How Can Man be Justified with God?

Let's look at our text again,
that it might be fresh on your minds. Job 25, verse 4. How then, how then, can man be
justified with God? Now, the great question For you
and me to answer has always been, and it is now, and it always
will be, how can man, son of Adam, human being, guilty sinner,
be justified, innocent, holy, with Almighty God? Now, Satan
is deceitful, and Satan is subtle, and Satan is crafty. And he clutters
our minds with all sorts of questions. Listen to the religionists. It's
amazing to me. Here they stood face to face
with the Lord of Glory, and all they had to ask him was this,
Master, which is the greatest law? Isn't that amazing? I've often thought, if someone
were to give me one question, just one, what would I ask? If
God were to give me just one question, what would I ask? Whose
wife shall she be in the resurrection? Think about that. Here they stood,
these religionists, these teachers of others, face to face with the Lord of
glory, and all they could think to ask was, Lord, a woman was
married five or six times in And she died. Now, in the resurrection,
whose wife shall she be? Or a question like this, is it
lawful to pay tribute to Caesar? Should a Christian vote? What
part should a believer play in the government? Satan is so crafty,
he's so subtle. He's a sidetracker, did you know
that? He delights to get you sidetracked. Now, those were
the religionists. Now listen to the disciple. Now
listen to his own. This is the inner circle. Lord,
what shall be the sign of thy coming? What shall be the sign
of the end of the world? We want to know what's going
to happen in the future. If God gave you one question,
is that what you'd ask him? Or perhaps this. Lord, who's
going to sit on your right hand and your left hand when you come
into the kingdom? Or listen to the Apostle Peter.
The Lord had told him that when he was old, they would carry
him where he would not, that is, signifying what death he
would die. And then he said, well, Lord, now these are the
last hours of Christ with his disciples. The last hours. And
Peter says, well, Lord, if I'm going to be martyred, what about
John? Now, what's John going to do? These are just the waves of the
wicked. These are the deceitful devices
of Satan to get you sidetracked and to keep your mind from being
where it ought to be. Where Job's mind was in Bildad's. Behold to the moon it shineth
not, the stars are not pure in God's sight. How much less man
that is a worm. How can man be just with God? Now it ought to be clear to every
one of us that God's holy God is holy. God is not a man. Thou
thoughtest thou was altogether such a one as thyself, but God
is holy. If we could get the glimpse that
Isaiah got of the holiness of God, how frightening. God demands
obedience, perfect obedience. God demands holiness. God demands
righteousness. God demands justice. God can
demand no more than perfection, and God can be satisfied with
no less than perfection. Disobedience will result in eternal
judgment. And the great and grand essential
thing for me, personally, is to be right with God. To be just
and holy before God. I've got to be just and holy
before God. How can I be just before God? How can I be holy? How can I
be accounted righteous before God's holy law? God can have
no dealings with me otherwise. Two cannot walk together except
they be agreed. So I believe if I had one question,
just one, to ask the holy God today, suppose you had one question
and you would be faithfully answered, what would you ask? Am I one
of the elect? What if he said no? You've got no more questions.
Lord, am I saved? What if he said no? You've got
no more questions. Lord, what shall be the sign
of your coming? And he tells you, you may not take part in
it. I can't think of any question in the entire Bible as significant
as this one. Lord, how can I be just with
you? How can I be righteous before
holy God? How? Now, I don't deny an interest
in the mysteries of God's providence. Any of us that have any thought
at all about God, about the Bible, about the future, about the past,
I do not deny an interest in God's future works and God's
future glory. But the most important matter
to me at all times, and I believe it increases as I advance in
years, as I approach the day of death and as I approach the
day of judgment, is how can I stand before God accepted? I don't
want to be denied, I want to be accepted. I don't want to
be cast out, I want to be brought in. I don't want to be separated
from God, I want to be embraced by God. How can I be righteous
and holy and acceptable before God Almighty? How can I be justified? Woe to the man that in that day
shall be weighed and found wanting. Woe to the man who in that day
will hear Christ say, depart from me, I never knew you. Happy
is the man, David said, to whom God will not charge sin. Justified,
righteous before a holy God. So that's the question. And every
preacher in America ought to take as his text, at least, occasionally,
how can man be just with God? And take for granted that no
one knows the answer. Take for granted that he doesn't
know the answer, and seek the answer in God's Word. Let us
not lean upon tradition or ceremony. Let us not lean upon supposed
wisdom. Let's ask the question, how can
man be just with God? Now, he must be. God Almighty
cannot accept anything less than perfection. All right, here are four texts.
I'm going to use four texts for my message. The first text is
Job 9, verse 20. Here are four texts. Now, stay
with me, I'll be brief. Here's the first one, Job 9,
verse 20, and I'm going to be just as plain spoken as I possibly
can be without being rude. The first text is this, Job 9,
verse 20. If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me.
If I say I am perfect, and that's what I've got to be, got to be
perfect, then my own mouth shall prove me perverse. Now you remember,
you remember Paul said in Philippians 3 verse 4, if any man thinks
he hath wherein to glory in the flesh, I more. In other words,
Paul was talking about those circumcisers and Judaizers and
ceremonialists, you know, and legalists that wanted the Gentiles
to become Jews in order to become Christians. They were saying
that circumcision and the feast days and the holy days and the
Sabbath days were necessary to be saved. And Paul said, now
you fellows, listen, if any of you think you have wherein to
trust in the flesh and in the ceremonies and sacrifices and
these things, I have a whole lot more to glory in than you
do, because I'm a Hebrew of Hebrews. I'm a Pharisee. I'm born of the
tribe of Benjamin. I was circumcised the eighth
day of the tribe of Benjamin. Concerning zeal, I persecuted
the church. In regard to the outward law,
I'm blameless, but I count these things but rubbish. Rubbish. If ever there was a man who might
be justified before God by his works, it was Job. If there was ever a man that
might be justified before God by his inheritance and his fleshly
background, it was Paul. But he counted these things but
rubbish. And if there was ever a man who had the right to claim
acceptance with God by his works, it was Job, because even God
himself said of Job, he's an upright man. He fears God and
he shuns evil. That's what he said about Job.
And yet Job in our text says, if I justify myself, my own mouth
would condemn me. If I say I am holy, if I say
I am perfect, if I say I'm justified, my mouth would prove me perverse.
So that's the first statement. How can I be just with God? Well,
if I say I'm just, my mouth would condemn me. Why? Because it wouldn't
be true. It wouldn't be true. I'm not
holy. Not in the flesh. Not by nature. I'm not just, I'm not good, neither
are you. My thoughts and my words and
my deeds are impure before God. And if I say that I'm pure, if
I say I'm holy, if I say I'm just, if I say I'm righteous,
I'm a liar. Even my good works are filled
with sin and self. We mourn over our sinfulness,
don't you? If I justify myself, I'm a liar. Any man on this earth or woman
who claims to be without sin is a liar. If we say we have
not sinned, the truth is not in us, John says. If I say I'm
perfect, my mouth would prove me a perverse person. It not
only would make me a liar, but it would make God a liar. Listen
to 1 John 1.10. That's what it says in 1 John
1.10. That's the danger of this claiming holiness and righteousness
in the flesh. It makes me a liar, and then
it makes God a liar. 1 John 1.10 says, if we say we
have not sinned, we make Him a liar. That's serious business. We make
God a liar and his word's not in us. If I justify myself, if
I say that I am holy, I'm a liar and the truth's not in me, and
I make God a liar and his word's not in me. And that's sufficient
to damn me. If I justify myself, the statement
itself would be enough to condemn me. The statement itself. Say, for example, I stood before
you this morning and I said, I am deeply religious, I am deeply
holy. I am without sin. My old nature
has been eradicated. I do not sin. I live a holy life. I have pure thoughts and pure
motives and pure imaginations so that I might enter heaven
by my own merit. Therefore, I need no intercessor.
I need no mediator. I need no redeemer because I'm
holy. What pride! What foolishness! What arrogance! And God Almighty
resisteth the proud, and God hates a proud look, and God says
He resisteth the proud and gives grace to the humble. Well, that
statement would be enough to put me in hell. God hates pride
of face, and pride of race, and pride of place, and God hates
pride of grace. And then not only that, but that
statement, now listen to me. If I justify myself, if I say
that I'm without sin, If I claim holiness in myself, I'm a liar,
I make God a liar, I'm a proud rebel, and fourthly, listen to
this, and that statement would reveal my rejection of God's
way of salvation, which is by grace. That's right, it would
reveal my rejection. Men who believe that salvation
is by any type of works, any form of works, either before
faith or after faith, they show they are in rebellion against
God's purpose in grace through Jesus Christ. They may brag on
his teaching, they may brag on his love, they may brag on his
holiness, but to reject his cross is to deny him. Now, you can
brag on the teachings of Christ all you want to, and the love
of Christ, and the goodness of Christ, and the power of Christ,
but to reject his cross of substitution is to reject him. Paul gloried
not in the works of Christ, or the teachings of Christ, or even
the holy life of Christ. He gloried in the cross of Christ.
God forbid that I should glory save in the cross. The cross
of substitution. Turn to Galatians 2.21, and this
is a verse of scripture that ought to be marked in your Bibles,
ought to be one with which you're very familiar. In Galatians 2.21,
listen to it. I do not frustrate, I do not
confuse the grace of God. Most preachers do. If righteousness
comes by the law, Jesus Christ died in vain. That's how serious
it is. If righteousness comes by the
law, I don't care what kind of righteousness you're talking
about, if it comes by the law, then he died in vain. And that's
what you're saying. If I claim a righteousness apart
from Christ, then he died in vain. If it can be had, if it
can be gained, if it can be found anywhere except in Christ, he
died in vain. There was no use for him to come.
So that's the first text. How can I be just with God? How
can I be holy before God? How can I be accepted by God?
Well, if I claim it in myself, my own mouth, my own words, you
let my words condemn me. Before the judgment of God, my
own words will damn me. I am holy. I am good. I am righteous. I am religious. You are damned
is what you are. Because you're a liar, and you've
made God a liar, and His Word's not in you, and you're full of
pride, and you're rejecting the cross and substitution of Jesus
Christ, and there's nothing God hates more than that. All right? Turn to Romans chapter 8. Let's
read the second text. Now, for justifying myself, I'm
in trouble. But now there's a way that man
might be just before God. Romans 8, verse 33. Let's look
at it here. Romans 8, verse 33. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? Here's
the answer to that question. How can man be justified with
God? It's God that justifies. That's
how man can be justified with God, if God justifies him. Only God can justify the ungodly. Only God can take an unjust,
that's you and me, an unrighteous and unclean sinner, and by a
wondrous plan of grace, which leaves even the angel speechless,
make that man holy. If I claim holiness, I'm a liar.
But if God gives it to me, I have it. If I claim to have it any
other way but by his grace, I'm a liar. But if God gives it to
me, I'm holy. If God justifies me, he says
in verse 33, who can lay anything to my charge? If God justifies
me. Who can condemn me if God justifies
me? The angels cannot condemn me.
The devils cannot condemn me. You cannot condemn me. My heart
can't condemn me. God won't condemn me. The law
won't condemn me if God justifies me. It's God that justifies. God can take the guilt from the
guilty and cast it into the depths of the sea, and even God will
remember it no more. I can't do that. And I can come
down to the mourner's bench and beat and pray and scream and
holler, but my sins are still there. There's still that. I
can go through this pool a dozen times, and there's still that.
I can make vows and resolutions and turn over new leaves and
vow and swear and reform, but there's still that. But if God
justifies me, He says, I'll separate your sins from you as far as
the east is from the west, and remember them no more. I'll cast
them into the depths of the sea. God can cover the unrighteous
person with a spotless robe of righteousness so that he'll be
as fair and as pure as a new-fallen snow. He says, though your sins
be as scarlet, I'll make them white as the snow. Though they
be red like crimson, I'll make them as white as wool. God can
take the most stubborn rebel and make him an obedient son.
He can take the most unholy man and make him unblameable in his
sight. And the glorious thing about it is he does it, now watch
this, he does it in a way that is consistent with his holiness. He's got to do that, he can't
cease to be God. He can't do business with this
world's underworld. God's got to do whatever he does
on a plane of holiness. He can't be bribed. God has to
do what he does in consistency with his holiness, and he's got
to do it in such a way as to glorify his righteousness, and
he's got to do it in such a way as to satisfy his justice, and
he's got to do it in such a way as to magnify his love. God can
justify. God can justify. How can man
be justified? How can this creature born of
woman, with a fallen nature, with an impure heart, with an
evil mind, with wayward feet and bloody hands, how can this
creature be just before God? How can man be clean, clean,
clean as God, clean enough for the eyes of God to behold, to
pass inspection before the Holy Law? How? Well, he might run
around claiming what he's got, but he's a liar. Laying claim
to what he hasn't got, he's a liar. But God can justify God can fix
him so that even the law can't find fault with him. Who can
lay anything to the charge of God? And he can do it in such
a way that he can stay God, be holy and righteous. How? The whole glorious plan is summed
up in two words. Two words. They are substitution
and satisfaction. Those are the two words. Turn
to two verses of scripture. First, Romans 5, verse 19. Romans 5, 19. For as by one man's disobedience the
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made Righteous, righteous, holy, unblameable, righteous,
perfect. Now listen to me and get this.
I'll make it as simple as I can. As the first Adam stood before
God, he's the only man God ever created. God didn't create you. He created
Adam. You came from Adam. The Sunday school teacher told
the class, said, the pastor's coming here next Sunday to visit.
Now, he's going to ask you some questions, boys and girls, and
he's going to ask you who created you. And Willie, you tell him
that God created you. Got that, son? Willie said, yes,
ma'am. Now, when a pastor comes and asks who created you, Willie,
you say, God created me. So next Sunday the pastor came,
and he looked around to boys and girls, and he said, who created
you? And nobody said a word. He said, boys and girls, who
created you? Nobody said a word. A fine little
boy back in the back raised his hand. He said, son, who created
you? He said, well, pastor, he said, now the little boy that
God created is not here today. He's got the measles. But God created Adam. Adam stood. The representative, get this,
the federal head of the whole human race. When Adam stood in
holiness, we stood. When Adam fell, we fell. When
Adam sinned, we sinned. And the whole human race fell
and sinned in Adam. And guilt was imputed and charged
and reckoned to every son of Adam, and guilt was imparted
We were born in sin, we were conceived in sin, we were shaped
in sin, it came right on down through the bloodline. Sin. He
was our representative. Now, so God in grace gave us
a second Adam. You remember reading that turn
to 1 Corinthians 15? A second Adam. A second Adam. In 1 Corinthians 15 verse 21,
listen. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 21, "...for
since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of
the day. As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made
alive." Look at verse 45, 1 Corinthians 15, and so it is written, "...the
first man, Adam, was made a living soul, and the last, Adam, was
made a quickening spirit." How be it that was not first which
is spiritual, not firstly revealed, but that which is natural, that
is, the first atom, the fallen atom, and afterwards that which
is spiritual. The first atom, or first man,
is of the earth, earthy. The second atom, that's the word
man, is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy. And as is the heavenly, such
are they also that are heavenly. Representation! Substitution. The first Adam
stood and the whole race stood in him. And when he fell, we
fell. That's representation, that's
federal headship, the first Adam. God sent a second Adam, the Lord
from heaven. We bore the image of the earthy.
Thank God by his grace we bear the image of the heavenly. As
in the first Adam's disobedience we became sinners, by the second
Adam's obedience we became righteous. Through the first Adam's power,
we had imputed to us guilt. By the second Adam's obedience,
we had imputed to us righteousness. By the first Adam's power, we
had imparted to us a spirit of rebellion. Through the second
Adam's obedience, we had imparted to us, and by his spirit, the
spirit of obedience. We're made sons of God. We have
a nature, a divine nature, given us in the new birth. That's substitution. All right, the second word is
satisfaction. Turn to Romans 3. Jesus Christ was our substitute. And as our substitute, he satisfied
all that God required of us. He satisfied the law. The law
demands obedience. It has, it does now, it always
will. The justice of God demands honoring
and satisfaction. And Christ did that as our substitute.
Romans 3.19, listen, Now we know that what things soever the law
saith, it saith to them under the law, that's all of us, that
every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty
before God. Therefore by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in God's sight, for by the law
is the knowledge of sin. Now look at verse 23, For all
have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus, whom God has set forth, foreordained, to be a propitiation,
a mercy seat, through faith in his blood, to declare God's righteousness
for the remission of sins that have passed through the forbearance
of God. That's talking about even the
Old Testament people. To declare, I say at this time,
God's righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier. of him that believeth in Jesus."
How did God justify us? How did God make me holy? He
sent the substitute, my representative, Jesus Christ. He took upon himself
the likeness of my flesh, bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.
And I was in him, just like I was in the first Adam when he fell.
I was in Christ. And he obeyed the law, and he
went to the cross, and there my sins were laid on him. He
actually took my sins in his body on the tree. And he paid
for them. And because Christ did for me
what I couldn't do, and Christ gave to me what I can't claim
in my own self, then before God, because of the substitute, because
of the satisfaction of the substitute, Because God's law was honored
and his justice satisfied, God can still be holy and righteous
and merciful and love. And he can regard... Now how
does this righteousness become mine? By faith. That's how it
becomes mine. And I can use no better illustration
than this. Listen. When the sacrificial
lamb was brought to be slain in the Old Testament, The sinner
came and laid his hands on the head of the beast. They brought
the lamb to be slain. And he laid his hands on the
head of that beast, the sinner did, and he confessed his sins. And his sins and tithe were transferred
from him to the beast in picture. And then the beast was slain.
Now a hymn writer wrote these words about that experience.
My faith, my faith, I don't actually, Christ isn't here, I don't touch
his picture, or touch the Bible, or touch the television, or touch
the radio. It's not a physical touch. My
faith in my heart, my faith doth lay her hand on that dear head
of thine, the thorn-pierced head, the head under God's judgment
and wrath, while like a penitent I stand and confess my sin. And my soul looks back to see
the burden he did bear while hanging on that cursed tree.
I know my sins were that. That's how it becomes mine, by
faith. By faith. Therefore being justified. Alright,
turn to Romans chapter 5. Let me give you a couple more
verses here. Romans 5, verse 1. If I justify myself, I'm a liar. But God can justify me. How?
Through my substitute, by the satisfaction of my substitute.
Now, what does that mean? Look at Romans 5.1. Therefore,
being justified by faith, I have peace. I have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, folks, listen to me for
a few moments and I'll close. All the religions in this world,
that teach salvation by works, by human merit, by decisionism,
by deeds and righteousness. They can give you a profession,
but not a one of them can give you heart peace. It can't be
done. There's just no way that a real
honest man or woman who knows his thoughts who knows his weakness,
who knows his potential, who knows his inability, that no
way that any honest human being can find any kind of peace in
a religion of works. Because you keep on saying, have
I done enough? I know I haven't. Have I done
the right works? I wonder. Am I doing the right
works now? When will I fail? I'd be in constant
turmoil wondering when Satan was going to cause me to fall,
when I was going to lose my temper, when I was going to lose my sanctification,
when I was going to lose my determination, when I was going to stumble and
fall, when I was going to say the wrong thing. Am I in the
right church? Do I have the right baptism?
Do I have the right motive? Do I have the right spirit? Do
I say the right words? Do I study enough? Do I pray
long enough? No way. And no way that any honest person,
now these phonies can, these little phony religionists, and
the world's full of them, these little smiley characters, these
sentimental emotionless, you know, that look religious, they're
trying to impress folks with their religion. They can find
a little comfort, but an honest man can't do it. Not in works. Can't do it. But I'll tell you
this, if I'm trusting Christ, I can find peace. I can find
peace. I can have rest if I'm resting
in him, in him alone. Because he's already died. My
sins are already paid for. What do you mean, sins? They're
already paid for. What do you mean, judgment? There's
no judgment. There's no condemnation to them
who are in Christ. Turn to Romans 8.1 and look at
it. There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are
in Christ. Look at Romans 8, 33. Who can
lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justified
me. I didn't do it, and the preacher
didn't do it, and I don't have to please the preacher. Pleasing
God's my business. Honoring Christ is my business.
Walking with Christ is my business. Who is he that condemneth? I'm
doing the best I can. No, that's not what he said.
Who is he that condemns? Look at verse 34. It is Christ
that died. That's my reason for confidence.
Christ died. Not only died, but rose again.
Not only rose again, but is it God's right hand? God's right
hand. Not only is it God's right hand, but he's calling my name.
Boy, that's big company. That's high company. That's where you find peace.
Therefore, being justified by God, I have peace with God. Peace with God. It's okay now.
My sins are paid for. My name's in the Book of Life
because Christ wrote it there. My sins are cast into the sea
because He paid for them. I have a holiness that He worked
out. I'm not trying to work out a holiness. You may be, if that's
what you're trying to do, you're in trouble because it's got to
match Christ's holiness. God will lay it down beside not
Martin Luther's, not John Calvin's, and not somebody else's, or mama's
or daddy's. He's going to lay it down beside
the righteousness of his Son, and if you come short of his
glory, you're in trouble. You can't find any peace there,
but you can find peace. Turn to Colossians 1. Let me
read you a scripture here. Colossians chapter 1. You can
find some peace there. You wonder why you're distressed
and depressed about your relationship with God. You wonder why? Because
you're trying to accomplish that relationship on the wrong basis.
You're trying to establish that relationship on the basis of
what you've done or haven't done, or what you do or don't do, instead
of looking to Christ and saying, Let the blood of Christ be propitiation
for me. Let the righteousness of Christ
stand for me. Let the holiness of thy Son cover
me. Let the blood of Christ cleanse
me. And God will accept you in the Beloved. He ain't going to
accept you on the basis of what you've done. All he can do is
cast you out. Lord, we did many wonderful works
in your name. I never knew you. I know my son. I don't know you. Colossians
1. Verse 19, it pleased the Father
that in him should all fulness dwell, and having made peace
through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things
to himself. By him, I say, whether they be
things in earth or things in heaven. that were sometimes or
at one time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through
death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in his sight." If you continue in the faith, if you continue
in the faith, that's where it all is. The last text is Romans 8.30. And I close, Romans 8, 30. Now
what I'm saying, how can a man be justified with God? Well,
if I justify myself, I'm a liar. But God can justify me in being
consistent with his holiness and justice. And he did it by
Christ's substitution and satisfaction. And if God justifies me, I have
peace. I have a foundation for peace.
I have a reason for peace. I have a right to peace. And
then, if he justified me, he's going to glorify me, because
it says in Romans 8.30, whom he predestinated, them he also
called, and whom he called, everybody he called he justified, and everybody
he justified, he glorified. He justified, he glorified. It doesn't say everybody who
justifies himself shall be glorified. It says everybody whom he justified
It's going to be glorified. He justified. When the great
preacher Isaac Watts was dying, this is a true story, he's the
one who wrote so many great hymns at the cross, at the cross, and
others. When he came to die, he said
this, when the most learned Christian
comes to die, He must draw his comfort from the plainest, clearest
promises of God's Word, and so do I. I praise God that these
promises are so plain and simple that they don't need any great
wisdom to understand them. My friends, my hope is simply
in the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ my Lord. My friends, my hope is simply
in the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, my Lord. That's
how a sinner is justified. That's how he's justified. We
can call on men to do this, that, and the other, beg them to do
this, that, and the other, and promise some rewards if they
do, but it's God that justifies it. It's God that justifies it. We thank thee for the promises
of thy word that gives us hope. There is no hope in our flesh.
There is no hope in our perseverance. There is no hope in our faithfulness.
There is no hope in our deeds or our obedience, for we are
sinful creatures. And when we have done all these
things, we are nothing but unprofitable servants. And, yea, Lord, even
our righteousness is a filthy rag. We look into that service
we call service for God, and we see so much self, so much
vainglory, so much strife. We look into that which we call
love, and it's so imperfect. We look into that which we call
holiness, and it's so filthy. We look into that, O Lord, which
we call prayer, and it's so empty, empty, empty, so full of flesh. But our eyes look upon Christ
and we see perfection, perfect obedience, perfect submission,
perfect humility, perfect love, perfect sacrifice by which he
sanctified forever his people. And we look yonder at thy right
hand and we see Christ and we know that he is accepted And
we'll only be accepted in him. And that's where we want to be.
Oh, that we may win Christ and be found in him, not having our
own righteousness, which is of the law, but the righteousness
of Christ, which is by faith. That I may know him and the power
and force and beauty of his resurrected life. Accept us, O Father, in
the Beloved. and deliver us from seeking any
rest anywhere else. For Christ's sake, amen.

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