Open your Bibles, if you would, to Luke chapter 2. Luke chapter 2, the message is called, Things Concerning Christ. Things Concerning Christ. Luke chapter 22, we'll read three verses from this chapter. The Lord's just finished the Lord's Supper, or the Last Supper with his apostles, and he is getting ready to be given over to the authorities. that they would crucify Him, hang Him upon the cross, where He accomplished our salvation, where He absolutely finished our salvation.

He's the perfect, sinless Lamb of God. And our sins were imputed to Him, and He bore them. He bore them, and the wrath of God fell on Him in our place. place of his people and praise God we are redeemed by the blood of the lamb and clothed in his perfect spotless righteousness it's wonderful I'll tell you that's something to rejoice about that's something for us to rejoice about let's read here Luke chapter 22 verses 35 to 37 And this is the master saying this, and he said unto them, the apostles, when I sent you without a purse, without purse and script and shoes, lackey, lackey, anything. And they said nothing. See, God takes care of his sheep. He gives us what we need. Not always what we want, but he definitely gives us what we need. Oh, it's wonderful.

Then said he unto them, but now He that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his script. And he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. Now here, this is our verse. Here, verse 37. There's a saying at the end of this verse that's going to be the wrap for the message. The things concerning Christ. Look at this. You know the things concerning Christ have an end? Yep. The law and the prophets spoke about Christ. They had an end, don't they? The cross at Calvary, where the Messiah would give his life. Oh, my. And things concerning Christ, at Calvary's cross, all that was spoken about the law and the prophets about him, they were fulfilled. They're saying someone's coming. And the New Testament says someone came. And He's God in the flesh. And He came to save His people from their sins. And we say hallelujah. What a Savior. Look at this. Verse 37, Luke chapter 22.

For I say unto you that that this that is written must be accomplished in me. The Messiah must die. He must make an end of sin for His people. And how's he gonna do that? By being our substitute. By having our sins imputed to him. And him bearing the wrath of God that was due us against those sins. My, dying in our room and place. My.

See, justice has to be satisfied. God's justice can't wink at our sin, can it? No, it must be satisfied. And it's satisfied in the substitute. the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. And we're saved by his blood and righteousness, beloved. And this is just incredible. Look at this, though.

Look what he says, accomplished in me. And he was reckoned among the transgressors. They hung Christ between two thieves. He was reckoned among the transgressors, for the things concerning me have an end. Look at that. The things concerning me have an end. My, well, we'll look at a few things concerning Christ today. A few things concerning Christ. And after telling us how the scripture must be fulfilled by his sin-atoning sacrifice, when he says, and he was reckoned among the transgressors, he's saying, that's speaking of me. Right?

He was wounded for our transgressions. He was buried for my iniquities, our iniquities, the sins of his people. And by his stripes, by his sacrifice, by his blood, we're healed. And that's talking spiritual healing, beloved. Be healed from all our sins, the guilt, the penalty, mine. Now, do we still have guilt over our sin? Oh, yeah.

That's why we continuously repent, we continuously come to Christ. But we're already saved because of the sacrifice of this man, the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at this, he says here, the Savior, the Master, God in the flesh, the Word of God incarnate says this, the things concerning me, all of them, everything that was written in the Old Testament about Him, The things concerning him. Remember he told the two on the road to Aramaeus, the law and the prophets, they testify of me. Oh yeah. And look what it says here. All of them, the things written of him in the Old Testament scripture, all things decreed concerning him from eternity have an end. Look at that. What did he come here to do? Matthew 121, He came to save His people from their sins. He says here, those things have an end at Calvary's cross. See, the work of Christ for the redemption of the souls of His people is finished. It's already accomplished. 2,000 years ago, My, everything decreed, purposed, and written concerning him have a specific design, goal, an intent, a conclusion, a termination, a predestinated result, and a finality. And a finality.

See, If we could save ourselves, Christ never would have had to come die for us. But we can't save ourselves. We can't redeem ourselves. We're lawbreakers by choice, we're lawbreakers by nature, and we're lawbreakers by deed. And the law says the soul that sinneth it must die.

So there's our great substitute. Oh my, behold him. Behold the Lord Jesus Christ. Dying upon the cross for us. And in the garden he's dropping great drops. He's sweating great drops of blood. says, nevertheless not my will but thy will be done. What's God's will?

That Christ would save his people from their sins by his death at Calvary's cross. Oh my, what a wonderful Redeemer. What a wonderful Redeemer is Jesus Christ our Lord. And the Lord Jesus Christ hung upon Calvary's cross Behold the sinless One. Behold the spotless Lamb of God. Behold God in the flesh, shed in His blood, fully man and fully God, to redeem us from all our sins. Behold Him with the eye of faith. Oh, it's wonderful bearing our sins in his body on the tree. Behold, the Lamb of God being made a curse for us when he suffered all the fullness of God's wrath and justice as our substitute.

Behold, the love of God manifested, the love of Christ for His bride that He give His life for them. Behold, the love of God for those He gave to Christ in eternity, for sending His own Son to die in our room and place. And behold, the graciousness of the Holy Spirit coming to those who were sons of God, before they even believed. And because they're sons, God sends the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, whereby we now cry, Abba, Father, all praise you, Father. And we say, praise ye, Son, and praise ye, Holy Spirit, for this wondrous salvation that we have in and through the Lord Jesus Christ alone. What blessed words our Lord cried, it is, Finished!

There's the end of the things concerning Christ that were prophesied in the Old Testament about his death. Right? There it is. What's finished? Oh, our salvation. And what does he say? Into thy hands I commend my spirit, Father. Do you know that God the Father forsook God the Son that we would never be forsaken? Christ cried on that cross, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? My, what a savior, what a redeemer as he offers himself up is the perfect sacrifice for all the sins of all the elect of all the ages. I'll tell you.

At that moment when he cried, it is finished, all those things that were decreed and written of him about his death, oh my, they achieved their goal, beloved. They achieved their predestinated result. Yes, they did. They came with a finality. Came to their end. Oh my. Their conclusion and their termination. Listen to this in Daniel 9 26. Listen to this. This was accomplished at the cross. Listen to this. Daniel 9. I'm going to give us some verses here from the Old Testament that talk about Christ's death. Daniel 9, 26.

And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off. It is finished. And he gave up the ghost. So Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, Oh, he's sinless. And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood. And unto the end of the war, desolations are determined. But look at that. Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself.

He died for us, beloved. He died for his people. Then listen to this, Zechariah 12, 9, talking about Christ. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace. Has he not done that with his people? Has he not done that with his born-again, blood-washed people? Oh, yes.

In our supplications, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced. These are the words of Christ. Zechariah 12, 10. and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. And then in Zechariah 13, one, oh, what a scripture. It says this, in that day, there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and uncleanness. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunge beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains. My rejoice with me, beloved. Our Savior has saved us. Our Savior has redeemed us from all our sins. It's glorious.

In Zechariah 13.6, and one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Oh, my. It was my sin that he hung on Calvary's cross for. It was the sin of every one of God's elect that he hung on that cross for. Oh, my.

And then, Zechariah 13, 7, awake, O sword against my shepherd, Against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones." Oh, Mom, the sword of God's justice fell upon Christ, mine, against my shepherd. And if you're a believer, against your shepherd. Against the man, the Lord says, that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts.

So all the requirements of his covenant engagements as our covenant surety, all his obligation as our surety ended, all the shadows, types, promises, and prophecies of the Old Testament concerning the Messiah concerning his death ended in the law of God against his people and its end in Christ's death for righteousness. Listen to this. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Those are wonderful words. He fulfilled the law in my room and place. And if you're a believer, he did it for you too.

Now the Holy Spirit will never lead us contrary the holy law of God. I don't know one believer that wants to kill people or wants to go out and live a riotous life. I don't know people like that. And I've never heard gospel preachers preach like that.

Because the love of Christ now constrains us from sin. The love that we have for him constrains us. Now we mourn over our sin, don't we? Now we live a life of repentance before God. But we know that our salvation is accomplished all by what he done. at Calvary Scrolls. He made an END of our sin. He made an end of it, beloved. We are fully redeemed. It's beautiful. It's beautiful.

The fury, wrath, and vengeance of divine justice was ended. All was poured out upon him in our room and place, and then he extinguished the wrath of God, beloved, against us. It's no longer, God's no longer has any wrath towards his people. Actually, when you really look at it, it's pretty amazing because we were not appointed to wrath because our wrath was always But the wrath that was due us, unjustly due us, had been purposed to fall upon Christ.

It's still due us, but it fell on our King. And think of that, beloved, we who are now living 2,000 years later, that wrath was appeased for our sins. We had no idea. We were living before the Lord saved us. We were living however we wanted according to the flesh.

And listen to this, since the wrath of God against us has ended, the vengeance of divine justice against us is satisfied. Listen to this, the judgment against his people has ended for the redeemed. And how do we know that? Romans 8 warned, there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

No condemnation. Now, again, antinomians will say, oh look, I can do whatever I want. Nope. Nope. I heard a great illustration this week. A young man preaching and he said, he said, legalism says you're saved by grace, but you're kept by works, by deeds of the flesh. Antinomian says, well, I'm saved, but I can do whatever I want, which is wrong, which is wrong. Christ didn't save us so we could do whatever we wanted to do. Christ saved us from our sins.

See, one appeals to the flesh for works, and the other appeals to the flesh just to fulfill the lust of the flesh. I remember Henry Mahan saying, you've got the narrow way, and there's two ditches. One's legalism, and one's antinomianism. and you don't want to fall into them ditches. Now, can we as believers for a time fall into those ditches? Yeah, but God won't let us linger in there. Here, take us out. Here, take us out of those ditches. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. My, oh, my. Isn't he good?

For the redeemed of the Lord are sin and guilt before God has ended. Now, we still feel guilty over our sin because we're a bunch of sinners. But as far as the guilt being penalized or being stacked up against us, we've been redeemed. God will remember our sins no more.

Again, doesn't give us a license to go crazy, does it? Not at all. Not at all. Listen to this. Ephesians 1.7. in whom we have redemption, we have it, beloved, through his blood, through the blood of Christ, the forgiveness of sins, we have it, according to the riches of his grace.

And then Colossians says this, in whom we have redemption through his blood, Colossians 1.14, even the forgiveness of sins. Do you see how certain this is? It's all because of the death of Christ. It's all because of him.

So with these words, the things concerning me have an end, the Son of God announced the end of his public ministry and his earthly ministry. Then he delivered himself into the hands of the Father. Delivered his hands into the, before that he delivered his hands into the divine justice of God in our room and place. It's just incredible. And God's holy wrath and justice fell upon our substitute. And then he ascended to the Father, and he rose again for our justification. Oh, it's glorious.

I'll tell you why. With these words, the things concerning me have an end. Our great Redeemer assures us of everlasting peace through his work of salvation. He said, peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. And then he says, let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. Oh my, why? Because our sins are forgiven.

We're washed in the blood of Christ. Let us enjoy the salvation here on this earth. Let us be in awe and wonder of this salvation. Let it fill our hearts with joy. We'd be having the worst day. We start thinking about, I'm saved, I'm redeemed by the blood of Christ. My, oh, my. This is incredible. This is glorious. So what do we say? Of glory, honor, and praise to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, because salvation is of the Lord. Amen and amen.