Mine says six o'clock. Good evening. Let's all stand
together and we'll sing the hymn number 460. Number 460. What a fellowship, what a joy
divine, leaning on the everlasting arms. What a blessedness, what
a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure
from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on
the everlasting arms. Oh, how sweet to walk in this
pilgrim way Leaning on the everlasting arms Oh, how bright the path
grows from day to day, leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure
from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on
the everlasting arms. What have I to dread? What have I to fear? Leaning on the everlasting arms,
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near. Leaning on the
everlasting arms, Leaning, leaning Safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning Leaning on the everlasting I'd like you to be
seated. Hymn number 509. 509. The sands of time are sinking. The dawn of heaven breaks. The summer Aside for the fair
sweet morn awakes Dark, dark hath been the midnight, but day's
spring is at hand. And glory, glory dwelleth in
Emmanuel's land. O Christ, He is the fountain,
the deep sweet well of love. The streams on earth I've tasted,
more deep I'll drink above. There to an ocean fulness His
mercy doth expand, And glory, glory dwelleth in Emmanuel's
land. Oh, I am my Beloved's, and my
Beloved's mine. He brings a poor vile sinner
into his house of wine. I stand upon his merit, I know
no other stand. Not in where glory dwelleth,
In Emmanuel's land. The bright eyes, not her garment,
But her dear 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 hand. The Lamb is all the glory of
Emmanuel's land. Romans 15, Romans chapter 15. I'm reading for Dirk Shelby tonight. It's time to read and seeing
him come in, he should have just come on up and read. But I'm
going to read chapter 15 down to verse 13. Excuse me. We, then, that are strong, ought
to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his
neighbor for his good, to edification. For even Christ pleased not himself,
But as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached thee
fell on me. For whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience
and comfort of the scripture might have hope. Now the God
of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one toward
another according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and
one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, receive you one another,
as Christ also received us to the glory of God. Now I say that
Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth
of God to confirm the promises unto the fathers, and that the
Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written,
For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and
saying unto thy name. And again, he saith, Rejoice
ye Gentiles with his people, And again, praise the Lord, all
you Gentiles, and laud Him, all you people. And then Isaiah saith,
There shall be a root out of Jesse, and he shall rise to reign
over the Gentiles, in Him shall the Gentiles trust. Now the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope through
the power of the Holy Ghost. Lord, we come into your holy
presence again. Bring this congregation, bring
my own heart, bring these body of believers. We all come together
into your presence. We come seeking your face. Seeking your blessed power, seeking
your grace, looking to you for our mercies tonight. Lord, we
look unto you for all things, for this world, and especially
for the world to come. We have nothing in this world
but what you gave us. We know nothing but what you
taught us. And oh Lord, we look to you to
continue to preserve us, to keep us, to teach us, to instruct
us out of your precious word. Lord, it's a well that's so deep,
we can't get to the bottom of it. It's so wide, we can't get
across it. So high, we can't get over it.
Oh Lord, your ways are past finding out, but Lord, we pray that you
would take us in hand Take us as your children, take us in
hand, and instruct us and teach us in the things of Christ, in
the things of your precious word. Lord, we can't teach ourselves.
We can't do anything of ourselves but what you give us and enable
us to do. Meet with us tonight. Bless your word to our understanding.
Oh, Lord, please meet with us for Christ's sake. Amen. M number 228, 228. My faith has found a resting
place, not in device nor creed. I trust the Ever-Living One,
His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
and that he died for me. Enough for me that Jesus saves,
this ends my fear and doubt. A sinful soul, I come to Him,
He'll never cast me out. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
and that he died for me. My heart is leaning on the Word,
the written Word of God. Salvation by my Savior's name. Salvation through His blood. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that He died for me. My great Physician heals the
sick, the lost He came to save. For me his precious blood he
shed, for me his life he gave. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that He died for me. Got one verse of scripture I
want you to look at this evening. Romans 15, 4. Romans 15, 4. For whatsoever
things were written aforetime were written for our learning.
God gave the Bible up until the New Testament was written. It
was written for our learning, for us to learn, learn about
Christ, learn about the pictures, learn about the types, learn
about to find Christ in the Old Testament. and that we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. As we learn
that we through patience and didn't the scriptures give us
such comfort that we might have hope. I wanna give you 10 Bible
words, 10 Bible words that give me hope. Give me hope, words
of hope, the words of hope. We live and are saved by hope.
That's what Paul said in Romans chapter 4, he said, you know,
we're saved by hope, and hope that's seen is not hope. Once
you get what you hope for, you don't hope for it anymore, you
receive it. And so we're saved by hope, and
through the comforts we might have hope. Then in verse 13 here
in Romans 14, 15, excuse me, says the God of hope, fill you
with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope."
Abound in hope. And when we're saved by hope,
and then Paul's talked about in, excuse me, 1 Timothy chapter
1 and verse 1, he talked about Christ, our hope. Christ himself
is our hope. And I wanna give you 10 Bible
words that give me hope, and I hope they give you hope and
give you comfort, and through patience you might have comfort
and hope. The first word that I wanna use that gives me hope
is Emmanuel. Emmanuel. You know what that
means? The angel Gabriel come and told
Mary she's gonna have a child. thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins, that it might
be fulfilled which was written of the prophet Isaiah, that a
virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and thou shalt call his
name Immanuel, being interpreted God with us." Now, you're talking
about a hope. God came down here through the
womb of a virgin, God who inhabits eternity, God who is infinite,
God who is beyond measure, beyond comprehension, God Himself came
down here in flesh. He was Immanuel. God came down
here to be with us. God did. When you've seen Christ,
you've seen God. When people talked to Christ,
they were talking with God. When people looked on Christ,
they were looking at God. And I tell you, oh, bless His
holy name, God not only was with us, with us, but God came down
in the person of Christ to be for us. He didn't just come to
be with us, but God came down to be for us. And if God be for
us, who can be against us? Then Paul said, without controversy,
without any argument, God was manifest in the flesh. God was
seen of angels. God was justified in the spirit. God, and this is what I love
about it, God was believed on in the world. I believe that
Jesus Christ is God, and He was Emmanuel, and He came to be with
us, and He came to be for us. Ain't that what it said? He shall
save His people from what? The sin. Who is it? God. God will. God will. God will. And oh my, unto us a child, a
son is born, unto us a child is given. And not only is God
with us, God for us, But Christ in you is the hope of glory. God come, he said, I'll be, you
read it tonight. I'll be their God and they shall
be my sons. And I tell you, begotten of God,
Christ in us, God in us, God for us, and God in us. Oh my,
and then God gave him a name. When Emmanuel came, God gave
him a name that's above every name. that every, I highly exalt
him, gave him a name above every name, and that his name, and
you know, in some of the names he gave him, he gave him Lord,
Lord, gave him the title of Prince,
Savior, to be the one and only mediator,
oh my. Immanuel, what a word of hope,
what a word of encouragement, what a word of salvation. Immanuel,
God with us, God for us, God in us. Second word gives me hope. Blessed hope is this, grace. I can't even say grace without
being full of joy. I can't even say the word. It
just fills me with such joy, fills me with such peace, fills
me with such comfort. Grace, grace. For by grace are
you saved. Oh, grace, are you saved? Is
that not of yourselves? God gave this gift to us through
our Lord Jesus Christ. And I'll tell you this, and I've
told you this before. Look with me over here in 2 Timothy
1. Oh, this is the verse God used
to teach me the gospel, and it settled me right down on the
gospel. 2 Timothy 1.9. Oh my, oh, listen to what he
says here. Talking about the power of God,
the gospel according to the power of God who has saved us. You
know, wherever you find God doing something for his people, you
know this, it s always in the past tense. Do you know that? It s always in the past tense.
You look in Romans, it s always in the past tense. For whom he
foreknew, they also call. So everything's in the past.
You know why it's in the past tense? Because when God purposed
something, it's as good as done. He can call the things that don't
exist as if they've already happened. So I tell you when He said, God
has saved us, you know when He saved us? Look what He says here. Oh my. Called us, not only saved
us, then He called us. with a holy calling. Grace is
what called us. Grace set us apart. Grace gave
us a calling. And here's the thing about it,
our works had absolutely nothing to do with it. Here's why He
did it, according to His own purpose and grace, which was
given us in Christ Jesus. When does that say that? Before
the world began. before God said, let there be,
before the world began, before He put stars in the heavens,
before the world, huh? Oh my, bless His holy name. You know, and I'll tell you,
I'm gonna show you another one while you're over here. Just
go right back over here to 1 Thessalonians, just go right back to your left
to Thessalonians, and look in 2 Thessalonians chapter two and
verse 16, talking about grace and hope. 2 Thessalonians 2.16. Just right back to your left.
Back over to Timothy. Timothy and then Thessalonians.
Look what it says here in 2 Thessalonians 2.16 about grace. Now our Lord
Jesus Christ Himself. You know how many times it talks
about Himself? He by Himself purged our sins. By Himself. Himself. Oh, I wish I could understand
that, by Himself. And God, even our Father, which
hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation, and
listen to this, good hope, how? Through grace. Oh, you're talking about a word
that gives you hope. Grace, grace. My God had grace
if I could say it this way Bruce Crabtree says this way God had
grace in his heart And he wanted that grace to come out. He had
to give grace. He had all this grace And so
he had a multitude that no man can number So he has so full
of grace and then he what he done he turned around and gave
all that grace to his son and all that grace that was going
to be given to us was given over to his son and and then his son
entered into a covenant, and it was called a covenant of grace.
And then he called his children, they were called children of
grace. And grace is what God gave us in Christ. Grace, bless
God, grace. Listen, I said this morning,
you know, how can you know you You're growing in grace. You
know how you know you're growing in grace? Because you understand
that you need grace. You've got to have grace. You
need it. You understand it. We've never plumbed the depths
of God's grace yet. Grace upon grace. Grace came
by Jesus Christ. And He said, Grace, I'll give
you grace for grace. What do you reckon that means?
Well, I'll give you grace. And I'm gonna give you more grace.
and more grace. You'll never get up or never
go to bed or never sleep that I ain't giving you grace. And then not only do you need
it, but you love it. You love it, you fall head over
heels in love with this thing of grace. But could you understand
if it hadn't been for grace, there'd be no salvation for a
soul on topside of God's earth. If we had to earn it, we couldn't
do it. If we had to buy it, we ain't got the money. If we had
to work for it, we'd never get it done. But oh no, not according
to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which
was given us in Christ Jesus before God ever made a world.
Oh my. And I tell you, how do you know
you're called? How do you know you know God's grace? God called
you. Oh, and here's another one, here's
another word that gives me hope. Emmanuel, grace, and election. How come you don't, what elected
us? God did. Why'd he elect us? Seemed good in his sight. According
to his good pleasure. You know, Paul told the Thessalonians,
brethren, knowing your election of God. I know you're one of
God's elect. He said, all you, and I said
to you Thessalonians, I said, brethren, knowing your election
of God. How do you know we're one of
God's elect? Because our gospel came to you. The gospel came
to you. It came unto you in POWER! POWER! Power enough, Beloved, to do
something in your heart and in your mind and in your soul. It
came in POWER! Huh? And it came not only in
power, but it came with much, much assurance that what you're
listening to is God and the Gospel and grace and election. You know,
A lot of folks believe in election and they think God looked down
through time and He looked at who He's going to choose. Who
would be a believer and who wouldn't? So naturally He says, well, I'll
choose that because He's going to believe anyway. Now that wouldn't
be right. That means that He chose you
because of something He saw in you. But He can't do that. Elections, not of him that willeth,
not of him that runneth, but it's of God that showeth mercy.
God said, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. An election,
oh my. We'll turn over there, but I
won't do it. I can tell you. You know, brethren, we're bound
always to give thanks for you. Why? Because God at the beginning
chosen you unto salvation through sanctification of the spirit
and belief of the truth. God did that. You know who was God's first
elect? Isaiah 42 says, Behold mine elect. and whom my soul delighteth."
Talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord God, the Lord
Jesus Christ was God's first elect. Do you know that? Why
would Christ be God's first elect? God chose him and chose him for
offices, for works, to do a work, to hold on certain offices, and
to hold a mediatorship, to hold Savior to be everything that
God purposed him to do to save us. So He was God's first elect,
and that's why the Scripture says we were chosen in Him. He is God's first elect. He was
chosen to save us. He was chosen to call us. He
was chosen to die for us. He was chosen to be our Redeemer.
He was chosen to be our surety. He was chosen to be our Savior.
He was chosen to be everything that we need. Christ was chosen
to be that. Our sacrifice, our substitute,
our sin offering, our Lamb. OUR ALTAR? EVERYTHING THAT GOD
WOULD HAVE US TO HAVE, HE GAVE IT TO US IN HIS SON, AND NOW
CHRIST WAS DONE THAT IN ORDER, FATHER, YOU GAVE THEM TO ME,
NOW I'M GOING TO GIVE THEM BACK TO YOU. SO ELECTION, I LOVE ELECTION. BUT YOU KNOW, ACCORDING AS HE
HATH CHOSEN US IN CHRIST BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN. I NEVER WILL
FORGET, SCOTT RICHARDSON TOLD ME, HE RUN ACROSS THE When he
was preaching, first started preaching, not long after he
started preaching, then he went up to Lexington to go to school
up there. And he run across a track up
there by Spurgeon on election. He said, I wore that track out
on election, on election. Everybody wants to know why God
chose you. That's the first thing when you
first hear about election. First find out that God's done
something for you. God set you apart for himself.
The first thing you ask is why in the world would God do that
for me? Why would he do that for me? The children, I read it this
morning, told it this morning. The children not being yet born. having neither done good or evil,
that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not
of works, not of works, but of him that calleth." Oh, election. Here's the thing about it. You
say, well, how would I know I'm one of God's elect? You believe,
don't you? You know why you believe? God
chose you. And then what he done is he called
you. Then what he done, he set you apart. Then what he done,
he taught you the gospel. We had always been elect. We
were always chosen in Christ. We were always given grace in
Christ for the foundation of the world. And God done that
before the world ever began, chose us in Christ. And here's
the thing about it. The gospel comes along, tells
us what God did for us before we ever even lived. That's what
the gospel does, tells us what God done for us. That's what's
called good news. Ain't that good news that God
chose us? Elected us? An election is unconditional. Here's the thing, here's the
thing. I'll get on with my other one. Here's the thing, if man
is as lost as the Bible says he is, and he has no spiritual
ability as the Bible says we are, THAT WE WERE RUINED IN SIN,
SO HOW IN THE WORLD COULD GOD ELECT US WITHOUT IT BEING UNCONDITIONAL? IF HE SAID A CONDITION ON IT,
WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE? BECAUSE WE WERE SO LOST, HE HAD
TO UNCONDITIONALLY ELECT US WITHOUT ANY THOUGHT ABOUT US BEING WHO
WE ARE AND WHAT WE'D DONE. He said over in 2 Samuel, it
pleased Him to make you His people. Just pleased Him to do it. Just
pleased Him to do it. And let me give you a fourth
thing. Let me give you another word
of hope. Oh, here's the fourth thing.
Gives us word of hope. That word surety. Christ has
made surety of a better covenant. surety of a better covenant y'all
probably remember when Joseph that found out that his brothers
were down there and And they'd been down there a couple times
to get some food. He said now listen you got you
got any brothers He said yep said we got a brother named Benjamin.
Oh He's he's he's my father's right hand. He said my father
loves him. He said well, I'll tell you what I You bring him,
next time you come down here, you bring him back down here
with you. If you don't, don't come back. You bring that boy
back with you. I want Benjamin down here, I
want to see Benjamin. And boy, Judah went home, told
his daddy, he said, daddy, father, Jacob, my father, my father.
He said, the man down there that controls everything, got all
the food, he got all the power, got all the authority down there.
He got all the bread. He said that we cannot go back
unless we bring Benjamin with us. And oh my, poor old Jacob
started weeping, started crying, said, no, no, no, you can't take
Benjamin. You can't take Benjamin. I done
lost Joseph. You can't take him. And Jacob
stood up and he said, I'll be surety. I'll be surety. If I take him, I'll guarantee
that I bring him back, or you make me suffer for it. I'll take
responsibility for it. And I tell you what, I'll bring
him back, or else you hold me responsible for it. That's what
our Lord Jesus Christ did, as I sure did. He said, Father,
you give him to me, I'll stand guarantee for him. I'll guarantee
that I'll bring every one of them back, If they don't, you
charge me. You blame it on me. If I lose one, I'll be their
surety. I'll stand good for them. I'll
guarantee them. I'll guarantee that I'll bring
them before you. And if I fail at it, you'll have
to charge it on my account. You reckon our Lord will fail
to bring any of us, all the Benjamins home? Oh, listen, he can t do it. And
you know what a surety is? One who pledges his name, pledges
his property, pledges his influence that certain things shall be
done. And oh, he agrees to undertake
for another who doesn t have the ability to do for himself. And here we was in bondage, we
couldn't go, and there's only one person who's got the food.
And Christ, when our Lord come into this world, He said, I'll
be the surety for them. I'll stand good for them. You
know, the shepherd's responsible for the sheep. And our Lord Jesus
Christ, He said, Father, of all that you've given me, I'm not
lost to one of them, except the son of perdition. You reckon He stood good for
us? You reckon His surety shipped before God Almighty? You reckon
He s got the Word with His Father and His Father will take His
Word and His pledge that all that the Father gave Him that
He ll guarantee that we all get to go home? That He ll bring
us everyone to glory? You reckon God will take Him
at His Word? And I tell you what, He has to
do it for us. We have to do it for us. Somebody
has to take care of us. Somebody has to discharge all
our sin and everything that's wrong with us. Somebody else
has to take it, because we don't have the ability. We're incompetent. You know, I know people don't
like this word, incompetent, but we're incompetent. And if
Christ wasn't our surety, we'd stay incompetent. Now, I'm incompetent to pay my
sin debt. I'm incompetent to produce righteousness. I'm incompetent to live a holy
life. I'm incompetent to live to the
glory of God. I'm incompetent to do anything
spiritual. Well, who's not incompetent?
The Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only competent one.
And He makes up for all of our incompetency. Huh? You all ever
feel incompetent? But I tell you what, we've got
a surety, and he's a surety of a better covenant. Not the law,
but the covenant of grace. And here, let me give you the
fifth word that gives me hope, and I hope it gives you, it's
a word of hope. Ten Bible words that give me hope. Here's the
fifth one. Redeemed. Redeemed. Redeemed how I love
to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb. redeemed in His child, and forever I am." When we talk
about redeemed, there's three things, you know, we was under
the curse, was under the curse of the law, was under the curse
of sin, was under the curse. And our Lord Jesus Christ, our
Lord Jesus Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. How'd
he do it? By his blood, by his blood, by
his death. And oh my, and the scriptures
tells us, look in Colossians chapter one, look over here to
Colossians chapter one with me. Let's look at this. Colossians
chapter one talking about redeemed. Oh, we weren't redeemed with
silver and gold. We weren't redeemed with corruptible
things. but with the precious blood of
Christ as the lamb slain without spot and without blemish. But
look what it says here in Colossians 1, 12. Giving thanks unto the Father,
which hath made us meet or made us fit, able to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light. who hath delivered
us from the power of darkness, hath translated us into the kingdom
of the Son of His love, in whom," listen to this, "...in whom we
have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins." Redemption. You know what redemption does?
What redemption does? Redemption has three meanings,
three meanings, and it all has to do with the blood of Christ,
You know, ransom, that's the first thing it is, ransom. Christ
gave His life a ransom, a ransom. And a ransom is when somebody
holds you captive, and they say, this is the price that you'll
have to pay to get them from being held captive. Well, God
set the price, and the price was the death and the blood of
His blessed Son. so that we was ransomed out from
sin. And then the second reason is,
second thing is, He rescued us. Not only did He pay for us, but
He come in and tore the door down and laid hands on us and
brought us out from under that bondage. Rescued us. Rescued
us from the devil. Rescued us from sin. And the
third thing is, after He pays the ransom, After He rescues
us, then He turns us loose and says, You're free. And what do
you do when He turns you loose and sets you free? What do you
do? You come to the person who sets
you free and you love Him. You bow down and you worship
Him. Ain't that right? That's a pretty
good word. Gives you some hope, don't it?
Oh yeah, it gives you some hope. Oh, we have redemption through
His blood. And I'll tell you, being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption, the payment price
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the sixth thing, word
that gives me hope. Forgiveness. Forgiveness. Oh, what a wonderful word. What
a wonderful word. Forgiveness. I wonder how many sins God forgive
us of. How many sins you reckon we've
committed in our lifetime and God forgives us all of them?
Forgiveness. Oh Lord, if thou shouldest mark
iniquity, if you was to go through this building tonight, mark iniquity,
who in the world would be able to stand? But he comes back and
says, but Lord, there is forgiveness with thee. Forgiveness. I preached this last week. Father,
forgive them. Father, forgive them. But they
said this. Father, forgive them. They done
that. Father, forgive them. They're
cold. Father, forgive them. They're
hard-hearted. Father, forgive them. They said things y'all not say.
Father, forgive them. Forgiveness. Oh, what a wonderful
thing. What a wonderful thing. Blessed
is the man whose sins are covered. Blessed
is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Having forgiven us all trespasses. Forgiveness. Forgiveness is something
that's hard for a human being to do. It's a hard thing for
a human being to do. We're bad. You know and go back
five years six years ten years twelve years and remember something
somebody Said to us done to us and made us upset us and and
we always go back to that But oh, I tell you this I tell
you this God's people not only does God forgive us, but we're
forgiving people We're forgiving people I tell you, forgiveness. Oh, how often have you said,
forgive me? Forgive me, oh Lord, forgive
me. David said, oh Lord, thy mercies,
oh thy mercies are new every morning, thy compassions fail
not. I need forgiveness, I don't know
about you all, I need forgiveness. countless times in a day. You
pray, Lord, forgive us of who we are. Just forgive us of who
we are. Not only forgive us what we've
done, forgive us of who we are. Forgive us of things. You know,
there's forgiveness over in Leviticus chapter five. Over there, it
talks about sins of ignorance. Sins of ignorance. You know,
you commit a sin and you don't, if you wasn't aware that you
had committed it. Somebody, the priest or somebody
pointed out to you, then you'd have to have a sacrifice for
that sin of ignorance. There's been so many sins we've
committed and not even conscious that we're as ignorant of it.
Absolutely ignorant of it. But you know what? Father, forgive
them. There's forgiveness. There's
forgiveness within you. Having forgiven you all your
trespasses. All your trespasses. Oh, I love
forgiveness. I need forgiveness. I need it. And then the third word is, I
don't like to use the word imputed very much. after I've grown from,
but I'll use the word impart if I can. Now, the only time
you heard about somebody being having righteousness imputed
to them, it was Abraham. Abraham believed God and it was
imputed to it or charged to his or reckoned to his account. But
I like the word imparted. When it talks about Adam's sin,
we say Adam's sin was imputed to us. Well, how did we become
actually become sinners by nature? Adam don't make me sin. You know who sins? Donnie Bell
does. So I not only got Adam's sin,
but I got his nature. And so it was more than just
sin charged, sin imputed to me and charged to my account, but
I've got a nature that's a sinful nature. So I need a new nature,
and where am I going to get a new nature? I don't need a new nature
imputed to me. I need a new nature in my heart,
in my soul, in my mind. I need to be made new. That fellow that made me become
a sinner, I need someone to make me new. Oh, my. I don t know how to say
it. You know, Adam, it says Adam
s sin was by one man s sin, death entered into the world, and sin
passed upon all men, because what? All what? Sin! Sin! And not Christ, and it doesn't
say Christ had His sin imputed to Him. It don't say that in
no place. It don't say that. It said God
made Christ to be sin, who knew no sin. It don't say sin was
imputed to Him. That means it just CHARGED to
His account. But the Scriptures say He was
made to be sin. Ain't that what it says? Christ
was a sin offering. He poured out His soul as an
offering, poured out His soul unto death. God made His soul
an offering for what? Sin. So I, you know, and I tell
you what, but here God made Christ to be sin to turn around and
make Christ to be our righteousness. He made Christ to be what we
are. and then turn around and made Christ to be what we wasn't. And he bore our sin in his own
body, bore it away, and then he came. And it don't say he
imputed righteousness to us. He said, Christ has made our
righteousness. That's what he said in 1 Corinthians
1.30, Christ has made unto us righteousness. Righteousness. So, you know, the only place
that I can understand, and I know that some fellas is gonna, some
preacher friends of mine gonna probably take me to task over
this, but that's okay, that's all right. I can explain myself.
I explain myself. I have no danger of that. But
I know it's, The only time you find Abraham believed God and
it was imputed to him, charged to him, reckoned to him, and
put on his account. But now how in the world did
he know that he needed a righteousness without faith, without life? All right, let me give you the
eighth thing. Let me give you the eighth word
of hope. Blessed hope for me. What a word
of hope. Christ being made sin for me,
me being made the righteousness of Christ. Oh, what, being, having
the righteousness of Christ. That's what a blessed hope that
gives us. We can face God with that. We can face God with that. And then this word accepted.
Accepted. A lot of folks, you know, they
wonder about being, they worry about being accepted. You reckon
they'll accept me. You reckon they'll like me. You
reckon they care about me. Well, I tell you what. The only
place that we ought to be interested in, we accept it before God. Does God accept us? Huh? You
know where he says we're accepted at? In the beloved. God has made us able. God's made
us fit to be a partaker of the saints in life. And that word
accept, accepted, if you look it up in a word study or in Binds,
it says accepted means graced. Same word as graced. Graced in
the beloved. Accepted in the beloved. And
all to be accepted of God. For God to accept us, God to
receive us, God to say, I've accepted that fellow. Oh my. And then here's another word
that gives me hope. I hope it gives you hope. And
that's a resurrection. Oh my. This is not the only body
we're gonna have to live in. God gonna give us a new one one
of these days. Huh? Oh my. Look with me in Job
chapter 19. Job chapter 19. I could go to
1 Corinthians 15, but we've looked at that so many times, but look
over here in Job chapter 19 with me. Oh, the resurrection. The resurrection. I dealt with it a little bit
this morning. You know, this corruption, has
to put on incorruption. Flesh and blood can't inherit
the kingdom of God. This corruption has to put on incorruption. This
mortal has to put on immortality. And look what he said here now
in Job chapter 19, verse 25. And
look what he says, I know that my Redeemer liveth. I talked
about redemption a minute ago. and that he shall stand at the
latter day up on the earth. That's Emmanuel, God being with
us. And after skin worms destroy this body, after this old body
goes back to the dust, from whence it come, he said, yet in my flesh
shall I see God. Now, when he talks about flesh,
he's not talking about this kind of flesh, he's talking about
that new nature, that new body that God's gonna give him. And
look what he says, I shall see God. whom I shall see for myself. I'm not gonna look through somebody
else's eyes, I'm gonna look at him for myself. Oh my, and my
eyes shall behold him and nobody else. And I'll tell you what,
my heart is consumed within me waiting for that to happen. Oh
my, a resurrection. Resurrection. You know how many
people you're waiting on to be resurrected? Every one of you's
got loved ones in a graveyard somewhere. Every single soul
in this building. But if they're believers, or
they're infants, mark it down, they're going to be resurrected.
And you know, we've already been resurrected. Christ said, I'm
the resurrection. He's already raised us from the
dead. death of our sins. And then the last thing that
gives me hope is this, satisfied. Satisfied. God shall see the
travail of his soul and shall be satisfied, seeing what Christ
did and is satisfied in what his son did. Satisfied with his
offering. Satisfied with his sacrifice.
Satisfied with his substitutionary death. Satisfied with his work. Satisfied with his person. Satisfied
with everything Christ did. As a shepherd of his sheep. As everything he's satisfied
with Christ. God's satisfied with Christ.
Christ was satisfied with what he did. And I'm certainly satisfied. I'm satisfied with what Christ,
I don't find no, do you find any fault in what Christ did? No, no. And you know what David
said? He said, I'll be satisfied when
I awake in thy light. God's already satisfied. You
will be satisfied. when we awaken His likeness. All right. Oh, our blessed, blessed Savior. Oh, our Lord. I love these words. Bible words, encouraging words,
words of hope, words of comfort. And I pray that These words would
always give us hope when we read about them, preach about them,
and think about them, and understand them, and meditate on them, and
think about them. That they give us this hope.
All these things that give us hope. God with us. God with us. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Blessed be your holy name. We need you. We want you. We desire you. And keep us till
we can gather and worship again. Bless our dear brothers and sisters
whose bodies are so weak, whose bodies are so frail, whose bodies
are so, so sick. God preserve them. Give them
abundance of grace. for what they go through in this
life, uphold them, and do it for Christ's sake, amen, amen. ? There is a name I love to hear
? I love to sing its worth ? It sounds like music in my ear the
sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Because he first loved me. See you Wednesday night, God
willing.