I recognize that in all things with regard to the worship and service of God, the most important aspect is motive. Motive. The Lord looks on the heart and he is not in the least impressed by outward show. When I was praying and preparing to preach to you this morning, sitting over at my office at the house, I kept asking myself, why? Why this message? Why don't preach to this people what you noted? And I believe, I believe when all the trash of my sins pushed aside, there are three very basic motives, three very essential motives for me preaching this message, for me being here and preaching any message to you.

The first and foremost is God's glory. That's central thing. That's the central thing. The reason for me preaching what I preach, preaching as I preach, the reason for us functioning as we do as a local assembly, for us having the simplicity of worship that we have, without all the trappings and paraphernalia that goes along with religion, is God's glory. That's the reason.

The central, dominant thing must be the glory of God. When John ascended up into heaven, he saw a door open into heaven, and he was called up into heaven, and he saw something. He saw something. He saw something that gave a view to him, seven different visions I think he had, of the whole scope of God's purpose from beginning to end, from the first coming of Christ to the second coming of Christ.

The whole scope of everything God's doing, everything, centered around one thing. a throne, and him who sits on the throne. Everything. Everything. Now don't ever forget that. Everything in this world comes from, centers around, and goes to him who sits on that throne.

It's for his glory. And whatever we do must be for his glory. So my preaching this morning, first and foremost, is for God's glory. Secondly, I want so very much to preach, I hope, in the power of God's Spirit to you who are my brothers and sisters in Christ, to you who are born of God, to you who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, to you who are chosen of God and heirs of heaven, I want so much to preach Christ to you with such clarity and power that your heart is simply wrapped all just taken up with him. Now, I want Bobby Estes to just be overwhelmingly consumed with the blessed knowledge of God's grace in Christ. I want Bob Pontzer to just be wrapped up in his love and his grace and goodness so that we together worship him, adore him, and commit ourselves to him. I want somehow, by God's Spirit, to preach the gospel to you, and to preach with such power to your hearts, that you walk out of here with your heart renewed in absolute, free, full consecration to Him. How soon we grow cold, how soon we become indifferent, how soon Our hearts are moved from just, we're being swept up with a spirit of praise and worship and commitment to apathy, indifference, and coldness.

And it ought not to be that way. It ought not to be that way. You and I who are born of God, sinners saved by free grace, we ought to be continually, continually reminded by virtue of nothing else but of our sin and God's forgiveness of sin. Oh, we ought to be reminded continually of our debt to the Son of God, how we ought to love him who loved us and gave himself for us.

And I have a third one. Some of you who have long been the objects of my prayers, of the prayers of this congregation, of the prayers of individuals in this congregation are yet without Christ. And somehow I want to entice you. I want to entice your heart. persuade you now to trust the Son of God. God in his good providence has warned us, as Lindsay demonstrated in the lesson this morning, in acts of judgment God warns, he warns. And in his good providence he's warning us, repeatedly, repeatedly he warns us.

There's a breath, just a breath between you and judgment. Just a breath. Just a breath. Ever been choked just on a little piece of bread? Just get choked and all of a sudden you realize, man, if I don't get this little thing out of my throat, I'm going to die. I can't get my breath. That's just how much there is between you and judgment. Just hanging by a thread, as it were, over hell, you're going to leave this world and you're going to meet God in such a way.

With all the many, many things that you pursue in this world, don't be so foolish that you pursue this world of vanity and lose your soul. Don't be so foolish. Don't be so, so obstinately, obstinately rebellious as to sit and hear the gospel, and hear the message of God's free grace, and sit with your arms folded, and take to yourself, well, that's good, and one of these days I'll give the nod to Jesus, and give him my okay to save me. Don't be so foolish. if you'll hear his voice. Harden not your heart. Now I'm telling you something. I'll let somebody else fuss about trying to explain it when I'm telling you something. If you hear his voice today, you best heed his voice. You may not hear his voice tomorrow. God may never speak to you again.

So come now to Jesus Christ. Cast yourself before him and plead for mercy. Now I'm going to talk to you this morning from 1st John chapter 3 in verse 5. For God's glory, I hope to get hold of the hearts of you who are my brothers and sisters in Christ, and have your hearts just lifted up to him and praise, thanksgiving and commitment, and for the saving of your souls who do not know him. Here in 1st John chapter 3 verse 5, The Apostle Charles states, and you know, that he was manifested, the Lord Jesus was manifested. He didn't just come into being, he is the eternal God, but the eternal God is now God manifest in the flesh. He was manifested to take away our sins.

And here's the consequence, and then healing is no sin. Now let's take an honest, honest look at ourselves. Come back to chapter 1 of 1 John, verse 8. If we say that we have no sin, now that's talking about a man talking about his nature, talking about his life. He says, I'm not a sinner. If we say we have no sin, No sin in me.

No, no, no. You're mistaken. Sin's out yonder. Sin's down the road. Sin's over in that other section of town. Sin's over in the prison. Sin's out in the bed joint. Sin's in the House of Eurydice. Sin's down in the pornography shop. I don't have any sin. If we sin, it's just to say, no more, that we have no sin.

We deceive ourselves. Oh, how men deceive themselves. How men deceive themselves. With a cloak of religion, with a cloak of morality, with a cloak of goodness. They say, I'm not a sinner. You're talking to the wrong fella. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. It's not in us. The truth comes, makes a man tell the truth. If the truth is in you, you acknowledge the truth. And the truth is, you and I sin. Look at verse 10. If we say that we have not sinned.

Now that's talking about something else. That's talking about something else. You remember in Proverbs how the harlot goes and entices another woman's husband to come join her in her bed and she wipes her mouth and she says, I haven't sinned. Why don't, don't call me immoral. Don't tell me I have sinned. Oh no. But John's going further than this. Now John's writing to folks who have a profession of faith. John's writing to folks who are religious. John's writing to folks who open the Bible.

And if we say that we have not sinned. Now listen to me. If we say we haven't sinned, then our father Adam. Amen. I don't like that thing of imputed sin. I don't like that thing of Adam representing me. Doesn't matter whether you like it or not, if we say we have not sinned back yonder in the garden, we make God a liar. If we say we did not come forth from the womb speaking lies and sin, we make God a liar. If we say, we have not bitten our arms and fists in God's face or the gaze of our eyes, and ready to be scorned against his law, we make him a liar. We make him a liar. If we say, in anything we do, I have not sinned.

And that's getting right down where the rubber hits the road. We've been sitting here now, some of us, since 10 o'clock this morning, listening to the Word of God being read and taught. We've been singing God's praise. We've been praying. We've been worshiping God. Our hearts have been ministered to.

But don't you imagine, don't you ever get the foolish idea that somehow that's meritorious before God. It ain't. It ain't. Because we've been sinned, mixed with everything we've done. Everything we've done. Everything. It arises from a corrupt heart, it comes with corrupt activity, and as if that weren't enough to convince us in the midst In the midst of our most noble aspects of worship, we have flashes of pride, and arrogance, and covetousness, and lust, and envy. There's no way to put a name on all that goes through the minds and hearts of men, women, and gays in the worship of God. Now if we say we have not sinned, I don't care what he's talking about, reading the Bible, praying, preaching, singing, it doesn't matter. If we share it, we have not sinned. As though we pretend somehow we've done something that God now will accept. We make him a liar. We say, God, you've lied to us. This book's not so. And his truth is not in us. He is not in us and his word is not in us.

Now having said that, I'm going to tell you some things about myself that I'm sure will shock some of you. They will shock you because you're not honest enough to face and acknowledge what you really are. And it'll be shocking because maybe you haven't heard folks deal honestly with what they are. But some of you, I'm sure, will identify with what I have to say.

You'll identify with it because as I describe myself, I'm going to be describing you. Now I want us to open the dark, dark door of our corrupt hearts. Enter into the inmost dark chambers of these polluted things we call hearts. What foul, hideous, abominable creatures are there? When I look into my heart, I'm going to tell you what I see.

I see it because I see it written in the word. But I see it more than that. That which is written in the word, I find to be the experience of my soul. I know it so. I see in my heart, this heart of sinful flesh, every vile thing that a man has ever been, ever done, or ever imagined. Everything. Everything.

Turn to Matthew chapter 19 one more time, or chapter 15 rather, and verse 19. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Mark gives us his rendering of the very same thing, statement given by our Lord Jesus. Verse 21. From within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man. We listen to the reports on the news about fellows like Jeffrey Dahmer and This fellow out in Oklahoma, he's guilty of the bombing out there last week and folks said, well this is not a man.

This is inhuman. This is not natural. Oh, I beg to differ. It's just as natural as it can be. It's just a man from whom God has lifted his restraining hand for a little while. And by the deeds of these, he shows us what's in us. And don't forget it. But not only is it true that this is what is in man, my soul, this is what's in me. I know that in me, I know it, I know it. In my flesh, what is no good thing, I mean nothing.

Before God saved me, I thought things would be different. I really did. I wasn't a terribly religious fellow, and I didn't pretend to have a great deal of knowledge about things. And I didn't imagine, even back in those early days, I didn't imagine that the afterman saved sins eradicated from him. I didn't believe the foolishness of those fellows who said what you say, and that your sister had the imponderable sin. I didn't believe that. I had better sins than that because I saw it in them. But I did think, I really did think, that somehow after a man was saved, there would be fewer, weaker, less troubling sins, for things are not like I dreamed.

I was shocked to wake up one day shortly after God saved me. One of the most shocking things, one of the most shocking realities. I woke up one day and realized that I am by nature just as sinful, just as vile, just as wicked as I have ever been. Now that's just fact.

My flesh is still flesh. It's no more sanctified now than it was when I came forth from the womb of speaking lies. And the flesh never will be. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Flesh and blood will always just be flesh and blood. Until this flesh, this body of flesh dies, my sin will not die, and I've come to understand from this book and from experience, it won't even diminish. It's nothing to get any less.

Now I'm trying to be honest with you because I want you to be honest with yourself, and I want you to be honest with God. Before God saved you, before God saved you, Did you ever imagine that a saved person could be so vile and so base and so cold, so apathetic, so indifferent as you are right now to the things of God?

Did you ever imagine it was possible? I never thought, I just, I never thought it was possible, because I never heard anybody preach like this, but I just, I never thought it was possible, for so many women, to love Christ so little, as I love you. And love this world so much. I never dreamed it was possible. I hear folks saying, oh how I love Jesus, I thought we really did. I hear folks saying about their love to Christ, I thought, well this is the way it's going to be.

I never dreamed it was possible to trust Christ so little and to spread so much. I never dreamed it was possible for a sane man or woman to have such a cold-hearted indifference toward the things of God and such an active, lively spirit toward meaningless things in this world. I never thought it was possible to have such a hard time reading this book and pray as I found it to be. I never thought it was possible for a saved man to be so murmuring, to be so impatient, to be so resentful of God's providence as I find myself at times to be.

I kind of prepare for big things, you know. You just sort of prepare for the day when The doctor steps in and says, well I hate to tell you this but your heart's not going to last six more months. You've got cancer and it's going to get you. You're kind of prepared for the big things. But the everyday little things. Just little things. Just little things that don't matter at all. Things that are totally insignificant. I'd get so blue and aggravated with. Just get aggravated with them.

I never dreamed it possible for a believer to murmur and complain and be impatient and discontent with God's providence. Now in my soul, honestly, I see nothing good, nothing righteous, nothing holy. I do pray, I do. Most of my prayer in my soul, God, I can't call it prayer.

I'm just telling the truth. I do read this Word. I want to understand it. I want to know it. I want to obey it. I make an effort at it. But when I read this Book, my mind wanders and runs to every imaginable evil I can sit down and open the scriptures, and just, I can sit at my desk, nobody be around, nobody. I'm going to be telephoned. And so I'm going to read now, I'm going to find out what this is talking about. And I can think of 5,000 things I should have done before opening the book.

Just like that. I mean, just like that. I start to read, now to put that out there, I start to read, and first word, my mind will run here, and then it'll run there. And then to every abominable, blasphemous, corrupt thing that just oozes out of my mind comes forth from the heart.

I do love Christ. I do. But I'm so ashamed of my love for him. Who can call it love? He loved me and gave himself for me. I love him and I keep trying to give myself to him. I keep trying to give myself to him and I keep holding back. I trust him. I do trust my God. I do believe it, and I don't mean to be humorous, but my soul, I think sometimes if I could get a mustard seed of faith, it'd be a mountain. Just a little faith. I find rest in Christ, but my rest is so restless.

What about you? Is there anybody here who's experienced anything any different? Anybody? I really want to know. Is there anybody who's experienced anything any different? That's just the reality of it. That's just the reality of it. John Lincoln, who wrote Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me, once penned these words.

He said, I am nothing. I have nothing. I can do nothing. And if I come to nothing, nothing will be lost. And that's just exactly true. That's just exactly true. Now secondly, let's take a careful look at the Lord Jesus Christ as he's revealed in the scriptures. Here in our text, John says, in him is Though he was made to be sin for us, when he bore our sins in his own body on the tree, our Lord Jesus Christ had no sin of his own.

None. Now, we can't begin to even think about that. We can't even begin to imagine what it means that in him is no sin, no sin, hate. He had no original sin. That is, he was not born with a sinful, Edenic nature, like we are. He didn't have Adam for his day. The Lord Jesus was born into this world the seed of woman. He was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary by the power of God, the Holy Spirit, without the aid of the man, so that he bypassed Adam when he came into this world, and he had no original sin. Adam's sin was not imputed to him because he was not represented by Adam, and Adam's sin was not inherited by him because he didn't come from Adam. And our Lord Jesus had no actual sin. He had no sin nature, and he had no deed of sin.

He never once, he never once had an inclination to do evil. He never once had an inclination to friends. He never once had his heart grow cold with malice. He never once had his heart to burn with lust. Never once. He knew no sin. He knew no sin. Knew no sin. Knew no sin. Oh, imagine that. He's holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is himself the perfect man. He is that one who is a suitable substitute and sacrifice for sin because he is without sin. And that's the only way he could be a sacrifice for us. The sinner's substitute must be innocent, righteous, and holy. That's necessary, else he could not put away sin. He must be a man, because man is sin, and only man can suffer for sin.

Turn over to Hebrews chapter 10. The apocryphal writing to the Hebrews states plainly that God God must have used the sacrifices of the Old Testament for nothing more than a picture, nothing more than a type of representation. It was never God's intention that the sacrifices be in and of themselves a means to an end. They were just a picture of him who was to come to bring about salvation and redemption. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 1.

For the law having a shadow, just a shadow, that's all, of good things to come, and not the very image of those things. Can never will those sacrifices which they offered year by year continue to make the comers there too perfect. You're standing outside at night, lights shining, you see approaching you, a shadow. Now you might be a little fearful. But you're not fearful of the shadow. You can step on the shadow, nothing bothers you. The shadow can't do anything. And this is what the apostle says here. In the Old Testament, the Lord has given us a shadow. Now that means there's something coming later. But the Lord's just a shadow. It can't do anything. Read on now.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered. because that the worshippers once purged, once purged, get that word, once purged, should have had no more conscience of sin. What's that mean? That means, James Rankin, if you ever get this purging of sin, you won't be bothered with it anymore as far as you and God are concerned. Once the sacrifice has come that can purge sin, There's no more guilty conscience, no more conscience of sin. But in those sacrifices, there was a remembrance made again of sin every year. For it is not possible that the blood of goats could take away sin.

The Lord Jesus came as a man, because a man alone could suffer for man's sins. But he must be an innocent man, a perfect man, otherwise his sufferings would be for his own sins. And he must be more than that, he must be the infinite God-man, else his death could never satisfy the justice of God. But now listen, in order to redeem us, in order to satisfy the justice of God for us, in order to put away our sins, the Son of God had to be made He was made sin. If somehow I could preach that one sentence as it ought to be preached, I'd be content never to preach again. Just sit down, die, go to glory, I've done what I came to do.

He was made sin. By righteous, just, and legal imputation, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was made to be seen. By a righteous, legal, and just, gracious, merciful, and kind transfer of gift, the Lord Jesus Christ was made seen. so that he became responsible in the eyes of God for the law, for all the sins of God's elect which he was made to be. He was made sin. For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. He, his own self, there I sin, in his own body over the tree. He was made sin. Lord Jesus Christ, being made sin, became the object, the isolated object of God's concentrated wrath. And the law of God fixed its beam on him.

And the law of God exacted from him What does the law say concerning sin? The soul that sinneth, it shall die. And when Jesus Christ was made to be sin, the law of God said, you've got to die. You've got to die. And God pulled out his wrath to the full extremity of justice, and wrath and justice spilt itself entirely upon Jesus Christ when he was made to be sin. When he died, the Lord Jesus, by the sacrifice of himself, as he took the weight of sin upon himself. When he died, you know what he did with sin?

I started to pick that up and put it away. That just happened. That's not what he did with sin. He didn't just hide it. He put it away. He put it away. He removed it from us as far as the east is from the west. He cast it behind him as cast behind God's back. He removed it from us. He erased it so that God says he blotted out our transgressions as a thick cloud and will not remember our sins.

He was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justifications. Now hear what I'm saying. Behold Christ, the crucified Christ, yonder on the throne of God. Behold the Christ. Search out the in-between. There sits the risen Christ. And that risen Christ declares that He has put away sin. So all the saints charged to Him. All the saints. imputed to him all the sin for which he became responsible. When he said, it is finished, it's gone. It's gone. Gone! Now, are you listening? That glorious mediator who is now in heaven, who was made to be sin for us, who suffered for sin. Look at it now. It's no sin. No sin. No sin. No sin. No sin.

Come back to 1 Peter chapter 4. 1 Peter chapter 4. We'll look at this in a minute in another life. I want you to see this. 1 Peter chapter 4, verse 1. For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind." What mind? This mind right here. Get this arm in your mind. Get this armory, this weapon, this blessed, blessed weapon with which to do battle in this world with your sin and with Satan and with the accusations that Satan hurls at you. in the flesh hath ceased from saying." Now tell me, when will God charge sin to his son again? When will God punish his son again? When will God again require of his son some satisfaction of justice for sinning? Never. You're right. You're exactly right.

For there is no sin. No sin. He who sits yonder from the throne of God in heaven and makes intercession for us has no sin. We are assured, and we know, that God will accept him and will accept his intercession on our behalf because he is without sin perfect and holy. He's righteous. In him is no sin. Now this is the basis of our assurance and confidence with God. We have a perfect substitute. We have an advocate on high whom God the Father has accepted. and for whom he accepts for us perpetually. He is Jesus Christ the righteous, and he's the propitiation for our sins.

All right, now, in myself is nothing but sin. Christ, whom you know sin, and was made to be sin, is now without sin. In him is no sin. Now one last thing, and this is just for you who believe, but if you're here and your sin has begun to bother you, and your conscience has begun to keep you awake at night, and your heart has begun to condemn you because of sin, you listen in.

I'm going to tell you what God's folks experienced. Let's take an honest, honest, honest look at ourselves in Christ as this book portrays us. When John says, in him is no sin, look at the context. Look at the context. The opening word is, he was manifested to take away our sins.

And in him is no sin. In him is no sin. He's not talking about in him personally. He's not talking about in him as God, or even in him as the God-man. He's talking about in him as the representative, God's man, our maturity, meaningful, and coming again, and he's talking about us who are in him. And when he says in him, there's no sin. No sin. What on earth is the Holy Spirit telling us? He's telling us that those who are in Christ have no sin. In ourselves, we're sinners, and nothing but sin. But in Christ, before God, in the sight of God, we have no sin.

Imagine that. Imagine that, man. No wonder Paul said that the worshipers once purged should have no more conscience of sin. The blood of Christ reaches deeper than the stainless door, for it reaches to the very throne of God in the record book of heaven, and cleanses away our sins." And in the sight of God, we have no sin.

The Lord Jesus Christ has manifested to take away our sins, and either He did it or He didn't. Either He did it or He didn't. I say He did. Now, God said He did. In Him is no sin. The all-seeing eye of God sees in the believer no sin, because he sees the believer in Christ.

Nothing in this world troubles me like sin. nothing bothers me like my sin and nothing comforts me nothing cheers me nothing inspires me like the blessed removal of sin through the blood of Jesus Christ in the covenant of grace the Lord God promised that he would forgive our sins and he made a covenant with his son to secure the forgiveness of our sins sacrifices I substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ has now put away our fears, and put them away forever." Look in Romans chapter 8. Romans the 8th chapter. The whole 8th chapter of Romans arises from what the Apostle says in the first three verses. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, what could the law do? The law could never make us righteous. The law could never provide an atonement for sin. The law could never make a way to escape from sin. The law could never bring us to God. What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sin for flesh, and forced him to condemn sin. in the flesh. Look at heathen in Colossians chapter 2, Colossians 2 verse 14.

The Lord Jesus is described as having accomplished for us the forgiveness of all trespasses. This is how he did it. Blotting out the handwriting of the ordinances that was against us is the ordinance of God. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, with all thy strength. That's the essence of the first table of the law. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. That's the essence of the second table.

My God, I can't do what you require. I can't love I can't do it. Sin won't allow it. I can't do it. And so God says, all right, go to hell. Justice demands it. I can't tolerate you. I can't love my neighbor as myself. As a redeemed, renewed sinner by grace, I want to, but I can't. Justice says God can't be heeded. to hell you must go.

But the Lord Jesus came, and he took the handwriting of that ordinance that met my condemnation, and he ordered it out. So that there is now no accusation in the record book of justice against this sinner for whom Christ died. he blotted out, nailing it to his cross. When he had by himself heard God say it, he sat down on the right hand of the majesty of God.

And now, believing on Christ, We are freed from sin. Being united to him by living faith, we have no sin. Do you remember the text we read earlier in 1 Peter chapter 4? 1 Peter chapter 4, look at it again. For as much then, as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, Armour says, likewise with this same mind, that he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin."

And I said to my friend and brother Merle Hart, have you suffered in the flesh for sin? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 2,000 years ago, at Calvary, in your representative, and in your surety, in your covenant head, you suffered all that God demanded for sin. Is that right? Is that what this book says? Well, what's the consequence?

You don't have to worry about sin anymore. God will never bring up such. He ceased from sin. He ceased from sin. The justice has been satisfied. The debt has been paid. The debt has been paid so. We have ceased from sin. Insofar as God's justice and law is concerned. God Almighty, who once imputed our sins to Christ and punished him in our place to the full satisfaction of his law and justice, will never impute sin to us, because Christ has put away sin.

Now, this is the only way, this is the only way that the law of God can ever be perfectly honored by man. It's the only way. The law requires of Don Fortner perfect righteousness and perfect satisfaction. Here I stand before God, whose law will never bend, whose law will never bow, whose law will never cease in his holy requirements, whose law will never stoop. They demand perfect holiness and perfect satisfaction. And I'm going to meet God one day in judgment and be judged by his holy law that demands perfect holiness and perfect satisfaction. And I offer God exactly what his law demands, perfect holiness and perfect satisfaction in a perfect substitute. By faith, Paul says, we establish the law. We establish the law. The law of holy and just and good. And here is the Son of God of whom the law spoke, to whom the law appointed, by whom the law the law can be satisfied. Now listen, listen to this and rejoice. The law of God being perfectly honored, totally satisfied, and completely fulfilled by Christ can no more, are you listening now?

It can no more charge you who believe with sin than it can charge Christ. again with sin. Oh, God help you to get hold of that. In him is no sin. No wonder this God-honored soul-children news is called the gospel, the good news, the glad tidings of great joy. My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought. My sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to his cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord, it is well with my soul." Now let me ask you, what would you give? Oh, what would you give to be free from the guilt of sin before the Holy Lord God. Would you give faith? Would you give faith? I promise you this, what God has done for me in Christ Jesus, if you believe it, He has done for you. And in Him is no sin. No sin. Amen.