All right, take your Bibles and
turn back with me to Galatians. Galatians chapter 6. It's how this message, the theme,
the theme and the glory of every gospel preacher. The theme and
the glory of every gospel preacher. Paul says in verse 12, As many as desire to make a fair
show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised,
only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of
Christ. For neither they themselves who
are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised,
that they may glory in your flesh." But, this is a contrasting theme
here. This is the theme of false preachers. The theme of those who would
preach a false gospel is this, they would glory in the flesh. Glory in the outward appearance
of things, glory in their works, glory in your works, but, here's
a contrast, God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and
I unto the world. Now Paul had written this letter
and he wanted them to know it was from the heart. He says in
the previous verse, I wrote this with my own hand. In my affliction,
in my imprisonment, in my trials, I wrote this out of love for
you. Love. He wrote this letter out
of love for these saints that they should not be duped. Many
were duped to believe that salvation is a combination of Christ plus
the law. That Christ begins salvation
and somehow, by some means, they finish it by their doing, by
their works. Specifically in this church it
was circumcision. Today it's a myriad of things. It could be circumcision, it
could be will, it could be obedience to the law as a rule of life,
You could be that Jesus justified you and now you've got to sanctify
yourself. Paul said, I wrote this letter
so that you would not be duped by those work mongers. And so he warns them against
now in his conclusion, he is again warning them of false preachers.
The false preachers believe salvation is by the works of the flesh.
Salvation is by some merit, but no matter how small or insignificant
it may appear, they say salvation, Christ did all that he was required
to do, but now you've got to do something to make it work. You've got to do something to
make that salvation your own. Some works are a big long list
of things. Some are just as small as, you
need to make a decision for Jesus. Now Jesus did it, but it ain't
worth nothing unless you make the decision. That, my friends,
is blasphemy. That's it. Because you make salvation
dependent upon you. And other people have big long
lists of things that you gotta do. But whatever it is, Paul is telling
them, these are false preachers. Why? Because their glory is in
one thing, the flesh. What you can see, what you can
feel, what you can touch, what you can taste, it is all outward
appearance of things. These false preachers, these
men, they have, Paul said, listen, they have no real love for your
souls. They have no real love for your souls. Look again at
the text. He says, as many as desire to
make a fair show. What? In the flesh. What do they
do? They constrain you to be circumcised. They constrain you to do, obey
the law. They constrain you to do it. Only lest they should suffer
persecution for the cause of Christ, for neither they themselves
who are circumcised keep the law, but desire that to have
you circumcised that what? They may glory in your flesh. That's their purpose, to glory
in the flesh. The false gospel always constrains
you to obedience. They use their outward appearance
of holiness, their high offices, their influence to pressure you
to consent to this false gospel. Yet don't be deceived by the
appearance of righteousness. Don't be deceived by a religious
vain show in the flesh. You know what Jesus said about
the Pharisees? And we look at the Pharisees and we look at
them as hypocrites. We do. But in that day, nobody
looked at them as hypocrites. Anybody was going to heaven,
they were. And Jesus said, you indeed appear beautiful on the
outside, but inside you're like a tomb. Painted white on the
outside, but on the inside it's full of what? Dead men's bones. They're dead. It's easy to appear
religious. Anybody can do it. I've been
duped by a whole bunch of people. I'm easily deceived. God's not. Well, does it care
what I think? What do you care of what I think
about you? What does God say? God says from the sole of the
foot to the crown of the head is nothing but wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores. It is written. It is written,
this ends debate, there is none righteous, no, not one. That ends all debate. Well, I'm
pretty, no, you're not. Neither am I, none righteous.
That's why nobody will be justified by the law in the sight of God.
Paul said that's just evident, that's just clear, nobody's justified
by the law. In Galatians 3.10, he says, for
as men are of the works of the law. Now, anybody in this room
want to be under the law? Anybody? Anybody desire to be
under the law in any measure? Well, I don't like this sacrifice
thing over here, but I like this one. I'm not supposed to lie.
I'm going to be under that one. How you doing? How you doing? As many as are under the works
of the law are under this, the curse. You want to be under the
law? You're under this curse. There's
no half measures in the law. You are either under the law
or you're not. You can't pick and choose what
you want. He says, cursed is everyone that
continueth not in all things. all things written in the book
of the law to do them. So then those who preach the gospel of
salvation by works, they glory not in the gospel, not in Christ,
but rather in the flesh of their converts. They glory in the works
of man. They glory in the will of man.
They glory in the accomplishments of man. How many churches today are preaching
about fathers and how wonderful they are? Huh? How many do you suppose? Did
you suppose I was going to talk about that? Why? I'm not here to exalt you.
I'm not here to lift you up. I'm here to lift up Christ before
you. I'm here to show you Christ, and that's it. He is the only
one to be exalted. False religion exalts man. They
desirably make many converts. They judge things by the appearance. Well, we've got 120,000 members
of this church. Obviously, God is here. Nope. Another church says, well, we're
real small, then obviously God is here. Nope. You don't judge
by numbers. No, not at all. We don't judge by the appearance. They do. They mind false The
mind of false freewill works religion is set on their foul
gospel and they set it in the midst of beautiful sights and
sounds. They take a foul gospel of works
religion and they surround it with beauty. Why? Because it's
foul. Why do you suppose that some
religious services are all music all the time and he stands up
here for like five minutes and gives you a little inspirational
thing? Why? He don't have a message.
He don't have a message. His message is you. And you ain't
nothing. Neither am I. I'm not here to preach about that. And so how can we tell false
preachers? We can tell by what they glory
in, by what they preach about. What do they preach about? They're preaching about you.
They're glorying in you. What message do they preach?
What is their theme? Now then, the question is, Paul
contrasts them. He said, they glory in your flesh,
and that's all they're going to glory in. But, here's the
contrast, look at your text again, but God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul, one who is sent of God,
said the only theme and glory I desire to give to you is this,
the cross of Jesus Christ. And so, what is the theme of
every true gospel preacher? It is the cross of Christ. Paul told Corinthian church,
he said, I determined not to know anything among you. Well,
there's a lot of things among them, a lot of problems. And
he said, this is the only thing I want to know about. I'm going
to tell you, Jesus Christ, in Him crucified, that's the only
thing I want to give you. Why? Because it is the solution to
all those other things. All those other problems, this
is the solution. the preaching of the cross of
Jesus Christ. The gospel, friends, is not vague
on this point of salvation. Salvation is by the grace of
God alone. Salvation, in all of its aspects,
is by the grace and the power of God alone. We are not saved
by Christ and then somehow make his work powerful by our will. We are not saved by the power
of the Holy Spirit and somehow finish this salvation by our
obedience in this world. And this is popular. Jesus Christ
justified me, but I have to sanctify me. Listen, if you have to sanctify
yourself, You have no hope. True gospel preachers, we do
not preach that we are justified and redeemed by Christ and then
sanctify ourselves. We preach that the only hope
for sinners and all the salvation of God is by this, by the cross
of Christ. All my salvation is by the cross
of Jesus Christ. Friends, I need a salvation that
is totally purposed of God. I need a salvation that is totally
accomplished by Jesus Christ. I need a salvation that is given
to me, applied to me by the power of the Holy Spirit, and I need
a salvation that is kept by the Spirit of God. Why? I can't keep
myself. I can't save myself. I can't
determine to save myself. I need all of that to be done
for me by God. I need a salvation that doesn't
require anything of me. You know why? I can't give anything. I don't have anything to give
but sin. Everything I touch is mixed with sin. Name something
you do that's not mixed with sin. One thing. Name it. If you name it, I feel for you. If you think you can name something
without sin, I feel for you. You don't know yourself. Everything I touch has sin in
it. So what can I contribute to make
me holy before God? What? Nothing. This is the message and theme
of the cross that Paul glories in. It is the same message that
every gospel preacher said. And notice these words. He says,
God forbid, but God forbid! This is a very powerful statement.
Paul uses it in many other applications. He uses it with this idea that
God says, I'm going to save Israel, but you know this, that all national
Israel is not saved. God says, I'm going to save Israel.
But you look over here, and Israel's not saved. And you say, was the
word of God of none effect? What did Paul say? God forbid
you say anything like that. God forbid you should say God's
a liar. He said, God forbid, let God
be true and every man a liar. When he talked about election,
he says, God loved Jacob and hated Esau before they were born.
And he asked this, is God unrighteous to do that? That's what man says.
Man says God's unrighteous to do that. He can't do that. He
can't do that. Oh, yeah, he can. And he did. Is God unrighteous to do that?
What'd he say? God forbid you'd think such a thing. You're unrighteous,
not God. God forbid. When he said salvation is all
of grace, people would come along and say, well, let's sin that
grace may abound. What did he say? God forbid you
think like that. Salvation is all of grace. But we know this, that we should
not sin. We do not desire to sin. And so now he uses the same
phrase, God forbid, God forbid I be like one of them. That's
what he's saying. These guys glory in the flesh.
These guys glory in the appearance. These guys glory in the works
of man. These guys believe salvation is by works of God and the work
of man. God forbid I should ever declare
that. That's not my theme. That's not
my glory, Paul said. I have one message, one gospel,
one Savior, and listen, His work is perfect. His work is perfect. We preach Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. God forbid I should preach anything
else. I call you to record, have I preached anything else since
I've been here? I've been here 15 years. And if God give me
any more, I do not desire to preach anything else. God forbid
I should preach anything else. I know the world get bored with
this message. They do. I've seen them. Boy, they come
in and grit their teeth for so long. Oh, they just try, and
they try. I mean, I don't doubt their sincerity.
They're trying to hang on. But man, just hearing Christ
all the time, they just, man, they can't stand it. And they'll
run for the door. Why? They don't glory in it.
They have no interest in it. They have interest in themselves.
And if I'm not talking about themselves, then what? They're
gone. God's people have an interest
in this. Why? Because of the power of God. It's the power
of God that makes us interested in these things. And so God forbid we should preach
any other gospel. God forbid. This is all our glory,
all our salvation, and all we ever care to uphold before men
is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Why preach this all the time?
Why is this my theme all the time? Because I know something
about this gospel. It is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone that believeth. It is the only message. It is
the only message by which sinners are saved. Sinners are not saved
by a false gospel. They're not. I don't care if
you've got four million people out there. If a man's preaching
the false gospel, none of them are going to be saved by it.
How can you believe on somebody that you've not heard? If he's
not preaching Christ, how can you believe on him? Now, he may
have the same name. He may call him Jesus. They may call him Jehovah. Arthur
Pink said, the God of this modern generation no more represents
the God of Scripture than a candle represents the noonday sun. They're
not the same. The weak, effeminate God of this
generation that is dependent on you is not God. And if you
believe in that God, you're not believing in God. The God of
Scripture is suffering. absolutely, almighty, all powerful,
all wise, everything that has ever happened, will happen and
shall happen is decreed by his sovereign hand. Everything. And any other God is not God.
You dress him up like God, but he ain't God. You see? Any God that is dependent on
you for salvation is not God. We preach only the cross of Christ
and everyone that believe it. We know this is the power of
God unto salvation. You know, the Apostle Paul, he
gloried in a lot of things when he was lost. He said, I was a
Hebrew of the Hebrews, tribe of Benjamin. The sect of the
Pharisees. I was of the strictest sect of
the law that you could find. And above them all, I studied
under the greatest teacher of the law, Gamaliel. I was a rising
star in the Pharisees' religion. If anybody had any room to glory,
I did. He wasn't afraid to tell you
when he did it. He wasn't afraid before Christ came. He wasn't
afraid to tell you how good he was. But when Christ came, something
changed, and this is what Paul says about all that stuff. He
said, yea, doubtless I count all things but loss. For the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom
I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but
done. You think he glories in himself?
In the book of Corinthians, Paul was made the, they were, Some men would come in and said
he wasn't really an apostle. They said, well, he's not a real
apostle. He came too late. And so the apostle Paul had to
defend his apostleship. And you know what he said about
having to do that? He said, I've become a fool in glory. He was just telling them the
truth about himself. He was an apostle. But he said, you know
what? That just makes me a fool to glory in that. I don't glory
in my apostleship. He said, I counted a dung that
I may win Christ in what be found in him. That's the only thing
important, isn't it? Is there anything else important? Because
if you ain't in him, to be found in him, not having
my own righteousness, which is of the law. Paul said, I don't
want anything to do with that. That's dung. You count your righteousness
as dung. If you're His, you do, you know
that all my righteousness is done. I got to be found in Him,
which is, I want to be found in Him not having my own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that righteousness which is through
the faith of Christ. I want a righteousness that's
made by Jesus Christ. That's the only righteousness
that's ever going to satisfy God, and that's the only righteousness
that's ever going to give me any peace, is if that righteousness
was made by Him. The righteousness which is of
God by faith. You see, faith simply receives
a righteousness that's already been made. My faith don't add
to that righteousness, you know that? Isn't that good? Because
your faith is what? Your faith is up and down, your
faith is mixed with unbelief, mixed with sin. Faith simply
receives what has already been made. And I want to tell you
something about your faith. Did you come up with that by
yourself? Your faith, did it come from
you? Now, I'm going to tell you this.
If your faith came from you, it's not faith. Not God-given
faith. My faith came from God. Why? Because the scripture tells me,
for by grace you are saved. How do you save? How do you save?
Works or grace? Now, you can't mix it. It's either
or. For by grace you are saved."
Never apart from faith, through faith. And that faith, the antecedent of that
word that is faith. That faith is not of yourself. It, faith, is a gift of God,
not of works. Why? Lest any man should have
any glory. You see, if faith came from you,
you would have something to glory over somebody else. You believed
and they didn't. You have something to glory.
But when faith is a gift of God, you have what? Nothing to glory
in. Faith is a gift of God. And so any man that believes
in Christ, we make a clean sweep of all our self-righteousness,
and we glory only in the cross of Christ. only in the gospel
of Christ, because that was the means that God used to save us,
isn't it? The preaching of the cross of
Christ. Now, what is the cross of Christ? What does this mean? The Apostle
used this phrase, the cross of Christ. Now, if Paul counted
it the only theme and glory to preach, the only thing that he
would preach, what does it mean? What does it mean? What is he
talking about? I want you to listen to me carefully.
He is not talking about a physical object. He is not talking about
that wooden cross on which Christ died. The cross, the wooden artifact,
has no power to save anyone. It has no magic. You know what, I am so thankful
God allowed that cross to rot, and we don't have any of it left.
You know why? Because men would worship it. They still have artifacts, don't
they? And they got museum artifacts at Shroud of Tumen, right, that
they believe that's Christ, and what'd they do? Man, they just,
oh, I feel so close to God when I'm near that thing. They just
bow down and worship it. You know, the Israelites did
the same thing with that serpent, the brazen serpent that God used. He said, Moses, make a brazen
serpent, put it on a pole, and everyone that looked and lived
and that happened. What'd they do with that serpent?
They began to worship it. They began to bow down to it. I tell you, if we ever found
that thing, you know what the best thing to do is? Burn it. You
ever found that wooden cross? Best thing to do is burn it.
Why? Because somebody is gonna end
up worshiping it. I hear people talk about going
to Israel. Man, oh, if I just get to the Holy Land. Oh, if
I just step inside that tomb and I feel so close to God. It's idolatry. That's all that
is. It's idolatry. I like this hymn. Listen to this.
You that believe in Christ. So near, so very near to God
I cannot nearer be. For in the person of his Son
I am as near as he. I don't need to go to Jerusalem
if you're near to God. I don't need an artifact to make me feel
near to God. No. God is always with his people,
so he's talking about the cross, he's not talking about a symbol.
That's idolatry. I remember hearing about a man
who spent $3 million to put crosses on roadsides. For what? If people don't know who died
on the cross, what good are those crosses? They're good for nothing
unless the gospel is preached. Idiots run around with the cross
on their back, with a little wheel on the back of it, running
around America. Boy, they feel so close to God.
Idolatry, that's all it is. It's idol worship. So Paul is
not glorying in a symbol. What does he mean? There'll be
two things he means by the cross of Christ. First of all, he means
I will glory in the atonement of the cross. the atonement that
Christ made at the cross. The word atonement, it means
this, to cover. It means to expiate. It means
to appease, to cleanse, to forgive, to pardon, to purge, to reconcile. That's what atonement means.
Matter of fact, in the New Testament, the word atonement is only used
one time in Romans, and really the word is reconciliation. So when I preach the cross of
Christ, what I'm preaching is a message of reconciliation. Reconciliation. This hit me so hard yesterday
that, do you realize that when men are born in this world, we're
born enemies of God? No, no. You are an enmity against
God, not God being, you're the enemy of God. God's your enemy. We are all born haters of God. Scripture says in Romans, Romans
chapter 8, Romans chapter 8, listen to what
it says. It says in verse 7, but the carnal mind is enmity
against God. What kind of mind were you born
with? Born with a carnal mind, weren't
you? And the carnal mind by its very nature is against God, an
enemy of God. Listen to what Paul says in Ephesians
chapter 2. He said, we were dead in sins, and he said, among whom
we've had our conversation in time past, in the lust of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind, and
were by nature the children of wrath. Now that's not God's wrath. That's yours. Children of wrath. Haters of God. That's what we
are by nature. Vile rebels and traitors against
the Almighty. Man by nature says this in his
heart and he can't say anything else. I will not have him to
rule over me. God says this, I say this. God says, I'm like this, and
you say, no you're not, you're like this. Why? Because you hate what he is.
You hate that he's sovereign and you're not. You hate that
salvation is not by works. You want it to be by works because
you think you're pretty good. You hate the fact that God tells
you you're a sinner. Man by nature is at enmity against
God. So then the only hope is this.
that God make reconciliation. That God make reconciliation.
You will never make reconciliation. You won't make reconciliation.
You know, if God leaves you to yourself, you'll never make reconciliation. But this is the message we preach
is that God has already made reconciliation. God has already made peace. When it said peace on earth,
what do you suppose that meant? Was there peace on earth? Did
everybody get along? Is that what that meant? No. The peace on earth was Christ. He was peace on earth. And he
came into this world by his altering. He made peace with God. Everybody this man represented,
he made peace with. He made peace. In 2 Corinthians, how did he
do that? How did he make peace? 2 Corinthians chapter 5, quickly,
come on. 2 Corinthians chapter 5. Look at verse 18. Paul says, And all things are
of God. What's he talking about? Salvation. All of it. All things
are of God. Providence, everything is of
God. And all things are of God who
hath reconciled us to himself. Past tense, in case you missed
it. He's already done it. He didn't
wait for you to do it, He did it. And He did it for us, to
Himself. How? By Jesus Christ. And then what did He do? He gave
us the ministry of that reconciliation. What am I doing? I'm preaching
to you the ministry of that reconciliation. I'm telling you about that reconciliation. To wit, God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses to them. Now
why did God not impute their trespasses to them? Because he
wouldn't. You see sovereignty in that?
The only reason God did not impute my transgressions to me is because
he wouldn't. Where'd they go? You and I sweep
things under the rug all the time. God can't do that. He's
just. He cannot do that. He has to punish sin. So where'd
your sin go? If He ain't gonna charge you,
who'd He charge? Listen, not imputing our sins
unto us. He hath committed to us the word
of reconciliation. Now we are ambassadors for Christ
as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christed
Be you reconciled to God simply by believing in Christ is a man
receiving this reconciliation. But how did this happen? My faith didn't reconcile me
to God. My faith had nothing to do with
that reconciliation. It didn't pay for one sin. But
how then am I reconciled, really? Verse 21, for God hath made him
to be sin for us. All the vileness and hatred of
God that you were by nature, God made him to be. And yet, at the same time, he
knew no sin. I don't understand that. That's
true. He did. God can't punish an innocent
man. It's an abomination. God made
him bear our guilt in such a way it was his. And when God punished him, listen
to me, reconciliation was accomplished. Peace was made. Now, where were
you? What did you have to do with
that? Anything at all? See, this is
what I glory in. I didn't have anything to do
with that. If I put my hand to it, I would
have defiled it. If I had anything to do with it, I would have ruined
it. It was done completely outside of me. It was done as a transaction
between God and his son for me. And this is the reason it was
done, that we might be made something we're not. He was made something he wasn't.
And now we're made something that we weren't. The righteousness
of God, not just any righteous, the righteousness of God, not
the righteousness of Fred. That's not anything. No, the
righteousness of God. That's what he made me. Where
was I? I'll tell you where I was. I was in him. This is the second point about
what I preach about the cross. It is not only a reconciliation.
Paul says, I preach the cross, I glory in the cross, I glory
in this, I glory in divine representative substitution, representative
substitution. I had a representative. Adam,
you had a representative, Adam, wherefore, as by one man's sin,
how did you become a sinner? You became a sinner because your
father was a sinner, Adam. Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered in the world, and death by sin, and what happened? Death
passed upon all men, for all have sinned. When Adam sinned,
you sinned. Wait a second, that's not fair,
I wasn't there. Oh yeah, you were. You were there,
and you sinned in him. But this is also good news, because
that's exactly how we're saved. were saved by a representative
man. God in eternity chose a people
for himself, an elect people that he would save. Paul says, according as blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ,
according as He had chosen us in Christ before the foundation
of the world, that purpose we should be holy and without blame
before Him. Modem, in love, having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children, means by Jesus Christ unto Himself,
for this purpose, the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein
He hath made us accepted, where? and the beloved. When was I accepted? Eternity. All the elect were
accepted in eternity. Then what happened? In time,
Christ fulfilled it. He obtained that reconciliation,
obtained that atonement, obtained that righteousness. And by the
power of God, he did it as my representative and my substitute.
He died in my stead as my representative. He offered himself as my high
priest. He bore my sin in his own body on the tree. And once he had suffered, As
my representative, listen to this glory and truth. God accepted his offering. In Adam, God condemned us. But here is my hope. In Christ,
God glorified us. God made us accepted. The glory of a representative
atonement is this, the work's done. What is left for you to
do? Is there anything that you can
add to this? You believers, anything you want
to add to this? Hebrews 10, I'll close, Hebrews
10. Sometimes I don't wanna get down,
I'm sorry. Hebrews 10. In Chad verse nine, he says,
lo, I come to do thy will, O God. Isn't that what he came to do? What was the will of God? Will
of God was to save his elect. That was his will. He said, I
can't do that. He take it away the first, he may establish the
second. Talk about the covenants. By the which will we are what? Sanctified, made holy. That's
what that is. You're made holy. By what? You're made holy by the will
of God. God willed you to be holy, that's why you're holy.
through something, through the offering of the body of Christ,
how many times? Once. How many times have you
sanctified? Once. Doesn't sound progressive to
me. It's not. Every priest stands daily ministering,
offering the same sacrifices that can never take away sin.
Well, that's false religion. They're standing daily, working
all the time. Can't do it. What did this man
do? This man, after he'd offered
one sacrifice for sins, what'd he do? He sat down. He sat down because the work's
done. In the right hand of God, from
henceforth expecting till his enemies, he made his footstool,
for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. And I want you to know this. He who made an atonement for
His elect. He made atonement for every one of them. All of
them are reconciled. All of them. All of them are reconciled. As a representative substitute,
He died for all of their sins. God accepted His one offering
and they are forever perfected. Forever. Let me ask you this. Do you suppose one of them shall
miss believing on Jesus Christ? Is there anyone God loves who
will end up in hell? Jesus said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And when they do, I won't cast
them out. This is the will of Him that
sent me. In case you want to know what God's will is, here
it is. This is the will of Him that sent me. That of all He
hath given me, And who's that? I don't know. Lot. I don't know
who they are. Doesn't matter if I know who
they are or they don't. I just know that there is a certain
number that were given to him. All that are given to him. I
should lose how many? How many will he lose? Nothing. I will raise them up at the last
day. This is the will of Him that
sent me, that they come to me. I have an interest in this matter
of the elect, don't you? Because I know only Christ died
for them, and I know only they will believe. The question is,
am I one? The answer is, The evidence is
very simple. What are you glorying? Do you
glory in your works? Your will? That's no evidence. The evidence is this, God forbid
that I should glory save in the person and the work of Jesus
Christ as, listen, A-L-L, all my salvation. All of it. Do you glory in Him? Only the
elect glory in Him. Only the elect glory in this
message. Why? Because it's the message of God.
It's the power of God and salvation to everyone that believes. I pray God bless this to you. Stand
and be dismissed in prayer. Father, I dismiss this with your
blessing and mercy. I beg you to be gracious and
apply the message to the hearts of your people. Be gracious. Cause sinners to bow and believe. Cause those that believe to rest. And trust only in Christ all
our days. I beg you to receive the glory
and honor for it in Jesus' name.