Well, it's all fell on me tonight, and I'll tell you what, I hate it for y'all, but I'm gonna do the best I can. Page number two, Love Divine. Let's stand together. Number two, Love Divine.

Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven to earth come down.
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion.
Pure, unbounded love Thou art.
Visit us with Thy salvation.
Enter every trembling heart.
Breathe, O breathe, Thy loving Spirit.
Enter every troubled breast.
Let us all in Thee inherit
Let us find that sacred rest
Take away our bent to sinning
Alpha and Omega be
In the faith that's with beginning
set our hearts at liberty
come almighty to deliver
let us thy life receive,
suddenly, eternally,
never, nevermore thy temple leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy host above,
? Pray and praise with thee thou ceasing ?
? Glory in thy perfect love ?
? Finish then thy new creation ?
? Pure and spotless let us be ?
? Let us see thy great salvation ?
perfectly restored in thee,
thee we adoree
into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we crest our crowds before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.

That's it. 145. Hail Thou once despised Jesus
Hail Thou gallantly inking
Thou didst suffer to release us
Thou didst free salvation bring
Hail Thou agonizing Savior
Bearer of our sin and shame
By thy merit we find favor.
Life is given through thy name.
Paschal lamb by God appointed.
All our sins on thee were laid.
By almighty love anointed.
Thou hast full atonement made.
All thy people are forgiven
through the virtue of thy blood.
Opened is the gate of heaven.
Peace is made twixt man and God.
Jesus hailed, enthroned in glory,
there forever to abide.
All the heav'nly host adore thee,
seated at thy Father's side.
Therefore sinners thou art pleading,
There Thou dost our place prepare
ever for us in Your seat.
Till in glory we appear,
worship, honor, power, and blessing,
Thou art worthy to receive
loudest praise without ceasing.
Meet it is for us to give.
Help your bright angelic spirits
bring your sweetest, noblest light.
Help to bring our Savior's merits.
Help to chant Emmanuel's praise.

I ain't gonna sing another one. I'm gonna preach. Hopefully I do. I hope I do. Turn with me to Galatians chapter two. Galatians chapter two. It's going to read one verse of scripture, or two, verse 20 and 21.

I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. In 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. I do not frustrate the grace of God. For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Oh, our great blessed God of heaven and earth. Lord, and our blessed Savior seated at your right hand. Lord, you take up our case and you take up our cause. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year after year after year after year. And Lord, one of these days, you'll stop your interceding for us because we'll come to be where you are. Don't need you to pray for us anymore. And oh, what a wonderful, blessed, glorious day that'll be when our Lord Jesus Christ we see. And oh, what a blessed, blessed hope we have, what a future we have.

And Lord, I thank you for allowing us to meet here tonight. And I ask for your blessings upon your word. Ask for your blessings on the gospel. Please enable my poor mind to grasp your word and understand your word. And may you bless me to give them understanding of your word. And bring glory to yourself in this service tonight.

Again, we pray for those who are not with us, those who are troubled, those who have troubles in their home, and we pray for Jim and Debbie, God bless Jim, strengthen him. Rick and Helen, pray for others who in their providence are not with us. Lord, we thank you and have mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy upon our children and grandchildren. God please and do it for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen.

I'm going to bring my whole message out of verse 20, verse 20. I want to talk about seven spiritual truths, seven wonders of salvation, here in this verse of Scripture. The apostle had two revelations of Christ. He had two revelations of Christ. You keep this and look with me over in Acts chapter 9. He had two revelations of Christ.

In Acts chapter 9, this is the first revelation he had. You know, he lived a life of self-righteousness. And look what he says here, starting verse one, read down through verse six. He lived a life of self-righteousness and religious ambition. And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest and desired of him letters. warrants to Damascus, to the synagogue, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about from him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said, Arise and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

That's his first revelation of Christ. He had hatred in his heart, and one minute, the next minute, he's on his knees before God, on his face before Christ. And then, back over here in Galatians, he had that life of self-righteousness and rebellious ambition. Look in Galatians 1, 13 and 14. Oh, how religious he was, what an ambitious religionist he was. Self-righteous, he said, according to the righteousness of the law, I was blameless. But that don't mean anything when there ain't no righteousness by the law, which he himself admitted.

If you have heard, Galatians 1, 13, if you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, How that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it, and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. Now this is what happens to him after the Lord struck him down on Damascus. He said in verse 15, But when it pleased God, Ain't you glad that it pleases God to do something for His people? It pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace.

Now back over here in verse 2, chapter 2, verse 20, verse 20. And Paul says that, he talks about the life which I now live. He says there in the middle of the verse, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the Son of God who loved me and gave him for me. He said he had a life without Christ one time. Self-righteous, religious ambition, and then here's what happened to him. The life which I now live. It was a dramatic change in his life.

And the first thing he says is, oh my, look what he says here. I live by the faith of the Son of God, listen to this, who loved me. Who loved me. He went from being a despiser of Christ and found out that Christ loved him. Never was a time that he didn't love him. Never was a time that he never loved his elect, his people.

Scripture said in John 13, 1, having loved his own, which were in the world, you know how he loved them? Right to the end. Right to the end. And all my Romans 5a says, God commendeth his love. shows us how his love is. He won't just commend it to us. And how does he commend it to us? Even that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Commence the love of God towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

When did he start loving him? Did he love him after he put him down on the Damascus Road? Said before he hated him, now he's going to start loving him? No, no. Yea, I've loved thee with an everlasting love, and with cords of lovingkindness have I drawn thee. How did he love him? I will love them freely. Freely, freely. Look over in Ephesians. Keep Galatians. Now look over here in Ephesians chapter 3, verse 18 with me. This is a strange thing. He's talking about the love of God. And how Christ who loved me, God who loved me, loved me, this rebellious, this sinner, this chief of sinners, this Pharisee of Pharisees at one time. He said in verse 18, Ephesians 3, being able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, the length, the depth, and the height and to know the love of Christ." Now watch this now, which passes knowledge. How much do you know about the love of God? He said, I don't know how high it is. I don't know how deep it is. I don't know how wide it is. I don't know the breadth of it. But he said, listen, that which passes knowledge that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. When you find out that God loved you, Loved you, like Paul said, who loved me, me. How could God love me? How could he do that to me? And oh my, so how that the Son of God should love a persecutor, an injurious man like Saul of Tarsus.

And then back over here in our text again, and here's the second thing I want you to see here about this wondrous salvation that we have. It said up here, I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, in which the life I now live and the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God. And here's the thing that the Son of God should be crucified. I am crucified with Christ. But the thing is that the thing that Christ would be crucified himself. He couldn't be crucified with Christ had not Christ been crucified. And you know, crucifixion is a painful, horrible death to die. Crucifixion was for criminals. It was not for anybody but for criminals. People who the Roman law and the Jewish law found them guilty. And I tell you, it's a painful death. It's a criminal's death. And it's an awful remedy, but it's necessary that our Lord Jesus Christ be crucified.

You know, When Isaiah asked that question in Isaiah 53, he said, who hath believed our report? I believe that report. I believe everything it says about Christ in Isaiah 53. And that's what he says, that he was a lamb led to the slaughter. God made his soul an offering for sin. God saw the travail of his soul and said, I'm satisfied. His death was a painful death, but it was also a substitutionary death.

It was a death for somebody other than himself. He bore our sins in his own body there on that tree. Now, Lord, just look over here in Galatians 6.14 with me for a minute.

But God forbid that I should glory only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and all the cross here means the death of Christ, the suffering of Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world.

There's three people was crucified that day. When Christ was crucified on the cross, there was three people that was crucified that day. Christ was crucified. And then he says, the world is crucified unto me. The world is, and you know, by whom the world is crucified unto me. The world died in me. The world that I lived in died in me. The world of sin and rebellion, the world of self-righteousness and pride, those things died in me. The world died in me. And oh, look what he says, and I died unto the world. The world has no attraction for me. It was a death of my Lord that put the world put him on that cross. And so I died and the world died and the world died to me and the world died unto me. And I'll tell you what, that's why we say we're not of the world. We're not of the world. We love not the world. We don't do it. We don't have any reason to do it. And oh, my.

Three died that day. Christ did, I did, and the world did. And the world did. And oh my, that Christ should be crucified. Look, here's a third thing I want us to look at. Said, oh my, I live by the, that's part of the verse, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and watch this now, that Christ should give himself for me. that Christ should give himself for sinners, give himself for me. Who did he give himself for? Oh, my. Oh, look in Galatians 1.4. This is something that just always, it just astonishes me. Has for years and years and years. It said, who gave himself for our sins? Gave himself. Here I am. Here I am, I give myself, whatever I am, whatever my person is, whatever my worth is, whatever my merit is, whatever my power is, I give it for sins. Oh my. And he done that that he might save us. And there again is present evil world. And he done it. God willed him to do this. God purposed for him to do that. Oh my.

And I tell you what, and there's one thing I know. I know this without a shadow of a doubt. And this gives me hope for eternity. I know I'm a sinner. God made me know I'm a sinner. The Bible says I'm a sinner. My experience says I'm a sinner. But the Bible also tells me that Christ Jesus is the only Savior for sinners. And if He's the only Savior for sinners, then I tell you what, I'm not looking for salvation no place else but in Him. Does He come here to save the vilest, the most worthless people on the face of the earth? Then they don't know they're worthless until Christ makes them know they're worthless. And that He's everything. He makes you to know without a shadow of a doubt. Oh, what a blessed hope that we have. If Christ died for sinners, and the scripture says that He gave Himself for our sins, call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. And if He's the only Savior, and He gave Himself for our sins, Bless His holy name. When I face Him, I'll face God in Him, right where I face Him right now. Ain't got no place else to face Him, except in Him. Huh? Oh my.

Our Lord Jesus said, nobody, nobody's gonna take my life from me. Ain't nobody can take my life from me. That I've got the power, I've got the authority, I've got it to lay it down. I can lay it down. I go to the cross at the time I'm supposed to go to the cross, at the hour appointed to me. I've not only got the power to lay it down, but bless his name, he said, I got the power to bring it back up again. And he did both by his own power. Oh, bless his name. Bless his name. He gave himself. Oh, you start thinking about him giving himself. Oh, that means him. And that's why I said he gave himself for me. Can you put me in there? Can you say he gave himself for me? Gave himself for me.

Then look what else? Here's the fourth thing I want to wish. I've said seven of them. Here's the fourth one. He said, in the first line of the verse, I am crucified with Christ. I am crucified with Christ. Oh my. What a blessed, blessed union we have with the Lord Jesus Christ. I've showed you time and again how together with him, together with him, together with him, we had such a union with Christ that our union did not start, I don't know how to say this, In our experience, our union started when Christ saved us. And we didn't know we had this blessed union. We didn't know how close we was associated with Christ. And how that when he died, we died with him. And we didn't know that. But Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He was already, as far as God was concerned, given himself for our sins. And that's why he said, I am crucified with Christ.

When he was on the Damascus road, did he know anything about the death of Christ? No. When did he find out? When he, when Christ revealed himself in him. I am crucified with him. I died with him. I died with him. Oh, this is how we died to sin, crucified with Him. This is how we died to the law, crucified with Him. This is how we died to the world, crucified with Him. This is how we died to our old man, our old man. And all to be crucified with Christ, to die with Christ. This is most blessed truth, that when Christ was on that cross, With all that went on there on that cross, with everything that took place on that cross, the scripture says we were nailed there with him. When he was crucified, we was crucified with him. That means when crucifixion is death, we died under sin one time. When did we die under sin one time? When Christ was crucified. That's right, when Christ was crucified. Oh, my. Oh, what a man be crucified with Christ.

And that's why our Lord said, you know, take up your cross, take it up, take it up, own it, identify with it, get under it. The cross always represents death. He said, take up your cross. Take up the truth that you're dead, that you died with me, that you're crucified with me. The old man crucified with me. Sin was crucified with me. Wrath of God was crucified with me. The world was crucified to me. The law died when I died on the cross. Oh, I tell you everything. Oh, that we'd be crucified with Christ.

People, oh, I heard a preacher say one time, I think his name was Rex Humbard. Of course, he was a false prophet like so many of them. He said, if I'd have been there, I'd have stopped it. Oh, if you don't have no part of the death of Christ, you'll not enter into the glory of Christ. I had as much, I was responsible for the death of Christ as anybody. I was there at that cross. Crying out, crucify him, crucify him, crucify him. I was no different than those men that were standing around that cross. Paul was no different until God put him down. There's no different. And I'll tell you what, and that's what, oh, for God to come and teach us that we've died with Christ. Died with him, died with him. And oh, look here, let me give you a fifth one. Oh my, this is, you can't get no more simpler than this. That a crucified man should yet be alive. And look what he said, I am crucified with Christ, now listen to this, nevertheless I live. I just died, I was crucified with Christ, yet I'm still alive, I'm living. How do you live? Him? By His death? By His life? By His resurrection? By His merit? By bearing my sin? Nevertheless, I live?

Oh, Christ was once dead, but now He lives. You know what He said, and our Lord told His disciples? He said, because I live, I live, you shall also live. He said, I'm the vine, You're the branches. And he that abideth in me, that's where the life comes from. We're just the branches. He's the vine, the true vine. And he said, if anybody's severed from me, not joined to me, he's cast off. He's just a dead old branch. But when you're joined to Christ, there's life that comes from that. Life comes from it. Oh, now he's living. Oh, my. And that Christ who was crucified would be living right now in a crucified man. A man that was crucified with him. Ain't that what it said? Nevertheless I live. You're talking about two men here now. One that died and one that's alive. How do you die and be alive? Just the same way Lazarus was dead and Christ called him from the dead. Our Lord Jesus Christ, oh, he would be living, living. Nevertheless, I live. How can that possibly be? He said, I'm dead, but I'm living at the same time. Died with Christ, but I'm alive. I'm alive. That's what he said back over there in verse 16 of Galatians 1. Call me by His grace to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen."

Oh, and a crucified man, you know, they came to our Lord's grave, came to His tomb. They looked in there, and there was an angel sitting on the right, on the right-hand side. They looked in there, and there sat that angel. Who you looking for? Jesus of Nazareth. Well, he's not here. He's just not here. He's not here. Where's he at? Well, he's risen. And I said, you go and tell his brethren that he'll see him in Galilee. And the first time, the first time they saw him, can you imagine what they felt like? Seeing a living Christ? And you know where Christ lives now? He lives in us. We sing that old song, I know that He lives, He lives in me. And think about Christ. You know, He said, I'll take up my abode and abide with you. That means I'm going to live with you, I'm going to stay with you. Zacchus, what? I'm going to go home with you today, and I'm going to stay, and I'm going to bring salvation here, and you're going to love it. And that's what He does with us. Crucified with Him, nevertheless I live.

How? Same way that I lived before, just Christ loved me and gave Himself for me. Listen, and then let me give you, I'm getting through these pretty fast, but I'll tell you what, it's just a blessing to me. Look what else it says down here. Here's the sixth thing. That Christ who was crucified, I am crucified with Christ, and yet he says, this Christ liveth in me. He said, I live. Yeah, but how did he live? How does he do? That Christ would be living in this crucified man. Yet not I. How did I live? Yet not I. It's not I'm that living. I'm not living. You know what it is? Christ in me. That's my life. When our Lord went to raise Lazarus from the dead, Mary and Martha both said, Lord, if you would have been here, he had not died. Oh, your brother's gonna rise again. I know, Lord, I know he will. And the last day in the resurrection, our Lord said, listen, you're looking at the resurrection. You're looking at the only person who's got life, the only person who has got life, only person who can give life, the only person who can live inside you.

That's one of the greatest mysteries that Christ lives in us right now. Though we're in the flesh, we're still in this body, and yet Christ lives in us. You know what the scripture said? Christ answers to Christ in this gospel. If Christ is in you, and you hear Christ preached, and you understand what you're listening to, you know what it is? Christ in this Word is bearing witness to Christ in you. Huh? You know, you'll listen to that and say, that's right, that's right, that's right. You know why you do that? Because it's bearing witness to your relationship with Christ when you hear Him from the Word.

That's why I love to hear preaching. I love to hear preaching. Good preaching. Now, I don't like to hear all preaching, but I like to hear good preaching. Oh, but he said, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And you know, when he says, yet not I, but Christ lives within me, that means, you know, that he became new. He has become new. He said, not I, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. What does that mean? That means he's got a new will. Got a new will. Got a new purpose. Christ. To honor Christ, to live for Christ's glory. He's got new power. The power of Christ in him. Christ is his new life. Christ in you is the hope of glory.

And I tell you, the new man, yet not I, yet not I, but Christ in me. That new man must live on new things. Oh, you know, we can't live on old things. Every morning when the Jews got up, the manna was there every morning. They couldn't live on yesterday's bread. It would rot, breed worms. Every morning, God said, it's time for y'all to eat. Here's you some more heaven, angel food. Here's you some bread. He done that every day. And that's what he has to do with us now. You know, we live off of new things. We don't live off his flesh. We live on the gospel. We live on the gospel. We live on Christ. We live on the bread of life. We drink the water of life. We have the fellowship of his word. He fellowships us with His Word. And we have, we pray, and there was a time we didn't pray, and now we pray. All these things are new. They're new. They're new. Oh my. Become new, yet not I, not I.

And then look how this new man lives. Look how he lives. He says, and the life which I now live in the flesh, listen to this now, I live by the faith of the Son of God. How else you gonna live? I live by the faith of the Son of God. Now, there's two things here. You remember here in verse 16. Look what he says in verse 16 of Galatians 2. I live this new life by the faith in the Son of God. And look what he says, knowing that a man is not justified, clear of guilt, standing clear and righteous before God, but by the faith of Jesus Christ." Now you notice what it says, the faith of Jesus Christ. Not your faith, the faith of Jesus Christ. He, faithful to his Father. You know, he lived by faith and he died by faith, you know that? He died believing that God would raise him from the dead. He believed his father explicitly and everything he said, he said, I'm so faithful that I cannot say nothing but what my father told me to say. I can't do nothing but what my father told me I could do. Oh, yes, look what he says now. Even we have believed, now that's our faith, in Jesus Christ. Now listen to this now, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ. Christ's faithfulness is what justifies us.

I never, I was talking to a fellow from England, we've been corresponding some, And that's what I was talking about, that we're justified by the faith of Christ, the faithfulness of Christ. And Paul says, yet not I, but I live this new life by faith in the Son of God. Now this faith here means of his faithfulness and then our faith in him, our faith in him. But his faithfulness is what keeps us faithful. Oh my. And I live by faith in this, I live this new life by faith in Christ. The life I now live in the flesh, right now, the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. There's the faith of Christ that we believe, and then our faith in Christ, in Christ alone.

But I said I was talking to that man, and he brought a message on to just shall live by faith. And I listened to it, and I made some comments on it. And I told him, you know, he went through a whole litany of things. I said, most people, they glory in their faith. Talk about their faith, how strong their faith, how their faith is is they look at their faith all the time. Talk about what they believe and how they believe and the church they go and I believe I was saved when I got, you know, and they always go back to an experience, something that happens.

And the second thing is faith, real faith, true faith, has one object. And the last time Brad preached here, he brought it out so clearly. Faith has one object. That's the Lord Jesus Christ himself. It never looks at itself, never trusts itself. Don't look at your faith, say, boy, my faith, I tell you, my faith, I've really got good faith. I've got as good a faith as anybody. You know, my faith, our salvation is all objective. Everything that happened for us happened outside of us. And true faith looks to Christ and Christ alone.

Seven spiritual truths. Seven wonders of salvation. God should love me. Son of God should be crucified. That Christ should give himself for us. That a man would be crucified with Christ. That a crucified man should live, nevertheless I live. And that a man can live this new life of faith by faith in the Son of God. Oh my, I pray that's a blessing to you. You know, I was talking to Darwin Pruitt, him and his wife came by and spent the night with us, and we talked about this, that we have no confidence in the flesh, absolutely none, but I certainly have confidence in Christ. I don't have no confidence in my flesh, your flesh, or anybody's flesh. But I have confidence in Christ and what he does and can do and is doing. Oh, bless his name.

Our Father, in the precious name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for allowing us to meet here tonight. Thank you for your precious word. Lord, there's nothing like it. And I know I went through it pretty quick, but oh Lord, it's so much truth, so much power contained in one verse. And I thank you for it. I thank you for your gospel. I thank you that though I was crucified with Christ, yet not I, the life I live not now in this old flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Bless this to the hearts and minds of your dear people who ask these things in Christ's name. I started to say that, 51, I started to say that when I first started hearing grace preachers preach, I was astonished. It just overwhelmed me to hear these fellas preach and deal with one verse of scripture, or if they dealt with five, they dealt with what they was dealing with. They didn't go all over the place.

51. All right, let me see if I can find it.

Praise the Savior, ye who know Him,
who can tell how much we owe Him.
Gladly let us render to Him
all we have.

and have.

Jesus is the name that charms us.
He for conflict fits and arms us.
Nothing moves or nothing harms us
while we trust in him.

Trust in Him, ye saints, forever.
He is faithful, changing never.
Neither force nor guile can sever
those he loves from Him.

Keep us, Lord, oh, keep us cleaving
with ourself and still believing.
Till the hour of our receiving,
promise joys with thee.

Then we shall be where we would be.
Then we shall be what we would be.
Things that are not now could true be.
Soon shall be our own.

I'll see you Sunday. God bless you.