so so Good morning. Let's open this
second hour with the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin.
Let's all stand together. It was sovereign grace that fixed
on us to save a chosen race. The blessings that abound to
us To grace alone we trace. T'was grace that brought the
Savior forth to be the sacrifice, to sacrifice. the law of God
and pay our ransom price. T'was grace that nailed him to
the cross to suffer in our stead. To bear the burden of our guilt,
the dear Redeemer bled. T'was grace that sent the Holy
Ghost to quicken us when dead. And by almighty drawing grace,
to Jesus we were led. It is grace that brought us to
the Lord when we were gone astray. It is grace that watches over
us and guides us day by day. T'will not be long, and we shall
see our Savior face to face. And then forever we will praise
His free and sovereign grace. Please be seated. Good morning. Our scripture reading
this morning is found in Isaiah 53, a very familiar passage. There's
a reason why it's familiar. It shows us Christ and his ministry
in the gospel so clearly. Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the
Lord revealed? Of course, we know that that's
the Lord Jesus Christ. The arm of the Lord too has to
be revealed. For he shall grow before him
as a tender plant, as a root out of dry land. He hath no form
nor comeliness. And we shall see him. There is no beauty that we should
desire Him. Nothing attractive. Without the
God's grace, nothing attractive without the Holy Spirit showing
us who He is. He is despised and rejected of
men. These men include us, women. So whenever it says we, it's
talking about us. It's not talking about the world.
It's talking about us. He was despised and rejected
of men and men of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we,
and we, you see this we, this is us. This is us. We hid as it were our faces from
him. And he was despised and we esteem
him not. We esteem him not. All true believers
know that we esteem him not in the past. Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him. And with his stripes, we are
healed. By what the father has done to
the son, we are healed. It was our transgressions. And
we, like sheep have gone astray. That's the word we again, that's
us. We have turned everyone his own way, and the Lord has laid
on him the iniquity of us all. This us is the same we, us the
believers. He was oppressed and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before the sheep shearers is done, so
he opened not his mouth. He could not open his mouth.
He took our sin. He could not protest. He could not defend
himself. He took upon our sin, and we were in him. So there
was no reason to protest. He was taken from prison and
from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he
was caught off out of the land of the living. For the transgression
of my people, he was stricken. Of his people only, not of the
whole world, but of his people he died for. He made his grave
with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he
had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
None of the sins were his, but he took upon himself our sin.
He was righteous. He gave up his righteousness
at that point to us, to the believers, to who he was representing, who
he was substituting for. Yet I please the Lord to bruise
him, and he hath put on him to grief. When thou shalt make his
soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall
prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in
his hand. This was God's will. This was
God's pleasure to punish our sin in him. He shall see the
travail of his soul. He shall be satisfied. God the
Father is satisfied. For his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore, I will divide him in portion with the great. He
shall divide the spoils with the strong, because he has poured
out his soul unto death. He was numbered with the transgressors.
He bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors. Father God, we come before you
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In his righteousness
and his death, we look to Lord Jesus Christ for all our salvation. Father, we thank you. that we
have a place here, that we can come together and listen to your
word, listen to your gospel, Father. But we need your Holy
Spirit. We need your Holy Spirit to point
us to Christ. We need your Holy Spirit for
any type of understanding of you, Father. We pray that your
Holy Spirit may be With Pastor Greg as he preaches Christ, with
all other preachers that preach Christ, especially for our sister
church in Sarasota, bless them. May the Lord Jesus Christ be
magnified among them, Father. And once again, we thank you
because we have a place, we thank you for Christ, and we beg that
your Holy Spirit may give us understanding, may give us clarity
of who Christ is and what he did for us. In Jesus' name we
pray. Amen. Let's stand together again and
sing hymn number 318, 318 in the hardbacked hymnal, 318. I need thee every hour, most
gracious Lord. No tender voice like thine can
peace afford. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour. Stay Thou nearby. Temptations lose their power
when Thou art nigh. I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee, O bless
me now, my Savior, I come to Thee. I need thee every hour in joy
or pain. Come quickly and abide or life
is vain. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour, Most
Holy One. O make me Thine indeed, Thou
blessed Son. I need thee. Oh, I need thee. Every hour I need thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior. I come to thee. Please be seated. We're going to be looking at
a few verses in the book of Galatians, if you'd like to turn with me
there in your Bibles. Galatians, we're going to begin
in chapter 2. Galatians chapter 2. I guess you could call this the
second part of the first hour, because I do want us to continue
to probe this question, what are you doing here? How prone
we are to go to the law. How prone we are, as Paul says
in chapter 2 verse 21, to frustrate the grace of God. To frustrate the grace of God. What can I do to improve my standing
with God? What can I do to increase his
love or his acceptance of me? What can I do to obligate his
blessings? What can I do to win his approval? As Brother Noah told me after
the first hour, he said, my problem is that when the Lord asked me
that question, what are you doing here? That my immediate response
is, how can I get myself out of here? Isn't that the way we
are? Isn't that the way we are? What can I do to fix this? We are constantly prone to frustrating
the grace of God. For if righteousness come by
the law, If our righteous standing before God, if our acceptance
before God, if the evidence of our salvation. You know, a lot
of people say, well, I know we're saved by grace, not by works.
And then they go back to their works in order to try to get
some assurance of salvation. You know, what's the evidence
that I'm saved? What am I doing and what am I
not doing? That's Mount Sinai. There's only one evidence for
salvation. Faith. Looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ in faith for all your righteousness before God is the
only evidence that there is. Faith is all the child of God
has. It's all he's got. He doesn't
have anything else. Not if he's honest. And it's all he needs. And it's never enough for the
unbeliever. He wants something else. something
tangible, something he can see, something he can do. And our
flesh is prone to that. And in so doing, we are doing
nothing but frustrating the grace of God. Oh, I don't want to frustrate
God's grace. Do you? I don't want you to frustrate
the grace of God. Lord, keep me from doing that. Cause me to find all my righteousness
in thy dear son. Cause me to know that what he
accomplished on Calvary's cross is sufficient. For if righteousness,
you see that verse? For if righteousness come by
the law, if it come by anything other than Christ, then Christ
has died in vain. If he didn't do it all, then
he won't do it at all. He's going to get all the glory. Now that's what this church at
Galatia was doing. There were men who came in behind
the Apostle Paul, and they affirmed that the Jesus of Nazareth that
Paul preached to you is the Messiah. He is the Christ. Believe what
he said about him. He's the long-awaited one. And
he's necessary for your salvation. But he's not enough. He's not
enough. He's not sufficient. You've got
to go back to the law. You've got to go back to Sinai.
You've got to measure your salvation. You've got to motivate your salvation. You've got to manipulate one
another's salvation by the law. And what the Lord's saying is,
that's frustrating the grace of God. For if righteousness
come by the law. The truth is that you and I have
never been able to present anything to God that He considers righteous. Never. There's, listen to this,
I know you've heard me say this before but it's so important
and it's amazing to me how many people can come and sit for years
and listen to the gospel and not hear. And not hear. There
is enough sin in your most sincere prayer to send you to a devil's
hell for all eternity. Now what are you going to do
about righteousness if that's true? How are we going to have any
righteousness before God if what I just said is true? I asked
someone recently, what is a sinner? And they told me, they said,
well, a person who's broken one of the Ten Commandments, that's
a sinner. You and I have never been able
to keep one of God's commandments for one moment. We've never been
able to present anything to God that is sufficient for His righteousness. That's why we need Christ. And
anything we do other than looking to Christ does nothing but frustrate
the grace of God. Now I have a frustrated walk. I admit that to you. Why? Because I'm constantly prone
to frustrate the grace of God. Now I'm a contradiction to myself.
And I frustrate myself all the time. Why? Because I look away from Christ. I look to something else as the
hope of my salvation. Paul said all we're doing is
frustrating the grace of God. Do not frustrate the grace of
God. Oh Lord, if that's going to be,
you're going to have to teach me again the gospel. Lord, would
you teach me again the truth of the gospel? Would you reveal
Christ in my heart again? And if you've never known Him,
Lord, would you be pleased to make Him known to me right now?
That I would find Him to be all my righteousness before God?
That what He accomplished on Calvary's cross was satisfying? We just read it from Isaiah 53.
Yugo just read it to you. God's satisfied. He's satisfied
with Christ. He's not satisfied with you.
He's not satisfied with me. The question that you and I have
to ask ourselves is, are we satisfied with what God's satisfied with?
Or do we want to add to what Christ has done? Take away from
what He's done. Every time we frustrate the grace
of God, We are saying that Christ died in vain. Look at verse 16. Three times
in the book of Galatians, Paul uses this term, God forbid. God forbid. We're gonna look
at those three verses of scripture and understand what he's talking
about that that serves to frustrate the grace of God. I don't want
to frustrate God's grace. I want to rest in Christ. I want
to have the joy of the Lord in my heart. I want to be able to
delight in Him and know that He is my righteousness before
God. Three times Paul says, God forbid. It's a very strong language in
the original language. It perished the thought. Oh,
put it out of your mind. It's not true. It's contrary
to the grace of God. Here's the first one. Look at
verse 16 in chapter 2. Knowing that a man is not justified
by the works of the law. Now the law is holy, just, and
good. But the law has never made anyone
sanctified. That's what holy means. It's
holy, but it won't make you holy. The law is just, but no one's
ever been justified by it. The law is good, but it's never
made anyone good. The law is a picture of the glory
of Christ. But it cannot save. We need one
to satisfy the law. No one's justified by the law.
No one's sanctified by the law. This law can do nothing but condemn. It can do nothing but judge us
as guilty before God. And that's all the law does.
Therefore, knowing this, that a man is not justified by the
works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for by
the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Oh, that's
so clear. That's so clear. If I go back to the law to seek
my justification before God, to seek my righteousness, to
seek hope of my salvation, to try to get assurance of my salvation,
I'm frustrating the grace of God. But if while we seek to be justified
by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore
Christ the servant of sin? And what he's saying there, if
salvation be determined by any other law keeping than what Christ
did, then we're saying that Christ is serving sin. He's the minister
of sin. You see, what he's saying is
that everything we do is sinful. How can we be justified by the
law? Because all of our attempts to keep the law of God fall short
of His glory. So are we suggesting then that
if keeping the law is somehow going back to the law is giving
me holiness and justification before God, then that means that
Christ is obligated to serve sin. God forbid! God forbid! He can't do that. He can't approve of anything
we do. Why? Because it's sinful. Man
at his very best state is altogether vanity. Our righteousnesses are
all as filthy rags before God. We are all as an unclean thing. We all, like sheep, have gone
astray. We've all turned to our own ways. Oh, wretched man that
I am! Are we suggesting that Christ
would be obligated to serve sin? To minister to sin? God forbid. You say, well, how do you know
that's what that verse, well, look at the context, look at
the next verse. For if I build again the things which I destroyed,
I make myself a transgressor. For I, through the law, am dead
to the law, that I might live unto God. And we're not without
law. We're not without law. This law
is the law of the Spirit. It's the law of grace. It's the
love of Christ that constraineth us. We don't, and you don't measure
that law, it's Christ that worketh in you, causing you to will and
to do his good pleasure. That's the law of the gospel.
That's what works in us. Oh, it's a much more powerful
law. And we don't look to that, we can't look to that law, it's
the fruit of the Spirit. Roman Galatians chapter 5, joy,
peace, long-suffering, temperance, patience. This is the ministry
of the Spirit of God in the hearts of God's people. It's what brings
us to Christ. It's the Spirit of God that He
sends to cause us to cry, Abba, Father, and to reveal to us the
glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. So where are we back to? Well,
we're back to where we were last Sunday. Lord, give us Thy Spirit. If you, being evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them who ask Him?
Lord, I want your Spirit. I want to walk in the Spirit,
not in the flesh. I want to walk by faith, not
by sight. You see, Paul's talking about
this law that he's talking about in Galatians is walking by sight. It's looking at what I do or
what I don't do as something to do with my salvation. And
when I walk by faith, I'm looking to Christ. I'm knowing that He's
my only righteousness before God. He's the only one that pleased
the Father. I am crucified with Christ. When
Christ died on Calvary's cross, the hope of my salvation is that
I was in Him. I was in His loins, He is the
seed of Abraham, and I was in Christ from the foundation of
the world. But when Christ went to Calvary's
cross, Paul said that I might know Him and the fellowship of
His suffering. Oh, that I might be more thoroughly
convinced by the Spirit of God, that when Christ died on Calvary's
cross, I was in Him. And that God is pleased with
what Christ did. He did not die in vain. We do
not frustrate the grace of God. We give to Him all the glory. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless,
I live. Yet not I. Yet not I. It's Christ that liveth in me.
Here's the new law. This is spiritual law, you can't
see it. You're looking for evidence for it in behavior, you're looking
for evidence for it in your circumstances, it's not gonna be there. The
eye of faith is the only thing that you have. It's all you've
got. Faith is the evidence of things
hoped for. And if the eye be single, then the whole body is
full of light. You can't be looking to Christ
and the law at the same time. You can't be looking to His righteousness
and your righteousness at the same time. You can't be looking
to His obedience and your obedience at the same time. I like what William Huntington
said about that. He said, if that's true, then believers are
just squinting all the time. You know, just trying to... No,
you can't do it if the eye be single. Frustrating the grace
of God is not having a single eye to Christ. You're not looking
to your works. You're not looking to your will.
You're not looking to your knowledge. You're not looking to the evidence
in your experience. You're setting your affections
on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of
God, not on the things of the earth. This is a work of the
Spirit. You can't get yourself here.
You can't get yourself here. This is a miracle. This is a
new birth. The Lord said to Nicodemus, you
can't see the kingdom of God unless you're born of the Spirit
of God. You can't see it. The life which I now live in
the flesh I live by my faith in the Son of God. That's not
what it says. I live by the faith of the Son of God. You see, it's
all His faithfulness. And our faith is not in our faith.
Our faith is in His faith. Our faith is in His faithfulness.
Our faith is in His righteousness. Our faith is in His accomplished
work, justifying us before God. That's where our faith is completely
in Christ. persuaded that He is able to
keep that which I've committed unto Him. What have you committed
unto Him? Everything! Everything! I've got no place
else to go. And if you haven't committed everything
to Him, if you're looking anywhere else, you're frustrating the
grace of God. Paul said, I do not frustrate
the grace of God. In our flesh, we do this all
the time, but here, right now, when you're hearing the truth
of the gospel, are you saying, as some people say, yeah, but. Yeah, I hear what the preacher's
saying, but you know, I got that experience that I had back there,
or I've got those good works that I, or I've got, you know,
I made this decision. Are you looking to anything other
than Christ alone? I told somebody this past week,
I said, well, you're not a sinner. You're not a sinner. He said,
well, breaking one of God's 10 commandments, that makes you
a sinner. If you think that's what makes you a sinner, you're
not a sinner. God hadn't made you a sinner. And I'm not judging
your heart, I'm judging your words. I said, everything you do, His
filthy rags before God. And he said, well, I don't believe
that. I said, well, you're not a sinner. You're not a sinner. I live by the faith of the Son
of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate
the grace of God. For if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ has died in vain. It's empty. We are the true circumcision
which worship God in the Spirit. Here's the law. The Lord told
that woman at the well, the Father seeketh them who worship Him
in Spirit and in truth. You've got to have the Spirit
of God. I've got to have the Spirit of God. We worship Him in the Spirit.
and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. No confidence. Everything I see,
there's no improvement, Lord. The more you look to Christ,
the worse you're going to get. If you're looking for improvements
in your life, then that tells me you're not looking to Christ.
The more you see of His righteousness, the more you're going to see
of your unrighteousness. You're just gonna seem to get
worse and worse and more and more dependent upon him The second one is found in chapter
3 verse 16 Now to Abraham and his seed Singular were the promises made. And what
Paul does in Galatians, what God's doing for you and me, let's
just forget about Paul, what God's doing for us is he's contrasting
the promises of the covenant to the law. And he's saying now
that Abraham and his seed were the promises made. Now Abraham
lived 450 years before Moses. Moses didn't, Abraham didn't
have the law. He had the law of the spirit. He had the promises
of God. He had the same promises that
Adam had in the garden, long time before the law came. He
had the same promises that Enoch had, who walked with God, the
same promises that Abel had. These men didn't have the law
of God. Noah didn't have the law of God.
They had the law written on their hearts. They had the law of the
Spirit. They had the law of grace. To
Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not,
and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which
is Christ. So the promises are not made
to a bunch of folks. They're made to Christ. The seed
of Abraham. What does that tell me? I've
got to be found in him. I've got to be married to him.
He's the only begotten of the Father. He gets the full inheritance.
The only hope that I have is that he's my husband. That I'm
united to him in faith. That by virtue of my union with
him, I get to enjoy the blessings of the covenant that God gave
to the seed, singular, of Abraham. And this I say, that the covenant
that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which
was 430 years after, cannot disannul that it should make the promises
of non-effect. The law doesn't, when the law
came 430 years after the covenant was confirmed to Abraham, the
law didn't make the promise of non-effect. The law and the gospel
are not contradictions to one another. One doesn't cancel out. They're both true. Look what
he goes on to say. For if the inheritance be of
the law, it is no more a promise, but God gave it to Abraham by
promise. Now where do you want to stand
before God? You want to stand before God in faith, believing
the promises that He gave to Christ. God was obligated to
keep every promise that He made to the Lord Jesus Christ. He
promised to give Him a bride, and what the Lord Jesus Christ
did obligated God. You and I can't ever obligate
God, but Christ did. He pleased him, he satisfied
his law, he did everything the Father sent him to do, and the
Father now is obligated to bless him with the fulfillment of those
promises. I'll give you an inheritance.
What is his inheritance? It's his bride. Where God's obligated
is to receive everyone that the Lord Jesus
Christ died for. That's what he's obligated to
do. Wherefore then serveth the law.
It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to
whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in
the hand of a mediator. God sent the law to Moses in
the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator
of one, but God is one. God was the mediator. That's
what he's saying. He's saying God is the one who
sent the law to Moses. Is the law then against the promises
of God? The law and the promises serve
two different purposes, but they are not a contradiction. That's
what he's saying, God forbid. They're not a contradiction.
They serve two different purposes. The law was sent because of transgressions. The law was sent in order to
make sin utterly sinful. The law was sent in order to
condemn, to judge. The promises are sent to save.
The Lord said, I did not come to judge the world, I came to
save the world. They're already judged by Moses. Moses accomplished
his purpose in bringing judgment. The law came by Moses, but grace
and truth was given by the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what he
sees contrasting law and promise. You see, you're either under
one or the other. You're not under the law, you're under grace.
You can't have it both ways. Paul said, if it is of grace,
it can no longer be of works, otherwise grace is not grace.
We can't mix the two. We try to mix the two, all we're
doing is frustrating the grace of God. It's one way or the other. Either Christ satisfied all the
demands of God's holy law. Either he's the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Or we're still under the law.
Condemned by the law. Judged by the law. God forbid, for if there had
been a law, verse 21, given which could have given life, verily
righteousness would have been by the law. If there was a law
that you could keep that would make you righteous before God,
then God would have given that law and we'd be righteous by
the keeping of the law. But there wasn't. Nothing wrong
with the law. The problem's with our ability
to keep the law. But the scripture hath concluded
all under sin." Has God made you a sinner? You
know, it's the first thing that the child of God experiences
when the Spirit of God is pleased to save them. They just, they
see themselves in light of the righteousness of God in Christ. And they know, they know that
they're completely dependent upon Christ. They have no righteousness
whatsoever of their own. They're dependent upon the promises
of God, which were yay and amen in Christ. Christ answered the
promises of God. But the scripture hath concluded
all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might
be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up by shut up unto faith, which should
afterwards be revealed. We were under the law. condemned
by the law, judged by the law. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster. Leave out those next three words,
they don't belong there. I heard people say, well, you
know, you have to preach the law to men in order to make them
to be a sinner. And the law then is the schoolmaster
that brings us to Christ. The law has never brought anyone
to Christ. Never. The law will force you away from
Christ. The strength of sin is the law. The law will drive you further
into sin, not to Christ. That's all the law is going to
do. What he's saying here is that
the schoolmaster had the responsibility of disciplining the children.
And then when the children, and the schoolmaster was a slave
in the household. When the children grew up, now
that slave has become their servant. And they're no longer under the
schoolmaster. He's saying you were under the
schoolmaster, now you're under Christ. Now you're under Christ. Which one do you want to be?
You want to be free? Where the spirit of Christ is,
there's liberty. There's freedom. The law can't
judge me anymore. The law can't whip me anymore.
The law can't discipline me anymore. I'm dead to the law. The law's
been satisfied. I'm alive unto God through faith
in Christ. I've got a better law now. I've
got the law of the Spirit. He's written His law in my heart.
The love of Christ is my law now. He's my guide. The law is not the believer's
rule of life anymore. Christ is. But after that faith has come,
we are no longer under a schoolmaster, for you are the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Christ is your law. He's your master. He's the one
you follow after. He's your righteousness. He's
all your justification before God. Christ really is all, and
He really is in all. Oh, Lord, would you reveal the
Lord Jesus Christ to me? Would you make Him? It seems
like maybe I've never seen Him before. Maybe I've never known
him. Sometimes I think I'm looking
through a glass dimly and sometimes I don't think I can see him at
all. Lord, would you reveal him to my heart? Would you cause
me to find him to be all my salvation and all my desire? All my desire? No one's ever come before God
and asked for that and he's turned them away. Never. Never. He said, if anyone come unto
me, I will in no wise cast him out. Problem is, men like being under
the law. They like being under the law.
It gives them something they can see. If they don't have faith
in Christ, then they walk by sight. And so it gives them some
sense of hope and gives them something to boast in. Not before
God, but they can boast before men that, yeah, there's certain
things I do and certain things I don't do and certain things
I've done. And the last, God forbid, is found in chapter six. Verse 14, but God forbid that
I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom
the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. So what does that mean? Crucifixion
was designed to be a very drawn-out and painful experience. It was a cruel form of judgment
and death. We have watched loved ones experience
a long, drawn-out death experience in the flesh. And that's my experience spiritually
in this world. I'm crucified. Crucified. Oh, how painful it is. This experience
of coming to Christ. This experience of frustrating
the grace of God, this experience of going back to Sinai, this
experience of struggling with my own flesh and my own sin,
it's a painful process. And it's never going to go away.
It's always going to be here. Until you depart from your body,
can you say, God forbid that I should glory in anything I've
done, that I should frustrate the grace of God, that I should
look to anything at Sinai, any of my experiences, the hope of
my salvation, that I should glory save in the cross of Jesus Christ
by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world. This pilgrimage that I've got
to experience in this world is a crucifixion. It's a painful,
painful walk. And the only moments of hope
that I have is when God the Holy Spirit enables me to find my
rest and all my salvation in the finished work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Our Heavenly Father, we confess to you that we are
prone in our unbelief to frustrate thy grace. We ask, Lord, that
you'd forgive us. We pray that you would take your
word now, cause us to believe that what the Lord Jesus Christ
did as the seed of Abraham fulfilled all thy promises, and that all
glory goes to him. For it's in his name we pray.
Amen. Let's stand together. Number
107 in the Sopheak Temple. Cheryl, it's 62 in the Hymns
of Grace. Crown him with many crowns. Three verses. 107. Free from the law's great curse,
in Jesus we are free. For Christ became a curse for
us and died upon the tree. The rituals of the law and all
the law's commands have been fulfilled in Christ the Lord,
established by His hands. No covenant with the law, with
us exist. Complete in Christ, we stand
by grace, both free and ever blessed. No more the dread of
wrath, no more constrained by fear. We worship and we serve
our God with gratitude and cheer. In Jesus we are free. In Jesus we are free. Free from all sin and from all
guilt, we live in liberty. We'll join the happy song with
all the blood bought from, and sing the praises of the Lamb
whose grace makes us His home. Thank you very much.