It doesn't take much for me to
get way over my head and study the Scriptures. But when I began
preparing this message yesterday morning, I just was overwhelmed
with the things contained in Hebrews 12, verses 24 and 25. I'll be turning there, but listen
while you turn. What is it? that you have set
your heart on. What gives you joy? A measure of satisfaction. What
is it that makes you happy? What is your refuge for your
soul? What is your hope? What is the treasure of your
heart? Whatever it is, Christ is better. Now, that's the message of the
book of Hebrews. Throughout these 13 chapters,
the Holy Spirit is declaring to us that Christ is better. Particularly, He is declaring
to us that Christ is better than all things pertaining to the
old covenant and to the Mosaic law. Christ is better than the
angels. This one who is the angel of
the covenant, he is God's own dear son. The angels are sent
forth being ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to those
who shall be heirs of salvation, but Christ is salvation. Christ
is a better man, far better man than Adam was. The Lord Jesus
Christ passed by Adam's seed, but it took hold on Abraham's
seed, that he might give eternal life to God's chosen by himself
becoming one of us, a man likened to his brethren. The Lord Jesus
is better than Moses. Moses was servant in his house,
so is Christ, but the house belongs to Him, and He is the Son forever. Christ is a better rest than
was given in all the types and shadows of the law, a better
rest for your soul than you will ever find anywhere. He is a better
Sabbath than that Sabbath of the law, for in Him we indeed
are given rest and find rest trusting in Him. everlasting
rest shall be ours when we are gathered at last at the throne
of God in Christ our Redeemer. The Lord Jesus is a better priest,
a better priest than Aaron. He is a priest out of the tribe
of Judah, but this one who is out of the tribe of Judah, he
is a priest anointed and appointed and accepted of God forever. Not only so, but he is a better
hope. He's an anchor of our souls, sure and steadfast. He's a better
priest than Aaron, even a better priest than that one pictured
by Melchizedek. He's a priest forever. He's able,
therefore, to save to the uttermost all who come to God by him. He's
the mediator of a better covenant. He is a better sacrifice. He
is a better way. For in Him, we have a way of
access unto God opened up for us, whereby we are able boldly,
freely to come to God Himself at all times, pouring out our
hearts before Him and finding acceptance with Him. Now, that's
the message of the book. Turn to Hebrews chapter 12, if
you will. As Paul wraps up the book, he's coming to the end
now. He seems to be writing as a man
who's running out of paper or running out of time. He's just,
he's telling us how much better Christ is than everything that
has gone before. How much better Christ is infinitely
superior to all things by which he was typified and to all things
by which the souls of men are deceived. And he seems to just
be pressing everything he can into these last statements. I
know he's writing by inspiration. I know that everything he wrote,
he wrote exactly as God the Holy Spirit would have him to write. But he was moved also by his
own passion and love for Christ. He's writing like he's just about
to run out of paper and he wants to get down everything he possibly
can. When he gets to chapter 12 and
verse 22, He tells us that we've come to a better mount. We've
come to Mount Zion, far better than Sinai. We've come to the
heavenly Jerusalem, a better city than the Jerusalem that
David lived in. We've come to the general assembly
in Church of the Firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.
A better assembly and a better company than all who have ever
gone before. We've come to God. God Almighty,
infinitely better than everything by which He is typified and pictured,
the judge of all, infinitely better than all the judges that
Israel ever had, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. And
then we look at verse 22. Now, remember, He's continuing
to tell us what we have come to. He says, and you are come
to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. and to the blood
of Sprinkly, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See
that you refuse not him that speaketh, for if they escape
not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not
we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven."
Let me begin by speaking about that which is
the most misunderstood, the most difficult thing for
anyone in this religious world to understand, and yet the simplest
of all things revealed in scripture. And that's faith in Christ. Faith
in Christ is described by or illustrated really by many things
as looking to Christ, It's believing on Him. It's leaning on Him.
It's walking with Him. But here it's described as coming
to Christ. Faith is coming to Christ. Coming out of the world to Christ. Coming out of self to Christ. Coming out of darkness to Christ
who is life. It's coming to Christ. All who
are born of God come to Christ. He's able to save to the uttermost
all them that come to God by him. All who are taught of God,
we're told in John 6, come to Christ. Every man that has heard
and learned of the Father, our Savior says, cometh unto me. This is not something that we
did yesterday or this morning or we did back a long, long time
ago. This is something that the believer
does continually. I'm going to say in a moment
that faith is an act of the heart, but it's more than an act. It's
more than an event in life. Faith in Christ is our way of
life. Believers live by faith. We live in this new life. We live by faith, no longer by
sight, no longer looking to the arm of the flesh, no longer looking
to our own reason and our own ability, but coming to Christ. That's what faith is. Coming
to Christ, however, is not at all what people commonly associate
it with. It is an act of faith. It is
altogether spiritual. It is total land. and absolutely
an act of the heart. It has nothing whatsoever to
do with physical, tangible things or physical movements of any
kind. The whole religious world will
give you some point of contact for your faith. Now, most of
you folks, most of the folks that you are associated with,
kind of laugh. They might not laugh out loud
in public when they see some fool on television offering a
prayer cloth. They say, I better have that.
You laugh and weep at the same time. You're not that superstitious. I don't need a prayer cloth to
give me a point of contact with God. That fellow's a charlatan.
Or some fellow, you've got a backache, you reach out and touch the TV
screen, that would be a point of contact. No, you're not fooled
by that. But most everybody thinks that
if they walk down to the front of a church building, or walk
to the front of a stadium, shake a preacher's hand, sign a decision
card, if they will repeat some prayer after a man, then that's
a point of contact with God, and they call it faith. They
call it coming to Christ. and nothing could be further
from the truth. The fact is there were multitudes in our Lord's
day while He walked on this earth who physically came to Him, who
physically touched Him, who never came to Him and were never touched
by Him. They touched His body. You remember
when He walked through the streets? The Scripture says the people
pressed Him. They were pressing Him elbow
to elbow, rubbing shoulders with Him. And somebody touched him.
That's faith. Somebody touched him. Everybody
was feeling him. Nobody touched him except one
poor needy soul. Faith was an act of the heart.
She touched him with her finger, but she touched him with more
than her finger. She touched him with her heart. Many come
to Christ outwardly who never come to it. Never come to them. They come join the church. They
come get baptized. They come make a profession of
faith. And they live and die sitting in church pews and never
come to Him. Those who come to Christ come
to Him in their hearts. Our Lord Jesus, in fact, spoke
of His flesh. And He said, it is the spirit
that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing.
You hearing my words from my lips? Oh, if I could, if Jesus
would just rise from the dead, stand here and speak, now I believe. Oh, no, you wouldn't. Oh, no,
you wouldn't. If I could see him, then I'd
believe him. No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't.
No, you wouldn't. He said the flesh profits nothing.
It's the spirit. It's what I am that gives you
life, not my body, not my flesh. Simon Magus. was a man who made
great strides in religion, but Satan had deceived him. And Peter
said, you're still in a gall of bitterness. You never knew
God. Ananias and Sapphira made great
sacrifices. They came to the church house,
sold everything they had, and gave half of it to the apostles.
Laid it at the apostles' feet, but it lied in their hearts to
the Holy Ghost. Faith is coming to Christ. with a sense of need. And when you get right down to
it, if you haven't yet come to Christ, that's the reason. You
just don't need Him. You just don't need Him. You
can get along without Him. You see, that which is needed
is what I've got to have. There are a lot of things I look
at, and it would be nice to have that. Driving back from Tennessee
the other day, I saw a truck and stopped and looked at it.
It would be nice to have that. And I drove on in a Vette because
I didn't need it. I didn't need it. Just nice to have it. I didn't
need it. Didn't even really lust after
it too much. I just, it wasn't anything important.
Didn't need it. I've got to have breath. I've
got to have some food. I've got to have some water.
I've got to have some things. Let me tell you what I've got
to have. I've got to have Christ. You? Do you have to have Him? I mean,
have to have Him. My dear friend, Brother Harry
Graham, some years ago, made a statement in my presence. Somebody
had said to him, making an excuse for neglecting the worship of
God, making an excuse for neglecting the things of God, said, well,
I've got to live in it. He said, you've got to live in
this world. Harry said, oh, no, that's one thing I ain't got
to do. I've got to have Christ. I've got to have him. Faith is
coming to Christ as the one, the only one, who has infinite
fullness to meet all my soul's needs. What I need is life. He is life.
What I need is pardon. He is pardon. What I need is
redemption. He is redemption. What I need
is acceptance with God. He is acceptance with God. I
need Him. And He's the only one who got
what I need. This coming to Christ, this faith, is a gift, an operation of God's
almighty, omnipotent, irresistible, efficacious grace. Sometimes we make statements,
me and you too. Boy, I don't see how on earth
a fellow could hear that. Not believe. How foolish. Our hearts are moved
toward God. We sit beside somebody who is
unmoving. How can that be? How can that be? We sing God's praise and our hearts
are drawn out to our God. Other folks, It's like pouring
water on a rock. How can that be? Because that's
just what it's like. Bobby Estes, God's given us faith. The other fellow's dead. He's dead. You can go out here
and find you a stump or a rock, and you can talk to him about
how hot it is, and you can talk about the most wonderful things
in the world, talk about things most dear to your heart, You
can stand on it, you can kick it. It doesn't matter to it.
It's dead. It's dead. And you who are yet
without life and faith in Christ, you're dead. Now, God gives faith by the preaching
of the Word. God gives faith by the power
and grace of His Spirit. But God has to give it. You can't
muster it, and I can't talk you into it. All I can do is talk
you into a deception. All I can do is talk you into
something that will, at last, bring your soul to hell. You
can't muster it, and I can't give it. Nobody else can, but
God can. By grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. It is the gift and operation
of God Almighty. I'll tell you when you believe
on the Son of God. When God creates a need in your
heart for Him. Until then, you'll be happy with
religion or something less. Until then, you'll be happy with
a little emotionalism or something less. But when God creates in
your soul a need for Christ, When God Almighty opens your
heart and drops in life, then you'll believe on Christ. Faith
is coming to Christ and no one else for everything. Oh, needy soul, hear me, come
to Christ. poor, helpless, bankrupt, naked,
needy sinner, come to Christ with no aid, with no assistant, with no mediator,
with no priest, with no sacrifice, with no work by which you hope
to ingratiate yourself before him. come to Christ. I try my best
to be honest with your souls and everyone I talk to concerning
these things. I hope you know my honest concern
for your soul. But coming to me is not going
to help you. Just give that gift to me. All
right, now let's look at the text again. We'll look at it
line by line. All who are given this boon of
grace coming to Christ, all of them, without exception, it doesn't
matter how strong they are or how weak. It doesn't matter how
much they know or how little. All who come to Christ are safe,
settled, saved, secure, and given peace. They want no good thing, for
all things are theirs. And having free access to God
by Christ, we have all the rights and privileges of the sons of
God. And here's the first one. Is Jesus the mediator of the
new covenant? I want us to read this covenant
tonight. Turn back to Jeremiah 31. I don't know whether we will
ever really understand the language of covenant. New Testament, same
word. We think about contracts, and
that's similar. That's similar. But we don't
know much about covenants these days. People talk about making
a covenant with one another. Our Lord Jesus, before the world
began, stood before God Almighty as our representative and pledged
himself to the salvation of our souls in covenant terms. And you say, Preacher, did that
really happen? You know, I really don't know what really happened
in eternity. It might surprise you, but I wasn't there. I just,
I really don't know. I suspect, however, that it was,
these things are given to us in terms that we can understand.
For example, when the scripture speaks of God having eyes, he
doesn't have eyes, he doesn't have a body, God's spirit. Scripture
speaks of God's omnipotent arm. He doesn't have any arms or hands
or parts like we have. God is spirit. But he condescends
to make himself known to us in human terms and in human language
so we get some kind of handle on what he's done for us and
give us some appreciation for his grace. Before the world began,
the Father chose a people. And he said, I'll be their God,
and they should be my people. I'll pour out my spirit on them.
I will give them one heart and one way. They should walk before
me. I'll forgive their iniquity, transgressions, and sins. Their
sins and iniquities, I'll remember no more. But in order for me
to save this people, someone must satisfy all the law and
justice for them. who's able to meet all their
soul's needs in his infinite person. Such a man can't be God. Can't be God. God can't suffer. God can't die. But such a one
can't be a man, because man can never satisfy. It will take one
who is both God and man in one infinitely glorious person. And the Lord Jesus said, I'll
go. I'll redeem them. Father, for
your glory, put them in my hands, and I'll save them. And the father
trusted us to the hands of his son. And the Father and the Son
struck hands in the covenant. And from that time, God Almighty
ceased to look to us for anything. He looked to the surety for everything. You got that? Now read what the
covenant says, Jeremiah 31. We'll begin in verse 3. The Lord
hath appeared of old to me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee. with an everlasting love. Therefore,
with loving kindness have I drawn thee. My grace experienced in
time is the result of my grace and mercy and love bestowed upon
you from eternity. And that which you do in time
has got nothing to do with what I do in eternity. Look at verse
31. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by
the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant
they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord." God
made a covenant with that physical nation, and they broke it. And
for that, God destroyed them. But there's another holy nation.
another Israel, another Judah. Not that physical seed, but the
spiritual seed of Abraham. And God says in verse 33, but
this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I'll put my law in
their inward parts and write it in their hearts. What's he talking about? Well,
David, that's talking about the new birth. I'm going to give
them what they never had before. I'm going to make them like me.
I'm going to make them love me. I'll put my law in their inward
parts, write it in their hearts, and we'll be their God, and they
shall be my people. Not I will, if they will. I will,
and they shall. And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord. They're not going to need any priest. For they shall
all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,
saith the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more. Look in chapter 32. He's continuing
with the same covenant. He says in verse 37, Behold, I will gather them out of all
countries, whether I have driven them in mine anger, and in my
fury, and in great wrath, and will bring them again into this
place." The Lord God in His anger drove Adam out of the garden.
The Lord God, in his anger, dispersed the nations through Noah's sons. The Lord God, in his anger, has
driven his people to the four corners of the earth in judgment
and in darkness. I watched something the other
night. They were discussing the Grand Canyon, trying to figure
out when folks first came there, and then they abandoned it, and
they came back, don't understand anything about it. I do. God
scattered his people through the four corners of the earth.
Because he has chosen a people out of every nation, kindred,
tribe, and tongue, and he will gather them from the four corners
of the earth, whether he has scattered them in his wrath. And so he sends his word and
brings salvation to his own. He says, I will bring them into
this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. And they
shall be my people, and I will be their God. And I will give
them, look at this, one heart and one way that they may fear
me forever for the good of them and for other children after
them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. It will never
be broken, not by me and not by them. I won't break it, and
they can't break it. I'll make an everlasting covenant
with them that I will not turn away from them ever to do them
good. But I'll put my fear in their
hearts and they shall not depart from me." No wonder Paul wrote
as he did about this covenant. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, according as
He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world.
Oh, bless God for His covenant. Now, this covenant, this covenant
of grace, we're told back in Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 6,
is a better covenant. Better than what? Better than
the one that had gone before it. The covenant of works, that
covenant Brother Ponce read about back in the office a little bit
ago, God made with Adam. That covenant that God gave to Israel
when he brought them out of Egypt on Mount Sinai, that covenant
of works, the whole thing was a conditional covenant based
upon conditions. God said, you do and I shall. Only they didn't and they couldn't.
God's covenant of grace is an absolute and unconditional covenant. He says I will and you shall.
You see the difference? God said you walk before me and
it's what I do. You obey me and the land will
prosper you. You do this and I'll do that.
But they didn't. They said we would. Oh yeah,
we'll do what you said. But they broke his covenant from
the very beginning. This covenant, God said you'll
not break. I'll not allow it and I'll not
break it. This covenant of old was a covenant of law and of
works. This new covenant is a covenant of grace, pure, free, downless
grace. The Mosaic covenant was broken
and made void because it was broken. The covenant of grace
is established in Christ and can't be broken and can't be
nullified. It can't be nullified by anything
in us any more than it could be won by something in us. The
covenant is altogether God's work in Christ. That covenant
revealed at Sinai was a dark, shadowy, fearful thing. The covenant
of God's grace is light. clarity, delight, because it's
life. In that covenant, there were
types and symbols and shadows by which God I told folks, you
can't possibly, you can't possibly, you can't possibly do anything
to make up with me. There's no sacrifice you can
bring. But I have made a sacrifice that shall come by whom sinners
may come to me. But now, we look with clear light. and say, behold, the Lamb of
God, there He is. That's the one that Aaron portrayed.
That's the one the Paschal Lamb portrayed. He's the Lamb of God
that takes away the sin of the world. This new covenant is a
covenant of righteousness and grace. It was and it is established
upon better promises. Again, we're told in Hebrews
8.6. It's established on better promises than that covenant of
old, of works and of law. You see, all the promises of
the covenant were made to fickle men in the Old Testament. And
they were conditioned upon the obedience of fickle men. The first word of oath was made
to Adam, and God said to Adam, Now you can eat of everything
in the garden. I've given you the whole of creation. It's all
yours, buddy. Everything. Every beast of the
field is your household pet. You name it what you want to.
It's all yours. That tree right there. That right
there. There is in the whole universe
one symbol of my right to be God. One symbol of my dominion
and my authority. Here, you reference me. Don't
eat that tree. Don't eat that tree. And He didn't
say, if you do, I'll kill you. He said, when you do, you're
dead. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
Because, you see, that covenant was made with a fickle man. a
mortal man, a mutable man. But that covenant was made in
anticipation of a covenant that would soon be fulfilled in Christ
the Lord, made before the world began. And the first covenant,
that one revealed in the garden and revealed at Sinai, it was
made because of that one that was made before the world began
and came to be revealed in the fullness of time. And in Christ
Jesus, all the promises of God are yea, And in him are amen. This new covenant of grace and
all the blessings of this covenant, all its benefits, come to us
through the merits of a better sacrifice. The blood of bulls
and goats can never take away sin. But this man, when he had
offered one sacrifice forever, sat down on the right hand of
the majesty on high. He sat down because there was
nothing else for him to do, nothing else to be done. The totality
of the covenant was fulfilled, ratified. His blood, God says,
is enough. Sit down here by my right hand.
And he hath thy one offering perfected forever, them that
are sanctified. The mediator of this covenant,
we're told here, is Jesus. I looked at that, looked at that.
I thought, why did the Spirit of God inspire this man, who
had far more reverence for my God than I do, use a term that
I'm so reluctant to use? I don't ever refer to our God
and Savior by His name, Jesus. I don't ever do it. I don't ever
do it. Because I don't want in any way to take from his glory
by speaking to men of him lightly, as I'd speak to Bob Duff's L-Bob.
Oh, no. No, no. I refer to him as the
Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, never just as Jesus. But the Holy Spirit says that
Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant. I tell you one
reason why I did it. Because he would tell us that
in order for him to be the mediator of the covenant, he had himself
to become one of us. His name is Joshua. That's what Jesus means. As Joshua
was raised up out of the people to deliver Israel into the land
of promise, out of the darkness of the wilderness, so the Lord
Jesus Christ is that one of whom the Father says, behold, I have
laid help upon one that is mighty. I've exalted one chosen out of
the people. Here he is. Call his name Jesus. For like Joshua, he shall save
his people from their sins. The covenant requires it. He's
a mediator. A mediator. I was raised in the midst of
the great strife between the Teamsters Union in the South
and the companies they fought with, or the companies that fought
with them, whichever way you want to put it. And when they're
getting a real bad tussle, they're getting a contract they just
couldn't get settled, after a while, federal government will send
in a mediator. A mediator. Now, he's supposed to be. Not
always is, because we're talking about men now. He's supposed
to be a representative who stands between two parties, but equally
represents both parties. A mediator is supposed to be
a man, a daysman, who stands between two irreconcilable parties,
but he has the interest of both parties at heart, and he's unbiased
toward either. Oh, what a mediator Jesus Christ
is. He's a man. There's never been a man so interested
in men as this man. He's a man. Fully devoted to
man. Will do nothing! to compromise
the interest of the man he represents. And there's God. Here's a mediator. Who is God? Fully God, as though He were
not a man. Has all the interest of God's
name and God's honor and God's glory and God's will and God's
righteousness at His heart! And he'll do nothing to compromise
the interest and the glory of God. This mediator, with infinite
worth in his own person, meets all the needs of helpless fallen
man. and fully satisfies all the demands
of God's holy justice. And now in Him, God Almighty
falls on the necks of sinners and kisses them in His absolute
holiness. This mediator is an advocate,
one who pleads the calls of both parties. He speaks to God for
men and he speaks to men for God. This mediator, he's a reconciler. That's what a mediator is. There's
only one such mediator. And his name is Jesus, the mediator
of the new covenant. No wonder David on his deathbed
looked back. He looked back at all those things,
Rex, of which his son Solomon wrote later. And he said, well,
things ain't the way I figured they'd be. They're sure not the
way I had it worked out. They're sure not the way I planned
it. He said, but although my house be not so with God, yet
the Lord hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered
in all things, ensure this is all my salvation and all my desire,
though he make it not to grow. We've come to Jesus, the mediator
of the new covenant. and the blood of sprinkling.
Now watch this. The blood of Christ is called
the blood of sprinkling. And I'm sure there's more there
than I can get said tonight. But what I have been able to
grasp is mighty good. So listen for a minute. His blood,
like the blood of the Paschal Lamb on the Day of Atonement,
has been sprinkled yonder on the mercy seat where God said,
I'll meet you. With his own blood, he entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. Like the blood of the first Paschal
Lamb, you remember the Lord said, you sprinkle it on the two side
posts and door posts and lintel. His blood has been sprinkled
on the door of this heart. Declaring that judgment is past. Sprinkled by God Himself. Declaring
that judgment is over. Convincing me of my sin. Of Christ's
righteousness. And the judgment finished. And
the Lord God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. Sometimes I see it pretty clearly. Sometimes. Much of the time I can't see
my nose in front of my face. But my salvation and my hope
is not my apprehension of the blood, but God's. You understand that? I look to
Christ and His blood. I lean on Christ and His blood. I look away from self to Him.
But so much of the time I can't even see Him! He didn't say,
He that seeth. He said, He that looketh. Look! And look unto Me and be
you saved. All the ends of the earth. And
God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. And then
he says, this blood, a sprinkling, is blood that speaks. Speaks
better things than that of Abel. Maybe he's talking about Abel's
sacrifice, but our translation seems to give the inclination
that he's talking about Abel's blood. Abel's blood cried from
the ground for justice and vengeance. His blood cries from heaven for
justice and mercy. Abel's blood cries for punishment. Christ's blood cries for pardon.
Abel's blood spoke against his brother. Christ's blood speaks
for his brethren. Abel's blood demanded death. Christ's blood demands life. Abel's blood spoke effectually.
God cursed Cain, cursed him forever. Christ's blood speaks effectually.
For Christ's sake, God's gracious to us, gracious forever. Abel's blood cried from the ground
to God. Christ's blood cries from heaven
to God. Abel's blood cried out against Cain in his conscience. Cain's conscience tormented him. My judgment's greater than I
can bear! And he's still crying, my judgment's
greater than I can bear. For his brother's blood continually
torments him and shall forever torment him. Christ's blood speaks
for us. in our consciences and declares
forgiven. Forgiven. Abel's blood speaks yet today
and will speak forever. Christ's blood speaks yet today
and will speak forever. on our behalf. And so, my brothers
and sisters, my little children, these days write I unto you that
you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and he's
the propitiation for our sins. Amen.