of the land. Redeemed, redeemed,
his child and forever I am. Once again, our pastor Paul and Mindy are
in Louisiana attending a funeral, a family member, our brother
Henry's sister. And in his absence, and on short
notice, I might add, we have with us Brother Walter
and Sister Penny Pendleton. As I said earlier, they've been
here many times. I think everybody in here probably
knows them or almost everyone. They're from Crow or Beaver,
West Virginia, near Beckley. And lovely chapel there, Sovereign
Grace Chapel, lovely folks. Get an opportunity to go up there
and visit with them as well. Walter, if you would, Come and
teach us from the Word. Good morning again, my brothers
and sisters. Someone once asked me, it was
probably several years ago, and of course, you know, usually
when folks find out that you're a preacher, they want to ask
you questions. And somebody asked me one time,
what's the difference between teaching and preaching? Well,
I told the individual with me, one's just louder than the other.
So I may get a little louder since this is going to be my
actual message this morning. But seriously, before I begin
my actual text, I want to read you something here. In our day and age, if you were
to watch the TV and listen to the radio and hear preachers
very much, and I wouldn't encourage you to do that, there's very
few and far in between on the TV and radio that you ought to
be listening to, but if you were, you would often hear them talking
about, well, believer, if you're a believer, you can never do
this. If you're a believer, you can never do that. Well, let
me read to you a few things that the believer cannot do. Now, think about it. The believer
cannot preach Christ too high. The believer cannot preach man
too depraved. The believer cannot outgive God.
The believer cannot be too faithful. The believer cannot trust God
too much. The believer cannot love the
brethren too much. The believer cannot be overly
faithful. The believer cannot redeem too
much time. The believer cannot love the
truth too strongly, O God, our Father, make this true of me,
and make this true of you. I thought that was pretty good.
I wrote that. How'd you like that? Now, y'all
got to laugh a little bit. That was, as my wife just heard
that, it was a little tongue-in-cheek there. All right, turn, if you
would, to Galatians chapter Galatians chapter 4. I will read just a couple verses
from the Apostle Paul's letter to the churches, the local assemblies
that were in Galatia. Galatians chapter 4, and we'll
kind of begin in the middle of a sentence. Chapter 4 and verse
4. The Apostle Paul was continuing,
he wrote these words. that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption of sons. In this text that I
have for us this morning, there are many different thoughts concerning
the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Many different
avenues, you might say, or facets to which I could have gone. But
the last time I was here, John and I were talking. John and
Irene. We were talking about some certain
subjects and this has actually been on my mind ever since we
talked about that one evening. My subject for this morning and
my title is this. God's sent Son was made. is simple language, but it is
one of the most profound things that a human tongue would be
allowed to utter. God's sent son was made. Our text declares a marvelous
portion of true assurance for spirit wrought sinners. Do you
know what a spirit wrought sinner is? You see, in Adam we were
made sinners. Now that's what it says. Now
I'm not going to deal with that, but it doesn't even tell me I
was imputed Adam's sin. It tells me in Adam I was made
a sinner. And that means when my mommy
and my daddy came together and I was conceived, I was a sinner
even then. And when I grew in my mother's
belly, I was a sinner even then. And when my mother birthed me
into this world, I was a sinner even then, because I'd been made
one in Adam way back yonder in the beginning. And I lived a
life that drank up iniquity and sin like water. That's what I
am. That's what I was made to be. But you know what a spirit-wrought
sinner is? One that recognizes that's truth and bows down to
Christ because of it. Because what I just said to you
about me, that's true of every human being on the face of this
earth. But not every human being realizes it. Though it ought
to be evident to us all. For our text declares a marvelous
portion of true assurance for spirit wrought sinners. And let
me explain what I mean by portion. Christ was made many things. One time I had, I thought I had
them all figured out. I had 13 of them. Then I read
some more and found there were some others. So I quit trying
to number them. And I thought I better just look
at what I know is there. You ever done something like that?
I mean, there's a lot of pages in this book. You think you've
ever got it all summed up? You might ought to start over
again. Now let's consider this portion kind of as a starting
place. And we'll consider several other
portions of Scripture in line with what my subject is. Remember
the subject in the title is, God sent Son was made. Let me just give you four. Four. According to Scripture,
here's number one. He was made of a woman. That's
our text. He was made under the law. That's our text. In another
text of Scripture, it says he was made flesh. In another text of Scripture,
it says he was made of the seed of David. That's number one. Here's number two. He was made
high priest. The same book says he was made
surety. Here's number three. The book
says he was made a curse. The book says he was made sin.
Number four, it says not that he was made, but here's the glorious
thing, that he is made, which means it's still going on in
a very beneficial way for me experientially, even today. He is made unto us wisdom and righteousness. And sanctification, and I'm emphasizing
this for a purpose. God willing, we'll get to it
in a moment. And redemption. So many maids. And I've just
kind of scratched the surface of it. I mean, made like unto
his brother. Made a little lower than the angels. Then he says
he's made higher than the angels. Maid, maid, maid. It's all over
the book of God. So many maids. Are there any sinners here in
need of such a glorious mercy in God? It's something like this. Has God Almighty shown anybody
here how bad you really are? That you are so bad in God's
sight. I'm not even talking about how
you think you see yourself. We all think we're pretty good
folk. I like me better than I like most everybody else in the world.
I get along with me a whole lot better than I get along with
you. But my problem is I can't even hardly get along with me.
But not everybody realizes that, does it? Is there anybody here
that God Almighty has brought you so low because of the reality
of what you are by nature, not just what you do, but what you
are, that you have no hope other than in a merciful, compassionate
God? That's the person I'm talking
to this morning. Now that kind of person, I am
persuaded, is preaching to you this morning. But isn't that
the glorious thing with God? He sends one sinner to other
sinners to declare unto them Him who saves sinners. Isn't
that something? Why? Because it just pleased
Him to do so. Isn't that what it says? It pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching. And who does preaching? Sinners.
Sinners. I'm a sinner. I'm not better
than you. I'm a little higher than you,
but that's only because the floor is built up just a few feet. Think of it. Made of a woman.
Made under the law. Made flesh. Made of the seed
of David. Made high priest. Made surety. Made a curse. Made sin. He has
made in us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. I need this. I need this. Because you may not. When I get through with this,
you may say, I still don't understand that much. But are you looking
to the one who was made? That's the question. That's the
question. So then, our first set of maids. Let me read them again. Maid
of a woman. Maid under the law. Maid flesh. Maid of the seed
of David. Oh God, grant to us this morning
hearing and believing. God grant it for me as well and
for you as well. God grant unto us hearing and
believing and for some of these younger folk that I've seen come
in here today. There will be times, and may
have been times, that you have heard preachers talk about this
subject or very closely related subjects, and you'll hear us
talk about the word made. The fact is, in the Greek alone,
the word made is not used 53 times. There are 53 different
meanings for the word made. When I began to study, I thought
one day, I'm going to figure this all out. You ever done that? And I got to looking at the word
made. Then after my eyes started to cross after about 25 of them,
I said, OK, I've got to stop here. But you young folks, now
I'm going to say something from the podium that I probably thought
I'd never say because I'm not a West Coast kind of person.
I'm more of a mountain kind of person. But to you young folks,
what does the word made, all the words made, have this one
basic meaning? Some of them are a little stronger
than others. But even you children can understand this. If somebody
you trust tells you they've made something to be something, you
know it's totally real. Yes or no? I made this. What do you say? That's totally
real. I don't use the word totally
too much. You heard of that totally? I'm sorry, that's totally. That
gets on me, but I thought I'm going to say that one time in
a message. To be made is totally real. It's not pretend. When Jesus Christ was made flesh,
he was totally real. And men have went into strong-rank
heresy because they did not bow to that in the scripture. We've even given them titles
who they are. They said that Christ's humanity,
his body, was just a phantom. He was a real man. He was totally
real. Totally real. So from the youngest
to the oldest, Don't try to figure out all the nuances of one word
made. You know what it means. It's
real. It's not pretend. It's actual. So what do we have here? Think
of it, made of a woman, made under the law. I was going to give you the passage,
but let me just give you this. I'll try to quote it. The Apostle
Paul, 1 Corinthians chapter 15, says these words, the first Adam
was of the earth, earthy. Adam, when he was made, when
God made Adam, he formed Adam from the dust of the ground.
That's what the book says. I believe that. And he breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living
soul. The first Adam is of the earth,
literally, and he's earthy. But what does he write about
the second Adam? The second Adam is, and it's just as if the Spirit
then stops him and says, OK, you're going to speak the truth,
but here's the way you've got to say it. The second Adam is
the Lord from heaven. But think about it. The second Adam wasn't made like
the first Adam. The second Adam was born. in sweat and blood
and pain. And a literal, real woman actually
carried him in her womb and then birthed him into this world and
wrapped him in swaddling clothes and he fed upon her breasts.
Now I say this not to be brash, but you young folk will be able
to understand. The Lord God of Glory had to
go to the bathroom just like you do. That's how much real flesh he
was. You see the pictures of him they
say? And he's always got this really clean white suit or toga
or whatever it is on. Always clean and glowing. His
teeth were probably dirty looking. He had dirt under his fingernails
and his toenails. And the aroma of sweat came from
his armpits. Made of a woman. And still made under the law. It even says, the second Adam
is the Lord from heaven. And it says he was subject unto
his parents. Go figure that one out. Go figure that one out. Made of a woman, made under the
law. He became us, according to the
text we read, to redeem us. You know what it says? And it
says it quite clearly, right? When the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the
law. But for what reason? 2 tells
us that. To redeem them that were under
the law that we might receive, not accept, but receive the adoption
of sons. I don't have to go into, I don't
have time to go into the, what Paul's actually really getting
at here. He talking about, you're a child of, if you're a child
of God, you've been a child of God from all eternity. And there
comes a point in time when he shows you, you are his child
and he makes you his son. You know about it, you become
the heir. You know Christ. You believe Christ. But we're
talking about Christ, God sent Son was made. Made to redeem. Anyway, made of the seed of David. You know what that means? Christ
has the right to reign over me. Now we can talk all about David
and Jerusalem and thrones, but what does this mean? made of
the seed of David. He has literal right to the throne. The throne, God's king over God's
people. He has that right and he is king. He didn't come to be king. He
was born king. Didn't those people from the,
what was it, the East? James said, we're looking for
who? Him that was born king. What a glory. Made of a woman. Made under the law. Made of the
seed of David. What to reign over me? It's easy to say he reigns over
us. The question for me, the question for you, is does he
reign over me? He does. But can you acknowledge
it? And can you love it? And can
you rejoice in it? And can you find hope in it?
You know what this means he was made? He was made my kinsman,
redeemer, king. The book of God says the man
is the head of the woman. Yes or no? You know what it says?
A kinsman, redeemer was always a man. And when he redeemed outright,
if there was a woman who needed marrying, you know what he did?
He did the marrying. He married her. You know what
that made him? Head. Head. Jesus Christ is my head. And I love it that way. I love
it that way. You ask this lady back here,
she's flesh. She's just as much a sinner as anybody else, but
you ask her who is head, and she can give you the order of
who is head. Why? If you believe the book,
you know what it is. Oh, my kinsman, redeemer, king. That's what it means when he
was made of a woman. Made under the law. Why did He
do it? To redeem us from the curse of the law. Made under
the law. What else? Made flesh. Somebody says, explain that.
I cannot do it. He was fully God and fully man
at the same time with no flaws in His humanity, but yet complete
full humanity. The God who put milk in a woman's
breast had to feed upon a woman's breast to physically stay alive. I can't explain that. It's just
so. Why? Because this book says so. It says so. He cried tears and
probably made little runs down his dusty cheeks. Didn't I say
that? He hung on that cursed tree and
he said, I thirst. And that wasn't just so, well,
I'm going to fulfill a piece of scripture now. He was fulfilling
Scripture. He was thirsty. The Old Testament
describes it this way. His tongue was sticking to the
inside of His mouth. He's a real man. Why? Because He was made flesh. Don't ever think that we're just
pretending Jesus was a man. He was a man. The glorious thing
is He's the God-man. I cannot explain how God can
be joined in one person with two separate yet harmonious natures. Can't do it. I've read the theology. They call it hypostatic union.
I read that and I thought, boy, that sounds good. That's deep.
Does it really help you understand it though? I can explain what
hypostatic union is. Still don't help me get my mind
around that. Made flesh. But what else? Look at number two again. Made
high priest. And the same book says made surety. Made surety. Oh, God help me
to share this and believe it. Think of it. As high priest,
he can approach a holy God on my behalf. That's what the high
priest did. He actually approached the presence
of God. Remember the Old Testament at
the tabernacle? God's actual glory, God himself
came down and hovered right there over that ark in between the
wings of those two angels that faced one another. God was there! And once a year the high priest
was permitted to do what? Lift up that veil at the bottom
and crawl over with incense and blood. Now tell me how you do
that. But you've got to do that. And you've got incense in one
hand and you've got blood in a container in another and you
get up under that and you go in and you wave the incense and
then you sprinkle the blood. Well, God's sitting right there. And that man was allowed to crawl
back out under that and then come out and raise up his hands
and say, the Lord bless thee and keep thee. the Lord to make
His face to shine upon thee. Jesus Christ was made High Priest
for me. He's the one person who can lay
His hand on God and not be consumed. The one man, flesh, that can
lay His hand on God and not be consumed, and then lay His hand
on me and not be defiled. and then bring us both together,
not like this, but like this. I am with God if I am in Christ. Christ don't just bring you to
God and say, here, you two meet. If you ever meet God in grace
and mercy, you will meet God in the person of Jesus Christ
or you will meet Him in condemnation only. That's what it means. He was made. high priest, but
he's also made a surety. That means whatever he did on
my behalf, on your behalf, it's going to have his desired results.
I'm not here to talk about all the other preachers out there
who are lying about life, telling an apostate perverted gospel. I'm just saying this, what Jesus
Christ came to do was what? The will of the Father. Did he
do it or not? He did. This book's full of he
done it. He'd done it. The question now
is, do I believe Him? Made high priest and made surety. Thirdly, what does it say? Made
a curse and made sin. I talk about, and men use the
word, it's a good word, Christ condescending. And it's a good
word. Think of what Christ The Eternal
Son. And how can I say He's the Eternal
Son? Because God the Father is called the Eternal Father. And
you can't be a father if you ain't got a son. So if He's the
Eternal Father, then there had to be an Eternal Son. Yet that
Son came down, condescended, and was made flesh, but He went
further than that. He was made a curse and made
sin. This is our penal substitute. I'm not here to argue, is this
real, is it fake? It's real. He was made sin, made
a curse, made sin, just as real as He was made flesh. This is
my penal substitute. God Almighty actually punished
my sins in the person of His Son. Or my sins have not been
punished at all, and I will be damned with the doomed forever. And that's just the way it is.
Oh, God help me. Me, I need to be worried about
me, not everybody else out there. God help me to bow down to this
and love it. And love it. What a condensation. Christ was made what I deserved. A curse. Think of it. Christ was made
the very horror that banned me from God. Sin. That's what the
book says. But why? He was made a curse.
Why? So that we might receive the
promise of the Holy Spirit. So that God Almighty might be
gracious to us. You know, if Christ Jesus had
not died as our penal substitute, God would have damned us all
forever. By virtue of absolute justice. John, he must. The Lord God of glory was made
flesh and made a curse and made sin. It says, He bore our sins. Where? Not out here just in his
mind. It wasn't like they're sinners
and I'm just going to die. He bore our sins. Where? What does God's holy book
say? In His own body. I can't explain
that. I don't got to. God didn't send
me to be the explainer. He sent me to be the proclaimer.
And He says, He bore our sins in His own body on the tree.
And that makes chills run over me. Oh God, I pray that was for
me. That was for me. What a glory. Here we see Our penal substitute
who is our kinsman, Redeemer, King. He had the right to do
it. He was willing to do it. He had the funds to do it. And
he loved to do it. And guess what? He did it. He
did it. There's number four. Is. Do you see that? Is made unto
us wisdom and righteousness. When I read that, I tried to
be very particular. Wisdom and righteousness and
sanctification and redemption. Now, before I say anything else,
go ahead and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 1 if you're trying to
follow along. I know I haven't had you really
turn to any place else. I didn't want you to have to
Hurt yourself as you turn the pages. Think about it. Turn to
1 Corinthians chapter 1. Think of this. Is made unto us
wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. I'm going to try to state this. And I'm not trying to be funny,
although it may be a little funny sounding. I'm trying to put this
in just normal, everyday language. I can stand up here and try to
impress you with words and intellect and theological sounding things,
but that, when it all comes down to it, doesn't really help you.
I got in a spurt, I'll just confess, I got in a spurt for a few years,
pastoring at Sovereign Grace Chapel, where I just fell in
love with the Greek language. Boy, I just, I learned a lot
of stuff, and it helped me. But then I thought I could stand
up there with all them Greek terms and preach to the people
of Sovereign Grace Chapel. And I thought, well, they'll
just be just as happy as I am. Because they probably understood
more Greek than I did. I'm going to put this in this language.
Here's the first thing. Christ is not a spiritual salad. Think about this a moment. You
know what a salad is, don't you? A little bit of tomato, if you
like it, a little bit of peppers, some lettuce, which has the nutritional
value of Play-Doh, but we use it, and you have onions, and
you have all of these different things chopped up and all mixed
up together so that when you partake of it, you get a little
piece of this and a little piece of that. Right? Do you understand
where I'm coming from now? Jesus Christ is not unto us a
spiritual salad. He's not just a big bowl of all the
blessings mixed together and then you take the fork of faith
and get a little bit here and get a little bit there. That's
not the way this is portrayed because it says, He has made
unto us wisdom, And the Spirit of God, even in the Greek language,
moved the writer Paul to say, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption. That's not necessary unless you're
conveying something far beyond what men naturally think when
they hear such language. Think of it. He is wisdom, comma,
and. And when I read that again, as
I studied over this, I thought, That seems so redundant. My English
teacher would have said, Walter, you don't have to use all those
commas and ands. Folks, I didn't do too well in
school and I still remember that part. But let me tell you, when
God Almighty moved the Apostle Paul to write these words, every
jot and tittle mattered. Every jot and tittle mattered.
Now let me try to give it to you in the same kind of language. Jesus Christ is a full course,
full serving meal of all things all at one time to me. He's not a little bit of mashed
potatoes mixed up with a little bit of steak mixed up with a
little bit of green beans. He's the whole full serving course
of green beans and steak and mashed potatoes all laid there
on the plate for me. You see it? It's not that I get
a little bit of wisdom from Jesus on occasion, and I get a little
bit of righteousness from Jesus on occasion, and I get a little
bit of sanctification from Jesus on occasion, and a little bit
of redemption from Jesus on occasion. He's made unto us. Made. So it's not up to me. It's up
to the Maker. The Maker is God. He's made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. In other words, I've got it all. It's all right there. And it's
not mixed up and jumbled up. And I wonder if I'm really going
to get a taste of this. It's all right there. It's all right
there. You know what this does, though,
according to the truth of God? Now, let's read the passage.
1 Corinthians. You should be there. 1 Corinthians
chapter 1. And let me begin in verse 23.
1 Corinthians 1 verse 23, But we
preach Christ crucified. And that is the crux of all true
gospel preaching. Now I can't go on. For we preach
Christ crucified. Under the Jews, it's a stumbling
block. It gets in their way. Think about that. The good news. Him who is the good news gets
in some people's way. and trips them up. Is that not
what this says? Now, is it his fault? No, it's
not, because their eyes are blinded and they don't see Him. And they
walk right over Him. And when they trip on Him, they
say, what was that? You ever done that in the dark? What was
that? It's your wife laying there. But men become angry because
Christ is not what they think He ought to be. He is who God
made him to be. Now, let me go on. Under the Jews, the stumbling
block. Under the Greeks, they're very educated about foolishness. Foolishness. But under them which
are called, here's the third group of people we might say
here. But under them which are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men. Isn't that an amazing statement? Isn't that an amazing statement?
Yet the Spirit of God permitted Paul to write those words. But
the foolishness of God is wiser than men. But because the foolishness
of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger
than men, for ye see, your calling, brethren, how that not many wise
men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. It doesn't say not any, but it
does say not many. And that's just the way it's
going to be. Why? Because God said so. But God
hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise. God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty, and the base things of the world,
and the things which are despised. Can you take your place there?
That's what Paul's getting at. Can you take your place there?
If you can't, then you've never been called. Well, I deserve
mercy from God. You ain't been called. God owes
me grace because I've got faith. Then you don't know God. It says,
for by grace are you saved through faith. It doesn't say, for by
faith are you saved through grace. And that is very important. And
the base things of the world, and the things which are despised
hath God chosen, yea, and the things which are not, to bring
to naught the things that are. Now here we're getting to that. Now we're getting to the reason.
Somebody says, well, why did God do it that way? Well, now
we're going to get a taste of it. That no flesh should glory
in His presence, and it will not. We may boast of ourselves
to ourselves and to others, but when you stand before God, you
will not boast. You will not. Oh, I'll tell God
how things are. No, you will not. No, you will
not. That no flesh should glory in
His presence, but of Him How did you get in Christ if you're
in Christ? But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus. This same God
did it. He did it for you. He did it
to you. He did it with you. He did it!
You didn't do it. You didn't even help Him. I didn't
do it. I didn't even help Him. I just woke up one morning and
found God Almighty that laid hold of my soul. brought the
gospel of his blessed son to me and began to reveal to me
what I was and who Jesus Christ was. And I've been trying to
get away from it for 30 some years now and I ain't been able
to do that. Oh, I'm going to quit this preaching. I'm going
to quit this and that. God won't let me quit. And I
pray God he never lets me quit because if he does let me quit,
then it wasn't him doing it, it was me doing it. That's what
it boils down to. That no flesh should glory in
His presence, but of Him are ye in Christ Jesus. And then
we see, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness,
and sanctification, and redemption, that according as it is written. Now here's what God writes. Here's
the way it's going to be. That according as it is written,
he that glorieth, the word means to boast, to brag. You know who
you're supposed to brag on? The Lord. You see, you don't
brag on yourself. Tell the truth about yourself.
I am not only a sinner, I'm a wretched sinner. And the Apostle Paul
himself wrote that. While he was an apostle, while
he was believing God, and while he was pinning down inspired
words, he wrote, O wretched man that I am. Ain't nothing to boast
of there. But I'll tell you, it's good
to brag on your Lord. It's okay to brag on your Lord. I've said this before and some
people seem to get this glaze. God has the right to be self-centered. God's got the right to be self-centered. And God said, here's the center
of me. Look at my son. Now He said, you kiss him. lest
he be angry and ye perish in the way. You know what this does? In other words, this banishes
all of my boasting fully and confines me to brag about God.
It says it's alright to brag about God. It's all right to
brag about his son. It makes God the Father happy
when you brag about his son. He said, thundered it from heaven.
This is my beloved son. Hear ye him. The son said, if you don't honor
me, that's what the son said. If you don't honor me, you don't
honor the Father. Now here's the question. I ask
you this. And I have to ask my own, as I was studying this,
ask myself this question. Have we really heard this morning?
Have you heard? Have you really heard this morning?
Everybody here, as far as I know, has physical hearing. Henry's
got difficulty. But have you heard? Have you really heard God's Word? Have you? If you have really
heard, then you do believe. even though your faith may be
coupled with just tons of unbelief. And you have to cry out with
your fellow brother from way back there 2,000 years ago, Lord,
I believe. I do. Help thou my unbelief. He turned even his own unbelief
over to Christ. You deal with it, Lord. I can't
handle it. I can't handle my unbelief. Can
you handle yours? I can't. Lord, I believe. Help thou my
unbelief. Someone says, but pastor, God
made flesh. God made curse. God made sin. I can't understand how that's
so. You're not supposed to. And I'll
show you why. Turn to Hebrews chapter 11. God didn't give us faith so we
could understand hell. God gave us faith so we'd understand
that. Now, just take a look. God didn't
give us faith so we could understand hell. God gave us faith so we
would understand that. Look at Hebrews 11, and then
of course you know, is the passage of God on faith,
Hebrews 11, verse 3, the first phrase. Through faith, and faith
is given by God. You don't work it up, muster
it up, pray it up, pray it down. You don't beg God low enough
until He gives it to you. He either gives it to you or
He doesn't. Through faith, we what? We understand that the world's were framed. And
you know what that word comes from? It has to do with the same
thing of what? It's when God made the world. And faith doesn't have to understand
how God did it. It just understands that God
did it. And it believes Him for it. Believes
Him in it. Believes Him concerning it. Bows
down to Him about it. That's what God-given faith does.
So when you hear a man tell you, well, I can explain how that
happened. How Christ was made flesh. No, he can't. Because
I tell you, I've been there. Hear me now. You don't have to
learn from your own mistakes. Maybe you can learn from mine.
I'll figure this out. And when you do, when you start
figuring out how, you start trying to understand how, then you're
going to go away from God. Because God doesn't explain to
us, especially when it comes to the things of His Son, how
this all is. He just declares unto us that
it all is. And you either believe Him by
His grace or you don't. You fight about it and fuss about it, or
you love God for it. And you say, if people want to
fuss, let them fuss. If they want to try to get so
many details, they either explain it all or explain it all away.
I'm not getting in the middle of it. I believe God. I believe God. Father, O Lord,
Thou our hearts and minds, and of God-wrought humility of
admiration for Christ. Lord, may it be that people don't
see me, but that they see your Son. In Christ's name, Amen. All right, let's all stand and
turn to number 205. 205. 205. All right. Free from the law, O happy condition,
Jesus hath bled and there is remission. Cursed by the law
and bruised by the fall, grace has redeemed us once for all. Once for all, O sinner, receive
him. Once for all, O brother, believe
it. Cling to the cross, the burden
will fall. Christ has redeemed us once for
all. Verse 3. Children of God, O glorious
calling, Surely His grace will keep us from falling, passing
from death to life at His call. Blessed salvation once for all. Once for all, O sinner, receive
it. Once for all, O brother, believe
it. Laying to the cross, the burden
will fall Christ has redeemed us once for all Thank you all.