The tune is Ashfield, 285. Come hither, ye that fame would
know, The exceeding sinfulness of sin, Come see a scene of matchless
woe and tell me what it all can mean. Hymn 712, tune Ashfield
285. Amid the ye that fain would know
the exceeding sinfulness of sin, come see us see O matchless one,
and tell me what little can be. ? Behold the darling son of God
? ? Bound and with horror to the ground ? ? Wrong at the heart them sweating
blood, his eyes in tears of sorrow drowned. ? Behold the vivid ? ? Champagne
light ? ? His soul with bitter anguish rests ? ? His eyes defaced
? be grounds, be crimes, dismayed, dejected, shocked, depressed. What burns of these that death
is part of that amiss that's all we claim. All things this world How meek
and smart! What makes a man kind is fair. Tis justice fair, Its iron rocks,
impending strokes of rock divine, But this the avenging hand of
God, Vincent Statham, your saint and mine. ? Deep in his breast ? ? The names
were caught ? ? He undertook ? ? The miscrafted ? ? Sultans
of filth ? We're all human. We could not just sustain the
race. Then let us not ? Pass out this
day ? ? For one of sin ? ? We lightly take ? ? Both heaven and earth ? oceans
we may have. Indeed we have a couch like this. Let us read together from the
Holy Word of God in the prophecy of Zechariah and chapter 13. The prophecy of Zechariah, chapter
13. In that day there shall be a
fountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come
to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut
off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no
more be remembered. And also I will cause the prophets
and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. And it shall
come to pass that When any shall get prophesied, then his father
and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt
not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord. And
his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through
when he prophesieth. And it shall come to pass in
that day that the prophets shall be ashamed. every one of his
vision, when he hath prophesied, neither shall they wear a rough
garment to deceive. But ye shall say, I am no prophet. I am a husbandman, for man taught
me to keep cattle from my youth. And one shall say unto him, what
are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, those with
which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith
the Lord of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little
ones. And it shall come to pass that
in all the land saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut
off and die, but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring
the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver
is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall
call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, it is my people,
And they shall say, the Lord is my God. May the Lord bless
the reading of his own precious word and grant unto us a spirit
of real prayer. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
which is an art, an art to come, we do desire to bow before thy
glorious majesty. O Lord, thy word declares that
thou art in heaven and we upon earth, therefore let thy words
be few. For in the multitude of words,
a want is not iniquity. Gracious God, we come in confession
of our sins and of our sinfulness. We often have to say with the
dear apostle, O wretched man, that I am, who shall deliver
me from the body of this Gracious God, deliver us, we pray thee,
from that deceitful heart within each one of us, corrupt at its
very root, born in sin, shaped in iniquity. O gracious God,
come and save us from ourselves. Come and deliver us from sin
and Satan's power. Come and set us free and at liberty. and shine into our hearts and
dispel the darkness of our minds. Come, Lord, and speak peace unto
thy people. Come, Lord, and grant that the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God our Father
and the sacred fellowship of the Holy Spirit may rest and
abide upon us. All we do pray, most gracious
God, show us thy way Teach us thy paths. Grant the application
of thy word unto our hearts. Grant the divine power of the
Holy Ghost in the pulpit and in the pew, both in the speaking
of the word and the application of it to our souls, so that we
may be enabled to witness as the dear Apostle could at Thessalonica. For our gospel came unto you
not in word only, but in power, in the Holy Ghost and with much
assurance. Gracious God, incline thine ear,
we do humbly beseech thee, and come and speak to our hearts,
and grant that we may be like thy servant Samuel. Speak, Lord,
for thy servant heareth. We pray that we may be enabled
to wait upon thee, those that are seeking thee, O, do grant
that they may find thee. Give them that patience to wait
and to watch unto prayer, and graciously enable them so to
do. As we notice this morning, O
Lord, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount upon wings as
eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and
not faint. We pray that that may be the
case. and precious souls may find a
precious Christ. There may be a meeting place
in that one God and one mediator between God and man, the man
Christ Jesus. We pray that Thou would grant
that the power and grace and love of the Holy Spirit may be
present among us here today and distribute in the word of truth
the gospel of Thy for without thee we can do nothing. Without
thy heavenly power, O Lord, no sweets the gospel can afford,
no drops of heavenly love will fall, do grant that it may, that
thy doctrine may distill as the dew and as the rain upon the
mown grass, we do humbly beseech thee, that there may be precious
fruits brought forth, that the blessed spirit may water, there
is a river, that the streams whereof shall make glad the city
of God, the dwelling places of the Most High. And we pray for the divine and
heavenly love and grace of our Eternal Father, drawing us unto
Christ. None come except the Father draw. Oh, that we could know that sweet
drawing, and that we could know also that sweet spirit of adoption
and know by sacred experience for God has sent forth the Spirit
of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Lord, do grant
that we may have the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
we may behold him. May we behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world. May we behold him
who is the light of the world. Lord, we pray that that light
may shine into our very souls, may shine even from this pulpit
today, that poor sinners may look and live. Oh, we do pray,
most gracious Lord, that thou wouldst grant them thy presence.
May there be one and another like that dear woman who pressed
through the crowd saying, if I might but touch the hem of
his garment. I shall be made whole, O dear
Grant. We do humbly beseech thee, the
sacred closing with thee, in union with the Lamb, from condemnation
free, the saints from everlasting worth, and shall forever be. Oh, to know it, Lord, and to
sweetly experience it. But we pray that thou, in thy
great mercy, would remember us as a church and as a congregation.
Remember our beloved brethren, the deacons, and give them grace,
wisdom, and help in all their responsibilities among us here
and among the churches. Remember each one of our brethren
and sisters in Christ. Remember us, Lord, as we gather
round the table of the Lord today. Oh, to feel that sweet union
and communion as we partake of the bread and the wine. May our
hearts be knit together in love. We do humbly beseech. There's
those unable to gather with us at this time. We think of Jacob
and Inika and Ellie and Tim and Ina that will not be here with
us today. Lord, we pray that thou would
bless them where they are. for thy great name's sake. We
pray, most gracious Lord, that we may love each other, serve
each other, bear each other's burdens, thereby fulfilling the
law of Christ. Deliver us from the temptations
of Satan, who is the separator of the brethren, who will introduce
an envy and distrust among the brethren. Lord, I said in thy
word that he is the separator of the brethren. We pray to be
delivered from his power. We pray that whether he comes
as an angel of light to deceive or as a roaring lion to devour,
we may be delivered from his power and from his influence. Come and rule and reign among
us, O Lord, we do beseech thee. Let each esteem each other better
than themselves to be. We pray thy blessing upon the
little ones and the children as they come into the sanctuary.
Bless them indeed. Show them thy ways. Teach them
thy paths. Put thy holy fear in their hearts.
Bless the dear young friends. Bless them with that precious
grace of faith. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in the light of the world.
Faith in him who's able to do abundantly more than we can even
ask or think. faith in him that has suffered
and bled and died for his people and rose again for their justification. Gracious God, we pray that there
was work faith in their hearts. Bring them to know thee, whom
to know is life eternal. Bring them to follow thee and
to serve thee in their day and in their generation. Fulfill
that precious word, instead of thy father shall be thy children,
whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. Gracious God,
do hear us, we humbly beseech thee. Wilt thou not revive us
again? Let thy hand be upon the man
of thy right hand, the son of man, whom thou madest strong
for thyself. Remain thou all in the midst
of the journey of life. Graciously help and support and
sustain and strengthen and make us more spiritually minded. and
set our affections on things above and not on things of the
earth. Draw my soul to Thee, my Lord, let me love Thy precious
Word. O may grace triumphant reign
among us, we do humbly beseech Thee. Remember all in the evening
time of life's journey, and graciously undertake for each one, and prepare
us And now, my God, prepare my soul for that great day, and
wash me in thy precious blood. Take all my sins away. We pray,
most gracious Lord, that the glory, the light, and the power
of the gospel may shine forth into this village, and the surrounding
villages and hamlets, and that thou wilt build the walls of
Jerusalem. And as the word goes out online, We pray that it may
be a living word, slender into the hearts of thy people, wherever
they may be in this world. Lord, may the word of the Lord
have free course and thy name be honoured and glorified. May
the Lord Jesus Christ be exalted as a prince and as a saviour,
for to give faith and repentance and remission of sin. Gracious
God, thou art a God of me, and thou hast promised to use those
means. Oh, that thou wouldst do so. In this day in which we
live, we do humbly beseech thee. We thank thee for the Lord's
Supper. Sacred, simple, precious service,
remembering the sufferings and death and resurrection of our
Lord Jesus Christ. It's the tremendous cost of our
salvation through the blood of the Lamb. We thank Thee, O Lord,
for our house of prayer, for the open Bible, for the preaching
of the word. We thank Thee, most gracious
Lord, that we have these benefits granted unto us. But above all, O Lord, we thank
Thee for our Lord Jesus Christ, and the fullness of that salvation
that is in him. We thank thee that it is free.
Oh, we thank thee for the law fulfilled in his glorious person,
honoured and magnified. Everlasting righteousness brought
him. We thank thee for Calvary, where the Lamb was slain, where
sin has been put away, where divine justice is satisfied,
where God and sinners are reconciled. where peace is made betwixt God
and man. We thank thee for Calvary. We thank thee that he died for
our sins and rose again for our justification. And as bodily
ascended into heaven, and we have a great high priest who
has passed into the heavens, Jesus, the son of God. Oh, help
us to come boldly to the throne of Help us to look to Thee, help
us to cleave to Thee. Lord, we thank Thee for every
mercy of Thy kind providence and that glorious hope that is
set before us of eternal life, everlasting salvation in and
through the glorious person of our Lord Jesus Christ. We ask
all with the forgiveness of all sins For Jesus Christ's sake,
amen. Let us now sing together hymn
number 688. The tune is Blockley 304. Ye that pass by, behold the man,
the man of Greece condemned for you, the Lamb of God for sinners
slain, weeping to Calvary pursued. Hymn 688, tune Blockley 304. O say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
? With me and you now ? ? Oh, really
must you go? ? ? In the dish that grows cold and
lost ? ? It's me, in my own dish, only mine ? ? In streaming clear ? ? Just nature's
rule ? ? Everlasting love ? ? Shared by all men strong ? It shall reach the throne of
God, and close my heart to Jesus' praise. Shepherd of faith, thy precious
blood, Thou blest message, light of all angels, ? There was a king and a queen
? ? That ruled the world from star to star ? May solid ground, the heart of
God, Greatly feeling to need the Lord's
gracious help, I would direct your attention to Zechariah chapter
13, and we will read verses six and seven for our text. Zechariah chapter 13, verses
six and seven. And one shall say unto him, what
are these wounds in thine hand? Then he shall answer, those with
which I was wounded, in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith
the Lord of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little
ones. This is a beautiful prophecy
by Zachariah of the suffering savior. And one shall say unto
him, what are these wounds in thine hands? We read in Psalm
22 by way of prophecy. In fact, the whole of Psalm 22
is the speaking of Christ. And he says in there, they pierced
my hands and my feet. What are these wounds in thine
hands? They pierced my hands and my
feet. Then he shall answer. So the
answer of Christ, those with which I was wounded in the house
of my friends. There's two ways, of course,
of looking at this. First way, he came unto his own,
that is the Jewish people, and his own received him not. Those
which I received in the house of my friends. He came to suffer, to bleed and
die for his people. He came to redeem, and it was
necessary that he had to shed his precious blood to do that.
that precious blood of Christ that cleanses from all sin. And that alone can cleanse away
sin, nothing else will. It takes out the stain of sin. Think of that word in Isaiah,
it says there about thy sins be as crimson. I understand to
get the color crimson that you have to double diet to get that
rich crimson color. And you know, my beloved friends,
though thy sins be as crimson, they shall be whiter than snow.
It takes all the stain, however dark and however deep that stain
is, it will take out the stain of sin, the precious blood of
Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son. Oh, there is the secret of the
power of Him. God's Son. He did no sin. Neither was guile found in His
mouth. Pure blood. Rich, precious, pure blood. But
the blood of Jesus, the Son of God. All the dignity and worth
of that suffering saviour of that precious sacrifice of that
atonement for sin is found in this that he is the son of God.
He is declared to be the son of God with power by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead. He has power to take away sins. How often he was challenged when
he was here upon earth especially by the Pharisees Who can forgive
sins but God? Who is this man that says thy
sins be forgiven? They constantly challenge him
on this very point. He's the only one that can forgive
sin. He's the only one that can take
away sin. He's the only one that is able
to satisfy all the demands of divine justice. Now, we look
at it then from the point of view of the Jews, his own brethren
in the flesh, those with which I was wounded in the house of
my friends, but there's a deeper and more sacred sense of it than
that. The house of my friends. Think
of those words of Christ, ye are my friends. If ye do whatsoever,
I command you. Ye are my friends. You see, the
friends of Jesus Christ. And those with which I was wounded
in the house of my friends. And then we think of those lovely
words in Isaiah 53. He was wounded for our transgression,
my friends. He was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. Those with which
I was wounded in the house of my friends. You see, the soldiers
pierced his side at his throat. I have pierced him through and
through. It was a My sins, as Hart says in one of his hymns,
my sins were the nails and the spear. Those wounds which I received
in the house of my friends. This is what he came to do. This
is what he came to accomplish. He came on the one hand to fulfill
God's holy righteous law and thereby bring in everlasting
righteousness by that holy life that he lived on the behalf of
his people. Whatever Jesus did when he was
here as a man, he did it for his people. God so loved the
world, he sent his only begotten son. The only person with the
power and the grace and the love that could accomplish these things. No son or daughter of Adam is
able to give a pure and a holy and a spotless sacrifice? Well,
because we're born in sin. But this man, the man Christ
Jesus, he was born without sin. And he did no sin. Neither was
guile found in his mouth. Therefore, he was holy. He was
pure. He was righteous altogether.
You see my beloved friends, Perfections of Jesus Christ, the purity of
Jesus Christ. There is something so beautiful
in it, in that when he lived as a man here upon earth, opposed
by the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Gentiles, they all gathered
against him. Yet he did no sin. And you know
that pure and that sinless life that he lived exposed, crooked
and perverse ways of wicked men here upon earth and that is why
they hated him and that is why they persecuted him because he
put them to shame that glorious light that shone in Jesus Christ
in his pure and holy light it brought forth persecution that
that distinction has been made right from the beginning of time
when Cain slew Abel Abel was a man of God. Abel was accepted
with God by faith. He offered a sacrifice of a lamb
by faith. Cain brought the labour of his
own hands. Abel was accepted by faith. Cain was rejected. And because
of that bitter enmity that was in his heart, He slew his brother. He slew his brother. The blood
of Abel, it called for revenge. But the blood of Jesus calls
for mercy, for peace, for salvation. Peace by his cross as Jesus made
the church's ever-living head. What are these wounds in thine
hands? Then he shall answer, those with which I was wounded
in the house of my friends. They nailed him to a cross of
wood. We mentioned it this morning
that Levitical law or precept, cursed is every man that hangeth
upon a tree. And it's what we call a typical
law or precept. The only reason that is there
because Christ was to come and to suffer, to bleed and die for
his people. And that was pointing the children
of Israel to the Messiah that would suffer, bleed and die in
the room place instead of his people. There's no other reason for that
precept. For a man to die hanging on a
tree or for a man to die hanging on a rope. There's no difference,
they're hanging there and they will die there. But the reason
that that is there in Leviticus is because it points us to Christ.
There's a peculiar curse to him that hangeth upon a tree and
it points to the cross of Calvary, where the lamb was slain, where
he hung and suffered and died for the sins of his people in
the beginning of this chapter, in that day. It's in the day
of Christ. When he came here, the saviour
of sinners, in that day, there shall be a fountain open to the
house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for
uncleanness. In that day, in the day of Christ,
he lived a life that was pure and holy. Death had no claim on his glorious
person. As a man he never sinned. You may say then, well why, surely
it was unjust that God should require him to die. No. He died
for his people. He was wounded for his people. He was nailed to the cross of
Calvary because of Gethsemane. You might say, what is so important
about Gethsemane? There was the fulfilling of that
word in Isaiah 53. He laid upon him the iniquity
of us all. That is why he died. His heavenly
father, laid upon him his only begotten son manifest in the
flesh he laid upon him the iniquity of us all the sin of all his
people the sin of the whole church of god a people that no man can
number from every kindred tribe and tongue and people tremendous
weight of all the sin of the church was laid on christ that is why he suffered because
there in Gethsemane he received our sins and he sweat as it were
great drops of blood falling down to the ground and then as
he came out of Gethsemane they met him that those Roman soldiers
and Judas Iscariot and the leaders of the Jews with swords and spears,
and they lay hold of him. But his time was come. The time was come. The appointed
time. That's what it means here in
this chapter. In that day. In that day. What a wonderful
day. What a glorious day. Solemn day. And you know, we come to the
Lord's Supper to remember the tremendous cost of salvation. The blood and righteousness of
Jesus, the Son of God. That's what it cost Him to redeem
us. And it was with our sins that
were laid upon Him. You know, the high priest, when
he came on the Day of Atonement, He used to lay his hands on whatever
it was that was to be sacrificed, whether it was a lamb or a bullock,
he used to lay his hands on them. And he would confess his sins
and the sins of Israel. And in a ceremonial way, he transferred
the sin of Israel onto the sacrifice. And then it was slain. bearing
our sins. You know, how it beautifully
typifies our Lord Jesus Christ. When our Eternal Father, you
just think of the infinite love, He loved His Son. He loved Him
with an everlasting love, from all eternity to all eternity.
An unchangeable, immutable love. And yet, It pleased the Lord
to bruise him. When thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, it pleased the Lord to bruise him. And one
shall say unto him, what are these wounds? He was nailed to
that cross, my beloved friends, for our sins. Laying on him,
not ceremonially, but literally laying on him was a sin. of the whole church of God. A
tremendous weight, a tremendous weight. What are these wounds
in thine hands? Then he shall answer, those with
which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd. What a word this is, isn't it?
It's the sword of divine justice that should have swept the whole
election of grace to eternal perdition. It found a substitute. And that
substitute was the holy son of God manifest in the flesh. And
that sword was unleashed against him. That sword that was held
by his eternal father who loved Him with an everlasting love.
Consider, my beloved friends, the infinite love of the Father
to the Church, in that He wounded and bruised His only begotten
Son, caused Him to suffer, to bleed, and to die for the sins
of His people. Oh, the love of our eternal Father. God so loved the world, He gave
His only begotten Son a Waco sword against my shepherd. He was appointed as a shepherd
by his eternal father. David, he says, the Lord is my
shepherd. I shall not want my shepherd. And here the father says a Waco
sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow.
How beautifully it speaks here of the incarnation of the Son
of God, the man that is my fellow. Co-equal and co-eternal with
his Father. He's the eternal Son of the eternal
Father, manifest in the flesh, the man that is my fellow. Oh, my dear beloved friends,
set the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall
be scattered. The Lord Jesus Christ was smitten,
wounded, bruised, passed through untold agonies and sorrows in
his body and soul. When thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin. Oh, the tremendous, we cannot
really describe the tremendous sufferings of our Lord Jesus
Christ. It's better experience than trying
to describe it. If you see the Lord by faith
suffering and bleeding and dying for you, then you'll understand
a little. When you're there at Calvary,
I've often told you, you know, friends, a sight of Christ by
faith crucified in your room place instead. It will pierce
your heart through and through. It'll make you feel the heinousness
of sin, that there's a far deeper conviction of sin at Calvary
than ever there was under the law. When you see that holy,
spotless, undefiled Son of the Father suffering and bleeding
and dying for your sins, It will pierce your heart through with
sorrow. If ever you know repentance,
you'll know it there. If ever you hate sin, you'll
hate it there, at Calvary where the Lamb was slain. You'll see
the heinous nature of sin, the awful nature of sin. It's very beautiful, isn't it?
How the Apostle Paul, under the divine influence of the Spirit,
he speaks those words in In the second of Corinthians, He was
made sin for us. He was made sin for us. That
dear, that precious Saviour, He was made sin. By a divine
act of our eternal Father, in infinite love to the Church,
He took our sins and He nailed them to His cross. Dear beloved
friends, may the Lord grant that these things may be a living
reality unto us. What are these wounds in thine
hands? Then he shall answer those with
which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow. saith
the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered. And I will turn mine hand upon
the little one, smite the shepherd. How our Lord Jesus Christ was
smitten, wounded, bruised, for us, for us. I love that in the Hebrews where
The Apostle in several instances speaking of the atonement and
of the sacrifice, the glorious offering of the sacred body and
soul of Christ on the cross of Calvary. And he says in there,
for us. Says in Hebrews chapter 9, verse
11, but Christ being come and high priest of good things to
come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands. That is to say, not of this building.
He's speaking of the tabernacle of his body. And they completely, they condemned
him, didn't they? Because they said, destroy this
temple and I shall build it in three days. And of course, he
wasn't speaking of the literal temple. He was speaking of the
temple of his own body. that the Son of God lived in
here as a man upon earth, a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
that pure, that holy, sacred humanity that the Son of God
assumed. Neither by the blood of goats
and of calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. for us. Oh, what a precious word,
isn't it? Our and us. You think of that
in Isaiah, wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. The testament of our peace was
upon him. You see, ye are my friends. You
are my friends. And here he says us, having obtained
eternal, redemption for us what a precious sacred word isn't
it and then as a great high priest and further on in that hebrews
chapter 9 and and it says for christ is not entered into the
holy places with hands he's talking now the high priest used to enter
into the tabernacle here upon earth and he would sprinkle the
blood seven times before the golden mercy seat. And the Lord
said, there will I meet with thee, there will I commune with
thee. And on that same day of atonement, he used to take the
golden censer, and he would put in it red hot coals from off
the altar, and then he would, a handful of those most precious
spices that were for the tabernacle, and he'd put it onto the red
hot coals. and he went into the holy place
and the aroma filled the house. We read in Solomon's song that
his name is as ointment poured forth and that beautiful smell
of that ointment and of the golden censer and it's speaking of the
sacred smell of Christ that those spices had to be crushed. Christ
was crushed in the garden of Gethsemane. the olive press when he suffered and bled and
died when he was punished for the sins of his people the chastisement
of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed
neither by the blood of goats and of cows but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal
redemption for us so when christ ascended up into heaven and the
the disciples when they went out and they witnessed how he
bodily ascended into heaven in a cloud to enter into the holy
place having obtained eternal redemption
for us in psalm 24 It speaks there of Christ entering into
glory, ascending into glory. And it's portrayed in that way
of those pearly gates of heaven. Lift up your gates. The idea,
lift up your gates, is that if you go to the old castles around
in this country, and they used to have a gate that dropped down. It dropped down, it was let down
by ropes. So that if an enemy was coming
they could suddenly drop it down. When it says concerning the gates
of heaven, it was to be lifted up. It was to be drawn up and
the king of glory was to enter in. Lift up your gates, you see. And the king of glory shall enter
in. Who is this king of glory? The
Lord strong and mighty. The Lord that had redeemed his
people. I am the way, the truth and the
life. He hath made a new and living way into the holy place. You know, it says in the Hebrew
chapter 10 and verse 12, but this man, this man that is the
fellow of his father that we have in our text, but this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on
the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool for by one offering he has perfected forever
them that are sanctified. What are the sanctified ones?
It's those that were given to him by the Father, all that the
Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh unto
me I will in no wise cast out. He died for our sins, he rose
again for our justification, and one shall say unto him, what
are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, those with
which I was wound in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith
the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall
be scattered. May the Lord add his blessing
to these few remarks that we have made.