Let's go back to the Book of
Hebrews, to that passage that Brother Terry just read to us. I'm sure you're familiar with
the Book of Hebrews. It sets forth the greatness of
our Lord Jesus Christ, as does all of the Word of God. But especially
in the Book of Hebrews, the writer who I suppose was the apostle
Paul, though really it doesn't matter who the human instrument
was. It's the very word of the Holy
Spirit. As the 13 chapters of this book
unfold, they're all about setting forth the wonders of, the sufficiency
of, and the very glory of the Son of God and how he's so much
better, much better than the angels of God, much better than
the prophets, much better than Moses, much better than Aaron. And his sacrifice was much better
than the sacrifices that were offered under the law of God.
If we could understand this, we'd go a long ways toward having
a right knowledge of the Word of God. All of the Word of God
is about the person and the work of the Son of God. I shared with
my Sunday school class this morning a bit of a conversation I had
with a man the other night. in a store, I was looking for
a computer, and we got to talking. His name was Joseph, and I was
telling him what his name meant in the Bible and so forth and
so on. And he said, you know, I have
a hard time understanding the Bible. So I started talking to him about
the scriptures, and I said, let me tell you this. I said, all
of the word of God is directed toward giving us an understanding
of and a saving knowledge of one person, the Lord Jesus Christ. I said, I know it's a lot in
the books, it's a lot in the Old Testament, in all those 39
books, but I said, And I went back to what Brother Mahan taught
us many, many years ago. The Old Testament says somebody's
coming. I said, if you can understand
that, you'll understand the Old Testament. The Old Testament's
not about Israel. It's about Christ. It's about
that one who's coming into the world. And all the scripture
says all the prophets wrote of him. Our Lord said to the Jews
of His day in John 5, He says, you do search the Scriptures,
for in them, in the Scriptures, you think you have eternal life. You think by poring over the
Word of God, studying all of the laws of God, you think you
have eternal life by all that diligence of reading and studying
and that sort of thing. But He said, these are they that
testify of Me. And I told him, I said, that's
what people miss. People miss the Lord Jesus in
the Old Testament. And then you get to the four
Gospels, and the four Gospels say that one who's foretold in
the Old Testament, he's come. And he did what he came to do.
He came to save his people from their sins. I said, I know he
did many miracles, but those miracles were done to give evidence
of who he is. That's proof of his deity. I
mean, they even said of him, Nicodemus said, no man can do
the miracles that thou doest except God be with him. He did
all of those miracles to validate the fact that he's the son of
God. And of course, that's what they despised about him. They
said, you're just a man. You claim to be God. But he had
to be God to save us. You understand that, and I hope
those of you who are watching, you understand that. I know the
Savior had to be bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh,
but he had to be in addition to being a real man. He had to
be equal with God, and He was equal with God. You take away
His deity, you take away the Gospel. You take away the Lordship
of Jesus Christ, there is no good news. If you and your heart deny that
He's the Son of God with power, what's the use in preaching?
There's no need to. You see, everything is dependent
upon this, who is the one who lived and died for sinners? Who
did that? Well, God did that. You say,
well, God can't die. Well, hang on a minute, Acts
20, 28 says, Paul told the Ephesian elders, he said, feed the church
of God, which he purchased with his own blood. That's what he
said, wasn't it? feed the church of God, which He purchased. God
purchased it with His own blood. Be very careful. Let me give
you some good advice now. Be very careful about dividing
the Lord Jesus Christ into His deity and His humanity. He's
one person, just like you, one person. You say, I'm a spiritual
person, I'm a fleshly person. That's right, but you're one
person. You're just one being. And our Lord Jesus, such was
His deity that He's eternally God. He's always been God. From everlasting to everlasting,
Thou art God. But this everlasting God came
into this world and He robed His deity with our flesh. He had to be a man. He had to
be God. He had to be man. He joined himself together. He's
one person. Don't divide him. He can't be divided. He's the God-man. If he's not
the God-man, we have no salvation. We meet in vain. And I said,
this God-man is what I told him. He came into this world. And
He came to save. Not to be a good example, though
He is all of that. I set before you the example
of our Lord Jesus Christ. You want to learn how to live? Live as He did, in obedience
to God. He always sought the will of
God. You do that. Let me do that. He always sought
the glory of God. Whatever you do, do it for God's
glory. That's what he did. Oh, he is
the perfect example. But he's more than a perfect
example, he's a perfect sacrifice. That's what he came to do, is
lay down his life, a sacrifice for many. The title of this message
is One Offering. He came to offer one offering
to God for sins forever and to put our sins away. And I told
this fellow, I said, that's what the four gospels are about. I
know it talks about Jesus as a baby, born of a virgin. And we're thankful he came into
the world. We're thankful for the way he
came into the world. But his birth, though absolutely
necessary, didn't save us. And his life of perfection, though
necessary, that's not what put our sins away. The scripture
says it's the blood that makes atonement for the soul. So if
you leave out the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, you've got
no salvation. You've got no forgiveness. You've
got no righteousness. You have no satisfaction to the
justice of God. And then I told him, I said,
then from Acts through all the epistles to Revelation, says
he who he was, the one who was foretold in the Old Testament,
who was presented in the four gospel narratives, He's ascended
back to glory. He's exalted. All authority has
been given to Him. And throughout the epistles,
He's set forth as that one who preaches to His church, who teaches
His church, who draws His people unto Himself. We learn about
salvation by grace through the gift of faith. We learn about
the preservation of the saints of God because of who our Savior
is. Everything you see is predicated
upon, dependent upon our Savior. Not upon us, but upon Him. He always is faithful, though
we believe not, yet He abided faithful. That's what we need
to learn. I want to be faithful. I charge
you to be faithful. I encourage you to be faithful
to Christ. But let's admit this, our faithfulness
is better known as unfaithfulness. That's our faithfulness. But
regardless of what we do, He always is faithful to His covenant
promise. He's faithful to His people.
He said, I'm not gonna leave you and I'm not gonna forsake
you. I read there in John 14, He told His disciples, I go to
prepare a place for you. I believe He did that. I believe
He went to Calvary to prepare a place for me in glory. And
then He went to glory. A place is prepared for me in
glory. And I'm encouraged to believe
Him. Everything, everything lays heavily, weighs heavily upon
Christ Jesus and He's the Almighty Savior. That's what we need to
know. And He who's gone back to glory, I told this fellow,
I said, He rules all things. And He's the one by whom we enter
into the presence of God in prayer and in worship and in praise.
And one of these days, he's coming back. And of all the passages in the
New Testament that I could go to, and there are a multitude
of them that set forth what I would call the singularity of our message,
I just love Hebrews chapter 10. Because it really does set forth
the oneness, the oneness, of the offering of Jesus Christ
once for all. One offering. And really, chapter
10 begins this way. It begins by Christ. Here's what
the apostle teaches us, and I'll give you five, six things as
time allows in these 25 verses. Christ came. He came because
there was no other way for sin to be put away. Now we know he
came to save, his name means that, and he came to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. And we're introduced here in
chapter 10, in verse one, we're introduced to the fact that though
the law was glorious, it had no ability to make anybody
righteous, it had no ability put sins away? Look what it says. It says, for the law. Now, what
law? I know there are a lot of people
who divide the law of God into what they call the moral law
and then the Levitical law. I just find one law. Some time ago, Nancy and I were
watching the news, and they interviewed a woman who just turned 100 years
old. And so the person interviewing
her said, to what do you attribute the longevity of your life? And she said, because I live
by the Ten Commandments. She said, I love the Ten Commandments. Well, here's the thing of it,
and she seemed like a sweet lady, but sweet people aren't necessarily
God's people. We tend to have a soft part in
our hearts for those who are elderly. But let me tell you
something. Acceptance with God is not based
upon the living by the Ten Commandments. And longevity of life is not
based upon your obedience to the Ten Commandments. I would
say, number one, that lady has no comprehension of what the
Ten Commandments demand. And number two, she doesn't realize
that those are not the only commandments. There's 613 of them. You ever heard anybody say, I'm
living by the 613 commandments? No, you don't hear that. Because
they have been taught, we're only under the 10 commandments.
And that's why they divide it into the moral law and the Levitical
law. So that when people become believers,
then the preachers can say, now you're under the 10 commandments
still. No, not the ten commandments,
all 613 of them, that's how many God gave. Don't forget what men call the
lesser ones. And we know this, that if you
live your life trying to keep the commandments of God in order
to merit salvation or sanctification, Here's what you're going to discover.
The law of God is not the way of life. It's the way of death. That's what it is. It's the way
of death. Here's what Paul says here for
the law. Having a shadow of things to
come, but not the very image of the things. And never with
those sacrifices, you see, he lumps the sacrifices into the
law because that's where they were found. The Ten Commandments
lay out the demands of God and then that part of the law that
contains, it's all about the sacrifices and the offerings
and so forth, Well, that was what was to be done because men
can't keep the first ten. But, none of those laws could
ever put away sin. They just couldn't make the commerce
there unto perfect. What does God demand? Perfection. That's what He demands. And it
says here, Year by year, they couldn't make the commerce thereunto
perfect. You see, all of those laws pointed
to one who would come. But those laws, even living by
those laws, offering the sacrifices, they couldn't save anybody. It
is not right to say that in the Old Testament they were saved
by keeping the Law, and in the New Testament people are saved
by the Gospel. If people are ever saved in the
Old Testament or the New Testament, it's by the Gospel of the grace
of God through the doing and the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation has never, has never
been based on legal obedience to God. It's based upon the obedience
of our Lord Jesus Christ through life and up to and including
His death. It couldn't make anybody perfect.
Look, the second verse says, because then, wouldn't they cease
to be offered? Because that the worshippers,
once purged, should have no more conscience of sin. That family
comes to, let's say, the tabernacle and presents a sacrifice to the
priest. And man says, hey, here's me
and my wife and the kids. And we're sinners. And we bring
this bullock. best one in the herd as a sacrifice
to God. And the priest says, well, I'm
going to kill it and catch its blood and put that carcass up
on the fire and burn it to God. The man who brought that on behalf
of himself and the family did not then say, we're saved now
and our sins are put away. No. You got to do that over and
over. and over again, because they
didn't perfect anybody. Those Old Testament saints, they
were not not converted, they were not saved, they were not
cleansed of their sins by their obedience to offering these sacrifices
unto God. They were given grace, those
who were saved were given grace to look on past the sacrifices,
the animals, and see that one who would come and do in reality
what those beasts, lambs, goats, turtle doves, bullocks, what
those things could not do, Christ came and he put our sins away
forever. One sacrifice. And so he says
this in verse three, but in those sacrifice, it's just another
reminder. Sins are still here. Every year, Leviticus 16, you're
familiar with that passage. The day of atonement, when the
high priest would go into the Holy of Holies, offer the blood
of a goat to the Lord, They said, well, that did it right then.
No. Next year, it's going to be another
day of atonement. Have to do it all over again.
And the next year, and the next year, and the next year. On and
on and on for hundreds of years. Because there was just a remembrance
of sins. And those who by grace were shown
that Christ would come in his time, they looked on past those
animal sacrifices and said, oh, I bet they prayed, Lord, send
your son. Send the seed of the woman who
will do in reality what is merely pictured by these shadows. by
these animal sacrifices. And then if you don't understand
that, he just comes right out and says this in verse four.
This kind of sums up this first point. It is not possible that
the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. No possibility. No possibility. Christ came because
there was no other way for sin to be put away. Here's the second
thing. Christ came as a mediator, as
the surety, as the substitute to do what God's law by man's
obedience couldn't do. Verse five, wherefore, this is
how he goes in this, wherefore, what he's saying is, this is
why the coming of the Lord Jesus was necessary. When he coming,
who? The Son of God. When He cometh
into the world, He said, sacrifice an offering, that is the sacrifices
and offerings of animals, thou wouldest not, you wouldn't accept
them as being payment sufficient to satisfy divine justice and
put away sin. Thou wouldest not, but a body
thou hast prepared me. And that body was prepared for
Him from old eternity. purpose for him and prepared
for him. And then he emphasizes, verse
six, in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, thou hast no pleasure. Let's define the word pleasure,
no satisfaction. Didn't satisfy God. Because you
see, the animals, they had no conscience of sin. They have no awareness of guilt,
and they have really no personal transgressions against God, but
they're affected by man's transgression like all of creation is. But the sacrifice of animals
would not, could not satisfy God because those animals cannot
relate to, or they're not like a man A human being. The only one who could ever put
away sin has got to be a real man. A real person. And our Lord Jesus was that.
He came into this world born of a virgin. He had real blood. He had a real body. He had a
real soul. real blood, just a wee tiny infant,
entered this world from his mother's womb, depended upon his mother's
breast milk. She had to carry him, that song,
away in a manger, no crying he made. I don't think that's true. I think he cried like any other
baby. When a baby gets hungry, it cries. He's like any other baby, had
to be diapered. Whatever kind of diaper they
had back in those days. But he was a real human being.
He had to be a real human being to save this real human being
and all of you human beings. So he had to have a body like
we've got. And he had to have a real human
soul. He had a real soul. He was a
real soul. And I say to people lots of times,
you are a soul and your soul has a body. When the body dies,
the soul doesn't die. The soul goes back to God. The
spirit goes back to God. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 says
that. And God said, all souls are mine.
God created for Adam a real body. And then breathed into his soul
the breath of life. And then man became a living
soul. That's what you are. A living
soul. That's what Christ was. That's
who he still is. Okay? So the Lord prepared this body
for him. Who is that little child in Bethlehem's
manger? Who is that little child who
was taken into Egypt for his protection? He couldn't defend
himself. You say, but he's God. He's the
God-man, a real man, real God. Who is that one who lived in
Nazareth and grew up? and apparently learned carpentry
from Joseph. Who was that? That's God in human
flesh. That's who that is. Say, I can't
comprehend that. Join the crowd. Nobody else can
either. He's not part man, part God. He's not man deified. He's not
God humanized. He is the incarnate God. He's God in the flesh. And he had to come because verse
six says, God didn't have any pleasure, God didn't have any
satisfaction with the animal sacrifices. Then said I, lo,
I come. In the volume of the book, it
is written of me to do thy will, O God. What book? Well, the book
of God's eternal purpose, the book of God's predestination,
the book of God's covenant of grace, it's written in the book
of me. I come to do thy will, O God. Above, when he said, verse eight,
sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin
thou wouldest not, neither hath pleasure therein, which are offered
by the law. Then said he, now here's the
writer putting this in, Lo, I come, I'm coming. That's the tense. I'm coming. Actually, all of
the Old Testament, that's what he's saying. I'm coming. I'm
coming. I'm coming. I'm coming to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away the first. that
he may establish the second. He took away the first covenant. And that word taketh away, that
is a very powerful word. Just think of he killed it. He came and killed the first
covenant. The covenant of works. He didn't merely take it out
of the way. He just destroyed it. that he may establish the covenant
of grace. And then we get to the next part,
verses 10 through 14. Christ came to save by his one
offering for sin. By the which will. Which will,
which will saves us? Which will, man's will? No, it's
enslaved by sin. I'll tell you a hideous doctrine,
a hideous heresy, and that is men say that everybody's got
a free will. That is just not true. Because
the scripture says we're under the dominion of sin. That doesn't
sound like freedom to me. The Word of God has concluded,
Romans 3, all under sin, under the dominion of sin, under the
control of sin, under the authority of sin. Does that sound like
freedom to you? That's not freedom. Spurgeon said he agreed with
Martin Luther. who years before Spurgeon said
this, if any man attribute aught of his salvation to his own free
will, he knoweth nothing of grace aright. And he is absolutely
correct. Which will saved you? Your will? The Lord Jesus said to those
Jews, you will not come to me that you might have life. So
it's not man's will. Hold your place here and go over
to Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter 9. Let me just
show you one verse, but you ought to mark it if you have a little
difficulty with this. Romans chapter 9. I'll give you
two verses, 15 and 16. For he saith to Moses, I will
have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion. The emphasis there is on whose
will. God said, I will. And He always does His pleasure.
He always does His will. He does His will. Nebuchadnezzar
recognized this. He said, the Lord does His will
in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of
the earth. and nobody can stop his will, nobody can hinder his
will, nobody can frustrate his will, or saying to him, you can't
do that. We think we're so powerful. You
couldn't even scratch your head if God didn't will it to be done.
What can you do without the will of God? Absolutely nothing. Nothing. God says, I will have
mercy on whom I will have mercy. Have problems with that? You
have to take it up with God. He doesn't show mercy to everybody. Be thankful if he showed mercy
to you. Who among us deserves mercy?
If we deserved it, it wouldn't be mercy, would it? He says, I'll have compassion
on whom I'll have compassion. He shows tenderness and loving
kindness to whoever he wants to. All right, verse 16. So then, it
is not of him that willeth. It is not of him that willeth.
Stop talking about man's free will. That's heresy. It is not of him that will it.
I'll tell you this, if your will has its way, you'll go to hell,
or you will perish, because your will is controlled by your nature,
by your very Adamic nature. It's defiled, it's corrupted.
It's not of him that runneth. It's not of him who makes the
effort. I'm making an effort. Like the woman said, I'm living
by the Ten Commandments. And you're running. But what she didn't realize was
she's running straight to hell. If you seek acceptance with God
on a legal basis, you're running right to hell. The only hope
any of us have got, you see this is the way it is, the only hope
any of us have got is for God to stop us in our tracks and
teach us the gospel of His glory that magnifies His Son who came
and did for sinners what those Old Testament sacrifices could
never do, satisfy God's law and put away sin. And God's going
to have to regenerate us, He's going to have to cause us to
be born from above to teach us. It's not of Him that willeth
or of Him that runneth, but of God that manifests the mercy. I'll go back to our text then. Now we get to the next part.
Christ came to save by one offering for sin, verses 10 through 14.
By the witch will, by God's will, we're sanctified, set apart through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every
priest and Most all of you, I'm sure all of you, are acquainted
with the Old Testament, how the priests went in and offered one
sacrifice after another. They stood daily ministering
and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which could never
take away sin. Their work was never done. That's
why there was no chair. There was no chair in the tabernacle.
There's no chair in the temple. They never did sit down. The work was never done. The
work was never finished. Sin was never really dealt with.
Verse 12, but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice
for sins forever, he sat down. on the right hand of God, from
henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
I'll give you three things here. Number one, here's expiation
of sin. Here's the removal of sin. What
did it take to put sin away? One offering. The offering of
Christ Jesus himself. Expiation of sin. Number two,
here's the exaltation of the Savior. He sat down on the right
hand of God. That's His exaltation. How do
you know He did the work that God gave Him to do? Save His
people? Redeem us? Satisfy justice? Wash our sins away? Bring in
everlasting righteousness? How do we know? How do we know
the work was done? Because God raised Him from the
dead, God welcomed Him back to glory and said, sit down here
at my right hand. That's His exaltation. Exaltation
of the Savior. And then here's the third thing,
the expectation of the sovereign. Henceforth, verse 13, expecting
till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering,
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. See, the
scriptures, they're so abundantly clear. And they present to us
the oneness of Jesus Christ and his sacrifice for sin. The Bible talks about one God,
there's one God. It talks about one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus. The Bible talks about in Romans
chapter five, by one man's sin, death entered into the world.
It talks about another one man, By one man's obedience, the many
that he represented are made righteous. The Bible talks about
one offering for sin. One door. One door. Christ said, I am the door. That's
a definite article. There's only one door into glory. Only one door to God. Only one
door to salvation. A friend of mine was on a airplane,
a flight, and got talking with a woman beside of him, and she
found out he was a preacher, and she said, you know, I like
to think that there's a door into heaven for the Baptists,
and a door for the Presbyterians, and a door for the Methodists,
and a door for the Church of God people, a door for this religion
and that religion, and she went through all those doors, and
she said, what do you think about that? He said, well, if it's
that many doors in the heaven, I expect somebody's gonna open
the wrong door and fall out. One door. The Bible talks about one faith.
Sometimes you read in the obituary, obituary column, she was of the
Catholic faith. or he was of the Baptist faith,
of the Methodist faith, of this faith, of that faith. There's
only one faith, and you know what that is? The faith of God's
elect. And that means one body of truth. You see, people want, they want
to open this up to, if you believe anything religious, you're going
right on to glory. No. There's just one gospel. And it's not what you do for
God. It's what God has already done
for sinners through the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a finished
work. Signed, sealed, and delivered. Signed with His own blood. In the court of heaven, everybody
for whom Christ died, their sins have been remitted. They've been
forgiven. The law is satisfied. The law
can take no issue with anybody whose sin debt has been retired. And that's what Christ did. One
offering for sin. One way to God. One Lord. One body, that's the church.
One spirit, one baptism. Oh, the oneness of the scripture. One offering for sin. And then
quickly, in verses 15 through 18 here, Christ came to put away
sins and fulfill the covenant. Or for the Holy Ghost is a witness
to us. After that, he had said before,
this is the covenant, the covenant of grace. Most people don't have any idea
what the covenant of grace is. I tell you, everything regarding
the salvation of sinners, it was all written in that covenant,
that everlasting covenant of grace. Everything. That's why
David, Read in 2 Samuel, what is it? 23, I believe it is. It's
his deathbed words. He said he rejoiced in that covenant.
He said, it's all my salvation. Let me tell you something. I
do believe on the Lord Jesus Christ by the grace of God. I
do believe him. But my salvation is not dependent
upon my faith. It's dependent upon what God
did from old eternity. He wrote my name down in the
Lamb's Book of Life. I've got to wind up in glory.
Now, the only way I know my name was written down, I've been brought
to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. But everything was purposed before
God made the world, a covenant of grace. And he says this, I'll
put my laws into their hearts and in their minds. I'll write
them. What law is that? Well, certainly it's the Word
of God, but I think it's the gospel laws. Repentance toward
God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He writes that on the
heart. And you'll believe Christ if
God deals with you. You'll stop fighting against
God, fighting against His way of salvation by grace alone,
and you'll submit to Him, you'll bow to Him and say, Lord, it's
Your way! And Your way is the grace way! And Your way is the Christ is
all way! And I submit to Your way! I believe
Christ. We turn from idols, we turn from open rebellion against God, unbelief,
and believe the Lord Jesus, because He writes those laws in the heart.
And God says there are sins and iniquities, well, I remember
no more. Now, where remission of these
is, there's no more offering for sin. See, that's why the
Roman Catholic Mass is so wrong, because they kill Christ all
over again. Well, that nullifies the idea
of one sacrifice for sins forever. Where remission of sin is, there
is no more offering for sin. Where God has forgiven sins,
it's forgiven. And then in verses 19 to 21,
Christ gives us access to God. having brethren boldness to enter
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living
way, which He consecrated or dedicated for us through the
veil, that is through His flesh, and having a high priest over
the house of God. Let's draw near, draw near to
God with a true heart, in full assurance of faith that we're
received for Christ's sake. I've been unfaithful, hadn't
believed. I've got to get things straightened out before I come
to God. Now wait a minute. Your approach to God and your
acceptance of God has never been and will never be based upon
your faithfulness. Christ Jesus is a way of accessing
it. Draw near with just an honest
heart. Lord, I've messed up again. Lord, I'm just a mess all the
time. I'm continually sinning against you, but I believe your
word. Having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience and our bodies washed with the pure water of
the word of God, now let us hold fast the profession of our faith
without wavering. For he's faithful that promised.
He said, I give you eternal life. And let's consider one another. Here's the last thing, really
goes from 22 to 25. Drawing near, holding fast our
profession, verse 24, considering one another, or being considerate
of one another. So, well, you know, brother so-and-so,
sister so-and-so, she disappointed me. Well, be considerate of one
another. Be forgiving of one another.
So it's not, ours is not a perfect church. Well, we're perfect in
Christ, but this perfect church is made up of imperfect people.
And you is one of them. And if you're looking for the
perfect church, if you ever find it, don't go, because you will
ruin it. We're just sinners saved by the
grace of God. and we meet together, we tolerate
one another, we put up with one another, we love one another,
we're forgiving of one another, we consider one another, and
we provoke one another to love and to good works. And we're
not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as the
manner of some is, but we exhort one another, so much the more,
as you see the day approaching. We exhort one another. Don't
quit, brethren. Don't quit, sisters. Be faithful
to the gospel in your attendance, in your prayer, in your giving. But be thankful for this, your
salvation not dependent upon anything you've ever done. One offering for sin. There's
our dependence right there. Christ Jesus, the Lord. Well,
we say we sing the closing song. First two songs I selected had
to do with redemption and the last one does too, 467.