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Clay Curtis

One in One

Galatians 3:19-20
Clay Curtis June, 7 2026 Video & Audio
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In his sermon "One in One," Clay Curtis addresses the doctrine of salvation by grace versus works, particularly emphasizing the inadequacy of the law in light of God’s covenant of grace. He argues that while many people understand the sinfulness of actions such as stealing and murder, they often fail to recognize that even their best works fall short of God's glory, as expressed in Isaiah 64:6. Curtis references Galatians 3:19-20, where Paul illustrates the law's role as a temporary measure "added because of transgressions," ultimately culminating in Christ's fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham (Galatians 3:16). The sermon highlights the importance of understanding salvation as a gift based solely on God's promise and Christ's completed work, rather than on human effort or adherence to the law, thereby affirming key Reformed doctrines such as unconditional election and justification by faith alone.

Key Quotes

“All our righteousnesses are filthy rags. This is what men don't understand.”

“Salvation by promise is far superior than salvation by law.”

“God wouldn’t even let them come near him when he gave the law... Moses was not a mediator to reconcile them; he was a mediator to declare no sinner can come to holy God.”

“Christ is a mediator who makes his people one.”

What does the Bible say about salvation by grace?

The Bible teaches that salvation is a gift from God, not something earned by our works or adherence to the law.

Salvation by grace is a core doctrine in the Christian faith, emphasized throughout Scripture. Passages such as Ephesians 2:8-9 highlight that we are saved by grace through faith, and it is not of ourselves; it is the gift of God. This signifies that our righteousness and justification come solely from Christ's work, confirming Paul's teachings in Galatians that the law cannot justify or save. The message of grace underscores that God, in His covenant promise, does the work of salvation for His people, demonstrating that our best efforts are still inadequate and reliant on His mercy.

Ephesians 2:8-9, Galatians 3:19-20

How do we know God's covenant promise is true?

God's covenant promise is true because it is rooted in His character and confirmed through Christ's redemptive work.

The certainty of God's covenant promise originates from His unchanging nature and faithfulness. In Galatians 3:17, Paul explains that the covenant God made with Abraham was confirmed in Christ long before the law was given, highlighting that the promise cannot be annulled by any subsequent law. This promise emphasizes that salvation is through faith in Christ, who is the fulfillment of God's covenant. The confidence we have in the truth of this promise is founded not only on biblical testimony but also on the historical reality of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, which secured our redemption.

Galatians 3:17, Ephesians 1:4-5

Why is understanding our sinfulness important for Christians?

Understanding our sinfulness helps Christians appreciate the necessity of God's grace and the work of Christ.

Recognizing our sinfulness is essential as it lays the foundation for understanding God's grace and the gospel. Romans 3:23 states that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, underscoring that no one can achieve righteousness through their own deeds, as all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). This realization drives home the point that we cannot approach God through the law, as we continually fail to meet its demands. It is only through acknowledgment of our sinful state that we fully grasp the depth of Christ's sacrifice and the immensity of God's grace, leading to genuine faith and repentance.

Romans 3:23, Isaiah 64:6

What does being one in Christ mean for believers?

Being one in Christ signifies that believers are united with Him and together as one body in faith.

Being one in Christ, as taught in Scriptures like Ephesians 4:4-6, indicates a profound unity among believers who are collectively the body of Christ. This unity means that, through faith, all are brought together as one, enriching the community of believers with the shared experience of salvation. The doctrine emphasizes that there are no divisions in Christ; all are equal participants in His grace and inheritance. Moreover, Christ as our mediator reconciles all believers to each other and to God, providing a foundation for peace and love within the church.

Ephesians 4:4-6, John 17:20-21

Sermon Transcript

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You notice in the text we read this morning, in the passage Brother Robbie just read, the passage I read, there's a constant mention of how we're saved by the Lord being our righteousness and not by the law. This is the message all through the scriptures.

I have preached all over this country, and I've preached in about five other countries, and I've never run into anybody that had any misunderstanding that stealing is sin. Everybody knows that. I've never run into anybody that didn't understand that murder is murder, it's sin.

And people even understand that thinking sinful thoughts is sin. But what I have run into is people not understanding that your very best deeds are sin. The very best a man can do, all our righteousnesses are filthy rags. This is what men don't understand.

A lot of people in this world believe that once you believe on Christ and confess Christ, now you have to keep the law and you have to become more holy by keeping the law. A lot of people believe that. I believe with all my heart that is what our Savior was speaking about when he said there would come some preaching a false gospel that if it were possible, they would deceive the very elect. Because it sounds good. It sounds good. They'll ascribe all the glory to God in every other area. Divine election.

They even claim they believe particular redemption. necessity of regeneration of the spirit, but then when it comes to sanctification, you have to do your part. Well, brethren, that was the problem at Galatia. That's exactly what Judaizers, legalists, were saying. They came to Gentile believers, you can find it in Acts 15, and they were saying, We know you believe Christ. We know you trust him for your righteousness, that he's justified you. But now, except you keep the law of Moses, you can't be saved.

And Peter said, God sanctified their heart. He purified their hearts, giving them faith in the Lord Jesus. And he bore witness that he did it, giving them the Holy Spirit. And he said, now why tempt ye God to put them back under the law? Why are you tempting God to put them under the law?

He said, which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear. But we believe that we, us Jews, shall be saved by the grace of God, like those Gentiles. They never had the law. They never were under the law. God only gave the law to Israel. They weren't under the law. Peter said, us Jews are gonna have to stop looking to the law and to our works, and we're gonna have to be saved by God's grace, like he's saving these Gentiles who never had the law of God. That's a strong statement. And that's how we're going to have to be saved. This message today is concerning.

It's showing how the promise of God, God saving by his covenant promise, God doing all the work and saving you, saying, I promise you, I'm bringing you to eternal glory and giving you an inheritance. by the works that I've done for you. That's the essence of it. I promise I'm gonna save you into eternal glory by what I've done for you. He's showing how that is far superior to the law that was given at Sinai that they were wanting to try to come to God under and try to keep. He's showing how far superior God's promise is Salvation by promise is far superior than salvation by law.

That's what he's showing. Now I skipped a verse when I preached through here last time. He made the point there that God in Christ confirmed this covenant to Abraham. He came to Abraham and called him and promised, I will save you, My seed, Christ Jesus, will do all the work and I'll save all your spiritual children, Abraham. That was the promise to him. And Paul said, now that covenant that was confirmed of God in Christ, he said the law at Sinai that came 430 years after, this'll know that covenant, it can't add a thing to that covenant.

Abraham never had the law. He did not have the Ten Commandments. If one man, if there's one man in these scriptures that did not have the law as his rule of life, then that's how God saves the rest of his people. Abraham did not have the Ten Commandments. And now he's saying, Why then did God give the law? What was the purpose? That's a logical question. I love how the Lord answers our questions. He knows what we're gonna ask. Wherefore then serveth the law?

Verse 19, it was added because of transgressions. It was given to teach us we're sinners. And a second thing about that is lost, unregenerate, self-made religious people, go to the law to try to save themselves by their works, and for the sake of God's people, it does make the world a little better place to be in, because it curbs them a little bit. They're not quite as bad, act as bad as they would. It don't save them, it don't make them righteous, it don't do a thing for them. But for the sake of his people, it does at least keep people from just recklessly, abandoningly going around doing what they would. but the purpose of it mainly was to reveal to his people our transgressions. Now, then he makes this statement.

Here's the verse we skipped, Galatians 3, and this is gonna be our text. At the end of verse 19, after he says it was added by transgression till Christ the seed should come to whom the promise was made, then he says this. and the law at Sinai was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now, a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. What does this mean? Well, the point of this statement is to show us God's covenant of grace is way, way better than the law at Sinai. You don't want to come to God by the law of Sinai. That's the point of this verse. It's showing us it far excels the law of Sinai. But it's a very difficult verse to understand. I read one preacher that said he had read 250 commentaries that all disagreed on what it meant. And another preacher said he read 300 and they all disagreed on what it meant.

I'm not gonna try to say What I'm gonna tell you is dogmatically exactly what this is saying, but what I am gonna tell you is I'm gonna tell you what this book says all over this book. And I am 99.9% sure that's what this verse is saying. All right, that's what I am gonna say.

Now, the point I'm gonna try to show you is eternal inheritance, the inheritance, eternal salvation with God. everlasting joy with God, having God our Savior as our portion forever. Salvation is by God's covenant promise, not by our works, not by the law. It's by God's covenant promise. The promise was made to Christ, that's what it says here, the promise was made to Christ before the world was made. And Christ came and did all the works to honor God for his people and bring us to glory, to call us and preserve us and bring us to God, perfect in his perfection. Christ agreed to do that. And when God makes this covenant in our hearts, that's what he tells us.

Christ is your salvation. He's your righteousness. He's your holiness. He will preserve you. He will present you to me faultless. You trust him. That's my promise to you. That's the gospel, what he what he, the covenant he writes on our heart. All right. But the law, you don't want to try to come to God in the law. You don't want to do it.

The law shows God's people that sin separated us from God. And even the way God gave the law shows sin separated us from God. It was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator, in the hand of Moses, to show us we can't come to God. Sin has separated us from God.

But God promises that he will make his people one in Christ, and we will be presented to God in one, in Christ only, in him only. Now, let's go to Sinai, and let's see when God gave the law at Sinai, what happened. Let's go there and see. Go with me to Exodus 19. Our text says, it was ordained, the law was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now, a mediator is not a mediator of one. All right?

When God gave the law, he showed even in the act of giving it to us, that our sin has separated us from God, and we cannot come to God by the law. He showed us that. That's what the law teaches us when he blesses us to hear it, but even the way he gave it, that's what he showed us.

Verse five, first of all, the law was a two-way covenant. It was a two-way covenant. Verse five, He says, now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, that is my law, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people, for all the earth is mine, and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. So Moses went down and told them this. Verse eight says, and all the people answered together and said, all that the Lord had spoken, we will do.

That's pride and ignorance answering. Pride and ignorance. And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord. The people can't go to God. Moses is going back and forth. God told Moses to tell them sanctify themselves, wash themselves, and be ready for the third day. And they're just sitting there saying everything God says we're gonna do. So they get to washing themselves to get ready to meet God. When this third day comes, they're gonna be singing a different tune.

God told Moses to tell them they could not come near holy God. They couldn't even touch the mountain. Verse 12, he said, thou shall set bounds unto the people round about, the Lord told Moses this, saying, take heed to yourselves that you go not up into the mount or touch the border of it. Whosoever touches the mount shall surely be put to death. There shall not a hand touch it. but he shall surely be stoned or shot through, whether it be beast or man, it shall not live.

And when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. Moses went and told them, they got to work washing themselves, and then the third day came. Verse 16, and it came to pass on the third day in the morning that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And God sounded the trumpet louder and louder, and God called Moses up, and he said this to him in verse 21.

The Lord said to Moses, go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze. And many of them perished. God said, they can't even look at me. And it says, and let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them. And Moses said to the Lord, the people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for thou chargest us, saying, set bounds about the mount and sanctify it. And the Lord said to him, away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee, but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them. So Moses went down to the people and he spake to them.

And then, the next verses, then God gave the 10 commandments to Moses. Later, he's gonna give a whole lot more than 10. And in verse 18, I'm sorry, Exodus 20, verse 18, I'm just trying to give you the highlights so we can get on to the good part. Verse 18. And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off. And they said to Moses, speak thou with us and we will hear, but let not God speak with us lest we die. And Moses said to the people, fear not, God's come to prove you that his fear may be before your faces that you sin not.

The sin he's talking about is that you sin not by trying to come to God by the works of the law. If you fear God, you're not gonna come to God, try to come to God by the works of the law. Well, the way God gave it with the mountain smoking and flaming and the peoples trembling and knowing we can't even go near the mountain. Then he gave the law, which when he makes you hear what it says to you, it says you are a vile, wretched sinner who deserves eternal condemnation. So the way he gave it and what it says tells us we cannot come to God by the law. Sin has separated us from God.

And then God called him back up And he gave him more laws and more laws and more laws. 613 laws total. One law. God never divides his law anywhere in his book. One law. See, God's holy. We're sinners. That's the point of that. That's what God was teaching there. And that's what Paul's saying in Galatians. The promise is far superior.

God wouldn't even let them come near him when he gave the law. Angels and Moses was between them. They couldn't come near him. They couldn't look upon him. Moses was not a mediator to reconcile them. He was a mediator to declare no sinner can come to holy God.

That's what God sent Moses to tell him. And that's the point of our text. A two-sided conditional covenant where God says if you will, then God says I will, God never gave that implying that you will or that you can. He never did. Men say, well, God wouldn't give a law we couldn't keep. He would and he did. He certainly did.

We cannot do it. That's exactly what Galatians 3, the whole book of Galatians saying, every book in this Bible is saying, you can't come to God by the works of the law, period. But to show that we couldn't, he put intermediaries between them and the people, and then he flamed and smoked, and even in the way he gave it, he showed you can't come by the law. Not to mention what the law says to us.

Now, let's consider how God went to Abraham. Back up there in verse 20, Galatians 6, 20, it says, but God is one, God is one. God called Abraham, And God made promise to Abraham to save Abraham. Look back at verse 17. In this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ. All right?

Christ is the fullness of the Godhead and he's always been since before the foundation of the world. He didn't start being when he was born at Bethlehem. when the child was born. That was the son of God taking a body. But he's always been the Christ since the father chose him to be the Christ before he created time. And the pre-incarnate Christ, God in Christ, went directly to Moses and declared this good news to him. There was no mountain smoking. There was no thunder and lightning. There was nothing between him and Christ.

God in Christ went to Moses, I mean, went to Abraham and said, I promise I'm gonna save you, Abraham. And anybody that curses you, I'll curse. And I'll bless them that bless you. And in my son, all your spiritual children shall be saved. That's my covenant promise to you.

No smoking mountain. God spoke face to face with him. How could he do that? Wasn't Abraham a sinner like the children of Israel? Exactly like them. But in Christ, Abraham was perfectly righteous and perfectly holy and God could have communion with him.

One in God. One in God. God was in the pre-incarnate Christ and the one God could have communion with him. before time, verse 16 says, when he made that promise to Abraham and his seed, he didn't say to seeds as of many, but as of one and to thy seed, which is Christ. Now, God is one. Christ is not a mediator to separate. Christ is a mediator who makes his people one. He wasn't a mediator like like the angels in Moses was. That was to keep them separated. Christ is a mediator that makes us one.

Now, Ephesians 1 tells us that before time, the Father chose who he would save in the Lord Jesus Christ. He blessed us with all spiritual blessings according as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. That we should be holy right when God said he chose us in Christ and blessed us with all blessings. We were holy in Christ. We were holy in Christ. We were we were without blame before God in love in the beloved in Christ. How do you know that's true? Because when Adam sinned in the garden, God didn't destroy the world. Because he already had a people that was holy and righteous in the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's why Christ entered covenant that I will bring these people to you, Father. I'll bring them holy and righteous. They're gonna sin. Savior said, I'll lay down my life for them. You're gonna have to go under the justice of God. I'll lay down my life for them.

He became surety for us. Whenever Joseph told his brothers, you're gonna have to bring Benjamin down here with you, he went back and told Jacob, he wants us to bring Benjamin. And he said, I can't send Benjamin. And Judah said, I will be surety. I will be surety for Judah. And if I don't bring him to you, you can blame me forever. That's what a surety is. In eternity, before time, Christ said, I will bring these children to you. I will be surety for them. And if I do not bring them to you, you can blame me forever.

And so God never has looked to his people. He only looked to the Lord Jesus. So even before Christ came and did the work, He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world because he had entered covenant to do the work for his people. So God could come to Abraham in Christ. That's what that verse says. God in Christ confirmed the covenant to Abraham. He could do that because in Christ, Abraham was already righteous and holy because Christ was his surety.

No smoking mountain, no separation. No separation. Christ makes all his people one. He came to make us one. I'm gonna give you some scripture, and I hope you'll turn to it, but I'm gonna go a little quick, because somehow I'm going longer, quicker than I thought I would. Time's going by fast this morning.

Hebrews 2.11 says this, speaking of Christ, It says, both he that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are all of one. Our text said God is one. And in Christ, we're one. He that sanctifyeth Christ and they who are sanctified, all his elect, are all of one, for which cause he's not ashamed to call them brethren. One in Christ.

Even in his person, when he came down to be the mediator to make us one, even in his person he showed he can bring God and his people together because he's all God and he's all man in one person, in one. so he can bring God and his people together in one. Moses couldn't do that. Moses was a man and a sinner like those that he was mediating between. He couldn't represent those people to God, not in the way Christ could, but Christ is, he brought us together. And then he came down to justify us.

What that meant was he would have to go to that cross First he had to take flesh to be made of a woman, then he had to be made under the law. He was circumcised the eighth day, which the law required, meaning he was now bound to fulfill the law, to obey it fully.

And our Lord Jesus, he's holy from the womb, because he's not born of a man like we are, That's how we got to be a corrupt nature. Then he goes under the law and his whole life he proved he's the spotless lamb. There's no sin in him. He's a holy man. So he presents himself to God and God made him sin for us.

This one who knew no sin, 2 Corinthians 5.21 said he made him sin for us. You imagine a man robs another man, murders his family, does, you just think, let your imagination run wild. He does the most wicked things that could be done to a man. The man that is the victim has every right to be offended at this man that harmed him so. This man did wicked things to him and his family.

Imagine if that man loved him and not only paid for his defense to defend him from being executed by the law, but if the man sent his own son to die in his place, that's what God the Father did for his people. That's the love wherewith he loved his people. He sent his son to lay down his life in place of his people.

And Christ agreed to it before the world was made. And said, I will be made the horrendous thing for them, sin. God wouldn't even pour out justice on him until he bore the sin of his people. And then with the sin of his people on him, now God being just, God won't spare him. God poured out wrath on him. showing God is just, he's righteous. And Christ paid the price and redeemed all his people. Now here, God's one.

2 Corinthians 5.18 says, all things are of God, one, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.

Sinners are mad and angry and hate God, and they have no right to be angry at God. God hadn't done a thing to us. We sinned against Him. God didn't have to be reconciled to us. We needed to be reconciled to God. And God came down. It says, all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and given us this ministry of reconciliation. God was in Christ, one God. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit was in Christ. He's the all God and all man. He was in Christ and he was reconciling the world unto himself. That people we saw this morning that he calls out of every tribe, kindred, tongue, and people, he came to justify them.

And he would not impute trespasses to them. He wouldn't charge them with trespasses, though they were all guilty. How could God do that? Verse 21 says, for he hath made him sin for us who know no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And for that reason, Christ fully put away the sin of his people and God will not charge his people with sin because we don't have any sin to charge. None. Christ put them away.

Seeing it's one God, one God, which shall justify the Jews by faith and the Gentiles by faith. One God. One God does saves His people one way in Christ Jesus. And when He gives you faith and calls you and He comes to you, it's one God that comes to you. It's the triune God in Christ that comes to you. There doesn't have to be a mediator between us. Christ has made us one by His blood. And God, the triune God in Christ comes to us and He gives us faith and He makes us to know now There's one body and one spirit, even as you're called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is above all and throughout and in you all. This was his promise way back there in Zephaniah.

In Zephaniah 3.9, he said, I will turn to the people a pure language. This is the language of the gospel. That they may call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent. He makes us one with one faith and the one God.

Christ, now go with me to John 17. Our Lord Jesus, this is the Lord's Prayer right here. That other thing that, the other prayer that people call the Lord's Prayer is not the Lord's Prayer. It was a model he gave us. This is the Lord's Prayer. This is his high priestly prayer right here.

And he said here, I pray not for the world. I pray for them thou hast given me. Now that's the world he's talking about when we read this word world. But look what he says in verse 20. He was praying for those he had called out, and he said, neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. He was praying for you and me that believe. Way back there then.

And he said that they all may be one. How one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe, he's talking about you that he calls, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And he says in verse, he says in verse, 22 there, let me see here. He said, in the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them, that's the gospel, that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. that they may know that thou hast sent me and has loved them as thou hast loved me.

Does that sound better to you than a mountain smoking and quaking and fire and scaring you so bad that you run back and hide and say, I can't even look at God or he's going to kill me? If you try to come to God in the law, it's going to be way worse than that in the day of judgment. there won't be a mediator then, keeping you back from God. Then God will say, depart from me. Everything you ever did was working iniquity, and I never knew you.

But if he calls you, he's gonna make you know, I have loved you just like I've loved my son. And he's gonna make you know he's made you one in Christ. Go with me to Ephesians, chapter 1 And in the end Right now this gospel is going forth and he's making this promise to those he's calling It listen when he calls you he's not writing the law of the Ten Commandments on your heart. That's on your heart It's corrupted. You can't keep it, but you know it's wrong to steal Romans 2 tells us that the Gentiles are law unto themselves. They know it's wrong to steal some nice chicken but listen The law He writes on your heart is this covenant promise. It's the law of faith making you believe Him. It's the law of grace making you know you're saved by grace. It's what they call the law of Christ, the law of love, making you see He laid down His life for you and redeemed you and you're His.

And He's calling His people, making this promise. And in the end, when it's all said and done, look here, Ephesians 1, It says here, verse 9, when he called you, he said, he's made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of times, that just means when the time is all over with, that he might gather together in one all things in Christ, he's talking about his people, those that are in heaven and those that are on earth, in him. He's gathering us in Christ. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will, that we should be to the praise of God's glory who first trusted in Christ. We're called to give God all the praise and all the glory for trusting this work to Christ and not leaving it in our hands. That's why. And so when the Lord Jesus brings us to glory, brethren, we're not gonna stand there and speak for ourselves. When there's a court of law, And the judge is on the bench, and the judge calls for somebody for the one that's being accused. He calls for that one. That man don't speak. He has a defendant that speaks for him. He does the talking.

And in the day of judgment, the judge is going to be the Lord Jesus Christ. The very one man denied and rejected and would not believe is going to be the judge. And he's not gonna let you be compared to other sinners to see if you're righteous. The measuring bar is gonna be Christ, the one that's judging. But for his people, he's not only the judge, he's the advocate, he's the lawyer, he's the one that says, not guilty.

Their sin's been dealt with, their judgment's been settled, it's been put away, it's settled. and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. And when that happens, Paul said in Corinthians, he said, when that happens, when it's done, and he called us all to glory, then Christ is gonna deliver up the kingdom to God, and he's not gonna have his mediatorial office anymore. It's finished. It'll all be done. He present all the children to the father, just like he promised before time. And when time is no more, there's gonna be one God and His people one with Him. And Revelation 21 says, God will dwell with us and will be our God and we'll dwell with Him and He'll be our God and we will be perfectly one. Perfectly one.

Now, hearing all that, if you still want to try to come to God in the law, I'd go read Exodus 19 very often. I'd go read it and I'd say, man, that fire, that torment looked bad. Go home and read Hebrews 12. He tells his people, you've not come to the mouth that might be touched, that burned with fire and quake. They couldn't even touch it. They were scared to death of it. You've come to Mount Zion. You've come to heavenly Jerusalem. You've come to God the judge. You've come to Christ the mediator. to spirits of just men made perfect, a heavenly host, a heavenly host of angels. And then he says this, see not that you refuse him that speaketh. When he spoke before, he shook the earth when he spoke it on that day of Sinai. He said he's gonna shake it again. And the only thing that's gonna be remained is what can't be shaken.

That's gonna be the people he's made righteous and he's made holy. that can't be removed, and everybody else and everything else, when he's taken his people out and removed his people and removed his presence from holding all men back from doing what's in their heart to do, when he's removed all that power from men and got all his people with him in glory, wherever the rest of the people are that can do whatever comes into their heart, that will be hell.

You know, people talk about the devil being some big boogie man with horns and all that. Men are the devil. I'm not saying there's not a devil, there's a devil. But all God's got to do for you to be in hell is to leave us to ourselves with one another. That would be hell. We're the hell. If he took his restraining hand off and left us alone. You don't want to come to God that way, you want to come in Christ. I pray God bless you. We're going to observe the Lord's table. If this is your savior and this is your hope, he commands us to remember him. And that's what we're going to do now.
Clay Curtis
About Clay Curtis
Clay Curtis is pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Ewing, New Jersey. Their services begin Sunday morning at 10:15 am and 11am at 251 Green Lane, Ewing, NJ, 08638. Clay may be reached by telephone at 615-513-4464 and by email at claycurtis70@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the church website at http://www.FreeGraceMedia.com.

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