now and that you
would give us a good rest and prepare our hearts for what we
would hear from thee tomorrow. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Yeah.