Good morning. Good morning. Tom's going to come and lead
us in hymn number 186. The church is one foundation
and what an appropriate hymn to open this service with in
light of the message I want to try to We have one faith, one Lord,
one church, one baptism, one God and father of us all. There's
only Christ is not divided. One foundation and it's Jesus
Christ, the Lord. Let's stand together. Tom, please.
186. The Church's one foundation is
Jesus Christ, her Lord. She is His new creation by water
and the Word. From heaven he came and sought
her to be his only bride. With his own blood he bought
her, and for her life he died. Elect from every nation, yet
one o'er all the earth. Her charter of salvation, one
Lord, one faith, one birth. One holy name she blesses, partakes
one holy food. And to one hope she presses With
every grace endued. Mid toil and tribulation and
tumult of her war, she waits the consummation of peace forevermore. Till with the vision glorious,
her longing eyes are blessed. and the great church victorious
shall be the church at rest. Yet she on earth hath union with
God the three in one, and mystic sweet communion with those whose
rest is one. O happy ones and holy, Lord,
give us grace that we, like them, the meek and lowly, on high may
dwell with Thee. Please be seated. Good morning. Please turn to
the Gospel of Matthew. Luke, I'm sorry, Gospel of Luke. chapter 24, chapter 24. We're
going to begin in verse 36 of Luke, chapter 24. And as thus spake Jesus himself
stood in the midst of them and said to them, peace unto you. But they were terrified and are
frightened. And suppose they had seen a spirit,
when it says a spirit, it's what we call today a ghost. And he
said unto them, why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in
your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet,
that it is I myself, handle me and see. For a spirit hath not
flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken,
he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they were
yet believed not for joy and wondered, and he said unto them,
have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of
broiled fish and of a honeycomb. And he took it, and he did eat
before them. And he said unto them, These
are words which I spoke unto you while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law
of Moses and in the prophets and in all the Psalms concerning
me." He was telling them, I spoke to you about everything that
was going to happen. they were prophesied. And when
he says they must be fulfilled, they must be accomplished. This
is his life, his death on the cross. He was fulfilling everything
he was sent to do. Then he opened their understanding. that they might understand the
scriptures. And this is what we pray today,
that the Lord may open the understanding. These people knew the Lord Jesus
Christ and they recognize him, but that's not enough. We must
have grace. The Lord must open our understanding
of the scriptures to understand what? Well, he said that, that,
that which was written does, that it behooved Christ to suffer
and to raise from the dead. the third day, and that repentance
and the remission of sins should be preached in his name among
all the nations beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses
of these things, and behold, I send the promise of the Father
upon you. But carry ye in the city of Jerusalem
until ye be endued with power from on high." They were to wait
for the promise of the Holy Spirit to do these things. Let's go
to the Father. Father God, we come before you
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the only hope we
have to come to you. We thank you, Lord, that you
have brought us here today. We pray, Father, that you may
bless us with that Holy Spirit, both for the speaker and for
us listeners, Father. We are in desperate need of looking
to Christ and seeing His glory, Father. And we cannot accomplish
this by ourselves. We need you to provide this. We need to be drawn to the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's our greatest need today.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Let's all stand together once again.
We'll sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. Blessed are the poor in spirit
who their sinful nature see. They are taught they have no
merit. To the Savior they all flee. Self-renouncing, grace-admiring,
made unto salvation wise, sovereign love their hearts rejoicing,
from His cross their hopes arise. Those who find themselves polluted
feel their hearts so prone to sin. They shall have by God imputed
righteousness so pure and clean. At his throne their hearts confessing,
praise our God of sovereign grace. Weeping, loving, praising, blessing,
on his head the crown they place. Please be seated. Would you open your Bibles with
me to 1 Corinthians chapter 11, please? 1 Corinthians chapter
11. I've titled this message, Am I Approved? Am I Approved? I want to know if I'm approved
of God. I want you to know. My heart's
desire is that we'll leave here this morning with an assurance
of our salvation. Convinced by the Spirit of God
that we have acceptance before God in the beloved. Now the Lord tells us in the
church at Corinth In verse 18, for first of all, when you come
together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among
you, and I partly believe it. For
there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved
may be made manifest among you. Now, one of the things I want
to say by way of introduction is that we are not on a witch
hunt. I've known some folks that spend
all their time trying to identify all the false gospels that are
in the world. uh... there's too many of them
you can't do it uh... i'd use this illustration before
mentioned the fbi it's actually secret service that monitors
uh... uh... uh... counterfeit money
if you work for the count for the secret service in the counterfeit
department you would not study counterfeit money there's too
many of them you would study legal tender So that anything
that came across your desk that didn't look exactly like that,
you could dub it as counterfeit. Now Satan is a counterfeiter.
And he's always coming up with substitutions. And the Lord makes
it clear that these false prophets that go out into the world are
very deceptive. This is not funny money. This
is counterfeit that's very close to the real thing. Nevertheless,
a counterfeit is a counterfeit. And it's worthless. Might as
well be monopoly money. It has no value if it's a counterfeit. I don't want to be deceived by
a counterfeit, do you? I want to be approved. I can
remember having gone to visit Cody and Wynn on many occasions
in Mexico, and Cody was always very zealous about making sure
that we exchanged our dollars for pesos at an approved place. You could get a bad exchange
rate if you didn't, if you didn't know. And Cody always knew. And he would take us to an approved
money changer. That's the word here. There were
money changers in that culture, just as there are in Mexico and
everywhere else, that were unscrupulous and they would not give you a
fair exchange. And so there were certain money
changers who had the word documas across their buildings or across
their tables. That meant that they were approved
by the governing authorities as being fair money changers. And, uh, and so whenever you
went to exchange your money, you wanted to go to a Docomas,
an approved money changer to make sure that you got a fair
shake. And, uh, and the Lord says there's a, there's a lot
of counterfeiters out there. And if it were possible, if it
were possible, even the elect would be deceived. That's how
close the counterfeit is to the real thing. Now, our verse of
scripture here tells us that God has allowed divisions to
take place within His church in order that those who are approved
might be made manifest. Now, to whom do we need our approval
to be made manifest. Is it important that my approval
before God be made manifest to you? Is that what he's talking
about? Turn with me to 2 Corinthians
chapter 13. People say, well, I want men
to see Jesus in me. I want to live my life in a way
that honors the Lord. I do. But they didn't see Jesus
in Jesus. To be approved of men is not
what this scripture is talking about, and that's not my primary
concern. My primary concern is not whether
or not another man believes me to be a Christian. My primary
concern is whether or not I know that I'm a Christian, that I'm
a child of God. Look what Paul says in 2 Corinthians
chapter 13 at verse 7. Now I pray to God that you do
no evil. not that we should appear approved,
but that you should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates."
He's talking to the same church. He said, you might consider me
to be a reprobate. That's OK. We're not doing this
so that we could be approved in your sight. The approval that
I need is to know in my heart of hearts that I've been approved
by God. That's the only thing that matters.
At the end of the day, that's the only thing that matters.
The only thing that matters for you, the only thing that matters
for me. Do I have assurance of my salvation? Now, The scripture says that Christ
is not divided. We have one church, one faith,
one baptism, one Lord, one God and father of us all. And yet when we look at the religious
world today, what do we see? We see a A whole bunch of opinions,
don't we? The word heresy in our text actually
means opinion. And the Lord says it is necessary
that heresies be among you in order that those which are approved
might be made manifest. Manifest to who? Manifest to
the ones who are approved. I want, don't you want your approval
to be made manifest in your heart? I don't want to be a part of
a heresy. Where did these heresies come
from? God sent them. God sent them. He sent false
prophets into Israel in the Old Testament in order to distinguish
the difference between the lie and the truth. Our God is absolutely sovereign.
He hath done whatsoever He wills with the armies of heaven and
all the inhabitants of the earth. No man can stay his hand or say
unto Him, What doest Thou? All things work together for
good for them that love God and those that are the called. the called of God according to
His purpose. Our God is not a God of plan
A and plan B. Our God is a God of purpose.
And His purpose is always accomplished. And His purpose here is to send
false prophets into the church in order to make manifest to
the approved ones that they are approved. What the Lord is saying
is that these divisions are necessary so that you can see, I'm not
a part of that, I don't believe that. God sent them. He's the potter and we are the
clay. And He has the sovereign right
to make out of the same lump of clay some vessels of honor
and some of dishonor. And no man can say unto Him,
why have you made me thus? Our God is God. He reigns sovereign. And His
people who believe His gospel are made manifest by the distinction
in part that they see between the one they believe and the
one that's believed by others. Our father wants his children
to have assurance of their salvation. He does. He wants us to have
peace. He wants us to have hope. He
wants us to have joy. And he's the only one that can
give it to us. We're not to live our lives in fear. Well, maybe I'm saved. Maybe
I'm not. Lord, speak peace to my heart. Make me to know. That I'm approved. Of you. Now, one of the differences between
those who are approved and those who are of the heresy, the opinions
of men, is the source of their hope. The source of their hope. Turn with me to Acts chapter
24. Paul is brought before the Roman
governor with false accusations made against him for being a
heretic. They were accusing him of being
a heretic. And he says in verse 14 of Acts
chapter 24, But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they
call heresy, so worship I, the God of my fathers, believing
all things that are written in the law and in the prophets. Now one of the ways I know that
I'm approved of God is the source of my faith is nothing other
than the Word of God. It's not my feelings. It's not
my experiences. It's not because of a change
in my life. The hope of my salvation lays
solely on the promises of God's Word. Paul says, they call me
a heretic. The heresy that they're accusing
me of is the very God that I worship believing all things that are
written in the Law and in the Prophets. Faith is the substance
of things hoped for. It is the evidence of things
not seen. Those that are approved of God
are made manifest of their approval in their hearts because they
cannot not believe the Word of God. And they don't rest the hope
of their salvation anywhere else. They have no other creed. They
have no other covenant. They have no tradition. They
have the Word of God. Now that's one of the differences
between those who are approved and those who hold to the opinions
of men. Every other religious group that
I know anything about has the words of man. It's amazing to
me. that uh... uh... that uh... groups will cry sola scriptura
only the scripture that's our soul and final source of authority
and then they'll write a confession and hold to an opinion of men
that's inconsistent with the revelation of scripture why would you baptize babies
There's no evidence whatsoever in the scriptures for that. Why
would you do it? Well, because it's in the Westminster
Confession. Why would you hold to a confession
that was written by a bunch of legalistic Puritans and and and believe that your
that your sanctification is some you cannot believe in progressive
sanctification without being legalist you cannot do it you
can't believe in progressive sanctification without going
back to the law you've got to measure yourself by the law to
see how much better you're getting why would you hold to that because
it's in the confession How do I know that I've been
made manifest? How would I know that my approval
to God is manifest in my heart? I've got no place else to go
but the Word of God. You say, well, don't we need
confessions in order to interpret the Word of God? The Word of God interprets the
Word of God. We're not here to interpret God's Word, we're here
to declare it. And the reason why men can't
understand the Word of God is the same reason why the human
race was cast into darkness for so long. There were absolutely no scientific
discoveries made until the Age of Enlightenment, which came
as a result of debunking the Flat Earth Theory. There was
no hope of discovering anything relative to science until we
understood the basis of our existence. So that theory that was held
by everybody, for generations had to be debunked before any
progress could be made. Is that not true? If you go to
the Word of God with a presupposition that is inaccurate, you're never
going to be able to understand the Word of God. And that's the reason why people
can't understand the Bible. They go to the Bible believing
as a set presupposition. I call them the flat earth society. They go to the Word of God believing
that God loves everybody. If you believe that God loves
everybody, you're never going to understand the scriptures.
You're never going to be made manifest. You're never going
to have assurance of your salvation. Because if God loves those He's
sending to hell as much as He loves those that He's taking
with Him into heaven, what's the love of God have to do with
anybody's salvation? It doesn't have anything to do
with it. God loves righteousness and He
hates iniquity. God loves those who are in Christ,
those that he placed in Christ in the covenant of grace before
the foundation of the world. But that's a set presupposition,
isn't it? And it leads, just like in society,
the flat earth theory led to the darkness of over 1500 years. It will lead to spiritual darkness.
You go to the Bible believing that God loves everybody, you're
never going to see Christ. You're never going to understand
the gospel. You're never going to be approved. And the manifestation
of God's approval will never be your experience. Another presupposition
that men have is that Christ died for everybody. Christ came
into the world and laid down His life that all men might be
saved. And if that's true, then what
does the death of Christ have to do with anybody's salvation? If those that Christ died for,
most of which are going to go to hell, then what does the death
of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross have to do with anyone's
salvation? It's just not true. But until
that presupposition is debunked by God in your heart, you're
never going to have an understanding. You're never going to have approval.
It's never going to be made manifest in your heart. You're going to
live your life as a heretic, holding to the opinions of men. That's all you're going to have. The most believed lie in the
world, and it's held by everybody, is
that man has a free will. I can choose or reject Christ.
I'm going to do it my way. I'll invite Jesus. I'll let God
have His way in my heart. I've got a free will. It's a presupposition that's
not true and it causes every other conclusion that one would
have to make about them being approved before God to be wrong. It is not of him that willeth.
It is not of him that runneth. You were born into this world
spiritually dead. Your will is contrary to the
things of God. Man has a will. He has a will. The problem is it's not free.
It's bound to his nature. And until God gives you a new
nature, you will never come to Christ. You did not choose me,
I chose you. You see, that's why regeneration,
the miracle of regeneration, the miracle of grace must necessarily
take place before anyone can believe. The natural man goes
to the Bible with the presupposition that his faith is the effectual
cause of his salvation. I'm going to believe God. And
as a result of my faith, God's going to apply to my account
all the things that Christ did. God loves me, Christ died for
me, I've got a free will, all I've got to do is believe, and
then I get everything. Faith is a miracle of grace.
For by grace are you saved through faith, and that faith is not
of yourself, it is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man
should boast. God has to give us faith. And
everyone that He chose in the covenant of grace will be made
willing in the day of His power. We said in the first hour, He's
going to say to Matthew, who's sitting there at the money changer's
table buying his own business, hey, you, follow me. And Matthew
just got up, left it all, and followed after Christ. Follow
me. I'm going to make you a fisher
of men. He left his nets, followed after Christ. Our God is absolutely sovereign.
He's omnipotent. Oh, don't be influenced by heresy. Don't hold to a creed or confession. Believe God. Believe God. So how do I know what a man believes
about the Bible? Just listen to what he says. By your words you shall be justified
and by your words you shall be condemned. Listen to what he
says. Turn with me to Matthew chapter
12. Matthew chapter 12. Verse 33, Either make a tree good, and
its fruit good, or else make a tree corrupt, and its fruit
corrupt. For the tree is known by its
fruit. Now, are you willing to inspect
the fruit of your life to determine whether or not you'd be a good
tree? That's the hypocrisy in religion.
The hypocrisy of religion is that everybody's inspecting one
another's fruit in terms of their outward behavior to determine
whether or not they're a good tree or a bad tree. And the very
ones who hold others to a high standard cannot meet the standard
for themselves. The Pharisees did that. You put
burdens on men that you cannot bear yourself. Isn't that what
the Lord said? Nothing's changed. People go around inspecting one
another's fruit. And yet, they wouldn't dare inspect
their own. So what is the fruit that he's
talking about? Look at verse 34. O generation of vipers, how
can you, being evil, speak good things? There's the fruit. It's the fruit of our lips. Who's
getting the glory for our salvation? Is it my free will? Is it God's
general offer and general love to everybody? What do I say about Christ? Whom
do men say that I am? Whom do you say that I am? What
say ye about Christ? All I can say is what has been
revealed in the scriptures. Look at verse, look at this.
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure
of the heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of
the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you
that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give
an account thereof in the day of judgment, for by thy words
thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
Now there's the fruit. There's the fruit. How do I know what a man believes
about the Bible? Listen to what he says. The Lord
even said that when they interrogated him and wanted to know what it
was he really believed. He said, ask them. They heard
me. Ask them. Their words will confirm
what I said. What do you say about Christ?
You see, What we say about the Lord Jesus
Christ will make manifest in our own hearts whether or not
we are approved or not approved. Do we believe the opinions of
men that God sent in order to distinguish the difference between
those who are approved and those who are not? Or do we believe
what God has said about Christ? Turn with me to 1 John chapter 4. Verse 1. Again, I want you to know beyond
any shadow of a doubt that you're approved of God. I want it to
be made manifest in your heart. I want it not to matter whether
other people think you're a Christian or not. Let them think you're
reprobate. Truth is, if you hold to the gospel, the Pharisees
are going to say the same thing about you that they said about
the Apostle Paul. And you'll be able to say, what they call
heresy? That's the God I worship. Now,
I've read it both ways. I don't know if it was Top Lady
that said it to Wesley or Wesley that said it to Top Lady. It
doesn't really matter. But the statement was this, your
God is my devil. Your God is my devil. Doesn't
really matter which one of them said it, because the truth is
that our God is their devil and their God is our devil. Heresies,
the opinions of men God has sent into his church in order to make
manifest those who are approved. Are you approved? What do you
believe about Christ? And is the source of your faith
nothing but the Word of God? 1 John chapter 4 verse 1. Beloved,
oh beloved, oh child of God. I love that. The Lord speaks
so tenderly to his children, doesn't he? He doesn't browbeat
them. He doesn't intimidate them. He
speaks softly to them. He's meek and mild. He calls
them to His presence. He says, Oh beloved, believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits. Now what is He talking
about? He's talking about preachers.
Don't believe every gospel you hear. Don't believe every message
and every opinion of man that is espoused out in the world.
There's many Jesuses and many Gospels and many spirits. Believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits. How do we try them?
How do we try them? Just put them to this test. What saith the Scriptures? Are you faithful to the Word
of God? If they speak not according to the law and to the testimony,
it's because there's no light in them. Are they speaking faithfully
to the scriptures? Is this what God's word says?
And if you go to God's word without all those presuppositions, the
scriptures will be clear. Scriptures are not complicated.
They're not dark, deep secrets only to the unbeliever. What
do we see in the first hour from Isaiah chapter 42? He opens the
eyes of the blind. There was a time when the scriptures
were dark. We couldn't understand them.
We didn't know what they meant. But now we see that they're all
about Christ and who He is and what He's accomplished. Try the spirits. What did Paul
said about the Bereans? He said the Bereans were more
noble than those of Thessalonica. Why? Because they received the
word with gladness and checked the scriptures to see if what
I said was true. Now I'm not suggesting that we
have some sort of suspicious a condescending spirit of inspection
on all men. Receive the Word of God with
gladness, but make sure it's the Word of God. Check the scriptures. I can say, check the scriptures
on anything that I said. If you can show me from the Word
of God that I'm wrong, I'll recant. Check the scriptures. Yeah, but what about what Dr.
So-and-so said? What about this dead theologian?
What about it? It doesn't matter. What does
God say? Try the spirits to see whether
they be of God. For many false prophets have
got out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of
God. How am I going to know if they're
preaching the gospel? Every spirit that confesseth. How do I know if they're a gospel
preacher? How do I know if what I believe is approved of God? Whereby making
me approved of God. What do I confess about Christ? That Jesus The scripture says
there's many Jesus in the world, small J's. You shall call his
name Jesus, for he shall save his people. We believe in a savior,
a successful savior. Not one who's trying to save,
but one who actually accomplished the salvation of all of his elect. Do we confess that? Yes. And
we believe he's the Christ, the anointed one. The One who came
in the full power of the Spirit of God, anointed with the oil
of gladness above His fellows. He could not fail. He's the Christ,
the Messiah, the one Son of God, to put away the sins of His people
and reconcile them to God. Every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. The only man, the only man who
ever lived that has acceptance before God is Jesus Christ who
came in the flesh. He's God's perfect man, and is
the only man God's pleased with. How am I going to be accepted
before God? To be found in Him. To be found
in Him. Not having my own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that righteousness which is by the
faith of Jesus Christ. And every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus, the successful Savior, the omnipotent God, the
Christ, has come in the flesh, that I can add something to what
He did in His flesh, that the works of my flesh and my will
somehow make what He did work for me, that's what it is to
deny that He came in the flesh. is not of God, and this is the
spirit of Antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should
come, and even now already is in the world." The counterfeiter
is already here. He was here when John wrote this,
and he's here now. That's his profession. Satan's
profession is that of a counterfeiter. And he's coming out with a whole
lot of them. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them because
greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
You'd be deceived just like them. Who made you to differ? What
do you have that you have not received? You see, you're not
any better. You'd be just as deceived. You'd
believe the lie. But here's the difference. He
that's within you is greater than he that's within the world.
He's not going to let you be deceived. If it were possible,
even the elect will be deceived. Why is it not possible? Because
the Spirit of God is in you. Causing you to know that all
the hope of your salvation is in Christ. They are of the world. They are
of the opinions of men, heresy. Therefore, speak they of the
world. The arguments that they give
for their position don't come from scripture. They come from reason. They come
from logic. They come from the opinions of
dead theologians. They come from confessions and
creeds. They speak from the world. And the world heareth them. How
do I know that I've been made manifest? How do I know that
I'm approved? How does my approval made manifest
in my heart? I can't believe that. I can't
believe it. I would if I could, but I can't. We are of God. He that knoweth
God, heareth us. And he that is not of God, heareth
not us. Hereby know we the spirit of
truth and the spirit of error. Where does your hope lie? In the opinions of men? or in the glorious person revealed
in God's Word of Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God. Now I want you to turn back with
me to our text quickly in conclusion, please. If you read this whole chapter
in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, the latter part of this chapter
where we started to the end, he's talking about what was taking
place in the church during the celebration of the Lord's table.
And that there were divisions and schisms and heresies among
them. And in verse 29, he tells us
the reason for it. For he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself." Now what
is it to eat and drink of the Lord's table unworthily? Is it
as some would say? You know, you need to really
do some self-inspecting. Make sure that you don't have
any sin in your heart. Make sure that you've repented
of everything. There's not enough time in the
day for you to repent of everything. You don't even know what you've
said, what you've done anyway. How are you going to repent of
something you don't even... Father, forgive them, they know not what
they do. So what is the sin? What is it
to eat damnation? What is the heresy? The last
phrase in that chapter, in that verse. Not discerning the Lord's
body. If your discernment, if your
discernment is according to the words of and the opinions of
men, If your discernment is that God loves everybody, Christ died
for everybody, God wants everybody to be saved, you've got a free
will, your faith is the instrumental cause of your salvation, and
whatever other opinion you're holding to, not consistent with
the scripture, but held to because of the confessions of men. You haven't discerned the Lord's
body. Discerning the Lord's body is to know that the whole body
of Scripture is about the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the volume of the book, it
is written of me. And all my hope for being approved
of God is bound up in the glorious body an accomplished work of
the Lord Jesus Christ. I've got no place else to go,
no place else to go. If the Lord gives you that kind
of faith, he will manifest your approval to your heart and you'll
be able to rejoice in Christ. Our Heavenly Father, we're so
very thankful for Your Word and know how we pray that Your Holy
Spirit now would give to us hope in Christ. For it's in His name
we pray. Amen. Number 18, the spiral hymnal. Let's stand together. Number
18. We'll sing through the refrain just as if
it was verse 2. Hmm. God gave his holy inspired word
for only one great end. The prophets and apostles, too,
revealed the sinner's friend. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. The prophecies of old record
God's wondrous mighty deeds Those deeds of power and of grace Set
forth the woman's seed The prophets all reveal our Lord as prophet,
priest, and king. The types the great redemption
show, Christ's blood and grace now bring. Behold the Lamb, the Baptist
said, the sin-atoning One. As it was promised long before,
God's Son as man has come. Our substitute obeyed the law,
then died and rose again. And in his word our Savior said,
Rejoice, I come again. Okay.