if you would, if your Bible's
in Matthew chapter 10. And while you're turning there,
we were playing the song, the music only, for the song, Mary,
Did You Know? And those of you who are familiar
with that song, it finishes the song singing, Mary, did you know
that your Son is the great I Am? I'm here to tell you this morning
that per God's Word, Thus saith the Lord." Mary knew exactly
who the Lord Jesus Christ was. She called her son, My Lord. She declared her son, My Lord. Did you know that's what every
child of God will declare? Jesus Christ is My Lord. The Jesus of Scripture. The God
of the Holy Scripture is my Lord. How are you about talking with
those who know not God, about your Savior? Well, if you're
like me, not so much anymore, but I used to be pretty timid
about it. Oh, I tell you, if you ever opened
up and started talking about the Lord Jesus, I'd jump right
on it and talk with you and have a good conversation with you
until I figured out whether you were a believer in some Jesus who had no power. But as long as I thought there
was a possibility that you would hear the words of the true and
living God, the all-powerful Jesus Christ, God Almighty in
the flesh, I would talk your ears off as long as the boss
wasn't calling me on the radio and saying, John, go to your
next stop. But I was very timid at one time. I was ashamed of
it, in fact. In fact, these words that we're
about to read in Matthew, also in the book of Romans, which
we'll turn to in a moment, made me have a great doubt in my heart.
I had a great doubt in my heart when the Lord first opened my
eyes for many years. Am I truly saved? Not only because
of the actions that I see in myself, in the sinful flesh,
but because of my mind. My mind, I wasn't sure. I don't
remember exactly when the first time I heard Gene read these
words from the pulpit. But when I read these words,
I thought to myself, oh, I have failed. How can I be a child
of God and be ashamed to speak about him in public? But yet
I was. I doubted. whether I was a child
of God. So I pray that this morning God
will use today's message to give you, if you were in that boat
or if you have ever been in that boat, you, the children of God,
the children of Most High, a deeper hope in His Son, Christ Jesus. Look with me, if you would, at
Matthew chapter 10, verses 32 and 33. Matthew 10, verses 32
and 33, Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men,
him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven.
But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before
My Father which is in heaven." Now some, maybe even sitting
here this morning, may say, I've never heard those words before,
I didn't even know that was in the Bible. I wonder, I wonder,
how does that fit me? And others may say these words,
they say, oh, you know, I've heard this message five or six
times. Don Fortner's preached it at least twice. Gene's preached
it over the years. So many times I've heard all
this over and over again. But then there may still be others
who may say it this way. Oh, how many times I've heard
this message. And yet I need to hear it again
and again. Turn over now if you would to
Romans chapter 10. Romans chapter 10. In Romans chapter 10, Paul is
inspired by the Holy Spirit to write these words right alongside
of what we read there in Matthew. Paul writes that, "...if thou
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe
in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved." I ask, do you know what it means to confess
Christ Jesus? Our Lord said these words, He
says, if you will confess Me, whosoever shall confess Me, is
what He's saying, before men, I will confess him. And then
Paul saying in these words, and again paraphrasing, If thou shalt
confess with thy mouth Jesus to be Lord, and believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved. What is it to confess Christ? You know, there's a lot
of people who confess a Christ. They confess that there is a
God. Many who confess that there's only one God even. Many believe in what's called
the trilogy, the triune God. God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit. Three distinct personalities,
three distinct people, yet one purpose, one God. You cannot worship God the Father
unless you worship God the Son. Many believe and confess that
there is only one God. In the book of James, we read
these words. Thou believest there is one God,
thou doest well. And then it says after that,
the devils also believe and tremble. I quote this scripture for a
reason, folks. There are a lot of people out
there who are confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord. But they're
not confessing the Christ of scriptures. And the reason I
bring this out is because you and I, sitting here this morning,
will confess by the end of this message, and we've done it before,
that Jesus Christ of Scriptures is Lord of all. And we know this
because God has given us the gift of faith in His grace for
you and I. And see, this is what it always
comes down to. Every message comes down to this,
that God has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and He's had
mercy upon us. And we praise Him and glorify
Him for His grace. Not for something that we have
done. Confessing the Lord Jesus Christ
is not joining some kind of a religious group. That's not what we're
talking about. Oh, I'm a Christian. I go to a Christian church. That's
not what confessing Christ is. Everybody's got some kind of
religion, don't they? You know how many different Christian
religions there are in the world? You go down here to Alabama and
those kind of places, there's a Christian church on every corner.
Why? Because there's four different
kinds of Christians right there on each corner. It's not just to adopt some religious
form or to join a church or a denomination. This is not to pick up some kind
of religious traditions that people used to do at times. As
Mike Lovelace would tell us, it's not the tradition of worshipping
on Saturday, having the Sabbath, closing down on Friday night
and starting again on Saturday evening. Religious traditions. or to go
through a form, or to celebrate holidays, or to pay your tithes.
This is to confess a person. Jesus Christ is a person. It's
to know Him. To know who He is, what He's
done, and where He is right now. There can be no doubt about that,
because we read in our words, if you confess Me, says the Lord
Jesus Christ in Matthew. When Paul tells us, if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth Jesus Christ the Lord, what he's saying
is that your Lord and every man's Lord is who you confess. Not
only is He Lord of John Rees, He's Lord of everything. And
all of God's people see Him as Lord of everything. Many say,
oh yeah, He does. He works all things out and controls
everything, except for one thing. God's people says He controls
everything. There is nothing outside of the
will of my Father in heaven. He's talking about the Lord of
the dead. That's right. Jesus Christ has the keys to
hell. He's Lord of everything. He's Lord of heaven, He's Lord
of the earth, and He's Lord of everything under the earth. Isn't
that what Scripture says? He's Lord of the dead, He's Lord
of the living, He's Lord of heaven, He's Lord of earth. Thomas, remember
who Doubting Thomas is? He says, I'm not going to believe
in Him until I can put my hand in His wound. And the Lord comes
to him just in loving, loving. He says, come here. Put your
hand in here. What did Thomas say after that? He said this, my Lord, my God. What does it mean to confess
Christ? The angels, they said, when they announced the birth
of Jesus, they said, call his name Jesus, for he shall save
his people from their sins. Did you know that in the Old
Testament, the word Jesus, the word Joshua means Jesus. The
word Jesus means Joshua. It means Savior, or Jehovah my
Savior. This same angel, the one who
said, call his name Jesus, said this is the fulfillment, and
he declared this to be the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. He said,
call his name Emmanuel. Being interpreted is God with
us. Did you get that? God with us,
walked in this flesh perfectly. in the stead of His people, establishing
a perfect righteousness for each and every one for whom He would
go to the cross and shed His blood for. He is my Lord, my
God." Do you remember when Moses went to the Mount Moriah and
the God appeared to him in the burning bush? Remember that?
And then he told Moses, he said, I want you to go down to Egypt
and I want you to tell the Pharaoh, you Moses, a shepherd, go down
there to Egypt to where that Pharaoh is, that king of all
the land, the one with all his gold and all of his power, and
you tell him, let my people go. And Moses says, well, who am
I going to tell this guy? Who am I going to tell him? Send
me. Remember that? You remember that story? You
familiar with that? And the Lord said, you tell them this. Let me see. Moses, you tell them,
I am have sent thee. I am that I am. That's why we played that song
at the beginning of service this morning. Mary, did you know?
Did you know that the one in your belly, the one in your womb,
was the great I am? This is the way our Lord identified
Himself as He walked this earth. He identified Himself as Jesus
of Nazareth, the one who lived on earth and died on the cross.
He was buried and He rose again and He called Himself, I Am. On occasion after occasion, numerous
times, he called himself, I Am. He said, you're not even 50 years
old yet. How can you be? And Christ said
before Abraham was, I Am. When they came to arrest him
in the garden that night, the soldier said to him, he said,
we seek Jesus of Nazareth. And our Lord said in two words,
I Am. And they fell back. And again, he said, if you believe
not that I am, you will die in your sins. In John, there are seven times
that our Lord says these words. He says, I am. He said, I am
the bread of life. I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall
be saved. I am the light. I am the good
shepherd. I am the true vine. I am the
way, the truth, and the life. I am the resurrection, the life.
He saith, he that hath seen me hath seen God." Isn't that interesting? Our Lord wasn't bashful to tell
people who he was. And everyone he said it to knew
exactly who he was referring to. That's why they got all mad.
Who are you to say you're God? And they put him on a cross.
Wicked hands crucified our Lord, but it was by the determining
counsel of Him. Our Lord is seen as the Lamb
slain before the foundation of the world, as we see in Revelations. Turn over to John chapter 1 if
you would. John chapter 1. To confess Him is to see Him
as He is. as the Son of the Almighty, Sovereign
God, with all power, all authority, roving all over all that is,
working all things out according to His counsel and will. Look
at verses 1-5 of John chapter 1. Some of you may be able to
quote these words without even reading, but I want to read it
together. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by Him,
and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was
life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth
in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not." Now, what
do we read over in verse 14? And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, And we beheld His glory, the glory as the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Now leave
your Bibles there on your lap, and John, we'll come back to
that in a moment. Listen to the words of 1 Timothy 3, verse 16. And without controversy, great
is the mystery of godliness, God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the
Gentiles, and believed on in the world, and then received
up into glory." To confess Jesus is to confess
the truth about who Jesus is. As we've just seen in these two
verses here in 1 Timothy and in John chapter 1, our Lord is
God Almighty in the flesh. He's always been Jesus Christ.
He just wasn't a man. He had to be born of a virgin
because He could not be born of the seed of Adam. Adam's seed
is all sinful. Adam fell, the whole human race,
including you and I, fell in Him. Now don't go around trying
to blame your sin on that. I mean, it's your own. My sin is my sin. And it is ever
before me. Which is why I always need to
hear the story about my Savior. To confess Him is to declare
His works. My Lord perfectly died on the
cross for me. All of my sins, as we brought
out in Bible study this morning, have been laid upon Him. I am
holy, for He is holy. All of God's children are holy,
for He is holy. Go out and do. The best that the Lord will give
you to walk this earth as holy as you can, but you'll never
be holy enough in this flesh to be with the Lord if you don't
have Him. To confess Him is to declare
His righteous works, what He did, what He accomplished in
humbling Himself and becoming flesh. What did He do? Well, Paul wrote it this way.
He says, He came into the world to save sinners of whom I am
chief. And He didn't just come in to
try, He did it. He took upon Himself the likeness
of sinful flesh and the habit of a servant, and He was made
in the likeness of our flesh. The Scripture says that He was
tempted in all points as you and I are, as we are, yet without
sin. He bore our sins in His holy
body on the tree. He arose from the grave victorious
over sin and death and hell. Yes, that's what He did do. He
came into this world born of a woman, made under the law to
redeem sinners. And that's exactly what He did.
Why did He do it? This is also what we confess,
folks. You can't confess a half of a
Christ. Oh, how the world is trying to
confess part of what God does. Oh, we don't want to talk about
Romans 9. We don't want to talk about Romans 10. Why? Because that destroys all about
the Jesus that we know, the Jesus that we want, the Jesus that
we make serve us. We must confess all that He is. He's Prophet. He's priest. He's king in all that He is and
in all that He does. Why did He do this? Well, the
scripture says that He did it that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. Why did He do it? That we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him. He died that we might
have in Him a forgiveness of sins and a redemption. That God
may be just and justifier. That He might be the Lord of
the dead and Lord of the living. That's why He did it. You see,
folks, that's the only way it could be done. If it weren't
for Jesus Christ and His perfection, His perfectly holy blood being
shed on the cross for us, nobody would spend eternity in heaven
with Him. It had to be done this way. No other way. God's plans are
perfect, folks. The Jesus of Scripture doesn't
make mistakes. There is no plan B. It was this
plan the whole time and it's perfect. The law was given to you and
I to keep The law was given to us and man has to keep that law
if he is to have any dealings with God. Our Lord, God Almighty, is a
just God. That's why He can't condemn you
and I, if we are under the blood of Christ, for our sins. If Jesus Christ perfectly shed
His blood, His perfect blood for a people, is not that people
going to be saved no matter what? To say that one could be saved
and then lost in hell would be to say that the blood of God
was no good at all. It was for nothing. The justices of God says this,
the soul that sinneth shall surely die. It also says that our Lord
said, I will by no means clear the guilty. That means somebody
had to be made guilty for you and I, doesn't it? Somebody has to die for sin.
And you and I could do none of those things for ourselves. We
can't redeem ourselves. All that we are is sin. From
head to toe and everything in between. We need a perfect Redeemer. We need a perfect sacrifice.
We need a perfect spotless Lamb of God. One without blemish.
We need a substitute. One that is perfect as God Himself.
And that is what my Christ has done for me. Has He done that
for you? This is what it is to declare
Jesus, to confess who He is, is to confess His works as perfect
and done. When He said it was finished,
it was finished. Salvation was done. There's nothing
left for us to do, but as Don Fortner once said... Remember
that? That was one of those moments
where I wanted to jump up out of my seat down here in the pew
and say, Amen! My Lord's done it! There's nothing
for me to do but to believe on Him! From the top of my head to the
bottom of my toe is nothing but sin, and everything in between. We
need a perfect Redeemer. And this is my way of confessing
my Christ. This is what my Christ has done.
He was made a curse for me. Cursed is everyone who hangeth
on a tree, is what God's word says. By his stripes I am healed. So where is He now? To confess Christ. What is it
to confess my Lord and Savior? Where is He now? We've seen who
He is. We've seen what He's done. Where
is He right now, John? Who is He? He's my Lord and my
God. What did he do? He became a man.
He walked this earth, obeyed God's law, and he died under
God's wrath and justice for my sin. Where is he now? He is seated
at the right hand of the majesty and the heavenlies, is what scripture
says. Death could not hold him. He's seated at the right hand
of the majesties. There is one mediator between
God and men. Paul rejoiced in these words.
He said this, who can condemn me? Paraphrasing the word of
God, the Christ has died. Yea, rather, is risen again,
who is even at the right hand of God, whoever liveth to make
intercession for us. Do you need an intercessor? Do
you need someone to go between you and God? Or do you have righteousness
of your own that you think you can go to God with? The Hebrew writer wrote it this
way, he says, let all the angels of God worship Him. They told
the shepherd unto you is born this day, the city of David,
a Savior, Christ the Lord. To Him give all the prophets
witness that we read about in Scriptures who search these things.
The Lord said, Abraham saw My day. Abraham was glad and he
rejoiced to see My day. The people said that we... that
we read after Moses, but Christ told them, Moses wrote of me. Folks, this is serious business. If you and I wish to know God,
if we wish to worship God, and if we wish to be in the kingdom
of God, we must confess Christ is what it says. And that's the only way. John
wrote, In 1 John 5.20 He said these words, And we know that
the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that
we may know Him that is true. I pause there for a moment because
I want you to grasp a hold of that. With all the world around
us, are you surprised? Are you surprised that the leaders
of our country live in lies? Are you surprised that the majority
of owners of companies really don't tell you all the truth?
You know, if you don't tell the whole truth, you might as well
tell a lie. It doesn't say confess part of
Christ. It says confess Christ in all
of His glory, in truth. And we know that the Son of God
has come and has given us an understanding that we may know
Him that is true, and this is the true God, and this is eternal
life. Do you understand how serious
it is that we're talking about here? Confessing Christ, the
Christ of Scriptures. Do you understand that? Oh, how I need to be reminded
of it all the time. If I had a pastor come before
me today and want to preach this very same message, I'd want to
hear it again. What is it to confess Christ?
I'm not trying to tell you folks that you have to be some kind
of scholar. You don't have to be some kind of a Bible student. What I'm saying is if you confess
Christ, then you have to confess the right Christ. The true and
living God. You have to confess who it is,
and what He did, and where He is
right now. And why did He do it? Why was
this necessary? And where is He now? We're talking
about confessing the true Christ. Listen to the words of 2 Thessalonians
2 verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because
God has from the beginning, before the beginning of time, before
the world was ever made, chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit, and what? Belief of the truth. God of all creation does not
deal in lies. Listen to these words and I'm
going to read several verses for you before we go back to
the book of John. In Ephesians chapter 5 verse 9 we read this,
speaking about truth. For the fruit of the Spirit is
in all goodness and righteousness and truth. Ephesians 1.13, we
read these words, "...in whom ye also trusted, after that ye
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in
whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy
Spirit of promise." John 4.23, we read these words, "...for
but the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers
shall worship the Father, in spirit and in truth, for the
Father seeketh such to worship Him." Again in John chapter 14
this time, verse 17, "...even the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive." Did you catch that? This all comes right back to
grace, folks. We were of the world at one time,
were we not? Was there not a day when the
Lord came to you through the preaching of His gospel, and
He said, come unto Me, and you came? Was there not a day when
you first looked at the Scriptures, and you said, you know, I've
read through these several times. Wow, they're just starting to
open up like I never thought. I've never seen that before. even the Spirit of truth, whom
the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth
him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth in you, and shall be
in you." Let's try one more. John chapter 4, verse 24. God
is a Spirit. And they that worship Him must. Do you think that word means
part way? God is a spirit. And they that worship Him must
worship Him in spirit and in truth. Now I know those who think
all who claim to be Christians are God's people. I know those who have told me
this. I don't believe everything goes
Seventh-day Adventists do. In fact, there's a lot of stuff
that I don't have anything to do with. But I believe that we
should worship on the Sabbath day, on Saturday. So that's why
I go there. They're good, godly people. They
claim to be Christians. I know a person who, at one time,
would go out with a group of people, and for no reason at
all, just for a reason. I didn't mean to say it that
way. But they would choose another religion. They're a Baptist group. And they go over here to this
other religion to sing songs with them, hoping that they'll
see that they're worshiping with them, and that they'll come to
their belief. Because they claim to be Christians. Did you know that in Romans chapter
9, Paul clearly declares that not all Israel is Israel? Not
all those who claim to be Christians will be Christians. There are
going to be those, in the day of judgment, that are going to
be standing there and saying, Lord, did I not do things in
Your name? Did I not do all the good works, taking and buying,
raising the money, and going down and giving an ambulance
to the poor folks down there in Mexico? Did we not do that
in your name? And our Lord's going to say to
them, depart from me, ye workers of iniquity, for I never knew
you. That's scripture. That's God's word. That's as
important as hearing the Word of God where it says, Jacob have
I loved, Esau have I hated. Oh, the world don't want to hear
about that. Don't you bring that up before most Christians. Especially one who believes that
Jesus loves everybody. Listen to the words of Romans
chapter 9, verses 4-8. We'll be to John here in just
a moment. Bear with me a few more moments, we're almost done. Romans chapter 9 verse 4, we
read these words, Who are Israelites? To whom pertaineth the adoption
and the glory and the covenants, the promises and the giving of
the law? Who were given the law and the
service of God and the promises? Verse 5, "...who are the fathers,
and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all
God, blessed forever. Now, as though the word of God
hath taken none effect, for they are not all Israel, which are
of Israel, neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are
they all children, But Isaac shall thy seed be called, is
what the Lord said." Or in other words, that is, they which are
the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God.
But the children of the promise are counted for the seed. In
other words, only the children of promise are the children of
God. Only those who were promised to the Son, the Son of God before
the world was, are the children of God. That's why I can say
to you with confidence, everything created, everything that's happened
throughout all of what we see in history, was so that you and
I would be here this very moment. Hearing the Word of God. Worshipping
and praising our Savior for His grace for us. In John chapter 6, don't turn
there. I promise you, we're going to get there. John chapter 6
verse 39, we read this, And this is the Father's will which hath
sent me, that all which He hath given me I should lose nothing,
but should raise it up again the last day. Folks, I'm telling
you here this morning, to confess Christ is to confess Him in truth. And natural man cannot see the
Kingdom of Heaven. Only by grace do you and I see
what the Lord has given us to see, what He has revealed in
His Word as truth. In Matthew 7, 21, we read these
words, Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven. In Matthew 18, 3, and he said,
Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as
little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. John 3, verse 5, we read this,
Jesus answered and said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born of water, and the Spirit he cannot enter into the
Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh
is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel
not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. For the wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but cannotst tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth. So is every
one that is born of the Spirit. Are your Bibles open still to
the first chapter of John? Folks, we must confess Him in
truth. There is another Jesus being
preached in the world, one who has some power but not all, but
has turned some of that power over to man. I've done all that
I can, He says to them, now you need to come forth and accept
Me. That's not the Jesus of Scripture. The Jesus of Scripture walks
by His people and He says, come, follow Me. And we do. And we will. And we're not going
to stop. He won't lose anything. Romans
9 verse 16, we read these words, So it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. Look
at John chapter 1 verses 11 through 13. He came unto his own, and
his own received him not. That's the world. That was you
and I. It's talking about Israel. Folks, you and I are Israel if
we belong to the Lord Jesus. If we are His, we are the spiritual
Israel. He came unto His own, and His
own received Him not, but as many as received Him, to them
gave He power to become the sons of God. Now you explain to me how that
is opening the door for you to make a decision. How can you say, God's done everything
He can, now it's up to you? And read those words. To them
gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on His name. That's the whosoever. That's
the whosoever of John 3.16, whosoever believeth on me shall have everlasting
life. That's the whosoever, those that
God has given the power to become the sons of men, the sons of
God, even to them that believe on His name, which were born
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of God. Confessing Christ is confessing
Him according to His Word. And if you see our Lord according
to His Word, it's because He's done a work of grace in you. Confessing Christ. Confessing
that He is Lord of all. That all things in heaven and
earth and under the earth are under His power. Confessing that
He has saved His people. No ifs, no maybes, no empty seats. in confessing that He sits on
His throne of all glory right now. Why? Why would I confess that? Because
I love Him. How can I not love one who has
done so much for me out of love for me? If God loves you, you know, it
disturbs me. I have to bite my tongue. And
sometimes I don't. I have to bite my tongue. You're
walking down the street, there's people, Jesus loves you! Jesus
loves you! You ever get the feeling to,
how do you know? I'll give anybody ten bucks if
they get something other than John 3.16. How do you know? He tells me in His Word that I see
His truth. That I can see who He is in truth
because He's gracious to me. Because He's loved us from before
the world was. Why do I want to confess who
my Lord and Savior is? Well, he says in 1 Corinthians
1.29, a verse that we brought several messages on in the last
few weeks, I know. But oh, how they apply to this
too. That no flesh should glory in His presence. God's people don't want to brag
on themselves. They want to brag on our Lord. Go into any church. You know, you're not going to
hurt you. Just go there and sit one time and listen. Do you hear
about the Lord Jesus and what He's done? Or do you hear about
what you could do or what the church is doing? I had to give an instructional
Bible study this morning. It says, Be ye holy, for I am
holy in 1 Peter 1, verse 16. You just can't talk about that
without it being instructional. But those of you who were here
and able to be here this morning, did you hear about who is holy?
Did you hear about it? It sure wasn't this guy who stands
up before you. Oh, but my Lord and Savior is
holy, holy, holy. that no flesh should glory in
his presence, but of him. But of God the Father are ye
in Christ Jesus, who of God hath made unto you and I wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, redemption, that according as it is written, he
that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Amen.