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. Well, I certainly greet
all of you in the name of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ
this morning. And it is my earnest prayer that
God will bless the reading of this word and give illumination and revelation
to our minds as we consider it this morning and consider the
subject matter at hand. I want to start by talking about
the atonement that God had instructed Israel to provide on an annual
basis for the sins of the people of Israel. For the twelve tribes
of Israel, God's chosen people had a tribe called the Levites. The Levitical tribe was that
which was given over for the administration of the tabernacle. And what I mean by that is that
they took care of the tabernacle services and of its necessities. And the tabernacle was a mobile unit of a temple of sort with
a curtain wall around it that was set up as they stopped and
camped, especially as recorded in the 40-year journey throughout
the wilderness of which the Israelites were called to endure. Now, the Levitical tribes were
also those that were given over to the priestly duties of the
tabernacle as well. And the priestly duties were
to take, upon an annual occasion, and to slay bullocks, lambs,
and animals, and to take their blood and to take and lay the
carcasses upon the altars of God and to take and pour the blood
over the carcasses and burn them as an offering unto God for the
sins of the people. Now I'm trying to give you the
basis of what the atonement work of God in the Old Covenant is
consisting of, because it is the basis of what we find in
the New Testament, the New Covenant, that is to the glory and praise
of our beloved Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, and to his people. But you see, the Bible tells
us in the book of Hebrews, when you read that book and its entire
chapters, that it is a letter to the Hebrew believers, the
Israelites that have come into an understanding of Christ, and
have believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and are now Christians. And it is written to those Hebrew
or Israeli believers in Christ as to the types and shadows of
those things past that have now come to manifestation or been
now brought to be made clear and revealed to the believer
in Christ in the New Testament and under the New Covenant. Okay,
the Bible says that under the Old Testament, under the ordinances
of the old carnal ordinances of the priesthood of the Levitical
tribe, never were sins taken away. The sins of the people
of God that was atoned for through the carnal priesthood of the
Levitical tribe of Israel was only a temporary covering for
their sins that had to be done annually and with that atonement
of the blood and the carcasses of animals where sin was never
eradicated or forgotten about but was remembered year by year. But the Bible says in Hebrews
that Jesus Christ had come into this world manifesting himself
as the Lamb of God, which in the purpose and sovereign, almighty,
decreed, determined purpose of God was slain before the foundation
of the world in God's predestined purpose. that He, Christ, would
be the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of God's people. And not only the 12 tribes of
Israel under the Old Testament and the Old Covenant, but to
all of those that make up the Israel of God in this day, a
new dispensation under the New Testament and New Covenant made
up of every tongue, kindred, and nation of people on earth. What I'm saying to you is that
God has completed His Old Testament promises in and through the children
of Israel and the Levitical priesthood. He has completed that and set
that forth as a type and shadow of that which was to come in
the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. And that's why we have
the Old Testament and the New Testament. declaration of promises. The old declaration of promises
to the children of Israel were that if you take and do what
I've instructed you to do in taking and bringing sacrifices
to the Levitical priest to be offered up for the sins of the
people of the 12 tribes, this will be used as an atonement
and a covering for sin. But as I said, on a temporary
basis, year by year, it had to be done. But in the New Testament,
now this New Testament, new promises. The Bible says, by a new and
living way, God has brought in His Son, Jesus Christ, That through
His atonement on the cross of Calvary, that once and for all,
once and for all of God's children, no matter where they may be and
who they are, regarding nationality, tongue, kindred, and nation,
chosen in Christ by God the Father and given to Jesus to seek and
to save. They shall have their sins not
only atoned for, but eradicated, which means to be removed and
erased. The Bible says that in the New
Testament that God shall remove our sins as far as the east is
from the west. How far is that? You can't find
the end of it. God shall take our sins and cast
them behind him and never to be remembered again. That is
a blessed and wonderful promise. Now I'm talking about sin of
past present and future, to God's elect children, chosen in Christ
Jesus, that have been atoned for by his sacrificial, vicarious
giving of himself on the cross of Calvary, being nailed there
by the cruel and wicked hands of men, according to the determinate
counsel of God, according to Acts chapter 2, Jesus Christ
paid for all of God's people's sins once and for all. And so therefore, we can rejoice
today in that gospel good news. That's what the gospel is. You
look up the word gospel in its original language in the Greek,
and it is determined as good news and the right message, the
true message. The gospel of Jesus Christ is
the right message and good news. If we have to, listen to me,
if we have to do something to appease God by works of our own
righteousness and by our duty and our obligation to God in
order to stay in a good standing with God in this time world as
we live, if we have to do something, then Christ came in vain, and
he died in vain. But his sacrifice on the cross
was not in vain, but it was to accomplish something, and that
something was that it was to redeem a people unto God once
and for all. Now let me read to you some scriptures,
and I'm going to jump around because I'm not going to use
a context. I guess I could probably start
in Hebrews and read to you as a springboard of the priesthood of Christ and
then we'll look at the atonement. Alright, let me begin reading
in Hebrews chapter 7. Okay, Hebrews chapter 7, if you've
got your Bibles and want to follow me, please feel free to do so.
Hebrews chapter 7, verse 19. For the law made nothing perfect.
Now the law of God has made nothing perfect. The Bible says that
Paul writes to the believers in Galatia, in the Galatian church,
he writes, he says, for by the law shall no flesh or no man
be justified. For by the law is the revelation
of the sinfulness of man. For by the law comes the knowledge
of sin. For the law was given to reveal
man's sinfulness. The law was never given to make
a man righteous. For the law could never do that,
because man could never keep it to the point that where it
would appease God Almighty until its perfection. You look at the
Ten Commandments, for instance. We call them the Ten Moral Laws
of God given to men. You look at the Ten Commandments
and see if you have kept every one of them in your life. If
you haven't, then you've fallen short of the glory of God and
of the perfection of God, and you are a sinner. The Bible says
all have sinned, not a few. All have sinned and fallen short
of the glory and the perfection of God. There's none righteous,
no not one. They've all gone astray the Bible
says in Romans chapter 3. The Bible says, and as I repeated,
that for the law made nothing perfect. But the law in itself
is perfect and still is today. It is perfect in what it's determined
to do and what it's to accomplish. And that too is to accomplish
the revelation of man's sinfulness before a holy and a righteous
God. And the Bible says, the Apostle
Paul writes, and he says also in Galatians, he says, For the
law is our schoolmaster, which is interpreted as our teacher. And so faith came, and then no
longer is the law or schoolmaster needed. When faith comes unto
one and they see by face I, Christ, as their advocate and their substitute
in their behalf for their sinfulness, then therefore the law, it has
no more finger pointed at us saying unto us, Cursed are ye
that are sinful. Because Christ's blood, it cleanses
us from all unrighteousness. In verse 19 of chapter 7 of Hebrews,
for the law made nothing perfect, listen, but the bringing in of
a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God, inasmuch
as not without an oath he was made priest, talking about Christ.
For those priests, talking about those of the old covenant, those
were under an oath, but this an oath by him that said unto
him, The Lord swear and will not repent. Thou art a priest
after the order of Melchizedek." In other words, he's talking
about that Jesus Christ is going to come as a priest that is not
under the coronal ordinance of the priesthood of the Levitical
tribe. but is a priest unto himself,
and for a particular person, and he alone is the ultimate,
as the Bible calls him, our high priest. The Bible says that,
it says in verse 22, for by so much was Jesus made a surety
of a better testament. Now I'll stop right there a minute. You know what a surety is? I
think most of you do. When somebody gives you a document
as a piece of written document that says this is a surety, it
is in essence a guarantee. That's what surety means. The
Bible says that Jesus Christ was made a surety or guarantee
of a better testament. And again, I said the testament
merely means promises. And we're under the new promises
of God. And so therefore, we have a guarantee
that God has brought in a new promise to those that are blessed
to believe upon Christ. And the Bible goes on to say
that, and they truly were many priests back under the old Levitical
priesthood, but they were not suffered to continue by reason
of death. In other words, the priests under
the Levitical priesthood of the Old Covenant, Old Testament,
They perished as carnal men. They died to death and there
had to be another priest that was confirmed to take on and
continue on the perpetual work of the tabernacle and the offering
of the sacrifices. But the Bible says, but this
man, verse 24, this man, Jesus, because he continued ever. Oh, I'm glad he continued ever,
beloved brothers and sisters. This man Jesus, who continues
forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. His priesthood doesn't
change, has not changed, and will not change. Now the carnal
priesthood changed. It changed from man to man, from
priest to priest, as they were consecrated, and then as they
went through their life, doing their priestly duties, and then
they died to death, and another took its place. But this man,
Jesus, who liveth forever hath an unchangeable priesthood, in
verse 25, wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him. And Jesus Christ said in chapter
14 of John's Gospel, verse 6, Jesus said, I am. the way, the
truth, and the life, that no man come to the Father but by
me. Therefore, if you come to God
by Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, the Bible says that He
shall save you to the uttermost, to all them that come to Him. in and through Jesus Christ,
seeing that he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Jesus Christ, when he ascended
into glory after his 40 days after his resurrection, was seen
of more than 500 brethren, the Bible says. He was seen of the
brethren in the book of Acts, chapter 2, carried up into the
clouds, up into heaven. And the angels of God stood there
saying to these men of Galilee, Oh, why do you stand there gazing
upward for this same Jesus that you have seen ascend into the
clouds? He is coming back again. Jesus
Christ has ascended into heaven's glory. The Bible says it is seated
at the right hand of God the Father. making intercession for
us continually, perpetually. That word perpetual means self-containing
or without any outside required power or parts added to it. Christ by himself had taken upon
Himself all of the sins of God's people down through the ages
of time. Listen to this verse, 2 Corinthians
5, 21. For God had made Him, Jesus,
who knew no sin, to become sin for us. that we might be made
the righteousness of God in Him. Now brothers and sisters, that
is a beautiful scripture. That Jesus Christ, who knew no
sin, and as the Bible says, Jesus was tempted in every way, yet
without sin. He took upon himself all the
sins of God's elect, chosen, ordained, appointed heirs of
grace down through the ages of time. out of every tongue, kindred,
and nation that God had chosen in Christ to be given to him
in time, that would be his sheepfold. As he said in John chapter 10,
Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me. It didn't say they were going
to try to, or they were going to be given an opportunity to,
but the Bible says that Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice
and they follow me. Others, they will not follow,
for I am the good shepherd and my sheep know my voice. And the Bible says that to them
that stood around about him that rejected his word, he said, you
hear not my voice because you are not of my sheepfold. And
the Bible says that he that be of God, heareth God's word. And he that be not of God, heareth
not the words of God, neither can they know him. The Bible
goes on to say, whereas he is able to save them which come
to him. to the uttermost. It says, for
such a high priest, in verse 26, became us. For such a high
priest became us, he come amongst us, the Bible says. It says,
who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made
higher than the heavens. Jesus Christ was separate from
sinners as far as being in like manner in behavior as the rest
of mankind. Yet he was amongst sinners. He ate and sucked with sinners. He preached to sinners. He loved
sinners. He's come to give himself for
sinners. Yet he himself was not a sinner. He was sinless and
spotless. And as I said before, him being
tempted in every way, yet without sin. And then the Bible says
in verse 27, who needeth not daily as those high priests of
the times before to offer up sacrifice, first for his own
sins and then for the sins of the people. For this did Jesus,
he did once when he offered up himself. Now let me clear up
some smoke if there's any at all around regarding this matter.
Jesus Christ, though he was taken by the wicked and cruel hands
of men, according to the determinative counsel of God Almighty, he was
taken because he willfully gave himself to them to be the sacrifice
that God had sent him to do and provide for his people. That's
why Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, He kneeled down there and He
prayed to the Father. He was overcome with anguish
and with anxiety because He knew what was before Him. He knew
that the cross was the end result of His ministry here on earth. Jesus knew that. He says, Father,
you know, take this cup from me, this cup of suffering that
I've got to partake of in behalf of your people and your elect
children here in this time world. Oh God, but then the Bible says,
but Jesus says, but nevertheless, not my will be done but thine. Not my will but thine. And the
Bible says in one of the Gospels, it says that there was a numeral
amount of angels that came and ministered to Christ at that
particular moment and undergirded him by the strength of the Spirit
of the Almighty. You see, the Son of Man was that
which was crying out in anguish, but the Son of God deity part
of Jesus Christ was ministered to by the angelic host and he
was then given peace about what he had to do. You remember when
Pilate said to him, he said to the people, what shall we do
with this man? I find no fault in him. They said crucify him.
He said what? Crucify him. Why? I don't find
no fault in him. It was God's determined purpose
that Christ be crucified. No man could stop or alter that.
Mother of God, if someone could have stopped that and altered
Christ and gone to the cross, we're still in our sins today.
We're under the old covenant, Old Testament. We better find
us a priest that can kill a bullock, a lamb, and offer up his body
on an altar and pour his blood over his body and burn it in
our behalf annually, or we're in deep trouble. No, that Jesus
Christ came and give himself, he give himself willfully before
that council and before Pilate. And he said to Pilate, he said,
for no man has the power to take my life from me, for I give it
up for you. He gave his life blood for our
behalf. Voluntarily, sacrificially, vicariously. Now, let me get down to the core
of this matter and talk about the blood of Jesus Christ. If
there is a gospel to ever be preached that is exempt from
the blood of Christ, it is not a gospel of good news. If there
is a gospel that is preached that talks about how men can
be good enough to please God and is exempt of the person and
the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, it is not a true gospel. It's not a sound gospel. It is
not a gospel of good news towards those who are under it. But the
Bible says in Matthew chapter 26, this is when Jesus was there
and he was partaking of the Last Supper with the disciples. He
says, for this is my blood of the New Testament. He was talking
about that cup of wine. He says, to you, my beloved twelve
brethren here, the disciples of Christ. It was with them.
He said, this is the blood. He said, this is the blood of
the New Testament. The old has gone away. It's waxed
old and has been removed. This is the blood of the New
Testament in its symbol here in this cup of wine. He says this is the blood of
the New Testament which is shed for many. He didn't say it was
shed for the world. Let me clarify that. Let the Scriptures interpret
Scripture. We have a message going around
that Jesus Christ died on the cross, paid for the sins of all
of mankind. Now listen to me. If that be
the truth, then there is no essence of believing on Him. If He has
paid for the sins of all mankind, all mankind have got their sins
removed by this God, and there's no sense in having to believe
on Him, or to live consecrated to Him, and loving Him as our
Savior, if we believe that He died for all mankind, then we're
automatically going to Heaven, that's it. But the Bible says,
Jesus said, this is shed, the blood which I'm telling you about
here in type, in this cup, is the symbol of the blood that
I'm going to shed for many. Now, the many is not the totality
of mankind. But the Bible says, for the remission
of sins. Now, in Acts 20.28, the Bible
says that it is the church of God which he hath purchased with
his own blood. And let me talk about the church
of Jesus Christ. There is the church locally and
the church collectively, which is worldwide. Nevertheless, whether
it's locally or worldwide, the Church of Christ is that which
is a called-out local assembly of people who have professed
to believe on Jesus Christ as their Savior and that their hope
is laid totally within His sacrificial work for their sins to be forgiven
and to inherit life eternal. And then collectively, it is
those assemblies that are here and yonder, around the world,
that are made up of those same type of people, caused to believe
on Christ. I say caused, for blessed is
the man whom God has chosen and caused us to approach Him to
Thee, the Bible says. And to all that believe on Christ,
make up the church collectively and worldwide. It does not have
a particular name, other than it is the Church of Jesus Christ
Worldwide. In this particular gathering,
it is the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church of Wyomalda, Florida,
to where, listen now, to where the believers in Christ Jesus
come together in attempt to worship Him in spirit and in truth. You take the believers Individually,
mortal men, women, boys and girls out of here and taking out yonder
and emptying this house out, you don't have a church here.
All you've got is a meeting house. The meeting house only becomes
a church when the believers in Christ enter into it and they
begin to enter into worship, whether it's singing, preaching,
praying, prophesying, whether it's testifying, whatever it
be. The Bible says that in Hebrews
9 verse 14, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God? That's
a question that Paul was asking there. How much more now? Are
we to draw nigh unto God and to love Him who has given Himself
for us and has without spot nor wrinkle purged us by His blood? And then in 1 Peter, verse 18
of chapter 1, it says this, For as much as ye know that ye were
not redeemed with corruptible things, such as the carcasses
of bulls and goats and lambs and things of the old covenant,
but the Bible says that that such as were of the times past
from your vain conversation or your vain activity. That word
conversation is interpreted in the Greek as a lifestyle. It
does not mean necessarily verbal communication, but in many instances
conversation is translated as lifestyle or by the style of
your life. It says it is not by those ways
and means of things that were past, but is now. by the precious blood of Christ,
verse 19 of 1 Peter chapter 1, as a lamb without blemish and
without spot. We have been redeemed by the
precious blood of Christ that was shed without spot and without
blemish. Christ's blood was perfect blood. You listen to me. He was born
of a virgin Mary conceived of the Holy Ghost of God. Yea, though
he had a human body, God had purposed her to be the vessel
of which he would implant his Holy Spirit to cause that Holy
Seed to come forth and be the baby Jesus Christ who grew to
be the God-man Jesus. This man, Jesus Christ, who ministered
to the age of possibly about 32 to 33 years old, possibly. He preached and taught for three
or four years from his home area of Nazareth and began to preach
and teach the gospel of which God had given him and had sent
him to preach. For the Bible says in Matthew
chapter 1 that the angels of God told Joseph even before he
was born because Joseph was embarrassed that Mary was pregnant and he
knew that he had nothing to do with her physically. He did not
know her, the Bible says. Brother Gus, that means he did
not have any intimate relationship with that Virgin Mary, and here
she comes up pregnant. And he was embarrassed about
this and didn't know how to react to the situation. And the angels
of God said, Behold, Joseph, for that which is in the womb
of Thy beloved Mary is the God-man, and that His name
is to be called Jesus, for He shall save His people from their
sins. He was comforted with that. I
tell you, when an angel comes down and speaks to you, brother,
and he'll get your attention, you ain't going to say, oh, well,
I don't know whether this is true or not. You're going to
be made to believe this is a true thing. And he went away and he
took that precious woman, and he took her, and they went away
as a married couple. And they went to that lowly place,
that inn, where there was no room for anybody else. But they
went out there to that lowly stable, that place where there
was a manger, where the livestock fed out of, brother. There was
that baby Jesus. He laid there in a beetroth,
brother. And that's where Jesus laid at
and was begotten into this time realm. The Bible goes on to say,
let me continue on. It says in 1 John 1 verse 7,
But if we walk in the light as he is the light, Jesus is the
light, We have fellowship one with another.
And the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all
sins. If we walk in the light. Are
you walking in the light? What does the gospel message
that Jesus Christ came to seek and save sinners and give His
lifeblood in their behalf do for you? Does that cause you
to feel a rejoicing in heart that it is for you personally? I hope so. The Bible goes on
to say in Revelation 1.5, And from Jesus Christ who is the
faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the
prince of the kings of the earth and to him that loved us and
washed us from our sins in his own blood. filled with blood drawn from
Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunged beneath that blood lose
all their guilty stains. Not some of them, but all of
them. And that's what is so blessed
and wonderful about the gospel of Jesus Christ is that it is
not a message that man has to do something and continue to
do something to appease God and to continually be in good standards
with God. The message, truth is the matter,
is that Christ had came once and for all, gave Himself and
redeemed a people. That means He purchased them
back unto Himself and never to be eradicated or altered from
that. What Christ's blood paid for
is going to be actually, in essence, the redeeming symbol of everything
that's required of God. When Christ looks upon us as
individuals, as believers in His Son Jesus, and He looks upon
us as mortal beings that are sinful by nature, He sees us,
listen, filtered through the blood of His Son. And Jesus is
the High Priest, the Bible says, seated at the right hand of God
the Father, making intercession for us, which I read to you from
Hebrews. He is there right now. making
intercession for all of God's elect people. There ain't nothing
we can do that Jesus Christ will not stand up in our behalf and
say, Father, they are mine. They are mine. My blood has purchased
them. My blood has bought them. My
blood has redeemed them. My blood has washed them and
cleansed them from all unrighteousness. Oh, listen. Yes. The Bible says, finally, it says
in Revelation 7 verse 14 in regarding the makeup of those in heavenly
glory, it says, these are they which came out of the great tribulation
down here in this world below. This is a great tribulation,
you know that. that living in this mortal realm is a tribulation
in itself, that we have discouragements, disappointments, heartaches,
hurt feelings, broken emotions, loss of loved ones. We become
a spouse to one and then all of a sudden in times to come
they're taken from us. All for the widow and the widowed
among the society of the Church of Jesus Christ. There's been
sadness and grief there, has there not? But it says that to
those that have come through the great tribulation of this
time mortal realm here below, that have walked pilgrimage as
sojourners and strangers in this time world here below, that says,
and have washed their robes and been made white in the blood
of Christ. We shall stand in that day upon
that great trench And the Bible says that we shall
be made incorruptible, that which is corrupt by the inheritance
of Adam's nature. We are by nature corrupt, sinful,
wretched human beings. And these bodies are corrupt
and tainted with that same curse through the blood of that one
that brought upon mankind the sinful nature. He was the federal
head of mankind as far as our natures are under the curse of sin. Christ
came to break the chains loose and set the prisoners free who
were admonished to sin and the dominion thereof. The Bible says
that they that believe on Jesus Christ are no longer under the
bondage of sin. In other words, they should not
and shall not. I believe that as a testimony
of this to those who have professed to believe in Christ, they do
not live any longer under the dominion of sin. That does not
mean that we are sinless in our mortal walk. It means that we
do not live in a sinful manner as a means of lifestyle as we
once did before. we walk to a different drumbeat. The Bible says, blessed are they
that hear the joyful sound and rejoice therein. The joyful sound
of what? That Jesus Christ came to give
his lifeblood for sinners. And that to every man, woman,
boy and girl that gives themselves to the message of that good news
and is able to hear it by God's sovereign and sovereign grace
that everyone is able to hear the message and it becomes a
joyful sound within their heart, mind and soul. Praise be to God
for God has done a work in your heart and in your mind and in
your soul. But yet that same message can go out. as it has in times past in great
meetings, whether it was Billy Grant speaking, or some other
minister or evangelist preaching to a large group of people, wherever
it was on television, wherever it might be. Yet there is going
to be a percentage, on the most part, the biggest percentage
of the folks under the sound of the gospel of Christ that
cannot really hear nor endorse the truth of the matter. Because
Jesus said, many shall be called, but few shall be chosen. The
gospel call has gone out. We have listened. We have lived,
Brother Scott, in the best of the best of times. You are of
an older generation than me. We have lived in the best of
the best. You can remember out there, no doubt, when there were
mules and horses plowing ground around here. It ain't no more. You can remember
when going out and trying to herd up livestock was a chore
that seemed to be unending. But it's easier today with means
and methods. We have lived in the best of
the best. And we are now under the strain
of economical oppression in this country like never before. Well,
I say never before in the Great Depression it was a terrible
time. But yet, and since we are almost
to that degree in regard to what we have had 25 years ago, we
are suffering. We are tightening up. We are
losing ground here with what we have been used to having.
We are a materialistic people that have been forced into an
individualistic mold that has made us who we are as a nation,
and we are paying the price for it. And God's judgment is being
poured out upon this land now. And we have yet more to suffer,
I believe, and only by the grace of God and the mercy of God shall
the church of Jesus Christ be spared from the devastation of
this. And I'm telling you, folks, when
the signs of the times as we see them today in Jesus Christ's
return, and that great advent that is prophesied in the Scriptures
to yet occur, I believe is on the brink of happening. I believe
that. That just as it says in 1 Thessalonians
4, that the Lord himself shall descend from the heavens with
a shout, and with the voice of an archangel, with the trump
of God. And the dead in Christ shall
be raised from the grave, every one that has been caused to believe
on Christ that's in this graveyard, cemetery. In that day, when the
voice of the Son of God shall be trumpeted forward and called
out from the graves of the dead, they shall be raised up and made
immortal and incorruptible to stand before God as His elect
children and the Church of Jesus Christ Universally. And it's
coming to pass, I believe, soon. You say, well, yes, don't the
Bible say that there have been many a time past that, where
is this coming? Yes, there has been. There have
been many scoffers, many that criticize, where is this prophecy?
We've got folks that are now trying to set dates. As you know,
there was a date set here this past month. by one who set that
same advent to happen in 1994. Matter of fact, I know the preacher. I met him in the early 90s at
a Bible conference. And he thinks he has, chronologically,
mathematically, able to take and come down to the Scriptures
and put a time and a date on the coming of Christ when Jesus
said in his book, he said, for no man No of the day nor the
hour of the coming of the Son of Man. No man knows. And so, anybody that comes up
with these prophecies, let me say to you, don't be so gullible,
deceived to think that these men know a date or a time. Jesus said no man knows it except
the Father. He's going to come as a thief
in the night. Now, if you knew when a thief in the night was
coming to your house, wouldn't you be ready for him? And you
would know the time he was coming? But a thief in the night comes
at a time that you're not thinking about him coming. You're not
expecting him to come. Oh, God help us to be expecting
him to come. May we be those that are living
in a time and an era to where We're looking forward to that
blessed time of that period of our Lord Jesus Christ to come
in all of his glory and to sing from the heavens with a shout,
sending his holy angels to the four winds to gather together
his elect church out of every tongue, kindred, and nation.
Yes, I've tried to set before you of the importance and of
the necessity of the blood of Jesus Christ today and it's divine
purpose and that it has fulfilled all of what God has determined
it to do and that is to redeem a people unto himself and that
can never be altered or changed for when the Bible says that
God has given to Christ a people whose names are written in the
land's book of life before the foundation of the world. What
is there to be said about that? If he wrote their names in the
Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world, that
means before the world had a foundation, I believe, before the sun had
its brilliance, before the orbits of the planets were in their
place, and before creation was complete. God the Father had
written the names of his people in his son's book of life, that
he would come, pay the ultimate price for their sins on their
behalf, to redeem them unto God the Father forever and eternally. Therefore, we have eternal life
in and through and by Jesus Christ and Him alone. To Him be the
glory, the praise, and the honor. without Him. Pray with me, would
you please? Father, our God, in the name
of Your darling Son, Jesus, we thank You, Lord, for the privilege
we've had to meet together, to sing the songs that we pray,
God, were worshipful to Thee. We pray, dear God, that the Word
that was set forth this morning would profit more those that
be here. that those who are here will
have hearing ears to hear and endorse it and believe it and
receive it into their hearts and minds. And we pray dear God
that our Lord Jesus Christ has been seen in a more clear and
more precise and perfect view in the mind's eye by faith this
morning. We pray dear God that you will
bless us in the days ahead. Keep us, O God, looking for that
time when Jesus Christ is going to descend from the heavens with
a shout and with a voice to our danger. Help us, O God, not to
forsake of assembling ourselves together in this time as we see
those days approaching as the Apostle Paul admonishes the Church. Lord, help us to be caring one
for another. Help us to desire fellowship
one with another in love and in kindness. In the name of Jesus,
I pray. Amen. Amen.