Good evening, let's all stand
together and sing hymn number 52. Hymn number 52. Majestic sweetness sits enthroned
upon the Saviour's brow, His head with radiant glories crowned,
His lips with grace o'erflow, His lips with grace o'erflow. No mortal can with Him compare
Among the sons of men. Fairer is He than all the fair
Who fill the heavenly train, Who fill the heavenly train. He saw me plunged in deep distress
and flew to my relief. For me he bore the shameful cross
and carried all my grief. And carried all my grief To Him
I owe my life and breath And all the joys I have He makes
me triumph over death And saves me from the grave And saves me
from the grave Be seated and we'll sing hymn
number 509. 509. The sands of time are sinking,
the dawn of heaven breaks. The summer morn I've sighed for,
the fair sweet morn awakes. Dark, dark at p.m. the midnight The day spring is
at hand And boring, boring travel In Emmanuel's name O Christ,
He is the fount The deep, sweet well of water On earth I've tasted, For deep
I'll drink above, There to an ocean pool, As His mercy doth
expand. in Emmanuel's land. Oh, I am thy beloved, and thy
beloved's He brings a poor wild sinner
into his house of wine. I stand upon his merit. O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave? Turn to your bridegroom's face
I will not gaze at glory But on my King of Grace Not at the
crown He giveth, but on His pierced head. The Lamb is all the glory of
Emmanuel's name. Before we get to Jude tonight,
I want you to turn with me to Psalm 14. Psalm 14, because I
would turn here anyway. has said in his heart, no God,
no God. They are corrupt. They have done
abominable works, none that doeth good. The Lord looketh down from
heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that
did understand, seek God. They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. None that doeth good, no not
one, have all the workers of iniquity, no knowledge, who eat
up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord. There
were they in great fear, for God is in the generation of the
righteous. Ye have shamed the counsel of
the poor, because the Lord is his refuge. Oh, that the salvation
of Israel will come out of Zion when the Lord bringeth back the
captivity of his people. Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel
shall be glad. Now, before we pray, let me mention
that Debbie Fawcett is up here in the hospital. She's, I think
she got kidney stones, I believe what her problem is. Remember her. Our Father and our God, in the
blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, how blessed we are to come into your holy presence.
Lord, we're truly thankful for what you've done for us here
at Lantana Grace Church. We're thankful for my brothers
and sisters that's so faithful. I thank you for Larry that come
and Lord, I pray you bless him and all my dear preacher brethren
that's preaching tonight. And thank you for Brad and taking
and doing what he had to do and bringing glory to you through
it. And pray for Dottie and Mike
and Dottie as they continue to grieve. Oh, the grief, I'm sure,
is awful. Lose a child, lose a son, the
only one. Please uphold them. Please give
them an abundance of grace. Be their strength. Be their comfort. Be all that they need you to
be. And Lord, we pray for Debbie.
God, we pray that you'd give the, that you'd make her where
she'd be made well and she could go back home again. And Lord,
we ask for your presence in this service tonight. Ask for your
presence and your power. We need you. Oh, how we need
you. Never been a time in my life
since you made me to know you that I haven't needed you, that
I don't need you. Every day of ever my life, every
day and every moment, I need you. And I'm sure your people
feel the same thing. We need you, Lord. We need your
presence. We need your power. We need your
grace. We need your mercy. We need your
peace. We need your strength. We need you. So bring glory to
yourself tonight in this service and do it for Christ's sake.
Amen. M number 118. 118. When I surveyed the wondrous
cross, On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I
count but false, And poor contempt on all my pride. Forbidden Lord that I should
boast Save in the death of Christ my God All the vain things that
charm me most I sacrifice them to His blood. Safe from his head, his hands,
his feet. Sorrow and love flow me good
now. Did e'er such love and sorrow
meet? O'er the ramparts we watched,
were so gallantly streaming? Amen. I want to talk about common. Common
salvation. Common salvation. He said in
verse 3, Beloved, When I gave all diligence to write unto you,
he was diligent to do it. Diligent to do it. To write unto
you of the common salvation. It was needful for me to write
unto you. Needful for me to tell you about
these things. And exhort that you should earnestly
contend for the faith which were once delivered unto the saints. You know, he wrote to these people,
because everything about the Lord's people, God's people,
the elect people, all have all things in common in certain ways
that the world doesn't have in common. Most people think that
when they think of something common, they think of cheap,
worth little. But oh, no. Oh, no. You know,
in Mark's 1237, The scripture says the common people heard
him gladly. Common people heard him gladly.
You know, and this common salvation is enjoyed by all of the followers
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it's enjoyed at this present
time by the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. If it didn't,
it wouldn't be called common, wouldn't be common. And we all
have things in common. And you know, the thing we have
in common, first and foremost, is that we all are common in
our natures. We're all common in our natures.
We all come from the same place. We all come from the same blood.
We all come from all walks of life. We all come from the same
blood. We all descended from Adam. We
all have a fallen, sinful nature. We're all alike like that. And
there's no sense pretending that it's not that way. And that's
why I read to you earlier tonight that they're about, the fool
says, there's no God. God said, well, there's none
righteous, no, not one. There's none that understand.
There's none, they're going out of the way. None seeks God, none
understands. But listen, one thing that we
have in common is not only that we're sinful and fallen children,
fallen of God's people, but here's the thing about it. The same
God that when we was fallen in sin and nature, we have salvation
from sin. We all have that in common, salvation
from sin. We'd be awful to be in sin and
not be saved from sin. That's one thing all of us have
in common. We've been saved from sin. God
saves us from this fallen nature. God saves us. Let me say it this
way. God saves us first and foremost
from the power of sin. Sin no longer has to be over
us. Why? Because you're not under
law but under grace. And then he saves us from the
penalty of sin, which is death. And then He saves us from the
pleasure of sin. God will not let His people enjoy
sin. He never has and never will.
And one of these days, bless His name, we'll be saved from
the presence of sin. But that's one thing that we
all have. We have that fallen nature. But, oh, God comes along
and He saves us from our sin, saves us from this present evil
world. And, oh, my. Tell you something
else we are coming in. We all have a common need. Every
one of us have a common need. Every single one of us. Do you
need Christ? Yes. Do you need forgiveness? Yes. Do you need mercy? Yes. Do you need strength? Yes. Do you need hope? Yes. Do you
need peace? Yes. Everything that I need,
I find in Christ. And I always have a need. That's
one thing that every believer has in common. Their need, the
older they get, the greater the need. I mean, you know, the closer
we get to the end, the more you understand how needy you are. It's awful for folks that don't
have a need. That's why people can be talked
into salvation. If you got a need, And that's
why, I think it's in, I think it's in Luke 11. Let me see if
it says that's right. Let me look in Luke 11. I want
to show you something if I can, if I remember where it's at.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, Luke 11. I think there's a verse of scripture
over here that I just remembered about, and I hope that it's, I can find it. Yep. Well, what it is, is that
I can't find it right now, but it says this, if I could find
it, where he says, those that had a need came unto him. Everyone that had a need came
unto him. And that's what he did. He's
talking about they that have a need. And oh my, that's what
we need. Mary said she had the need. And so that God gave her the
need and met her need. And oh, they said, our Lord said
he, well, I couldn't find it, but go back over. But I know
it's there if I just take, if I could just find it. That's
what, but anyway, we're all common in our need. We all need righteousness. We all need a new birth. Everything
is common. We have common in need. And we
have common in seeing our need. The only way we can have it is
through revelation. Look with me in Luke, excuse
me, Acts 17, 1726. Look with me in Acts 1726. You
know, we all have this in common. You don't see your need apart
from revelation, apart from God revealing that to you. God raking
you to understand that you have a need. And once he makes you
understand that need, you'll stay in need all the days of
your life. Look what he said in verse 17, 26. And this is
what I'm talking about. And hath made of one blood all
nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. Everybody
come from one blood. And he hath before or determined
the times appointed and the bounds of their habitation. He said,
this is where you're going to live. This is where you come
from. And everybody wherever, no matter
what language you speak, no matter where you are on the planet,
he said, we all come from one blood. And God set our bounds. He has our appointments. And
everything's already set, you know, for us and everybody else
in this world. And I tell you, one blood, one
Father, all of us sinners, and all we need God. We have all
these things in common, and we desperately, desperately need
the Lord. And you know the thing is, isn't it, that we have to
have a new birth because of our fallen nature. Now, I'm going
to tell you something else about this common salvation. It's common.
We all have these things in common. But here's the thing about it.
It comes from one source. salvation that's common only
to God's people because it comes from one source, from God Himself. When we talk salvations of the
Lord, that's exactly what we mean, that everything comes from
God. All things, all theology, all
understanding must start with God. The Bible starts with God. In the beginning, God. Hebrews
1 and 1 starts with God. God who hath declared, God who
hath spoken unto the fathers by the prophets. And let me show
you something else in Hebrews. Keep Jude and look over here
in Hebrews. Hebrews starts with God and ends with God. Hebrews
chapter 13 starts with God and ends with God. And our Lord Jesus
said, I thank you, O Father, heaven and earth, that thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed
them unto babes, because it seemed good in your sight. What's good
in God's sight is all that matters. And look what he said here in
verse 20 and 21, Hebrews chapter 13. Now the God of peace start
to end with God. that brought again from the dead
our Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd of the sheep through
the blood of the everlasting coming, make you perfect in every
good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing
in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and
ever. And then from there he does a
little exhortation, but it starts with God and it ends with God.
And that's what salvation does. It starts with God and it's going
to end with God. And I tell you, not only is it
because it comes from God. Oh, we all got that in common.
You know, if God hadn't come, and this is the way I say it,
I've said it so many times, God has to break in on a man. God
has to break in on a man. He has to come to a man and he
has to exert power. He has to exert power. He has
to change a man's nature. He has to change a man's heart.
He has to change a man's mind. And everything about that man,
God breaks in on him and has to change him. And I'll tell
you what, and it begins with God. Everything begins with God. You know, God who has from beginning
chosen us to salvation. Thanks be unto God who hath. We got this idea that you know
people God our Lord Jesus Christ come from God He said I come
forth from my father I And there's God and Him and God, Him and
His Father, they come in to devise this salvation, come up with
this salvation, that all power belongs unto God. I've heard
it once, yea, twice, that all power belongs unto Him. I heard
it from the Bible, and then I heard it in my heart, that all power
belongs unto God. And I tell you, there ain't no
power but God. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
I come from God, and I'm going to go back to God. And I'll tell
you something else about our common salvation. It's common
faith. It's common salvation. It's all
of grace. It's all of grace. Ain't that
what it says? That it's earnestly condemned for the faith which
was delivered unto the saints. It was delivered to us. This
salvation's delivered to us. It's brought to us. Delivered
to us. We wasn't expecting it. And we
wasn't standing there with our hands out and waiting for somebody
to give it to us. No, it was delivered unto us. This faith
was. And it's all of grace that was
delivered unto us. And I'll tell you, grace, we
can't preach on grace enough. We can't mention grace enough.
We can't talk about grace enough. And oh, this is why, this is
why we, it's all of grace, because look what it says down here in
verse four. For there are certain men crept
in unawares, and oh, they do it. They were old ordained to
this condemnation, this judgment, ungodly men, turning the grace
of our God into lasciviousness. They turned the grace of God
into a sinful excuse and a reason to continue in sin. Shall we
continue in sin that grace may abound? Paul said, God forbid,
how can we that are dead to sin continue longer therein? But
there are people who through turning the grace of God and
They call them antinomians. What that means is, is that they
have no restraint whatsoever. They use grace as a reason and
an excuse to do anything they want to do. And you know, I read
something today and I didn't write it down, but it says they,
they know the doctrine of grace, but they don't know the grace
of the doctrine. And there's people that know
the doctrine of grace, but they don't know the grace of the doctrine.
If grace comes to you, it makes you gracious. If grace comes
to you, and for by grace are you saved through faith, and
that not of yourselves, it's God's gift, not of works. If it was of works, man would
brag and brag and brag and brag, and most of them do brag and
brag and brag. And oh my, and I tell you, you
know, 2 Timothy 1.9, I've quoted it so many times, and I tell
you, you need to look at it sometimes. It starts out, God has saved
us in the past tense, and called us with a holy calling, not according
to our works, but his own purpose and grace, which was given us
in Christ Jesus before the world ever began. Grace, grace, grace. That's all we're saying, oh,
marvelous, matchless grace. And oh, listen, it faded when
he was delivered. And you know, and I'll tell you
something else about, they even denied the Lord Jesus Christ.
They deny his power. They deny his blood. They deny
his righteousness. They deny their need of him.
They can cooperate with him. They do all kinds of things.
But it's all of grace. I preached to those folks up
there and I said there's never, never at any time, any time that
our fingers has anything to do with our salvation. We didn't
do nothing to get it. We didn't do nothing to get rid
of it. And there's nothing that'll ever happen that God will refuse
to give us grace. We did not have, you know, we
did nothing to become sinners, born that way. We didn't do nothing
to become saints. God did that. God did that. And you can't tell, you know,
we couldn't change ourselves, but God does. And if it hadn't been for the
grace of God, there wouldn't be a soul saved on the top side
of God's earth, not one. People say, oh my, well, we got
to earn a blessing. Then it ceases to be grace the
minute you start earning. The minute you start working,
the minute you, I think Todd said it this, he said, I don't
want my fingerprints on nothing other than God's done. I don't want my fingerprints
on nowhere, nowhere. And then, oh, here's another
one that's a common for us in God's people. It's common because
the gospel is unto all and upon all them that believe. That's
what I love about the gospel. It's unto all and upon all them
that believe. I'm so grateful that salvation,
a fellow say, you know, men send their self to hell.
Listen, that man can't send himself nowhere. He can't save himself
and he can't do anything for himself. But here's the thing
about it. The gospel, the gospel is the power of God. Only the
gospel. I read something a guy's talking
the other day about, you know, a man's gotta be regenerated,
but God uses the word to give people life. Faith comes by hearing,
hearing by the gospel. And Paul says, you know, I'm
not ashamed of this gospel. I'm not ashamed of the fact that
I'm a sinner in need of saving. I'm not ashamed of the fact that
I disowned everything that I ever believed in and trust Christ
alone. I'm not ashamed of the fact that
I'm a Jew and I believe the gospel. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not
ashamed of Christ. I'm not ashamed of the cross.
I'm not ashamed of his suffering. I'm not ashamed of his death.
I'm not ashamed of Christ and all the things. I'm not ashamed
of the gospel. Oh my. You know, it's the gospel
under all. I want you to keep Jude, look
with me over in Ephesians chapter one. Ephesians chapter one. You know,
I know why you're looking, you probably don't hear me, but Paul
said, I marvel, I marvel that you're so soon removed from the
grace of Christ unto another gospel, which is really not another
gospel. I marvel, he said, I just absolutely
marvel. And what was the other gospel
that they preached? Except you be circumcised, you
can't be a believer. Except you keep the law of Moses,
you can't be saved. Except you get, you know, and
live a holy life, you can't be saved. Except you be circumcised,
you can't be saved. And Paul said, I marvel. I just
stand astonished that you would be turned from the grace of Christ
to another gospel. Another gospel. But look what
he said here in Ephesians 1, 12. 13. That we should be to the praise
of his glory who first trusted in Christ. That word trusted
in the margin says who hoped. And listen to this. And whom
also you trusted. Listen now. After that you heard
the word of truth. The gospel of your salvation. And then after you heard that
gospel and you believed that gospel, you trusted Christ. And then after that, you were
sealed. Who sealed you? The Holy Spirit put his mark
on you. You know, a seal is something
somebody puts on something. God put a seal on all his people.
Having this seal, the Lord knows them that are his. And, oh, my. So I tell you, it's unto all
men and unto and upon all men that believe. And, you know,
Sunday morning, people will come in here, and there's some people
that they've been coming for a long, long time, and they come
fairly regular, and yet they've never believed the gospel. Now,
is it my fault? Is it your fault? You know what
it is? They haven't seen a need. And
when you see a need, and the only time you'll ever see a need
is for the gospel to come to you in power. And I'll tell you
another thing about it. The gospel still comes to us
in power. And I'm very grateful it still
comes to us in power. I'd hate to have an old dead
letter to go to. Oh my, it's common. It's common
because the gospel's done too all upon all them that believe.
Look here in Jude with me. Look at the order of salvation
here. Them that are sanctified by God
the Father. Here's salvation in three persons. Sanctified by God the Father,
set apart, made holy, preserved in Christ Jesus. Preserved. And then called. First you're
sanctified, you're preserved, then you're called. Now you can
say called, sanctified, and then preserved. But it's still the
Lord, which is the way you come at it. It's still the Lord. Oh
my. And what I'm saying is, all that's
of God. The Father, the Son, the Holy
Ghost, they're all in there. And you know it's all of God,
no free will, no works, no merit, no saving yourselves. And this
is the common faith and the common salvation we all contend for. We contend for it. And oh my,
let me tell you something else. We have, we all have this common
faith, common faith. Now what do I mean by common
faith? We have the doctrine of faith.
One faith common to all of God's saints. Now you keep this and
look with me over in Titus. Titus is read for the book of
Hebrews. Look over here at Titus. I want to show you something
that Paul told Titus. Titus, look what he says here.
Titus 1.4. what he says. Give me a chance
to get there. To Titus, my own son, after the
common faith, grace unto you, mercy and peace from God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior. See, we all have
the same Savior. We all have the same faith. And
when I mean faith, I'm talking about Our objective faith, not
our subjective faith. Everybody has different degrees
of subjective faith, but I'm talking about objective faith. We talk about objective faith,
that means faith that goes outside. Our salvation completely happened
outside ourselves. Everything was done outside.
Christ, when He died, He took care of everything that we'd
ever need for time and eternity. Before God ever put Adam in the
garden, He had a Savior ready for His people. And I'll tell
you one faith common to all of God's people, and that faith
is a faith that looks to Christ and Christ alone. And that's
what we, our faith is in Christ crucified, Christ crucified. I want to show you something.
I hope I'm not taking too long, but look over with me in 1 Corinthians
chapter 1. 1 Corinthians chapter 1. You know, how, when we talk about
salvation, Christ crucified, we preach Him as the power of
God and the wisdom of God. Now, what do I mean by the power
of God? by which God saves us. And in the wisdom, He's the wisdom
by which God saved us. How that God can be a just God,
that's where the power is, and the wisdom, how God can be a
just God and justify us and us sinners. How can He do that? And that's what He's talking
about here. Look what it says in verse 22. The Jews require
a sign. Oh, how many times did they ask
our Savior, give us a sign, show us a sign. And the Greeks, all
they wanted to do is stand there and talk about, you know, something
new that they hear, something new. And they said, this wisdom
of a salvation by a man on a cross, that's foolishness to us. But
we, we preach Christ crucified. Unto the Jew, they stumble over
it. They've got the law. They got Moses. They got the
ceremonies. They got the rituals. And unto
the Greeks, it's foolishness. Oh, we don't need a cross. We
don't need saving by somebody's blood. But unto them that are
called, whether you're a Jew or whether you're a Gentile,
Christ, God's power. Christ, God's wisdom. And I mean
God shows us that Christ in his wisdom and God in his power,
he uses Christ to show us how he can be just and justify sinners
in Christ. Paul told the Hebrews, he says,
hold fast your profession of faith. Hold fast to it without
wavering, without wavering. And oh my, our Lord said, without
me, you can do nothing. And I want to look in Hebrews
4 with me. I hope I'm not... I always feel
about this. I don't know why it bothers me.
Hebrews 4. Look what it said here in 414, talking about, you know, this
is our doctrine of faith. Our faith, common to all God's
saints. We believe with Christ and Christ, not only Christ,
but Christ as a sacrifice for us, as a crucified for us. And
look what he said here in verse 14, Hebrews 4, 14. Seeing then that we have a great
high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the son of
God, let's hold fast our perfection. I mean, hold fast to it. Don't
waver on that profession. What's our profession? What do
we profess? We profess Christ and Him crucified. We profess Christ bearing our
sins. We confess Christ being God's
wisdom and power. For we have not a high priest
where cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmity,
but was in all points tempted like as us, yet without sin. Oh my, let's listen to it now.
Let us, let us come boldly unto the throne of grace. That we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in time of need. Oh my. All right, let me move to the
next one. Ephesians chapter four. Ephesians chapter four. I'm having
you all all over the place. But I think this is what we need. You know, when we talk about
the doctrine of faith, one faith, common salvation, look what he
says here in Ephesians 4.4. Now, this is so easy to understand. When we talk about the doctrine
of faith, common faith, we all have, there's one body One Spirit, even as you're called
in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all
and in you all. One. Just one. You can't get no simpler than
that. One. One righteousness, one faith,
one justification, one Savior, one way, one death, one sacrifice,
once for all. And we know that no man can come
unto the Father but by Jesus Christ. And all of God's saints
have the same common salvation. All of grace, all have faith
in different degrees, We have the same nature, the same object,
Christ, and all of it's an operation of God. Colossians, I think it's
2.12 says that this faith is the operation of God. What does
that mean? That God operates on us and gives
us faith. This is God's operation. This
is, God said, this is my operation. This is what I'm doing. You keep
your hands out of it. Keep your hands out of it. Oh,
my. And I tell you, we have the same
precious faith, cleansed by the same blood, the precious blood,
have the same hope. Look with me in Acts 241. I'm
going to show you something. I hope I can anyway. Acts 241. Look what he says. Oh, we have the
same faith. It's precious faith. Cleansed
by the same blood. Precious blood. Have the same
hope. All stand on common ground. Look
what he said here. Then they that gladly received
his word were baptized. And the same day there were added
unto them about three thousand souls. And continued steadfastly
in the apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread.
And fear came upon all soul, every soul, and many wonders
and signs. And listen to this now. And all
that believed were together and had all things common. They started out common and they
kept on. They had everything in common.
All have a common need. All in need of grace and mercy
and power. And I'll tell you something else
we all have in common. Trials, and heartaches, and burdens,
and losses. We all have those in common.
Everybody that believes, you just hold on. You just hold on. If you're not in trouble, you're
going into trouble. If you're not into trouble, you're
coming out of trouble, or you're in trouble. That's just the way,
that's what we call life. And I tell you, but here's the
thing. We, we, we don't act like the world does. And I'll tell
you what we don't regard as common. Look over in Acts 10. Let me
show you what we don't call common. There's some things we call this
common and some things we don't call common. In Acts chapter
10, over here in Acts chapter 10,
look in verse 10. You know, they sent after Simon
Peter to come and and preach, but he didn't know it. The 10th hour, look it says in
verse 10, and he became very hungry and would have eaten,
but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, saw heaven
open and a certain vessel descending up to him as had been great sheet
knit at the four corners and let down to the earth. wherein
were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild
beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the earth. And there
came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill, and eat. But Peter said,
Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common
or unclean. And the voice spake unto him
again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call thou
common. call not thou common. This is
drawn three times when he was received again up into heaven.
And I tell you then look down in verse 28. He went over to
Cornelius's house and he went over there to preach
and God had to teach him said boy what God's cleansed don't
you call it unclean. Look what he says now. And he
said unto them you know how that it is an unlawful thing For a
man that is a Jew, see he said, unlawful to keep company or come
unto another of another nation. But God has shown me that I should
not call any man common or unclean. They're mine. I'll tell you something
else we don't call. They call the blood of the covenant
a common thing, an unholy thing. You know, they count, as he said
in Hebrews 10, 29, they call the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. They tread underfoot the blood
of Christ. Can you imagine trampling underfoot
the blood of Christ? They call it, you know, they
said it's ineffectual. They say it's common to every
soul on the earth. But whenever they tread underfoot,
call it a thing that's for everybody and walk on it and walk on it
and make it ineffectual, make it where it has no power to it.
But the blood is holy. The blood is cleansing. It was
shed for God's people and God's people alone. And it accomplished
its end. It accomplished what God intended
to. It's called the blood of the
covenant. And it's the common theme. through all of the scriptures,
that this salvation was in an afterthought of God. People think,
you know, well, God put, you know, Adam in the garden, now
what am Merle and I gonna do to get out of this mess? I created
a man, he didn't do right. What am I gonna do? I'll tell
you what I'll do, I'll make another person, see if they can stand.
I'll trust Noah, I'll trust, no, no, God never trusted him,
only his son, but oh my, It were all salvation that wasn't an
afterthought of God. You look at Noah and the ark. Before it ever rained, God had
a place for Noah to be. Abraham went out not even knowing where
he was going to crawl, offered up his own son, the Passover
lamb. God had a Passover lamb before
Israel could come out of Egypt. There's a rock in that wilderness.
God had everything we need. We needed water? God had a rock. Christ is that rock. Needed manna? He gave it to them every day.
And we ain't got it. Now Christ is our manna. And
then the tabernacle? Everything about that tabernacle.
Christ tabernacled among us. And just like that tabernacle
in the wilderness, all you see it was an old badger's tent.
And all people saw in Christ was just a man. until God opened
their eyes and they saw, this is my salvation in all of it. All of it. Oh my. Well, I don't know what we'll
do next week, but we'll, something will be, the Lord will give us
something. But I hope that's a blessing to you and I hope
I didn't preach too long. Our Father, in the blessed name
of Christ our Lord, Thank you for allowing us to meet here
tonight. Thank you again for your gospel. Thank you for the
truth as it is in Christ. Lord, we all have a need, and
I'm so thankful. We all have the same love, all
have the same need, all look to Christ alone, all look for
our salvation outside ourselves. God bless my dear brothers and
sisters as they go their way. God bless my dear brethren that's
listening and please continue to bless Debbie and let her be
made whole and go home and pray for Mike and Dottie again with
their great grief and sorrow. Oh Lord, forgive us of everything
that's unlike you and bring glory to yourself through us for Christ's
sake. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation so rich and free. I'll see you Sunday. I'm going to, the next week or
two, start preaching out of the book of Luke, I believe. Luke
or John, I don't know.