this morning, a perfect sacrifice
equals a perfect saint. A perfect sacrifice equals a
perfect saint. Look there in verse 1, look what
it says. For the law, having a shadow
of good things to come, and not the very image of the things,
can never, with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually, make the comers there unto perfect. There's people
that's not perfect. Now look down here in verse 14. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. There's some that aren't perfected.
And over here, they are. And what makes the difference? the offering, the sacrifice. They offered sacrifices, and
they offered them year by year and continually, but it never
made those who brought them perfect. But He, by the sacrifice of Himself
once in the end of the world, put away sin, and by that one
offering, that one offering, He hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. Oh, bless His name. I could have
titled this message this morning, A Perfect Atonement Equals Perfect
Acceptance. A Perfect Sanctification Makes
Perfect Saints. A Perfect Priest Makes a Perfect
People. A Perfect Savior Gives a Perfect
Salvation. Any one of those titles would
have been good. But you understand what I'm saying? Oh, but that was a time. That
was a time. And I thank God that it's not
that way anymore. We never thought in terms like
these. We never thought in terms of perfection. Never thought
in terms of being completely and perfectly accepted of God.
Of being perfect in the sight of God. Of being completely accepted
in the sight of God. We always thought that we was
pretty good, but by our efforts, we could make ourselves better
and more acceptable. And that's what religion does.
Their end, their goal is to eventually get good enough to be accepted
of God. To eventually be accepted of
God. But the scriptures and the gospel makes that the beginning.
You got to start out being accepted. You got to start out being perfect.
You don't strive to be better. You can't be any better than
what you are in Christ. And so I'm thankful that we're
not striving after that anymore. We're resting in Him. See, faith
reveals to us a different position and a different view of ourselves
before God than the view we have of ourselves. We're sinners in
ourselves. We know that. We acknowledge
that, that in this place there's no good thing. But we also know
by faith and by the Scriptures and by our own conscience that
in the sight of God, we're perfect in Him. We're accepted in Him. We're sinners in ourselves, but
saints in God's sight. We're not under law. We're not
under law. We're under grace. We're not
under the curse, but we're living by the blessings of the Lord
Jesus Christ obtained for us. There's therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. There's just not. And oh, let's
see where we stand now before God. Let's look at some of these
verses now. I read these 18 verses. I'm going to say a few things
about all of them. But look here. This is how we got to this perfect
standing before God. This perfect sanctification.
Because verse 10 is my text. Verse 10 is what I really want
to deal with. By the which will. Hebrews 10.10. By the which will. We are sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Now, by
the witch will, what is this will that sanctifies us? What
is this will that makes us perfect? Well, back over here in verse
7, it says this, Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the
book it is written of me to do thy will, O God. So this will,
by the witch will, what is this will? It's the ordained will
of God. It's the eternal will of God. That's what it is from
all eternity. This witch will that we're sanctified
by was the eternal will and decree of God that a people whom he
chose in Christ before the foundation of the world should be sanctified
and set apart for himself. That's what this witch will is.
That's what this, when Christ says, Lo, I come to do thy will,
what is that will? What is that will that sanctified
us? What is that will that provided this offering? It's the eternal
will of God. God's will has always been eternal. Why is it eternal? Because He's
eternal. And it's immutable. Why is it
immutable? Because He's immutable. Huh? Everything has no beginning. The will of God has no beginning.
They say, well, the will of God starts here for you, or the will
of God starts there. He's got a wonderful plan for
you. Whatever God willed for you, He willed it from all eternity. That's right, we didn't find
out about it until we found out in the scriptures about it. And
He wills changes, God wills changes, but He never changes His will.
You know, the will of God, He says this, that He does according
to His will, in the armies of heaven, and listen now, Daniel
4.35 if you want to look at it, and among the inhabitants of
the earth. And who can stay his hand or
say unto him, what doest thou? Job 33.13 says that who can direct
his spirit or direct his will or appoint his ways? Known unto
God are all his works from the creation. And I know you've seen
this many times, but look at it with me in Isaiah 46. Isaiah
46. The only way in the world. You
know, if we see it in the Scripture, You know, the preacher can quote
it, the preacher can say it, but boy, when you look at it
with your own eyes, Isaiah 46 and verse 9, look at it with
your own eyes, then you say, boy, that's what the Scripture
says, that's what the Bible says. You know, there's no such thing,
and there cannot be such a thing as a defeated will or purpose
or pleasure of God. It can't be done. People say,
you know, you can keep God from doing His will. You can change
the will of God. I don't know how many times people
have said that, and how many times people believe that. Mary
got an email. I was telling James about it. This woman sent her an email,
you know, and had a picture of Mary and the prayer that Catholics
make to Mary, and says, now Mary's going from house to house, and
if you let her in her house and send this on, she'll take away
all of her troubles with her. Take away all your troubles with
her. Mary wrote back and she says, oh, she can't take away
any troubles. What troubles can she take away?
Don't worry about picking up after a while. But the will of God is not going
to be changed. If I could change the will of
God, I'd change my own will if I could. I'd change my will and
make it perfect submission to God if I could. I'd change my
will and make it love God with all of it if I could. I can't
even tell you my own will, but that's the will of God. Look
here in Isaiah 46, 9. Remember the former things of
old. For I am God, and there is none
else. I am God, and there is none like
me. Remember back when I parted the Red Sea. Remember back when
I created the world. Remember back when I sent all
those plagues down in Egypt. Remember back when they built
that Tower of Babel, and I confused them, and I scattered them all
over the world, and I gave everybody a different language. Remember
back. And watch this, declaring me in from the beginning. And
from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
My counsel shall stand, and I will do what? All my pleasure. That don't always sound like
somebody can't do what he wants to do when he wants to do it,
does it? And oh, beloved, men rebel, men hate his will, despise
his will, but it don't change his will. Does it? Men argue
with His Word, but it don't change His Word. It don't change a thing. It does not. Whatever a man thinks
about God, feels about God, has no effect upon God whatsoever.
You know, even us, even us believing, even us believing on God, don't
change God. Does it? But it certainly changed
us. And oh beloved, His will is eternal. His will sustains the universe.
It keeps the sun and the stars on course and on the earth. He
keeps everything revolving. The earth revolves. His will
is the alpha and the omega of all things. That's why he says,
by the which will, here in Hebrews 2, by the which will we are sanctified. By the which will we're set apart.
By the which will we've been sanctified. No wonder the scripture
says, You know, for whom he did foreknow, them he also did predestinate. Them he did predestinate, them
he also called. Them he called, he also justified.
Them he justified, he also glorified. And the next verse says this,
What shall we say then to these things, if God be for us, who
can be against us? Huh? Oh, beloved. But now listen now. These chosen
people, These people that were chosen, these people that were
in the will of God, they were dead in sins, they were undefiled,
under the curse, fit to be set apart to the burning instead
of set apart to the service of a thrice holy God. So how in
the world will this immutable, eternal will of God be carried
out to save these redeemed? to save these rebels, to redeem
these rebels, to cleanse these filthy sinners. How can it be?
Look what it says in verses 1-4. How can it be? For the law, having
a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of those
things, can never, with those sacrifices, I don't care how
many you bring, can offer year by year, continually, just over
and over, they can never make the comers around too perfect. Bringing you sacrifice, bringing
you works, bringing you effort. Never make them perfect. Because
if they had, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because
that's the worshippers who brought them sacrifices, once purged,
should have had no more conscience of sin. If those sacrifices purged
you from your sin, purged your conscience, you'd have had no
more conscience of sin. But oh, listen, but in those
sacrifices, And there's a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Every time they brought sacrifices, it reminded them that they're
sinners, and they needed a sacrifice over and over and over. For it's
not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away
sins. Oh, but listen. His will wasn't fulfilled in
those sacrifices. It wasn't fulfilled in those
priests. It wasn't fulfilled in the blood of bulls and goats.
It wasn't fulfilled in all those offerings that was ever offered.
But the will by which we were sanctified was performed and
accomplished by God's blessed Son. Look what it says in verse
5. Wherefore, when He cometh into the world, who comes into the world? Oh,
the Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. God's will, eternal
will, will be carried out by the Son. Lord, what you will,
I'll do it. What you will, I'll do it. From
all eternity, everything in your book says, I'll do your will.
And oh, beloved, when he cometh into the world, he said, sacrifice
and offerings, that never was your will to put away sin. So
you prepared me upon it. And burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sins, you never was satisfied with those. You told those saints,
you told those people that these would never put away sins, but
there would come one who would put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. You told it in Genesis chapter
2. You told it in Genesis chapter
3. You showed it over and over. You showed it by that Passover
lamb. You showed it over and over and
over again, that you had somebody that was going to put away sin.
And, oh beloved, then said I, Oh my, I come, I come in the
volume of the book. And I tell you, not only this
book, but there's a book over in Revelations that had seven
seals on the back side and on the front side. That's the eternal
will and eternal creeds of God had ever name in it, had ever
work in it, had everything that everybody ever done in it. And
this was the eternal will of God, and there was only one found
open in Lucem's seals. Who was that? and perfectly sealed,
He perfectly opened it and accomplished it. And, O Beloved, the will
of the Father was that He should have a people sanctified unto
Himself. But that will could not be carried
out by the blood of wolves and goats. It could only be accomplished
by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And
that's why He says above, above when He says sacrifices, looking
back at what He said, He said, when I said this, Sacrifice and offering and burnt
offerings and offering for sin. That was not your will. You never
had satisfaction in it. Because they were offered by
the law. Then said He. Then said He. This is out of Isaiah 40. I mean,
excuse me, Psalm 40. Then said He, Lo, I come to do
Thy will, O God. He takes away that first. That
law. That priesthood. That sacrifice. That tabernacle. Everything under the law, he
took it away. He took away the first Adam, brought in the last
Adam. And that's by the which we were sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ. Whatever the eternal
will of God the Father required, our Lord Jesus Christ perfectly
achieved. Whatever was written in the volume
of the book, the Lord Jesus Christ did it. Our Lord's life, His
sufferings, and everything that made up his life, and everything
that made up his sufferings. It took every bit of it to make
an atonement. Death ended his sufferings, and
they ended ours. His death ended sin, and his
death ended our sin. The warrants, the warrants here,
by the which will we are sanctified, verse 10, through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ, warrants, warrants, God prepared him a body that
in warts in that body, he could put away sin. Without the life,
without that prepared body. You know, they set apart, they
set apart the lamb, you know, in the first, in the Passover,
they said set it apart for 14 days. Examine it. Look at it. Make sure there ain't
no spots, no blemishes in it. I mean, you couldn't have a sacrifice
that had a spot or a blemish in it. And they set it apart
and examined it for fourteen days. And so here's the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's prepared a body. And that
body was prepared to be an offering. Just like a lamb has to be an
orphan. And God expected that and inspected it. And for 33
years and a half years, our Lord Jesus Christ, God's holy eye,
looked at him and examined him. And the human race examined him.
The law examined him. The holy angels examined him.
The Pharisees examined him. Everything, the devil examined
him. And you know what they found
out? He is perfect. And without the life, without
that prepared body, the will of God would have never and never
could have been carried out. But he says, I delight in the
volume of the book, whatever that book said, and that will
is in that book. He said, that's what I come to
do. And so his death in and of itself would have been nothing.
But because of the body, because of the life, because of the will
of the Father, to finish, I mean He finished by that glorious
life laid down for His people, He put away sin once and for
all. Does the law require perfect
submission to the will of God for our acceptance? Well, our
Lord Jesus Christ rendered it. Does it ask for complete obedience
to its precepts? He obeyed. Does the fulfilled
will of the Lord call for suffering? It does. It does. It called for a sacrifice for
sin because man did not keep the law, but Christ did. Did
it call for his sweat to become drops of blood? It did. Did it
cause it to call him to have pain unknown? Even death itself? The will of God do that? Our
Lord says, whatever your will is, I'll do that. I come to do
it. So this once for all included
all, whatever all may be. Whatever I'm to do in my body,
whatever I'm to suffer in my body, whatever I'm to do in my
body, I delight to do that, whatever that will is. If it's to be hated,
despised, rejected, sufferings and sorrow, and just as God by
His created Word, by His Word He created the world, and that
Word, when He spoke, it brought His will to pass. So when God
sent His Son into this world, He carried out the will of God
perfectly and completely. He looked at creation, God did,
and said, But he looked upon the work of his son and said,
it's perfect. It's acceptable. It's complete. He said, in fact, it's finished.
It's finished. You know, creation is not finished
yet. It's not. This world's got a curse on it.
He's going to make a new heaven and a new earth. Yeah, we're
not finished yet. Our standard's finished, but
we're not finished. God's not finished with us yet.
But I tell you what, it's finished. Salvation's finished. Sin being
put away is finished. Our righteousness is finished.
Our acceptance is finished. Oh, my. And the will of God for
the sanctification of His people is accomplished. Now, listen
to me. If Christ came and He did the will of God, by which
will we are sanctified? Through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. That's why that body was prepared,
that we could be sanctified, that it could be offered. This
work of sanctification, this work of the will of God, this
work of Christ carrying out His will, must be applied to us.
How is it going to be applied to us? Well, there's only one
way. The Holy Spirit has to do it.
Look down here in verse 14. Hebrews 10, 14. You see, he's the one who makes
the will of God known. It says, "...for by one offering
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, whereof
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to it." He's the one that brought
us the witness. He's the one who told us about
this. Here we sit in services all our lives, went to church
and heard preaching. I've done a lot of preaching.
Done a lot of jumping, done a lot of whooping, done a lot of hollering.
Huh? And then the Holy Ghost came
to me one day through preaching, through reading, through somebody
telling about Christ and His complete salvation, His perfect
salvation, Him in a body prepared for us, Him coming to do the
eternal will of God. Somebody come along and told
me that, and the Holy Ghost bore witness to my heart, bore witness
to my mind, bore witness to my conscience. That's so! And oh, he goes on to say, for
after this, this is what he showed us. This is what he taught us.
This is the covenant that I will make after them with after those
days, saith the Lord. What days? After the days of
the long being abolished. After the days of Christ coming
into this world. I'll put my laws into their hearts,
not written on tablets of stone, out here objective forest. He'll
write the law in our hearts, a delight for it, a rejoicing
in it. And in their minds I'll write
them, watch this, and he bore witness to this, and their sins
and iniquities will I remember no more. Whoa, every time they
brought an offering, that just reminds you you're a sinner.
And you've got to bring another one, and another one, and another. And he says, now I've got an
offering that put an end to sin once and for all, and their sins
and iniquities, I won't remember them anymore. Now watch this.
Now where remission or payment of these is, there's no more
offering for sin. You don't need another offering.
Don't have to bring another offering. He makes us to know it's finished. He takes the Old Testament and
sheds light on the New for us. He takes away all hope for us
ever being sanctified before God by any other means. He takes
the things of Christ and shows them to us. And this is the will
of the Father carried out by the Son, brought and applied
to us by the Holy Spirit. So we are sanctified before God
and accepted of Him who is holy. Now let me tell you something,
beloved. You hear people talk about sanctification all the
time. And you know, say sanctified and filled by the Holy Ghost.
You'll have evidence of being sanctified by the evidence of
speaking in tongues. You know that you can be Sanctified
enough, and John Wesley taught this, and a lot of people still
teach this. Wesley and Holiness do. Some Nazarenes do. That you can actually live without
sin in this world. That you can be perfect in the
flesh. Well, I don't know how in that world
that could be, you know. To be sanctified is a state of being. That's the state of being. Now,
you know, all those priests, they came and they made offerings,
and everything in that tabernacle was sanctified and set apart
by God. They had bowls, they had snuckers, they had spoons,
they had rakes, they had tables, they had all these instruments
in there. And everybody, when they went
home, they had the same kind of instruments. They had bowls,
they had spoons, they had snuckers, they had all the things that
they had used in the tabernacle. They had a basin to worship,
and the tabernacle was a basin to worship. Now, what made those
in the tabernacle different than what those people had at home?
God said, these are made for My use, and don't ever use them
for anything else. That's all that made the difference.
You couldn't bring one of your bowls in and use it in the sacrifice,
and use it in the tabernacle. You know why you couldn't do
that? It wasn't sanctified. God said, that's not mine. And
you know what God says? This is by the witch will. And
through the offering of the body, that body that God prepared him,
by the eternal will of God, he hath perfected, he hath sanctified,
set apart, once, through that offering, for all time and all
eternity, those that Christ offered Himself for. You can't be no
more holy than you are right now. Now, you can grow in grace.
And I mean that you know how you know you're growing more
in grace? You're more sinful than you ever was. You're weaker
than you ever was. You feel your necessity of Christ
more and more and more. Ain't that right? That's how
you know you're growing in grace. Not because you're getting better.
You're getting worse. In your own estimation. You understand
what I'm saying? Don't you think that's right?
Everybody else, they start getting better. They start looking above
everybody. They start looking down on everybody. And everybody's
sin aggravates them. But their own sin. Because they
live so good that everybody else's sin aggravates them. But my sin
aggravates me. I'm the one that's a mess. And
so that shows me, and that's why, you know, anybody that's
getting any better in this world, more power to them. Alright, look here now. Let's
look at this affectionate sacrifice right quick. Back over here in
Hebrews 10. Verse 10. By the witch will,
that eternal will of God, by the will of God, we're sanctified. Now watch this, through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all. This is sexual
sacrifice. The will of God is what gave
us this sacrifice. The eternal God here became incarnate. Our Lord Jesus Christ, though
He was prepared a body, Yet He was God in that body. But oh,
how we need His humanity! How we need His humanity! When
we have seen by the Holy Ghost that our Lord Jesus Christ became
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. And we realize he's
our near kinsman, that he identified with us so that he could offer
himself a sacrifice. You talk about making you want
to draw near to him, and embrace him, and submit to him, and love
him. Here it talks about the offering
of the body of Christ. Why does it do that, the offering
of the body of Christ? It shows us the reality of this
offering, the reality of it. His soul suffered in His body. Everything about Him in that
offering, whatever His body was, that body was the offering. It
means the whole of our Lord Jesus Christ. When His body was offered,
His soul. You know, if your body's offered,
everything that's in that body, your mind, your will, your affections,
your soul, your emotions, everything about you, that's what's offered
also. It's you. It's our Lord Himself. All that constitutes all of a
person, His body, was all of Himself. That's what He offered
here. The whole of our Lord Jesus Christ
was made a sacrifice for sin. The whole of Him was. Everything
that, when He hung on that cross, His body was there. That He was
in His humanity. That is the body prepared for
Him. But what was in that body? Spirit, heart, emotions, affections, the ability to suffer, the ability
to cry, the ability to feel. And it was the offering, not
the Spirit of Christ, but the body, the personality and all
that made up our Lord Jesus Christ, that was what was offered. And
it was completely offered, the whole offering. Oh, here's what
I, you know, this disastrounds me that whatever made up our
Lord Jesus Christ, look at us, look what makes up us as people. Look what all makes us up as
people. For whatever it took to make
Christ a person in His humanity, in His will. Everything that
made Him a person, that made Him what He was, that's what
was offered. His soul was made an offering
for sin. His personality and all that
it was, sinless, was what was offered. And oh my, what was it offered
for? To sanctify God's people. to
sanctify them. And if it's going to sanctify
us, it has to be completely offered. And that sacrifice is under the
law. Some of them were presented in part. You know, when they'd
offer a sacrifice, they'd offer part of that sacrifice, and the
high priest would get part of it to take home and eat. Sometimes
the person who offered would get some of it, and he'd take
it home and eat it. But our Lord Jesus Christ, God got the whole
offering. Not only did God get the whole
offering, But we got the whole offering. But as our sin offering, our
Lord offered up a whole offering to God. The Father got it all. He got all of its benefits, and
it provided us a perfect found salvation. He bore all that could
be borne before God. When He was on that cross, they
said He saved others. But himself he could not save.
He bore our chastisement in order that we wouldn't have to bear
chastisement. He gave himself up without any reserve. And he says, Father, into thy
hands I commit my spirit. Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable
gift. And look what else about this
offering. It's effectual. is the body of Christ. And this
offering was made only once. By the rich will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once. Once for
all. Once for all. This don't mean for every man
in the world. Don't mean for every person in
the world. Don't mean for all the world. It means all at once
or only once. Once for everything that was
required, what it means. Once for all for whom it was
offered. He offered him a sacrifice once
for all and only once. And God says that's the end of
the matter. His sacrifice for his people
was for all of our sins before he ever came into this world. It was for all of my sins before
I ever came into this world. Huh? Ain't that what he says
there in verse four? Look what he says. He says, not
possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Huh? Oh, my. You imagine how many sins there
were before Christ came into this world that were committed.
How many were committed? Imagine how many they were. Age
upon age, generation upon generation. And Isaiah says, this about us,
all we like sheep have gone astray. But he also said, the Lord laid
on Him the iniquity of us all through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all sin, for all time, for all requirements,
for all that God needed and required. All the sins of God's people
were met there and were consumed. And He did this once for all. And oh, beloved, here He stands
before this cross, and He offers His body. He stands beneath this
load of sin, sin greater than the world can ever imagine. There's
nothing that we can compare to the magnitude of sin. What could you compare to the
magnitude of your sin that they overwhelm you sometimes? Well,
whatever it was, that's what Christ offered His body for. And He stands beneath that load
of sin. He bows under it. till bloody
sweat begins to pour. He doesn't try to get away from
it, from the burden of it. Instead, he says, I delight to
do thy will, O God. I come, and the volume of the
book is written of me. I delight to do thy will. It
weighs so great upon him till he cries out, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? Then he raises that glorious,
blessed, holy hand and flings the weight away and cries, The weight's gone off of him.
The sin is gone. And it's gone once, and once
for all. It's no more on him, and it's
no more on them for whom he offered himself. Ain't that what it says
there in verse 17? Hebrews 10? And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more. The Redeemer offered himself
to death, never had done it before, but he did it this time and he'll
never ever do it again. This is once for all. And why
will it never be done again? Because there are sins and iniquities. I will remember no more. Where
remission of these is, there is no more offering for sins.
Why will it never be done again? Sin is gone. All the sin laid upon him is
gone. Everything that was against his people is gone. He took the
cup, the dregs, drank it dry. Not a drop left for his people.
Never have to face God for one sin. Never have to face God being
unsanctified. Never have to face God without
fear of being accepted. It's finished once and for all.
He bore on the tree the sentence for me, and now both the surety
and the sinner are free. And the heavenly Lamb thrice
happy I am, and my heart doeth rejoice at the sound of His name. And so the result is this, by
the witch will we are sanctified. Look what it says there in verse
14. By the witch will we are sanctified. For by one offering he hath sanctified,"
now watch this, for by one offering he hath perfected, since the
offering was once and for all. The will was once and for all.
The body was once and for all. The death was once and for all.
The sin put away was once and for all. So by this one offering,
he hath perfected. For how long? Forever is a long
time. People say all the time, I'll
never ever do that again. Never is a long time. But here
it's true. He hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. God regards us as sanctified
people. Why? Because there's no sin against
us. Why can't He remember them? He
can't remember something that don't exist. Oh, we're purified. We're cleansed. We stand before God, perfect,
accepted, sanctified. Now why in the world wouldn't
anybody rejoice in that? Everything here talks about what
Christ done. Everything under the law, done nothing for nobody. Done nothing for nobody. If it
could have, it would still be in existence. Huh? But it never did. Not one priest
and not one sacrifice that was ever offered ever put away one
sin. Not one sacrifice that any human being has ever made ever
put away one sin. Not any amount of money anybody
has ever gave has ever made them sanctified to God. One thing
makes us sanctified to God. By the witch will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And He by this one offering hath
perfected, perfected forever them that are sanctified by Him. That's a long time. Amen. Our precious Father, our gracious
God in heaven, thank you for the gospel, thank you for the
truth as it is in Christ. I pray that you would bless the
word today to the hearts, to the understanding, that you would
press upon hearts and minds what our Lord did for us, how the
sacrifice is perfect, how it's complete, how it makes us complete,
how it makes us perfect. so that we can look outside ourselves,
never rest in ourselves, never find any hope in ourselves, but
find all of our hope, all of our salvation, all of our perfection
in Christ, who He is and what He did for us. Oh, we bless you
for Him. Bless you for this great, glorious,
perfect salvation. God bless you to our understanding.
We ask these things in Christ's name. Amen. Oh, this thing is forced. That's
all right. We'll set this apart.