Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, that'd be us too. I think so. so So please don't shoot me down. I don't wanna die. I don't wanna
die. I don't wanna die. Good evening, everyone. If you
would turn with me to Mark chapter 12 in the scriptures, please.
Mark chapter 12. Beginning in verse one. And he,
that being the Lord Jesus, began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard
and set a hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fad,
and built a tower, and let it out to the husbandman, or leased
it out to the husbandman. and went into a far country.
And at the season he sent to the husbandman a servant that
he might receive from the husbandman of the fruit of the vineyard.
And they caught him and beat him and sent him away empty. And again, He sent unto them
another servant, and at him they cast stones, and wounded him
in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. And again
he sent another, and him they killed, and many others beating
some and killing some. Having yet therefore one son,
his well-beloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying,
they will reverence my son. But those husbandmen said among
themselves, this is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the
inheritance shall be ours. And they took him, and they killed
him, cast him out of the vineyard. What shall therefore the Lord
of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the
husbandman, and he'll give the vineyard unto others. And have
ye not read this scripture? The stone which the builders
rejected is become the head of the corner." Psalm 118, 22. And
in verse 11, The Lord Jesus says this was
the Lord's doing. And it's marvelous in our eyes. Let's pray. Heavenly Father Lord,
we. Come before your throne of grace
tonight. Thanking you Lord for all that
you've done for us. Thank you Lord for revealing
Christ to us. Thank you for. enabling us to
see the beauty of the lily of the valley and smell the beautiful
fragrance of the rose of Sharon, the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord,
we thank you that you've been pleased to reveal yourself to
some. We thank you, Lord, that you've
given us a place where we can meet together in freedom and
worship in spirit and in truth. Lord, we lift up those names
again tonight that we lift up time after time again. Thou knowest
all things. We thank you, Lord, that you've
been pleased to heal some. We thank you that you restored
some to health and Lord, Those that you haven't been pleased
to do so, we thank you for that. For thou doest all things well
and for the good of thy people. Lord, go with us in this service
tonight. Enable us to worship Christ. Enable us to pray and sing praises
unto Him. Cause us, Lord, to be thankful
for what Christ has done for us. It's in His name that we
pray and ask these things, and for His sake that we ask them.
Amen. Okay, turn with me to 280 in
the hymn book, if you would, please. Moment by moment, 280. Dying with Jesus, my death reckoned
mine. Living with Jesus, a new life
divine. Look into Jesus, to glory doth
shine. Moment by moment, O Lord, I am
Thine. Moment by moment, I'm kicked
in His love. Moment by moment, I'm like from
above. Jesus, to glory best shine. Moment by moment, O Lord, I am
Thine. Never a trial that He is not
there, Never a burden that He doth not bear Never a sorrow
that He doth not share Moment by moment I'm under His care
Moment by moment I'm kept in His love. Moment by moment, I've
life from above. Look into Jesus, still glory
does shine. Moment by moment, O Lord, I am
Thine. Never a teardrop and never a
bone. Never a danger but there on the
throne. Moment by moment he thinks of
you. Moment by moment, I'm kept in
His love. Moment by moment, I'm life from
above. Moment by moment, O Lord, I am
Thine. Never a weakness that He does
not feel, Never a sickness that He cannot heal, Moment by moment,
in war or in will, Jesus my Savior abides with me still. Moment by moment, I'm kept in
His love. Moment by moment, I fly from
above. Look into Jesus, till glory does
shine. Moment by moment, O Lord, Turn back to 208 if you would
please. Are you washed? 208. Have you been to Jesus for
the cleansing power? Are you washed in Are you fully trusting in His
grace this hour? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood,
in the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Are you walking daily by the
Savior's side? Rest each moment in the crucified. Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood,
in the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? When the bridegroom cometh, will
your robes be white? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Will your soul be ready for the
mansion's bride? Are you washed in the blood? In the soul cleansing blood of
the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white? Are you washed
in blood of the land? Lay aside the garments that are
stained with sin, And be washed in the blood of the land. There's a fountain flowing for
the soul unclean, Are you washed in the blood? In the soul-tempting blood of
the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of
the Lamb? Okay, thank you, Shelly. It's
good to have you back. Glad you're feeling better. We
want to thank the Lord, too, for Glenn had a successful surgery
Sunday, and thankful that he's able to be with us tonight. And
we just thank the Lord for all the great things that he's done.
He does them. He does them. We're a blessed
people. Okay, our text tonight will be
again found in Joshua chapter 24 and tonight we'll finish our
study in the book of Joshua. I was reading today and one interesting
observation by one of the old writers was talking about where
the place in scripture that the book of Joshua is found and it
has the It has the same place in the Old Testament as the book
of Acts has in the New Testament. Joshua follows after the five
books of Moses and Acts follows the four gospels. The five books
of Moses tell us something of the beginnings of Israel, God's
chosen people. And the four gospels tell us
the beginning of the church, also God's chosen people. And both the book of Joshua and
the book of Acts show the people of God successfully carrying
out the mission that God laid upon them when he set them apart
for himself. And for the people of Israel,
that mission was the conquest and the occupation of Canaan,
the land of promise. And for the church, the mission
was the beginning of the evangelizing of the world. That's what the
church is still doing. That's why we still meet together. That's why the gospel is still
preached. That's why the sun rose this morning, because the
Lord yet has sheep to bring into his fold. And when he's done,
when he brings the last one, he'll wrap the four corners of
this world up and it'll be over. It'll be over as we know it.
And then real life begins for the believer. We're preaching
the gospel to every creature that will listen until Christ
saves the last elect and brings all his people home to spiritual
Canaan. Okay, Joshua chapter 24, verse
24. And the people said unto Joshua,
the Lord our God will we serve and his voice will we obey. So
Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set them
a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. So let me tell you again
what I hope each of you already know. Every sinner, every sinner
that looks to Christ alone for their righteousness and their
redemption will be forever saved. And that's the only way that
they will be, by looking to Jesus Christ, who is our righteousness. Salvation is not by works of
righteousness, the scripture says, that we've done. That's
pretty plain. Not by works of righteousness
that you've done. And that's great news because
we can do no work of righteousness. It's only according to His, Christ's
mercy, that He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the
renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed, the Scripture says,
abundantly. Boy, that's an encouraging word,
isn't it? He sheds this upon His people
abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, that being justified,
how are we justified? By His grace, by His grace. We should be made heirs, made
heirs, according to the hope of eternal life. Titus three,
verses five through seven. Our redemption is not of ourselves. That's what the scriptures teach.
Not by works of righteousness that we have done. Salvation
is the gift of God. Paul said, not of works that
any man should boast. And then he said, for we are
his workmanship. And we are, God's people are.
That's why we preach not ourselves, but Christ, Jesus, the Lord,
and ourselves, his servants, for Christ's sake, 2 Corinthians
4, 5. And I love to say it, so I'll
say it again. Salvation is of the Lord. That's where true rest is found,
is it not? In knowing that salvation is
in His hands. Salvation is by His righteous
work. Salvation is by His sovereign
work. And we're not under a covenant
of works, we're under a covenant of grace. And I can't, for the
life of me, understand why people want to do something to be saved
when all that they do falls short of the perfection that God requires. No, I want to stand in the finished
work of Christ and what He's done, His perfect righteousness.
Okay, the Lord our God, in verse 24, did you notice that the people
of Israel said, the Lord our God, we will serve. His voice
we will obey. But they didn't. They didn't. And neither will we unless God
in Christ makes a covenant with us. And Joshua, verse 26, and
Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law, and notice this,
and he took a great stone and he set it up there under an oak
that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. Now, what did Joshua
write in the book of the law of God? He wrote their promise
not to serve other gods. He wrote their oath to serve
God and obey His word. Now Joshua had asked, are you
going to bow and serve the God of your fathers on the other
side of the flood? When God delivered Israel out
of Egypt, I would say most of them were idol worshipers. Joshua
asked, are you gonna serve the gods of the Amorites that have
already crept into your heart since being in Canaan? And they
had. Or are you going to serve the
Lord? That's the question of all questions.
Are you gonna trust in your own righteousness, in your own work?
Or are you gonna trust in Christ? Well, I can, encourage you tonight
to trust in his because yours are filthy rags and God won't
accept them." Joshua said, as for me and my house, we're gonna
serve the Lord. You know, the Lord Jesus said,
if I do the works of my father, don't believe me. If I don't
do the works of my father, don't believe me. And in verse 21,
the people said, nay, but we'll serve the Lord. And Joshua said,
you are now witnesses against yourselves. We looked at that
last time. You're witnesses against yourself if you don't. And they
said, we are witnesses. And Joshua wrote these words
down in the book of the law and the words of our Lord Jesus are
written in this book, the Holy Bible. And the commandments of
God are recorded here and we can't keep them. We can't keep
them. Know that whatever the law says,
it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth
may be stopped, silenced, and all the world, the whole world,
everyone in it, become guilty before God. silenced and held
accountable to God. Therefore, no one will be declared
righteous in God's eye by observing the law. Rather, through the
law, we become conscious of sin. That's why God gave the law.
God never gave the law for us to keep because we couldn't keep
it in order to be safe. And that's why God gave the law,
to show us we couldn't keep it, to show us that we're wicked.
that we hate the Lord without a cause, just like those husbandmen
that we read about in Mark 12. They hated the master of the
vineyard. Did you notice what Joshua immediately
did after he wrote in the book of the law? He took a great stone. and he set it up there under
an oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. Who do you suppose
that stone represents? To be reconciled to God, friends,
you and I must keep God's law, and you know this, we've got
to keep it perfectly. Perfectly. If we disobey in one
little part of the law, we're guilty of all the law. That's
what James wrote in chapter two, 10 of the book, the epistle that
bears his name. For whosoever shall keep the
law and yet offend in one point, he's guilty of all. I had a man
tell me one time that he only had problem with one of the 10
commandments. And I don't remember now which
one he supposedly had problems with, but I can tell you this
much, he had trouble with all 10 of them, whether he knew it
or not. And I quoted him that verse that
I just read you there in James, and I said, if you offend the
law on one point, you're guilty of the whole law. And he looked
at me like, as they say, a cow looks at a new gate, or a dog
at a new... Like he'd never heard such a
thing. You see, beloved, it's all about perfection. God is
perfect. God will accept nothing less
than perfection. God's holy law demands perfection. You and I cannot deliver what
God requires. In order to be saved, we've gotta
keep all the law, and in order to be reconciled to God, we've
gotta keep all the law perfectly. To offend in one point is to
be guilty of the whole law. To fall short of perfection in
any way is to be guilty of the whole law. So even if this man
thought that he had only had difficulty with one commandment,
one is too many, and he was guilty of the whole law. So it would
be hopeless and useless to try to keep the law in order to be
saved. Paul wrote, is the law then against
the promises of God? God forbid, for if there had
been a law given, which could have given life, barely righteousness
should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded
all under sin, all. every single one of us here tonight,
and this whole world in which we live, all the world under
sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given
to them that believe. Do you believe in Christ? Are
you trusting in him? But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up until the faith which should afterwards
be revealed. And here's why God gave the law.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. I look
at the law and see the perfection it was required and I go, what
am I going to do? I'm gonna have to get to Christ.
The law of my schoolmaster to bring me to the Lord Jesus. The law's our schoolmaster to
bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith, by believing
in Him. And some folks say, well, see,
there you go right there. We gotta believe in order to
be saved, but we're dead in trespasses and sin. How are we gonna believe
unless God gives us life? God gotta give us life before
we can believe. So again, salvations of the Lord. This stone here pictures Christ. God wrote his law on the pages
of scripture and we're commanded to keep every single one of them,
but we can't. None of us can. And if you think
you can, you deceive yourself. The law condemns us. The law
is a witness against us. The law makes us a witness against
ourselves. We look into the law and we say,
oh my, I can't provide what God requires. I need to find someone
who can in my room and in my stead. And if you found Christ,
you found that one. When a sinner stands before God,
they'll have to confess that they fell short of the glory
of God and they'll have to take sides with God against themselves. They'll have to be a witness
against themselves. but it'll be too late. However,
the believing sinner will take sides with God against themselves
and testify as a witness that their only hope of redemption,
their only hope of salvation, being reconciled to God, is that
Christ fulfilled the law perfectly for them. And that's why Jesus
Christ is our only righteousness. And that's why my salvation's
of the Lord. That's why your salvation is
of the Lord. Isn't that wonderful? If there's
anyone here tonight that feels as though they've participated
or provided any work of righteousness that a perfect, holy, and righteous
God of justice will accept, you're sadly mistaken. If you have,
then you have a right to glory in yourself, and you have a right
to boast of your own works, but the scripture says that you're
saved by grace through faith, and that is not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. It's all through this book. I
don't know how folks can get the idea that they can do something
to save themselves. Jesus Christ gets all the glory
for our redemption, all of it. And a child of God wouldn't have
it any other way. Not unto us, oh Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name. You get all the glory. You did
the saving. All I did was the sinning. Verse 27, and Joshua said unto
all the people, behold, this stone shall be a witness unto
us, for it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he spake
unto us. You know, that's the message
of every true God called preacher. Christ, the tried stone, the
precious cornerstone, the stone of stumbling, the rock of offense,
the sure foundation, The one who the builders rejected, he
has become the head of the court. And the glorious gospel is this,
it has not only become a witness unto us, the stone has become
a witness for us. How do you plead, sinner? What? I'm guilty. Speak up. And there's a voice comes, my advocate speaks,
and he said, not guilty. He's not guilty. I died for him. I paid his sin debt. I did for
him what he couldn't do. I gave him my perfect righteousness.
He's now perfect just like I am. How does a stone hear all the
words that the Lord has spoken unto his people? Because this
stone, this rock is Christ. And our Lord's heard and obeyed
all the words of the Lord which have been spoken to us in his
law, and this stone shall be a witness unto you. and this
stone shall be a witness against you. But to those that know the
Lord Jesus Christ, this stone shall be a witness for you." It says, lest or unless you deny
your God. Sadly, we've all denied Him.
And there's none that doeth good and all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. The scripture is so clear about
Our part in this. All of us have what, gone astray?
We've all gone our own way, not God's way, our way. There's none
that seeketh after God. We clearly see that man by nature
will not have Christ to rule over them. That's what we saw
there in Mark chapter 12. The covenant Joshua made with
the people of Israel is a picture of the covenant of promise that
the Lord has made with His elect people. And the eternal welfare
of the chosen sinner is secured by Christ, the solid rock in
whom we find sweet rest in His finished work. I was thinking today, that's
become one of my most favorite and delightful topics, the finished
work of Christ. And you probably know that because
you hear me talk about it a lot. But that's the only place that
we can rest when the work's finished. And he finished it for us. What
a picture Joshua's life and death is of our redemption in Christ.
Joshua finished the work that the Lord gave him to do, and
then he died. If you look there in chapter
24, it tells us just that. I didn't write the verse down,
but Joshua died. And when our Lord cried from
the cross, it is finished. He gave up the ghost and he committed
his spirit into the hands of his father. And the believer's
salvation was done. It was finished. done once and forever. In verse 33, the last verse of
the chapter, in the last statement in the book of Joshua, we also
see the death of Eliezer, Aaron's son, who was the high priest.
And he's also a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Eliezer's name
means God has helped. Our Lord Jesus has said in scripture
to be the mighty one that God laid help upon, Psalm 89, 19. And on that day that the high
priest died, all the manslayers in the cities of refuge who had
been in that city of refuge for so long walked out as free men,
men whom the law could no longer touch. It seems that Joseph and
Eliezer died very close to the same time, though we're not told,
but there's no record anywhere here of Israel mourning their
deaths. And I got to thinking about why
would they? Why would they? Because their deaths were the
cause of celebration. So it is with the believer and
the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because of Christ's death, the
law and justice of God have been forever satisfied on the believer's
behalf. For the child of God, death's
not to be feared. It's to be celebrated. Believer's
baptism is just that. It's a celebration of Christ's
death. It represents the death and the
burial and the resurrection of the one who died, was buried,
and rose again for the redemption of his people. The Lord's table,
it's a celebration of Christ's death. It brings us into remembrance
of Christ's body that was broken and Christ's blood that was shed
to provide us that perfect righteousness that we must have to be reconciled
to God. Now, this being our last study
in the book of Joshua, I wanna take our remaining time, just
a few minutes, not gonna keep you long tonight, But I want
to take the remaining time and remember how Joshua was a picture
and type of our Lord Jesus Christ. First, we see Christ in the name
Joshua. Joshua is the Hebrew version
of the name Jesus. It simply means savior. Jehovah
is salvation. That's what the word means. Same
with Jesus, same name. Thou shall call His name Jesus,
for He shall save His people from their sin. He shall. He
shall, Matthew 121. Neither is there salvation in
any other name, for there is none other name under heaven
given among men whereby we must be saved. Joshua, Jesus. Oh, what a name. Why didn't they? There's something about that
man. Our Lord's not a Savior based upon a person accepting
Him. Our Lord is not a Savior because
men believe in Him. Our Lord is a Savior because
He has effectually and completely and forever saved all for whom
He died. Secondly, Joshua led the people
of Israel all the way to the promised land, delivering them
from every enemy. He did what he said he would
do. He said, he told Abraham, I'm gonna give you a land and
your seed, I'm gonna give you a land. I'm gonna give you a
land that you didn't cultivate. I'm gonna give you houses you
didn't build. I'm gonna give you vineyards
and olive yards that you didn't plant. I, the Lord, am going
to give you these things." And that's what He did. That place,
our Lord, by the means of His own merit, work, and righteousness,
and by the sacrifice of Himself, brought all His people, every
single one of them, to Emmanuel's land. That place that He's prepared
for us. That place where we will for
eternity be with Him. Moses couldn't bring the people
into the land of promise. The law could never deliver God's
people and that it was weak through the flesh. And you know whose
flesh that's talking about. It's talking about our flesh.
Because the law requires perfection, we can't provide it. So it's
weak through the flesh in that sense. But the Lord did what
the law could not do. Romans 8, 1-4, There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law
of sin and death. Free! For what the law could
not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own
Son, our Joshua, in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit. You know what that means? Look
to Christ, trust in Christ, rest in His finished work. Thirdly,
Joshua is the captain of the host, was a mighty conqueror. He overcame every enemy of God's
people. And Christ, the captain of our
salvation, has conquered every enemy against the soul of his
elect, and he's delivered them from every foe. I had a man tell me not long
ago, he said, well, I'm still fighting Satan. I'm like, why?
Really? If you belong to Christ, your
enemy's defeated. Satan's reserved in everlasting
chains until the day God wraps his shoe to match up. He's defeated. The same as sin and death and
hell and the grave. Defeated. All our enemies are
defeated. Our Lord conquered Satan, but
if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, that the kingdom of God
has come unto you, our Lord said, or else how can one enter into
a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he first bind
the strong man? He's been bound, and then he'll
spoil his house. John wrote, he that committed
sins of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For
this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil. Why are you fighting the devil?
Our Lord Jesus conquered sin, that sin that ruled us since
the day of our birth, while we come forth from the womb speaking
lies, didn't we? We don't have to teach our children
how to sin. Romans 5, verse 12, wherefore
is by one man's sin entered into the world and death by sin, so
death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. For until
the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there
is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam's transgression. He's the figure of him that was
to come. that as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal
life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Truly, this is a hymn book, isn't
it? It's all about him and what he's done. Our Lord Jesus conquered
death and he delivered his people from that which held them in
fear and in servitude all the days of their life, death. So feared by many, the uncertainty. Well, it's not, there's nothing
uncertain about it. It's appointed unto men once
to die, and after this, the judgment. And you're either gonna stand
before God in your own filthy righteousness, or you're gonna
stand in God in the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. Our Lord conquered death. For
as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same. He became a
man, he became flesh and blood, that through death he might destroy
him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage. You see, friends, the sting of
death's been removed by our heavenly Joshua. No need to fear it. If anything, we ought to look
forward to it. He says, I am he that liveth
and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, amen, and
I have the keys of hell and of death. What is there for us to fear
about death? Fourthly, all the promises of
God to Israel were fulfilled by the hands of Joshua. Paul
wrote in Romans 15, eight, now I say that Jesus Christ was a
minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm
the promises made unto the Father. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 1,
20, I believe it's 2 Corinthians, maybe first, all the promises
of God, how many? All of them, all the promises
of God. are in Him, Christ Jesus, yea,
and in Him, amen. So be it and let it be so. That's
what the believer says, isn't it? All the promises of God. I have everything that God has
promised me in Christ. Amen, so be it, let it be so.
And to the glory of God. To the glory of God. And fifthly,
just as Joshua saved Rahab the harlot. Boy, I love the story
of Rahab, don't you? Why? Because it's a story about
me, and it's a story about you. He saved Rahab the harlot, who
in faith and in trust hung that scarlet cord, that precious blood
we sung about earlier. Oh my, she hung that in her house
in Jericho, Joshua saved her and all her family. And our Lord
Jesus saved His people by His precious blood. John 3, 16, for
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. He
saved the whole world. He saved whosoever believeth
in Him. His people in the world, they
shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Do you believe in Christ? Are you trusting in Him tonight
for all the blessings of God? If you are, you're a blessed
man or woman. You're a blessed man or woman.
And lastly, Joshua accepted the Gibeonites when they came with
nothing and petitioned His grace and they received it. That's
how we come to Christ, with nothing. We, in my hand, no price I bring,
simply to the Lord's cross do I cling, the Christ of the cross. No effectual saving power in
the piece of wood, it's all in the one who hung upon it. You
know, I love the pictures and types of Christ, and in the Old
Testament. And if you're like Teresa and
I, you more than likely have some pictures of your loved ones
hanging up in your house. And I love to walk around the
house sometimes, just look at those pictures. Not necessarily
the ones of me, but I love to look at the ones of my children
and my grandchildren, and even some friends. But when our children
and our grandchildren, I've told you this before, but it's so
true, or even our friends visit our home, I don't look at pictures
of them. I look at them. And I love the pictures of Christ
in the Old Testament. That's why we study the Old Testament
scriptures, to see Christ. It's all about Him. Beginning
in the book of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms, they're
all concerning Him. It's all about Him. Are you looking
to Christ? One day, very soon, we're going
to see Him face to face. Those that trust in Him face
to face in all His glory. We can't even begin to imagine
what that's going to be like. Everything that we do, everything
we see, everything, everything is so clouded and tainted with
sin. But one day we're going to be
without sin. And the scripture says when we see Him, then we'll
be just like Him. We'll have no sin, just perfectly
holy and just and righteous without sin. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Come quickly. There's a now and
there's a then. We now see through a glass darkly,
but then we'll see Him face to face. Well, I'll take then, won't
you? Now we only know in part. Then
we shall know even as we're none. I'll take the then. Lord, haste
the day when my faith shall be sight, when the clouds be rolled
back as a scroll, and the trump shall reach sound, and the Lord
shall appear, even so it is well with my soul. May God be pleased
to make it so. For God's glory are good and
for Christ's sake. OK, Shelly, if you would come,
we'll we'll sing a closing hymn together. 227 Cleansing Way. You can remain seated 227. Oh, now I see the cleansing wave,
the fountain deep and wide. Jesus, my Lord, mighty to save,
points to His wounded side. The cleansing stream, I see,
I see, I plunge in, oh, it cleanseth me. Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth
me. It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth
me. I rise to walk in heaven's own
light above the world and sin. With heart made pure, and garments
white, And Christ enthroned within. The cleansing stream I see, I
see, I congeal, Oh, it cleanseth me, Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth
me, It cleanseth me, it cleanseth me. Amazing grace, His heaven below,
to fill the blood of life. And Jesus only, Jesus known,
my Jesus Christ. I see, I see, I cleanse and oh,
it cleanseth me. Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth
me. It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth
me. Larry, would you dismiss us in
prayer, please? Thank you, Father, for what we've
learned from Christ. Thank you for Christ. Thank you
for the opportunity and the privilege to study more about him, to learn
of his grace and mercy that he's shown to each and every one of
us. Father, thank you for this place that we gather, the privilege
and opportunity that we have to do so. be with those that are sick,
those that are named amongst us, our kids, our grandkids,
our friends, our neighbors. Satan, if it be your will, I
ask these things in Christ's name, for His sake. Amen. Amen. Amen. You're dismissed. Hello.