Nobody at all was with me. Nobody else could hear me. I
was driving here this morning. I was singing that song in the
car. It didn't sound anything like that. That's a blessing,
a good song. And that's what I want us to
do this morning, to consider how great Christ is. First, I want us to consider
how great this man Melchizedek is that we've been looking at.
Melchizedek is either a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ or he's
a picture of Christ. But either way, Melchizedek shows
us how truly great the Lord Jesus Christ is. We looked at Melchizedek
last week and saw in that what he represents there. There is
no one like the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is the king and priest.
The only man to ever hold both of those offices, king and priest. Christ is the king of righteousness. All righteousness is found in
him. All righteousness comes from
him. Everything he does is righteous and holy altogether. And Christ
is the king of peace. Peace with God is found in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Peace in the heart is found by
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ who made peace for us by the
blood of his cross. And we saw that the Lord Jesus
Christ is the eternal priest. He's the eternal savior. Salvation
in Christ could never be lost. Now then, after teaching us something
of who Melchizedek, this man Melchizedek is, in the next four
verses, the writer gives us four more ways to consider the greatness
of Christ our savior. And the first one is this. I
try to drive this home in my preaching. and every message,
you come to Christ right now. You come to Christ, you submit
to him because Christ is so great. Everyone should submit to him.
Verse four, Hebrews chapter seven. Now consider how great this man
was unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the 10th of the
spoils of the great patriarch Abraham. The man that God first
revealed his promises to, called him out of his father's house,
this great patriarch, Abraham. I mean, this man talked with
God. I mean, you think of Abraham and Abraham submitted himself
to Melchizedek the very first time he ever laid eyes on him.
When Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, that's what he was showing that
he was submitting himself to Melchizedek. Look at Numbers
chapter 18. When Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek,
what he showed was this, that he was giving all of the credit
for his victory at the slaughter of the Kings. He was giving all
the credit for that to Melchizedek. He was submitting himself to
him. Numbers 18 verse 20. And the Lord spake unto Aaron,
thou shalt have no inheritance in their land. Neither shalt
thou have any part among them. I am thy part. I am thine inheritance
among the children of Israel. And behold, I've given the children
of Levi, all the 10th in Israel for inheritance, for their service,
which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. Now, when the children of Israel
came into the promised land, the land that God very first
promised to Abraham and to his seed, when they came into that
land, they conquered it. All the tribes of Israel inherited
certain sections of land. They all had their own portion
of land in the promised land. Every tribe except the tribe
of Levi. Levi was not given any land in that land of promise. Their inheritance, the inheritance
of the tribe of Levi was the tithe, the tenth that all the
other tribes paid to the Lord. That tithe was paid to the Lord,
but that was the portion that God gave to Levi. It rightfully
belonged to them. God gave it to them as an inheritance.
Well, long before this law was given, Abraham paid a tithe to
Melchizedek. And what he was saying is, Melchizedek,
all of this rightfully belongs to you. I mean, Sodom was a wildly
wealthy place. And those kings had come and
taken everything in Sodom, all the people, all the possessions,
all the money, all the wealth. They took it all. And with just
about 300 men, Abraham went down there and defeated all of them
and took it all by him. He took it. The spoil belonged
to the victim. The spoil belonged to him. And
Abraham said, Melchizedek, all this belongs to you. I'm just
giving you back a portion of what rightfully belongs to you. Because this is a great military
victory. Abraham, I don't know how big
the force, it was a vastly superior force. Abraham took about 300
men and divided them into even smaller sections of men and won
this great military victory. And he wasn't taking any credit
for it. He said all the credit for this belongs to you Melchizedek.
So here's the picture. The Lord Jesus Christ is so great
that we should all submit ourselves to him. We should all submit
ourselves to his righteousness, because not only is his righteousness
great, it's the only righteousness there is. We should all submit
ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ. We should all give him the glory,
the credit for salvation, because he did it all. Now you think
of, this is Abraham. Abraham is the father of the
faithful, the father of all who have faith in Christ right now.
All of God's people are saved the exact same way Abraham was
saved, by God's grace. Not by works, but by grace. It
was through faith, not works. Abraham didn't work and become
righteous, he believed God. He had faith and it was counted
to him for righteousness. And every believer is saved the
same way as our father Abraham had. All right, Abraham, our
father, submitted himself to Melchizedek. How much more should
we, I mean our father Abraham, how much more should we submit
ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ? This great man Abraham gave all
the credit for the victory to Melchizedek. He's greater than
we are. How much more should every believer
Give the credit and the glory and the honor for salvation to
the Lord Jesus Christ. He did it all. We didn't know
anything. He did it all. Christ is so great. Every one
of us should submit to him, should bow to him and submit to his
righteousness for how great he is in every way. All right, number
two, consider how great the Lord Jesus Christ is. He is so great
that by His grace, He does what the law could never do. Verse
5, for verily they that are the sons of Levi, who received the
office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes
of the people according to the law, that is of their brethren,
though they come out of the loins of Abraham. Even though they
come out of the loins of Abraham, their brethren, their equals,
they take a tithe from their brethren. He whose descent is
not counted from them received tithes of Abraham and blessed
him that had the promises. Now the tribe of Levi received
tithes of their brethren. All the other tribes, they had
to pay that tithe. They had to give the tenth. It
was the commandment of the law. They didn't have a choice about
it. The law commanded them to do it. And you know they hated
that. I mean, you read through there,
through the history of Israel, they hated to give that tithe. I mean, it was a tax. Just like
we just, we hate paying taxes. If we think our taxes, tax rates
are too high and the government's wasting it all, how we hate,
just grieves our soul to pay those taxes. But we do it, we
pay them because we don't want to go to jail. That's how the
Jews felt about that tithe. And they made up all kinds of
rules to get out of paying them. They said, well, we're doing
this and this and that with our money, so we're not going to
have to pay the tithe. And others bragged about, I pay
tithes of even the spices that are in my wife's spice rack.
But they didn't do it. They were lying. They had to
pay those tithes. And they had to pay them to the
Lord. The tithe was paid to the Lord. and the Lord gave it to the tribe
of Levi, to the Levites. All right, that's how the tithe
worked. But Melchizedek wasn't from the tribe of Levi. Melchizedek
was not a descendant of Abraham. Melchizedek came on the scene
400 years before the law was given. Well, then why did Abraham give
him a tenth? The law wasn't even given. The law didn't require
it, did it? Yet Abraham freely and willingly
gave Melchizedek a tenth of the spoil. And then he gave the rest
of it back to the king of Sodom. Abraham didn't keep anything
from him. Now what on earth would make him do that? You reckon
if you had all that spoil, I mean millions and millions and millions
of dollars that you just give it all back? Here's why Abraham did that.
Abraham saw Christ. Once he saw Christ, he didn't
need a law telling him what to do. See that? Once he saw Christ, his heart
was so overwhelmed, he gave that willingly. Not because he had
to, because he wanted to. And then he gave the rest of
it back to the king of Sodom and didn't keep it for himself
because he saw Christ. He saw he had something better. He had a better reward. He had
Christ. And that's why we don't preach
the law around here. The law can try to make you do
something. You won't do it. The law can
make you do certain things, but can't make you love it. But God's
grace can do what the law can never do. Grace makes a man or
a woman willing to submit to Christ. By nature, we're not willing.
That's what the Apostle Paul said about his countrymen. They
have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of Christ.
They won't do it. They don't have it in them because
human nature can't do it. But grace can conquer that. Grace
can. Grace makes a man or a woman
willing to bow, willing to submit themselves to the righteousness
of Christ, willing to give up, trying to earn any credit, any
glory in this thing of salvation and bow at the feet of Christ
and beg Him to have mercy on me. I tell you, we got to be
hungry before we beg, don't we? God's grace makes someone beg
and wait at His feet, begging Him to save us. We never talk
about a tithe or the law of tithing or anything around here. We don't
even pass a plate. See, somebody put something in
it. We just put a box back there. Y'all put it in there what you
want. because God's grace in the heart makes people give willingly
and lovingly. God's grace in the heart makes
God's people serve him. One sight of Christ, just one
glimpse of who he is, can do what the law could never do.
It'll make us righteous. It'll make us bow and submit
to the righteousness of Christ. Look at Romans chapter eight. Here's Christ did what the law
could never do. Romans 8 verse 2. For the law
of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus had made me free from the
law of sin and death. For what the law could not do
and that it was weak through the flesh. Nothing wrong with
the law. The problem was with me, with the flesh. What the
law could not do and that it was weak through the flesh. God
sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned
sin in the flesh. that the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh,
but after the spirit. See, Christ did what the law
could never do. He saved his people. He made
them righteous and he made them willing to submit to him. So
God's people, we don't need to preach the law. God's people
don't need the law of the Sabbath, commanding them to worship, you
know, keeping track of attendance and seeing who attends, how many
services a year. No, God's people don't need the
law of the Sabbath. They don't need to be told you
have to come to worship. They willingly, lovingly come to worship
because they need to, they love to, they need to. God's people
don't need a law telling them they better honor God. You better
live your life in a way that honors God and show you love
God. No, they do that willingly. God's given them a heart to do
it willingly. And God's people don't need a law of the tithe.
We get a sight of Christ. He gives us a new heart. We give
willingly and generously. I really wouldn't tell you give
10%. Many give more than that. That poor widow woman giving
her might She gave more than 10% of it to you. What? She gave all of her substance.
Why would she do that? What's she going to eat tomorrow?
She trusted the Lord. See, that's why she saw Christ. And that's why we only preach
Christ. We don't try to talk anybody
into doing anything. We preach Christ hoping you see
Him. Now, scripture tells us it's because preachers to compel
sinners to come to Christ And I try to do that, but now we
leave it right there. We leave it right there. And
I try to pull people down the aisle, not trying to get people to do
anything. Because I know this, we just preach Christ. If God,
the Holy Spirit ever does what I cannot do, I can show you what
this says, but I can't make you see Christ. If God, the Holy
Spirit ever shows a sinner Christ, I'm telling you what, you better
get out of their way because nothing's stopping them from
coming to faith. Just preach Christ. The law can never do
that, but grace does. We preach grace. The law can
never do that, but one side of Christ will do it. So we preach
him. He is so great. We ought to come
to him. We should, shouldn't we? He does what the law could never
do. He makes his people willing in the day of his power. All
right, here's the third thing. Christ is so great. that he blesses
all of his people. The end of verse six says he
received the tithes of Abraham and blessed him to have the promises. And without all contradiction,
the less is blessed of the better. Like I said before, Abraham was
a great man. There's no denying that he was
a great man because God blessed him so greatly. God talked to
Abraham as a friend. God called Abraham my friend. And God gave all the promises
to Abraham. He told him, Abraham, you're
going to have a son. And he didn't just mean you're going to have
a baby. He meant Abraham, the Messiah is coming through that
son. And Isaac shall the seed be called.
And Abraham went out from his father's house, not knowing where
he was going. And he never owned a bit of land except for his
grapes, him and Sarah's tune. That's all he owned in the promised
land. But he went out and he wasn't looking for that. He was
looking for a spiritual city. His builder and maker was God.
He's looking for that because God promised to give it to him.
And Abraham, and the only way you can understand this was so
is God gave him a special revelation that he saw something nobody
else saw. Abraham saw Christ's day and he rejoiced. He rejoiced
in the coming Savior. He rejoiced in what Christ was
going to accomplish. Abraham understood. He didn't
understand it as clearly as you and I do. I don't think. Maybe
he did. I don't know. But he did understand this. That
salvation was coming through the death of a substitute who
was going to die for the sins of his people and put them away.
And Abraham knew that. What a special revelation God
had given him. But Abraham had all those promises
and types and pictures. They just came to Abraham. But
the Lord Jesus Christ is so great that all of his people are blessed
in him. Not just one of them, not just
a select few, but all of his people. are blessed in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And they're not just blessed
with pictures now. They're blessed with the real thing. They're
blessed with the real thing. They're blessed. Don't forget that word. They're
blessed. They didn't earn it. They were
blessed. This blessing didn't come through
the law. This blessing came from God's grace. This blessing came
from covenant grace. that God promised to give His
people. And Christ doesn't just pronounce a blessing for His
people, but He applies that blessing. He makes it real in the heart. God's people are blessed with
righteousness in Christ, made perfectly righteous in Him through
faith in Christ. That's not something you've got
to wait to have someday. It's real in the hearts of God's
people now. God's people are blessed with
salvation from our sin and Christ the substitute. That's not just
a picture. He has put away the sin of his
people. God's people are blessed with
the forgiveness of sin. I don't think that we really
have any idea what a great, great blessing it is. to have our sin
forgiven. How can that be? That all I see
about myself is sin. I just cringe thinking about
the things that I've done and said and what I am, what I've
thought. But almighty God says, I don't remember. Forgiven in
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is how great of a sacrifice
Christ is. Their sins and iniquities will
I remember no more. God's people are blessed because
Almighty God called them out of idolatry. He called them out
of their darkness into what? His marvelous light. He called
them to something specific, to the Lord Jesus Christ. See, that
blessing is in Him. God's people are blessed with
life. Eternal life, the blessing of eternal life can't come any
other way other than through the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse
8 says, and here, men that die receive tithes. But there he
receiveth them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. He
liveth. Now the Levites, this eternal
life, the point of this is eternal life can only come through Christ.
The Levites, they did receive tithes that were required of
the law, didn't they? And they all died, every one
of them. And everybody they represented to God did too. The priest, their
job was to represent the people to God, to offer sacrifices to
God for the sins of the people. And they, for the most part,
faithfully offered those sacrifices. But everybody they represented
died, didn't they? And the people who did pay their
tithes, they all died. So what do we see by that? The
law cannot give life. Eternal life to a sinner cannot
come through the law. Everybody that tried to keep
the law, everybody that was under the law, died. But Christ, our
High Priest, He got a different priesthood. He never dies. His sacrifice does put away the
sin of His people. And since Christ never dies,
salvation in Him cannot be lost. It could never end because he
ever lives, making intercession for the sins of his people. So
everybody Christ lives, represents, lives. Spiritually, they live. We live because Christ lives.
And again, Christ, our Savior, is so great. He doesn't just
give life to his people. He is the life of his people. And he never dies. Christ, our
high priest, did what the sons of Aaron could never do. The sons of Aaron could never
offer a sacrifice that would put away sin. All their sacrifices
did is remind people of sin, didn't it? Because they had to
keep offering them over and over and over again. But Christ came. Our high priest came. He's a
better priest. He came with a better sacrifice. He didn't offer the
blood of bulls and goats. He offered his own blood. He
sacrificed himself. for the sin of his people. And
that sacrifice put away their sin, made it gone forever. So
when Christ died as a sacrifice for sin, you know what he did?
He made it so his people could never die. He took away every
reason that they would ever die. We die because of sin, don't
we? If Christ has taken away our sin, we can never die. Now
this flesh will, because this flesh is full of sin. But that
new man, the soul that's been born of God, can never die. It can never die because Christ
took away all that sin and made them righteous, made them holy.
So every believer is blessed with all the same blessings and
all the same promises that Abraham had. Now you think of that. Abraham is no better off than
you who believe. I mean, we think Abraham's great,
don't we? Abraham is no better off than the weakest believer
here, because we have everything that Christ has. I can show you
that in Galatians chapter three. The weakest believer here has
all the same blessings as that Abraham is no better off because
we have everything that Christ has. Galatians 3 verse 11. But the no man is justified by
the law in sight of God, it's evident. For the just shall live
by faith, by faith in Christ through union with Christ. And
the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall
live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us. For it's written, Cursed is everyone
that hangeth on a tree, that, here's the reason Christ died
on a tree, bearing the curse of his people, putting it away,
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith, that we might receive all the same promises that Abraham
had, that we might receive the same righteousness Abraham had
through faith. Now, brethren, I speak after
the manner of men. Though it be but a man's covenant, a man's
last will and testament, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth
or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were
the promises made. And he saith not, and to seeds,
as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant
that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which
is four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannull. that
it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance
be of the law, it's no more of promise, but God gave it to Abraham
by promise. See, this promise was made to
Christ, wasn't it? Christ is DC. The promise was
made to Christ and it was given to Abraham and it was given to
everybody else in Christ too. Every believer is blessed with
every blessing, with every promise that God ever made. Every believer
is blessed with everything that God has for a sinner in Christ. So even Abraham is not better
off than the weakest believer here because it's all in Christ.
It's all Christ is the Savior is so great that he gives every,
not just one man, but a number. No man could number every blessing
God has for a sinner. And they've got to come in Christ.
They've got to come by grace. They've got to come by faith
because they could never come by the law. The blessing didn't
come to Abraham because Abraham paid tithes. The blessing didn't
come to Abraham because Abraham did something right. The blessing
came to Abraham because of the promise of God in Christ. The blessing came to Abraham
by grace. I imagine Abraham had other brothers.
Why didn't God call one of them? His grace was particular to Abraham. Salvation is by grace in Christ
Jesus, never by works. Let me show you that. Genesis
chapter 14. The promise is by grace. It's never
by works. The blessing is by grace, never
by works. Abraham did pay tithes to Melchizedek. He did. But that's not why Abraham
was blessed. Melchizedek blessed Abraham first. Melchizedek revealed himself
to Abraham first. Then, as a result of that blessing,
Abraham paid tithes. Look at that, Genesis 14 verse
18. And Melchizedek, king of Salem,
brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the
Most High God, and he blessed him. See, the first thing he
did, he came on the scene, he revealed himself to Abraham,
and he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram, of the Most
High God, possessor of heaven and earth, and he blessed the
Most High God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand,
and then he gave him tithes of all. See, the blessing came first. The revelation of who Christ
is came first. Then Abraham paid tithes, but
they all came to Abraham in Christ by grace, by grace, not by works. And everyone, I don't care who
they are, who believes on Christ, Christ is so great. They're all
blessed with the same blessings God gave Abraham. If you believe
Christ, you are just as righteous as Abraham. And when we read
in scripture, Abraham is righteous. He believed God has counted to
him for righteousness. Christ the Savior is so great.
If you believe on him, as weak as you think your faith may be,
you're just as righteous as Abraham. There's no degrees of righteousness.
It's either perfect or you're not. Christ is so great. He blesses all of his people
with everything God has for a sinner. And here's the fourth thing.
Now consider how great the Lord Jesus Christ is. He's so great. Everyone he represented is saved. Verse nine, back in our text,
Hebrews chapter seven. And as I may so say, Levi also,
who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham, for he was yet in
the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. Now these
verses are not just, you know, kind of making an historical
statement. They're teaching a very, very, very important gospel truth.
They're teaching representation. Levi did what Abraham did because
Levi was in Abraham's loins. He would descend from Abraham.
So he did what Abraham did. Melchizedek is so great that
the Levites paid tithes to Melchizedek because the Levites, Aaron did
what his father Abraham did. The whole priesthood of the law
submitted to Melchizedek, when Abraham submitted to Melchizedek,
because they did what their father, their representative did. And
I tell you why that's given to us. To show us that the priesthood
of Christ is so much greater than the priesthood of the law.
And Lord willing, we'll get into that more next week. I'll try
not to preach two messages in one day. We'll get into that
next week. But the priesthood of Christ
is so much greater than the priesthood of the law. That's why it had
to be done away with. That's why there had to be a
priest after the order of Melchizedek. But right now our focus is on
the representation. And what these verses are teaching,
that Levi paid tithes in Abraham because that was his representative.
He would descend from Abraham. This concept, if that's the right
word, of representation, is a vital gospel truth. You cannot understand
the gospel until you understand representation. You and I were
made sinners by what our representative did. Adam was our representative. We would come from his loins
just like Levi would come from the loins of Abraham. Adam was
our representative. But what did Adam do? Adam sinned. He sinned. You and I sinned.
Adam died. When Adam died, you and I died.
And we proved that. We received Adam's dead nature
when we're born, just like him. Because we're born from his seed.
We descended from his loins and we're born just like him. Well,
God's elect are made righteous the exact same way. It's by representation. It's not by what we do. It's
by what Christ our representative did. God's elect did. what Christ our representative
did. We were in him doing what he did, just like Levi was in
the loins of Abraham, doing what he did, paying tithes to Melchizedek.
God's elect did what Christ our representative did. Well, what
did Christ do? Well, he's so great that he obeyed
God's law perfectly. Indeed, in heart and motive and
thought, he obeyed God's law perfectly. Christ the Savior
is so great, He established perfect, eternal righteousness. And so
did everybody He represented. When Christ obeyed the law, if
you believed in Him, you did too. When Christ obeyed the law,
if God put you in Christ, you obeyed it too. Not just like
you did, you did. If you're in Christ, you obeyed
the law. just as surely as you disobeyed
the law in Adam, just as surely. And Christ died. After he established
a perfect righteousness, he was made sin for his people. He took
all the sin of his people in his own body on the tree, and
he died to satisfy the law's demand. The law demands death
for sin. Christ was made sin for his people,
and he died to satisfy justice. And when Christ died, justice
was satisfied. Justice is never gonna demand
anything else from the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, the same thing's
true of His people. Because we who believe, we died
to the law already. In Christ our representative.
And God's justice is satisfying. God's justice will never demand
another thing from you. Christ died for you. Because
you died in Him. You were in Him when He died.
And then three days later, Christ arose from the dead as the evidence
his death justified all of his people. That shows us how perfectly
the law was satisfied. Christ died for sin, but he couldn't
stay dead because he put all that sin away. Well, then everyone
for whom Christ died is justified too. They all rose to new spiritual
life when Christ their representative rose. See, that's what we say. when we confess Christ in believer's
baptism. We're confessing that salvation
is through representation. This matter of representation
is so important. When a believer is baptized,
we're confessing my only hope of being saved. I am such a sinner.
I'm so lost. I'm so vile. My only hope of
being saved is being in Christ. That when Christ died, He died
for my sin. I died in Him. I died in Him
so completely, in so much reality, that when Christ was buried,
I was buried with Him. Christ died. His blood put away
my sin in such completeness, in such reality, that when He
rose from the dead, I arose in Him. I arose in Him to new life. And Christ lives forever because
He gave me eternal life. My salvation is all in the Lord
Jesus Christ. I have it because he's my federal
head. He's my representative. And as enormous as salvation
is, really and truly, salvation is no more complicated than that.
It really is. Don't overcomplicate it. And
that's easy to see if God gives us eyes to see Christ. If God
gives us eyes to see how Great, the Lord Jesus Christ is my representative. It's easy to see salvation is
all in him. See, the truth of representation
teaches us this, that we're saved by Christ, not the law, but we're
saved by Christ. God has always seen his elect
in his son. He's always accepted them in
his son, never by our deeds of the law. Salvation is by God's
promise. It's by God's grace, not something
we can earn by the law. God's promise came a long time
before the law was ever given. Well, then why did God bother
to give the law? I mean, God called Moses up there and God
gave Moses the law. I mean, this is a pretty intricate
thing. Why did God give him pages and pages and pages and pages
of the law? To show us one thing. to show
us how much we need Christ. I mean, I can't keep one commandment.
I can't keep 10 commandments, much less the whole Mosaic Law.
I can't. I'm hopeless. In myself, I'm
hopeless. The only hope I have is running
to the Lord Jesus Christ, because He's the only one who can keep
it. He's the only one who can save me from all my sin. Now
consider this. Consider how great The Lord Jesus
Christ is. I hate to even take those words
on my lips. I mean, what a poor, poor, poor job I've done trying
to talk about how great God is. But consider it the best you
can. How great He is. Well, this is the only conclusion
we can draw. I need Christ. He's the only
Savior. He's the only Savior. He's the
best. He is so great. He's the best. Then don't go to anything inferior. Christ is the best. Don't go
to anything inferior. Don't go to some man who calls
himself a priest. He's inferior. He's a fraud.
Go to Christ. Don't go to a man, even a great,
respected man. There are men and women here
I so highly respect. Men and women of faith and courage. But don't go to those men and
women. They're inferior. They'll tell you the same thing.
Go to Christ. Go to Him. Don't go to the law. Don't go to religious ceremonies.
Go to Christ, to whom they all point. There isn't a better priest. There isn't a better Savior.
There isn't a better salvation. Go to Him. Go to Christ. He is
so great. You go to Him. You'll find salvation. rest for your soul. Go to him. Let's bow to him. Our Father, how we thank you
for this revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray you give
us some comprehension of how great, how awesome that he is. And Father, give us the grace
and the faith to run to him, to believe him, rest in him is
all of our salvation. Father, bless your word, I pray.
Bless it to your glory. Bless it to the hearts of your
people to draw us ever nearer with great urgency to Christ
our Savior. It's in his blessed name we pray
and give thanks.