Yeah, baby. Well, y'all sit down. Let's get our song books and
turn to 34. This is a, well we don't have
34 pages in that black one. Try that red song book, 34. This is one of your favorites
and I always tried I arranged for us to sing this one just
before you bring the last message of the Bible conference. So this
is for you, Gary. It is a great song. 34. Let's
sing this together. You may remain seated. only wise, in light inaccessible
hid from our eyes. Most blessed, most glorious,
the ancient of days. Almighty, victorious, thy great
name we praise. Unresting, unhasting, and silent
as light, Nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in mine. Thy justice, like mountains,
high soaring above, Thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness
and light, ah ah We blossom and flourish as leaves
on the tree, And wither and perish, but not change a thing. Great Father of Glory, Pure Father
of Light, Thine angels adoring, availing their silence, Let's bow together. Our Father, thank You so much
for the mercies You've given to us during these meetings.
We're grateful for the Lord Jesus, our wonderful, precious Savior. Thank You for that redemption
that He fully finished when He died in our stead. rejoice in full and unconditional
forgiveness of all of our sins. We thank you that in the beauties
of the Savior, we stand before you today and every day. Thank you for these men that
you have brought to us to preach the gospel. Thank you, O God,
for their faithfulness to the truth. Thank you for giving to
us a desire to listen to this gospel of your sovereign grace. We want to worship again in this
hour. Oh God, give us a spirit of very
seriousness. Give us a desire to exalt our
God We bow before you, giving thanks for all things. We trace
our salvation back to your everlasting covenant love for your people. We rejoice in this great salvation. Thank you for these that you
brought to listen to the gospel. Some have traveled many miles
to be here. We ask that you give them safety
as they go back. Thank you, Father, for the faithfulness
of this congregation. And bless, Lord, as we continue
to labor in the vineyard of our God. Bless the gifts that we
give today. We ask these things for Christ's
sake. Amen. you In my darkness Jesus found me
Touched my eyes and made me see Growth since chains that long
had bound me Gave me life and liberty ? Glorious love of Christ my Lord
divine ? That made Him stoop to save a
soul like mine ? Through all my days and then in heaven above
? My soul will silence never ? I'll worship Him forever ?
And praise Him for His glorious love ? Oh, amazing truth to ponder ?
Reconcile to God in him ? Lord of heaven, God's son, what wonder
? He became the sinner's friend ? The glorious love of Christ
my Lord divine ? ? That made Him stoop to save a soul like
mine ? ? Through all my days and then in heaven above ? ?
My soul will silence never, I'll worship Him forever ? ? And praise
Him for His glorious love ? O what wondrous sovereign mercy,
that the Lord would die for me! Jesus, full of grace and pity,
freely shed his blood for me. ? The glorious love of Christ my
Lord divine ? ? That made Him stoop to save a soul like mine
? ? Through all my days and many heaven above ? ? Our song will
silence never ? ? Our worship live forever ? ? And praise Him
for His glorious love ? Blessed Savior, how I thank Thee
for Thy glorious love to me. ? It will be my joyful duty ? Praising
thee eternally ? O glorious love of Christ, my Lord divine ? That
made him stood to save the soul and mind Through all my days and then
in heaven above. My song will silence never, I'll
worship Him forever, And praise Him for His glorious love. And praise Him for His glorious
love. It will be a wondrous duty to
worship the Lord Jesus forever and ever. What a joyful experience
awaits the saints of God when we see the Savior and thank Him
for this glorious love. I tell you, the special music,
these services, just been wonderful and such a blessing. Thank you
to you ladies who've labored. Thank you to the musicians and
Joe leading the singing. And we come now to the last service. Pastor Shepard, It is always
good to have you, and you come preach the gospel to us. This David was playing so sweetly. How tedious and tasteless the
hours when Jesus no longer I see. The absence of his felt presence
is an awful hour. And another awful hour is the
absence of the fellowship with His saints. I hear a lot of people say they
can't wait to be with Christ, and yet they don't seem to want
to be with His people. Being with the Lord's people,
with His true people, is as close bodily in this earth as you'll
ever come to Christ. The people in whose hearts he
indwells bear his image by grace. We're just thankful. And that's
why I'm always so glad to come to this congregation. I know I'm coming to family.
I'm coming to friends. I'm coming to brethren. always
look forward to it. And I thank God for you, and for your multiplied kindnesses
to me, too many to number. I just love you, and I love these
brethren. I'm glad Brother Norm could be
with us. He's what we used to call a tall
drink of water. But he's a big-hearted brother
in the Lord. Brother Bill, I'm so glad to
have this time with you. Brother Jim, my friend and brother
for all these brothers. I just am thankful for all of
you and pray the Lord's blessings. I don't want to shock you. But God spoke to me this morning. God spoke to me. I know you sometimes hear preachers
on TV and various places saying the Lord spoke to them. But I'm always amazed that what
the Lord told them is contrary to the Scriptures. but God spoke to me. As a matter of fact, He spoke
to me last night, too. And He's been speaking to me
by His grace for almost 40 years. But it seems like every time
He speaks to me, He says the same thing. If you turn with me in your Bibles
to Hebrews chapter 1, my prayer is that he'd speak
to you. And I'm thankful by his grace
that I've heard it. That's only by his grace. The
natural man receives not the things of God. But God has revealed
Him to us by His Spirit that we might know the things
that are freely given to us in the Lord Jesus Christ. You hear
any preacher? And he's talking about anything
else other than the things that are freely given to us in Christ. God didn't speak to him. I want to ask you this morning, has he spoken to you? Look with me in these words that
we find in the first three verses of Hebrews chapter one. God, who at sundry times and
in diverse manners, that just simply means different ways, spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken
unto us by His Son. Actually, that word His is not
even there. He's spoken unto us by Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ. I remember hearing Brother Scott
Richardson. For some reason I've just thought
of him a lot during this meeting. One time being because I yawned. I used to see him occasionally
yawn like he was tired. I thought he's just getting older. And now I'm he. But he said this, he said, God
will not speak to Nor will he be spoken to by any person outside
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you can count on that. He hath in these last days spoken
unto us. Boy, I want to find out who that
us is. And you become us. when you quit
being them. You see, the us is those people whom this book
is written to. This book is like a letter, like
a love letter from God to his people. His people that He loved
with an everlasting love, that He chose in Christ Jesus. He gave them to Christ as His
bride. They're precious to Him. He hath in these last days spoken
unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds, who being in the brightness of
his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty
on high. The theme of this book of Hebrews
to me just seems to be about better things. As a matter of
fact, if you had the book of Hebrews without the Old Testament,
you'd be lost. If you had the Old Testament
Without the book of Hebrews, you'd be lost. Because the apostle
is always comparing and yet contrasting the two. He speaks of a better priest
and a better sacrifice and better blood and a better covenant and
better promises, it's really a better revelation. And he talks about God speaking
in these last days. And he's not talking about the
future. Preachers in our day are always
talking about the last days. It's somewhere way out there.
But the last days are made up of the first coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ until the second and last coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's the last days. If you'll turn over to 2 Timothy
chapter 3, we read some words that are Just words of great warning. 2 Timothy chapter 3. He says this,
Paul does, this know also that in the last days perilous times
shall come. And all you have to do is read
the next verses to know as we look around us that they're here. For men shall be lovers of their
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce
breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fears, despisers of those that
are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God, and all religious, all religious, having the form
or a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. He speaks of perilous times. But in the midst of those perilous
times in which men seem to wax worse and worse, he's speaking
to some people. He says, by Isaiah the prophet,
and it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain
of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the
mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations
shall flow unto it. He's talking about Zion. He's talking about the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's talking about in the midst
of all that's going on, in the midst of these last days, that
God will speak to some people and bring them, in this way,
to Zion. He will bring them to the Lord
Jesus Christ. You see, in the Old Testament,
there were prophets, plural. There were many who spoke for
God. But in the New Testament, in
the last days, there's a prophet. As a matter of fact, he's called
that prophet. And Moses wrote of him and spoke
for God in the book of Deuteronomy, saying of him, I will raise them
up a prophet, a singular prophet among their brethren. This prophet
is going to come from this race. like unto Moses in this sense,
and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto
them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass
that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall
speak in my name, I'll require of him. You see, you may hear many speaking
many things and not have to worry about it. You can hear a lot
of preachers spouting off a lot of stuff and you don't have to
worry about it. They may scare you to death, but you don't have to worry about
that. But when this prophet has spoken, He said, if you don't hear him,
if you don't believe him, I'll require that of you. You see, all that would have
had to happen for our whole race to perish was for God to have just remained
silent. We're all bound up in our father,
Adam. He stood as the head, as what
we call the federal head of all his race. We're always talking
about genealogy, wanting to trace our lineage back to somebody
famous. But the problem is, we all can
trace our lineage back to Adam. Somebody made a discovery not
long ago, and they determined and they decided that all men
really probably came from one man. Surprise. That's what God's been telling
us all the time. And we fell in Adam, and when
he sinned against God in the garden, and ate of that fruit,
and went and hid himself. All that would have happened
had to happen for us to perish entirely and completely as a
whole race. Would have been for God to just
not said anything. But God initiated the conversation. And it scared Adam. But God was speaking in mercy. Adam didn't know where he was,
but God did. And he said, Adam, where art
thou? All he'd have to done was to
be silent. But when he spoke those words,
he continued on and he made a promise concerning one that would be
called the seed of woman. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Woman doesn't have a seed. But He's the seed of God. He's
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the God-man. If God had
simply remained silent in the garden, if God had been remaining
silent with regard to this congregation, or to this country, or to this
world, this creation, What would have happened? You see, it says, for he spake,
and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. That's what they called the divine
fiat in the creation. God spoke something into existence
out of nothing. He spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. And what we have here in this
book is that what God says in Christ is a better, a clearer
revelation, the last revelation of the triune God, of His mind,
of His will, of His purpose, of His purpose
of grace, of His salvation. This is the last word. You see, it says here that He
has spoken, and that's the title of my message, God has spoken. Just in case you're interested.
God has spoken, and he says this, he has spoken unto us, not in
all these diverse ways now. Somebody says, I believe God
is this, I believe God is that, I believe Jesus Christ is this,
I believe he's a prophet, but he's not the, he's the prophet,
day one. He has spoken in His Son, which
is singular, which all those pictures and types and shadows
in the Old Testament that we read about restated in the book
of Hebrews, they were all about Him. They were all about that one
way of salvation. God will speak to sinners no
other way. And when he speaks to you, if
he speaks to you, he doesn't have to speak to you. But if
he speaks to you, you will find out just exactly who Jesus Christ
is. You won't find out a scheme of
prophecy or eschatology. It's amazing to me how much people
make their gospel to be one of these things. I had a man visit
us who was an insurance adjuster during the hurricane. And I looked at him, he seemed
to want to be there, and as I preached, he became less and less interested
in what I had to say. I wondered how he found us. He found us on the internet.
He found us by the name Sovereign Grace Baptist Church. And he
never did stay around. He walked out fairly quick. Didn't have much, didn't have
anything to say. Shook me and walked out the door.
But before he did, I heard him say something about Landmark.
He didn't say it to me, just one of the other men. And when
I didn't speak about the church in particular, you know, he wasn't
interested. He wasn't interested in hearing
about the Lord Jesus Christ. He wasn't really interested in
hearing about sovereign free grace in him. The same thing
happened to me when I was driving in East Kentucky. I believe it
was over near Harlan or somewhere. But I was just driving around
one day and I saw a church sign that said Sovereign Grace Baptist
Church. I locked the brakes up and I
turned around. And the preacher was in the yard.
They were doing some work. But do you think he wanted to
talk with me about Christ? Do you think he was interested
about the gospel? I'm just so hungry to talk with
somebody about the gospel of God's grace. After all, that
was the name of the church. But he wasn't interested in grace. God had never spoken to them. If he has spoken, you will find
out that God speaks to sinners in no other way other than the
Lord Jesus Christ. And he describes him in these
few verses. He said, he's the heir of all
things. I take that, first of all, to
mean he's all powerful. He's the sovereign lord, king
of kings. We don't even have any idea what
a king is. King like Nebuchadnezzar was, who spoke and one died or lived
at his word, who did whatever he pleased, but he found out
that there was a real king. And he does his will in the armies
of heaven and among the inhabitants of men, and nobody can stop him. And nobody can question him. They think they can. But they're
a whole lot like a man who takes a dive off of the Empire State
Building. He can defy gravity. But he can't
do it successfully. That's the God that men will
meet. That's the God who said, I'll
require it of you. He's the heir of all things. But the glory is, Paul says in
Romans, that if we're children, if we're God's children, if he
spoke to us, than heirs, heirs of God and
joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him that
we may be also glorified together. He's the heir of all things and
that doesn't make room for anything else. He's there. That means that God,
just like someone in a wheel, God has appointed that everything
is in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's why it says He's all. And that means if we receive
any spiritual or eternal blessings, God must give it. It must come
through and by and in Christ. The only way we'll have it is
if God has made us a joint heir with Christ. He didn't say a joint king. He didn't say a joint ruler.
But he did say a joint heir. That means that whatever God
gave him in Christ, whatever God gave in Christ, we have in
Christ. And that's everything. All spiritual
blessings. And so that's why the angels
are said to be appointed as the guardians and the servants, ministering
servants to who? The heirs of salvation. I know one thing about being
an heir. You can't marry it. You can't deserve it. I wonder
how many times we have thought about somebody who worked hard
all their life and saved everything, only to leave it to the heir,
which was a one sorry, low-down, start to say maggot of a boy.
But he is. And they say, well, good gracious,
what a waste. That's like grace. That's like grace. You can't deserve it. You can't
earn it. You can't merit it. The only
way you'll ever have it is if you're an heir, a joint heir
with the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the heir of all things. That's grace. You think you can gain it by
doing something for the Lord? You've done something for Him
already. You've sinned against Him. That's all you can do of
yourself. And then it says this, he is
the creator of all things. By him. By him. And for him. He made all things. There's not anything made that
he didn't make. As a matter of fact, when you
look at the three persons of the Godhead, the salvation of
God's elect is always an active participation by all three parties
in the Godhead and in all the work of salvation. He's the creator of all things.
All things were made by him, John says, and without him was
not anything made that was made. You think I'm talking about just an ordinary person? That ought to make us know he's
God. That's always what I want to
know when somebody wants to talk with me about God, about religion
and about spiritual things. Let me ask you one question first. Do you believe Jesus Christ is
God? I asked two ladies on my front
porch one Sunday afternoon who wanted to talk with me about
the Bible. One was a middle-aged woman. One was a little older. And I
said, I'd be glad to, but I want to ask you one question. Do you
believe Jesus Christ is God in human flesh? Well, we believe
he was a good man. We believe that he's one of the
prophets. I said, you didn't answer my
question. I said, do you believe that Jesus
Christ is God made in the flesh. And the older lady, she began
to grit her teeth. And the more I talked to her,
quoting those scriptures about Christ being God manifest in
the flesh, seed of angels, in Emmanuel, God with us, the more
she tightened up, the more she began to clench her teeth. And
finally, the younger one said, come on, let's go. That's who he is. He's God the
creator of all things. Wasn't anything made. He's not,
he's just not a historical figure. He's not a myth. He's not a legend. He's not a fairy tale. He's the God with whom we have
to do. The Lord Jesus Christ. He's the express image of God. Somebody said one time, they
said, in one sense, if you want to see the image of Caesar, look
on the coin that's minted. But if you want to see the express
image of Caesar, look on his child, look on his son. The Lord
Jesus Christ, He's the express image of God. In Him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And He speaks here of the brightness
of His glory, God the Son, the glory of God's grace. And until
we see that, we've not seen Christ, we've not heard from God. He
says in 2 Corinthians 4, for God who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. You know Christ prayed to the
Father to glorify Him. And he said, glorify me that
I may glorify you. Now, most people think that word
glorify in scripture means something like make better. We talk about glorification in
terms of being made sinless in body and perfect. But that can't
be applied to Christ. To glorify means to manifest
someone or something as it already is. Father, glorify me. Make known
what I am, that I might make known what you are. Make it known that I'm a savior,
that I might make it known that you're a savior. Make it known
that glory that I had with you before the world was." What glory
was that? Not just his essential glory
as God. But he's talking about the glory
he had as that appointed, ordained mediator and redeemer of the
Lord's people. That was his glory, what he was
ordained to be and appointed to be before the world was. And that's what's being made
known when he comes into this world. That's what we're trying to make
known. by the Word. Someone said the best preaching
that's ever been is just repeating to men what God says of Himself
and of His Son and of His salvation. He's the brightness of God's
glory. And his greatest glory, that
glory that he came into this world and manifested was his
glory as one who magnifies and sets forth God as a just God
and a savior. His mediatorial glory. In other
words, Moses was a mediator. But all he could mediate was
to speak to people the law and justice of God against sin. I heard the other day of somebody
who was going to make a trip to the Holy Land. You want to make a trip to the
Holy Land? I just decided I would look and
see where the first mention of holy was in the scripture. It
was in the book of Acts. And God said to Moses, take off
your shoes, Moses, for the place wherein thou standest is holy
ground. You're in the holy land. You know where he was standing. He was standing at the foot of
Mount Horeb, which is also Mount Sinai. And when all of Israel stood
before God, And it says, God spoke to them audibly. And without a vision, he says,
of a similitude. They didn't see a form, but they
heard God spoke. And they heard him speak from
this mouth. And they were afraid. They could
not approach him. They said, don't speak to us
anymore. God speak to Moses, but don't
speak to us anymore. Well, all he could say through
Moses What he repeats there, thou shalt not, thou shalt not,
thou shalt not. But if we go to the Holy Land,
if we make it to the Holy Land, it's going to be because God
spoke to us in Christ. He spoke to us. He's the sustainer
of all things, upholding all things. We think about the creation. We think about how God sustains
the creation and he feeds the birds until all that romanticizing
of everything, it seems like, and mystifying. But the truth
is, he's the upholder in this end. If it were not for him,
the Lord Jesus Christ, we wouldn't have this book this morning. Men have tried and tried to stamp
out this word, to stamp out this gospel, to stamp out everything
that glorifies God. There'd be no hope if it were
left to sinners. There'd be no way of salvation.
They'd just stamp it all. The devil would run ramshot over
all this creation. I believe it was the atheist
Voltaire that said a hundred years from now there won't even
be a Bible. But a hundred years later in
his house was a print press, a printer. Guess what he was printing? The
Bible. These preachers, they tried to
replace the gospel with programs, with all these things for It's
a Heinz 57, we got something for the young people, we got
something for the toddlers, we got something for the old people,
we got something for the single women, we got something for the
single men. It's just, why is there any gospel left?
Because here and there, God has spoken to somebody and they've
heard him. They've heard him and they're
never the same after that. They've heard Him, He's spoken
to them, and it doesn't matter what anybody says. I love a commentary. A good one. But I sure don't pin everything
on them. You know, the Bible sheds a lot
of light on some of those commentaries. That's where God speaks. He never
speaks. He said to the law and to the
testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it's
because there's no light in them. I can tell you if a man's
speaking for God or not. Is he speaking about the Lord
Jesus Christ? And all that's freely given in
Him, or is He setting forth how you're to live, what you're to do, how you're to conduct yourself.
All those things are spoken of in the Scriptures, but it's always
in the light of being saved by God's grace through the work
of Jesus Christ. We don't shun those places. Husbands,
love your wives. But he says, as Christ loved
the church. The exaltation, he says, who
being the brightness of his glory and express image of his person
and upholding all things by the word of his power. You see the exaltation. which
ends with Christ seated at the right hand of the majesty on
high. The exaltation and the fact that
God is announcing this, that he's speaking to his people and
telling them is that his role as the mediator and the savior
is because and his glory is because of something he accomplished. He accomplished it. That sounds
sweeter. Sweeter. With every weakness
I discover in myself. Every day that passes in human
weakness and physical weakness and most of all spiritual weakness. But I'm resting in an accomplished
work. He accomplished it because of
who He is, because of who He was, and because
of what He was in human flesh. He's exalted because He purged
our sins. When God speaks to you, He'll
say to you, all that was necessary to purge
you from your sins, Christ accomplished it on the
cross. I've heard people say in sermons,
In order to save me, Christ had to become everything I am. I don't know where they come
up with this. In order to save me, Christ had to become everything
I was not, which is sinless and not God. He's successful
in saving the souls of his people, number one, because he's sinless. He does the just for the unjust. And because he's God, he can
save more than one of us. I told somebody else, if Christ
had to become all that I was, We didn't need for Him, because
there was a whole lot of us, and at least, at best, one could
die for the other. But in order to die before God
and His inflexible justice, and save a multitude of sinners,
He had to be God in flesh, in sinless flesh, the Lamb without
spot and without blemish. And it says here, that he did
it by himself. Do you suppose that preachers
don't read these things? They say things like, if you
will, God will. If you'll take the first step,
God will take the next one. If I could take the first step,
I believe I could take all the rest of them. legend of Saint Demas or something
like that. Supposedly his head was cut off
and he took up his head and walked all the way around the world.
You say impossible, not if he could take the first step. You see, that's the problem.
We can't take the first step because we're dead in trespasses
and sin. And what he's saying is that
Christ took the first step and the second step and all the steps
that will ever be taken in our salvation. He took them all.
He marched right up to the majesty on high and sat down. Like that
fairytale where they dropped crumbs of bread to find their
way back. Well, he dropped crumbs, a whole lot of good crumbs that
we might find our way to glory. He speaks to us in His Word. This was something that He did
alone that we had no part in and have no part in. It's a work
that was given Him from eternity. I finished the work. And He purged our sins. I want to talk to you about what
When I was a kid, they talked about purging. You knew you were
in trouble. You're gonna get some castor
oil or something. That's not what this means. It means he
purified or cleansed. Sin is the I started to say a hard thing
to put away with. It's a deep stain on all of us. But the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth us from all sin. That ETH in the King James English,
Supposed to mean something like the linear tense which is carried
on, he's always cleansing us. You say, well preacher, God has
spoken to me, but what about my sin now? No, if He's spoken
to you, you'll know that when He died on the cross, For the
sins of His people, they were all future. So what if I do this? What if I do that? As they say, that ain't no way
to live. You can't. But they were all future when
God made them to meet on the head of Christ, when He imputed
them when He reckoned them to be His, He charged them to His
account, whatever language you want to use except the fact that
He actually became a sin. No, that's not in the Scripture
at all. But all other things like reckoning, accounting, holding
responsible, He paid the price. He died as
God manifest in the flesh. He died as sinless perfection. You can look back over those
Old Testament passages where there's a sacrifice, and those
sacrifices are scrutinized, they're examined, they're looked at to
make sure they're in every way as perfect as can be humanly
possible, and they're scrutinized right up to the last minute,
and then they're killed. Nobody takes them and rubs tar
on them or does something like that. They die as a sinless sacrifice
because that's how a sinless sacrifice can die for a sinful
people. And this he did. He finished
it. He did it all. He purged our sins. Everybody sins. Well, if we join
the universalism of our day, and people say that God, that
John 3.16 means that God died for everybody without exception. God hasn't spoken to you. Because when he speaks, he says
this, I lay down my life for the sheep. I give my life for
the sheep. And when the redeemed, when they
redeemed as they're called in Revelation 5 and 9 and 14, when
they're called the redeemed and John sees them in heaven, they
say this, we were redeemed from among men." We're redeemed from the world. "...who gave himself for our
sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world
according to the will of God and our Father." Paul saying
again, I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live
in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. Husbands, love your wives as
Christ loved the church. Gave himself for it. Who gave himself for us. that he may redeem us, might
redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar
people, zealous of good works." My prayer, first of all, is that
God will keep speaking to me. Some way he might be pleased
to speak through me if I preach this truth. But my prayer is
that he speak to you. I want you to hear. I want you
to know the peace. I want you to know the joy of
an accomplished salvation. of the knowledge of believing
that He by Himself purged our sin. It was His responsibility
and He carried it out. God give us ears to hear. His speaking to us in this last
day will be in His Son. Let's take our red songbooks
and this is our last hymn, 11. Number 11. It's been a wonderful
few days of worship and we give thanks to God. And we have a
meal that's going to be available for you in the back. And if you're
a guest, We want you to get up front and go first. Some of you have got lots of
distance you've got to cover today. We want you to eat first,
and us home folk will eat last, so that's fine. But thank you
for being here today throughout these three days of preaching.
Appreciate these guys coming, sending forth the word of God
to us. And as it was indicated in the bulletin, appreciate if
you'd pray for us as Nancy and I travel Wednesday and go forth
to fellowship with the saints of God. You were over there,
preached to those folks in the islands. And they enjoyed your
preaching, thankful for you. And I look forward to preaching
to them again. And you'll be blessed. Ron and Bill will take care of
the pulpit. And you'll be well fed in my
absence. Let's stand and sing hymn number
11. Then we'll be dismissed with
this. When all thy mercies, O my God,
? My rising soul surveys ? ? Transported with the view I've lost ? ? In
wonder, love, and praise ? ? A number comforts to my soul ? My tender carry so Before my
infant heart can see From whom those comforts flow When borne
with sickness, home has vowed, with health renewed my faith. And when in sins and sorrows
vowed, revived my soul with praise. Through every period of my life,
thy goodness I'll pursue. And after death, in distant worlds,
the glorious theme renew. Yeah.