Good evening. If you would, open your Bibles with me to 1 John. 1 John chapter 5. We'll read the first 12 verses. 1 John chapter 5. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And everyone that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water and blood.

And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one.

And if we receive the witness of men, The witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his son. He that believeth on the son of God hath a witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his son. He that hath the son hath life. and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

We'll end our reading there. All right, Sean. Okay, if you would, turn in your hymnal to song number 219, Grace Tis a Charming Sound. And in the chorus there, we'll sing Jesus Died for Sinful Men. Grace tis a charming sound, harmonious to the ear. Heaven with the echo shall resound, and all the earth shall hear. Saved by grace alone, this is all my plea. Jesus died for sinful men, and Jesus died for me.

Twas grace that wrote my name in life's eternal book. Twas grace that gave me to the Lamb who all my sorrows took. Saved by grace alone, this is all my plea. Jesus died for sinful men, and Jesus died for me. Grace taught my wandering feet to tread the heavenly road, and new supplies each hour I meet while pressing on to God. Saved by grace alone, this is all my plea. Jesus died for sinful men, and Jesus died for me. Grace taught my soul to pray and made mine eyes o'erflow. Twas grace which kept me to this day, and will not let me go, save by grace alone.

This is all my plea. Jesus died for sinful men and Jesus died for me. O let thy grace inspire my soul with strength divine. May all my powers to thee aspire, and all my days be thine. Saved by grace alone, This is all my plea. Jesus died for sinful men, and Jesus died for me.

Okay, if you would now turn to song number 283, Yesterday, Today, Forever. 283. Oh, how sweet the glorious message simple faith may claim. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. Still he loves to save the sinful, heal the sick and lame. Cheer the mourner, call the tempest, glory to his name. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus never. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. All may change, but Jesus never. Glory to His name.

He who pardoned erring Peter never needs thou fear. He who came to faithless Thomas all thy doubt will clear. He who let the love disciple on his bosom rest, bids thee still with love as tender lean upon his breast. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same.

All may change, but Jesus never. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. All may change, but Jesus never. Glory to His name. He who, mid the raging billows, walked upon the sea, still can hush our wildest tempers as on Galilee. He who wept and prayed in anguish in Gethsemane, drinks with us each cup of trembling in our agony. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus, never glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. All may change, but Jesus never. Glory to His name.

As of old he walked to may us with them to abide. So through all life's way he walketh ever near our side. Soon again shall we behold Him hasten, Lord, the day. But we'll still be this same Jesus as He went away. Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus, never glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. All may change, but Jesus never. Glory to His name.

If you would, open your Bibles with me now to Exodus chapter 30. Exodus chapter 30. We are near the end of the Lord's instructions to Moses on the building of the tabernacle. And the way that the Lord concludes these instructions has been just such a blessing to me this week.

It just crowns it off. So you, if you're looking forward at all, you cannot miss it. That salvation is all in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's just, it's such a blessing. These next two, two messages tonight, next Wednesday, I trust will be a great blessing to you as they have been to me as I've been studying them. We'll begin reading in Exodus 30 verse 22.

Moreover, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, take thou also unto thee principal spices of pure myrrh, 500 shekels, and of sweet cinnamon, half so much, even 250 shekels, and of sweet calamus, 250 shekels, and of cassia, 500 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil and hen.

And thou shalt make it in an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compounded after the art of the apothecary. It shall be an holy anointing oil. And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, and the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offerings with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatsoever toucheth them, shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, this shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other like it. After the composition of it, it is holy and it should be holy unto you. Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people. We'll end our reading there.

Let's bow before our Lord together in prayer. Our Father, we've gathered here together this evening in the name of your precious Son. And Father, it is our plea You ascend your spirit upon us and enable us to worship you in spirit and in truth. Enable us, Father, by faith to see the glory of your son and salvation that's in him that's found in the text tonight. And Father, pour your spirit out upon us that we may believe the Lord Jesus Christ, that we may be thrilled at hearing of him one more time, at hearing of his love for his people, his sacrifice for his people that completely removes all of our sin and makes us accepted in thy sight. Father, cause the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be magnified and glorified in everything that we do here this evening. And let us go home with his name on our hearts and on our lips.

Father, we thank you for a place that you've given to us where we can meet together in peace and unity with one heartfelt desire to hear Christ preached. Father, I pray you'd bless us, that you would keep your hand of protection and mercy and grace and leadership upon us. Father, make us a faithful witness of Christ in our generation, in this place where you've put us. And, Father, we thank you for our country. We thank you for the freedoms that we have so long enjoyed here.

And, Father, we earnestly pray that you would move to protect it, that you'd keep us free and be with our leaders, move their hearts to do good, and be with our men and women who are in harm's way now, Father, in the military, that you'd watch over them and protect them, cause them to be successful in their mission, and come home soon. Now, Father, all these things we ask, and we give thanks in that name which is above every name, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen. Now, I've titled the message tonight, The Holy Anointing Oil. And when you first read this, it might sound a little bit confusing, all the different elements or whatever you want to call them, ingredients that go into this holy anointing oil, but I hope it'll be very understandable by the time that we're done tonight. But I'd like to start the message by reminding us of this, that salvation is the work of the whole Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Salvation of a sinner requires all three. You can't leave one out.

It's the work of the Father in electing a people into salvation. It's the work of the Son to come and redeem those people by his precious blood, to obey the law for them as their representative. And it's the work of the Holy Spirit in giving life, spiritual life to his people and faith in Christ.

And I know some who I'm sure are well-meaning, but they place so much emphasis on the work of Christ, the work of Christ on the cross, that they say that that is actually the most important piece of salvation. And I know that they mean well, that they're trying to glorify Christ, but when you do that, what you actually do is you diminish the work of the Father in election, and you especially reduce the importance of the work of the Spirit in the new birth. And I'll tell you how important this is, all three of them. If you take one of these three away, the work of the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit, one of them away, there's no salvation for any sinner. There cannot be any salvation without the Spirit giving us the new birth. That's why our Lord said you must be born again. It's not, well, it's optional. You must be born again.

And that's what this holy anointing oil is all about. It's the anointing of the Holy Spirit giving life and faith to His people. Now we've been looking for some weeks at this ceremony that they would go through, that the Lord gave Moses to go through, to consecrate the high priest. to consecrate his sons, to serve the Lord in that office of priest. And that's a picture of Christ. It's such a glorious picture. When you look at the way the tabernacle is constructed and the individual pieces of furniture, the high priest and the individual pieces of his glorious outfit, that's such a glorious picture of Christ. how he was consecrated to serve his father, to do the work of salvation that the father sent him to do. But it's also a picture of how his people, how can sinful people like you and me be consecrated to serve the holy God.

It's in all these, these pictures and this ceremony, you know, the Moses had to wash Aaron and his sons, you had to wash their bodies just right. They had to put on those garments, had to put them on just right, just the right order, wear just the right ones. They had to offer the right sacrifices. They had to take the blood of those sacrifices and sprinkle the blood. The Lord said, you do it exactly this way that you die not, that you die not. Now, suppose Moses and Aaron did all of everything that we've studied up until now.

And they left off this holy anointing oil. They said, you know, what's really important is the blood of the sacrifice. What's really important is the altar, the brazen altar, the golden altar, the candlestick or the table or the ark of the covenant. Those things are most important. This anointing oil is not all that big a deal. They still would have died without this holy anointing oil.

God said, After he finished all of these instructions here about the tabernacle, he said, there will I meet with you. This is the place that God will meet with sinners. Of course, the tabernacle being a picture of Christ, that's where God will meet with sinners, in the Lord Jesus Christ. But if Moses left off this anointing oil, God wouldn't have met with him there.

That's how important this anointing oil is. And this anointing oil, this is what we're gonna look at the rest of our time, is a picture of the Holy Spirit applying Christ to the hearts of his people, applying everything about him, his obedience and his blood to the heart of God's elect. It's the job of the Holy Spirit to give life, to give new birth and to give faith in Christ, to form Christ in us. And I reiterate, this is so important that there's no salvation without the work of God the Holy Spirit is just as important as the blood being shed. The blood must be shed, but then it must be applied.

And that's what this holy anointing oil is all about. Now, the first thing that the base, I guess you'd say, of this anointing oil is olive oil. At the end of verse 24, it says, of olive oil and hen. Now, oil in scripture is always a picture of the Holy Spirit. And if you look at Psalm 45, Psalm 45, all these spices and things that they mixed into this, according to the recipe that God gave them, made this olive oil smell good.

And that's such a picture of Christ, everything about him smells good. If you know him, his obedience to the law smells so good to you because his obedience is your obedience. His sacrifice, his bloody sacrifice, as awful as the sufferings were of that sacrifice, it smells mighty good to a sinner because that blood cleanses us from all sins.

That blood paid the redemption price for us. It smells so good. The gospel is not just a collection of true statements. The gospel is Christ. And it affects our senses. He smells good. He tastes good. He affects our emotions. That's what this oil is all about. The smell, the smelling so good.

And look at Psalm 45 verse seven. Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness. Therefore God, thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

You notice this oil he's talking about here has a lot of the same spices in it that this holy anointing oil that we're looking at here. And this is, you know, the psalmist here is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. has been anointed with the oil of the Spirit above all of his fellows, above all of his people, and he's, every believer's been anointed with the Holy Spirit in the new birth, and we have the Spirit that dwells in us, but Christ is anointed with the oil of gladness above us, more than us, so much so that he is one with the Holy Spirit. You know, we have the Spirit with measure, just in a measure, he had the Spirit without measure because he's God.

And that's what this olive oil is all about. And I don't know a whole lot about olive oil other than I can buy it in a jar at Kroger's or someplace. But I am smart enough to know this. You can't get olive oil from the olive until you crush it. It's got to be crushed. And that's what the root word of this word olive means. It means an oil press. And isn't that what Gethsemane was? It's the oil press. It's the press whereby Christ was crushed under the weight and burden of justice against the sin of his people.

And it had to be that way because if the Holy Spirit is going to have oil to apply to our hearts, Christ must first be crushed. He must first be crucified as a sacrifice for sin He must shed his blood before the Holy Spirit has anything to apply. So that's just olive oil was crushed out of these olives so they could make this oil.

Then verse 23 says they mixed myrrh in with it. From what I gather, myrrh is something that smells very sweet. It's like a gum that kind of runs through the bark of a tree or something. And it smells very, very sweet. And you'd think, as sweet as it smells, that it would taste good. But it doesn't. It tastes very bitter. And that's actually what the word myrrh means. It means bitter.

And isn't that a good picture of the death of Christ, our substitute? His suffering on the cross was so bitter. It was bitter because he had to suffer his father's undiluted wrath against the sin of his people. what bitter sufferings that were. He said, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. He had to drink the bitter dregs of that cup dry. His soul's sufferings were so bitter to his mind and to his emotions. Knowing what he was going to suffer, blood actually ran out of his pores. I mean, such a bitter, bitter suffering. More suffering than any man has ever suffered before or since.

And as bitter and as awful as that is, it's the sweetest scent any sinner has ever smelled. What a sweet smell that the Son of God, who is the exact opposite of me in every way, the one whom I have sinned against, would agree to take my sin away from me. Give me his righteousness and suffer and die to put my sin away so that I could be made just like him.

Oh, that smells so good. That sounds so good. Just oh, you just it's like when when Janet's cooking. Mm hmm. I mean, I just smell it and I can't wait to get me some of that, you know. This smells so good that the sacrifice of Christ smells so good. I just can't wait to hear more of that. And you know what?

That smell of Christ's sacrifice was sweet to the father too. He called those old Testament sacrifices. They're a sweet savor to me because those pictures of Christ, those sacrifices were pictures of Christ's sacrifice that would satisfy the father. No, those animal sacrifices never satisfied the father, but they pictured the sacrifice that would. And the father said, that's a sweet smell to me. And isn't that a sweet smell to the believer?

The sacrifice of Christ, I know, first and foremost, when I look at the cross, the first thing I see, I see justice. I see wrath against sin. I see God's holiness, that he will punish sin, even when that sin is found on his son. I see that justice being poured out on my substitute. That's the first thing I see.

But look at it just a little bit. and you'll see Christ's love for his people, that he would hang there, that he could call 12 legions of angels and put an end to this right now, but he didn't. You know why? Because he loves his people, and that's the only way that they could be redeemed. And when God, the Holy Spirit, causes us to be born again, we are a sweet saver to God, too. Can you believe that? That's how precious the blood of Christ is, that he makes vile sinners like you and me a sweet savor in God's sight, in God's smell.

Let me show you that in 2 Corinthians chapter five. 2 Corinthians five. I'm sorry, 2 Corinthians two. There we go, that makes better sense. 2 Corinthians two, verse 15. For we are unto God a sweet saver of Christ, in them that are saved and in them that perish. To the one we are a saver of death unto death, and to the other, the saver of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? We are unto God a sweet saver of Christ. And the only thing that you can say when you read that is the power of Christ. to make his people be a sweet savor to the father, because we couldn't be otherwise until we're washed in his blood.

Then verse 23 says, they're also to mix in sweet cinnamon. And I look that word cinnamon up, it means the business that one has taken up with. It means a work that is done. And it has a meaning that it's obsessively done. Well, that's Christ. He's the builder of his church. He came to do a job, to do a work that the father gave him to do, to redeem his people from their sins. The father chose those people and he gave them to his son and Christ saved them. He saves them by his blood, by his righteousness. The Holy Spirit gives them life and makes them what Peter calls living stones, living stones. And Christ puts them right in His church, right where they need to be, right where they need to be to serve Him. 1 Peter 2. Let me show you this, 1 Peter 2. Verse 5.

He also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Believers have been put into the church of God, the one universal church of God, to serve Him right where He put us. Now think of that. It's no accident that you're here, that you're here every week, a member of this church, and it's no accident that you're in God's church, in universal church, it's no accident. The Father purposed it before time began. The Son purchased it with His blood, and it's the Holy Spirit that causes us to be born again, that consecrates us to be able to serve the Lord. Now I know this.

The Lord builds His church. The Lord is the one who builds His church. But you know, He's pleased to use His people to do it. Now, we don't do the building. We don't put people and put them in places and put them where they're supposed to be. The Lord does that. We preach the gospel. We preach Christ. And that's what the Lord uses to put his people where they need to be.

And I tell you, I would love to see this place absolutely filled up week after week after week after week. But I can tell you this, by God's grace, I will never compromise the word of God to do it. If this place is gonna be filled, it's gonna be filled by the preaching of the word, not by us using psychological means to make it happen. And I'll tell you why.

David tells us, Psalm 127. Psalm 127. Verse one. Except the Lord build the house, They labor in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Except the Lord build the house, we're wasting our time. So all we're gonna do is do what the Lord told us to do, go into all the world and preach the gospel. Preach Christ, and I can promise you this, the Lord's gonna build his church. He won't miss one of them. He'll finish the work in righteousness, the zeal, of the Lord of hosts will perform this so there won't be one missing.

Now I'm telling you, that tastes good. My mother used to make, I don't know, does she still make cinnamon rolls? I haven't seen them in a long time. She used to make cinnamon rolls that were maybe the best thing I ever put in my mouth. I mean, I would eat them before she even baked them. I just love cinnamon, cinnamon rolls.

This gospel that assures us Christ is going to build his church. And not one will be missing. Not one will be missing because of the weakness of the preacher. Not one will be missing because of the weakness of our faith. Not one will be missing because we doubt and fear. Not one because the Lord will build his church.

Now that tastes sweet, doesn't it? Oh, that's sweet. That's sweet to the soul of a needy sinner. And then he says in verse 23 to put a certain amount of sweet calamus in this holy anointing oil. Now this sweet calamus is, from what I read, it's a reed, like a water reed almost. It grows in water or very miry soil, like a sugar cane or something. And that's a clear picture of Christ our Savior.

He's the root out of a dry ground. He's the rod or the stem of Jesse that grew from what appeared to be a dead tree, a dead root, didn't he? But the Lord Jesus, he's the root out of a dry ground, but he also grew as a man out of the miry, sinful, vile soil of this world that's around him.

We grow up like that, and I mean, we're born defiled, but it just defiles us more. It just draws us in, doesn't it? Even though our Savior grew up as a man, he was a baby, he was a boy, he grew into a man in this, the miry muck of this earth, it didn't defile him. It had no attraction to him.

He grew straight and holy and righteous, and he is in this miry soil. You know why the Son of God is in this miry soil? Because that's where you and I are. We're in this miry soil, this miry pit. And he came down all the way to where we are to get his people out of the bottom of that miry pit and lift them up and set them among princes.

But isn't that sweet? I mean, what a sweet story. I mean, don't you see yourself in the story of Mephibosheth? Taken from just the dirt and nothing to eat, dirty and yucky and everything bad down there in Lodobar. And in a day, he's sitting at the king's table, eating like with the king's sons. That's sweet. But in order, again, just like the olive, in order to get this sweetness out of this calamus, the reed had to be crushed. And that's what happened to Calvary, wasn't it?

Our Savior was crushed. I don't think it's wrong to say this, that hearing of the suffering of the Savior, it makes me sorry. I'm sorry that how my sin caused that. It's just, it's awful. But it's the sweetest story that's ever been told. That our Savior was crushed as a substitute for his people so that people like us that are found at the bottom of that miry pit can be set among princes.

That one day we're going to find ourselves in glory around the throne of God. And Gary, we're going to look at each other and we're going to say, can you believe we're here? It will still be the sweetest story that's ever been told. And then they're to put Cassia in this concoction.

And the word means to stoop. It means to bow down. It's a picture of Christ's submission to his father. He submitted himself to do the will of his father, to do all the work that it took to redeem his people from their sin. And when the Son of God was made flesh and he dwelt among us, I'm telling you, he stooped. This is the longest journey down anyone could ever take, that the Son of God was made flesh.

And he wasn't done stooping. He stooped to obey his own law. He stooped to reach way down to where his people are and lay hold of them, to take them to his bosom. He stooped. After he lived a life of perfection, perfect righteousness, perfect obedience, he stooped to be made sin for his people. He stooped to suffer and die so that his people would be saved.

And if you and I would be saved, we've got to submit. We've got to submit. We've got to surrender. We can't be like the countrymen of Paul's, that we refuse to submit ourselves to the righteousness of God. We've got to submit. And you know when we'll submit? There's only one way we'll ever submit.

Is that the Holy Spirit anoints us with this oil. He causes us to be born again. And he applies all these attributes of Christ to us. to make us smell good. Now this holy anointing oil was powerful. It says here back in our text, Exodus 30. Verse 26, thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, and the table, and all his vessels, and the candlestick, and his vessels, and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver in his foot. And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy, whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy." Now, when God told Moses to anoint the tabernacle and all the pieces of furniture in that tabernacle that would be used in the worship of God, all those individual pieces of furniture, pictures of Christ, he said, when you anoint them with this oil, they're most holy.

Now, they're not holy in themselves, they're inanimate objects, But they have been separated for holy use. This was God's sign of ownership on these. These are separated for holy use. These are separated, they're not to be used for anything except the worship of God. And when the Holy Spirit anoints you and me, and he causes us to be born again, it's God's mark of ownership on us. We're not our own, we're bought with a price. And we live to serve our master.

Now this is just a picture, when Moses went around anointing everything in this tavern, it's just a picture of something being made holy, set apart for holy use. But you know, Christ is always better than the picture. Always. Now, God's people. We are set apart for holy use. God puts his ownership upon us, and we're set apart for his use. We're his servants. He's our master. We do what he says. We go where he says. We don't go where he says don't. We're his servants. We don't have a choice in this. We serve him. But do you know we're made actually holy too? Actually, literally holy.

Look at Ephesians chapter four. Ephesians 4, verse 22. That you put off concerning the former conversation, the old man who is corrupt according to the deceitful lust, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. That new man that's born in us by the power of the Holy Spirit is born truly Holy. That's what happens with this oil. The oil of the Holy Spirit is applied to us. And then the Lord ends with a warning here.

Don't you try to copy this. Don't try to copy it. Verse 31. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, this shall be in holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured. Neither shall you make any other like it. After the composition of it, it's holy, and it shall be holy unto you. Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people." Now, the Lord says, don't you try to copy this.

This oil is only to be used in the worship of the Lord, because this oil represents the work of God the Holy Spirit. And this is what the Lord's telling us. Now, this is the work of the Holy Spirit to give life. We can't give it. Only the Holy Spirit can. So don't you try to imitate it. And that's what false religion does. It tries to imitate the Holy Spirit, the work of the Holy Spirit. And if we do that, we're going to build a false refuge and we'll perish.

You notice that the Lord said, don't you pour this on the flesh? You know, when they anointed Aaron and his sons, it was on their garments, not on the flesh. Because even when we're born again, God the Holy Spirit causes us to be born again with a new nature, a new man who is holy, truly holy. But the flesh is unchanged. Don't you pour it on the flesh. And don't you try to copy it.

Instead, instead of trying to copy this and fool everybody that somehow we've got the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, instead of doing that, Because you know what, usually what happens when somebody tries to imitate the work of the Holy Spirit, they try to speak in tongues, they try to heal people, they do things, they foam at the mouth and roll around the floor, and just create a sideshow to get everybody looking at them instead of seeing Christ in the word.

Instead of doing something foolish like that, let's be wise and beg God that maybe he'd be pleased to anoint us with his Holy Spirit. that we might be made fit, consecrated to serve the Lord, that we'd have life, that we'd have faith in Him, and that we'd spend the rest of our days looking to Christ and trusting and resting in Him.

And that's what we'll pick up next Wednesday, that resting in Christ. We'll look forward to that. All right, let's bow together. Our Father, we thank you for this time that you've given us together Gather together out of the world in the middle of the week, and Father, to read your word, to have Christ preach to us, to being able by thy spirit to do something that's supernatural, to worship you in spirit and in truth, to hear your word and to believe on Christ, to be thrilled with him, to find all of our hope and joy in him and him alone. Father, I pray you'd take this message as it's been preached, that you would enable people to forget about the stumblings and bumblings and weakness of the servant. And Father, that you might show us Christ, that we might be driving home tonight, rejoicing in Christ our Savior. For his precious name, we give thanks. Amen. All right, Sean. OK, if you would turn in your hymnals to song number 205, Once For All. 205. Stand as we sing.

Free from the law, O happy condition, Jesus hath bled and there is remission. Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall, grace hath redeemed us once for all. Watch for all, O sinner, receive it. Watch for all, O brother, believe it. Cling to the cross, the burden will fall. Christ hath redeemed us once for all. Now are we free, there's no condemnation. Jesus provides a perfect salvation.

Come unto me, O hear His sweet call. Come and He saves us once for all. Once for all, O Savior. Once for all, O brother, believe it. Cling to the cross, the burden will fall. Christ hath redeemed us once for all. Children of God, O glorious calling, Surely His grace will keep us from falling, Passing from death to life at His call. Blessed salvation, once for all. Once for all, O sinner receive. Once for all, O brother, believe it. Cling to the cross, the burden will fall. Christ hath redeemed us once for all.