Open your Bibles, if you will,
to 1 Corinthians Chapter 15. 1 Corinthians Chapter 15. And when you have found your
place in 1 Corinthians 15, just hold your place there and turn
to Job Chapter 33. 1 Corinthians 15 and Job Chapter
33. When I was just a very young
man, I got hold of a book written by Jonathan Edwards more than
250 years ago. Mr. Edwards was the first president
of Princeton University. Princeton has degenerated considerably
since those days, but he was the first president of Princeton
University and he wrote a book titled The History of Redemption. Very, very good book. I can't
begin to talk about it as well as Mr. Edwards wrote about it,
but I have borrowed the title for the title of my message this
morning. I want to talk to you about the history of redemption. Have a look at these two texts.
It begins here in Job chapter 33 and verse 24. Back before
the world began, period called the beginning, from the beginning,
in the beginning, from the foundation of the world, a time before time
began. The Lord Jesus stepped forth
as our covenant surety and the Lord God, the triune Jehovah
said, we read then he is gracious unto him and saith deliver him,
that is deliver my chosen. Deliver my elect from going down
to the pit for I Have found a ransom I look in first Corinthians chapter
15 Redemption ends here. It's finished
here first Corinthians 15 and verse 24 Then cometh the end
Then cometh the end This is the finishing of everything This
is after the resurrection. This is after the creation of
the new heavens and the new earth. This is after the judgment seat.
Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
to God, even the Father. The Lord Jesus, you remember,
Jehovah's servant, had his ear bored through with an awl. He
said, I gave mine ear. He opened my ear, I gave my back
to the smiters. He became the voluntary bond
slave of God in the beginning before ever the world was. He
came forth to save his people from their sins. Then cometh
the end when he shall have finished his work. The servant shall have
finished everything he agreed to. When he shall have delivered
up the kingdom to God, even the father, when he shall have put
down all rule and all authority and power. Everything put under
his feet. The history of redemption. Now
obviously, I'm using the word redemption this morning in the
broadest sense in which it is used in the scriptures. Sometimes
the word redemption refers to something very limited. It refers
just to the purchase of salvation, just to the purchase of our souls.
Just to our deliverance from the curse of the law by the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord Jesus with his own blood
entered in once into the holy place having obtained Eternal
redemption for us and that since the word is used in a very limited
sense by his blood our Savior purchased our salvation and 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. Again, the word is used in that very limited, strict
sense with regard to Christ having accomplished atonement and redemption
for us by his death at Calvary. But the word redemption, like
the word salvation, also has a very, very broad meaning, as
it is used in the scripture. The psalmist says, let Israel
hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with
him is plenteous redemption. Plenteous redemption. He shall
redeem Israel from all her sins. We're told in Romans chapter
8, as we read a little bit ago, that we are now in this flesh
waiting and groaning for the redemption of the bodies. Talking
about the final consummate resurrection of these bodies. 1 Corinthians
1, we're told that Christ is made of God and to us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. The Holy Spirit
is the earnest of our inheritance, the pledge, the down payment
of that redemption of the body for which we're waiting. So in
these passages, the word redemption is used in this very, very broad
sense. It includes everything that's
involved in bringing sinners from the ruins of Adam's fall
into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. It is the deliverance
of our souls from all sin and all evil, from all condemnation,
from all the results, from all the consequences of sin. into
the glorious liberty of the sons of God by the blood of Christ
and by the power of his grace. Everything God does or allows
to be done, if you choose to talk like that, he does for the
redemption of his people. Everything. Oh, God help me. to believe a
tithe of what I'm about to tell you. Everything, everything that is,
has been, or hereafter shall be, is subservient to God's purpose
of grace in the redemption of our souls. Everything. Everything that God does or allows
to be done He does for the redemption of our souls. No wonder the psalmist
saying, I will cry unto God most high unto God that performeth
all things for me. To God that performeth all things
for me. God performs everything for me,
for the redemption of my soul. Everything, everything. When
God said let there be light, he said it for the redemption
of my soul. And when God says time shall be no more, it shall
be for the redemption of my soul. And everything in between for
the redemption of our souls. Mr. Edwards was exactly correct
when he wrote God's main work in providence is this of redemption. The creation of heaven was in
order to the work of redemption. as an habitation for the redeemed. Even the angels were created
to be employed in this work. As to this lower world, it was
doubtless created to be a stage upon which this great, wonderful
work of redemption should be transacted. You mean Shakespeare
was right when he said the world is but a stage? He was exactly
right. This world is a stage upon which
God works out before his creation all the wonders of redemption. Edwards continued, therefore
this lower world is wisely fitted in its formation for such a state
of man as he is in since the fall under the possibility of
redemption. God created the world as it is,
sustains it as it is, so that it might be a proper place upon
which we might live for the purpose of Him working out redemption
for our souls. Now, the Scriptures teach us
clearly that at least five things are goals, aims, intentions,
God Almighty in all things now there many other things could
be said but these these five things are worth taking note
of first Understand that God is determined to put all his
enemies under Christ feet God's determined to put all his enemies
under Christ feet. I mean by that all Who oppose
God? shall be brought to bow before
Jesus Christ the Lord." Everybody. Satan said, I will ascend to
the throne of God. I will be as the Most High. And God laughed. He said, this
is the purpose that is purposed in all the earth. This too is
according to God's purpose. Satan did not fall by accident. Nothing happens by accident.
Satan's fall was in the purpose of God for the outworking of
redemption that we might be delivered from the fall. He must reign,
the scripture says. The Lord Jesus must reign. Oh, thank God he does. Thank
God he must. For the Father decreed it and
he earned it. He who loved us and gave himself
for us must reign until he has put all his enemies under his
feet. David said, what is man? that
thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou visitest
him." He said, you crowned him with glory and honor, and you
put all things under his feet. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Lindsay, I can't even control
my time. Nothing's put under my feet.
Nothing's put under my feet. Nothing's ruled by me. I like
to think I'm in control, but it seldom ever shows up. I recall
First time I had a baptismal service, I had been instructed
in how to take care of things, but the fellow who taught us
didn't know what it was to baptize in a running creek. And I had
a fellow who was about six or eight inches taller than me,
and I was taller then than I am now. And he got up on a rock,
so he's up here. And I like to be in control.
So I didn't say anything. I thought, well, I can handle
this. And when I baptized him, he nearly got away. I baptized
him downstream. I can't control anything. I can't
control anything. But God says he's put everything
under the feet of man. But we see not yet all things
put under him. I don't see you able to control much. I don't
see you able to control much. But we see Jesus crowned with
glory and honor. Bless God. Everything is put
under a man. Everything under his feet and
it's gonna stay there until everything says he's Lord and it's right. He's Lord and it's right. He deserves it. God's goodness
will at last be triumphant. His sovereignty arranged all
things so that Satan shall be confounded and the works of Satan.
All the works of Satan shall be destroyed. What a word look
over john 1st john chapter 5 chapter 3 1st john chapter 3 look at
this I'll say more about this lord willing in a few months
when we get to this third chapter 1st john verse 8 The very last sentence of verse
8 For this purpose the son of god was manifested That he might
now look at that word What does it say? Destroy. Destroy? Destroy the works of
the devil? Destroy? You and I can't destroy
anything. We can mess it up, but we can't
destroy anything. But Christ came into this world for the
purpose of destroying the works of the devil. And when he gets
done, Larry, the works of the devil shall be destroyed. What
does that mean? That means that there shall be
no trace of the serpent's slime on God's creation. Second, it
is God's purpose to retrieve his creation from the ruins of
the fall. Look in Acts chapter 3, Acts
the third chapter, verse 19. Repent ye therefore, and be converted,
that your sins may be blotted out. When the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send
Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you, whom the heavens
must receive, watch this, until the times of the restitution
of all things, until the time of refreshing. It is refreshing to think about
it. Imagine what it shall be when it is brought to pass. When
everything has been brought back to the honor of God. Everything
restored to its intended purpose. The restitution of all things
which God has spoken of by the mouth of all his holy prophets
since the world began. Man's soul was ruined with the
fall of our father Adam. Man created in the image and
likeness of God now has that image effaced so that man more
resembles a beast than God, so that the man, the creature, has
been made subject to vanity. But God shall restore his image
perfectly in his people. And we shall at last, we who
are redeemed by His blood, chosen by His grace, called by His Spirit,
we shall at last be brought into perfect conformity to the image
of His dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Man's body was ruined
by the fall. Sin. Sin. Everything associated with it.
Sin. That's the cause of all sickness
and disease and sorrow decaying and dying in this world. Sin. Sin. Universal evidence of the
total depravity of man. There's never been a baby in
this world that didn't get sick. Never been a child born that
didn't die or is dying. Never been. Why? Because of sin. And the Lord God Almighty shall
restore these bodies, these very bodies made mortal. Dave, as
God created Adam in the garden, when he breathed into his body,
into that pile of clay, he had formed like a clay doll laying
there in the dirt. And God breathed into his body
and man became a living soul. That body was immortal. No possibility of death. These
bodies shall be raised in immortality. We can't even imagine what that
shall be. Raised in immortality. Not the
superstitious witchcraft immortality you see on television out of
Hollywood. No, no, no. We're talking about real immortality. This world utterly ruined by
the fall. Bringing forth briars and thorns
and thistles. so that everything you get from
it you earn by the sweat of your brow, and by the time you get
it, you about wish you hadn't got it. This world ruined by
the fall, but the Lord God shall make all things new soon. A new
heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. God's determined that Satan shall
be triumphant nowhere. But the slime of the serpent
completely eradicated from his creation. Completely gone. So that Satan's influence is
nowhere known. So that Satan's corruption and
the consequences are nowhere felt except in hell and the wrath
of God. Another great design of the triune
God in creation. all the work of redemption is
to gather together all things in Christ look at Ephesians chapter
1 Ephesians 1 Verse 10 in the dispensation of the fullness
of times that he might gather together in one all things in
Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in
him All things, all elect angels, and all elect men, but that's
more, there's more than that. All things, all things. God's going to gather up everything,
everything. I remember once, 30 some years
ago, preaching as a preacher sitting right back there where
Clause was sitting, came in, I was preaching on God's providence.
When he left, I heard him say to his daughters, I don't see
how he could say everything works together for good. I didn't say
that. God did. And God didn't say it
works together for good to everybody. It doesn't. It doesn't. All things either work together
for your good or they work together for your damnation. One of the
two. They all work together for good to them that love God, to
them who are the called according to his purpose. And when God's
finished with his creation, all creation, every event, everything
that is, has been, or shall hereafter be, all creation shall stand
in such brilliant, dazzling light of divine revelation. that all
God's people, every angel in heaven, every demon in hell,
and every rebel in darkness shall see that everything has been
for God's glory. That's enough to live for. And
that's enough to die for. That's enough to sail your boat
through troubled waters. Everything is for God's glory. And soon you're going to see
it. Soon you're going to see it.
When you read the fifth chapter of Revelation, you see the living
creatures and the 24 elders falling down before the throne saying,
worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive glory and honor and
power and dominion now and forever and forever. Amen. and then suddenly
at the end of the chapter and every creature, every creature
shall join the cause and say worthy is the lamb. Everything,
everything. Fourth, God's purpose is to perfect
and complete the glory of his elect in Christ. Listen to this. It is written, I hath not seen
nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him. Don't you enjoy sometimes laying
in your bed at night and thinking about what it shall be to be
with Christ in heaven forever. Sitting back in your easy chair,
just close your eyes and think about what God's prepared for
them that love Him. This I know. No eyes ever seen
it. No ears ever heard it. And it's
never entered into your heart to imagine it. You mean, pastor, the glory that
awaits us is beyond the highest imaginations of our hearts? That's what he said. That's what
he said. Oh, how beautiful heaven must
be. Here's the fifth thing in this
work of redemption. God has determined to get glory
to himself. Look at Ephesians 1. Ephesians
1. In verses 3, 4, 5, and 6, the
apostle Paul writes by inspiration and talks about all the wondrous
works of God for us in Christ Jesus from old eternity. our election, our adoption, our
blessing of all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ,
our being accepted in the beloved, and at last our being redeemed
by Him from our sins. And it tells us in verse 6, He
does all this to the praise of the glory of His grace. Everything God purposed from
eternity, everything God did for us in eternity for the praise
of the glory of His grace. He saved them for His namesake,
the psalmist said. Then, beginning in verse 6, going
down through verse 11, the apostle writes about God's works in time.
Redemption by His precious blood. And all the wonders of providence. All that transpires every day. All that takes place every day. Aren't you thankful? No exceptions.
All that takes place every day. Verse 11, in whom also we've
obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the
purpose of him, watch this, who worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will that we should be to the praise of
his glory who first trusted in Christ. And then he talks about our faith
in Christ. the gift of faith. You see, if
you believe God, it's because God's given you faith. If you
trust Christ, it's because God created faith in you. If right
now you find yourself trusting the son of God, whom I'm trying
to preach to you, it's because God's been gracious to you. Faith
is not the cause of life and grace. Faith is the result of
life and grace. This generation go nuts. have
the idea that somehow another, a dead sinner, can exercise faith
and cause himself to live. That's insane. That's insane. No, no, no. The dead sinner can
do nothing but rot. Life is given by God, causing
sinners to believe. And this gift of God's grace,
look at what it says. which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession, verse 14, unto the
praise of his glory. God shall be glorified in us
and by us before wandering worlds forever. What did our Lord teach us to
pray? The disciples said, Lord, teach
us to pray as John's disciples taught him to pray. He said,
after this manner, you ought to pray. Our Father, which art
in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Let that be your first concern,
your first desire, your first ambition, and everything else
falls in place. God, glorify Yourself in me and
with me, in mine and with mine. Our Father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name. Get glory to Yourself. And when
all is done, surely even the wrath of man shall praise Thee,
and the remainder of wrath wilt Thou restrain. Nobody's going to interrupt God's
purpose. Nobody's going to shake God's throne. Nobody's going
to hinder God from saving his people. Nobody's going to prevent
the salvation of one of God's elect. Not going to happen. Nobody
is going to injure your soul. Not if you're his. Not if you're
his. There shall no evil happen to
the just. How does God do this? How shall
he perform this? I could say much, much more,
but I'll wrap this up by showing you six clear marks in the history
of redemption. The first is in the everlasting
covenant of God's grace. The Lord Jesus Christ was set
up from everlasting as our covenant surety, the surety of a new covenant,
a better covenant. The Lord God looked on him and
says concerning all his elect looking on Christ Jesus, deliver
him from going down to the pit for I have found a ransom. Jesus Christ was accepted of
God when he stood forth and assumed all responsibility for us. He's
described in this book as the lamb slain from the foundation
of the world and in him Every sinner for whom he stood from
eternity as the surety was called God's son in him every sinner
for whom he stood as a surety was justified and sanctified
and glorified in him In him whom the father accepted and made
head over all things Oh, but that didn't happen until he came
and said father the hours come glorify thy son that thy son
also may glorify thee and He said, give me the glory that
I had with you before the world was. So that that which is worked
out in time is but the manifestation of that which was accomplished
in eternity. The world, remember, is the stage
on which God performs the work. so you can see it and enjoy it. The world's the stage where God
shows his glory in redemption, but the works were finished from
the foundation of the world. That's what the book says. Hebrews
chapter 4 and verse 3. Look at Ephesians 1. Let me show
you. Ephesians 1 verse 3. Blessed be the God and father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath. I love that word, don't you?
Hath. That means it's done. No conditions,
no ifs, ands, maybes, or buts. Who hath. Who hath what? Blessed us. Blessed who? All who are blessed. All who
are born of God, all God's elect. He's blessed us in heaven with
all spiritual blessings, in heavenly places, in Christ. And this is
how He did it. According as He hath chosen us
in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before Him. Election. God chose a people. He said, I'll be their God. They
should be my people. I don't like that. If you ever
get in on it, you will. If you ever find out your name
written in the book of life, you'll like it. If you ever come
to experience God's grace, you'll like it. I'm here believing him
because he chose me in love, having predestinated us unto
the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will. Predestination. Oh, that's deep,
deep, deep, deep doctrine. Predestination. Do you know what I've got in
my pocket here? Three addresses which I've got
mapped out. I plan to arrive at this week. Two of them before the day is
done. And I have prearranged to do so. Well, sort of. Sort of. People talk about God's
plan. God doesn't have plans, Sammy.
God predestines. You and I make plans. And our
plans, they're about as stable as water running down the asphalt
out there. Our plans, anything can change
our plans. Anything. Anything can change
our plans. Easy. God doesn't have plans
that can be interrupted. God Almighty has predestinated
us under the adoption of children by Jesus Christ. And having predestinated
us to that end, he's predestinated everything necessary to accomplish
that end. And everything that comes to
pass, God predestined and made necessary for the accomplishing
of that end. Everything. Do you mean to say
that God, before the world ever began, has already determined
everything that shall happen? Yeah. You got a problem with
that? You got a problem with God. Not
only has He predetermined it in His providence, He sovereignly
arranges it. This world's not beneath God's
control. It's not beneath God's care. It's not beneath God's attention.
This is the object of His unceasing attention. Because we are His
people for whom He made all things. Salvation then, this matter of
redemption, begins with covenant grace in Christ Jesus before
the world began. It is this covenant of grace
in Christ, in which all things were accomplished, that sustains
the world as it is in time. God is not slack concerning his
promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to usward,
not willing that any should perish, that is, that any of us whom
he's chosen should perish. but that all should come to repentance
and the knowledge of truth. And David, when God's called
the last of his elect, Christ is coming and everything's done. That's it. That's it. We go preach
the gospel for the calling out of God's elect. We're seeking
the Lord's sheep. And when the last of the fold
has been gathered into the fold, Christ shall come again and make
all things new. The second great event in the
history of redemption is indescribable. God stepped into time. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. God, the incomprehensible, infinite
God became a man. Jesus Christ is God in human
flesh. He came here for the express
purpose of saving his people from their sins. Because God
could not die and man could not satisfy Christ, Jesus came, the
God-man, able both to die and to satisfy. And by his obedience
unto death, redeemed us from all sin. Our Lord Jesus Christ
came in our nature. God became one of us. He walked on the earth. He nursed at his mother's breast
like any other child and was completely dependent for his
life on the milk that flowed from his mother's breast. He's
a real man. And he was, at the same time,
God who put milk in her breast. He's God. and man. He walked on the earth and got
tired. Got tired. Some of you know what it is to
be sick for a while. And after a while you get tired
of being tired. The Savior did too. He got tired. Sat down on the well side and
was thirsty and asked a woman to give him some water to drink.
And yet, this man who got tired and thirsty is God who put water
in the well. He hungered, but he's God who
gives life to all things and sustains the cattle on a thousand
hills whom he owns. God was tempted in all points
like as we are, yet without sin. God couldn't be tempted, no,
but the God-man was. tempted just like we are. God
came into the world. I have already begun to get some
of the barrage of letters and emails I'll be getting, and some
of you will too this time of year, warning you about Christmas. Don't worship a Christmas tree
and don't believe in Santa Claus. It's amazing to me. Some folks,
all they can do is want to punch Santa Claus in the eye, give
him a black eye, fuss about Christmas trees. Now, please understand
me. Please understand me. If any
of you folks have a notion of such a thing as Santa Claus,
see me after services, will you? Enough said. And if any of you are inclined
to bow down and worship a Christmas tree, please see me after service
is over. And I warn you not to do that.
Don't do that. Well, you ought not to have anything
to do with those things. I recognize the pagan origins of all those
things like I recognize the pagan origin of the name of this day. Do you know why it's called Sun
Day? It's the day of the sun, God. Well, let's not call it Sunday
anymore. That's stretching things a little bit, don't you think?
Don't you think? But oh, how thankful I am that God has fixed
it so that once every year The whole world is confronted with
the fact that 2,000 years ago, God stepped into time. God stepped
into history. He stepped into history to redeem
and save his people. The third great event in the
history of redemption was our Savior's triumph over Satan and
his temptation. He was led of the spirit into
the wilderness, we're told in Matthew chapter 4. What strange
language. Led of the spirit into the wilderness
specifically to be tempted of the devil. There was another Adam who was
tempted of the devil. And by the temptation of the
devil, that Adam failed and got us in the mess we're in. Here's
the last Adam. And he is led of the spirit into
the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. That he might undo
everything Adam had done and restore that which he took not
away by conquering Satan. He's come to crush the serpent's
head and crush him he shall. And he overcomes the temptation.
Satan asked him to turn the stones into bread after he'd been hungry
40 days. Asked him to cast himself off
the pinnacle of the temple and trust God to save him. And asked
him to bow down and worship him. And he said, I'll give you everything.
Wait a minute. He already had everything. Yes,
he did. Yes, he did. Satan's temptation
is, we'll bypass God's will. You don't have to die. I'll give
you everything. We'll bypass God's purpose. You don't have
to die. I'll give you everything. Just fall down and worship me.
Very much the same thing that happened when Adam was tempted
and destroyed. And the Lord Jesus defeated Satan. And the angels came and ministered
to him. And then in the garden. Satan brings before him that
which is about to happen and causes him to apprehend with
great fear the reality of being made sin for us until he broke
out in a sweat of blood as he anticipated it. I cried, my God,
if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. He said, now is
my soul exceeding sorrowful even unto death. But what shall I
say? Father, save me from this hour.
And it seemed like a mighty Samson to brace himself against the
gates of the city and rise up and say, nevertheless, not my
will, thy will be done. Father, glorify thy name. And Satan goes slithering off
again. And then the Lord Jesus comes
to Mount Calvary. And here is the fourth great
mighty act by which redemption is accomplished. Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, has made sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. And he, suffering all the fury
of God's holy wrath and justice in the place of sinful men, suffering
all the fury of God's hell in my stead, suffering all the fury
of God's infinite anger and justice in the stead of his people in
your place. with one tremendous draft of
love, drank damnation dry, and he said, it is finished. And
redemption's work was done. But redemption goes on. Atonement's
finished. Satisfaction's finished. Justice
is satisfied. Ransom is finished. But still,
God's people must be delivered from their sins. And the Lord
Jesus arises from the dead. He ascends into glory. This man, this man who is brought
to be the least in the kingdom of heaven now is exalted as the
greatest. He who is David's Lord and David's
son sits upon David's throne. The Lord God has made Christ
Lord of all. He's received the Spirit, the
promise of the Spirit. Remember what Joel said, this
is how you're going to know Messiah has come. This is how you're
going to know Messiah's here. This is how you're going to know
when the kingdom of God's come. This is how you're going to know
when God has sent Messiah on his throne and redemption's accomplished.
He'll pour out his Spirit on all flesh. And the inaugural
work of the Son of God is the outpouring of his spirit upon
his church and then upon the Gentiles. And now all who believe
live in the spirit, walk in the spirit, trust in Christ by the
spirit. And Christ the Lord, our Savior,
has power over all flesh to give eternal life unto as many as
the Father has given him. and the last great act by which
redemption shall be finished. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter
15 again. Our Lord Jesus Christ shall come
again in power and in great glory without sin unto salvation. He said, if I go and prepare
a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself
that where I am, There you may be also. Now, I don't pretend
to know much about prophecy or prophetic things. I'll leave
that to fellows who think they do. But it appears to me as I read
the scriptures that everything that shall transpire after the
second coming transpires in rapid succession, almost moment by
moment. This much I know. When Christ
comes, there will be a general resurrection. All that are in
the grave shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that
have done good shall come forth unto life everlasting. Those
who have been made good by the obedience of Christ, done good
in the person of the substitute, shall be raised up in everlasting
glory. And they which have done evil
shall be raised in the resurrection unto damnation. And there'll
be a great regeneration. God's going to regenerate the
earth. The present heavens and earth
shall be burned up, all that dwell in them. And God shall
make all things new. A new heaven and a new earth.
Everything new. Wherein dwelleth righteousness.
where there's no sickness and sorrow or pain or sighing, no
tears, no dying. Everything new. And there's going
to be a grand restitution of all things. Everything is going
to be brought under the feet of Christ the Lord and give him
praise. Everything shall redound to his
glory. and then there will be a glorious
rest. There remaineth therefore a rest
to the people of God. Oh, I'm so tired. Tired. I'm tired of the darkness
and corruption and deceit, and deception, and division, and
strife, and war, and ungodliness all around me. I'm tired of the
corruptions in my flesh. I'm tired. I'm tired of the war
in here. I'm tired. Soon Christ is coming. And everything gonna be set right.
And I'm gonna rest forever. Rest. When all things are made
new. Now, look at 1 Corinthians 15. Verse 24. Then, come at the end. This is where we're headed. When
he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the father,
when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power,
for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, for he hath
put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things
are put under him, it is manifest that he is accepted, which did
put all things under him. And when all things shall be
subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject
unto him that put all things under him. What's that mean? What's that mean? The days of
the son's subjection to the father are ended here. When the son
makes this one last act of subjection. He brings us before the throne
of God and says, Lo, I and the children whom thou has given
me and presents us as a bowing servant, having finished all
his work before the throne of his grace with exceeding joy,
holy and unflavorable forever, that God may be all in all. And that's the history of redemption.
May God give you his grace and make you part of this great work
of redemption by Christ Jesus. Amen.