Greetings, friends, and welcome
to another broadcast of the Old School Primitive Baptist with
Elder Don Martin, Sr. Stay tuned for another gospel
message of God's free and sovereign grace. And kind of build a little
foundation of subject matter which I want to try to try to
expound upon to some degree. You know, I'll give you an example. You all that have farmed and
planted and cultivated and then reaped a
harvest over the years of various things that you've grown. You, if you were asked by a neighbor
or friend that had a a couple of acres of some sort of vegetables
that he was growing and it was about ready to be harvested.
And he was to ask you to come over there because he had something
he wanted to ask and you went over there. And he said, would you deem this ready to
be picked there, brother? And the brother would look it
over, who was knowledgeable of the particular plant and so forth
and he would deem it, now I'm using the word deem for a reason,
he would deem it that he would deem that it was yes, it's ready
to be picked, you need to be getting on this here shortly.
Or he would deem that it's not ready yet, that you've got a
number of weeks here to go before this stuff really to the point
where it should be picked. Now that word deem is a word
that is in the English language can also be interpreted as a
word that means to judge something or to determine it. Now the reason why I took that
word and used that example was because that man went over there
and he judged that crop, whether it was ready or not to be harvested. He deemed it. He asked him to
deem it, what is your opinion of it? Now, when it comes to
God's people, And the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in God's decreed, ordained, predestined
purposes, he has deemed a people. Alright, now what I mean by that,
he has judged a people worthy of His love, mercy, and so great
salvation. Only God has deemed a people
to have their souls to be prepared for eternity. Only God can do
that. He don't ask nobody else to deem
His people. He hasn't asked the angelic host
of heaven to deem them. He has deemed them and judged
them of whom he will put his love upon in time. Now the reason why I said this
and started off with the word deem is because unless you have
been deemed by God, brother Buddy, you cannot be redeemed. Do you see where I'm going with
this? And the Bible says that there is a group of people in
this world from every tongue, kindred, and nation throughout
the generations of time that shall be redeemed. Okay. They had to first be deemed
worthy and judged as His people to redeem. Now, we were deemed
by God that we have fell into a depraved state through the
fall of the federal head of mankind, Adam and Eve, in their depraved
disobedience, we have all inherited that trait. And we are sinners
by nature, born that way from our mother's womb, and we are
all doomed in the realm of as far as being worthy of any kind
of God's love and mercy because of depravity. But to those now
that God has deemed to be his, they shall be redeemed. That means that they're going
to be brought back into that loving covenant with God as his
people in time and brought out of the dregs and of the condemnation
of depravity and made born again creatures in Christ Jesus and
walk in this time world as a witness of the grace, the love, the mercy
of Jesus Christ. Now, I'm going to read to you
a number of scriptures. And so, if you have a Bible you
want to follow me, you're certainly welcome to, but I want to be
flipping through a few of them to get across the point that
is mentioned in the Scriptures about the redeeming work of God
towards the people He has deemed as His elect, appointed, chosen,
called, divine heirs of grace before the foundation of the
world, the Bible says. Read Ephesians chapter 1. The
verse, I think, about 6 or 7, where it talks about that God
chosen us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world,
that we're going to walk in holiness and righteousness, and that it's
all according to His purpose of grace that He's done that.
Not of any merits of ours, not of any will of ours, not of any
choice of ours. For God's people shall be willing
in the day of His power, not our power. Now I'm going to read
to you first of all in Psalm 31. Psalm 31, verse 5, the Bible
says David penned these words, and he says this, unto thine
hand I commit my spirit. Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord
of truth. David says, Oh God, I commit
my spirit to Thee, for Thou has redeemed me. Well, God has redeemed
him because he was deemed as God's chosen vessel of grace. And God redeemed him into a status
as a child of God and put his spirit in him that he would be
manifested as a witness of the power of God Almighty. Now going on to another verse,
Psalm 111 in verse 9. I told you now I'm going to be
going through a few of these now. Psalm 111 and verse 9, the
Bible says that He, God, sent redemption unto His people. He has commanded His covenant
forever. Holy and reverent is His name. God has sent redemption. Now that's, redemption is the
end result of being redeemed. But we first started off with
being deemed as God's people, and then we got to be redeemed
from the state of depravity and sin's curse over all mankind
from the original fall, and then redemption will be manifested. Now we go on and we'll find that
in Psalm 130 verse 1, Psalm 130 and verse 1, the Bible
says, Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice and let thine
ears be attentive to my supplications. And the Bible says that it is
the Lord, in verse 7, let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the
Lord there is mercy and with Him is plenteous redemption. Okay? And the Lord is plenteous
redemption and He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. The Israel of God. As we know
it today in the New Covenant and New Testament is the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We that believe on Christ Jesus
today are the Israel of God. Yet there is a people that is
called Israel, but yet the Israel of God in the realm of the spiritual
kingdom of God are those made up of those who have been called
of God to believe on the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, whether
they be Jew or Gentile. It does not matter. Out of every
tongue came to the nation, as I reiterate. God is calling out
a people. And they shall be redeemed. And regarding God our Redeemer,
Proverbs 23, 11. Proverbs 23 and verse 11. The Bible says, for their Redeemer
is mighty. He shall plead their cause with
thee. We have a Redeemer. We have a
Redeemer. It is the Lord God Almighty who
has manifested himself through the person of his son, Jesus
Christ our Lord, his darling son, come born of the Virgin
Mary, and come and lived among the inhabitants of this earth,
and at some age, thirty, began to preach the gospel of the kingdom
of God of which he had come to establish and to manifest. and
preached the gospel of that kingdom. And he chose out of the men in
the region of which he was ministering, twelve. And he called them unto
himself. And when he called them, they
came, didn't they? When he calls his children today,
they come, don't they? Do they have a choice in the
matter? No. The choice has already been made, brother buddy. The
choice was made by God before the foundation of the world.
And when He calls them, His sheep is going to hear His voice, as
you said from John chapter 10. My sheep hear my voice and they
follow me. He does not say, My sheep shall
hear my voice and they will try to follow me. He didn't say that
my sheep will hear my voice and they may follow me. There is
no alternative to when they hear the voice of the Good Shepherd.
They're turbaned because that voice is authoritative and it
is determined to accomplish His good pleasure in making His people
come unto Him in a timely manner. Yes, the Redeemer of God's people
is mighty. He, matter of fact, almighty. Now, I want to take in moving
from that foundational thought of the deemed and then the redeemed,
and then to the Redeemer, the God Almighty, who manifested
Himself through Jesus Christ, through also to the redemption
that we have encountered in Christ Jesus. If you would, turn with
me to Romans chapter 3 and verse 24. New Testament, Romans chapter
3 and verse 24. The Bible says this. Being justified
freely, the apostle Paul writes to the church at Rome. by His
grace, now listen to me, being justified freely. We are justified. That means we which could not
be just before God because of the depravity of our nature and
we being sinful before God and unable to be looked upon by God
with any kind of merit in our natural state, the Bible says
that now being justified, in other words, God who only can
take and make an unjust person justified, we have been justified
freely. Not by anything we've done or
can do or ever will merit, but by freely, by His grace, the
unmerited favor of God. That's what grace means, the
unmerited favor of God. We have been justified freely
by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. The redemption that we have experienced
as believers in Christ is through and by Jesus Christ. And it is a finished work. Redemption
is not something that is to be done. It's done already. It's
finished. What's finished? Redemption is
finished. I paid the price. I shed the
blood. I have been scourged. I've wore
the crown of thorns. I've been whipped. I've been
spit upon. I've been nailed through the
palms of my hands. I've been nailed through the
ankles of my feet. I'm hanging here a naked man. God's almighty in the flesh. And I have finished redemption
for all. of God's people throughout the
ages of time." And verse 25, "...whom God has set forth to
be a propitiation." Now that sounds like a very big word,
and you have to, unless you have used it or heard it used in some
sort of literature or writing or something, you probably have
to look it up. Propitiation means that It means
basically that he has become the mediator and perpetuation
are synonymous. He has become the one who has
satisfied all of the demands that God had required Being our
propitiation means that Jesus Christ has justified us, redeemed
us, and has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
passed through the forbearance of God. God forbear to have his
Son crucified on the cross of Calvary. And God forbear it. In other words, God took and
He squinted and He closed His eyes in that time that His Son
was there as a suffering Savior, carrying the sins of all of God's
elect church through the ages of time. You notice I said elect
church? He did not carry the sins of
the whole world upon his body upon that tree. He carried the
sins of God's elect, ordained, appointed heirs of grace. according to the holy scriptures
of God. I shall redeem my people, he
said. If God's blood that was shed
on the cross through the God-man, Jesus Christ, is a redeeming
entity that can wipe away the sins of all of mankind throughout
the ages of time, there is no need to believe on Christ. You have an automatic salvation
and eternal life is automatically yours. And there are some folks
that believe that. You've probably heard, maybe,
of the no-heller Baptists. Up in West Virginia and up in
some of the mountain areas, there are still churches today that
are no-heller Baptists. They take the pleasure and they
will actually call themselves no-hellers. I don't know whether
you know this or not, but Ralph Stanley, who was probably one
of my favorite bluegrass monarchs of history, can sing some of
the best bluegrass I ever heard sang. But he doesn't know hell
or baptist. That don't make him any... I
don't like him any less. He can believe what he wants
to believe. But he becomes some up in there in the mountain sections
of the Appalachians where they don't believe in hell. They believe
that Jesus Christ came and he purchased redemption and the
world's going to be saved. Now here's where they believe
and here's the difference. It depends on how you act in
this world's time while you're a mortal living being as to how
you're going to be blessed in this time world and how you're
going to have happiness and peace and prosperity and so forth.
But as far as eternity goes, oh, everybody's going to heaven.
Because the blood of Christ cleanses everybody. What the Bible don't
say that! You see, unless you take the
Bible and it's all this context and read it, you can't understand
the totality of it. And them folks up yonder, back
in probably about the mid-1800s, when they really got founded
up there and started this no-hell teaching, Somebody got up and
quoted the scripture out of context and said, see there, that means
that Christ died for all men. If that's the case, then ain't
nobody going to know hell, and that hell is only for the devil
and the angels. But let me tell you something,
friend. You can believe that all you want to, but if you ain't
trusted in Christ and Christ ain't called you into a life
of hope and love and mercy in Jesus Christ, you will bust hell
wide open. I'm talking about the brimstone
lake of fire. Now you're going to bust it wide
open. Paul said in verse 26 of the
same chapter, which is I'm in chapter 4, excuse me, chapter
3 of the verse of Romans, it says this in verse 26, to declare, Paul says, I want
to declare something here to you. I want you to listen up. To declare, I say, at this time,
His righteousness. Now Paul, Paul had said in Corinthians,
he said this writing to the Church of Corinth, of which I use often
because it applies to me and I believe every preacher that's
been called of God. Woe unto me if I preach not the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Woe unto me if I preach not the
gospel of Jesus Christ. For only by the preaching of
the cross of Christ and Him crucified is there any redemption and hope
for lost mankind, dead in trespasses and sins through the depraved
nature of our natural birth. Paul said in verse 27 of chapter
3 of Romans, where is boasting then? Where is boasting? In other words, who can brag? Who can boast about being a believer? Who can boast about being here
today and having a desire to come here and hear about the
Word of God, to sing the songs of the Old Book? and to worship
the Lord with song and with the preaching of the Word of God.
The Bible says that, where is boasting then? And what Paul
said next, it is excluded. In other words, It is removed. There is no boasting. There cannot
be no boasting. There will not be no boasting
because God alone shall get the glory for seeking and saving
sinners. No man can take any credit for
anything done that God has already determined. Oh, he says in Isaiah
46, he says, That which I have purposed I shall also do it.
Oh, to the redemption of his people. that which he's purposed,
he's going to do it. And he's going to take men, if
he desires, and cause them to preach the gospel, that life
and immortality may be brought to light, that they may have
a further understanding of the truth of the matter, but the
gospel don't save sinners. Listen to me. You've maybe heard
preachers get up and preach and say, it's the gospel, it's the
word of God that saves sinners and makes men's hearts changed
and transforms minds. I beg to differ from you. It's
not the gospel or the word. As it is written, it is Jesus
Christ by the Spirit that changes hearts and minds and souls of
individuals. And the gospel word of Jesus
Christ written in the book here is to bring life and immortality
to light. That's what it says. It brings
life and immortality to life. That's the purpose of preaching,
is that those who hear it are blessed to see the life of Christ
being brought about within themselves by His Spirit. That immortality
is given over unto them by the work of God's Spirit. And now
we have that blessed hope of Jesus Christ. Oh, what a foretaste
of glory divine! Galatians chapter 3 and verse
13 Galatians chapter 3 and verse
13 Paul writes to the church at
Galata and he says this In verse 12, I can't not skip
over this verse because this is one of my favorites in this
context. In verse 12, before I go to 13,
it says this, listen to this, and the law is not of Now, people
say, well, yes, it's one thing to believe in Christ, and we
know that that's a necessary thing, because he's the one that
has paid for our sins, but you have to keep the law. And of
course, we know that there are some Baptists who preach that
there are conditions we must keep in order to be blessed in
this life, and that it is all about legalism, keeping the law. Now the Bible tells me right
here, Paul says it very clear, listen, and the law is not of
faith. Now listen to me closely. Paul
also said in another scripture, he says, for whatsoever is not
of faith is sin. Whatsoever is not of faith is
sin. In other words, whatever you
do that's not of faith, as far as in the realm of the spirituality
of your walk in this world, that is not of faith, and that being
the faith of God, it's going to end up being sin. Because
it's going to be something you have come up with. It's something
you're doing to try to do by duty or obligation. And it's
going to end up being sin. Because it's self-works. It is self-righteousness. And
the Bible says that man's righteousness are as filthy rags, Isaiah said. But the Bible says, and look
at verse 13 now. Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law. Jesus Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law. Now I want to ask you a question. How did he do that? If the law
and the commandments and the statutes of God were given to
the children of Israel in the Old Testament and the Old Covenant,
and now in the New Testament and New Covenant, Paul says that
Christ has now, it says, redeemed us from the curse of the law,
What does that mean? How did he do that? I'll tell
you how he did it. The Bible says in Ephesians that he took
the handwriting of the ordinances of the law and the commandments
that were written and he took them on his body on the cross
of Calvary and with our sins he bore them and he took and
abolished the law's demands on his body on the cross of Calvary
In our behalf, we're not under the law of God as the children
of Israel. We're under the new covenant.
He has taken the laws of God and written them within the hearts
and minds of his people today. We don't have to be told by some
book or some writings of old that we're sinful or not. We
know if we are by the Spirit of God that works in us, causing
us to know when we fail to do that which is right. Because
the law is written upon the hearts and minds of God's people. The
Bible says Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree, and he hung upon that tree, for
you and for me that believe upon his name. He didn't hang upon
that tree for everybody in the world of mankind throughout all
the generations of time. He hung on that tree for those
that would believe by free and sovereign grace, called into
salvation's experience by God's almighty Spirit alone, and no
assistance from anything, not even the Word of God. You say,
well you mean to tell me a person can be a Christian and never
hear the word of God? I'm telling you this. I am persuaded
that where God has no people, that there's going to be a messenger. You know how I know that? Because
the Bible historically proves it. Has there been any place,
listen to me, in the Old Testament, Old Covenant, where God had chosen
the children of Israel as his chosen people, that he didn't
send a prophet to tell them what he wanted them to know, when
he wanted them to know it, brother Bud? He always had a prophet,
but let me tell you what Jesus brought about. The Bible says
that Jesus said that in the gospel of John, he says that with John
the Baptist to come and when he came, that was the end of
the law and the prophets. There's no prophets today. And
a prophet is one called to God to deliver a message that is
to be something to occur in the future. Okay? God has not sent anybody here
to tell his church about something that's going to happen in the
future that is not already written down in the book. And we have
the book right here. This is the book of today, yesterday,
and the future. You read 1 Thessalonians 4. For the Lord himself, Paul says,
shall descend from the heavens with a shout, and with the voice
of an archangel, and the truth of God, and the dead in Christ
shall be raised from the grave. You want to know about the future?
There it is. You want to know what's going
to happen? Yes, they're going to be raised in the grave, and
we, if we have to be alive at that time when Christ comes back,
we're going to be also raised up. We're going to be transformed
from these mortal bodies into a new body, like into His glorified
body. And we're going to go up and
meet them in the clouds in glory, and so ever be with them forever. Praise be unto God Almighty. regarding the redemption. The
redemption of God. Colossians chapter 1. Colossians is that little epistle
that's right after Philippians. Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1 and verse
14. Listen to what Paul said as he
wrote to the church at Colossae. And he says this, in whom we have redemption through
his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. We have redemption through
his blood, and that blood causes us to have forgiveness of sins. Which sins? All sins! Past sins? Present sins? Amen! Future sins? Amen! If it's not past, present, future,
it can't be all! If we're just merely saved today,
brought into an experience of God's grace in Jesus Christ,
and redeemed by His precious blood, and that it covers our
past and just present sins, what do we do about sins that we do
in this place from this point forward? Oh, well, some will
say, and I'm telling you there's many that preach this. Brother
Buddy, you know some of them that do, that preach that if
you sin after you have become a professor in Jesus Christ and
you don't repent of it, hell is going to be your home. Well, let me tell you something.
We sin every day. We do things every day that's
not of faith. We fall short every day of being perfect people.
That's why Jesus has had a salvation that is total in its work of
redemption. in every aspect. That's why we
rejoice in the Lord and can sing the songs of praise. Let me tell
you something, if I thought that salvation was merely an experience
to where my past and present sins were forgiven, and I had
to deal with my own sins from this point on, and be careful
that I have to repent for every single thing I do that is not
of faith, I would be scared to death. I might get run into by
a car going home. And before I had a chance to
ask God to forgive me of some sin maybe that I wasn't aware
of. And hell would be my home. That's what some of them actually
believe. They live in a life of fear. They don't live in a
life of peace. There's no peace there. There's
only peace when you see a Savior that has redeemed you from all
your sins and cleanses you from all unrighteousness. And then Titus, Titus chapter
2. Titus, that little book there
just before Hebrews. Titus chapter 2, we find that
in verse 14, Paul writes this small letter,
which is only three chapters. He says in verse 14, listen to
this, talking about Jesus, "...who
gave himself for us, Now, I want you to keep in mind, who is he
talking to, number one? Who is Paul writing to? He's
writing, number one, to Titus, a brother in Christ. And he says,
Jesus who gave himself for us. Okay? That us is precisely to
those who are believers. Now he could have very easily
said, for who gave himself for the world? Or for all mankind? Or for all men? But he said that
he gave himself for us that he might, listen to this, redeem. There's that word. We have been deemed as God's
people and now we have been redeemed. We have been brought back into
that blessed state of acceptance. of God through Jesus Christ by
his red, red rich royal blood shed on the cross of Calvary.
He says that he might redeem us from all iniquity. How much did he say? Some? A little bit? Most of it? All! That's the totality of it. There's no iniquity that can
keep you from heaven. There's no iniquity that can
keep you from a mansion built for you in glory. There's no
sin and nothing that can ever occur that can keep you from
being that which is chosen of God in Christ Jesus. But the
Bible says that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify
unto Himself a what? Peculiar people zealous of good
works. There is a difference about people
who have come to an understanding of Jesus Christ as one Savior,
Lord, and Master. They are peculiar people. Every
one of you here today that have been brought here by God's divine
Spirit, that have a hope in Jesus Christ, you are a peculiar person. If you're here today and you
don't have a hope in Christ, He has not been the immaculate
and the redeeming lover of your soul to the point to where you've
had a life-changing experience in Him by His Spirit. Then you're
not peculiar. You fit in with the the forgiveness of God's grace
and the love of Jesus Christ and redeemed by His precious
blood, you are peculiar. And you are not the same any
longer. You are here, I believe, in this
church meeting this morning, as small as it is, because you
are peculiar. zealous of good works. They want
to do the good thing, the right thing, the righteous thing. That's
what God's people have their evidence as to who they are.
Number one, they love the brethren. They love the sisters. They love
each other. The Bible says that by your love
shall they know that you are my disciples, Jesus said. And
a man who says that he doesn't love his brother, he ain't no
Christian. After anything, for the love of Christ is what compels
us to live the life that we can love each other and overlook
each other's faults and to forgive one another. Let me tell you
one thing right now. And I hope, I hope that you can
hear what I'm saying. I want to conclude shortly. That
if you are a professing believer in Jesus Christ and have a hope
in His precious redeeming blood, and the sacrifice that he has
provided on the cross of Calvary, and you have not forgiven a person
for something that has offended you in your lifetime, you have
a great problem. I don't know who you may be.
There may not be one in here today with such issue, but I
can tell you, if I can go to a place and preach where there's
probably at least 50 people, I'll guarantee you that I'll
find a couple in there that's got a problem. That if somebody
has offended you, I don't care how, by words, verbally, money,
extortion, any way, and you cannot forgive them, you have a problem
on your hands. Jesus said that if one has offended
you, And you forgive them not. Your Heavenly Father shall not
forgive you. And what that is, is that's evidence
that you have not really come to know the saving love and grace
and God of Jesus Christ. The grace of God. But the greatest peace that can
ever be found is when you've been harboring some kind of bitterness
towards somebody. I don't care if it's a family
member. I had a brother that because
he had once professed to be a Christian and yet in time I knew the way he lived. He lived
in a promiscuous and immoral lifestyle and so forth. And I questioned him about it
a number of times. He didn't want to hear it. My
mother, who was a born again Christian, who God called away
here in May over in Davenport. I was sad because I missed her
presence, but I was glad that she had finished the course.
She was ready. She was weary. She was tired
of body. She got tired of that old two-wheeled
scooter that she needed to get around on. And she was tired
of getting up in the morning and trying to get herself dressed
and put on her little anklet socks and her shoes at 94. Though she had help in her little
assistant that it was a relief for me because
I knew she was in the blessed bosom in the arms of my wonderful
Savior who sought her out and saved her by His grace years
ago. And I got a brother that has
not so experienced such a thing as that. And I challenged him
on the way. He was living with a woman he
wasn't married to and he got upset with me. And he neglected
to see me and come around me and even correspond with me in
any way for over 14 years. And my mother also confronted
him that he wasn't living the way that he should be living. lived within from here to Brother
Gus's house from my mother and never went to see her for 14
years, Brother Gus, nor sent her a Mother's Day card or anything
else in any kind of anniversary or anything. That's how hard-hearted men can
be in a natural state. He's still that way. Though we
do communicate now, because of the way some of this has brought
things together. And he still knows where I stand.
And I still know where he stands, though he married the woman he
lived with for a number of years, and so forth, and he's going
about his life, and I'm going about mine. But I'll tell you
what, when you've got an aunt against someone, especially in
your family, And you're having a hard time forgiving them for
something they did to you. I pray by the power of God Almighty
that Jesus Christ will cause you to forgive them. Because
unless you forgive him, you will be ate up with the acid of just
bitterness. It will eat at you daily, yearly. You won't think it will, but
in your mind, emotionally, it's going to always be there to haunt
you. But when you come to Christ and say, Lord, I can't deal with
this. I'm bitter about what they did to me and what she said to
me or he did to me. I was bitter about the way my
brother treated me and my mother. But you know something? revealed
to me, it's okay. What did he say about himself?
He said, the world hates me, they're going to also hate you
for my sake. We cannot expect the world to
love us and those outside the church and outside of Christ,
they're not going to love us because we're peculiar people,
we're marching to a different ground. We're heading to a different
place. We're in the Kingdom of God.
We're heading toward that eternal city, that celestial place where
Christ has prepared a place for us. He said, if it were not so,
I would have told you. And so we got the whirlwings
out there, even though they're of our own blood and kindred,
like my own brother is, born of the same loins of my father
and of the womb of my mother, and yet we have nothing in common
in regard to his spiritual things. He's a whirlwing. I'm a child
of grace because God has caused me to believe upon the person
of his darling son, Jesus Christ. And I'm peculiar to him. And
he'll never understand how peculiar I really am until he comes into
that experience of grace himself. And that he comes and really
understands what it is to be forgiven and redeemed. Redeemed. And then once one is redeemed,
then they're never the same again. I want to conclude probably with
one more verse. Okay. Hebrews 9-12. Hebrews 9-12, I'm going to close
with this verse. And before I get to 9-12, I'm
going to read 11 because it's all in the same context. Hebrews
chapter 9 verse 11, but Christ being come and high priest of
good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building. In other words, Jesus Christ
is a high priest seated at the right hand of God the Father.
He is our great high priest. There is no more priest in the
ministry of the church today. The Catholics have got it wrong.
They've had it wrong. They've introduced Judaism into
Christianity, and that's all it is, is just a combination
of the two, which ain't right. We got one priest today, and
it's Jesus. Jesus is our high priest. And
then in verse 12, neither by the blood of goats or calves
that the priests of the Old Testament had to provide for the children
of Israel, but by His own blood. By Jesus' own blood, he entered
in once into the holy place, that's the Holy of Holies, of
the tabernacle ministry that the Levites used to have to carry
on throughout all their journey in the wilderness for forty-some
years. There was a tabernacle there, and in that tabernacle
was a place called the Holy of Holies, and it was segregated
from the outside part of the tabernacle by a curtain. And
that curtain was ripped from head to toe when Christ was on
the cross and he gave up the ghost. The Bible says that curtain
was ripped from top to bottom. Meaning that now it's no longer
by the priesthood of the Levitical tribe. It's by the high priestly
duty of Christ Jesus we come to God Almighty. And the Bible
says that it's by his own blood he entered in once into a holy
place having obtained eternal life. redemption for us. Us. Again, us. Not the world,
but for us which believe, the called, chosen, ordained, the
predestined, those that are determined of God beforehand, those that
were deemed worthy of His love, whom He chose in Christ Jesus,
but for the foundation of the world, that will come into an
experience of grace, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as their
only hope and help in the time of need. For Jesus alone said,
I have come to seek and to save sinners. And he did. Has he failed? the last one God has ordained
for him to redeem back into that state of relationship with the
Almighty that God had determined before the world was even begun. May God bless the reading of
his word today. May God have taken this word
redeem and and taken and just revealed to
you the depth of it and what redemption really means. It means that God has justified
us through that redemptive work of Christ and everything has
been wiped clean. The slate is clean, dear friend. If we had this here as a white
chalkboard, this is a white chalkboard. Here is my name. written in such small letters,
you cannot hardly read it without a magnifying glass. There's just
a portion of the sins that I have committed all down through the
years of my life, 68 years, all written out here as God has kept
a ledger. But let me tell you something,
that slate that God had known about all that I have done and
will do, They shall be removed as white
as snow. Even though they were like crimson,
they shall be like white as snow. Removed! Completely erased! Eradicated! Never to be remembered
again.