Turn in your Bibles to the book
of Job again, this time to the 25th chapter, Job 25, verses 4, 5, and 6. How then, in the light of what
we have read a little while ago, how then can man be justified
with God? Or how can he be clean that is
born of a woman? Behold, even to the moon, and
it shineth not, yea, the stars are not pure in God's sight. How much less man that is a worm
and the Son of Man, which is a worm." Two questions before I get to
the great question. The first one is this, how holy
is God? Just how holy is God? Well, so
holy that he said in Exodus 33, speaking to Moses, one of his
choice servants, Verse 20 of Exodus 33, he said, Thou canst
not see my face, Moses, for there shall no man see me and survive
and live. God is so holy that even Moses,
his choice servant, could not look upon God and live. How holy
is God? So holy that when they brought
the ark of the covenant from where it was up to Jerusalem,
that when the ox cart began to shake and the ark trembled, that
a man by the name of Uzzah reached up to keep the ark from falling
and just touched it, and God smote him dead. How holy is God! so holy that one of the greatest
kings who ever lived, King Uzziah, of whom it is said Isaiah wrote
everything he said and did, that King Uzziah went into the tabernacle
to offer a sacrifice to God, to perform an act of worship.
And Almighty God smote him with leprosy. And he died for entering
the holy place. How holy is God? Turn to Isaiah
chapter 6. It says here in Isaiah chapter
6 that in the year that that happened, that King Uzziah died,
Isaiah said, I saw the Lord. Isaiah 6, verse 1. I saw the
Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple. And above it stood the seraphims. Each one had six wings. In the
presence of God, with two he covered his face, with two he
covered his feet, and with two he did plow about the place.
And they cried one to another, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. How holy is God! And even the
heavenly creatures cover their faces in his presence and cover
their feet. And they cry out one to another
as he is holy. How holy is God! So holy that
righteous Job, one of the most godly men of his day, cried out
at the revelation of God's power, I hate myself. Job, who had spent
so long defending himself and justifying himself before his
friends, when he saw the holiness and power of God, cried out,
I repent in dust and ashes, I put my hand over my mouth, I've spoken
things too wonderful for me, I'll never speak again, I hate
myself. How holy is God, so holy that
John the Apostle the beloved apostle who leaned his head on
the breast of the Master at the Lord's table. How holy is God,
so holy that this beloved apostle who was sent out by our Lord
to preach and to teach the gospel of his Son, who wrote the book
of John and possibly the epistles. How holy is God, so holy that
John the apostle on the Isle of Patmos fell at his feet as
a dead man just at the sound of his voice. How holy is God, so holy that
the beloved Apostle Paul, who had a direct revelation from
heaven of God in the person of Christ and was taught the gospel
from the lips of the Master himself. The beloved Apostle Paul, the
Apostle to the Gentiles, was taken up to the third heaven
up to the presence of God and came back, whether in the body
or out of the body, he said, I do not know. But he said, I
went to the third heaven, and I heard things that it's impossible
to utter, not difficult to utter, not difficult for you to understand.
But I heard things in the presence of God that were so high and
lofty and so great and so holy that there is impossible
for a human being to utter as for a dog to sing a symphony. Impossible. That's how holy God
is. Impossible for a human mind to
comprehend for the human heart to understand or for the human
lips to speak of his holiness and his glory. Impossible. In
fact, everybody who's written in the Reader's Digest and in
all these stories about having died and gone somewhere and come
back and popped off about it is a dirty liar. Exactly right. Write it down and tell them so.
They said they went out from this life, and they saw the light,
and they saw this, that, and the other. They're liars. Because
the man whom I know by the word of God, on the testimony of the
Holy Spirit, did that very thing. He left this earth. He said,
whether in the body or out of the body, I don't know, but I
did go in the presence of God. And he never uttered one word
about it, not one. We don't know when he left, how
he left. what he saw, what he heard, and
when he came back. He said, because it's impossible,
impossible, impossible to utter. If you saw a light, you couldn't
tell about it, because it would be like no light you ever saw
before. That's right, impossible. And the only way that you and
I can ever go into his presence is to be changed. We shall not
all sleep, but we shall be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of
an eye, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Corruption
cannot inherit incorruption. And corruption cannot understand
it or verbalize it. And any man who says he has or
did or does is a liar, and Satan is his daddy. Paul said, I saw things, I heard
things. He didn't even tell what he saw.
He didn't even mention seeing. He just said, I heard! Things impossible. Totally impossible. Totally beyond comprehension.
Totally beyond the ability to verbalize. You just have to wait
till you get there. Just have to wait till you get
there. How holy is God? So holy. And
I say this to my last emphasis, so holy, so holy, that when his
beloved Son, the Son of his love, his only begotten Son who said,
glorify me with the glory which I had with thee before the world
war, his Son who was with God and is God and was God and all
things were made by him, the Son of his love, out of the bosom
of the Father, the exact image of the Father, the exact expression
of his glory, when his Son came to this earth, his Son, from
whom he had never been apart or separated, very God of very
God, his Son, when he hung on that cross of Calvary, nailed
there by the hands of wicked men, and forsaken of all friends
and forsaken of all disciples, when his Son hung on that cross,
bearing our guilt and shame, the Father so holy that the Father
himself turned his back on him and answered not that terrible
cry, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" That's our holy God. Habakkuk says the Lord is in
his Holy Temple, let all the earth be silent before him. Zephaniah said, Hold thy peace
at the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is holy. The Lord thy God is holy. Turn with me to Psalm 99 and
see if you can lay hold upon these words here. Psalm 99. Psalm 99, the Lord reigneth in
majesty, sovereignty, power, and holiness. The Lord reigneth.
Let the people tremble. Psalm 99 verse 1, he sitteth
between the cherubim. That's where the Shekinah glory
is manifested. Let the earth be moved. Let the earth stagger. The Lord
is great in Zion, he is high above all the people. Let them
praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy! It is holy. Verse 5, Exalt ye the Lord our
God, and worship at his footstool, for he is holy. Verse 9, exalt the Lord our God
and worship at his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy. How holy is God? So infinitely,
unchangeably holy that it's absolutely impossible
for anyone here, preacher or people, to comprehend even to
a minute degree, the holiness of God. How holy is God? Second question is this, how
sinful is man? And I'm afraid that our understanding
of the sinfulness of man is just as limited as our understanding
of the holiness of God. I don't think any of us preacher
or people, any of us here, to the least degree, have laid hold
upon an understanding of the wickedness, the wickedness, the
vile, rotten, corruptible wickedness of human flesh. If we did, there wouldn't be
statements like the holiness movement. There wouldn't be anyone calling
himself a man of God. There wouldn't any of us be talking
about our righteousness. We'd all be mourning and grieving
apart before God. How sinful is man? Well, let's
see. In Genesis 6, verse 5, here's
what God said. Genesis 6, verse 5, he said this,
and God saw Whether you do or not, God did. Genesis 6, 5, God
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every, the whole imagination, every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil every day, every moment, every second,
continually evil. Psalm 14. Listen to this. How
sinful is man? Let the Word of God speak. Let
God be true and ever man alive. How wicked, how sinful is man? Psalm 14, the Lord. Verse 2. Read verse 1. The fool, the fool
hath said in his heart, No God for me. No God for me. They're corrupt. They've done
abominable works. There is none that doeth good.
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see
if there were any, any that did understand and seek God. They're
all gone aside. They're all together become filthy. That word is stinking. Stinking. There's none that doeth good.
No, not one. No, not one. Psalm 51, we were
born this way. And not only born this way, but
we were conceived and shapen in this iniquity. This iniquity
is not something we picked up when we reached a certain age
of accountability. This is a wickedness and a perversion
and a filthiness with which we were born. In Psalm 51, he says
in verse 5, Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, formed in iniquity,
and sin my mother conceived me. And in Psalm 58, verse 3, he
said, And the wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray
as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the
poison of a rattlesnake. The Cobra, born in us. How wicked is man, how sinful
is man? Well, look at Isaiah 1. Our ruin
is complete. Every imagination of our heart
is evil. We all together become filthy. We were conceived and shaped
and brought forth in iniquity. And our ruin is so complete that
it goes from the top hair of our head to the very soles of
our feet, out to the end of our longest fingernail. Listen to
it. Isaiah 1, verse 5. Why? Should
you be stricken any more, you will only revolt more and more.
We're so rotten, even correction won't correct us. That's right.
We're so rotten, even judgment won't break us. He said, why should you be stricken?
Why should you be afflicted? Why should I deal with you in
wrath? You'll only revolt more and more. Even in the book of
Revelation, when God poured out the seven bowels of his wrath, men repented not to give him
the glory. They cursed the very God who
was pouring out the wrath. And the more wrath he poured
out, the more they cursed. That's what he said. No use.
No use. Because your whole head is sick. That's your mind and your thoughts.
Your whole head is sick. Sick. And your whole heart, that's
your affections. Your affections. Your whole heart
is corrupt and faint. Yea, from the sole of your foot
clear down to the bottom of the corn, or callous. Even to your
head, there's no soundness in you anywhere, nothing but wounds
and bruises and putrefying sores that haven't even been treated.
Closed up, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment,
like gangrene and like festered ulcers. That's all you are from
the sole of your feet. How sinful is man? That's what
God sees. Oh, we dress up on Sunday morning
and comb our hair and wash our face and shave and put on a little
smelling, put on our nice clothes and go out to church, and we
just feel so good, and we fold our hands in righteousness and
lift our fluttering eyes to God, and we utter some words, and
pfft, God speaks you out of his mouth. You're stinking his nostrils. Is that right? That's what he
says, stinking, stinking. When God looks upon this flesh,
he sees a lot of crawling, wiggling maggots in a dead carcass. That's
what he sees. That's what he says. How sinful
is man? Turn to Ezekiel and listen to
Ezekiel tell about us. Ezekiel, listen to this, verse
16. Here's a picture of us. Here's
a picture of us, Ezekiel 16. Again the word of the Lord came
to me saying, son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her filth,
her abominations. Jerusalem? We're not talking
about the Amalekites, Walter, or the Philistines. We're talking
about Jerusalem. We're talking about the best there is, man
at his best state. We're talking about the religious.
We're talking about the ceremonialists. We're talking about the moralists.
We're talking about the legalists. We're talking about the holiness.
We're talking about the fellow that's got the blessing. We're
talking about the fellow that goes by the name of God, Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the capital of religion. Jerusalem, the city of God. Jerusalem,
the Zion of the earth. Cause Jerusalem to know what
shape she's in. What are you saying about us,
Lord? He said, well, thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem. Your
birth, your beginning, your nativity is of the land of paganism, Canaan. idolatry, your father was an
Amorite, your mama was a Hittite, you're born of a pagan beginning. As for your birth, your nativity
and the day you were born, your navel wasn't cut, neither were
you washed in water to supple thee, you were not salted at
all, nor swaddled at all, nor I pitied thee. Here's a baby
born from his mother's womb, they didn't even clip his navel
or tie his the cord or wash him off, just took him out of his
mother's womb and nobody pitied him or cared for him to do any
of these things to you, had no compassion for you, but cast
you out in the field, out there in the bushes, out there in the
bushes, out in the weeds and the thorns and the thicket, just
took you from your mother's womb. in your afterbirth and blood
and cast you into the field to the loathing of your person and
you lay out there in the day you were born. That's the shape
you're in. Bragg on that a little while. Bragg on that. There you lay in your filth.
There you lay in your blood. There you lay, punctured by the
thorns and flies all over you, laying out there in the field.
laying out there dead. And I passed by you. I passed
by you. I saw you. I saw you. I saw you
like you are. I saw you polluted in your blood. That's what I saw. In the flesh
dwelleth no good thing. How evil is man, how sinful is
man. In the flesh dwelleth no good
thing. In the flesh no man can please
God. God knows us as we are. God sees
us as we are. God understands us as we are.
And there's not anything from the top of the head to the sole
of the feet, anywhere in a man's heart, mind, will, imagination,
soul, or anything to attract to our God. He said you pollute
it. How sinful is man turned to Romans
3. Oh, what a wretched, vile creature. What a wretched creature. In
Romans chapter 3, the Apostle Paul declares in verse 9, what
then? Are we any better than they?
That is, the Jew, are they better than the Gentile? No, no. No. Are we religious folks any
better than the drunks? No. Any better than the harlots? No. Any better than the witch
doctors out in Africa? Oh, no. Any better than the man
who dances around the idol and puts his children in the arms
of the burning, burning, burning God? Oh, no. We're no better
than they. We're no better. Yeah, we're
Jerusalem, but we're no better. Are we better than they? Oh,
no! Yeah, but look at them! Here we are in our Sunday go-to-meet-and-close,
and here we are with our Bibles under our arms, and here we are
professing Jehovah God, and here we are saying that we worship
as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and here we are giving
our tithes and keeping our holy days, and here we are going through
the motions, and there they are in their nakedness and fornication
and and hatred and murder and rape and robbery and profanity
and blasphemy and idolatry. Don't we know better than these
Gentiles? Oh, no, he said. Oh, no. No, I proved, he said,
verse 9, I therefore prove to you both the religious and the
irreligious, both the religious and the heathen, both the Jews
and the Gentiles, they're all under sin. Under sin. As it's written, it's written,
it is written, there's none righteous, no, not one. There's none that
understand it, there's none that seek it after God, his God, but
not the God, not the capital G-O-D. Oh, they seek after righteousness,
but not his. They seek after a God, but not
him. They seek after peace, but not his peace. They seek after
cleansing, but not his. No, no, they don't seek him. They're all gone, clear out of
the way. They are together become unprofitable,
not worth nothing. Unprofitable to God. Unprofitable. There's none that doeth good,
no, not one. is an open sepulchre. When you
roll away the stone and the man's been dead five or six days, whew, oh my, what do you smell? The smell of death, rotten flesh. That's our throat. You can get all the clorets and
dendine and But God says your throat is like a grave where
a man's been laying down there dead for a long time. And with
your tongues, deceit and the poison of snakes. I was down
in Waynesville, North Carolina, near Cherokee, in a meeting,
and Brother Tim James and Scott Richardson and Some of us went
over to see a man who runs a zoo. I forget his name, but they knew
him. He had a tiger and he had several animals, and he said,
you want to see my snakes? Well, I don't like snakes, but
they're fascinating for some reason. I don't know why. But
he took us in this snake barn where he had them stored for
the winter. We saw different kinds, and then he went over.
And he opened the door and we walked into a place and there
were 150 rattlesnakes, 150 rattlesnakes in a bin, in a bin, I mean in
a wire bin. I was standing as close as here
to that pulpit from 150 rattlesnakes. cold chills went all up and down
my spine, you know. I stood there and looked at those
things and they were doing like this, you know, throwing their
mouths open, you know, and right, it sounded like rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I looked at that fellow that
owned them, and he had two fingers off like that. I said, What happened
to you? He said, One of them bit me on
the finger. I lost both those fingers, just one of those little
fellows. And that's what he says, Under
your tongues and my tongue is all the venom, the poison in
our lips and under our tongue of a hundred and fifty dirty
rattlesnakes. Oh, my soul, our mouths are full
of cursing and bitterness. We complain and grumble and gripe
and find fault with God and his providence, sit down at a table
loaded down with food, and the bread is cold. The bread is cold. We got a brand new pair of shoes
and a new suit, and our toe hurts, you know. And we're driving down
a $65 billion highway in a brand new automobile, and we don't
have no air conditioning. Boy, I tell you, cursing and
bitterness. Something wrong with everything,
God does. We went to church and it was
too hot. Complaining. Your feet are swift
to shed blood. Destruction and misery in your
way, the way of peace you have not known. There ain't no fear
of God before your eye. That's how sinful man is. The Word of God does not, from
Genesis to Revelation, have one good word to say about us. Not
one good word. How holy is God? I really wish
I knew. Someday I'm going to know. I
really wish I knew. How wicked am I? I don't think
I really want to know right now. Maybe some of it was, but I don't
believe I could take all of it. I don't believe I could. I believe it would be bad as
falling into a den of 150 rattlesnakes. We'd go crazy. We'd lose our
minds if we knew the poison that's in us and on us and about us
and around us, that venom of hell, that venom of Satan, that
venom of evil that would even attack the heart of God, that
would even take the Holy Son of God and spit on him and nail
him to a cross. We did that. We did that. Now, God is a spirit and man
is flesh. He is spiritually dead. God is
life and man is death personified. God is truth and we are alive. Everything about us is alive.
God is light and we are full of darkness. God is good and
we are evil. God is holy and we are unholy. Now the great question, Job 4,
Job chapter 4. These questions, how holy is
God? I believe this. I believe if
I took a new church as pastor, if I went in again to start off
as a pastor, I believe Bob, for the first two years, would preach
on the holiness of God. I believe I would. I believe
I'd camp there until somebody Somebody in that congregation
got some understanding or conception of God's holiness and God's greatness. And then I think the next two
years I'll talk about how wicked and vile and sinful and hell-deserving
we are, what wretched creatures we are. And then maybe somebody
would cry Well, how can man be just with God? And then I'd tell
him some good news. And then I'd come in, walk with
some gospel. Because I'd have somebody ready
to receive it. I'd have somebody who wanted
it, needed it, was desperate for it. Give me Christ or I die. The second death, because I'm
already dead once. That's what Job and his friends
are talking about here in Job 4, verse 17, shall mortal man
be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than
his Maker? Behold, he puts no trust in his
servants, his angels he charges with folly. How much less in
them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in
the dust which are crushed before the moth, that are destroyed
from morning till evening, they perish forever without any regarding
it. Turn to Job 9, listen to this. Job 9, Job answered and said,
I know, I know it's so of a truth, I know God's holiness, I know
man's sinfulness, so how should man be just with God? What about
Job 15? Job 15. Asking these questions? We're
asking questions that don't amount to a hill of beans. Who is the
Antichrist? Who is the Beast? Who is 666? Will the Church go through the
Tribulation? That's our question. Where did Cain get his wife? Who's Gog and Magog? It takes
fools to deal with things like that. How can man be just with
God? That's a wise man. That's a man
that's got his eyes open. That's a man that knows the issues.
That's a man that knows his troubles. That's a man that knows what's
ahead. In Job chapter 15, he says here in verse 14, What is
man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman,
that he should be righteous? Behold, God puts no trust in
his saints, and the heavens are not clean in God's sight. How
much more abominable and stinking is that word again, is man, which
drinks iniquity like water. We thrive on it. We love it. We get fat on it. iniquity, just like water. Look
at Job 25, and then I'll, find the answer, and you know the
gospel. Find the answer, how can man
be just with God, and you'll find salvation. Find the answer,
and enter into his rest. Find the answer, and find peace
and joy like you've never known. Find the answer, and tell somebody
else, but you don't have any good news until you know how
a man can be just with God. You don't have anything to say. There's a man I know preached
a sermon, and he asked a man present in
this auditorium what he thought of his sermon. He said it wasn't
much. He said, what do you think I
ought to do? He said, I think you ought to sit down and be
quiet. You don't have anything to say. And I'll tell you this,
until you know the answer to this question, you don't have
anything to say. How can man be justified with God? How can
he be clean as born of womb? Now, let me tell you this. Man
has not been without answers to that question. How can man
be clean? He continually comes up with
something. He'll turn to the sacrifice and the ceremony. He
loves a religious atmosphere. It makes him feel good. Makes
him feel good. Even though our God said that
the blood of bulls and goats is not possible, it can take
away sin. Or a man will turn to Sinai's mountain, Walt, that's
what you was talking about this morning. He'll turn to the rules
and the laws, although God says that by the law no person should
be justified in his sight. Or a man will turn to his personal
righteousness, although God said it's not by works of righteousness,
which Or he'll turn to his heritage, his mother and father background. Our Lord said, don't say Abraham's
your father. I'm able of these stones to raise
up children to Abraham. Abraham being your father don't
mean anything. It just makes you more responsible. Or they'll turn to their service
in the name of Christ. Well, we preached in your name,
Lord, and did many wonderful works. Man's not without an ancestor.
He clambers around until he finds one, but I'll tell you this,
and you listen to this carefully, Lucifer found no security in
the angelic ranks. Adam found no security in the
garden of paradise. Israel found no security in a
God-given covenant. Joab found no security even holding
Charlie to the horns of the altar. Judas found no security in the
apostolic office. Simon found no security in being
baptized by an apostle. Saul found no security in all
of the rules and laws of Jewish religion, he said, keeping them
blamelessly. Demas found no security in the
companionship of God's chosen apostle. And you and I will find
no help, no hope, no rest, no security until by the grace of
God we find the answer to the question, how can man be just
with God? How can one so low be the companion
of one so high? How can one so high look on with
acceptance and favor and communion, one so corrupt. I'll read it
to you briefly from Romans 3. Romans 3, and here's the answer. Romans 3, beginning with verse
19. Now, we know Romans 3, verse 19, I want you
to look at it and let the Word of God preach the rest of this
message. We know, this I know, that what things whoever God's
law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that's every
one of us, that every mouth may be stopped, no but, but, but,
no, but I know, but Lord know, stop ever making. And all the world become subject
to the judgment of God. Guilty. Guilty. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law, by the works of religion, by the activities of religion,
By tithing, fasting, praying, giving, witnessing, soul winning,
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, in his sight, that's
where it's got to be done, in his sight, or we justify ourselves
in the eyes of men, comparing ourselves with ourselves. But
by the law is the knowledge of sin, but now, now the holiness,
the righteousness, the perfect beauty of God without the law,
without my obedience to the law, which I can never produce, is
revealed, manifested, and is witnessed by the word of God
and the prophets. It's even the righteousness,
the holiness of God, of God himself, promise, purpose, provided and
purchased by the faith of Jesus Christ. And it's upon covering
completely, and it's unto and within all that believe. For there is no difference. For all that sinned and come
short of God's glory, God's glory, I'm good as anybody in your church,
sure you are, sure you are. But what you've done is you've
come short not of my glory, or yours, but His, His glory. I ain't worried about which of
us is the best or the worst. In God's sight, we're all guilty.
You might be on the top of the ladder or the bottom rung, but
when it falls, you're all down. You might be in the attic of
the house or in the basement, but when she burns, she burns.
There ain't none of us in His presence. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. So being already accomplished,
justified just as if I had never sinned, perfectly holy, freely,
don't do nothing in return, freely, by His grace, not my works, His
grace, through the redemption The full redemption as surety
incarnate Lord, obedient Lord, crucified Lord, buried Lord,
risen Lord, ascended Lord, seated Lord, interceding Lord, by the
redemption which is in Christ Jesus, verse 25, whom God himself,
the offended one, the one against whom we have sinned, he set him
forth, he foreordained him, he foreordained to be a sacrifice,
a sin offering, a mercy seed, a sacrifice of propitiation,
a sufficient offering through faith in his blood, through faith
in his blood. And in his blood, God declared
his righteousness in passing over the sins of the Old Testament
saints through his longsuffering and forbearance. That's what
that says. And God set him forth here 2,000 years ago to declare
through his blood the forgiveness of all those sins back then.
And to declare, look, I say at this time his holiness and righteousness,
that he might be just and righteous and holy, and the forgiver, the
partner, the justifier of everybody over here too. Everybody over
here too. There he is, that's the Acme,
that's the Paramount, that's the Pentacle, that's the Supreme
Offering, that's the Son of God, that's the Redeemer. That's how
man can be just with God, in Him, by faith in Him, by faith. Now, where's your boasting, verse
27, huh? Where's your boasting? By it's
excluded? By what law of work? No, by the
law of faith. And a man, a man, and that's
what you are, that's what I am, a man is justified by faith,
by faith, without any doings and any deeds and any works and
any merit of the law by Christ.