I'd like to read my text again,
if you will open your Bibles to Hebrews 10, verse 11. Hebrews 10, verse 11. Now I've
preached from this text six times in the last four years. This
will be the seventh message from this text. But I make no apologies
for my repetition. For this subject cannot be repeated
too often. First of all, because it's the
very heart of the gospel. the heart of the gospel. Secondly,
because it's the central theme of the entire Bible. What I'm
preaching tonight is the theme of the scriptures. And thirdly,
it's the only hope of the sinner. If you're here tonight and you
are a lost person, you are a sinner, this is your only hope. And then fourthly, it's the theme
of the redeemed in glory. or throughout eternity we're
going to praise him who loved us and washed us from our sins
in his own blood. Now, if I preach the atonement
of Christ every sermon, every service, throughout my entire
ministry, my ministry would not be unprofitable. It would not
be unprofitable. Perhaps it would be more profitable.
You know, somebody said one time, No matter how many dishes you
put on the table, you always put the bread and the salt. You
might have a variety of dishes. but always on the table with
this variety of dishes is the bread and the salt. What I'm
dealing with tonight is the bread. It's the bread of life. What
I'm dealing with tonight is the salt of the gospel feast. Now let's read Hebrews chapter
10, verse 11. And every priest standeth daily,
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can
never take away sins. But this man, the Lord Jesus
Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever,
sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting
till his enemies be made his footstool. for by one offering
he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." It's just
loaded with rich treasures. Every word in these three verses,
or four verses, is just loaded with blessings and with treasures.
I see an abundance of gospel truth. First of all, let's look
at the contrast. It says here in verse 11, and
every priest And every priest, there were
many priests in Old Testament days. There were thousands and
thousands and thousands of priests. And the reason for this, the
reason for so many priests is, first of all, the sacrifices
were too numerous for one man. It would have been impossible
for one man to have offered all these sacrifices, or even a portion
of them. There were hundreds of sacrifices
that had to be made, and there were many priests because there
were many blood offerings and many sacrifices. And then the
second reason why there were so many priests was because the
priest grew old and died. A man would serve as a priest
and then his life would be over, he would die, and his son would
take his place. There were many priests because
the priest grew old and died. But the main reason for so many
priests and so many sacrifices was that no priest could accomplish
the work of redemption. No priest could effectually put
away sin. No priest and no sacrifice can
effectually forgive the sinner. The sacrifices must go on and
on and on because sin goes on and on and on. Turn to Hebrews
7. I want you to turn over there
especially now and look at two or three verses with me, and
this describes what I've just said. It's said over here in
Hebrews 10 in our text, and every priest implying that there were
many priests. There were many priests, there
were thousands of them. In fact, the whole tribe, Aaron's
whole tribe and Levi's whole tribe, served about the temple
and about the sacrifices. And here in Hebrews 7, verse
23, it says, And they truly were many priests, many of them, because
They were not suffered to continue by reason of death. They died. They couldn't continue their
priesthood because they died. But this man, the Lord Jesus
Christ, this man, because he continued ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood. He is a priest after the Order
of Melchizedek, having neither beginning or ending, having neither
mother or father, having neither beginning of days or ending of
days. The priesthood of Christ is an
everlasting priesthood. And as we shall be in Him in
eternity future, in the purpose and mind of Almighty God, we
were in Christ throughout eternity past. We were chosen in Him,
loved in Him, redeemed in Him, accepted in Him, and right now
we are seated in Christ and with Christ in the heavenlies. Read
on. Wherefore, because he has an unchangeable priesthood, one
priest, he is able also to save them to the uttermost, or evermore,
that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them. So the first thing I see in this
text, Hebrews 10 and 11, that there were many priests, many
of them, going about the Old Testament tabernacle and the
Old Testament temple and the Old Testament holy place. There
were many priests, thousands of them, because these men lived
awhile and then they died. And their sacrifices never were
effectual. They were simply types. pictures
and shadows. Now the second thing I said,
and every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, the same sacrifices. The great day of
atonement came every year. On a certain day of a certain
month, at a certain hour, the atonement was made. There was
a day of atonement last year, there'll be one this because
sin remains. There will be one next year,
and there will be one year after next, and there will be one the
year after that, because sin still remains. There were many
sacrifices. There was a morning sacrifice.
There was a lamb slain in the morning. But there'll be a lamb
slain in the evening, too, because sin remained. And there'll be
a lamb slain the next morning, and the next evening, and the
next morning, and the next evening. And these sacrifices go on and
on and on, day after day, sacrifice after sacrifice, bloodshedding
after bloodshedding. But the Lord Jesus Christ offered
one sacrifice for sin. Look at verse 12. But this man
after he had offered one sacrifice for sin. Look at verse 14. For
by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. One priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. One sacrifice, his own precious
blood that puts away all of our guilt and all of our sin. Now look back here at verse 11.
the third thing that I see. There were many priests, every
priest standeth daily, ministering, offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never, which can never take away sin. Turn back to verse 4 of Hebrews
10. This is so clear. A man would
have to be totally foolish to think that the blood of an could
put away the sin of a man. A man would have to be totally
foolish. You know, I've never been able
to understand how that anyone could even suppose in their right
mind that the people of Old Testament days were saved, were forgiven,
were redeemed by those blood sacrifices. What possible connection
could there be between the death pains of an animal and the sin
of a man against God Almighty. What possible connection could
there be between the pains of death in an animal and the sin
of my soul against God Almighty? The principle of substitution
is set forth in these sacrifices and nothing more. Now, that's
so. The principle of substitution. The principle of sacrifice, the
principle of redemption by blood is set forth in these sacrifices,
and that's all they were good for. Now look at verse 4 of Hebrews
10. God says, it is not possible
that the blood of bulls and goats should take away the sin of men
and women. It is not possible. It's ridiculous
to even think it. Christ Jesus our Lord offered
one sacrifice for the sins of all believers, and once for all
He redeemed them. Look at verse 10 of Hebrews 10.
By the witch will we are sanctified, we are redeemed, we are forgiven,
we are purged, we are made holy through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. Cleansed, purged, forgiven, by
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. There were many priests. In Old
Testament days there were thousands of priests, and there were thousands
of sacrifices, and these men went through the same sacrifices
every day, every week, every month, every year, and these
sacrifices could never take away sin. They were typical. The principle
of substitution was set forth in them. they could never effectually
remove one sin. But this man, the Lord Jesus
Christ, God's Son, came down here into this world in the body
of a man, took upon himself our flesh, took upon himself our
nature, and by one sacrifice, by one offering, he perfected
forever them that are sanctified. Look back, if you will, at verse
11. Here's another word It said every priest standeth daily. Those priests never sat down. You go through that tabernacle,
you start at the eastern gate, and you search through the whole
courtyard, look through the whole courtyard, you won't find a chair. There's not one there. You go
into the holy place, and you look about that holy place, and
you see the furniture that's there. There's not a chair. You
slide under the veil and look around in the Holy of Holies,
and there's the ark, and there are the cherubims overshadowing
the ark, and there's the mercy seat of gold overlaid around
the ark. There's not a chair. The priest
never sat down, never, never, never sat down, because his work
was never finished. He came there and began the sacrifices
with the rising of the sun, and then when the day He went home,
but he never sat down. But now look here at verse 12. But this man, Jesus Christ our
Lord, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, not every
Sunday in the Mass, not every third month, the first Sunday
of every five-Sunday month in the Lord's table or the communion
or the sacrament, This man, after he had offered one sacrifice
for sin on the cross of Calvary, comma, sat down, sat down. He sat down because his work
was finished. He sat down in full possession
of the holy place. He sat down, satisfied that the
debt was paid and the sin was put away and no more offering
needs to be made. He sat down. That Old Testament
priest would not have dared to sit down in the Holy of Holies.
He would not have dared. He went under that veil and he
put that blood on the mercy seat, he did what he was called upon
to do, and he got out of that. But the Lord Jesus Christ came
into the Holy of Holies, not made by hands, but into heaven
itself, and put his blood on the mercy seat figuratively in
glory, and sat down and splittered Baal in two, and took possession
of the holy place." Look at Hebrews chapter 9, the last verse, or
the verse 25 of Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews 9.25b, the last line,
Now once in the end of this world hath he appeared, Jesus Christ,
to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, and after this the judgment, so Christ
was once offered to bear the sins of many, he put away sin. by the sacrifice of himself.
He was once offered where? On the cross. For what reason?
To bear the sins of many. You can look back as far as you
will throughout history. You go back through the days
of the Reformers and back through the Middle Ages and the Dark
Ages and go back through the days of the Apostles and go back
yonder through the days of the minor prophets, and the heyday
of David and Solomon, and back through the days of the major
prophets, and back through the days of the flood, and back through
the days of the giants, and back to the Garden of Eden, and back
yonder in the council halls of eternity. And you can look from
now all the way back to the day that God Almighty purposed to
make a world, and you can look ahead throughout the tribulation,
throughout the millennium, and throughout eternity future. You
can look where you will, you can look to whom you will, and
you'll never find but one effectual atonement for sin, and that's
the blood of Christ. From eternity past to eternity
future, the blood of Jesus Christ, the death of God's Son, stands
as the lone star in the sky of redemption. the only rock of
refuge in the sea of wickedness, and the only well of water in
the desert plain of evil. Christ's atonement is alone the
sinner's redemption." It says in Hebrews 10 here that there
were many priests. It says they offered many sacrifices. It says that their sacrifices
could never take away It says that they stood morning, noon,
and night, because their work was never finished. But Jesus
Christ our Lord, one priest, came down here in the fullness
of time, was born from the womb of a woman, took upon himself
flesh and blood and bones, was tempted and tried and tested,
as we are in every point, yet without sin. faced the law of
God, obeyed it, and every jot and tittle went to the cross
of Calvary, and there shared his own precious blood. And there effectually and completely
and eternally paid the debt of every believer, and cried out
before he died, It is finished! And gave up the They buried him,
and he arose from the tomb, and he ascended to the right hand
of God, and he went into the presence of the Heavenly Father
and took with him every one of his people and sat there, having
finished the work that he came to do. And it's complete. Now, the second thing I see.
I see not only a contrast, but I see the results of his sacrifice
And that result is threefold. Now this is very important. First
of all, toward himself, secondly, toward his enemies, and thirdly,
toward his people. Now look at verse 12. The results
of his sacrifice toward himself. This man, and he was a man, the
God-man, perfect God, perfect man. Somebody said, as much God
as if he were not a and I don't know how to explain it, but as
much man as if he were not God. He is God Almighty. He never
ceased to be God. He was God when he created this
world. He was God when he appeared to
Abraham and Isaac. He is God Almighty when he came
forth from Mary's womb. He was God Almighty when he walked
the shores of Galilee and the straits of Jerusalem. He was
God Almighty when he was in Herod's judgment hall, and he, God Almighty
on the cross, had the keys of hell and death in his hand, for
he opened the gates of glory for a dying thief. And he was
God when he arose, and he is God now. He never ceased to be
God. But for a time he was pleased
to limit himself, for a time he was pleased for his divine
nature to be clothed in a human nature. I can't explain it, there's
never been anything before or sent like it. In fact, the angel
Gabriel was so amazed at the wonder of God being clothed in
human flesh He couldn't even find a name for it, and he said,
This holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called
the Son of God. What would you call him? Angel Gabriel came down here
and told Mary, he said, You're going to have a son. Mary said,
I don't know a man. And the angel Gabriel said, You're
going to have a son without the aid of a man. He said, The Holy
Ghost is going to come upon you, and the power of God is going
to overshadow you, and this, and I guess he stopped, and this,
not a man because he's God, not only God because he's a man,
and this, Gabriel said, and this, holy thing which shall be born
of thee under God shall be called the Son of This man, this man,
not just a man, but a man, this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sin forever, sat down on the right hand of God. Our Lord Jesus finished the work
God gave him to do. He said, The work that I do is
the work of my Father. The words that I speak are the
words of my Father. He took possession of the holy
place and sat down. It says over here in Philippians,
look at it, Philippians 2, verse 5. Listen to this. Philippians
2, verse 5. Let this mind be in you which
was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought
it not robbery to be equal with God. But he for a time made himself
of no reputation. He took upon him the form of
a servant. He was made in the likeness of
men, and another scripture says, in the likeness of sinful flesh.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself. He became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross. But that's not the end of the
story. Wherefore, God the Father also hath highly exalted him. He's finished his work. This
veil of tears through which he walked is his place of dwelling
no more. God hath exalted him, and given
him a name which is above every name. He was the Lamb, he is
the Lion. He was the servant, he is the
King. That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, and
every knee, every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord. When he was here on this earth,
they called him Jesus. The Father told them to. He said,
Thou shalt call his name Jesus, because he shall save his people
from their sins. That was his name of humiliation.
But he's not in the place of humiliation now, he's in the
place of exaltation. He's in the place of exaltation.
He's not in the place now of a servant. He sits at the right
hand of the Majesty on high. He is the King of kings and the
Lord of lords. And he is worthy of the name
Lord. Some people think I make a great
issue out of people calling the Master Jesus. And I don't think
that you can make too big an issue of that, because he is
not Jesus. He's the Lord Jesus. He's the
Lord Jesus. He's the Lord Jesus. God hath
exalted him, highly exalted him. God hath given him a name above
every name. that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow in heaven and earth, under the earth, and every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. No man can call
him Lord but by the Holy Spirit." The Holy Spirit. The results
of his sacrifice toward himself, he's finished his work. He sat
down. He hath taken possession of the
holy place. He hath been given a name above
every name. he hath been exalted above all
things in heaven, earth, and hell, and he is the recipient
of all the creatures' praise, and he is the Lord of lords and
the King of kings, worthy to be worshipped and adored." Now
then, the results of his work toward his enemies. Look at verse
13, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool. My friend, his enemies are crushed
already. They're crushed already. A feeble
fight continues, but they're defeated. A feeble struggle remains
to this day, but it's It was over 2,000 years ago. The battle
was over and the Lord Jesus Christ won the victory. It's over. There's a feeble fight, there's
a feeble struggle, but all the forces of darkness have been
defeated. They were defeated at Calvary.
Sin, which is the sting of death, has been removed. The sting of
death pierced the heart of the Son of God at Calvary and lost
its stinger. Sin is defeated. Sin is conquered. Sin is cast out. Yes, sir, there's
a feeble, feeble struggle now. It's not feeble where we're concerned,
but it's feeble where Christ is concerned, because sin is
defeated, conquered. Sin as a power is through. Christ Jesus hath conquered sin
at Calvary's hill, and Satan's power Satan's power has been
conquered, Satan's defeated, there's no question about it.
He was whipped. He was whipped at Calvary. He's finished! His
kingdom is conquered! His power is finished! There's a little wiggling, like
when you wring a chicken's neck. I used to watch my mother go
out in the yard. She'd take a chicken by the neck.
She'd whip that thing around about three times. I'd stand
there and wind all day long on that chicken's neck and wear
him and me both out. But she had a way, you know,
of catching that chicken by the neck and whoop, whoop, whoop,
and he was finished. He was quipped. He had lost his
head. You wouldn't know it. You'd stand
there and watch him flop, flop, flop, flop, flop, throwing blood
all over the place, you know, awful to look at. Charlie Miller
don't do that up at his market in Catlesburg. I think he cuts
their heads off. But Mother used to wring their
necks, and Brother, they lost their head, but they sit there
and flop for a while, just flop, flop, flop. And Satan is flopping
now, but he's lost his head. That's right. The Scripture says
way back yonder in Genesis that Satan shall bruise his heel But
he'll bruise Satan's head, that's where the power is, and Satan's
flopping a little for about 2,000 years. But he's dead. That's
right, he's lost his power, he's lost his crown, Prince of the
Power of the Air, he's lost his kingdom, he's dead! He's whipped. He was whipped at Calvary. And
death, Christ has conquered death. Our Lord Jesus Christ died, went
into the grave, and came out! and he's conquered death. Death
hath no power over his people. He said, Because I live, you
live. You might lie down to sleep one
of these days, but you're not going to die. He that believeth
on the Son shall never die, never die. Your body might slumber
for a few hundred years, but your soul will be with the Lord.
and you'll never die. Christ whipped his enemies. He
said here, he has conquered them, he has defeated them, he has
whipped them, and he sat down expecting until they become his
footstool. Expecting. He went out and met
Satan on the battlefield and whipped him and went home and
waiting now for the trophies of his victory. He went out,
John, and met sin and hell, and he conquered it, and he went
home, sat down at the right hand of the Father, and he's waiting
on the victory celebration, the marriage supper of the Lamb.
He went out there and conquered sin and death and hell and Satan
and defeated them, and he's home now at the right hand of God,
waiting on every trophy of his grace. And he'll all be there,
too. For he said, All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. Of all that my Father hath given
me, I'll lose nothing, but raise it up at the last day." Now,
verse 14, the results of his work toward himself, he's won
the crown and he's got it on his head, and he's the Lord Jesus. And then toward his enemies,
he's whipped them all, and the last enemy that shall be destroyed
is death. still a feeble struggle, but
their power is conquered. Then toward his people, verse
14, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are
sanctified. By one sacrifice, by one sin
offering, By one shedding of his blood, he hath perfected. All debts are paid. We have a
perfect righteousness. We have a perfect legal standing. We have a perfect holiness before
God Almighty. How long is it going to last?
Forever. He hath perfected forever. We
have access to God forever. We are kings and priests under
God. Look here at verse 17, "...and
their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. For where
remission is, there is no more offering for sin." Having therefore, brethren, boldness,
liberty to enter into the holiest by the blood of by a new and
living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that
is to say, his flesh. And having an high priest over
the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith." Now, the third and last thing that I see.
I see some lessons to be learned from this text. There were many
priests, Christ was one. They offered many sacrifices,
he offered one. Their sacrifices could never
put away sin, not one sin. His effectually took it away
forever. They never finished their work,
consequently they never sat down. Christ Jesus sat down at the
right hand of the Father, having finished his work. Nothing needs
to be added, nothing can be taken away from it. And the results
of his work for himself had given him a name above every name.
toward his enemies, it's wiped them out, it's conquered them,
it's defeated them. Toward his people it's purchased
for us, legally, before God Almighty, a righteousness with which the
Father is satisfied and nobody can question. There is no condemnation
to them that are in Christ Jesus. He is open for us into the presence
of the Father by his blood, a new and living way. We don't have
to come through an earthly priest. We come as priests ourselves,
through Christ our High Priest, and we offer to God the Father
the sacrifices of faith and worship and adoration and praise. Here
are some lessons to be learned from this text. First of all,
salvation is for sinners. It's for sinners. He is able
to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. It is no shame that
God demonstrates at Calvary. It's real death for real sinners. The gospel of grace is for the
guilty. The table of mercy is spread
for the guilty. God says, Though your sin be
as scarlet, I'll make them as white as snow. Brother Barnard
used to say, Others may do their preaching under the shadow of
the church and the sound of the chapel bell. God Almighty, by
thy Holy Spirit, let me run a mission one foot this side of hell. For
the gospel is for sinners. sinners. And my friends, it's
foolish to look anywhere else. Turn back to Hebrews 10. In Hebrews
10, verse 1, it says, The law, having a shadow of good things
to come, and not the very image of those things, can never, with
those sacrifices which they are offered year by year, make you
perfect. Don't look to the law it cannot
take away sin. See the word, never, can never,
never, never, never take away sin. Why do you stand at an altar
that can never take away sin? How foolish it is for a man to
stand before an altar of works, or an altar of law, which can
never take away sin, when Almighty God has an altar at Calvary,
a place where sin is forever put away. is sexually put away,
completely put away. How foolish we are to stand before
a table of works or an altar of human merit or righteousness
and look for the forgiveness of our sins. When God says, Come
to Calvary, that's where sins are put away, that's where sins
are forgiven, and it says in verse 14 of Hebrews 10, He perfected
us forever. How long can a man, a sinner,
look to Christ and depend on Him? Forever. How long are our
sins forgiven? Forever. How long are we saved? Forever. How long shall we praise
Him? Forever. How long shall we enjoy
His mercy? Forever. How long shall we be
objects of His grace? forever. For dear dying Lamb,
thy precious blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed
Church of God be saved to sin no more." I want to tell you
a story, and then I'm going to close. When I was over in Ireland, we were riding down the street
one day through a little village And Bill Clark told me the name
of the village, but I don't remember it. And he said, this is the
village where they have the lynchstone. And I said, well, I don't know
anything about the lynchstone. What is it? He said, well, there's
a story behind it. There was a mayor of this town
back many years ago by the name of Fitz Stevens. He was the richest
man in the village, and usually the richest man in the village
back in those days was the mayor, the greatest property owner and
the employer of most of the people, and the magistrate or the judge
of the city. And this mayor, Fitz Stevens,
had one son. He was a wild boy. couldn't be
controlled. The father loved him dearly,
but he was such a wild boy. And the father went to Spain
on a business trip. He was a wealthy man. He traveled
abroad frequently. And while over in Spain, he met
a Spanish businessman who had one son. And he was an adorable,
lovely, fine, outstanding young man. And he told the Spanish
businessman, he said, you have such a fine son and I have such
a rebellious son. I wonder if you'd let me take
your son back to Ireland with me and let him spend a few weeks
with us on a vacation, see if he can influence my son, see
if he can be of any help to him. And the Spanish father said,
well, I'll be happy for him to go. And so the Mayor FitzStevens
brought back to Ireland this young Spanish boy, and he visited
in the home. The boys were in their twenties,
early twenties, and he visited in the Irish home for several
days. Well, this Irish boy, FitzStevens'
son, was in love with a girl, and this girl fell in love with
the Spanish boy. And one night the Irish boy,
Fitzstephen's son, slipped in the bedroom of the Spanish boy
in fury and anger and jealousy and stabbed him to death, left
him bleeding to death on his bed. The next morning he was
discovered, and they knew who had done it. They knew that Mayor
Fitzstephen's son had killed this Spanish boy. But because
of the father's wealth and because of the father's power, And because
of the father's prior and past goodness to the community, they
couldn't get anybody to punish the boy. They couldn't get a
jury. They couldn't get a group of people to sit in judgment
on him. They couldn't get anybody to arrest him. The boy just went
free. And Mayor FitzStevens pleaded with the people, arrest my son
and try my son for the murder of this boy. He cannot get away
with this. He cannot get away. You must
not let him get away with it. But they wouldn't do it. And
this is supposed to be a true story. Mayor FitzStevens one
day, in the presence of the citizens whom he'd called to his house,
with the aid of some other men, took his boy and hanged him himself
from the balcony of his home. And as he stood on the balcony
while his own son was dying, hanging for the crime of murder,
He said to the people, the laws of this land are more important
than you or me, either one. And whether it's my son or your
son, whether it's me or you, the law has got to be honored.
And my son murdered a man, and the law said the murderer must
die, therefore my son is going to die. And my friends, the law
of Almighty God is bigger than you are. And it's more important
than you are. And the scripture says, Cursed
is everyone that continued not in all points of the law. And
God Almighty's law is going to be honored. You're going to pay
for the broken law. You're going to hail and suffer
for breaking God's law. God Almighty is not going to
take you to heaven and ignore your sins. He's not going to
take you to glory and ignore the fact that you've broken every
law in his book, to offend in one point, to be guilty of all.
Mayor FitzStevens couldn't stand to see his son walking free throughout
the village knowing he'd broken the law. It made his son bigger
in the law, and you're not bigger in God's law. And you're not
going to heaven. There ain't no way under God's
sun that a lawbreaker can go to glory, not one way. that you
can walk the streets of glory free when you've offended and
broken God's law, unless somebody takes your place. Unless somebody
assumes your place and takes your sin and your debt in his
body, transfers your guilt from you to him, and hangs on a tree
for your offenses. And that's what Christ did. Jesus
Christ came down here to this earth, God's own Son. God's own
Son is not bigger than God's law. Now you think that over
a little bit, because the law slew him. That's right. God's own Son is not bigger than
God's law. And when he came down here to
this earth and was numbered with the transgressors, he became,
he became He became a subject of that law. And when he took
our place and took our sin, God had to judge him. And God sent
him to Calvary to please the Lord, to bruise him. It pleased
Mayor FitzStevens to hang his son, and it pleased God the Father
to nail his son to a cross to pay for our sin. And by one offering
he hath perfected forever. Now I can walk the streets of
glory because I paid my debt. When a man goes to prison and
pays his debt, he can come out free, he can walk the streets
free, but he can't walk the streets as long as he owes the state
a debt because of a crime. And brother, I can walk the streets
of glory because I don't owe God any debt, it was paid at
Calvary. Jesus paid it all, all the debt I owe, sin left to crimson
stain, but by his He washed it white as snow. That's the gospel,
and no other gospel. If you're looking for salvation
somewhere else, well, I won't see you in glory, because everybody
in glory is going to praise Christ for dying in our place and our
staying. Our Father, anoint the message
with the power of the Holy Spirit. Make it effectual to every sinner's
heart. eyes that we can see, and our deaf ears so that we
can hear, and these sin-hardened hearts that we might understand,
God will in no wise clear the guilty. No wise. But Jesus Christ, our Lord, was
delivered up for us all, and how shall not God freely with
him give us all things, all for whom he suffered and all for
whom he died? In Christ's name we pray, amen.