A text is found in Hebrews chapter
four again. Hebrews chapter four. There's many things that the
Lord gives. His people. When he reveals himself, he gives
faith. He gives repentance. He shows
mercy. And there's one thing for certain
that we all have in common, if we're the Lord's, he will chasten
us. He said that, he'll chasten us.
Now, how does he chasten us? Well, he causes us to be established
with his grace. He makes us dependent upon his
grace. How does he do that? He does
it by trials. tribulations, afflictions, frustrations, but he's going
to cause us to be established with grace. And that's the wording
that's found in this text. And that's what I've titled the
message established with grace. I've been bought by the precious
blood of Christ. I will be taught of God and I
will be established with his grace. Let's read this. Hebrews 13, one verse, verse
nine. Be not carried about with diverse
and strange doctrines, for it is a good thing that the heart
be established with grace, not with meats, which have not profited
them that have been occupied therein. What does it mean to
be established with grace? He doesn't say established in
grace. He says established with grace. Grace is something that the Lord
uses to establish his people. Something that the Lord uses.
It's a tool that comes from him. He establishes with grace. Establish here means to confirm. Confirm or make firm. Confidence,
give you confidence. Confidence in what? Self? No,
grace teaches us that denying all ungodliness and worldly lust,
we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present evil
world. How do you do that? Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of faith. That's how. We are established
with grace. If we're merely persuaded by
man, we'll never be established. We'll never be established. We
will be blown as the chaft is blown from the wheat. We'll be
tossed about. We'll be conflicted on every
front. We'll be a double-minded man.
We'll think the law is part of the reason or part of the solution
to our sin. And grace is grace, but you have
to do this also. That's a double-minded man. But
if you're established in grace, you're established with grace,
that means grace is your only hope in your salvation. You are saved by grace through
faith, faith bestowed, in that not of yourself, you didn't produce
it, you didn't earn it, you didn't gain it, you didn't even try
to reach it, couldn't have if you wanted to. It is not of works,
lest any man should boast. You're saved by grace. Being
established with grace teaches us And who is our instructor? If God is our instructor and
the Holy Spirit is our teacher, we're going to learn. And the
Lord said, they'll all be taught of me. We're his children. He's
going to teach his children, just like you teach your children
or your grandchildren. We teach, don't we? We say, don't
do that. And sometimes they do it anyways.
And sometimes we do it, don't we? Lord's clear on some things,
don't do that, and we do it, and it's like, I'll throw my
hands up, Lord, you're gonna have to save me again. I've put
my foot in my mouth again, I've done this again, I've done that
again, save me, Lord. To be established with grace
means you have a foundation. Your foundation is not in your
works, it's not in what you've done, not in what you're doing
or not doing. Your foundation is in the finished
work of Christ Jesus alone. Your foundation doesn't rest
in your flesh. The foundation rests in the body
broken of the Lord Jesus Christ, the bloodshed of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We're gonna partake of the Lord's
table this morning. And that's what that represents, isn't it?
His body broken and his bloodshed. And that it's only received by
grace. It's not received by choice. You receive something, that's
passive. It's not a work. It's not a work. Accepting or rejecting, that's
a work. I'm gonna reject this or I'm
going to accept this. No receiving. The Lord says,
yeah, I can put it to you this way. You remember being a baby
in the womb? Of course not, but you received life, didn't you?
What'd you do to deserve that or earn that? What did we do
at that point to have any part of that? What about when we were
born? Well, we were born. Did we do
anything to, uh, we, we made a, uh, we were a problem when
we came out, but I mean, we didn't really contribute to the birth
in of bringing ourself out. Did we? Why is that? That was
the mother's job. That's the doctor's job. And
it's the same in salvation. Somebody said, well, what came
first, faith or life? Well, what came first, the baby
living or the baby breathing? It's simultaneous. The baby doesn't,
I mean, if the baby, it breathes because it is alive, doesn't
it? That's faith. Faith just believes God because we are alive. No, being established by grace
means, being established with grace means that I no longer
look to myself in any way, shape, or form as any part of my salvation
or acceptance before God. but I am established with grace.
Grace is my only hope, the grace that's found in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Being established with grace
means that we don't lean to the left, nor turn to the right. We looked at a preview, Proverbs.
You remember us going through Proverbs and the path that you
walk? It said, ponder your feet. It didn't say look to your feet,
did it? It said, ponder your feet. Ponder your feet. Don't
go to the right hand. Don't go to the left hand, look
right on. Look straight ahead. What are we looking to? The singular
source of salvation. The singular successful redeemer.
The singular sovereign. The singular sovereign God of
the universe. The Lord Jesus Christ. That's
who we look to. What do we look to him for? Everything
pertaining to eternal life. Everything pertaining to life
and immortality, everything pertaining to what God has said. This is my beloved son whom I'm
well pleased. We look to him because he's well
pleased of his son. We no longer look to ourself.
And if the Lord gives us the ability to not look to ourself
as part of our salvation, do you know why? Grace, that's why. Grace, it's not something we
earn, it's not something we merit, it's not something we choose.
Salvation's a choice, it's just not mine and your choice, it's
God's. And if we look to the Lord Jesus Christ, it's because
he's given us the grace to do so. Otherwise, I'm gonna look
to these hands that can do nothing but corrupt whatever it touches. Whatever it touches, not his
hands. Not his hands. Can you think about that just
for a minute? Everything we touch, we defile. This is, it's defiled
now. But everything he touched, he
made holy. That's why whenever he touched,
or the woman with the issue of blood came to him, if I could
just touch the hem of his garment, I know I'll be made whole. How
do you know that? Because everything that he touches or that touches
him is made holy. It's made good. And when she
touched him, what happened? He stopped in a crowd of people
and said, somebody's touched me. And there's a bunch of people
around the disciples like, well, yeah, Lord, there's a bunch of
people around you. I'm sure you've been bumped into.
He said, no, you don't understand. Virtue has went out for me. Somebody touched me by faith.
Somebody touched me by faith. They've been given faith to believe.
And the Lord made her confess, didn't he? And that's exactly
what he does to you and I when he gives us faith to believe,
he gives us repentance and we confess. And what is it we confess?
Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Jesus Christ
is all in salvation. It's not what I did, it's what
he's done. It's what he's done. All our hope will be in a singular
place. Lord Jesus Christ alone. That is what it means to be,
that's exactly what he's talking about here, established with
grace. But the contrary of that, if
a man teaches you, if it's not God that's your teacher, if a
man can talk you into something, another man can talk you out
of it. I think that was Greg Elmquist that taught me that.
If a man can teach you something, another man can talk you out
of it, convince you. You ever been to a, car salesman
is what came to my mind. You ever had it on your mind,
the kind of car you're going to get? And you show up, and
they said, oh, but you've got to check out this new model over here,
man. It's got all the bells and whistles. And you're starting
to look at it. You're like, all right, yeah, I kind of like that. And then
maybe you go somewhere else. He says, no, you don't want that
type of car. I'm intentionally not naming models and brands. It's irrelevant here. You get
the picture. But you go to another place, like, no, you need this
one. You're like, but that's $5,000 more than the other one.
Why do I need this one? It has heated seats. It has this. It has that. So now you're being
talked into this. You end up buying a car and you like it
for a little bit while, but it'll lose its luster. It doesn't matter
if the car is going to decay like everything else or everything
around us is dying. Everything else is going back. It's just
all going to be destroyed one day, but everything around us
is just rotting because of sin, isn't it? Everything, even ourselves,
we're just rotting because of sin real slow. What's my point? My point is, is if a man can
talk you into something, somebody can talk you out of it. Eventually,
one day, somebody's going to look at you and say, man, you
think you need a new car? You had that new car that you bought
years ago, but now it's not its prime anymore, and there's something
newer and shinier out there. And this one's got all kinds
of problems. It don't start like it used to. It'll leave you stranded
sometimes. The check engine light's on. All kinds of problems. Your
buddy's like, I think it's time for you to get another car. Well,
that man just talked you into something else, didn't he? It's the same
when it comes. to spiritual things. If a man
can talk you into something that they call spiritual, even though
they're dead and trespasses and in sin and really don't know
who God is, if they can convince you that if you'll just pray
this prayer, you'll be saved. Another man can say, okay, but
you actually have to do this also in order to be saved. And
somebody else will say, well, you have to do this as well.
I knew somebody that they kept converting from different religion
to different religion to different religion. They said, I'm pretty
sure I've done about all of them now. That's what he told me.
I'm pretty sure I've done about all of them. I'm positive I'm going to heaven
now. I said, what are you looking to as your righteousness? And
he says, well, I'm looking to the Lord for my righteousness.
I said, why did you do all these things then? Well, I just wanted
to make sure. Then you're not looking to the
Lord for your righteousness. No, if I'm looking to what I
do, I have not been established with grace. I have not been established
with grace. If I'm looking to anything that
I've done in my life or anything I haven't done, that was the
other side of the coin. People are always like, well,
I've never done that. I know the Lord's pleased with
me, but I've never done that. Oh, we're so much worse than
we think we are. Did you know that? The Lord said this. You hate your brother without
a cause. You're a murderer. That's his
standard. You ever hated somebody before?
That's what the Lord says. Guilty of being a murderer. What
about when the Lord said, if a man look upon a woman to lust
after her, he's already committed adultery in his heart. And the
Lord looks at the heart. He said, you're guilty. Why?
You just looked. That's the Lord's standard. What's
my point? We're so much worse than we think we are. There's
none good but God. There's none good. There's not
a little bit of goodness in me. You ever heard, there's a little
bit of good in everybody? No, there's not. There's none
good but God. God is good. And there's none
good but his darling son. Unless we are found in Christ,
unless we were there when he died in Christ Jesus as our substitute
surety, we have no hope of eternal life. But if we were there, the
Lord will establish us with his grace. And we will look to Christ
alone as all of our righteousness before God. If you're taught of God, he gives
you repentance and completely forever changes your mind about
who he is and who you are. Nebuchadnezzar thought a whole
lot about himself. He thought really high about
himself. He made a 60-foot statue. It had his face on it. We know
Scripture doesn't exactly say that, but you know it did. Why
else would he want everybody to worship it? He was his own
god. He said, when you hear the sound of the music, fall down
and worship this, and anybody that doesn't will be cast into
the fiery furnace. I find that interesting because he didn't
just start out by saying, okay, everybody just fall down and
worship this. He actually was like, if you don't worship this,
you're going to die, starting out with that. I mean, you talk
about self-worship, that's what that is, to a T. Anyways, you
know the account, the Hebrew men, they wouldn't do it. Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, they were like, no, we're not gonna bow,
be it known unto the old king, We are not careful to answer
you in this. That's what they said. We're not careful to answer
you. Our God is able to deliver us
out of your hand. But if he doesn't, he's still
God and you're not. Well, that made the king even
more mad and he heated the fire seven times. Why'd he do that?
Because it's a picture of the wrath of God that fell upon the
Lord Jesus Christ. Perfect judgment of Christ that
fell upon God's son and upon his people that were in Christ.
But, It could not touch them, why? They were in Christ. And the Hebrew men came out of
the furnace and never even had the smell of smoke. Never even
had the smell of smoke. What's the point? Well, Nebuchadnezzar
thought really highly of himself. And then after he saw that amazing
event, he said, well, there's no God like this God. This God,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, he's God, I'm convinced. And
then just a chapter or two later, he goes out there and says, is
this not great Babylon, which I have created for my own glory
and honor? Lord didn't give him saving grace right then. Lord
left him to himself still. He got to see something miraculous.
And that's what happens in all the churches in the area. A lot
of churches do this. Something miraculous happened.
They call it salvation, but they never see who God is. Never see
him. When did he see God? When God
stripped him of everything and put him on the ground on his
face. And he ate grass like cattle, the scripture says. And he grew
his hair like eagle feathers. And for seven years he did that.
And in the seventh year, Lord opened up his eyes again and
he says, I'm not God, he's God. And He can do with whosoever
He will, whensoever He will, howsoever He will, with whatever
means He will. I'm not God, He is. And all the
nations of the earth are counted nothing to Him. They're a drop
in the bucket. They're nothing to Him. He's
God. He's God. That's what it means
to be God. established with grace. He was
established with grace that day. He said, I will praise. He never
said this before. He said, I will praise and extol
the God of heaven. Not myself anymore. Not myself. If you're established with grace,
you're not looking to yourself. You're looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ and his finished work. Otherwise we'll be like the Pharisees.
You know what the Lord told the Pharisees? You will not come
to me that you might have eternal life. You will not. Why? He said,
you're not my sheep. You're of your father, the devil.
My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I
give unto them eternal life. That's what he told them. You
will not come to me that you have eternal life. Then he told them in another
place, he said, search the scriptures for in them you think you have
eternal life. But they are they which speak of me. They speak
of me. They're not just stories and
ceremonies and things that you are supposed to conduct so you
can see evidence of salvation. It all points to me, the Lord
Jesus Christ. They were talking to God, and
I shudder at this thought. They were talking to God face
to face and could not see him. Could not see him. Lord, don't
leave us blind. Let us see your face. Let us
know you in the free pardon of sin wrought on Calvary by your
own blood. Let us believe you. Teach us
your grace. Establish us with your grace.
Unless he chooses to, he'll remain hidden. What does grace teach us? What
is being established with grace teach us? It teaches us that
all of our acceptance with God is found in Jesus Christ alone,
his righteousness, found in his blood alone. And it's all by
grace alone. Our only hope is when he died,
we died in him. Now the writer contrasts eating
here and with established with grace. And I want us to notice
that be not carried about verse nine, be not carried about with
a diverse and strange doctrines for it is good thing that the
heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not
profited them that have been occupied therein. Now he's referring
back to the law and the ceremonies of the sacrifices that took place.
The people that would offer the sacrifice would then eat and
partake. They had to eat it whole, remember? They couldn't leave
any behind. It all had to be consumed. It's a picture as either
you get all of Christ or you get none of Christ. That's what
that's a picture of. You have to consume the whole lamb. You had
to consume the whole lamb. Nothing was left. And that which
could physically not be eaten had to be burned with fire. If
it physically couldn't be, and you understand there's things
you can't eat out of an animal. But they had to eat it, they
had to consume it. So he's saying right here, It's good that the
heart be established with grace, not with the meats that they
formerly did. It's not what you're eating and
it's not what you're drinking. It's not what you're not doing
or you are doing. It's not about ceremonies. It's
not about morality. It's not about treating people
nicely or good. It's about Christ establishing
us by his grace that he is all in salvation. That's what he's
saying right here. Don't run to the law thinking
that you'll have righteousness. Don't try to keep a ceremony.
In doing so, in any way that I just said, in doing so, it's
the same as literally, as literally, killing a lamb right now and
offering it up to God. That's what it would be like.
That's how the Lord views it. That's why it's so blasphemous
to run to the law. That's why it's so blasphemous
to try to live a life that's pleasing unto God as part of
your salvation. That's it. These doctrines, brethren, he
says, don't be cared about with diverse and strange doctrines.
He was dealing with the Hebrews and he's established this abundantly.
He says, don't go to Mount Zion or don't go to Sinai, run to
Zion, flee to Zion. Don't go to the law, flee to
Christ. It's a contrast. Don't go to works. It's by grace
alone. By grace are you safe through
faith. Now these false preachers that
he mentions here, they establish their false gospel by saying,
it is all of grace. I could take you to many churches
that I've been to that will actually say those words, salvation's
all by grace. But then something along the
line, they say, but you have to do this. And that negates
the word grace altogether. It negates the word grace. Salvation
is by grace alone, or there's no such thing as salvation. We have to be saved by grace.
That's all there is to it. We can't be saved. This is what
the writer's referring to, mixing law with grace. And he's telling
us, he's confirming to us. that all these Old Testament
sacrifices, it did not profit them that had been occupied therein.
That means it didn't save them. Not one sin was put away in the
Old Testament. Not one sin. They were able to
worship God looking to Christ by what they physically did.
And we are now worshiping God by looking to Christ by what
we're physically doing. But he's getting all the glory
in this. He is the sacrifice. He is the altar. We'll see that
next week. That's the next verse. He is
the altar. He is the high priest. He is
the tabernacle. He is everything. And yet, how
many people came and offered those sacrifices and did not
see that? We wouldn't have saw it either
unless the Lord revealed it. But the difference between these
old sacrifices, these animals, and our Lord, it says, This man,
who being the brightness of God's glory and the express image of
his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, he sat down on the
right hand of the majesty on high. He accomplished that which
he purposed to do. He sat down. He sat down. So what do we eat? Gotta eat. He says you need to be established
with grace. So what is it we feast on? We
feast on the lamb by faith. We eat by faith, not physically. Whenever we partake of this,
the only reason we're using this little piece of bread and this
little bit of wine is because it's a representation of what
the Lord taught the disciples. We're confessing his entire body.
We're confessing all of his blood. That's what it represents. We
don't need a whole bunch of it in order to confess that. That's
the whole point. And that's what Corinthians were dealing with.
They were becoming gluttonous over it, thought that it was, and
it was part of, I think it was part of their righteousness.
They thought, well, the more we eat of this, the more holier we are.
No, he said, don't you have houses to eat in? No, we eat what we
eat here. This little ordinance, it's not
a little ordinance. I'm gonna have to retract that
statement. The ordinance, the precious ordinance that God gave
us to confess Jesus Christ alone. And if we ever take it for anything
other than that, we're taking it unworthily. It's a confession.
It's a confession that Jesus Christ successfully redeemed
his people, put away their sin and sat down and is now the intercessor
for those people. This is who we feast upon, the
bread of life. We drink from the fountain of
living water. We confess when he died, we died. That's our
only hope, isn't it? I was gonna have us turn, but,
well, yeah, turn to Colossians chapter two. Hold your place
here. Look at verse 20. He's dealing
with the same issue here about mixing law with grace. It's the
same thing. Either we, and it gave us the
two contrasts there, either we are established with grace or
we are still partaking in the meat of the Old Testament which
didn't profit anything. That's the same thought here. So chapter two, verse 20 says,
wherefore if ye be with Christ from the rudiments, wherefore
if ye be dead, with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why
as though living in the world are you subject to ordinances?
These are the ordinances, taste not, touch not, handle not, which
all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines
of men. which things have indeed a show
of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the
body, not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh." What
is he saying here? First of all, he says everyone
perishes that uses it. So that tells me it's not a good
thing. He's saying if you live under the ordinances of man,
and he tells us, he called it their the doctrines, the commandments
and doctrines of men, not God. If you live under the taste not,
touch not, handle not mentality, you're just under the law is
all that you're doing. And everyone that's under that law, everyone
that's going to approach God with that, what happens to them? He says, they perish. They perish. You preach anything other than
Christ alone, salvation by grace alone, then that's what you're
preaching is the commandments of men and God will not have
it. You're going back to the law.
It's taken the place of the substitutionary work of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's taken his place. He's saying
be established. It's good that you're established
with grace, not the meats of the Old Testament that did no
good for they that partake in that. You can just bring it over
here. They all perish with the using. It's the same thing. The
first one was something that they did for their salvation.
Do we see that? They partook in the meat. This
one is refraining. Taste not, touch not, handle
not. Equally are both damning if we're doing it as part of
our salvation. Equally are both damning. Because they're not
the commandments of God, they're the commandments of men. We hold to grace, brethren. We
say what God says. We say what God says. We've been
persuaded to say what God says. Paul was dealing with this same
thing in Galatians. Turn to Galatians chapter one. Let's start at Galatians 1 verse
3. Grace be to you and peace from
God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. who gave himself
for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world
according to the will of God and our Father, to whom be the
glory forever and ever, amen. Now that is the end of the salutation.
That's the beginning, that's the end of the salutation. Now
he's gonna say, this is the reason I'm writing right here. Verse
six, I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called
you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. which is
not another, but there be some that trouble you and would pervert
the gospel of Christ. But though we or an angel from
heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before,
so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto
you than that you have received, let him be accursed, for do I
now persuade men or God, or do I seek the pleased men? For if
I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." What
is he saying? There's one Lord, one faith,
one baptism, one gospel. And even if an angel comes down
and preaches a different gospel, let him be accursed. Let him
be accursed. Now, the interesting part here,
when he said, I marvel that you've been, soon removed. You know what they did. You know
what they did. They didn't do. I mean, it's
horrendous in the eyes of the Lord, but to you and I, it's
not going to seem like such a big deal. They literally said salvations
by grace alone, period. And then they turn around and
said, but you have to be circumcised. That's all they did. That one
little thing. That's all that they did. And
what did he say to him? This is another gospel, which
is not another. It's not even the gospel anymore.
Somebody has came in. and preach Christ to you, but
preach circumcision on top of that, and you've null and voided
the grace of God by doing so. You cannot, if you're following
after that, you're not following after grace. That's what he's
saying. That's what he's saying. Might sound foolish just to add
circumcision, but what happens in our day and time? What does
men do in our day and time? Well, how about accept Jesus
into your heart? The only person, the only one
that accepted or had the opportunity to accept was the father. When the Lord offered himself
to the father, that was who was going to accept him. And he did. He accepted the offering of his
son on behalf of his people and redeemed them. The ideology that
came behind accept or reject puts us on the throne of God
saying that it's up to you to be saved. No, it's not. It's
up to the Lord Jesus Christ for me to be saved or I won't be
saved. I love the part Matthew chapter one tells us. And if
we believe the word of God, this is the truth. Call his name Jesus
for he shall save his people from their sin. That's exactly
what he came here for. That's exactly what he did. He
saved his people from their sin. So the whole idea of let Jesus
in your heart, Jesus doesn't want to be in your heart. Our
heart's deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. That's
what the scripture tells us. Our heart's deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked. No, we need a new heart. I need
a new heart. Mine's busted, broken, depraved. Need a new heart, one that seeks
after righteousness. No, I need to be, I need to be
taught. I need to be made to learn from
grace or I have no hope. I have no hope. That's a, letting
him into your heart's far more foolish than circumcision, but
both are equally damning. They take away from the finished
work of God. They give us the keys to salvation, don't they?
That's what that does. It gives you the power. You have
the power to control your destiny. No, you do not. Only God can
do that. Only God can do that. Verse 10
tells us why this is such a popular message. For do I now persuade
men, or God, or do I seek to please men? For if I please men,
I should not be the servant of Christ. They desire to please
men." What did the Lord tell him? The Lord told him, he said,
you love the praise of man more than the praise of God. Why? Because the praise of God is
found in one person, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord's not
going to praise you and I. He's going to praise his son.
And you and I are not going to praise ourself. We're going to
praise the son. If we're taught of grace. The Lord is not looking for your
sacrifice. Nor is he looking for your works.
He's looking to the sacrifice of his son. And he's looking
to the finished work of Jesus Christ. Our only hope is that
he gives us faith to look to the same thing that he looks
to. Believe the same thing that he said is right and good. Hope and rest in the finished
work of Christ. The Lord's still resting in his
Sabbath, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's never going to stop. I love the part that the Lord's
not looking for me to do my part. He's not looking to me to do
my part. Christ did it all. No, if looking
for somebody to do their part, they're looking to the law for
justification. No, I'm looking to Christ. We're
looking to Christ for our justification, aren't we? All of our acceptance.
No flesh shall be justified by the deeds of the law. It's what
scripture says in Romans. Those of you who are fleeing
to the law, if you're fleeing to the law, all that that's going
to do is make certain you're not justified. Guarantee it.
That's exactly what he's saying. The law was given to stop every
man and woman's mouth that all would be guilty. This is why
we must be established with grace. In closing, turn back to Hebrews
chapter 13. Everything that I've spoken thus
far is good doctrine, we'll put it that way. It's the gospel.
Anything other than that, he's saying, be not carried away with
diverse and strange gospels, strange doctrines, for it is
good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with
meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied
therein. Be not carried away, flee to
Christ. Don't look to the left, don't
look to the right. Flee to Christ. Those of you who've been established
with grace. If you've tasted and seen that
the Lord is good, if he's established you in his grace, flee to him.
Don't approach Mount Sinai, flee to Zion. Don't look to the free
will doctrines of works, religion. No flesh shall be justified by
the deeds of the law. All perish, we saw that multiple
times. Everyone that does this didn't
profit them that occupied it therein. Galatians told us that
they perish at the doing. Colossians told us the same,
they perish, whoever's doing it, they perish at the using.
Don't look to your sacrifice or your offering, look to the
sacrifice of the precious lamb of God. Look at his offering.
It's the only one that God accepts. If we can, if you can look at
Christ, As all your wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
you've been established with grace. We'll ask the men, if
they will, to come disperse the elements.