Good News

We always try to sing a song of worship and exaltation to begin with. And then we sing a song of begging the Lord to send his spirit. We sing come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove. And this one is come thou almighty King. We're asking for the comforter to come. We're asking for him to bless his word. We're asking him for his sovereign majesty. May we in glory see. And two, eternity, love and adore.

We're beggars. We're mercy beggars. And that never changes. If somebody said, yeah, well, I used to be a beggar, well, they never met Christ. Because if the Lord calls us to see him, we'll remain mercy beggars for our entire life in this world. Tonight, turn with me to the book of Proverbs. And the 25th chapter is where our text is found. All throughout time, there's been one difference between hope and despair. Between peace and chaos. Between destruction and perseverance. There's always been one difference. There's always been one difference in life and in death.

Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. All the Lord had to do was leave them to themselves. But he didn't. He didn't. The children of Israel that kept going back on the Lord and back on the Lord, all they had to do was leave them to themselves, but he didn't. He could have let Pharaoh's army destroy all of Israel when they were at the Red Sea, but he didn't.

You remember when Never Moses was up on the mountain talking to the Lord about Sinai, the Lord said, I will destroy this people. And I'll make of you a great nation. And it's a conversation they're having, which is, I find very fascinating. But the Lord said, remember your covenant, or Moses said, remember your covenant, O Lord. And the Lord did not destroy the nation Israel.

Why? Because he has a remnant. Because he has a remnant. He's the difference between life and death. He's the difference between despair and sorrow and suffering and joy and peace and hope. He is the difference from Genesis to Revelation. He is the difference from the beginning of time And to the end of time, he is the difference maker. Speaking of Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve broke the commandment of God and sin entered into the world and death by sin and therefore sin passed upon all of Adam's seed.

First thing I want to tell you is, as I've titled this message, Good News. good news, but in order to, the only people who want to hear good news are the people that's heard bad news. Have you ever heard the expression somebody might say to you, well, I got some good news, and I've got some bad news.

You want the good news first, or you want the bad news first? I don't know how you all are. I'm like, just give me the bad news first. Let's get it over with. And hopefully the good news kind of balances out the bad news. Well, this good news that I'm talking about tonight completely erases the bad news. Makes it go away. Makes it completely go away. What's the bad news?

That sin entered because of Adam and Eve's unbelief, because of their sin, because of their disobedience. And because the sin entered, death by sin, and so sin hath passed on all of us, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is no difference in God's eyes over one individual to another based upon themselves, based upon their hair color, based upon their weight, based upon their experience, based upon their knowledge, based upon their understanding. There is no difference.

He uses Jews and Greeks in the New Testament as an example when he says there is no different. but he was talking about those who are of Israel, the ones of the promise, and those who are not of Israel, the Greeks. Well, it was established that he was talking about the spiritual people of Abraham, the spiritual children of Abraham by faith, not the physical bloodline of Abraham. The Lord didn't come to save all of Israel, or all of Israel will be saved, physically speaking. He came to save spiritual Israel.

It was a, people that came through the the seed of faith, faith in Christ, given by Christ. We're born of his seed. We're born of him from above. That's who he's talking about. So there's no difference in God's eyes for his people. He sees us in Christ and therefore we are accepted in the beloved. We go back to the beginning of what I said.

There's only one reason. that we can have peace and not conflict. There's only one reason why we don't have to fear the bad news. We don't have to be afraid of it, because Christ took away all the bad news that the law said unto us. Christ put away the sin of his people, which was the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, that was contrary to us. All the bad news has been eradicated by the Lord's work. There's nothing that changes God's favor towards man based upon our performance, our choices, our good deeds, or our bad deeds. It's all the same, it's all sin. Why we're created in sin, shaping an iniquity, David said. We're guilty. We're condemned. We're dying. This is the bad news. This is the bad news.

So what's so what made the difference? Well, that God might show mercy to some. That made the difference. God chose to save some people. God chose to elect those people in the covenant of grace before time ever began. He chose to do the entire work to satisfy himself so that you and I are not left to our choices. We are not left to our devices. We're not left to our opinions. We're not left to what we know or what we don't know. We're not left to what we must do or do not do.

We are left by his grace alone if we're his looking unto Jesus Christ alone. This is the good news of how God saved his people from their sin. And here in our text, there is two words that's found in the, um, the way that they're written. It's the only place in all the Bible that it's written. And it's the two words, good news, good news. Let's read this. Proverbs 25 verse 15. By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Hast thou found honey? Eat, so much as sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith and vomited.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house, lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather and as vinegar upon nitre, neither, it's pronounced neither. So is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

I want to stop right there just briefly because I'm not going to mention this again, I don't think. But where he talks about vinegar and the neither, which is how that's pronounced, the nether, that's baking soda and vinegar. Have you ever mixed those two together and saw the bubbling and boiling that it does? Remember as kids, any of you that had to make a science project, you could make a volcano out of that and put the two together and it would bubble and boil over. You ever seen that before?

Nothing catches God off guard. He had it written in the book of Proverbs chapter 25 before you and I were before, before science became what it is. I mean, that crazy, that glorious Lord said, no, you're not, we're not going to, nobody's going to snow the Lord. They're not going to pull the wool over his eyes. No, he knows all things.

Verse 21, if thine heart be hungry, give him bread to eat. And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. I wanna read that again, I misread that. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat. And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

The north wind driveth away the rain. So doth an angry countenance, a backbiting tongue, It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with the brawling woman and in a wide house. As cold water, as cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

The righteous man falleth down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring. It is not good to eat much honey. So for men to search their own glory is not glory. He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. Titled the message, Good News, found in verse 25, as cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Is it not true that we gathered here tonight with the hope that the Lord would give us but a taste of the fountain of living water.

It was hot today. I don't know exactly what the temperature was, 90-something, I think. And the heat index was like 112 or something. They said, don't let your dogs outside. I know that. I went outside for a bit. I needed water. That warm water didn't do anything. Actually, it's kind of gross whenever you're on a hot day. Can anybody relate to that? Glad the Lord made ice cubes, aren't you? He says it's cold water to a thirsty soul. We understand the concept of that.

So we can become dehydrated, we sweat, we become thirsty, and we go get cold water, and it satisfies us. Sometimes our mouth gets sticky. You get too dehydrated, you start getting swimmy-headed, not feeling good. I mean, we have to have water, and so it is with spiritual things. You don't have a drink of water from the Lord, pretty soon you're gonna get swimmy-headed about the things of the world.

We're gonna start thinking funny. The Lord brings us back to this living water, to this spring of life that he's given us. We need that water tonight that the Lord would give to us, that he might wash us and make us clean, that he might give us drinks so that we would not be faint. Good news.

First of all, good news can never come from a requirement that God places upon a man or a woman. Good news can never come from a requirement that God places upon a man or a woman. Somebody said, yeah, but you have to believe, is that not a requirement? That is indeed a requirement, but you know what we lack?

The ability. The ability. So what we have is responsibility and we have our inability. That's what it comes down to. We have our responsibility and our ability. We could say it that way. So I'm responsible for my sin. I'm responsible for believing. And yet I don't have the ability to get rid of my sin and I don't have the ability to believe. Unless the Lord sends his spirit and power.

This is bad news. If you and I are looking to self as any part of our salvation, if we're looking to ourself for our own righteousness, that's bad news, isn't it? From the very beginning, we see that we cannot keep the very simplest of commandments of the Lord. Don't eat a fruit. That's not a complicated command, is it? So why didn't they just listen? Because our flesh desires self. Self. Pride.

I'm going to do what I'm going to do. If you've ever been around a child, if you haven't, go to Walmart. You'll be around children. They'll see what I'm talking about. They want something and says, no, you can't have that. I want what I want. And I've seen them cry and kick and scream. Ask my girls if they ever tried that. That didn't happen. Or they tried it once. I'm not saying I'm the model father here. I'm just simply implying.

Children say, I want what I want. I deserve this. I deserve that. So do adults. Nature doesn't change. It gets worse and worse and worse. We become more entitled. I've been around elder people even lately that believe that they deserve so much more because of the life that they lived. They look at all the things that they've done.

That's what he's talking about here when Verse 27, it's not good to eat much honey, so for men to search their own glory, that's not glory. That's not, so a man looks at his life and looks at what he's done, he looks at his choices, he looks at his decisions and he says, there's my glory, I have glory. No, we don't. No, we don't. You know what our righteousness is?

Filthy rags. Filthy rags. That means the very best prayer I've ever prayed, the very best, work that I've ever done, the most selfless thing I could ever do. It was tainted with the sin that doth corrupt us from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet. The heart's deceitful above all things. There's nothing left above all things, is there? It's desperately wicked.

Scripture tells us they that are in the flesh cannot please God. If this was the fullness of the declaration, that our Lord's given us, we would have no hope. We would just have a bunch of bad news. We would be like those that don't know the Lord. Well, let's just eat, drink, and be merry then. This life's all we got. We're sinners, and the wages of sin is death. That's bad news. You know, he don't stop there.

But, and I love the Lord's interjection whenever he's going to reveal something, it's always, but God who is rich in mercy, or it's, I have formed thee, I have redeemed thee, you're mine, I. And see, the focal point of God's salvation is completely upon him, it's not upon us. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. That's the good news. Bad news is the wages of sin is death, Good news is, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Hear me this evening when I say someone who does not believe themselves a sinner cannot hear the good news of the gospel. I want to repeat that someone who does not see themselves as the chief sinner. cannot hear the good news of the gospel. They don't need it. It's not a requirement.

The Lord must create the need that only he can feel, and his good news is what fills that need. Everything about his good news, and I would remind us that the word gospel means good news. Everything about his gospel, everything about his good news is centered upon, focused upon, revolves around, hangs upon the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not our works, not what we do, Because we've already established all the bad news is, no matter what I do, it's just iniquity.

Remember we read that over in Isaiah. I believe that's where, I was studying, I think that's where we read that. Maybe we didn't, maybe I had a, the point was, as he was saying, the scripture that I was reading, they were bringing sacrifice and burnt offerings to the Lord, and he said, it's just iniquity. All you're doing is this, and all you're doing is that, and then you're bringing burnt offerings, thinking you're gonna fix the problem. He said, that's iniquity, that's the problem. I think it was in another place, but anyways.

Someone who does not believe themselves a sinner cannot hear the good news of the gospel. We must first be made to know by God-given repentance, I'm a sinner. I'm not a sinner because of what I do. I'm a sinner because of what I am. My own thoughts betray me. My own heart betrays me. The things which I would do, I don't do those. But the things I say, I'll never do that. I find myself doing it. I end up telling a lie. The worst things human beings do is rob God of his glory, point to self, say, look at me, look at me, look at me. And that's done every day, isn't it?

It's impossible for a man or woman to hear the good news of God until he first hears the bad news that we are dead, dog-dying sinners without hope or help and self. Only with this revelation, brethren, will we delight in the Lord's good news. Only in that revelation that we have no hope of self and what we can do to fix anything, we can't fix anything, will we need the good news that God provides.

Now I can tell you good news, but if good news starts out with do this, that's not good news. Good news is not it's time for me to make my choice, it's time for me to give my heart to Jesus, it's time for me to pray this prayer, it's time for me to do this and this.

How do I know I've been sincere enough? Because my heart's deceitful, that's wicked. It's not good news. But if I hear the message that declares it is finished, well that's good news. Because I've seen myself as the sinner, not just a sinner, not just one of the sinners, the sinner. And I love the glorious word of the Lord that says, this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. not save those that try, not save those that have more reformation, not save those that made the choice, not those that dot every I and cross every T. No, he chose to save sinners. The bad news is simple.

God requires everything I cannot perform. I can't do it. I don't have the capacity. I don't have the capability. I don't have the knowledge. We're unable to do that. To try to give a very weak example, a car can't fly. It's not designed to fly. Somebody say, yeah, you can drive it off the cliff. Well, actually, it would just fall. It wouldn't fly. Am I wrong? We don't have the capability. If flying's what God requires, I'm a car, do you see what I'm saying? Not just a good car, I'm a rust bucket car that doesn't even run, hasn't ran in a lifetime. What, you're gonna have to fix me? If you require me to have righteousness, you're gonna have to provide that righteousness. If you're gonna, if you require me to be perfect, you're gonna have to make me perfect.

Because everything that we do We just keep getting worse and worse and worse. The last part of bad news I'll remind us is it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment. Judgment for every thought, every deed, every action. It's appointed unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment.

So if left to myself, I don't have any good news yet, do I? I just have bad news. Secondly, If everyone is born in sin and shaping iniquity, if God cannot acquit the guilty, if God's justice has to be satisfied, if the law demands death and death has to be performed, how can anyone and everyone is born in sin and shaping iniquity have good news? How can we have good news? God has gave us all the bad news. So how can we have good news? All throughout time, God's good news came through and by him alone. In the book of Genesis, the sixth chapter, Noah found grace. in the eyes of the Lord. But do you know what it says before that?

Every imagination of the heart of man was only on evil in that continually. Now, if that's every imagination, my calculator don't work all the time, but this particular time, it tells me every single imagination. That throws Noah in the same category. Do we see that? So what was the difference then? If his imagination's on evil in that continually, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. There's the difference. There's the difference. Was he looking for it? No. No, grace is bestowed by the Lord's own purpose according to his own determinate counsel at his appointed time, all for his glory. He said, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and whom I will, I will harden. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. What was Abraham's hope? What made the difference for Abraham? Well, Abraham was a good guy, right?

No, he was an idolater. He was an idolater. He was worshiping false idols in a strange country. So who made the difference? God did. I love what the Lord told him when he appeared to him. He said, Abraham, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. I am that shield. Who decided that? And Abraham said, Lord, I'm gonna make you my shield and my exceeding great reward. You see how foolish that sounds? No, the Lord said it. I bought you, I've redeemed you, you're mine. That's what he says in Isaiah.

Well, what was David's hope after he had sinned with Bathsheba? We heard this Sunday. He was hiding out for about a year space of time. What was his hope? that those sacrifices he was doing was gonna take away his sin and fix everything? His confession's clear, I've sinned against the Lord. Nathan says to him, fear not. The Lord hath put away thy sin.

Thou shalt not die. That's good news. Is that good news to you? That's good news to me. Wait a minute, the Lord's already done it. There's nothing required for me to do. There's nothing required for somebody else to do on my behalf because Christ did everything required? Yes. That is how a sinner, the only way a sinner can be justified, justified, and God be just in doing so. The only way.

Before time, God elected a people. That means before we ever existed, as far as physically speaking here on this earth, we were chosen by God's grace in Christ Jesus before time. We see the revelation of God as him being the alpha and the omega of salvation.

He's the beginning of it and he's the end of it. He's the author of it, he's the finisher of it. That's good news because if it's left up to me, I mean, I can't even write notes that are without error. And my handwriting's patrocious, but he's the author and the finisher of faith. And it's perfect, why? Because he did it. He did it. How is it that those that are sinners can have good news?

Well, he tells us in Romans 11, five, even so then at the present time also there remaineth There is a remnant according to the election of grace. We heard about that remnant over there in Isaiah 1, didn't we? If the Lord had not left a remnant, we would have been a Sodom and a Gomorrah.

And sinners see that. Lord's people, we see that, don't we? Oh, I'd never do this and never do that. You know what the Lord's people say? Have mercy on me, the sinner. Do not leave me to myself, Lord, but for the grace of God, there go I. Hear the good news of the Lord's gospel, for I know the thoughts that I have towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you an expected end. Thoughts of peace from God, how can this be?

Well, he tells us over in Romans chapter nine before the children were even born, not having done any good or evil, it was said, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. God chose to love Jacob, chose to set him apart, chose to set his affection upon him and save him all by his grace for his glory and for his honor. How can God look upon me with my wicked heart and say, I have loved you with an everlasting love? because he gives new hearts to his people. He justified his people, which brings us to our last point.

God must provide every single thing that he requires. Man's ideas of God, man's ideals of God are all convoluted and They're wicked. They're wicked. He's not puny. He's not helpless. He's not hopeless. He's not dependent. He is other than we are. He's completely self-sufficient in everything. He's absolutely sovereign over all things. None can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? God must provide everything which he requires.

And you know, If the Lord calls his darling son, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, just as we were chosen in Christ, Christ was chosen to be the redeemer of the father. Christ was chosen to be the one who would save his people from their sin, not attempt to, not try to, not hope so, maybe so, if you let him so, no. Every time I see a sign that says Jesus saves, I think that's not true. When this man had by himself purged our sins, he sat down. Jesus saved, past tense, his people from their sin. If you ever see that, remember that. The Lord saved his people.

He's not trying to save people. Don't you love that? Think about that for a second. He's not trying to save people. He's not trying to do anything. Everything does exactly as God purposes it. This is good news. I can't constrain him or restrain him. I can't prevent him or make him do something. Otherwise, I would be God. Here's the good news. I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore, you sons of Jacob are not consumed.

God chose to save his people. In the book of Matthew, it's foretold, call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin. In the book of Luke, chapter two, it says, and there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.

The angel said to them, fear not, For behold, unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, the Savior Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." Well, that wasn't all of it.

He said, and there were immediately the heavenly host praising God and saying, glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill towards men. How can we have peace with God? That right there is how we can have peace with God. the one that came, the one that became a man. His declaration was the declaration of peace with God.

That's what his purpose was. That's what his purpose was. When men talk about baby Jesus in a manger wanting to do this or wanting to do that, they don't know who God is. He was as much God laying in that manger sleeping as he was hanging on the cross of Calvary as he is right now seated at the right hand of God. He is God. He is God's salvation.

When Simeon saw the priest, prophecy had been given to him and said, you will not die until you see the Lord's salvation, till this prophecy be fulfilled, that the Messiah would come. Eight day old, our Lord at eight days old was brought to the temple as it was supposed to, as custom was. What amazes me is Simeon would have seen baby after baby after baby after baby, but all of a sudden, he sees the Lord Jesus Christ.

I mean, think about that, just for a second. He sees another baby, but there's something different about this one. Did he just say, well, yeah, this one may be it. It's got all the qualifications. I think, no, God gave him faith. He said, behold, let thy servant depart in peace, for I have seen the Lord's salvation. He is salvation. He's not a part of it. He is the way, he's the truth, and he is the life. That means if I'm going to have life, I have to have him. If I'm going to be in the way, I'm going to have to be in him. If I'm going to have his truth, he's got to give me his truth.

Everything about this gospel revolves around him, and that's what makes it such good news to sinners. Everything he did on this world was on behalf of his chosen people before the father because we were in him. It was given to our account. He lived perfectly before the law of God. He lived unto the father perfectly. as our substitute for the glory of God.

This is what he did in every deed, in every action, in every thought. You know, you and I can't have perfect thoughts, deeds, or actions, not one of them. Everything he ever did was perfect, perfect. In so much that the Lord said, this is my beloved son, whom I will please hear him, hear him. In order for us to be set free, the law had to be satisfied. The debt had to be paid, the demands of the law, which was death. And what happened?

When the Lord saw the sin of his people upon his son, he said, awake, O sword, smite the shepherd. The sword of justice pierced the heart of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, that day on Calvary. His precious blood was shed, erasing, eliminating, putting away. the sin of his people once and for all.

This singular sacrifice is why the universe was created. This one, I'll call it an act, this one instance satisfied God's demands, satisfied his justice, silenced the law, put away our sin, and now we are dead unto the law because we died in him. Died the death we couldn't die. He said, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin, yet our blood's polluted, so he shed his own blood, and by his own blood, he purged our sin. But death, death had to happen next. He had to die, because that's the punishment due us.

And the eternal death, the eternal hell that you and I deserve was given to Christ to bear on the cross, and he endured it perfectly, like everything else he did. The father said, well-pleased, well-pleased. The son said, father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And he said, it is finished. And when he had cried with a loud voice, he bowed his head and he gave up the ghost.

There's nothing left for the sinner to do in order to have a perfect salvation, in order to have perfect righteousness before God. If the Lord's ever revealed unto us that we are a sinner, can you imagine standing before the flaming eyes of God in all of his glory? Can you imagine him being robed in white?

And he is light. I'll remind us of that. How bright and powerful, how much in all we will be. We'll be as dead men is what we'll be. The only hope that we have is that we'll be made like him for we shall see him as he is. Otherwise it's instant death. No man can look upon the Lord and live.

But can you imagine coming boldly to the throne of grace that we might obtain mercy to find grace to help in the time of need? Boldly, complete confidence in what Christ did on the cross of Calvary, 100% certain that the Lord will not cast us away and will not destroy us because of what Christ has done. That's the good news of God's gospel. That's what he accomplished. Didn't ask for my help. Didn't ask for your help. Didn't ask for our assistance.

The Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all. And we saw the travail of his soul. He was satisfied. Scripture says in the veil and temple was written twain from top to bottom so that we can come boldly now into that holiest of holies. How? By his own blood. Everything God required has been accomplished. He is now seated as the sovereign successful Savior and Redeemer of his elected people. There is not one jot or tittle out of place. There is not one thing that God is looking to me or you for for salvation. Not one thing. Not one thing. That's really offensive to somebody who has a self righteousness. Did you know that?

But to God's people who are made sinners, that's the best news you've ever heard. God is not looking to you for one thing as part or evidence of salvation. He's looking to one, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is seated as our advocate, who is seated as our mediator, who is seated as our prophet, priest, and king. He's looking to Christ who fulfilled all things that we by him might be made the righteousness of God. The bad news is we're all sinners and can do nothing to fix it.

But the good news is this. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief, whom I am chief. This is how God can be both just and the justifier of his people. And in time, he does give us that repentance that causes us to see ourself as sinners and see him as holy and good and just. But he also gives us faith simultaneously.

Scripture doesn't really ever separate those two. Did you know that? It doesn't really talk about giving repentance and giving faith at different times. It's simultaneous. Repentance and faith are hand in hand. Repentance changes our mind about who God is and who we are. that he's holy and right and good and that we're sinners. And faith causes us to look to Christ. It always looks to Christ, not self. In time, he gives faith and life bestowed by his spirit. And we are made to believe Christ alone is everything that God requires. That's the good news of the gospel. And that is the cold water to the thirsty soul. Let's read verse 25 and closing again. as cold water to a thirsty soul. So it's good news from a far country.

No, we no longer search for our glory or our own glory. We look to Christ who glorified the father. We look to the father who glorified the son, and we look to the glorious fact that the Lord has glorified his people in Christ already. And one day the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed revealed in his people. It's gonna happen. This flesh will drop down and become, go back to dust, but we will awake in his likeness.

When the Father looks upon each and every one of his people, because he's caused us to believe his good news, he'll say, enter in thou good and faithful servant. Me? Good and faithful? Because we're in Christ alone. because we're in Christ alone. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give it to them eternal life and no man and they shall never perish and no man shall pluck them from my hand. This is good news. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we ask that you would take this and bless it to our understanding. Cause us to rejoice in your good news. In Christ's name. Amen. In closing, let's turn to.

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