Scripture reading this morning from Psalms 119 verses 33 to 40, and it's going to be a little comment this morning, but we're going to pick up next week with Scripture reading without comment, and it's going to be moved over to the Bible study so that we can delve into it. It's very deep. We can delve into it without the constraints of time. Psalm 119 verses 33 to 40.

H-E, HE, it's actually HEH, the Hebrew word. It's the fifth letter of the alphabet, of the Hebrew alphabet. Scholars and theologians define it as ventilation or windows. In the last section, under the letter DELET, we talked about doors. Now, verses 33 through 40, or HEH, will consider windows as the theme. Remember that in the beginning of the study of Psalm 119, we mentioned how the original design of the structure of Psalm 119 is acrostic. which is kind of like a poem. It uses the Hebrew alphabet as the framework, not only as the heading for each section, but also each of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet is the first letter of each line in the original Hebrew text. And for that reason, the English translation has lost a little bit of its form. But we can look to see how the psalmist wants to use windows or, you know, did as the topic for each section. So Psalm 119, verse 33.

Hey, teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law. Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in thy way. Establish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to thy fear. Turn away my reproach, which I fear, for thy judgments are good. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts, quicken me in thy righteousness.

And if you want to hear the breakdown of each verse, and you're going to have to catch it next week, but I am going to mention some things really quick about starting in just one verse. Psalm 119, verse 37. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in my way. What happens if the light is shining just right on a window, or it's dark outside and light inside the window, or hay, turns into a mirror?

And the psalmist knows our tendency to vanity, and to look to ourselves instead of God. The psalmist, again, is asking God to help and refrain from the tendencies of the flesh. Pride and vanity are part of our sinful nature. Even when we do good, we are still prone to sin. Our Lord Jesus Christ said this in Matthew 6, verse 3, When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what the right hand doeth. Don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing, or we will be lifted up in our own pride and vanity.

Then the psalmist prays for Lord God to quicken thou me in thy way. In other words, Lord, give me life in the way that you would have me to live fleeing from my sinful nature and applying the God given fruits of the spirit, which is ultimately the law of love.

Lord, help us to love you more and help us to love people more. I think it's easier to love God because we know all blessings flow from him. But sometimes it's hard to love people, especially those who hurt us. But we must try in order to fulfill the new law of love. We don't know who and when God is going to call someone out of darkness. I mean, let's face it, the sun rises every morning because God is sheep that are going to be saved. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise.

We read in second Peter three, nine, as some men count slackness, but as long suffering to us, we're not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And this is the part I want to talk about real quick. The scripture, this is one of those scriptures that has been severely messed with in all the newfangled versions of the Bible that man has messed with to tickle ears and deceive people. The scripture is one of many that prove that we should be studying in the King James Version because it's the most accurate translation from the original Hebrew text.

The Good News translation says he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to be destroyed. The New Living translation says he's patient for your sake, not wanting anyone to be destroyed. The American Standard says long-suffering to you, not wishing that any should perish. The problem with those translations is when the original text says God is long-suffering to us-ward, The apostle Peter is speaking of the lost sheep and the apostles, not to you, not to someone who needs God. I mean, and not to you who doesn't need God to call you out of darkness, but can make a decision to be saved.

Peter is speaking of the fact that God will not lose one of his sheep, and God is not willing to lose one of his sheep. God has not lost one of his sheep because God cannot fail. The ear candy translations go on to describe an impotent God, not an omnipotent God. A God who can't do anything without your decision. A God who wishes and wants. Those are human terms. Our God doesn't wish or want or need. He didn't pray to some genie to create everything. He spoke it into existence. He doesn't need, he doesn't want, and he doesn't wish. That's a God with our own imagination. If God is trying, your pastor is lying. It's on the wall outside, or in this case, your Bible translation is lying. God will not share his glory with man concerning the miracle of salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ will always receive all the glory, all the time, for the God-given gift of faith to believe the gospel of Christ and him crucified as the only hope a sinner has for salvation.

And we need to continually recognize we're living in a spiritual warfare. Ephesians 6, 12 says, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. And in 2 Timothy 2, 24 through 26, A servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient in meekness, instructing those who oppose themselves. If God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth. and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will."

That's a powerful scripture. These are the people we interact with every day. Unless they're saved sinners, they're servants of the devil. It says it right there. And they don't even know it. They don't believe what happened in the garden. There's only two groups of people, saved sinners and servants of Satan.

I know it's a bold statement, but I declare with the authority of God's word, in 2 Timothy 2.26 is the scripture to back it up.

If you want to hear more about Psalms, Come next weekend for Bible study. Thank you, brother. Well, there you go. It goes right along with the message that I want to bring before you this morning. I'd like to ask you if you would turn your Bibles to the book of Acts, chapter 13. And while you're turning there, Allow me to read from 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 1 through 5. Paul, writing to the Corinthians, wrote these words as he was inspired by God Almighty, the Holy Spirit.

He says, And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom. Man, I tell you, If you were to hear the Bible study today, you would say, there's a description of John. I don't have excellency of speech. I stumble over things all the time. I'm a truck driver. I didn't have to know very much. I didn't have to go to college. I didn't have to go to school. I'm not a very wise man. When I came to you, I came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God."

That's what we do. That's what God's men do. We come just like Brother Mike just did. He came declaring the testimony of God. the almighty creator of everything, sovereign ruler over all that is. That's our rock. That's the rock that our faith is built on.

I hope and pray you'll be able to join us next week, even though I'll be here on the electronic television. I want to talk to you folks about blind faith next Sunday, but for this Sunday, I want to talk to you about this salvation, this testimony of God. Paul goes on to write these words, he says, For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. You folks who were able to be here last Sunday witnessed the man before you trembling. You remember. I was at one of my weakest points last Sunday. I didn't even know, I felt like I was muddling through concrete before you. I was pouring my heart out. Well, that's what Paul's talking about here.

I was with you in weakness and fear and much trembling and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom. But in demonstration of the Spirit and power, power of God, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Are you with me? In Acts chapter 13, look at two verses if you would. Verse 25.

And as John fulfilled his course, this is Paul speaking of John the Baptist, he said, whom think ye that I am? I am not he. Remember, they thought he might be the Messiah, that he might be the chosen one who would come. And he said, I am not that one.

But behold, there cometh one after me whose shoes of his feet I'm not worthy to lose. This is the message of every single preacher that preaches God's Word in truth. Remember, it's got to be in truth or it's not preaching. This is the message. I am not worthy of this one. I'm not even worthy to lose his shoes.

Now look at verse 26. men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham." Okay, Paul is addressing a certain group of people here, children, you who have come from the loins of Abraham, you who are called Israel in the world. But notice what he says next, So not only is He addressing those who are the Israel of God, those who are chosen, the frozen chosen, the frozen chosen of God, not just them alone, but any.

Look! Look what it says next. But whosoever among you feareth God. Wow! Not just the Jews alone, but those of you who Who feareth God to you is the word of this salvation sent. And that's what I want to talk to you this morning about. This salvation sent. Unto you is the word, the message of this salvation sent. This salvation. Well, what is this salvation? There's all kinds of people out there preaching salvation of one kind or another.

There's those who are preaching that if you will come down to the front of the church and pray a prayer with us, you too can be saved. There are those who are preaching that if you will worship on Saturday, the true Sabbath, which is not the true Sabbath. Scriptures are very clear, the true Sabbath is Jesus Christ the Lord. He's the one that we have our rest in, not on some day of the week, But they're preaching that if you come down and worship on Saturday with us, you can be saved. Or how about getting into the waters of baptism? If you do that, you can be saved.

There's some folks from the Calvary movement, the Calvary Chapel movement, and they'll get up on stage behind a man, usually, and you'll see them doing these weird things, going around, doing this kind of stuff. I asked one time, what is that guy doing back there? And the guy in the church that I was with, he convinced me to go with him. This was a long time ago, I won't let somebody do that again. But he convinced me that because he came to this church with me, I had to go with him. Okay, I did. What's that guy doing up there on stage? Well, he's speaking in tongues. Nobody could hear him. He was kind of mumbling, you know, dancing around. Whoa, that was weird stuff.

If you speak in tongues, You too will be saved is what they preach. What is this salvation that Paul is talking about right here in our text? To you is the word, the message of this salvation sent. Oh, there's so much in that little phrase right there for us to consider.

And to you, not just the stock of Abraham, Not just those that call themselves Israel, but to those of you who fear God. And what that means, fear God, is reverential fear. In fear, be reverential to Him. He's our majesty. He's our creator. Like you said, if He's trying, He's not God. Our God does not try. He does not worship as Mike brought before. See how that... He just opened the door for me there, Mike.

Thank you so much. You know who did that? God. That's right. Our Lord did that. He worked in this man's heart to bring out exactly what He said to lead into what I'm saying right now. God does that all the time for us, doesn't He? Oh, the fact that he leads Kathy to pick out songs.

This is the God we're talking about, who rules over everything, even the hearts of men, even the hearts of the wicked. You know, those guys who think that every Christian ought to be killed? You know which group I'm talking about. You know God rules over their hearts as well?

If he didn't want them there, they wouldn't be there. How often do we read in the Old Testament where God took an entire people out? Not only did He take the entire people out, He took all their cattle and all their animals and everything about them and burned everything. I'm telling you, our God does not want, He does.

What is this salvation? And to whom is it sent? Let's consider the Scripture. As it says over in verses 16-23, look at verse 16 if you would with me. Then Paul stood up and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. Did you notice again? Here it is, he's not only talking to the Jewish people, those who were chosen of God, those who had the oracles of God, he's talking to those who fear God. Give audience to me, hear the words.

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt. And with a high arm, with a powerful arm, folks, our God was so powerful, He brought all those plagues against Egypt. And not one person in Israel, not one person of the Jewish nation, not one person who truly feared God suffered anything of those seven plagues.

He brought with a high arm them out of it, and about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness, And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot. And after that, he gave it to them judges about the space of 450 years, and to Samuel, the prophet. And after they desired a king, and he gave it to them Saul, the son of Sis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of 40 years. And when he had removed him, he raised killed Goliath. All of this I'm bringing before you because I want you to see the lineage of something. I want you to see God and how he worked all things out over hundreds of years. Hundreds of years. Let's go on.

David, to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart which shall fulfill all my will of this man's seed, of David's seed, hath God, according to his promise, raised unto Israel a Savior." What is this salvation? What is this salvation that is sent out unto a people who fear God? Jesus Christ the Lord. That's what that just told us there. He is raised unto Israel, a Savior, Jesus.

Now to confirm the lineage that I'm talking to you about here, turn over to Matthew chapter 1. We'll just look at a couple of verses there if you would. Matthew chapter 1. I want you to see the lineage that Paul was just talking about. The lineage that God has recorded in His Scriptures over in Matthew chapter 1. We read in verse 1, the book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. And we can, well, let's just go through this. Let's go through it, shall we? Through verse 6. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren, And Judas begat Pharis, and Zammar, and Thammar. And Pharis begat Esrum.

And Esrum begat Aram. And Aram begat Nebidadab. And Nebidadab begat Nason. And Nason begat Solomon. And Solomon begat Boaz and Rahab. And Boaz begat Obed of Ruth. And Obed begat Jesse. And Jesse begat David, the king. And David, the king, begat Solomon. of her that had been the wife of Uriah. And Solomon begat Roboam, and Roboam begat Abiah, and Abiah begat Asia. So, oh, I went further than I was supposed to. We were supposed to stop there at six. So we see where Jesse begat David. So David came from the root of Jesse. Now look over at verse 16.

And Jacob begat Joseph. Now this is talking about how all of these people came through David And the Bible clearly records the very one that it's talking about here back in our text in verse 23. Of this man seed, of David's seed, hath God, according to his promise, raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus. What is this salvation? Now look at verse 16 here. In Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called the Christ.

So we see the prophecies fulfilled, don't we? And I wanted to take you through that so you could see that personally. You may have already looked at it once before, but isn't it always good to go back and look at things again, seeing that new angle to the diamond that we've seen?

We've seen the prophecy fulfilled of whom verse 23 in our text is speaking of. And we also see in verse 23, for whom this salvation is for. Look at it again, back in our text of Acts chapter 13. of this man's seed have God, according to His promise, raised unto, He's raised it up unto you and I, He's raised it up unto all of those for whom He died. Now remember, Christ has died, Christ went to the cross for a whole multitude of people.

I know we're just Edward asked me about where that phrase, chosen, came from as we were in the break earlier, and I had to explain to him, that was my mother. That was a woman who believed that God saved people through all kinds of religions, even though they're false. She believed that God saved people through a lie. He who is truth, the one that we must worship in spirit and in truth, she calls us His frozen chosen.

Not a good thing. It wasn't a compliment. Folks, Christ went to the cross for Israel and those who fear God. Elect my chosen. Jesus Christ is the Savior of Israel And this is whom he came to save. Well, that leaves me out, if it's just Israel. But thankfully, the writer here, Paul, wrote these words. He says, and those who fear God. Paul was sent out to the surrounding nations. He was the apostle to the Gentiles. He was sent out to the surrounding nations to preach this very gospel. And that's what he's doing here. He's preaching this very gospel of Christ and Him crucified to the Gentile nations. Listen to Acts chapter 9 verse 15. For he, speaking of Paul, is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles. So see, the good news can come right to you and I, can't it?

Not all of the nation of Israel are spiritual Israel, are they? I'm not saying the folks over there on the other side of the ocean, on the other side of the world from us aren't God's people. There might be some. I'm just telling you that according to God's Word, Israel is not God's people. He has his people spread throughout all the nations. That includes there may be some in the Muslim nations as well. Every nation every tribe, every tongue throughout all time.

Romans chapter 2, verse 28, 29, we read these words. For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that a circumcision, which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew which is one circumcision has nothing to do with this physical body. It has to do with the heart. When God talks about circumcising the heart, and He's talking to you, and if you're saved of God, if you've been enlightened by God to know the truths of His Word, you know that you used to have a heart that was darker than anything.

See, the light has come on. Christ has shined the light of His glory in the hearts of His people. And we see it. If somebody came in and turned the lights on, and the furniture is all right there in front of us now. We know we couldn't see it before, do we?

For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither that of circumcision which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew which is one inwardly. The circumcision is that of the heart. The old stony heart must be cut away in a new heart. A new spirit must be put within us. Circumcision is that of the heart and the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. Only God can give us a new heart. John 4, verse 24, God is spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Look over Romans chapter 8, if you would. Romans chapter 8. Familiar words. What is this salvation? This salvation is the salvation of the Spirit. That's what it's talking about in Ephesians chapter 2 when the Lord says quickening. It's right here in Romans chapter 8 as well when He talks about quickening the Spirit. But over in chapter 2 of Ephesians He talks about quickening. It's quickening of the Spirit. It's giving life to the new heart.

Here in chapter 8, verse 1 of Romans, we read these words, there is therefore now no condemnation. Folks, everything that we have done to deserve being condemned before God, everything that we have done, everything that we will do in this flesh was laid upon our substitute. He who knew no sin was made sin. Therefore, there is no condemnation. He who offered once his own body unto God as a sacrifice, there is therefore now no condemnation. No condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but what?

After the Spirit. Oh, that means so much. In my spirit, we've gone over this so many times in the last year. In my spirit, I want to walk exactly how God would want me to walk. I want to walk in perfectness with my Lord's law. But I don't and I can't. My Savior has.

You notice what this is doing? This is taking us from what we see in the mirror and pointing us to Him. I want to point that out to you because at the end of the message you'll see why. It's causing us to look away from this flesh. Oh, that's our biggest trouble, folks. How often we get in trouble looking to the flesh. Trying to have some confidence in what it is we're doing.

Am I doing the things of God? Instead of asking that, ask this question. Did Christ do everything for me? Did Christ do all the things of God for me? Did He perfectly save me? Or did He leave one thing for me to mess up? It says in verse 2, For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. I know all about that, do you? Oh yeah, all the heads banging up and down. You bet I know. You bet we know. And that it was weak.

For the law could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. And for sin condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk Not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

This is spiritual Israel. This is what Paul was talking about a moment ago. It's not of the circumcision, it's of the heart. It's a heart matter. It's a new heart, a new heart that calls Him our God. Because He calls us His people. Do you ever stop and think, You ever just really try to contemplate the words where he says, my sheep hear my voice? And you just kind of wrap your mind around it. It's kind of fun. It's, my sheep hear my voice. I remember when I didn't hear it. I remember when I couldn't hear anything but John. How about you? Do you remember those times?

And then someday, one day, the Lord brought each and every one of us before the preaching of His Word, and we began to hear Him. That's ears of the heart. That's the new heart. The heart that says, I'm willing to call Him my God. He's not just God of everything, He's my God. You do the same. You're doing the same thing today. You're here today to worship your God. You're calling the God of scriptures, the God of creation, the God of all that is, my God, because He has given you a new heart. What is this salvation and who is it for? It's for His people. My sheep hear my voice. Oh, good words. Who or what can separate one from Him for whom he died? Look over 8, chapter 8, verse 31 through 35. For what shall we say then to these things, if God is for us? If God is for us, who can be against us?

I remember the first time I... One of the first times I heard that phrase preached on, and it just jumped out at me. There's so much truth in this. Even John can't mess it up. My God is so good, He's not leaving anything for John to do or John to decide. He's doing it for me. He's done it for me with His Son, the Lord Jesus. He's doing it for me right now. And He's sitting on His throne today, working everything out for our purpose, for our good.

What shall we say then? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son. How often have I mentioned to you the greatness, the majestic sight that God laid down His life He sent His only begotten Son. He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us. How shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is He that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again. who is even at the right hand of God, who maketh intercession for us, who shall separate us from the love of Christ.

He paid the debt. He satisfied the justice of God. He would not leave a single dot for a fallible man like myself to fulfill. For if he did, we would fail at it. Christ would then lose what he had given his life for, and we know that God cannot fail. If one for whom he died could face his own judgment, the Christ of Scripture is a failure and unworthy of worship. But God cannot fail.

Listen to John 6, verse 37. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. Is there any room for a wiggling in that statement? Is there anything that could slip through a crack there? I don't think so. There are no cracks with God. He's the solid rock, folks.

He is our solid rock, and that's what we stand on every day. When we look into the mirror and see the failness and the weakness of His flesh, our only hope is in Him. Our only hope is looking to the One who sits on His throne. The Word of Salvation is the Word of Christ and Him crucified, and this is the Word that we preach. It's the Word of Power.

Turn over to Ephesians chapter 2. And while you're turning here, let me read from 1 Thessalonians 1 verse 4-5. Knowing, brethren, beloved, of your election, there you go, the frozen chosen, the Israel of God, those who fear God, the beloved, knowing of your election, for our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. Men speak the Word with an audible voice, but God must speak to the heart with power. This is how the salvation is brought to men. Let me read for you from Romans chapter 10. I got ahead of myself there on that turning to Ephesians. Let me read for you. You know the words. Let's read it anyway.

For the scripture says, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed, for there is no difference between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher. This is how the salvation is brought to men through the preaching of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And all those who were given to the Son before the star ever twinkled in the sky are the ones for whom this salvation comes to.

Look with me at verse 11 of Ephesians chapter 2 if you would. Wherefore remember, that ye, being in times past, Gentile, in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands, that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God and You know, you could change that phrase to this, but God, and it wouldn't make any difference in what its meaning is. But now, in Christ, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh to the blood of Christ, for He is our peace. the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in the ordinance, were to make of Himself of twain one new man, so making peace. And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby." The opposition to the far off to them that were not. For through Him, through Christ, we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God."

Look down at verse 1 of chapter 3. For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if ye have heard from the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you, how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, that is, I wrote before a few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, and is now revealed by his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. Remember, how does God bring this message of salvation to his people? Through the preaching of the word, as we read a moment ago in Romans, verse six, that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel." Oh, that's some good news right there. What is this salvation spoken of in our text in the book of Acts? Christ and Him crucified.

Whom is it being sent to? God's chosen people. Listen to John chapter 6, verse 38-40, and I'll bring this to a close in just a second. For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will. These are the words of the Lord Jesus Himself. But the will of Him that sent me. Folks, Christ came here for a purpose. He didn't come down here to make salvation possible. He came to save His people. That's our solid rock. The Lord Jesus.

He came by the will of Him that sent Me, and this is the Father's will, He says, which hath sent Me, that all, all which He hath given Me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again the last day. And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that everyone would see it, the Son, and believeth on Him."

Now, stop there for just a moment. My sheep hear My voice. I see the heads bouncing up and down. Yeah, that's right. That's exactly what it's saying there. He that believeth on Him may have everlasting life. Here's to salvation. And here's to it's to. It's to you. You who hear the Word of God according to the Word of God. You may have everlasting life.

And Christ says this, I will raise Him up the last day. It is the will of God the Father. to send His Son to pay the price of sin for those He has loved from before the world was. Everything Christ did was to bring a multitude that no man can number to know and worship Him for eternity. Ephesians 2 verse 4-7, But God, who is rich in mercy for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us. quickened us together with Christ by grace you are saved, and has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come, He might show the exceeding riches of His grace. That's pretty rich, isn't it? That's pretty rich. Folks, if you have Christ, you have everything.

This world is not our home. Everything we have here, that old joke, I'm taking it with me, that's just a joke. I've never, ever, ever heard of anybody able to take it with them. Oh, they can take it into the ground, but it doesn't go anywhere from there, does it?

Look at all the stuff that they're discovering over there in the pyramids. They're digging up graves left and right now. There are all kinds of gold and treasures and everything. Guess what? It's still in the ground. Not one of those people could take it with them wherever it was they went, could they?

What is this salvation? The Son of God coming as our substitute. Our scapegoat. being made a curse for us, made sin that we would be made the righteousness of God in Him. Who is this salvation for? Those who look to Christ. Those who look to Christ alone, according to the Scriptures, for their salvation. Listen to these words, John 3 verse 14 and 15. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish.