Let's turn in our Bibles to Isaiah
65. Isaiah 65. Now in Isaiah 65, we've seen
how the Lord Jesus creates the new heavens and the new earth.
Now, I've shown you how that this is will be complete whenever
we're with Christ in glory and all this work will be perfect.
It will be totally complete. But it's begun now in those in
whom Christ is made new. Now let's review a little bit
before we get to our last two verses in the chapter. First
of all, it's Christ who creates the new heaven and the new earth.
He said in verse 17, Behold, I create. a new heavens and a
new earth. And the former shall not be remembered
nor come into mind." He said, I do this. All God's elect were
in Christ when He walked this earth, served the Father perfectly,
went to the cross, put away our sin, and redeemed all His people. We were in Christ. We were in
Him. So His righteousness is our righteousness. And we shall be made to know
that. He sends the Spirit and He regenerated
us. Many of you sitting here have
been born again and were made a new creature, a new creation
when He did that. So now to you, with Christ in
you and you in Christ, all things are new. All things are new.
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are
passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. These new things are what we're seeing in this chapter.
This text is showing us these new things that have all become
new to us now. And all these things are of God
who reconciled us to Himself in Christ. It's not circumcision
that avails. It's not what you do, your law
keeping or whatever that avails with God. Nor uncircumcision. It's not being outside of the
law necessarily that's going to save you. What's going to
save? Being made a new creation by
Christ. That's how we're saved. So now
our former troubles are forgotten. Before God we have no more sin,
we have no more curse, we have no more death. All things are
new. Now, right now, well let's look
at the next. Now this is a new thing. We have
new joy. We are in New Jerusalem. We have
new joy and a whole new way of worship now. Look here at verse
18. Be ye glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem
a rejoicing and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and joy in my people. And the voice of weeping shall
be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. See, when
you read in the Old Testament about New Jerusalem, It's not
talking about that place over there. Jerusalem, which is in
the earth, is in bondage with her children. Still under works. Still trying to come to God by
works. We're talking about New Jerusalem. We're talking about
heavenly Mount Zion. We're talking about where Christ
dwells at God's right hand. And He's one with His church
throughout this earth. And we come to His holy mountain.
We gather together to worship Him. This is all together new.
from what the old was. And we don't worship under the
bondage of the old covenant law, we worship in spirit and in truth. In spirit and in truth. And most
amazingly of all is, God now rejoices in His people. You see, He couldn't have any
rejoicing in us while we were rebelling against Him. But now
He's brought us to praise Him and glorify Him and rest in His
Son. And now He rejoices in His people.
For now we have some sorrow. But there's coming a day when
we'll have no more sorrow. Our sin will be gone. Alright,
thirdly, we saw that our fullness in this new creation is Christ
Himself. Verse 20. Now let me read it
like I read it to you when I tried to help you with it. This will
help you see it. Verse 20. There shall be no more
thence an infant of days, that is a child who dies in youth.
There will be no more an infant of days who has not fulfilled
his days, nor an old man that has not fulfilled his days. For
the child shall die as complete in Christ as if he lived to be
a hundred years old. The thief on that cross was created
anew, just moments before he died. He was an infant of days. That's what he was. He wasn't
alive until he was born anew. But when he was born anew, he
became a baby in Christ. He was an infant of days when
he died physically on this earth. He had the very same fullness
in Christ that the believer has that lives a hundred years on
this earth. You see, it's not whether you live a few days or
you live a hundred days. That's not what avails. It's
having all fullness in Christ. That's what avails. That's what
avails. But now the sinner that lives
to be a hundred years old and doesn't have Christ, he'll be
accursed. I watched something very sad
this week. And I know a man who told me
that when he was younger, I used to hear him say, I'm too young
to believe on Christ. I've got all my life ahead of
me. Now that same man says, I'm too old to believe on Christ.
I've let my life pass me by. Always an excuse. That man will
be a curse that leaves this world like that. Alright, next now. By being made a new creation
by Christ, we have all spiritual blessings in Him. All spiritual
blessings in Him. Now remember, this is illustrated
by showing us earthly blessings. It's illustrated by showing us
earthly blessings, but all our blessings are in Christ. Look
here at verse 21. They shall build houses and inhabit
them. Chiefly, Christ is our dwelling
place, and we dwell in Him and shall inhabit Him and shall never
be separated from Him. They shall plant vineyards and
eat the fruit of it. Christ is our vine. In Him, He's
made wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption to us. We'll always
enjoy that fruit. We'll never be without that fruit.
They shall not build on another and inhabit. They shall not plant
and another eat. It says, as the days of a tree
are the days of my people. Remember, we saw that Israel
never could enjoy lasting homes and lasting farms and all that
because they kept breaking the law. And God said, if you break
this law, I'm going to turn you over to the enemy. That's why
Babylon came in. But see now, how is it that you
and I can be assured that we'll always be in Christ and always
be accepted of God and always have our dwelling place and always
have the fruit of this vine? How can we be sure of that? Because
Christ came and fulfilled the law for us. Now, it can't ever
be broken. Now God says, you'll always have
these blessings. They won't ever be taken from
you. Our days are as the days of Christ, the tree of life.
And He says, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their
hands. The work of Christ's hands. Before
God, the way God sees it, the work of Christ's hands. Everything
Christ did is what I did. That's the work of my hands. That's how one, I was in Christ.
When He worked the works that was pleasing to God, God says,
I did those works. See, when God imputes righteousness
to a person, He's not just saying, I'm going to treat you like you're
righteous. No, He's saying, you were really in My Son. These
really were the works of your hands. You're righteous. That's why I'm charging you with
righteousness. You are righteous in My Son. Fifthly, by Christ
making us a new creation, irresistibly. And that's how He did it, isn't
it? Irresistibly. through this gospel. So we have the assurance
that our labor in the gospel shall not be in vain. Look here,
verse 23. They shall not labor in vain.
This labor is spreading this gospel. That's our chief labor.
That's our cause for being in this earth. Nor shall they bring
forth children for trouble. They won't bring forth children
just to see them perish. For they are the seed of Christ,
who is the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
We and those born by our gospel are children of Christ, born
of His incorruptible seed. Knowing He birthed us irresistibly,
knowing He worked everything to bring the gospel to us and
to call us and wouldn't take no from us, I know this of a
fact. I can preach the gospel and I
can wait on Him because He's going to do the same thing to
any lost sheep He brings to cross my path. He's going to do the
same thing with them. How do you know that? I know it by experience.
He did it to this one. He did it to this one. So they're
not going to perish, we're not going to perish, and they're
not going to perish. The labor won't be in vain. Now today,
our subject is the nature of the new creation. The nature
of the new creation. Now, I want to give you our divisions
as we read the text. First of all, because we've been
made new by Christ, our nature now is holy. It's holy. It's holy. Now, that's the only
way we can read what we're going to read here and it be true.
We see it here because we have free access and communion with
the Father. Look here in verse 24. And it
shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer, and
while they are yet speaking, I will hear." That's because
we were holy in Christ, sanctified in Christ, and now we're holy
by Christ dwelling in us. So God will have communion with
us. All right, secondly, we'll see this. Because we're made
new by Christ, our new nature is love. Love. Look here in verse 25. The wolf
and the lamb shall feed together. Now, the only way that's going
to happen is if a new nature has been given. Right? Look here. The lion, that meat
eater, that ferocious meat eater, that one that eats nothing but
death, he shall eat straw like the bullock. That's going to
have to be a new nature put in him, isn't it? And dust shall
be the serpent's meat. Our new nature is love. Now,
lastly, being made new by Christ, our new nature is peace. Verse
25, they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith
the Lord. There's going to be peace in
His holy mountain. Now, what we're going to see
here, like we've seen in all these other points, this new
nature, the new nature of this new creation is due to us being
in Christ and Christ being formed in us. It's all to the praise
of God's grace It's all to the honor and glory of Christ. Alright,
now, let's look at this first thing. Being made new by Christ,
our nature is made holy. It's made holy. Now, verse 24
says, It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer. And when, while they are yet
speaking, I will hear. That's communion. That's communion. How do we have that? In the garden,
you remember when God made Adam. Adam was upright. He had never
broken the law. That means he was righteous.
And there was no sin in him. That means he was holy. Righteous
and holy. And Adam, in that state, God
could have communion with him. God's righteous and God's holy.
God will not look upon sin. He will not have any dealings
with sin, with a sinner at all. And you can't separate sin from
the sinner. They're one and the same. You see, Adam had communion
with God and walked with God and talked with God in that garden.
The moment he sinned in that garden, sin entered in. He broke God's law. He became
unrighteous. And sin entered into his corrupt
nature. He became unholy. So immediately,
just like you took scissors and cut thread in two, immediately
he lost communion with God. His communion with God was severed.
And he went and hid from God. And when God called to him, he
wouldn't even answer God. He wouldn't even answer. If we
were left in our corrupt sin nature, unholy, unrighteous,
if we're left there, we won't call on God. We wouldn't call
on God. So God has to answer His chosen
people. and His redeemed people. He has
to answer us before as yet we ever call on Him. You get what
I'm saying? Look there. It shall come to
pass that before they call, I will answer. Well, preacher, you said
the only way He would have any dealings with us is if we were
holy. Holiness is not just in the creature.
Holiness is in Christ. Christ is our holiness. When
He put His people in Christ, the reason God could come to
Adam and call Adam out of those trees is because He put Adam
in Christ. And He's sanctified in Christ.
He's holy in Christ. Now God's going to come to Him
and make Him holy in His nature. But to do that, God's got to
call on us first because we won't call on Him. We won't call on
Him. So Christ answers us by interceding
with the Father. Remember He said, I'll pray the
Father? When Christ went to the cross, He was interceding for
His people. When Christ rose from the dead
to the right hand of the Father, He ever lives to intercede for
His people. And He prays the Father, and
the Father answers by sending forth the Holy Spirit. And the
Holy Spirit answers us before as yet we've ever called on Him.
The Holy Spirit answers us by coming into our hearts and convincing
us of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. The Holy Spirit
comes and strips us of our self-righteous fig leaves, brings us out from
hiding in the trees, and He begins to show you that all you are
is sin. You were thinking, well, my sin
was I ate that fruit. I shouldn't have eaten that fruit.
Well, that was sin. That was sin. But you see, you've been
born of that sinner. So all you are is sin. All you
are is sin. Even if you could do, starting
today, do that which was right and holy, you still sin. God
can't receive you. God's got to create you anew.
He's not going to use anything of us. What He's making is altogether
new. It's altogether new. So He convinces
you of sin. Then He convinces you of righteousness.
He makes you behold The Lord Jesus Christ is the righteousness
of God. When you hear people telling
you that you've got to work out a righteousness and you need
to be keeping the law to be holy and righteous or what have you,
you listen to this what I'm telling you right now. The righteousness
of God is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the righteousness we must
have to enter into glory. The righteousness of God is not
a doctrine. The righteousness of God is not
just something. The righteousness of God is a
person, the Lord Jesus Christ. And He'll convince us of judgment.
He'll answer us before as yet we've ever called on Him, convincing
us that all our judgment has been settled at Calvary. Satan's
head was crushed for his people on Calvary's cross, and our judgment
is settled before God. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus. And when He's done this work,
He's made you holy within. He sanctified you within now.
You've got some light now. Let me give you some ways of
thinking about sanctification. You remember when the Shekinah
glory, when God's presence entered that tabernacle and it filled
that tabernacle to where you couldn't fit anything else in
there? Now He sanctified that tabernacle with His presence.
Well, in this new man that God creates within us, He is Christ
in you. And that whole new man is Christ
in you, so that that new man is totally, thoroughly holy because
of Christ in you. It's a new creation. It wasn't
there before. It's created anew. So, when we see that He's already
working in us, when He then brings you now to call out on Him for
mercy, and call out on Him for His grace to save you, call out
for Christ to be your salvation, See, He's already answered you
before as yet you ever called Him. So when you do call Him
now and ask for mercy, you think He's going to answer you? Well,
sure He is. He's the one that made that call.
And the fact of the matter is, every time we ever pray, truly
pray, He's answered us already. He's put that prayer in your
lip because you and I don't know what to pray for as we are. And
when you pray, Desiring for His will to be done, He is going
to give you your desire. Look here, our text, verse 24. It shall come to pass, before
they call, I will answer. And therefore God says, while
they are yet speaking, I will hear. Turn to Daniel 9. Daniel
chapter 9. We have a good illustration of
this in Daniel 9. Look at verse 20. while I was speaking,
and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the
holy mountain of my God, praying for his people, for his church,
yea, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel,
whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused
to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation."
He said, while I was praying, God answered me. Look at chapter
10 and verse 12. And then said He unto me, Fear
not, Daniel, for from the first day that thou didst set thine
heart to understand. Who set his heart to understand
before Daniel set his heart to understand? God answered him
first, before as yet he had ever called, and set his heart, set
his heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God.
He said, from that first day thy words were heard, and I am
come for thy words. God says, before they call, I'll
answer, and while they get calling on me, I'll answer. You see that? Because He's made us holy, look
at Hebrews 10. Because He's made us holy, we
have constant communion with God. Free access with God. Because now we're as righteous
and holy as His Son. You see, He's seated there at
God's right hand. He's got communion with God.
And because He's made us righteous and holy just as He's righteous
and holy, now everyone that's born of Him has got that same
communion with God. Don't let men tell you you're
waiting to be made holy. You that have been regenerated
and sanctified, don't let men tell you that you're waiting
by your works to become holy. If Christ dwells in you, you
are holy. Fact of the matter is, if Christ dwells in you,
you were made holy by God the Father, God the Son, and God
the Holy Spirit in divine election before you ever even knew it
in Christ. See, Christ is our sanctification.
You in Christ, and Christ in you. So, now, with this holiness,
he says here, verse 19, having therefore, brethren, boldness
to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Let me tell you what
boldness is. Boldness is not that you're going
to come to God all cocky and telling God what you want and
what He's going to have to do for you. It's not that. Boldness is liberty. It's liberty. It's welcome. You have confidence
knowing God's going to receive me, God's going to hear me. You
know, when you go to a place that you've never been to, you
walk into a business, nobody's there, nobody's at the desk and
it's just empty. You kind of, you don't know,
should I go back here and look or should I stand right here?
I don't have any boldness because I don't know what to do. But
if I was your daddy that owned that place and he's in the back
and nobody's sitting there, what are you going to do? I'm going
to walk on in there and just go right back there to it. You've
got boldness to enter because that's your Father. That's what
we've got now. We've got boldness to come to
God because now we know that's my Father. Abba Father. He's
my Father. I can come to Him now. Look here.
We've got boldness to enter by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way which He hath consecrated for us through the
veil, that is to say, through His flesh. He's consecrated this
new way. And we have a high priest over
the house of God. You see, that's all... He's breaking
language out of all that old covenant, showing you now, we're
not coming to God that way anymore. We're coming to God now in Christ,
our high priest, not through the veil of the temple, but through
His flesh, through His cross work would come through His blood. And we got boldness to enter
into the holiest ourselves. We don't have to have another
man represent us. We can come ourselves. Look,
in having this high priest, let us draw near with a true heart
in full assurance of faith. That's what boldness is. Full
assurance of faith. Having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience, that is being made holy. and our bodies washed
with pure water, being made holy and righteous." Now look, this
means, brethren, Christ has done away with all so-called earthly
vikers. There is no such thing. When
that man in the funny hat calls himself a viker, he's saying
he stands between sinners and God, and he mediates between
them, he intercedes between them. With that text I just read to
you says, no sir, we got one high priest, that's Christ. And
now every one of His people are made a royal priesthood so that
you can enter in through Christ. You don't have to have a preacher.
You don't have to have a so-called priest. You don't have to have
a man between you and God. You can come now in Christ and
come to Him. Welcome. Welcome. So He's encouraging
us here to pray in all our trouble. Isn't that encouragement? Brethren,
this lets you know I can call on God and He will answer me.
He has promised me that. This is for Christ's sake. Alright,
secondly, being made new by Christ, our new nature is love. Verse
25, the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
eat straw like the bullock, and thus shall be the serpent's meat.
That shows you a new nature has been created within us. When
we're born the first time, our nature is treacherous. We feed
on death. We love to kill and slaughter
and feed on dead things. That's the description of us,
the wolf and the lion. The wolf and the lion. By the
new birth, Christ puts a new nature in us so that now that
ravening wolf and that raging lion are made lambs. And they're folded together with
God's lambs so that we dwell together now. Just like they
did in Noah's ark. He brought those physical lambs
and wolves and lions together and they dwelt in that ark together.
That's a picture of all Christ's people in Christ dwelling together. Look at Genesis 49, 27. We have a good illustration of
this in Saul, the apostle Paul. You remember he was from the
tribe of Benjamin. And in his sin nature, when he was young,
in his youth, he was a ravenous wolf. That's what he was. Look
here now what this prophecy said. Genesis 49, 27. Benjamin shall
raven as a wolf. In the morning, he shall devour
the prey. And at night, he shall divide
the spoil. In the morning, in his youth,
in his corrupt nature, Saul was a ravenous wolf. That's what
he was. We read of him, Saul yet breathing
out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the
Lord. He was killing the Lord's people. He had the papers to
do that. A ravenous wolf. That was in
the morning. That was in his youth. But in
the night, Later in his life, when Christ came and gave him
a new nature, then he began to preach this gospel and he began
to take the spoils from Satan. When Christ would deliver his
people out of the hands of Satan and translate them into his kingdom,
he was used to deliver those spoils and divide those spoils.
This is by having a new nature. Look at there, verse Isaiah 65,
25. The lion shall eat straw like
the bullock. A lion won't eat straw. Well, I won't eat straw. Left in his first born nature,
he won't. But if God gave him a new nature,
he would. Why does a buzzard eat roadkill
and a cow eat green grass? It's their nature. Why doesn't
a sinner, why doesn't all sinners believe on Christ and rest in
Him? Some of you do. Why doesn't everybody do it?
It's not everybody's nature to do it. God's given you a new
nature to where you want to feed on the bread now. You don't want
to feed on death anymore, you want to feed on the bread. And
then Satan and the enemies of God, they're going to cease feeding
upon Christ's people. Dust shall be the serpent's meat.
Dust. When all we were was dust, we
were under the serpent's power. He was, as it were, feeding upon
us when all we were was dust. And that's all we fed on when
we were dust, was dust. The world, the earth, everything
earthy. Our works, whatever, religion
was all earthy, natural. But after Christ came and He
began to deliver us, Satan set up his gates. Some of you were
behind some of Satan's gates. I've heard stories of men that
some of you started hearing and had an interest to come here
and where you were and the people you were among and the pastors
you were among, they called me every name in the book. But did Satan's gates prevent
you from coming? If Christ's got a sheep behind
one of Satan's gates, He's going to bust that gate down and go
in there and get him and bring him out. And now He's brought
you out to feed on this bread from heaven. What are those that
are left that are not His? And He leaves alone and passes
by, because He can pass by whom He will. Those that are left
now, Religious as they can be. What are they feeding on? Dust. Dust. And eventually, very soon,
the God of peace will bruise Satan under your feet. And it
will be over for him. Now thirdly, lastly, being made
new by Christ, our new nature is peace. Verse 25 says, They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the
Lord. Christ made peace with God for
His people. God was in Christ reconciling
the world of His elect unto Himself. That's what He was doing. And
because He worked that reconciliation, He came and worked that reconciliation
in our hearts and made you be reconciled to God. Made you lay
down your weapons and all your objections and therefore being
justified. By faith, we have peace with
God. We've got peace with God in our
Lord Jesus Christ, through our Lord Jesus Christ. And with Christ
as our peace in our hearts, we have peace with one another.
He said in Ephesians 2, having abolished in His flesh the enmity,
even the law of commandments contained in ordinances. You
know what the chief thing is? It's keeping the world of religion
And God's true people, you know what's keeping us apart? There's
one thing. The law of Moses. That's it. The people who trust in their
works and their progressive sanctification and their works of righteousness
will not have peace with us because we take that work out of their
hands and say, Christ is the end of all that. But you see,
when Christ makes you to see that He came and fulfilled the
law, so that you don't have that law to use to lift yourself up
against Him and He don't have it to lift up against you. That
law is taken care of now. You don't have to use the law
to yoke one another. You don't have to use the law
to whip one another. You can be honest with one another that
you are both just sinners now and you can have peace with one
another because Christ has fulfilled that. He said He came and broke
down the the abolished in His flesh, the enmity, even the law
of commandments contained in ordinances, to making Himself
of two, one new man." Jew and Gentile are one now. How in the
world could a Jew get along with a Gentile who never had the law?
What was keeping them apart? The law. The Jew thought, I will
be saved by the law. Now how could they have peace
together? Christ is formed in their heart and they are made
to see. Christ is the end of the law. Now they can have peace
with one another. The law is taken out of the way.
We've put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after
the image of Him that created Him. Renewed in knowledge after
the image of Christ that created Him. We have the mind of Christ. Renewed in knowledge after the
image of Him that created Him. No more Greek nor Jew, circumcision
nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but
Christ is all and in all. Isn't it good to come to this
oasis in the middle of this desert and you come to a place to where
you don't have to pretend you're somebody you're not. You don't
have to act like you've been keeping the law all week. You
can leave here and you don't have to act like you're going
to go home and keep a Sabbath day. and not watch TV, or not
sneak a piece of bread out of the cabinet. You don't have to
pretend like that. If you want to watch TV, go watch TV. If
you want to do it as unto the Lord, with God in your heart,
and you want to take a nap this afternoon, and you want to watch
ballgame if you want to, do it. It's not circumcision that avails
anything. It's not Sabbath keeping that avails. It's being made
a new creature in Christ. and you have the peace of Noah,
I don't have to put on any pretensions anymore. I don't have to pretend
anymore. I am righteous and holy by Christ, in Christ, with Christ
in me. I'm righteous. I'm accepted of
God. How much more perfect can you get? Accepted of God. So we can be honest with one
another. Peace between brethren when you have that. Look at Isaiah
35 and look at verse 8. We have this peace in Christ.
Now look, I don't need to labor this, but I do want to read this.
Isaiah 35, verse 8. Look here. A higher way shall
be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness.
You know what that way is? It's Christ. You know what God
did? Look here. Look here. Look, I
took this phone, I picked it up, I moved it, and it's right
there now. It's not over there anymore,
it's over here now. I sanctified it from that place to this place
right here. It's in this place right here now. It's not over
there anymore. Well, Christ is the way, and God takes His child
out of the world, out of the kingdom of darkness, under the
power of darkness, and He translates him out of that into the way,
into Christ the way. And now it's just like you were
in a big highway leaving Babylon, and you're marching on your way,
and you see New Jerusalem, and you're on your way there now,
and you're in this big highway now, and Christ is that way.
Now look here, watch. The unclean shall not pass over
it. But it shall be for those, the wayfaring men, though fools,
shall not err. No lion shall be there, nor any
ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there. And the ransomed of the Lord
shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy
upon their head, and they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow,
and sighing shall flee away. You see there? We're on a road.
We're on the highway. We're in Christ on our way to
New Jerusalem. Singing as we go. Worshipping
Him as we go. Keeping our eye on Him as we
go. And we're going to all, every one of His sheep arrive there
into that New Jerusalem in that perfection of that new heavens
and new earth. Every one of us. Not one's going to be lost. You
know how I know it's so? Go back to our text. Here's how
I know it's so. Because God says, they shall
not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the Lord. Do you believe God? Believe the
Word of God? That's how I know this is going
to be so. Now, in everything I've shown
you here, new creation by Christ, new Jerusalem, you've got new
fullness in Christ, you've got new all blessings in Christ,
You got a new labor that will always be successful. You got
a new nature now. All of this newness we have in
Christ. When we die, you know what you're
going to find out? I'll tell you exactly what you're going
to find out. When you drop this carnal vision that so much interferes
with you right now. Because you keep looking at things
here below. When you drop all this, you know what you're going
to find out? You're going to find out what you've had in your possession
since the day Christ made you new. All these things. Believe
Him. That's why He says, don't glory
in men, all things are yours. They really are. Alright, let's
stand together. Father, thank You for this Word.
We ask You to bless it now in Christ's name. Amen.