You will turn with me to Isaiah
66. We had a good trip to England. I hope to tell you more about
it on Sunday when everybody is here. But the conference went
well. Everybody that preached glorified
Christ. And the messages were good. We
met some new friends there. I wanted to encourage the men
who work on the broadcast and on putting the videos up. I met
a preacher there that said that I had already preached in his
church two or three times. And he got some videos when he
was away. their congregation met and watched
those videos of our services. And I told him I would be sure
and tell you about that because you would be encouraged by that.
I was encouraged by that. So I'll tell you more about the
whole trip, Lord willing, Sunday morning. So let's turn to Isaiah
66. I want to begin reading in verse
15. The Lord will come a second time
to judge the guilty. The Lord will come a second time
to judge the guilty. He says in verse 15, Behold,
the Lord will come with fire. And His judgment will be swift
and unexpected. He says the Lord will come with
fire and with His chariots like a whirlwind. And God's judgment
will be fierce. He says He will render His anger
with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire. And His judgment
will be complete. He said in verse 16, For by fire
and by His sword will the Lord plead with, that is, execute
judgment upon all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many. Now when Christ came the first
time, He fulfilled this prophecy in part whenever the natural
children of Israel rejected Christ and He sent the Roman army and
destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and all its inhabitants. He destroyed
Israel. Now, that's documented history.
We know that happened. Well, the Lord is going to fulfill
this prophecy completely when He comes the second time and
judges the whole world who are found rejecting Christ. He'll
judge the whole world then. Winston Churchill said, those
who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it. Now God's
shown us history how that He did judge Israel. Now will you
be one who repeats that history or will you be one who learns
from it and flees to Christ? And when you think about judgment
and you think about the wicked works, we tend to think about
immoral sins and things of that nature. But the reason the children
of Israel, the majority in Israel, the reason they rejected Christ
was they were found trusting in their law keeping to sanctify
themselves and make themselves pure. I've said this over and
over. You've heard it said by other
preachers. It's not our sins that keep us from Christ. It's
our righteousnesses. It's thinking that we've sanctified
ourselves or purified ourselves that keeps us from Christ. Sinners
will flee to Christ. When a man knows he's a sinner,
he'll flee to Christ. I pray God would make us to know
we're sinners and Christ is all salvation. He's all salvation. When men and women hear passages
like this, 2 Corinthians 5.10 says, We must all stand before
the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the
things done in his body, according that he hath done, whether it
be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror
of the Lord, we persuade men. And people hear that and they
start thinking, What should I do to sanctify myself and purify
myself and make myself accepted with God? Listen to me carefully
and hear what I'm about to say. Don't ever attempt to make yourself
holy and pure before God. Don't ever attempt it. Sinners
are made holy and pure by God alone, by the blood of Christ
Jesus, His Son. Now here's what I want you to
see in our text. Our text declares that in the
day of judgment, all who have attempted to sanctify and purify
themselves shall be consumed in the fire of God's wrath. Now
here's our text, verses 17 and 18. They that sanctify themselves
and purify themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst,
eating swine's flesh, and the abomination and the mouse shall
be consumed together, saith the Lord. For I know their works
and their thoughts." Now the first thing God declares here
is all who attempt to sanctify and purify themselves shall be
consumed. He says, verse 17, they that
sanctify themselves and purify themselves, and the verse ends,
shall be consumed, saith the Lord. Now, sanctify. Sanctify. Let's get some definitions
down. Sanctify means to be consecrated
for God's holy use. It means to be prepared. It means
to be holy. to be separate. And purify means
to be clean. It means to be pure. Now every
sinner that God saves, everybody God effectually saves by His
work alone, everyone that God saves are in ourselves unholy
and impure. We come into this world in our
nature, in ourselves, unsanctified and unclean. Now, can a man who's
a sinner make himself holy and purify himself? Is that a possibility
that you and I can do that? I'm going to give you an experiment. You can try this at home if you
want to. Take you a rag and get you some dirty motor oil Dip
that rag in some dirty motor oil and get it good and soaked
with dirty oil. Then take that oil-soaked rag
and clean and purify that oil-soaked rag using that oil-soaked rag.
You say that's an impossibility. It's just that impossibility
for a sinner to sanctify ourselves and purify ourselves using this
sinful defiled flesh. It's the same impossibility.
Job 14.4 said, Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. You take that rag for
example. Who could bring a clean, washed,
pure, Spotless rag out of that oil-soaked rag. You hear me all
the time saying, it's like trying to clean a dirty floor with a
dirty mop. It's an impossibility. It is
the spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. The triune God receives all the
glory, all the praise, all the honor for sanctifying and purifying
His people. God the Father sanctified us,
separated us for His holy use, consecrated us for His holy use,
prepared us, separated us, all His people when He chose us in
divine election and put us in Christ before the world was ever
made. And then God the Son came forth and He perfected His people. Go to Hebrews 10. I want to show
you something. This just jumped out at me Maybe
it will jump out at you. Hebrews 10. Mark Hebrews 10. We are going
to come back here too. But let me show you this. Look
at verse 1. The law had a shadow of good
things to come. Not the very image of the things.
And so it can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. It could not make them holy and
pure. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, once purged,
once made holy, once purified, should have had no more conscience
of sins. Why then did all that stop? If
it never perfected anybody, never purged anybody, never made their
conscience holy and pure, if it never did that, why then did
all that old law stop? Look at Hebrews 10 and verse
14. For by one offering Christ hath
perfected forever them that are sanctified. That's why they stopped. You don't have to offer anything
else. Christ has perfected His people forever. Hebrews 7.19
says, The law made nothing perfect. It didn't sanctify or make holy
anything, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the
which we draw nigh to God. Both He that sanctifieth and
they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause He is
not ashamed. call us brethren. We're holy
as He is. Ephesians 5.25 says, Christ also
loved the church, gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify
and cleanse it with the washing of the water by the Word. What's
the whole Word about? It's about how Christ perfected
us and cleansed us. Well, when that Word is preached
then, I've said God the Father sanctified us. I've said Christ
the Son sanctified us. And when that Word is preached
and declared that He's our sanctification and our purification, the Holy
Spirit comes forth through the washing of the water by the Word. And in the spirit of regeneration,
He purges you. He sprinkles that blood on you.
And you know, everything in that tabernacle was sanctified and
set apart for God's holy use and purified ceremonially when
Moses took blood and went there and sprinkled everything, even
the people and everything. He said heavenly things, God's
true people have got to be sanctified with better offerings than that.
So Christ came. And when He purges your conscience
inwardly with His blood, the Holy Spirit through that blood
has cleansed you. That's why we read, not by works
of righteousness which we've done, but according to His mercy
He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of
the Holy Ghost. That's what it is to be sanctified
and purified by the Holy Spirit. We're bound to give thanks our
way to who? To God for you. Why? Because it says, He, He
hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation. That's how
we were set apart by the Father. Through sanctification of the
Spirit and belief of the truth. There's the Holy Spirit. Where
to He called you by our Gospel, the washing of the water by the
Word, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We're sanctified by God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit. That's the only way God gets all the glory. To attribute
any aspect of sanctification to the sinner, It's the impure
heart's attempt at robbing God of His glory through the disguise
of holiness. That's all it is. It's the impure
heart's attempt at robbing God of His glory through the disguise
of holiness. So first of all, God will condemn
any who try to sanctify and purify themselves because sanctification
and purification is of God. Alright, secondly. God will consume
all self-made men because the unsanctified in heart are attempting
to approach God by their way, their own way rather than Christ's
way. The reason God will condemn all self-sanctifying, all self-purifying
men is because they're attempting to come to God their way rather
than Christ the way. Notice here, he says in verse
17, they purify themselves in the gardens behind one in the
midst. God's ordained temple in Jerusalem
was the place where God said He would meet with the children
of Israel. God's temple in Jerusalem is
the place God said, I'll put my name there and I'll meet with
Israel right there. God said it, God stated it, God
said it, God ordained it, and that's the place God said he'd
meet with them. He said over in 2 Chronicles 33, 7, In this
house in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes
of Israel, will I put my name forever. And that temple in Jerusalem
was a picture of Christ Jesus the Son of God in heavenly Jerusalem
at God's right hand. That's the one place God will
meet with His Israel. In Christ the temple in heavenly
Jerusalem. God ordained they must come to
that temple in that city. We must come to Christ in heavenly
Jerusalem in the church, in His house. God ordained they must
come to that temple and they must come to Him through a high
priest. Christ is the high priest. God ordained they must come there
with the Lamb, a spotless Lamb. Christ is the Lamb of God. God
ordained they must come to that mercy seat in that holy place.
Christ is our propitiation. He is the mercy seat. That's
the only way God will meet with you. So the temple represented
God's ordained way, Christ in whom God will be approached.
Let me show you that now back in Hebrews. Go back there with
me. Hebrews chapter 8. Paul's been talking all about
how Christ is better than the old covenant. And in Hebrews
8, he says this. Now of the things which we've
spoken, this is the sum. We have such a high priest. who
sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the
heavens. That's heavenly Jerusalem, where Christ sits. A minister
of the sanctuary, the holy place of the true tabernacle, the true
temple which the Lord pitched and not man. Then in Hebrews
9, look at this. Verses 1-7 he talks all about
that old temple. and how God ordained everything
in that temple to picture Christ. And then in verse 8 he says,
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, it was just a picture, that first
tabernacle, for the time then present. And in it were offered
both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the
service perfect. What are we talking about? sanctification
and purification. None of those sacrifices and
offerings made in that earthly temple could make them sanctified
and purified as pertaining to the conscience, as pertaining
to the inner man. They stood only in meats and
drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances imposed
on them until the time of reformation, that is, until Christ came. But
Christ, being come a high priest of good things to come, That
is, he's the high priest that other high priest typified. By
a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is
to say, not of this building, Christ is the temple. 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. Not just a yearly atonement,
he obtained eternal redemption. Watch this. For if the blood
of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling
the unclean, if that ceremonially, and that's all it was, was ceremonially,
it's sanctified to the purifying of the flesh. God did it and
let them sprinkle the blood of some goats and calves and the
ashes of a heifer And he used that as a picture and he said
to him, now okay, temporarily, according to your flesh, you're
sanctified and pure. But he said, all of that picture
is my son. That's what he was telling him.
All that picture is my son. And now he says this, and if
it did that ceremonially, verse 14, how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God, purge, sanctify, purify your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God. Go over to Ephesians 2. Ephesians
2 and look at verse 19. When you're born of God, You're
sanctified and purified in the heart. And this is what you're
taught by the Spirit of God. You're no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household
of God. And you're built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the
chief cornerstone. He's the foundation. in whom
all the building, the whole temple, is fitly framed together and
grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom ye also are built
together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. All that
old temple showed was Christ my temple. Christ my High Priest,
Christ my Lamb, Christ my Mercy Seeker, that One in whom I'm
going to make my people one, that One where I'm going to meet
with my people, that One where I'm going to dwell in the midst
of my people, and my people and I are going to be one because
of His finished work. Because He sanctified and purified
His people. So what's all that have to do
with these gardens? Many in Israel decided that they'd rather just
make them another place to worship. And so they went and worshipped
in some gardens. They did it on top of mountains.
They did it in valleys. God said one place just wherever
the shade is good. They found their own place and
they worshipped their idols. That's what verse 17 means when
it says one in the midst. And then others, they came to
God's temple physically. No, they wouldn't dare go out
there to those gardens. They wouldn't dare be seen out
there. Those people know we're going to come to God's temple.
And they even came with God's sacrifice. But they came worshipping
one in the midst too. They didn't come worshipping
God. In their heart, they were worshipping themselves. That's
their idol. That was the one in the midst
for those that were worshipping themselves, sanctifying themselves
and purifying themselves by their literal offering of their everyday
church sacrifices. Just like those in the gardens
were sanctifying and purifying themselves by their offerings.
Just like people in our day think they're sanctifying and purifying
themselves because they get up Sunday morning and as bad as
they hate to go to church, they do it anyway. Because after all,
Sunday is the new Sabbath. It doesn't say that anywhere
in the Scripture. But they believe that lie so long they think,
I got to go keep that day because if I don't keep that day, if
I don't work and do things that I don't want to do so that I
can show people I'm resting on that day, I might go to hell. I might not be sanctified and
pure if I don't do that. So they make themselves miserable
and they go through the drudgery of doing their offerings and
their sacrifices and all the things that they do to be seen
of men because that's how they're made holy and pure, they think. God says the idol is the one
in the midst. That wicked, unsanctified, impure,
defiled heart that makes them think God's going to be pleased
with all that garbage. So the gardens represent man's
unsanctified, impure, sin-defiled heart. Yes, it was real gardens,
but it's just the outward showing of what was going on in here.
We're going to worship God our way. where we will, how we will. We will come to God in our way.
Look at Isaiah 29 and verse 13. Isaiah 29, 13. This was said
to those who actually came to Him in the temple. Wherefore
the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near Me with
their mouth, and with their lips do honor Me, Oh, they say great
true things with the lips, but have removed their heart far
from me. And their fear toward me, their
reverence toward me is taught by the precept of man. If you
don't observe this day, God's going to get you. That's a precept
of man. That's not God's precept. That's
man's word. That's not God's word. Listen. Therefore, behold, I will proceed
to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous
work and a wonder. He's talking about judgment.
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding
of their prudent men shall be hid. Woe unto them that seek
deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are
in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?
We're getting won over on God, they think. Surely your turning
of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay.
For shall the work say of him that made it, he made me not?
Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, he had
no understanding? So you see, all who are sanctified
and purified by God, truly sanctified, truly purified by God, we've
got one heart. Because we're born of one spirit.
And we worship one Lord. We trust one Lord. We have one
salvation. That's Christ. We've got one
God we serve. We're taught the same gospel
by that one Spirit. So we're one. The only reason
we have a bunch of different buildings to meet in is because
we just live in different places all over the world. Otherwise,
we'd all just meet together. In fact, in the end, He's going
to gather together in one all things in Christ. And we're going
to all meet together in Him. But now look at the world, would
you? Look at how many gardens there are. Look at how many denominations
there are. Look at how many churches there
are. Just to go under the banner calling themselves Christians.
And yet, if you go into ten different churches, you'll hear ten different
gods preached. And they've all got their own
means by which you've got to be sanctified and purified, rather
than just preaching the gospel of Christ and Him crucified,
declaring it's God who sanctifies and purifies His people according
to the Word of God. Rather than just preach that.
Oh, we can trick people into being holy. And they got all these different
gardens, and all these different man-made places of worship, and
their man-made traditions, and their man-made works of righteousness
and sanctification, and they're teaching these things as being
the Word of God. God said, they draw near me with
their mouth, and with their lips they honor me, but they've removed
their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught
by the precept of men. God just described 99.9% of religion
in our day. Flee from it. Flee from it. And flee to Christ. I pray God
will give you a heart to do that. Alright, lastly. Self-sanctification is damning
because though it claims to love the law of God, it is really
lawlessness. It's lawlessness. Look here now. He describes them in verse 16
as eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse. This
is what all self-sanctifying people are doing in God's sight
by their self-sanctifying law-keeping to make themselves holy. When
a man is told Okay, it's okay to be saved by God's electing
grace and by Christ's redeeming of His limited atonement and
by being born of the irresistible grace of the Holy Spirit, but
now you have to go back to Mount Sinai and you have to make yourself
holy and keep yourself holy or grow yourself in holiness or
whatever you have to do under the law. That's a lie. That's
a lie. That gives you something to glory
in rather than God getting all the glory. That's a lie. Now,
under the law of Moses, God declared that certain meats were unclean
and certain meats were clean. Swine's flesh, pork, and the
weasel, and the mouse were all forbidden in Leviticus 11, 7.
That's what the abomination, I think it is, is the weasel.
Because that's what was... These all three were together
over there in 11, 7. Now, consider what God typified by that. There
was nothing special about those animals. He just took three animals
and said, these are unclean to you, you can't eat these. Now
what did He typify by doing that? He made Israel different from
everybody in the world. God did it. Gentiles ate all
those things. But God told His people, you're
different, you can't eat those things. By that law He made them
to differ. What was he saying by that? Listen to this, Leviticus
20.24, God said, I'm the Lord your God which have separated
you from other people. God said, I've done it. He said
in Leviticus 20.26, you should be holy unto me for I the Lord
am holy and I have severed you from other people that you should
be mine. All God was showing was that I'm the one who sanctifies
and makes my people pure. I'm the one who makes my people
to differ. I do it by my word, by my law. Not by law that you keep, by
law God puts in your heart. And gives you a new heart. And
gives you a new nature. And makes you a new creation.
God says, He's showing I'm the one who makes my people to differ.
Let me show you that. Remember in, go to Acts 11. Remember God, He's going to send
Peter, a Jew, for the first time, He's fixing to send Peter, a
Jew, down to a man named Cornelius, who was a Gentile. One of those
Gentile dogs. Impure, unholy, Gentile dogs. Because Cornelius was a chosen
child of God. And there was others in his house
that God had chosen, Christ had redeemed, and God's going to
quicken them all and give them spiritual life. and sanctify
and purify me in the experience of grace. So, to show Peter what
that law meant, he made Peter to behold. He was on the top
of the roof and he came into a trance and he beheld a net
let down from heaven three times with all these impure, unholy,
forbidden animals in the net. Look at Acts 11, 6. Upon the
witch, when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered and saw four-footed
beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things,
and fowls of the air. And I heard a voice saying unto
me, Arise, Peter, slay, and eat. But I said, Not so, Lord. For
nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered my mouth.
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed,
What God hath cleansed, what God hath sanctified and purified,
that call not thou common. That's what that law was saying. God's the one who cleanses. God's
the one who sanctifies and God alone. Then God sent Peter down
there to that Gentile Cornelius and to a bunch of folks in his
house and Peter preached the gospel and God saved him. Regenerated
him and gave him a new heart. About ten years later, some self-sanctifying,
self-righteous Pharisees came along and they were saying that
the Gentiles who had confessed Christ now, they needed to go
back to Mount Sinai and they needed to be circumcised and
they needed to start keeping the Law of Moses. Oh, not to
be saved. No, no, no. Just to make you
holy. You've heard that. Oh, we wouldn't
dare say it's to make you righteous. We mean holy. Well, let's hear
what Peter said. Acts 15, verse 8. Peter declared
to the Jews what God taught him. Acts 15, 8. Let me get there
myself because there's some extra I want to read to you I don't
have in my notes. Acts 15, look here, verse 7. And when there had been much
disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, Men and brethren,
you know how that a good while ago God made choice among us
that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel
and believe. And God which knoweth the hearts."
See, this thing of sanctification and purification, we're talking
about heart work here. Now watch. God, which knoweth
the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even
as He did unto us Jews. And He put no difference between
us Jews and those Gentiles. Meaning, it was not by our works,
it was not by our circumcision, it was not by our law keeping.
But look what God did. Purifying their hearts by faith. God did that. He's saying God
sanctified them and purified them. God's the one that puts
the difference between clean animals and unclean animals.
I'm talking about you and me, us animals that walk on our hind
legs. He's the one that makes one clean
and leaves another in his defilement. And he took that Gentile dog
Cornelius and he was a chosen child of God and so God sent
the gospel to him God sent the Holy Ghost and purified his heart
through faith. God did that. God made the difference. Now watch this. Now therefore,
why tempt ye God? Remember that because we are
going to see this Sunday, Lord willing, when we get to 1 Corinthians
10 again. Remember how they tempted Christ? It was idolatry. And
he is saying here now, why are you going to commit idolatry
and tempt God? By doing what? To put a yoke,
a law yoke, upon the neck of the disciples which neither our
fathers nor we were able to bear. But we believe that through the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, us Jews shall be saved even as
those Gentiles are. How's that? Without the law. Without the law. They don't even
have the law. Us Gentiles who all our life
have been brought up being taught by false preachers that we got
to be saved by our doing and our keeping the law. We're going
to be saved by God's grace just like those Gentiles that don't
have the law. How can a man establish the law that don't have it? The
same way Abraham did 430 years before God gave the law at Mount
Sinai through faith in Christ. That's how the heart's purified
and God alone does it. You know your heart's holy. How
do I know my heart's holy? when you rest entirely in Christ
because Christ of God has been made unto you righteousness and
sanctification. Listen to this. I was talking
to Emma about this on the way over here. Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. And
men will say, well, that's just righteousness. That doesn't say
sanctification. How does a man believe unless
his heart's been made pure and holy? And when your heart's been
made pure and holy, you behold Christ and it's the end of the
law. And you stop working for righteousness or holiness because
you've been sanctified and made pure. You can't get more perfect
than perfect. And when you behold your perfection,
your righteousness and your holiness as Christ, You honor Him who
established the law and quit dishonoring Him by thinking you've
got to go back by your filthy hands and add something to what
He's already fulfilled. That's what it is. That's why
it's so dishonoring to God. To go back and try to sanctify
yourself by your law keeping is saying Christ didn't do a
good enough job. It's saying, now I've got to
finish it. Think how dishonoring that is to Christ. That's why
God says, they shall be consumed. Let me finish this up. What I'm
getting at is this. He says, they that sanctify themselves
and purify themselves, he describes them as eating swine's flesh
and the abomination of the mouse. And here's what he's saying.
God says, all who attempt to sanctify and purify themselves
by their law keeping are as unsanctified and as unclean in God's sight
as those under the old covenant who ate things forbidden by God. You get that? I don't know if
they were really eating those things or not. Maybe they were
just doing works that appeared to be just right in line with
the law. But God says to me, it's the same as if they're eating
those things I've forbidden. Because that's what they're trying
to do. They're trying to come to me by another way other than
my son. They're as dirty and defiled
as those that ate the mouse and the weasel and the swine. Alright, let me close here. Right
now, if you think yourself sanctified, and I don't think there's anybody
here that thinks that, but I think there'll be folks who hear this
that do. And I'm going to say something to them. Right now,
you that think you're sanctified, by your works, and you're telling
others right now to stand by yourself and not come near me
because I'm holier than you are. That's what you do. That's what
men do by thinking they sanctified themselves. Well, God says right
here that in the day of judgment there will be no difference between
them and the most vile, immoral sinner there is. He says in verse
17, they all shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. Anybody
and everybody outside of Christ, when you stand in that day, and
are judged according to what's been done in your body, whether
good or evil, most people think there's going to be a big scale
in heaven and all my good works are going to go on one side and
all my bad works are going to go on the other and I hope my
good outweighs my bad. God's going to take all your
very best good works and all your worst works and put them
all on the same side together. And Christ and His perfect righteousness
and His perfect wholeness will be on the other side. And you
will come up wanting. We want to be found in Him. Not
having my own righteousness, which is according to the law,
but that which is through the faithfulness of God. That's where
we want to be found. If you're found there, all the
judgment's been settled when He laid down His life at Calvary
and He made you to know it by His dwelling in you right now
so that you're not looking to you, you're looking to Him for
everything. And one last thing. Here's why the self-sanctifier
will not, he won't pass mustering that day. God says, because I
know their works and I know their thoughts. What God's saying there
is, the works that might appear good to me and you, they're from
a heart that hates Christ and wants His glory. God won't have
it. God won't have it. Christ is
the wisdom of how God can be just and justifier. Christ is
the righteousness God provided for His people. Christ is the
holiness who sanctified us on the cross and in our hearts when
He comes into our midst. Christ is our redemption who
freed us from the law, who frees us from our flesh and who one
day will free us from this sinful world. As God has said, I will dwell
in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they
shall be My people. Wherefore, when that happens,
this is what will happen, you'll come out from among them, and
you'll be separate, saith the Lord, and you will not touch
the unclean. You will not continue with those
self-sanctifying God-haters. You'll come out, and I will receive
you, and I'll be a father unto you, and you shall be my sons
and daughters, saith the Lord. That's salvation by God. I pray
that He will sanctify each heart and purify each heart. And you
can say to this good news, Amen. Thank you, Lord. I'm saved by
Him, by His grace. Amen.