Keep your Bibles open there in
John chapter 20. I would point out to you, especially those
of you who heard the Bible class this morning, if you want a good
commentary on what I was trying to say, you'll find one on the
back of the bulletin. When I put this article in there,
an article by Pastor Bruce Crabtree, I didn't really know, I hadn't
begun the lesson, but he has a very good article commentary
on that if you'd like to read it. All right, I titled the message
this morning, Whom Seekest Thou? I took my title from verse 15.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest
thou? I want to ask us this question
this morning. Whom seekest thou? I want you
to answer this question in your heart. Why did you come here
this morning? What were you hoping to hear?
What were you hoping to see? What were you hoping to find?
What secrets is that? Why are you here this morning?
That's a good question. And I hope and pray that the
answer to that question is I came here this morning to hear from
God. I came here this morning seeking Christ. I need him. I came here this morning seeking
Christ. That's what Mary Magdalene was doing on this morning. Three
days after our Lord had suffered and died, Mary came to the tomb,
and you know what she was seeking? She was seeking the dead body
of Christ. And she found an empty tomb.
But she ended up finding the living, risen Savior, didn't
she? Now what does all that mean, that the Savior suffered, he
died, and the third day he rose again from the grave? What does
that mean? Well, I'll tell you, it tells
us some very important truths about the Lord Jesus Christ.
And if you're seeking Him this morning, this is what you're
gonna find. You'll find all of these things
to be true about Christ our Savior. Number one, if we find Christ
at the empty tomb, we're gonna find a glorious Savior. By God's
grace, we preach Christ and Him crucified, don't we? We preach
Christ crucified. And we believe, we trust our
souls to Christ and Him crucified. the one who was crucified, who
suffered and died for me. But when we preach Christ and
him crucified, we don't stop at his death. Christ and him
crucified doesn't just say Christ died on the cross. It's what
he accomplished by his death upon the cross. And that can't
be seen. What Christ accomplished at the
cross can't be seen until we see him resurrected. You know,
our preaching is vain and empty. unless Christ rose from the dead.
Let me show you that 1 Corinthians chapter 15. This is very, very
important. We got no good news for sinners
unless Christ rose from the dead. 1 Corinthians 15 verse 12. Now, if Christ be preached that
he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is
no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection
of the dead, Is Christ not risen? Now there are people there said,
you know, once you're dead, you're gone, that's it. You know, you're
just, you are no more. But Christ is raised from the
dead, so how can you say he's not risen? And if Christ be not
risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also
vain. Yea, we're found false witnesses
of God, because we've testified of God that he raised up Christ,
whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not, For
if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised, and if Christ
be not raised, your faith is vain, and you're yet in your
sins. See, we've got no good news to
preach if Christ is not raised from the dead. Verse 18, then
they also which are fallen asleep in Christ, they're perished.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we're of all
men most miserable, but now, is Christ risen from the dead
and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by
man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as an Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive. See, the resurrection of Christ
is vital. It's vital to our salvation.
We can't have no salvation for our souls unless Christ be risen
from the dead. Christ's life, his perfect life,
his death and shedding of his perfect precious blood does not
mean anything to anybody unless Christ is raised from the dead.
But Christ did rise from the dead. He raised himself from
the dead and that gives us a glorious Savior to preach and believe,
doesn't it? Our Savior is so glorious Nobody
could kill him. Now, he allowed himself to be
nailed to the tree, but they couldn't kill him. He had to
give up the ghost in order to die. Our Savior is so glorious,
nobody could take his life from him. He had to lay it down, voluntarily
lay it down as a substitute and a sacrifice for his people. And
our Savior is so glorious, nobody could keep him dead either. He
raised himself from the dead by his own power. His body was
dead. Three days it lay there dead
and lifeless. And he raised himself from the
dead. Now I'm telling you, that's glorious. That's power. The resurrection
of Christ means that his death completely satisfied his father. His father's law and justice.
That's why the father raised him from the dead. Now, no one
else could ever say this, that they pleased the father perfectly,
only the Lord Jesus Christ. And that shows us just how glorious
he is. He's one of a kind. He's the
only one who's ever pleased the father perfectly. Now, his glory,
how glorious he is, that gives assurance to our souls. You can
trust your soul to someone as glorious as this. What a glorious
Savior. Now good gospel preaching. I'm very interested in good gospel
preaching. I want to hear good gospel preaching
and I want to be able to preach good gospel preaching to you.
Good gospel preaching is not just reciting some dry facts
and figures about why the Lord Jesus Christ died and how he
accomplished a legal transaction with the Father. Now he did do
that. But our gospel declares a glorious Savior, a glorious
salvation for His people. We really should be awestruck
every time we hear the gospel preached. I'm afraid that just
because of familiarity, we're often not nearly as awestruck
as we should be. But every single time we hear
the gospel, we should be awed in just silent heart worship,
just not being able to speak hard. I mean, how can you find
the words to say what the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished for
sinners and more close to home, what he accomplished for a sinner
like me? This is so glorious. The fact that the son of God
would be made flesh so that he could suffer and die, suffer
his father's wrath so that life himself could be made flesh and
die for the likes of you and me. Human words can't express it.
We just can't express it. We can say it happened. We can
try to tell the glory of it, but what we have to say of the
Queen of Sheba, the half's not been told. I mean, we hadn't
even begun to scratch the surface. It's glorious that the God who
we sinned against would even conceive such a salvation. And
it's glorious that the God who we sinned against would be the
one to accomplish all of the salvation for his sinful people. It's glorious that the father
would slaughter his son. He would purpose to do it and
then actually do it, slaughter his son to satisfy his own justice
and put the sin of his people away. And wanna hear something
else that's glorious? Can't pass this up. It's glorious
that the Holy Spirit enables sinful people to hear the gospel
and to believe it. I mean to hear the Gospel and
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, even though they're hearing it
from the lips of another sinful man. That's a wonder, isn't it? It's glorious. It's glorious
that we could love someone we've never seen with these fleshly
eyes, yet we love them. Years ago, I was preaching, filling
in for Brother Montgomery, in Madisonville, Kentucky. And I
went over to the building early to kind of go over my notes for
Sunday night. And I was sitting at Brother
Maurice's desk. And I looked up and his desk
faced the door. Above his door, there was an
empty picture frame. Empty. And I thought, that's
interesting. And you know what it said underneath
it? Whom having not seen, ye love. Do you love the Lord Jesus
Christ? That's glorious. That's a wonder,
isn't it? The almighty God would put that
in your heart. I hope we never lose sight of
the glory of the gospel. Let's let's never lose our excitement
and that that sweetheart love for Christ and for his gospel.
This is a wonder. You know, I try to preach this
Wednesday night so great salvation. That's God's gospel. It's so
great salvation that a glorious Savior accomplished. And if you
find Christ at the empty tomb, you found a glorious Savior. Number two, if we find Christ
at the empty tomb, we're gonna find the one who's made an end
of the law. You're right up until the death
of Christ, the law of Moses had been full effect. Now Christ
came in the flesh, he was born under the law, but just because
the Son of God came in the flesh didn't mean the law was done.
No, he had to fulfill the law. He had to obey the law on every
jot and every tittle. And the moment Christ died, the
law was done away with. Completely done away with. The
Lord showed us that. When he cried, it is finished,
from the cross. What happened up there in the
temple? That veil, they say three or four inches thick, was ripped
in two from top to bottom. Now up until that moment that
Christ died, You better not go into that Holy of Holies. Only
the high priest could go in. He could just go in once a year.
And he better go with the blood of the sacrifice, hadn't he?
And sprinkle his, that blood of that animal on the mercy seat. But once Christ died, the veil
was ran into from top to bottom, showing that you can go into
the very presence of God anytime you want. You don't have to wait
for that priest. You know why? Christ has already
made propitiation for our sin. He didn't have to go in there
and sprinkle the blood of an animal anymore. The blood of
Christ made propitiation for our sin. You don't have to wait
for one of Aaron's grandsons to go in there. Our great high
priest has been sacrificed. He's risen again, he's ascended
to sit at the right hand of God. You don't need that priest anymore.
Our priest is in heaven. Christ has made propitiation
for the sin of his people once for all. There's no more need
for sacrifice. You know why Mary came to the
sepulcher so early on this? This was a Sunday morning. You
know why she came so early on that Sunday morning? It's the
first day of the week. She came early that morning because
she couldn't go the day before. The law forbid her. She can only
take so many steps on the Sabbath day. She couldn't go to the tomb
of the Lord. She couldn't put those spices and things on his
body because the law prohibited it on the Sabbath day. I mean,
you think what a burden people were under, under that law. I
mean, you'd think you have a loved one die and you want to go, you
know, sit at their, and mourn or whatever people do. At that
time, they would put spices and things on the body. It's in your
heart you want to go. It's the body of the person that
you love, but the law doesn't let you? What a burden that they
were under. But when we find Christ at the
empty tomb, you know what we find? We find the law keeper. He kept the law for us, so we're
done with the law. Now, once Christ is risen, the
law of the Sabbath is over. We don't have to come rest on
a particular day. We rest in Christ. Christ is
our Sabbath. Like I said a little bit ago,
we don't have to wait for one of Aaron's grandsons to come
take us to the throne. We can come to the throne of
grace any time we want. And you can come confidently
as long as you come in Christ. He put that law away. You don't
have to wait for one of Aaron's grandsons to offer those sacrifices. You can offer the sacrifice of
praise anytime you want. We don't have to wait for a day
to come and rest. I find it funny that the law
gave us this Sabbath day, that on the sixth day we rest, like
God rested from all of his works in creation, And everybody hated
it. Everybody hated to rest on that
day. And that day was just a shadow. It's a shadow of Christ. Now
we have the real thing. Real rest in Christ our Savior. He took the burden of the law
away because He bore it away when He suffered and died. And
He left it there and came out of the tomb. When we find Christ
risen, we find that empty tomb, We find the end of the law because
Christ kept it for us. You're not under the burden of
the law anymore. You're free in Christ. You're
God's free man. All right, number three. If we find
Christ at the empty tomb, we're gonna find the one who justified
us from our sin. Now justified does not mean just
as if I'd never sinned. Being justified means I have
never seen it. And you think, how is that possible? Only this amazing, glorious sacrifice
of Christ could accomplish such a thing. Do you know why the
Son of God died? Because He was made sin for His
people. The Father made Him sin for His
people. Now what does that mean? I don't
fully know. How did God do it? I have no idea. Here's what I
know because this is what scripture says. He was made sin. He wasn't
made a sinner. He was made sin. And God's justice
demanded that he die and the father slaughtered him. Yes,
the Jews and the Romans put his body to death, but the father
is the one who made his soul an offering for sin. The father
demanded that he die because he was made sin for his people.
Christ died the death that all of his people deserve because
he took their sin into his own body on the tree. And the good
news of the gospel is this, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ put away all that sin. His blood paid the debt and washed
all of his people white as snow. Now preacher, how do you know
that? I mean, how can you possibly know that the death of this one
man put away the sin of a number no man can number? How can you
possibly know that? Because Christ was raised from
the dead. That's how I know that. Christ was made sin. That's why
he had to die, didn't he? Why was he raised from the dead?
Because that sin was gone. If that sin was still on him,
if his blood had not put it away, he'd have to stay dead. could
not hold him. It was impossible for death to
hold him because he put that sin away. He had to rise from
the dead. Now, that's a doctrinal fact. Based upon this legal transaction
between the father and the son. The son put the sin of his people
away and he must rise from the dead. That's a doctrinal fact. A legal transaction that had
to happen if you and I would be saved. But I'm telling you,
That's a whole lot more than a fact. That's justification
itself. That's life itself. The gospel
is a glorious message. Brother, we've missed something. If Christ being made sin for
us causes you and me to fight with one another, we're missing
something. This ought to make us rejoice.
The gospel is so glorious. Christ both died and rose again
for the sin of His people. That ought to be a message of
comfort. It ought to be a message of assurance. It ought to be
a message of peace. It ought to be a message of salvation.
I expect you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ when I preach
who He is to you. I expect you to. Why would you
not? I mean, I know the answer to
that, but why would you not? Oh, what a Savior. If Christ
died for you, your sin does not exist anymore. He justified you. Now, Frank, you're making too
much of that. Romans chapter four. Don't you take my word for it.
Let's see what God says. Romans chapter four. Verse 25. Who was delivered for our offenses.
He was delivered unto death for our sin and raised again for
our justification. He was raised again as the proof
his death justified his people. Now what does that mean to you
and me as we go through this life? What does that mean for
the believer? Tell you what it means. There's
no reason for us to fear death. None whatsoever. There's no reason
for us to fear judgment, to fear standing before the judgment
seat of Christ. Christ justified you. You are justified. That means you don't have any
sin. None. Now, if you have no sin, why
would you ever be afraid to die and see God in judgment? No reason
for you to be. God is satisfied. He's satisfied
with you because Christ justified you, made you without sin. Now people, you know, they always
want to find a reason to fuss and fight. And they say, well,
you're saying a believer is justified. That means that they're holy
and they don't sin. Nobody's saying any such thing.
Of course we still sin. After the Lord saves us, after
we're converted, of course we still sin. And the believer,
Hates his own sin more than anything. The sin of other people doesn't
bother me near as much as my own. I'm just sick of myself. It's so discouraging. It's discouraging
to sin like we do. It's discouraging to think like
we do. It's just shameful. Well, hate
your sin. Be disgusted by it. But don't
let it make you fear God. has justified you. God's not
going to cast you out because Christ justified you by His death,
His burial, and the proof of it is His resurrection. And that's
who we're going to find if we find Christ at that empty tomb.
Christ, our justifier. Look back in our text at Mark,
or I'm sorry, John, John chapter 20. This is exactly what the
Lord told Mary. When verse 16, Jesus saith unto
her, Mary, She turned herself and now she recognizes him. And
she saith unto him, Rabboni, which is to say, master. And
Jesus saith unto her, touch me not. Now he's not saying she's
not allowed to touch him. Apparently she had fallen at
his feet and was grabbing ahold of him like she's afraid he's
gonna leave again. He said, you don't have to cling to me. I'm
not leaving yet. I'm not, I'm yet ascended to
my father. But here's what you do. You go
to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father and your
Father, to my God and to your God. The Lord told Mary, you
go tell this message to my disciples, my disciples who fled and left
me, my disciples who are hiding in shame, my disciples who are
acting like they had no faith at all, my disciples who I told
umpteen times that I must die and be raised again the third
day and do not believe that I would be raised again the third day,
they didn't believe what I was preaching to them, The word himself,
the word incarnate preached the word to him and they didn't believe
it. You go tell them this message of forgiveness. I'm going to
my God and your God, God, your God. I'm going to my father and
your father. The father is your father. All of your sin is forgiven. You're justified. You're part
of the family of God. Now the Lord himself said, you
go tell my weak, doubting, forgetful disciples, they're saved by grace. They're saved by a work of Christ
for them and in them. And the Savior comes in his word
and says that to all of his weak, sinful, doubting people today.
Your sin is forgiven. You're saved. by God's grace. You're saved by work of Christ
for you and in you. Your sin's forgiven. Now, if
that makes you think that you've got an excuse for sin and you
don't have to worry about your sin, you're not hearing. Doesn't
this just grip your heart and break your heart? The Savior
says your sin is forgiven. Tell you what, that makes me
hate my sin even more. But what comfort that our Savior
says, I've justified you. I've justified you, your sin
is forgiven. That's the Savior we'll find
if we find him at the empty tomb. Then number four is this. If
we find Christ at the empty tomb, we'll find our resurrection.
Now look first at 1 Thessalonians chapter four. Now like I said
earlier, there's no reason for the believer to fear death. There's
no reason for the believer to fear the grave. I don't know
what you call it, the way that we think about the grave, if
you call it fear or whatever, the fear of the unknown, it's
just because we've never been there, we don't know. But there's
no reason for the believer to fear the grave. The death of
Christ has made even the grave a pleasant place to wait for
his return. Our bodies will be resting in
the grave. Lord doesn't return first. Every
one of us is going to die and they're going to put our body
in the grave. Our body will be resting in the grave, but we
aren't going to be there. Our soul is not going to be there.
Our souls are going to be with the Lord until he returns. And
when he returns, he's going to join body and soul. First Thessalonians
13, or verse chapter four, I mean, verse 13. But I would not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you
sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, we believe that, don't we? Even
so, them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, we won't
prevent, we won't precede them which are asleep. For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and the voice of
the archangel. And with the trump of God and
all the dead in Christ, they're gonna rise. They shall rise first
in glorified bodies. Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with
the Lord. Now why you fear that? There's
no reason to fear that. The believer looks forward to
that. than when we will be raised in
bodies just like the body of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now that's just hard to imagine,
isn't it? And it's hard to imagine every
dead body who's ever died in the 6,000 years of human history
on this planet suddenly being raised back to life. The dust
of their bodies had spread to the four corners of the world
being brought together and then being raised, and that's just
hard to imagine. But that resurrection must happen. You know why it must? Because
Christ was raised from the dead. The grave could not hold our
Savior because sin had been put away. Well, the grave can't hold
the bodies of His people either. You know, when we bury one of
God's people, they're just renting that place. They're not gonna
be there long. They're coming out because Christ
our Savior put the sin of his people away. He rose from the
dead, so all of his people must rise from the dead too. Look
at 1 Corinthians chapter 15. See Christ, when Paul refers
to Christ as the firstfruits, that's what he means. Christ
is the firstfruits and there's gonna be a whole lot more following,
a whole lot more following him out of the grave. 1 Corinthians
15 verse 42. So also is the resurrection of
the dead. It's sown in corruption. It's
raised in incorruption. It's sown in dishonor. It's raised
in glory. It's sown in weakness. It's raised
in power. I mean, you just, what we, the
dead carcass, just the empty shell of flesh that we put in
the ground, You won't believe what's gonna come out of there.
It's sown in dishonor because it's died. It's going back to
the dust of what it was made from. It's coming out in power.
Verse 44, it's sown a natural body. It's raised a spiritual
body. There is a natural body and there
is a spiritual body. And so it is written, the first
man Adam was made a living soul. The last Adam was made a quickening
spirit. How be it that was not first,
which is spiritual, but that which is natural. and afterward
that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth,
earthy. The second man is the Lord from
heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy.
We're all just like Adam, because that's what we're made from.
And as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
All of God's people are made just like Christ. And as we bore
the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
This I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound and
the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For
this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal
must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that's written,
death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my brethren,
since all this is true, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor
is not in vain in the Lord. To think what will happen to
these natural bodies when they're raised from the dead. To go into
the grave, what we are, and come out of the grave, be made just
like Christ, then there's no fear going into
the grave, is there? Gotta go into the grave first, and then
we come out made just like Christ our resurrection. Now here's
the last thing. I want to impress this on our
minds. Look back at John chapter 20.
If we find Christ, we go to the empty tomb, and we find Christ
the Savior, we're gonna find him because we were seeking him,
but also because he was seeking us. You know, Mary, she saw the
tomb was empty. She ran and told Peter and John,
and they ran to the tomb. They saw the tomb was empty.
They said, oh, I don't know what to say about that, and they left.
Mary stayed there. Mary stayed. Mary looked in the
tomb, I guess several times, and she just could not bring
herself to leave the last place she knew the Savior to be. She
couldn't bring herself to leave. And she looked again. She looked
again. Look at verse 11. But Mary stood
without the sepulcher weeping, and as she wept, she stooped
down and looked into the sepulcher. And this time she saw two angels
in white sitting, the one at the head and the other at the
feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her,
woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, because
they've taken away my Lord, and I know not where they've laid
him, You know, if she knew the truth, she would have been weeping
if the body of Christ was still in the tomb. If she knew the
truth of why he wasn't there, she didn't have any reason for
weeping. Woman, why are you weeping? I don't know where the Lord is.
And when she had thus said, verse 14, she turned herself back and
she saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus
saith unto her, woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She,
supposing to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou
have borne him hence, tell me where you've laid him, and I'll
take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. And
she turned herself and said unto him, Rabboni, which is to say
master. Now Mary could not bring herself
to leave the tomb. She couldn't quit looking for
the Lord, and her persistence paid off. She found the Savior. Truth be told, he's the one that
found her, wasn't it? And that's how every believer
finds the Lord. The Lord lays it on our heart
to seek Him. We're not going to seek Him until
the Lord lays it on our heart to seek Him. And you know when
we're going to find Him? When He's pleased to reveal Himself
to us. That's when we're going to find Him. And you know what
we'll find out? I was seeking the Lord and I found out the
Great Shepherd had been seeking me all along. I didn't find Him. He found me. Was it Nathaniel,
one of them, when the Lord called his disciples and he came up
to him and revealed himself to him and he ran and told everybody
else, we found the Savior, we found the Messiah. Really? Who found you? Both are true. We seek the Savior and we find
him because he's seeking us. If you're seeking the Savior
and you wonder, have I found him or not? Have I found the
Savior? Or have I just found religion?
Have I found a new twist on religion, something that I like? Here's
how you know if you've found Christ or not. You'll say just
what Mary did, call him Rabboni. That word means my great master.
My great master. If Christ ever finds you, he's
your great master. Oh, he's your heart's desire. And if you're here seeking Christ
this morning, you cannot imagine how that's my heart's prayer,
that you're here seeking Christ this morning. If you'd like Christ
to reveal himself to you, I have some advice for you. Be where
he's preached. Be where the gospel's preached.
Faith cometh by hearing. When were Mary's eyes opened
so that she saw the Lord and recognized him? When she heard. when she heard him say her name. I'm sure Mary's eyes were filled
with tears. She's weeping because she doesn't
know where the Lord's body is. But it wasn't tears in her eyes
that kept her from recognizing the Lord. He just hadn't revealed
himself to her yet. Just like the disciples on the
road to Emmaus. The Lord came and after he'd
risen and walked all that way with them and they talked about
the gospel and he showed them from all the scriptures why Christ
must suffer and die be raised again the third day. And they
didn't know it was Him. Why not? Their eyes were not
opened yet. But Mary recognized the Lord
when He spoke to her. He spoke to her. He called His
sheep by name. And when He did, she saw. When
He spoke and called her name, her eyes were opened and she
knew it was the Lord. The Lord said, my sheep, hear
my voice. And you won't hear an audible
voice, but every believer you will ever talk to will tell you
this. There was a day the Lord called my name. It was in my
heart. It was as plain as anything. He called my name and I saw him
and I believed on him. You know, it could be you and
me will find the Lord too. if we seek Him like Mary did.
That's my prayer, that the Lord will give us a heart to seek
Him. And then when some man with sinful,
stammering lips is trying to declare Christ to you, you'll
hear Him call your name. And you'll believe. I promise
you, you will. You'll believe. That's glorious, isn't it? Alright,
let's bow together. Our Father, I thank You for this
day. I thank you for this time that
you've given us together to look into your word, to see more of
Christ our Savior. Father, I pray you bless your
word as it's been preached. Father, bless it to your glory.
Use it to reveal to the hearts of each one of us here this morning
the redemptive glory of Christ our Savior. Lord, I pray that
you speak to each heart here this morning, that you'd call
your sheep by name. speak to our hearts. Father,
let us hear your voice. By faith, let us hear your voice
and cause us to fall at the feet of Christ and say, Rabboni, my
great master, and cling to him for all we're worth. Father,
we ask this great blessing for ourselves. It's a great blessing. How could a sinful son of Adam
ever beg your mercy and your grace. It's a great blessing,
an undeserved blessing we ask for ourselves, but we ask that
you do it for the glory of Christ our Savior. For his sake, in
his name we pray. Amen. All right, Sean.