Now then, this morning, if you
have your Bibles, turn back with me to the book of Hebrews, chapter
9. The book of Hebrews, chapter 9. I want to read beginning with
verse 24 and read down through verse 28. For Christ is not entered into
the holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the
true, into that earthly tabernacle it means, but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us. nor yet that he
should offer himself often as the high priest entereth into
the holy place every year with the blood of others, meaning
the blood of bulls and goats and of calves and heifers. For
then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world,
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put
away sin by the sacrifice of himself. and as it is appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ
was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that
look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation." Now as we begin this message this morning, I believe
that this is a very weighty message indeed, and I believe it to be
the Certainly the message that I would hope that in the providence
of God that everyone here not only would hear with their ears,
but they'd be able to hear with their soul. I hope this morning
that you will hear from God as we speak and that my voice will
not be the only voice that you hear this morning in this meeting. I recognize that these verses
here are presenting to us three of the presences of the Lord
Jesus, three of his appearances in the world, and one of them
in heaven, two in the earth and one in heaven, and these are
so vital, so vital. If it were not for these three
appearances, Beloved, all this religion business would be in
vain. There wouldn't be anything to it at all. It'd all be absolute
vanity if it were not for these three appearances that our Lord
here makes as they're suggested in these verses. First of all,
in verse 24, it talks about how that our Lord now is appearing
in the presence of God for us. Now we know that this took place
after our Lord was crucified. In other words, the first appearance
really is suggested to us in verse 26. The first appearance
of our Lord in this world. We know our Lord gave him a body.
He said, a body hast thou prepared me. And the Lord Jesus came into
this world not to do his own will, but the will of the Father
which sent him. He came into this world to offer
himself unto God as a lamb without spot or blemish or any such thing. And in verse 26 it says, for
then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world.
Meaning that our Lord Jesus, he was not as that priest in
the Old Testament, as the Old Testament priests, they would
enter often and they would make, enter into a holy place with
the blood of calves and bulls and goats. But Jesus only offered
himself one time. And this tells us that it was
necessary that he suffer many times from the foundation of
the world, just one time. One time our Lord Jesus Christ
was to suffer but now once in the end of the world hath he
appeared hath he appeared this was his first appearance that
he made coming into this world and The Lord Jesus Christ came
as a babe. He came in humiliation. He came
submitting himself to the will of the Father and He became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. And it tells us here
that He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself,
once in the end of the world. I believe, according to what
the Bible says in John chapter 12, when Jesus says, now this
is the hour that judgment has come to the world, right prior
to his crucifixion, and he was referring to the time of his
crucifixion, that what he was talking about, he was talking
about how that his death was the crisis of the world. How
that apart from his death, There would be absolutely no salvation,
no hope for any sinner, no hope for any son of Adam, no hope
whatsoever for anyone to miss the judgment of God and to miss
hellfire and the wrath of God for all eternity. No hope. This is the crisis of the world. And once in the end of the world,
the Lord Jesus appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. And then in verse 28 it tells
us about another appearance of our Lord. So Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Now we believe that our Lord
Jesus Christ is coming back and that he's going to come, and
that he's going to receive his people unto himself, that he's
going to raise the dead, he's going to have all that the Father
gave him, and he's going to have his people, he's going to take
them home to glory. We believe in the second coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the hope of the church.
The Bible says in Philippians chapter 3, the last verse, It
says that our citizenship is in heaven from whence we also
look for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who will change
these vile bodies and fashion them like unto his own glorious
body whereby he is able, with that power whereby he is able
to subdue all things unto himself. He that shall come will come
and will not tarry, even so come quickly, Lord Jesus. He's coming
back. We believe it with all of our
hearts. And so these are the three appearances here. Now this
message here this morning shall bring joy, I think, to any here
whose conscience is troubled with sin. I want to speak primarily
this morning upon verse 26, upon this phrase, but now once in
the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin, to
put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. If you were to be
here this morning and you were under conviction of sin, if the
Spirit of God was to have troubled your heart about your guilt,
about your sinnerhood, about the fact that you have offended
God, that you've broken His law, that you're guilty of every point
of the holy law of God. If you were to be in that state
here this morning, I believe that this message would bring
joy. It ought to bring joy. It should
bring joy to your conscience and to your troubled heart. Now,
if you're sensitive at all, to the teaching of verse 27. Look
at verse 27. And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment. If you're sensitive
to the fact that you have been appointed by God to die, and
there is a day out there in the future, it may be close by, it
may be far off, But there's a day out there that you're appointed
to die. The Bible says there's a time
for us to be born, and there is a time for us to die. We know
there's no discharge from this war. Nobody's going to get out
of here without dying. And we know that by nature, everybody
is unprepared to die. Nobody is ready to make their
exodus from this world and to stand before a holy God in the
judgment. Nobody is ready for that by nature. As you stand naked before God
without the robe of righteousness, without the shed blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ having atoned for your sin, you're not ready
to meet God. And so it says, and as it is
appointed unto men once to die, after this After this, after
you die, you're going to face God at the judgment, and you're
going to stand before God where the sheep and the goats will
be separated, and where the goats will be sent off forever, and
they'll be told, depart from me, and you never knew me. depart
from me, and they'll be set off into that place where the worm
doth not, and the fire is not quenched." Now if you can hear
the rolling thunder of the impending wrath of God this morning, then
there ought to be some joy to your soul to hear of one who
has come for the express purpose of putting sin away. Now this message is for such
as you and I, hopelessly sinful if viewed from any aspect short
of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now beloved, we're all
hopelessly sinful viewed from any other aspect except through
the shed blood and the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
beloved, if your house was on fire, you would rejoice to hear
the fire truck coming down the road because you would feel certain
that that fire truck was coming to your place. And so this morning
you listen, the news of Christ coming into this world to put
away sin sounds like, at least to those who've heard the joyful
sound with the inner ear, it sounds like the joy blast of
the silver trumpets of jubilee to those who know themselves
in truth and reality as sinners. Are you a sinner before God? Do you know yourself to be a
sinner? Oh, that today God the Holy Spirit
would make the preaching of Christ to you to be the opening of the
prison to those that are bound, to those that are shut up with
no hope, those that are shut up without any way of escape. except God through Christ would
appear to their soul and give them deliverance. Now the first
thing in the text which I think would be sure to hold spellbound
the attention of every trembling sinner is this, that Christ did
not come to deny the fact of human sin. He did not come into
this world to deny what we were in Adam and what we were in a
state of nature or to propagate a philosophy which might make
sin appear harmless and define it as a mere mistake, perhaps
a calamity, but by no means a hell-deserving crime. No, no. That was not the
reason for his coming. Our Lord Jesus Christ came down
here out of necessity. His people must be redeemed. God must be propitiated on the
part of His people. God has sent the Lord Jesus Christ
because there's no way that His people can be clean and before
God without blame except He come and represent them. Sin is a
damning thing. Sin, it will send your soul to
hell. and you'll suffer for all eternity
under God's wrath because of sin. And this is no superfluity. The Lord Jesus came out of necessity. He didn't come in any way to
deny the fact of your sin or make it appear that you're not
in the trouble that you think you are. No sir, my friend, you
are in trouble. You are indeed in trouble. And
the Lord Jesus Christ has come to put away sin. Sin is our problem. Sin is the problem of the ages. Sin is the problem of the sons
of Adam. Sin That sin which was passed
on to us through the disobedience of Adam, that original sin, and
this sin will damn us as we said. No, He did not come to help you
forget your sin. He did not mean that you'd forget
your sin. Even after He saves you, He will
put such a spirit in your heart that you will loathe yourself
the rest of your life. and you will never ever be able
to forget your sin. You'll always remember that they
were put away. They were put away, but they
had to be put away because they were so obnoxious in the nostrils
of a holy God, the stench was so terrible, they had to be put
away so that not even God could see them anymore, so that they
were blotted out, so that they were put away, so as they would
never be remembered by God anymore. Not to lull you into a false
peace, but to give real deliverance from sin by putting it away,
and to bring a true peace between you and God. For if sin be not
put away, beloved, peace is unlawful. God cannot give you peace until
your sin is entirely put away. Now we preach through Jesus Christ
a real cure. We preach a sure and certain
deliverance from all the danger that now hangs over us due to
our sin. He came to put away sin. Now I want you to notice that
putting away sin this morning, what it means. What does it mean
for him to come in the end of the world and he's appeared to
put away sin. What does that mean? Well, this
is what it means to me. This phrase in the English version
of our Bible is used in reference to an unfaithful wife when she
was put away. Her husband gave her a bill of
divorcement and she was no longer his. Until that divorcement was
made, she was his lawful wife, bone of his bone, flesh of his
flesh, and under the law, they were regarded as one before God. But as soon as a lawful divorce
was given, she had no relation to him anymore than any other
woman had to that man. She was divorced. Now sin, before
Christ came into the world, as it were, was married to every
one of us. It pollutes us. For its filthiness,
we are responsible. We have committed it. It is linked
to us. It is our sin. And it must be
ours, and we must own it as our own. As it were, it's bone of
our bone, and flesh of our flesh, and we're one with it. But oh,
the blessedness of the fact that Christ has proclaimed an everlasting
divorce between our souls and our sins. He's put them away
so that their dread and responsibility lies no longer upon us. Isn't that wonderful? Well, our
sins are no longer ours anymore than a woman is a man's wife
after she is divorced. So now let us look a little bit
at this putting away. It's a very hard thing to put
away sin, and I want to impress this upon your mind, because
as I said, this is the most important thing that we have to deal with
in this life, and apart from the understanding of this, all
that you've been through before, and all that you ever will go
through in the future in regards to religion is absolutely empty
and vain. Now you hear me carefully because
this, don't take it for granted that I'll be back here preaching
this next Sunday morning because I may not. Don't take it for
granted you'll ever be in another church service. Don't take it
for granted. We're in the habit of taking
people and things for granted, and we better not do it. We better
get sober before the Lord. Now let me point this out. It's
a very hard thing to put away sin. All the Jewish sacrifices
could not do it. All of the sacrifices made by
those high priests entered in, they entered in into that tabernacle,
and they brought the blood of bulls and goats, and they were
very costly sometimes. Thousands of bullocks were slaughtered,
and after one day of atonement, they needed another one next
year. It would not put away sin. If sin had been put away, then
there would have never been That would have been an end of the
offerings, don't you see? But sin was not put away. They
had to keep coming back and keep doing it over and over. There
is an end of pain, beloved, when the debt is fully discharged. But the debt was never fully
discharged under the Jewish dispensation. And there's an end of punishment
when the penalty is fulfilled. When the penalty is fulfilled,
then that's the end of punishment. Now if Christ put away my sin,
then I shall never be punished for my sin. And so is it with
you. There is an end of propitiation
when God is satisfied. when God is satisfied, but he
was never satisfied with the blood of bulls and goats. He
was never satisfied with any sacrifice that they could make,
that they could come with. That's why David said, Thou desirest
not sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou delightest not in burnt
offerings. You're not satisfied with these
things. So let me say further, that no
form of suffering in this world can put away sin. I'm talking
about the fact that sin is hard to put away. All the Jewish sacrifices,
regardless of how valuable they were, could not put away sin.
And this is true, that no form of suffering in this world can
put away sin. You think that you're suffering
for your sin, don't you? Oh, you've got some trouble.
You've got a little calamity. You're in trouble. You've got
some debts that you've got to pay. You have a situation that
you feel that it's punishment for your sin, that God is singling
you out, and that he's making you a butt for his errors, and
that he's punishing you. My friend, it's not so. And you
won't be dead five minutes before you find out that you did not
suffer for your sin in this world. You did not. You're going to
a place, my friend, where the smoke of men's torment ascendeth
up forever and ever. And there's no rest neither day
or night. You're going to an awful place
where God exacts from sinners for all eternity. the full responsibility
of every sin that they ever committed. You're going off to a devil's
hell and there's no form of suffering in this world that can ever put
away your sin. Even if you get sick with some
dreadful disease and languish for months and weeks and hours
and on end you will never pay for your sin. Now then could
your tears, the hymn writer said, forever flow. Could your grief
no respite know? All for sin could not atone. Christ must save, and Christ
alone. Furthermore, might I say that
you might be as poor as Lazarus, but that would not atone for
your sin. I know the poor have the gospel
preached to them, and it may be that more of the poor are
chosen in God's divine decree and election than what the other,
the rich of the world, are concerned. But I want you to understand
this morning that you could suffer as much as old Job, You could
suffer as much as Job did. You know, he said, I abhor myself
in dust and ashes. You can be without like old Lazarus. You can suffer in this world.
But no, no, that will not atone for your sin. Sin cannot be put
away by such suffering and by poverty in this world. Next,
I want to say that can any form of self-denial However terrible
it might be, put away sin. Now we, many, many times, you
know, I know in some religions they take great stock in self-denial. They have certain periods of
time where they will deny themselves. There are certain meats that
they will not eat. There are other situations that
they involve themselves in that are very painful. Some religions. But beloved, there is no form
of self-denial, however terrible it might be, that's going to
put away sin. Micah chapter 6. And verse 6
and 7 says, wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow myself
before the high God? Shall I come before him with
burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Verse 7, will
the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, over ten thousands of
rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for
my transgressions, the fruit of my body for the sin? of my soul. Don't you see, beloved,
that the writer here in this scripture makes it clear that
there's no form of self-sacrifice, no form of denial of ourselves
that God is going to pay any attention to in regards to the
putting away of our sin. And so do not have any confidence
in any sort of religious teaching that says that if you suffer
enough, and if you give enough, if you deny yourself enough,
that God is going to have mercy on you and put away your sin.
It may further impress your mind for me to say that holy living
from this day forth cannot put away sin. Holy living from this
day forth cannot put away sin. Now I read one time of a Jewish
rabbi and of course he was acquainted with the law of Moses, very well
acquainted with the law of Moses. And he was giving a lecture on
holy living, living according to the Ten Commandments, living
according to the Decalogue. Men and women need to bow to
the rule of the Ten Commandments. And it was a good lecture, and
many heard it, was impressed by it. But there was an old Christian
there, and he came up to the is everyone that continueth not
in all things that are every jot and tittle of it but
that you have lived part of your life and you're guilty of I'm going to do everything just
like I ought to do, but what are you going to do about the
curse that is already on you? put away, and you can't put it
away by doing good, being good from here on out. You can't do
it. It will not work. No, it won't. And I want to make
that crystal clear. People ought to have integrity. God's people ought to respond
and say amen to everything the word of God says, including the
law of Moses. They ought to say amen to it.
You better have a right understanding of what the law's purpose was. It was not to justify. It was
not to save. It was not to be a rule of life.
It was to condemn our souls and to bring us unto the Lord Jesus
Christ. That is the purpose of the law. And if you lose sight of that,
you've missed it all. The law can only damn you, it
cannot save you. Because you've broken it, and
if you break one point of it, you're guilty of all of it. How
many times have we said that? But my friend, holy living from
this time forth will not put away sin. I'm talking about how
hard it is for sin to be put away. Next, not even your death
can put away sin. Not even your death. You say,
well, I thought that when I died, that'd be the end of it. Surely,
the Lord wouldn't exact any more from me than just me dying. Looks
like when I die, that put away my sin. Well, death puts away
a great deal. It really does. But death never
kills a single person. Never does. Sin is immortal until
the immortal Christ comes to deal with it. You remember that.
Sin is immortal until the immortal Christ comes to put it away. Death cannot put away sin. The
rich man died, the Bible says, and was buried, but no sin of
his was buried with him. For the Bible says in hell he
lifted up his eyes and his sins were there to torture and torment
him and to condemn him for all eternity. It did not put away
his sin. He died and was buried, but his
sin was right there to torment him for all eternity. Now this,
I think, will shock you a little bit. Possibly some of you have
not read the Bible very much, and you're not acquainted with
these truths. But I want to say this also, that hell itself cannot
put away sin. Hell itself. You die and go to
hell. That's not going to put away your sin. Your sin will
never be put away in hell. All the lost who died in the
flood of Noah's day, do you know this? All of those who perished
in that flood, trying to swim to the ark, trying to knock and
beat on the door, open, open, open the door to us! All of them
perished in the flood, and there are sinners still to this very
day. And after all the ages of suffering
that they have endured, not one sin less of theirs has been put
away. Not one sin less is upon them. All of their sins is still upon
them. And if you die and go to hell,
your sin will never, never be put away in hell. And if you
die and I say go to hell, through ages on ages may lapse. and the wrath of God be poured
out upon us to the uttermost, there'll never be the destruction
of a single solitary sin or a particle of a sin by at all. Isn't that very sobering? Isn't that sobering? That those
who have died all the way back That every one of them that died
and went to hell, not one particle of their sin has ever been put
away by all of their suffering. Do you believe that men die who
die in their sin? That they're lost? Do you believe
that? Do you believe that men and women who die in their sin,
that they go to hell? Do you believe that? Do you believe
what the Bible teaches about hell and God's judgment and God's
wrath? Do you believe it? Well, I'm
here to tell you today that everybody who dies outside of Christ and
goes to hell, they'll never pay for their sin. Not any of it
will ever be put away. Sin cannot be put away until
the penalty of that sin is borne to the end, and that never can
be done by finite man, wherever you find him, wherever he is,
in this life or in the life to come. It cannot be put away,
I say, by finite man. Now isn't that, doesn't that
put us in a fix? Does it not? That finite man
can never put away sin. Wherever you find him, don't
make any difference. Once he's sinned, he can never,
never rid himself of it and the guilt of it. That sobers my soul,
my friend. In this life or in hell, no man
can put away his sin. Well, what a work he did. What a work he did, the God-man,
the Christ of God. What a work he did. My friend,
our monster sins, our horrible sins, our damnable sins. There
was a difficulty indeed in putting away these sins, but Christ did
it. He put them away. A divorce is what it took. That's what it took. He had to
come and divorce us from our sin, put them away. Christ has
put away the sin of all of his people, and it's a fact of Scripture. As a debt is annihilated when
it is paid, so the debts that we owe to the justice of God
were abrogated, they were annihilated, and ceased to be because Jesus
Christ to the utmost farthing paid whatever his people owed. Now, if you be one of these sheep
of Christ, then he's put away all your sin. All of it, in all
respects, he's put away your sin. Before God, you're as accepted
as if you were innocent. You're even regarded as if you
were something more than innocent, namely, actively righteous in
the Lord Jesus. Your sin, if you're in Christ,
is so put away that now you are deprived of nothing that sin
deprives men of. You're deprived of nothing that
sin deprived you of before, if you're in Christ. Well, you have
access to God in prayer. Sin once prohibited that. You
say, Preacher, don't you believe anybody can pray? Anybody can
pray. But that don't mean they're heard.
I'm here to tell you this morning that if you pray and you're an
unforgiven sinner, and if Christ hadn't put away your sin, God
will not hear your prayer, except the Mediator, the God-man, takes
your prayer into the presence of the Thrice-Holy God and presents
that prayer there, and unless the fragrance of His merit and
righteousness perfumes your prayers, God, Father will never hear your
prayers. You are prohibited from coming
into having access with God except through the blood. We are brought
nigh by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Brought nigh by
the blood. And then there's a new and living
way that's open, and that's through the renting of the veil of his
flesh. Through his death, there's been
a way open for us to have access to God. And prior to that, we
were prohibited by our sins. And you enjoy the favor of God,
the nearness to God, a relationship with God, even as if you had
never fallen, and even as if you had no part whatsoever in
original sin. You have access, relationship,
nearness to God, favor with God, just like you had no part with
Adam when he fell in the Garden of Eden. Now that's what I'm
talking about. You see, this is what it means
for our sin to be put away. When sin was put away, all the
effects of sin and detriment and loss to us before God were
virtually put away from us. If you and I are saved, if you
and I are pardoned, if you and I are redeemed, then we're so
saved, we're so pardoned, we're so redeemed that none can ever
condemn us in time or eternity. None can lay anything to our
charge. It is Christ that died and put
away our sin. Oh, the bliss of this. Well,
how did he do it? It was by, the scripture says,
the sacrifice of himself. the sacrifice of himself. Now
in the 10th chapter we read where the Lord Jesus Christ, that he
presented himself unto the Lord, says in verse 14, for one offering
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. And it tells
us in this chapter here, I'm not sure that I'm going to lay
hold of the verse right quick, Well, in verse 12, but this man
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on
the right hand of God, but there's still another verse here that
I wanted to mention, and that is that he offered himself without
spot unto God. He offered himself himself. The scripture says this man must
have somewhat to offer. Well what did he offer? He offered
himself. He was that lamb without spot
or blemish or any such thing. It was by the sacrifice of himself. He died. The death which God
had stipulated should stand as an equivalent for the sufferings
of all the guilty ones for whom he stood. In other words, brother,
sister, he went to hell for us. Now that's what it means. He
and his body went to hell for us. Substitution. Him standing
in our room, our stead, our place, is the very pith and mera of
the revelation of God. It's the pith and mera of the
Bible, of the teaching of the Bible. Substitution. Christ standing
in the stead of his people. Christ being the representative
of his people, both in life and in death. and in resurrection,
and in his ascension at the right hand of the Father. The Lord
Jesus Christ stood in the place of the sinner and was made a
bloody sacrifice for sin. 1 Peter 3 and 18, For Christ
also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that
he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit. Sin was not put away by the offering
of his works, Sin was not put away by the incense of his prayers,
nor by the oblation of his tears, nor even by the presentation
of his pains and groans before God that took place on Calvary. Sin was not put away but by the
sacrifice of himself, the laying down of his life. Listen to what
John Gill, how he says this. He said, the Lord Jesus Christ
gave up for you his human body and soul and spirit all that
constituted himself was given up freely to the death that the
punishment due our sin might be borne to the full. Is that not plain? Is that not
clear? Oh my friend, when we get thinking
about giving up giving up some things, sacrificing some things
as believers. We ought to think back on this,
that Jesus Christ gave himself freely to the death, that he
gave up his human body, his soul and spirit in order that we might
miss hell and that our sins might be put away. Well, bless the
Lord, my soul can on this doctrine live and can on this doctrine
die. Is that right? Is that not true? Amen? On this doctrine we can
live. I mean this sells all of it. If my sin is put away, it's settled. I don't have anything to fear
in the time to come. I don't have anything to fear
in death. I don't have anything to fear in the judgment. Nothing
to fear if my sin has thus been put away. Has your sin been put
away? That's the question. Well, sprinkle
now with blood the throne Why, beneath thy burdens grown, on
my purest body laid, justice owns the ransom paid? Bow the
knee and kiss the sun, and come and welcome, sinner, come. True
belief and true repentance, every grace that brings us nigh, without
money, come to Jesus Christ and buy. He hath appeared to put
away sin, might I say finally, totally, might I say also, eternally. Is that all right? He come to
put away sin, finally, totally, eternally. How blessed! Bless
the Savior, bless Savior at thy feet, here to receive a cure
or die. But grace forbids that painful
fear, almighty grace which triumphs here. Isn't that wonderful? That
we have received a cure. A cure. Praise the Lord, we've
been cured. Hallelujah, we've been cured.
We've been cured. Now beloved, I want to say in
the last place, I'm going to close this message out, the only
test as to whether Christ put your sins away is this. Now you
listen to me carefully. The only test as to whether Christ
has put your sins away is this. Are you done with trying to put
your own sin away? Are you done with it? You say, well, preacher, you
know, I always felt, I always heard that you need to work on
this thing. I always heard that there was something that, I mean,
we just, we just gotta, I mean, I always felt we needed to make
a contribution, do something, put it away. Well, if you're
done with trying to put away your sins, I believe it's because
you understand what this preacher's been talking about here today.
I believe it's because you understand it. And you say, well, I'm not
in the business of putting away sin. I can't do it. I can't do
it. Nobody else can do it. Not a
man. Not a finite man. Can't do it.
Can't put away sin. And I'm out of the business.
I put my shingle up. I put on clothes. I put no activity
here. Nothing going on here except
praise to the one who put away my sin. I'm done with putting
it away. I'm just spending my time rejoicing
and praising God and trying to live to the glory of Him that
put it away. That's what I'm about. Now the
second thing is this. Are you willing that He should
have the whole? The soul? an entire glory of
putting away sin. Are you willing, are you willing
that he should have all the glory, all the praise? Are you willing
that your song be of him and what he's done? Your testimony
to be of him and of his accomplishment. That the worship of your heart
be unto him. who loved us and gave himself
for us. Are you willing that he should
have all of the glory, all of the praise? Well, that's what
we're about around here. That's why we sing the songs
that we sing. That's why Mike picks out the
songs that he picks out and leads us in. That's why we read the
Word of God. That's what this is all about.
It's about praise unto Him who loved us and gave Himself for
us. Praise to Him. All right? Can
you now trust Him with your whole heart to put your sin away? Can you now trust Him? Young
man, young lady, can you now trust Him to put your sin away? You older folks, that's here
in the Word of God, you middle-aged people, Can you trust Him to
put away your sin? Can you do it? He's done it on
the Baptist people. And He said in verse 28, So Christ
was once offered to bear the sins of many. Somebody's sins
He has borne. Somebody's sins are put away.
Can you trust Him to put yours away? To put them away? That they never be remembered
again? Oh, wouldn't you like to start over again? Wouldn't
you just like to have a slate clean? Wouldn't you like for
this thing to be settled? Well, hear me out. He bore the
sins of many. And can you trust Him with your
whole heart to put your sins away? Now let me say this, and
I believe it with all my heart. There never was a man or a woman
or a boy or a girl, yet, who gave up confidence in everything
but Christ. and did rely wholly on Christ,
but who had in that fact an assurance that Jesus Christ loved them
and gave himself for them." Now that is a true statement. If
you can come to the place where you give up all confidence in
everything but Christ, everything but Christ. Just picture yourself
drowning in a lake someplace. And there's one person, and you're
done, you're finished, all the way. And here's an individual
that shows up, right at the very last, you're getting ready to
go down for the last time. And he grabs you by your shirt collar,
and he rescues you. Now you give up everything, you
know it's all over with and done, but that one, your rescuer, you've
got confidence in him. and you believe He's going to
take you to the shore. That's what this is about, my friend.
You give up confidence in everything else and you cooperate. That's a bad word. But you submit
yourself. That's a better word. And you
bow to Him and you reverence Him and you obey Him and serve
Him. You bow to His Lordship the rest
of your life. The poet said, Oh, how sweet
to view the flowing of our Savior's precious blood with divine assurance
knowing He has made our peace with God. Sin is gone, gone forever. Go believer and rejoice therein. Rejoice therein. A believer of
one minute, a believer of one hour, a believer of one week,
a believer of one month, a believer of one year, Go and rejoice therein. Sin is gone. Gone forever. Father, in the name of Jesus,
bless this message and use it so simple, so plain, but yet
so profound and yet so needful. Father, I pray that you will
open hearts. I believe in my heart. I believed
in my heart when I came here this morning that you was going
to work, that you were going to do something in the heart
of someone here today. And I pray that we may hear rejoicing
and that maybe the angels would begin to sing in heaven over
one sinner that comes into the fold today. Thy will be done,
O Lord. Thy will be done. And Lord, on
the behalf of those who must fly this afternoon back home
to Indiana, bless Dave and Jessica. Thank you, Lord, for their visit.
Thank you for their songs. And we just ask that you'll be
with them and give them a safe trip home. We thank you for blessing
Grace and Justin with safety that they arrived home safely.
May your blessing rest upon us all. May we continue on. May
we be faithful and look to you. We pray it in Jesus' name. Amen.