Turn if you will to your Bibles
to 1st Corinthians 1 And we'll be reading 30 and 31 1st 1st
Corinthians 1 30 and 31 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus I who of God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that according
as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. God in his omnipotent wisdom,
in his grace, chose a people to show His love, His mercy,
and His grace to before the world was. He agreed with Himself,
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They
are one. In the covenant that was made,
He put those He chose, as we've read here, in Christ Jesus, His
Son. in Christ Jesus. Saints of God,
you gotta let that sink in. Christ voluntarily became our
surety, agreed to be our substitute,
our representative head, and to redeem us. That lamb slain
before the foundation of the world, the only begotten Son
of God, And God set us apart in Christ Jesus. God would make himself known
in him. God would reconcile Adam's fallen
race, those he chose out of it, to himself in Christ Jesus. And all that God requires for
salvation of His elect, God gave to us in Christ Jesus. He was delivered for our offenses,
raised again for our justification, that Lamb slain before the foundation
of the world. Behold, the Son of Man, the God-Man,
and God put us in Him. This is God's work. You must
be in Christ. Christ must be in you. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus. And of Him are ye in Christ Jesus. By God's free, sovereign grace,
He chose you in the beginning. He has chosen you in Christ Jesus
before the world was. And if He puts you in His Son,
if He has given you life and faith by His Holy Spirit to believe
on His Son, then He has made unto you wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. We're just going to scratch the
surface of these tonight, but pray God show you. If you were
born of God, you rely totally on Him, Jesus Christ, for all
your wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption, Christ alone by God's
immutable, omnipotent grace. This is good news, saints. The
saints of God God puts you in Christ Jesus in the beginning. That's the only way. And it's
God's work, it's God's doing, and He did it in the beginning. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom. We are all foolish by nature.
We're born with that sinful, betrayed nature in our representative,
the first Adam. We are all born spiritually dead.
That means we cannot know God. Not know Christ. Not know His
ways. We can't understand spiritually.
Everyone knows there's a God Satan knows there's a God But
we're born spiritually dead we're in darkness we're bound by Satan
We hate God in our natural nature We can't understand the things
of God we stand guilty before him We have offended him We have
sinned against God, the God who created the universe, the God
that created all for himself, to himself, and by himself. But over the covenant of grace, praise God, he chose a people
to put in the last day. God put us in His Son, and in
His infinite wisdom, He sent Him to be the representative
of His chosen elect, and them only. The Word of God was made
flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. You come to God through His Son. That's the only way God will
look at you. By the will of God. And they're
one. And He is the light, that true
light. And in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who God has made unto us wisdom. He has made us wise unto salvation. And salvation is Jesus Christ. You look at 1 John chapter one,
verse one and two. that which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which
we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word
of life. For the life was manifested,
he made it known, and we have seen it. and bear witness and
show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father and
was manifested unto us. We are made wise unto salvation,
wise unto knowing who Jesus Christ is and to knowing who God is
in the face of Jesus Christ, our Lord and our salvation. First
Corinthians 2.16 tells us, but we have the mind of Christ. Christ, He put you in Him. He revealed Him in you. All the blessings of God are
in Him. He's given you that gift of His
Holy Spirit to give you life and faith to believe. So you
can understand spiritual things. You are spiritual. That new creation
that He's created in you, Christ, revealed in you. So you can understand
these things. We know all things. Because He
teaches us. He keeps us. It's a promise of
God to all that believe on Him, to all that He chose and put
in Christ in the beginning. He reveals Christ in you, the
hope of glory, your only hope of glory, the only way to the
Father. God revealed to us in the face
of Jesus Christ. If you'll turn to Ephesians chapter two, We'll start in verse
four. Ephesians chapter two, verse
four. But God, who is rich in mercy,
oh thank God he delights in mercy. For his great love wherewith
he loved us. He loved us. Even when we were
dead in sins. He loved us when we sinned and
hated Him. He hath quickened us together
with Christ, by grace ye are saved, and has raised us up together
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. that in the ages to come he might
show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness toward
us through Jesus Christ. For by grace ye are saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. It's all of God. For we are His
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God had before ordained, that we should walk in them." Everything
God does, He does for a purpose. Nothing is just done haphazardly. God created all things. for His
own will and His own purpose in the saving of His elect and
to get His glory. And He does that in His Son. His workmanship. He borns us again. He gives us
His Holy Spirit. Have grace, the comforter, which
is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. He shall
teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said to you." Christ Jesus revealed. How can
we keep his commandments when we when there's no good in us,
when we're nothing but sin. He put us in Christ Jesus. He
revealed Christ in you. His Holy Spirit teaches you all
these things. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness. Righteousness
is a legal term. Right with the law, and that
usually is by your deeds. Here, it's right in the eyes
of the law before God. How can we be right before God. We have no righteousness of our
own. God doesn't accept our righteousness. What does he tell us? They're
filthy rags. We have broken God's holy law. We stand guilty. His law declares
us guilty before him. And to break God's law is to
die, is death. God demands death, that blood
be shed because he's offended. We've offended him. We've sinned
against God. Oh, wretched man that I am, who
shall deliver me from the body of this death? For to sin against
God is death. God demands, he requires a perfect
righteousness. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness. Again Christ Is our righteousness
He's our only hope he's our only righteousness Christ came into
the world to bring in an everlasting righteousness for his people
By his perfect obedience to the law of God unto death On the
cross He made him the perfect righteous one to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made, that we
would be made the righteousness of God in Him, in Christ Jesus. the very righteousness of God
in Christ Jesus. Daniel 9 24 tells us 70 weeks
are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish
the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation
and restore an atonement made by the blood of Jesus Christ
for iniquity and bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up
the vision and prophecy. It's all about him. And to anoint the most holy. the most holy. Christ came into
this world as the righteous God-man. He broke his mother's womb. I come to do thy will, O God. And we were in him. Think about that. He loved you
from eternity. If God's loved you, he ain't
never not loved you, because he don't change. He purposed all of this for you. For you, for those that he chose
and put in his Son. How does he love you? In his
Son. How you love him? in His Son. We were in Him. The forerunner,
the firstborn. He must have preeminence because
He's first. Put there by God's omnipotent
grace, by faith of, oh, and that's a whole other message, by faith
of the Son of God. Faith in the Son of God He gives
us that but this is by the faith of the Son of God He who loved
me and gave himself for me walk before him and be perfect That's
what he tells us to do because you're in Christ. You're no longer
your own You're bought It was Christ who as a man was
obedient to the law of God to death on the cross, did all that
God sent him to do. He finished those works, made
it known all that God required and God made us righteous and
just before him a thrice holy God. Christ His obedience his
suffering his dying his doing his burial his resurrection from
the dead His sacrifice Christ crucified our substitute and
we were in him That's what I'm stressing to you. You gotta get
there And if you get it, you're gonna rejoice and Christ by God's
free and sovereign electing grace He was made sin for us who knew
no sin that we may be made the righteousness of God in him Crucified
with Christ buried with Christ risen again with him We were
with him the whole way from eternity And we'll be with him for eternity
because God doesn't change who's gonna keep us God is going to
keep us in Christ Jesus And when it pleased God He sent
us his gospel He sent a messenger to declare
it He called us He sent His Holy
Spirit and gave us life and faith to believe in Christ Jesus. He
convinced us of how sinful we are, that we are totally depraved
and that we need a Redeemer. We need righteousness. We need
to be holy. We need to be ransomed. We need to be delivered. We have no hope without Him.
He turned us and He caused us. He subdued us. We can't overcome Satan, but
Satan's nothing to God. God comes in and He binds Satan
and He casts him out of the way. He can't touch you. He'll roar
at you. But in Him, in Christ Jesus,
ain't nothing pluck you out of His hand. Ain't nothing harm
you. We ain't talking about your flesh.
We're talking about that Spirit, that new creature in that He's
made in you. It can't touch you. It can't harm you. Fear not. I'm with you. I've been with
you from the beginning. I'll be with you till the end. subdued us and made us to believe
on His Son, looking only to Him to be acceptable to God in Christ. For He ascended up to God and
presented Himself, that sacrifice that pleased the holy justice
of God for all His elect, that sin-atoning sacrifice, made us
one with Him. and pleased, appeased, and fully
satisfied the holy justice of God for all his elect, those
that he had put in him in the beginning. They are propitiation. That effectual,
redeeming, sin-atoning bloodshed covers us and washes us as our
substitute, and we made us acceptable to God, washed in that blood, washed in that grace, that Holy
Spirit of regeneration, and clothed in the righteousness
of His Son. That's how God looks at you.
It's the only way God can look at you, in his son. He sees that
blood. He sees his son. He sees that
lamb slain for the foundation of the world. And he's satisfied. He's happy. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification." What a word. Holy. He set you apart in Christ. Sanctified you for his own purpose. His own love made you holy, because
He's holy. I am holy, be ye holy. God only accepts perfection. And only Christ is perfectly
holy. Only God's holy. Holy before
God. He was the only man who was ever
holy. What God requires, God gives. You can't earn it. You can't
make yourself holy or holier. You're as holy now as you're
ever going to be if you're in Christ. Because He's holy. God is only pleased with the
sacrifice of his darling son. God bear all the illicit sins
in his body on the cross. He's the one that put our sins
away. And he never sinned. He can't sin. He would cease
to be God if he could. And that ain't gonna happen.
He satisfied God's holy justice. God bruised him. It pleased him
to do so. It was purposed. God plunged
that sword of justice into him till he was completely and totally
satisfied with your sin death. In all of his elect it's your
sins my sins the elect sins that he bore In his body and god punished
him For your sin Till he was satisfied That blood was shed. Christ's
precious blood. His darling Son, when He made
Him sin, He's not a respecter of persons.
He's holy. To remain holy and just, He must
punish sin! And He did it in Christ Jesus.
He bore our sins. That's the only reason that he
who had no sin Was made sin for you And he paid a sin debt that would
have took you an eternity and you never would have ever better
got it paid But because he put you in him See what it means to be in Christ satisfaction for all Of his elect complete atonement
Made by Christ Jesus To God on our behalf in our room in our
state Our substitute it took one with a holy nature And only Christ Could have put
our sins away because He had a holy nature. He was made flesh
as one of us, but never ceased to be God. He had a holy nature. God purposed Him to be that propitiation. No one else could do it, only
the Anointed One. Only the righteous one only the
perfect one only the holy one and God In his own perfect time
reveals Christ in you that hope of glory Making you a new creature
in Christ Jesus Christ revealed in you making you a partaker
Of that divine nature That is Christ Jesus God is nature. He put you in Him. You're in
Him. He's in you. You're no longer
your own. You're bought. He did everything for you that
you could never do yourself. Making you partaker of His divine
nature. Ephesians 4 24 says it earlier
and that she put on the new man Which after God is created in
righteousness and in true holiness Yes, while we are still and when
our own nature we're still in the flesh till God separates
us And he promised he would Because Christ on the third day rose
again and We're in it. We have that hope of glory in
Him. Yes, while we are still in our
old sinful nature, the true nature of the believer, only the believer
has them, God-hating nature of Adam and the flesh, but oh, that
divine nature of God, the Spirit, Christ, and you. He has made
you holy in Christ Jesus, our substitute. With his atoning
blood washing you, clothed in his robes of righteousness, you
are as holy as God's dear son. Oh God, I bring you your son in
the full assurance of faith given of God. Praise be to God. God said in Leviticus 20, 26,
and ye shall be holy unto me for I, the Lord, am holy. We're holy because we're in him
and he's in us. He makes us holy. Second Corinthians 5, 17. Therefore,
if any man be in Christ, He is a new creature. Old things are
passed away. His sins are forgiven. He got a clean record. You're
right before God. There's no condemnation. The
law has already been satisfied. God's holy justice has already
been satisfied. Your sin debt's paid. For you. You didn't do it. He
did it for you. Cause he loved you. And he chose
you. And he set you aside. He sanctified
you. Behold all things are become
new. A new creature. A new creature
formed in Christ. Christ formed in you. And have severed you from other
people, that ye should be mine, holy, sanctified in him. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who God has made unto us wisdom, Righteousness and sanctification
and redemption No, we could spend days on this
come complete deliverance redemption complete deliverance By ransom
paid Complete deliverance By ransom
paid Hebrews 9 verse 11 but Christ Being come a high priest of good
things to come by a greater 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, complete
deliverance. ransom paid for us. For if the blood of bulls and
goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctified
to purify the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot
to God, purge your conscience, from dead works to serve the
living God. And for this cause, he is the
mediator of the New Testament, that covenant that we talked
about earlier, that by means of death, for the redemption
of the transgressions that were under the First Testament. They
which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Eternal inheritance. The will and testament of God. You're going to inherit Christ,
because that's all you need. You want glory. You want righteousness. You want wisdom. You want eternal
life? You want salvation? It's Christ
Jesus. He's all those things and more. He can save you to the uttermost. God completely delivered you,
satisfied His holy justice in His Son, and it pleased He made
him happy. His son, his blood shed for atonement
of sins. The ransom for your soul is fully
paid. You're bought, you're his. You're
not your own. Walk in him, walk in his light. Walk in His love. Be holy, for
He's holy. You're in Him. He's in you. God has made you His, bought
with Christ Jesus' own blood. So in conclusion, God does everything
for His purpose. Everything He requires for salvation,
He gives. He gave in Christ Jesus, his
darling son. He chose a people before he created
the world. In electing grace, he put them
in Christ Jesus as a redeeming substitute, a surety. He voluntarily
became our substitute and surety. He knew what he had to do. and all the shame of being made
sin, but all the love that he had for you. You're the apple
of his eye. You've always been his delight. The lamb slain before the foundation
of the world. It was done at the beginning
made known to you now and he's making it known to you making
him our wisdom Giving us life and faith to know him by his
Holy Spirit the Holy Ghost teaching us all things Revealing Christ
in us the hope of glory know the father through the son and
He is the way the only way he made him our righteousness He
is righteous perfect obedience unto death on the cross We're
saved by grace through the gift of his faith Not of our works that we may be made the righteousness
of God in Him. He made Him to us sanctification,
making us partakers of His holy, divine nature, one with God the
Father, one with God the Son, one with God the Holy Ghost.
Because they are one. Making us a new creature in Christ. Making him our redeemer. His
blood shed for remission of sins. His being crucified on that cross. Being made a curse for us, because
curse is everyone who hangeth on a tree. He being made sin,
who knew no sin. He delivered me from Satan, from
sin, from death, from grave. He alone paid the ransom for
me with his own blood. He laid down his life and he
took it up again for our justification. God slew the Lamb of God for
his justice to be satisfied and full for all his elect. We are free from condemnation
in Christ Jesus. And I persuade you There's God's elect out there,
and we don't know who they are. Only God does. God knows who
His people are. It's not for us to judge. It's
not for us to know. We will know one day when it
pleases Him to show us, when He comes to gather us all. But
I persuade you, be reconciled to God. Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and you shall be saved. And we know that you can't do
it on your own. He does it for you. Salvation is of God alone. It's in Christ Jesus. That according as it is written,
he that glorieth Let Him glory in the Lord. You worship Him.
You adore Him. Hold Him in awe. Hold Him in
reverence. Believe on Him. Trust Him. God
get His glory. Pray to God that this has been
a comfort to His saints. Amen.