I certainly appreciate him singing
for us and thankful for the gifts that God has given him and for
the number of years he has been a blessing to this congregation. And we give God all the glory. Let's go back to the book of
Numbers again this evening, and I'll ask you to go again to Numbers
chapter 16. Go back to the Old Testament,
the fourth book of the Bible, Numbers, and we'll be in chapter
16, and we'll ask the Lord to bless as we try to open up a
subject this evening, which is standing between the dead and
the living. I hope you had an opportunity
this afternoon to read this last section of Numbers chapter 16. But if you didn't, not to worry,
I'm going to read it to you. May the Lord bless as we open
the scriptures once again. And let's do ask the Lord to bless
his word. Our Father, we bow to beseech
you to take the things of our Lord Jesus Christ and reveal
them unto us. Father, you have sent the Spirit
of Truth based upon the successful work of redemption of our Savior. The very fact that the Spirit
of God was sent upon the day of Pentecost is further evidence
that our great and glorious Savior He finished to your satisfaction
the work that you gave him to do. Now we ask that the same
Spirit who inspired Moses to write these words even hundreds
and hundreds of years ago, Lord, we ask that the Spirit of God
would take these these verses of Holy Scripture and break them
open unto us that we might enjoy the pleasant fragrance of the
alabaster box of the grace of God to sinners through the Lord
Jesus Christ. May we rejoice in your grace
and in your mercy given to people who deserve nothing from you
but death and judgment and everlasting condemnation. Let our hearts
be ravaged with the grace of God and the love of the Lord
for those who are by nature unlovely. Bathe us, O God, again with the
blood of the Son of God and robe us in the glorious garments of
your marvelous salvation. We seek to magnify the name of
our great Savior. And Lord, we hope and pray and
ask you to do good for us poor, eternity-bound sinners. We beg of you that you would
send your spirit to minister to each of us this evening. And
to those who have joined us by way of the internet, we ask the
same for them. Open our minds, open our hearts,
open our spiritual eyes and spiritual ears, that we would be receptive
to the Word of God. And when we leave in a little
bit, May we go away rejoicing in our great God and Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. For it's in His name that we
ask these things of you, Father. Amen. Well, as we arrive at Numbers
chapter 16 again, this is a historical event in the life of the nation
of Israel, but it's much more than that. And I would say this
to all of you, that if we read the Old Testament as being merely
historical records of Israel, then we read it as if we were
but a little child. History is interesting. Here's a history teacher. We
have teachers in this congregation, some actively teaching, some
retired teachers. You teach history. History is
very important. We learn from history. We learn
from mistakes that people made. back many years ago and hopefully
with the idea that we won't make the same mistakes that they made
and that sort of thing. And when you come to the Word
of God, especially the Old Testament, it's full of history. But as interesting as the history
especially of Israel is, That little nation in the Middle
East, it does indeed have quite a record when it comes to their
history being recorded in the word of God. The Old Testament
wasn't given to just broaden our knowledge of the nation of
Israel. In fact, all of the things that
did happen to them that are recorded in the Word of God were written
for our admonition, for our instruction to help us. I'll read just a
few verses to you and you can jot them down if you want, but
we won't take the time to turn to them. First Corinthians chapter
10 and verse 11 says, now all of these things happened to them,
that is to Israel, for examples or examples. And they are written
for our admonition. That is for our instruction.
In other words, as we come to the book of Numbers chapter 16,
yes, this is a record, a divine record, an inspired record of
a historical episode in Israel, concerning Israel. But this is
not just written to set forth something that happened to them
a long, long time ago. This is written for our benefit.
We wanna milk something out of this for us. Another reference, Romans chapter
15 in verse four, for whatsoever things were written aforetime
were written for our learning. that through patience and comfort
of the scriptures, we might have hope. And there are many verses that
I could read to you and I could take you to which teach that
the Old Testament presents to us pictures of our Lord Jesus. And we must, every time we open
up the Old Testament scriptures, we must be on the lookout for
the Savior. The Bible, as you well know,
is a book about somebody, and that's somebody's work, that's
somebody's person, and that particular somebody, where he is now, the
Lord Jesus Christ. You remember, our Savior was
speaking to the Jews and he said to them, you search the scriptures
for in them you think you have eternal life and these are they
which testify of me. And then they boasted that they
loved Moses, who was the inspired writer of the book of Numbers,
of course. And the Savior said, for had
you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for he wrote
of me. But if you believe not his writings,
how shall you believe my words?" Now here we have before us this
morning and again this evening, here's the 16th chapter of the
book of Numbers. Here's 50 verses of scripture.
That's a pretty big chunk of Holy Scripture. But there's more here than us
just merely learning about another punishment that God sent to Israel. There's more here for us to glean
than just God sending an awful plague to Israel and wiping out
a bunch of people, 250, men who stood with Korah and
Dathan and Abiram, and then the deaths of those three men and
the deaths of those families. And then later on, as we're gonna
see tonight, the deaths of 14,700 people. There's more to be understood
about this passage of scripture than just, well, it's another
sad story in Israel's history. There's spiritual food here for
those who are hungry. And moreover, our Savior is seen
in this passage of Scripture. Our Savior is typified by Moses,
who is the representative of God, the spokesman for God. He is God's prophet. There are
no prophets today, so there are no men that could be compared
to Moses. He was a most unusual man. And the scripture says, our Lord
Jesus says, Moses wrote of me. Now, as you read through Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, and then you read
like Psalm 90, Psalm 91, passage of scripture like that, have
you ever read that Moses wrote the name of the Lord Jesus? Well, no. Well, how do you know
that he wrote of him? Well, the Savior said he did,
but he wrote of him in picture. He wrote of him in typology. He painted portraits of our Savior
for those who have eyes to see him, who have ears to hear his
voice. He's here. He's on every page
of the Old Testament and every page of the New Testament as
well, as far as that goes. but he's the one we're looking
for in Numbers chapter 16. And here we have a bunch of people
opposing Moses, who is God's prophet, God's preacher, God's
spokesman. He learned the will of God, the
word of God, the work of God. He got that message from God
and he gave it to the people. And as such, he represented our
Lord Jesus Christ, who is the prophet of God. He is that prophet
that Moses spoke of back in the book of Deuteronomy and said,
the Lord your God, He's going to raise up a prophet like unto
me. And our Lord Jesus was a powerful
preacher. And He revealed the mind of God,
the will of God, the way of God, the works of God. He came here
as the revelation of God Himself. He is God incarnate. And all that we know about God,
and all that we know of the mind of God and the will of God for
us, we learn through this man, Christ Jesus. And Moses pictured
him, make no mistake about this. So that when Korah and Dathan,
and Abiram, and On, and then the 250 other men of renown,
when they rose up against Moses, Moses told them, you're not rising
up against me, you're rising up against God. You're rising up against this
man who communicates the word of God to people. It's Moses
who went up on the mountain. It's Moses who received the law
of God. It's Moses who came down and
then gave the people the law of God and the word of God. And
as such, he pictured the Lord Jesus Christ. And when these
men rejected Moses, they were rejecting God's son. And that's what the picture is
here. And then of course, we know that Korah was a Levite
and he specifically was opposed to Aaron, who was the high priest. And these men, they all set themselves
not only against Moses, but they set themselves against Aaron.
Now, Moses, he delivered the word of God to the people. He
taught the people. You wanna learn what God's like?
Listen to the words of Moses. He's gonna tell you. He'll tell
you what God's like. And in the days of our Lord Jesus,
you wanna know what God's like? Listen to and look to and pay
attention to Jesus Christ. It's like the Lord, He said to
Philip, because Philip said, would you show us the Father? Christ said, I'm going to the
Father. And Philip said, if you'd show us the Father, we'll be
satisfied. Oh, the Savior said, Philip,
have I been with you all this long and you don't understand Oh, Philip, listen to me. He
that had seen me has seen the Father. Moses was the spokesman for God. He's God's prophet. And Aaron
was God's high priest. He dealt with God on behalf of
the people. He offered sacrifices to God. We sing the song, what can wash
away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
And every sacrifice that Aaron and his sons and all the other
priests offered, every one of them represented and stated to
the people, there is coming a great sacrifice from God. And he's
going to make everything right, because we know the blood of
bulls and goats couldn't put away any sins. But they had to
do it, because God told them to do it. God said, you bring
a bullock, or bring a ram, or bring two turtle doves, or two
pigeons, or bring a goat, or bring a lamb. You bring a live
sacrifice, a live offering. And that pointed to the Lord
Jesus, God's lamb. That's why John the Baptist said,
behold, the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
And Aaron was the one who ministered to God on behalf of the people.
He not only offered the sacrifices, but he burnt incense. And he made absolutely certain
that incense was burning on the altar of incense 24 hours a day. He put incense on that altar
of incense. That altar of incense was right
beside the veil and on the other side of the veil was the Holy
of Holies and there was the Ark of the Covenant with the mercy
seat on top. But one of Aaron's responsibilities
was the first thing in the morning when he got up was to go into
the holy place and go ahead and get his censer, go back outside,
get some hot coals off the altar, the brazen altar, where the morning
sacrifice was offered because there was always a morning sacrifice
and an evening sacrifice. He'd get some hot coals. He put
it in there. Then he put incense on it. He'd
go back inside the holy place, go right up to the altar of incense. He put that on the altar of incense. That smoke rose up. It filled
the holy place. And God said, don't ever let
it go out. You keep that incense burning.
So guess what? Last thing he did at night before
he went to bed, go back in, get his censer, go
out to the brazen altar, get the hot coals, using, of course,
those tongs, get those hot coals, put it in the censer, put incense
on, go in there to the altar of incense and put that in there,
it's good for overnight. Because there had to be, and
God said this, a perpetual incense, offered to God because that incense
announced to God as it were. It declared a sacrifice has died. And Lord, it died for you. See,
we need to understand something. When the Lord Jesus Christ died,
He first of all died for God. He died that God might be just
and justify the ungodly. He died for God. because God's not gonna show
any mercy to anybody at the expense of his justice. He's got to have
death for sin. There's just no way around that.
That's the law. The soul that sinned it, what
does the scripture say? It shall die. He's got to get
death. Keep that incense burning, Aaron. And what that announces to God
is, Death has taken place. An innocent victim has died for
the guilty and put that sweet incense on top in hot coal. Ooh, does that smell good? I'll
tell you who it's for though. It's for God. It's for God. Because over in the book of Ephesians
chapter five, our Lord Jesus offered himself to God as a sweet,
very sweet smelling savor. You see the death of the Lord
Jesus Christ is always sweet to God, pleasant to God. But the people rejected Aaron.
You take too much on yourself, Aaron. They said to Moses, you
take too much on you too. And I tell you, Moses called
him out. And he warned him. It's not going to end up good
for you. Did you know, go back, let me show you something in
verse one. Look at verse one. Now Korah, number 16, one. Now Korah, the son of Ishar,
The son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan, and Abiram,
the sons of Eliab, and on the son of Pilate, the sons of Reuben,
they took men. But go back up, let me tell you
about Korah. His daddy was Ishar. They're
okay. Well, what's so special about
him? Guess who one of his brothers
is? Father by the name of Amram. Amram. But say, isn't that Moses'
dad? Yeah. Ishar and Amram are brothers. That means that this man Korah
and Moses are first cousins. They're kin. These are relatives. But Moses does not cut his relative,
his first cousin, any slack. There's something more important
than the relationship we have with our kinfolk, and that's
the glory and honor of God. Moses was very concerned that
God be glorified, that God be honored. You dare to defy God's
prophet? and you dared to defy God's high
priest? Even though you are my cousin,
even though we meet every year at the family reunion, even though
we've been very close all these years, listen to me, you've overstepped
your bounds. You better watch it, mister.
But he didn't care. This man, Cora, And he defied
God. And we know how all that ended. God killed them all. God killed
them all. Moses didn't kill them. Aaron
didn't kill them. God killed them. And I'm gonna tell you something.
You ignore or you reject the Lord Jesus, God's prophet and
God's high priest. He'll kill you too. He will put you in the pit. Moses
said, these men, they're gonna die an unusual death. And all
of a sudden the ground opened up. The ground split open and
here goes Korah and Dathan and Abiram and their family, their
children. They all of them died. And the
children, the rest of the children of Israel, the people of Israel,
they took off running. I don't wanna fall in. And the
ground just closed back up. You don't wanna mess with a holy
God. You have no idea of the fierceness
of his judgment. Well, what about them 250 men
of renown that joined them? There's that Shekinah glory of
God, the fire of God that ignited the sacrifices on the brazen
altar, that great Shekinah glory of God that come out of the holy
of holies in the tabernacle to illuminate all the camp of Israel,
And God directed his fiery presence right toward those 250 and he
cooked them to a crisp just that quick. And there was a stench
throughout all the camp of Israel of burning flesh. You don't wanna mess with a holy
God. Like one of the old writers said,
a holy God apart from Jesus Christ is a source of great fear. Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, stand
between me and the holy God. The blood, the blood, the blood,
that's what I need. The blood of the cross of Calvary. Next day, all this is fresh in
their minds. Of course, Moses told Eliezer,
one of Aaron's boys, that he'd take all their censers, melt
them down. There's a big hot fire right
out there. Melt them down and make a lid
for the brazen altar so that every time they walk by and they
see that lid, whoo, Don't wanna mess with a holy God. Don't wanna oppose his preacher,
his prophet, his appointed spokesman. I don't wanna oppose his high
priest. Very next day, now we'll read
verse 41. But on the morrow, you with me? Number 16. Verse 41, but on the morrow,
all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and against Aaron. Have they not learned anything? This is astounding. And if you didn't know human
nature for the rottenness that it is, you'd say, I can't believe
this. I mean, there's still, I would
suspect that that stench of burning flesh of 250 men, it's that smoke
still kind of hovered over the camp. And then the congregation goes
out and says, verse 41, you have killed the people of the Lord. And he came to pass, and just
read the rest of it. He came to pass when the congregation
was gathered against Moses and against Aaron. They already tried
this. The folks who tried this the
day before, they're all dead. You gonna try it too? They looked toward the tabernacle
of the congregation. Behold, the cloud covered it,
and the glory of God appeared. You better watch out, God is
stirring himself. And Moses and Aaron came before
the tabernacle of the congregation and the Lord spake unto Moses
saying, get you up from among this congregation, I'm gonna
kill them all in a moment, right now, I'm gonna kill them all. And Moses and Aaron fell on their
faces. Oh God, show mercy. How many
times did they do that for Israel? A bunch of times, didn't they? And Moses said unto Aaron, now
watch it. Take a censer and put fire therein
from off the altar, those hot coals, and put on incense and
go quickly. Aaron is at least 100 years old. He's at least 100 years old.
Some say he's more like 110, but I'll just be conservative,
100 years old. But he tells this old man, go
quickly unto the congregation and make
an atonement. Make reconciliation for them. Why? For there's wrath gone out
from the Lord. The plague has begun. It's already
started. Moses said, I'm looking out over
the children of Israel and they're beginning to fall. I don't know
what kind of plague it was. Pestilence? A destroying angel? Doesn't say. Doesn't matter.
Just people started dying. Moses looking out over the children
of Israel, he's looking out toward the uttermost people and he sees
them beginning to fall. He said, Aaron, hurry, hurry,
this is urgent. And Aaron took as Moses commanded,
he ran into the midst of the congregation, 100 years old. He breaks into a run. Tell you
what, when it comes to salvation, Let's get with it. This has got
to be taken care of. And behold, the plague was begun
among the people. And he put on incense, he made
an atonement for the people. And he went right down there
in the midst of them. That crowd who cried for his
death, they hated him. He goes right down there among
them. And he stood between the dead
and the living. And when that plague got to him,
it stopped. He was there and the plague was
stayed, is what the scripture says, as far as it went. Now they that died in the plague
were 14,700, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
And Aaron returned unto Moses under the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, and the plague was stayed." Now, in this
time that I've got remaining, let me show you what I think
is a beautiful picture. This is what says to me, in this
picture, Moses represents God himself. Aaron represents the Lord Jesus
Christ. And the congregation represents
sinful people like you and me. Who sent Aaron on this mission? I know the Lord did ultimately,
but I want you to know what it says in verse, notice verse 46. And Moses said to Aaron, I got
a mission for you. This is urgent. This is urgent. Take a censer. What is this censer
and fire? What does it represent? Atonement,
reconciliation, substitution, sacrifice. Go quickly into the
congregation. Moses sent him. And Aaron goes
forth. And he goes quickly. He's got
the atonement. How do we know the atonement
had been made? How do we know a sacrifice had
died? It's the hot coals in the censer. And Aaron goes right down there
among the people. I bet some people said, Aaron,
don't go down there while they already hate you. And you might
get the plague yourself. He said, I've got to go. You
know what our Lord Jesus Christ did? He left heaven's glory and
he came down here among us, sent by one greater than Moses, sent
by God himself. You reckon he received a marvelous
welcome in coming? Everybody today, just about in
religion, just about everybody in religion, they just, oh, how
I love Jesus. Well, those folks 2,000 years
ago when they came, they didn't sing, oh, how I love Jesus. They sang, oh, how I hate Jesus. Who in the world do you think
had him crucified on a cruel cross? Religious people. For goodness sakes, I wish people
would wake up They weren't the drunkards and the harlots, that
wasn't their doing. It was the religious people,
it was the Pharisees, all them Sunday go to meeting, or in their
case, Saturday go to meeting people. Religious people, that's
who hated Him. Because they hated God, they
hated His authority. They hated His reign. They said,
we will not have this man rule over us, not Him, Not him. But this is where our Lord Jesus
came. Nobody asked for him to come. The Father sent him. And when he got here, he wasn't
welcomed with open arms. Oh, there were a few. There was
a Simeon in the temple and Anna and a few others. But by and
large, everybody turned thumbs down on him. We don't want you. We don't believe you. We don't
need you. We got Moses. Hey, we live by
the law. We live by the 10 commandments.
Thank you very much. We don't need you. Why don't
you go back where you came from? Where'd you get your credentials
anyway? You didn't go to any of our rabbinical
schools. We don't need you. We don't want
you. It's just like these Israelites said to Moses and to Aaron. We
don't want you. We don't need, we're all holy
people. We don't need somebody to speak
to us for God. We'll just let God talk to us. And we don't need a high priest
to do business with God. We'll do business with him ourselves.
And you know, it's a wonder that Aaron, when all this happened,
it shows you the grace in his heart. When Moses said, go down
yonder, it's a wonder Aaron didn't say, well, you know what? They
made their bed, let them lie in it. They want to do business
with God? Have at it. That all died. That all died. But Aaron said,
I'm going. And he got the censer, he got
the hot coals, he got the incense. Our Lord Jesus laid down his
life for the sheep. What's it gonna cost to save
my people? Your death! So let it be. And the scripture says Christ
died for our sins according to the scripture. That's how God
can be just and justify the ungodly. And I bet you there's not one
preacher in a thousand that knows that. That's the reason I have
very little patience with preachers. They don't know. They just know
Jesus died on the cross. Did he do anything? Well, he
tried to. God doesn't try to do anything.
Somebody says, well, God's trying to teach me something. Let me
tell you something, if he's gonna teach you something, he'll teach
you something, because he don't try. Did he try to create the
world? No, he created the world. Six
days, six days he made the heaven and the earth and all that in
them is. This religious world has got a pathetic God and he's
just an idol of men's vain imaginations. The God of the Bible reigns,
the Christ of God. He went to the cross of Calvary
and he bought his people. You go down to Kroger's and you
buy your groceries. They go through, check, beep,
beep, beep, get all these groceries up there and then it's time for
you to pay and you put that credit card in and take it back out.
What would you think if they said, well, I know you paid for
them, but you can't have them. Well, you're going to have a
war on your hand. What are you talking about? I
paid for that. Our Lord Jesus bought and paid for everybody
he died for. He's going to have them because
they're his, they're his property. His death wasn't a failure. Aaron,
you sure you want to go down there? I love him. I love them. People I've known all my life.
Moses said, get down there and go quickly. No hesitation. Our Lord Jesus had a work to
do and he came to finish it. It's a work of saving his people.
His disciples came to him one day and Said, here we got some
lunch for you. John chapter four, got something
for you to eat. He said, I have meat to eat that you know not
of. They said, well, who brought
him lunch? He said, my meat is to do the will of God to finish
the work that he gave me to do. That's what I thrive on. Our
Lord Jesus didn't come down here to try to do something or other.
He came down here to save his people from their sins. And he
finished that work. And here's Aaron. He goes down
there. Now let me ask you, what's going
to stop his plague? Do you think Aaron just walking
down there in the midst of the people, well, maybe his presence
will stop it. No, sir. No, that's not going
to stop the plague. Well, what if he gets down on
his knees and he prays? No, that's not gonna stop the
plague. Well, what if the people said,
oh, we're sorry, Lord, we're sorry. We repent. That's not gonna stop the plague. But one thing gonna stop that
plague, atonement. You see that? Atonement will
stop the plague. And Aaron goes out there and
he's got that censer and he starts waving it and that smoke ascends
up to God and God says, this is as far as the plague
goes. Stops right there. Everybody on this side of Aaron,
everybody on the backside of Aaron, they're all right. They
gonna live. Where would you wanna be? What's going to stop the plague?
Let me ask you this. You think your church members
going to stop the plague of God's judgment? Do you think all your
tithing is going to stop the plague of God's judgment? I try to live by the Ten Commandments.
Do you think you trying to live by the Ten Commandments, is that
going to stay the plague? You know better than that. That
won't do it. I'll tell you what will do it. Atonement. That'll do it. That'll do it. And justice came
right up to Aaron and stopped. Scripture says the plague was
stayed. Because you see the justice of
God had already been satisfied. and the death of an innocent
animal in the stead of the guilty, as indicated by those hot coals
on that censer. Plague with state. Why is it that sinners are saved,
welcomed home to glory? Because of the death, burial
and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, we're ordained
to do good works and we seek to live a life that's honoring
to God and pleasing to God, but that doesn't stay the plague.
No, that don't stop the judgment. And if you think it does, you're
trying to steal the glory of the one who laid down his life
for sinners. None but Christ crucified. You see, if our Lord Jesus had
come down here to this earth and didn't die, the plague wouldn't
have been stayed. I mean, that's a supposition
that could never have happened, but just to speak of it, if he
hadn't died, the judgment come on, it just wipe us all out. I can just see Moses watching
as here's all these people begin to fall. It's like a wildfire
going through dry grass, just consuming everywhere it touches. And it's getting nearer and nearer.
Hurry, Aaron, hurry. And he runs out there. He's got
that censer and he's just waving it back and forth. And then it
comes right up to him and stops. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus. Isn't that wonderful? There's
no judgment because God's already got judgment. He killed his son. He killed his son and justice
is satisfied. And now look at verse 50 and
I'll give you this and I'll quit. And Aaron, He went right back
to the one who sent him. Did you see that? He went right
back to the one who sent him. He went back to Moses under the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation. The plague was
stayed. He did his work. That's what he is sent down here
to do. Stay the plague. Why do you think the Lord Jesus
Christ sent him to this world? To stay the plague. And he did
it. by his death upon the cross of
Calvary. The blood, the blood, the blood. That's what sets us free. That's
what satisfied God. And I tell you, the people of
God just say amen. Thank God for our great Savior,
our great high priest. He came down here where we are,
even though we didn't ask for him and didn't want him when
he came. He came because he was sent.
And once he did the work that the Father gave him to do, he
went back to the Father. And he's seated upon his throne
of glory, exalted. And one of these days, he's coming
back to receive his people unto himself, that where he is, there
we may be also. Whoo, won't it be wonderful?
to be with the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, may God enable us to worship
Him and hide behind the cross of Calvary, hide behind atonement. No other place of safety. You're
a fool if you try to hide somewhere else. Like I've said many a time,
the only place to hide from God is in God, in God the Son. Lord, bless the words that have
gone forth. Oh, that you teach us the blessed
gospel of substitution and satisfaction. You sent your son, the darling
of your bosom, that one who's been with you forever and ever,
you sent him into this world. He veiled his deity in human
flesh and he lived and walked among us, even though he wasn't
welcome when he came. But you sent him. You sent him
to save your people. And then at the appointed hour,
he took the sins of all of his people and charged to him. And he died in our stead, wounded
for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement
of our peace was upon him. And with his stripes, we are
healed. And there is no judgment coming
to your people. And we read who can lay anything
to the charge of God's elect. It's God that justified us. It's
the Lord Jesus who died for us. and whoever lives to make intercession
for us. Lord, it's a great, a great savior. What a blessed redeemer we have.
Thank you. We bless your name for him, for
your everlasting love, for your covenant people. Send us away
tonight rejoicing in the good hope we have through grace. and
our crucified, buried, risen, ascended, exalted Savior. In his name I ask these things
with thanksgiving. Amen.