Majestic sweetness sits enthroned
upon the Savior's brow. Number 52 in the hardback temple.
Let's all stand. Majestic sweetness sits enthroned
upon the Savior's brow, His head with radiant glories crowned,
His lips with grace o'erflow, His lips with grace o'erflow. No mortal can with Him compare
among the sons of men. Fairer is He than all the fair
who fill the heavenly train, who fill the heavenly train. He saw me plunged in deep distress
and flew to my relief. For me he bore the shameful cross
and carried all my grief, and carried all my grief. To him I owe my life and breath
and all the joys I have. He makes me triumph over death
and saves me from the grave. And saves me from the grave. Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Revelation chapter 21? Revelation 21. That was a good
hymn we just sang. I hope the Lord will enable us
to set our affections on heavenly things. So much of his word is written
in order to get us to look beyond the temporal to the eternal. Our Lord told the disciples,
he said, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God,
believe also in me. For in my father's house are
many mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I go and prepare a place for
you so that where I am, there you may be also. Comforts you one another with
these words, how oftentimes we read that. So much of religion
is focused on trying to get folks to clean up their lives, live
better lives, live happier lives. What does the Lord say? Here
it is, Revelation 21, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away,
and there was no more sea, no more separation, no more conflict,
no more turbulence, no more trouble. And I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as
a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. And that's Christ. He's the one
who tabernacled among us. And he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former
things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne
said, behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write,
for these words are true and faithful." This is not the wishful
thinking of a wide-eyed prophet. This is the word of God. John,
after having this vision, concludes, look at the last, next to the
last verse of chapter 22. He which testifieth of these
things saith, surely I come quickly. And what'd John say? Even so come, Lord Jesus. Oh, come, come. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we're so
bound to this earthly life. We confess to you, Lord, that
our flesh is wrapped up in the temporal troubles of this world. Oh, how we need for you to minister
grace to our hearts and cause us, through the eyes of faith,
to look beyond These things that are temporal. These things that
are passing away. To set our affections on things
above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Lord,
to have hope. Expectation. Joy and peace and
knowing that he has succeeded in preparing for us a place.
And that he will come again and receive us unto himself. that
where you are, Lord, there we may be also. We ask it in Christ's
name. Amen. Let's all stand together again.
We'll sing hymn number 116 from the softback temple, 116. My God, I would confess my sin,
but where shall I begin? All that I think or say or do
is sin. and only sin. My righteousness and my good
works I now renounce as vile. Arising from my sinful heart,
my noblest works are vile. Within my loathsome heart I see
a den of all that's vile. A pit of dark iniquity, my heart,
my heart is vile. A helpless, worthless sinner,
Lord, I fall before your throne. O God, be merciful to me, a sinful
wretch undone. I know that if you will, you
can, by your almighty grace, save me, a wretched sinner, Lord,
and all my sins erase. I plead Christ's blood, his precious
blood, and nothing but the blood. Be pleased, great God, for Jesus'
sake, to save me by the blood. Please be seated. I talked this morning to Jeff
in England and he asked me to extend to you his and his wife's
warm greetings. They watch our services every
week and they were concerned when we were offline a few weeks
ago but are very thankful and He was especially complimentary
of our song leader. He and his wife love Tom. They
love your singing, brother. And he said to tell Tom to get
rid of that facial hair. It looks better without it. And
I told him, I said, I hadn't even noticed. I didn't know he
had any. He did. He did. If you'll turn with me in your
Bibles to Hebrews chapter 9, Hebrews chapter 9, the gospel is the answer to everything. Everything. It is. I've become
more and more convinced of that. There's no hope in trying to
figure out anything outside of the gospel of God's free grace
in the glorious person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Did he not
say, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
and all these other things will be added unto you. The battle's not yours. it's
the Lord's. And if he's going to get the
victory, it will be from the gospel. From the gospel. Now in Hebrews chapter 9, we
have the answer to three most important questions relating
to the gospel. In these few verses, beginning
in verse 12 and going down through verse 15, We have the what, the
how, and the why of the gospel. The gospel of God's free grace
is all about the what he did, the how he did it, and the why
he did it. It's not about the historical
events as true and glorious as they are. Israel knew the acts
of God. Moses knew his ways. People think, well, I believe
in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, so
I must be a Christian. And they don't know the what,
the how, and the why of the gospel. Those three questions are answered
in these few verses. And if the Spirit of God is pleased
to answer those questions for us, then we'll have some understanding,
we'll have some hope, we'll have some peace as to what it is God's
doing, what it is He's accomplished for His glory and for the salvation
of His people. is it that the Lord Jesus Christ
accomplished. Here it is, look at verse 12.
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood,
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. Now that's what he did. That's
what he did. He didn't shed his blood in order
to make an offer of salvation. He shed his precious blood in
order to obtain, in order to secure redemption that is eternal. Now, for us to understand these
verses, perhaps it would be good for us to go back to the beginning
of this chapter and understand what the Lord is telling us in
light of the Old Testament types and shadows. Verse one, we'll
just read these quickly. Verse one, then verily the first
covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly
sanctuary. He's drawing on the types, the
pictures of the Old Testament with the tabernacle. and the
ceremonies that were practiced in that tabernacle. For there
was a tabernacle made, the first wherein was the candlestick,
Christ is the light of the world, the table, he's the one that
we sit with and feast with. I will enter in and go out with
him and they will sup with me. The shewbread, he is the bread
of life, which is called the sanctuary, the holy place. That's what this, that's what
all these, all these things were there. Everything pointing to
Christ in that tabernacle. And after the second veil, the
tabernacle, which is also called the holiest of all, now through
the second veil was the holy of holies. So daily, the priests
were making sacrifices in the outer sanctuary. And once a year,
the high priest, by himself, went into the holies of holies,
where was the Ark of the Covenant and the mercy seat, and made
the blood atoning sacrifice for the sins of God's people. Now
that happened for 1,500 years, from the time that Moses built
the Ark until the coming of Christ. which had golden censer and an
ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded,
and the tables of the covenant." So now this ark, this box that
was made out of shittum wood, which I understand was like a hard, what is it, ebony, black
hard wood that wouldn't rot. picturing the humanity of the
Lord Jesus Christ, overlaid, covered completely with gold,
picturing his humanity, his deity. Inside this box were three items. There was the pot of manna, picturing
the Lord Jesus Christ as our prophet, the bread of life, the
one who came down from heaven. That's what I need. I need a
word from God. I need to know how to make sense
of my life. And the only way that's going
to happen is if the prophet of God, the prophet of God, speaks
the word of God to my heart. So there's the manna, there's
the bread, and then there's Aaron's rod that had budded, and that's
a picture of the priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ. I need
a priest. I need one who can intercede
to God on my behalf. And then you have the tablets
of the Ten Commandments. And that represents the kingship
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the one that gave the law.
He's the one that fulfilled the law. So we have prophet, priest,
and king. Now that's what we need. If we're
to be saved, we need a king that can also be our prophet and can
also be our priest. And all that is pictured in this
Old Testament tabernacle. And the priest would go in, look
at verse 5, and over it the cherubim of glory shadowed the mercy seat
of which we cannot now speak particularly. Well, I can. I
can tell you one thing for sure. Those cherubim that guarded that
mercy seat, the high priest went in once a year and he made a
blood sacrifice on the mercy seat. And God said, here I will
meet with you. They took the blood of the spotless
lamb and put it on that mercy seat and and God met with them
and put away their sins through that sacrifice. Symbolic, putting
them away until the coming of the Lamb of God. What were the
cherubims? There are many times in the Old
Testament where God would send one angel in order to destroy
an entire army that stood up against the people of God. Now
the cherubims in the scriptures are the commanders of the angels. So now what do we have? We have
two cherubim hovering over this mercy seat. What is God saying?
Don't bring anything to this mercy seat other than the blood
of the spotless lamb. Don't bring your works. You'll
have to deal with these cherubim. And you don't want to have to
do that. They are guarding the mercy seat for the purity of
the sacrifice and nothing can be added to it or taken away
from it. So the Lord's given us these pictures. Now look at
what he says. Verse 6, Now when these things were thus ordained,
the priest went always into the first tabernacle, accompanying
the service of God. But unto the second went the
high priest alone, once every year, not without blood, which
he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people. So he
had to take a blood sacrifice and atone for his own sins and
then make a sacrifice on the mercy seat for the sins of the
people of Israel. The Holy Ghost, this signifying
that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a
figure Now what the Lord's making clear here is all these things
were just shadowy types. They weren't the substance. They
weren't the real thing. The real thing is now what He's
going to reveal, which was a figure for the time then present in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not
make Him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the
conscience. None of these shadows would take
away the guilt and shame of sin. They were picturing what would
take place when the Lord Jesus Christ came and was successful
in doing that. Which stood only in meats and
drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances imposed on
them until the time of reformation. The time of Reformation, I was
talking to somebody this morning and they were talking about the
Reformation and I said, this is the only place this word is
used in the Bible, right here. The only place you're going to
find it. And I made the statement to them that what has been popularly
dubbed as the Protestant Reformation was not a Reformation at all.
It was a revival. and the gospel was preached and
the Lord was pleased. But you don't reform error. The Catholic Church was never
reformed and to this day it's not been reformed. You don't
reform error. But that's, the Lord's talking
about bringing in something new now. Taking that which was one
way and making it something else. It's completely reformed. The old covenant types are reformed
in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now he
says, but Christ being come and high priest of good things to
come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building. Now what tabernacle is he talking
about? He's talking about his body. He's talking about his
flesh. He's talking about that incarnation
of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ made in the likeness of
sinful flesh and yet without sin. made of a woman, made under
the law. Here's the Lord Jesus Christ. And he says, now, that Old Testament
tabernacle was but a type of what was going to be fulfilled
in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's our hope. We don't practice those ceremonies.
We don't go back and try to reenact those things. We look in faith
to the person that fulfilled all those types. neither by the blood of bulls
and goats, but by his own will. He entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." Now that's
what he did. That's what he did. He obtained
eternal redemption for us. Now we saw this past Sunday in
dealing with, or actually I guess it was last Wednesday night,
in dealing with eternal life. Notice in verse 14, he talks
about the eternal spirit, and in verse 15, he talks about eternal
inheritance. There's our three points, eternal
redemption, eternal spirit, and eternal inheritance. That's the
how, that's the what, that's the how, and that's the why of
the gospel. Though our redemption was secure
in the covenant of grace, in the sovereign purpose of God,
it still had to be obtained in time. It had to be obtained in
time. The fact that God has purposed
to save and elect people does not negate the necessity of regeneration. We have to be born again. The
fact that God has purposed everything in Providence does not negate
the necessity for prayer, for preaching, for witnessing. You see, we don't We don't look
to those things which are eternal and use them as an excuse to
not do those things that are necessary in time. We don't look
to God's sovereignty to justify a spirit of disobedience or irresponsibility. We don't do that. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ
was the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world,
but that did not negate the necessity of him dying on a Roman cross
2,000 years ago. So, though everything that happens
in time has already happened in eternity, yet these things
are necessary to take place in our experience and in time. And
so what he's saying now is that what the Lord Jesus Christ came
into this world to do was to obtain, was to obtain, to procure,
to find by diligent search. He didn't come to make an offer
of salvation. He came in order to secure the
salvation of his people. That's what he came to do. We have not a high priest that
cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in
all ways tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us, therefore,
come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and to
find grace in our time of need. Here's what the Lord is telling
us. Come. Come. I've obtained eternal redemption
for you. And the throne of grace has been
established by my work. And my people have been paid
for by the precious blood that I shed on Calvary's cross. And
I did not bring anything before God other than my blood. I'm
a faithful high priest. That high priest in the Old Testament
could not bring anything to the mercy seat other than the pure
blood of that spotless Lamb. And what the Lord Jesus Christ
is telling us here is that what I came to do was to obtain, to
secure, to make sure the eternal redemption of my people. How often did he do it? Once. Once. Once and for all. He suffered the full wrath of
God's justice. He laid down his life for his
sheep. And in doing so, he obtained
eternal redemption for his people. It's done. It's finished. Redemption
is paid for. Oh, there is a fountain filled
with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. Sinners. plunge beneath that flood, lose
all their guilty stains. This is what he came to do, to
obtain eternal redemption. Zechariah put it like this in
Zechariah chapter 13, in that day there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for sin and for uncleanness. That's what he came to do. And
that's what he accomplished. He redeemed his elect. He redeemed his people. And he
says to us, come. It's been redeemed. I did it
once and for all. I went into the holy place. I
entered into the very presence of God. And just like God told
Moses in the Old Testament, here I will meet with you. So God
says to you and me, here I will meet with you. I won't meet with
you anywhere else. This is the only place. How? How did the Lord obtain this
eternal redemption? Well, He did it through the shedding
of His blood. But look at verse 13 and 14. For if the blood of
bulls and goats and the ashes of heifer sprinkled the unclean
sanctifyeth to the purifying of the flesh, In the Old Testament,
these types and pictures, God reckoned them to be sufficient
to the setting apart of fleshly things. Done in faith, looking
to Christ, look at verse 14. How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without
spot to God, That's how He did it. He did it through the Eternal
Spirit. The Lord Jesus is called the
Christ. That means He's the Anointed
One. It means He is the Messiah. It means He came to this earth
in the full power of the Spirit of God. He's been anointed with
the oil of gladness above His fellows. He came in the full
power of God in order to accomplish the salvation of his people.
What did he do? He obtained eternal redemption.
How did he do it? He did it in the power of the
Spirit of God. No question about it. Look at
me to Luke chapter 4. Luke chapter 4. When our Lord began his public
ministry in Nazareth, He went first to that place where everyone
knew him. And in verse 16, it says in Luke
chapter four, and he came to Nazareth where he'd been brought
up. And as his custom was, he went
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto
him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book,
he found the place where it was written, Isaiah chapter 61, the
spirit of the Lord is upon me. How did he obtain eternal redemption? He obtained it in the power of
the Spirit of God. He says, the Spirit of the Lord
is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives and the recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
to preach the year of jubilee. The acceptable year of the Lord.
That's the year of Jubilee. What happened in the year of
Jubilee? All debt was cancelled. All the
property went back to its original owners. And all slaves were set
free. And that's exactly what the Lord
said I came to do. I came in the power of the Spirit
of God and working through the Spirit, I cannot fail. I cannot
fail. That's how I did it. That's how
I did it. Go back to our text. I love what the woman at the
well said to the Lord Jesus Christ when He said to her, if you knew who it was that saith unto thee,
give me to drink, you would ask of him, and he would give it
to you. And he's revealing himself to her as the Messiah. And what
does she say? She says, we know that when Messiah
comes, he'll lead us into all truth. And here she was standing
there talking to the anointed one, the Christ. But even as
a Samaritan, she knew that when Messiah came, he was gonna fix
everything. Why? Because he was going to
have the power of God on him to accomplish what God sent him
to do. That's exactly what the Lord
Jesus Christ did. How much more shall the blood
of Christ, verse 14 in our text Hebrews 9, offered himself without
spot to God? The Lord Jesus Christ is not
offering himself to you. He's not offering himself to
me. He offered himself to God. It was up to God to accept the
offering or to reject the offering. It's not up to you and me to
accept the offering or to reject the offering. He came in order
to obtain eternal redemption for us. He came as the Messiah
in the full power of the Holy Spirit to offer himself to God. Did God receive the offering
that he made? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. God saw the travail
of his soul, the scripture says, and was satisfied. He received
him. to purge your conscience from
dead works. Now, what are dead works? I'm
gonna tell you what dead works are. People say to me all the
time, they say, well, aren't we supposed to try to keep the
law? Every attempt that you make to keep the law of God, dead
works. Dead works. The law's been kept. You know, you can't try to keep
the law of God. That's dead works. We love God's
law. We wish we could keep God's law.
We know that we have kept the law of God in the person of our
substitute. And we look in faith to Him.
So He's delivered our conscience. You see, What does your conscience
say to you when you make an attempt to keep the law of God? What does your conscience say
to you when you try to keep God's law? You say, well, I need to
try, don't I? Go ahead, try it. And then if
you're a child of God, after you've done everything you can
do to do your best in keeping the law of God, what does your
conscience say to you? How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God, in order to purge our conscience? See, when I'm looking to Christ,
there's now, therefore, no condemnation. The only time my conscience is
clear is when I'm looking to Christ. If I'm looking to the
law and my attempts to keep the law, if I've got any understanding
of the law of God, my conscience is saying to me, guilty! Guilty! The Lord came in the power of
the Spirit of God in order to purge our conscience of all those
dead works and to set us free to serve God in the power of
His Spirit. What is it to serve God in the
power of the Spirit? It's to look to Christ in faith. Now, this gospel cannot be preached
without somebody thinking, well, that's going to lead to sinful
life. That's just antinomianism. You know what I've come to realize?
I can't fix that. And I'm not going to try to hedge
up the gospel of God's free grace in order to defend the person who thinks we're promoting
lawless living. If somebody wants to use the
gospel in order to defend their own lawless living, they're going
to do it. They're going to do it. And if somebody wants to
think that we're preaching antinomianism, I need to be free. I need to
be free from the law. I need to be free to love Christ.
I need to be free in faith to look holy to Him and to quit
trying to keep the law. You can't keep it. You know,
this silly illustration I came up with Sunday. You just stand
on the floor and jump up and down. Somebody asks you, what
are you doing? What are you doing? Well, I'm trying to jump over
the moon. That's about what it's like. Your attempts to keep the law
is about like jumping up and down a few inches off the floor
in an attempt to jump over the moon. What? No. Christ kept the law. He's the end of the law for righteousness. Oh, what liberty! What liberty
there is in Christ. The Spirit of God has made you
free. You're free indeed. That's why He came. He had the
power of the Spirit of God on Him, enabling Him as the Messiah
to do everything that God demanded by the law of God. He kept the
law for us. Has your conscience been purged
from dead works to serve in freedom and enjoy the living God? And for this cause, For this
cause, he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means
of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the First Testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance. This is the why. The what he did was that he obtained
eternal redemption. The how that he did it, he did
it as the Christ through the eternal spirit. And the why he did it was to
give to his people eternal inheritance, eternal inheritance. He didn't do it to make you a
better person. Matter of fact, if the Lord's
pleased to reveal himself to you, you will come to see how
vile you are in a way that you never saw before. And as you grow in grace and
in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, you're not going
to see yourself getting better. He did not come in order to give
you a better life. To the contrary, if the Lord's
pleased to save your soul, he's going to stir up troubles that
you never had before. Not the least of which is going
to be the conflict between your own flesh and your spirit. He's going to put you at odds
with everything in this world. And all of a sudden problems
are going to start coming that you never knew anything about
before. No, he came to give us an eternal
inheritance. Turn with me to 1 Peter, over
just a few pages to the right. 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 3. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. which, according to his abundant
mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead. When the Lord Jesus Christ was
raised from the dead, all those for whom he died were raised
with him." To an inheritance. The rich young ruler said, Lord,
what must I do to inherit eternal life? The testator is the one whose
will determines who gets the inheritance. You can't say, what
can I do to get an inheritance? It's the one who draws up the
will. I was talking to a brother some
time ago and he had some property and he divided it up among his
children and he put in his will. Some of his children were unbelievers.
And he put in his will, if any of my children contest any point
of this will, this will and testament, their names are to be taken out
and they don't get anything. He put that in his last will. Because he knew they were going
to fight over things. And, you know, so it's up to the testator. It's up to the one who distributes
the property to decide who gets what. What must I do to inherit eternal
life? Here's the inheritance. To an
inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved
in heaven for you. Oh, who are kept by the power
of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last
time wherein you greatly rejoice. Though now for a season, if need
be, you are in heavy heaviness, through manifold temptations,
that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than
gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be
found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus
Christ." This is why the Lord Jesus Christ
came. He didn't come to make your life
easier. He didn't come to make your life
better. He came to give you life. Life that no one in this world
will ever know apart from Christ. It's called an eternal inheritance. And it's for the called. Notice
back in our text in verse 15, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance. Turn to me to Galatians chapter
three and we'll close with this passage. Galatians chapter three. Verse 18, for if the inheritance
be of the law, it is no more of promise, but God gave it to
Abraham by promise. Abraham lived a long time before
the law. Wherefore then sayeth the law, I'm sorry, wherefore then serveth
the law? Why did God send the law? If the promise was given
long before the law, why did God send the law? It was added
because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom
the promise was made. Who's the seed? It's Christ.
The law was given in order to keep Israel together as a nation
for those years between the exile and the coming of Christ. They
had the ceremonial law, the civil law, the moral law, all that
was given in order to hold them together as a nation until the
Messiah came. And it was ordained by angels
in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator
of one, but God is one. This is a covenant that God made. Is the law then against the promises
of God? God forbid. For if there had
been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness
would have come by the law. There's no law. There's no law,
no attempt to keep the law that's going to give life. Eternal life
comes because the Lord Jesus Christ has obtained eternal redemption
through the eternal spirit for eternal inheritance. But the
scriptures have concluded all under sin that the promise by
faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. Here's
the promise. It's eternal inheritance. But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up under the faith, which should afterwards
be revealed. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster.
We were under the authority of the law before faith came. But now that faith has come,
we're now under Christ. You've seen this before. I've
pointed out many times, but to bring us is in italics doesn't
belong there. that Christ did not come. The school, the law does not
bring us to Christ. Christ brings us to Christ. He
brings us to Christ. He fetches us with the gospel
and with the Holy Spirit. Now we're under Christ that we
might be justified by faith. But after that faith has come,
we're no longer under the schoolmaster. You're not under the law. The
promise of the internal inheritance has nothing to do with your law
keeping. It has everything to do with
the fact that He kept the law for us. And the promise is received
as we are enabled by the grace of God to trust Him, to believe
Him, to rely upon Him, to rest in Him, to rejoice in who He
is and what He's accomplished in obtaining eternal redemption
by the power of the eternal Spirit to give to us an eternal inheritance. The what, the how, and the why
of the gospel. What a glorious gospel it is.
Let's pray together. Our Heavenly Father, we ask that
you would bless your word to the hearts of your children.
Cause us to rest in what the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished.
Believing that he had the full power of God to do it. And then
to. To receive Lord. The promise
of eternal inheritance. We ask it for Christ's sake.
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terminal. Let's stand together. God gave his holy, inspired word
for only one great end. The prophets and apostles, too,
reveal 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 a woman's seed. 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 prophets all reveal our Lord
as prophet, priest, and king. The types the great redemption
show, Christ's blood and grace now bring. The Bible is a book
of Christ. It only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ. It only speaks of Him. Behold the Lamb, the Baptist
said, the sin-atoning One. As it was promised long before,
God's Son as Man has come. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. Our substitute obeyed the law,
then died and rose again. And in his word our Savior said,
Rejoice, I come again. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. th th