What Mean Ye By This Service?

Q: What does the Bible say about sin?

The Bible asserts that all humans are sinners as a result of Adam's disobedience, which has stained human nature. According to Romans 3:23, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. This foundational truth underscores our shared humanity: sin is not merely an action but a corrupt nature inherited from Adam, as stated in Romans 5:12, which tells us that through one man, sin entered into the world. The universality of sin means that every person is inherently flawed and in need of redemption, which leads us to understand the necessity for a Savior.

Q: How do we know Jesus is our deliverer?

Jesus is our deliverer because He perfectly fulfilled the law and redeemed us through His sacrifice on the cross. In Romans 3:24-25, we learn that we are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. He acted as our mediator, satisfying God's requirements for holiness and righteousness. Jesus, being fully God and fully man, uniquely qualifies to represent us before God. His perfect life and sacrificial death provide the means for our justification, making Him the only true Deliverer for sinners who believe in Him.

Q: Why is the concept of original sin important for Christians?

Original sin is crucial as it explains why all humanity needs salvation and underscores our dependency on God's grace. The doctrine of original sin teaches that through Adam’s disobedience, sin and death entered into the world (Romans 5:12). This foundational concept reveals not only our inherited nature of sin but also the dire condition of humanity: we are all born separated from God and in need of His mercy. Understanding original sin affirms our need for a Redeemer—highlighting that salvation cannot be achieved through our own efforts but must come from God’s grace alone.

Q: What does it mean to be justified by faith?

To be justified by faith means being declared righteous before God based solely on faith in Jesus Christ. Justification by faith is a cornerstone of the Reformed faith, as expressed in Romans 5:1, which states we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. This means that our acceptance before God is not based on our works or righteousness but rather on Christ’s perfect righteousness attributed to us through faith. This doctrine provides believers with assurance of salvation, emphasizing that eternal life is a gift received by faith alone, separate from any human merit.

Let's open our Bibles to Exodus,
the book of Exodus, chapter 12. This is a very familiar
portion of Scripture. Exodus 12, beginning with verse
21. Exodus 12, 21. Then Moses called
for all the elders of Israel and said to them, draw out and
take you a lamb according to your families and kill the Passover. And you shall take a bunch of
hyssop and dip it in the blood that's in the basin. and strike
the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that's in the
basin. And none of you shall go out at the door of his house
until the morning. For the Lord will pass through
to smite the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon
the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over
the door. and will not suffer the destroyer
to come in under your house to smite you. And you shall observe
this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. And it shall come to pass when
ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according
as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. And
it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you,
What mean ye by this service? When your children shall say
to you, What mean ye by this service? When you are going through this
offering of the lamb, sprinkling of the blood, worship of the
Lord, observance of the Passover, and your children ask you, What
are you doing? Why are you doing it? that you shall say to your children,
it's the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the
houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smoked the
Egyptians, and he delivered our houses. And the people bowed
their head in worship. Now, that's my subject today.
What mean ye by this service? Why are we here in this place?
Perhaps our children are asking a question like this. Why are you here? Why are you
gathered here this Sunday morning? Why does that man stand up there
in the pulpit and read from that book and preach? Why do you sing
and read and talk about Jesus Christ, the Pearl of Great Price? Why is it so important that he
came into the world? Why did he die on the cross and
rise again? And why this talk about his ascending
to heaven and being at the right hand of the Father and interceding? What mean ye by this service?
There are all types of religion, and our children know that. There
are all types of religion in the world, depending on where
one is. You can run into all types of
religion and so-called worship, gods and idols. And even in this
country, there's a great variety of forms and types, sects and
cults and denominations and ways of what's called worship. What
makes you think that yours is the true one? Why do you believe as you do?
Now, that's what the Lord said to Israel. He said, when your
children ask you, what do you mean by this service? You've
got to have something to say. And the most difficult assignment
here is not to be profound. That won't help anybody, and
vague, but the most difficult assignment here is to be simple.
Don't you wish you could go to a doctor and ask him what was
wrong with you and be able to understand what he said? That's what I mean, profound
and vague. in terms that no man understands,
and I fear that much preaching today, much pulpit exhortation,
is totally misunderstood by most people who hear it. The greatest
compliment I would say to our preachers here in this service
today and to others who may hear this tape The greatest compliment that
anyone can pay you who deal with spiritual matters, who teach
the word of God, is not to compliment you on how intellectual you sound
and how profound you are and how deep your message is. But the greatest compliment anyone
can pay you is how simple and easy to understand your message
is. When a child walks up to you
and says, I understood what you said, now you're preaching. Two men talked to me in the vestibule
Wednesday night. I appreciated this so much they
may have already forgotten what they said. But one of them said
to me, he said, when you teach the Word of God, You take it
and make it sound so plain and it's so clear. And I said, well,
it's all right there. There's nothing to it. It's all
right there. And the other man said, it wasn't there before. And I don't know of anything
anybody could say to us better than that. Do you? There it is. You know, Paul worried about
the Corinthians. He said, I fear. Lest you depart
from what? The simplicity of Christ. The
simplicity of Christ. You see, our young people cannot
call on Him in whom they do not believe. And they cannot believe
in Him of whom they have not heard. And they cannot hear if
we don't sound a clear note. So here we go. I'm going to be
so plain and simple in trying to explain why we're here, and
why I'm doing what I'm doing, and why we call on the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and why we worship him. Here's the first
point, three words. We're sinners. We're sinners. All of us. The scripture says
there's none that doeth good. There's none that doeth good
and sinneth not. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. The scripture says plainly, if
we say, whether it's a preacher or an elder or a deacon or a
long-time member of the congregation or a man out in the world, if
we say, we have not sinned, we deceive ourselves. And furthermore,
the truth is not in us. Somebody's not telling the truth.
Any person who says he's not a sinner is deceived. And he's
deceived himself, because there's evidence enough if he'll just
look. And the truth's not in him. You see, we're all sinners. I'm a sinner. You're a sinner. Every human being is a sinner.
There's not a good man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth
not. Not one. And second, sin is a
nature. Now, I want to be plain here,
and I want you to understand what I'm saying, and I don't
want to needlessly offend anyone. Paul said, have I become your
enemy because I tell you the truth? Sin is a nature. Romans 5.12
says this. By one man, Adam, that was our
father, our representative. Our true roots and the roots
of every nation, tongue, tribe, kindred can be traced to one
man, Adam. You want to know who your great,
great, great, great, great, great granddaddy is? It's Adam. And
every human being on this earth, black or white, red or yellow,
can say the same thing, Adam is my father. The nations were
divided and the languages separated at the Tower of Babel. Tower
of Babel. That's where God separated the
nations and their languages. But that is Adam. God made one
man. One man. He created one man.
Even the woman came out of that man. But God made one man, and
that man was the federal head, the representative of the whole
human race. In Adam, we die. By one man,
sin entered this world. That man, when he stood, we stood.
We were in his loins. That's original sin. That's what
started in the Garden of Eden. And by one man, sin entered this
world, and death by sin. So death passed upon all men. You see, the sting of death is sin. That which causes
death is sin, but even babies die. then why did they die? It's
not that they've sinned after the similitude of Adam, it's
not that they have sinned willfully and practiced open rebellion
against God, but they're born with sin in them. You see, in sin my mother conceived
me, David said. My mother conceived, it's not
the act of conceiving children, there's no sin there, God ordained
that even before the fall. But when David said, in sin my
mother conceived me, he means when the invisible, microscopic
seed from his father was planted in the womb of his mother, that
was a sinful seed. And in sin my mother conceived
me, I was shapen in iniquity when I was formed in the womb.
It was a sinful person that was being formed
and developed. And I came forth from the womb
speaking lies. He traces our whole history from
the time of conception to the formation of the child, to the
birth of the child, and the life of the child. In sin my mother
conceived me, I was shaped in iniquity, I came forth from the
womb speaking lies. Do babies lie? Boy, they can
lie. You know they can, you know they
do. You see, my friend, what I'm saying, sin is a nature,
sin is a principle within us. Sin is not in a Bible, it's in
a body. It's a nature. Sin is not in
material things, physical things which we encounter. These things
we encounter don't pollute us, we pollute them. You see, the whole world is nothing
God made that's not good. and to be received with thanksgiving?
Come on now. Take alcohol. People are raising
canes about alcohol. Drunkenness is wrong, it's evil.
Excess, immoderation, intemperance is evil. But wine is not evil,
and to drink wine is not evil. That's right. It's not the liquid
that's evil, the evil is in what I do with it. I pervert it. I misuse it. I'm not moderate
or tempered. You see what I'm saying? Somebody
says, drink a bottle of beer and go to hell. That's stupid.
That's stupid. That's not even smart, is it?
See, it's not in a bottle. See, it's not in a liquid. See,
it's in me, sex. God ordained it, properly instituted
it to be enjoyed by man and his wife. If you pervert it, misuse
it, homosexuality is evil. God didn't ordain that mess. Sex outside of marriage is evil
and the consequences will be bad. But in marriage, in a home
like God ordained, it's beautiful and happy and holy. The bed is
undefiled. You see what I'm saying? We're
the folks that mess everything up. Take the tongue. The tongue
can be used to bless people. I can use my tongue this morning
to be a blessing to you. And if I were a false preacher
standing up here lying on God, I'd be a curse to you. Same tongue. A third of the people in here
are taking some form of drugs. I have an ear infection. I took
a powerful pill this morning, so powerful I can only take it
every other day. But I need it, because I need
to clear up the infection. See what I'm saying? But young
people don't touch that stuff needlessly, without a need, without
properly use of it and care of it, you
pervert it. God has ordained these same means
for our health, for our comfort, for the relief of pain. But it's
got to be properly prescribed and properly supervised and properly
taken. I was holding a meeting in North
Carolina some time ago, one of the first times in my life that
I'd ever gone to preach in a meeting and couldn't preach. Doris and
I got there on Saturday night, and my throat was so bad, I couldn't
even whisper. I could not be heard. And I told
the pastor, I said, I can't preach in the morning. I just know.
I got up the next morning and couldn't speak. I said, you'll
have to preach. We went to the service, and he
got up and told the people. I was sitting there. He said,
he can't talk. I'll have to preach this morning. After the service,
we went over to his house, to the parsonage, A few moments
later, one of the ladies at church came over. She had a mason fruit
jar, and in it, about that much clear liquid, looked like water.
Some of you men know what it was without me telling you. Clears, and she said, now preacher,
she said, you take some of this this afternoon with honey, and
you go to bed, and you preach tonight. Well, I did. Took a good bit of it with honey.
And I preached that night. Is that sin? Ah, don't tell me
that. I just, you know, even if I didn't
know anything about the Bible, I'd know better than that. I
love Jesus Christ in properly Moderation is the key. Good sense
is the key. Adorning the gospel is the key. Temperance is the key. It's receiving
the things that God gives as God gives them for use that will
glorify God. But this old nature of ours perverts
things. It misuses things. It warps things. It twists things. And the problem
is not in the material or physical. It's in us. And that's what I'm
saying. You say, well preacher, I make
mistakes. I know you do, you're born that way. And you're going
to keep doing it. Our Lord said it's not what a
man puts in his mouth that defies him, it's what comes out of his
heart that defies him. Evil thoughts, murders. When does a man become a thief?
When he steals something? Oh no, he steals it because he's
a thief. Before he ever is the stower,
before he ever puts his hand on the forbidden object, before
he ever takes it, he was already a thief or he wouldn't have done
it. When does a man become a murderer? When he kills someone, not when
he wants to. When his nature, when that principle
in him is hate. Love is ordained of God, but
is it easier for you to love somebody or despise them? You
know what your nature is, and I know what my nature is. So
we received at birth a nature. We're sinners. God is light,
and we're darkness. And you know yourself that things
that are, somebody said to one of them, the things I like most
are illegal, immoral, indecent, or fattening. That's our nature. The wise man Solomon said, stolen
fruits are sweet. Why? Why does it make them sweeter,
because they're stolen? That nature with which we're
born. And we're born with it, and you
know how long you're going to keep it? Until you breathe your last
breath. And lying on your deathbed, it
may rear its ugly head up as much as at any other time. I
know we grow in grace if we know God, and we grow in faith and
love and these things. But I tell you, that other gentleman, he doesn't change much, that
old man. All right, thirdly, listen. With sinners, sin is
of nature. Thirdly, sin is against God.
Now, this is where you've got to understand what I'm saying.
Sin is against God. Now, it's true, when I speak
evil, I hurt somebody. I'll hurt another human being
when I speak, when I gossip, when I use this tongue to talk
like it ought not to talk, then it hurts people, hurts them. And when we act sinfully, we
wound other people, and other people suffer for our actions. Our conduct and conversation
and attitude have an effect and serious consequences on people
around us. But I do not sin against people. That's right. They are affected
by my sin. But my sin is against God. Did
you know that? Our sins are against God. Sin
is against God. Sin is a transgression, not of
man's law. That's a violation. That's a
misdemeanor. That's a felony. But sin, S-I-N,
is against God. Isn't that true? It's a transgression
of his law. It's rebellion against God himself.
Let me show you that. Turn to Psalm 51. Psalm 51, sin
is against God. Now, there were several people
affected by David's sin. David's sons and daughters were
affected by his sin. Uriah's family was affected by
his sin. A lot of people in Israel were
discouraged because of David's sin. But David's sin was against
God. That's where he failed and he
violated God's law. Listen to Psalm 51, look at verse
3. David says, I acknowledge my
transgressions, my sin is ever before me, against thee and thee
only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. that
now you might be justified when you speak. God, when you speak
and condemn me, you're just. I have no alibi. I'm not going
to justify myself. When you charge me, when you
say to say that sinners shall die, I say amen. That's right. I've done wrong. I've sinned.
Can you do that? Can you say that? Don't justify
yourself before God. That's one of the condemnations
that our Lord brought upon the Pharisees. He said, you justify
yourselves before me and stop doing it. Just admit you've done
wrong, you've talked wrong, you've walked wrong, you've said wrong,
you've sinned against God, you're just. I've sinned against you
and you're just. And listen, and you're clear
when you judge me, because I've sinned against you. You see,
this is God's will. We're God's creatures, he's made
us for his glory and his honor, and we haven't glorified him,
we haven't honored him. He said over here to Israel,
in the book of, let me just read it to you, don't turn, I can
turn quickly to it, he said this. And now, Israel, what does the
Lord thy God require of thee? What does God require of you
and me? to fear the Lord thy God. Secondly,
to walk in all his ways. We haven't done that. To love
him with all your heart and to serve him with all your heart
and with all your soul. That's what God requires. And
to fall short of that in any way is to sin against God. All
of sin becomes short of this glory of God. Now, I know we
have responsibility to others to adorn the doctrines, to set
an example, to live in such a way that we'll glorify God. Men may
see your good works and glorify God. But my first concern in
regard to all things is my relationship with God. Seek ye first the kingdom
of God, his righteousness. That's first. So here's the major
problem. I've given you three things.
We're sinners. And sin is a nature. It's a powerful
nature. It's so powerful. Paul said in
Galatians, he said this, the flesh lusteth against the spirit
and the spirit against the flesh. So you cannot do the things that
you would. That's how strong it is. Paul
said, the things I would do, I don't do them. The things I
would not do, I do them. You got a problem with that?
It's powerful, mate. It's a nature. It's a principle.
And you're not going to conquer it by making resolutions. You're
going to have to need something stronger, someone stronger than
that. And thirdly, this sin is against
God. Now, fourthly, we need a deliverer. We need a deliverer. We need
someone who can straighten things out with God. That's what I'm
saying. We need a deliverer. We need
a mediator. Different people trying to find
different ways to God, different mediators. They got Buddha and
they got Mohammed and they got Mary and they got the beads and
they got all these different things trying to find. Job asked
that question. Listen, turn to Job chapter 9. Job was supposed to be the oldest
book in the Bible. Yeah, written before Genesis. Job was the oldest patriarch
of all. And your problem and my problem
was his problem. It goes back as far as Job. And
here's his question. Job 9 verse 1 and 2. Then Job
answered and said, I know it is so of a truth, but how should
man be just with God? How are we going to be justified
with God? How are we going to be accepted of God? Turn to Job
15 and listen to what one of his friends said, Job 15. Job
15 verse 14. What is man that he should be
clean? He which is born of a woman,
that he should be righteous. Behold, God puts no trust in
his saints. The heavens are not clean in
his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man who drinks
iniquity like water? How can he be clean that's born
of a woman? Behold, the moon, it shineth
not. The sun is not clean in his sight. The heavens, how much
more abominable is man, filthy. Well, how are we going to get
it straightened out? Well, somebody says, let's resolve never to
sin again. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Wouldn't
that be wonderful? It's just not realistic. Well,
let's keep God's law. God says, fear him and love him
and serve him and keep his law. Wouldn't that be wonderful? But
it's not realistic. you that would be under the law.
You don't hear the law. It requires perfection. It requires
we do the whole law. Then let's do good works. Let's
join the church and feed the poor. I'm for those things, and
we're trying to do them here. But all of our righteousnesses
are filthy rags in God's sight. The best deeds you can do cannot
be accepted by God because they're imperfect. God provides what he requires,
and he accepts what he provides, and nothing else. It's got to
be perfect to be accepted. Well, if we're going to have
deliverance, and forgiveness, and acceptance with God, and
restorations, then I know this is true. It's got to begin with
God. It can't begin with us. This
gospel, this message, whatever I preach, Whatever I come up
with as a solution for us who are sinners, whatever I come
up with as a way to God, it's got to start with God. Isn't
that right? We sin against Him. So anything
that I present to you as a gospel, as a way of life, as a way to
God, it's got to come from Him. Salvation is of the Lord. Isn't
that correct? It's got to start with Him. It's not only got to
start with Him, it's got to come from Him. Because we, in the
flesh, we can't please God, in the flesh dwelleth no good thing.
By works of righteousness, not by works of righteousness which
we've done. And then again, what's this? If I preach a gospel, a
restoration, a way of life, a redemption, it's got to come, begin with
God, come from God, and then it's got to be one that will
satisfy God. They can just, well, I'm satisfied
enough. Here's somebody, I heard somebody
say, well, God said it, and I believe it,
and that settles it. No, God said it, that settles
it, whether you believe it or not. It's not, I've heard people
say, well, that sounds reasonable. I'm not trying to sound reasonable,
I'm trying to sound scriptural. That's not the issue. The issue
is not how reasonable, how logical it seems to you. That's where
people get in trouble. That's what Nablum said, I thought.
And oh, how many times does the Bible say there's a way that
seems right to men, but the end is death. I'm not trying to seem
logical to you this morning, or reasonable, or sensible, or
acceptable. I'm trying to tell you what God
says. Here's a sinner with a nature that can't handle. And there's
God, holy. How am I going to be just with
God? How am I going to be forgiven? How am I going to be accepted?
Well, if I find out how, it's got to start with Him. It's His
business. If He wants to be merciful to
me, He can. If He doesn't, He doesn't have to, does He? I'll
be gracious to whom I will. God doesn't owe us anything.
So it's got to start with Him. It's got to come from Him. And
it's got to satisfy Him. Well, let us turn to Romans 3.
Romans chapter 3. And I'll show you this way. You
see, what I need is a holiness, what I need is a righteousness,
what I need is a purity before God, to be accepted of God, to
walk with God. Alright, Romans chapter 3, verse
19. Romans 3, 19. Now look at it
very carefully, very simply. Now we know that the things,
that what things the law saith, it saith to them who are under
the law, that's us, that every mouth may be stopped, no excuses,
all the world become guilty before God, subject to the judgment
of God. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law, there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. For
by the law is the knowledge of sin, not the forgiveness thereof.
Now, the righteousness, the holiness of God, without my obedience
to the law, without the law, is manifested. And it's witnessed
by the Word and the prophets, the Old Testament. It's even
the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ,
unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference.
What's he saying here? God says, I'm going to show my
sin. I'll be merciful, I'll be gracious. God made a covenant. He said,
I'll make a covenant, I'll forgive their sins and remember them
no more. I'll be their God and they'll be my people. And that
covenant is Christ. And Christ Jesus, the Son of
God, the second person of the Blessed Trinity, came into this
world. And he was made flesh, born of
a woman, without a human father. Now if he had had a human father,
he would have been Adam's seed. Isn't that right? He would have
had sin just like me. That's the reason he must be
born of a virgin, to be without sin. Jesus Christ, God Almighty,
took on himself human flesh. He was made in the likeness of
sinful flesh, but he wasn't made sinful flesh. He had no sin.
He knew no sin. And he lived on this earth as
a man, from the cradle to the cross, from the womb to the resurrection. And he lived a perfect life.
In Adam we died, in Christ we were made alive. By one man's
disobedience we were made sinners, by one man's obedience we were
made righteous. And so in that representative
person, God Almighty imputed to us, reckoned us, charged us
of perfect holiness. And now I have obeyed the law. that God required. I did fear
God, love God with all my heart, obey his law, keep his commandment
and service. Preacher, when did you ever do
that perfectly? In my substitute, in my representative, in my redeemer. You see what I'm saying? He did
it for me. And the law said the servant
shall die, and I died. I died on the cross in the person
of Christ. Well, how could one man do that
for so many because of who that one man is? He's Son of God and
Son of Man. He's God and Man in human flesh. And the reason he did that, let
me show you, read on Romans 3, verse 23. For all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. Then being justified freely
by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, verse
25, whom God hath set forth. God set him forth to be a propitiation,
a mercy seat, a covering, a sin offering through faith in his
blood, to declare God's righteousness for the remission of sins that
have passed through the forbearance of God. Not sins that have passed
certainly, but the sins of the Old Testament people. To declare,
why did Christ come? He came to declare, why did Christ
die? To declare, I say at this time,
God's righteousness, that God may be just and the justifier
of them that believe in Jesus. Now, where's your boasting? It's
excluded. By what law? Of works? No, by
the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a
man is justified before God by faith, without the deeds of the
law. So I continue. in my flesh, with
my problems, difficulties, and you do too. God's given us some grace and
God's given us some maturity and some wisdom and some strength
by the power of his Spirit. But I need a Savior today as
much as I did when I first believed on him. He's my substitute. He's my sent-offer. God doesn't
judge us on the basis of what we have done or what we have
not done. We'd be condemned either way. But he judges us on the
basis of what Christ did in our stead. Isn't that right? He that
believeth on the Son hath life. One more scripture and I'll close.
Acts 13. Acts 13, verse 38. So in what
thinking of Christ? And I'm not going to stand up
here and say, now, everybody believes what I just preached,
raise your hand. No. None to me. or to this church,
this thing is between you and God. I don't believe in confessing sins
publicly. I believe in confessing sins
privately to God. But I don't, I just don't care
for all the emotionalism and excitement and carrying on. I
believe this thing of my relationship with God is between me and God.
The best praying I do is privately. And my meditations and devotions
are private. Enter your closet. And that's
what I'm saying to everybody here. This is between you and
the Lord. It's not unto me, and it's not a show of flesh, and
it's not a show of outward emotionalism. This thing, this stays taxed. I'm a sinner. It's in nature. It's against God. I need mercy. I need help. Mercy has got to
come from God. Mercy did come from God in the
person of Christ. I believe on Christ. I believe
the word of God. I believe Christ. I believe the
sinner who said, Lord, help my unbelief. I believe God. And go about your work. Go about
your business. Go about your Whatever it is,
but be it known, look at Acts 13, 38. Listen, be it known to
you therefore, men and brethren, through this man, through this
man who has preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, this
God-man, and by him all that believe are justified from all
things. Does that mean everything? That's everything. You've got
a clean book and a clean record and a clean slate before God
because Christ paid the debt from all things. from which you
could not be justified by the law of Moses. Now, he says, Beware,
therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the
prophets. Behold, you despise, and wonder,
and perish. I work a work in your days, a
work which you shall no wise believe, for a man declared unto
you. Don't be one of those. A work you won't believe, or
a man preaches it to you. I've preached it to you, that's
It begins with God, it came from God, and it satisfies God, and
that's the personal work of his Son. I believe him. And pray for help when you say,
I don't understand everything. You don't have to understand
everything. I don't either. That doesn't mean I don't preach
everything. I don't understand everything. I don't have the
answers. You can ask me a lot of questions
this morning. I can't answer, but if you wait long enough,
I'll answer them. Might be a hundred years from now in his presence,
but I'll have the answer. I'm going to know like I've been
known. Right now, I preach in part, I preach the part I know,
and I know in part, and I see through a glass dimly. But what
I preached to you this morning, I know, and I think you know,
too. I think you do. All right, let's
sing 228.

What Mean Ye By This Service?

What does the Bible say about sin?

How do we know Jesus is our deliverer?

Why is the concept of original sin important for Christians?

What does it mean to be justified by faith?

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How do we know Jesus is our deliverer?

Why is the concept of original sin important for Christians?

What does it mean to be justified by faith?

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