I wanted to tell you a little
bit about the trip last week down to Missouri. Whenever I
was at Danville this past conference, I knew one of the men, but I
met another man, and they both were from that area. He told
me they were from that area. I assumed they knew each other.
But it turned out they didn't know each other. And they were
there at the conference with their families and they didn't
meet each other at the conference and they didn't know they were
from the same area. And that neither one of them
had a pastor, they didn't have a place to meet where they are,
where they live. So somebody called them, called
one of them when they got back and told them there was another
gentleman at the conference with his family and he lived somewhere
there. You get the phone number and
it turns out these two men live 15-20 minutes from one another.
And so they and their families and several others that are in
the area that were looking for a place to worship began to get
together and since the conference at Danville and they've been
watching videos, they rented a place, they've been watching
videos on Sunday. They've got a preacher scheduled
to be there through June. So there, I think the Lord might bless
that. It seems, I was very encouraged by it. But they sent a card back
with me, and I want to read it to you. Since they're, you know,
it's a small group, there's, it reminded me so much of us
when we started. And I think they have 20 folks, kids and
all, you know. And it was very encouraging,
I think, to them to hear of what the Lord's done with us and all. So I didn't give them the information
on the plane ticket or anything like that. We just covered that
so that they wouldn't have that burden on them. But they sent
this letter back. I want to read it to you. Thank
you. And they said, thank you, folks,
so much for letting Clay come to preach the gospel to us and
for the help with his travel expenses. It was a true blessing. your brethren in Christ, Grace
Baptist Church of the Ozarks. So if you think about them, be
praying for them and pray the Lord will be pleased to send
them a pastor. Alright, now let's turn to Exodus chapter 3 where
we will begin. Exodus 3. I just want to read our text
one more time. Exodus 3 and verse 13. But Moses
said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel,
and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers has sent
me unto you, and they shall say to me, What is his name? What
shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I am
that I am. And he said, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you. Now this is Christ speaking flame
of fire in the burning bush, and he is declaring himself to
be God. I am that I am. He said in Isaiah 41.4, Who hath
wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? Who called his people from the
beginning? He said, I the Lord, the first and with the last,
I am. He said again in Isaiah 43, 10,
You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, my servant whom I have
chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that
I am. I am. Before me there was no
God formed, neither shall there be after me. And that is what
God is declaring, Christ is declaring, the Son of God to Moses. And
so we are going now back to John 10, and I was showing you in
the first hour that Each time Christ declared Himself, I am,
He declared Himself to be everything His people need for salvation.
Every time He declared Himself the I am, He declared Himself
to be everything His people need for salvation. And we saw Him
declare Himself, I am the bread of life. And then He said, I
am the light of life. And then He said, I am the door
to life. And as he was talking about being
the door, he said that his sheep do not hear false shepherds. Why? Well, it's because Christ
is the shepherd of his sheep. He is the shepherd of his sheep.
Look here in John 10, 11. This is something we need to
be saved. We need a shepherd. This is one of the reasons that
I said pray for that congregation down there because Because Christ
sends a man to preach and to lead the people, but it's really
Christ doing it. That man is an under-shepherd,
but it's really Christ the shepherd who is doing the work. And the
Lord's sheep need a shepherd. We need a shepherd. He says here,
John 10, 11, I am the good shepherd. I am. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. This is John 10, 11. The good
shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Verse 14. I am the
good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine. He said,
I am the good shepherd. How does he know his sheep? He
says in verse 15, as the father knoweth me, even so know I the
father. That's how he knows his sheep.
Just like he knows the father and like the father knows him.
And he says, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other
sheep I have which are not of this fold. He was speaking to
the Jewish people and he was saying, I have sheep here and
I also have sheep that are not here in this fold. He was talking
about his Gentile people. He said, them also I must bring
and they shall hear my voice. And there shall be one fold and
one shepherd. Look down at verse 24. He said,
then came the Jews round about him and said unto him, How long
dost thou make us to doubt? We always blame God for our problem. Natural man does. Why do you
make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you and you believe not.
The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
But you believe not, because ye are not of My sheep. As I said unto you, My sheep
hear My voice. My sheep hear My voice. And I
know them, and they follow Me. And I give unto them eternal
life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them
out of My hand. My Father which gave them Me
is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of
My Father's hand. I and My Father are one. And then the Jews took
up stones again to stone him because they heard him. They
heard what he was saying. He said, I am God. I am God. The Good Shepherd. I am the Good
Shepherd. Our Shepherd is God. The Lord
Jesus Christ is the Shepherd of His sheep. He is not the Shepherd
of all without exception. He is not the Shepherd of all
the natural sons of Israel. Just His elect Israel. make up the true children of
Israel. It's not our believing that makes
us sheep. He said there, you believe not
because you are not my sheep. That was the reason they believed
not. If a man goes through life and does not believe, that not
believing doesn't make him not be one of God's sheep. His not
believing is the result of him not being one of God's sheep. And yet he gets all the blame
for not believing because even though God chose His people in
Christ and He must call His people and cause them to hear His voice,
He's not doing anything to stop the rest from coming to Him.
It's not like He's preventing you from coming to Him. He's
not doing anything to stop you from coming to Him. So if a man
doesn't come to Him, it's the man's own fault. Because he wouldn't. He was not willing. And he couldn't
make himself willing. He wouldn't come. And he rebelled
because that's what he is, rebellion. And those that do come, they'll
give him all the glory for being the good shepherd and making
us come and calling us. In other words, if you're saved,
God gets all the glory. If you're not, it's your own
fault. And that's what he told them. He's the shepherd of the
elect, those that God chose freely by grace, There was nothing in
His people to make Him choose us. The illustration He gave
of the twins in Rebekah's womb, Jacob and Esau, He said they
had not done any good or evil. And the reason that He chose
them and made it known that He had chosen Jacob and not Esau
at that time, when they had not done any good or evil, was to
show that this is the purpose of God according to election.
Salvation is not of him that willeth. but it's of God that
calls. It's not of our will, it's not
of our running, it's not of our works, it's of God that shows
mercy. Now we need to hear that because
we need to be brought down from our high pedestal and our thoughts
of ourselves being so mighty. We need to be brought down to
the dust to see I need the mercy of God. That's the only time
a sinner will actually call out to God for mercy and truly seek
God is when he's been made to know without God he's nothing. And until God, unless God saves
him, he won't be saved. That's the only time a man really
will seek God. You hear men say, I've been seeking
God. You ain't been seeking Him if you ain't found Him. Because
those that seek Him, find Him. But it's because God has made
them seek Him, truly seek Him, by making them to know they're
nothing. They need Him for everything. So Christ didn't say there that
He laid down His life for all men. He said, I know my sheep
and I laid down my life for the sheep. That's what the Good Shepherd
does. And that's important because of what He accomplished. He finished
the work. That's why we don't preach that
He died for everybody. Because if He died for everybody,
and men obviously go through life and don't believe Him and
go to hell, then that's saying Christ failed at what He came
to accomplish. Because everybody He died for He will call them
and He will give them life. That's what He just declared.
My Father gave them to me, He said, and no man shall pluck
them out of My hand, He said, neither out of My Father's hand.
He will save His people. And we declare Christ died for
the sheep because Christ was doing a specific work for a particular
people on that cross. He wasn't just dying for sin
ambiguously. How would you even do that? He
was dying for a particular people for their sin. To make them righteous. And that's what He did. So we
preach that He is successful in what He did. Do you remember
whenever John had the book and nobody was able to open the seals
on the book and everybody was weeping and John was weeping
and they said don't weep. One of the elders said unto me,
Weep not. Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root
of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven
seals thereof. When you hear the word the lion,
you know, you think of this powerful lion, you know. And so you would
think he's fixing to look to the throne. He's going to see
this powerful lion on the throne and this sovereign holy God on
the throne. Well, that's what he saw. But
when he looked there, he said, I looked to the throne and in
the midst of that throne stood a lamb as it had been slain. That's where the power of God's
manifest. That's the wisdom of God. Christ came and as the Good
Shepherd, He was made of a woman because His people were flesh. He was made of a woman that He
might be made under the law because His people were under the law.
He was made of a woman that He might be made under the law so
that the sinless Savior would be proven sinless and holy, that
spotless Lamb of God, that He might go to Gethsemane and present
Himself to the Father and be made sin for His people. He looked
and saw a Lamb. He looked and saw somebody who
had made Himself to be one like those He came to save. The good
shepherd came to lay down his life for the sheep, and to do
so, he had to be made the sheep. Even for God to pour out justice
on him, righteously, he had to be made sin for his people. And he did that, that he might
then be made a curse. And have all the wrath of God
justly poured out on him in their room instead. Every one of those
are vital. He had to be made of a woman.
Because he had to be made under the law. Because he had to be
made sin. Because he had to be made a curse.
And he did all of those just as real as what it sounds like.
He was made of a woman. He was made sin just like he
was made of a woman. Just that real. And that's why when John
looked he saw in the midst of that throne a lamb. One with
his people. One with his sheep. A lamb that
had been slain. That's the wisdom and power of
God. That's the wisdom and power of God. Christ the wisdom and
power of God of how God can be just and be the justifier. You and I would have never, ever,
ever figured that dilemma out. How we could have slain all God's
people and at the same time given them life. We would have never
figured that out. How can I slay them so that I'm
just and at the same time give them life and save them? That's
Darius' dilemma. That's what Darius was faced
with. Remember, how can I kill this man and yet save this man?
Only God could do that. That's the power and wisdom of
God. And so in Christ we see that now because He's the express
image of God. He's the glory of God and He
by Himself purged our sins and sat down. He did it. And he entered
into the holy place because he had already obtained eternal
redemption. And you will hear men say this,
well the scripture says, he died the just one for the just, so
he could not have been made sin for us. Well, his laying down
his life and dying was him going to God like that spotless lamb
was presented to the priest, the just one. And in order for
him to be justly punished, he had to be made sin. But now know
this, it says then that he's holy, harmless, undefiled, separate
from sinners, made higher than the heavens. He didn't go into
glory with sin. Just like that lamb that was
sacrificed and had the sins of the people on it, that lamb didn't
go into the holy place with the sins of the people on it. That
lamb had one purpose, to die. And it died. And then what went
into the holy place? The high priest, that holy high
priest with the blood. He went into the holiest of holies.
And Christ, after He had put away our sin, He went into the
holiest of holies in God's presence with His own blood because He
had obtained eternal redemption for us. It was accomplished.
What I am saying to you is that is why we preach He died for
the sheep only because He did not make a stab at it. He did
not make us acceptable He didn't make us savable, He saved us. By one offering He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. And that's what He did. So He
is the Good Shepherd. Now let's go to the second I
Am, John 14. John 14. Another thing we need to be saved
is we need to be taught the Gospel. And we need to be taught the
Gospel over and over and over. Look here in John chapter 14
and verse 4. The Lord was telling the disciples,
the apostles, not to be sad. He said, Where there I go, you
know, and the way you know. In verse 5, poor Thomas, just
like you and me, Thomas said unto him, Lord, we don't know
where you're going. How can we know the way? Verse
6, Jesus said unto him, Watch what he is doing here. He is
teaching Thomas all over again. I am. I am. I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. No man cometh
unto the Father but by me, Thomas. Verse 9, Jesus said unto him,
Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known
me? The only way we know that Christ
is the great I am, that He is the way, the truth and the life,
is by Christ teaching us. He must teach us, I am the way,
I am the life, I am the truth. He is not only the truth, He
is the one who teaches the truth. That is what we say when we declare
Him to be our prophet. He is not only the one who is
preaching the message, or not only the message that is being
preached, He is the one preaching the message. He is the truth
in every way. And so He has to teach us. We
are just like Thomas and we are just like Philip. Show us something. Prove it to us. Show us something
and we will believe you. Have you heard this gospel this
long and you don't know who I am? He said. And so He teaches us
again. Over and over He teaches us again.
Why do you folks, if you were free like you say you are, why
do you all still come to hear the gospel preached every week,
week in and week out? Because we forget it every week.
That's why. We forget the gospel constantly.
We have to be taught all over again. We get out into the world
and we get defiled in the world and we get to looking at the
world and we get to living for the world and we get to thinking
the world is it. And we have to come here again to hear. This
world is nothing but a bunch of furniture that's going to
be one day, the whole house could be torn down. Christ says, I
am the way, I am the truth, and I am the life. And He teaches
us this over and over and over. And this, you know, He's the
one who taught His people, He taught Adam and Eve this. This
was Christ. That's why He says, I am. It's
because He doesn't have a beginning or an end. He's eternal. He's
the one that taught Adam this same message. Everybody that's
ever been saved was saved this one way. If He said, I am the
way, that's the way they were saved, everybody. When He says,
I am the truth, this is the truth they heard. When He says, I am
the life, this is the life whereby they had eternal life, everlasting
life. No sinner was saved differently in the Old Testament than they
were saved in the New Testament. They were under a different administration
and under a law under the old covenant. But those that were
saved saw in that lamb Christ the lamb. They saw in that high
priest Christ the high priest. They saw what the types were
meant to picture. The rest of them didn't. The
rest of them just saw this is how we're going to be saved by
doing this stuff. And it's the same today. People today, God's
people know He is the way and the truth and the life. We see
in all the types and shadows by Him teaching us. And we see
what these New Testament Scriptures are teaching us. That He is everything.
And the rest of the world don't see that. We didn't see that. You went to the Scriptures the
same way I went to the Scriptures. What do I need to do? And that's
all I ever read in the Scriptures. I never looked for Christ. I
only went seeing what do I need to do to be saved? And that's
all we thought was what do I need to do? Now you look at the Scriptures
and you've got the key of knowledge, Christ. And He has taught you
He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. So now you go and you
read it looking for Him. And you see, I see now why I
don't have to do anything to be saved. He saved me. He is
the Way. He is the Truth. He is the Life.
But as to I Am, He taught Adam and Eve that. He taught Abel
that. He taught Enoch that. He taught Noah that. He taught
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Moses. That's what He's declaring
to Moses. See, you can't go forth and Moses is a picture of a preacher
going forth and preaching the gospel through which Christ is
calling out His sheep and getting them out of bondage by His grace.
And you can't go forth and preach somebody if you don't know their
name. And so Moses said, whose name am I going to declare when
I go? And he said, I am, that I am. And so Christ came and
when He came and He walked this earth, He explained to us exactly
what that means. I am the bread. I am the light. I am the door. I am the good shepherd. I am
the life. I am the way, the truth and the
life. We have to be taught this over and over and over. Now,
in most pulpits today, what do you hear? And the average pulpit
today is what you've been hearing for 100 years in this country. Most pulpits today are talking
to you about what you need to do in order to bear fruit. That's
the message you hear in most pulpits. What you need to do
to bear fruit, because you ought to be bearing fruit. They give
a little lip service to Christ, a little lip service to grace,
but the message leaves you thinking, okay, if I'm going to be saved,
I've got to bear fruit. And so what do I need to do something
to bear fruit? That is the message of most pulpits. Well, how are
we going to bear fruit? God's sheep are going to bear
fruit. His children are going to bear fruit. But how do we
bear fruit? Look at John 15. This is another
thing Christ is to us. If we are going to bear any fruit,
it is only going to be by Christ the I Am. That is the only way. Look at John 15 verse 5. He says,
I am the vine. You are the branches. He that
abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. When we were in our flesh, the
motivation of our heart was to receive honor from men. That
was the motivation of our heart. We did everything because we
wanted other people to pat us on the back and say good job.
And we wanted God to do the same thing. So He has to come and
He has to give you a new motive because that's what God looks
on. He looks on the heart. He has to give you a new heart,
a new spirit with a new motive. So that you stop trying to produce
fruit by the letter of the law. And the letter of the law is
not just the old covenant law. It's not just the law of Mount
Sinai. The letter of the law, you could go to the New Testament
commands. And if you go to them with the
motive of I'm doing this to produce fruit myself and I'm doing this
to make men pleased with me and I'm doing this to indebt God
to me so that He has to save me because I've been so good
in what I've done, then you're using those New Testament commands
just like the Old Testament commands. It's the letter of the law. You
don't understand it spiritually and what it's for. The motive's
got to be totally new. There's got to be a new motive
created. And Christ comes and He makes you one with Him by
Him making Himself one with you. Just like you look at a branch
and a vine and you can't tell where the vine stops and the
branch stops. They're together. They're one.
And the only way that that branch is bearing any fruit is because
it's getting all the sap from that vine. What is in that, the
life that is in that branch, or in that vine, is going into
that branch. So that the life of that vine
is the life of that branch. And that branch bears fruit because
of that vine. Christ said there, you cut it
off, you cut the branch off, it's going to wither, it's going
to die, it's not good for anything but to be burned. And that's
His people. If we could ever, we can't be
separated from Him. thankfully by His grace. But
if we could, we would just wither and die. And you see that happen. You see men who you thought knew
the gospel and you thought really believed the gospel and they
have a good amount of understanding of grace and of true scripture.
And they end up slowly but surely fading away and they leave the
church and they leave the gospel. And you watch that man over a
period of time and he is just like a branch that is just withering
and his leaves are just turning brown and he is just going to
go back to the dust. And that is what we would be
if we could be separated from him. But all our fruit is coming
from Christ. You see, men have a problem saying
that we are partakers of the divine nature. But that is exactly
what Christ is saying here. The nature that is in the vine
is the nature that is in the branch now, because they are
united. I am in you and you are in me, Christ said. And so, what
kind of nature does God have? Righteous and holy. And the nature He creates in
His child is a nature, a new heart, a new spirit that is created
of God. It is Christ in you, so it is
righteous and holy. Now the flesh, What we are by
Adam, Paul said, in my flesh dwells nothing good. It's still
sin. The body's dead because of sin. But there's a new creature,
a new creation that Christ has made and it's now the branch
connected to the vine so that we're getting the sap from that
vine and that's the nature, that's the spirit and it's righteousness
and holiness because it's created of God. That's why Ephesians
4.24 says, put on the new man. which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness. Our nature was created, our sin
nature was created after Adam. So it is sinful, it is unholy
and unrighteous. But that nature now that is created
after God, that new man that He makes you put on by His grace
is righteous and holy. And then He says another place,
you have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after
the image of Him that created him. We've been recreated in
His image. Not going to be, we have in the new man. And He says
in 1 John 3 verse 9, Whosoever is born of God does not commit
sin. So where's the sin coming from?
I commit sin all the time. Where's the sin coming from?
It's coming from my flesh. It's not coming from the new
man that's born of God. And He says therefore His seed
remains in him. and he cannot sin because he's
born of God. That's the new man. And not only
that, he frees you from sin's dominion in the fact that sin
doesn't have the dominion over you anymore and you don't want
to sin like you did when you were dead and you were sinning.
And that's because he's put a new man in you. A man that loves
righteousness, that loves what God says is right. And that's
the new holy heart that he's put in you. And so that's him. That's what he gave us when he
is formed in us. And I was talking to Kevin, we
talked about fruit Thursday night in the message. And I was talking
to Kevin afterwards and he said, he pointed out a good point.
You know, this new nature and this fruit that Christ produces
in his people, we're the branches and he produces fruit just like
a vine produces fruit on the branches. But he produced it. Christ produced it. And you know
the fruit that is produced, Kevin pointed this out, I thought this
was a good point. The fruit that's produced is not really for the
vine or the branch. It's for others to partake of
that fruit. And the reason that Christ makes
us bear fruit is not so much for us, although we do benefit
from it, but it's for others. so that you can be an instrument
in God's hand, not to be a distraction from Christ, but somebody that
God will actually use to preach Christ and bear witness of Christ,
and through that God's going to save His people. That's the
whole purpose of this fruit. It's not so you walk around and
everybody thinks you're some big apple. It's so that you're
not such a mean rascal you used to be, that you can actually
bear witness of Christ to folks and know something about grace,
and God uses you now fills you with His treasure and He is going
to give it to His people. And so all these New Testament
exhortations is not to make you bear fruit. It is what the fruit
is. And it is all for the purpose
of us not distracting from Christ so Christ can be heard in the
Gospel. That is the point of fruit. And so those coming by
the tree, coming by the branches can partake of the fruit. Alright,
now let's go to this last thing. At last, we're going to need
for our vile bodies to be raised incorruptible and immortal. We're
going to need to be raised. We've already been created anew
in spirit. You don't find anything in the
scripture that needs to be done to the new man to die and enter
into God's presence. When this body dies, we're going
to enter into God's presence in that new man. Nothing needs
to be done to it. It doesn't need to be altered. It is righteous
and holy by what Christ did. And the goal is one day He is
going to have us all together righteous and holy. So what is
going to have to happen? What I am of Adam is going to
have to die and go back to the dust. But for me to have a body
as well as a spirit, my body is going to have to be raised.
It is going to have to be made by Christ just like my spirit
was. So it will be righteous and holy too. And He says here
John 11.25 John 11, verse 25. It says here, I am the resurrection and the
life. He that believeth in Me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth
in Me shall never die. Believest thou this? Go back
to 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians 15, we saw this not
long ago. It says there in verse 54, So when this corruptible... He
is talking about the body. He is talking about the body.
When this corruptible shall I put on incorruption. And this mortal
shall have put on immortality. Now understand there, you know
how He says put on the new man? What do you have to do with putting
on the new man? Nothing. It is all of God. And just like
this right here, you are going to put on incorruption one day.
And you are going to put on immortality one day. Every believer will
when we have a new body. What are you going to have to
do with that, making that happen? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Watch. Then shall be brought to pass
the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O
death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin. The strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. Now if a sinner does one work,
Scriptures are clear on this. If it's of works, it's no more
of grace. So if a sinner does one work, he's got to do all
the works. You've got to be the bread of
life. You've got to be the light of life. You've got to be the
shepherd, the door. You've got to be everything.
You have to be the way, the truth and the life yourself. You have
to be everything. If there's one work that you
think that you have to do to be saved, you've got to do it
all. If it is of works, there is no more grace. But if it is
grace, there is no more works. So if there is just one work
I need for Christ to do for me, He has got to do all the work
for me. If I need Him to be gracious
to me in one work, I need Him to be gracious to me in all of
them. You see, that goes hand in hand. If it is of grace, there
is no more works. If it is of works, there is no more grace.
Well, let me ask you that then. Do we have one work we need Christ
to do for us? Is there one work we are going
to have to all confess I am going to need Christ to do that for
me? Can anybody here think they can raise their body from the
grave immortal and incorruptible? Of course not. Neither can we
do any of this other work that needs to be done. Grace means
He is doing everything from the first to the last. That is what
He is declaring when He is declaring I am. I am that I am. I am the Alpha and Omega. I am He that was and He that
is and He that shall be. I am the eternal God, the salvation
of my people. I am that I am. And He tells
us here that the resurrection is not an event that is going
to take place. It will take place. It is going
to be something that will happen. But the resurrection is Christ.
He said, I am the resurrection. I am the resurrection. He has
satisfied the law and he has put away sin for his people.
And so the grave has no more strength anymore towards one
of God's people at all. Why did the grave have to give
up Christ on the third day and him come forth from the grave?
Because the grave had no claim on him. He put away sin and satisfied
sin. He gave the law everything it
needed and put away sin. So that is the only reason people
die. And the grave had nothing to say to him. The grave could
not hold him. Because he died under sin. And by doing that
he accomplished it for himself and all his people. So one day
for God's people the grave will not be able to hold you. The
grave will not be able to hold you. You are coming out of that
grave. Not like the rest of the world. They are all going to
be resurrected. But the rest of the world is going to be condemned
to suffer eternal condemnation forever. Never abolished, never
made to have an end of a being. Constantly have to suffer forever.
But His people, that has been accomplished at Calvary for His
people. And so His people are coming out of that grave one
with Him. Because He is the life. He is
the life. So just like He has done it inwardly
in spirit, He is going to do it in body too. And now when
we get to glory, who are we going to praise? We are going to praise
Him. Because He will have made us all together righteous and
holy. Why do men have such a problem
with praising Him for doing that work now in the new man? I know people that deny the new
man. They speak of the new birth and they speak of a new man,
but they deny that He is righteous and holy. I beg to differ. Has
God ever created anything that wasn't righteous and holy? Could
He possibly create anything that wasn't righteous and holy? The
end of salvation is for His people to be made righteous and holy.
And so when He puts a new spirit in you, that new spirit is righteous
and holy. Just like when He gets to the end, that body is going
to be righteous and holy. That's what life is. And then
we are going to praise Him for making me inwardly and outwardly
righteousness and holiness. And that is why everything, that
new heaven and new earth is His people. I am convinced we are
going to live on an earth just like this earth. But it won't
have any tracks of sin, it won't have any marks of sin which people
have put on this earth because they love money. It won't have
any of those marks on it. It will be perfect. It will be
what God created in the garden with this exception. will never
ever be able to fall into sin because it will have been done
by the eternal Redeemer making us righteous and holy. And everybody
there will be the righteous and holy product that Christ produced
by His doing and His dying. And can you imagine living in
a place where we go about most of the same things we do now
but everybody there has your best interest at heart and you
have their best interest at heart And you are all doing everything
for the praise and glory of Christ. Heaven is not, we are not just
going to be floating around on a cloud. God has shown us what it is going
to be. It is going to be a heaven, a new heaven and a new earth.
But it will be perfect. And everybody there will be the
product of Christ. You imagine closing your eyes.
Closing your eyes. You close your eyes at night
when you go to sleep. And just like that, if you have
got a good night's rest, just like that you open your eyes.
And it's a new day. And you didn't do anything to
bring that to pass. You just laid there and rested.
We're going to one day close our eyes in death. And we're
going to open them just like that. And it's going to be a
whole new day and a whole new heaven and a whole new earth.
We'll face to face with our Redeemer and all His people will be there.
You know, we're in this time, this bubble called time, and
so we think of time. You know, we think, well, everybody
won't be there because everybody hasn't died yet. God's eternal.
I can't explain this, but when you wake up in glory, it's done.
Everybody's going to be there. All these people will be there
because they don't dwell in time. It's done. Won't that be something? You will have nothing to do with
it, just like you lay down at night and are transported from
one day to the next and didn't lift a finger to make it happen.
He will have done everything. And that's why believers, there's
no sting to death to us. We're not, you know, we're going
to, in our flesh, we're going to tremble and when you find
out you got cancer or something, that's your sinful flesh. But
God gives more grace. He gives you grace just like
He gives you grace now. And when you face that dying
hour, God's child is not going to be trembling and fretting
and worrying and none of that. Because the sting of death is
gone. We are just going to close our eyes and wake up with Him.
Death is going to be that way to leave everything that we hate
now and be with Him. Won't that be good? Now let's
see what we saw here. This is why Moses is going forth
now to Pharaoh. Remember, the Lord said, I raised
up Pharaoh for one reason, that my name might be known. And that
is what he is telling Moses. Now you go forth and you declare
my name. I am that I am. Moses did not deliver him. He
did not do any work to deliver him. All Moses did was went forth
and said what God told him to say. And that name delivered
him. That is who delivered him. I
am the bread of life. I am the light of life. I am
the door to life. I am the good shepherd who gives
his sheep life. I am the way, the truth, and
the life. I am the vine giving the branches life. I am the resurrection
and the life. These things are written that
you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you might have life through His name. What's in a name? Everything.
everything for God's people in that name. Neither is there salvation
in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved. Look at Hebrews 11. I
am going to end with this. Hebrews 11, 6. I pray He make you believe on
Him because here is why. Hebrews 11, 6. Without faith
it is impossible to please Him. For he that cometh to God must
believe that He is. You know what that's saying?
He that comes to God must believe that He is that I am. That that's Him. He is. That
He is. That He is the I am. Everything
I need for salvation, He is the I am of everything I need. And
that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. He
is not a rewarder of them that diligently seek to bear their
own fruit and walk around boasting in themselves. Faith pleases
Him because faith stops trying to do anything for Him. Faith
stops and says Christ has done it all. And that is where God
is pleased. Faith says He is the I Am. And that is where God
is pleased. I pray you will believe that
name. I am that I am. Now we can go forth and say,
I understand a little bit about what that name includes. Everything
I need for salvation. Alright, let's, Brother Art,
you come close with a song. Let's see here. Brother Robbie, will you close
in prayer when he's finished?