So, so so And you'll never walk alone. And you'll never walk alone. Good morning, everyone. Welcome
to the services. Let's begin our singing this
morning by turning to hymn number 125. 125, Jesus Paid It All. I hear the Savior say, Thy strength
indeed is small. Shout of weakness, watch and
pray, Find in me Thine all in all. Jesus paid it all, All to
Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. Lord, now indeed I find Thy power
and mine alone. can change the leper's spots
and melt the heart of stone. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed washed it white as snow. For nothing good have I
whereby thy praise to claim. I'll wash my garments white in
the blood of Calvary's Lamb. Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe Sin had left
a crimson stain He washed it white as snow And when before
the throne I stand in Him complete Jesus died, my soul to save,
my lips shall still repeat. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white Turn with me over to 198, please,
198. Would you be free from the burden
of sin? There's power in the blood, power
in the blood. Would your evil of victory win? There's wonderful power in the
blood. There is power, power, wonder-working
power in the blood. of the Lamb. There is power,
power, wonder-working power in the precious blood of the Lamb. Would you be free from your passion
and pride? There's power in the blood Power
in the blood. Come for a cleansing. Calvary's
tight. There's wonderful power in the
blood. There is power, power, wonder-working
power in the blood of the Lamb. There is power, power, wonder-working
power In the precious blood of the Lord Would you be wider, much wider
than snow? There's power in the blood, power
in the blood. Sin stains are lost and it's
like giving flow. There's wonderful power in the
blood. There is power, power, wonder-working
power In the blood of the Lamb. There is power, power, wonder-working
power In the precious blood of the Lamb. Would you do service for Jesus
your King? There's power in the blood, power
in the blood. Would you live daily His praises
to sing? There's wonderful power in the
blood. There is power, power, wonder-working
power in the blood of the Lamb. There is power, power, wonder-working
power in the precious blood of the Lamb. made this announcement in the
first hour. We, and it's mainly for those
who listen to us on live stream, and the only reason I do this
is because we've been having difficulty with the live streaming
service that we have been using. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. So we've are now also broadcasting the live stream
through sermon audio. And if you, those of you listening,
if you want to switch to that, we'll probably switch to that
exclusively, but that link can be found on our website at biblebaptistchurchonline.com. And there's just a little link
there that you push and it takes you right to it. or you can call
me and I can send you the link through Sermon Audio. And I did
mention this in the first hour too, so I will again. These live
streaming services, the internet and all that, it's a wonderful
tool. I'm thankful to the Lord for
it, but it was never meant to be a means of replacing public
worship. If you attend somewhere, live
close to where there's a gospel preaching church. That's where
you ought to be in church services and work in public worship services
at that church. These this this means is for
those who can't be those that are sick. Those who maybe have
services at their home church at a different time or whatever,
we're thankful for that, but never meant as a means to replace
public worship. Okay, also want to ask you to
continue to remember Brother Paul Hibbs. If you would remember
Sharon Cavanaugh. Dee Parks, a young man by the
name of Scott Cross. who lives in Missouri, attends
the church there at the Ozarks, and some dear friends of ours
in North Carolina, Rhonda Parker and Chase Parker. Continue to
remember, I don't know if I mentioned Dee Parks, but that goes without
saying, remember Dee and his family. And continue to remember
Bobby Coleman in your prayers. And I'm going to ask at this
time, Brother Tommy Day would lead us in prayer. Heavenly Father, we bow again
with grateful hearts. Not as grateful as we should
be, but we thank you, Lord, for the opportunity coming back once
again, expecting to hear more about our great God. We thank
you for those that have come out this morning And Lord, I
pray that you might give us an understanding heart, open our
minds and our hearts to receive the word of God, that we might
be a better Christian as we walk from day to day. Lord, the prayer
requests that are mentioned here, you know them and you know their
need. And Father, help us that we might
be submissive to your will, that we might not be one to complain,
but to give thanks to our great God. Now, Lord, bless this morning
in the hour of preaching. May you equip Brother David,
and then without him, Lord, and then without the Spirit of God
opening our hearts, it would not be pleasing to you. So, Lord,
it's in your hands. Now pray that you give us an
open heart to receive the word that we might go away rejoicing
and praising the name of our God. Thank you Lord for these
blessings. I ask you to forgive us our sins
for Christ's sake. Amen. Turn with me to hymn number 40,
and let's stand together as we sing, Great is Thy Faithfulness. Hymn number 40. Great is Thy faithfulness, O
God my Father! There is no shadow of turning
with Thee. Thou changest not Thy compassions,
they fail not. As Thou hast been, Thou forever
wilt be. Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning, new mercies
I see. All I have needed Thy hand hath
provided, Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. Summer and winter and Springtime
in harvest, sun, moon, and stars in their courses above. Joined with all nature in man
of hope, witness to thy great faithfulness. Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies
I see. All I have needed Thy hand hath
provided. Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord,
unto me. Pardon for sin and a peace that
endureth, Thine own dear presence to cheer and Strength for today and bright
hope for tomorrow. Blessings all mine with ten thousand
beside. Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning, mercies I
see. All I have needed, Thy hand hath
provided. Great is Thy faithfulness! Lord unto me. You may be seated. Thank you, Shelly. My text this morning is found
in First Corinthians chapter six. First Corinthians chapter six. Have you ever had someone make
a particular statement And without really thinking, you blurt out
that one word question, what? You ever done that? That's how
verse 19 in 1 Corinthians chapter six begins. What? What did you say? What are you suggesting? What
do you believe? What is your opinion? What? Actually,
there are several statements that cause the Apostle Paul here
to ask in disbelief and in astonishment the question, what? In this chapter,
the Apostle Paul has been dealing with the sins of the flesh, particularly
with the sins of fornication and adultery. Now, the term fornication
means sexual relations between people not married to one another. And then the term adultery means
sexual relations or intercourse between a married person and
a person who is not his or her spouse. Pretty straightforward
definitions. And I'll just let you know right
now, I'm not preaching this morning on the subject of sexual sins.
but I am preaching on the reason we should avoid them and every
kind of sin for that matter. And that brings about a great
dilemma for us because how can one who is sin, not sin? We know that sin comes from within. Every believer can say with the
Apostle Paul, for I know that in me, that in me, that is in
my flesh dwelleth no good things, for to will is present with me,
but how to perform that which is good I find not. We want to
do what's right, we want to do what's good, but we can't find
the will within us to perform those good things. Just the same
every believer can agree with the Lord when He said, for out
of the heart from within proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things
which defile a man. They come from within, come from
within. We're not sinners because we
sin. I know you've heard this definition
many times. We sin because we are sinners
and sin reveals what we truly are. Now here in verse 13, 1
Corinthians 6, Paul writes, now the body is not for fornication,
but the body, is for the Lord and the Lord for the body. Verse
14, and God hath both raised up the Lord and will raise us
up by His own power. God raised up the Lord Jesus
Christ from the dead, as we saw last week, and He'll also raise
His people up by the same power. And our bodies will be raised
glorious, incorruptible. They were never made for fornication
or to be defiled with such uncleanness. Our bodies were meant to serve
God as we are to serve Him with our hearts and with our minds
and with our souls. God and his wise counsel causes
the Holy Spirit to dwell in us, Paul said, as the earnest or
as the security deposit, so to speak, or the down payment of
our inheritance. The Holy Spirit is the down payment,
so to speak, of our inheritance. unto the redemption of the purchased
possession unto the praise of God's glory." In other words,
the Spirit of God certifies, it puts its stamp to the right
of our heavenly inheritance. It's said to be purchased. And
it was purchased for us by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the Holy Spirit within the
believer is their earnest, their down payment, their security
deposit of God's inheritance to them. And this is why Paul
says in verse 15, know ye not that your bodies are the members
of Christ? Shall I then take the members
of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Paul speaking to believers is
saying that our bodies are not for the enjoyment of fleshly
lust, they're for the enjoyment of the Lord. And the Lord is
for the body. Our bodies are members of Christ. Do we take these bodies and make
them members of a harlot? And the answer, as Paul's was
many times, God forbid. Then in verse 16, he says, what? know ye not that he the believing
sinner which is joined to a harlot is one body he's one with that
harlot for two saith he shall be one flesh you become one with
the one whom you join yourself in union with. Now, physically
speaking, that is what Paul was referring to when he wrote about
being unequally yoked. And what does being unequally
yoked together mean? Well, Paul tells us very directly
in 2 Corinthians 6, turn over there if you would, hold your
place here in 1 Corinthians, and look at 2 Corinthians 6,
verse 14. I want to get this part out of
the way, so to speak, so that I can show you the blessing of
this passage, the encouragement that it should give you. Paul
tells us here very directly, verse 14, 2 Corinthians 6, to
be not unequally yoked with who? With unbelievers, it said. He
didn't say with criminals, he didn't say with murderers, he
didn't even say with harlots, he said with unbelievers. Now,
being criminals and being murderers and harlots don't help one's
case in being a believer, but there will be some folks who
are moral, upstanding, outstanding, caring people in this world who
do not believe in and on the Lord Jesus Christ in a saving
way. And what Paul is saying is don't
be yoked with them. But they're good folks, Paul.
Don't be unequally yoked with them. Don't be attached to them.
You don't have the same God. You don't have the same gospel.
You don't have the same Christ. You don't have the same hope.
And verse 14 tells us that a believer finds their righteousness in
one place, and the unbeliever finds theirs in another. They
cannot be equally yoked. The believer has the very righteousness
of Jesus Christ himself. Now, do you believe that? Oh,
I hope you do, because that's your hope. My hope is that I
do have the very righteousness of Christ, that it belongs to
me. And then the unbeliever has nothing
but self-righteousness. It's an imagined righteousness.
It's something that he believes that he can offer God in order
to be saved. And the scriptures call it filthy
rags in the eyes of a thrice holy God. Filthy rags. Paul goes on to say, what communion,
what togetherness hath light with darkness? You know, When you're in a room that the
light's on and you turn the lights off, it becomes dark. And when you turn the lights
back on, the darkness has to leave. They can't be at the same
place at the same time. Look at verse 15, and what conquered
or consent, what agreement hath Christ with Belial? Now, some
believe that that name, Belial, if I'm saying it right, is simply
another name for Satan. But the name does mean wicked,
evil, and ungodliness. So what conquered, what agreement,
what unity does the Lord Jesus Christ have with such a one? Well, he can't. It's impossible.
It's to be unequally yoked. What part hath he that believeth,
an unbeliever, with an infidel? Paul goes on to ask. An infidel
is an unbeliever, one who doesn't believe in God and in Christ,
or who has a different God and a different Christ. They have
different gods. But the believer, the believers has the righteousness of Christ.
The God of the Bible brings all these things to pass. Their God
wants, is trying to make salvation possible, and our God makes it,
certainly. Big difference. Righteousness
and unrighteousness has nothing in common. Light and darkness
cannot be in the same place at the same time. Christ and Belial
had no common ground to agree upon together. How can one rejoice
in who and what they believe with one who does not believe
the same things? It's pretty straightforward. Verse 16, what agreement at the
temple of God with idols? What has a temple of God to do
with idol worship? God hates idols. for us to mingle
with this world, to partake of this world's pleasures, this
world's pursuits, follies. Well, it's detestable in the
sight of God. And God is a jealous God who
will not share His glory with another. Now, back to 1 Corinthians
6, verse 17. Here we read, but he that is
joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Now, every elect child of God In their whole person, soul and
body and spirit is united with the Lord Jesus Christ. This is
a spiritual union represented by the physical union of holy
matrimony. People get married, a man and
a woman get married. They're said to be joined together
in holy matrimony. It's a union, two flesh become
one. They're one and the same. And
that's why Paul tells us, for this call shall a man leave his
father and his mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they
too shall be one flesh. And he goes on to say, this is
a great mystery. And it is a great mystery. He
said, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless,
let every one of you in particular so love his wife, even as himself
and the wife see that she reverence her husband. The marriage union
of a husband and wife is a picture and a type of the Lord Jesus
Christ and his church and his bride. And this is first and
foremost, a spiritual union between the great bridegroom and his
bride, the church. And in order to remain faithful
to our heavenly husband, we must, according to verse 18, flee fornication. Every sin that man doeth is without
the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his
own body. Now, sin in general, does not immediately or directly
affect the body. They are without the body. Sin
most the time is when a man steals, lies, hates, dishonest, proud,
lustful, it's without the body, but not fornication or adultery.
The Lord distinguishes it here. in a different way. It is sin
against our own body. According to Paul, under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, nothing does more hurt to the
body than sexual immorality does. And the body is defiled and it's
dishonored and it's disgraced by immoral conduct. And maybe
it's a result of these spiritual implications. I don't know. To
lay in the arms of another God. This is what I want you to see.
This is what this represents. To lay in the arms of another
God. To love and to trust another
Jesus, which is not another. To give our attention and our
affection to another master. If our love is not to be found
in the Lord Jesus Christ alone, then it's nothing less than spiritual
fornication and adultery. And then in verse 19, we have
the second what? Paul again, what? Know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you? Now these things ought not to be sold. To take the very
bodies in which the Holy Ghost dwells, lives, and resides in,
that being the believer's body, and use them for sexual immorality
and fornication is a sin against our own body. How so? Because
the body is the temple. It's the shrine of the Holy Ghost. We have the temple of God, and
it's then that the apostle, we have this temple of God in our
own bodies, and it's then that the apostle gets to the real
heart of the issue. So I've said all that to say
this, you are bought with a price. You are not your own. Therefore
glorify God in your body. and in your spirit, which also
belong to God. That's our text, verses 19 and
20. Now here we have three marvelous
truths about ourselves. They're truths that many have
yet to learn. We are bought, bought. with a price, we're purchased,
redeemed. That's another way of, that's
another term. We have obtained in exchange
of payment. We've been saved by a great sacrifice
and effort, and we are not our own. We don't belong to ourselves. We belong to God who purchased
us. Therefore, we must glorify Him. Now we must give all magnificence
and all honor and praise and worship and thanksgiving to the
Lord for redeeming us with this great price, which was His blood. As an example of God's love for
Israel and also for his elect people in the world, the Lord
said to the prophet Hosea, you remember him? He said, you go
love a woman, a harlot, an adulteress who has many lovers. I want you
to love her. Love her as God loves his people
and continues to love them, though they continue to turn to other
gods. Go take unto yourself a wife
among whores, among whoredoms. And that is what Hosea did. Do
you remember that story? Oh, it's a beautiful story. What
a picture it is of what Christ did concerning his people. And she, her name was Gomer,
she played the harlot. She went after her lovers. She
followed her lovers wherever they went. And the whole time,
it was Hosea, her husband, who gave her corn and silver and
gold and wool and flax to clothe her nakedness while he had taken
her to be his wife. He betrothed her to Him forever
in righteousness and in judgment and loving kindness and in mercy
and faithfulness so that she would know it was He who truly
loved her. But yet she gave Him no mind. She continued to follow after
her lovers. Hosea continued to love her in spite
of her. when I think about myself and
what I am by nature and that the Lord bought me, took me to
be his own in spite of me. I'm humbled when I think about
this. Gomer sold herself unto her profession
and unto her passion and with nothing to pay, her debt soared. The law and the judgment and
the justice of God demanded payment in full, so she herself had to
be sold. In Hosea chapter three, we find
Gomer on the slave block auction, trying
to sell herself, or actually her creditors selling her to
pay back a small percentage of what she owed. And you know who
bought her? Her husband, Hosea. Hosea said,
so I bought her to me. She shall no longer play the
harlot. She shall not be with another man. I'm gonna be her
husband. That's what Christ did for us.
Child of God, you and I, like Gomer, we've been bought. And
it's been with a price and a great, great price at that. We no longer
belong to ourselves. We belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are not our own. We did not make ourselves, we
don't preserve ourselves. Surely he who feeds and nourishes
and upholds us should have our service and our dedication. And
the most potent plea for servitude is not if you were made or created,
or if you're nourished and preserved. The greatest and most potent
plea for servitude to God is you are bought, bought. When I was a bond slave to my
sin, under the sentence of divine justice, Jesus Christ became
my substitute while he laid his back beneath the whip. That cat
of nine tails should have shred the skin off my back, but no,
it didn't because he put himself over me and took the blows for
me. He gave his beard to be plucked. He gave his brow to bear the
thorns. He laid his soul beneath the
sword. And that brings me to the first
point, which you already know what it is. The believer is bought,
bought. Buying something implies a price,
doesn't it? Me being bought implies a price,
but when the words with a price are added, it means that it was
a great price, that it was for nothing that you were purchased.
Something precious was paid for you. You were bought with a price. We were not redeemed with corruptible
things, not silver or gold, no, but with what? The precious blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. As a lamb without blemish and
without spot. That is the only price that would
suffice. Nothing else would pay the debt
of sin. Only the blood of Christ could
buy our souls from death and hell, and the transaction fills
angels with amazement. Angels look down upon this transaction
and shake their head. They don't understand it. How
can it be? It certainly ought to overwhelm
us with adoring love that God Himself would shed His own blood
that we might have life. And this purchasing with blood,
it signifies pain. Blood was shed. Have you ever
suffered acutely with pain, yet we can't comprehend His sufferings? His hands and His feet were nailed
to the wood of the cross. The iron nails breaking through
those tender nerves through His hands and His feet. We can't
comprehend His suffering. The tearing of His flesh. And
then you consider the soul suffering, why his desertion from God, being
forsaken of God, his soul pains were greater still. Our Lord
sweat as it were great drops of blood from the weight of our
sin. Friends, it was pain that bought
you. But pain alone did not and could
not redeem us. It was his death. that Christ
paid the ransom. Christ's death was for the ungodly. He was made a curse for us, and
the presence of God denied him. And he cried, my God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? You see, the everliving one died
to buy and redeem us. The only begotten bowed his head
in agony. The beloved son was laid in the
grave that you and I might be safe." Bought, bought with a
price. An incalculable price, an infinite
price. A price given that will give
eternal life. What would men pay for that?
The price paid that would put sin away forever. What would
a man give for that? The price paid provides perfect
righteousness. It's the very blood of very God. You don't belong to yourself. This is the most significant
thing that's ever happened in a sinner's life. We all look
back on our life, and there's things that occurred in the providence
of God, and we say, oh, well, this was a real good thing, and
this was a life-changing course, and this and that. But I'm telling
you, the most significant thing that's ever happened in a sinner's
life, why, even our birth is insignificant unless a second
birth is ours. It's the most significant thing
in our future existence. Our song in heaven will be, thou
was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood. Our song in heaven will be just
that. Dear wretched sinner, rejoice,
you're bought with a price. You know, amidst the olives of
Gethsemane, in Gethsemane's garden, there kneels Immanuel, God with
us. God humbled himself to become
a servant, but he humbled himself further than that. He humbled
himself even unto death. And he humbled himself more than
that. Even the death of a cross. He died as a common criminal
died. Well, he was hung on a cross
next to two thieves. And they bound his hands and
they fastened him to a whipping post. The scourges of that cruel
Roman whip tore his flesh and the blood gushed from his wounds,
from his temples where the crown of thorns, blood runs into his
eyes so that he cannot see, but he knows to whom he speaks. And
he says, my dear child, it's here that I bought thee with
a prize. Do you see him on the cross?
His hands and his feet are nothing but fountains of blood. His soul
is full of anguish. His heart is broken and it's
there where the soldier pierces his side with a dirty spear and
bowing down, he whispers to the believer, it's here that I bought
you with a price. The second thing is you're not
your own. Your body and your spirit belong
to God. I think about a sheep up on the
mountainside. It's winter time. That poor lamb is buried in the
snow and a wolf is nearby. But closer by is the shepherd. You see, the sheep belongs to
him. He will not willingly lose that which belongs to him. God's
sheep bears the mark of their owner, and the sheep is the object
of the good shepherd's care. Would any man think it a pleasure
to be his own? Really? I thought about that. I can assure you that there's
no tyrant as great as self. What a blessing it is that you're
not your own. Self is a fierce dictator. It's
a terrible oppressor. It's a horrific slave driver.
Self with its sin is your worst enemy. But the Lord's yoke is
easy and his burden is light. Now I can take this Bible here
of mine and I can take a pen or a pen marker and I can mark
in it because it's my Bible. I bought it, I paid for it. But
I don't have the right to take your Bible and put marks in it. Why? Because it's not my Bible,
it's yours. Is it lawful? Is it right for
the Lord to do what He wills with His own? Yes. You see, it belongs to Him. We've
been bought with a price, and that price was His blood, and
we are not our own. We're His. And if I belong to
Him, I must submit to His governing, right? If I am not my own but
His, I have no right to serve myself. If we live entirely for
ourselves, then our goal is for our own ease, our own comfort,
our own honor and wealth. We know nothing about our redemption
by Christ. We're ignorant to the fact that
we're bought with a price. From head to foot, we belong
unto the Lord. We have no right to give a portion
of ourselves to another. Was the death of Christ a fable? Is this just fairy tales that
we read about in this book? Or were we really bought with
a price? If my purchase is fiction, something
that you only read in a book, then our belonging to God doesn't
mean anything. But we've been truly bought with
a price. And this day forth and forever,
we are not our own. We are the Lord's. I've written about this in the
bulletin. Teresa and I have a little dog.
We love that little dog. And that little dog doesn't really
serve any real purpose at all in life. Doesn't. And if you have one, it's the
same with you. That little dog desires to be
the object of our affection. When she begs for food, she's
got to be cleaned up after. She's totally dependent on Teresa
and I, more Teresa than me. Teresa's the one that feeds her.
Without our constant care, that little dog would die. She's our
dog for one reason only. We bought her with a price. You
know, little worthless dogs are pretty expensive anymore. And I don't know, but from my
perspective, being our dog is a pretty good thing. We go to great lengths to make
sure that every need of our dog is provided. And despite our
dog's liability, she does bring us great joy. She's always glad
to see us when we return home. She desires to be with us every
hour of every day. And to me, it seems that the
quality of a dog's life depends greatly upon who their master
is. I think our dog enjoys being
our dog. Some dogs don't fare as well
as other dogs do. You ever see some of these commercials
where these poor animals are mistreated? It just tugs at my
heart. I can't take it. But friends, I rejoice greatly
that I, the dog that I am, belong to a master who constantly sees
to it that I have everything that I need. And I'm telling
you, I do not want to displease him. I like being my master's
dog. And that's why we thirdly glorify
God in our body and in our spirit. Three things here. You bought
with a price. The precious blood of the Lord
Jesus. You don't belong to yourself. You've been purchased. You've
been bought. You don't belong. You're not your own. Therefore,
glorify God. Glorify God in your body and
in your spirit. You know, if a man says, I am
God's, he sets himself up for public observation. People gonna
be watching you. We're lights in the world, intended
to be looked at, no doubt. A city on a hill cannot be hid. The child of God claims to be
bought with a price. The child of God says that he
belongs to God. So the name of Christ is compromised
if the believer behaves unseemly. As we saw this past Wednesday
night in our study of Joshua, we're to take heed that we love
the Lord our God. We must take heed not to bring
reproach to His name. I suppose one of the greatest
motivations and deterrence of sin for a believer is just that. I don't wanna bring reproach
to God or His gospel, just don't. Though we have no good works
in which we are to glory in, we should still bring forth fruit
that shall be for the glory of our Lord. I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service." It's reasonable for us to do this. We lost all, Christ
gave all. God gave us Christ. He gives
Him to whosoever needs Him. Do you need Him? He gives Christ
to whosoever wants Him. Do you want Him? Those who need
Him and those who want Him, and all that want Him need Him, and
that's who has Him. And they're bought with a price.
They're not their own. And because of that, they'll
strive with all their hearts to glorify God in their bodies
and in their spirits. And they always, even then, come
short of the glory of God. No matter what we do, we always
come short. But we still look to Christ,
who is our perfect substitute. And we still trust in Christ
as our perfect sacrifice. And we still cling to Him and
Him alone, who is our perfect Savior. And we look forward to
the day when sin shall be no more. And when we see Christ
at His second appearing, we shall see Him as He is. And here's
the good part, we'll be just like Him. Just like Him. That's how we glorify God in
our body and in our spirit, which are God's. We keep looking to
Christ. We keep trusting in Him. It's
our union with Him that makes us so. Because He bought us with
His own precious blood. We belong to Him, not ourselves. And therefore, we glorify Him
with all our being. Oh, may God be pleased for His
own glory, for our good, and for Christ's sake to make it
so. Shelley, if you would come, let's
sing, I believe, the first three verses
of hymn number 332. My Jesus, I love thee. 332. Let's
stand together. My Jesus, I love Thee, I know
Thou art mine. For Thee, all the follies of
sin, I resign. My gracious Redeemer, my Savior,
are Thou. If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus,
Tis now. I love Thee because Thou hast
first loved me, And purchased my pardon on Calvary. I love Thee for wearing the thorns
on Thy brow. If ever I love Thee, my Jesus is
now. Verse 3 is the last. I'll love
Thee in life, I will love Thee in death. And praise Thee as
long as Thou lendest me breath. And say when the death do lies
close, Chris Cawthorne, would you dismiss us in prayer, please? Gracious Father, we thank you
for bringing us together today to hear about Christ crucified. for keeping us close. We ask
that you remember those that we've mentioned today, that you
complete our will, that you give comfort to them and their families
and restore them to health. We ask that you go with us as
we leave. Give us traveling mercies. Forgive
us for where we fail you every day. All these things we ask
in your name. Amen. Thank you