What a delight it is, once again,
to be in this place and to be with you. We are thankful for
each one that's here this morning, and we direct your attention
to an Old Testament passage of Scripture found in the book of
Genesis. Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15. We're going to start
there, but we're going to be moving through several places
in the Scriptures. The new birth gives us such a
new view of the Bible. I remember before the Lord saved
me that the Old Testament was a historical book, and when I
read Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15, there was not much significance
to it. Okay, there's going to be someone come to take care
of a problem, but I didn't realize the problem. in his capacity,
total capacity. Here in Genesis chapter 3 and
verse 15, after Adam sinned, after he fell, after darkness
came, after they hid themselves in the garden, after they covered
themselves with fig leaves, after the catastrophic event that took
place in disobedience to Almighty God, We find here that God comes
to them and shares with them a promise that He has made in
the covenant of grace. This we find as the first written
time that God shared that He's going to deal with the problem,
but He has before the foundation written in the covenant of grace.
This is how I'm going to take care of the problem, even before
it took place. I will. God said, I will. You know, we find two things
in the scriptures. He said, I will, and he says,
you shall. Our will is not going to accomplish
anything. We're thankful that He makes
us both to will and to do of His good pleasure. He is the
foundation stone of our salvation at the very beginning, in the
middle, and the end. He is the foundation stone. All
right, I will put enmity. Now that's a comment that we
find brought out in the book of Romans. He said that we by
nature are enmity with God. We're enmity. Now that's more
than being upset. That means we are at warfare
with God. We have nothing that God is interested
in and we're completely against Him. I've shared this morning
with Daniel that when I heard the gospel the first time, my
comment about the preacher was, I hate that man. I found out
I was mad at the postman. He was delivering the message.
I was angry with God, because I found out that what I had my
whole hope on was not a true foundation, it was sand. All right, I'll put enmity between
thee and the woman, and he's speaking to the serpent. Now
I'm glad that Adam and Eve got to be hearers of this, but he
is speaking to the serpent, and he says, I'm going to deal with
you in time. But the most important thing
that I'm going to do is I'm going to come as the seed of the woman
and I am going to ransom fallen Israel. I'm going to ransom my
people. I'm going to ransom my children.
He says, I'll put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed. And her seed, it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. What a wonderful statement. And it is so much more wonderful
when we realize that God had an interest in saving His people
before the foundation of the world. We find out that God had
mentioned there He delivered. He was delivered. Christ was
delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God. that he had an interest in saving
a people before the people ever had a need for salvation. God was not surprised when Adam
fell in the Garden of Eden. He knew exactly what was going
to happen. In fact, we find there was a
lamb set aside, slain from the foundation of the world. It is
not a covenant. This covenant of grace is not
a covenant that God made with man. It is a covenant that God
made in the Godhead. The Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit agreed in the covenant of grace to save a people for
the glory of God and for the glory of the church. Now, we?re
not the participants in that covenant as we were in the covenant
that God gave to Moses. He said, ?You keep this and I?ll
do this.? And they could not keep that. And we find out, in
fact, He said, ?I regarded that not.? It?s gone. That covenant
is over. There?s no longer any need for
it because the covenant of grace has been brought through the
blood of Jesus Christ Nobody is saved any differently in the
Old Testament than they're saved today. They're saved by the same
gospel, we find. Abraham had the gospel preached
unto him as it was preached then. We find that Adam had the gospel
preached unto him. Abel had the gospel preached
unto him. And the same thing is necessary as Jesus told Nicodemus,
you must be born again. You know, in the Old Testament,
we hear about the Messiah. The Messiah is coming. The Messiah.
That's what we read about in here. And then we find in the
New Testament, the word that we so often pronounce, Christ,
is the same word as Messiah in the Old Testament. The Messiah
is here. His name is Jesus. We have found
Him, who the prophets wrote about, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus of Nazareth. Born in Bethlehem. Alright, would
you turn with me over to the New Testament for just a reading?
Here in the book of Luke chapter 2. Luke chapter 2, we find these
wonderful words that are given with regard to the coming of
the Messiah. In Luke chapter 2. Now, all through
the Old Testament we found out that there was someone going
to deliver. This child, we just heard right, a virgin self-conceived. You know, I don't know about
you, but in religion, I said, how can that happen? Well, when
we read the scriptures, we find that God is all-powerful. He
could do all things. And when you just think about
it for a moment, what power it took for God to put some dirt
together in the form of a human being and breathe into the nostrils
of that dirt person, of the dust of the ground, breathe into his
nostrils, the breath of life, and he became a living soul,
that is as great as a virgin conceiving. God did that on purpose
because He did not want any human sin brought into the equation.
He performed it in such a way that this person that was going
to be born of a virgin would not have Adam's nature. He would
become a man. He would have flesh and blood
like all those that needed to be died for, ransomed, but He
did not have what we have, and that is sin. And we pass that
on to every generation. I can blame my dad for it. He
can blame his dad for it. He can blame his dad for it.
And my children can blame me for it because I passed it on.
The man passes it on, and that's why it was necessary that Joseph
was not in the equation of that firstborn son. This son was born
of God. This son was put in the womb
of Mary. This son was carried for nine
months. This son, who was in the glory,
had the glory with the Father before the world was, this son
was humiliated and put into a womb and captured for nine months
and then born like all of us were born. And that son grew. We find him at the temple at
eight days old. We find him in the temple at
12 years old. We find him later at 30 years
old, and he began his personal ministry and shares with us continuously
the reason that he came. He came and he did some wonderful
things in his life, but the goal of his ministry was lay down
my life a ransom for many. All right, here in the book of
Luke chapter 2, Luke chapter 2, Beginning there in verse 1,
It came to pass in those days. Now this is the right day. This
is the right day. It came to pass in those days.
Now there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus. Caesar Augustus
was the emperor over this part of the world. You know, it?s
interesting when we begin to think about it. Nancy and I have
done a little travel in Europe and we found out almost every
country we visited was under the influence of the Roman Empire.
France, Italy, much of Spain and Portugal, much of Germany,
Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia, Belgium,
Croatia, Albania were all under the influence of the Roman Empire.
And you know what? This same decree went out to
them. A decree went out from Caesar Augustus to the Roman
Empire. Now, in our translation it says
that all the world should be taxed. Well, we look at that
word world and we find out that that word world meant the Roman
Empire at that time. There was a decree from Caesar
Augustus that they should be enrolled. That's what that word
means. It should be enrolled for future taxation. Now, this
is going to happen several times, but it went out to the known
Roman world. The English Isles were not under
Roman influence at this time, but they would be. And here we
have, and they all went to be taxed, everyone to his own city.
You know, as I think about that, by water, if you travel from
Rome to Jerusalem through the Mediterranean Sea, that is 1,434
miles. by old sailboat. If it traveled
by road, it's 2,500 miles. So between the time that Caesar
Augustus made this decree and the time the decree got to Nazareth,
where Joseph lived, has been some time. Isn't God's clock
perfect? the exact right time Caesar Augustus
was used. He was a pawn in the hand of
God. He was a man that God used for
his glory. He brought about this decree
that would move Mary and Joseph to be in exactly the right place,
Bethlehem, to fulfill the scriptures written by Micah the prophet.
the exact place at the exact time. And this is what God does
in the fullness of time. God sent forth his son at the
exact moment, the right time, the very right time we find this
happen. And it goes on to tell us that
Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth.
Now that's his hometown. That's where he lives. His post
office box is Nazareth in Galilee. But he is insisted upon. This
just carries with me such interest. that that decree was so pronounced
that Joseph and a whole bunch of other folks, because remember,
all of the rooms in Bethlehem been taken? This is not just
a decree to Joseph and to Mary, this is a decree to all the people
that had their hometown, where David was, was Bethlehem. And
they're called, and they have to go, and we find out that Mary
is great with child. In fact, she's at nearly the
limit. Great with child. The scriptures
tell us as they got there, so they went there, and verse 6,
the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. So while
she's there, there's so much hustle and bustle in Bethlehem
because of this decree that there is no room for them in the inn.
And she brings forth her firstborn son. And that's what the scriptures
tell us. You know, I was talking to a young man, and I think I
shared this with several of you, talking to a young man this last
week, and I mentioned that Jesus had several half-brothers and
half-sisters. Really? I didn't know that. Well,
in the book of Matthew, it says, you know, we know he's the carpenter's
son. and we know his brothers, and
the list is James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas, that's the four brothers,
and also his sisters. So at least six other children
were born to Joseph and Mary after Jesus. So it's very important
when we read in the scriptures that she brought forth her firstborn
son. This is the impeccable one. This
is the one without sin. This is the promised one. This
is the one born of a virgin. The rest were born in the same
way that you and I were all born. I don't know how many times recently
I've asked people, and when we're discussing the gospel, how much
did you have to do with your physical birth? And you know
the answer every one of them given me? Nothing. And I said,
that's how much you have to do with your spiritual birth. Nothing. It's taken care of for us on
our behalf in the covenant of grace. So we find here that they
went, they delivered her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, laid him in a manger because there was no room for
him in the inn. We find out that the king of
the Jews, we find out the governor, In the Old Testament, he shall
be governor over the world. This one, the Lord Jesus Christ,
was brought forth into such poor circumstances. He humbled himself
and became obedient to death. He gave over himself from the
glory that he had with the Father. He was brought into this world
in the most humble circumstances. His mother and father were poor
people from Nazareth. You know what one of the disciples
said about Nazareth? Can any good thing come out of
Nazareth? Well, we're thankful he was born
in Bethlehem because that's the fulfillment of scriptures. But
he grew up in Nazareth, which from all historical views was
a very wicked place, just like the Dalles or Beaverton or wherever
you live. There is no place that we can
escape the consequences of the fall. We think we can by moving
to a place if we're all alone, and we still can't because we
carried it right with us. We carry the consequences of
the fall with us. It's a heart problem. We have
a heart that is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked,
and we need someone that is able to take care of a heart problem.
And this is the person Christ Jesus our Lord, as it's contained
in the everlasting gospel, that He will give us a new heart. What does that say about that
then? That will love me. That's what he does. He gives
us a new heart that we're capable, finally, of loving God. Goes
on to tell us here that it says, and they were in the same country,
shepherds, abiding in the field. It's interesting, isn't it, that
we have the shepherd, the Lord Jesus, the good shepherd, the
great shepherd, the chief shepherd. Here, lying in a manger, and
at the same time, there are shepherds demonstrating what it is to watch
over their flock by night. I appreciate what I read in the
Old Testament about the Lord. He never sleeps nor slumbers.
He's watching over His flock by day and night. He takes care
of His flock day and night. He takes care of all their needs
day and night. And He takes care of our sin
day and night. It has all been put on Him. These
that were watching their flocks by night, and now something happens. You know, the angels were even
surprised at this, I believe. They look in to see things about
the gospel because the gospel is not made known to them. The
gospel is only made known to humans. Now we read in the scriptures
that a third of the angels fell on purpose by God's decree. The
rest, they look in to see if they cannot behold the gospel.
Well, here they're going to see the God, the very God. In fact, it tells us over there
in the book of John that the word became flesh. The Word became flesh. God became
flesh. His name is called Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is God with us. God with us. The Word became flesh. God became
flesh. Well, we find out why. For the
suffering of death. a body thou hast prepared for
me." It is absolutely necessary that this one, this Son of God,
because of His great work in the covenant of grace, this Son
of God would come, just like we read here, just like the Bible
describes it and declares it, that He would come and lay down,
as He said He would do, lay down His life, a ransom for many. That's why He came. Now, there's
a lot of other benefits to that. We find that a man at the pool
of Siloam, there was a benefit. He got up and walked away. A
woman with a great issue of blood, she was healed. We find that
three people that we know of were raised from the dead, physically.
All of these things happen, but the scriptures tell us that He
faced, He charged, He put His face as a flint towards Jerusalem
and the cross. That's why He came. It says here,
these angels They had never seen him like this. They knew him as God Almighty. They'd never seen him in such
a humiliated form. They'd never observed Him this
way. And I'm sure they ask among themselves,
why is this happening? And then we find out that because
of this, God can set His people free. It says, the angels, fear
not, for behold, we bring good tidings. That's the gospel. We're
talking to you, what is the gospel? You know, the scriptures tell
us, Jesus Christ did not come to
bring peace to this world. Turn with me if you would, keep
your finger right there, but turn with me if you would over to
the book of Matthew chapter 10. Matthew chapter 10. Matthew chapter
10 verse 34, we find the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, now we're
going to have to take His word for it. He said it. We're going to believe it. We're
not going to be looking for peace in this world. There's going
to be wars and rumors of wars until the end. There was war
in the garden. There was war among two brothers.
There's been war and hostility between mankind since the very
beginning and it will continue. Notice with me here in Matthew
chapter 10 verse 34. Think not that I am come to send
peace on earth. Now, we're going to read over
here in the book of Luke that they said, Behold, I'll send
peace to those who God has chosen. Yes. All right. Behold, think
not that I've come to send peace on the earth. I came not to send
peace, but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against
his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in
law against her mother in law. A man's foe shall be they of
his own household. Have you attempted to share the
gospel with someone close to you and have them say, that's
enough. I don't want to hear anymore. I don't believe it. Well, that's what we do. It doesn't
cause us to stop, but it does. We find out exactly what our
nature was like before the Lord saved us. I had a young man tell
me the other day, I wish I knew you before you were born again.
And I says, I'm looking at me. I'm looking at me right there.
Religious to the core and not having any hope or love for God
in this world. He that taketh not his cross,
and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth
his life, shall lose it. He that loseth his life, for
my sake, shall find it. He that receiveth you, receiveth
me. He that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth
a prophet, in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward.
And he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous
man shall receive a righteous man reward. And who shall give
drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only
in the name of the disciple? Verily I say unto him, He shall
in no wise lose his reward. What does he say? I'll not bring
peace. Now turn with me to the book of Romans chapter 10. Keeping
that in mind, I will not bring earthly peace. That is not His
goal, never has been, never will be, until He comes again. And then there will be eternal
and everlasting peace. There will never be anybody to
get upset with anybody about anything. When we are in the
presence of the Lord, He will take away the nature that we're
born with and we'll never be upset again. We will not have
high blood pressure over that driver that just cut us off.
We will have no issues. We will be at peace. Why? Because we read here in the book
of Romans chapter 10. Romans chapter 10 verse 15. It
says here, And how shall they preach, except they be sent?
As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach
the gospel of peace. What is that peace? We have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. I don't know how many
times I've heard at funerals, I hope they made peace with God.
That's an impossibility. Natural man cannot make peace
with God. There is one that made peace
with God. His name is Jesus Christ the
righteous, and in Him we have peace with God. And that and
that alone, we'll never make it on our own. He will not accept
us on our own. We must be in Christ. We must
have Christ, or He will not accept us. That's why it is so important
that God would bring us to the Lord Jesus Christ in repentance
and faith. We can?t produce it. We don?t
have the capabilities. We?re far from it. We are lost
and bound for a devil?s hell without the grace of God. And
so His grace is brought to us and is called the Gospel of Peace,
and that?s what we find these angels are going to be speaking
about over here in the book of Luke. Would you back up there
again to the book of Luke chapter 2? In Luke chapter 2 we read,
as we further read this passage of scripture, it's so full of
the gospel, it's more than just a story about a baby being born,
gifts being given. It is the story of the incarnation. God come in the flesh, and He
came in the flesh for a reason. He needed to have the body likened
to those The children of Abraham, he needed to have a body like
those because those without him would have to suffer the realization
of sin in their flesh. The soul that sinneth, it must
die. And God said, there's going to
be my son suffer or they will. And so he came in a body so that
it could be put to death. That's our salvation. It must
be put to death. The preacher said that if I was
there, I would not allow that to happen. He doesn't understand
what it's all about. He doesn't understand the incarnation
and the necessity of this one coming and being a lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. This is our hope and this is
our salvation. Back in the book of Luke there
we read, In verse, I believe it, verse eight, there were in
shepherds, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them. You know,
it's interesting that so often in the Old Testament, the angel
of the Lord is Christ, pre-incarnate Christ. Could it be while he
laid in the manger, he also appeared? The angel of the Lord appeared
to some shepherds. And the angel of the Lord brought
this good news. It tells us there in verse 11.
Well, verse 10, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall
be to all peoples. Notice the gospel is going to
be preached to every nation, kindred, people, and tongue for
one reason, that in those places where the gospel is preached,
there is somebody that God intended to hear it because their names
are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. There is reason for
the gospel being preached there. It's not wasted on them. It is
necessary that the gospel be preached. I bring you good tidings.
I bring you the gospel of great joy. For unto you is born this
day in the city of David, Bethlehem." Now, that's a wonderful word,
Savior. Savior. What does that mean? You know,
in religion, you don't think much about it. But if you have
a Savior, that means somebody needs to be saved. Day before yesterday, Nancy and
I were over on the coast And our daughter mentioned there's
a plaque over there on the ground at Rockaway Beach. A plaque, a memorial, and I don't
remember the guy's name. It says, he who was swept away
to sea while trying to save a friend he had never met. Now that's
inscribed on a piece of stone right there at Rockaway Beach.
His name, he was swept away to sea trying to save a friend he
had never met. Someone was drowning and he tried
to save them and lost his own life. Now, I can't call him a
savior, can you? You know that's what religion
is? trying to save, but here we have a Savior, someone who
can actually save his people from their sin. Someone who actually
was predetermined to save people from their sin. He is a Savior
that actually saves. That was the worst news I ever
heard until I was saved, and then that became the best news.
What do you mean, I'm not involved in this? No, He's a Savior that
actually saves. And I liked another thing that
that preacher said, He's a Redeemer that actually redeems His people. He's a ransomer that actually
ransoms His people. He took care of the business
of it. This is the Savior. And it says there, which is Christ. Now, In some translations, that
word has been translated Messiah, even in the New Testament. Now,
we kind of grasp that just a little bit, because we've been spending
all that time reading in the Old Testament, and all that through
the Old Testament. We read about a Messiah coming,
and here we find He's called Christ. Well, just translate
that to Messiah, and you'll get a grip on this, because He is
the one that was promised in the Garden of Eden, to do a duty
to save His people from their sins. And this Messiah was written
in the Lamb's Book of Life long in the covenant of grace, long
before the world ever began. In old eternity, Messiah was
written about, and here He is, Christ the Lord. Now that mentions
a whole lot about Him and is so often left out. Solitarsus understood that word
once he was born again. You know the first word out of
his mouth after he was saved was, Lord, Master, Savior. He had something happen to him
on that road to Damascus that we pray will happen to all of
our families, our friends, our neighbors. Known unto God are
those names written in the Lamb's Book of Life. It is our privilege
to share with them the good news. As that angel said, I bring you
good tidings of glad tidings of good joy. There's a Savior
been born down there in Bethlehem. Well, that savior was born, he
grew up, he had a three and a half year ministry, and at the end
of that ministry, he declares, no man takes my life from me,
I lay it down. The Romans could say, well, we
crucified him, by permission. By permission of almighty God
and the covenant of grace. Well, Pilate could say, I had
him crucified by permission. The Lord told Pilate, He said,
you can't do anything without permission. I'm in charge of
this. He was in charge of his arrest.
He was in charge of his trial. He was in charge of all the lashes
that got to his back. He was in charge of the crown
of thorns put on him. We find that they were doing
exactly what natural man wanted to do with God, but it was by
permission only. He went to the cross by God's
permission, and he hung on that cross because God in the covenant
of grace said there must be There must be someone that would ransom
the people, and it must be someone that has the body of my people,
but it must also be God. God come in the flesh. Preaching
this wonderful news. In Bethlehem of Judea, he was
born so long ago, but you know, he never said a thing about his
birth. His parents didn't mention it. The apostles didn't mention
it. The rest of the Bible mentions nothing about His birth. You
know what they mention? His life, His miracles, His word,
and His death. But we're thankful it doesn't
stop there because it is culminated three days later in His resurrection. When He came out of the tomb
victorious over sin, death, hell, and the grave, Joseph and Mary
went down there. Turn with me, if you would, into
the book of Hebrews, chapter 9. Hebrews, chapter 9. In Hebrews,
chapter 9, we find some words that give us some understanding
about the Lord Jesus Christ and the purpose that He came. Yes,
He was born. He was born of a virgin. And
you know what? She didn't remain that way. She's not to be prayed to. I
thanked the Lord for her. God said, you're a chosen vessel.
Well, guess what? Everyone that's saved is a chosen
vessel. She rejoiced in God, her salvation,
just like that old man came up, raised Jesus up and said, now
I can die in peace. I've seen my salvation. No, everyone
that's ever saved is a chosen vessel of God. And here we find
in the book of Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 9, it says, But we
see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the
suffering of death, That's why He came, crowned with glory and
honor, that He, by the grace of God, should taste death for
every man. We follow that out. He doesn't
mean that He's going to die for everybody in the world. I've
visited with a young man for three years now, and he's got
people that God died for in hell. And I said, that's not good salvation. That's not deliverance. That
means he did not accomplish anything. That means it's all up to me.
And I find that that is exactly the opposite of what the Bible
says. All right, in Hebrews chapter 10, would you turn there with
me? Hebrews chapter 10, verse 5. This is why it came. This is
why it was incarnate. This is why the Word became flesh. This is why. It says here in
Hebrews 10, verse 5, Wherefore, when he cometh into the world,
he saith, Sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not. You know what?
God said, I'm fed up with the sacrifices. They mean nothing. They have meant nothing to Israel
for so long. It was just a tradition, just
like almost all religions, just nothing more than a tradition.
But I'm not, that's not what I'm interested in anymore. I'm
not interested in the Passover anymore. I'm not interested in
the sacrifices anymore. I'm not interested in the temple
anymore. You know, God was so serious about that statement
in AD 70, He just said, let's take care of it and got rid of
that temple. Well, it says here in Hebrews
10 and verse 5, it says, Wherefore, when he cometh into the world,
he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body
thou hast prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin thou hast no pleasure, but lo, said I, lo, I come in
the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will,
O God. Above, when he saith, Sacrifice, and offering, and
burnt offerings, and offering for sin that wouldest not, neither
has pleasure therein, which are offered by the law. Then saith
he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first,
that he may establish the second. And then, if you'll turn with
me to the book of Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5, as we think
of the incarnation for one reason, for the suffering of death. He
did so much. You know, John said, if all the
things that Jesus had done had been written down, there would
not be room in the world to write it. We have the outline. You
know, we have everything God intended for us to have. and
everything that is written God can use to bring to our old crusty
heart the grace of God in salvation. Everything. Here in the book
of Romans chapter 5 verse 19 we read these words. For as by
one man's disobedience, who's that? Adam. It's interesting
that when we look over there, that when Eve ate that fruit,
whatever it was, if you want to call it an apple, that's fine.
You want to call it a peach, that's fine. You want to call
it a watermelon, that's fine. I don't care. There's no record
of what it was. It was the fruit of the tree.
When Eve ate that, she had nothing happen. She was not the responsible party. When she gave it to Adam, and
he did eat, darkness fell. They died spiritually instantaneously. No longer had any interest in
God. In fact, they were afraid of
God. They ran from God. They covered themselves with
a religious formality called fig leaves, and God found them
in the Garden of Eden. They didn't come looking for
Him. Here it says, ?For as by one man?s disobedience many were
made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.?
Not our righteousness, but His imputed righteousness given to
us in that great transaction that God calls the new birth.
You must be born again. It's not by our works of righteousness,
which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saves us. And
so I bring you good tidings of great joy. He's been here. He went to the cross. He was
raised from the dead, He's sitting at the right hand of the Father,
and He's waiting for the last sheep to be saved when He wraps
this whole thing up, and we meet Him in the air with great victory,
His victory. Brother Mike.