Janet Atwell. First appendix, had appendicitis
taken out. She's not a young woman, so I
remember her in prayer. Karen French-Browning's husband
died. Johnny Browning, he died. I remember
him in prayer. She didn't remember the others,
she was the first in prayer. I remember one, I talked to her
yesterday. She's doing pretty good. She's busy, as always is
after you're passing of a loved one. You've got a lot of things
you've got to do, a lot of paperwork involved and stuff. I remember
hearing prayers all the time. Happy birthday to Peggy. Now,
I made a goof up. This is not unusual for me. I'm not usually public about
it. I try to keep it private. I'm preaching next Sunday in Jackson, Missouri. I'm leaving
Thursday to drive up there. I had planned, well, Sam and
I had planned, has to go home and try to find
another preacher to come and preach. And so Ward had other
plans for Sam, took him home to go over here. And I was unable
to get somebody to preach next Sunday. So next Sunday, we were
going to have services. Wipe the smiles off your face. I'll be leaving Thursday and
driving to Missouri to preach for due reach. And here's something
I've decided. I've got one more meeting in
May, and in May it will probably involve a Sunday. But after that
meeting, I'm not going to take any more meetings that involve
a Sunday and me being away on a Sunday. It's not going to do
it. I'm getting too old to drive that and all that stuff anyway.
It's a hard-on fellow. Actually, yeah, he just went
to West Virginia and back in the Civil War era. That's my plan after May. And
I will get a... I'll have enough time to get
a preacher in here for May. Thank God Mr. Greenleaf is an
outstanding preacher. I've got two others to look at,
so we'll have somebody here in May to preach for me. But like I said, after that I'm
not going to take any meetings that involve me traveling on
Sunday. I'll take meetings that are close enough for me to preach
on Saturday and come back home. So that's my plan. It's your sartorial excellence. They like to... What? All your
clothes. As do we. Debbie dresses. Yeah, she does a great job. She does a good job. But that's
that situation. So next Sunday, remember that. And I'll text everybody to make
sure you remember to put it on the attention. Next Sunday, no
service. Hopefully on Monday. Other than that, I can't think of any announcements
or any other prayer requests. Sylvester got out of the hospital
after he had pneumonia, but I'm glad he's feeling pretty good. got some kind of testilar, I
think, so I remember her in the prairie. I remember Annette,
she's been asked, and Peggy's granddaughter, Martine Hudson,
who had an aneurysm, a stroke. And also a continuing member
of the Vance family, Wanda, and Jerry, and Mike, in the prairie. And also, Take the name of Jesus with you. Drown our sorrow and the woe. It will joyfully come to give
you, taking thee where'er you go. Precious name, O how sweet,
the comfort and joy of heav'n! Precious name, O how sweet, Oh, for birth and joy of heav'n! In the name of Jesus ever! As a ship from every star! In temptation's bound together,
bring them holy name and prayer, precious name of our Savior! Oh, the birth and joy of heaven! Precious thing, oh, how sweet! Oh, the birth and joy of heaven! O God, in gracious name of Jesus,
how it pleases You to do us! We give to Thee what we seek
of Thee, and give thanks unto Thee for graciousness! O come, earth, and join Him,
Christus reigns, O come, earth, and join Him, Christus reigns. Jesus found me, falling prostrate
at His feet. King of kings, to Him we're crowned,
with our journey's complete. Precious name, oh, I see, the
birth and joy of Him. Precious babe, oh what sweet,
oh what earthly joy of heav'n. That was Scripture in Your Prayer
with Psalm number 222. Javier Myles summons me to the
Gospel according to Mark, chapter 10. began to say unto the Lord, Lo,
we have left all and have followed Thee. Jesus answered and said,
Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house,
or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my sake and the God's sake. But he shall receive
a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, sisters,
and mothers, and children, and mothers and children of lands
with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life. But many that are first shall
be last, and the last first. And they were in the way going
to Jerusalem. And Jesus went before them. And they were amazed as they
followed. They were afraid. And he took again the twelve
and began to tell them what We go to Jerusalem and the Son
of Man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes.
They shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the
Gentiles. And they shall mock him and shall scourge him and
shall spit upon him and shall kill him. The third day he shall
rise again. Let us pray. Our Father, we praise you for your great
goodness. who are ruined and wretched sinners,
who are without hope and without help in this world, who are born into this world
sinners, seeking only the satisfaction of themselves, who have by nature
no interest in God and indeed do hate Him. Father, we are thankful
that You interfere and intervene in many of these lives. the lives
of those who have chosen the foundation of the world, interrupt
their careers, stop them in their tracks, and cause them to see
what they are by nature, and show them the Lord Jesus Christ. causes your children to believe
even what they cannot begin to understand and appreciate. We
know, Father, your word is truth, and we are thankful we have it,
that you didn't leave yourself without a witness. We praise
you, Father, for the great and wondrous purpose and scheme of
salvation, where you came in the person of your Son to this
world and took on human flesh. and went to the cruel cross of
Calvary, died on the moon instead for your people. Purchased their
salvation and bought them with the price of the blood of Jesus
Christ. Put away their sin by that sacrifice,
perfecting them forever. Father, we would pray for those
who are sick, those who have been addicted to prayers. We
would ask you for a special prayer for a young lady. We ask you
to be with her, be with her family. We pray for Ms. Atwell, Wanda,
Jerry and Mike at the Lawson, Sam, and Ms. Browning at the
Lawson. Continue to pray for Inez as
your minister. Alita, she ministers to her mom. We are thankful for your great
kindness toward us. We don't deserve the least of
your favor, and yet you have favored us fully, even to the
point of giving us eternal life, accepting us in your presence,
gladly calling us part of your family. You are our father. Number 222. There is a mountain
filled with blood from God in heaven. all their guilty Shed His blood beneath that cloak,
Purge all her guilty stains. The God in me rejoiced to see
Him, And found her in His name. With every act of violence we
wash all our sins away. Wash all our sins away. Wash all our sins away. And there may I, though vile
and sweet, wash all my sins away! And I, bled, my precious blood,
shall never lose its power! Will all the ransomed church
of God be saved to sin no more? Be saved to sin no more? Be saved to sin no more? Yes, the Church of God, be safe
to sin no more! There's sin to find faith, I
saw the strength, I know it will survive! Believing, Lord, has
been my faith, and shall be till I die. ? Till I die ? ? The beginning
book has been my faith ? ? And shall be till I die ? ? When
pages of history stand retold ? ? By sodomy and the grave ? He gave a nobler speaker's tongue
I'll sing thy power to save I'll sing thy power to save I'll sing
thy power to save I know that you'll see her soon,
I'll see her soon that put away our sins. We thank you, Father, that you
freely gave him new children, and with him freely gave them
everything. And we know that every good and
perfect gift comes from above, from the Father of life, in whom
there is no variable, so shall it return. As we return unto
that which belongs to you, let us do so with joy and thanksgiving,
we pray in Christ's name. you you It's a beautiful thing to do. I'd like your attention back
to Mark chapter 10. And what our Lord teaches concerning
His grace and His salvation, and His law and His justice satisfying
sacrifice, are the only things in this world that are finally
worth considering. And in this passage of Scripture,
such things that ought to occupy the minds are clearly declared. in life. Some time ago in a bookstore,
a Christian bookstore, the title was, I read a title on the book
and it was, Belief is Just the Beginning. Belief is Just the Beginning.
The subtitle was something that suggested becoming a greater
Christian. This effectively scurred salvation
to the lower echelons of importance. heard a pastor many years ago
in a megachurch had some 12,000 members stand before that humongous
gathering and say that people were no longer interested. And
he said this, a so-called preacher of the gospel said people were
no longer interested in subjects such as justification, sanctification,
and redemption. Can you imagine a preacher standing
up and saying that? You really say no one is longer
interested in Christ. No one is longer interested in
the gospel. One big-time TV preacher said
sin is anything that lowers your self-esteem. Such false and abominable notions
are born of a carnal doctrine that asserts that the work of
Christ was at best a minor influence in the life of the self-made
righteous man. by our Lord Jesus Christ, things
that are of true substance and worthy of our serious consideration.
What takes place as part of this question asked by Peter is that
the disciples are astonished out of measure at the doctrine
of the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in the way he had dealt with
this rich and young ruler that came to him They evidently felt
that such a man, one who was obedient from his youth and was
surely destined for eternal glory, he was a man of exemplary character
and religious piety, yet he went away sorrowful because the thing
required of him could only be realized by God-given faith and
nothing else. And this he did not possess.
And what follows is Simon Peter's reaction to what the Lord had
required of this young ruler. The Lord said, keep the commandments. He said, I've done this since
my youth. He said, that's not a problem. I've done this since
my youth. He says, well, sell everything
you've got to give to the poor. And he walked away sorrowful.
He walked away sorrowful. He couldn't do what God required.
But that's what God required. The very thing seen is our Lord's
interest in response to Peter's statement in verse 28 and 29. Peter began to say to him, this
is after he sees the Lord, say what he says to this rich young
ruler, send him away actually. And Peter began to say to him,
lo, we have left all. And Jesus answered and said,
verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house,
or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands for my sake in the gospel, but that he receive an hundredfold. Now in this time, houses, and
brothers, sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands with
persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life. This text only presents the statement
that Peter made. The question which actually followed
and precedes this statement that he makes is found in Matthew
19, 27. Peter answered, and then answered
Peter, he said, Behold, we have forsaken all and followed thee.
What shall we have, therefore? What are we going to get? We've
given up everything. What's ours? What are we going
to get? You think immediately that's
the wrong kind of thing to ask, you think. But our Lord didn't
rebuke Peter. Our Lord gently answers Peter
with an encouraged word of promise. Consider Simon's statement. We
may feel that he should have been indicted because it certainly seems like
we've left everything. What are we going to get? We
may be a bit offended that Peter seems to be saying that what
he's done is somehow worthy of reward. A lot of people think
that. A lot of people do what they
do to get it. They're going to get some reward
in heaven, some crown, a higher place in heaven. The disciples
debated about it in Matthew 18. Who's going to sit at your right
hand? Who's going to have a higher place in heaven? People think
that way. I once had a Sunday school teacher
at Antioch Baptist Church many years ago who was a student at
Piedmont Bible College. And he actually said to me, he
was an athletic guy, liked to play sports. He said, I'm actually
pushing to get more awards than somebody else. He said, I want
to get as many as I can. Now let me tell you something
about rewards. They're either a grace or they don't count.
And if they're a grace, you didn't have anything to do with getting
them. Because that's an unmerited favor. What should we have, therefore,
Peter said? Forgetting for a moment the question
of questioning the words of Simon Peter, an honest statement of
the cost of believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. To a great
degree, this is true of everyone to whom God has given faith.
Peter began to say, then, lo, we have left all and have followed
the God-given faith, you see, forsakes all. Forsakes all and
follows Christ. Faith born of the gospel is unqualified. It's an unqualified surrender
of self. When the Bible says, deny yourself,
it's not talking about self-denial. self-denial is what's going on
in the Roman religion in these days called the Glymph right
now when they take ashes and make a plus sign on their forehead
and then they don't do something for 40 days so supposedly they
suffer something then God will recognize their suffering and
then at the end of it they have a party but nonetheless when
you love the gospel when God gives you an understanding of
the gospel fight against self the rest of
your life. You give up life and all to the
sovereign rule of the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 21 says, Jesus
behold him, loved him, that is the rich young ruler, and said
unto him, one thing thou likest, go thy way, sell whatever thou
hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven,
and come, take up your cross and follow me. Of course, he went away sorry
for her. But faith operates in that realm. One man said, the
first place we go after God gives us faith is to the garbage heap
or to the graveyard and bury the past and all things involved
in it. Most people don't want to let
go of the past. The past is done. And if you reside there and worry
about it and fret about it, you're wasting your time. Nothing changes.
The past doesn't change. Upon hearing the words spoken
to the rich young ruler, Peter's reaction was not off the mark. He compared himself to that young
man. That man's going to sell all he has. I've done that, Peter
said. Why haven't I done it yet? I'm
left all. I've given up all. That story
is a prerequisite to the words of Peter and shed a lot of light
on what Peter said. Faith is not manifest simply
by believing the right things, though faith is born of and lives
on the truth. Elsewise the rich young ruler
would not have gone away sorrowful. Faith's consequence is leaving
all. Leaving all for Christ's sake and the gospel's sake. Look what our Lord said back
in Luke chapter 14, over in Luke chapter 14. Look at what He said to His disciples
and those who were listening to it on this day. Look at verse 25. And there went
a great multitude with Him, and He turned and said to them, If
any man come to Me, and hate not his father and his mother,
and his wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea, and
his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever
does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to
build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost whether
we have sufficient to finish it. Thus happily, after he had
laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that behold
him will mock him, saying, this man began to build and was not
able to finish. Well, what king going to make
war against his mother? The king sitteth not down first
and consulteth whether he is able to with 10,000 to meet him
that cometh against him with 20,000. Or else, while the other
is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions
of peace. So likewise, whosoever be of
you that forsake not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple."
That's just plain words of our Lord Jesus Christ. Well, I had
a mom. I had a mom. I love her. My mom
would go on the door and say to my dad, you have sisters and
brothers whom you love. You have things that you like.
And our Lord is making a comparative or contrasting statement here.
He's saying this, if you love them more than me, you're not
my disciple. You're not my disciple. But the
believer does not serve the Lord for gain or reward. We know that in the case of Joe,
he didn't. Our Lord assures us that those
who follow him have indeed received far more than they presume to
have given up. verse twenty nine and thirty
makes that clear he says you're going to have houses and mothers
and fathers and sisters and brothers and mans a hundred fold compared
to what you think you have given up this is an amazing promise
especially in light of Peter's question these blessings weren't
just about cover it all if your heart is troubled and weighed
down with the cares of the world and you feel as if you're giving
more than you can bear your friends and family obeyed you giving
you trouble and made you a persona non grata because of the truth. Here are these words. The boy
didn't say, his life is a life of trouble. He said you'll have
persecutions. This was added to all the things you're going
to get. You're going to have persecution. and tribulations in this world.
One man said we're either, the child of God is either going
into a trial, he's in a trial, or he's coming out of a trial.
But this is the child, this is the life of the child of God.
And he says you're gonna have all these things, and what you
suffer and struggle in this world, just consider. Just consider
what the Lord here has promised. For this life and the next, this
promise will sustain you imbibe these words, become enumerated
in your soul as the heavenly quarter that they are. For this
life and the next, this promise will keep you going. Whatever it may cost you to follow
Christ, it is not to be compared to what you will receive and
have received in Christ. I often ponder it. I often roll
it around in my head. I have forgiveness, and I need
it. Every hour of every day, I have
peace. In the world, it's gone mad. I have a peace that passeth understanding
and knowledge. It's the peace of God. I have
redemption. I have been bought with a price.
I've been paid for. I'm owned and operated by my
sole proprietor, the Lord Jesus Christ. I have reconciliation
with God. God's not upset with me and never
will be. He's reconciled me to himself.
Reconciliation through his blood and through his grace. Christ
further promised us that we shall have while we are here comforts
and joys. more than sufficient to make
up for that which we have left for him. The fact is that when
the believer is asked, he rarely, if ever, speaks in terms of loss. When Jacob split his tribe up
and finally went to meet Esau, he didn't have nothing. He had
left. He had wrestled with the angel all night long and put
his hip out of joint. He was walking a little limp.
Went to meet Esau and Esau said, let me give you some stuff. He
said, I have enough. And actually he said, I have
all things. Esau said, I have enough. Jacob said, I have all
things. And we do. This world is ours. We're a child of a king. We're
princes and kings and priests before a holy God because God
Christ has made us so we have it all. We have it all. The promise does not end here
in this world. Our Lord promised eternal life in the world to come. Eternal
life. I don't even know what that is
until I have it. But I can't wrap my mind around
it as to what it really consists of. And I know that it's more
than living forever. I know that. And I'll do that
whether I'm saved or not. My soul will live forever either
in heaven or hell. This is eternal life. And that
life is in Jesus Christ. We'll be forever with our dear
Savior. Our brother Sam passed out of
this world this last week. And he was dear to me, a dear
friend, a great help. When I went away, I was so thankful
Sam was here, because I knew he'd stand up in this pulpit
and declare the truth of God's grace without question. I never
worried about that with Sam. I asked him if there had been
some folks in this pulpit over the years. I thought, well, I hope
they do all right. I didn't worry about Sam. I knew
he would tell you the truth about Jesus Christ. Where's Sam now? He's in the presence of Christ.
He's seeing His Savior as He is because He's like Him. And it's now and forever up there.
He can see the beginning from the end. He can see Adam sinning
in the garden of Eden. He can see God making those coats
of skins and shedding blood for Adam and Eve. You see the promise
of Jesus Christ. You can see the coming of Jesus
Christ at the end of the world. He gathers people to himself
and destroys this earth and makes it a new. You can see all that
right in front of you. Right in front of you. It's just in this parenthetical
expression called time. It's somewhere in the middle
of eternity. He can't be with us. But we're already with him. Eternal life. Eternal life. Forever with our dear Savior
in a world of sin and sorrow, sickness and death. but joy comes in the morning. The next thing taught by our
Lord Jesus Christ is found in verse 31, but many that are first
shall be last. Last first. The words of warning
against the self-deceit and conceited pride. This is a warning to Peter,
James, and John. Now that's the inner circle,
those who travel with Christ all the time. The inner circle
is thus warned. We ought to surely take this
to heart, because we're surely not in the inner circle. There's
no doubt that this warning is for disciples that walk with
our Lord. They're for us. Among them at
this time, there stood a most trusted individual. He carried
the purse. He was church treasurer. The
first church treasurer. He will soon betray the Lord
with a kiss, a false friend, Soon he will take up his residence
as the denizen of the dam. His name is Judas Iscariot. His
action proved that he was first in his own eyes, and now he's
last. There was one who was not now among them who would take
the place of Judas. Not Matthias, because that was
settled by a church vote, and he's never mentioned again in
Scripture. Some have even suggested that the rich young ruler who
came to Jesus Christ was Saul of Tarsus. As it does say, the
Lord loved him. The Lord loved him. Now Saul was waiting for his
moment to strike Christ. To put away his church out of
business. Soon he will receive letters from the priests and
the elders. No probable calls and warrants will be issued.
But he's going to kill and maim these followers of this man from
Galilee, what he called that way. Soon everyone in the circle
will consider Paul the last. They'll consider Saul of Tarsus.
We don't want anything to do with him. The church ran from
him and hid from him. He's the last. And his thoughts are higher than
our thoughts. And soon the student of Gamaliel, the Pharisee of
Pharisees, will be defrocked by the Jews and elevated to the
chiefest among the apostles. The first shall be last, and
the last shall be first. Let us be careful not to neglect
this warning. How many have we seen that did
run well for a time? seemed destined for great things.
They had zeal and showed great commitment and understanding.
They garnered our trust as being Judas. They were with us, but
not others. For whatever reason, be it some strange wind of doctrine,
some fear of censure, some care for the world, some notion of
their own importance, some love of the world, they disappeared
from the worship of God. They seemed first. Now they're
nowhere to be found. May God keep us by grace that
we might run our race to the end. We may begin in Christ and
run in Christ and stay with Christ and end with Christ. Old Brother
Mahan told me one time he was sitting up at the table in Virginia.
He said, it ain't how you start this thing. It's how you end
it. It's how you end it. Finally
we see the words of our Lord, the assurance that we never need
doubt the promise that he gave and we're the source of the promise
and all free gifts are from God and that's found in verses 32
through 34. He talks about his crucifixion.
He talks about the cross. They were in the way going to
Jerusalem and Jesus went before them and they were amazed as
they followed. They were afraid and he took
again the twelve and began to saying behold we go to Jerusalem
and the son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and to
the scribes and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver
him to the gentiles and they shall mock him and scourge him
and shall spit upon him and shall kill him and the third day he
shall rise again. I wonder what they were thinking
when he said that. Here he is walking with him, a man of due
beautiful spleens, 5,000 by a few fishes in the oaks of Texas with
a woman's son who's dead and in the coffin being carried to
the graveside. He touches the pier and raises
him from the dead. Saved Talitha, raised her from
the dead. Called Lazarus out of a tomb,
being four days dead. This is Jesus Christ who told
the withered man with the withered hand, stretch forth your hand.
Well, he can't do that, but he did. He did. Power. This man spake as no other
man spake. They were astounded at his doctrine.
Even the Pharisees were astounded at his doctrine. He was like,
nobody else has ever walked this earth. And he says, you know
what's going to happen to these fellows now? They were following
him on. He says, great. We're following
a great guy. We've got a future here with
this fellow. This is going to be great. He
said, in a few days they're going to capture me. He actually gave
himself to them. And they said, if you don't put
me on the cross, they're going to kill me. And I'm going to
raise up again the third day. What a thing they must have had
in their heads. What an amazing thing. Our Lord tells the disciples
that he will go to Jerusalem, and their supper die for them
as surety and substitutes. Several things are what causes
these promises and these warnings that he gives to have power.
First, his trip to Jerusalem was voluntary. He said, I gave
my back to the spine. I gave my face to them that pluck
off the hair. I did that. He voluntarily went
to the cross. It wasn't something people did
to him. Using them to accomplish his
purpose, but that's what it says against our holy child Jesus
for the bounteous pilot And the Jews and the Gentiles were to
gather together for to do whatsoever God had foreordained to be done
It was a voluntary trip to Jerusalem. He said I lay down my life. No
man takes my life for me I lay it down. I said my father's giving
me this command I can do this I lay down my life for the sheep
It was our Lord's earthly destiny. He set His face like a flint
toward Jerusalem. He came to this earth for one
reason, to die in the room instead of His people. It was our Lord's earthly destiny.
He went to Jerusalem on purpose according to the Father's predestinated
will. In Jerusalem on that tree, our
Lord satisfied the law's demand. What did the law demand? Death
and payment for sin, punishment for sin. We don't know much about hell.
The Bible doesn't say a great deal about hell. It does say
some. It does say some things. We know that metaphorically it's
described as a place that's on fire, but also a place that's
dark, a place where nothing bathes, and the fire never goes out.
That's the metaphorical language, but we don't know a great deal
about it. But we know this, that if you die without Jesus Christ,
your punishment will be eternal. Because you cannot pay for sins.
Your death, even an eternal death, will never satisfy God. So it
just goes on and on and on. And Jesus Christ, the Son of
God who is very God Himself, He satisfied God's law. He was such a perfect sacrifice,
having lived without sin, never knowing sin, never thinking sin.
Yet He was made to be sin on that cross for us. Our sins were
laid upon Him, imputed to Him. He never knew sin. And God punished Him for that.
He cut off the lights for three hours on the earth. For three
hours, God rolled up his sleeves and punished his son, Ryerson,
and an eternity of hell was taken upon the Lord Jesus Christ. He
suffered our hell for us in three hours. That's how great he was. He came out on the other side,
and it says he gave up the ghost. Why? Because that's what the
law requires. Now, what if the sin be punished?
Let this sinner die. Christ was no sinner when our
sin was laid upon Him and God considered Him sin at that moment.
And the only answer for sin is death. Our Lord Jesus Christ
died. Physically He died. He who is life stopped living. When Moses and Elijah came back
on the Mount of Transfiguration and talked to the disciples or
talk among themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ that spoke
with him about the death that he should accomplish at Jerusalem. And he did. On that tree he satisfied
the law's demands. Satisfied justice for all of
his people. What does that mean? The law
cannot touch you. God's law will never accuse you.
God's law is satisfied for you. The inflexible Law of God. Perfect and holy it is. Don't
have no mercy, no grace, but it's perfect and it's holy. It
scans you from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet.
And the law says to you who are in Jesus Christ, I find no fault
in you. I've been satisfied, you see.
A death, your death has been put on account. I didn't die,
I did in my substitute. I died in the Lord Jesus Christ. Redeemed and saved his people
by his blood. There he put away our sins by
the sacrifice of himself. Three days after that he rose
from the grave for our justifications. He saved his people from their
sins and had given them all things that pertain to godliness and
life. This is why he could say to Peter, you've not given up
anything, but you've got a thousand things more. A thousand things
more. My grandma used to, down on the
wheel on her knees, Mama May was her name. one by one. Count your many blessings. See what God has done. See what
God has done. That's what the Lord has saved
Peter. Think you've given up some? Count your blessings. Today
you'll go home from this place if you're a child of God, if
you're believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll go home
forgiven, perfected, holy, sanctified, accepted, That's how you go home today. You bunch of old wretched sinners,
us bunch of old wretched sinners, we can say this, I stand before
God without one wrinkle, spot, or blemish on my record. Justify,
sanctify, and redeem.