Hebrews chapter 9. You may have
guessed my text. Verse 12, verse 12. During the week with Pete, then
I found out several, several of you had rough weeks. Could you use some good news?
Could you use some good news? You've had bad news, perhaps,
but could you use some good news? I don't think I could speak of
any better news, the good news of the gospel, and that gospel
central to that message is the truth of our text, verse 12.
Redemption obtained. That's the title of my message,
Redemption Obtained. And that's exactly how it reads,
doesn't it? Neither, speaking of Christ, neither by the blood
of goats and calves, but by His own blood. Verse 12, He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. Today, as we mentioned in the
reading, We have the privilege and the duty of observing the
Lord's Supper. And as we do so, I'll read these
words. For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you do show, you do show the Lord's
death till he come. Everything that went before that
glorious event, that is the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, pointed
to it in the Old Testament. Everything. And everything that
follows after that event, the death of Christ, looks back to
it. I like to think of it this way. It's like a hinge on which the
doors of eternity revolve. The hinge being the death of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Eternity passed that door. and
eternity to come, that door. It all is dependent on and revolves
on this glorious, glorious truth, salvation, redemption, obtained. The Lord, when he was speaking
of this, his death, he told his disciples not long before he
died, but I have a baptism to be baptized with and how am I
straightened, how am I constrained, until it be accomplished. And after that, after accomplishing
that, as a matter of fact, in John 19, we read, while on the
cross, knowing that all things were now accomplished, he said,
I thirst. Because that too had yet to be
accomplished, the prophecy of them giving him a drink. And
after that, he cried, it is finished. Now, obtained, accomplished,
finished, All in the past tense. All in the past tense. And now
we look forward to that blessed day when Christ shall come for
all those he redeemed. That's who he's coming for. He'll
have the purchase of his blood. I just can't imagine him not
having it. I mean, consider the consequences
of that, what that would mean if Christ should lose one whose
sins he bore in his own body on the tree. Again, you do show
the Lord's death till He come. And here's another comforting
thought. Until Christ does come, and children
of God remember, He's on the way. He's on the way. I think
Don was the first one I heard express it in those words. Christ
is now on the way for His people. Because, as Don said, A thousand
years with the Lord is just as a day. So he's only been gone
two days. He's on his way back. But until
that glorious day arrives, when Christ returns for his redeemed,
we remember this. He obtained eternal redemption
for us. And my prayer has been, and is
now as I preach, when we come around to observe the Lord's
Supper, that he would make the meaning, the meaning of that
fresh, fresh to our hearts and souls, fresh with wonder and
adoration. Now I know, I know, I speak for
myself, I'm speaking about Larry. I can just go through the motions,
I sure can. I can take that wine and take
that bread and read those scriptures and never remember him. Just
do it like a robot. God, I despise that sort of thing
in my own self. Lord, don't let me just go through
the motions. Lord, make this fresh to me. Make it wondrous to me. My soul, how can I ever get over
this? He died for me. He died for me. He died especially for me. Do
you know, do you know that if the intent, now it wasn't thank
God, he died for a multitude of sinners, a multitude that
no man could number, but had he only died for this sinner,
his sufferings would have been the same. He died especially
for me. Oh Larry, don't ever get over
that. This is why, because Redemption
has been obtained. This is why we read in Daniel,
or this is what we read of in Daniel concerning the Redeemer.
He came to finish the transgression. I'm reading from Daniel 9 and
24. Again, notice it speaks in the past tense. To finish the
transgression. and to make an end of sins, and
to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness. Not to attempt that, but to do
it. And glory to His name, He got
it done. He got the job done. That's why
God tells the prophet, God tells you and I, Comfort ye, comfort
ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably, that is
to the heart, to Jerusalem and cry unto her and tell her her
warfare is accomplished again and her iniquity is pardoned
and she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her
sins. Now brothers and sisters in Christ,
that's worth celebrating. That's worth celebrating, and
the Lord's Supper is that. It's a celebration. Let us come with joy to the Lord's
table. Yes, we do it seriously, and
we do it reverently, but we don't do it mournfully. We do it with
joy, because we're celebrating the victory of our Redeemer and
our victory in Him. While we should sorrow for the
sin, that made it necessary for our Lord to die. We don't sorrow
over the cure that is His death on our behalf. Again, as He told
His disciples, when He instituted the Lord's Supper, when this
was first brought in by the Redeemer Himself, And he handed that cup
and said, here, pass it among yourselves. For this is my blood
of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission
of sins. Again, I ask you, is that not
worth celebrating and rejoicing in? You remember the night our
Lord was born, when God Almighty was made flesh, and for a while
tabernacled among us? the angel of the Lord went to
where those shepherds were in the field that night and he told
them, he said, fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great
joy which will be to all people because or for unto you is born
this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the
Lord. Now God sent the angel with that
message. Now does the angel seem unsure
or uncertain or have any doubt that the Lord Jesus Christ would
do what he was coming into the world to do. Did it sound like
it to you? And those already in heaven,
those who have already entered into the rest, those in glory
even now, we read in Revelation, sing a new song and the theme
is the same. The theme is the same. There
is only one theme in heaven. Oh, there is so much to rejoice
in and be thankful for and look forward to. No death, no pain,
no sorrow. None of those things. They're
all passed away. But the theme of worship, the
theme of the song in glory is this, concerning the Lord Jesus
Christ. They sing, Thou art worthy to
take the book and to open the seals thereof for or because
You should take the book. You have the right to do that.
You've earned that glorious right because you were slain. And you've
redeemed us to God by your own blood out of every kindred and
tongue and people and nation. And I ask again, is that not
worth celebrating? You have an article by my pastor,
a brief article in today's bulletin. And I like it. I like it. I thought
of it when I was preparing this message. And Don said this, and
I know he's speaking especially of preachers, but so much of
what he says applies to every believer. If a man ever learns
the gospel of God's sovereignty and substitution, satisfaction
and success, he'll preach it. No other message will interest
him. No other subject will appeal to him. No other theme will occupy
his mind. That man who has seen the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ will talk about it until he dies. I declare, I couldn't agree more.
I couldn't agree more. And I thank God, I thank God,
that by his grace, and I emphasize that, that's exactly how I feel. I don't want to preach nothing
else. Nothing else appeals to me. I've not found anything and
God forbid that I should ever, ever should. Nothing appeals
to me or has the attraction or the motivation than the Lord
Jesus Christ crucified. If I ever begin to preach anything,
flat earth or an earth shaped like a whatever, get rid of me. Get rid of me and don't take
long in doing it. May I sow or anything else, anything
other than the glorious gospel of the blessed God. And I thank
God. I'm convinced you don't want
to hear anything else either. Do you, Louie? Do you? Is there
anything more glorious than this? Let us rejoice as we remember
redemption obtained. Again, it's the past tense. That
is why our text says, because Christ obtained redemption, eternal
redemption, that he entered into the presence of God. I used to
look at that verse and say, well, he entered into the presence
of God and there obtained, but that's not exactly what it says.
That's true. But I believe the text means
he entered into the presence of God because he already had.
obtained, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Most people
don't believe that. Most religious people don't believe
that. Most Baptists in our day don't believe that. It's interesting. Billy didn't know what I was
preaching on this morning, but he mentioned driving by a church
and he had, oh, what was it, had a sign out there and said
Christ's blood was for everybody or something like that. And Billy
said, that just cheapens it. That just cheapens it, and that's
exactly right. But that's what most religious
folks believe today. They actually believe in atonement
that really didn't atone. In a redemption that in itself,
by itself, really does not redeem. Now they may not put it in exactly
those plain words, but when they say that the death of Christ
only made salvation possible, it's because that's what they
believe. redemption was only something he provided. It actually
didn't do anything. His redemption is only effectual. Now you think about this. His
redemption is only effectual if somebody avails themselves
of it. If they add to it their faith,
then it becomes effectual. But if they don't, add their
faith to it, it remains unaffectual. It means if they don't do something
with it, then Christ, at least as far as they're concerned,
died in vain. My soul, can you... Man, tell
me God created the world in vain. I would be more apt to believe
that than to believe that Jesus Christ died in vain. Well, my
soul, that's preposterous. Why would he do such a thing
as that? I call that Hopscotch redemption. He only made it possible. If
I hop over here and believe, then it's effectual, but if I'd
stay over here in this square, it's not effectual, but that's
utter nonsense. Oh no, the Word of God never
speaks that way. Did you hear me? The Word of
God never speaks that way. No time, not one time does the
Word of God ever suggest that Jesus Christ died for people
who perish. Never, not one time. You'll not
find one verse that speaks in that way or speaks of his redemption
as contingent upon anything the sinner might do in time. And in order to come up with
such a so-called redemption as that, the definition of the word
itself, redemption, must be changed and give it another meaning.
And that's exactly what's happened today. Let me read you another
article. by another of my favorite preachers
and pastors, Brother Henry, Henry Mahan, he said, I'm not surprised
when certain preachers decide they'll no longer preach particular
redemption. For it is without question the
most hated truth in the scripture. And you know why that is? Because
it takes salvation like election. It does the same thing completely
out of the hands of the sinner. I mean, if that's true, If God's
purpose to save is why we're saved and the death of Christ
fulfilled that purpose, if that's true, then it can't be anything
I've ever done. And that's why they hate it.
That's why they hate it. You can't hold the free will
and free grace at the same time. It's impossible. You can't do
it. One's gonna go. One's gonna go. If you hold the
free grace, free will's gonna be booted out the door. And if
you hold the free will, free grace gets booted out the door.
And that's exactly what happened. Henry said universal love and
universal atonement are universally accepted by all of Adam's sons,
except those who, by the grace of God, have seen the Lord Jesus
Christ as Isaiah saw him in his glory. The preacher who denies
particular redemption, that Christ died for his people, will have
little opposition, for he has taken the offense from the cross.
All the cults and sects and denominations and religious promoters have
this in common. They believe there is a sense
in which God loves all men and Christ died for the sins of all
men. And Henry says this, if Christ
died for all the sins of all men, then all men will be saved. That's exactly right. That's
exactly right. If Christ died for some of the
sins of all men, then nobody's going to be saved. However, if
Christ died, as the scripture teaches, for all the sins of
his elect, then his elect will be saved. Now, what's wrong with
that? Larry, I've been asked, why make
an issue of this? Whether I believe in particular
redemption or universal redemption, does it really matter? Does it
really matter after all? Well, you have already But what
I've said, know how I feel about that. The other evening, maybe
a week before last, because most evenings, Robin fixes me a good
meal. A good meal. And you can tell
by looking at me, I don't have a problem with that. But Louie,
she fixed me some spare ribs, some potatoes, baked beans, I
mean, biscuits. Man, I just sat there. I told
her, I said, Robin, you need to come pull the chair away from
the table. I just can't stop eating. But
what if during the course of that meal, after I had enjoyed
it so much, he'd say to me, well, Larry, I'm glad you like it,
but I forgot to tell you, I put a little bit of poison in it. Just that much, not enough to
show you could tell it. I'll tell you what, I hear people
say concerning preachers who deny the gospel of God's sovereign
grace, well, you know, he says some good things. That fellow over in Rome, His
Unholiness the Pope, he says some good things. I mean, if
he doesn't try to interpret God's Word, but just reads from God's
Scripture, he'll say some good things. Just a little bit of
poison in it, though. Salvation by the will or the
worth or the work of man. It's a poisonous doctrine. So
therefore, why does it make a difference? Foremost, because this is the
teaching of Scripture. The Word of God declares that
Christ died for his sheep. He said that over and over again,
especially in John's Gospel. He died for his church. And I'm
not making these things up. This is Scripture. Christ loved
the church and gave himself for it. I laid down my life for the
sheep. He died for his bride. He died for his seed. He died
for his people. To deny effectual and particular
redemption is to deny the very sum and substance of the gospel,
which is substitution. Substitution. Let me give you
an illustration. I don't think I'll use this,
but if I have, forgive me, I'm getting old. You remember early
January, that big football game where the national title that
Bama was in? At first half, things weren't
going too good, were they? Just didn't look good at all.
In the second half, Saban put in that other fella, a quarterback.
When he put that guy in, the other one had to come out. They
both couldn't stay in. They both couldn't be in the
game at the same time. That's substitution. That's substitution. And that's exactly what the scripture
says concerning the death of Christ. For God hath made him.
Him, to be sin for us. He took our place. He was our
substitute, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. Again, 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 upon the tree. Substitution. Christ Jesus, one hymn writer,
put it this way very well. Christ Jesus, my discharge procured,
and freely in my place endured, the whole of wrath divine. Payment
God will not twice demand. First at my bleeding surety's
hand, and then again at mine. When we read in Romans 8, God
who spared not his own son. Now as applied to the believer,
as Paul does there, He rightly concludes, and so should we,
how shall He not also freely with Him give us all things?
He's already given us His Son. We have all things in Christ
Jesus. We're complete in Him. But on
the other hand, on the other hand, according to Scripture,
there's another side to that coin. God spared not His own
Son. And this is what I mean by that
other side. Rolf Barnard expresses it better
than I can. He said almost everybody in America
is a church member. He's right there. He was right
there, wasn't he? But they don't believe that God
will punish sin. They sleep well at night because they don't believe
that God will punish sin. They don't let their church membership
interfere with their daily living because they really don't think
God will punish sin. Talk to them about Jesus dying
on the cross and they're not interested. because they don't
believe God will punish sin. And of course nobody will be
interested whether Christ did anything for him on the cross
until he believes that God will punish sin. There is no use to
apply a remedy to this generation. This generation does not need
its sins forgiven because they don't believe there's any punishment
awaiting them. What they need to hear is the
first message of that bloody cross of our Lord. God will punish
sin. If you don't know God, you can't
look at that verse, God spared not his own son, therefore he
shall freely give me all things. Oh, no, no, no. You need to remember,
if God spared not his own son, when he saw sin on his son, he
didn't pass him by. He cried, Awake, O sword, against
the man who is my fellow. Smite the shepherd. Smite the
shepherd. When Christ was made sin for
us, God didn't spare him. How do you think you're going
to get by? Huh? Christ didn't spare his son.
Every time they nailed those nails into the flesh of the Son
of God, Bernard said, every stroke of the hammer was saying, God
will punish sin. God will punish sin. Secondly, to say that Christ
redeemed people who yet perish after all, and this is what you
and I talked about earlier, Billy, foremost, it's so dishonoring
to the Son of God. How dishonorable. It's dishonoring
to the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It's dishonoring
to God. For why would God purpose to
save a people that he knows won't be saved? That doesn't sound
God-like. I mean, my soul certainly Certainly
these people who deny the gospel will grant that God at least
has foreknowledge, okay? So you're telling me that God
Almighty purposed to do something that He knew wouldn't be done?
That doesn't sound like an all-wise God. That sounds like something
ignorant. That sounds like something I would do. And how dishonoring
not only to God the Father, but to Jesus Christ who said He came
to redeem all those that the Father gave Him to redeem. To
deny the eternal salvation of all for whom Christ died is to
deny Jesus Christ himself. If any of those that Christ died
for at Calvary perish in hell, do you know what that means?
Do you know what that means? It means his grace would be frustrated. It means that his will and purpose
were defeated. And he said, I'll do all my will.
I'll do all my pleasure. God said concerning his righteous
servant, he shall not fail. But if any perishes that he died
for, then he failed. I mean, there's no way around
it. And his love would not be an eternal love. You mean he
loved me today enough to die for me and yet he'll hate me
tomorrow and cast me into hell? That makes him a mutable savior. He changes. That's impossible. It means that his power would
be useless. And it means that his cross would
be discovered a miscarriage. It's a miscarriage. Isaiah said
concerning the sufferings of Christ, the fruit of them would
be this. He shall see. He shall see after
the veil of his soul and he'll be satisfied. My soul, in the
name of common sense, how in this world can it ever be said
if Jesus Christ looks down from his throne and sees one that
he suffered and died for in hell, how could it ever be said he
would be satisfied? That doesn't make good sense,
does it? And God the Holy Spirit, he's involved in that everlasting
covenant of grace. When Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
entered into the purpose of the salvation of his people, The
Holy Spirit would prove to be a failure as well. Because those
he quickened to life, those he, they who were born again by the
Spirit of God from above, what good was it? What is it worth
if they perish after all? You see how ridiculous all that
sounds. All but the Son of God. Remember
that night again when he instituted this blessed ordinance? He took
the cup and gave thanks. and gave it to them saying, drink
ye all of it for this is my blood of the New Testament. Precious
blood. Life-giving blood. Sins-cleansing
blood. Blood that gets the job done.
Blood that no way could have been shed in vain. And that's
what he said, which is shed for many. Why, Lord, why? for the remission of their sins.
Not an offering to do it, but to do it. But I say unto you,
I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until
that day when I drink it new with you, with you, you that
I'm shedding the blood for, I will drink it new with you in my father's
kingdom. Did he sound unsure about the
outcome of what he was about to do? No, he went knowingly,
willingly, and triumphantly to obtain eternal redemption for
us. Now the God of peace, in Hebrews
13, now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood
of the everlasting covenant, through the blood, meaning that
because of the blood, according to the blood, as the Father agreed
in anticipation, so to speak, of His Son laying down His life
for His people. And after doing so, according
to that covenant, God raised Him from the dead, just like
He promised that He would. All those that were given to
Christ in eternal election, and redeemed by Christ by His effectual
atonement, shall be saved by Christ completely at last. Not
one. This is the good news. Not one
of Christ's redeemed ones can be lost. That's just impossible. It's impossible. There shall
not one hoof, as Moses told Pharaoh, there won't be a hoof left behind. We're getting out of Egypt. We're
not leaving nothing. There's not going to be any evidence
that we've ever been in this place. and glory to His name,
when the Lord Jesus Christ brings all of His sheep home, and He
brings them before the throne of His Father who committed them
into His hands before the world was ever made, and Christ agreed
to do whatever it took to save them, and He brings them all
back to glory. Man, I can only imagine. Multitudes. Multitudes. I've had people say, well, if
you believe election, you'll just believe one or two will
be saved. Well, I think to myself, well, you're just stupid. I don't
believe any such thing. You've never heard me even hint
at such a thing. Oh, no. The scriptures teach
plainly that a multitude, not that they might be saved, they
will be saved. And that one who's responsible
for their eternal redemption, is going to gather them all around
the throne of God. And he'll say, Father, here they
are, just like he prayed in John 17. Here's all the sheep you
gave me, all that I became responsible for. Father, they're all here. They're all here. I lost none. Is it any wonder they cry, worthy
is the lamb? A third consideration in the
last. Universal redemption. I don't know if you've thought
of this. Universal redemption in reality gives neither a believer,
now we've already touched on that, but it doesn't give an
unbeliever a real hope of salvation. It doesn't give what we call
a seeking sinner real grounds to believe that God will save
them. A child of God rest in the hope
of grace now and glory hereafter on the certainty that Jesus paid
it all, all to Him alone. This is exactly what Paul wrote
in Romans 3. being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus, whom
God has set forth to be of propitiation, the covering, the mercy seat,
through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for
the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God. To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness,
that He, that is God, might be just and the justifier of them
which will believe in Jesus Christ. When God Almighty forgives a
sinner, it's as much a matter of justice as it is mercy. Because if Jesus Christ bore
the sins of that sinner, it would be unjust for God Almighty not
to forgive that sinner. That's exactly what John tells
us in his epistle. God is faithful and just to forgive
us of all our sins. As Brother Scott Richardson used
to say, God must do something for himself before he does anything
for you. And Paul told us in Romans 3,
those verses I just read, that that's exactly what God done.
I love the quote in your bulletin today by Brother Henry. The atonement
does not change the nature and character of God, but rather
the atonement honors and magnifies the character of God. Today's
religious generation thinks that that's not true as well. They
think that somehow because the law, as old Bunyan put it, was
a hill too high to climb, that Christ did something somehow
in his death on Calvary that lowered the standard. God's holy
law was, we just couldn't reach that standard. The problem's
not with the law, it's holy and just and good. The problem's
with me. I couldn't reach that standard,
so therefore, They teach that Christ on the cross kind of lowered
the standard. I couldn't step that high over
the law, but now I can step over whatever he did on the cross.
No, no, no. Christ said, I didn't come to
destroy the law. I come to fulfill it. God didn't
lower his standard. Jesus Christ, in his life, perfectly
kept every precept of God's holy law, making it honorable. And
he did that as our representative. And when he went to the cross,
he died under the penalty of that law which said, the soul
that sinneth, it must die. And again, he did that as our
substitute. The standard was never lowered. I was in Walmart a few weeks
ago. I heard this voice, a lady's
voice behind me say, hey, tall man, would you reach up and get
that for me? And I said, well, sure, ma'am.
She was short. She couldn't reach it. She couldn't
reach that top shelf. Now, I didn't call for an employee
to come and lower the shelf. No, I was able to reach it. But
I'll tell you this, I couldn't fulfill God's laws demands. I
couldn't reach that high. But my Savior did. My Redeemer
did. He reached those lofty heights
of God's law in the life that He lived. He reached that top
shelf. Glory to His name. God didn't
lower His standard, oh no, but His Son kept it and honored it. And He did it all for His people.
You remember in Mark chapter 1, or 2, perhaps it's chapter
2, A leper came to our Lord and said, Lord, if you will, you
can make me clean. Now, it's no accident, of course,
that he used that word clean because the priest had already
pronounced him unclean. His leprosy made him unclean.
And he had to dwell without the camp. Well, you know the law
of the leper. And the Lord said, I will. I
will. I will. I'm willing. I'm able. I will. And he touched him. And
as he touched him, he said, be thou clean. You're clean. Now,
you're not unclean anymore. You're clean. Now, you go show
yourself to the priest and offer that which Moses commanded for
an offering, for a testimony to them. Now, what our Lord referred to
there, you can find in Leviticus chapter 14, the law of the leper.
When that leper was cleansed, the priest would go out and look
and say, yeah, yeah, I don't see any trace of leprosy anymore.
And he'd say, come with me. They take two birds and one bird
over running water in an earthen vessel they would kill and catch
the blood. And then the yet living bird
they would bring and dip it in that vessel with the blood of
the slain bird. And then, God instructed them,
you take that living bird with the blood of the dead one on
it and take it out into an open field and let it go. Oh my soul. I can almost hear
him as he soars through the heavens. Oh, redeemed. Wow, I love to
proclaim that. Redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb. Bless God. Eternal redemption
obtained. I'll mention that the truth of
particular redemption does nothing to discourage a
sinner from coming to Christ. It does the very opposite. Universal
redemption offers a sinner no hope. Don't bother to come. Because
if Christ did no more for Peter than he did for Judas, don't
even bother to come. Oh, but if he actually put away
the sins of all those the Father gave him. He really did, as he
said, finish the work. You have good reason to hope. Why not me? Why not me? Particularly redemption doesn't
close the door to God's mercy. It throws the door wide open
and says, come sinner. Are you thirsty? Then come. The
Spirit and the bride say, come. and let him that heareth say
come, and let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will." People
told me, I don't believe that. Well, I beg your pardon. I believe
it as much as any other part of God's Word. I say to you,
whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely. If you go to hell, it won't be
because of particular redemption. No, it won't. It will be because
you won't come to Christ. You will not come to Christ.
as our Lord told the people in John 6. Our Lord Jesus Christ
made an infinite satisfaction to God's justice for us. There is no limit, if you will,
to the merit of the sacrifice of the Son of God. It is of infinite
value and merit. enough merit flowing from the
death and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to save 10,000 worlds
of lost sinners. Had that been God's intent? Oh, but he laid down his life
for his sheep. And now, in a moment, we come
to the Lord's table, the Lord's Supper. And let us pray, as I
said earlier, that God would enable us to do so with hearts
full of gratitude and wonder, remembering When the Lord Jesus
Christ poured out His life's blood at Calvary, He didn't make
our salvation possible, but a reality. He obtained eternal redemption
for us, and redemption effectually accomplished by Christ on the
cross, and that redemption is effectually applied by Christ
now on the throne. The blood that Jesus shed for
me has purchased peace and liberty. It purged away my guilt and sin,
and from the curse my soul redeemed. The blood that Jesus shed for
me will be what still amazes me, when with God's saints in
heaven above, I perfectly adore His love. Amen. Amen. Lord bless you.