How do you turn this light off,
Marvin? If you don't mind. I'll let it go. That's all right.
That's all right. It has been so good to be with you all, folks,
at Mill Site Baptist Church. So I've still got some work to
do, and we're going to leave right after service at Shelby
and I are, and drive down. I ask you to be praying for the
Lord's blessings on the meetings there, and I ask you to pray
for us as we seek with you to serve the interest of our Savior,
His Kingdom, His Gospel in this dark, dark day. This is indeed
the day the Lord has made for us. Let us rejoice in this day
He has created for us and for which He created us. And God
give us grace to give ourselves relentlessly to him and his cause
in the day he's given us. Alright, if you'll open your
Bibles to Exodus 30 again. Exodus 30, I want you to hear
a question and I want you to ask it for yourself. Do you want to be clean? I'm talking about clean before
God. How would you like to walk out
of this building this morning? Clean before God. In heart, in soul, in mind, in
conscience. Clean before God. By nature we're
not. Fallen humanity by nature is
a mass of sin, vile, black, dirty, corrupt. Have you ever been dirty? I mean dirty. Not just the filth
on your flesh but the stench so bad on your body you can smell
yourself, that's dirty. And you don't want to be around
anybody. That's our state by nature before God. And very few
people know it. But if God is pleased to have
mercy on your soul, he will make you to know your utter filth
before him. You will confess like Jeremiah,
I am become vile. If God's pleased to have mercy
upon you, he'll cause you to be shockingly aware of your vileness
before him, just as he did Job. Job said, behold, I am vile. What shall I answer thee? I will
lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I'll
not answer ye. Twice, but I'll proceed no further. Has God shown you that about
yourself? that you're utterly vile before him? My message this
morning addresses this question. Do you want to be clean? Here
in Leviticus 30, verses 17 through 21, God the Holy Ghost shows
us in a marvelous detailed picture and type how sinners can be made
clean before God. The Lord God commanded Moses
to make a laver of brass, a bronze wash tub, in which every priest
was required to wash his hands and his feet before he entered
the tabernacle of the congregation, or whenever he came and approached
the altar of God to make a burnt offering. Let's read the text. Exodus 30, verse 17. The Lord
spake unto Moses, saying, Thou shalt also make a laver of brass,
and his foot also of brass, to wash withal. And thou shalt put
it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. And thou shalt put water therein.
For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
thereat. When they go into the tabernacle
of the congregation, they shall wash with water that they die
not. Or when they come near to the
altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord, so
they shall wash their hands and their feet that they die not. And it shall be a statute forever
to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations. Now this labor of brass, like
the altar, were both absolutely essential. The altar and the
labor of brass were necessary, but the altar precedes the labor. The laver stood between the door
of the tabernacle and the altar right in line with the mercy
seat. So as the priest is coming up to the tabernacle of God to
make sacrifice and to sprinkle blood on the mercy seat, he comes
to the altar and then to the laver and he enters the door
of the tabernacle. He must have a sacrifice and
he must be made clean. The brazen altar is a picture
of Christ dying for our sins. The laver of brass portrays the
work of God the Holy Ghost, causing the merits of Christ to be made
effectual to our souls in the experience of grace by the washing
of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost. We are washed
in the fountain of Christ's precious blood, all represented in this
labor of brass. Hold your hands here and turn
to Zechariah chapter 13. Zechariah 13. Paul refers to
this in Titus 3. He says, After that the kindness
and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he
saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life. Have you found your place in
Zechariah? Back up to chapter 12. Let's read a few verses here. The Lord God says, I will pour
upon the house of David, that is, God's elect, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications. Many women learn to pray and
they pray only as God pours out his spirit upon us, a spirit
of supplication, a spirit of grace, causing us to seek the
Lord. And they shall look upon me whom
they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him,
as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness
for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day
shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as a mourning of
Hadad Ribbon in the valley of Megiddon, and the land shall
mourn. every family apart, the family
of the house of David apart, and their wives apart, the family
of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart, the family
of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart, the family
of Shimei apart, and their wives apart, all the families that
remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. For the gem
reading Psalm 103 speaks of his righteousness being known by
our children and our children's children. And we rejoice in that
blessed, blessed promise of God and in the hope, the only hope
our children and our children's children's have, but they must
seek him for themselves. and they must trust him for themselves. I can't believe God for my daughter
or for my grandchildren. Only they can believe God. And
you can't believe God for your daughter and your son or your
grandchildren. Only they can believe God. God promises grace to all the
seed of David, all the seed of Christ. but each of his elect
will seek him and bathe personally in the experience of his grace
in the blood of Jesus Christ by the power of his spirit. Believers
are saved by election in everlasting grace from eternity. We were
saved before the world began. We are saved by expiation, by
the sin atoning blood of Jesus Christ at Calvary. And we are
saved by experience. Every chosen redeemed sinner
at the time of love is brought by the mighty power and operation
of God to experience his grace. Being made clean in his conscience
in his heart in his soul by God Look at verse 13 chapter 13 in
verse 1 of Zechariah in that day in that day that God pours
out on you the spirit of grace and supplication God causes you
to look to Christ and looking to Christ, you're made to observe
and know your vileness and your bitter in the dirt and filth
of your heart and soul before God. In that day, there shall
be a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
just for them. for sin and for uncleanness. When God makes you to know your
filth, he opens the fountain of cleansing to you and gives
you grace to wash in the fountain. Back here in Exodus 30. The labor,
I repeat, comes after the altar. The cleansing experienced after
the sacrifice is made. First the cross, then Pentecost. First justified by his blood,
then sanctified by his spirit in regeneration. The labor was
filled with water. And water throughout the scripture
both symbolizes the word of God and the spirit of God. The labor
of brass in the tabernacle typified the awakening, cleansing work
of God the Holy Ghost in regeneration, as he makes the word of God effectual,
giving us faith in Jesus Christ the Lord, giving to chosen, redeemed
sinners, by the saving operations of his grace, the sweet, blessed
gift of faith. so that God comes, opens your
heart, gives you life, sets his son in your heart, and causes
you to believe on his son. This, of course, can come only
as the result of, and through the precious blood of, our Lord
Jesus Christ. I want you to listen to this
scripture in Galatians 3. We quote it a lot. We quote verse
13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is
everyone that hangeth on a tree. But usually we fail to connect
the next verse. Here's the next verse. It continues
the same sentence. Christ redeemed us from the curse
of the law, that the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Jesus Christ. What's he talking about? The
blessing of Abraham. All that God promised Abraham
and his seed. All the circumcised of Abraham. But he's not talking about Abraham's
physical seed. Lots of folks who were circumcised
in the flesh and are natural children of Abraham never knew
God, never knew him. He's talking about Abraham's
spiritual seed, those circumcised in the heart. That's the promise
of God. God's sealing to us by the gift
of his spirit, all the blessings of grace in Christ Jesus. Christ
redeemed us from the curse of the law. that the blessing of
Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. That is,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Now let me show you three or four things here in Exodus 30
about this laver. First, the laver was made from
mirrors. Mirrors that the children of
Israel the women of Israel brought with them out of Egypt I find
it a delightful thing to contemplate when the Lord God brought Israel
out of Egypt He he calls the Egyptians to be very generous
to them Because be very generous he calls the Egyptians to give
them everything they needed for 40 years and These Egyptians
who hated them. These Egyptians who for 400 years
had tormented them. These Egyptians who used them
and abused them. These Egyptians who had no care
for them and no respect for God or for Christ or for all the
things taught to Moses as he led the children of Israel. These
Egyptians said, here, take our gold and our silver and our pots
and our pans. Take everything. Just get out
of here. because God was gracious to Israel. And then when the Egyptians were,
Pharaoh's armies were drowned in the Red Sea, they are washed
up on the shore. Israel has crossed over on dry
ground, the sea drowns Pharaoh and his armies, and the Egyptians
are washed up on the shore, and Israel goes down there and collects
all the swords. all their weapons, so that God used the Egyptians
to provide everything for his people. That's the reason the
rest of the world exists. Ham exists only for the benefit
of Shem and Japheth. All the world exists to care
for God's church, His people, His elect. These mirrors, or
this labor was made from brass mirrors that the children of
Israel, the women in Israel, were given by women in Egypt
as they came out of Egypt. The brass was a very strong metal
and was beaten out into mirrors. It shadows our Lord Jesus Christ,
the one of whom God the Holy Ghost always speaks, whom the
Spirit always promotes, that one to whom the Spirit always
points. Christ is our strength. He came
to save his people from their sins. He came here, he who is
our strength, to perform the mightiest work God ever performed,
the saving of our souls. This is the revelation of God's
glory in all his attributes, the saving of his people from
their sins. Turn over to Exodus 38, look
at verse 8. The materials of this laver of
brass, I repeat, were given to Moses by the women whom the Lord
brought out of Egypt. That's the first thing I want
you to see here, it's important. Exodus 38 verse eight. He made
the laver of brass and the foot of it, of brass, of the looking
glasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation. These mirrors, these ladies brought
to Moses, and Moses used them to make this wash tub for the
house of God. Three things I think are evident
here. First and foremost, the labor portrays our Savior, who
was made from that which was contributed by women. He is the promised seed of woman. He was made of a woman, made
under the law to redeem them that were under the law. Did
you ever wonder why the women in Israel who believed God wanted
a house full of children? Did you ever wonder why they
wanted a house full of children? They couldn't have enough children.
And all of them wanted boys, none of them wanted girls. All
of them did, because those who believed God fully anticipated
that someday, at God's appointed time, God would send his son,
Messiah, the Redeemer, the Savior, through a woman's virgin womb,
and he would redeem his people from their sins. That's everything
represented in the birthright, passed on from generation to
generation. The Lord Jesus is that one who's
the woman seed, who come and crushes the serpent's head by
his sacrifice at Calvary. The second thing here is that
that which was used to make these mirrors was once used only for
vanity. That which God used to make this
wash tub for his people was made from mirrors that were once used
only for vanity. And you and I, who lived only
for vanity, all of our vain lives, now being born of God and washed
in Christ's blood, are made the servants of God, the children
of God, the people of God for the glory of God. Here's a third
thing. The mirror shows a person's face
and the only way we ever see ourselves aright is through the
looking glass of Jesus Christ crucified. Some of you here,
I doubt not, have hesitancy about many things
and Satan uses lots of things by which to keep folks from trusting
the Savior. And you look somehow or another
to find enough repentance, enough remorse, a heavy enough sense
of guilt. You gotta have something in yourself
that qualifies you to come to God. Repentance doesn't precede
faith. Repentance comes with faith. You find yourself seeing yourself
as you really are, only as you look away to Christ Jesus and
Him crucified. When you behold the glory of
God in the crucified Christ, then, like Jeremiah, you confess,
I am become vile. It never gets better. The more you look at him, the
more your heart and mind is focused on him, who died under the wrath
of God bearing your sin. Brad Harbin, the more vile you
see yourself to be. Take your eyes off of him for
a second and you start puffed up with pride and vanity. Look
to him and you're broken. You're base. You're vile before
God. Second, the labor was made for
the cleansing of God's priest. It was made for specific people.
It wasn't made for anybody else. Just for these priests. That
was the purpose for the labor. It was a big washtub standing
between the brazen altar of sacrifice and the door of the tabernacle.
Exodus 20 verse 30 gives us a strict command issued by God that no
priest should touch the altar or pass the door until his hands
and his feet were washed in this labor. No defilement may approach
the Lord God. But, and this is sweeter than
honey, he who demands purity provides the purifying stream. The Lord who says, you must be
clean, brings us near his cleansing labor. Oh, come then, my soul,
wash in the labor and be clean. Eternal love devised the plan.
Eternal wisdom drew the pattern. Eternal grace provides the basin.
But by whom can it be filled? It is filled by Christ himself. He brings the rich supply of
blood, precious blood from his own veins, blood from his very
heart. Nothing in heaven or earth could
help but his blood. Nothing could cleanse but his
blood. He died to open wide the fountain
of cleansing. And there is infinite, infinite
virtue, merit, and efficacy in the blood of God's dear son to
wash away sin. Sin, you see, is a vile, deadly
malignity. It pollutes us, a malignity from
which we cannot be healed and we cannot be cleansed but by
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember when he died, John
tells us he was pierced with a spear. And it came out of his
side water and blood. Water and blood. Cleansing by
blood, cleansing by water flowing from the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Plunge into the fountain and
all the vileness, all the sin, all the uncleanliness is gone
forever. Satan holds us in contempt. And he knows that in God's elect
there is no flaw before God. God looks with an all-seeing,
searching eye, and sin has been washed away in the flood of Christ's
blood, buried in the deepest sea. Buried in the crimson sea
of Christ's precious blood Removed from us as far as the East is
from the West Forgotten by God for the night, but touched on
this the other day either yesterday a day before God Almighty Cannot remember
our sins God Almighty, the omniscient, cannot see our sins. But wait a minute, pastor. God
knows everything. God knows everything, but He
doesn't know what's not. Did you get it? God sees everything,
but even God can't see what's not there. And God declares,
our sins are taken away. and he will remember our iniquities
against us no more. And he beholds no iniquity in
Jacob, no transgression in Israel. Christ bathed our souls and bathed
us clean, bright, spotless, white, fit for heaven before God himself
in Jesus Christ. Now here the Spirit's witness.
The blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth us from all sin. You ever try to picture the bright
arrayed throng in heaven? Where did they get their cleanness?
They've washed their robes and made them white in the blood
of the lamb. But sin's forgiven in the court
of heaven. are not soon forgotten in the
court of conscience. Satan ever roars against us. He would devour us if he could.
He can't devour us. All he can do is roar. But oh,
how he roars. With savage voice and clamorous
demands, he drags our old transgressions and our present iniquities before
us. And he drags them before our minds, before even our consciences. He can't cast us into hell, but
it does his best to keep us half afraid of hell as long as we
live. What wild storms of fear he raises
in our hearts when we pay no attention to God. What wild storms
he raises in the hearts of folks who do not understand the teaching
of God's word, who are uninformed by men who ought to inform them.
He reads out a long scroll of iniquity, transgression, and
sin. And we know full well we have
done and are doing everything he brings up. There's nothing
of which he can seek to accuse us, of which we do not have to
say, that's true. That's who I am. That's what
I am. That's what I've done. I know
it well enough. But when he would raise Moses
up and seek to drag Moses out to condemn God's elect, Christ,
our mighty archangel, steps in. And as our advocate pleads our
cause with never speaking a word. Read about it in Zechariah 3.
Joshua, the high priest, had defiled himself in Babylon. And
he is there before the Lord. And the angel of the Lord stood
by. He just stood by. And standing by, he commands
that Joshua have his filthy garments removed, and clean garments put
on, and a crown on his head. And the angel of the Lord stood
by. That's the advocacy of our Redeemer. He stands by, and as we look
at him, Satan is silenced. His accusations fall to the ground. He would roar and roar and roar.
Don Fortner, you're such a vile sinner. The best thing to do
is take sides with the devil and God at the same time. That's
what I am. That's what I am. Thank God for
Christ who died for sinners. When Satan raises Moses up and
roars against my soul, Lord Jesus, my poor calls take up and make
your servant whole. The only refuge for our sin-polluted
souls is the labor of God, Christ Jesus. Come wash in the labor. while the polished brass of the
laver revealed the uncleanness, the water of the laver made men
clean. This is the work of God the Spirit. He comes and shows us Christ. That's what the work of the Spirit
is in the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost by the Word of God and by the Spirit of God. The Lord
Jesus washes redeemed sinners clean in their own hearts and
consciences, convincing us, yes, of sin. because we believe not
on him, but convincing us, too, of righteousness because he is
accepted, of God as our substitute, and convincing us that judgment
is over because the prince of this world is cast out. Third,
the labor of brass speaks, I remind you, of the work of the Holy
Spirit. We're not told what the dimensions
of the labor were. No mention is made of its size
or its shape. I find that interesting. You
might wonder, is there some mistake here? Was this an oversight?
God doesn't make any mistakes. Every omission with him is an
emphatic declaration. Why, Lord, did you not tell us
the size and shape of the labor? I know the size and shape of
everything else in the tabernacle. Everything else in Tabernacle,
but the laver. I don't know what it looked like.
It was just brass. It sat on some feet. That's all
we know. That's all we're told. Surely this is significant, for
this vessel represents the work of God the Holy Ghost. It can't
be limited to any particular shape, size, or form. The wind bloweth where it listeth. Thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth.
So is every one that is born of the Spirit. You and I cannot
control God. We ought to quit trying. You
and I cannot determine where God works, how God works, or
when God works. We ought to quit trying and just
wait to see what God does. Just wait. We don't play tricks
on men to get them to make a profession of faith. We don't try to con
men and women into professing faith in Christ and joining the
church. We preach the gospel to them, pray for them, and leave
them alone. Preach the gospel to them, pray
for them, and leave them alone. You who are pastors and others,
you'll have folks come to you and they want you to tell them
they're saved. They want you to tell them they're
saved. I have a very dear friend. I've been preaching to him regularly
since he was a little boy, all his life. He's a grown man now,
children of his own. Every little bit he comes to
me wanting me to tell him whether or not he's saved. And I refused
to tell him. I don't know. I don't know. Only
God can tell you that. Only God can do that work for
you. What do you do? Leave him alone. Leave him alone. Brother Dan Parks and his wife
Sandy. It's been a long, long time ago. I was preaching for
Dan's father. He was my pastor down in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina. Dan and Sandy were getting ready
to leave town. They were going somewhere out
of where it was. They came to services that night. They drove
off and came back in a few minutes and Moose said to me, Sandy wants
to talk to you. And we went back in one of the
rooms and talked a little bit. She told me she was lost and
Moose was there with us. And I said, I can't tell you
anything. I can't tell you to do anything.
I can't tell you what God's done. I can tell you this, seek the
Lord. Moose told me some years later, he said, I was just kind
of dumbfounded. I thought you'd surely tell her
something. But God was pleased to have mercy on her. We don't
control God and his spirit. Why was this labor not made of
wood and brass like the altar was? Why? The altar was made
of wood and brass, representing the two natures of our Redeemer,
God and man. But God the Spirit is not two
natures. He is not two persons. He is
God the Spirit. And this laver of brass represents
Him. The other vessels of the tabernacle
had staves, or shafts, by which they were carried from one place
to the other. The laver had none. This might confirm the inference
that we have here. Not only is a work represented,
but the person of God the Holy Spirit himself. We are saved
by the redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ for us. And we're saved by the regenerating
work of God the Holy Ghost in us. Both are essential. Both are essential. Redemption
without regeneration will not save. Redemption without sanctification
will not save. Turn over to Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel
36. I want you to see this is part
of the covenant. Ezekiel 36 verse 25. God says, then will I sprinkle
clean water upon you. And ye shall be clean from all
your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give
you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will take away
the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of
flesh. What's he telling us? Do you
remember the testimony Enoch had? Enoch walked with God and
he was not fully as translated and before he was translated
he had this testimony that he pleased God. Now I'll tell you
what religious folks whichever way you go down the road up in
the hills or downtown wherever you decide to pop in the church
one morning I'll tell you what they'll tell you Boy, I want to have a good testimony,
don't you? I want to have a good testimony.
I want people to think good of me. Now please understand me. I want to behave, Doug, in such
a way that you're honored to be in my company wherever I am.
And I want to behave in such a way that that woman is proud
to be my wife. I would behave in such a way
that my neighbors respect me and my children respect me. But
that's not what Enoch's testimony was. Enoch had a testimony that
he pleased God. God spoke to Enoch and said you're
righteous. You're just. You're clean. He
had testimony from God Himself that He was justified, sanctified,
freed from all sin. The Spirit of God sprinkles your
conscience with the blood of Christ and now I'm clean. Now
I'm clean. Let me tell you how you experience
it. I don't I often speak of my own
experience because people always want to fit their experience
into somebody else's experience and don't do that. But I went
through some struggles before God saved me with filthy life
of degradation, guilt and terror. The law of God tormented me day
and night. Day and night. I have no idea
how long this went on, but it became relentless, day and night. Marvin, I'd have killed myself
if I had the courage and wasn't afraid of going to hell. Day
and night. Day and night. And I tried to
do better. I tried reading the Bible. I
tried going to church. I tried praying. I tried making
bargains with God. Day and night. Day and night. And God kept screaming at me
by his word, not enough! Not enough! Not enough! And one day, Sitting back there,
back in the church building, a fellow came up from Orlando,
Florida, and preached the gospel of God's free grace. And for
the first time in my life, God caused His glory to shine forth
in the face of Jesus Christ crucified. And God said enough. And God said, in my conscience,
in my soul, in my heart, that's enough. That's the work of the
Spirit. He gives testimony. You're justified. You're sanctified. You're redeemed. You're accepted in the beloved
by the blood of God's darling son. You see, we must be redeemed
and regenerate. We must be justified and sanctified. We must have a righteous record,
and we must have a righteous nature. Therefore, if any man
be in Christ, he's a new creature. Old things are passed away, and
behold, all things are become new. That new creature is Christ
in you, the hope of glory. Christ on the tree is not our
hope. Christ on the tree is the basis
of our hope. Christ in you is the hope of
glory. Only when you're born again and
made partaker of the divine nature so that Christ is created in
you do you live before God in righteousness and true holiness.
Are you a new made creature in Christ? Mark well the solemn
words of our Savior. Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God and he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God. Our title to heaven is found
in Christ. Our fitness for heaven is found
in Christ because it is begotten in him. The blood which bought
all pardon confers all peace, earned and bestows all the supplies
of sanctifying grace. Now, one more thing. Notice the
connection between the altar of sacrifice and the labor of
cleansing. Like other vessels in the tabernacle,
there was a connection between the altar of burnt offering and
this labor of cleansing. The labor was sprinkled with
blood, atoning blood. The labor could not be reached
and could not be used by any except those for whom the blood
had been shed. The Spirit of God didn't come
until the work of atonement was finished. The Spirit of God was
not poured out at Pentecost until Christ the sacrifice was received
up into heaven. The laver had to be filled with
water flowing from the riven side of our crucified Redeemer. At the altar, we see blood atonement. At the laver, we see cleansing
by God. Both are needed and both come
to us through our blessed Redeemer. We are made clean only by the
precious blood of God's dear son. Not by what we do, but by
what he did. Not by what we hope to do, but
by what he did. Our only cleansing from sin is
the precious blood of Christ. Children of God, this will help
you. This will help you. Come bathe, bathe, bathe in the
fountain filled with our Savior's precious blood. As oft as you
know your sin and are confronted with your sin, plunge into the
fountain and bathe your soul afresh. Bathe, bathe, bathe. Oh, God give you grace to bathe
constantly in Christ's precious blood. A long, long time ago, Roth Barnard
had been driving across the country in meetings and he had some car
trouble and he had to work on his car along the way and he
and his wife Hazel stopped at Yosemite National Park at that,
what's that fountain called out there? Old Faithful. And Barnard
just stood there and watched it for a little bit and after
a while he got his old dirty handkerchief out, he'd been dirty
wiping his hands. dipped that handkerchief down
in that water, dipped it again, picked it up and it was clean
and white. He just thought he and Hazel
were there by themselves and he began to sing. There is a fountain
filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins and sinners
plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Unknown
to Barnard, somebody had driven up behind him or walked up behind
him, a man and his wife, and he said to him, said, Preacher,
can we join you on the second verse? The dying thief rejoiced
to see that fountain in his day. And there may I, and there may
you, wash all our sins away. God give us grace ever to wash
in the cleansing fountain Christ Jesus crucified. Amen.