And the title of the message
is this morning, Would you see Jesus? Would you see Jesus? Scripture says, And there were
certain Greeks among them which came up to worship at the feast. The same came therefore to Philip,
which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Listen,
sir, we would see Jesus. The desire of these men was this,
we would see Christ. Friends, this is the whole purpose
of our gathering to worship every time. is that Christ should be set
before you, that His gospel should be preached to you, and that
you by faith should see the Son of God. This is my heart's desire
for every one of you. That you should see Christ. That
you should believe on Christ. Because there is no salvation
apart from Him. None. None. There is no hope. There is no comfort, there is
no joy, there is no life apart from you seeing and believing
on the Son of God. Now, previous to this text of
Scripture, our Lord Jesus had many times proved His deity by
many miracles. but especially the healing of
the man born blind in chapter 9, and the raising of Lazarus
from the dead in chapter 11, our Lord proves Himself to be
the Christ, the Son of God. Who but God could give sight
to a man that was born blind? Matter of fact, nowhere in the
history of mankind was ever such a miracle done that a man should
be born blind should receive his sight. Now there are many
instances in which a man lost his sight in life and yet he
was healed. But this instance was very, was
so rare. It was one of a kind. And yet our Lord did it with
no trouble. And He not only proved His deity
by this, but He also proved it by raising Lazarus from the dead.
Who else but God could raise the dead? Only God could give
life to the dead. And there Christ stood at the
tomb of Lazarus and He said, Lazarus, come forth. And Lazarus
came out of the tomb being dead for four days. He came out. Only God could do this. And Jesus did these miracles
not just to prove His deity, but rather to preach to us the
gospel. These miracles that he did, he
did not do them as men would. Men do miracles and things so
that they might receive glory for themselves. Christ did miracles
so that God should be glorified. That the gospel should be preached.
And that's what these miracles were. Take that healing of the
man born blind. All men by nature are spiritually
blind. Born spiritually blind. They cannot see the things of
God. Now let me ask you this. Why are men not interested in
Christ from birth? Why? Why do men have no interest in
the things of God? Why are they interested in the
things of the world? Why do they love the sin of the flesh and
the lust of the flesh? Why is it that they seek after
things that they can touch and feel and have no desire for the
things of glory in heaven? Why? Because they're blind. They
can't see these things. They don't see any value in it.
They don't see any worth in it. They're blind. They can't see.
They don't have any desire. You listen to me this morning.
You have no interest in the things of God. I want you to understand
without question you are blind and cannot see what we see. I
enjoy these things. I relish these things. I long
for these things. Why? Because I'm not blind. You
believe you're not blind. You see Christ. You know Christ.
You want Christ because you're not blind. But man by nature
is born spiritually blind. He cannot see the things of God.
Cannot know them. Well, how then can a man receive
these things, having never been able to see? Scripture says, "...Eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither entered into the heart of man
the things which God prepared for them that loved Him." Listen,
"...but God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit." How did
God reveal this to me? The same way He healed that blind
man. By grace and mercy, by power, He healed that blind man and
he was able to see things he never saw before. And so it is
with the sinner. The sinner who never had any
interest in the things of God, God puts His Word on our hearts
and we see, we understand now that Christ is all. Christ is
all. That's all my heart's desire
is Christ. natural man receive it not the things of god because
he's spiritually discerned he's born And so then, what's the only
hope? If you're blind this morning, what is the only hope for you?
Now, I can't give you sight. I can't make these things interesting
to you. That would be deceptive, wouldn't
it? If I stood up here and did a play and tried to entertain
your flesh and tried to make you feel good, then that would
be deceptive. I'd be trying to make you think
you saw something. What is the only hope for a blind
man is if Jesus Christ this day passes by you and gives you sight.
That's it. And if he passes by you and he
doesn't give you sight, you will never see these things, you will
die in your sins, and hell will be your reward. That is the truth. That is the truth. That man standing on the street
corner begging was born blind with his cup out. He couldn't
see If the Lord Jesus Christ walked right by him, that man
would have never saw anything. The difference was Christ stopped. And he gave him sight. Now that's
the gospel. This morning I'm preaching to
you, if it ever goes to your heart, it's not me. It's Christ. It does it. Second one was that
dead man Lazarus. He was physically dead. He could not give himself life.
If I were to lay out a corpse before you and put all of the
medicines in the world in front of him, what good would those
medicines do? If he had not life. And so it is with you who are
unbelieving. You are dead in trespasses and
sins. You cannot give yourself life. And I'm going to prove it to
you. I've told you that Christ alone is the Savior. I tell you
that He alone can give life. He alone, by His one offering,
can cleanse you from every sin that you have ever done or ever
will do. I tell you to believe on Him,
and He will robe you in His righteousness, wrap you in His arms, and be
your eternal refuge forever, and the justice of God shall
never come on you. And yet, if you still refuse
to come, I'm going to tell you why. You are dead. Dead. I just proved to you by
your not coming, that's proof. You're dead. I've just told you
the most wonderful thing that could ever possibly happen to
you is if Christ would save you. And yet, you still will not call
on Him. You still will refuse. Still. Why? You are dead. What is the
only hope for the dead person? Is if Christ come by and call
you by name. Now I tell you this, if Christ walks
by your dead corpse and doesn't call your name, what harm did
He do you? You are already dead. If you ever understand that you're
blind and dead, this is good. Because only the
blind need sight. Only the dead need life. And
that's what Christ came to do. To recover sight to the blind. To raise the dead to life. So, you're in good company. If
God ever sells you that, you will call out to Christ and He
will save you. He will save you. But you should never try to come
with your own righteousness. You should never try to give
yourself sight. You should never try to give
yourself life by obeying the law or doing good. Obeying the
law and doing good never gives life. By the deeds of the law
shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. Why? Because you have no righteousness. You have no standing before God
in your works. God doesn't demand your best.
That's what we as parents, we want our children to do their
best. I want my children to do their
best. When they're doing something, I want them to give everything
they've got. And if they come short, if I know they've done
their best, I'm satisfied with that. God's not like that. God doesn't want your best. Because
your best ain't good enough. God demands you to be perfect.
Perfect. God demands you be as perfect
as He is. Therefore, there is no life or
sight in the law of God. But behold God in grace, in mercy,
for His own glory has sent the only one who can give you life
and sight. That is Jesus Christ, His Son. that Christ should come and fulfill
the righteousness of God, that He should come and redeem Israel
by the offering of Himself, by giving His life, by putting Himself
under the judgment of God, by enduring the judgment of God
for the sins of His people. He should give life and redemption. And I tell you that this is done. Listen, don't work for salvation. You can't work for salvation.
Salvation's done. Salvation's accomplished. Salvation
is in a person. And that person is Jesus Christ. Is Jesus Christ. How do I know
this? Because I tell you God raised
Him from the dead. We all have family members who
have died. friends who have died. Go out
to their grave and what you find, you will find them there. They're
dead. But I can show you one too. That
there was a dead man in there, but now he is not there. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one who has risen from the dead. Why? Because He took our
sins, He paid for them, and because there was no sin, God could not,
death could not keep Him in the grave. He rose again for the
justification of His people. And now the Holy Spirit is sent
into the world to call these people, to give sight to these
blind, to give life to the dead. And so then, why will you not
believe? This morning, as I'm presenting Christ to you, why
will you not be like these men? These men heard something. These
men had a need of something. And they came with this statement,
Sir, we would see Jesus. Now this morning, would you see
Jesus? Would you? Is there anything else you came
to see? If you came to see anything else,
you've come in vain, and your time here is wasted. Because only Christ can give
life. Only Christ can give life. Scripture says, Rejoice, for
the hour has come, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God, and they shall live. And now in our
text we see the result of his preaching the gospel, of his
declaration of his deity, of his salvation. Here it is, these
Greeks, these Gentiles, who were proselytes to the Jewish religion,
these men came to Jerusalem at the time of the Passover as it
was required by the law, that they should come. These men heard of Jesus' miracles,
they heard of His message of salvation, and now they desire
for themselves to see Him. To see Him. They tell Philip,
Sir, we would see Jesus. And when God moves on the heart
of a sinner to come to Christ, When his son, when a man's sin
is exposed and God's holiness is revealed, no word of man,
no religious deeds, and no amount of works can ever satisfy that
man until he himself personally has Christ. I know this, when
God convicted me of my sin, There was no place I could go to find
comfort. All of the usual places that
I found comfort in became thorns. They felt as though they pierced
my soul. They used to give me pleasure.
My sin used to give me pleasure. But the places I went to before
for comfort, I found I could find no rest there. I could find
no comfort there. They became ashes in my mouth. Everything began to condemn me. I was exposed before God. I was naked. And there was no
place for me to hide. This is what it is for conviction.
When God saves a man, He must first convict him and convince
him of his need. Do you have a need? If you don't
have a need, you won't ever see Christ. I know a lot of people have a
need of physical healing. A lot of people have a need of
food and shelter. And I tell you, God gives those
things. He gives those things. He makes his son to shine on
the just as well as the unjust. But I had something, a greater
need than just physical things. I had a spiritual need that nothing
could satisfy until I myself had Christ. It was something my mom and dad
could never give to me. It was something my preacher
could never give to me. It was something only God could
give. And I had to plead for mercy. knowing this that I did not deserve
any of it all I saw was my guilt my shame my hopeless condition but then at that same moment
I found peace by looking to Christ I said, God, I would see Christ. I would know His blessing. Give
me His blood. Wash me in His blood. Robe me
in His righteousness. And you know what I found? I
found Him to be most gracious. Most gracious. These men desired
to see Jesus. Is there any here desired to
see Jesus? and be accepted of Him and have
eternal life, then you must come, you must come alone, and you must come to Him alone. No one will come for you. No one will believe on Christ
for you. You, yourself, must believe on
Christ. Very personal. Very personal. You must come to Christ and you
must come to Him alone. You must, as these Greeks, find
the efforts of religion not enough. They came to Jerusalem. They
performed the Passover. They went by the law. And you
know what they found? They found it was not enough.
It was not good enough. Their conscience was not satisfied. They needed something greater
than the law could provide. They needed Jesus. They needed
Christ. And so they came to Him. What does God require of thee?
I like this. This old heathen king came and
asked what the Lord required. He said that you may know the
righteousness of the Lord. Wherefore shall I come before
the Lord and bow myself before the Most High God? Shall I come
before Him with burnt offering, with calves of a year old? Will
the Lord be pleased with ten thousands of rams, with ten thousand
rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for
my transgression the fruit of my body, for the sin of my soul? Isn't that what most men think?
To get life, you gotta do. You gotta sacrifice. You gotta
feel pain. There were some people in the
old church, they thought that they could whip sin out of themselves,
that they'd beat themselves. When they thought a bad thought,
they would just hit themselves and hit themselves, thinking
that they could get it out or something with some kind of suffering.
No! God doesn't require that. God's
told you what He requires. Righteousness. Perfect righteousness. Nothing else will do. Therefore, this is why enough
is never enough. This is why these Greeks came
to Christ. Because the religion was not enough. And you're going
to find this. You who seek after God by religion,
you're going to find out religion is never enough. And it's going
to get old and boring and tiresome. It's going to get weary. Why? Because you're looking for that
to satisfy God, and you're going to find out it's useless. I can't
satisfy God. But listen, if God will ever
save you, He's got to bring you to show you your need, your depravity,
the vanity of self-righteousness. He must show you the blasphemy
of all freewill works religion. Now, do you desire to see Christ?
And I tell you right now, come near and listen. Come and listen.
Here it is. And they brought this to Jesus. And look at verse
23. And Jesus answered them, saying,
The hours come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth
much fruit. Much fruit. When they came to
see Jesus, what did Jesus give them? He gave them this message. If you desire to see Christ,
you're going to only see Him in the message of the gospel.
In the message of the gospel. Except the corn of wheat fall
into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth
forth much fruit. Here Jesus sets himself forth
to be, as a picture, a corn of wheat. Take a little grain of
wheat, a little seed, okay? Now you put that seed over on
a shelf, okay? It's a perfect seed. It's a good
seed. But if you put it on a shelf, how much wheat will grow from
the seed? None. if it abide alone, it will
not produce any fruit, no matter how good the seed is. In order
for a seed to produce fruit, it first must die. And when you
put it in the ground, the seed itself dies so as it might grow
into multiple seeds. You've seen a stalk of wheat.
A stalk of wheat comes up. It's a little seed. You plant
it in the ground. It comes up and then at the top there are
many seeds. So one seed produces what? Many
seeds. And this is the picture. Jesus
himself is the seed. Now then consider this. What
if Christ just abided alone? Now he's perfect. He's God. Consider that if Jesus were not
to come and die, who would be saved? No one. No one. Surely if Jesus were to left
Adam in the garden, like he left the fallen angels, Would He be
any less righteous or good? No. See then, God is by no means
obligated to save man. That's what people think about
God, isn't it? Well, He made me. He needs to save me. It's
His fault if I don't get saved. It's all... Listen, God's not
obligated to save any one of us. God doesn't owe you anything.
You owe God everything. But God in free mercy, in sovereign
mercy, came down to fallen man. God came with a message. You
remember after Adam sinned, God came with a message. He didn't
have to. He could have left Adam in his
fig leaves. Let Adam die in his fig leaves and go to hell. He
could have left him there without any hindrance to his glory. But in grace he came. Came with
the message. Not by the works or merit of
man, but that salvation should come by the seed of the woman,
which is Christ. That he should crush the head
of the serpent, that he should destroy the works of the devil,
that he, by the bruising of his heel, should save men. It was by sin that death came.
By sin of one man, death passed upon all men. I've told you already
that we were born spiritually dead. You know why? Because your
father and my father in that garden sinned against God and
when He died, we all died. This is why we were all born
dead. Because of Him. By one man's sin entered into
the world. And by sin came death. And this work, this is the work
by which he should remove death and sin, that Christ should come,
and by the bruising of his heel, which is speaking of his death,
he should put away sin. See the horror of sin in the death of Christ. that nothing less than the death
of the Son of God could remove sin. You know, see how strong
the chains of sin are? That nothing less than the death
of the Son of God, you could die, your children could die,
everybody in the world could die, every animal could die,
and could not take away one sin. But this man came, and by his
one offering, see the greatness of his offering, by his one offering
he hath sanctified, perfected, obtained eternal redemption.
for God's people by his one blood offering and you see that Christ without
Christ no man could be saved but here is the Word of Christ
he said if a scorn of wheat should abide alone it won't bring forth any fruit
but if it fall in the ground and die It bringeth forth much fruit. Much fruit. Here's the Word of
God. see that by the gospel it was
God's purpose and will that Christ should come and die for the sins
of His people." Jesus said that after His resurrection. His disciples
were very upset. They just saw their Lord die
on the cross. They saw Him buried in that tomb.
And it was the third day, and they were walking on that road
to Emmaus, and the Lord appeared to them, and they didn't know
who it was. And He said, Why are you so sad? What's wrong?
They said, You don't know. This man we thought was the Christ,
this man we loved and thought that he should redeem Israel,
he's died! And you know what the Lord said?
He said, ought not Christ to have suffered. and entered into
His glory. And beginning at Moses and all
the prophets, He expounded unto them and all the Scriptures the
things concerning Himself." You not see that this whole book,
this whole book here is given to us concerning the death of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Ought not Christ to have died?
Because that's the only way sin could be removed, is by the death
of the Son of God. And I tell you that He's come,
He's died. He is the Passover Lamb. And by His grace and love,
He bore our sins in His own body and God smote Him. God killed
Him in our stead. Behold the reason for sin. The ransom for sin, the ransom
for sin is this, that God killed his son in the place instead
of the guilty. And by his death, listen to the
purpose of God, and when it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. The work of Christ was to die
for the sins of his people, to suffer the just for the unjust. This was a divine work of God. Why? So that he might save his
people from their sin. Jesus said this in John 10. He
said, I am the good shepherd and know my sheep, and am known
of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even
so know I the Father. And listen, I lay down my life
for the sheep. other sheep I have, which are
not of this fold. Them I also must bring, and they
shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd."
You see the Lord Jesus Christ came for a reason. He had a purpose. His purpose was not vague, but
very specific. He came to die for the sheep.
He came to die for all those that the Father had given Him. Therefore the doctrine of universal
atonement that opposes the Word of God is blasphemous. Those who preach the death of
Christ is a failure. Those who preach that his death
was the purpose to die for all of the sins of all men, and some
of those men are in hell this morning, that is a blasphemous
doctrine. That's not the doctrine of Christ.
Jesus said, if this corn of wheat fall into the ground, it shall
produce much fruit. I thought this very interesting.
You know, the amount of seeds that that a seed is going to
produce is already determined in the seed, isn't it? It's genetically
determined in the seed how much that thing is going to put out.
And this is the same with the gospel. Christ being the seed,
He has already determined who He was going to save before He
offered Himself. We know this, that Jesus, our
Savior, is not a failure, but rather a victorious Savior. That
His death has accomplished salvation, obtained eternal redemption for
all that the Father gave Him. See then that Jesus in our text ties His glory to His death. You see that? Look back at verse
23. He said, The hour has come that
the Son of Man should be glorified. Well, how should He be glorified?
By dying and producing much fruit. The Lord Jesus ties His glory
to His death. You see, if Jesus failed in His
death, then His glory fails. His glory fails. Will the glory
of Christ fall? If Christ died for a sinner and
that sinner die in his sins, then the glory of Christ would
have failed. Even because he failed to give
eternal life to as many as the Father gave Him. But we are sure
of His glory. Even because the Father purposed
to save the elect, and the Son died for the elect, and you listen,
the Holy Spirit now is moving to save those people from their
sins. The Holy Spirit is ascent to
call the elect. Go to 2 Thessalonians. 2 Thessalonians. See the whole of this in chapter
2, verse 13. Paul said, We are bound to give
thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord,
because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation. You see that? He chose you to
salvation. You see, election is not salvation,
it's unto salvation, but it's not salvation. Salvation comes
by the obtaining by the work of Christ, but it comes in application
by the Holy Spirit. Look, through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth. In other words, the Spirit
of God must and will come to everyone that is dead, everyone
God chose, everyone Christ died for. The Spirit of God shall
come to them and He will give them life and they will believe. But what is the means? Look at this in the next verse,
where into he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. And so then, going back to the
next one, going back to your text, look at the next verse,
and we see in the next verse the effect. After the death,
after the resurrection, after the calling, after He brings
forth much fruit, you who believe, you are the fruit of His labor. You are the fruit of His death.
Now what is the result of us who believe? Look at this. He
that loveth His life shall Lose it. And he that hateth his life in
this world shall keep it unto the eternal life. Now you listen, I've just preached
to you the gospel of Christ, I've said Him before you. And
yet if you continue to love this life, you'll lose it. This is
the result of the gospel. The gospel always has an effect.
Listen. This gospel always has an effect
on you. Always. It is either going to
harden you, and you will go away worse than you walked in, or
you will come away believing and rejoice. There's no middle
ground here. This gospel is always doing its
work. It's always going to do. And
this is one effect of the gospel is that some of you will love
this life. You'll love this life, and you'll
cling to this life, and you'll hang on to this life, and you'll
want this life, and you'll want the pleasures of this life. And
you know what you're going to do? You're going to lose it.
All that you hang on to, you'll lose it. Go ahead. Hold on to it. Haven't you already experienced
this everybody? Haven't you already experienced this enough is never
enough, it's always the next thing. Isn't there always something
more? You say, man, if I just had this
one thing, then I'll be satisfied, and then you get it, and as soon
as you get it, you're looking for something else. Tell me,
is that not so? Is that not so? Every one of
you, is that not so? You know it is. And you always want something
more, something more. But you get this, I want you
to understand this. Everything you try to hold on to with your
dear life, you'll lose it. You'll lose it. Your family? Have you not already
lost? Your pleasures? Your treasures? Have you not tried to hang on
to them and then just find them slipping through your hands? Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Empty, empty, all is empty. Empty,
empty, all is empty. That's the things of the world. But here's something and another
effect of the gospel. He that hateth his life. He that
hateth his life. shall keep it what does this
mean this has to do with a man who's really understands what
he is and what this world is I know this my sin I hate my
see I hate my see It is my desire
now, being saved by the grace of God, to no longer sin. Yet
I know this corpse of a nature still wraps its tentacles around
me and drags me to the ground every single day. It's constantly
at a warfare, constantly at a struggle. This flesh and body grows weary
and sickly. The more we live in this world,
we're going to find that the things and treasures of the world
leave a bitter taste in our mouth. They're not what they seem to
be. And the more we grow in grace,
we begin to hate this life. That sounds strange to the people
of the world, doesn't it? Well, you just need to be more
positive about the things of this world. You just need to
have a better positive attitude of things. Maybe so. But I tell
you what, I hate this life. This life is miserable. But I
got a life that I'm looking for. It's not in this world. It's
in that to come. I have eternal life. My joy is
not found in this world. It's found in Christ. Matter
of fact, the Lord tells us this. He says, when I give you my Spirit,
when I wash you with the blood of my Son, He says this, then
shall you remember your evil ways and your doings that are
not good, and you shall loathe yourselves. I sound familiar,
believer? Do you loathe yourself? I do. But notice this. We not only
loathe ourselves and shall keep our life unto eternal life. Listen.
If any man serve me, let him follow me. And where I am, there
shall my servant be. If any man serve me, him will
my father honor. Those who follow Christ desire
to serve Christ. If we loathe this life, we have something that we do
not loathe, and that is Christ. We love Christ. We hate this
life, we love Christ. Therefore, in this life, we who
believe on Him, serve Him. Serve Him. He is our Master,
and we have completely surrendered to Christ. What is it to serve
Christ? Is it then to go back to the
law, because that's what some people think, to serve Christ
is, well you believe on Christ, you're saved by grace, but now
you need to start going back to the law and living under the
law. No, that's not serving Christ. How do we serve Christ? You serve
Christ by believing on Christ. The just shall live by faith. Faith. You see, we have a law
by which we serve Christ. It is the law of faith and love. It is not the law of works. You
remember, Paul called those Galatians who tried that, he said, you're
so foolish. Are you so foolish to begin in
the Spirit and then go back under the law? No. We follow Christ. We trust Christ
fully and completely. and surrender all to Him. And
notice this, He says, where I am, there shall my servant be. What
is He telling us? We who see Jesus, what is He
telling us? He said, where I am, that's where
you are. He's showing us our union with
Him. Now how much is the seed in union with the wheat? The wheat came from the seed.
And you listen, we are in union with Christ that where He is,
we are. Do you not see that when He died,
we died? When He was righteous, we were
righteous. When He rose again, we rose with
Him. And right now He is seated in
heaven and that's exactly where we are. We are in Christ, accepted
of God because we are in union with Him. I like this. Somebody
once said, you know, those people like to put that bumper sticker,
smile, God loves you, on the back of their car. And somebody said, well, what
if Noah would have put that on the back of the ark? People outside
the ark drowning. And he said, smile, God loves
you. That'd be foolish. But one preacher said this, you
know what you could do? You could put that sticker all on the inside
of the ark. You could stamp that sticker
on the inside of the ark all over the place. You could say,
smile, God loves you. If you are in Christ, smile,
God loves you. If you are in Christ, you are
safe and there is nothing that can harm you. He said, Behold,
I am thy eternal refuge and underneath are the everlasting. I got you
over the top, I got you around the side, and I got you underneath,
and nothing will harm you. This is what Christ is telling
those who would see Jesus. Would you see Jesus? If you would,
that's what He says. In Me you're safe. Where I am, you are safe. Him, Will my Father honor? Do you not see Christ, that God
honored Christ? This morning I've been exalting
Christ. I want to exalt Christ every time I preach. You don't
have to guess what I'm going to preach on, do you? When you
come here, you know exactly who I'm going to exalt. Not you.
I'm going to exalt Him. Why? Because the Father honored
Him. You get this. The Father will
honor me because I'm in Him. God honors His people, doesn't
He? Yes, He does. He said, I'll honor
Him. My Father will honor Him if He's
in me. So then I ask you again, would
you see Jesus? If you find yourself dead and
blind, when you find your religion is
not enough, I know this, if you ever have
a need, Christ is the only one that can give it, fulfill it.
He alone can save. You should believe on the Son
of God. And in believing, you have eternal
life, forgiveness of sins. May God bless this through your
hearts. Let's stand and be dismissed
in prayer.