Ephesians 4.29, let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth. That means don't
say anything ill of other people, especially don't say things about
the Scriptures and about Christ. Don't be corrupted from the simplicity
that's in Christ. proceed out of your mouth, but
let this proceed out of your mouth, that which is good to
the use of edifying, establishing, building up, that it may minister
grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit
of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. You
use the wrong language about Christ, the scriptures, and it
will grieve the Holy Spirit. Let all bitterness and wrath
and anger and clamor and making a scene and carrying on and evil
speaking be put away from you with all malice, the malice that's
involved in it. And be ye kind one to another,
tender-hearted, oh, tender-hearted, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Be ye
therefore followers of God as dear children, and walk in love,
as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour. But fornication, in all uncleanness
or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as becometh
saints, neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting,
which are not convenient, but rather of giving thanks. For
this you know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous
man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain
words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon
the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers
with them, for you were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light
in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for
the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness
and truth. proving what is acceptable unto
the Lord, and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove, for it is shame to speak of those
things which are done of them in secret. That he is heir of all things,
and I am joint heirs with him, And you go, there's places in
this world, in this country, that you go and you wonder how
anybody could see the things that they see and not believe
in a Creator. I just don't understand it. But
there's people that don't. But oh my, some of the beauties
in this country. Alright, I want you to look with
me here in Ephesians. Chapter 5 verses 1 and 2. Be
ye therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also
has loved us and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice
to God for a sweet smelling savor. You notice there it says that
Christ gave Himself a sacrifice, an offering and a sacrifice.
That's what I want to talk about today, the sacrifice of our Lord
Jesus Christ. From the first time that the
blood was shed when God clothed Adam and Eve with the garments
that He clothed them with, and from Abel's lamb and the blood
shedding that He did outside the garden, You can start right
there in Genesis chapter 3. Chapter 4. Go all the way through
the Bible. All the way through the Bible.
And there's a red line. A red line of blood all the way
through. Of sacrifices unbroken. You can start with the sacrifice
that God made, that Abel made. And all that blood shedding is
unbroken through all the Old Testament. But all the sacrifices,
all the sacrifices are offered from that very first one till
our Lord Jesus Christ came to the cross. All of those sacrifices
that were offered never put away one sin. Not one. Not one. The priest got up every
morning and he offered a morning lamb. And every evening he offered
an evening lamb. And then they had all of those
sacrifices, one after another, one after another, one after
another. Those priests, when they would
go and offer those sacrifices, their clothes, those white linen
clothes that they put on every morning, would be blood splattered.
have blood all over them how could they not when they were
slitting blood and they were shedding blood all day people
bringing their offerings but all of those blood sheddings
and all of those offerings offered over and over and over and over
day in and day out never put away one sin they all found their
culmination they all ended and pointed to the one great sacrifice
who would come and the Lord Jesus Christ pointed to that one great
sacrifice that the Son of God himself offered on that cross
when he was crucified on that blessed cross and all the offerings
that man offered and are still offering fall so short of the
requirements of God's righteousness. But God, in His blessed mercy
and in His blessed grace, for a world of lost sinners, provided
Himself a Lamb. And John described Him when he
saw Him coming down, he said, and all his disciples looked
at Him, he said, Behold, he pointed at Him, Behold, the Lamb of God,
We've taken away the sin of the world. What world? The world
of His elect. The world of those that He's
given to. The world of all those that Christ
offered Himself for. But now I want you to look with
me and hopefully God will bless me to preach from this. And look
what it says. What this sacrifice was. It says
there that Christ Walk as Christ also hath loved us and listen
to this hath had given him self He gave himself I've always tried
to understand and talk about what himself is himself What
is it that Christ did you know Paul said he loved me and gave
himself He gave himself I know that He gave His love.
I know that He loved His people. I know that it was a faithful
love. It was a fruitful love. It was
an effectual love. And it's an eternal love. And
it will never ever stop. I know that He gave His love.
And oh, what a great, great love it was. I know that He gave His
time. He had a time on this earth.
He had a time to be born and He had a time to die. He had
a time to live on this earth. A certain time to do certain
things and to fulfill the will of God. I know that He came and
He gave of His power. He gave of His power over creation. Gave of His power and showed
it His power to forgive man of their sin. And I know that He
came and He gave of His wisdom. When he was 12, he confounded
the doctors and the lawyers. And I know that he came and he
gave his blood, shed his blood. But here it said he gave himself. Himself. What does it mean himself? You think about Christ in all
the fullness of his life. All the fullness of his life.
from the day he was born of a virgin, and every day on this earth,
and all that he is, all that he was in his glorious humanity,
all that he was in his blessed, blessed Godhead, and the fullness,
you think of the fullness of his life, and the merit of his
life, He's the only man that ever lived on this earth that
had any merit in himself. There's not a human being that
ever had any merit in himself other than Jesus Christ. People talk about their merits,
you know. These guys get their merit badges,
but I'm telling you something. There's only one man who had
any worth on this earth. Any moral worth. People say,
he's a good moral man. Listen. Christ is the only moral
man that ever lived on this earth. The very fact that you think
you're moral is a self-righteous thought in and of itself. Oh, I'm a good moral person.
I'll tell you what, that is self-righteousness from the top to the bottom. What worth do we have? That's
what I'm talking about. He gave Himself, His merit, His
worth. Look with me, keep this and look
at Hebrews chapter 9. Let's look at Hebrews 9 together. You know this blessed, blessed
Savior gave himself You know, there's people that
they give of their self so much. We have folk in this congregation
that have give themselves, they've give of their self, they've give
of their money, they've give of their time. And when something
comes up, they just willingly jump up and get involved in it
and take care of it. And there's so much that they
give of themselves. But we never completely entirely
give our self. But look what it said here in
verse 13. We're talking about the blood
of Christ, the sacrifice of Christ. Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by His own blood. Here He is Himself. By His own
blood, He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats, and the ashes of the heifer sprinkling the unclean,
made this flesh purified for a while, how much more, listen
to this now, how much more, that's one of the things that the apostle
used, and much more, how much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal spirit, watch it now, offered himself
without spot to God, to purge your conscience from dead works,
all the works we ever did to serve the living God. Now look
down here in verse 25, nor yet that he should offer
himself often I tell you what, if his sacrifice wasn't sufficient,
those priests had to offer the second offer that never did take
away sin. Nor yet that he should offer
himself often as the high priest enters into the holy place every
year with the blood of others. For then must he have often suffered
since the foundation of the world. Now listen to it. But now once
in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by
the sacrifice of who? Himself. Himself. Himself. Look at who the sacrifice was
given to. It says he has given himself
a sacrifice to God. He gave himself to God. This
is the difference between Arminianism and grace. Between free willism
and grace. Between works and grace. Works
always starts with what man does. Man. Starts with man. He's got the choice. He's got
the power. He's got the wheel and he's got
the rights But here he says he made himself a sacrifice to God
offered himself a sacrifice He was God's lamb the sacrifice
was appointed by God the first sacrifice was appointed by God
and given by God and And to offer a sacrifice to anyone or anything
else is idolatry. It's idolatry. I mean, if you
think you've got a sacrifice that you can give and God would
accept it, that's idolatry. And the time of the sacrifice
was appointed. God said, I want to sacrifice
at this time and this time and this is the sacrifice that you're
going to bring when I tell you to bring it. And if you don't
bring any other sacrifice, I won't accept it. I won't accept it. Now listen to me. There had to
be a sacrifice answerable to the debt that we owed. You know
people go bankrupt because they're in debt. Well I'll tell you the
difference between people that go bankrupt because they're in
debt. We was born bankrupt. Born that way. And I'll tell
you what, there had to be a sacrifice answerable to the debt that we
owed to God. And I tell you what, if we didn't
have that, then God would have to forfeit both soul and body
to the wrath of God and the curse of the law. Well, our Lord Jesus
Christ, that's what He did. He gave Himself, body and soul,
as a sacrifice to God. And because of the worth and
person and merit of His blessed person, He was able to pay all
the debt of all His elect from time and eternity by his blessed
self. He bore the wrath of God. He
suffered both soul and body. That's why the Lord said, My
soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. It pleased God,
the scripture said. It pleased God to bruise him. Listen to it. And it made his
soul an offering for sin. God gets it. It pleased God to
bruise him and made his soul an offering for sin. Then he
says, he himself bore our sins in his own body. And here's the
thing about our blessed Savior when he gave himself to God.
His whole person suffered. He suffered in his body. Oh listen,
when he suffered in his body, do you realize the things that
they done to him in his body? It was awful the things that
they did to him. I mean, you start thinking about,
you know, the very fact when they brought him there the first
time, they blindfolded him and slapped him. Some spit in his
face. They took a rod and beat him
with it. They took a rod and said, here, if you're a king,
listen, here's your scepter. And they took a cat of nine tails
and beat him and beat him and beat him and beat him 39 stripes. And he says, my bones, my bones. They can see my bones, they can
count my bones, my bones cry out. And then on top of that, instead
of having a crown, he wears a crown now and he sits at the right
hand of God. And every crown that there is, on his head are
many crowns now. But when he was on this earth,
they took a crown of thorns and shoved it down on his head. And
I just had a little thorn, you know, we have a little thorn
stuck in our finger and we just worried, worried, worried we'd
get it out. They took a crown of thorns, spiked that right
there and stuck it on his head and pustered into his skin. Oh
my, he suffered in his body. Then they took big spikes, big
spikes, not little nails, spikes. Something about like a railroad
spike and they put his hands together like that right there
and nailed him Put his foot on top of one another nailed him
And you know what he never said a word Not one word, huh? And then he suffered in his soul
Oh how his soul suffered How his soul suffered. The scripture
says being in agony. My soul, my soul is exceeding
sorrowful unto death. My soul. Oh, my soul is who we are. And for
God to save us. For God to save us. And for God to save anybody,
He must do it justly. And how can God justly save somebody
like me and you? How can He do it? Christ made
Himself an offer, a sacrifice to God. That's the one that has
to be satisfied. Me and you don't. Me and you
ain't got nothing to offer. God has to be just. And God's
justice said they owe a debt. And I demand their death because
of their debt. And I will not be satisfied until
I have their death. Until I punish them for every
sin they've ever committed. I will not let them go. I can't do it. I'm a just God. Well, I, Lord Jesus Christ, came
and He said, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll offer myself as
a sacrifice to you. And every debt they owe, charge
it to me. Every sin they ever committed,
put it on me. And I, Lord Jesus Christ, got
into the presence of God Himself Took his blood into the presence
of God and offered it there and God said that's enough And bless
his holy name Now every one of us can come into the holy place
where Jesus Christ himself is Bless his name, huh? And God
now can save us justly Ain't that a wonderful way to
be saved I Oh, what a wonderful way to be
saved. You reckon God is never going
to come and say, listen, that's one thing I forgot to do. I forgot
to charge you with this. No, no. As long as Christ is
at the right hand of God, we accept Him. Look who this sacrifice made.
He gave himself. And he gave himself to God. A
sacrifice to God. Look who he gave himself for.
And Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us. Did you notice? Loved us and
give himself for us. I'm going to raise both hands
and say, I'm an us. Capital U, capital S. He gave himself for us. God commendeth
his love for us. Even while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. God made Him to be sin for us
who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of
God in Him. Who was these people? Well, we
were blasphemers. We were persecutors. We were
sinners of the deepest die. Look with me in Matthew 15. Matthew,
you keep this over here. Look with me in Matthew 15, verse
29. Oh my. We were aliens from God. Do you know what it is to be
an alien? You go to some place where you're
not from. Go to Mexico, go to China. Go
to Germany, go to France and you'll be an alien there because
you're not a citizen of that place. You'll be an alien because
you don't speak the language. You'll be an alien because you
don't belong there. You'll be an alien because you're
in a strange country and you're a strange person in that strange
country. We're aliens. And we're aliens
from God. We were without life, we were
without merit, we were without righteousness. And look what
it said here in verse 29. Jesus departed from thence, and
came nigh unto the sea of Galilee, and went up into a mountain,
and sat down there. Sat down. Sat down on the side
of a mountain. And great multitudes came unto
him. Now he sat down there. Great multitudes came unto him,
having with them those that were lame, those that were blind,
those that were dumbed, maimed, and many others, and cast them
down at Jesus' feet, and he healed them. Now he's sitting down,
they're just bringing him at his feet. How do you reckon he
healed him? Do you reckon he touched him?
Just said for him to be? I don't know, but he sat down.
And it was at the right place, that is, at his feet. That's
the most blessed place to be. Mary sat at his feet, and he
said, she hath chosen that good part. And then look what he said
in verse 31. And this happened insomuch that
the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the
maimed to walk, the lame to behold, the lame to walk, and the blind
to see. And look what it says, they glorified
the God of Israel. Ain't that what we do? For us, how maimed were we? Sin maimed us. We couldn't walk. Couldn't walk to God. Couldn't
come to God. Blind and we couldn't see. Dumb
and we couldn't speak the things of God. And now we do all those
things. And He gave Himself back over
here in our text. He gave Himself for us. And when
it says He gave Himself for us, that means He was our substitute.
Old Scott used to say, he said, I tell you what, he'd get through
preaching sometime and he said, well, didn't feel like I'd done
much, but I at least missed a substitution. And substitution is that somebody
substitutes for you. We understand that. And that's
what Christ did. He was our substitute. He stood
in our room. He stood in our stand. And it
was a real substitution, not a pretend substitution. You know,
if He gave Himself, He stood as a substitute for somebody,
then those people He stood as a substitute for somebody, then
those people don't have to stand for themselves. And it's a real
substitution. Look with me in Genesis 22. It's
a real one. You know, you hear people talk
about Jesus loves everybody. Jesus died for everybody. That's
not substitution. That couldn't be substitution.
You know, when the Passover went through and they had the blood
on the door, you know who was saved by the Passover? Only those
who had a Passover. Had a Passover lamb. Only those
who had bloodshed. And so when Christ died as a
substitute and took his place for us, well then, beloved, he
actually took our place. Not everybody's place, but a
certain people's place. And look at that, and the Passover
saved only those for whom the Passover sacrifice was slain.
Look here at Genesis 22. Look down in verse 7. And Isaac
spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said,
Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire
and the wood. But where is the lamb? The lamb
for a burnt offering. Listen to this. And Abraham said,
My son, God will provide himself a lamb. He'll provide one first
for himself. God will provide himself a lamb. And then the lamb will be given
for us and God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so
they went both of them to the place together and look what
it says here now in Abraham verse 10 stretched
forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son and look what happens now verse
13 God said don't lay your hand on him and Abraham lifted up
his eyes and looked and behold him a ram Paul Mahan said there
is somebody had a whole bunch of lambs and rams down there
at the bottom of that mountain said one of them got out evidently
and went up that mountain and went up that mountain and got
caught in that thicket for one reason And Abraham lifted up his eyes
and looked. And behold, behind him, it had
always been there, but he had just now seen. And behold, him
a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and
took the ram and offered him up for a burn off. And listen
to this, told you God would provide himself a lamb. God did right
then and there. and he offered him up for a burnt
offering and this is substitution in the stead of his son and you
can say put your name in there in the stead in the stead of
put your name there in the stead of alright so our Lord Jesus
Christ he made it for us then how back over in our text how
was this sacrifice made Well, I tell you, it was voluntary. The scripture says he gave himself,
had given himself. You know, he gave himself. Our
Lord Jesus, in John 16, 10-16 says this, Herein doeth my Father
love me, because I lay down my life for the sheep. He said,
no man takes it from me. I have the power to lay it down,
I have the power to take it up again. And so it was a voluntary
sacrifice that he made. No one made him do it. He said,
I delight, oh Lord, I delight, oh God, to do thy will. Thy will
is in my heart. Oh, I delight to do it. The laws
within my heart. And the scripture said in Isaiah
53, he was led as a lamb to the slaughter. And I'll tell you
something about our blessed Savior. He knew, He knew the sufferings
that He had had beforehand. He knew that everything that
would happen to Him, He knew it before it ever happened. John
18, 28 says that He knew that also the scriptures might be
fulfilled, Christ said. He knew that man would be angry
with Him. That the wrath of man would come
upon Him in an unbelievable way. Oh listen, the wrath of man. Oh how man hated Him. How man
despised Him. How man rejected Him. And the
wrath of man. The wrath of the priests and
the scribes and the Pharisees. The wrath of Pilate. The wrath
of all those around the cross. And He told Judas. He said, Judas? Listen, you're going to go do
what you got to do. He knew he's going to be betrayed
by Judas. And he told Simon Peter, you're
going to deny me. And then they all fled and denied
him. He knew all those things. He knew everything. Jesus, knowing
that all things should come upon him, went forth. And they came
after him in the garden. And when they come after Him
in the garden, He said, who seeks? He said, Jesus and Aziz. I am! And if you seek me, let these
go their way. And the scripture says that they
took him and led him. They didn't drag him. They didn't
push him. Our Lord Jesus Christ, he was
like a lamb and they've taken that lamb to the slaughter and
he went as a lamb following them to the slaughter. The slaughter
of man and the slaughter of God. He knew the wrath of God, not
only the wrath of man, but the wrath of God. You know what bothered
him more than anything that he had to deal with? Anything that
our Lord had to face. And I'll say it this way, that
troubled him. That troubled him. He said himself, being troubled
in spirit. But you know the thing that troubled
him and bothered him more than anything? was the wrath of God that would
come upon him. And the wrath that was so strong
and so great that the Father would forsake him. And that bothered
our Lord Jesus Christ, troubled him more than anything could
ever possibly happen. As nothing could bother him any
worse than that. That's why I said, Father, if
it be possible, if it be possible, Let this cup go on by me. But nevertheless not my will
that thine be done. And over in Isaiah 63 it said
he's tread the fierceness of God's wrath and the winepress
by himself. By himself. Oh my, and you look
at all the cries from the cross showing his offering was voluntary. Voluntary. He did this willingly. Look with me, you keep this and
look in Luke chapter 23. Luke 23. Look what our Master
said over here. You think this is so voluntary.
And that's what's so wonderful about our Lord Jesus Christ and
His blessed sacrifice. It was willing. You mean you
willingly, Lord Jesus, went and suffered for me? You was forsaken
of God for me so that I wouldn't? Look what our Master said here
in verse 46. And when Jesus had cried with
a loud voice. There's not a weakling on that
cross. Cried with a loud voice. He said,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Now watch what it
says. And having said thus. Now watch it. He gave it up.
Gave up what? His life. Right then and there. You know
when he died? when He willed to die. You know when He raised
Himself from the dead? When He willed to do it. And
oh my! So everything He did was voluntary. And I tell you, He was willing
to do this or it had not been done. And let me show you something
else about this sacrifice here. Look at the nature of this offering
and sacrifice. and walk in love as Christ also
hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering, an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. The
nature of this offering and this sacrifice is so it's an offering
and a sacrifice. There's two offerings under the
law. The first one you know is a thankful
offering, a thank offering. And what that was, was you're
thankful to God for all of His goodness and His blessings. And
then when you had that thank offering, you'd bring your, you'd
offer your first fruits. If your corn come in, you brought
your first fruit. Your apples come in, you brought
your first fruit. You brought the first fruits of your, of
wheat. You brought the first fruit of,
you brought the first fruit that you had. And you brought it to
God and said, Oh, I'm thankful, look what you blessed me with.
You gave me this. And then there's a sin offering. A sin offering. You think how awful sin must
be? How awful sin must be that it
took the blood of the Son of God to deal with it. It took
God manifesting the flesh to deal with it. And a sin offering,
an atonement to put away sin. That thank offering, the meal
offering, and the sin offering was all in one person. He, first
of all, he was the first fruits. Do you know that? And that's
why we say, thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. Thank
God. But let me show you something
over here in 1 Corinthians 15. Talking about first fruits. First
fruits. Look at this. 1 Corinthians 15.
Talking about first fruits. Christ is the first fruits of
the dead. And so as the first fruits, that
means that the harvest is going to be brought in. That there's
going to be a whole harvest. And look what he said here in
1 Corinthians 15 and verse 22. For as in Adam, all die. That's us. Even so in Christ shall all be
made alive. That's us. But ever man in his
own order, Christ the firstfruits. He's the firstfruits from the
dead. He's the firstfruits of holiness. He's the firstfruits
of righteousness. He's the firstfruits of everything
that you and I need. Now watch this. And afterward, that's the whole
harvest. That's everybody now. Afterward,
they that are Christ at His coming. Oh, He was the beloved Son. He
was the thanks offering. He was the sacrifice. He's our
atonement, our Passover, our Redeemer made a curse for us. The first offering is a blameless
life of our Lord Jesus Christ for which we're thankful. Thanks
be unto God for His unspeakable gift. Ruby used to say, Otto,
how many times she said it when she'd walk out of the building. She'd say, thanks be unto God
for His unspeakable gift. I could not count the times she'd
say that to me after she heard the gospel. The first is the
blameless life of our Lord Jesus Christ. The second, the sin offering. The sin offering is His atoning
death. And then look here at the preciousness
of it. I've got to hurry. The preciousness of it. He said
it's a sweet smelling savor to God. A sweet smelling savor to God.
Oh my. You know the incense that they
had in the altar of incense. That was before the mercy seat.
They would take all this stuff and they'd crush it and crush
it and crush it. Took all the things and God said,
you put this together and then you crush it and crush it and
crush it. And then you put it in the incense altar and light
it. Well, everything that our Lord Jesus Christ was, His Godhood,
His Manhood, His Humanity, His Perfections, His Work, everything
that He is, all that made up Christ, God put it all together
and began to crush it, and crush it, and crush it, and crush it.
And then when it was crushed and His offered, God said, Oh,
that smells so good. Oh, what a good smell that is.
And I'll tell you something, that's a good smell to us too,
ain't it? Now we open this blessed book. And some people open it
up, and you know what they have to say? Stinks. I mean, you can't
smell nothing good out of it. But you open it up, it's like
that woman took that spikenard box of ointment and poured it
over Christ's head. Everybody in that room enjoyed
that smell. But it was put on Christ. And that's the way it
is. We open this blessed book, and we open up Christ, and we
see Christ. Oh, that smells good. Everybody
in the room gets to enjoy it. Oh, it's precious. The Passover
lamb was roast with fire. And we preach the gospel. Unto
some it's a sweet smelling savor. Unto them that have life. But
to those that are dead, they don't smell nothing. They don't
smell nothing. And then look at the constraining
motive that our Lord Jesus gave himself. and walk in love as
Christ, listen to this now, also hath loved us. What caused Him
to do that for us? He loved us. How much did He
love us? I have no idea. I can't tell
you. I can't tell you. But I know
He did. And I know it's a love that's
worthy of God. I know it's a love that There
wasn't anything to make us love Him so He just had to love us
because He willed to love us. Having loved His own which were
in the world. He loved. It was an eternal love.
And so He hath also loved us. That's the constraining motive.
Loved us. Now let me say this. He says there in verse 1. Be
ye therefore followers of God. Follow God. Follow God. How do you follow God? You can
only follow Him in His Word. Follow Him in His Word. And do
it as dear children. Not just children. Dear children. Sweet children. Children that
are loved. And watch what He says. Since
He also hath loved us, let us walk in love. Also, as Christ
hath loved us. God help us to walk in love and
honor Christ by doing that. Amen. Oh, what a sacrifice, what
a sacrifice. Our Father, thank you. Thank you for the gospel. Bless
you for your word. And Lord, it just comes through
the lips of a man, just a voice, just a voice. But oh Lord, if
you speak, it will be more than a voice. It will be God. So Lord, speak. Apply it to the
heart. Apply it to the understanding.
apply it to the soul, as only you can do. We ask in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. There is a fountain
filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins And sinners
flood beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains
And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains
See, tonight, six o'clock