I mean, excuse me, verse 1 of
chapter 8. Now, there is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. What blessed,
blessed words. No condemnation in Christ. None. No condemnation. The apostle just got through
saying that he know that in him, in his flesh, dwell no good thing. He had the will, but he didn't
know how to perform it. When he would do good, he said
evil was present with me. He saw this law, this principle
working in his flesh, in his members, in his mind, in his
flesh. That old man, Warren, Warren,
He said, with my mind, my heart, I serve the law of God, delight
in the law of God, delight in God, delight in Christ, delight
in His word. But I also see this other man,
this other man that just absolutely wants nothing to do with God.
He said, this man, he said, I got a will to do it, but out of abhorment,
I don't know how. And I've got this old fleshly
man. And that's why I said, oh, wretched man that I am. Who shall
deliver me from this body? And that's what he called it,
a body of death. It's like having a man on your
back. And he's rotten, he's corrupt,
and he's stinking. And sometimes he gets so heavy
that he weighs you down. But that's why we come to hear
the gospel. Because God relieves some of that old man. And we
wouldn't even know he was corrupt or stunk unless God had saved
us by His grace. We wouldn't know anything about
it. But he comes back and says this. With all that's wrong with
me. He said there's nothing wrong
with Christ. And I, what's going on in my flesh and spirit. He
said, I find this, there's therefore now. Oh, wretched man that I
am, but there ain't no condemnation to me. There ain't no condemnation
to that man has the will, don't know how to afford. There's no
condemnation in me. Why? Because I'm in Christ. And the word condemnation, what
it means is to give judgment. That's what it means. Condemnation
means to give judgment. And not only give judgment, but
to pass a sentence upon. And why would you pass a sentence
upon a man unless he's guilty? And that's what he said. He said,
we're not guilty. There's no sentence passed upon
us. Because we haven't committed any crime. We are in Christ Jesus. And that's what he says. Judgment's
passed. And sin's pronounced and the
punishment falls. And our Lord Jesus Christ did
all that for us. And there's no condemnation to
them that are in Christ. And he comes to this incredible
statement after all this struggle that he talks about himself and
comes to this wonderful, wonderful, incredible statement, pronounces
this wonderful, most blessed truth. There is therefore now,
and I've said this so many times, now was in the Bible before you
and I was ever born. And it'll still be there when
we're not gone. For believers that's gonna yet
come, there's therefore now. And it's always now. It's an
eternal now. It was now before we got here,
it'll be now when we're gone. There's therefore now, right
now. And it's always now. No condemnation to them that
are in Christ Jesus. No judgment. No condemnation. No passing of a sentence. No
crime to be held against us. No wonder David says, Blessed
is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Blessed
is that man. Now I'll tell you something,
beloved. There's a reason. There's reason in us. In us. For accusation. There's lots
of reasons in us for accusation and condemnation. We come into
this world condemned. People say, well, fellows, people
are going to end up being lost. We were born lost. Born condemned. Born criminals. Born rebels. That's what the scriptures teach
us plainly. David said, Against thee and
thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. I was
shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me. Job
said, Miss, how can a clean thing come out of an unclean thing?
If the mother's unclean and the daddy's unclean, how in the world
can they produce a clean child? And that's what he said, and
this is the condemnation. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, this
is condemnation. The light came into the world. Christ came into the world. The
light of revelation came into the world. The creation, the
light of creation came into the world. And what did men do? They loved darkness more than
they loved light. And that's the condemnation that
came into this world. That's the condemnation and judgment
that men's under. Men's not gonna be lost, he was
born lost. Men's not gonna perish, he was
born perishing, if God don't intervene for him. Oh listen,
do you take your heart, do you take your mind, do you take your
words? He said, Out of the mouth proceeds
evil thoughts and adulteration. Out of the heart does these things.
And our heart and our minds and our words. Oh, the words that
we speak sometimes. And our conscience. And I said,
the Proverbs 29 said, Who can say I've made my hands clean
and my heart pure and that I'm without sin? Who can say that?
Who can say that in himself? And life, oh my, our lives, there's
lots of reasons for accusation and condemnation. You take our
life, not a lot of consistency in us, are there? Not a lot of
consistency in us. You know the greatest consistency
about us is that we have no consistency. That's us, huh? That's us. But blessed be God. Won't you
close that door, James? But blessed be God, we're not
viewed in ourselves, but we're viewed in Christ. Ain't you grateful
for that? There's lots of reasons for us
to be condemned. Lots of reasons for us to be
confused and condemned and accused. But God says there is therefore
now no condemnation to them that are in Christ. And that's why,
why is there no condemnation in Christ? Well, I'm going to
tell you why. Because first of all, we were
predestinated. We were chosen. How do you get in Christ? Predestination. Why is there no condemnation
in Christ? Because we're predestinated. Look down in verse 29. This is why there's no condemnation.
For whom he did foreknow, Romans 8, 29. For whom he did foreknow. What does that word foreknow
mean? It's like a man knew his wife. It's like that first time
he knew his wife in an intimate, blessed way. And that's what
he's saying here. He whom he foreknew, foreloved. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, depart
from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. Now what did
he mean? He knew who they was. He knew
what they did. He knew why they did it. But
he said, I never knew you the way that I know mine elect. And
he said, for whom he foreknew, foreloved, had an intimate knowledge
of and an intimate acquaintance with, he also did predestinate. Predestinate. I love that word
predestination. You know, you and I, we used
to go on a trip sometimes, and we have a destination that we're
going to go to. And we prepare ourselves to go
to that destination. And we predestinate to get to
this certain place. But there's lots of things that
could keep us from getting to where we're going to go. But
there ain't nothing going to keep God from getting us from
where we are to where He is. There ain't nothing that's got
the power, or the will, or the contingency. Nothing can keep
God from doing what He does. And He predestinated us to be
conformed to the image of His blessed Son. And we're predestinated
in Christ. And look down at verse 32. Not
only are we predestinated, chosen in Christ. That's how there's
no condemnation in Christ. But it says here we were redeemed
by Christ. He that spared not His own Son. You think about this. Spared
Him not. Did it spare him wrath? Did it spare him judgment? Did
it spare him justice? Did it spare him from sin? Did
it spare him from death? didn't spare his own son, but
delivered him up. Now Paul over here, he's all
speaking in the first person. But when he comes over to Romans
8, he starts talking about all of us. Over there, he talks about
himself. Over here, he talks about all of us. How he delivered
him up for all of us. Redeemed us died for us and look
what how shall he not with him freely freely Give us everything
we need All things all things and I tell you what look what
it says there in verse 3. This is what I'm talking about
Look what God said. We were redeemed by Christ. That's why we're in Christ. For
what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh. Listen to it. God sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh. And you know what it says in
the margin? By sacrifice for sin, He judged sin. Punished sin. once and for all
in the flesh. Whose flesh? His. His. And I tell you, we have no condemnation
in Christ because we were chosen, predestinated, redeemed, and
we're not under the law but under grace. You know, we can't be
condemned by the law. The law can't say a word against
us. The law cannot accuse us of one thing. We're not under
law but under grace. And I want to show you that here
in Romans chapter 8 here in verse 2. Look what it says under verse
2. for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. This
is the principle. This is the law of purple that
are in Christ Jesus. This is the way God made it to
me. For the law, and that's the word
spirit, see how it's capitalized? That's the Holy Spirit. For the
law of the spirit, the spirit of life that's in Christ Jesus.
Once it's done, it's made me free. Free from law. not only law of sin and in death. Sin produces death. Well, we're
free from the law of sin and we're free from the law of death.
How's God? Because Christ, He bore our sin
for us. We're free from it. Look down
in verse 4. Not only are we free from it,
not under law, but under grace, that the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us. And I'll tell you something,
beloved, He made us free from the law as a covenant. He made
us free from the law as a curse. He made us free from the law
as something that we have to do or obey in any way. These
people who say that we have to, that we have to, that we're still
under the Ten Commandments, and that that's the Ten Commandments
our rule of life, and it is, there ain't a soul going to heaven
if the law is our rule of life. There's not a soul going to be
saved if the Ten Commandments is our rule of life. Who in the
world has ever kept the first one? And if you break it at any
point whatsoever, If you start from that day, if you break one
commandment of God's holy law, thou shalt have no gods before
me. That's the first one. That's the first one. The second one is thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. And if you break that one time,
And then you say, well, I'm going to do that for the rest of my
life. You know what that means? You still got to suffer for that
time you broke it. And here he says, we're free
from that law. We're free from it, huh? We're
free from it as a covenant, as a curse. And I'll tell you why,
because He suffered His penalty as well as obeyed His precepts. You know, that's why it said
God swore the law could not do. There's nothing wrong with the
law, but what it could not do, because we have the weakness
of the flesh. So what did God do? He sent His
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. He was a sinful flesh. He had a body. He looked like
a man. He was a man. But He was a holy
man. He was the God-man. But when
you saw Him, you just saw a man. This is Jesus of Nazareth. We
know His Father. We know His Mother. Why does
He say He come here to put away sin? But here's the thing. What God did, He sent His own
Son. Made of a woman, made under the
law. To do what? To redeem them that
were under that law. Oh, so if He was sent under the
law, then the weakness of His flesh... We're in Christ, so
God don't even consider the weakness of the flesh. sinning son in
the likeness of sinful flesh. What did he do? He condemned
sin. He condemned it. He judged it.
Passed sentence upon it. That's why there is now no condemnation
of the inveterate in Christ. Now let me tell you something.
He suffered his penalty as the welders abraded his precepts. And that's why it says the righteousness
of the law is fulfilled in us. Righteousness means that you're
right with the law. Righteousness means you're right
with the law. So when I face the law, I'm right
with it. It can't condemn me. It can't
find any fault in me. It can't look at me and say,
well, you're guilty of this, you're guilty of that, and you're
guilty of another thing. It can't do that. I'm right with the law. And the righteousness of the
law is two-fold. The right of the law is two-fold.
One is obedience to its precepts. And we're talking about not just
the Ten Commandments, all of God's Word. The righteousness
of the law is two things. One is obedience to its precepts. And the second one is this. This
is the righteousness of the law. When sin enters, then it becomes
subject to the penalty of the law. And what's the penalty of
the law? Death. Death. And that's why it says
there in verse 4, the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us.
How can the righteous of the law be fulfilled in us? How can
it do it? How can it do it? Because He
fulfilled its righteousness. He was right with the law. And
if He's right with the law, and I'm in Him, then I'm right with
the law. That's what the Gospel's all
about. That's what the Gospel's all about. And that's why it
says, Christ is the end. The end! You know, you ever got
to somewhere and it says, you know, this road takes you, it's
a dead end. It's a dead end. So you know when you get to that
you're going to have to turn around because you can't go no
further when you get to the dead end. Well Christ is the dead
end of the law. In every way you can imagine. You think about it from Genesis
to Malachi, every precept, every job, every tenement, every requirement,
every washing, every sacrifice, everything that our Lord Jesus
Christ and God required of men, our Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled
it. And he's the end of it! No more
sacrifices, no more laws, no more works, no more worships,
no more new Sabbath days, no more new moons, no more priests,
no more, no more, no more! No condemnation in Christ! And you're going to tell me another
reason why there's no condemnation in Christ. is because we're not
in the flesh. Paul just got through talking
about how bad his flesh was. Then he comes over here and he
says, look what he says down here in verse 5. Verse 4 says, the righteous the
law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh. but after
the Spirit. We don't walk after the flesh. Are you walking after your fallen
nature? Or are you seeking the Lord every
day that goes over your head? Do you call on God? Do you look
to God? Do you desire God? Do you desire
this relationship with Christ? Do you want to honor God? Do you want to be done with sin. Do you want to be done with this
old rotten flesh? That's walking after the Spirit.
You know who walks after the flesh? The world walks after
the flesh. They're interested in what I
can get, what I can attain, what I can make, how successful can
I be, what kind of car can I drive, what kind of a house can I live
in. We looked at a house the other
day, half a million dollars they want for this house. And it's
got the awfulest old road going in it. Old dirt, gravel road,
got ditches in it and everything else. Going to a half a million
dollar house. Well we found out later, it's in foreclosure. People bid off more than they
can chew. Believers ain't gonna bite off more than they can chew.
You know why? God won't let them. They don't
want to. You know why? Because they make
Christ. He's their life. The law of the
Spirit of life in Christ. God's Spirit in us gives us the
life of Christ. And Christ in us wants Christ. Break thou the bread of life,
O Lord, to me. Ain't that right? And guess what
he's talking about. We're new creatures in Christ. Oh, look down here at verse 7.
Let me show you something here. Oh my, we're not in the flesh,
but we're in the Spirit. He said in verse 7, here's what
the carnal mind is. You know what a carnal mind is?
A natural mind. The natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God. But that's what he says. The
carnal mind, the fleshly mind, the natural mind is enmity against
God. He hears these things, you know,
and he hears about what Christ does and he says, well, listen,
as far as I know, I've been a pretty good fellow all my life. I've
been a good man. I've been an honest man. I've
done, I've been an honest woman and I've done this and I've done
that and I've done this other thing. I've been worked. I've
done all this thing and I've done all that. He gets upset,
but oh, listen, and this carnal mind is not subject to what God
says. And it can't be. That's why Arminianism
and freewillism is so awful. It's because it teaches people
that you've got to do what you do by the energy of the flesh.
And if you don't keep up with the way it is to live right,
then you leave the Lord, you backslide, and you leave the
Lord, and then you can come back and renew up. We don't have to renew up. We're
in Christ. And who in the world wants to?
Listen, I had enough hog slop when I was a young man. And I'll
tell you what, when God let me know I was a sheep, I want to
go where the green, God put, He says He makes us to lie down
where? In green pastures. He don't take
us to some old parched, sorry, piece of ground like I got. No,
He takes us to the green pastures. Oh my, and then He goes on to
say this. So they that are in the flesh,
they that are in their own fallen nature cannot please God. But
here's the key. But we that are in Christ are
not in the flesh. We're not in the flesh. Where
are we at then? In the Spirit. See how that says
capitalized there? If so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Does the Spirit of God dwell
in you? Does the Spirit of God in you need Christ? Does the
Spirit of God in you answer to Christ? Does the Spirit of God
in you cry out for Christ? Does the Spirit of God teach
you of Christ? Does the Spirit of God make you delight in the
law of God, in the inward man? Oh, now. Now, here's the thing.
If any man have not the Spirit, capitalized again, of Christ,
that's just, he's none of His. None of his. Oh my. No condemnation
than in the name of Christ. The spirit of life that he's
talking about here is the Holy Spirit brings us the gospel.
The spirit of life is the gospel. It gives us life in Christ. It
shows us life in Christ. It assures us of our life in
Christ. And he's made us free from that
law, that principle of sin. Sin does not reign over us. Sin does not have dominion over
us like it did when we was lost. And I tell you something, people
make it, they say, well, if you walk after the flesh, you'll
be condemned. Well, when it says we walk not after the flesh,
that means that's not the cause of ours not being condemned,
but it's the effect of us not being condemned. We don't walk
after the flesh because we're in Christ. And because we don't
walk after the flesh, that's why there's no condemnation in
Christ. Because we are in Christ, that's why we don't walk after.
It's a fact. The effect of being in Christ.
Oh my. Well, let me give you another
reason. We are in Christ. No condemnation in Christ. Let
me show you something. 1 Corinthians 1.30. Look over
here at 1 Corinthians 1.30. We're in Christ by the Father.
We're in Christ by the Father. No condemnation to them that
are in Christ. We're in Christ by the Father. Oh my, this Oh, the gospel. Shirley woke
up this morning, she said, God woke her up with this first scripture
on her mind. He which hath begun a good work in you shall perform
it unto the day of Christ. He said, not only that, but he
said, we're confident that that's what he's going to do. But oh
look what it says, we're in Christ by the Father. Look what it says
here in verse 30. But of him, talk about being
in Christ, but of him are you in Christ Jesus? Who put you
there? Who of God? Who of God? In Christ Jesus,
God puts us. How do you get in Christ? By
the Father. We didn't get in Christ by the deeds of the law
or by the works of the flesh. And God made Christ unto us wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. And we are in
Christ by His purpose, by the Father's purpose. He had purpose
to give us grace in Christ before the world ever began. Ain't that
what it says in 2 Timothy 1.9, God who has saved us and called
us with the holy calling, not according to our works, but according
to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
before the world ever began. That's a long time ago. Oh, and it's the grace given
us before the world ever began. That's what this predestination
is and this foreknowledge is about. God declares things as
never been yet that's going to happen. He calls the things that be not
as though they were. He calls things that are not as
this they were. For whom he did foreknow of him
he also what? Called. Whom he called he also
what? Justified. Whom he justified
he also glorified. Are you still glorified right
now? But you are. I'm going to tell you a little
something. In Bundy's Pilgrim's Progress,
when Christian and faithful left the city of destruction, And
they went through the straight gate, through the wicked gate,
went through the straight gate. They came up to the cross. They
went through the slavish spawn, through all the troubles and
heartaches and sorrows that they had going through conviction.
And they came up, up to this cross. And they had these burdens
on their back. And these burdens, these sins
on their back. This awful, awful sin. And they got there and they
viewed that man on the cross. And their burdens rolled away
and rolled into the tomb where He is coming from. And these
shining ones come and put garments on these two men. Put these beautiful
garments on these two men. The righteousness of Christ.
Just clothed them in the righteousness. Faithful looked at Christie and
said, Oh my! Oh, you look so glorious! Oh,
you look so beautiful! You look so... Oh my! Oh, what
a change! Oh, what a beautiful garment
you got on! And he said, No, you're the one
with the beautiful garment! And they looked at one another
and they were the shining ones. You know, that's what God sees
us. We're all shining ones. He looks at us and we shine like
the sun in His blessed Son. Oh, listen, that righteous Christ
covers us. And that makes us beautiful.
Makes us glorious, the best dressed. We're the best dressed people
in the world. What you got on now don't amount
to nothing to how God views you. Oh my, alright. We're in the Father by the Son.
And oh, everything that God determined before by His Son, we did in
Him. And then we're in Christ by the
Holy Spirit. Let me show you 1 Corinthians
12, 13. Look at this with me. 1 Corinthians 12 13 We're in Christ
by the Holy Spirit. Why is there no condemnation
in Christ? How did we get in Christ? By
the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12 13 Look what he says. For by one
Spirit, Holy Spirit, are we all baptized, immersed, put into
one body. Whether we're a Jew or whether
we're Gentiles. Whether we was a bondman or a
free man. And listen to this. We're all in Christ by the Holy
Spirit of God. And all have been made to drink
into one Holy Spirit. We all drink from the same fountain.
We all come to the same place. We all look for the same thing.
And then we're in Christ by faith. We're one with Christ by faith. You know, that's what Romans
5 says, therefore being justified by grace, we have peace. Peace with God. Being justified
by faith, we have peace with God. No condemnation. He that believeth
on the Son is not condemned. And John, look over in 1 John
5. We've seen this so many times, but look in 1 John 5. I want
you to read this. This is such a blessing. You
know, we have said this so many times, but this is what we're
talking about. We're in Christ by the Father. We're in Christ
by the purpose of the Father, by the determination of Christ
our Lord. We're in Christ by the Holy Spirit
of God. He takes and baptizes us and
immerses us in Christ. The Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are the children of God. As many as are
led by the Spirit of God, they're like the sons of God. Where does
the Spirit of God lead a man? Where does the Holy Spirit lead
a man? Our Lord says this, when the Holy Spirit has come, He
shall take the things of mine and show them unto you. And so
if you're a son of God, the Holy Spirit leads you. And because
He leads you, that's why you're a son of God, because the Holy
Spirit leads you. And He cannot lead you but nowhere but the
Scriptures and to Christ and to the things that are of Christ.
He can't lead you nowhere else. He can't do it. He'll never lead
you to the world. He'll never lead you to sin.
He'll never lead you to lie. He'll never lead you to cheat.
He'll never lead you to to trust yourself, He won't do
it. He won't do it. But look what
He said here in 1 John 5, 11. And this is the record. This
is what God recorded. You go up here to the courthouse
and you want to look up a record. Say, I need to look at such and
such a thing. We'll go to book so and so, number
so and so, it's in such and such a place. And you pull the book
down and you look in the record. It's recorded. God says, this
is the record. This is the book. This is the
record that God has given to us. Eternal life. This is what I like. This life
is in His Son. He that hath the Son, what does
it say? Hath. You know what Henry said
one time, you know what hath means? Got it. He that hath the Son, hath life. Got it. And he that hath not
the Son of God, he hath not life. I got it. And Paul says, I know whom I
have believed. And I'm persuaded that whatsoever
I've committed to Him, He's able to keep it unto that day. And you know the scriptures tells
us as a husband and wife are no longer two, but one. That's what the scripture teaches. No longer two, but one. And what
does that mean? That means that one, as you become
one, one is responsible for the other. And you know, we are no
longer two, we are one with our Lord Jesus Christ. We are one
with Him. United to Him. Joined to Him. And we get our spiritual life
from Him. from Him and by being united
to Him. Our Lord Jesus says without me
you can do nothing. And we're united to Him. We're
no longer one person. We're united to Christ as one
person. and what a glorious union it
is. It is typified by the high priest
who had on this breastplate, he had on a breastplate when
he went in to offer sacrifices before the Lord. He went in with
this breastplate and these stones and they had gold amulets up
here and there was 12 stones and those stones represented
every tribe of Israel. And when he went in there, he
carried him on his breastplate. And so when he went into the
holy place, the holiest of holies, all the children of Israel went
in there with him, wrapped on the breastplate. And he also
carried them on his shoulders. They had 12 on his shoulders.
So he carried them on his heart, and he carried them on the way.
And when he went into the presence of God to offer sacrifice, he
took every one of the children of Israel in there with him.
typified by our Lord Jesus Christ. And when He appeared before God,
all the people appealed in Him. And just like Christ, when He
appeared before God, we all appear in Him. And if we are now married
to Christ, we're no longer married. We're no longer... We was married
to the law, the law died. And now we have one union, married
to Christ. Martin Luther says this, let
me read this to you. Martin Luther said this. Faith
unites the soul with Christ as a spouse with her husband. Everything
which Christ has becomes the property of the believing soul. And everything which the soul
has becomes the property of Christ. Christ possesses all blessings
and eternal life. They are now the property of
the believing soul. He possesses all blessings in
eternal life. Blessings in eternal life become
the property of the believing soul. The soul has all its iniquities
and sins. They become the property of our
Lord Jesus Christ. What a blessed exchange! What
a blessed exchange! And this is the way marriage
is. Now listen, it goes on to say, Christ is both God and man. Christ has never sinned. His wholeness is perfect. Christ
the Almighty, Christ the Eternal, Christ taken to Himself. All the sins of all the believer,
those sins are lost and abolished in Him. for no sins dwell before
His infinite righteousness. Then by faith the believer's
soul is delivered from sins, clothed with the eternal righteousness
of who? His Bridegroom, Christ. What gives peace to the conscience
is that by faith our sins are no more ours, but Christ, upon
whom God laid all of them. And that on the other hand, all
Christ's righteousness is ours, to whom God has given it. Christ
has his hand upon us, and we're healed. And that's the way it
is. His property becomes our property. Our property became His. And sin can't dwell in infinite
righteousness. And sin can't dwell. People say,
well, where'd our sins go? Christ took them away. How many
of them did He take away? All of them. Now, there is therefore now,
now, no judgment, no sentence passed, no crime done, because Christ, no condemnation
to them that are in Christ. The law of the life of the Spirit
in Christ made us free from the law of sin and the law of death. O death, where is thy sting?
You know why I don't have a sting? The strength of sin is the law. The law is fulfilled, so sin
has no strength over us. Right? I hope I made that plain enough. Oh, no condemnation. Never has
been, never will be. If you feel condemned, it's not
God doing it to you. It's not God. If you feel condemned,
God didn't condemn you. If you feel, if your conscience
bothers you, God's not, I'm telling you, have listened. God, He says we're not condemned. We're not condemned. So why would He turn around and
condemn us when He says we're not? Why would He turn around
and judge us when He's already judged us in Christ? If you feel condemned, it's because
you've done something and your own conscience is doing it to
you. What do you do? I heard a fellow say, you know,
the other day, and he's supposed to be a grace preacher, but he
says this. He says, you know, when you sin, he says, you got
to come and repent of that sin. And you got to deal with every
sin as it arises. Well, I'm going to tell you something.
That'd be all right if it happened that way. But God said He remembers
our sins no more. Now you know why I don't remember
them? Because we don't have any. Can't remember something that
don't exist. Now right? Now you follow me around, you'll
see me act fleshly. But you're really looking at
a spiritual man. Oh, my. Our Father, in the precious,
holy, glorious name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, thank
you for your blessedness. Thank you for your grace. Thank
You for Your blood. Thank You for Your righteousness.
Thank You for Your Word. Your Word that so relieves us
and so assures us and so comforts us and such gives us peace that's
so clear, so plain of what we have in Christ. Oh Lord, thank
You for what You've given us in Him. Thank You that everything
He is is ours. is ours, His righteousness, His
holiness, His power, His love, His grace, His mercy, all these
wonderful blessings that dwell in our Lord Jesus Christ. They're
ours. We're married to Him. We have
a blessed union with Him. We are one with Him. Thank you,
Lord. Blessed be your holy name. Father,
save your people in this place. Oh, may we rejoice in what we
have in Christ. What we have in Christ. We bless
you and praise you in his holy name. Amen. Amen. 205. 205. Let's stand together. When this is over, you'll be
at liberty to go. 205.