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Q: What does the Bible say about Jesus saving his people from their sins?

The Bible affirms that Jesus, conceived by the Holy Spirit, was sent to save His people from their sins, as stated in Matthew 1:21. In Matthew 1:21, it is declared that Jesus was named because He shall save His people from their sins. This emphasizes the depth of His mission: He did not come to address merely worldly issues like disease or government oppression, but to deliver His people from their sins. The phrase 'His people' denotes that there is a particular group whom He came to save, establishing the doctrine of particular redemption, which aligns with the sovereignty of God in the plan of salvation. This foundational truth highlights that our assurance of salvation rests not on our deeds but solely on Christ's atoning sacrifice.

Q: How do we know that Jesus is the Messiah?

We know Jesus is the Messiah through the prophecies fulfilled in His birth and the clear declarations in Scripture, notably Matthew 1:21. The assurance that Jesus is the Messiah stems from the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies and the declarations made at His birth. Matthew 1:21 specifically names Jesus as the one who shall save His people from their sins, indicating His role as Savior. Furthermore, references to His miraculous conception confirm His divine nature and unique status as the promised Redeemer. His entire life, ministry, death, and resurrection serve as further evidence of His messianic identity, aligning perfectly with the prophetic expectations laid out by the prophets over centuries.

Q: Why is the concept of Jesus saving us from our sins important for Christians?

The concept is vital as it assures Christians of their salvation and the completeness of Christ's atoning work. Understanding that Jesus saves us from our sins is paramount for Christians because it forms the basis of our faith and assurance of salvation. The doctrine asserts that all sin, past, present, and future, is fully dealt with by Christ's sacrifice, freeing believers from condemnation. This truth not only brings comfort but also inspires a life of gratitude and obedience. It emphasizes that salvation is an act of God's grace alone and not of our own merits. Such understanding fosters a relationship built on love and reverence toward God, encouraging believers to live in a manner that reflects their saved status.

Q: How does faith play a role in knowing God?

Faith is essential for knowing God, as it enables us to understand His promises and assure us of His character. Faith serves as the bridge that connects us to the knowledge of God. The Scripture teaches that the natural man cannot comprehend spiritual truths without the divine gift of faith. It is faith that allows believers to embrace promises such as those found in Romans 8:28, affirming that all things work together for good to those who love God. Moreover, it is through faith that we receive the assurance of salvation, knowing that Jesus' sacrifice was sufficient to cover all our sins. Thus, faith is not merely an intellectual agreement but a transformative trust that impacts how we live and worship.

Q: Why is it said that salvation is by grace alone?

Salvation is claimed to be by grace alone because it is God's unmerited favor, not dependent on human effort or merit. The doctrine of grace alone emphasizes that salvation is entirely the work of God and not the result of human effort or merit. Ephesians 2:8-9 underlines this by stating that we are saved through faith and that not of ourselves; it is the gift of God. This challenges the common notion that individuals can earn their way to God through good deeds or religious acts. By asserting that salvation is a free gift, the doctrine highlights God’s sovereignty in choosing a people for Himself based on His grace and mercy. This understanding fosters humility in believers, as it recognizes our total dependence on Christ's atoning work rather than any personal accomplishments.

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It's good to Laura, she's making a cake with one of her friends. That's a new one. She makes a sandwich here and tells everybody to eat it for her. I remember later she kicked Ari and broke his foot. Let's begin our worship services. We'll be married 55 years this month. Next month.

My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness I cannot trust the sweetest praise But wholly lean on Jesus' name I rest on His unchanging grace Every high and stormy gale My anchor holds within the veil On Christ the solid rock I stand All around me is sinking sand On Christ the solid rock I stand on with trumpet sound. Oh, may I be in Him, in Him be found. Praised be His righteousness, so long. All blest to stand before the King. Long rise to solid ground.

But around me it was sinking sand. when, as his mother Mary was a spouse to Joseph before they came together, she was found a child of the Holy Ghost. And Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately. And while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and I shall call his name Jesus.

For he shall save his people from their sins. That's right. Our Father in heaven, great and glorious, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, plenteous in mercy, you who pity your children as a father, Yet by the blood of Jesus Christ, you have forgiven all our sins. We rejoice to know, even as he was in the womb of his mother, who he was was clearly set forth and declared as the Savior Jesus, who would indeed save his people from their sins. We thank you, Father, that we can commemorate that we can look at that death and know that in that death is our life and our eternity and all that we could ever hope to be. It's found solely in that glorious sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, we pray for those who are sick, especially Julie. She's recovering from a knee operation. We pray also for Cynthia. She's prepared to be operated on, the same type of operation at the end of the month. Pray for Lita, her healing will be quick.

Pray for the others who requested prayer, Lord, we pray you to comfort the souls who've lost loved ones and be merciful and kind, healing to those who are sick. And help us this hour, Father, to praise you and thank you because we know that everything we have, we have by mercy and grace.

We deserve nothing from you, save wrath and anger. But you have fixed it, so those things will never apply to us in any way. We bless you for that, and thank you in Christ's name, amen. Free from the woe of mankind's condition. He judged and fled, and there his remission. Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall. Praise and redeem, that is the voice for all. Water of the world, savior receive. Christ can redeem us once and for all. Now are we free, there's no condemnation. Jesus and my child, perfect salvation. Come unto me, oh, here is your God. Oh Toronto, see her receiving! Oh Toronto, rise and redeem him! He who the cross will burn and conform, rise and redeem us once more! The Lord is calling, surely His grace will keep us from falling. As we forgive you, life lives on, blessing salvation once more on.

Watch for all of sin receiving, watch for all of brethren relieving. You do what God shall, you'll learn when you are right, when you need right. Watch for all. That's right. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, our great Savior, our Master, our younger brother, our dearest friend, the unspeakable gift that you have given to every one of your children, given to him, given to them in his spirit, and inter-dwells us and causes us to look to Jesus Christ, who teaches us and leads and guides us in the whole truth. And the truth in this parable to which he teaches us later is that our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and vices. As we bring unto thee that which belongs to you, let us do so with joy and thanksgiving, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

It's been a long time since I've felt this way so so So, I invite your attention back to Matthew chapter 1, verse 21, the starting place of the message this morning. And I chose that passage of Scripture because it's well known to those who know the Gospel. It's one of those passages of Scripture that cannot be questioned, that is so self-explanatory and so plain and understanding as to what it says. And a person who would disbelieve it, is no doubt, without question, an unbeliever and infidel.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, before he was born, while he was still in his mother's womb, an angel visited him. What would be his earthly father, but not his true parent. The Lord was his father. I don't begin to understand how that worked, but that's what the scriptures say, so I know it's true. An angel told Joseph, who was a son of David, in the line of Benjamin, that that which was in his mother, in his spouse's womb, was actually generated by the Holy Ghost of God. And Luke, the angel, said at the birth of Christ, you may talk to Mary, she's that holy thing that is in that womb. These are the Holy Ghost. And this is the fact of that birth that changed the world altogether.

And he was to be named Jesus, which is a derivative of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior. Comes from the word Jehovah, which means God the Savior. Now so call His name Jesus because He's going to do something. He shall save His people. So He has people. And those people are going to be saved. He shall save His people. from their sins. He's not going to save them from disease. He's not going to save them from being overthrown by governments. He's not going to save them from crime and trouble in this world. But every sin that any one of his people have ever committed or ever will commit was forgiven and put away by this one who yet resided in his mother's womb. Lord Jesus Christ, he shall save his people from their sin.

That's something that is plainly and clearly known. Known. The unique character of We won't answer. We don't like not knowing stuff, not knowing what's going on. And this desire is at the same time both a curse and a blessing. It is a blessing because man's inquisitiveness has led to vast fields of endeavor that have brought leaps and bounds and knowledge and progress in science, engineering, medicine, and discovery. What Judy just went through, This past week was unheard of when I was a child. Never even thought of it. Never even thought of it.

That's the promise of a man questioning and wondering and trying to find out something, and that's a good thing. There's also a curse because the same inquisitiveness leaves men in a constant state of dissatisfaction and often causes him to seek an answer for things that he cannot and will not ever know. And he would be better off not knowing.

When life is boiled down to reality, man is small and insignificant. In his sphere of influence, rarely exceeds the borders of home and community. To him, it seems big because it takes up all his waking hours, but in the grand scheme, our lives are but a blip on the radar of time, much less eternity. Men and women are bound by time and circumstance, and operated a very minuscule and tiny existence. Their world is not the vast universe, but it's composed pretty much on the street which they live, the habits they have, the achievements they've done, the rituals that they've followed every day, in and out, for the short time they're here on this planet. And it is a short time. The older you get, the more you realize how short this time is.

Those who make great strides in arts and sciences do so because they generally give themselves to that pursuit with such diligence that it totally fills their lives at the expense of everything else. The greatest place for error, however, in this world is where men seek to intrude where they're not welcome. namely in the area of understanding God.

One of the reasons I pondered this message was that I'm hearing people talk about God all the time now. Politicians on the right and the left, which are just different wings on the same bird. They talk about God a lot. I would call his name out, and they say, God wants us to do this, and God wants us to do that. Movie stars, television personnel, newscasters all seem at ease to reference him, God, and say what God does and what God.

The fact is, he said to Isaiah, That does not mean that we're close in thinking. It means that whatever he thinks ain't nothing like what we think. And what we think is nothing like what he thinks. His thoughts are not our thoughts, and his ways are not our ways.

Just in the general sense, we understand that because we're saved by grace. But we live in a world that still, to some degree, in the nation in which we live, has to do with merit. You work hard, you get promotion. That's right, and that's understandable. We understand that. You get a reward for working hard, for getting an education to do a certain job, to learning a job and doing it. You get praised for doing that.

But none of that works in God's thoughts. God only looks to merit in one person that's ever lived on the face of the earth, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing you or I do, or can do, or would do, or have ever done has anything to do with our salvation. God simply, according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will, chose a people to say before the foundation of the world, and was gracious unto them, and merciful unto them, and to no one else. And people are saved from their sin because of God's grace through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing else.

That's not the way we think. And that's why religion in general today, there's only two religions in the world. There's a religion that believes that they can work and merit to a place where they can be accepted by God based on that merit. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether you're Baptist, or Presbyterian, or Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist, no matter who you are, you have a religion. And that religion is this, if I do right, if I work hard enough, if I try to clean up my act, if I try to be better, God will accept me. And then there's this other religion that's just one of them.

And that religion says, I didn't do anything. And I couldn't do anything, and God did everything. Just two religions on the face of the earth. God's thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways. And the distance between these thoughts of God and that which is of man is unsearchable, higher than the heavens, deeper than the seas.

We've all had experiences. We have experienced, we've experienced a great deal of life. If people here today could tell us stories that we wouldn't believe, that have happened to them in their existence here on this earth. And experiences are a good thing as far as they go. And we have become so adept to lying to ourselves that experience is little more than a perception of events. And generally, Based on our natural bias, we're born of how we want ourselves to look when the story is finally told. God has given us the gift of faith, and it is a gift, and it is a blessed and wondrous gift. God has given us the gift of faith.

Our knowledge of him is exclusive. We do know some things about God. And it's exclusive to these two areas. what he has done and what he has promised. The words concerning the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ was a promise. He shall save his people from their sin. We have that understanding of God. We cannot know what he's doing in the present except we know what he's already done. we can know that he has done whatsoever he has pleased for that's the clear declaration of scripture and that being the case we can only speak of God's intent and purpose in those two realms we can look at what has taken place to be assured that it was God's intent because that's what happened I've said many times you want to know what God is doing in this world read the news you'll find out what he's done we live in a A world that seems chaotic, seems out of whack, out of pocket. But know this, whatever happened yesterday, in all of this work, was what God intended to happen.

He's the God of heaven and earth. Nothing occurs outside His will or purpose. I was raised in a religion that always talked about being outside his will. It was talking about my rebellion. With the wrath of God, the wrath of man shall praise God and the rest of the world is strength, saith the scripture. He has made the wicked for the day of evil. He said that. He created them. I create the wicked for the day of evil. I create evil. He said that in Isaiah 45.

Folks who do not know Him question His will and His purpose when it does not fit their will and their purpose. Secondly, if He's given us faith, we can be assured of His promises, not by sight or by empirical evidence or provable fact, but proven to the believer by the fact that God has given him faith. The believer is sure because he's been given faith to believe. Our assurance is not in what we can feel, or what we can see, or what we can empirically bring forth evidence, or what we can prove. Our faith is based on the Word of God, the promise of God.

Just as Peter said to the Lord Jesus Christ when the other disciples left him, he said, will you leave me also? And he said, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life, and we believe. and not sure. And that's the way, that's the line that follows.

We aren't sure and that makes us believe. We believe and are sure. That makes no sense to anybody except those who have faith. How do I know I believe? Well, that's crazy. It's foolishness of the world, but that's how I know. I know. Because God has given me faith to believe. Having said that, believers can know some things for sure about God.

Some things we can't know. We know from Deuteronomy 29, 29 the secret things belong to God and that which is revealed belongs to us and our children. But that which is secret belongs to God. Most of that happens in what we call sovereign providence. Can we stand with scratching our head most of the time of what's going on in this world? It's God's doings. And often we say, I want to wonder what He is doing. This doesn't seem to make sense. It's His secret, you see. Not for us to know.

Since nothing in this book can be understood or received apart from faith, for the natural man receiveth not the same as the spirit, there foolishness to him, neither can he know no concern, but the spiritual man doth understand all things. He understands all things. In that sense, he knows all things because he knows all things are of God. That's the principle that controls our understanding of knowing all things and having in mind the Lord Jesus Christ.

In our text, prior to the birth of Christ, when Joseph pondered on what to do about his pregnant spouse, the Lord told him something sure. Quoting later from Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 9. Or 9, verse 6, rather. But He told him something was sure, that Christ was the Son of God. That which is born of that woman is of the Holy Ghost. and that he was born for a particular task and that task would be accomplished and of that there would be no doubt.

Not only that it is clear that when the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world he came to do what he did for some folks that were already his people before he was born. They were his people. They were already his people. His people, bought and paid for in eternal grace, but they were already His, but before He was bought, they were already His people. Later, as those faced Him in unbelief and said, we don't believe you're the Son of God, we don't believe you're the man from heaven.

He said, that don't matter, all that the Father gave of me shall come to me, and him that cometh from me, I don't know why it's cast out. You see, I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me. And this is the will of Him that sent me, that all the Father's given me. I said, there's nothing to raise it up again like that.

Then another group of unbelievers says, you don't believe because you're not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me, and I give them to them eternal life, and they shall never perish. My sheep, His people. Behold, I am the children that thou hast given me, the Lord said.

He had a people. Hebrews 2 said the reason, because they were flesh and blood, his people. He partook of the same, that he might redeem them and deliver them from the power of the devil. We need not conjecture as to why Christ came into this world and took on the limitation of human flesh and lived and walked among men and went to the cross of Calvary.

The Word of God is clear on these things. The believer says, I can know this. We do know some things. We know that all things work together for good, that they love God, that they will be called according to His purpose. We know we've passed from death to life because we love the brethren. We know we're not redeemed by incorruptible things like silver gold, but with the incorruptible blood of the Lamb. We know that. We know that. And the believer can say, I know this, we know he came from glory.

And he came from glory to glorify the Father. By finishing the work that the Father gave to him to do. That's what he says in John 17, verse 4. He said, I have finished, glorify me with the glory I had before the foundation of the world. For I have glorified thee, I have saved, or I have finished the work that the Father has given me to do. I've finished the work. I've glorified thee on earth. I've finished the work which thou gavest me to do." What did he come to do?

Put away sin. Bring in everlasting consciousness. Seal up the prophecy of this book. He came to glorify God in the salvation of sinners. That's the language of God. Read John 17, that high priestly prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ and find out how many times he talked about glorifying God. Because that's what he came to do. And haven't he glorified? By doing what his name means. Saving his people from their sins. That's how he glorified God.

That was the job, the test he came to do. That was why he came. We know this, he came to die. He came for the purpose of dying. He said that to those disciples on the road to... Can't think of the road. Anyway, he said that in Luke 24. He said, Christ must have suffered. Ought Christ to have suffered? And to revive again? Didn't this have to happen? Of course it did.

Men that today in religion talk about this horrible thing called the cross, and it was a horrible experience for the Lord Jesus Christ. Physically it was a horrible experience, but it says in Hebrews 12 too that it was a joy for Him. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross disregarding the shame that was cast upon Him. And now sits at the right hand of the Father on high having accomplished the salvation of His people.

He came to die. We know that. Why? Because He died. Because He died. When He spoke in John chapter 12 about being glorified by the Father, He says, this is the death. This He spake of the death, which He should die. This was the hour of His power, the hour of His death. We know this. He came to secure the deliverance of the captives by paying the price of their release.

Scripture says, even as a son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister and give his life around him a minute. In Isaiah 61, it says, the Holy Spirit of God is upon me to deliver them that are captive, to heal the brokenhearted, to heal the sick, to bring them to everlasting or acceptable day of the Lord. Then he took Isaiah 61 and Luke chapter 4 and preached it to his own people and his own received it not.

They hated it. But he said the same thing. He read Isaiah 61 once. I tried to imagine that scene. I don't know how they were sitting down. I don't know exactly how they taught at the temple in those days. But he might have been sitting down when they handed him this roll, the Torah.

He opened it up and rolled it out to Isaiah 61 and read this. Read Isaiah 61, where it says, the Holy Spirit is upon me. He looked them in the eyes and they said, boy, he reads good. Well, he wrote it. It was his book. And then he looked him in the eye and said, today, this scripture is fulfilled before your eyes. Right here. And they were astonished. No, wait a minute. We know who you are. You're Joseph's son. We know you're Joseph's son. And he said, well, I promise I'll welcome you to my country. And then he went on to teach him a lecture. I went on to teach him that he had come to the Gentiles.

He was in a Jewish temple teaching Jews with Jewish literature and said, you know, you know, in Israel, there were many widows who died when the heavens were shut up and it didn't rain for three and a half years. Many widows died. The widows were suffering. But God didn't go to any widow or infant.

He went to a woman and surreptitiously. He sent his prophet to a woman and surreptitiously. And he said that because they had not received him. So he said, you reckon I didn't come for you? He said, not only that, there were many neighbors in the day. God didn't go to any leper and heal him.

He went to a Syrian captain and healed him of leprosy. Why? God's election is God's election. But you see, the leper and the widow that was visited by God were his people. And he shall save his people. from their sins. He came to deliver the captives by paying the price of their release.

We know that. We know He came to put away sin for scripture says that. For then must He have often suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. We know that. Sin has been put away. So I'm in what realm? Not mine. I have sinful thoughts. My heart is sinful. I'm embarrassed by what I think sometimes.

Walked around in this hall. Out of my bedroom, the other boy turned left and went up the hall. And he said, what comes in this mind? We've known the Lord for better than 50 years. That's what my mind said concerning this Christian. I don't know if there's anything to this. That's what my mind said. And I said, Lord, save me if I ain't saved. If you ain't saved me yet, save me now. I can't believe I thought something like that. But I think things. I still have to. But you know what? God didn't say that. God won't remember that. That sin before God did not exist. That wretched thought that crossed my filthy head did not exist before God. Because Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago put it away.

And I'll tell you what, that trips my trigger. That floats my boat. That floats my boat. He came to put away sin. I know this, He came to defeat and abolish death. But it's now made manifest by the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ to abolish death. and has brought life and immortality to life through the gospel. That's how we learn about life and immortality is through the gospel. And he's brought it. But he abolished death.

I've buried a lot of people. I was thinking about this the other day. All the people. Our original gang. That piggy came eight days after I got here. Chloe Moreno, Stan. He was eight, were here. I buried the rest of them. They were here when I got here. I think of them often. I miss them. I look forward to they will be reunited. But they didn't die. I put them in the ground, their old physical bodies. They went away from there and the spirit never sinned again, never had a sinful thought. Worship God without sin. Why didn't they die?

He abolished death and brought immortality to life and life to life. He came to fulfill, we know that. He came to fulfill, not merely express, He came to fulfill the love of God. Because behind all of this grace and this mercy and this shed blood on Jesus by Jesus Christ on Calvary, all of us backed up and empowered by the love of God. And hereby proceed with the love of God. How do you know that? He laid down His life for us. That's what Scripture says. That's how we know He loves us. He laid down His life for us.

Men talk about the love of God a great deal. Not every religion talks about the love of God, how God loves everybody. God has a wonderful plan for your life. According to this, whoever God loved, He saved. Everyone God loved, He saved. Why? Because that's what love is. That's what His love is. If He loved you, ever loved you, He always loved you, He will always love you, then He'll save you. He'll bring you to the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ expressed that. Now He died. How do we know He loved us? He died for us. Hereby perceive, understand, grasp the love of God. And He laid down His life for us.

He came to merit and earn the right as a man to be called Lord. He was already Lord over all. He's the Lord of creation, the Lord of promise, the Lord of salvation. He's Lord. That means He is absolutely in control of all things. That's what Lord means.

But also as a human being, when He took on the likeness of sinful flesh, in his body as a human being when he walked on this earth, he earned the right to be called Lord. He earned the right. And everybody's going to do it. Everybody's going to call him Lord one of these days because he earned the right.

That's what Scripture said. For to this end, for this purpose, how this ended up, for this end, to this end Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be the Lord of the living and the dead. Someone said, is that spiritual or natural? Yes. He's the Lord of the living and the dead. He's the Lord over those bodies who lie in the graveyard, because one day he's going to come back. And with a loud shout, those graves are going to open up, because he's Lord. They have to open up. They can't stay shut up. They got to open up because He's the Lord. He earned that right.

And that's what the Lord said in Philippians chapter 2 when He says He was obedient to the death of the cross. Wherefore, God has highly exalted Him. Because of His death on the cross, God has highly exalted Him and given Him a name that is above every name. And at that name, Jesus, at the name of Jesus, Savior, It's the one who saves people from their sins. At that thing, Jesus, every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that He's what?

The Lord! To the glory of the Father. We know that. He's Lord over all men. We know He came to be the righteousness of His people. by his dead. He whom you know sinned but was made to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God again. Made to be the righteousness of God. And we are. We're the righteousness of God. Because that's what God's made us to be. The Lord is our righteousness. It says then Jeremiah 23, 5 and 6. 33, 5 and 6. He is our righteousness.

That's what it says in Romans chapter 10, against those who would go out now to build up their own righteousness in order to be accepted by God. He said, they don't understand. They have not submitted to the righteousness of God. What is the, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness that them will believe.

He's it. He's the fulfillment Completely fulfill one of the law for righteousness to them that believe. Of God are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made under us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. We know that. I know this. I have a righteousness that's not mine. I don't have a righteousness of my own, and I dare not claim one. And I have one, and His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He is our righteousness.

We know that. And we know He came to give His people a particular understanding for a specific reason. He gave us understanding, that we know something for sure. Verse John 5, 20 says, And we know that the Son of God is come, that we may know Him that is true this is the understanding we know Him and that we are in Him that is true He's given us the understanding that we know Him and we are in Him even His Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and this is eternal life we have that understanding We know that.

And we know He came to live, that His people would live forever. He rose from the grave for our justification, but also for our eternal life. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more. But ye see me, because I live, and ye shall live also. And ye shall live also.

I love y'all. I love being with y'all. I love seeing your faces every week. It thrills my heart. And one of the reasons I do it is because I know I'm always going to see your faces. Look around you. We're always going to be together. Always. Because He lives. We live also. He came to live and his people would never die.

We know that. We know this. And that's why we continue to do this crazy thing every time, every time we get together. Worship God through the preaching of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we know that our Lord Jesus Christ came and saved sinners. Paul said this is a faithful savior worthy of all exaltation. That Christ Jesus came into the world safe and sound. That's why He came.

We know that. Heck, we know a lot of stuff now. Now we'll rehearse what we know. As we take the table of the Lord and rejoice in fact. And we know He died. And we discern in that body, eternal life by his dealings. All right. Stan, you're a student. I want you to have a drink.

On the night our Lord was betrayed, he took the bread and he blessed the bread and the wine. Let's ask the Lord to bless him upon this time. Father, bless us now to rehearse in our hearts, in our minds. And know that on the Calvary's tree 2,000 years ago, you actually secured our salvation and redeemed us by the blood of all this purchase that's possessed of you. And in due time, send someone to tell us the truth about what you've done. We thank you for through that gospel you gave us faith to believe. As we take this table, discerning the body and the blood of Jesus Christ, we do so knowing this is our life. His death is our life. Help us to understand and appreciate it. Father, we pray in Christ's name, amen.

Mm-hmm. preparing his disciples for his death, which would happen in just a short period of time. Our Lord took the bread, the unleavened bread of the Passover feast and the wine, and he broke it and handed it to his disciples and said, take it, this is a commodity broken for you. Often as you do this, do you remember something? That same night he took the cup, and after he blessed it, he said, this cup is the new covenant in my heart.

The new covenant. Because all the blood of the Old Testament never took away a sin. The new covenant. It's a whole different story. This blood saved you. This blood is on my hand. He said, as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, You show forth one thing, my death, until I come again. You do this and ruin it to me.

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow. That makes me white as snow, No other fount I know, Nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my hope and peace, Nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my righteousness, Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. We know we pass next to life because we love the brethren. Express that, if you will. God bless you.

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