There is something in this passage
of Scripture that is very special, that is a great and rich blessing, that is for the comfort of the
people of God and the instruction of all men, if I can, by the
Spirit of God, bring it out. I hope to. It's in my heart,
if I can just put it in words. 1 Peter chapter 3. It says in verse 18, and that's
where I'd like to begin, verse 18, it says, For Christ, we're
speaking here of the Son of God, we're speaking here of the Messiah,
the Lord of glory, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus our Lord. That's
who we're talking about. We're talking about the second
person of the blessed Trinity. We're talking about the one who
in the beginning was with God and was God and all things were
made by him. We're talking about the one who
in the fullness of time was made of a woman, made under the law
to redeem them that were born under the law. We're talking
about him who said, a body thou hast prepared me in the volume
of the book All the way back here, it's written of me. I come,
O God, to do thy will. Christ. That's who we're talking
about. And it says, Christ also hath once suffered for sin. Once. Men, if they can, will
seek to destroy this word once. Once suffered for sin. There
are different ways and methods of doing away with this once
suffered for sin. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ
doesn't put his covenant people, his elect, in a savable state. He once for all sanctifies, justifies,
redeems, and saves them by one offering. Now turn to the book
of Hebrews. Just keep 1 Peter 3. Now this
is so important. Hebrews chapter 10. He once for
all. Christ hath once suffered for
sin. Once. It's not to be repeated
over and over again in what they call a mass every Sunday. It's
not even to be repeated again in a communion service or a sacrament
whereby you claim to turn some element into the body of Christ
so you can break it again, or some liquid into his blood so
you can pour it out again. for past, present, and future
sins of past, present, and future people. That's what we're talking
about. He at once, this is so vital,
important. This is vital for your comfort. This is vital for your assurance.
If there's anything required or anything needed or demanded
or expected, if there's anything that hasn't been done, by Christ
that's needed, required, expected, or demanded of you, you're doomed.
I'm doomed. In the flesh, no man can please
God. So what is there to be done? What is there for us to contribute?
If Christ hasn't paid at all, if he's left any iota, jot, or
tittle unpaid, we're in trouble. Hebrews chapter 10, it says in
verse 11, and every priest, these typical priests, patterned priest,
Old Testament priest, they stand daily, ministering, offering
oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sin,
never effectual, never sufficient. But this man, and he was man,
the God-man, their God of their God, and yet man, the divine
nature and the human nature in one. This man And only man can
do what's required of man. Only a perfect man can fulfill
what God has required of men. But this man, after he'd offered
one sacrifice for sin forever, one sacrifice for sin forever,
both ways, sat down. Sat down. The high priest, the
Old Testament priest stood. Why did they stand? Their work
was never done. But he, by one offering, one
sacrifice, sat down on the right hand of God. This is positionally
now. This is not literally. This is
an illustration. He sat down on the right hand
of God. I'm saying that you don't have
God the Father in the middle and the Son on the lower throne
and the Holy Spirit on the lower throne. Our God is one God. Every appearance of God is Christ.
But he sat down at the right hand. That's the hand of acceptance,
the hand of love. the hand of power, the hand of
equality. Having, what's this now, from
henceforth expecting to his enemies be made his foots to about one
offering, for about one offering he hath perfected, he hath perfected,
completed forever them that are sanctified. So that's what we're
saying in 1 Peter 3. Jesus Christ by himself purged
our sins. without any help from any creature,
without any cooperation from any creature. He, Jesus Christ,
also hath once, one time, one time, it's done, the great transaction's
done. The law is fulfilled and honored
and satisfied. Justice has been honored and
completely satisfied. Once suffered, and he did it
by suffering. And we're not just talking about
bodily suffering. Sure, five bleeding wounds he
bears, but you can't say the wounded soul. Our Lord made his
soul an offering for sins. You can't just suffer in the
body and satisfy the infinite righteousness of God for soul
sins. Our Lord suffered in the body
and in soul. He suffered, suffered for sins. Now watch this, the just for
the unjust. He's just. He said, I am the
good shepherd. And yet when a young man walked
up to him, an unbeliever, a legalist, who didn't believe in him, walked
up to him and said, good master, he said, why do you call me good?
There's none good but God. None good but God. There's none
good, no, not one. And yet he himself said, I'm
the good shepherd, saying I'm God. That's what it is. I'm God. Jesus Christ is God. Anybody
who does not believe Jesus Christ is God does not know Christ,
and therefore will die in his sins. You say, is that vital? It's that vital. He is God. He is the just. He is the just. When Saul of Tarsus was converted
and Ananias came down where he was, he said, The God of our
fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will.
that thou shouldest hear the word from his mouth, and that
thou shouldest see whom? The just one, that Christ. The just. The just. Christ hath
once, the whole gospel's here. Our whole system of theology's
here. Christ, who is he, the God-man,
hath once suffered He drank the very bitter dregs from the cup
of God's wrath and indignation. He walked the winepress of God's
wrath alone. Behold all ye that pass by, is
there any sorrow like unto my sorrow wherewith the Lord God
hath afflicted me? Suffering! The just by the unjust. He's just. holy, righteous, we're
unjust. Unholy and unrighteous. The innocent
for the guilty. The just for the unjust. The
righteous for the unrighteous. He hath suffered once. Look at
the next line. This is what it's all about.
That he might bring us to God. We're not there by nature. We're
not there by birth. And unfortunately, we're not
there by choice. He said, you Gentiles, aliens,
strangers, without God, without hope, without
Christ in this world, separated, but he did all that he did in
order that he might bring us to God. Not invite us to God,
bring us to God. He might bring us to God. He didn't do something and then
say, now you get to God. No, he's going to bring us. The
shepherd goes out in the wilderness where the sheep is lost and he
finds the sheep and puts the sheep on his shoulders and brings
it home. Brings it. He might bring us
to God. He said, I'm the way, the truth,
and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by me. By me. And when he said by me,
he meant he did the bringing. By me. I'm the good shepherd.
The good shepherd laid down his life for the sheep. And of the
sheep I have, which none of this fold him up. What must bring,
I must bring. Is this old hat to you? Of course,
you don't have a hat on if it is. You never have worn this
hat if it's not delightfully new. He might bring us to God. Being put to death in the flesh,
he was literally, he didn't swoon on that cross. He died. You say, but God can't die. God
didn't die. God didn't die. God in human
flesh, in the flesh, put to death in the flesh, his human nature
died. God is life. Jesus Christ. And I'll tell you this, when
I lie down in death, I'm not dead. John, I'm not dead. My
body goes back to the dust, but I'm going to God. But the death
Christ suffered was death for sin, separation from God. He
was put to death in the flesh. His body died. His heart stopped
beating. His lungs stopped pumping air.
He bowed his head in death. But, verse 18 says, but quickened,
made alive by His Spirit. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of
God, is the Spirit of Christ, and by His Spirit, He lives.
He lives. Jesus Christ ever-living, He
is life, and yet He died for our sins. In the flesh, He suffered
and bled and died. but he was quickened or made
alive by the Spirit. Oh, how important, how important
is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The resurrection
of his body says to us he lives. The resurrection of his body
says we'll live. The resurrection of his body
says God has accepted his sacrifice. The resurrection of his body
says God accepts our sacrifice of praise through Christ. The resurrection of his body
says that he is ascended with the Father and ever lives. And
the resurrection of his body says someday we shall ascend.
It's all in the resurrection of Christ. But look at verse 18, the last
line. But he was quickened by the Spirit,
the Holy Spirit. Don't divide the Trinity. The
Lord Jesus Christ kept saying, I can of myself do nothing. That
didn't speak of his weakness. That spoke of his unity with
the Father. The Son cannot do anything independently
of the Father. The words that I speak are not
my words, Lord. Don't you have any words? Yes,
these are my words because they're the Father's words. Is that clear
what I'm saying? The Son can do nothing of Himself. That means the Son never does
anything independently of the Father. The Trinity is one God
in one purpose, one design, one glory. He that honoreth the Son
honoreth the Father. And he that honoreth not the
Son can't honor the Father who sent him. That's the reason it's
so utterly ridiculous for Jews or whoever, Muslims or Mohammeds
or whoever they are, or fundamentalists or Baptists, whoever say they
believe in God but don't believe in Jesus Christ. That is a total
impossibility. No man knoweth the Father saved
the Son, he to whom the Son will reveal him. You don't know God.
That's the reason you don't believe God. If you've never met Christ,
you've never met God. Christ is God. There's never
been a revelation of God from Genesis to Revelation except
Christ. The angel of the Lord in the
Old Testament was Christ. Every word God ever spoke to
this world, he spoke through Christ. You see what I'm saying?
That's true and a joke. Christ is God. Jesus Christ is
God Almighty. I wish I could, well, I can't
make it plain. It's plain to those to whom God
reveals it, and the rest of them, it'll always be confusion. But in the beginning was the
Word. The Word is the expression of God. The Word is the communication
of God. The Word is the vehicle of thought
by which God is known, and that's Christ. That's Christ. Ain't Moses wrote of me, Christ
said. You said Moses wrote about God.
That's what I said, Christ. He wrote of me. When Abraham
said God will provide himself a sacrifice, he was saying God
will provide himself. Himself is Christ. Jesus Christ
by himself purged our sins. Moses went there on the mountain
and the bush burned, but it was not consumed, and God spoke to
him. Who spoke to him? Jesus Christ. And said, take off your shoes.
On holy ground, he took off his shoes. And when he told him he'd
go down to Egypt and deliver Israel, he said, but they say,
well, they're going to ask me who sent me. And now what am
I going to say? Tell them I am. When Jesus Christ
stood in the garden, and he said, Whom seek ye? They said, We seek
Jesus of Nazareth. What did he say? Same thing he
said to Matt Bush. I am. I am. And that's when they
fell backwards. That's when they fell. They didn't
fall backwards before man. They fell backward at the voice
of God. Just like Moses fell. And just like when he spoke on
the Isle of Patlas, John fell at his feet as a dead man. These
people who preach Jesus only, and deny the Trinity, question
the Trinity, that they're foolish because the Scripture clearly
teaches it. But we're not saying three gods,
we're saying one God. And they misinterpret what we're
preaching and what the Scripture preaches, Jim. It's one God.
And that's the reason verse 19, like this in verse 19, says,
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison. Who
we talk by who? By his Spirit. by the Spirit
of Christ, by the Holy Spirit. Our Lord Jesus Christ once suffered
for sin, died on the cross. In his flesh he died, but by
his Spirit, by the Spirit of God, he was raised from the grave.
And this is the same Spirit, the same Holy Spirit, that was
in Noah when he preached to those people while he was building
that ark. Same Holy Spirit. Not another spirit, same Holy
Spirit you're hearing the gospel through right now. Same Holy
Spirit. Now you know what a lot of people
say in verse, let me read 19 and 20, by which also he went,
saying he went while he was on the cross, or right after he
died on the cross. He went to Hades, he went to the place of
the dead, and he preached to those folks. To who? Well, he preached to those folks
who were rebels and God-haters in the days of Noah. That's what
he told me. When sometimes we're disobedient,
when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of
Noah while God says, every imagination of his heart is wicked, evil,
I'm going to destroy man. I'm going to wipe him off the
face of the earth. It repenteth me that I made man.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and Noah built an
ark. 120 years Noah ministered. 120
years Noah was a prophet and a builder of an ark. And while
God patiently waited, while God's judgment was held back by God's
own purpose, Noah built that ark. And then God turned loose
his wrath and destroyed this outfit and there in the place
of the departed dead. And people say, well Christ left
the cross, went down and preached to them. Preached what to them?
Well, he explained the gospel to them. Noah explained the gospel
to them. Noah explained the gospel to
them. They didn't believe Noah. They didn't believe Noah. Brother,
what's that saying? That's saying this right here.
It was in the Spirit. The same Spirit that raised our
Lord from the dead is the Spirit that will raise you from the
dead. Holy Spirit, Spirit of Christ. It was in the Spirit
or by the Spirit that he preached. to the people who are now in
the regions of the damned. It's by that same spirit that
he preached to them, and it's the spirit that preaches to you.
It's no new message. This gospel's no new message.
This is the ancient gospel. Moses wrote of me. Abraham saw
my day. And verse 20 says that Christ,
by His Spirit, through Noah, preached to those wicked, disobedient
people in the days before the flood. Noah preached. What did
Noah preach? Righteousness. Noah preached
the righteousness of God. What did Noah preach? Noah preached
the judgment of God. What did Noah preach? Noah preached
the sacrifice of a lamb. Because you know what he did
as soon as that ark landed? got off and built an altar and
sacrificed a lamb to God. I tell you the reason a lot of
people interpret this right here is while our Lord died on the
cross and then he and his spirit went down to hell because in
that Apostle's Creed they read he descended into hell, that's
where they pick up a lot of that. He descended into hell. And then
a lot of people, the reason they translate it this way is they
seem to think those people in the Old Testament never had any
revelation of the gospel. And so Christ brought in some
new thing and he ran down there to tell them about this new gospel
that he brought in. But my friends, there's one gospel.
If we could just realize, Isaiah said he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
And back in the old, Abraham brought that, when Isaac said
to him, where's the lamb? He said, God will provide himself
a lamb. When Abel, way back yonder, way back yonder, when they came
out of the Garden of Eden, and these boys were born, Abel, Cain,
the rest of them, and Abel brought a lamb. You think he had no understanding? God told him to bring a lamb,
and God told him why to bring a lamb too. But Cain's the one
that was the rebel. You think Jesus Christ had to
go down into Hades and tell Cain what he did wrong? Cain knew
what he did wrong. He trusted his own righteousness.
But our Lord Jesus Christ is saying here, Christ once suffered
for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.
He was put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
It's the same Spirit, the Holy Spirit. by which he preached
to those people who were disobedient before the flood. Those rebels,
he preached to them through Noah. Noah, a preacher of righteousness.
Noah, a preacher of judgment. Noah, a preacher of the gospel.
Those people were the people he preached to, and it's the
same people, the same spirit that preaches to us today. Now
look at the next verse. Let me read the rest of verse
20. While the ark was preparing,
Noah preached to them. when few, that is eight souls,
were saved by water." Now watch this, the like figure, what's
the like figure? He's talking about a comparison
here between our baptism and that ark, that ark of Noah. There's the like figure, there's
a comparison between Noah and the ark and the eight souls that
were saved and when a man is baptized confessing Christ. There's
a like face, it's a comparison. What is the comparison? Well,
the family of Noah went into the ark. There were eight souls
saved, and look at that line. It says, by water? No, through
water. Through water. There were eight
souls saved through water. Now watch this. The family of
Noah went into the ark, and they were shut in by God. God shut
the door, representing a burial. They were buried in the ark.
They were put in the ark. You with me? The door was shut
by God. And then they were covered with
water. They were covered by water beneath and water above. That ark was completely covered
with water. It rained 40 days. Just covered. And imagine how much rain. Imagine
how much. They were completely submerged
in water. And then they came out and God
opened the door and they walked out of that ark. as a man is
delivered from death and judgment and walks out of the grave. But
now, who saved him? God did. God did, through his
grace and through his mercy. The Ark is a picture of Christ.
Now, our baptism, now look at verse 21, the like figure wherein
to even baptism doth also now save us. Then in parenthesis,
he said, identifies what this baptism is. It's not an outward
ritual. It's not putting away the filth
of the flesh. It's not conforming to rules and regulation. It's
the answer of a good conscience toward God. Something that we
do outwardly is something we've already done inwardly. Death,
burial, and resurrection, identification, and confession of Christ. Now
read it without the parenthesis. The like figure, whereunto even
baptism doth also now save us, deliver us. like those people
who were delivered in the ark, by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ our Lord. You're demonstrating, you're
demonstrating what you believe to be yours through the death,
burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Just like Noah, Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord. It was the mercy of God
that saved him. It was the grace of God that
delivered him. It was because of the love of Christ and the
covenant of mercy, but he went into the ark. And God shut the
door. And it was just like a burial.
Just like a burial. And then there was the immersion
with water. And then he walked out. Then he walked out. But he was fulfilling what God
commanded. And our Lord commands us to be
baptized. And when we go into the water
publicly confessing Christ, we're doing the same thing Noah did.
He went in the ark. It's not the water that saves us, it's
the grace of God and the mercy of God. But we believe in God.
And we're confessing God. And we're saying that we're died
with Christ, we're buried with Christ, and we've been resurrected
to walk in newness of life with our Lord Jesus Christ. It's the
same thing when we take the Lord's table and we break the bread
and the wine. It's not the bread and the wine
that saves us and gives us life, it's Christ. But we're saying
this is an act of faith. This is an identification. This
is a demonstration, you see, of faith. Noah says, well, Lord,
I believe you're going to have a flood, and I believe you're
going to save us, and I believe you're going to do it, but I'm
not going in that ark. Oh, yes, you are going in that ark, too.
The very faith of Noah led him in the ark of believing God.
And that's what he's saying here. The same, the like figure, where
unto baptism doth save us by the resurrection of our Lord
from the dead, by the power of our Lord, by his work, is compared
with Noah going into that ark. I believe God. He stood there
and preached righteousness and built the earth. Now you know this and I know
this, that it's not that wooden ship that saved Noah, it was
the grace of God, it was the power of God. God could have
put him in a tank, God could have put him in a ship, God could
have put him in anything else, but there had to be some means
to save him. And it's not baptism that saves
us, we know that. It's Christ, it's the grace of
God and the mercy of Christ, but that is a public declaration
of faith, a public committal to Christ. And that's what he's
saying there. Baptism serves the same purpose
as the Ark. Identification. All right, verse
22, now watch this. And our Redeemer, now, same Christ. You see, this thing just follows
a beautiful line. And like I said a while ago,
if you can hear this, if you can see this, What a blessing,
what assurance, what comfort. Christ has once suffered for
sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.
Being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit,
by the power of the Holy Spirit, the same Spirit that's always
been his Spirit, the Spirit by which he preached to Abel, by
which he preached to the people in Noah's day, by which he preached
to Isaiah's day, same Spirit. And he was resurrected from the
dead. In verse 22, he's gone into heaven. Our Lord Jesus Christ,
our Redeemer, has gone into heaven. You see, Christ didn't offer
his sacrifice in a temple made with hands, which are figures
of the truth, but in the presence of God himself. Let's see that
in Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews chapter 9. Look at this.
Verse 24. Christ is not entered into the
holy place made with hands. as earthly priests, which are
figures of the tree, but in the heaven itself. Now to appear
in the presence of God for us. What two words, for us. And that's
what he's saying here in 1 Peter 3, 22. He'd gone into heaven
as a man in glory. Our forerunner's gone, but within
the veil. And where he goes, we go. Where
he is, we are. Do you see that? He's a man,
Christ Jesus. You say, is he still a man? Still
a man. I don't understand. I don't either. But that's what
it says. It says one God and one mediator between God and
men, that's the man, Christ Jesus. That's what it says. And he ascended
into heaven and he's at the right hand of God. He's at the right
hand of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ is at the
very right hand of God. He's accepted, and what I'm saying
is this thing of living union, of identification with Christ
in covenant mercies, in covenant patience, in covenant accomplishments
when he died, in the call of the Spirit, the Spirit of Christ,
and they are one. What the Father determines, The
Son accomplishes and the Spirit applies. And if we're in Christ
by faith, by God putting off God, are you in Christ Jesus?
Who has made unto us all we need. And where He is, we are. And
if He's entered into heaven, we're there. And watch this. He's not some little weak Jesus.
Some little ten-cent store Jesus. Angels and authorities and powers
are what? What'd you say? Subject to Him.
There's not a wind blowing that's not subject to him. There's not
a demon, and there may be millions of them, that's not subject to
him. There's not an angel that's not subject to him. There's not
a human being that's not subject to him. He has all authority
over all flesh. Now, I'll tell you what I think.
I told my class that this morning. I think the 1985 God of Fundamentalism
ought to go out of the God business. I think it's time him go out
of the God business, because he can't do what he wants to
do. Any God, any person or any being or any spirit that claims
to be God, who has a will and can't do it, who has a purpose
and can't accomplish it, ought to go out of the God business.
And let one be God who is God. Let God be God. Let God be true. Let's let God be God. And it
says here that Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God, angels,
authorities. President of the United States
got some authority that he's subject to Jesus Christ. You
believe that? Congress of the United States
has some authority. They can wage and make war. Isn't that what it says? Only
by his permission. You believe that? Well, I know
it's something. Well you say, that's not the
God that's being preached, that's not the Jesus. We talk about the
poor little Jesus, boy, you got the wrong one. You've been misled. You've been misled. I beg your pardon, this one who's
at the right hand of God has all authority in heaven and earth.
Angels and authorities and powers have been made, decreed, designed, subject to him. I'm going to
tell you something in closing. In all of this that he might
bring us to God, that he might, all of this, even from his once
suffering just for the unjust, his death, his resurrection,
his ascension, his exaltation, that he might bring us to God.
Jesus Christ came here for a purpose. He came here to fulfill it. And
he fulfilled it, and that's a covenant of which the Father made him
the surety. Now here, in the Old Testament days, let me tell
you something. Now there's a lot of play in
church today, there's a lot of hoop-de-doo religion, there's
a lot of, I believe this, you believe that, we believe something
else, we're on our road to heaven, let's rejoice on the way there,
a little bit of heaven on the road to heaven and all this,
sorry, you wrong do this, right do that, and all this other thing.
But somewhere in this land, somewhere, Somebody's worshiping God, the
one and only God. There's some folks that have
been brought into His presence and into His fellowship and into
His communion by His blessed Son who came here to do that.
And in the Old Testament, God pictured true worship for us.
He showed us in the Old Testament how to worship. And there were
three essentials to worship, three essentials to fellowship
with God, three essentials to knowing God. One, the place. Two, the priest. Three, the atonement. Isn't that right, John? Three
things, the Old Testament. The place was the tabernacle.
Between the cherubims, the Shekinah glory of God was revealed. Isn't
that right? That's where God dwelt. God dwelt
in the tabernacle. Is that right? You know that's
right, and I do too. God dwelt in the tabernacle. And that's
where all the works, that's where the atonement was made once a
year, that's where it took place. Two, there was a priest, only
one priest, one great high priest, only one. Nobody was allowed
into God's presence but that priest, is that correct? The
king tried to do it one time, God killed him. But that priest,
once a year, not without blood, a sacrifice, he didn't dare come.
And when that Shekinah glory in that tabernacle was met by
that priest with that proper sacrifice, peace and joy and
communion reigned. You say, how are we going to
come? Same way. Same way. Well, where's the tabernacle?
Christ tabernacled among us. God was in Christ. Huh? You meet God in Christ. That's
where God meets you and where you meet God in Christ. He is
our altar. People have designed wooden things
and that's where folks come. That's not the place. Christ
is our altar. We have an altar. Christ is our
mourner's bench. Christ is our Sabbath day. They
set aside a day and said, this is the day you're supposed to
do this and that and all this stuff. Christ is my Sabbath.
I may do it tomorrow and mess you up. I just might worship
God tomorrow. I bet I'm going to try it Tuesday
and see if I can get through. Oh, but Sunday's the day, is
it? No, sir, Christ is my sabbath. Christ is my altar. Christ is
my tabernacle. What about a priest? We have
a high priest who's on the right hand of God. He's a priest not
after the order of Abraham, but after the order of Melchizedek.
He's a perfect priest. What about the atonement? By
whom we have received the atonement. And let me tell you now, play
this game all you want to. Brag on these preachers, and
brag on the celebration, brag on your quartets, and brag on
your entertainment, brag on your morality, and brag on, hang your
church covenants on the wall, do all your pictures, go through
all the motions. I'm telling you, three things
essential to worship, but find out who they are and where they
are. One's the tabernacle, and that's Christ, Christ Jesus. And two is the priest, and that's
Christ Jesus. And three is the atonement, and
that's Christ Jesus. And Christ is all, and in all.
And that's the reason he said, no man comes to fatherhood by
me. That's where it is. It's not Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian, Catholic, Protestant or Jewish. It's Christ. In Christ
there's neither male nor female, born nor free, barbarian or educated. In Christ, we're one. And I'll tell you, what a joy
to know him. That's where it is. I want you
to sing with me in closing. We got a special tune there,
Sharon and Doris. It's in your book. That's 223.
It's a different tune than the one that's in this book, but
it's an easier one to sing. I think this describes what I've
been trying to say. Number 223, Michael Leedus in
Arise, my soul, arise. Shake off your guilty fears.
The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appeared before the throne.
My surety stands.