And when I'm away and get to
talking about them and folks ask me about them, I start to
describe them. I'll say, Audrey Grace looks
just exactly like her grandma. And I start to describe it. But
the descriptions don't quite do the job. So I have a picture
here, open it up. Audrey Grace and Shelby sitting
in red dresses in our living room. And she looks just like
her. That's one of the beauties of
the types and pictures in the Old Testament. There are a great
variety of them. They are clear, instructive,
object lessons, vivid pictures, vivid portrayals of our Lord
Jesus Christ in his person, in his glory, and in his works of
redemption and grace on our behalf. They were pictures drawn by the
hand of divine providence own purpose to show us Christ our
Savior. Now there's a great variety of
them. There are historic types, Israel's deliverance out of Egypt,
Israel's deliverance from Babylonian captivity, the very creation
of the world. All these things are historic
types and pictures of Christ. There are ceremonial types of
our Savior, the whole tabernacle. The altar, the showbread, the
mercy seat, the Ark of the Covenant, everything in the tabernacle,
the priesthood, the Passover, the sin offerings, all those
things were ceremonial pictures and types of Christ. The Sabbath
day, those various things connected with the law. And then there
were personal types of our Lord, many of them, many of them. Some
that stand out imminently as types are Noah, and Abraham,
and Isaac, and Judah, and Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon. These are all specifically identified
as types of our Redeemer. Now let me ask you a question.
Did you know that there is only one type of the Savior that is
specifically named as a type of him in all the scriptures?
Just one. Just one. This will be surprising, puzzling,
I'm sure. This one type that is specifically
named as a type. is almost always ignored if you
pick up a book on the study of types, almost always ignored. If this type is mentioned, it's
given just a courteous mention because the person is forced
to acknowledge this one type is named as a type and then very
apologetic as if the person is fearful that somehow God may
have made a mistake and there's something evil connected with
making this type a type of Christ. Now I hope I've got your attention.
Let's look at our text. Romans chapter five, verse 14. Romans chapter five and verse
14. Here is the only type specifically
named in the scriptures as a type of Christ. Nevertheless, death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned
after the similitude of Adam's transgression. Now watch it.
Who was the figure of him that was to come. The type, the pattern,
the example, the picture. He was the figure of him that
was to come. Then in verse 15, the Holy Spirit
tells us him that was to come is Christ our savior. I want
to talk to you this morning then about Christ being typified by
Adam. Being a type of Christ, Adam
has much that is in common with our Savior. And like all the
types, there are many things about Adam that are not like
our Savior at all. Types are just types. They're
not perfect. They're not perfect. They're
just pictures. And with every type, there are failures. The
reason for that is that our Lord Jesus Christ cannot be portrayed
and exemplified completely by any one thing. As we read through
the scriptures, We find that Adam and Christ are uniquely
joined together. We would be wise to carefully
and prayerfully study such passages as this in Romans 5. Look with
me at verse 12 and let's read the rest of the chapter. Romans
chapter 5, verse 12. Wherefore, as by one man, sin
entered into the world and death by sin. Paul has been declaring
man's depravity and his corruption from the beginning. And he then
declares that there's no possibility of salvation in man or by man,
but that redemption and justification is a matter of God's free grace
through the blood of Jesus Christ in him alone, and this justification
we receive by faith in him. Wherefore, wherefore, now since
that's the case, As by one man, sin entered into the world. By
one man's disobedience. One man's transgression. That's
how we got in the mess we're in. And death by sin. Death by reason of sin. So that
death passed upon all men for this reason. For that all have
sinned. When that one man sinned, we
all sinned in him. When that one man died, we all
died in him. You know, somebody may say, well,
I don't like that. Like it or not, that's the way
it is. That's the way it is. God arranged it that way on purpose
for his glory. And he arranged it that way on
purpose as a mighty act of grace, as a mighty act of grace. Since
we were lost by something somebody else did, all together outside
ourselves, there's hope that may be. We who can never do good. We who can never justify ourselves. We who can never establish righteousness. Maybe, maybe there is another
one man by whom we might be made to stand forever accepted of
God. But see, for until the law, all
sin was in the world. But death is not imputed where
there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned like Adam
did, after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is
the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offense,
so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of
one, many be dead, Much more, I love those two words, don't
you? Paul uses them repeatedly in these verses. Much more, much
more, this is much more better. The grace of God and the gift
by grace, which is by one man, there he is, Jesus Christ. hath abounded to many, and not
as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift, that is, salvation
had come by Adam, salvation had come by flesh, salvation had
come from sinners, but the free gift for the judgment was by
one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses
unto justification. Verse 17, for if by one man's
offense death reigned by one, much more, They which receive
abundance of grace, all sufficient, unfailing, immutable, free grace. And the gift of righteousness. It's grace that brings righteousness. Righteousness is a gift. Righteousness
is something God does for you and gives to you, not something
you perform. The gift of righteousness shall
reign in life. I'm alive I was dead but I'm
alive because God's given me life in Christ and this gift
reigns in life by one Jesus Christ verse 18 therefore just like
we were lost in Adam just like we died in Adam, just like we
sinned in Adam. As by the offense of one, judgment
came upon all men to condemnation. Even so, by the righteousness
of one, the free gift came upon all men under justification of
life. What on earth does that mean?
I had a couple of letters this week from a fellow trying engaged
me in debate, wanted to argue about universal salvation, universal
redemption. And I, of course, you know, that
kind of nonsense, I just ignored it. But does this mean that everybody's
saved? He says, death came on all men
under condemnation, but Christ came and now the free gift has
come on all men, not shall come, has come on all men under everlasting
life. You know better than that. The
book speaks plainly about some who are in hell. The book speaks
plainly about some who are going to hell. Some of you headed there
quickly. Not all men are saved, but it's
talking about two representative men and two groups of people
represented by them. Adam represented all men, the
whole human race, and all men died in him. The Lord Jesus Christ
represents another race. He represents the race of God's
elect, his chosen, and all men in him, all his represented ones,
all his chosen ones, all who are under him and in him and
with him as a covenant head and federal representative, all whom
he represents and represented and shall represent forever and
surely before God have been given Righteousness and life by him,
in him and with him. Read on, verse 19. For as by
one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. So by the
obedience of one man, by the obedience of one, we were all
got in the mess we're in now by the disobedience of Adam.
Oh, but there is another Adam. who perfectly obeyed God Almighty
and by his obedience, by his obedience, watch this, shall
many be made righteous. Remember what I said? Thank God
we failed in a representative man. God arranged it that way because
it was his purpose to save his own by another representative
man. Now hear me, hear me, God help
you to hear me. Salvation, righteousness, eternal
life, acceptance with God is accomplished all together outside
our experience. Christ accomplished it. He gives
it to us. Read on. Moreover, the law entered
that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, oh, may
God make your sin to abound for you so that you're made this
day to be convinced of your sin. And I promise you wherever sin
abounds, If God ever makes you to see the abundance of your
sin, grace shall much more abound. Where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound. That as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal
life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Now let's look at another text
where Adam and Christ are linked together. First Corinthians 15.
Verse 21. For since by man came death,
by man came also the resurrection of the dead. Verse 22. For as in Adam all die, even
so in Christ shall all be made alive. Now let me remind you
some things you know. Adam was made in the image of
Christ, who is the image of the invisible God. Adam was, by God's
arrangement, a representative man, a covenant head. So is Christ,
a representative man, a covenant head. All that Adam did, all
he represented did in him. All that he did was imputed to
all men. All his seed, all that he became
was imparted to all his seed by natural generation so that
we are all born sons of Adam, children of wrath, even as others,
we are all born flesh and flesh will never be anything else.
So too, all that Christ did has been imputed to us, his seed. All that he did, we did in him. Oh, I can't begin to describe
the wonder of that, the blessedness of that. I haven't yet begun
to even to start to grasp hold of it for myself. But when the
Lord Jesus Christ lived on this earth as a man, loving God with
all his heart and his neighbor as himself, fulfilling righteousness
perfectly, Obeying God's will fully. Suffering God's wrath
for sin completely. Dying. Rising again. Ascending to glory. Taking his
seat rightfully at the right hand of the majesty on high.
I did in him. Everything, everything. That's
what's called a covenant head and representative. And now all
that he is, is imparted to all his seed by supernatural regeneration. And all believers in Christ are
made to be the sons of God. Consider what Adam did as our
federal head and representative. He repudiated. the goodness and
love of God. He questioned the truth and veracity
of God. He defied God's right to be God. That's what sin is. It is the
defiance of God's right to be God. That's how Adam got us in
the mess we're in. Christ, the last Adam. the second
and last man, the second and last federal head and representative,
completely vindicated the love, the truth, and the majesty of
God, which the first man, Adam, had so grievously and deliberately
dishonored. Christ, the man, as the God-man,
our mediator, honored God in thought, word, and deed, all
the days of his life upon the earth. He vindicated the love
of God completely and fully and vindicates God's right to be
God, bowing to him in all things. If ever you are tempted of Satan
to question the goodness and love of God, if the events of
providence appear to be casting a cloud over God's goodness and
love and you're tempted to think all these things are against
me, look back to Calvary and behold the goodness and mercy
and love of God in the sacrifice of our Redeemer. Our Lord Jesus
vindicated God's truth too. When he was tempted by Satan,
do you remember how he responded to every temptation? The scripture
says. When he went into the synagogue
Sabbath day after Sabbath day, He read the scriptures. As he
chose his 12 disciples, he deliberately chose one by the name of Judas,
who was a devil, that the scriptures might be fulfilled. When he was
on his way to Calvary, he said, it's written and behooves me
to suffer and die and rise again the third day that the scriptures
might be fulfilled. When our Lord Jesus was risen
again from the dead, he appeared to his disciples, And he walked
along the way and got to talking to them. And he opened to them
the scriptures and expanded to them things concerning himself.
The Lord of glory completely vindicated, as I said, the majesty,
supremacy, and sovereignty of God as our substitute and our
representative. He willingly, voluntarily submits
to the will and purpose of God at all things, at all times,
in all circumstances. He trusted God perfectly. He obeyed God's law completely,
fulfilling every aspect, every prophecy, every word, every moral
preset, every ceremonial obligation. He subjected in all things his
will to the father's will. Oh, God teach me by my savior's
example how to walk in this world. My will is nothing, yours too. Not my will, thy will be done. What I want out of life has got
nothing to do with living life to the glory of God. I recall
several years ago, oh, it's been nearly 30 years ago, my first
visit to Mexico, Brother Henry Payhead, Walter Groover and I
were walking along the plaza out in Eastern Harris, just back
before Cancun was anything but just a beach, nothing there. We were walking the plaza island
off the shore there, Walter, Henry said to Walter, he said,
Brother Walter, you're happy down here, aren't you? Walter
said, Brother May, in happiness, it's got nothing to do with me
being here. He said, I'm where God wants me to be. That's the example our Savior
set. That's it. Always submitting his will to
the father's will. He magnified the justice of God
in his death. In doing so, he fulfilled all
righteousness and brought in everlasting righteousness for
his people, putting away our sins by the sacrifice of himself. In all things, he was made likened
to his brethren for his people's sake, and now he is not ashamed
to call us brethren. because he has made us the righteousness
of God in him. Now, turn back to Genesis 1 for
a minute. Genesis 1. We read this earlier in our scripture
reading. We look at verse 26. God said, let us, the triune
God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, take counsel together. Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the air,
and over all the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Now, many explanations
have been given of the fact that God made man in his image and
after his likeness. Lady Mae, moral, Rational creature. Made him upright. All those things. And all those things are true.
But that's got nothing to do with what he says right here.
Nothing to do with it. We ignored the Holy Spirit's
interpretation of his own words so many times. Let's not ignore
it here. Turn, if you will, to the book of Colossians. Colossians
chapter 1. Hold your fingers here in Genesis.
Turn to Colossians 1. When the scriptures tell us here
in Genesis 1 that Adam was made in the image of God, what does
he mean by the image of God? What does it mean? Do we have
to guess about it? Do we have to speculate about
it? Or does God the Holy Spirit tell us exactly what the image
of God was? Let's see. Colossians 1 verse
15, talking about the great glory of Christ who is, what does it
say? The image, the, singular, they're
not two, just one. The image of the invisible God. And being the image of the invisible
God, he is the firstborn of every creature. What does that mean?
What does that mean? Oh, that means that, as the Russellites
would say, well, they would say that means that Jesus was, he
was the biggest, best, first creature of God. No, no. He's
the beginning of the creation of God. That's exactly how John,
or the Holy Spirit, tells us in John's words in the book of
Revelation. He's talking about Christ, the image of God. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. in
the council chambers of eternity. He said, let's make man like
him. And he declares that Christ stood
then from eternity, not in a physical stature. He did not assume human
nature till he came into the world in time, but he stood from
eternity as our covenant head and mediator, the God-man mediator
who was to come by whom salvation and righteousness and the very
glory of God would be revealed in his creation. Turn, if you
will, to Proverbs chapter eight. Christ is that wisdom man who
spoke for us and whose delights were with us from eternity. Proverbs 8 verse 22, hear him
speak. The Lord possessed me in the
beginning of his way before his works of old, before he said
that there'd be light and there was light, before he set the
stars in the heavens, Before he put a firmament in the creation,
before ever he calls the fish of the sea to multiply, before
his works of old, the son of God says, the Lord possessed
me in the beginning of his way. Verse 23, I was set up. Now he can't possibly be talking
about himself and his divinity. He's talking about being set
up as our mediator, voluntarily set up and set up by the purpose
of God. I was set up from everlasting,
from the beginning, or ever the earth was, when there were no
debts. Watch it. I was brought forth.
When there were no fountains abounding with water, before
the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth,
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor
the highest part of the dust of the world, when he prepared
the heavens, I was there. Without him was not anything
made that was made. When he set a compass upon the
face of the depth, when he established the clouds above, what a word. Established the clouds. Established
the clouds. Try getting out of the plane
sometime, walk on one. But God established them. That vaporous
mist floats around. When he established the clouds
above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, when he
gave to the sea his decree, that the water should not pass his
commandment and they never do. They didn't pass his commandment
when he flooded the earth and they didn't pass his commandment
when he sent the tsunami, they didn't pass his commandment when
he sent the tidal wave over Bangladesh a few years ago, they never pass
his commandment. When he appointed the foundations
of the earth, foundations of the earth. Scientists,
in their deliberate denial or attempt to deny God's being,
call them laws of nature. Throw something up, it's going
to come down. Foundations of the earth. The connection between
all the various planets and the stars and moons and the earth. When he established the foundations
of the earth. Then was I by him, as one brought
up with him, and I was daily his delight. The Lord God looked
on him, our mediator, our surety, this one who is the image of
the invisible God, the appointed God, man, mediator, and he smiled
at him all the time. I was daily his delight. Rejoicing
always before him. I rejoiced always in his purpose. Rejoiced always in the covenant.
Rejoiced always in what I was appointed to do. Rejoicing in
the habitable part of his earth. Rejoicing in that which was to
come. God making man upon the earth
and setting the earth for his people. Now watch this. And my
delights, even back yonder, were with the sons of men. Now Paul
speaks of this very chapter and he says, of him or you in Christ
Jesus who is made of God unto us, wisdom. Wisdom. That's who's talking
here. He's the wisdom man. After the pattern of this man
who was to come, the first earthly man was formed. And therefore,
the triune God said, let us make man in our image. Christ, the
man, is that one upon whom our help was laid from old eternity
even before the world began, even before we needed help. God
said, behold, I have laid help upon one that is mighty. I've
exalted one chosen out of the people. Christ is the man whose
goings forth, Micah says, have been from old from everlasting. Now, there is a relationship
implied. Turn back to 1 Corinthians 15
again, verse 45. And watch the language. So it is written, the first man,
Adam, was made a living soul. God breathed in his nostrils
and Adam became a living soul. The last Adam was made a quickening
spirit. Now we often refer to the first
Adam and the second Adam, but that's a mistake. I won't make
too much of that. He is referred, Christ is referred
to as the second man, but he's never in this book referred to
as the second Adam. Always he is referred to as the
last Adam. I'll get to that a little bit
more in a minute. But in the scriptures, this connection,
Christ being called Adam, as the first man was called Adam,
shows a distinct relationship. It shows first that there is
a typical relationship, and then it shows that this other Adam
is another altogether. First, let's look at the fact
that this is clearly a type. Names are often used in scripture
to be used for types. We see it all the time in scripture.
When Adam is called Adam and Christ is called Adam, it's because
it's intended for us to understand that Adam was a type of Christ.
In the book of God, Revelation chapter 11, Sodom and Egypt represent
the world because the world's called Sodom and Egypt. In chapter
17, verse 18, the apostate church is called Babylon because Babylon
was a type of all apostasy. In Hebrews 12, 22, the church
of God is called Mount Zion. Mount Zion. I thought that was
over in Palestine. No, that was just a type of Mount
Zion. Mount Zion typified the church
of God. John the Baptist is called Elijah.
You mean John the Baptist was Elijah reincarnate? Some fools
thought so. But no, John the Baptist was
the one who was typified by Elijah. In the scriptures, our Lord Jesus
himself is called David. At another time, he's called
Solomon. But he wasn't either David or Solomon. David and Solomon
simply typified him as our great king. Now, the application of
the name Adam then to our savior is to be regarded as a declaration
that Adam typically was related to Christ. Therefore, Paul says
he is the figure of him that was to come. Now, let me show
you how, four things. I can't begin to give you the
fullness of this type. I don't even know the fullness
of it, but I'll maybe come back to it another day. Let me show
you four things in which Adam typified our Lord. First, he
typified Christ in the holiness of his nature. There have only
been two men in the universe who were holy, harmless, and
undefiled, just two. The first man was created that
way. The second man, the last man, Adam. came into this world
without the use of a man, but was rather conceived as that
holy thing in the womb of the virgin, the son of God, our savior
assumed human nature and walked on this earth all the days of
his life, holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners. The
word made flesh, the woman's promised seed is the one who
first stands out Holy and undefiled. But we look back to the beginning
and there's a man who's like him without sin. You ever try to think what Adam
and Eve must have been like in the garden? I have a blessed, happy home,
loving wife. Shoot, ain't nothing compared
to what Adam and Eve had. I apologized to my wife yesterday.
I'm fairly patient with most people. I get so impatient with
her. Not Adam. Not Adam. Oh, perfect. Perfect before God. Second, Adam was typical of our
Lord in his dominion. You remember the Lord God said,
let him have dominion. Let him have dominion. Let me
look at a couple of scriptures with you. Turn to Psalm 8. Psalm
8. Verse 4. What is man that thou art mindful
of him? The son of man that thou visitest
him. For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under
his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, the beast of the field,
the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth
through the paths of the sea. Well, that's the very thing God
said to Adam, wasn't it? All this dominion was ascribed to
Adam back in Genesis 1. God told the first man to have
this dominion. But the first man isn't the only
one spoken of here. Can't be. Matter of fact, if
you read Hebrews chapter 2, the Holy Spirit says, I'm talking
about another man. I'm talking about this last Adam,
the Lord Jesus Christ. We see not yet all things put
under him. What's under your feet? Come on. Now, what is it
that you control? What do you have dominion over? Nothing. Nothing. Oh, well, the prophecy's not
fulfilled. Oh, yes, it is. We see Jesus made a little lower
than the angels, crowned with glory and honor. There's the
man. under whose feet God has put
everything and that man in whom soon God will subject everything
beneath our feet. Third, Adam was typical of our
Savior in his marriage. In Ephesians 5, Paul writes,
Husbands love your church, love your wives even as Christ also
loved the church. And then it says, we are members
of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. Do you remember
whose language he was using? That's what Adam said in the
garden. God brought Eve to him. He said, oh, she's bone of my
bone, flesh of my flesh. because she was one with him,
part of him, because, and I say it myself, she was made from
his rib, that's not so. The book says God made his rib
woman. His rib is her. She is intricately, vitally in
union with him, part of him. Therefore he said, for this cause
shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall be joined
to his wife and they too shall be one flesh in utter devotion. Now the Holy Spirit tells us
specifically. You can read it for yourself
in Ephesians 5, 32. This is a great mystery. A man gets married,
takes him a wife, leaves mama and daddy and if he doesn't,
he ain't much of a man. And he's joined to his wife, devoted to
his wife, and he sets his life for his wife. And they, too,
are one flesh. This is a great mystery. Paul
said, oh, but I'm not talking about that. I digressed a little. That's not what I'm talking about.
That's the mystery of Christ in his church. So when Adam said
this, He spoke by the Holy Spirit and this mystery, he says, for
this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother and
shall be joined to his wife. The union between Christ and
his church. is often described as a marriage. He's the bridegroom.
She's the bride. He's the king whose garments
smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces. She's the queen who stands at
his right hand in the gold of Ophir. The whole Song of Solomon
is given as a picture of this marriage union between Christ
and his church. Oh, how Adam loved his wife. Before she was his wife, Adam
was cast into a deep sleep by the hand of God. As was our savior
cast into the sleep of death by the rod of his justice. And
God opened Adam's side and took out a rib and made woman. And
then he brought her to Adam. And she ravished his heart. She
delighted him. And God Almighty takes chosen
sinners by his omnipotent grace at the time of his love and brings
Christ his bride and she ravishes his heart. Can
you imagine the son of God looks at you and me and says, thou
hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes. With the eye of faith, I look
to him and ravish his heart. Oh, how
Adam loved Eve. There is not in all the Bible
a picture of Christ's love for his church so vivid and clear
and full as Adam's love for Eve. Now, the popular notion is that
Adam was deceived, that Adam was beguiled. Eve, after she
was deceived and she deceived her husband Adam, nothing of
the kind is true. The Holy Spirit specifically
tells us in 1st Timothy 2.14 Adam was not deceived. What? He wasn't deceived? You mean he went into this thing
with his eyes wide open? You mean he did what he did in
full knowledge of what he was doing? How can that be? Adam
wasn't deceived in any degree. He knew exactly what he was doing. He saw Eve, his beloved wife,
in the depths of guilt and depravity and shame and filth and cursedness
and condemnation. And out of nothing but love for
her, before he would be parted from her, He would be damned
with her. That's our redeemer. Oh, how
he loved me. So great was his love for me. The horrid load of all my guilt
was on my savior laid. He loved me so that for my life,
my sin, his own he made. Forsaken there by God in death. His heart was fixed on me. His
love embraced my guilty soul while nailed to the tree. For
me, he took the cup of wrath and drank damnation dry. His
love sustained his soul in death that I might never die. Oh, love
amazing, beyond the reach of human thought, that love shall
be my endless song which my salvation bought. Now, turn back to Genesis
2 for just a moment. God caused a deep sleep to fall
on Adam. And he took one of his ribs and
made a woman and brought the woman to Adam. And Adam took
her as his wife. Look at verse 25. And they were
both naked. the man and his wife, and we're
not ashamed. When the Lord God brings his
elect to Christ, we stand before him. These two
things are true of Christ and of us. We stand naked before him. All
things are naked before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
and we're not ashamed. The son of God is not ashamed
to call you his brother or his bride because he's made you holy
before God. And here I stand naked before
God, naked so that he sees everything. I can put on a show to you. I can pretend a lot. But before
God Almighty, I stand naked before his eyes, and I'm not ashamed. Our Savior said, I know that
I shall not be ashamed. He said, Israel shall not be
ashamed nor confounded without him. Whosoever believeth on me
shall not be ashamed. Oh, here are three. Great, great
wonders of grace. The Lord Jesus Christ has no
reason to be ashamed of me. And I'm not ashamed of him. I'm
not ashamed to own him as my Lord, my Savior, my only righteousness,
my only redemption, my only sanctification, my only acceptance with God,
my only hope for God. Oh no, I boast in him, having
no confidence in the flesh. I rejoice in him. And in Christ,
being one with Christ, I have no reason to be ashamed before
God. No, no. With Christ, I'm holy. In Christ, I have no sin. In Christ, I have no guilt. In Christ, I'm perfectly righteous. And you who believe are complete
in Him. who is the fullness of God. Amen. In your hymn book number 53, How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ear. Number 53, let's stand together.