And I want to talk about forgiveness. Forgiveness. You know, forgiveness,
what a blessed, blessed thing to have. Forgiveness of all your
sins. And I tell you, I know this,
that forgiveness is essential, absolutely essential if you're
going to have a clear conscience. And even if you, we have to extend
forgiveness in our everyday lives. Because if we have an inability
to forgive others, then that means that we ourselves haven't
been forgiven. I can show you that. Look, let
me show you about that over here in Mark chapter 11. You keep
following me. Look in Mark 11. And this is
true. If a man cannot forgive, And forgiveness is required.
We need forgiveness. And we have to extend forgiveness
in our everyday life. And I know this, when a man's
been forgiven of his sins by God Almighty, he won't have any
problem forgiving other people what other folks done to him.
And whatever anybody else may wrong him in any way, he has
no problem forgiving. But our Lord said here in Mark
11.25, And when you stand praying, forgive,
if you have ought against any, that your heavenly Father, also
which is in heaven, may forgive you your trespasses. But if you
do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven
forgive you your trespasses. And I know that for believers,
the Apostle put it this way. He said, be ye kind one to another,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven
you. And I'll tell you, this is natural.
I know this is without a doubt. I know this is so. That for believers,
people that God has done something in their heart, it's as easy
for them to forgive as children who get in a little argument,
sit back down and start playing together again. And that's what he meant, be
ye as little children. Be ye as little children. And
I know here in Philemon, we have seven elements of forgiveness. Seven elements of forgiveness
here in Philemon. And you know what, he was a runaway
slave. And that's what this whole thing
is about. This runaway slave being sent back home. But before
a person ever experiences forgiveness from God, The first thing he's
got to experience, he's got to experience some guilt. There's
nothing to be forgiven of if you're not guilty. Is that not
right? Look there in verse 11. Look
what he said in verse 11. Which in time past was to thee
unprofitable. In time past he was unprofitable
to you. Onesimus was unprofitable Philemon. He was a slave to Philemon. Philemon
is one of Philemon's slaves. And slaves was common in those
days. And he was unprofitable. He had no... He didn't do anything
good. He didn't do anything right. He wasn't faithful to his office.
He wasn't faithful to Philemon. He wasn't faithful to the things
that he did. And he was a slave and he ran
away. And he ran away. But here's the question. What
man is profitable to God? Is anybody in this building here
profitable to God in any way? You talk about being unprofitable.
You keep this and look with me in Job 22. Just a minute. Look in Job 22. I know we may be profitable one
to another. and maybe profit from somebody
doing something for us and us for them. But I know when it
comes in the sight of God. Now this man, Philemon, had these
servants, these slaves. Well, Onesimus, he decided that
he didn't want to be a slave anymore. He didn't want to be
faithful to Onesimus and the place that he was called to and
God put him in. And away he went. And that's
the way we was in our father Adam in the Garden of Eden. We
believed the devil's lie and the devil told us when God would
not punish us for our sins, you won't surely die. And that God
is too merciful to let this happen. And so we looked at him and said,
well adios amigos, we are fixing to leave here. We don't want
you to reign over us anymore. And I'm going to go out here
and do my own thing. And that's what Old Nessimus
said. And from then and there, no member of the human race has
been profitable to God, not one. Look what he said here in Job
22, verse 1. Then Eliaphaz the Tibanite answered
and said, Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise
may be profitable unto himself? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty
that thou art righteous? Or is it gain to Him that thou
makest thy ways perfect? Oh my! We're going to change God by
how we act? By whether we're perfect or righteous?
Or whether we're wicked? Will He reprove thee? Is it any
pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous? Is it gain
to Him, gainful to God that thou makest thy ways perfect? So what
do we add to God? What do we add to God the way
we are right now? Do we make God any more God than
He is? Make Him any more sovereign?
Make Him any more glorious? Make Him any more immutable?
Make Him any more powerful? Well of course we don't, you
know we don't. What profit is any man to God? What does our
lives contribute to the being of God? Isaiah 53 and verse 6
says we all like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to
his own way. Now know in Romans chapter 3
there's four nuns over there. God said he went looking for
a good man. And you know what he come back and said, there's
none good, no not one. None righteous, no not one. There's none that seeketh after
God. There's none that understand
it. Now that's what God said about us, about the human race. And so that's why we need forgiveness.
And Onesimus, you know what the name Onesimus means? His very
name means profitable. But he became unprofitable. Ain't
that what Paul says? Which in time past was to thee
unprofitable. He added nothing to you. In fact,
he went right out against you. And his very name means profitable.
So the first thing that's got to happen for a person to have
any interest in forgiveness, he's got to have some guilt.
He has to have some guilt. Let me tell you the second thing
we need in forgiveness. We need love. We need love. Look what the apostle said in
verse 9. Yet for love's sake, I rather
beseech thee. He said, He is not profitable
to you. He is as sorry as they come.
He ran away and he was unfaithful. He absolutely nothing good about
him. But he says, But for love's sake. Oh, for love's sake, I rather
beseech you. And oh, listen, beloved, God
is love. And there's no forgiveness without
God being love. Bless His name. John 1.5 says
this, that God is life. Oh, God is life, holiness, righteousness. Light. He dwells in a light that
no man can approach unto. Infinite light. No man's ever
seen God at any time. Never will see. But there we
are. He said, God is light. There's no darkness in Him. Light,
holiness, bright, brilliant light. Like our Lord Jesus Christ was
changed into glistening white light in the presence of the
apostles. And God is light. Oh, such a
brilliant light. And oh, but not only that, beloved,
but God is love. God is love and he that dwelleth
in God dwelleth in love. And I tell you, I know this,
James says this, that every good and perfect gift that cometh
down from the Father, cometh down from the Father of lights,
and whom no parable need the shadow of turning. And here's
the thing about it. God, love must be expressed.
If you have love for somebody, you have to express it. One thing
you can't have is love and not express it. You can't have love and not express
it, not show it. And I'll tell you something else
you can't do. You cannot love enough. It's impossible to love
enough. You husbands can't love your
wife enough. You wives can't love your husbands
enough. You can't love your children
enough. You children can't love your parents enough. It just can't be done. But I
tell you, if you've got love, it's got to be expressed. And
if we have to do it, within God's blessed love, it must be expressed. And when God expresses His love, here in His love, not that we
love God, but bless His name, He loved us and He gave Himself
for us. He was the propitiation for our
sins. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
Son. What did He give Him to? gave
Him to the cross, gave Him to sinful man, gave Him over to
be made sin, gave Him over to death, gave Him over to the grave. And God, because of that great
love wherewith He loved us, gave His own Son. And I tell you what,
beloved, and that's what this old aged apostle says, Yet for
love's sake I beseech thee, being such as Paul the agent. He's
an old man now. And he says, I tell you what,
if nothing else will work, love will work. He says, if you receive
my Onesimus back, and I said, this is the motive I want to
call on to do it. I want to call on love. You got love in your heart, Philemon.
You got love in you. I know you love me. I know you
love the Lord Jesus Christ. I know you love the Savior. But
for love's sake, would you take Onesimus back? You know, for
love's sake, for Christ's sake and the love that's in Him, God
will take you. God will take you. Oh, take this old runaway
slave back and do it with complete and perfect forgiveness. And
let me show you another thing that's necessary. And so I told
you seven elements in forgiveness. Second, third thing, element
in forgiveness is this. Look down in verse 18, 18 and
19, substitution. We got to have substitution. If thou count, if he hath wronged
thee, look what he says now, if he hath wronged thee or owes
thee anything, put that on my account. They tell what our Lord did? Look what he says and I've written
it with my own hand God really with his own hand with the Lord
Jesus Christ. He said I'll repent I'll repent
I Tell you Paul said put it on like him and that's exactly what
God did someone has to pay the debt Someone had to pay for onesimus
running away The debt had to be paid If you let slaves run
away and they were not justly punished for their transgressions,
then everyone would run away and the slaves would take over.
But someone had to pay the debt. And when God is wronged, who
is going to pay the debt? Let me show you something. This
is something you really need to see. Look over in 1 Samuel
2.25. 1 Samuel 2.25. Look at this right here. I know this. We have a debt. Oh, we became
in debt to God in our Father Adam in the Garden of Eden. And
every day, without Christ, every day, without forgiveness, every
day, without our Lord Jesus Christ bearing our sin, we are in debt. We are in debt. Look what he
said here in 1 Samuel 2.25. If one man's sin against another,
the judge shall judge for him. You know how many judges are
on TV every day? People go in there over $50. Plus the $5.50. Mothers take
their daughters to court. They got Judge Judy and I don't
know how many other judges they got on there. People just sit
there and get the biggest kick out of it. Arguing fuss and fight
over something don't matter nothing when it's all said and done if
a man sins against another man Let's go up here in court. Let's
get in court. Let's settle this argument in
court That's what he's saying here, but now listen, but if
a man sin against the Lord Man sin against God Who's he gonna go get to help
him then Who's gonna take care of this transgression then? Huh? Notwithstanding, they hearken
not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
Oh man, go get your lawyer and go to court. But buddy, if you
sin against God, who are you going to get to take your case?
Who are you going to get to take up your cause? Who are you going
to get, if you've wronged God, who's going to pay your debt
for you? Who's going to entreat for you? Huh? Well, I tell you,
I know who's going to do it and I know who did it. The scripture
said in Isaiah 53, the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him. He was wounded for our transgression,
bruised for our iniquity. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him and to make his soul an offering for sin. God made him to be sin
Now let me tell you something. Let me ask you this question.
Have you ever found out what sin is? Can you describe sin? I know you can describe sins.
Acts of people. But what about sin? Sin itself. Whatever sin is, if you can ever
find out what it is, that's what God made Christ to be. Paul didn't
even know how to express it except to say that sin is exceeding
sinful. So if a man sins against the
Lord, who's going to lift up his hands and say, Lord, forgive
him. Lord, have mercy on him. Lord, cleanse his account. That's
why Paul said, if he owes you anything, put it on my account.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, Lord his Father, Lord, if they owe you
anything, put it on my account. Our Lord Jesus had our sin, our
rebellion, our guilt, our shame put over here on His account. And when it was put on His account,
God called Him to judgment for it. And when God called Him to
judgment for it, It became such an awful sight that God Himself,
because sin is so dark, so black, so horrible, that God Himself
reached up and got the curtains of heaven and pulled them down
so nobody could see this awful, gruesome sight as our Lord Jesus
Christ bore our sins and God's punishment and just wrath fell
on Him. God said, I don't want the sun
to see it. I don't want the people around the cross to see it. I'll
cause it to be so dark nobody will see nothing. But me and
my son, what a transaction took place that day. And all this
in our Lord Jesus Christ, our sin was put on His account. Ain't
it wonderful? Ain't it something to think that
my sin, my sin that I committed in my father Adam, because I
came forth from my mother's womb speaking lies, And then as I grew up, I drank
iniquity like it was water. I done wickedness with both hands
earnestly. My mouth full of cursing and
bitterness. My feet sweat, shed innocent
blood. And here the Lord Jesus Christ said,
give me that sin that he committed in his father. And then give
me every sin he's ever committed. Put it on my count. Charge it
to me. And he says, what you owe, I'll
pay it. And you know what the father
said? I see the travail of his soul. I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. Don't want no
more, don't need no more, not asking for any more. That's why David says, blessed
is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Blessed is the
man whose transgression is forgiveness." Little children, I write unto
you that you sin not, but if you sin. We have an advocate. We got a lawyer. We got somebody
that entreats God for us. What's his name? Jesus Christ
the righteous. And I'll tell you something else.
Look over here at Hebrews 10. I'll show you this. Not only
is sin forgiven, but it's forgotten. Look what he says here. Verse 15, Hebrews 10, 15. Well,
look in verse 14, first of all. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. And who witnesses this? Who tells
us this? Who makes us know this? The Holy
Ghost witnesses this to us. Because God said before in the
scriptures, this is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, said the Lord. What days? The days of Christ.
The days of the sacrifice, the days of the substitution. I'll
put my laws in their hearts and their minds and I'll write them
and listen to them. And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. And not only did he put them
away, he said, put them out of his mind. There is so many things
in the scriptures that tells us about God. He said he cast
them behind his back, cast them into the depth of the sea, brought
them out as a thick cloud, throw them as far as east is from the
west. He is telling us over and over and over again, you come
to me, your sins are gone, and I won't even remember them. People think when they get there,
you know, that God's going to judge them when they get there.
I'm telling you something, for those who trust Christ, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, they done been judged. I'm just going
to go to glory to see Christ and be with Christ. I put a sermon
up on, you know, what will be your reward in heaven. Several folks wrote me and said
to me, you know, I always knew there was something wrong with
them rewards in heaven. He said, if Christ ain't enough, what
else would make the difference? And I'll tell you something else
I heard from a fellow the other day. He's out in Wyoming. Almost 80 years old for reward
safety. And he says, he says, he said,
boy, boy, I said, I never dreamed anything like this never happened
to me. But he said, I'm just absolutely overjoyed. He said,
I can't get enough preaching. I can't get enough. He said,
almost 80 years old. Well, he's 80 then, but he got
converted right before he was 80 years old. So that's something, ain't it?
That God can save an eight year old. You save an 80-year-old,
an 18-year-old, a 28-year-old. Age ain't got nothing to do with
it. Salvation is of the Lord. And
He said, if you owe Him aught, our Lord Jesus said, put that
old bike out. You got something against, you know, if you understand
before God, you got, you know, that your sins ain't been taken
care of. You say, you just, you say to the Lord right now, you
say, Lord, That preacher says that you took my sins on your
account. You took all those against me
and put it on your account. And if that's true, would you
give me the peace knowing that my sins are gone? My sins are
all taken away. They're all taken away. Did you hear what Jesus said
to me? They're all taken away. So I
praise the Lord for sins forgiven. They're all taken away. Look at me. I ain't got no sin
on me. I got no sin in me. Only the gospel can tell
us that. Only the gospel can give us that
peace. And all listen, let me tell you
something else you got to have not only got to have love And
have to understand this guilt And have to have somebody to
stand in your place and pay the debt for you But you got to also
have somebody take up your cage take up your cause look what
the apostle said in verse 10 here of philemon Look what he says I beseech thee
for my son Onesimus. You know what he's doing here?
He's interceding for Onesimus. He is taking up Onesimus' case. He don't say, Onesimus, you go
back and tell Philemon how sorry you are. Tell him what a mess
you've made out of things. No, no. He knows he couldn't
go back unless somebody Send him back with some authority,
with some compassion, with some love. And he said, I beseech
thee for my son Onesimus. And you know we got somebody
right now at the right hand of God said, I beseech thee not
for Bruce, not for James, not for Larry, but I beseech thee
for my son's sake. And our Lord Jesus, I beseech
thee for my sake. That's the thing about it. Our
names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Our Lord Jesus
Christ bore our sin on his own body on the tree. And right now,
I'm telling you, when I do something, I sin, I fall, I falter, that
the Lord Jesus Christ, what He does as Father, you forgive Him. You receive Him. You accept Him. You deal with this. Not because
of who He is, and how sincere He is, and how sorry He is. and
how repentant he is. But you for my sake, for my sake,
you gave them to me. And I've not lost a one of them.
You gave them to me. I'll pray for them, Father. I
pray for them that the evil one, they may be kept from him. I
pray for them that they'll believe your word. I pray for them that
they'll be kept through your word. I pray for them that they
may behold your glory one of these days as I do. And he says, well, what in the
world would I have been receptive for your sake? Look at the nails
in my hands, the prints in my hands, look at the side. Look
at the nail scars in my feet. I've got evidence to prove. And oh, he takes up our cause.
Look over here in Hebrews 7, just a minute. Oh, he said, if you count me
a partner, receive him as myself. That's what he says. If you count
me a partner, you just take him and receive him like you'd receive
me. Receive on this and this for my sake. I begot him in my
bonds. And look what he said here in
Hebrews 7, 25. But this man, all the other priests,
they couldn't continue because they died. But this man, he ain't
never gonna die. He continueth ever, and his priesthood
don't go from one person to the next. That's why they do. You
know that when the Pope dies, When the Pope dies, they're going
to have a new Pope. Everybody, that's anybody, they sit and
wait for that smoke to come out of that chimney. That's a pitiful way to... Wouldn't
it be awful if we had to sit and wait for smoke to come out
of the chimney to see if our high priest was alive? See if
our priest was there to meet our needs? But that's what happens with
those fellows. One dies and another has to take
his place. But I, Lord Jesus Christ, He continueth ever. Ain't that what it says? And
then verse 25, Wherefore, since he lives forever, continues forever,
his priesthood is eternal, wherefore he is able also to save them
to the uttermost. Them, that uttermost that come
unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for
us. Oh, my. Ain't you glad we ain't
looking for smoke coming up out of the chimney? And oh, he says,
Father, he's told Old Nessimus, find your partner and receive
him for my sake. And our Lord Jesus Christ says,
Father, forgive him. Receive him, keep him. And he
told Simon Peter, I pray for you. I pray for you that your
faith fail not. And you know why your and our
faith don't fail? Because he prays for us. You know why me
and you just don't want to fall down once we do something, we
don't just keep on keeping on doing it? Because he prays for
us that our faith fail not. His children may fall, But He's
the one to get them up. And He's the one that prays for
them to see that they get up. Yes, I know that. And then let
me show you something else you gotta have. Not only substitution,
not only love, not only because you have a son, but look,
you gotta be restored. There's restoration. Look in
verse 15. It says here, for perhaps He therefore departed for a season. Now listen to this. He left for
a little while. He left for a season. Left for
a part time. Left for just a certain space
of time. And listen to this. That you
should receive him for how long? Forever. Isn't that what it says? That thou shouldest receive him
forever? While he was going to die. So
how is he going to receive Him forever? Because they both have
life in Christ. They're going to have that unity,
that brotherhood, that fellowship, that union that's only in Christ. That you receive Him forever.
That's the same thing the Apostle Paul said. He said, I was before a blasphemer,
a persecutor, injurious, but when it pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace to reveal
His Son. Now, He went on years. But there
was a day. And that's what Paul said here.
And Paul, I tell you, that's what our Lord Jesus Christ said,
He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life. Not gonna get it. He's got it.
He's got it. And that means He's got it. And
Paul brought Him back. And I tell you, the Holy Spirit
is the one that brings us to our Lord Jesus Christ. In the
day of His power, His people are made with it. And I tell
you what, if you would have told Old Ness and said, You want to go back to Rome again?
You want to run away again? You want to become fused again?
He said, oh no, no, no, no, no. No, I'm happy where I'm at right
now. I said, my master took me and treated me like I was his
brother. He received me as myself. He
sees me like himself. He took me just as I am and he
don't hold anything against me. And he received me as one with
himself. I was gone for a while, and I
was so scared to death to come back, but oh, when I came back,
oh, Philemon fell on my neck and fell on my heart and just
fell all over me and said, oh, Nesimith, oh, Nesimith, my brother,
my brother. Oh my, you want to be a doctor? And I'll tell you this, does
anybody want to go back to the life they had before they had
it in Christ? And I've said this before, I've
said this before, and I mean this, if there was no eternity,
really was no eternity, just being a Christian, being the
way we believe what we believe, is worth just for this world
alone. the peace and joy and happiness
and fellowship and union and communion we have together. But
thank God, listen, wait a minute, but this ain't the only life
we're gonna live. That's why Paul said, if this life only
we have hope in Christ, we'd be among the most miserable.
But oh my, we go on past this world. But I tell you what, it's
been a very blessed life, ain't it? Oh, what a blessed life. God's hand reaches out to us
and brings us and restores us. Picks us up. Kisses us with the kisses of
His mouth. Embraces us with His arms. You want to leave now? All them
disciples, thousands of them turned and walked away no more.
You know why? Because our Lord says, All that
the Father give me shall come to me, and him that cometh to
me I will not cast down. And he says that no man can come
to me except the Father which sent me drawing him. And I say,
everybody that comes to me has to be given of my Father. And
those fellows heard that and said, well, boy that's... So
I don't have nothing to do with this salvation. You mean I'm
not going to be saved because I'm I'm following you around
for some meat and some bread and watching you do all these
miracles, watching you do miracles, is that not enough?" He says,
no. He says, no, man. He said, if
you come to me, it's given to you of my Father. The flesh don't
profit anything. Everything you've ever done in
your flesh, he said, don't profit nothing. Man, they scratched
their head and they said, boy, I said, what I'm doing don't
profit nothing. I believe I'll just quit." Away
they went. There was a handful standing
there. Just 10, 12 men standing there. The Lord turned around
and looked at them and said, I guess you're just going to
leave too. You're just going to leave too? Simon Peter got up real, real
close to the Lord and said, Lord, Lord, Lord. To whom shall we
go? Who are we going to go? You think I'm going to follow
them fellas? No, no, no, no. I'm following you and I want
you for you. For I believe that thou art the
Son of God and believe that you're the Christ and I want you for
you. Let them all go away but I'm
staying right here. Oh, that's what we're going to
do. How did that happen? He made us willing. I am so willing
to be His servant. I'm so willing to be His son.
I'm so willing to do what He wills to do. I'm so willing for
His will to be done in my life. Ain't you? I'm willing for whatever
God has for me to take it and say, bless His holy name. And oh, let me tell you something,
though we have to be restored, the dis-forgiveness has to be
free. If you get it, it's got to be
free. You can't buy it. You can't pay for it. Old Nesbitt
couldn't go back and work hard enough to get Philemon back on
the good side of him. Look what it says here in verse
8. Wherefore, though I might be
much and bold in Christ to enjoin you that which is convenient. Oh my. Philemon, according to
law, could have been executed. Nothing about Onesimus was right.
He ran away from his master. But I might be much bold in Christ. And that word enjoy means to
command you. I could command you to do this.
And do that which is right to do in Christ. So whatever you
do, you do it because you do it freely. Ain't that what he
says down here in verse 14? But without thy mind I would
do nothing, that thy benefit should not be as it of necessity,
but willingly." Now, oh listen. He was freely forgiven. Fully forgiven. And forgiven
forever. Oh my. It's free. I love that word free grace.
I told you this already. I love the word free grace. I
just love the word free grace. I just love free grace. I love
free grace. I love the word free grace more
than I do sovereign grace. You know why I like free grace
more? Because it tells what grace really is. It's really free.
It's free. Yeah. If God does anything, He does
it freely. And grace is free. And all that means He don't owe
it. It sets it apart. It says bye. So if God ever does
anything for us, He does it freely. And you know what He said over
in Romans 8.32, and I got one more point and I'll be done.
But He said over there in Romans 8.32, that God spared not His
own Son, but with Him, freely freely gives us all things oh my freely freely and then
the last element of forgiveness is this relationship look what
he said in verse 16 not now as a servant receive
him not now as a servant but above a servant a brother Beloved
especially but to me, but how much more unto thee both in the
flesh and in the Lord He went back and he wasn't a servant
anymore. You know what says he became a brother He was a member of the family
before he had been a slave now, he's a member of the family He's
gonna sit at the table with Philemon. He gonna sit at the table with
his wife and his children and When they put the table on there,
he didn't say, wait now, wait on this, you wait on us, and
then you go back there to the slaves' quarter and you eat back
there. No, no. He said, as a brother, he's going
to sit at the children's table with daddy and mama and the kids. That's what he's going to do.
And I tell you, beloved, that's why our Lord Jesus Christ is
the firstborn among many brethren. And beloved, we're going to one
of these days, our Lord Jesus is going to gird Himself and
we're all going to sit down and He's going to serve all His people.
Now how is He going to serve a multitude that no man can number
10,000 times 10,000? That's what makes Him the Lord. That's what makes Him the Lord.
He's feeding all of us right now. And look how many different people
here he's feeding us all right now. And he's feeding his people all
over the world right now. You think it'd be hard for him
to set down a multitude? He set down 5,000 people one
time, not counting just men and women, not counting the kids.
Took two loaves of bread and five fishes and fed them and
they got up and had 12 baskets left over and they're going to
feed another 15 or 20,000 out of those baskets. That's what makes him the Lord. That's why we worship him. That's
why we bless him. That's why we praise him. The minute you got him figured
out and you think, boy, you got to know what he's like, you've
done missed it. He can make all of us sit down
and go through this all at the same time. You know why? Because he's the
firstborn of Moses. He's not ashamed to call us brethren.
I am the children which you have given me. And let me tell you
something. Old Nesimus, he left a slave,
he left a fugitive, and he crossed a preacher's path, and he came
back a member of the family. Oh, listen, what do we need for
forgiveness? Guilt. Are you guilty? Well, God loves. Oh, He loves. And the love's
going to be expressed. And I tell you, you need somebody
to put it on my account. Need substitution? Then we need
somebody to intercede for us. I'll be seat speaker on that
sentence. And oh, we need to be restored. And it's freely
done. And then we're made sons. No longer servants, but sons.
Oh, my. Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness. Oh, gracious, gracious God in
heaven. Oh, how wonderfully... Lord,
we stand in awe at you. Stand in utter, utter awe. Our hearts are taken up with
your glory. Taken up with your magnificence.
Taken up with your great power. Taken up with the great love
wherewith you loved us even when we were dead in trespasses and
sins. And you forgave us for Christ's
sake. God, make this gospel to be powerful and effectual in
the hearts of your people. And thank you. Oh, blessed be
your name for allowing us to meet here today. God, how we
bless you. How we praise you. How we thank
you. Bless these dear saints. Encourage them. Strengthen them.
And our Lord Jesus, we again pray for Annie, Kyle, and their
situation. Uphold them and strengthen them.
Bless Daryl that his leg would heal and he'd come worship with
us and meet with us. Continue to bless Daryl and Kim.
We play this for Christ's sake. Amen and amen. Your sins are pardoned and you
are free. They're all taken away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, away. My sins are all taken away My
sins are all taken away My sins are all Gone Gone See you tonight
six o'clock. God will