It blessed my heart. It really,
really did. I stopped and blessed the Lord's
name several times in looking through it. And I hope it, by
God's grace, will be made that to you. But here in Colossians
125, whereof I am made a minister
according to the dispensation of God which is given me to me
for you. God gives all of his preachers
a dispensation, a time of the gospel, of the gospel, a dispensation
of it. And he gives it to us to fulfill
the word of God, to fully preach the word, to fully preach it. And this is the gospel that he
gives us and the dispensation he gives us. Even the mystery,
this is the word that we preach in the dispensation of the gospel,
the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations,
but is now, this mystery is now made manifest to His saints,
not to the world, to His saints. And because God, this mystery
that has been hid, made manifest to whom God would make known,
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles,
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Christ in you, the
hope of glory. The gospel, the gospel is the
mystery of all mysteries. It's a grand secret. And that's
why I call the riches of this glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles. And we're Gentiles. We're not
Jews. Spiritual Jews, yes. Circumcised
in Christ, yes. But the Jews even now, if you
went to New York City or Jerusalem, the Hasidic Jews would have to
cleanse themselves after they had any contact with us at all. Still have to do that. And this
gospel, this mystery of mystery, was hidden from ages, from generations. But it's now made manifest to
His saints. There's some of you here that
know this mystery. It's been made manifest to you,
clearly brought out for you to understand it. And it's a mystery
to each individual now, unless the Holy Ghost revealed Christ
to him and in him. It's still a mystery. It's still
a mystery. You try to present Christ to
somebody. Tell somebody about the Lord
Jesus Christ and His electing grace, and His eternal love,
and eternal justification, that everything's in Christ. And they'll
automatically start saying, oh yeah, I know this, I know that.
Oh yes, you ain't telling me nothing I don't know. Daniel
Parks was offering somebody a tract the other day. He was out visiting,
and there was this one run across a woman. She said where she went
to church, and he offered her a tract about Christ. what you need to know about Christ. And she said, oh, I know all
about Christ. So she wouldn't accept the tract. She said, I've known about Jesus
Christ for years. I don't know all about Him. Well,
I don't know all about Him yet. I don't know all I want to know,
do you? But I'm going to know one of these days all that I
need to know. But, oh, beloved, see, that's what I'm saying.
It's still a mystery to every individual unless the Holy Ghost
revealed Christ to him and in him. And there's nothing wrong
with the gospel. It's not the gospel. There's
plenty of gospel light. But it's the sight. It's what's
wrong with the eyes. That's where men have the trouble. There's nothing wrong with the
gospel. It's men's eyes to see it, their ability to see it.
The gospel has plenty of light in it. And there are seven words
here in this verse that set before us the mystery of the gospel,
an open view, and that is there in verse 27, which is Christ
in you, Christ in you, the hope of glory. Seven words. Now, the
mystery of the gospel, and it's the eternal gospel, only one
gospel. I heard a preacher say one time there's seven gospels.
How can there be seven gospels? When Paul said, you know, if
a man comes preaching the other gospel than I preached unto you,
let him be accursed. One gospel. And this is an eternal
gospel. And the mystery of this gospel,
the eternal gospel, the very essence of it is the Lord Jesus
Christ himself. The hope of glory is Christ himself. Now it says back up there in
verse 26, look what it says there. Even the mystery which hath,
which, which hath been hid from ages." Just look at that word,
which. This word, which. Which word
is it antecedent to? What word is it antecedent to?
Is it down there in verse 27, the riches? The riches? Which hath been hid from ages,
is it the riches? Or is it the glory? Which is
the glory? Or is it the mystery, which is
the mystery that has been hid, the riches that have been hid,
the glory that has been hid, the mystery that has been hid?
Well, I know this, that there is a mystery. Christ is that
mystery. That's why Paul says, great is
the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh,
seen of angels, preached unto Gentiles, believed on in the
world, and received up into glory. So Christ is that mystery. Is
it that word glory? Well, our Lord Jesus Christ,
the word was manifest in the flesh, and we have what? His
glory, which was the glory of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth. He's the brightness of God's
glory. And if it's that word riches,
which is the riches that have been hidden, the riches of grace
is in Him. The unsearchable riches of Christ,
the Apostle Paul said. Let me ask you this, how wealthy
is the Lord Jesus Christ? How wealthy is He in grace? How
wealthy is He in love? How rich is our Lord Jesus Christ
in wisdom? How rich is He in power? How
rich is He in wisdom? How rich is our Lord Jesus Christ
in His grace and His mercy and His love and His power and His
forgiveness to us? How rich is He? So our Lord is
the mystery, He's the glory, He's the richest, He's all this.
And listen to this, He is all this to us Gentile dogs. Call
me a dog all you want to. The dogs get the crumbs from
the master's table. Oh, and now us Gentile dogs,
and now we're heirs of God and joint heirs with the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now, let's look at the essence,
this word mystery. Let's look at the essence of
this mystery, this mystery which hath been hid, and this mystery
that now may manifest, this mystery that we now know, that God would
make known to us. The essence of this mystery is
Christ Himself. And, beloved, in these days,
when fools, and I say fools, are building churches without
Christ, and preaching salvation without a Savior. Preaching men's
hope without any hope at all being preached to them. I read
the other day where it says all the prophets and the priests,
every one of them are liars. God said that of every priest
and every prophet. God himself said there's a liar.
And our beloved, and I'm telling you here, it says Christ When
they're preaching building churches without the Lord Jesus Christ.
And they're talking about contemporary worship. And if you're afraid
and you don't like the way things are done, come change up and
let's do something different. But no matter what's going on,
Christ is still the gospel. I don't care what anybody says
or how they change their way of worship. And that Christ is
still the gospel. Our Lord in his person is the
gospel. Who in the world would have ever
thought, who would have ever thought of the infinite, eternal
God who inhabits eternity, should take upon himself the nature
of man, that he would leave glory The one beloved who inhabits
eternity raises the waters in the hot of his hands. And we
just read who created the heavens with his fingers, and ordained
the moon and the stars, and we stand in wonder at that. And
here is God himself, the eternal God, taking upon himself the
nature of a man. And this is a great mystery to
our faith. God, who no man hath ever seen,
coming down here and letting us see Himself in the person
of a man? And that man being born of a
woman without a man? And that God and man in one person? How can it possibly be? No wonder
we say, what is man? Why this man who is nothing but
dust and ashes? Why this man who is sinful from
the top of his head to the sole of his feet? Why this man whose
heart's deceitful above all things and desperately wicked? Why this
man that you'd even vision him? And why this man that you'd even
take a thought about him? Huh? But, O Beloved, he says
unto us a child is given, unto us a son is born. What are we
going to call Him? Wisdom. We're going to call Him the Wonderful
One, the Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
and the Prince of Peace. Oh my, that's what we're talking
about here, what mysteries. And this is why we call it the
gospel, the mystery of it, the Son of the Highest, born in a
little old bitty place in Bethlehem. before he had suffered, before
he had ever shed blood, taken there and wrapped in swaddling
clothes before it ever worth one deed of righteousness. The
night he was born, the angels began to gather around and sing,
Glory to God in the highest, on earth is born this day in
the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this world over, Billions
of people on the planet. And there was a little baby come
forth from his mother's womb, which was God, come down through
the womb of a virgin, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid
as a manger. Huh? Who would have... You would
have walked in there and saw it, and you would have said,
what a pretty little old baby. Congratulations, y'all got a
little boy. Oh, the incarnation of our Lord
coming down in flesh was so full of the riches of God's grace,
and this One who came down and came into this world for one
reason and that only, to satisfy God and save sinful, fallen man
like ourselves. Oh, beloved, He's God-man. God-man. bone of our bone, flesh of our
flesh. And He has the power, He has
the ability. He's not some helpless, weak,
impotent, somebody who cannot do anything unless we let Him.
He has the power, the authority, and the might. He has the ability
as God to meet every need that we have. And I've said this so
many times, He is not man deified. Like they have in all this mythology.
And He is not God humanized. He is God, 100% eternal God. And He's man, 100% man, in one
person. One person. Now, figure that
out if you can. And God's made that manifest
to us. Makes it known to us. And look
about not only His person, it's the gospel. This is Christ in
you. but the blessed and glorious
work which he undertook, and he finished on our behalf. Turn
over here to your left to Colossians chapter 2 with me just a moment.
Oh my, he came to do a work. He says the Father has sent me, and I must do the work of him
that sent me while it's yet day. And then when he got through
with the work, he says, Oh, Father, I finished the work that you
gave me to do. And it was a glorious work, a
blessed work, and he undertook it. And, beloved, he finished
it. He didn't try to. He did. He
finished it completely. Look what it says in verse 7.
Philippians 2. But made himself of no reputation. Now, that's just the opposite
of human beings. Philippians 2, 7. Made himself of no reputation.
Everybody wants a reputation now. Everybody wants to let you
know that they're a doctor. That they've got this credential.
They went to this school. They went to that school. They've
got this ministry of theology. They've got this ministry of
something else. They've got this. They went to
this school, that school, and that school. They've got all
these degrees. And Dr. So-and-so is going to come preach
for us, and he went to this school, and he's got that ministry, and
he went to that school, got that ministry, went to this other
school. He's been all over the world. He's one of the most educated
people. So they're trying to make them
reputations. Put their picture on a poster
and say, come in here, Dr. Sound and Brass. Come here, Dr. Know-it-all. But our Lord didn't make Himself
of no reputation. He says He does some such that
don't go tell nobody about this. And then look what it says. But
took upon Him the form of a servant. Now then we're talking about
God taking on Himself the form of a servant. Nobody wants to
be a servant. Everybody wants to be served.
Nobody wants to wait on anybody else, but He wants But our Lord
said he came to minister, not to be ministered unto. He came
to be a servant. And he was made in the likeness
of man. He wasn't a sinful man, but when
you saw him, you saw a man. And when you touched him, you
touched a man. When he bled, he bled like a man. If you slapped
him, he stung. His cheek stung like a man's
cheek would sting. If you pulled his beard, it hurt
him. He got weak and he got tired, but he was in the likeness of
man. He was a man, but he wasn't a sinful man like you and I.
And being found thin in such fashion as a man, what did he
do? He humbled himself, emptied himself,
got down before God, got down before man, got down before all
the human race as he humiliated himself in taking flesh and then
humiliating himself and giving himself into the hands of sinful
men to be crucified. and became obedient unto death. What kind of death? The death
of a criminal on a cross. Oh my! Our Lord Jesus Christ
came to do for us what we fail to do. We fail to obey God. We fail to be a servant. We're
not even servants to one another, much less servants of God. We're not emptying ourselves,
we're all the time filling ourselves. We're not letting anybody know
what we know instead of telling them what God knows. What we've
accomplished instead of what Christ accomplished. We're just
upside down in the way God is. But our Lord came to do what
we fail to do. And suffer what we could not
possibly ever endure. And from the manger to the cross,
bless His holy name. From the manger to the cross,
his was a life of a servant, a perfect servant. God said he
was my righteous servant, Jehovah's righteous servant. And by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many. Let me tell you a story I read
one time, a farmer, a believer, a farmer. Had a nice farm, and he had a
friend who was a carpenter. And this friend of his who was
a carpenter was unconverted. He had a great burden for him.
Liked him very much. And he had always, that farmer
had always witnessed to that carpenter of the gospel. Tell
them about the gospel of God's grace. And how that Christ finished
the work. The work was done. Salvation was full. Christ satisfied
God's justice. Christ endured the wrath of God.
Christ put away sin. Christ gives grace. We only accept
it in the good life. And He witnessed to that man,
and how that He alone had the ability and was sufficient for
salvation, and Him alone was the only one who could save Him.
Well, that's His friend, the carpenter, kept on off. Now,
you know, no, no, that's just not right. A fella's got to do
something himself. I know that God said, but we
got to do something. We got to cooperate. We got to
be obedient in this way or be obedient in that way. So one
day that farmer thought, well, I'm going to show him. He said, come over and build
me a gate. Took him out there and said,
this is where I want my gate. I want my gate right here. So
that carpenter went to work, built him a gate. Oh, I mean,
he built him a gate. Now you couldn't ask for a better
gate. Couldn't ask for a better gate. And he finished it. That farmer said, well, why don't
you come over and visit me in the morning? Come over and see
me. Well, he got over there, and
that farmer was standing out there by that gate, and he had
a big double-bidded axe in his hand. He said, well, what's your fixin'
to do? He said, I'm fixin' to fix your gate. He said, what? I'm fixin' to
fix your gate. He said, ain't nothin' wrong
with it. He said, I'll go and fix it. He said, I'm gonna put
a few cuts in it. I'm gonna bust a place here and
bust a place there. He says, oh, pardon me, Willis,
what's the matter with you? I'm gated. You can't ask for
a better gate. That's a finished work. That's done. That farmer
ran back with that axe, and he went to working on that gate.
He tore that gate all to pieces. That carpenter just went absolutely
off the deep end. Oh my goodness, what in the world
you've done! He said, you've ruined it! You've ruined it!
That farmer looks at that carpenter and said, every time you say
you want to do something, and must do something for Christ
to save you, He said, that's what you're doing to it. You're
destroying it, just like I destroyed your game. And that's the way
it is in Christ. You add anything to Him and you've
nullified it. Huh? If righteousness comes by the
law, by anything we do, then Christ is dead in vain. Ain't
that right? And that's what people do. You
try to add to what Christ done in any way, shape, form, or fashion,
and you just absolutely destroy it. That's why I say He finished
it. And our Lord Jesus in all of
His office, not only is His person the gospel, not only is His work
is the gospel, but in His offices, our Lord has many offices. He
is the prophet. That's what we're saying. He's
the gospel. He's the prophet. What prophet?
The prophet who came to teach us of God. We wouldn't know anything
about God had not Christ come and taught God to us and revealed
God to us. And he's our priest, our high
priest, who offered a sacrifice and made atonement for us and
offered himself as that atonement. And he's our king. What does
the king do? He provides for his subjects.
He fights the subjects' enemies. He clothes the subjects. He feeds
the subjects. He takes care of the subjects.
And he reigns in righteousness. And, oh, beloved, he's our friend
who sticketh closer than a brother. He's our elder brother. He is
our husband. He is our head. He is our mother. He is our father. To us who know
the gospel and know Christ, he is our all-in-all. He's our representative. I mean, he represented us before
God. He's our covenant head. He's
fulfilled the covenant of our strength. And beloved, Christ
himself is the mystery of the gospel, the hope of glory, and
there is not another. He's the life, he's the soul,
he's the substance, he's the essence of the hope of glory
and the mystery of the gospel. And oh, this don't even bear
thinking about. But where would our hope be without
Christ? Who would it be without Christ? Who would our hope be without
Christ? Take Christ away. Who would our hope be? Huh? If a sick man gets sick and he
goes to a doctor and the doctor ain't there and his assistant
says, well, I can't do anything for you, but there's the books
he reads. There's his medicine cabinet. Maybe you can find something
in there. No, no, the books ain't going to make me well. I don't
know what medicine I'm supposed to take. I need to see the doctor. And what would we do if Christ,
our great physician, would take away? Could we heal ourselves? If he didn't finish the work,
could we finish it? Imagine the prodigal going home.
broken-hearted, ashamed, going home and willing to be a servant
and not a son, and the Father wasn't there to receive him and
to greet him? Oh, don't bear thinking. Oh, we wouldn't have a gospel
of free grace without the Lord Jesus Christ. We wouldn't have
a gospel of free forgiveness of sin without our Lord Jesus
Christ. Now you listen to me, if you
don't hear another thing I say today, or haven't heard anything
I've said, or don't hear nothing else yet. Beloved, we don't need
something about Christ. We don't need something that
belongs to Christ, or something procured by Christ, or somebody
who has known the Lord Jesus Christ, or some truths that extol
the Lord Jesus Christ. We need Christ Himself. We need Christ Himself crucified,
burying our sins in His own body on the tree, making us acceptable
to God without spotted, without blemish, throughout all eternity.
You see, Christ is the mystery of the gospel, now made manifest
to His saints. And when it says, Christ in you,
the hope of glory, let me tell you some things it doesn't mean.
When it says, Christ in you, the hope of glory, it doesn't
mean that you have great gifts and abilities. It's obvious it
doesn't mean that. Christ in you, the hope of glory,
that doesn't mean you have great gifts and abilities. How many
of you have great gifts and have great abilities? All we have
to do is look at ourselves and know that can't possibly mean
that. It doesn't mean that you have a perfect sinless life. Oh, and people use our faults,
our failures, and our sins against us out in the world. And people
will even do it who come to services, and every once in a while, they'll
say, so-and-so done this and that, and they hurt my feelings,
and so they'll quit coming for a while. But you see, beloved, I don't
lead a perfect sinless life, but Christ had a perfect sinless
life. I'm not perfect, but He is. I'm
not sinless, but He is. Is that not right? Oh, the flesh
lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh,
and they're contrary one to the other. You cannot do the things
that you would. I can't be spiritual as I want to be. I can't love
Christ as much as I want to. I can't appreciate the gospel
as much as I'd like to because of this flesh, but I
can't be as sinful as I would be because of the Spirit in me.
And then that warfare goes on. That's no wonder Paul says, Oh,
wretched man that I am. When I would do good, you know
what I'd do? I'd do what I would. When I wouldn't do what I'd do,
you know what I'd do? I'd do it anyway. And then he goes off and says,
oh, wretched man that I am. I didn't want to do that, but
I did it. I intended to do that, but I've done something else. I had in my heart to do this
perfect deed, to manifest this great love, this generosity. But I was stingy, and I was selfish,
and I was cruel. Bless His holy name. Christ in you is the hope of
glory. And it doesn't mean that Christ
in you is the hope of glory, that everything in his life is
going to be perfect. And that's one of the most deceitful, God
dishonoring, and I despise it. And God have mercy on the butchers
of men's souls that deceive people with this. Oh my, if you accept
Jesus, He's the answer. Well, they don't even know what
the question is. In fact, we didn't even start
having troubles until we became believers. I never had trouble
since I became a believer. I never had trouble with my flesh
till I became a believer. And I always had somebody else
to blame for my troubles until I knew Christ. And then I say,
all things work together for good to them that love God, to
them that call according to His purpose. Now I see that everything
in life is ordered. Whether they want the world to
call them good or want the devil to call them bad, it don't make
any difference. Everything comes from the hand of God, and we'll
kiss His hand of providence, whatever comes. And I'll tell
you something else, that Christ in you doesn't mean that you're
going to be a spiritual giant. Oh my, you're going to be a spiritual
giant. I used to attend some services
back when I was in fundamentalism, and they called people spiritual
pigs. spiritual picnic. You know, if you didn't know
things like I did, didn't understand the way things I did, you know
you was a spiritual picnic. Oh, what an arrogant, despicable
thing to say in a gathering. But it doesn't mean you're going
to be a spiritual giant, that you're going to understand all
mysteries, that you're going to have all the answers for every
question. No. It doesn't mean that you're going
to have the strongest faith, because Christ is in you, the
hope of the Lord. But I'll tell you what it does mean. Christ
in you means this. It means you have faith. It may
be just a smoking flax. But let me ask you something.
It may not seem like it. Sometimes you feel like you ain't
got any at all. It may be a smoking flax, just
a little smoke coming off of it. But would you part with your
faith? Would you give it up right now? Do you want somebody else's faith? Would you swap your faith for
somebody else in this building? Would you swap it for the finest
person that you've ever met in your life? No. You know why? Because your
faith runs to Him. Your faith embraces Him. Your
faith says, I need Him. Your faith commits to Him. You
know that without Him you could do nothing, that you're just
the vine, that you're just the branches and He's the vine. Not
only does it mean that you have faith, it means that you have
life. Paul said, I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live.
What life do you live in, Paul? I live by the faith of the Son
of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. If any man be
in Christ, he's a new creation. Huh? I mean, that infant cast
out, God passed by him and he's polluted in his blood. And he
says, live, yea, I say unto thee, live. And that's what God did.
He passed by us one day and saw us in our pollution, saw us in
our blood, saw us in our relationship to Adam and said, live, yea,
I say unto thee, live. We've got life, Christ, in you.
It's life, the hope of glory. It means we're partakers of the
divine nature. Oh, and I tell you, this is one
of the greatest mysteries. It says in 1 John 3, 9, you cannot
sin because His seed remains in you. Now, how in the world
is it? Now, you explain that to me.
Because Christ's seed's in you, you cannot sin. Because of that, you can't do
anything else. Huh? Oh, my. And what it is, beloved, look
at Colossians 3 with me just a moment. Oh, you have life. You have Christ in you. You have
faith. You have life. You have the divine nature in
you. How could you know God? How could you converse with God?
How could you call on God? What makes you feel God and desire
God and desire Christ and know Christ and recognize Christ unless
Christ is in you, unless you have this life of God in you? And look what he says here in
Colossians 3.3. You are dead and your life is
hid with Christ in God. Dead to the world, dead to sin,
dead to the law. You are dead and your life is
hid with Christ in God. When Christ, our life, Christ
our life. What did that say? Christ, who
you want to make your life? Christ, who you ask to please
let you into your life? No, no. When Christ, our life,
shall appear, what's going to happen? We're
going to appear right away. Where are we going to appear
at? In glory. Whatever glory He has, that's
the glory we're going to have. Isn't that right? And oh, beloved,
and you have motion. Wherever you have faith and life,
you have motion. Faith is a living principle,
it's not just some isolated act. David says, my heart thirsteth
for thee, penneth for thee, like a heart penneth after the water
brook. As sincere babes desire the sincere
milk of the Word, babies desire milk. And why do you desire milk? Because you've tasted that the
Lord is gracious. And then because you desire this
guilt and you've tasted that the Lord is gracious, to whom
coming? Not to whom you went to, to whom
coming? Did you come to Christ yesterday?
Did you come to Christ this morning? Are you coming to Christ now?
To whom coming? We're always coming. And all
beloved, that's why it says, a multitude walked away from
him. And he turns to the twelve and
he said, will you also go away? We take away. Why? Because you,
Lord, you, Lord, have the words of life. Life. You hunger and you thirst,
don't you? You walk and you run, you labor
and you rest, you do all this in Christ, in Christ in you,
the hope of glory. In Christ in you means that you've
been accepted in the beloved. And then it says there in our
text, there in verse 27, Colossians 1, to whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles.
these seven words, Christ in you, the hope of glory. Christ
in you, the hope of glory. Now, you keep that. Let me show
you a verse over here in John 17, 24. I want you to see this. John 17, 24. Christ in you, the
hope of glory. And He's our hope of glory, and
our only hope of glory. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Look what our Lord said here
in John 17, 24. Father, Father, I will that they also,
whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am. Now listen to
this. That they may behold my glory,
which thou hast given me, for thou lovest me before the foundation
of the world." And what did Paul say? This is the mystery that
hath been hid from generations and from ages, but is now made
manifest to his saints, which is Christ in you. What is it? The Holy I want to see my glory! Well, that's our hope of glory.
Oh, you see, it's glory for us, glory for you, glory for me. Glory for us when we are nothing
but creatures of dust and shame. Yet glory, one of these days,
is going to be our dwelling place. Glory is going to be our light. Glory is going to be our crown. Glory is going to be our song.
Grace and glory in Christ our Lord. We're going to have glorified
parties, our Lord said. And oh, we're going to see the
most glorious sights. Come up here then, John, I want
you to see this. And he said, I saw one sitting
on a throne. And it was as a lamb that had
been slain. Oh, we're going to see glorious
sight. Oh, over there is Abraham. Is that Isaac over there? Oh, there's Elphab. There's James. There's John. There's Phil. Glorious sight. And oh, glorious,
glorious company. We'll dwell with the spirits
of just men made perfect. Made perfect. And oh, what a
glorious reward they're going to have. God said, I'll be your
exceeding and great reward. I will be. And oh, what a glorious
rest. Come now. Now, blessed be the
Lord. inherit the kingdom of paradise
from the foundation of the world, and enter into this glorious
way. Oh, no wonder Paul said, I am persuaded, I am persuaded, that neither life, nor death,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor power, nor things present,
nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from this
love of God which is in Christ Jesus. This is the very anchor
of our soul. This is the hope of glory we
have. And you know what it is? Christ
in you. Christ in you. Oh, blessed, blessed Savior,
our Redeemer. Oh, what What glory we see in
you, Lord Jesus. What glory, what power, what
majesty, what assurance, what comfort, what a blessed, blessed
hope we have. Oh, this hope stirred up this
morning. This hope, this hope of glory, this hope of the glory
we shall one day see and enjoy for all eternity. Not in this
body, but in that body you've prepared for us from the foundation
of the world. That body may lie under our Lord
Jesus Christ. And we shall dwell with you and
enter into the rest that you've prepared for us. Oh, bless your
holy name. God, bless this to the hearts
of your dear people today. Bless this to the heart of the
saints of God. Thank you for allowing us making
known to us, making known to us this mystery and the riches
of it, which is Christ in us, the hope of glory. Thank you,
Lord Jesus. Bless your holy name. Amen. Amen.