Good evening. Let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 226. 226. I am not skilled to understand
what God hath willed, what God hath planned. I only know at His right hand
is one who is my Savior. I take Him at His word indeed. Christ died for sinners, this
I read. For in my heart I find a need
of one to be my Savior. That he should leave his place
on high And come forcing full men to die You count it strange,
so once did I Before I knew my Savior And oh, that He fulfilled,
may seem, The travel of His soul in me, And with His work contented
be, As I with my dear Savior. Ye living, dying, let me bring
my strength, my solace from this spring. That he who lives to
be my king wants I to be my savior. Be seated. Just a few pages back,
we'll sing hymn number 222. There is a fountain filled with
blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins And sinners plunged beneath that
flood Purse all their guilty stains Loose all their guilty
stains Loose all their guilty stains And sinners plunged beneath
that flood Loose all their guilty stains The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day. And there may I, though vile
as he, wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. And there may I, though vile
as He, Wash all my sins away. Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious
blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church
of God Be safe to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more. Till all the ransomed Church
of God Be safe to sin no more. E'er since by faith I saw the
stream, Thy flowing wounds sublime, Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die. Red shall be till I die Red shall
be till I die Redeeming love has been my thing Red shall be
till I die When this poor, this being's stammering tongues Lie
silent in the grave, Then in a nobler, sweeter song I'll sing
thy power to save. I'll sing thy power to save. I'll sing thy power to save. And in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save. Good evening. Will we turn to
Psalm 115? Psalm 115. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but to thy name give glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth's
sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens.
He hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Their idols are silver
and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak
not. They have eyes, but they see not. They have ears, but
they hear not. They have noses. Noses have they,
but they smell not. They have hands, but they handle
not. Feet have they, but they walk not. Neither speak they
through their throat. They that make them are like
unto them, so is every one that trusteth in them. O Israel, trust
thou in the Lord. He is their help and their shield.
O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord. He is their help and their
shield. Ye that fear the Lord, trust
in the Lord. He is their help and their shield.
The Lord hath been mindful of us. He will bless us. He will
bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.
He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great. The Lord shall increase you more
and more, and you and your children. You are blessed of the Lord,
which made the heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens,
are the Lord's, but the earth hath he given to the children
of men. The dead, praise not the Lord, neither any that go
down into silence. But we will bless the Lord from
this time forth and forevermore. Praise the Lord. Almighty God, we thank you again
for this day, Lord. Thank you so much. We thank you
for this place that you've given us together, Lord. We pray that
you would have mercy on us, Lord, for what's not like you. We ask
that you would cause us to to try to be more like you, Lord,
to love you, and please, Lord, draw us unto you, draw us closer,
nearer to you, Lord, please. Lord, if you would, have mercy
on our families that don't know you, Lord. We thank you for our
pastor, Lord, and for his work here, and for studying and telling
us the truth, Lord. There's so many places that don't
ever hear it. Lord, we thank you, and for all
these things we ask in Christ's name, amen. No copyright infringement is
intended on this. It's written by Dwayne Allen
and Sawyer Powell, released by the Oak Ridge Boys. He did it
all for me. Once a man who we know is the
son of God hung upon a cruel tree. He suffered pain as no mortal
man He took my place. He did it all for me. He did it all for me. Each drop of blood. When the Savior cried, that His
hand died, O praise the Lord, He did it all for me. When I step just inside of the
gates of Rome and the Master's face I see. I'll gladly kneel at his nail-scarred
feet. Oh, praise the Lord. He did it all for me. He did it all for me. Each drop of blood he shed for
even me. When the Savior cried, bowed
his head, and I, oh, praise the Lord, he gave me the hope for
me. Let's sing this together, guys. I love God. I love God. I love
God. I love God. I love God. I love God. I love God. I love God. I love God. ? And reaches to the lowest hell
? The guilty man bowed down with care ? God gave his son to win
? His erring child he reconciled ? And pardoned from his sin ?
O love of God how rich and pure How measureless and strong it
shall forevermore endure, the saints' and angels' song. Amen. Romans chapter 4 Romans chapter 4 I want to Talk about the promise is sure
the promise is sure There in Romans 4 16. I know I've been
preaching through Romans but yet here's something that I Want
to go back and deal with the promise is sure that Romans 4.16,
Therefore it is of faith by grace to the end, the purpose being
that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that
only which is of the law, but that which is the faith of Abraham,
who is the father of us all. Now remember when down there
in verse 6, David describes the man that the Lord imputeth not
righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are those whose
iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Now there's
a people on this earth that an infinitely thrice holy God, God
who is righteous and just and thrice holy, there's a people
on this earth that God will not impute their sin to. And He called
them a blessed people, a blessed people. And He would not impute,
there's a lot of people in this world, and that's what a blessed
thing indeed, for God not to impute sin to a person, to have
their sins put away. God Himself said, I do not charge
or reckon their sins to be on thy account. And oh my, you know,
and the scriptures tells us that all of us have sinned. All have
sinned. All have missed or come short
of the glory of God. I wonder how far short we've
come of the glory of God. How far did we miss the glory
of God? All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. I was probably some people said,
well, I missed it by about that much. You know, we missed the glory
of God. We missed the mark of the glory of God by an infinite,
infinite number. We didn't even get close. You
know, you shoot an arrow and you know, I, I couldn't shoot
it far. And if I had a target to hit,
I wouldn't even hit the, I wouldn't even come close to the target.
And that's what we're talking about here. We missed the glory
of God. We missed, we missed the mark. We missed the mark, come short
of the glory of God. And I tell you, not only did
we all become sinners and miss the mark, come short of the glory
of God, but we still come short of the glory of God. Even though
it's in our heart, it's in our soul, it's in our will to glorify
God. By what we say, by what we think,
by what we talk about, by what we believe about Him, we want
to glorify God. And how does this blessedness
of sin not being imputed to us? You know, it says we've all sinned.
Well, how in the world would this have come short of the glory
of God? How's this blessedness gonna
come upon us then? Well, look what he said here
in Romans 4, 3. What does the scripture say?
We wanna find out anything that's going on, see what the Bible
has to say about it. And the scripture says, Abraham
believed God. And God said, You re righteous, you re a righteous man, you re
righteous. Here s one of those men that
God didn t impute his righteousness, without works He imputed righteousness,
without any works involved in it. And you know the Scriptures
tells us by FAITH he obtained a good report. Who gave him a
good report? God did, God did. And oh, that
s what He says here in verse 16. You know it s a FAITH Salvation
and the promise of salvation is received by WORKS, by EFFORTS,
by CEREMONIES, by RITUALS, by being a member of a particular
CHURCH. And FAITH, NOTHING honors God
more than FAITH does. FAITH! FAITH! That s why it says
by FAITH ABLED obtained a good report. By FAITH Enoch retained
a good report. By faith, Abraham retained a
good report. Who gave them that report? God
himself did. By faith, they obtained the promise. By faith, Moses endured as seeing
him who is invisible. Nothing honors God. God said
that Abraham, because he believed him. And you think of the promise
that God made to him. Abraham, look at the stars. That's how many children you're
going to have. And then go over here and stand in this desert
and look at all the sand, and that's how many children you're
going to have. Now, there's a heavenly children and there's an earthly
children. The heavenly children and the
earthly children, there's a great difference between the two. But
Abraham, he believed that what God said, I believe that's gonna
happen. I believe I'm gonna have that
many children. And God said, he didn't even have a child yet.
So nothing honors God more than faith, nothing does. and the
scriptures teach plainly that salvation is by the Lord Jesus
Christ by faith, receiving Christ by faith, not by works, but by
believing, not by doing, not by doing. We didn t do anything
to become sinners. What did you do to become a sinner?
Nothing. and you ain't gonna do anything
to be saved. Christ's gonna do it. But yet you have to trust
Christ. Well, we're in the world, and
that's what I'm gonna talk about, where we get this faith. There are two
reasons the Lord Jesus reveals to us in this verse of Scripture
why salvation is received by believing and not doing. Look
what he says. And therefore it is a faith.
Now watch what it says here, that it might be by grace. You know why you believe? Because
of grace. That's what He's telling us here.
You know, grace and works, grace and works. Look here in Romans
3, 24, and look what He said here. He's talking about justification
now, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption,
through the payment price, through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know that this promise is sure, that's what I'm talking
about, the promise is sure. How can the promise be sure?
Because it's of grace, that's why it's sure. Grace and works
are opposites, they're opposites. Oh my, they pull apart from one
another. Grace and works, they just don't
mix like oil and water, they don't mix. And grace and faith,
they're united, they're united together. My that's what they're
united together look in Romans 11 6 Go over here in Romans that
faith and grace and faith are united they come together But
oh, no grace and works are just absolutely the opposite thing
Why would God give grace and faith and then tell you that
you have to do something, but look what he says here now? It says in verse 5 even so at this present time
also there is a remnant according to the election of grace." He
said there s an election, and there s just a handful of them,
and that s what we re in today. There s a remnant, and no matter
where you go there s a remnant, and that remnant is an election
of grace. God saved this remnant by election,
and election s by the grace of God. And so he goes on to say
then, if it's by grace then, as if election, this remnant
of the saved by grace, elections by grace, then if it's of grace,
then works don't enter into it. Otherwise, grace would not be
grace if works enter into it. And then if it's works, then
it can't possibly be grace. You can't have the both of them.
And that's what he's telling us here. And oh my, faith. Let me tell you something, FAITH
IS THE FRUIT, FAITH IS THE FRUIT OF THE SOVEREIGN GRACE OF GOD
ALMIGHTY. HE GIVES IT TO SINNERS IN REGENERATION. WHEN GOD REGENERATES A MAN AND
SAVES A MAN, WHAT HE DOES IS HE GIVES HIM FAITH IN REGENERATION,
AND REGENERATION IS NOTHING BUT THE NEW BIRTH. John said it like
this, he says, EVERYONE THAT BELIEVETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST,
WHAT IS HE? HE'S BORN OF GOD. Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible by the Word
of God, and it's an incorruptible seed. And so the faith, faith
that we have, it's the fruit of the sovereign grace of God
Almighty. You know, I say, you all know
this verse of Scripture. You've heard it quoted many times.
Every one of you probably could quote it yourself. Ephesians
2.8, for by grace are you saved through faith. And that not of
yourselves. That faith is not of yourselves.
It's the gift of God. Not of works. Why is it not of
works? Because if it was works, man
would boast. Ain't that right? If man has
anything to do with it, he gonna tell you about it. And that's
what he's talking about. Faith traces its existence. all the way back in his cause
and his reason for existence and purpose, all back to the
grace of God given us in Christ before the world began. Paul
said in 1 Corinthians 15, 10, he said, by the grace of God,
I am what I am. He said this, he said, when it
pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called
me by his grace. And I said, he said, call me
by His grace, separated me from my mother's womb, save me by
His grace, teach me by His grace, and enables me to do anything
that I do is by His grace. I'm an apostle by the grace of
God. I preach by the grace of God, and I preach the gospel
of the grace of God. And oh, he said, I will not frustrate
the grace of God by, if Christ, if salvation is by work, Christ
is dead in vain, is what Paul said. I'm not gonna frustrate
it. And oh my, you faith, where you gonna trace it to? Where'd
you get it at? Man think, you know, preachers think that they
tell men you're born with it, all you gotta do is exercise
it. I exercise a lot. I go to the gym, Shirley goes
to the gym, I've been running since 1994, and still do it,
and I do a lot of exercises. But one thing I can't do, I didn't
have faith that I could exercise. You know where I got it? I got
it from God, and grace gave it to me. And I could not exercise
it until He gave it to me. And I tell you what, and if He
don't keep that faith alive, It'll get so cold and it'll get
to all mine. But I tell you, true saving faith,
when it's sovereignly, and that's what I mean, you know, God don't
give it to every man. Faith, everybody don't have faith.
God, when he sovereignly gives faith to a sinner, a true saving
faith, that sinner quickly recognizes that it's the gift of God. that
God gave it to him. There was a time he didn't have
it. There was a time he didn't know what it was. There was a
time he wished he had it. And oh my, he quickly, quickly
recognizes it's the gift of God. And he glorifies Him alone and
attributes it all to Him. You read it tonight. Not unto
us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory. Huh? You're the one that gets all
the glory. LET NO MAN GLORY IN MAN, IF ANY MAN GLORY, LET HIM
GLORY IN THE LORD. FOR CHRIST IS MADE UNTO US WISDOM,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, SANCTIFICATION, AND REDEMPTION. And I'll tell
you what, Philippians 129 says this, It's given you, it's given
you on the behalf of Christ to believe on His name. God had
to give that to you to believe on His name. Oh, the faith of God's elect.
You know what it does? The first thing the faith of
God's elect does, you know what it does? It acknowledges the
truth. When God gives you faith, the first thing you do is you
acknowledge the truth. What do you acknowledge the truth about?
I need God to do the salvation. I ain't got nothing. I can't
bring nothing. I ain't got nothing. I can't produce anything. I can't
save myself. I don't have any faith. How in
the world could God do anything for me? And so I tell you what,
it acknowledges the truth, first of all, that you NEED saving,
and that there's only one person that can save you, and that's
the Lord Jesus Christ. You acknowledge the truth that you are a sinner,
not a big sinner, a little sinner, anything. We don't have to put
qualifications and put any adjective before sinner. We don't have
to do that. Just say sinner. You don't say, Well, a sensible
sinner, a repentant sinner. Listen, just a sinner, and that's
the first thing you acknowledge, I'm a sinner. God's holy, God's righteous,
God's just, God's sovereign. He don't have to do a thing for
me. And that there's only one person, there's only one Savior,
and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, we acknowledge the truth.
We acknowledge the truth that God cannot lie. We acknowledge
the truth that salvation's of the Lord. And faith, faith, faith
never looks at itself, but looks outside itself. And look what
he said here. We went through this the other
night, but look what he said here in verse 19 of chapter four,
back over in Romans four. Look what he says here. Faith
never looks itself, but looks outside itself. Look what he
said Abraham did. And Abraham, being not weak in
faith, he considered not his own body now dead. Now what does
he mean his body was dead? That means that he didn't think
he had the ability to produce a child. But he never thought
about it. He never sat down and said, well,
listen, there's no way in the world I can have a child. But
look what he says. Being not weak in faith, considered not
his own body now dead, when he is 100 years old. And then he looked at Sarah,
she is 90, and said, he didn t even consider what condition
she was in. She s an old, old woman, and
I m an old, old man. And he didn t even look at himself
and said, Boy, I tell you, there ain t no way in the world we
can have any children. But he wasn t weak in faith. Look what
he says now. He staggered not at the promise of God. That s
what we re talking about, the promise of being sure. He didn
t stagger at the promise of God through unbelief. No, but was
strong in faith, giving glory to God. And now this is what
I love, being fully persuaded. Oh, he was convinced beyond a
shadow of a doubt that what he had promised, he is able also
to perform. Oh, my. So I said, you know,
Abraham, he looked outside himself. If he had looked at himself,
he said, this can't happen. But he didn't look at that. He
looked at God's promise. He looked at what God promised.
God promised, I'm 100 years old. God promised I'm gonna have a
child. Sarah's 90, God promised we're
gonna have a son. God said, we're gonna have an
heir. And he believed that, he believed that. And then, oh my,
back down here in verse 16, you know, You know, it's of grace,
listen, salvation, faith is of grace. Faith that it might be
by grace. Where do we get this faith to
believe? By grace, by grace. And then look what he goes on
to say. To the end, the promise might be sure. And that's my
subject. Remember, the promise is sure. To the end, the goal
being that the promise might be sure. Now listen to this now.
To all the seed. Now who is the seed he's talking
about here? Who's the seed he's talking about? Well, first of
all, the seed, one seed, which is Christ. But Abraham, when
God told him to go have children like the stars in the heavens
and like the sand by the sea, there's two children. Abraham
had two sons. Two sons. One of them was born
of the flesh and the other was born of promise. Now look over
here in Romans 9. Look over here in Romans 9. Talking about the seed. Neither because they are the
seed of Abraham are they all children. But in Isaac, now listen
to this, Isaac, now who is Isaac? He is the promised son. He was
a supernatural born of God. God made Abraham and Sarah able
to conceive a child, and there was a promised child. and God
set the TIME that child would be born. He come to him and said,
This time next year I'm going to visit you, and you're going
to have a child. And just as sure as God was on
His throne, He visited them at that time the next year, and
they had a baby, and they named Him Isaac. And look what He goes
on to say, But in Isaac shall thy seed be called, that is,
they which are the children of the flesh. Who's the children
of the flesh? Ishmael. people of the earth, fleshly
people, people ain t interested in God, sold his birthright for
nothing. And look what he goes on to say,
These are not the children of God, but the children of the
promise through Isaac are accounted for the seed. And then God gave
another promise, At this time I will come, and Sarah shall
have a son. And that s what he done, they had a son, they had
Isaac. And then after Isaac married,
he had a wife named Rebecca, You remember that? Abraham sat
down, and remember how he sat down there to get a wife for
his son? And they conceived by one, even by a father as he.
And listen to this now. And the children, she had two
sons in her womb, and they struggled against one another in that room.
And I tell you why they struggled in that womb. One was of the
flesh, and one was of the spirit. One was loved of God and others
hated of God. And they fought in that womb. And look what happens
now. And I tell you, the children
not being yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, listen
to this, but of him that calleth. It was said unto the elder, Esau
was the elder, his first one come out. But oh my, the elder shall serve
the younger. He gonna serve Jacob. And it
is written, Jacob have I loved. You know who Jacob is? Isaac's
son. You know who Jacob become? Become
Israel. Oh my, well what are we gonna
say then? Oh my, this is not right, this
is not right, this is not right, there's nothing right about this.
Is there unrighteousness with God that He does that? God forbid,
God forbid. So we're talking about the seed.
Let me show you something else about some seed. Look in Psalm
22. So I tell you what, they struggled in the womb, those
boys did, because it was flesh and spirit. That's why we have
this, that's why we have trouble in the flesh. because we got
the Spirit of God in us and we've still got the flesh in us, and
there's a war going on in us all the time. The flesh lusts
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. But now talking
about the seed, look here in verse 30, Psalm 22, verse 30, A seed shall serve him, that
seed shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation, going
to be his people. They shall come, who are these
people? The seed that's going to serve
the Lord, but counted the Lord. And they shall come and shall
declare what? His righteousness. And all this
and unto a people that shall be born that he hath done this. Oh my, and let me show you another,
in Isaiah 43, look in Isaiah 43, I tell you this, I want this
thing about the seed established, I want us to understand and that And Isaiah 43, here's the situation. There's a heavenly seed and an
earthly seed. There's a fleshly seed and a
spiritual seed. And Christ is that one seed of
Abraham from which we all come from. Now, I use this in illustration,
and you've heard me use it before. I had nothing to do with my first
birth. I did not choose my mother, did
not choose my daddy. I did not choose my stature,
I didn't use the color of my eyes, I didn't choose how heavy
I'd be, what I'd do, my health, I didn't choose any of those
things. I'll tell you what, I had nothing to do with my new birth
and what I would be as a man, as a man, and that's the way
it is. Christ, we was in the seat of
Christ, in the Lord of Christ, and everything that we are spiritually,
We're spiritually by that incorruptible seed. What we are spiritually
is we come from the loins of Christ, that seed. And you know,
and we are the seed that come from Christ. And we are that
seed and everything we are spiritually, we got it from Christ. Is that
not right? What we are spiritually, what we know, how we grow, what
we see, what we understand, how we mature, what we know, what
we believe, that all come. And oh, but look what it said
here now in Isaiah 43 and verse 5, Fear not, I am with thee. Listen to what He said now. Now
He s talking to you. I will bring thy seed from the
east, and I am going to gather them from the west. I'm gonna
go all as far as the east goes, and I'm gonna go as far as the
west goes, and I'm gonna gather you seed. And I'll even say to
the north, give up, and to the south, don't keep them back.
Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the
earth. Everyone that's called by my
name, I've created him for my glory, yea, I formed him, yea,
I have made him. Oh my, and that's the reason
the promise is sure, because there's a seed. There's a seed,
and that seed that we're in Christ, and that seed that was promised
to Abraham, that's what's gonna happen. Christ, the scripture
said, he shall see his seed, in Isaiah 53, 10, he shall see
his seed and shall be satisfied. And then here's another thing
about Romans 4, 16. And therefore it is of faith,
that it is by grace, to the end, that the promise might be sure
to all the seed, to all the seed. And here s another thing, to
the end that the promise might be sure to all. The promise is
sure to all this seed. Now let me ask you something.
If salvation is determined by the will of man, would it be
sure? Huh? If it depended upon the
works of a sinner, would the promise be sure? If it depended upon anything
done, said, or accomplished by a sinner, would it be sure? But God says it's sure. Why is
it sure? It's a faith, because faith is
of grace. And it's promised to all to see.
And oh my, you know we are debtors. Romans 8, 12 said we are debtors
not to the flesh. What do we owe this flesh? What
has this flesh ever done for us? What's it ever done for us? What's this old nature, what's
this old body, what's this old flesh ever done for us? It's
been a burden to us. It keeps us from worshiping God
the way we'd love to. The will's present with me, but
how to perform, I don't have. And he said, having been made
perfect by the Spirit, having begun in the Spirit, are you
now gonna be made perfect by the flesh? Oh my. And I tell you, if salvation
were determined by the will of man, would it be sure? If it
depended on the works of a sinner, would it be sure? If it depended
upon a ceremony, would it be sure? If it depended on anything
accomplished by us, would it be sure? Who in the world could
produce a righteousness acceptable to God Almighty by the efforts
of the flesh? Who could possibly do that? Who
could possibly do that? And let me say this, if someone
did, have a righteousness. Could he continue in that righteousness
all the days of his life? And this is where people really,
really, really mess up. They decide when they join a
church and they accept Christ into their heart, and they make
their decision, and they exercise their free will, and they're
saved when God gives them a chance. What they think then is right
then and there, you know, that they're going to start living
right, and everything from then on is going to be good. And they're
going to live right, and then they're going to be acceptable
to God. But what about before you made that decision, before
you accepted Christ in your heart, before you made that decision,
before you exercised your free will, what about the life you
had before that? You've got to answer for that. And where are you going to get
the answer to that at? And oh my, I'll tell you somebody that
DIDN'T. God MADE him, God CREATED him
out of the dust of the earth and set him up and breathed the
nostrils in his nostrils, the Spirit of God, the LIFE of God
into him. And Adam stood there as an innocent
man, as a man standing in his own wholeness, his own righteousness.
How long did he last? I read Arthur Pink thinks he
didn't last probably 24 to 48 hours. They said he didn't think he'd
last that long. But Adam didn't keep his righteousness. He failed.
And when he lost his righteousness, he lost his standing. We lost
our righteousness, we lost our standing. So how in the world
is a promise going to be sure for us? I'll tell you in a minute. Oh, all of our righteousness
are as a filthy rag. Well, how can salvation, how
can the promise be sure? And how can the promise be sure
to all of its seed? Salvation is absolutely, totally
determined and accomplished and dependent upon a perfect person,
and that perfect person is the Lord Jesus Christ. In whom all the promises are
yea and amen. Oh, they're sure. There's three
things you've got to have to come into the presence of God.
Three things you've got to have. First of all, you've got to have
a place. They met in the tabernacle. You read in Romans 9 tonight.
They had a tabernacle in the wilderness, and God said, I'll
meet you there in that tabernacle. And then not only gotta have
a place, you gotta have a place. A place appointed by God. Now
you just can't decide I'm gonna go over here and build me an
altar and I'm gonna worship God over here. You got to go to the
place that God said. And then you gotta have a priest.
And that priest has to be the one appointed by God. You can't
go out there and I'm gonna find me a priest and you don't know.
You have to be appointed by God. And then that priest has to have
a sacrifice. You gotta have a sacrifice. Now,
let me tell you something. Our Lord Jesus Christ is all
three of them. He's all three of them. Christ really is all
in all. You know, the promise is sure
because of our Lord's high priestly work. He read it tonight back
there. He entered into the holy place. NOT BY THE BLOOD OF GHOSTS AND
CASTE, BUT WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. HE ENTERED ONCE INTO THE HOLY
PLACE. WHAT DID HE GET FOR US? ETERNAL
RETEMPTION. WHERE DID HE DO IT? THROUGH THE
ETERNAL SPIRIT. WHAT DID HE GET FOR US? AN ETERNAL
INHERITANCE. EVERYTHING HE GOT FOR US IS ETERNAL.
AND OH MY, HE WAS APPOINTED, AND I TELL YOU WHAT, HE WAS APPOINTED
TO THE PRIESTHOOD. Oh, he had, and this is the place,
he is appointed to the priesthood. He had a sacrifice to offer.
He offered himself without spot, without blemish before God Almighty. And then when he offered it,
the scripture said, after he by himself purged our sin, sat
down on the right hand of God. Oh my! And then here's another
thing. This is where God said, this
is where I'll meet you now. I'll meet you in my son. This
is the place that you'll worship. This is my priest. This is my
sacrifice. This is it right here. And here's
the thing about it. He ever lives, he ever lives
to see that this promise is sure to all his seed. Huh? He's up there living right now.
to ensure that that promise is kept. And oh my, you know when this
promise was given to us, and when this grace was given to
us, and what makes it so sure? The foundation of God stand assured,
the Lord knoweth him that are his, having this seal, this seal. The Lord knoweth him. But it
was given to us before the world began, that's what makes it sure.
God hath saved us, God hath saved us, and called us, called us,
called us with a holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which
was given us in Christ Jesus before the world ever began."
Oh, my! Our Savior provides for us an
everlasting righteousness, the person and the work of Christ
makes certain that salvation must be sure to all that believe. Was the promise sure? I believe that promise. I'm like
Abraham. I'm like Abraham. I'm persuaded. Are you persuaded
that he's able to keep that that we've committed unto him against
that day? Oh, he's able. He's able. I gotta quit. Our Father, in the precious,
precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for meeting
with us. Thank you for your precious word.
Thank you for your gospel. Thank you for the promise, and
that promise is sure. That promise is sure to your
sheep, to your seed. Those that you remnant as according
to the election of grace. Those that you love from eternity. Gave Christ to be their surety
for them. Gave Christ to be their great
high priest and their sacrifice. Oh Lord, we thank you for this
blessed, blessed eternal gospel. This eternal redemption is given
to us by the eternal spirit and all gave us an eternal inheritance. Everything we have is because
of Christ. We have eternal life because
of Christ and the promise that he made to all his seed. And it's sure, it's sure. Thank
you for that. Blessed be your name. Amen. Amen. Every hour of every day Every
moment and in every way I'm leaning on Jesus He's the rock of my
soul. I'm singing His praises wherever
I go. See you Wednesday, God willing.
Good night and God bless.