I wish I could tell you all without getting overly emotional
how thankful I am to see you all this morning and to be back
with you. It's been over a year. These treatments for the cancer
that I have just been very, very wearing and this was going to
be my first trip to find out, you know, this fatigue level
I have, can I travel and preach and do it, but I was invited
to preach at the conference in Collegeville, West Virginia last
weekend, and that worked out pretty well, so I hope this will,
hope this will too. I so appreciate your prayers
during, that was a tough time going through all those treatments,
and I appreciate you so much, I've missed you, and it's very
good to be able to be back with you. Now, if you would, open
your Bibles with me to Matthew chapter 16. The title of the
message this morning is a question. Who do you say Jesus is? That's the question that our
Lord asked his disciples in Matthew 16 verse 15. He saith unto them,
but whom say ye that I am? Now, this is the most important
question that can be asked to you and me. Our eternal soul
hangs upon the answer to this question. Who do I say Jesus
Christ is? Because the issue between us
and God is not our knowledge of scripture. We all ought to
know a whole lot more about scripture than we do. But the issue between
you and God is not your knowledge of scripture. It's not your doctrinal
position. It's not your morality. The issue
between you and God is the Lord Jesus Christ. And the question
is, who do you say that he is? You know, the Lord's not asking
who does Calvin say that Christ is, or who does Luther or Gil
say that Christ is. He's not asking who does Spurgeon
or Mahan or Fortner say who God is. The question is, who do you
say that the Lord Jesus is? Who is the Lord Jesus to your
soul? You know, I'm not just asking
if you know historically who the Lord Jesus is. Who is he
to your soul? That's really what I'm asking
this morning. You know, the question is not who do other men say that
Jesus is, because you're going to get a lot of crazy answers
to that question, aren't you? Look back up at verse 13. When
Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saying, whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?
And they said, some say thou art John the Baptist, some Elias
and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets. I mean, the best
people could come up with as well. He's some prophet of old,
you know, written, risen from the dead. The fact that he was
the son of God never entered into the mind of any natural
man. Now, who do you say that the
Lord Jesus is? Every one of us here automatically
had an answer to that question in our mind when the question
was asked. And my prayer is that our answer
will match what scripture says that who the Lord Jesus is. I
want my answer to match Peter's answer to this question because
I know that Peter's answer is right. Look how Peter answers
the question. Verse 17, Or verse 16, Simon Peter answered
and said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto
him, blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not
revealed that unto thee, but my father, which is in heaven. Now, who do you say the Lord
Jesus is? Well, the answer to the question,
simply put, is Christ is all. Christ is everything. Christ
is everything to the Father. He's everything in creation.
He's everything in providence. He's everything in salvation.
Christ is everything in the covenant of grace. He's everything concerning
righteousness and holiness. He's everything concerning the
preservation of his saints. From eternity to eternity, Christ
is everything. When time on this earth is no
more and heaven is God's people are eternally in Heaven. You know what the theme of it
will be? The theme of the ages will be the Lord Jesus Christ.
He is all. Now, I can't talk about all in
35 or 40 minutes, so let me give you four things that Scripture
says, that tells us that Christ is, and these things are vitally
important to our souls. And I want to make this very,
very clear before I start on these four points. I didn't come
here this morning to give you a lecture on who Christ is, who
Jesus is, so that you'll know these... I want to tell you this
morning who the Lord Jesus Christ is so that you'll believe on
him. I'm not just trying to tell your head or memorize some facts
of who he is. I want us to look at who the
Lord Jesus Christ is so every one of us will leave here this
morning believing on him. That's my prayer. Well, number
one is the person of Christ. This tells us who he is. What
is he like? He's God incarnate. That's who
he is. He's almighty, eternal God in
human flesh. Peter says, we believe and are
sure that thou art the son of the living God. Peter said that
looking in the face of a man, flesh and blood. I believe. I'm sure you're God. The Lord Jesus is the Son of
God. He is God, because that's who
the Word of God says He is. Look over Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter 1. Verse 30. An angel said unto her, Fear
not, Mary, for thou has found favor with God and behold thou
shall conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shall call
his name Jesus. He, now this is who he is. He
should be great. He shall be called the son of
the highest. Now he's going to be called the
son of the highest because that's who he is. And Lord God shall
give unto him the throne of his father, David, the throne that
Rex read, read to us about a little bit ago. And he shall reign over
the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be
no end. Then said Mary unto the angel,
How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered
and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the
power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy
thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son
of God. This angel knew that Mary's son
was the son of God. Now that's who he is. The son
of God became an embryo, a microscopic embryo in Mary's womb. And that is such a great miracle
that the only way the angel knew how to describe him was that
holy thing. Now that holy thing had to be
God. It has to be, doesn't he, Billy?
Because only God's holy. What did Isaiah tell us that
the angels who fly around the throne of God, what do they cry? Holy, holy, holy. Almighty God
is holy. He's the only holy one who exists. And that holy one became a man. Now that's a truth that must
be revealed to us. Because the human mind can never
understand this. The Lord Jesus Christ is both
God and man. He's 100% God. And he's 100%
man. Years ago, when I was teaching
vacation Bible school, teach 5th through 8th graders, and
I made that statement that the Lord Jesus Christ, he's 100%
God. And he's 100% man. And this little
boy just, he was, he's so smart. He could do math stuff and science
stuff. I mean, even fifth grade that
I could never dream of doing, you know, and that just blew
his little mind. He couldn't, he just couldn't
comprehend it. His brother, Scott Richardson
said, he's as much God as if he were not man. And as much
man as if he were not God. The Apostle Paul, who's smarter
than all of us put together, said, great is the mystery of
godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. Now that's a mystery that must
be revealed to us. Look back at Isaiah chapter nine. Isaiah chapter nine. This is
the one who the father had always intended and purposed in the
fullness of time to send to be the savior of his people. Here
he is, Isaiah 9, verse 6. For unto us a child is born. Here's a child born who never
existed before. And unto us a son is given. The
child was born, but the son wasn't born. He's eternal. He was given. And the government shall be upon
his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful. Counselor,
get a hold of this, the mighty God. the everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. The Son and the Father are one
so that His name, this child who is born, is the everlasting
Father. The Lord Jesus Christ is God. That's who He is, God in the
flesh. He's God so that He can satisfy
God's holy character. He's God so He can satisfy all
God's holy, righteous demands, and He's a man. so that he could
be the substitute for sinful men and women like us here this
morning. Scripture says, in him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead in a human body. That Jesus of
Nazareth, here is who he is. Here's his person. He's everything
that God is. Everything. He's eternal. He's omniscient. He's omnipresent. He's everything that the Father
is. And I love to think about that. I love that. This is not
just a fact of who the Lord Jesus is. I love to think that the
Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, Mary's firstborn son, is God. It's not like he's God. He's
not God decaffeinated. He is God. The eternal God came
in human flesh to accomplish the salvation of his people.
That's why the angel said he's come. He's come to save his people
from their sin. Well, since he's God, the Lord
Jesus cannot fail to do what he came to do. He cannot fail
to make his people righteous. He cannot fail to redeem his
people or to give them eternal life because the Savior, Jesus
of Nazareth, is God. That's his person. All right,
number two, there's the offices of the Lord Jesus. The offices
of Christ tell us who he is. You know, if we say the office
of president or the office of dog catcher, you automatically
know what the job of those people. Well, this is the offices of
the Lord Jesus. This is the job that he came
to do. Peter tells us that his office
is the Christ, the Christ. And that word Christ means the
anointed of God. It means the Messiah. The father
anointed the Lord Jesus to save God's elect. The father elected,
he chose a savior and he chose a people for that savior to save.
He anointed him to come and be the savior of his people and
to bring them back to God. Now the office of the Lord Jesus
is Christ because that's the office the Father gave him. This
is the job the Father gave him to do. In Acts 2 verse 36, Peter
makes this statement. Therefore, let all the house
of Israel know assuredly that God, the Father, God made that
same Jesus whom you've crucified. He's made him Lord and Christ. This is his office. He's the
Christ. And anybody who reads about him
should know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Lord Jesus is
the only savior of sinners. Yet our nature doesn't know it.
Our nature refuses to believe it, refuses to accept it, and
refuses to bow to it. Let me show you something very
humbling, humiliating about our nature. Look at Luke chapter
4. You know, when we say that we're
born with a dead nature, I mean, boy, here is a shining example
of that. Luke 4 verse 41. The devils also came out of many
crying and saying, thou art Christ, the son of God. And he rebuking
them suffered them not to speak for they knew he was Christ. Those demons know something that
we do not know by nature, but they wouldn't believe him. They
wouldn't trust him. They wouldn't beg him for mercy.
And that's a really good reason why I told you I'm not just giving
you a lecture so you know in your head who the scriptures
say that Jesus of Nazareth is. I want you to know who he is
so you believe him, so you trust him, so you follow his feet and
beg him for mercy. The Lord Jesus is the Christ. He's the anointed of the Father
to be the savior of his people. Well, he has another office.
He has many offices. He has the office of prophet. He came as that prophet. Moses was so frustrated that
the people would not listen to him. Moses one time said, Lord, what
did I ever do to you that you'd make me lead this stiff-necked
people? And Lord told Moses, don't you worry. One day I'm
going to send a prophet like unto you, that prophet. And to
him, the people will hearken. They'll listen to him. Now, the
job of a prophet is to tell people what God said. You know, that
was the job of the Old Testament prophet. They would go to God,
God would tell the prophet what the people were to hear, and
the prophet would go tell the people, this is what God said.
The Lord Jesus is that prophet. He came to tell people how God
saves sinners. God saves sinners through Him,
through Him alone. It's not our works. It's not
our ceremonies of religion. It's by His grace that's found
in Christ Jesus. He spent three and a half years
of an earthly ministry, public ministry, preaching that message,
salvation by grace, salvation in Him. And then He went to the
cross, and there it is. As He suffered and died on the
cross, He's telling us, all who will listen, this is how God
saves sinners. It's by the sacrifice of the
Holy Son of God. Then he has another office, the
great high priest. He's the eternal high priest
after the order of Melchizedek. He's not a priest after the order
of Aaron. No, he's an eternal high priest.
All those priests after the order of Aaron, Aaron's sons and grandsons
and great grandsons, they all died, didn't they? And when they
died, they had to be replaced. Christ is the eternal high priest.
His priesthood never ends. And here's something else Aaron
never did. None of his sons or grandsons ever did. They never
offered a sacrifice that put away even one sin. Now the law
required those sacrifices because they were pictures of Christ,
our great high priest. But those sacrifices never put
away sin. And then in the fullness of time,
Christ came. the father sent his son to offer
the sacrifice for sin. Christ only had to offer one,
by one sacrifice forever, one sacrifice. Christ, our great
high priest, he saves himself. Now, if this doesn't grip your
heart, I'm afraid it's because you only
got a dead heart. Christ, the great high priest,
did not come to pay for the sins of his people, by getting out
of his wallet and taking some bills out of him and paying the
price. He didn't pick up the check and
say, how much is it? And here's my credit card. He
didn't take an animal that he loved, an animal that he'd raised,
and sacrifice and slaughter that animal. He offered himself. He offered
himself. A sacrifice for God, a sacrifice
that atones, puts away the sin of his people. He had to sacrifice
himself. He's the great high priest who
sacrificed himself upon the altar of himself. That's what he did. Then he has another office. He's
the eternal King of Kings. He is the ruler over all authority
and over all power. Now here is what kings do. They
rule their subjects. That's what a king does. The
Lord Jesus Christ rules over his subjects. And his subjects
are everyone and everything in all of creation. He's the king
over it all, isn't he? Now that tells me salvation is
up to his royal prerogative. It is the crown rights of the
Lord Jesus to save whom he will and to pass by whom he will. And he has the power to save
his people. He has the power to keep his
people because he's the king. Now listen, I know that the human
nature gets mad about that, but stop for just a minute, would
you? Don't get mad about that. Fall at the feet of the king
and beg him for mercy. He's the king over his people. He's the king in a special way
over his people. He said, they'll be my people
and I'll be their God. The king has condescended to
have a relationship with his people. You try having a relationship
with the president of the United States. or senator or something,
you know, you can't get in to see those people. The king of
kings has condescended to have a relationship with his people
where he says, you can come into my throne room anytime you want. As long as you come in my name,
pleading for mercy, grace to help in time of need. That's
the king. That's the office. That's the
job of the Lord Jesus. That's what he did when he came.
Well, here's the third thing, and I kind of already got into
it. It's the relationship of the Lord Jesus to his people.
He is the object of our faith. That's what Peter said. He said,
we believe and we're sure. Well, he didn't say that here.
It was in another place where he said, we believe and we're
sure. Look at John 6. I think this is where that's
at. John chapter 6. Yeah, here it is, John 6. Verse 66. Now from that time, many of his
disciples went back and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus,
son of the twelve, will you also go away? Then Simon Peter answered
him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of life,
and we believe and we're sure that thou art that Christ, the
son of the living God. Peter left no room for doubt,
did he? who he believed that the Lord Jesus is. That is as
definitive a statement as a person can make. We believe and we're
sure that thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. The relationship that the Lord
Jesus has with his people is he is the only object of our
faith. He's all. Now Christ is not first,
like, well, he's first and then there are others. He's all. He's our only object of faith. We believe that the Lord Jesus
is everything that God the Father requires of us. We believe and
we're sure that the Lord Jesus is everything that we need. He's everything that we need. Lord has ways of teaching His
people, doesn't He? They're not the ways that we
would choose. And when the Lord starts taking
things away from you, you know what you find out? Well, I kind
of hate to give that up, but I can live without it. I can't live without Christ.
He's the only object of faith. Anyone who, in saving faith,
trusts Christ, they put all their eggs in one basket. There's no
backup plan. He's all. He's our wisdom. He's our righteousness. He's our sanctification. And
He's our redemption. He's our wisdom. You know, the
only way that we can know God, know how God saves sinners, is
by seeing the Lord Jesus Christ. You know how I know I am a dead
sinner, dead, undone, and hopeless? You know the way I know that?
Is by seeing Christ in His holiness. Seeing Him with the eyes of faith.
You know how I know God saves sinners? I mean, there's no doubt
in my mind, I know how God saves sinners. It's by seeing Christ. See, I trust Christ to be my
wisdom. If there's anything I need to know spiritually, I tell you
what, all I gotta do is look to Christ to learn it. He's my
wisdom. He's the one that lets me know
who God is. Christ is my righteousness. Now, I know that I am unrighteous. I am unrighteous. I mean, I don't
have any, not a speck of righteousness anywhere in anything about me.
You know how I know that? It's by, with eyes of faith,
seeing Christ in his perfection. The only way that I can be righteous
is if Christ obeyed the law for me. He had to obey the law for
me as my representative. And he had to take my sin away,
away from me, into his own body on the tree and put it away by
his sacrifice. That's the only way I can be
made righteous. And that's so obvious if I see
Christ. And this is not just a legal
thing. This is his relationship to his
people. He is my righteousness. My righteousness
before God is not a legal piece of paper that I got. Here it
is. My righteousness is a person. It's a relationship with Christ.
And you know how you can tell if I trust Christ to be my righteousness
or not? If I don't feel compelled to
add any of my works so I can make myself more acceptable to
God, I just trust Christ to be my all. then Christ is my holiness. Now again, it's so easy for me
to see I'm unholy if I ever see Christ in His holiness. And if
I see Christ, I'll know this, the only way I can ever be holy,
the only way the Holy Father can ever accept me is if the
Holy Spirit is pleased to apply the blood of Christ to my heart
and give me a new nature. Because the nature that I conceived
when I was born The nature that I received when I was conceived
in sin. I didn't have to wait until I
was born. It's what the nature I received when I was conceived
in my mother's womb is a nature of nothing but sin. And I trust
Christ to be my holiness. He is my holiness. It's my relationship
to him. He's my holiness. I depend upon
him. And it's a mighty important relationship
because without that holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Then Christ is my redemption.
Now again, when I see Christ, I know, it's so obvious, the
only way I can be redeemed is by the blood of Christ. There
is nothing that is precious enough to pay my sin debt but the blood
of Christ. There's nothing powerful enough
but the blood of Christ to cleanse me from my sin. I am so vile. My sin is so wretched that the
only way my sin could be put away is if the Son of God Himself
sheds the blood of God and the Son of God, life Himself, has
to die in my place as my substitute. That's how vile I am. I'm not
talking about people out there in the world and all the junk
they're doing. That's how vile I am. And I trust
that because it's the blood of Christ, because of whose blood
it is, the blood of Christ is all it takes to pay my sin debt
to God. I trust that Christ alone is
everything that I need to be brought back to God. Then Christ is my representative.
Now God's gospel is the gospel of representation. You cannot
understand the gospel unless you understand this truth of
representation. God sees the whole human race
in one of two representative men. And we all have done what
our representative did. All men, the whole human race,
became lost and dead in sin when Adam sinned. When Adam sinned,
you and I sinned. When Adam died, you and I died.
When Adam was thrust out of the presence of God, you and I were
thrust out of the presence of God. When Adam sinned, I sinned. Just as surely as if I took that
fruit and ate it myself, when Adam sinned, I sinned. It's not
like I wasn't there and God, you know, charged Adam's sin
to me even though I didn't do anything wrong. No, sir. God
charged Adam's sin to me because I was in Adam when Adam sinned.
And I did what Adam did. I was truly in Adam, my representative. That's how we all got in this
mess that we're in. We're all God's elect. became
holy and righteous in the second Adam. When the Lord Jesus Christ
obeyed God's law perfectly, so did you, if you believe him.
Isn't that amazing? I think that God would do that
for the likes of us. Maybe I should say the likes
of me, because I could see him doing something for the likes of you
all, but the likes of me, that he'd send his son to do
for me what I could not do for myself, what God required of
me. And when Christ obeyed the law,
I obeyed the law in him just as surely as if I did every thou
shalt of the law, just as surely. I was truly in Christ when he
established a perfect righteousness. Now, again, this righteousness
is not just a legal standing. Righteousness is a person. You
know, people argue and argue and argue and argue about righteousness
and all the legal junk about it that
they want to muddy the waters and confuse the waters. You know
when you're going to quit arguing about righteousness? When you
see Jehovah's Akenhu, the Lord our righteousness. And brother,
that's the only righteousness I want. I say with the Apostle Paul,
I don't want this righteousness which comes by my works, but
righteousness which is by the faith of Christ. The faithfulness
of Christ to obey the law for me. All of God's elect were justified. They were set free from the curse
of the law when Christ died. I was set free from the curse
of the law, because when Christ died, I died in Him. Now, the
law is not trying to condemn me anymore. I don't have to be
looking over my shoulder, you know, fearing the law is going
to finally catch up with me. I've already been condemned and
died in Christ, and the law is satisfied. Then Christ is my surety. A surety
is someone who takes responsibility for someone else. Remember when
Judah told his father, Jacob, Genesis 43, verse 9, they were
starving to death. If they don't go back down there
to Egypt, they're not going to get any corn. They're going to
starve to death. And Jacob said, I'm not sending
my sons with you boys anymore. I mean, something bad always
happens when I send my sons away with you. I'm not sending Benjamin
with you. And they said, but the man straightly
said, we have to bring Benjamin. Jacob said, I'm not doing it.
You boys, you're not trustworthy. And Judah told his father, I
will be surety for him of my hand, shalt thou require him.
And if I bring him not unto thee and set him before thee, let
me bear the blame forever. Do you know that is exactly,
Judah said that obviously is a picture of the lion of the
tribe of Judah, the savior that would come through his tribe.
That is exactly what the son said to the father. The father
elected a people, a sinful, rotten, dead people, a people that are
no count, not worth nothing, he gave to his son to save. And
his son said, father, I will be surety for them. All those
people, you require them of my hand. And if I don't bring them
to you, and set every last one of them here before you, you
let me bear the blame forever. That's what the son said. We're not prone to shows of the flesh and shows
of emotion. But if I could still jump up
and down, I believe I wanna jump up and down when I think about
that. I am not responsible to save myself. And you're not either
if you trust Christ. I'm not responsible to make myself
righteous. I'm not responsible to get myself
straight all the way to glory. You know, God doesn't save his
people and then he washes them in his blood. He makes them righteous
and holy and sets them down and says, now go on your way. I did
everything I can do for you. Now you got to make it to heaven
on your own. I'm not responsible to get myself safely to glory.
The Lord Jesus Christ took that responsibility for me. Oh, I
love that. I mean, I can't even tell you
how much I love that. It takes all the pressure off.
Under the covenant of the law, I'm responsible for myself and
I will surely fail and be damned. But look at Hebrews chapter eight. Under the covenant of grace,
Christ is responsible for me. And if Christ is responsible
for me, I know this, I'm going to be saved and I'm going to
be glorified because he'll lose his glory if he doesn't do it.
And he's not going to do that. Hebrews 8 verse 6, but now hath
he obtained a more excellent ministry by how much more also
he's the mediator of a better covenant, which was established
upon better promises. The law, the covenant law could
only promise me death. The covenant of grace can only
promise me life in the Lord Jesus Christ. And that grace is all
in the hands of Christ our surety. He didn't put it in our hands
to keep. He kept it in his hands to keep. Then that covenant of
grace will never fail. And I can trust Christ to bring
me all the way home, all the way through this veil of tears,
all the way into his presence. Then Christ is my mediator, the
one who pleads with God for me. Hebrews 7 verse 25. He is able
also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. The Lord Jesus Christ
makes intercession for his people. It's not a hard job. He's sitting
in the presence of His Father, and He's not constantly pleading,
forgive that sin, forgive that sin, forgive that sin, forgive
that sin, forgive that sin. All He does is sit calmly, resting
in the presence of His Father, and the scars in His body are
all He needs to plead for the forgiveness of sins for His people.
Those scars in His body show He was already slaughtered, He
already died, and He already rose again. their sin is put
away. Those scars tell the father his
son has already done everything that he required and he accepts
his people in Christ our mediator. Then last, Christ is my shepherd.
I love how David starts out Psalm 23, Christ is my shepherd, my
shepherd, my shepherd. I have a grandson, he's a year
and a half old, and his papa is his best friend. And in the
past week, he's learned the word my, my. And this morning, his
mama was doing him the horrible injustice of changing his diaper
and putting his church clothes on him to go to church. The child
had to be restrained to put his clothes on him, it's just horrible.
And you know what he was crying? My papa, my papa, my papa will
come save me. Infinitely more precious, my
shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd, so I
shall not want. I trust my shepherd to come find
that lost sheep that's out there lost and just crying and Don't
even know how lost I am. Lord, help me. He'll come find
his lost sheep. And my shepherd is going to put
me on his shoulder and bring me all the way to glory. My shepherd. That's the believer's relationship
to Christ. Isn't that the one you want to
be your savior? Your shepherd? And then quickly, let me give
you this. The relationship of the Lord Jesus to the Father.
Christ is all to the Father. The Father who is inflexibly
holy, inflexibly just, who loves his people, but will not bring
them into his presence unless all of his requirements are met.
He won't undo one requirement in order to save his people,
because if he does, he'll lose his glory. Well, that leaves us out. The
Father can't look to us to supply him that, can he? So the father
looks to his son to be everything that he requires. And I'm telling
you, he got the job done. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
delight of his father. Because as a man, he honored
every attribute of his father. Christ honored and magnified
the law by saving his people through the law, not by going
around it, but by going through it. by obeying the law for his
people. Christ's death on the cross honored
both God's justice and God's mercy. When Christ died on the
cross, God's justice was honored and magnified, wasn't it? Boy,
if you ever wonder, is God really just or not? He slaughtered his
son when his son was made sin for his people, didn't he? When
he slaughtered his son, God's justice was satisfied. And at
the very same time, as Christ hung in that awful, bloody slaughter,
God's mercy was magnified. This is how God's going to show
mercy to his people. By the slaughter, the sacrifice,
the blood and the death of his son. God determined that his
elect would receive mercy and God did it in justice. He made
it right for him to show mercy to his people. The father looks
to Christ to be everything. And by God's grace, believers
do too. And if you trust Christ like
that, you're blessed of God. Just like the Lord told Peter,
you're blessed. If you trust Christ like that, you are blessed
of God. Because God gave you the faith
to trust Christ like that. And how I pray it so. All right,
Lord bless you.