If you join me in the book of
John, John chapter six. John chapter six. Beginning with verse 37. John
chapter six and verse 37 as we continue and Hope to come to
a short conclusion at least on the last point that is often
brought in the doctrines of grace, the great teachings of scripture,
I shall lose nothing. We did look for some time about
the scriptures that teach about with, we have without any ability,
we are without any ability to come to Christ. and we're dead
in trespasses and sin. The Bible is so full of the scripture
declaring that. Then we looked at God's love
before time, before the foundation of the world. He had an elected
people and he did not depend upon what they would do, what
they would say, even as we read there in the Book of Romans before
they were born, had done any good or evil. that the grace
of God according to election might stand. Jacob have I loved,
but Esau have I hated. Then we looked at the particular
redemption. Who did Christ die for on the
cross? I must tell you that the number
of times I've had to mention recently, last four, five, six
years, if people go to hell that Christ died for, what is the
benefit of his death? What dependence? What can we
have? What hope is there? If he went to the cross for people
that he could not save, what a God is that? And you know,
a lot of people have never even had that thought crossed through
their mind. They've never been taught anything
about that. Now, what they do with it is
another thing. I don't know what to do with
it, they say. But thus, Christ died on the cross for his sheep. I lay down my life for the sheep.
And then we talk about effective grace, effectual grace. How does
God apply all this? My nephew, well, really my wife's
nephew, but I've adopted him. He's going to some seminary,
and I told him, please don't turn it into a cemetery. Oh,
my heart goes out to him. But I was telling him about going
through the doctrines of grace, and he says, well, where did
you go to for effectual grace? And I said, well, I went right
over to the Valley of Dry Bones. That's about as effectual as
you can get. God dealing with a people that are so dead that
they can't come together. Well, anyway, we went on from
there. And then today, we'd like to, last week too, I shall lose
nothing. Here in the book of John, chapter
six, verse 37, all that the father giveth me shall come to me. And
him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. For I came
down from heaven. not to do my own will, but the
will of him that sent me." This is the unity of the Godhead. There was not a contradiction
among the Godhead of what needed to be done. It was absolutely
agreed upon in the covenant of grace. And you know, Jesus Christ
did not have a vote of two against one for him to go to the cross.
He completely submitted himself to that great and glorious work
of the cross. And then it goes on to say here,
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all
which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise
it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up
at the last day." What some glorious verses of scripture with regard
to the grace of God when it comes to the eternality of God, it
is also the eternality of those he saves. In the book of John
chapter 19 and verse 30, it's just, we have it in our translation
as three words and the original was one word, one Greek word,
but we have it as it is finished. And you know, that just used
to be words from the cross. I read a book one time, the seven
sayings of Christ from the cross, and it was just another word
that He spoke from the cross. But once you're given the grace
of God, you hear those words about His very statement from
the cross. It is paid for. It is finished. It is consummated. It is over. And in that, He promised to do
exactly what He had promised to do in the everlasting covenant,
and that was to save completely and totally all those that had
been given to Him by the Father. Now, there's an issue that comes
up, and would you turn with me to the book of Matthew, chapter
25. In the book of Matthew, chapter 25, verse 46, Matthew, chapter
25, and verse 46, we read these words, and they're not comforting
words to one group. They are most comforting to another
group. Here it tells us in the book of Matthew chapter 25 and
verse 46, and these shall go away into everlasting punishment. These shall go away into ever,
same everlasting word, same word, everlasting punishment. But the
righteous, now that's the difference, the righteous. People do not
go to hell because they rejected Jesus. They go to hell because
of sin. It's the sin issue. And we'll
look at that today. It's the sin issue. The soul
that sinneth, it must die. And the church, they look at
Christ and Him going to the cross. And as we read over in the 53rd
chapter of the book of Isaiah, He laid on Him the iniquity of
us all. He's put it to him. He's caused
him to be the substitute. And so the church rejoices and
delights in that, that they are made righteous in Christ Jesus. No righteousness of our own.
In fact, the Bible tells us about our own righteousness. It is
as filthy rags. There's nothing that God would
comprehend in that that was good. He must have, we must have the
righteousness of Christ. So, and then it says, but the
righteous into life eternal. There's a great separation here,
and God has always had that great separation. Jesus Christ went
to the cross for his sheep, those that are not his sheep. He tells
us that they are appointed unto eternal damnation because their
sins are not paid for. Now, the issue for us is we do
not know. We are commanded. We're not requested,
but we're commanded to preach the gospel to every creature.
We are commanded to take the gospel out. In fact, it tells
us there in the first chapter of the book of Luke, excuse me,
of Acts, that it was being preached in Jerusalem and Samaria and
Judea and to the uttermost parts of the earth. And that's why
God sent Paul to those various places. Why? Because there were
lost sheep of the house of Israel there. There were lost sheep
of God's domain. And so he's gonna have the gospel
taken out. It must be, it has to be taken
out and God will put it in the right place at the right time
so that his sheep can hear it and God can save them for his
glory and for their salvation. So we have that there's this
difference, there's this absolute difference. Jesus Christ said,
I give life eternal to them. and those that are not righteous,
they go into everlasting punishment. We read a little bit last week
about John chapter 10. So if you'd join me there in
John chapter 10 for just a bit, we read there so much is carried
out in that 10th chapter of John, and it's a delight to read it.
As Mike was mentioning, all the passages of scripture you don't
hear in most churches. You don't hear in religion, you
just don't hear because it doesn't fit their scheme. I'm gonna write
a short note to a brother-in-law of mine because he was in the
pulpit yesterday telling all the things about this tract that
his mother made and he misquoted a very important verse of scripture.
You know what he did? He left half of it off. And it
reminded me of Ralph Barnard catching Henry Mahan when he
misquoted a verse of scripture. Someone quote for me Romans 828.
And then he called, Brother Henry, you read it. And you know what
he did? He missed the first part. And
we know that all things work together for the love of them
that love God to those who are the called according to his purpose.
He is all things work together for purpose, you know? And he
says, quote the rest of that. Well, you know what he quoted?
God is not willing that any should perish. That's less than half
a verse of scripture found in the book of first or second Peter.
God is long suffering to us word. Now I want to know who that us
word is. And we'll find out that that
us word is the sheep. That's who that us word is. It's
us. It's the us of God's domain. So he's long suffering to us
word, not willing that any of the us word should perish, that
all should come to repentance. You know, if God treated us according
to what we should have happened to us, we'd never grow up to
maturity. We would never grow up and have
God do a thing for us if we got what we deserve. But God is long-suffering,
and he brings that out with regard to Saul of Tarsus. Oh, Paul said,
he was long-suffering to me. Long-suffering. He could have
wiped me off the map any time, but in his covenant of grace,
he had me marked out before the foundation of the world. John
chapter 10, verse 28, we read these words, I give unto them
eternal life. It doesn't say I shall give unto
them. He says, I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never perish. Now he's not talking to the church
per se right here. We get to enjoy and appreciate
it. He's talking to a bunch of lost
Jews. They're finding fault with him.
They're telling him down the road, we don't believe you. They
say, if you really be the Christ, tell us. And the next verse he
says, The word that I said and the works that I do, but you
don't understand any of it. And then he says here, I give
unto them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand. My father which gave them
me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out
of my father's hand. I and my Father are one. What glorious statements that
God has. And the church has nothing to
do in that. We don't promote that. We can't
accomplish that. God does it for us. Someone has
already taken care of the problem that we had. And it's a divine
gift that God gives, and it's not based upon reward for service,
and it's not dependent upon debt to be paid, and it's not based
upon our worthiness. It's dependent only on the grace
of God that he would grant eternal life. And then it tells us there,
they shall never perish. We may perish at sea, but we'll
not perish eternally. We may perish in a car wreck.
We may perish as a result of cancer. We may do all those things. I've said this many times. An
old preacher wrote, he says, no Christian really fears death. What we are concerned with is
how is that going to happen. And you know that's the truth.
How's that gonna happen? I've had family members die of
this and that, and I just wonder, am I gonna go that way? My dad
just had a heart attack, fell off the couch, and he was dead.
Maybe that will happen. All right. And they shall give
unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Turn with
me, if you would, over to the book of Ezekiel, chapter 34,
for just a moment. The book of Ezekiel, chapter
34. In here, we have the term, my sheep. You know,
as I was going through that, I lay down my life for my sheep. And a number of times the Lord
uses that terminology. And I just went over to my concordance
and went, my sheep, Old Testament. It brought these verses up in
the book of Ezekiel. I says, whoa. No wonder we delight,
no wonder the Old Testament saints delighted in the term, my sheep. Well, here in the book of Ezekiel
chapter 34, would you turn there with me, Ezekiel chapter 34,
and begin reading there. Well, I should begin with verse
one, but we're gonna begin with verse six, I believe. It says,
my sheep wandered. Ezekiel 34, verse six. My sheep wandered through all
the mountains upon every high hill. Yea, my flock was scattered
upon all the face of the earth. Can you just see that in your
mind's eye? My sheep were scattered all over
this world. And they were scattered as a
result of sin. None did search or seek after
them. You know the reason they were
not sought after as they should have been? Because we can't tell.
You know, we look at ourselves, Lord, what in the world, why
in the world would you send someone down to Central Point, Oregon,
a no place, and preach the gospel in a Grange Hall? because a lost sheep was there.
Verse seven, therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord. As
I live, saith the Lord, God surely because my flock became a prey
and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there
is no shepherd, neither did my shepherds seek for my flock,
but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not the flock. All the
metaphors in here. Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear
the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God, behold,
I am against the shepherds, and will require my flock at their
hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock. Neither
shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore, for I will deliver my
flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. They're not gonna shear the sheep. For thus saith the Lord God,
behold, I even I will both search for my sheep and seek them out. I know where they are, I'll find
them. And as a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that
he is among his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out
my sheep and will deliver them out of all the places where they
have been scattered in that cloudy and dark day. Oh, what a cloudy
and dark day was the day of the cross. But the Lord Jesus Christ
had him all in his mind. He had him graven on the palms
of his hands. He had him in a shoulder blade,
as the priest of the Old Testament had those different stones for
the children of Israel on a breastplate and up on his shoulders and upon
his hands. And in his mind, he knew exactly
who he was laying down his life for the sheep. and I will give
unto them eternal life." On what basis can God promise, I will
give unto them eternal life? There is one most necessary thing
that must be taken care of in order for God to ever say, I
will give unto them eternal life. And that one thing that must
be taken care of is our sin. the soul that sinneth it must
die. God's command on the subject.
So let's look at a few verses of scripture beginning in the
book of Hebrews chapter 8. Hebrews chapter 8 as we look
at this passage of scripture we find again just as there are
verses of scripture running out in every book of the Bible about
the condition we are in by nature, the fall and how total it was
and how unable anybody is to come to Christ. We find that
God has also declared throughout the scriptures that it is sin
is going to be dealt with and sin will be successful and put
away. You know, as Mike was talking
about the resurrection, we find out that the resurrection is
an absolute declaration that Jesus Christ laid down his life
for the sheep and he raised again for their justification. And
boy, people can't handle that part. Oh, he raised for everybody. No, he didn't. He raised for
his sheep. All right, here in the book of
Hebrews, chapter eight. Hebrews chapter eight, verse
12. The scriptures share this. For
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. Thank God for his mercy. It is
always due to our unrighteousness. Mercy has to do with a problem
between two people, and we plead for mercy. If you plead for mercy
in a courtroom, it's because you've done something and you
want the judge to be as merciful as possible. But you can't command
it, you cannot demand it, you plead for it. Here he says, I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness. and their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more. And that's one verse of scripture
that shares with us that sin is so greatly dealt with that
God said, I will remember it no more. Turn with me, if you
would, back to the book of Isaiah chapter 43. In the book of Isaiah
chapter 43, as we look as the scriptures declare this glorious
statements about sin has been dealt with. Sin has been put
away. Sin has been dealt with in such
a glorious manner at the cross. In Isaiah 43 and verse 25, we
read these words, I, even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions
for my own sake. and will not remember thy sins. I blotteth out thy transgressions."
The blood of Christ paid the sin debt. The blood of Christ.
You know, and it wasn't just a bunch of sin put under a carpet. He just didn't sweep it under
a carpet. Paid for in full. There's no charge held accountable
against the sheep anymore because it is finished. The payment is
made. As we follow this theme through
the scriptures, turn with me just a little bit here in the
book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah chapter 33. Jeremiah chapter 33, as we
read again, the greatness of God's work of grace, his blood
atonement. Jeremiah 33, and there in verse
eight, we read these words. and I will cleanse them from
all their iniquity. I don't know how many times I
would be in the backseat of the car going to church. There would
be my twin brother, there'd be my sister, there would be my
little brother, and there'd be my older brother, five of us
in the backseat. And mom would inspect our ears,
because you know, we took all kinds of baths when I was growing
up, every Saturday. I can't imagine going a full
week anymore. But every Saturday, we got the
tub full. And sometimes it was that tub
on the floor in front of the cook stove. And the water was
heated by that cook stove. And we get in there and I told
you I wanted to be first. After a while, I wanted to be
first because that was the clean water. Well, every Sunday, she
would make us stick our head up there in the front seat so
she could look behind our ears to see if it was clean. And nine
times out of ten, she pulled a handkerchief out of her purse. You know what she did with it?
She stuck it in her mouth. And then she went... You know
what? When God inspects the sheep,
I find none. He's not going to have to pull
out a post-resurrection rag and clean us up. It's all done at
the cross. I will cleanse them from all
their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me. I will pardon
all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby
they have transgressed against me. I will take care of all their
sins. That's the only reason God can
say, I grant unto them eternal life. Their sins are taken care
of. Their sins are put away. Turn
with me in the book of Jeremiah chapter 50 as we read this great,
glorious book of Jeremiah as he's sharing us the gospel, even
in perilous times back there in the days that he was writing
in Israel. There was a remnant according
to the election of grace, even in that mess. Here in the book
of Jeremiah, chapter 15, verse 20, it says, in those days, and
in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall
be sought for, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah,
and they shall not be found, for I will pardon them whom I
reserve. I'm thankful that God said, I
will pardon all the sins of all my people, not some of the sins
of everybody, and you better take care. He said, I'll take
care of it, whom I reserve. Travel with me to the New Testament,
to the book of Ephesians chapter one, if you would. Ephesians
chapter one, there's only one way that God can say, I can't
find their sin anymore. It is because it was laid on
Jesus, and he as a lamb, a sacrificial lamb of the Old Testament, was
absolutely and totally consumed on that cross in payment for
our sin. He cried, my God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou far from the words
of my roaring? Why, when our sin was put on
him, God let him take care of it alone. He is the substitute. He is the propitiation. He is
the payment price. Here in the book of Ephesians,
Ephesians 1, verse 7. Ephesians 1, verse 7, the scriptures
say, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins according to the riches of his grace. If we don't have
forgiveness of sins, we don't have his grace. His grace, unmerited
favor has dealt with that. Colossians, turn with me to the
book of Colossians if you would. Colossians chapter one and verse
14. Colossians chapter one, verse
14. In whom we have redemption through
his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Redemption, payment
has been made. The payment price has been made. Jesus Christ and his blood has
made the payment price for all our sin. And therefore he can
say, I will remember them no more. They are put away. In the
book of 1 John 1, let's read this together, 1 John 1, and
there are verse 7. 1 John 1, verse 7, it says here,
if we walk in the light. Now, it's too bad that people
will say, see, you've got to do this. It should have said,
since we walk in the light, As he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth
us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our
sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, I've been asked recently,
do you confess your sins? You know, I said, I just really
don't have time to do all of that because we sin by the second
or millisecond. In our minds, our thoughts, our
actions, we just sin. Our nature, our old self is still
with us. So it's not dependent upon that
very thing of confession of sin. I do go to the Lord, I ask for
the forgiveness of sins, not hoping that he has forgiven me,
but knowing that he forgave me at the cross. I don't have to
say, oh, I hope, I just pray and hope, I just hope he'll take
this. You know, Paul, as he was, he
shares with us, we'd say, oh, he said, Oh wretched man that
I am. Romans chapter 8. There is therefore
now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. He's sharing
us what he was, he saw himself as, but in Christ there is therefore
now no condemnation. Salvation is not conditional,
it is based upon the eternal covenant of grace and authored
by God. We read here in the book of 1
John 2, 1 John 2, it shares this with us, 1 John 2, verses 1 and
2. My little children, these things
I write unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He
is the propitiation for our sins. I've shared with you, I used
to discuss what did the world mean in this place, in this verse
of scripture. We know the world doesn't mean
all the world in all the verses of scripture. That's just a foolish
statement. People want to include everybody
when it uses the word world. Well, they don't include half
the words or half the times the word world is used. They pick
and choose. I picked and choose. But the
word in here that is so invaluable and so important is propitiation. payment for sin. He is the payment
for sin for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the
sins of the whole world. Everyone that God's ever going
to save out of every kindred nation, people, and tongue, He's
their propitiation. It's not us saying, God be merciful,
forgive me, forgive me, God, forgive me, God, forgive me.
No, He's my propitiation. He's already taken care of the
problem. We read, in Revelation chapter
1 and verse 5 along the same line. Revelation chapter 1 and
verse 5, it says this, and from Jesus Christ. and from Jesus Christ. Revelation
chapter one and verse five, and from Jesus Christ, who is the
faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the
prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved us and washed
us from our sins in his... Or loosed us. from our sins in
his own blood, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us
from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people,
zealous of good works. And that's Titus chapter two
and verse 14. He says, as far as the East is
from the West. I'm not even going to go into
that illustration. I'm just going to say, that's
what it says. As far, Psalm 103, would you
turn there with me, Psalm 103 and verse 12. Psalm 103 and verse
12, the only way that God could say, the only way that Jesus
Christ, the Son of God could say that I grant unto them, I
give unto them eternal life is that their sin issue has been
taken care of. They have no sin before God. They will never answer for sin
before God. Jesus Christ answered for them
by himself. He became the substitute for
them. He became the person that sin
was placed on, imputed to by God. And you know, it's hard
to explain that. How could God take all the sins
of all of his people from the very beginning to the very end
Bring them up in one fell swoop and place them on his son on
the cross. How could he do that? I can't
understand it, but you know what he did All their sin Paid for in full
and as we read here in the book of Psalm the Psalms Psalms 103 We have this wonderful statement
made, Old Testament, about the condition, as far as the east
is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions
from us. You know, we just say, Lord,
thank you. I had nothing to do with that.
I couldn't accomplish that. We usually clean up the outside,
don't we? We try to make the outside look
as good as possible in front of family and friends and ourselves
as we look in the mirror, but the Lord Jesus Christ shares
with us so honestly and so truthfully You are filled with dead man's
bones. Now that's a metaphor for the
problem we're in. And I must raise you from that
condition. I must bring you out of that
condition. And when I do, your sins are as far as the east is
from the west. I will have taken care of them.
In Isaiah again, chapter 38, Isaiah chapter 38, we read these
wonderful words about the Lord Jesus' work and ministry on the
cross. It tells us in Isaiah chapter
38 and verse 17, Isaiah, another metaphor of what he does with
our sin. It says here, Isaiah 38, verse
17, Behold, for peace I had great bitterness, but thou hast in
love of my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption, for
thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Metaphors about what God did
with our sin and they will never be remembered again, never brought
up. God will not stand, have a stand
before him at that great day and say, well, we have one thing
to deal with. You know what his comment is? Welcome to the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world. It's kind of like
him stepping into the room of all those disciples that ran
away from him at that time and say, peace. I bring peace. I'm not bringing
this up against you. And that day when he says, welcome
to the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,
how we enter in gloriously under his welcoming. And it tells us
in the book of Daniel, Daniel chapter nine, Daniel chapter
nine, if you turn there, You know, I've mentioned this in
the past, that Daniel's just wrangled over about end times. Well, I don't know all I know
about Daniel, but I know this. This is what Daniel wrote about
the coming of Jesus Christ in those 70 weeks. And that's good
enough for me. Daniel chapter nine, verse 24. Read this with me. This is what
he said he was going to do in that time period. Daniel 9, verse
24, 70 weeks are determined upon thy people, upon the holy city,
to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make
reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness. When did that take place? They nailed him to a cross, they
lifted the cross up, and now God's gonna deal with him. As
a sacrifice, he's gonna deal with him. As the lamb of God,
he's gonna deal with him. And he placed on him the iniquity
of us all and poured out his eternal wrath on him. He did
in such a short time what we could never do in eternity, pay
for our sin. And the church says, thank you. You know, if Christ be not risen,
If payment for sin has not been made, then you are yet in your
sins. If Christ be not risen, you are
yet in your sins. That's what the Apostle Paul
wrote to the church of Corinth. Because there were some in there
who said, well, he hasn't been raised. If he's not been risen,
you are yet in your sins. And you know the problem with
that? Turn with me to John 8, verse
24. There's a problem if he hasn't
taken care of sin, if he wasn't successful, if he did not raise
as a statement of success, the victory is had. In the book of
John 8, John 8, verse 24, the scriptures share this. I said therefore unto you that
if ye die in your sins, for if ye believe not that I am he,
ye shall die in your sins. Now what's the consequence of
that? Those on the left-hand side died
in their sins. More verse I want to read. The
book of Matthew. Matthew chapter 13. Matthew chapter 13. Without Christ,
we will die in our sins. There is no other way. Either he paid for them in full
or we will die in our sins. That brother Ed shared with me
as a friend up there in Canada that thinks, oh, maybe a billion
years, maybe 50 million years, you will have suffered enough
that God will just take you out. Not true. Not true. Even in hell, sin will
continuously be done. All right, notice with me here
in the book of Matthew chapter 13. Matthew 13 verse 47. Matthew chapter 13 verse 47. Again, the kingdom of heaven
is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of
every kind, which when it was full, they drew it to shore,
and sat down and gathered the good into vessels and cast the
bad away. Now, he's going to make a point
here. It's interesting to watch those
guys up there in the Bering Sea. I don't know how much truth there
is on TV, but it's interesting. All the stuff, the trash that
they bring up, do they send that to the fish packer? No. They cast it out. They sift through,
collect what they want, and cast out. Well, he said here, even
in fishing in his day, there were some things caught in the
net that was of no value, so they just called it out, threw
it away, cast it away. So shall it be in the end of
the world. The angels shall come forth and
sever. Now, that's an interesting word.
You know what that means. and sever the wicked from the
just. Now that word just means justified. Those are the ones God has saved.
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire, there shall
be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Now why are they in a furnace
of fire? For their sin. Why are those
severed from the just? What's so special about the just? The blood of Christ, the payment
for sin. He has put our sin as far as
the east is from the west, behind his back in the deepest sea,
however he wants to describe it, and then said, I can find
it no more. And then the church says, well,
thank you, Lord. Sin has been taken care of, therefore
I can have eternal life. They shall cast them into the
furnace of fire and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. The just shall be severed or
the wicked from the just. Comparisons. And that is what
we find there in the book of Matthew in that day when all
nations are gathered together. And here we have as a shepherd
to divide the goats from the sheep and the sheep are on the
right hand side and the goats are on the left hand side. And
he says to the sheep, welcome to the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world. I've had an interest in you by
grace from ever and ever. And he shall say to those on
the left hand side who say, You know, it's interesting to think.
The ones on the right hand said, when did we serve you? When did
we work for you? When did we do that? When did
we do that? And the guys on the left hand
says, when didn't we do that? We worked and worked and worked.
We cast out demons. We preached in your name. We
did all of this stuff. And he said, depart from me,
ye workers. No grace there. Ye workers of
iniquity. And so for those on the right
hand side, for his children, for the sheep, he said, I give
unto them eternal life. And he's in the process now of
finding the lost sheep and causing them to know the great blessings
of grace through the preaching of the gospel, letting us know
today and tomorrow we'll find out some more about the great
grace of God and what we have in Christ Jesus. You know, he
says, I've given unto them every spiritual blessing, every. And you know what? I can't comprehend
them all in one day. So tomorrow he'll reveal another
one. What a joy it is to bow before
a king that worketh all things well. Brother Mike.