OK, you can open your Bibles
back to the book of Hebrews. Sunday morning, we began a study
of the short phrase, let us therefore. And we found all of the first
four in Hebrews 4 alone, that one chapter. And in the course
of my study, I found several others, thirteen to be exact
in the book of Hebrews. I miscounted suddenly, I thought
there were only twelve, but thirteen in the book of Hebrews alone.
Thirteen of these little phrases, let us therefore, far from being
a little phrase, they have contained great meaning. Let me give you
a little English lesson here first of all. The word therefore
is an adverb And what it means is, therefore, whenever you see
a therefore, to put it very simply in Brother Barnard's language,
see what it's there for, what he used to say. It's an adverb. It means because of or for this
reason. Therefore, or for this reason,
let us such and such. And we looked at four. The first
four, let me rehearse them with you first of all. Hebrews 4,
verse 1. He said unto us, Let us therefore fear, lest the promise
be left us of entering into his rest, for that is simply trusting
God, believing. Any of you should seem to come
short of it. And the therefore is there for this reason, because
he told us about the Israelites who experienced all the blessings
of God for so many years in the wilderness, the blessings of
God, the miracles of God. And Paul even said, verse 2,
they had the gospel preached unto them. That does away with dispensationalism,
doesn't it? They had the gospel preached unto them. Moses preached
the gospel. He did it by striking a rock.
He did it by various ways. And the gospel was preached to
them, but not being mixed with faith, they perished. So he says
that, therefore, now, let us fear, because we've been through
basically the same things, the miracles of God, the blessings
of God. We've had the gospel preached. Let us, therefore,
fear, lest the promise being left to us, we should come short
of it. And then the second one was,
in verse eleven, let us labor, therefore, to enter into that
rest. Brother Fortner and I were just
marveling at the fact that people could get a Sunday Sabbath out
of Hebrews 4. This is the argument that men
use in favor of a Sunday Sabbath, a new Sabbath day. But verse
11 puts that completely to rest, because it says, that rests. In other words, let us labor
to quit working on Sunday? That's not what he's talking
about there. Verse 10 says, his rest, right? His rest. He also ceased from his own works. He that has entered into Christ's
rest has ceased from his own works as God did from his. Let
us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, the rest, salvation
that's in Christ. Lest any man fall at the same
example of unbelief. That's clear, isn't it? That's
so clear to me. But he says it involves labor.
That's the labor. John, this is what you need to
labor to avoid, this legal attitude. You need to labor. It's hard
work to get away from feeling like, you know, that Sunday's
not the Sabbath. You have to labor to get that
out of your head, out of your system, because it's ingrained
in you. Christ is our Sabbath, right? Even He said, I don't
know, I didn't mean get off on Sabbath. That's not my subject.
Christ is our Savior. But he says, labor to enter into
that rest. It's hard work. The hardest thing, my pastor
used to say, the hardest thing in the world for a man to do
is just rest. Just believe God. Feel like you've got to work
his way to heaven. Self-righteousness stays in you
to the day you die, and it's hard work to get rid of it. And
because this gate is straight, the way is narrow, he says, strive
to enter in. And so, therefore, the kingdom
of heaven suffereth violence and the violent. Those who really
want in, strive. Take it by force. Press to enter
in. There is a labor involved. Study.
Show yourself approved. Seek. Ask. Knock. Beat on the
gates of heaven. Let me in. That's a labor involved. All right. The third one was
verse fourteen. hold fast then our profession of faith. And
the therefore is verse fourteen, seeing, that's the same thing,
seeing then, or therefore, because of, we've got a great high priest,
Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession, because
we've got, there's a man in glory, and he's the way to God, the
only way to God, And there's no other way to God, not your
works, not my works of righteousness, but only His work. Let us hold
fast. Don't cling to anything else,
not your profession, not anything else. Cling to Christ and Him
alone. Let us hold fast this profession of faith, Christ,
because we've got, there's a man in glory, a high priest, a substitutor,
a representative, a mediator. So hold fast to Christ. Verse 16 is the fourth one. He says, Then let us come. Let
us therefore, and that therefore is there for the reason of verse
fifteen. We don't have a high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmity, but he in all
points touched, tempted, loving, merciful, gracious, caring high
priest. He loves us and intercedes for
us and undertook this great and glorious work for us. He came
to earth strictly to save sinners, and He did it and went back to
pray for them from that day forth. So let us come boldly, confidently,
assuredly to the throne of grace, to God. Christ says, Come on
in now. I've parted the veil. Y'all come on in. We're all family
now. Didn't He say there in John,
was it John 16? He said, Now you can pray to the Father. John
15, you can pray to the Father and He'll hear you. Because of
me. And that's the sense there. Therefore,
because he's gone into the presence of God and opened that way for
us. All right, now in Hebrews 6. Hebrews chapter 6. You'll
find one here, one of these letters.
Hebrews chapter 6. All right, so let us fear, let
us labor, let us hold fast, let us come. And after coming to
Christ by faith. He says in Hebrews chapter 6,
verse 1, therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of
Christ, and I just gave them to you in four short statements,
let us go on to perfection. Now, let us come to Christ, and
after you've come there, let us go on. Now, he doesn't mean
let's leave Christ. Let me give you an illustration.
We all have homes, don't we? have home. And we, this is our
home, they're our home base, so to speak, our dwelling place,
from which we venture out. We go to work, we go to the store,
we go here and there, but we never really leave home. Right? We always come back. We always
touch base. No. We're never far from our
dwelling place. Our minds, our thoughts are there,
we go out to meet expenses and so forth. Christ is our dwelling
place. Christ is the foundation of our
faith, right? He is our home, isn't He? Isn't He our tabernacle, our
dwelling place? He's the object of our faith. We never get too far from Christ,
never. Never go too far from Christ.
We think of Him in everything, in whatever we do, in whatever
course of study. He's talking about going on to
maturity and leaving the principle or foundational truths and principles
and doctrines, the first things you learn in this thing of salvation.
God's sovereign. God elected a people. Christ
must come and pay for their sins, and the Holy Spirit must in time
Convict them of their sins and draw them to himself, and they
will persevere. These basic principles, all right? We're founded on this truth of
Christ, His salvation. We never stray far from that,
but let's go on and build on that. See, that's the foundation.
Christ is the foundation of our faith, and whatever course of
study we undertake, Christ crucified the heart of it, right? the foundation of it. You build
on that. You don't start, nobody builds a house and starts with
the attic. You start with the foundation, whatever course of
study. I was telling Mindy the other day, I said, you know,
I get up here on Sunday morning, especially Sunday morning, and
I go through these same things over again. I talk about now,
do you know why Christ came? And I go through the story of
how Christ came and had to live the life as a man, establish
righteousness, and then be punished under God's law to pay for that
broken law and go through that over and over again. And I look
into the faces of people who have heard this umpteen times.
Right? And I think sometimes the incollection
goes over me to just skip that and go on. They've heard that
before. Man, he said, oh no, no, don't do that. I still rejoice
to hear those same things over and over. But there's visitors
out here, and they've got to hear the way of salvation. Now,
Sunday night might not be as graphic. Wednesday night, right
now, I don't see, there's no visitors here. But I'm still
telling you the same thing. But in a more descriptive way,
or less descriptive way, in a generalized way. You understand what I'm
saying? Nevertheless, that's the foundation you start on.
You always start on the foundation of our faith, which has already
been laid. It's no man can lay, but it's
already been laid. Christ Jesus, our Lord, He's
the foundation. And whatever subject you go on
to, you build upon that foundation. Christ crucified. You talk about
love, let's preach a sermon on love. Where are you going to
start? Greater love hath no man than this. Behold what manner
of love, you talk about the greatest description of love the world's
ever known. God's gift of his son. Well, and on and on and
on. Whatever decision, he says, let
us go on. Whatever decision we make in
our lives, our relationship with Christ should be considered. Let us go on, but never stray
far from Christ. Always be thinking of him. All
right? Christ, his person and his work.
But it's come to Christ. It's come to a firm persuasion.
And this is the sense of what Paul said. A strong meat. Everyone that should be keen
of hearing instead of dull of hearing. He admonished the people
for not being so. They ought to be teachers, but
they're dull of hearing. But he says you ought to be used
to milk and go on to strong meat and have these things and be
firmly persuaded. Have a confident belief and trust
in Christ so that you'll never be moved away. And after that
groundwork is laid, we need to build ourselves up or grow in
grace. So let us go on to perfection, grow in grace, grow in knowledge,
grow Christlike, grow in love, grow in patience, grow in the
fruit of the Spirit, grow in gentleness and so forth. Right?
So you don't give a dissertation, a 45-minute exposition of the
atonement every time you stand up. But you lay the groundwork there,
don't you? And you build on that. You'd say, husbands, love your
wives. Why? Love them as Christ loved the church. And talk about
that and say, no, that's how you are. You see what I'm saying?
Everything goes from there. So you don't leave the gospel.
You don't ever leave the gospel, do you? You start there. And you go on to deal with other,
and you keep touching base, don't you? All right. Now over to Hebrews
10. So he says, let us go on. Hebrews
10. And let us go on through Hebrews. Hebrews 10, verse 22. I could have easily preached,
well, that sounded, but you could, a man could easily preach on
each one of these letters, 13 of them in the book of Hebrews
alone. But rather than weary you, I'm
going to give you, I'm going to try to get through them. Let
us go on. Hebrews 10 verse 22, he says,
and now here he says, now let us draw near. Let us draw near with a true
heart and full assurance. In other words, we need to quit
wavering all the time. Christ upbraided Or admonished,
gently admonished is a better word, the people, for their lack
of faith. Oh, ye of little faith. How long must I bear with you? Oh, ye of little faith. Don't
you know who I am? Oh, Philip, don't you know who
I am? I've been so long time with you. Roberta, have you been
so long under the gospel? The same thing could be said
to us, couldn't it? Right? Everyone, how long, how
long? When are we going to quit being
shaken and stand firm on Christ's right. So let us draw near, he
says, with a true heart, that is a heart full of faith, a true
heart. You remember how Timothy, Paul
talked to Timothy about that, a good conscience and a true
heart, in full assurance of faith, in full assurance of faith. Is it possible for a man or woman
to have full assurance of their salvation? Hmm? He just told us to do so, didn't
he? Huh? What is it based upon? How
can one have full assurance of faith? Based upon my attendance
in church, my prayers, my duties, my faith? Oh, it's vacillating. It's up and down. I'm like the
wave of the sea. Well, what is not like the wave? What doesn't vacillate? What
stays the same all the time? Rather, who? A rock. A rock, you know. The Pacific
Ocean looks big and looks mighty and all that, but it's like this.
Peaks of Otter have been like that for years. And they'll be
like that for years, when the ocean runs dry. A rock. And Christ
is that rock. That rock that you can build
your house upon. Christ is that nail in a sure
place. And full assurance can be had if you have a sovereign, immutable
Lord and Savior. If you have an immutable Lord,
that is, one who never changes, then you can have full assurance
of faith. You can have full assurance.
If you have a surety—I've said this so many times—if you have
a surety, you can have assurance. Because salvation is not based
on you, anything about you. It's based upon Him and everything
concerning Him. And as big as your God is, it
is as big as your faith can be, right? As sure as your Christ
is and as sure as that work of salvation is, is how much assurance
you can have. All right? Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed on thee. Who's the thee? Got an
hour? The, the one, the only, true
God and Jesus Christ. So let us draw near, draw near
to God. And this therefore is verse 19.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness, or that is liberty, you have
a marginal reference, liberty, freedom, access to enter into
the holiest by the blood of Christ, by a new and living way. which
he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh, having a high priest over the house of God. Therefore,
let us draw near, near to God with a true heart, really believing
in Christ in full assurance, having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience." Now, I do need to ask you this question.
Having your heart sprinkled from an evil conscience, you don't
trust your own righteousness now, do you? You wouldn't do
that, would you? That's having your heart sprinkled
from an evil conscience. Dead works. One more question. You're not like Balaam, are you?
The double-minded man? In other words, you're not in
this thing for what you can get out of God, and you're really
sincere about this, aren't you? Not a hypocrite? You're really
seeking God? All right. Now, that's a heart
sprinkled. from an evil conscience, a new
heart. He said, A new heart will I give unto them. And I'll remind
you that verse that talks about heart of deceitful above all
things. I'm not talking about a new heart. He gave us a new
heart. I'm talking about that natural,
unregenerate heart. And he says, Your body is washed
with pure water. What are we washed by? What is
this water that Scripture talks about that we're washed with?
The Word of God. The Word of God. And here's another
one, verse number seven. Verse twenty-three, and I'll
remind you, washing your body with the Word of God is, David
said, Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin
against thee. The more inclined you are to
his precepts, the more knowledgeable of them, the more God's Word
has a hold of you, the less sin will have a hold of you. Your
body's washed. Does that make sense? Verse twenty-three,
number seven, let us hold fast. the profession of our faith without
wavering. Here's the reason he's faithful.
I like that. Don't you? We say you already
gave that. Well, no, I didn't give it. The
Lord did. I didn't give it. And I didn't
repeat it. He did. Must be mighty important, mustn't
it? Must be mighty important since it bears repeating. But
there's a different meaning here. There's a little different meaning.
I want you to turn to 1 Timothy chapter 6 with me. 1 Timothy
6. 1 Timothy 6. There's a little different meaning
to this. This is hold fast. Let us hold fast. Verse 13. 1 Timothy 6 verse 13. It says here that, I give thee
charge in the sight of God. who quickeneth all things, and
before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good
confession." Now, my Bible gave reference
to that. Did yours? If you have a Cambridge,
it did. My Bible gave reference back
to 1 Timothy 6, 13. Now, remember that. This is talking
about Christ before Pilate who witnessed a good confession.
Now, back to the text. Back to verse twenty-three of
Hebrews ten. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without
wavering. In other words, let us without
fear, without hesitation, without compromise, witness a good profession
before others. Let us. For he is faithful, that
promised, he is faithful. We need to act as if we believe
the one who gave us his word. Abraham did, didn't he? Abraham
left his home. He didn't have a Bible, did he? He said that God spoke to him.
Now, we have a more sure word of prophecy than even Abraham
had, right? That's what Peter said. Abraham
left his home and family, 75 years old, left his home, family.
Ventured going out not knowing where he was going. Why? God
said so. God said to him. Abraham took
his son up on the mountain and would have killed him. Why? It
wasn't written. God said so. God said so. He believed. Abraham believed
what God said. Therefore, it was imputed unto
him for righteousness. He believed God. He just believed
God. And we need to be believers like that. Just take God at His
Word and act. Right? We need to act like God's
people. We need to believe. We need to
trust Him. We haven't got that much, do
we? We've got the last chapter. We've
read the last chapter. We know how it's going to turn
out, Henry. Abraham didn't. Moses didn't. David didn't. They
just believed God, though. They never saw God. They didn't
know Jesus Christ. They believed He was coming.
They believed that He was coming. They looked to Him in the future. We've got the finished story.
What are we worried about? Does that admonish you? Does
that reprove and rebuke you for our little lack of faith? So let us hold fast the profession
of our faith without wavering, without hesitation, without fear
of men, without fear of consequence, without fear of the future. What's
a little knife anyway? What's a little surgery anyway? What's a job change? What's this? What's that? What is that anyway?
We haven't yet strived against sin under blood yet, have we? All right, well, number eight
now. So, let us hold fast the profession
of our faith. And look at verse twenty-four.
This is another, let us. And let us consider one another
to provoke unto love and to good works. For therefore, therefore,
since we have this blessed access, now think about this. Think,
where's the therefore there, Preacher? It's there and go all
the way back. Now, this was a continuation
of a sentence. He said, and let us, therefore, let us consider
one another to revoke unto love and to good work, since we have
this access, this grace. Now, I'm the chief of sinners. Now, since he let me in, since
he called me by his grace, therefore, Boy, I can provoke, tell old
Henry, Henry, I don't care how bad you are, buddy. I provoke
you to seek the same mercy and the same grace. Encourage you
to do the same. Let us provoke. Not provoke in
the sense that we do most of the time. Provoke one another. But provoke unto love. Building
up, how do you do that? Building up one another in your
most holy faith. Listen to these ways. I really
don't have time to read them, but I'm going to do it anyway.
You're my captive audience. Listen to these verses of Scripture. They talk about us doing to one
another. Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one
another in psalms and hymns. Teaching and admonishing one
another. That's how you provoke to love, to love God, to love
the gospel, love one another. Therefore, comfort one another
with these words. Comfort yourselves together and edify one another.
That's how you provoke one another to love. Comfort one another. Edify with these words. Exhort
one another daily while it's called a day, lest any of you
be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. And in verse twenty-five,
the ultimate reason, don't forsake the assembly of yourselves together.
This is the ultimate way you provoke one another to love. Don't forsake meeting together. And that's what we're doing right
here. Don't forsake this. This is your help. This is your
strength. This is your encouragement. This
is your comfort. This is where you get fed. This is
where you get strength for tomorrow and the rest of the week. This
is it. There is strength in numbers. In believers, that is. All right,
and he says, consider one another by being considerate, thoughtful,
caring, looking on the things of others. All right, now Hebrews
12, and I want to hurry. I'm going to get through this.
Hebrews 12, Hebrews 12, number 9, Hebrews 12, verse 1, wherefore,
there's the therefore, but it just has a wherefore there. Same
thing. Wherefore, therefore, seeing
we also are encompassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.
Now he just told the story all the way through Hebrews 11. Now are any of you weary right now?
Are you weary sitting here listening to me? And maybe we ought to read Hebrews
11. Now we're sitting in a padded
pew. We drove up in heated, air-conditioned, nice comfortable automobiles.
Our bellies are full, very full. We have all the comforts we could
possibly... Are we weary? Are we tired of
hearing these glorious things? Hebrews 11, the whole book, the
whole chapter, I mean, talks about the trials and afflictions
and temptations and troubles and torments. Well, look at some
of it with me. Hebrews 11, verses 38 and 39. Well, verses thirty-three, who
through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained
promises, stuffed the mouth of lions, thrown in the lion's den,
that'd be an uncomfortable way, quenched the violence of fire,
burned at the stake for what they believed, escaped the edge
of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant
in fight, turned to flight the armies of the alien. When was
the last time we got in a fight over what we believed? Our life
threat women receive their dead raised to life again others were
tortured mothers watching her not accepting deliverance. that
they might obtain a better resurrection. Others had trial of cruel mockings
and scourgings and bonds and imprisonment, stones, sawed asunder,
tempted, slain with a sword, wandered about in sheepskins
and ghost skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. The world
is not worthy of these people, living in caves and mountains
and dens and all that. Verse 1 of chapter 12, wherefore,
seeing were encompassed about was such a great cloud of people. The witnesses let us. Lay aside every weight in the
scene, which does so easily said, you know what is the weight and
the sin that this so easily dissenters? Sleep. Comfort. You're rich and increased with
goods and have need of nothing, the Lord said in in rebuke to
the church there in Revelation. Why? Why doesn't the gospel speak
to it? We're too comfortable. Right? We're too comfortable. We're at ease in Zion, scripture
says. Let us lay aside every weight.
Let's lay aside everything that hinders our spiritual growth.
Let's lay aside everything that gets in the way between us and
our relationship with Christ. Let's lay aside whoever, whatever
it is. Let us. Let us lay it aside.
Every way that so easily beset us, and what so easily besets
us more than anything, I'll be honest with you, from experience,
is worldliness. And the sin, he said, that so
easily beset us, that's unbelief. And we ought to have more reason
to believe God than anybody. Like I said, we've got the finished
book, and we're fat and we're sassy, and we've So, we ought to be, shouldn't
we? And that unbelief that so easily
besets us. And, alrighty, go on. He says,
here's another let us, verse 1, and let us run. Cast aside
these hindrances, these heavy clothing, these things that are
getting in the way of our relationship with God and Christ, and these
things that bar our view of His Excellency, and run. Enter this spiritual warfare.
There's a warfare going on. Didn't it? What's the song? I hope I can quote it. It's cheery.
Must I go to heaven on flowery beds of ease while others sail
through bloody seas? Something like that. Are those foes to fight? Is all
the world a friend to grace? So let us run the race, walk
by faith, walk in paths of righteousness, but run the race that's set before
us." How are you going to do that? Only one way, look to Christ. He's the finish line. And once
again, Abraham didn't, he looked to one he'd never seen, didn't
know his real name. And we have the finished book.
And we can look clearly. The same way we have more light.
The glasses, the spectacles, the whole spectacle fits. We can have 20-20 to see that
Christ is who He says He is, who the Bible says He was. Look
into Him. He's the finish line. He's the
goal. He's our greatest pursuit. Christ is our life. Number 11. Look at verse twenty-eight, Hebrews
twelve, verse twenty-eight. Verse twenty-eight, wherefore
we receiving, there's the wherefore, wherefore we receiving a kingdom
which cannot be moved. I like that, don't you? Christ
said, I go to prepare a place for you, and it's a sure thing. The father will not turn down
any reservation his son makes. The father made it. And he says,
I go to prepare a place for you, and I'm going to come back and
take you there personally. So he said, wherefore we have a
kingdom, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let's
have grace, whereby we may serve God. Show a little grace. Let's have a little grace. I
believe grace, preacher. Well, let's have a little bit
then. Just believe it. Well, let's possess a little
bit of it. To the one who walks in the light God gives him. Now,
this is just a principle. To the one who walks in the light
God gives him, God gives more light. Right? I've said that before about the
natives in the jungle. If they were really seeking God,
God would give them more light until he pointed them to Christ.
He did that in Africa. He does that in Mexico. To the
one who walks in the light God gives, God will give more light.
To the one who is faithful in a few things, God will give him
more. Right? To him that hath, more
will be given to him. To the one who lives by faith,
what's he going to get? More faith. It's just a biblical
principle. thankful for and dependent upon
God's grace and lives by faith, he giveth more grace." You say,
I don't see how they go to the stake like that. I don't see
how that, how did that person, that man, that woman stand up
under such a trial? He gives more grace. Paul, how
did Paul go through? God gave him grace, he acted
upon it, lived upon it by God's grace. God gave him more grace. He acted upon it, God gave him
more grace. Until he was a gracious man. Right? Until finally he
says, Paul, my grace is sufficient. And Paul said, I know it's a
fact. Anybody had full assurance he did, didn't they? Even though he called himself
chief sinner. All right, number 12. Let me hurry. Hebrews 13.
Look at verse 13. Hebrews 13, 13. I ought to devote
a whole message to this. I may do it. Sunday morning. Verse 13 says, Let us go forth
therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. Therefore, let us go forth to
Christ without the camp. Now, I say this with all seriousness,
and let me end on this note. Let us go forth unto him without
the camp, it says. In all seriousness, I say this,
that the message that I'm delivering you tonight is of more importance and far
more serious and of eternal consequences than the inauguration address
of our new President of the United States. It really is. Now, he called upon—I listen
to the address—he called upon this nation for unity. among
the people and a common cause of democracy. I call upon you
as God's people for unity among God's people and a common cause
of theocracy. Not democracy, theocracy. That's where God reigns and rules,
that we're to fear and worship an almighty God, a renewal of
that unity of the faith, the faith, one Lord, one faith. He called for all of us to join
him in revitalizing and renewing America. That is a noble cause. I'm not making light of that.
It's a noble cause. Yet I say this nation is one
nation not under God, but under the wrath of Almighty God, a
wicked and perverse nation, and I call upon us as believers As
disciples of the Holy Son of God, I call upon us to save ourselves
from this untold regeneration. Not unite with it, but save ourselves
from it. To leave the camp. All the world
is calling for unity in religion. I say, leave it. This is what
Hebrews 13, 13 is saying, too. Leave the camp. When you go to
Christ in true religion, you've got to leave the world's religion. You've got to leave it. And you've got to go forth unto
Christ and bear his reproach. Take up his cross without the
camp, without modern religion, without the approval and the
fellowship and the kinship of this world. Go forth unto him,
bearing his reproach, bearing the scorn, the mockery of the
world, the contempt, the persecution of the world for your stand for
the gospel. And that's what I'm calling it on us to do. unite in this woman one common
cause, not democracy, but the fear of God and the worship of
him and the following discipleship to the Lord Jesus Christ. And
lastly, it says here in Hebrews 13, 15, it says, By him, therefore,
let us offer the sacrifice of praise.
Anybody's got anything to be thankful for and praise God for,
we do. Well, let's do it. Let us do
it. Let us, therefore. Let us, therefore. I hope you got something out
of that. All right, stand with me and
I'll dismiss this in prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we stand
in awe of your word that you just take A simple phrase such
as let us and great and glorious and eternal truths are set forth
from your word. Hath not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world? The world by wisdom knew not
God, but in the wisdom of God he made foolish the wisdom of
this world and revealed this great wisdom to the babes and
hid these things from the wise and proven. Lord, may we ever
be learning and come to a knowledge of the truth. And let us, therefore,
seeing we have all of these blessed promises and all of these blessings
and all of these witnesses and everything we've looked at, the
blessed promises of God, let us, therefore, come to Christ
by faith, come boldly to the throne of grace, draw near unto
God and have grace Act and live by faith. Let us praise your
name for who you are and what you've done. In the name of Christ,
we have met together and beseech you for his sake, for our good. Amen.