Let's open tonight's service
with hymn number 53 from the hardback hymnal, number 53. How
sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear. Let's all
stand together, 53. We'll repeat the last phrase
in each verse. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ear. It soothes his sorrows, heals
his wounds, and drives away his fear. And drives away his fear. Dear name, the rock on which
I build my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury
filled with boundless stores of grace, with boundless stores
of grace. Jesus, my shepherd, brother,
friend, my prophet, priest, and king, my Lord, my life, my way,
my end, accept the praise I bring. Accept the praise I bring. Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought, But when I see Thee as Thou art,
I'll praise Thee as I ought, I'll praise Thee as I ought. Till then I would thy love proclaim
with ever fleeting breath. And may the music of thy name
refresh my soul in death. Refresh my soul in death. Please be seated. I was sitting there thinking,
well, it's almost time to go. I wonder if I could pretend to
fall asleep and that would be okay. I could call and say I
didn't make it. The Lord says, who's sufficient? And every time He has to teach
whoever stands in this pulpit that they're not sufficient.
That's true all the time. Tonight, for our opening, Please
turn with me to Genesis 1, chapter 1, verse 1. Chapter 1, verse 1. And we're only going to read
four words. And I think it's appropriate
that God starts His Word with these four. It says, in the beginning,
God. In the beginning, God. I remember a man almost 40, gosh,
maybe even close to 50 years ago, gospel preacher says, if
God ever gives you the grace to believe in the beginning God,
the rest of this book will come easy for you. What we're saying is that all
things, all things begin with God as their originator. No matter
how we judge them good or bad, they all originate with God. And I thought about this. I said,
you know, God's word tells us that before the world was ever
formed, now God has no restrictions of time and space. He's always
been God, always will be. There's no such thing but before
this world was ever formed God The eternal God determined God
covenant with God God made a covenant with God That God the Father
says in due time. I'm going to save a people I'm
going to create a mass of people, but I'm not saving them all I'm
only going to save a particular group out of that people and
they're going to be my people and Christ the Son coveted with
God said yes, and I'm gonna do everything necessary for the
salvation of their souls I'm gonna do for them what they could
not do for themselves I'm gonna live a perfect life and obedience
to God's law I'm gonna live a perfect righteousness that God will accept
and in time, I'm gonna go to a Roman cross and I'm gonna take
in all the sins of all the people you gave me and I'm gonna bear
the punishment for those sins So that God's justice can be
met I'm gonna do that for them and God the Spirit Covenant with
God and said I will go when you ordain it and I will go into
their lives and I will point them to Christ and Give them
the faith to believe and rest on the Lord Jesus Christ all
of this happened in the beginning God and I thought about that
and I said Hopefully maybe you can understand
it because I thought How true it is every event that has happened
since that covenant of grace is happening for one purpose
and to make that covenant come to fruition. Everything. The
fact that you're sitting here was ordained that God's covenant
of grace would come to fruition. Every event that happens, even
the events that we call horrific, God has ordained them to happen
to save his people. And everything begins with God. That's a great comfort to me. When we traced our trials, we
know God's ordained. When we feel frail, we know God's
ordained. And we can say without with great
confidence, we can say whatever God ordains is right and it's
good. Holy, His will abideth. I will
be still as we wait on God. I pray this evening that we can
see that He will give us faith by His Spirit to believe that
all things begin with God, and that we'll rejoice in that. May
you join me with prayer. We want to pray for our brethren.
Lord, we pray that You will be present
with us tonight. We know You've promised that
where two or more are gathered, You will be there. Lord, we plead
with you to speak to our hearts tonight and that your spirit
would be with us and give us the faith to believe. And it would cause us, Lord,
to turn and flee to Christ, cast all our hopes upon him, that
you would give us the faith to believe in and on Christ, and
that you would squash any thoughts we may have of trusting in ourselves. We pray for our brethren, that
you would bless the services in Mexico, and we pray for our
brothers and sisters. Even though we've not seen them,
Lord, we know that, oh, you've made us like-minded because you've
taught us the same thing. We pray for them, that you would
send a man after your own heart, and that you would use that man
to declare Christ to them. And we ask the same for ourselves,
and that all glory would go to you. Amen. Let's stand together once again. We'll sing
number 23 from the Gospel Hymn Spiral hymn book, number 23.
Let's all stand. Pass me not, O gracious Father,
sinful, wretched though I be. Though you might in truth condemn
me, let your mercy fall on me. me. Love of God so everlasting,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Grace of God so strong and saving,
magnified in me. Pass me not, O blessed Savior,
let me hear your gracious call. I'm a guilty, helpless sinner,
Savior, at your feet I fall. Love of God so everlasting, Blood
of Christ so rich and free, Grace of God so strong and saving,
Magnify them all in me. Pass me not, O mighty Spirit. You can cause the dead to live. Speak the word of saving power. Give me faith and make me live. of God so everlasting, blood
of Christ so rich and free, grace of God so strong and saving,
magnify them all in me. Pass me not a poor lost sinner,
if you will, ? You can save me ? Reach down with your hand of
mercy ? Saving others, Lord, save me ? Love of God so everlasting
? Blood of Christ so rich and free ? Grace of God so strong
and saving, magnify them all in me. Please be seated. I have been pleading with God
for many, many weeks now that he would not keep a message from
his people because of my sin, that he would be pleased to speak,
speak words of peace and comfort through me. If you turn in your
Bibles, please, to John chapter 11, and the title of this message
is, I am the resurrection. It's what
the Lord told Martha there. Always you've always kind of
know you're kind of maybe you're off a little bit I've always
felt a little off a bit because all the cross gives me such comfort
and I Never I mean there's parts of the cross scare me to death
Because you see the justice of God must be kept and I know that
I'm guilty But thankfully we have a substitute but the one
thing that does give great peace and comfort to my soul is the
resurrection Because the resurrection says to us, the work of Christ,
God is satisfied. There's no more work to be done.
He's satisfied. And I want us to look at this. It has to be the work of the Lord.
I told Greg, the message has been preached, and I said, you
must be reading my notes, because they're pretty close to what
I was going to say. The winds went out of my sail, but Last
week, he spoke about the physical and the spiritual. And in Hebrews,
it says, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen. And I was thinking there, I said,
you know, that's the difference between the gospel and religion.
Religion is all about experience. It's all about experience. I
said, maybe I'm curious. I like to say curious, some say
nosy. But I see today a trend in churches today. Everyone's
going away from denominations and all those things. What used
to be the First Baptist Church is now Glory Church. And this
one's Uplift Church. And this is Victory Church. They've
done away with the Presbyterian and all that kind of business.
And I understand why, because their goal is to get people in
the door. And they've changed the church
of God into a business and made a marketing tech. All they care
about is drawing in people. And one of their themes you hear
quite often, come and experience the victory church. Experience. The false gospel
bases all of their hope on their experiences. And the problem
is, of course, is when trials and tribulations come, those
experiences don't hold them through. You ask somebody in false works
religion, how do you know you're saved? They'll tell you about
some experience they had. You know, we had it I've ever
used here. I was saved July the 5th 1972 at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon I remember it just like you know what I'm saying
and they point you to that it was that that's your experience
You can know today that you're saved. That's what they tell
you and remember that remember the warm feeling you had or the
tears you cried and all those kind of things and then when
trials come and they Begin to doubt the salvation of their
souls. What's the first thing they tell them? Remember your
experience. Go back to your experience. Well,
things were no different here in this book. The Jews, everything
they held dearly in their religion was based on their experience
and their works. And the problem they had in the
early church was this idea of the resurrection. Somebody could
be raised from death unto life. How could that be possible? They
had no experience in their life. You understand what I'm saying?
To give them any idea about this. And the Jews were very, you see
here, they preached there was no resurrection. These men were
lying. There's no such thing as resurrection.
Because they had never had an experience of that. And they
were never to see, and it's still true today, they never were able
to see the spiritual teachings of the resurrection. spiritual
teach all they can think of the physical resurrection rather
than the spiritual resurrection you may want the lord says unless
you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood what did you say
he's preaching cannibalism he was preaching the spiritual application
of feeding on christ and relying on christ as your only hope of
salvation and i want us to read here because the believer we
look to christ by Faith. Faith. I can't explain to you
the Trinity, but I know it's true by faith. I can't prove
to you that God spoke the world into creation, although I believe
science backs it, but I know it's true because God has said
it and given me the faith to believe it. Noah. I think of Noah. Here's a man
building an ark. Don't you know, everyone around
Noah had to be asked if this man has lost his mind. But Noah
believed God. And because of Noah's faith,
his family was put into the ark with him. The cross, we believe
by faith that our sins was laid on the Lord Jesus Christ at the
cross. They became his sins. And we believe the resurrection
also by faith. We live a life of faith where
religious rely on experience. We want to hear when we read
here, we want to see the resurrection as a spiritual experience because
the truth is every believer has been brought from death unto
life. through the resurrection, which
is the Lord Jesus Christ. You'll see what he tells Martha
here. Martha was a believer, but see, her experience couldn't
allow her to, and you'll see here, Martha said things you
think, how could a believer say that? But let us read it, and
I pray that the Lord will bless it. I like this, verse one, chapter
11. This is good news right here.
Now a, you see that little word, certain man. Not just some man,
a certain man. Every one of the people that
God gave to the Lord Jesus Christ is a certain person. Our salvation
is a personal thing, isn't it? It's a personal relationship.
It's a personal work. But there was a certain man.
He was sick. His name was Lazarus of Bethany,
the town of Mary and her sister, Martha. So Lazarus had these
two sisters and verse two, it was Mary, which anointed the
Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair. Whose
brother Lazarus was sick. Well, his sisters being good
sisters, they were concerned about Lazarus. These are believers. Therefore in verse 3 his censer
sent unto the Lord saying Lord behold He whom thou lovest is
sick You know how she prayed Lord the one you love is sick
She's trying to guilt the Lord into coming to take care of Lazarus
Did the Lord love Lazarus? Yes, he did But what Mary did
so I mean what I What the sister didn't see here was, this was
God. This was God. He didn't need
to come there to heal him. He could die and we're gonna
see this in a minute. He could heal him at any time he wanted.
In the beginning, God. But Lord, you love him. And you
know, as human beings, we do this, don't we? Our children,
especially. If you loved me, you'd do this.
You never said that, did you, Lord Grace? Never. But we all
done it, haven't we? That's what the sister's saying.
Lord, if you love our brother, you'll come, because he's sick.
Then verse four. When Jesus heard that he said
this sickness, he tells this to his disciple, this sickness
is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that
the son of God might be glorified thereby. I've ordained this sickness,
and I've done it for the reason He does everything, His glory,
His glory. Not for my good, for His glory. And if He gets glory, it'll be
for my good. But He's saying, I brought this
sickness on. He's not gonna die, but I brought
it on to show you my glory, that you might see my glory. Not only
the glory of God the Father, but I want you to see the glory
of Christ the Son. Verse five. Now Jesus loved Martha
and her sister, Lazarus. I thought to myself, well, wouldn't
I love that if it said, now Jesus loved Michael? Well, if you know
that's for you, if you're one of his, he does. That's all we
need to know is Jesus loved his people. And he loved every single
one of them. In spite of us. In spite of us. Even we, and I'll tell you how
I'm so unloving towards him, he still loved me. And he didn't
love me based on what I'd done. That's what's glorious to me.
Or what I ever do. He loved me out of his own goodwill
and pleasure. And the good news is I can't
change that love and he's not gonna change it. But he loved
Martha and he loved her sister and he loved Lazarus. And when
verse six, when he heard therefore that Lazarus was sick, he abode
two days still in the same place where he was. Now your first
thought, now if you loved him, they'd be hitting the road, hitting
where Lazarus is. And it shows us two things that
I have to learn the hard way. God has to teach me quite often.
God's plans are not my plans. And I will say this, thank God
they're not. Because my plans are frothed
with sin. I have to, maybe you don't, I have to pray, Lord,
please don't give me the desires of my heart and mind. Because
they would be to my destruction. Don't ever leave me to myself.
Because I know it'd be, Don't leave me in the temp Lord if
I get around temptation mark it down. I'm gonna fall Lord,
please don't ever leave me to myself But he stayed there and
he knew he was sick and Instead of coming the Lord said they
waited two more days Why do you think they waited two more days?
He was going to show his disciples something right here and he wanted
him to see in the beginning God I'm going to do the work of God
and you're going to get a witness it. Verse seven, then after that,
he saith disciples, two days have passed. Let us go into Judea
again. Now here's his disciples deprived
of that. The Lord says, let us go into
Judea. And what did they say? Verse eight, his disciples saying
to him, master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee and goest
thou hither again. If we go back to Judea, Lord,
they're going to kill you. They're going to kill us. These are men that have walked
with Christ the whole time. Did they believe in the beginning
God? There's talking to the son of
God right here. No, when he goes in Judea, if
they kill him, it's only because he's gonna let them. And he's
ordained. And he will in time. But Lord,
we can't go back in there, they'll kill us. Then verse nine, Jesus
answered, He says, are there not 12 hours in a day? And if
any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of
this world. The light is the Lord Jesus Christ.
When we walk in Christ, we stumbleth not. It's only when we're in darkness
that we stumble, isn't it? And that's when we're looking
away or looking to ourselves rather than looking to Christ.
And I know this in my life, my experience of life, when I'm
not looking to Christ, I'm going to fall flat on my face. But it's nodding to death. That's
what he told him. It's nodding to death. Verse
10, but if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth because there
is no light in him. There's a spiritual application
to this. The lost person is walking in the night and they're stumbling
around. They may be religiously stumbling
around, but they don't know Christ and they have no light in them. And that's, we all, I'll speak,
we have loved ones. I have many loved ones as religious
as they can be. They don't know Christ, and they're
not walking in the light. But they believe. You ask them,
are you saved? And they'll say, yeah. Let me tell you what I'm
doing for the Lord. You know, I ran that church bus
for six months over there picking up kids. Only a believer would
do that. They're looking to their experiences
to save their soul, and it'll never happen. I thought, you know, what a horrific
thing. All of us in this room, a day shouldn't go by that I
don't thank God. God, thank you for sparing me
the burden of religion. Always wondered, well, Lord,
did I do enough? You know, Lord, how could I do
that and be a believer? Man, they worry me out. Can't how many let's be honest
those times I can say this I've went in false religion because
most of us came from it I walked in them doors and two hours later. I walked out them doors more
heavy burden than when I walked in Because all they did was pile
on me more and more works that I should be doing But verse 11 And these things
he said, this is Christ speaking after he said to them, our friend
Lazarus sleepeth, but I go that I may awake him out of his sleep.
All they could think was, well, he's physically sleeping. That's
that's nothing wrong with that. That's what this disciples thought.
He was saying, well, he's just physically sleeping, Lord. You're
going to go and wake him up. Is that what we're going to do
here? Then said his disciples toward
Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. This is a good thing that
he's sleeping. That means everything's okay.
He's resting and he's surely gonna get better. 13, how be it Jesus spake of
his death, but they thought he had spoken of taking rest and
sleep. When the Bible talks about sleep, He said, those who are asleep
in Christ, they're dead. That body is physically dead.
Look what the Lord says next. Then Jesus said unto them plainly,
Lazarus is dead. His heart stopped beating. He's
not breathing. He is physically dead. As brother
Henry used to say, he's graveyard dead. I thought you said he was sleeping.
Well, the sleep he's talking about is death. Then we see verse
15, and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there. To the
intent you may believe, nonetheless, let us go unto him. The reason
we didn't leave two days ago and I let him physically die
was for your sakes. You're gonna see what I mean
about the resurrection now. I'm gonna show you the resurrection.
And it's for your good that you see it. Can any of you identify? They always say, can you identify?
I can identify with Thomas. This sounds like something I'd
say. Then said Thomas was called Didymus and his fellow disciples.
Let us go that we may die with him. That sounds like Peter,
doesn't it? Let us go, we'll die with him.
They didn't understand the Lord Jesus Christ was talking about
the resurrection of his people. Then when Jesus came, he found
that he had lain in the grave four days already. He's been
in this tomb, he's died, he's physically died in four days.
All you need to do is be around a dead animal and you know what
it smells like after four days? That's what Lazarus smells like.
You know, you can't, I know walking sometimes, you gotta walk around,
hold your nose, it's so bad, you can't even, well, Lazarus
has been dead. Now Bethany was nigh end of Jerusalem,
about 15 furlong, that's about two miles. Verse 19, I find this very interesting. And many of the Jews came to
Martha and Mary to comfort them. concerning their brother. Here's
these people in false religion coming to comfort believers. Can a person in false religion
comfort a believer? Honey, he's in a better place.
Honey, he's right there where he's with the Lord. He's done... That's not where it's a comfort
to the believer. He's one of Christ's chosen elect. That's comfort. I'll just say, having went to a funeral
lately, that's kind of an awkward thing. People, you know, they
kind of looked at me funny because they said, well, you didn't cry
or nothing. What am I to cry about? He went
to be with the Lord. He was a believer. I'm jealous,
not saddened over him, we're jealous. He's where we want to
be. The believer, Brother Greg has
said it, we think about death quite often. I do quite often. I think about death. Lord, I
want to be with you. Oh Lord, if I could be with you,
then everything would be all right. Verse 20 and Martha as
soon as she heard that Jesus was coming went out and met him
But Mary stayed in the house Mary stayed in the house. She
was the quiet one I guess and Martha She went out to meet the
Lord verse 21 then said Martha unto Jesus Lord if Thou had been
here My brother had not died She's almost blaming the Lord
for if you'd have been here, he wouldn't have died. All you
had to do was come and be here and he wouldn't have died. Martha,
don't you know, he didn't have to be there and he could have
raised him from the dead. Remember the Lord spoke to the
center. He just spoken and it came to truth. He didn't have
to be present with him, did he? He had that power. This is God.
This is in the beginning God. But Lord, my brother died. But
Martha had her doctrine straight. She had doctrine. What's she
saying now? But I know, I know even now whatsoever
thou will ask of God, God will give it thee. She had her doctrine
that this, all he had to do was ask God the father to raise their
brother and God would make, you know, God would raise him. What
she didn't realize is the one she was asking had the power
to raise him. Jesus said in her he said thy
brother shall rise again and Then Martha said unto him
this is she's like I said, she's got her doctrine straight But
I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last
day. I Know there's going to come a day of judgment and in
the last day he's gonna rise from that grave again I know
that and I believe that and that's true. I The other people, Jews,
didn't believe that. And then here's what the Lord
tells her. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection. The resurrection is not an event.
The resurrection's a person. And every one of my people, I'm
going to raise from spiritual death to spiritual life. Were you ever dead? Oh, yes. I was spiritually dead. I didn't
seek God. I didn't want God. I had no interest
in God. But the Lord sends his spirit
into us and makes us willing to believe. And he raises us
from death unto life, doesn't he? All they could see was the
physical raising of life to death. What we need is a spiritual raising
from death to life. Sorry, death to life, headed
backwards. That's why I said, Martha, I am the resurrection. You're looking at the resurrection
right here. And that event's gonna happen
long before there's gonna be a resurrection that I'm gonna
have. I am the resurrection and the
life. And he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Martha, do you believe this? Do you believe that, Martha?
Do you believe I am the resurrection? Don't look to an event. Don't
look to an experience. You look to me. By faith, you
look to me. I'm the one that can raise you
from death to life. And she said to him, yea, Lord,
I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should
come into the world. Yes, Christ, he said, I am the
resurrection. Do you believe Christ is the
resurrection? The resurrection is not an event, it is a person.
And I want to see this because The Lord, he talked about a resurrection, a resurrection for all people.
Let's see what that said. Turn with me to John 5, John
5 verse 24. Verse 24, the Lord says, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My word, and believeth
on him that hath sent Me, that's God the Father, hath, hath, not
going to get, he has right now everlasting life, and shall not
come in condemnation, but has passed from death unto life. the believers, we've already
passed from spiritual death unto spiritual life. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall
hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall
live. For the Father hath life in himself,
so he hath given to the Son to have life in himself. And he
has given Christ authority to execute judgment also, because
he is the Son of Man. Marvel not this for the hours
coming in which listen, here's what he's talking about which
all that are in the graves shall hear his voice All those are
asleep. That's what the Bible man doesn't
mean they're like space and I sleep they're they're dead and look
29 and shall come forth and the day of judgment the Lord's gonna
speak and every living every soul is going to hear his voice
and and shall come forth. And they that have done good,
that's those who are resting in Christ, unto the resurrection
of life. And they that have done evil,
have not believed in Christ, unto the resurrection of damnation. When this old world fixed in
the end, Christ is gonna speak. And all those dead people, they're
gonna rise out of that grave, and they're gonna witness the
judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ. But his people, he is the resurrection. His resurrection was our resurrection.
When he died, we died. When he rose, we rose with him.
That's why I say in the covenant of grace, in the beginning God, the triune God cannot separate
themselves from the people of God. We're right there with them. What a great comfort it is for
us to know that. Turn me with Romans six, please. We'll read
two more verses. This relationship between Christ
and his people, everything Christ did, he did on our behalf. What he did, we did. You know,
some people don't like the idea of original sin. Why should I
be blamed with Adam's sin? The Lord tells us, if you can't
be partakers of Adam's sin, you cannot be partakers of Christ's
resurrection. They go hand in hand. But verse
3 says, Know ye not that so many of us were baptized into Jesus
Christ, were baptized unto his death? That's our union with
Christ. Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism to death,
that like as Christ is raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. We went from spiritual death
to spiritual life. We couldn't believe, now as Brother
Greg said, we can't stop believing. We had no spiritual life in us.
We had doctrine, we had our own good work, we had our own self-righteousness,
but we had no life. Verse five, for we have been
planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also in
the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead
is freed from sin. Now, if we be dead with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with him. Knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead dieth no more. There's no more death. When Christ raised us from spiritual
death to spiritual life, there's not another death. We'll be eternally
with the Lord Jesus Christ. This old flesh is gonna die.
But our spirits, and then there'll be a new body. For he that died, he died in
the sin, but he that liveth, he liveth unto God. We are in
Christ. What he did, we did. He did it
on our behalf. And when God the Father looks
at us, he sees, oh thank God, he doesn't see Michael Etheridge.
He sees his dear son. I can't comprehend sometimes. How do you say, I can't comprehend
that. Maybe you can, I can't. But God
give us the faith to believe it. I always count, I don't think
I've ever met a believer that sometimes doesn't just scratch
their head and say, Lord, I don't have any idea why you'd save
me. There wasn't nothing about me
that's, but oh Lord, I'm thankful you did. Because if you hadn't
saved me, I'd have never been saved. You had to do it all. The last one, let us look at
Philemon chapter three. If I can find Philemon. Oh, come on. Well. I'm not good at this. Tom, where's
your computer when we need it? Huh? Yeah. I knew it was back there
close to what they call the pastor epistles. Ah, there it is. What a little
book, but it's got a lot of meaning. Look at verse 9. Is that right? 9 to 14. This is not what I got. I put the wrong thing down, I
guess. But it says that we are, by his death, we are in Christ. It's not in here, that's the
wrong, I've written down the wrong passage, I guess. The verse for
Christ, as he died, we died with him. When he rose, we rose with
him. And when we see the resurrection, it's a picture of our resurrection.
And Christ accomplished our resurrection. That's why I like it when he
tells Martha, Martha, I am the resurrection. The resurrect, it's just like
the cross. The resurrection is not an event. The resurrection
is a person. Did the event happen? Yes. But
what was accomplished at the resurrection, the successful
work of the Lord Jesus Christ was pleasing to God. And God's
justice was satisfied. That's why we can come to God,
the father in prayer. Boldly doesn't mean braggingly,
but boldly, we don't have to have fear because in Christ we're
absolutely perfect. Just like him. And the last words
I always curse me. I can't understand this. I pray
God gives the faith to believe it. God says all those in Christ,
I'll remember their sins no more. I can't forget them and God said
He don't remember. Because we're in Christ. As He
sees me, As He sees His people, He sees His dear Son whom He's
satisfied with. And God gives the faith to believe
that Christ, He is our resurrection. I pray the Lord will bless it
to our souls and He may be pleased to give us
the faith to believe Him. Thomas, I think we can close
with number 31 from the Aspiring Book. And on this hymn, 31, and this
final hymn, we'll repeat the last two lines of each verse. Hear the voice of grace and glory
in our dying Savior's cry, rending rocks and hills asunder, and
the veil to bring us nigh. It is finished. It is finished. Our victorious Savior cried. It is finished! It is finished! Our victorious Savior cried. It is finished. See God's pleasure
prosper in our risen Lord. Covenant blessings without measure
flow to us by Jesus' blood. It is finished! It is finished! Oh, how sweet the Savior's word! It is finished! It is finished! Oh, how sweet
the Savior's word! Finished all justice demanded. Finished all required by law. Finished all portrayed and promised
in the shadows of the law. It is finished, it is finished,
bow, believe, rejoice with all. It is finished, it is finished,
bow, believe, rejoice with all. Jesus finished our salvation
when He died upon the tree. Righteousness and full redemption
for His loved and chosen seed. It is finished. Hallelujah! Praise the Lamb of Calvary. It is finished. Hallelujah. Praise the Lamb of Calvary.