And look in verse 25 with me. Hebrews 7, 25. Wherefore He is able also to
save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing
He ever liveth to make intercession for them. My subject this morning
is Christ's power to save. Our Lord's power to save. Now
there's one subject of which we can never, ever know too much. In fact, we don't have the ability
to learn much about it, but we're certainly interested in this
subject, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. We want
to know Him. Not only want to know about Him,
but we want to know Him personally. And there's much said here in
verse 25. that he is able to save them to the uttermost, them
that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for him. And the apostle here is teaching
us about the priesthood of our Lord Jesus. And look back up
here in verse 21 with me. Show the difference between the
Levitical priesthood and our Lord Jesus Christ as a priest. It says here, for those priests
were made without an oath. God never swore to them. He just
chose Aaron to be the first priest, and the Levites out of the tribe
of Levites, and the Levites were the priests, and there were many,
many, many, many priests. There was lots of them serving
at the tabernacle every day. For those priests were made than
I know of, but our Lord Jesus Christ was made a priest by an
oath. God Himself swore, I'll make
thee a high priest forever, forever. after the order of Melchizedek.
And I tell you what, so they were made with an oath. Our Lord Jesus without an oath
and our Lord Jesus Christ was made by an oath. And His priesthood
was made on a better covenant. Look in verse 22. By so much
was Jesus made surety of a better testament or a better covenant.
You know, they were priests under the law. Our Lord Jesus Christ
is a priest forever. And He's the surety over a better
testament, over a better covenant. Not a covenant of works, but
a covenant of blood, a covenant of redemption, a covenant of
grace. And I'll tell you what, and look
what it says also in verse 23. It says, they were many priests. Lots and lots of priests. Many
of them. And they had courses that they'd
go up to Jerusalem, and they would go up and work for three
months, and then they'd come home, and some might go back
up, and that's how they'd done it. They'd done it by courses
because there were so many of them. But truly, there were many
priests. They were many. But He's one. We only need one if you've got
the right one. Listen here, look what else it
says, and they were not suffered to continue because they died. Death come upon them. They couldn't
continue in the priesthood because of death. But our Lord Jesus
Christ, look what it says in verse 24, but this man, because
he continueth ever, there's no danger of him dying. no danger
of him, and he has an unchangeable priesthood. It's not going to
be passed from one person to the next. And because of this,
wherefore, wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost. You
know, all fullness, all fullness dwells in our Lord Jesus Christ.
All the fullness of Godhead, all the fullness of the attributes
of God, all the fullness of the Scriptures, All the fullness
of redemption, all the fullness of salvation, everything, all
fullness dwells in our Lord Jesus Christ. And His riches are absolutely
unsearchable. How rich is our Lord Jesus Christ? Well, the earth is His and the
fullness thereof. How rich is He in grace? How
rich is He in mercy? How rich is He in love? How rich
is He in power? how rich is our Lord Jesus Christ
and there is in him a love that Paul said that passes knowledge
in him and he is God's unspeakable unspeakable gift but look what
he says here in verse 25 got three little old points this
morning wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them." The first point is who is saved? Who is saved? Who is saved? Salvation, you
hear people say all the time, well, I got saved, or we got
some folks saved in the service. That's not scriptural language.
He is able to save. Salvation is of the Lord. You
don't get saved, God saves you. You know, to get saved means
that you go get something and you get up and leave with it.
But if God saves you, you're saved. You're saved from everything
that's against you. You're saved from it. And oh,
and then how are they saved? How are they saved? Continually.
And then of blessed, blessed comfort. First of all, those
who are saved. Here's the description of those
that are saved. And it says, Wherefore He is
able to save them. And look what a great contrast
given here by the Holy Ghost, the description given by the
Holy Ghost in what men say salvation is. Wherefore He is able to save. And what the Holy Ghost describes
here as salvation and what men say salvation is, is absolutely
opposite. Man says join the church, like
joining a church would make you alright with God. Joining a church
would make your new heart. Joining a church would make you
right with God. Joining a church would give you
peace with God. Joining a church would take care
of your sin. And that's why people say, man
says, just join the church. And then they'll say, make a
change. Oh, you need to make a change. Oh, you need to make
a change. Oh, what a change you need to
make. You need to clean up your life. Clean it up. Fly right, whatever in the world
that means. Everybody's heard these things,
and live right. I was talking to a dear preacher
friend of mine, and the woman in their congregation had passed
away, and they had her funeral yesterday, but anyway, This woman had a preacher. It was her mother that died,
and he wanted to use their church, where they preach the grace of
God, to preach the funeral. And the wife, the daughter of
the woman that died, and the son-in-law said, absolutely not.
Because why? Because you don't know the gospel
and we're not going to let nobody in that pulpit don't know the
gospel. Whether they're preaching the funeral or not. And that's what I'm talking about.
That man and that woman had enough grace about them and they cared
so much about their relationship with Christ and the gospel of
the grace of God that they wouldn't even let a funeral come into
service where a man wasn't preaching the grace of God. And so the
man, the son-in-law got up, and he used Isaiah 6 and brought
an outstanding message. Then the fellow got up behind
him, and this is what I'm saying, this is about what man says.
And he talked about, well, I don't know if she is saved or not,
but I kind of doubt it because she didn't have much fruit. You know, you got to have fruit.
And if you ain't got no fruit, and then they start telling about
how everybody ought to have fruit. Didn't talk about Christ and
Christ's fruit. Didn't talk about Christ and
Christ's blood. And that's why they wouldn't
let Him in the pulpit there. They went somewhere else. But
that's what I'm telling you. Men say, live right, bear some
fruit. And they'll tell you, you know,
oh Lord, if you just be baptized, everything will be alright. Just
be baptized. Will you make a decision for
Jesus today? Come on, decide for Jesus today. Make your decision! Or they'll say, follow these
three steps. Ask, believe, and confess. And those are the five
steps, and I forgot what it was. But what does the Holy Ghost
say right here? What does He say? He says, He
is able to save them. Notice what it says there, them.
That come unto God by Him. Them that come unto God by Him. You see, He's able to say. Now
you keep Hebrews 7. Look with me over here in John
chapter 10. Look in John chapter 10. Them that come unto God by
Him. Man says do this, do that, do
the other thing. But God says them. Them that
come unto God by Him. Who's them? Them. Are you of them? If you're of
them that come unto God by Him, then you're saved. And if you're
one of them who will come today, you'll be saved. Because He's
able to save. Look what He said in John 10
verse 9. Our Lord said, I am the door.
Now you know what a door is for? It's to let you in and let you
out. Or to keep you in or to keep
you out. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
I'm the door. And He says, buy me. Buy me. If any man enter in, buy me. He said, I'm that door. Buy me.
If any man enter in, he shall be saved. Ain't that what He
said? And then he'll have the freedom
To go in and out. Go where the gospel is. Go out
in the world and go in and out. And God said, I'll find you pasture.
I'll give you pasture. You'll find pasture. You'll find
a place. Sheep always find pasture because
the shepherd leads them to the pasture. Look over here in John
14, 6 with me. This is what this is talking
about. Them that come unto God by Him, He is able to save. Look
what He said in John 14, 6. Our Lord said unto him, said
to Thomas, I am the way, I am the truth, and the life. Now listen to this, no man cometh
unto the Father, but by whom? Me. He didn't say go beside him,
didn't say go behind him, didn't say go in front of him. He says,
by me, being joined to me, being saved by me, being united to
me, being in me, wherever Christ is at, that's where you'll be.
If you won't go to the Father, how do you go? You go in Him.
You won't talk to the Father, you talk to the Father in Him.
In Him, by Him. And what it says here, them.
Who are them? Well, them who are prodigals.
Those who are prodigals that's been out in the world and wasted
everything that they have, wasted their life, wasted their substance,
and out there and they tried the world's goods, they tried
the world's food, and all it is is chaff, and all it is is
old corn husks, and all it is is something that'll never satisfy
you. Them who are prodigals, oh, if a man's a prodigal, said,
oh, them, them prodigals that come under the Father. Them who
are thieves, Them are thieves, like that thief that was by our
Lord Jesus Christ. Them that are malefactors. Them,
that's who he's talking about. Them that's robbed God of His
glory. Them that's trusted in their own works. And I said,
them that are thieves. And oh, who else? Them that are
Mary Magdalenes. Them that are Mary Magdalenes,
that they know and understand in their heart. that their heart
is sinful, then they know they need Christ and they'll find
themselves at the feet of Christ. Them are like Barnabas that went
up a tree. Just went up a tree. Tell you
something about that tree. That tree was put there for one
man to be saved. God put the seed in that ground
and caused that tree to grow for one reason. So Zacchaeus
could climb that tree. Zacchaeus come down. And then
there's Barnabas, God. Barnabas saw the Lord. You heard
about the Lord Jesus Christ. Blind as a bat. poor as a church
mouse. And oh, and he's sitting there
in his rags and he's begging. And he hears about the Lord Jesus.
Christ said, O Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. You know what Jesus said? Bring him over here. And he went
over there and said, he calls for you. He jumped up and went
over there. Had to be led, but he went. And
that's what he says, them that come unto God by him. Them, like
the woman with the issue of blood, if I can but touch the hem of
his garment. Them, like Simon Peter, who said,
Lord, oh Lord, with a multitude, thousands of disciples walked
away. And he said, I guess you'll also
go away too. And he said, Lord, to whom shall
we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Them, them that come unto God
by Him. And then it says here in our
text again back in Hebrews 7.25. He's able to save them, them,
them that come to God by Him. And I tell you what, it says
here that they come by Christ. Every one of these people I mentioned,
they come by Christ. If you are saved and if God saved
you and He's got the power to save you, our Lord Jesus Christ,
they come by Christ because He is able to save you. When you
come to the place where you have no other plea, you have no other
place, you have no other person, That's when you'll come. And
when it says here that He is able to save, you know what that
tells us? The first thing it tells us?
That we don't have the ability to save ourselves. If He's able
to save, that means we don't have the ability. That means
that the ability is not in us to save ourselves. There's not
anything that we could possibly do. What could we do to save
ourselves from anything we've ever been in? What could we do
to save ourselves from our sin? What deed could we do? What thought
could we think? What prayer could we pray? What
work could we do? What merit could we do that would
actually put away one sin? I asked a week before last, it
might have been last Sunday night, but anyway I asked, I said, Anybody
here done a good work today? We had a bishop that night. He
raised his hand. Said he had done a good work
that day. Said he had done a good work that day. Needless to say, when I got through,
he understood clearly that there was nobody that had a good work.
But you know, when you come to Christ that's able to save, they
know their own inability. I'm no more able to save myself
now after all these years than I was to start with. I don't
even have the ability to keep myself. If I had the ability
to keep myself, do you realize how many things I wouldn't do? If I could just keep my thoughts,
if I could keep my mouth shut, if I could put blinders on my
eyes, If I could develop some kind
of great zeal or some kind of great commitment or devotion,
but I don't have the ability to do any of those things. All
the things that I wouldn't do if I had the ability to do it. But if He's able, then I've got
to find the ability someplace who somebody has got the ability. And Christ has the ability. Why? Because He's got the power.
He has the power of an endless life. And I tell you what, not
only that we know I have an ability, but I trust His ability. Todd
and I was talking yesterday afternoon and we got to talking about We
went through his surgery and he thought, boy, wouldn't it
be wonderful if I didn't wake up from this. And I went to be
with the Lord. And he felt such comfort and assurance, but he
said, but at the same time, I need to stay here and I don't want
to leave Lynn with a bunch of things that you have to deal
with. And I said, ain't it wonderful that we sat here right today,
talking. And if God calls us out of here
right this minute, that there's no fear, no trepidation, No anxiety. No discomfort. You know why? Because of the ability of Christ
to save. He has saved us. And if God calls
us home, that's what you call being possessed. Oh, no fear
of God. No fear of judgment. No fear
of being rejected. Oh, listen, they know, they know
they have no power in themselves. He has the power to raise the
dead. He has the power of an endless
life. And we know that there's no other
foundation that you can put your soul on other than Him. On Christ,
the solid rock I stand. On the other ground, sinking
sand. Oh, how firm a foundation, you
saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith! And what His excellent
Word! What more can He say than to
you He has said, to Jesus, that to a refuge hath fled? Oh, my! I'll tell you what, He
is able. He is able. Let me tell you something
about this way. This way, them that come unto
me. It's an old way. You know how old this way of
salvation by Christ is? The ability of Christ to save?
It says 6,000 years old. From the day God created the
first man, Adam. And Adam's son, Abel. Had two sons, Cain and Abel. And both of them worshiped God.
Both of them come to God. One came by Jesus Christ. One
came because of his inability. One came because he thought he
had ability. One came in the blood of somebody
else. And one came in the works of
his own hands. And the scripture says that God
had respect under Abel's sacrifice. Why? Because he had a lamb without
spot and without blemish. And God smelled that sweet sacrifice. I tell you, that was Oh, listen,
that's 6,000 years old. This is the old way. People talk
about the old-fashioned way. I like the old-fashioned way.
I like the knee-right way, and I like this way and that way.
Listen, you can't get older than Christ, and you can't get salvation
older than what Christ accomplished with Abel. And God wasn't taken by the surprise
because Christ was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
And He never, I'm telling you, He never viewed His people outside
of His blessed Son. And oh my! And I tell you, every
soul ever saved came to God by this way, by Him. Noah! found grace, where? In the eyes
of the Lord. Where was he saved? In an ark. Abraham called to go out. He the night doctor called to
go out and he went out. Where did he go? He come to God
by Jesus Christ. There has never been anybody
ever came to God other than through Jesus Christ. Now that's the
truth. I can show you that from Genesis
all the way through Malachi. Everybody that ever was saved,
saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. Now ain't that right? You think
God had a new way of saving people or had a different way of saving
people under the Old Testament than the New? And always with
blood, always with the Lamb, always with the priest, always
with the righteousness that the that they look to Him, but it
is always by faith. And oh, listen, not only is it
an old way, but it's a good way. Oh, what a good way it is. In
fact, it's the perfect way. It's the perfect way. Look with
me over here. Look over here at 1 Corinthians
1 with me. It's the perfect way, and it's
impossible for man to have devised it. For man to have come up with
this way of saving sinners, it'd be impossible. Because man has
tried and tried and tried and tried. Ecclesiastes says this,
that man sought out many inventions. But oh, this is a good way, it's
the perfect way, and it's impossible for man to have devised it. Look
what he said here in 1 Corinthians 1.20. Now this is what, this
is, Paul's preaching about, he said, I'll preach Christ crucified,
not sent to baptize, but to preach the gospel. To preach the gospel,
to preach Christ crucified. And he said here, and he said,
the preaching across is foolishness to them that are perished. So
he asked this question, where's the wise man? that devised this
salvation by Christ crucified. Where is the wise man that knows
how to call a man by the power of God, who the wisdom of God
is and the grace of God is? He said, where is that wise man?
that can tell us how God, that this is a better way. And where
is that scribe? Where is that man that understands
the law and writes out the law and teaches the people? Where
is the disputer of this world? Where is the man that is going
to dispute with God and tell God that His Word is not right,
that His way is not right, that His salvation is not right? And
look what he says, hath not God made foolish? the wisdom of this
world. Tell me one person. When Paul
stood at Mars Hills, there's philosophers everywhere. Greek
philosophers and there's been philosophers and people's got
great big books of philosophy. And tell me one person ever been
saved by the philosophy of another man other than the Bible. Salvation
is not by philosophy, it's by a person. Go to the best, go to Harvard,
go to Yale, go to what they call all these wonderful schools,
and you'll come out just like Lord God. You'll get the best
education money can buy, and it won't show you one thing about
God. And that's why he goes on to
say that. God said, this wisdom of this world and what they try
to devise and the way they want to save men and the way they
tell men to be saved, he said, and the way they trust in their
own wisdom and their own knowledge, God said, that's foolishness
to me. That's what God said. For after
that end, verse 21, after that end, the wisdom of God, God and
His blessed wisdom, the world by wisdom and all of its wisdom
do not God. And oh, and it pleased God, listen
to this, by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. When Paul stood on Mars Hill,
they had altar after altar after altar after altar. Because they had all these gods.
That was the best they could do. But when he started preaching
Christ, Salvation by another. Salvation by another's death.
Salvation by another's blood. Salvation by another's righteousness.
Salvation by a man being treated as a common criminal and dying
on a cross. And that man being buried and
be raised again and God sent him to do that one thing. And
they said, well, that's the foolishest thing I've ever heard in my life.
For one man to die for a multitude of people that no man can number?
That one man should die and save men by his death? That one man's
blood should put away all their sin? That one man should satisfy the
justice of God, endure the wrath of God, and bring righteousness
and peace and everlasting righteousness to his people? That don't even
make sense. What means all of our gods are
false? And we ain't fixing to give them up. But look what Paul,
look what he says now. The Jews, they say, oh give us
a sign, give us a sign. and the Greeks are always looking
for wisdom for wisdom but this is where they miss it but we
preach Christ crucified and I tell you the smart fellow the educated
people and the people with their philosophy and their wisdom they
say that's foolishness and the Jews says that That ain't
no sign in that. Moses gave us signs. We need
some signs. And oh, listen, beloved. Now
back over to where I was at. Let's go back over here a minute.
Oh, listen. I'll tell you, this is impossible
for man to have devised. That the wisdom of this world
could have never come up with a salvation by the Lord Jesus
Christ with the power to save. You see, it meets the demands
of God's perfection. Look at Hebrews 9. It meets the
demands of God's perfection. It has to be perfect to be accepted.
And I tell you, not only does it meet the demands of God's
perfection, but it meets the demands of our conscience. It
meets our conscience demands. Satisfaction. Our conscience
demands that if we're going to be saved, just got to quit asking
for anything else. And if your conscience is asking
for something else, other than Christ, and your conscience is
satisfied with anything besides Christ, then Christ ain't satisfied
with your conscience. Now look what he said here in
Hebrews 9. Hebrews 9.9. He's talking about a way into
the tabernacle, a way into the holiest of all, which was a figure,
which was typical for the time then present, when that tabernacle
stood. and which were offered both gifts
and sacrifices," now listen to this, "...that could not make
him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience."
But now look down in verse 14, "...how much more shall the blood
of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without
spot to God. Purge your conscience. Purge
your conscience from dead works. What dead works? Trusting in
ourselves, our legalism, our free willism, our fundamentalism,
He purged our conscience from all them things that we trusted
in before and now we serve who? The Living God! Not them old
false ones we worshipped before. Here, here in Christ, here in
Christ crucified, here in Him who is able to save. Justice
and mercy meet there on that blessed cross in that person.
Justice says I'm satisfied. Mercy comes and says I've devised
a way to save sinners. Righteousness! God's righteousness
and peace, they kiss each other because peace has been established
through the blood of His cross, through the righteousness of
our Lord Jesus Christ. And God in His holiness and we
in our sinfulness, and yet we can draw nigh to God and come
to God. How? By Him! We can come to God
by Him. And not only that, but we come
with confidence. And we can look God in the face
without fear. Huh? And oh, let me tell you,
not only is it an old way, a good way, but it's a tried way and
a true way. Oh, you go back through the Scriptures
and look at all the folks that tried it. Tried this way. This coming unto God by Him.
Abraham tried it. He tried to be saved one way,
and God called him and said, Oh Abraham! Come out! Go to a country that I'll show
you! And Abraham, he said, look up at the stars, and he did.
And look at the sand in the sea, and he did. And he said, I'm
going to make you the father of that many people. And you
know what he said? He believed God. Oh, listen. Simeon, you remember old Simeon
when he went in the tabernacle? He was an old, old man by then.
He had an old man, his beard was gray. He came in and there
was all these babies that had been brought to the temple to
be offered, to be first born, to be dedicated, committed to
Christ. And I, Lord Jesus Christ, He
came in and with all them babies, He saw one baby. And He went
and picked up that infant. Just an infant. Just an infant. And there's been months I looked
in the face of my babies when they was babies. And oh, I can't
tell you how it made me feel. I looked in the face of my grandbabies
and held them and rocked them and sang to them and held them
until they go to sleep. And then my great grandbabies.
But I never got anything out of them like I did out of looking
in the face of Christ like Simeon did. He held that infant and
he looked at him and he says, Oh, mine eyes have seen thy salvation. Now, let thy servant depart in
peace. All of this What about Saul of
Tarsus? A vowed enemy of the Lord Jesus. Fought him tooth and nail until
when God called him and separated him from his mother's womb and
called him by his grace. He is on his way to Damascus
to take men, women, and children and put them to jail. He trusted
the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ put him down. And you
know what? Who art thou, Lord? Well, I'm
Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. It's hard for you
to get them pricks, ain't it? Oh, it is. It is. And he tried
that way, and he was as much hated by the Jews as he was loved
by them, after God saved him by His grace. Oh, it's a tried
way. And I'll tell you something,
beloved, when fighting enemies within, and we've got them, and
we fight enemies without, This works. Coming unto God by Him. When it comes time to cross Jordan, and we go across that old chilly
Jordan, on George Stormy Bank I stand. And when we stand there
at George Stormy Bank, it'll still be the good way, the old
way, the tried way, the blessed way. We'll come unto God by Jesus
Christ. Huh? He said, I'll come and get
you to be with Me where I am. Huh? And oh, and I'll tell you
something else. I really, really love this. Look
what else it says in this verse. Oh, I love this. He ever lives,
the saints to the uttermost, them that come unto God by Him,
seeing He ever lives, to make intercession for them. That's
one thing to be saved by the grace of God. It's another thing
to stay saved the way we are. Our Lord did the great glorious
work of substitution, bearing our sins. He did the great work
of satisfying God Himself in His soul. God said He saw the
travail of His soul and was satisfied. And I'll tell you this salvation
that He saved to the uttermost is complete. It's done. It's finished. Look in 1 Peter
3. Look in 1 Peter 3.18. Look in 1 Peter 3.18. That's
the first book right after you pass North James and then it's
Peter. Hebrews, James, and Peter. 1 Peter 3.18. Oh my! He ever lives. He ever
lives. Those priests die. The Pope dies. They have to get a new Pope.
Priests die and they got to bring a new priest into the churches. But our priest ever lives. Our
Savior ever lives. And look what it said here in
verse 18. For Christ also hath once, just one time,
suffered for sins. He was the just for the unjust. Oh, the righteous for the unrighteous.
And here's what we're talking about now, what I just said,
come unto God by Him, that He might bring us to God. You know
how many times it talks of bringing us to God? He brings many sons
unto God. Here it says He's going to bring
us to God. Well, how did He do it? Bearing
our sins. Suffering for our sins that just
for the ancestors. Being put to death in His flesh. Dying in His body. But quickened
by the Spirit. Oh, listen. He ever lives. He
bore our sin and now we wear His righteousness. He died in
our stead that by His death we have life. He said, As Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up. And He said, As a corn of wheat
should fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if
it dies, it will bring forth much fruit. And our Lord died.
And then He brought all the witnesses. A lot of us here this morning
are the fruit of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, he
was separated from the Father that we now could come unto God
by him. And then he talks about his intercession.
What is his intercession? His work is our intercession.
And you know where he carries on this work at? You know where
he carries on this work at? Interceding for us and pleading
for us and taking up our case and cause. Hebrews 9.24 tells
us, look over here in Hebrews 9.24, look where He works, where
He carries on this work is our intercession. Look where He carries
it on. For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, not in the temple, not in the
tabernacle, made by man's hands, which are just typical or figures
of the truth. But where's He at? into heaven
itself. To do what? Now appear in the
presence of God. For who? Us. Who's us? Them that come unto God by Him. Oh, just as that high priest
went behind the veil, representing all of Israel, He is there in
the presence of God right now presenting on our behalf. And
what is He presenting? The fruits of His sacrifice.
The evidence of His blood. The evidence of His broken body.
The evidence of the wounds in His hands. He's there presenting
His merit. And He gets from His Father grace
and mercies for us by the minute, by the hour, by the day, by the
month, by the year, forever. For the whole of our lives. He carries our names. We had
it in that hymn. He carries our names on his breast. That's where his
love is. That's where his affection is.
in his heart, in his breast. And then he carries them up on
his shoulders. That's the place of power, the
place of the ability to carry for us ourselves. And all the sweet sacreds of
his intercession always prevails for those who he prays for. He
said, Simon, Simon, Satan sought to sift thee as wheat, but I
prayed for you. I prayed for you. And when he hung on that cross,
he said, Father, forgive them. They don't have any idea what
they've just done. And then, oh, and listen, on
the Day of Pentecost, that prayer was answered. A multitude that
had been around that cross was saved when Peter preached on
the Day of Pentecost. You know why? Because our Lord
Jesus Christ, Father, forgive them. And that's what He did
for us. Father, forgive them. They don't
know what they're doing. They don't know how sinful they
are. They don't know what they did when they crucified me. They
don't know what it was when you put me on the cross, that you
sent me by your purpose. They don't know what they did
when they ridiculed me and mocked me. They didn't know what was
going on when they knew I was fed the winepress of the wrath
of God, that I was putting sin away, that I was shedding my
blood to satisfy you and cleanse them from your sin. They didn't
know! I didn't know and you didn't know. And He said, Father, forgive
them. They don't know what to do. Bless His name. Bless His holy
name. He prayed that for us. Oh, listen. Well, let me give you quickly
the assurance here, this blessed comfort. Now, it is just as it
is impossible for us to save ourselves. And after our salvation,
it is impossible to keep ourselves, but, back here in our text, He
is able to save to the uttermost. To the uttermost. What does that
mean? That means from all of our old
sins, all of our present sins, and all of our future sins. And
our sins shall never rise up to condemn us in the presence
of God. And He is able to save to the
uttermost in spite of the weaknesses of our flesh. He is able to save
us to the uttermost in all of our trials. I don't care how
deep they are. I don't care how long they are.
I don't care how dark they are. I don't care how heavy they are.
He's able to save. And when death comes knocking,
when death comes knocking, He is able to save to the uttermost. Judgment's been endured, so there's
no fear of facing the judge. Little children, I write unto
you that you sin not. But he says this, if any man
sin, we've got an advocate, we've got a lawyer, we've got somebody
to take up our case. Who is it? Jesus Christ the righteous. And this uttermost has two meanings
to it. He's able to save to the uttermost.
It means completely and entirely. To the uttermost. Completely
and entirely. And also it means, to the uttermost means forevermore. Forevermore. Who does He save
like this? Them? that come under God by
Him. Amen? Our Father, in the precious,
blessed, glorious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, The One with all the ability
to save. And Lord, we have come, we are
coming, and we're going to continue coming to You. We have looked,
we are looking, and we shall always look to You. Never, ever
find anything in ourselves. But Lord, we find all in You. You truly are all in all. Lord,
bless this Gospel. Bless this Word. Oh Holy Spirit,
use it to Your glory, and the glory of the Father, and the
glory of the Son. We ask this in Christ's name.
Amen. Amen. Let's turn to 3.18 in the
hymn book. At the end of this song, you'll
be able to, you'll be at liberty to go. 3.18. Everybody knows
this one. You probably won't even have
to look in your book. stand together. Most gracious Lord, no tender
voice like Thine can Oh, I need thee. Every hour I need thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior. I come to thee. I need thee every hour. nearby. Temptations lose their
power when Thou art nigh. I need Thee. Oh, I need Thee. Every hour. Every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me. Savior. I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour. It is Your name. Come quickly and abide for life. Oh To me I Oh, make me Thine indeed, Thou blest Son. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee,
every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee.