Well, y'all breathe again. Nobody
was moving. David, that was so good. Thank
you. Our first speaker this morning, Pastor Roland Browning. Roland
is no stranger to this congregation. He's preached here quite a number
of times. He's one of my very favorites.
But he's never preached here as the pastor. He's the pastor
of the Grace Baptist Church of Dingus. And Roland, we're delighted
that you're here. You come bring the message God's
given to you. Thank you, Brother Frank. It's
been a blessing to be here over the years. I pray it's a blessing
again today to stand before you and tell you the things that
Christ has done for His people. That's all we've got to tell
you is what Christ has done. It's not what He's going to do.
It's not what he's tried to do, what he's done. He finished the
work God gave him to do. Turn with me to the book of Hebrews.
Hebrews chapter 9, verse 11. We'll read two verses here, but
I'm only going to deal with four words. The four words are good things
to come. The good things to come. Look
here in chapter 9, verse 11. We'll read
verse 11 and 12. We'll only deal with these four
words, as we said. But Christ, being come and high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood,
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. I want to look at seven things,
if time permits. Seven good things to come. Now,
there's many more. There's many more. I understand
this. This is only scratching the surface. But I've got seven
things yotted down here, and I got this outline. Brother Henry preached it at
Dengis somewhere in the early 80s. And I was going through
some papers a few weeks ago, the notes I'd scratched down,
and I ran across this outline. And I said, if Henry preached
it, it has to be the truth. So that's what we're going to
try to look at. seven good things to come as a result of the sin-atoning
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. What did he accomplish when he
came here, took upon himself flesh, lived in this world for,
man says, 33 years, and then suffered the wrath that do you
and I, finally gave up the ghost, hanging on the tree, and ascended
back unto the heavens, and sat down at the right hand of God."
What did he accomplish? What did he accomplish? For you
and I, who by the grace of God looked to him by faith, what
did he accomplish? The first thing. He accomplished full pardon of
sin. Your sin and my sin, if we look
to Christ, is put away. It is put away. It can never
be surfaced again. God will not bring them back
up again against us. He said, I have redeemed thee.
I have saved thee. Thy sins and thy iniquities will
I remember no more. So they're gone. They are gone. We read in Ephesians 1 and verse
3, it says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ, according as He has chosen us in Him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure
of His will. Why did He do that? Because it pleased Him to do
it. To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has
made us accepted in the Beloved, in whom we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of
His grace. You and I who look to Christ
by faith, the gift of God. Now, it's not something we've
done. It's not something we've conjured up. It's not something
that we've produced. Faith is the gift of God. He
gives it to whomsoever He is pleased to do it. And we are
simply recipients. We simply receive the blessings
from God. We don't work for it. We don't
have a merit to earn it ourselves. It's simply a free gift of God.
And He gives it to whomsoever He wills. And we receive it with
joy and gladness. Oh, I believe. The Lord has caused
me to believe. What a blessing. What a blessing.
And in believing, trusting, looking to the sin sacrifice of the Lord
Jesus Christ, my sins are put away. They are gone. The writer of the book of Hebrews
uses the word of forgiveness of sin. A full pardon. A full pardon of sin. We obtain
through His blood. When His blood was shed, He shed
on my behalf, and my sins were washed away. That's just as simple
as you can make it. There's no big drawn-out outlines
of these things. How are your sins put away? They are put away by the blood
of Christ. He put them away. And He made an atonement for
our sins. He paid for it. And we have forgiveness of sin
in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, this is not the
only benefit that we have. I have seven things jotted down
here. But this is probably the most
important thing. One of the most important things.
All these things are important, but this thing of sin must be
dealt with. Sin must be punished. The justice
of God demands sin to be punished, and punished it must be. The
soul that sinneth it must surely die. And he died. When he was made
sin for his people, the wrath of God came to where the sin
was, and it consumed him to the point, he said, my sins and my
iniquity has carried me away. They have brought me low down
to the dust, and I give up the ghosts. I give up the ghosts. That's what it took to save one
sinner. That's what it took that God
demanded perfection. And He, through His sacrificial,
sin-atoning death, gave me peace and reconciliation. My sins are
gone. The only way, the only way to
escape this judgment is through the sin-atoning death of Christ.
I can't work enough to put away one sin. I've heard men say around
our community that God forgave their sins up to the time that
they believed, and then they had to stand good for their sins.
They say that we're saved by grace, but we're judged by works.
If we are, we're goners. We're hell-bent sinners deserving
the wrath of God. We have no work to do. We can
do no good work. We can do nothing to appease
God. So someone must take our place.
And that's what he did. By his sin-atoning sacrifice,
he took my place. And oh, he gave me his righteousness. What a turnabout here. Me who
was on the way to condemnation. He said, come out from among
them and be a separated people and I will be your God and you
shall be my people. And he sends the gospel to his
people and he calls them, come out. Come out from among them. Come out from among the world.
Come out from among the dead and live in the person of the
Lord Jesus Christ. By Him, through Him, I have pardoned
from sin. Original sin, that sin which
I was born with. Actual sin, that sin that I actually
committed myself. Past sins that I don't even remember. Present sins that I don't even
see and not yet committed. And sin to come. Oh. In His blood,
through His blood, and by His blood, they're gone. They are
gone. The second good thing. The second
good thing we experience, we receive, we lay hold of through
the sacrificial, sanatonic death of our Lord Jesus Christ. We
have this thing of eternal redemption. Good things to come. I've not
experienced eternal redemption yet. I hear about it, I believe
it's so, but have I experienced it yet? I believe I'm experiencing
part of it now, but there's still part to come for me to experience. Now, the price is paid. Redemption
is accomplished. Satisfaction is made. But we
come into it and we don't experience all these things at one time.
We don't know what eternal means because we've never experienced
eternal. We don't know what everlasting is because we're flesh. We cannot experience it as we
are now. But we have eternal redemption. He says, I have redeemed thee.
And you're mine. You're mine. We read in Titus chapter 2. Verse
11. For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men. That's Christ. He's the
grace of God that brings salvation. Teaching us, this is what the
gospel teaches us, and this is what we attempt to preach to
men and women. Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly
lust, we should live soberly. You say, well, if you preach
grace and you tell men that their sins are forgiven, then that
just gives them a license to go out and sin. No, it don't.
It might do the ungodly that, but for the child of God that
has this new nature put within them, this new heart put within
them, their desire is towards the things of God. Teaching us. Denying ungodliness
and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly
in this present world. That's how we ought to live right
now. And that's the way the spirit
desires to live. But, oh, this flesh, it desires
to go back to the dust of the flesh. It desires the things
of the flesh. It desires the things of the
world. But looking, Titus chapter 2 verse 13, looking for that
blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and
Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that we, that
he might redeem us from all iniquities and purify unto himself a peculiar
people, zealous of good works. zealous of the things of the
Spirit, zealous of the worship of our God, zealous of the love
of God. These are the good works that
we have. He works within us to perform them. We believe that's
a good work. But how do we do that? We do
it by the grace of God. It's not something we do within
ourselves. We do it because the Spirit of God within us desires
to be like Christ. who gave himself for us, that
he might redeem us from all iniquities. Every one of our sins and our
iniquities are gone. This thing of sin brings us into
bondage. Men talk about, oh, I'm a free
moral agent. I can do this and I can do that.
You're bound by sin. You're in bondage to sin. You're
in slavery to sin. But redemption, whoa, redemption
is the deliverance from it. This thing has come out from
among them. I have redeemed thee. Sin binds
guilt upon the sinner. The soul that sinneth, it shall
surely die. That's what the law says. And
it binds us in guilt and condemnation. And it lays us under obligation
To this thing of punishment, the soul that sinneth must be
punished. God cannot just wash away sin
by a swipe of his sovereign grace. Sin must be paid for. And it renders us, oh, this thing
of sin renders us liable, liable to the curse and condemnation
of the law. Men say, oh, just give me the
Ten Commandments. You don't want anything to do
with the Ten Commandments. You can't keep one of them, much
less ten. You don't want to be bound under this thing of the
law. Don't you hear what it says? Cursed is every one that continueth
not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do
them. Every aspect of the law. It must be completely satisfied. And that's what Christ did. He said, I finished the work
thou gave me to do. And Christ was made sin and a
curse for his people. For he that was wholly harmless,
undefiled, and separate from sinners, took upon himself flesh
and came. And I don't understand all this
thing about what it is for him to be made sin. I just don't
understand that. My mind just can't comprehend
it. But the scripture says He was made sin. That's what we have to believe.
He was made sin. And as He was made sin, I was
made the righteousness of God in Him. To the full point that
He was made sin, I am made righteous in Him. Again, I don't understand
that. And I sure can't explain it to
you. But the scripture tells us the facts of the matter. He
was made sin that we might be made the righteousness of God
in him. We'll leave it right there. By him burning my guilt. Burning
my shame in his body on the tree. He redeemed me. from all my iniquity, that it should not ruin me. There
is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For the
life of Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and
death. This is what it is to believe the gospel, to lay hold
of these things by faith that the Lord gives us, and to rest
in them, to rest in them, The old song says, my hope is built
on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. And that's
all we have. That's all the hope that we have, that Jesus was
made sin for me and I was made the righteousness of God in him. The third thing. The third good
thing to come unto his people as a result of his sin-atoning
sacrifice. We have complete justification.
Not part justified, not want to be justified, might hope to
be justified, we are justified. We are justified by the work
that he performed, the life that he lived, and the death that
he died. Through this, we are justified.
We stand before God justified. Listen to what Romans chapter
4 verse 25 says. Who was delivered for our offenses,
that's Christ, and raised again, that's Christ, for our justification. He did this to justify a people
before the holy God of heaven. As a result of his sin atoning
death, our Lord Jesus Christ who were centered by nature,
centered by practice, centered by choice, are completely justified
before God. Now, how can that be? How can
that possibly be? It hangs on and hinges about
who Christ is and what he's done. Who he is, he's God in human
flesh. Who can justify but God? Nobody
can justify but God. Who can raise up? Who can give
life except God? My wife said it last night. He's the giver of life. In Him
is life. Because He was delivered for
my sins. He was bruised for my iniquity.
And He suffered in my place and said, and He says, you're justified. looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
him endured the cross, despising his shame, and is set down at
the right hand of God. And you and I who look to Christ
by faith, we set down with him. We set down with him. I'm not
there yet in this person, but in the mind and purpose of God,
as God sees things, I'm there, seated in Christ, and with Christ. And this took place before the
foundation of the world. This is not something that just
was established when I made a profession. When God said, I will have a
people, and the Father and the Son entered into this covenant, they shook hands, if you will,
And Christ said, I will redeem them. I will justify them. I will present them unto thee
a holy people. And the father accepted all that
he did, the life that he lived here for 33 years. This torment
that he went through for hours and hours. And when he hung there
on the cross, He said, it's finished. It's finished. The work of redemption
is complete. I have justified a people in
the eyes of God. And we stand before God, accepted
in the body. God looks upon me and he says,
you're justified. How can that be? knowing something
of who I am and what I am. How can that be? Only in the
person of Christ. Only in His shed blood and His
righteousness can I be justified. And He sees me washed in the
blood of Christ, His only begotten Son. And He says, Loose Him. Loose Him and let Him go. He
that is Son is made free is free indeed. The next thing. The fourth thing. Of the good things to come as
a result of the Sanatani death of our Lord Jesus Christ. We
have a perfect sanctification. You and I are sanctified. We
are holy. You say, well, you can't talk
that way. That's the way the scripture talks. That's what
the scripture declares of us. Be ye holy, for I am holy. And in Christ I'm holy. In myself,
no. In this flesh, no. But in Christ,
I am as holy as God, dear Son. You say, well, that's blasphemy.
No, that's what the scripture teaches us. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 10. By the witch will, whose will,
God's will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. Now, what's that mean? It means
exactly what it says. You and I who look to Christ
by faith, the gift of God, We are sanctified, declared to be
holy, set apart for the worship of God through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every high priest
standing daily, ministering, offering time to the same sacrifice,
which can never take away sin. But this man, this man, the Lord
Jesus Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin forever,
sat down on the right hand of God, from that time forth, from
henceforth, waiting, expecting, until his enemies be made his
footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. by the offering of themselves
upon the tree. The Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior,
made one sacrifice, one sacrifice. Under the law, they had to have
a sacrifice of the morning, sacrifice of the evening for hundreds of
years. But this man, oh, this man, showing
the sufficiency of his sacrifice, showing the the power of his
sacrifice. This man offered one sacrifice,
and it was sufficient. It was sufficient for the sins
of all his people of all times. You know, oh, he died for everybody.
No, he didn't. He died for a particular people
that was reserved before the foundation of the world. A seal
was put on them that they are my people. and I will be their
God. And in time, the Lord Jesus Christ
came and secured them. He paid the debt. Whoever wrote
the psalm, Jesus paid it all, knew something about the gospel,
I believe. Oh, that my sins were as scarlet. He washed them white
as snow. He had laid the foundation of
eternal perfection by His offering. And it was such a character that
it secured it. The foundation is laid and the
sacrifice is made in all his will with God. And he set us
apart. Oh, he set us apart for the worship
of our God. That's what sanctified means. In the sanctuary, everything
had to be sanctified. It was going to come into the
presence of God. It was going to come and be used in the worship
of God. And so it is with you and I.
We must be sanctified. We must be set apart. We must
be made holy in order that we might worship our God in spirit
and in truth. The next thing. Let me hurry.
The fifth good thing that comes to you and I as a result of the
Sanatonin death of our Lord Jesus Christ. we have peace and reconciliation. Romans 5, verse 6. For when we
were without strength and due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous
man would one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even
dare to die. But God, but God, commanded his love towards us,
and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more
then, oh much more then, being now justified by his blood, we
shall be saved from wrath through him. For if when we were enemy
we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more
now being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Here's
our peace and our reconciliation. It stands here in the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ. As a result of His sin-atoning
death, you and I who were enemies of God, enemies with God, are
now made one with God. How can that be? How can that
be? Only in the person and the work
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He, by His atonement, produces
peace and reconciliation between those who are aliens from each
other. Our God had not changed, but
man had failed. Man had failed. And his sins
had separated him from his God. And if there was ever to be reconciled
back together again, it must be through a mediator. It must
be through an atonement that only one man can offer. and that
is God Himself in human flesh. And it pleased the Father to
make His soul an offering for sin. And you and I who look to
Christ by faith, we see the smiling face of God. We don't see, as
men paint this picture, the frown upon God's face. Oh, no. We don't
see anything but the smiling face of God that declares unto
us, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. It's not what
I do or what I've not done. It's the blood of Christ that
cleanses our soul. Lord, when I see the blood, I'll
pass over you. Number six. The secret good thing that comes
to His people as a result of the sin of atoning death of our
Lord Jesus Christ. We have eternal salvation. Not
salvation we're hoping for, not salvation that might be, but
maybe we have it. We have it. Hebrews chapter 5
verse 8. Though he were a son, yet learned
he obedience by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect,
he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him. Him being a complete Savior,
the Savior fit in all respects to redeem men. By His sacrifice,
He became the author of eternal salvation. It was resolved upon from eternity. What God doeth, it is forever.
God don't do these things in steps as you and I do. We lay a foundation. We put boot
wood upon that foundation. We do this. We do that. We do
it in steps. But God done this in one act.
In one act. He said, I will have a people
and they shall be my people and I will be their God. And then
He worked out everything that it took. Whatever it took for
me to be redeemed, the Son of God came and did it. And it was secured, oh, it was
secured in an everlasting covenant. The Son of God being the mediator
of a new testament, a new covenant between God and men. And he finished
that which God gave him to do. And God smiled upon him and said,
come, sit down on my right hand until I make your enemies your
footstool. The seventh thing, real quick.
We have full pardon of sin. We have eternal redemption. We
have complete justification. We have a perfect sanctification.
We have peace and reconciliation. We have eternal salvation. Couldn't
it be anything else? Yes, there are many more things. One old writer said, he loatheth
us daily with benefits. These are the benefits that he
loatheth us daily with. The last thing, we have all the blessings of
heaven's glory. Can you imagine that? We read
in Romans chapter 8 and verse 28. And we know that all things
work together for the good to them that love God, to them that
are called according to his purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He
did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son. And
that's what He's doing. That's what He's doing. He's
conforming us to the image of His Son. That He might be the
firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate,
them He also called. And whom He called, them He also
justified. And whom He justified, them He
also glorified. Have you and I entered into glory
yet? No. But we will. We will. For I reckon
that, Paul said, I believe it's Paul, said, I reckon that the
suffering of this present world is not worthy to be compared
to the glory that shall be revealed in us. There's glory that's going
to be revealed in us and to us. This is what Paul said in Ephesians. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessing and heavenly places in Christ. and has raised us
up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ.
That's what He's doing. That's what He's doing right
now. You and I have not entered into glory yet, but we will.
We will. Listen to what He says in John
chapter 17. Turn with me there, if you will.
John chapter 17 and verse 22. Here is the blessing. Here is the blessing that you
and I have. Let me find my place here. John chapter 17, verse 22. The
glory and the glory which thou gavest me, I have given thee. I have given thee. 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, and that the world may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them. God loves me as he loves
his own son. Can you imagine? That's what
the scripture said. That thou has sent me and has
loved them as thou has loved me. This is the blessing that
you and I will experience later. We get a taste of them here.
We get a smiling face, we hear the gospel preached, rejoicing
in our hearts. But oh, the glory. that shall
be revealed in us, when we shall see Him face to face, when we
shall behold Him in righteousness. We're not going to look here
and say, oh, look at my glory. Oh, no. Our focus is going to
be on Him. Our eyes are going to be set
on Him. And our minds and our thoughts is going to be consumed
with who He is and what He did for us. These are the blessings,
these are the good things to come as a result of the sin-atoning
death of our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray God bless His Word. Very often, I say that the best
compliment that you can give a preacher is I understood everything
that you said. Our Lord has blessed Roland with
great plainness of speech, hasn't He? Roland, that's such a blessing.
Oh, I thank you. If Lord tarries another 40 years,
some man's going to get up and say, back in the early 2020s,
I heard Roland Browning preach this message. I jotted down the
outline. I'm going to give it to you. That was so good, Roland. Thank you. We're going to take
about a 15-minute break, and when you hear the music, come
back, find your seat, and Pastor Todd Nyberg is going to bring
a message for us.