Down here in verse 31 and 32
of John 13. I preached from this last week,
and I'm gonna deal with the other things about it this week. Therefore,
when he was gone out, Judas was gone out, now is the son of man
glorified, and God is glorified in him. That's what I wanna talk
about. God, you know, I talked about
Christ being glorified last Sunday. And now I want to talk about
God the Father being glorified. He said, the Son of Man glorified
and God glorified in Him. Verse 32 says, if God be glorified
in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself and shall straightway
glorify Him. When I read to you there in John
12, about what God has done for men.
He said they could not believe. When Isaiah saw the Lord's glory,
in Isaiah 6, God said they could not believe. And why could they
not believe? Well, it says in verse 43, for
they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. They cared more about what men
thought about them, and the honor of men, And they had the fear
of men, the love of men, and the honor of men, more so than
they cared anything about what God thought of them or what they
thought of God. And we want to talk about today
the Father glorified in Him, God glorified in His Son. You
know, this is the day, it has been ever since man's been created,
the day of man's glorification. Man wants to be glorified. He
wants to be honored. He wants to be recognized. Man
is in fact being deified. He's being made into a God. He's made the author of his own
salvation. That goes to show you how far
they've gone. He's become the author of his own salvation.
He has his own power. He has his own free will. He
wants to be accepted of God because of his morality or his honesty. And preachers want to brag on
them, want to honor them. We got any, how's the youngest
one in the church today? Who's the oldest one in the church
today? I mean, who's got the most grandchildren? That rigmarole. And I tell you, men preachers
and so many people talk about them having a spark of goodness
in them. If you can just, preachers could
just flame it up. And man's free will, man's power,
his glorification is given the first place in theology and especially
in philosophy and he becomes the author of his own salvation.
And that's where most people are today. James was telling
me this morning about a place in town where they were baptizing
one another. That'd be like Two of you, you
know, one of you baptized, you know, a husband and a wife, the
husband baptized the wife and then the wife turned around and
baptized the husband. Could you imagine being in a service like
that? This is an awful, awful hour
in which the glory of God the Father and the glory of God of
our Lord Jesus Christ and the glory of God of our Father And
our Lord Jesus Christ to His glory has gone begging. Gone
begging. When His glory is given the last
place, second place, third place, no place at all. In theology and philosophy, even
in the salvation of sinners, His glory is not in it. They're
not interested in that. Just interested in getting somebody
to the front. And our Lord said in Isaiah 42
and eight, he said, I am the Lord and I will not, I will not
give my glory to another. I will not do it. I will not
do it. But our Lord Jesus Christ in
his birth, they shouted glory to God in the highest. That's
the first thing they said, those angels when Christ was born.
Glory to God in the highest. On earth this day is born in
the city of David a Savior, which is Christ our Lord. And then
in our Lord's life, In our Lord's life, every word He spoke, every
step He took, every deed He did, He did, He said, I did it for
my Father's glory. I came down from heaven not to
seek my own glory, He said in John 8, 50, but the glory of
Him that sent me. And I'll tell you what, in His
death on the cross, by His death on the cross, the primary purpose
of it, the primary purpose of the death of Christ was to bring
glory and honor to His blessed Father. Nothing could bring more
glory to God than our Lord Jesus Christ, birth, life, and especially
His death on the cross. You know, He says, Father, I
finished the work that you gave me to do. Glorify Thyself. and give me the glory which I
had with you before the world was. Look over here in John 7,
14 with me for, and let's look at this together. John 7, 14. Look what our master says. Now about
the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple. Now
the feast is the Passover now. And the Jews marveled as he taught. How knows this man letters? How's
he so smart? How does he know so much? He's
not been to any college we know of. He ain't been to any of our
seminaries. He ain't said no special rabbi. And having never
learned, our Lord answered and said unto them, my doctrine,
my teaching is not mine, but listen to this, his that sent
me. I'm just saying what I know from heaven itself. I'm just
saying what I know, what the God the Father, what his doctrine
is. I've just brought this doctrine
with me from heaven. And he says, he shall know the
doctrine whether I speak of God or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh
his own glory, but he that seeketh his glory that's in him, the
same is true. And no unrighteousness is in
him. And that's what our Lord's saying. He told him, he said,
how in the world can you receive honor from God, which wants the
honor from one man to another? But there again in verse 32 and
31 here in John 13, it talks about God being glorified in
the Son, and Christ being glorified in the Father, and the Father
be glorified in the Son. So let's talk about the Father
being glorified today. The glory of God the Father in
the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. And our Lord's blessed cross,
and that's what we call it, a blessed cross, oh my, It's blessed. Some people it's not a blessing
to. Some people have no idea what took place there, who was
on it. But the blessed cross, and the work that our Lord Jesus
accomplished on that cross, by His death, on that blessed cross,
was not only the foundation of our salvation, how God could
save us by His death on the cross. And it wasn't an afterthought
of God. And as I told you before, Christ
was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, from eternity to
the day Christ was crucified. That was the will and purpose
of God. And from now until we get into
eternity, everything's going to look back. God's will culminated
in His death on the cross. The salvation of sinners culminated
in our Lord's death on the cross. And I tell you here, the Son's
glorifying Himself, but the greatest and brightest manifestation on
that cross was the glory of God Himself. All the attributes,
we sang that this morning, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. You know, and that's what He
is, He's a thrice holy God. He's holy in the Father, the
Father's holy. The Son's holy, the Holy Ghost,
that's what He's called. He's called holy. God's Bible's
called holy. His angels are called holy. So
everything in our Lord's death on the cross, all the attributes
of God was glorified in the death of His Son at Calvary. Let me
give you just a few of them. First, the power of God was glorified
by our Savior at the cross. You know, man hated God. People,
they just can't hardly get their head around that, but man hates
God. He was born with a hatred for God. He was born with enmity
in his heart toward God. And I can show you that. Look
in, keep John 13, look over here in Psalm 2. And you know that's
what I just told you there, and the Pharisees, they hated him
so much that they said, we'll not have this man to reign over
us. And you know, and how do we manifested our hatred for
him? Trying to save ourselves, bragging on ourselves, looking
to ourselves, trying to live a holy life by ourselves, trying
to be justified by our works. But oh, look what a man hated
God at the cross, man's hatred for God was manifested. He said
in verse one, why did the heathen rage and the people imagine a
vain thing? It's a senseless thing, it's
a nothing thing, it's a, to rage against God? The kings in the
earth set themselves, Herod, Pilate, and the rulers, the Sanhedrin,
All the Jews took counsel together against the Lord, and also against
his anointed. This is what they said. Ah, let's
break off his bands. Let's not let him bind us up. Let's not let him do a work for
us. Let's not let him do anything
for us. Break his bands asunder. Cast
away his cords from us. We don't want nothing to do with
it. And so they had their hatred, the carnal mind is enmity against
God. And I tell you what, when they
were at the cross, man did his very, very best to do away with
God. Man did his very best to do away
with God. And they did their very best
to do away with everything God intended for man to have. And
there Satan himself, did his best against God Almighty. But
you know what the scripture said, Psalm 69, or excuse me, 89, said
the Lord laid hell. upon one who is what? Mighty. Got all power. Got all power. God laid help upon one who was
mighty. Who was mighty? God was mighty
in cross. That's in the death of our Lord
Jesus Christ. No man, our Lord says, no man
can take my life from me. He said, I've got the power.
Where'd he get that power? This commandment have I received
of my Father. I received this commandment that
no man could take my life but I should let down of myself and
I should take it up for myself. He said this commandment have
I received to my father. So no man could take his life.
The Lord Jesus because of God in this, and He was God on the
cross, the Lord Jesus remained in complete control, complete
master of Himself, the power of God in Him, the power of God
Himself, upheld and seen gloriously, clearly, in the death of our
Lord Jesus Christ and the salvation He accomplished on that cross.
You know, our Lord, when He was even in the garden of Gethsemane. The angels were sent to strengthen him. But even on that cross, you remember
he had seven utterances off that cross. How can a man that's dying
have control of himself to say seven different things and every
one of them fulfilling scriptures except today thou shalt be with
me in paradise. All six of them was fulfilling
scriptures. That just shows you how clear
his mind was. That shows you how much power
he had in his mind. That shows you how much power
he had in his will. That shows you how much power
he had in his thoughts. That shows you how much power
the Word of God had over him. When he said seven things, seven
things, And I tell you, our Lord Jesus Christ, oh, how the power
of God was manifested in him, glorified in him. And this is
something right here that I'm gonna tell you hardly anybody
knows anything about unless they know the gospel. The justice
of God, the justice of God was glorified at the cross and the
death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, when I'm talking about justice,
there's three things that God said about himself. He said in
Exodus 34 7, I will by no means clear the guilty. He said over
them, and I will not at all acquit the wicked. He said in Habakkuk,
he says this, he said, I'm of pure eyes to behold iniquity
and see transgression. Now this, what in the world does
that mean? And then Proverbs, over in Proverbs it says, It's
unjust to clear a guilty man and punish an innocent man. That's
not the right thing to do. And I'll tell you what, even
the law of our land, you know, it bothers us when we see a guilty
man get to go free and an innocent man justly punished when he should
not be punished. But that's exactly what God did
for us. His justice They said, I will
clear the guilty. His justice, He said, I will
not equip the wicked. His justice, He said, I will
have pure eyes to look on sin and look on iniquity. Well, how
in the world can He take a wicked man, a wicked man, and put an
innocent man in his place, and let that wicked man go? You know, God is a just God.
And this is what people miss. They miss the fact, you know,
when they want to be justified by their works. They want to
be justified by their church attendance. They want to be justified
because they're baptized. They want to be justified and
accepted of God by some merit they have or some good deed that
they've done. But if you can be justified by
something you've done, then you don't know nothing about the
justice of God. You don't need Christ. You don't
need the death of Christ, you don't need the blessing of Christ,
if you can be saved by yourself. Now God is so just, and immutably
so, that what he done He took the innocent, He took the righteous,
He took the just one, and He put Him in our place and in our
stead, and laid Him and put Him on the cross. And the scripture
said He spared not His own Son. What did He do with Him? Delivered
all of us! For who? For us all. Who's us
all? Everybody that His justice was
satisfied in Christ for. Huh? Oh my. God took him. This is what justice
said. I'm not going to clear me. He's not going to clear you.
You know what he's going to do? He's going to punish him. You
know what he's going to do? He's going to call you guilty.
You know what He's going to do? He's going to punish you for
your sins. You know what He's going to do? He's not going to
let you go. He's not going to let you go. So what does He do
in order to let one of His people go? His justice demanded death. The soul that sinned shall die.
Well Christ said, then let me die. Take their guilt and put
it on me. Take their iniquity and put it
on me. Take their transgressions and
put them on me. And then when your justice comes,
and the scripture said, arise, O sword, and smite my fellow. And oh my, and that's why the
scripture says this, he was wounded for who? Our transgressions.
He was bruised for who? Our iniquities. The chastisement,
the beating of our sin was upon Him so that we could have peace. The Lord laid on Him and so what
God did, He's not cleared us. And the only way he could clear
us and acquit us and be able to look at us was for our sins
to be put on a just one, a holy one, a righteous one, and God
count him to be us and then turn around and punish us in somebody
else. That's what justice said has
to be done. You know, our Lord was counted as the guilty one
And here's what a lot of people don't understand. The God of
the Bible, they think the God of the Old Testament and the
God of the New Testament is two different gods. They think the
God of the Old Testament's a God of vengeance and anger and wrath
and mean and cruel, and then they got the God of the New Testament,
all he is is love. All he is is love. All he wants
to do is do something for somebody if they'd just let him. But the
God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament
is the one and the same. And if you want to find out whether
God is just or not, let me go all the way back to the Garden.
Go all the way back to the Garden. Adam and Eve, just to show you
how they didn't want God the way He was. God gave him one
commandment. He broke that commandment, and
the first thing he did, tried to save himself. The first thing
he did to show his enmity against God, he said, I'll cover my own
nakedness. I'll do something good. He said,
I'll raise my own garden. I don't care anything about blood.
But God himself shed the first blood that was ever shed to do
what? To cover Adam and Eve's nakedness. And then you go on down through
history, and God said, I saw only evil. Man's imagination
was only evil continually. He said, all my iniquities come
up to me and I have hated, I'm going to throw the earth and
everything on it. That's the justice of God. And he said, but I'll show grace.
There's one man that I'm gonna show grace to. One man that I'm
gonna manifest grace to. And so God's justice destroyed
the whole world, but God's grace saved his soul. And that's what
happened with the cross. God's justice. Now if God was
just nothing but just, he'd have left Adam in his sin. Left him
with his fig leaves. But God also justified him and
cleared him by covering his nakedness. And the only way, and you go
all the way, you know how God put sin away for Israel to get
them out of Egypt? He slew a lamb, and blood was
shed, and his justice was satisfied, and Israel could go out free. Oh my, here's what happened. Justice demanded the debt be
paid to the uttermost Father. Huh? And that's what Christ did. He paid a debt He did not owe. And I tell you what, when He
pays you debt, you ain't got nothing left. I mean, you won't
owe nothing else. Huh? Oh my, look over in Romans
3 28 with me. This is, this is, you know, I
mentioned substitution to somebody one time, said, what in the world
are you talking about? He didn't, and he was a preacher.
He didn't know what substitution was. Never heard the word. And the Bible's full of it. I said Romans, didn't I? I'll
get there myself here in a minute. Look in Romans 3. Oh my. Look down here in verse
23. This is what I'm trying to say. For all have sinned. Who has? Everybody. All have sinned. And here's the thing about it.
They come short. And we're talking about the glory
of God. We miss it. That's like showing an arrow
and it just... I was shooting rocks at geese
the other day. And I shoot and it goes... And you know, when you get 25
geese in your backyard, you gotta get rid of them some way. And
I've got a slingshot. They either go right down here
or go right over them. But when I hit one, he knows
he's hit. And I'm not trying to be funny,
but that's why I said, that's what we do. When we aim at God's
glory, you know how we go, just falls right in front of us. I
say this, and I've said this so many times, I've never said
one word, never done one deed, never thought a thought that
gave, that was, that, that would bring, that would, that would,
God get all the glory out of it. I mean, I, I just, it's just,
it's just our nature. We miss His glory by a million
miles. So who in the world is going
to glorify Him? And that's what we want to do, we want to glorify
Him. But I've never ever done a thing in the world that would
bring absolute glory to God Himself by any deed I've done. So how
in the world am I going to glorify God? I'm going to glorify Him
in His Word, in my speech, in my message. And I'll tell you
what, and look what it said here in Romans, so we all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. Well, how in the world are
we gonna be cleared then? How are we gonna, since we've
all sinned and come short of the glory of God, look what it
says, being justified then. How was we justified? Freely.
By His grace. Listen to this. Through the payment,
through the redemption, through the bloodshedding of Jesus Christ
our Lord. Now listen. Whom God sent him
forth, And that word set forth means foreordained. He put Him
out there for us to see. He put Him out there in the Word.
He put Him out there in types. He put Him out there in pictures.
He put Him out there in His blessed book. He put him out there in
so many ways. And God sent him forth to be
a propitiation. You know what a propitiation
is? That's someone that takes the wrath off of you and bears
it himself. He's a wrath bearer. He's a sacrifice
that takes the wrath of God and gives peace to you. Because he
takes the wrath. He propitiates God. He takes
the wrath of God away. And how did he do it? Through
faith in his blood. And what does God do by that?
Declares, I'm a righteous God, I'm a just God. And I'm a just
God for the payments of sins of everybody that was in the
past, through God's forbearance. To declare, I say, at this time,
God is a righteous God, and he's a just God, and the justifier
of him that believes in Jesus. Now listen to the next verse.
Where's boasting then? Where in the world can we brag?
Where's our part in it? Where's our part in it? Well,
we've got to have something to say. We've got to have something
to glory in. We've got to have something we can brag about.
No, where's boasting then? It's excluded. Can't happen. What, by the law of faith? Therefore,
we conclude that a man is justified without the deeds of the law.
Oh, justice has been honored. And I tell you, the debt's been
paid. So I tell you, God's justice
was so glorified at Christ on the cross. Oh, it's so glorified. And I tell you what, when you look at the death of
Christ on the cross, there's two things that stand out more
than anything else. The justice of God and the grace
of God. If God was just, just, he'd let
the whole world go to hell. But he didn't do that. You know
what he did? He said, I'll send my beloved son into this world.
I'll send him into this world. And I tell you, I know one person,
I know one man that will honor me, that will glorify me, that
will manifest my glory. that'll be true to me, that'll
obey me, that'll honor me, that'll glorify me. And if it means that
He has to die in order to bring glory to me, that's what'll have
to happen. And that's the way God could
be, just the only way He could, and say, listen, I'll forgive
that man who comes to my blessed son. I'll justify him, I'll clear
him. In fact, He said, you know what?
Because of what Christ did the justice was so honored and glorified
that God said their sins and iniquities I'll never even remember
them against them again. God said that. Oh, let me show you something
else that was glorified at the cross. By our death on the cross. The holiness of God. The holiness
of God. We read saying that this morning.
Holy, holy, holy. Holiness is His name. Holiness
is His nature. And God was so holy. God was
so holy. God made Him a curse to redeem
us from the curse. Look with me in Psalm 22. Psalm
22. Psalm 22. You know our Lord Jesus Christ,
when He was on that cross, He knew what He was facing. John
13 was, read, Jesus knowing that His hour was come, knowing all
things that should come upon Him. He knew this hour was coming. He knew this death was coming.
He knew his sacrifice was coming. He knew his bearing the justice
of God was coming. He knew the wrath of God was
coming. He knew that he was going to
have to die. He knew he was going to be treated as the guilty in
the place of the wicked. as the wicked one in the place
of the wicked, he put in the place of sinners. And then our
Lord Jesus Christ, why did God forsake his son? He said in Psalm
22, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? What a question,
what a question. David asked the question, Lord,
will your anger, will you be angry forever? Will your anger
never cease? Why, why, why? I'll never ask
that question. I will never ask that question.
Why has God forsaken me? Because God has not forsaken
me. Why? I thought so far from helping
me. Why don't you come help me? Here
I am. Men are beating me. Men are spitting
on me. Men are cursing me. Men are slapping
me. Men are nailing me to a tree. They got the girl on the ground.
They lay me down. They nail me there. Treated me
as a king with a crown of thorns on my head. Why don't you come
help me? You helped Noah, you prepared
an ark for him. You helped Abraham, he called
him out of there in the Chaldees. Come and help me, come and help
me. And all the words of my roaring, oh. Oh my God, I cry in the daytime
and you find our Lord going off and crying all, all, crying after
him during the day and in the, you hear me not. Then in the
night season I'm not silent. But here's why he said this,
I'm forsaken you. You're holy, that's why, you're
holy. and you have up your eyes and
to look on me when sin's on me. Then I have as the praise of
Israel, oh my, there on that bloody, bloody, bloody tree,
as God and we behold the son of his love, crying agony of
mind, body, and soul, do we see exactly how God Treat sin wherever
it's found. And if God don't deal with sin
in His Son, then He gonna have to deal with
sin in you. And then God will not build by... God cannot be
at peace with sin. He can't do it. God cannot be
at peace with sin. And that's why He said, Holy,
holy, holy is the Lord God. When Isaiah said, when he saw
His glory, When he saw his glory, he said,
I saw a whole bunch of people around the throne saying, holy,
holy, holy is the Lord God. God cannot be at peace. Look
in Revelations with me, 4.8. Look in Revelations chapter 4. And this is a sad, sad thing
that people do. Peter says, Be ye holy. God said,
Be ye holy as I am holy. Well, how in the world is only
one way a person can be holy is God is holy. That's through the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's impossible to be holy any
other way. But look what he said here in Revelations 4, verse
8. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him. And they were full of eyes within,
and they rest night and day, saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord
God Almighty, which was and which is to come. You know the God
we're gonna be with when we get into eternity is holy. He's not gonna change. He has
to change us. He has to change us. And you
know holiness is a state of being, and that's what people try to
attain, holiness, by what they do. But the only way, our Lord
said, be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. Where are
we gonna find perfection? Where are we going to find holiness
at? There's only one place where perfection is found. Complete
in Him. That's what complete means, to
be perfect. And how are we going to be holy?
Only in Christ. God's holiness was honored and
glorified in Christ. And that man who comes to Christ,
God, when He views a man, He's looking dead at his son. He's
not looking at us as we are. If He looked at us as we are
right now, He couldn't have a thing in the world to do with us. But
you know, when he looks at us now, you know, he don't see us,
he sees Christ. Ain't that a wonderful thing
to think about? You know, when I look at myself, like I said
one time, I'm sorry, I'm being so sorry. But oh my, the Lord
Jesus Christ. He honored and glorified God's
holiness, and He glorified God in His holiness, and He glorified
Himself in holiness, and now, Christ is made unto us wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, holiness, and redemption. Oh my, God can't be at peace
with sin. And oh, I tell you, all the holy
angels, and all of their obedience, and all the suffering of all
the best men that ever lived on the face of the earth. All
the martyrs and all the people that ever existed and all the
deeds they ever done or will ever do could not honor
and glorify the holiness of God. There's nothing in comparison
to the offering of Christ himself to meet the demands of God's
holiness which sin had outraged. Here's what had to happen, and
if you don't get nothing else I'll say today, get this right
here. God had to have a sacrifice equal to himself. God had to have a sacrifice equal
to himself. Where in the world can he get
a sacrifice equal to himself? His son. The Son was as holy as the Father. The Son was as sinless as the
Father. The Son was eternal as the Father. The Son was absolutely God manifest
in the flesh. But as a man, He could suffer
and die. But as God, He was equal with
God and can honor and satisfy God and bring glory to His holy. That's why what we do can never
satisfy. But Christ can. And Christ is. Oh my. God is holy. Christ is holy. The only one.
And let me hurry up. Let me give you another thing
that glorified God. And our Lord's death on the cross
glorified Him. His faithfulness. The faithfulness
of God. Well, God, first of all, He's
faithful to Himself. What I preached that Wednesday
night, that if we deny Him, yet He abideth faithful. If we deny
Him, it ain't gonna change Him. He's gonna still be faithful.
He's faithful. And you know what He's faithful
to, first and foremost? Himself. He's faithful to Himself. He's faithful to His nature.
If He's not, then He is an immutable. And when our Lord Jesus, that
sinless one, offered to receive the wages of sin, which is death, God our Father showed the universe
that he would rather the blood of his Son, the blood of the
Son of his love, the blood of the Son who inhabited eternity
with him, he would rather the blood of his Son be shed than
one tittle of his law to fail, than anything to not be accomplished
that God determined before the world began. And I tell you he
showed his faithfulness in his word. He made it known the sufferings
of his son from Genesis 315 all the way to the time he died. It is proof that God cannot lie. He is faithful. He was faithful. And this is one of my favorites
right here. It's one of my favorites. Oh
my, the wisdom of God was glorified in our Lord's death on the cross.
Now when I talk about the wisdom of God, here's the situation. Here's the situation, and I've
said it so many, and I keep on saying it as long as I'm able
to breathe and got my mind about me. How can God, holy, righteous,
just, sin avenging, promising that the soul of sinners that
shall die, how can God provide a way for man to be accepted
of him, accepted in his beloved. He's born in the world of darkness. He lives in the world of darkness.
He was born in sin, shaped in iniquity. So how could God, how
could God honor and satisfy his holy, righteous nature and yet
make a bunch of rebels and a sinner, who are sinners by nature, make
him as righteous as himself. Justice stood up and said, oh,
listen, I can't clear him. Mercy stood up and said with
tears in his eyes, what in the world will we do then? Righteousness said, oh, the sinner,
he's got to die. Justice says he's got to die.
Sin says we've got to die. Law says we've got to die. Law
says we're cursed. The Lord Jesus Christ stood up. Wisdom said this, I know a way. I'll take my son. I'll take my
son and I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll come down and I'll inhabit
the womb of a virgin. He'll be conceived of the Holy
Ghost and he'll be born and he'll live. And I'll tell you what,
wisdom said I devised a way that I'll charge him with everything
they did, and then when they believe on Him, I'll charge them
with what He accomplished, His obedience, His righteousness.
Oh, God is a just God and a Savior. How in the world can that be?
How can it be just and a Savior at the same time? In His blessed
Son on that cross. And I tell you what, when you
can answer that question, when you, you know what you'll do?
You'll look to Him and Him alone. And once you start looking to
Him, you'll never stop. Once you start coming to Him,
you keep coming. Ain't that right? Once you know
Him, the longer you live, the more you want to know Him. The
more you know about Him, you say, oh my Lord, I want to know
more. All right. Then there's the love
of God, the glorious love of God. God so loved the world,
a world of sinners that he gave his only begotten son. Oh my,
the wrath of God. You know under the law they had
that brazen serpent and they had fire. And when they put the
sacrifice on that altar, the fire under it would consume the
sacrifices. And then they'd shake it out
and do a great, and then they'd carry it out. The wrath of God
under the law consumed the sacrifice. When our Lord Jesus Christ was
the sacrifice on Calvary, you know what he did? He consumed
the wrath of God. God's not angry with anybody
for whom Christ died. He's at peace. He reconciled
us. Oh my, the light of the sun is
always the same, but you know when it shines the brightest?
At noon. And the cross is noon, the shining
of the brightest of the glory of God, and God's love at the
cross. It's shown throughout the world,
and it was brightest at the cross. I don't know where I got this
from, but I think this is good. There was blood from his head
to atone for our sins of thought. There was blood from his hands
to cover our sinful works. There's blood from his heart
to cleanse our sinful hearts. Blood from his feet to cleanse
our sinful walk. Why? Because he loved us so. Why? Because he wanted to. Because he wanted to. Let me give you this in closing. Oh, when we view God's grand
design to save rebellious worms, how vengeance and compassion
join in their sublimest forms. Our thoughts are lost in reverent
awe We love and we adore. The first archangel never saw
so much of God before. Here each divine perfection joins
and thought can never trace which of the glory's brightest shine,
the justice or the grace. If God the Father was especially
glorified in his Son, God help us, God help us to look to Him
whom God said to be everything. Look to Him, look to Him, need
Him, want Him, desire Him, for He's everything. Our Father, in the blessed name
of the Lord Jesus Christ, Thank you for allowing us to meet here
today. Thank you for your gospel. Thank you for your precious word.
Lord, you're so gracious, and yet, Lord, you're so holy. You're
so righteous, and yet, Lord, you're so kind and loving. You're
so wrathful, and yet, at the same time, you're full of love
and mercy. At all, how can all these things
be? in your blessed son, they shine
so gloriously bright. So Lord, since you're glorified
in your son, enable us to look to him and glorify you in believing
him, trusting him, looking to him. We bless you and praise
you in his holy name. Amen. Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound. Let's sing the praise. Sing it, sing it, sing it. I
once was lost. But now am found was blood, but
now I see was grace. That taught my heart to fear. My fears relieved. Oh, how precious. That grace appeared the hour
I first believed. Oh, we've already come. Oh, we're
going to go through some more too. that brought me safe thus far. What's gonna happen? Oh listen
now. When we Ten thousand years bright shining
as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's
praise than when we first began. Thank God for grace. Thank God
for the cross. Amen. Good night, or good evening. I'll see you tonight, six o'clock,
God willing.