of the Savior, not that he would
ever sit for such a thing, but maybe some from memory or as
they were listening to him preach, they took out a pad and perhaps
some kind of writing instrument and began to sketch the shape
of his face, maybe painted his portrait. We're not sure, but
I wouldn't be shocked to find that that happened. However,
God in his marvelous providence, he has made for certain that
no actual literal picture of our Lord Jesus Christ exists. We just simply don't know of
his physical appearance. We don't know whether he was
A tall man or a short man? I would assume, I would just
say kind of an average height man. We don't know about his
looks. I don't know that he was a good
looking man as women would consider that's a good looking man so
that the ladies when they when he passed by them that they might
have said, wow, he's a sharp looking man, he's a good looking
man. We don't know that. None of those things are given
to us. There is indicated in the book of Isaiah chapter 53
that that there was something about
the Savior that was not attractive, at least to the eye of men and
women, at least no beauty about Him. The Scripture says that
we should desire Him. Now, of course, that is looking
ahead to His crucifixion. That's looking ahead to His beatings. And so there was no beauty about
Him then, but we simply don't know what the Lord Jesus looked
like. And actually for anybody to paint
a portrait of the Lord Jesus or to sketch His face as they
would imagine Him to be is a violation of God's law. The Scripture says
that thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image of anything
on earth or anything in heaven. And certainly the Lord Jesus
is in heaven. And we're not to have pictures
of Him. We're not to have portraits of
Him. Those things are idolatrous. They're idolatrous. And God knows we have a natural
tendency toward idolatry. And so my advice to you is if
you do have any pictures, so-called pictures of Jesus, get rid of
them. It's against the Scriptures.
It's against the Son of God. Peter says in 1 Peter 1, he says
to these people who are believers, who are scattered throughout
Asia Minor, throughout Turkey, that's what he's talking about
there in 1 Peter 1. He says, whom you have seen,
but you haven't seen with these eyes. He says, whom having not
seen, you love. We don't see Him with these eyes.
We don't see a picture of Jesus and say, that's the Savior for
me. We see Him. we see His portrait
in the Word of God, and we say, that's the Savior for me, that's
the Lord Jesus I need. As Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
especially as we enter into the gallery of their portraits of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and as we read of Him in His greatness,
in His glory, as the man Christ Jesus, as the Savior who redeemed
poor sinners, and who rose again from the dead, victorious over
death, the grave, our sins, and hell itself, we say, this is
the one, this is the Savior I need to have, who is set before me
in the four Gospels, and indeed in all of the Word of God. If you want to know about the
Savior, look in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John especially, and
they paint portraits of our Lord Jesus. Each of those narratives
gives us a beautiful portrait of the Savior. In fact, they
present him in different pictures and in different ways. And actually,
as you enter into the vast gallery of all of the Word of God, there
are a multitude of pictures of our Savior. Isn't that true of
the Old Testament? It's all about setting forth
the One who is going to come, the One who is going to redeem
His people, the One who is going to reconcile us to God, the Messiah,
the suffering Savior as Isaiah sets Him forth there in Isaiah
toward the end of chapter 52 and in chapter 53 as she sang
just now. So all of the Old Testament and
all of the New Testament presents these wonderful, beautiful, magnificent
drawings or paintings or portraits of our Lord Jesus, not painted
with the paintbrushes of man, but with the paintbrush of the
Spirit of God. This is what the Bible is about,
and as you open it up, just imagine you're walking into a vast gallery
And everywhere, throughout the pages of the whole Scriptures,
we see all of these wonderful pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ. And especially in Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John. We enter into this glorious gallery. We see these four famous painters. who were entrusted by the Spirit
of God to receive direct messages from Him to their hearts, and
they present Him, each in a little different way. It's like they
present Him from a different angle, or perhaps we could say
from a different perspective. Very much as though, let's say,
I picked four of you who were very artistic. I'm sure we have
some very artistic people in here. Sister Lester is not with
us this morning, but we would all say she is very, very artistic,
and she is a superb painter. Well, let's say I picked four
people from the congregation and I said, I want you each to
sketch me or do a drawing of me. But I want one of you to
stand right in front of me and you draw as I face you. And then I want you, another
one, to stand over here at my right side and you draw me from
that angle. And then another one, you go
in back of me, and now you paint a portrait of me from the back. And the last one, you go over
here and you paint a portrait from the left side. Now each
of you will be painting the same person. And I readily admit,
you don't have much to work with, so do the best you can. But each
of you will be painting the same individual, but it will be from
a different perspective, from a different angle. Now sort of
think of that as you come to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
because they're all painting a portrait of the Lord Jesus. So it's a glorious portrait,
setting forth His deity and His humanity. All four of them talk
about His substitutionary death, the shedding of His blood, the
goryness of His death. And they all talk about His wonderful
resurrection. But they do so from a different
perspective. As you know, Matthew presents
him as the king. That's the portrait he draws
of our Lord Jesus. And so Matthew sets forth to
begin with his genealogy. The book of the generation of
Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. And Matthew,
he begins by saying, the lineage of this one Jesus of Nazareth
would go from Abraham up to right now. That's how Matthew begins. He started from Abraham, and
here's the reason, because his first recipients were Jews. And so, what name would ring
a bell immediately with the Jewish people? The name of Abraham.
And then he talks about him being not only the son of Abraham,
but the son of David. And of course to them, David,
the son rose and said with David. And so this is the way Matthew
begins. He traces the lineage of Jesus
from Abraham up to Joseph, who was the legal father, not the
actual father, but the legal father of the Lord Jesus, who
would marry Mary after our Lord's birth. And then there's Mark.
Mark sets him forth as the servant, and so Mark says nothing about
his genealogy. Mark says nothing about his birth. Mark says nothing about his upbringing. Mark begins by introducing us
to the man who baptized the Lord Jesus, John the Baptist, and
then he immediately gets into the ministry of our Lord Jesus,
his baptism, and then he's taken by the Spirit of God out into
the wilderness to be tempted of Satan, and he defeats the
evil one, that one who is the enemy of our souls, and then
Mark begins to set forth Jesus as being the preacher, the preacher
of the gospel. He's the servant of God. He's
the faithful servant. He's the loyal servant. He's
the sinless servant. As it says in Isaiah chapter
53, He is God's righteous, righteous servant. And so this is what
Mark is about. He's about telling us about the
Lord Jesus who came not to be ministered to, but to minister
and to give His life a ransom for many. And so Matthew paints
us this beautiful portrait. He's the King. He's the King.
He's the King of the Jews. We trace His lineage from Abraham
forward to Joseph, His legal father. Establishing the fact
that He is Himself. He's got all the credentials
of Messiah. And then Mark mentions nothing
about his birth, nothing about his entrance into this world.
Mark just, he skips over the first 30 years of our Lord's
life. He doesn't even paint that. He
doesn't put that in his portrait. He presents him as that one who
labored for God. God gave him a ministry. God
gave him a mission. And Mark just jumps right into
the subject. And here is this faithful servant
of Jehovah doing what God sent him to do. to save his people
from their sins. And so Mark talks about him being
the one who's the miracle worker and the one who's faithful to
all the commission that God gave him. And of course, Mark goes
into the death, the burial, and the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus also. And then we get to Luke. And
Luke is presenting the Son of God as the Son of Man. He's the Son of Man. That's the
reason in his genealogy, which is in chapter 3, he traces the
lineage of Mary. He starts right there with Mary
and then goes back But because Luke is writing to a worldwide
audience, he's not just writing to Jews like Matthew. He's writing
to Jews and Gentiles, and so Luke goes backwards, and he goes
all the way back to Adam, who was the son of God. And so Luke
is presenting him in a little different way than did Matthew
or Mark. And then we get to John. We get to John. Once again, John
doesn't say anything about his birth. John doesn't say anything
about his upbringing. In fact, when John begins his
book, And his intention is to set forth Jesus of Nazareth as
being the Son of God. He doesn't even begin with the
ministry of our Lord Jesus. He delves all the way back into
eternity. And he says in verse 1, in the
beginning was the Word, not from the beginning. It's very important
that you understand that. He didn't say, from the beginning,
because that would indicate that He Himself, Christ the Word,
the Logos of God, that He had a start, that He had a beginning. No, He didn't have a beginning,
so John doesn't say, from the beginning. No, he says, in the
beginning, when all things began, He was already there. So this presents us a vivid picture
of the eternality of Jesus of Nazareth that is the Son of God. So you put them all together
from this angle, from this angle, from back here and from over
here, you put them all together and you say, what a magnificent
Savior. He is the King of Kings and the
Lord of Lords. He is the servant who came to
do the Father's redemptive will. He is the Son of Man. And so
Luke goes more than any other writer. He goes into the birth
of our Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, the announcement of
the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the angel came to Mary and
said, that holy thing that shall be born of you is the Son of
God. And she said, how can this be? I've never known a man. The Holy
Ghost will come upon you in power. And you'll conceive. And in your
womb there will be the everlasting God. I read, for those who were
here this past Wednesday, about what King Solomon had to say
at the dedication of the temple. He said, oh God, the heaven of
heavens cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built
you, but he can be contained in the womb of a woman. Can you
imagine that? In the womb of a woman. And so, We have this marvelous
gallery of these wonderful portraits of our Savior. Now this week,
I love to talk about the subject of salvation, and you do too,
to speak of deliverance of the captives by Christ, salvation from all of our sinfulness,
And we're delighted to speak about everlasting life. The Lord
gives to us everlasting life. Imagine that. It's a life that
He has given to you and to me, a life that will never die. This
body and physical life, it's going to die. It's going to cease
to exist. This body is going to be laid
in the grave, to be awakened at the resurrection whenever
that's going to be. But my soul has a life, the life
of God is in the soul. The life of God, we're born again. Our brother read to us there
in John chapter one, verse 12, as many as received him, to them
gave he the authority, the power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name, which were born. which were born. My will had nothing to do with
that. The will of others had nothing to do with that. The
efforts of myself, the efforts of others had nothing to do with
that. I'm born of God and those who are born of God have a life
that can never die. That's why we say you believe
in eternal security. If God saved you, you're eternally
secure. If you tied the knot yourself,
you untie the knot. But if God did something for
you, it's forever. And we love to speak about the
fact that one of these days we're going to be with Christ Jesus.
I don't know how long any of us will live and you don't either. We have no idea. The Lord has
not revealed to us when we're going to reach a boundary that
He has already set. But the boundary has been established. And we will reach that boundary
at some point. And as far as we're concerned,
it's yet to be determined. But as far as God's concerned,
it's already been determined. But when we die, when the people
of God leave this world, We breathe our last breath right here. The soul goes back to God. It
goes back to Christ Jesus. And then we will see him face
to face. Face to face. Here we see through a glass darkly. but then all will be clear. And we'll look on Him who was
wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities. Yeah, we love to talk about all
of these blessings of salvation, but let it be remembered, there
would be no salvation except for this God-man. There wouldn't
be any salvation There had to be an appointed, exceptional,
suitable Savior. And that's the subject
I want to deal with today. The suitable Savior. The suitable Savior. And I'm
going to deal with this both this morning and again tonight,
the Lord willing. And I want to begin by saying
that the Lord Jesus is suitable to God. And we've got to start
this way. I know he's suitable to us. No
question about that. But he cannot be the Savior to
us unless he's suitable to God, unless he's approved of God.
unless God accepts him and accepts the work that he did on our behalf. He must be suitable to God, first
of all, by being God. He must be suitable to God by
being God. He must be divine. Now look here in John 1, verses
1 through 3. In the beginning was the Word. The Word, W-O-R-D, is, and I
mentioned this to my Bible class students this morning, it's the
same word, treatise, used in Acts chapter one, where Luke
writes, the former treatise. Have I written to you, and that
word treatise is word. It's the exact same word. It's
a communication. Luke is saying there to Theophilus,
whose name means a beloved of God, he's saying to Theophilus,
I wrote you a Word before. I wrote you a message before.
I had communication to you before. And this is the Word, W-O-R-D,
Word, in the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was this
One who is the divine communication to us, who is God's declaration
to us. Look down at verse 18. And John
spends several verses, and I say John is really the Holy Ghost
who inspires John. He leads John to deal. extensively with the fact that
this one who is our Redeemer, this one who is our Savior, is
God manifest in the flesh. And so it says, no man had seen
God at any time, verse 18. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. He's declared, He's told him
out. He has communicated him to us. So, He begins by announcing to
us in the beginning, not from the beginning, please, not from
the beginning, and some of the weaker Transliterations. What is the difference between
a translation and a transliteration? A translation is when men who
have knowledge of the original languages, they take a word in
the Hebrew, for instance, they translate it over into the English. And they try to do that with
great accuracy, we hope and trust. And by the way, I think the authorized
version is the best. It's the best. It's the best
translation there is. The authorized version being
the King James Version. I believe it's the best. But
that's a translation. A transliteration is some guys
get together and say, what do you think this means, Ron? How
can we express this in our language today? That's a transliteration. Just throw those out. Because
those are not inspired. Those are not inspired. Here's
the Word of God. In the beginning, not from the
beginning, as I say, some of those transliterations start,
they'll say, from the beginning. No. You see, error is so slippery. And men would introduce things
that are just not so, and they'll do it in a way that we don't
suspect them. But that's how error happens.
So let's just stick to the Scriptures that says, in the beginning,
when there was no time whatsoever, before the clock started ticking,
Back in the vast, endless eternity where only God dwelt, no angels,
no man, no universe, nothing, no one but God, Jesus Christ
our Savior, He was there in the beginning. The Word is Jesus Christ. And we know that because look
at verse 14. This is what happened to this
word, to this communication from God. And yet He's the whole alphabet
from God to us. Hebrews 1 says He's God's spokesman. God has in these last days spoken
unto us through His Son. And our Lord says to John in
the book of Revelation, I'm the whole alphabet. I'm the whole
spiritual alphabet. I'm alpha and omega. I'm A to
Z and everything in between. That's what John says. That's
what our Lord Jesus Christ says, rather, and John records that.
But here's what John is led to say in verse 14, and the word,
the Logos, this communication from God, this one who has declared
God, this one who is in the beginning with God, and I'll go into that
just a little bit more here in a minute, he was made flesh. He was made flesh. When He came,
He did not cease to be all that He was before, but He became
that which He was not before. He was made flesh and dwelt. And those of you who've studied
Brother Mahan's outstanding commentary, his notes on the book of John,
As he well says, that word dwelt is he tabernacled among us. This puts us in mind of the tabernacle
in the wilderness that dwelt there among the people. And they
situated the camp of Israel so that the encampment of Israel,
the nearest tent, was three-fourths of a mile from the tabernacle.
There it was, right in the middle. Everybody looked toward the tabernacle. Just like all of us look to Christ
Jesus, all of us who are His people. The Word was made flesh
and dwelt He tabernacled among us. And He's not three quarters
of a mile from us. He's as close as your breath. Oh yeah, He's as close as your
next heartbeat. Because we're the people of God,
He indwells us by His Spirit. He dwelt among us in the flesh,
yes. But He still dwells among us
by His Spirit because He says, I'll never leave you. I'll never
forsake you. On the hospital bed, in surgery, wherever you might be, on the
job, and bless His name in the pulpit, in the Sunday school
class, teaching at school, working at
your job, laboring in the greenhouse, Wherever you are, you who are
the people of God, you moms and dads and those of you who are
retired, you moms there in the kitchen and working. He said,
I'll never leave you. I'm right here with you. Baking
cakes or whatever it is that you do. He dwells with us. And John says, we've seen His
glory. Have you seen His glory? It's
a sight you never get rid of. We have indeed, we have sunburned
eyes, someone said. S-O-N, sunburned eyes. I promise you, if it wasn't an
overcast day, maybe the sun will come out later. If you went outside
and you looked up into the brightness of the noonday sun, you'd think you'd notice it. Do you know the only ones who
don't notice the glory of that bright sun that shines in the
sky, that provides us light, that sun that God put in the
sky for us, the only ones who can't see it are those who are
absolutely blind. And the only ones who can't see
the glories of Christ Jesus, the beauties of who He is, He's man. He's God who dwelt
with us, and he still has that body. It's a glorified body,
but he's still united together. What God has joined together,
let not man put asunder. Our God took flesh into everlasting
union with his deity. And if you ever see Him as He's
revealed in the Scriptures, if all of these portraits of Him
kind of ever come together and you're made to say, oh my, what
a wonderful Savior. You'll not get over that. Because
you had beheld the Son of Righteousness. And John said, We beheld His
glory. The glory of His person. The
glory of His being. The glory of His work. The glory
of His redemption. The glory of bringing us back
to God. The glory of dying in our stead,
in our place, and in our room. The glory of being our substitute. The glory of being that one sacrifice
that satisfied God forever. He said, we've seen Him. And I've seen Him. And many of
you have seen Him. And He is continually revealing
more of His glory to us. And we see He's full of grace
and truth. Now notice He says, I'll go back
to verse 1, in the beginning, in the beginning, What does that
put you in mind of? The very first verse of the Bible. That's how the Bible begins.
In the beginning, God, not from the beginning, in the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth. This is how John begins. In the
beginning. Now therein, Genesis chapter
1 and verse 1, Moses is led to just suddenly, he thrusts God
right before us. All of a sudden, here's God,
in the beginning. He doesn't try to set forth the
fact that God has always existed. He doesn't try to prove the existence
of God. It's evident, the existence of
God is evident to any person who has some sanity. Because
the heavens declare His glory. And Romans chapter 1 says that
all of creation leaves men without excuse. were not a bunch of cosmic garbage
thrown together over millions and millions of years. That is
false. That is anti-God. It is anti-Bible. Don't believe that rubbish. In
the beginning, God. In the beginning, God. There's
no explanation. No arguments are given for his
existence. Just those words. And then Moses,
stay with me here, and I'll show you how I'm gonna tie this together.
Moses goes forward. He goes forward and he says,
in the beginning, God created, in the beginning, God did something.
He created the heaven and the earth. And now, hundreds of years
later, Thousands of years later, about 4,000 years to be roughly
precise, John is led of the Holy Spirit to use the same introduction
to his book. And he gives no argument for
the existence of the Word, the Son of God, the Christ. He just declares it. He just
declares it. But then, unlike Moses, instead
of going forward with what the Word did, John goes backwards. And it says, in the beginning
was, that takes us back, that's a word that takes you back, was
with God. And the Word was God. The same
was in the beginning with God. Now, once John has established
the divine identity of Jesus of Nazareth, you know what he
does? He picks on the same theme that Moses did. Because Moses
said in the beginning, God did what? Created. Well, here's what
John said. John, after taking us back and
he reminds us that this one he's talking about had an existence
prior to the beginning of all things. He was in the beginning.
Then in the third verse, John then goes forward and this is
what he did. All things were made by him.
And without him was not anything made, that was made. You see, John is led of the Holy
Spirit to establish the divine identity of Jesus of Nazareth. He wants us to know this, that the Jesus who was born to
Mary as set forth in Matthew 1 and has set forth in Luke the
second chapter. The Jesus who went forth preaching
the gospel as in Mark chapter one, the Jesus who was born in
a manger, Luke chapter two, is in fact God of very God. In fact, this is his reason for
writing the book. Turn over to John chapter 20. And I'll go over here and then
that's as far as we're gonna be able to go this morning. Look
at John chapter 20. The goal of John all along has
been to establish the deity of Jesus of Nazareth. Because he
had to be divine to be suitable to God. He had to do business
with God as our substitute and as our representative. Well, how can he do business
with God unless he's suitable to God, unless he's acceptable
to God? Well, he can't. Well, what is
necessary for him then to be acceptable or suitable to God? He must be God Himself, not a
god. We went to pick up Ethan at Fort
Lee outside of Richmond here several days ago, and I stopped
at a gas station. In fact, I meant to stop at another
gas station. I went too far, and it kind of
got into the city and city traffic in Richmond. But anyway, I finally
made it to a gasoline station. I pulled up there, and actually,
gas is reasonable at $2.219. That's pretty good. Don't even
have a refinery here. But anyhow. That's a side note. You can forget
that part. But, pulled up and I started
pumping gas and this guy pulled up, other side of me, and he
didn't get out to pump gas, he was wearing a necktie, and he
came up to me and he said, do you mind if I give you something
to read? I said, what you got there? I'd already set the pump. And
I looked real quick and I saw it was the Watchtower Society.
The Jehovah's Witness. I said, say, I got a question
for you. Who is Jesus Christ? He said, he's a son of God. I
said, now, let's see what does the Bible say about him. The
Bible says he's the son of God, and the Bible says he's in the
beginning with God. He was God. He said, well, he
said, you know, there's a website on there. He said, they can tell
you much more about it than I can. I said, okay. I said, well, let
me ask you, what did he do? I said, you believe a man named
Jesus died on a cross? He said, yes, sir. I said, well,
what did he do? He said, again, you better go
to the website. Bless his heart. And we laugh,
and I understand that, but that's sad. that he doesn't know who
Jesus Christ is and he doesn't know what he did. And if he doesn't
know who he is and what he did, he doesn't know why he did what
he did. In other words, the gospel of
the grace of God to poor sinners through the Lord Jesus Christ
is utterly unknown to that dear man. And I said, let me give
you a few scriptures to look up. He said, well, I've got to
go. I said, I'll give them to you
real quick. And I did. And I finished pumping
the gas and I got back in the car and I said, well, now I know
why the Lord had me miss those gasoline stations back there.
And I had to drive down the street to get to this gas station because
there's a man down here. I said, we never know. He could
be one of God's people. He's God. And John says this
quickly, verse 30 of chapter 20, and many other signs truly,
John 20 verse 30, and many other signs truly did Jesus in the
presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book,
but these are written. that you might believe that Jesus
of Nazareth, born of the virgin, grew up, perfect life, died on
a cross, buried, raised again, that you might believe that Jesus
is the Christ, the Son of God. And you see, John began his book
by establishing the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, and he
finishes it up that way. There is no salvation apart from
having some comprehension and belief of the Word of God, that
He's the Son of God. And watch, and that believing
you might have life through His name. And let me just give you something
else. Let me give you the, I want you to look at the verses that
precede this. Our Lord has appeared to his
disciples, but only 10 of them were there. And one we call Doubting
Thomas, he wasn't there. And it says that in verse 24,
Thomas, one of the 12 called Didymus, was not with them when
Jesus came. And they were blessed. Those
ten men were so blessed when the Lord Jesus came and appeared
to them. And then the other disciples
therefore said unto him, Boy, you missed a blessing yesterday
in church. We have seen the Lord. We have
seen the Lord. But, Thomas, said unto them,
except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put
my finger into the print of his nails, and thrust my hand into
his side, I will not believe. That's the subject of believing
that he's the Lord. Well, verse 26, and after eight
days again, his disciples were within, and Thomas was with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being
shut, and stood in the midst and said, peace be unto you. And then he looked toward Thomas. And he didn't rake him over the
coals. He didn't say shame on you. He said to Thomas, reach hither
thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and
thrust it into my side and be not faithless, but believing. answered and said unto him, my
Lord and my God. Quick word here and then I'll
read the next verse and I'll stop. The name of God is holy. Be very careful how you use God's
name. We live in a society where people
think nothing of something happens and they say, oh my God. That's
what they say. Or O-M-G. Don't use that. Don't use that. You reference God's name. I know
Nancy's told me she was an elementary school teacher for about 40 years.
She heard any of her kids use God's name in vain like that.
She said, don't say that anymore. And I'm sure they hear it at
home. But that's blasphemy. Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain. And you say, Jim, I've done that.
Well, just don't do it anymore. Don't do it anymore. But here's
Thomas, and these are words of worship. He is saying, oh my
God. Oh my Lord. My Lord and my God. And Jesus said unto him, he said,
Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not
seen and yet have believed, because they've entered into the portraits
presented in all the word of God. And they haven't seen me in person
like you have, Thomas. But they've seen me in the Scriptures. And they'll see me by the witness
of the Holy Spirit. They'll see me as the Savior
they need. They'll see me as divine. They'll see me as that one who
is suitable to God. And they'll see me as that one
who is suitable to their needs. Blessed are those who believe.
And if you believe Him today, you've been blessed. You've been
blessed. Actually, with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And if you haven't
seen Him as of yet, oh, look and live. Look to the Lord Jesus
Christ. You've been bitten with the serpent
of sin. Death is within you. There's
only one remedy for what ails you. And it's the same remedy
that ails me. The ailment is sin. The remedy
is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. God give us eyes to see Him and
to behold Him. Amen. We'll continue this tonight.