to John's Gospel chapter 1. There in verse 12 it says this,
John 1.12. But as many as received Him,
there were people that didn't receive Him. He came to His own.
He came to the Jewish nation. He came to His own brethren. He came to
the world and His own received Him
not. But as many as received Him,
to them gave He power, or the right, or the privilege, excuse
me, to become the sons of God to them that believe on His name.
I want to talk about receiving Christ. Receiving Christ. Before we look at what it is
to receive Christ and receiving Christ, there's a more important
thing we have to deal with and look at. And that is this, Christ
receiving me. Will Christ receive me? Everybody wants, preachers teach
you know that you've got to accept Jesus as your personal Savior.
Open your heart and let Him in. None of those things are biblical.
Not one of those statements is biblical. And it says, to as
many as received Him. Now it talks about receiving
Christ. And what is it to receive Christ?
I believe that everybody here that's received Him will know
that today, and those that haven't will know that too. But the most
important thing we need to look at first is, is that Christ receiving
me? This Christ received me. The
scriptures tells us that Noah, first time the word grace is
found in the Bible, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
When Moses prayed before he was to go and leave, he said, Lord,
if I have found grace in thy sight, if I have found grace
in thy sight, lead me not up unless thou go with me. And the
scripture says in 1 John 4, 19, we love him. Why? Why do we love him? Because he
first loved us. Hearing his love, not that we
loved God, we didn't love God, but that he loved us. Well, how
do we know the love that he loved us? He sent his son. to be the
perpetuation, the sacrifice for our sin. Now, how does the Lord
Jesus Christ, how does He receive sinners? Well, the first way
He receives them, His Father gave them to Him. He said, Father,
they were Thine, and Thou gavest them to Me. And of all that You've
given Me, I've lost none. And all that the Father giveth
me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I shall in
no wise cast out." So they come to Christ and Christ receives
them because the Father gave them to Him. And then the second way He receives
His sinners is this, He purchased them with His own precious blood.
Our Lord Jesus Christ said, I lay down my life for the sheep. for
the sheep. The good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. I lay down my life. No man has
the power to take it. I have the power to lay it down.
I have the power to take it up again. And how does he receive
them? The Holy Spirit calls them. Calls
them to Christ. whom he did foreknow, them he
also called. Oh my, you know if Christ ever
called you, you know He called you. He called you. And whom He called, He justified.
Whom He justified, He also glorified. What shall we say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us? But here's the thing,
they do come to Him. And they come to Him in faith.
They come to Him by faith. All that the Father giveth me,
what does it say? They shall come. They're coming. Our Lord Jesus said in John,
well, let's look at it together. John 6, 44. I could quote this
to you, but look at it. You know, in the day of His power,
they're made willing. They're made willing, but they
do come to Him. Blessed is the man whom Thou
choosest and causes to approach unto Thee. Look what our Master
said here. No man can come to Me except
the Father which hath sent Me draw him. It's got to be drawn. God drains a man, starts drawing
a man, starts bringing a man to Christ. And I'll raise him
up at the last day. It is written in the prophets.
And this is Isaiah. And they shall be all taught
of God. Who? The ones that the Father has
drawn Him. They shall all be taught of God. And every man
therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, what does
he do? He comes to Me. So they do come. Christ had a
people given to Him by the Father. Purchased them with His blood.
The Holy Spirit calls them. And they do come to Him. They
do come to Him. Our Lord said, I give unto them
eternal life, and they shall never perish. Now look here in
our text again with me. It says in verse 10, John 1.10. He was in the world. There's
three worlds here. Folks go on and on about John
3.16. There's three different meanings of the word world in
this one verse of scripture. He came into the world. That's
the earth, this body, this planet we live on. And the world was made by Him.
The earth was made by Him. And the world, the people of
the world, the people, the people in this world received Him not.
And He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But
this is what I want to deal with right here. But as many as received
Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even
them that believe on His name." Now, what is it? What is it to
receive Christ? What is it to come to Christ?
You see, I want to do more than just cry, believe, believe, believe,
believe. But I want to tell you what it
is to believe. And who you are to believe. I'm not telling you just what,
but who to believe. To believe on Him. That's what
it says, as many as received Him. He came unto His own, but
His own received Him not. And I want to tell you what it
is to believe on Him. Here's the first thing. To receive
Christ and those who have received Christ is to be convinced of
the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Now what do I
mean by that? You know how many different Jesus's
there are in this world? There are several different ones.
There are ones who knock at your heart's door. That's not the
Christ that I know. There's one who begs to be entered
in. That's not the one I know. The
one who wants to be your personal Savior, that's not the one we're
talking about. We're talking about the Christ
of the Bible. This one who said, as many as
received him. Look with me. Do you know, he
that cometh to God, he that comes to God, first he must believe
that he is. What does that mean that means
you believe he as he says he is? Not like you think he is
not like you Hope he is not like you may hope that it'll be in
the last day But as he is in this world right now as God is
he was it makes himself. No look in Romans 10 Now you
keep John here. I want you to keep John look
in Romans 10 This is what I'm talking about right here Romans
10. If a man receives Christ, he's
got to be convinced of the reality of Christ. Christ is real. He's not a figment of a man's
imagination. And look what he said here in
Romans 10, 14. Verse 13 said, Whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's wonderful. Oh, what a blessed truth. Well,
how then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
How are you going to call on somebody you've not believed?
And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
How are you going to believe in an unrevealed Christ, an unknown
Christ, an unbiblical Christ? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? So you see, you got to be convinced
that Christ is real. Christ is reality. They have
all these documentaries and things like that searching for the historical
Jesus. You can go look for the historical
Jesus, but the Christ of the Bible is the one you got to deal
with. The one that's sitting on the throne at the right hand
of God, that's the one we have to deal with. Now listen to me
now. All saving faith. You say you
have saving faith? All saving faith is founded on
knowledge and understanding. Now what I mean by that, you
cannot receive or believe on an unrevealed Christ. You got
to know something about Him. You got to understand something
about Him. It's like the Ethiopian eunuch.
He was going on in his chariot. Philip joined himself to him
and he said, do you understand what you're reading? He said,
no, how can I? Except some man guide me. Well,
he got in that chariot and beginning at that scripture, he preached
unto him the Lord Jesus Christ from that scripture. And that
man listened to that. He had knowledge of that and
he understood that. He preached to him something
about the Lord Jesus Christ. a person and that man believed
on the Lord Jesus Christ and he had an understanding of what
Philip told him. God gave him and he said here's
water what do it came to me to be baptized. So I tell you all
saving faith is founded on knowledge and understanding. You can't
know Christ and not know who he is. You can't know God and
trust the Lord Jesus Christ if you don't understand who he is.
And who is Jesus Christ? Who is He? Well, He's very God
of very God. He's God come into this world. Ain't that what it says? He was
in the world and the world was made by Him. Who made the world? In the beginning God said. In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Well,
who is this God? The Lord Jesus Christ. What did
He do? He said, He came, thou shalt
call His name Jesus, and listen to this, He shall save His people
from their sins. He's not going to try. He's not
going to make a valiant effort. He's not going to wait on you
to make a decision. No, no. He came here to save
His people from their sin and they're going to be saved from
their sin. And why did He do it? Why did He do this? That
God might be just. God, He cannot save a sinner
without punishing him for his sin. He's a righteous God and
a just God. And so if He punished the Lord
Jesus Christ and Christ bore our sin, Christ was our sin offering,
Christ was our substitute, Christ was our satisfaction, Christ
died to put our sins away, then God being just cannot come and
charge us with sin again. Why? Because Christ put them
away. Saved us from them. Now where
is He now? Where is he now? Is he down here
in the front? Is he on an altar for us to accept
him or not reject him? No! He's at the right hand of
the majesty on high. After He by Himself purged our
sins, He set out on the right hand of God Almighty. He's at
the right hand of God. And you know the only way you
can get to Him? It's by faith. Old Scott used to say, and the
first time I heard it I just rejoiced so much. He said, you
can come to Christ and not move a muscle. Oh, listen, Christ is not just
a myth or a martyr. He's more than someone come here
to influence us. He's more than an ideal person. He certainly, if all He is in
His example, then we all are going to be lost because we don't
even come close to measuring up to His example. He is a person,
a person that came into this world and John said it like this,
we know that the Son of God has come and given us an understanding
that we might know Him that is true and this is the true God,
even Jesus Christ. Huh? Oh my. So I'll tell you, Sidney. You know, faith is born. Would you hire an electrician
who didn't know anything about electricity? Would you hire a
plumber who didn't know nothing about plumbing? Well then don't
tell me that you can know Christ and not know nothing about Him. Not have some understanding.
And I tell you, listen, conviction. Conviction is something that
people don't hear about anymore. Only time you hear about a convict
is somebody that's been arrested and took to jail. He is a convict. But God convicts people. He convicts
them of their sin. You know conviction is born of
a knowledge of God's law. But the law is the knowledge
of sin. When the law came, it shut every
man's mouth and made him guilty before God. When we look at that
law, all we can say, condemn, condemn, condemn. I'm convicted. I'm a criminal in God's sight. I've not kept His law. And repentance,
sorrow and a change of mind is born of a knowledge of my sin.
Do you know anything about your sin? Preachers, you know, they've
been telling all over, you know, and I used to preach it myself.
You're the one that had the problem. I was the one, okay, you live
like I tell you and you'll be all right. But I tell you what,
when God convinces you of your sin, you say, oh, whoa, it's
me. I'm undone. It's me that sinned
against God. It's me that I've done that.
It's me that's the sinner. If you ever, God ever convinced
you of your sin and if you have, you'll turn from it and you'll
mourn and you'll grieve and you'll never get over repenting of your
sin. Repentance becomes a state of
mind. It's not just one time you repent and then you get up
and you go on about you. Once you repent and find out
something about your sin, you never stop mourning and repenting
over your sin. And once you start believing,
you'll always believe. And yours, you'll be saying,
Lord, help my unbelief. And faith, conviction is born
of a knowledge of the law. Repentance is born of a knowledge
of my sin. Faith is born of a knowledge of Christ. When you find out
something and know something about Christ, face it, I believe. Oh, I heard about him. Job said,
I heard about you with the hearing of the ear. Now my eye sees you. We hear and we see. Oh, faith
comes to... And you know, in all coming,
everyone that comes to Christ, or anything, presupposes a fixed
object. It's like that woman that came
to Christ with an issue of blood. She said, if I can but touch
Him, I'll be made whole. And so, beloved, that's why Christ
is sitting at the right hand of God. And if you can faith,
can go to Him, and touch Him, and look to Him, you'll be made
whole. Huh? Oh, to receive Christ is
to begin, be convinced that Christ is a person. Oh my, I do know
people say, I received Jesus, I was 14 years old. Well, maybe
you did. I hope you did. I hope you did. To receive Christ, to believe
Christ, and to come to Christ, listen, here's the second thing,
is to rest upon His Word. His testimony. His Word being
infallible. Let me ask you something. What
is our source of information about the Lord Jesus Christ and
salvation? What is our source of information?
Right here. Do you rest on God's Word? Do
you believe God's Word? Do you believe the testimony
of God concerning His Son? Do you believe His Word is infallible? Don't need to be changed anywhere.
Don't need to have a jot or a tittle changed in it. Well, what's our source of information
and revelation about the Lord Jesus Christ and salvation? We
have to get it out of this Word. What I just read to you in the
beginning was the Word. That's capitalized. That's Christ. The Word was with
God. God the Father. God the Son.
And then he goes on to say, not only was he with God, but he
himself was God. Where did we get that information
from? And this word was made flesh,
became a man, and tabernacled among us. And when he tabernacled
among us, we beheld his glory. What glory as the only begotten
Son of God! Oh my! How do we know that He
is God? From the Scriptures. How do we
know of His eternal existence? From the Word. How do we know
He was born of a virgin and came into this world? From His Word. How do we know about His holy,
sinless life? From God's precious Word. How
do we know anything about His death? And what His death accomplished? And why He died? Why He was dying
for? From His Word. We hear about
His resurrection. Where in the world did you ever
find any place about the resurrection besides in His precious, holy,
glorious Word? And then, where do we find out
that He ascended back to glory? In His Word. He said, I go away. But you know what else he said?
I'll come again. So how do we find out about his
return? From his word. What do we know
about him sitting at the right hand of God right now? What's
he doing? Praying for us. Where did all that come from?
All come from the scriptures. Do you rest your soul and rest
your eternal soul upon the truth of God and what God says about
His Son? You keep John 1. Look over here
in John chapter 5. Get John 5 with you. John chapter
5. Go look at several scriptures
over here. You know, Isaiah said it this way, If they speak not according to
the law and the testimony, Because there's no light in them. They
don't speak according to the word of God because there's no
light in them. And Paul told Timothy, he says,
Thou knowest the scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto
salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The scriptures
make you wise. But look what he said here in
John 5.33. Our Master is speaking here now. you sin unto John and he bear
witness unto the truth and he bear witness to the truth John
the Baptist did but I receive not testimony from man but these
things I say that you might be saved look down now verse 39 search the scriptures look through
the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and
they the scriptures are they which testify of me right and
then look what he says down here verse 46 for had you believed
Moses you would have believed on me for he wrote of me but
if you believe not his writings which is the word of God how
shall you believe my words so listen this is the record that
God gave of his son he that believeth on the son hath life and he that hath the son hath
life that means he's got it that means he's got it You know it
is Satan's work. I've seen a little article I
wrote years and years ago. I forgot all about it. Satan
either wants you whitewashed or you got to be washed in the
blood. Satan wants you whitewashed. And Satan's work is to put a
question mark on the scriptures. He always puts a question mark
on it. And that's what he does. He puts
a question mark on it. Well, you know, this verse of
scripture here really don't mean that. This is what it really
means. And this is what he should have
said. And he should have said this and he should have said
that. And you know, if we'd understood how this was happening and that
happened in these different words and what all it meant, then you'd
understand. And then we're going to talk about all the different...
Listen. God gave us a Bible in plain
language. Why complicate it? You know, I'm too simple-minded. I'm too dumb to be complicated
about some things. I'm just too slow. It'd be hard
to complicate. You know, you can't even complicate
me because if you're as complicated, I couldn't understand what you're
talking about. But it's Satan's work to put
a mark on the Scriptures. And listen to me, all acts of
faith, all acts of faith, coming to the front, getting on an altar,
all acts of faith, raising your hand, signing a card, whatever
you do, are just, and religion is just a supposition if they're
not based on what God said. You know if you've had an experience
and that experience is not based on scriptures. You've just had
an experience If our script we can't find our experience in
the Bible you need to get rid of your experience You know this is the long and
short of it did God save me or did I help him I Did God save
me or did I have to cooperate with Him? Is it part God's work,
part mine? No. It's all of God. And if God
does a work, you'll know He's done that work. That's what I'm
talking about. To receive Christ is to receive Him as He's revealed
in this blessed Bible. And oh, listen. Now listen to
this. I love this. Oh, I love this.
To receive Christ and to come to Christ is to be assured that
all I need is found in Him. All I need. All I need. He is all I need. Look at John 6, 66 with me. Oh
boy. You know, I tell you what, I never will forget.
You know, I was talking to a dear friend yesterday. I hadn't talked
to him in a long time. And he had been a preacher for
years. He used to go with big busloads of people and go to
big cities and stuff and walk the streets and win people to
Jesus, you know. He was a soul winner. Went through
all that. Went to a good Bible school. And he was incredibly smart. But boy, God tore his playhouse
down. Tore it down. He pastored a big
church. And God began to reveal himself
to him. And he told me, he said, it's
like dying. It was like dying. He said, and
I made a profession when I was six years old. And I started preaching when
I was just a teenager. And I went on and preached. And
he said, boy, when God got done with me, He said everything I ever believed,
everything I ever done, everything I ever hoped in, I had to come
naked before God with nothing. And I went through the same thing. And see, and I remember this
person when we first met him. He didn't know Christ when we
first met him. All he was interested in is what's the relationship
between grace and law. Well, how do you deal with the
law? Well, he got to hearing preaching. He got to come to
some of the meetings. He started hearing preaching. He started
hearing Henry and Don and different preachers and Tim James and things. He started having these fellows
come in and preach for him. Next thing you know, he was lost! It's lost! And you know what
he found out? I found out all I need is found
in Him. And my soul went to rest. And it's rested ever since. And
look what it says here now. Our Lord said in John 6.66 From that time, many of his disciples
went back and walked with him no more. Then said Jesus unto
the twelve, oh my, will you also go away? You going to leave too?
All these other fellows leaving, you going to go with them? Then
Simon Peter asked him, said, Lord, to whom shall we go? He didn't say, where are we going
to go? To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And listen to this, and we believe
and are sure, are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the
living God. You know a man who comes to Christ
and embraces Christ in true saving faith, he believes that all he
needs is found in the Lord Jesus Christ. God made him. God made him. Unto us, wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. You are complete
in him who is the head of all principalities and power. And
in the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him. Abraham believed
God. Paul said, I know whom I have
believed. And Jude said it like this. Shirley
and I was looking at this the other day, and oh my, it blessed
our hearts to look at it. Jude 24. He is able to keep you
from falling. and to present you flawless before
his glory. Present you flawless. He is able. That's what it says. He is able.
He is. He is. If you're hungry, you
know when a person eats, when they're hungry. When you're hungry,
Christ is meat indeed. Are you thirsty? The Lord Jesus
Christ is that living water. Oh my, bless His name. You're
condemned by law and by your sin. Christ is my righteousness. Are you unclean? Christ is a
fountain opened. Are you ignorant? Christ is our
wisdom. Are you poor? All the riches
of grace is in the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 3.11 says,
He is all and in all. Have you found in Him, in Him,
not in the church, have you found in Him all you need? Do you rest your soul right there?
Oh my. Let me give you another one here.
I don't want to take too long. To come to Christ, to receive
Christ as many as received Him. To receive Christ is to receive
Him entirely. Completely. And undivided. What do I mean by that? Well,
people They want him as an insurance
policy to escape hell. And they want him, and preachers
you know they are going to make him as accessible as they possibly
can. If you won't accept Jesus on
his terms, well then we'll lower him. And you know some people
they think of the Lord Jesus Christ as just a mat to wipe
their filthy feet on every time they backslide or every time
they feel like they've done something wrong they come in and wipe their
feet on Him and then they go right back out into the world. And they want Him as an insurance
policy from hell. But I'm telling you, you got
to take him as he is. I preached on this here, I don't
know how long ago it was, but it says, there's no other name under heaven,
under the heavens. given among men, whereby we must
be saved, other than Jesus Christ." There's two very important words
in this verse of scripture here in John 12. John 1.22. Two very
important scriptures. You spare of life anywhere but
in the Lord Jesus Christ. No other foundation can be laid
other than Jesus Christ. Now look what it says here. Two
very important words, but as many as, listen to this, received
him. That's it, him. That's the first
important word there, him. Him. You've heard it said, you
know, this is a him book. It really truly is. It's a him
book. And oh, not his, but him. Some came to Him and they didn't
receive Him. They didn't believe Him. They
didn't come to Him. As many as received Him, not
Him. Salvation is to receive Him. Paul said, I want to know Christ. I want to be found in Him. Now I tell you, beloved, of all
the places that God will find you when He comes, of all the
places that God looks at you right now where He can find you.
He'll either find you in one or two places. He'll either find
you in Adam or He'll find you in Christ. Find you in your sin or find
you in the righteousness of Christ. Huh? Well, when God comes and
God looks at me and says, Oh, where's He at? He told me, Adam
went and hid from God. Thought he could actually hide
from God. And people still think they can hide from God. And God
said, where are you, Adam? And the first word out of his
mouth, he said, I'm not over here hidden behind a bush. You
know what he said? I'm naked. Who told you? I just knew it. It was the first
minute I ate that fruit. And that's where you're going
to be found. God's going to find us either naked, with a fig leaf,
or in Christ, and clothed with His righteousness. And oh, I
want to be found in Him. Not, not, not having my own righteousness,
but the righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ. Huh? And then here's the second
word. Here's the second word. As many
as received them, to them gave he power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on his name. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord, the name of the Lord, his name is all that
he is. His name tells us who he is.
If you're the Christ, tell us plainly. I've told you, but you
believe not. Why don't you believe? Because
you're not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. And oh, His name is all that
He is. And you know, you take people
that you know. You take people that you know.
And you say, boy, I'll tell you what. Whatever that fellow tells
you, you can mark it down. It will be just the way it is.
It will be true. If he says, you know, and if
I tell you what, when Christ, when we talk about His name,
marker down, everything He says is true and right and can be
trusted. In fact, God never gave another
man the name that He gave His blessed Son. He said, He gave
Him a name that's above every name. People say, don't you know who
I am? I don't give a quack. What difference does it make
who you are? Really, what difference? You know, people say that all
the time. Don't you know who I am? Listen, who cares? They think because they know,
well, I'm somebody. Well, I'm somebody too. I'm a
sinner saved by grace. The only thing I care about is
God knows who I am. And His name is all that He is. His name is His attributes. It tells us who He is. Has He
got all power in heaven and earth? Yes. Can He give life to the
dead? Yes. Is all grace found in Him? Yes. Is all blessings found in
Him? Yes. Does God only receive sinners
through Christ? Yes. Lots of people interested in
His benefits. They want His forgiveness without
Him. They want His gifts without Him. But oh my, we want Him. You know if you've got Him, you've
got everything that goes with Him. listen I remember one time you
know I made a big Christmas gift one time and I put in a big box
and they opened that box and there's another box right inside
that box and they and every time they got there boys said oh my
oh my and they just kept going on opening boxes opening boxes
over the box and then they got down to a little bitty box and
everything's in that little bitty box Well, everybody wants all
them big boxes. I said, boy, that's a big old
box. You just give me that box that's inside all the rest of
the boxes. You give me Christ. That's who I want. And listen,
you don't have to unwrap this one. No, no. Oh, receive Him. You have all that's His. All
the promises of God are in Him. Yay and amen. Here's the fifth
thing I'm going to talk about. What it is to come to Christ
and receive Christ. is to receive Him freely as the
gift of God. This is one person you cannot
earn. You can't earn His favor. You
can't earn His look. You can't earn His salvation.
You can't even earn His name. Being justified freely by His
grace. The wages of sin is death, but
the gift God is eternal life. God so loved the world that He
gave. What? His son. Thanks be unto God for
His unspeakable gift. Oh my, listen to this and I'm
done. We sang that old song, In my
hands no price I bring. Simply to Christ I cling. Let not conscience make you linger,
nor of fitness fondly dream. All the fitness He requires is
that you believe on Him. Jesus is our God and Savior,
guide and counselor and friend, bearing all our misbehavior,
kind and loving to the end. Trust Him, He will not deceive
us, though we hardly of Him deem. He will never, never leave us. Nothing but the blood of Jesus
can relieve us of our smart. Nothing else from guilt release
us. Nothing else can melt the heart. Law and terrors do but harden.
All the while they work alone. But a sense of blood-bought pardon
soon dissolves a heart of stone. Listen to this and I'm done.
Jesus, all our consolations flow from Thee, the sovereign good.
Love, faith, hope, and patience all are purchased by Thy blood.
From Thy fullness we receive them. We have nothing of our
own. Freely Thou delight'st to give
them to the needy who have none. Have you received Christ? Have
you come to Christ? Our Father, blessed be your name,
for allowing us to preach your son once again, to preach the
gospel. And Lord, if there isn't one
here who has received Christ, hasn't come to Christ, we pray
that you've opened their heart today, you've created a hunger,
you've created a thirst. And if they haven't confessed
Christ and they understood today that they have come to Him, they
have received Him, God enable them to confess Him. Lord, He
confesses them. He confesses that they're His. They bought Him. He bought them.
Redeemed them. Washed them in His blood. Called
them by His grace. Revealed Christ to them and in
them. If you've done that for them and they've not confessed
you, enable them to confess you what you've done for them. God,
we thank you for our blessed salvation given us in Christ
so fully, so freely. That You gave us Your blessed
Son. Oh, You gave us Heaven's darling. You gave us the Son
of Your love. You gave us that One that rejoiced
in You in eternity. That was unbosomed from Your
very heart and came into this world to save sinners like ourselves
and to make You known to us. We bless You and praise You in
Christ's name. Amen. We'll sing that little chorus,
Jesus Christ is made to me. Everybody I believe knows that. Everybody knows that, I'm sure.
Jesus Christ is made to me. He is all I need, all I need. He alone is all my plea. He is all I need. Wisdom, righteousness, and power,
holiness forevermore. It's all