at least twice a year, at least
that much, on the history channel, and I like that channel, I watch
it a great deal, and on the learning channel, the programming turns
to religion. You know what times of year that
is, this time of the year, around Easter, also around Christmas
time, and you have a lot of documentaries coming forth at a blistering
pace with titles like, Who Was the Real Jesus? or was Jesus
real? Last week I saw a promo for a
new documentary to be voiced by Morgan Freeman, a man who
could read a phone book and make it sound interesting. Mr. Freeman introduced the promo
by saying, I've always been fascinated by God. And the way he said it, you almost
believe that he had always been fascinated by God. Of course, he hasn't always been
fascinated by God. There were several years there
when he wasn't fascinated by anything but getting his diaper
changed and getting fed. And he talked about this series,
I believe it's going to be called God. But the pictures flashed on the
screen were pictures of statues and icons, pictures of Buddha
and Vishnu and various other gods, big ornate temples and
the like. Though I didn't see one, I'm
sure there will be a drawing of what men think Jesus looked
like and some crucifixes scattered here and there. Also of late, quite a number
of motion pictures have been produced about God and religion
and Christianity. And it fared pretty well at the
box office, surprisingly. They've done pretty well. And
there seems to be an interest in religion or religious topics,
but it's not playing out in the houses of worship, doing well
on the internet and on TV. Internet streaming of preachers
can be a good thing, where no gospel church exists. One lady,
a dear friend of mine, said this about that for the most part.
She called it pajama church, where people can sit at home
and watch a preacher never be a part of a local assembly where
God's saints meet together. There is a plethora of presumably
pious productions, but men and women by and large remain ignorant
of the one true God. A.D. Mews said in the 1950s,
and that, you know, that for those of us who lived in the
50s, that don't seem like it was that long ago, but that was
66 years ago. He said this is the most ignorant,
God-ignorant generation that's ever been upon the face of the
earth. I'm just glad he didn't live to see 2016. when the world is in chaos, and
most people think it is, or seemingly so, folks seek answers outside
the normal realm. The truth is there's nothing
new under the sun. There's nothing new under the
sun. Better reported, more often reported,
but nothing new under the sun. Scripture says what has already
been is now. And what is now has already been,
and what's coming God requires. There is a method to what men
call madness, and the science called chaos
science is little more than man's natural interpretation of predestinated
purpose, trying to figure out how everything seemingly works
together, oddly and wondrously, but it does. The madness that permeates the
airwaves in 24-hour news redundancy is but man endeavored to blame
someone else for his own mess and is the product of the exalting
of man endeavoring to deal with the fact that years of the pursuit
of self-esteem has landed him in a cesspool. I do not wonder that on the college
campuses, children, I call them children, but they're young people,
16 to 19, 20-year-old young people are crying out in fear and wanting
a safe place when every one of them received a trophy just for
showing up. But out of this morass of malfunction
comes the cry for someone to fix it. as if they could. And if it gets
bad enough, men even look away from mankind altogether, outside
the realm of humanity, to find the answer. And religion gets
a foothold. Morgan Friedman has always been
fascinated with God. But the fact is, unless he becomes
fascinated with, yes, enamored with and consumed with the Lord
Jesus Christ, He will never know God, and his fascination will
die with him. Our Lord made it plain and clear
that eternal life, salvation, is knowing God. Now there is
a sense in which we can never know God in His fullness, but
we can know God as He is manifest to men. And that God is the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's how we know God. The Lord said this is eternal
life. That you might know the true and living God, even Jesus
Christ whom he has sent. Simon Peter, according to these
words, knew that. According to the words spoken
here, he knew that. He knew that Christ alone had
the words of eternal life. Because he said, we have nowhere
else to go but through you. You have the words of eternal
life. He knew that eternal life was tied up in words and in the
word of God. Both living and the written word. He knew that eternal life in
this universe that there is no one else to turn to but Jesus
Christ. He knew that Jesus Christ was
the one sent, the anointed one, the Christ. He called him that
Christ and I think was that specific because there were many who called
themselves Christ or Messiah in the day in which he lived. He knew that Jesus Christ was
the Son of the Living God, because that's what he said. Thou art
that Christ, the Son of the Living God. And he knew not because
he could prove it, but because he believed it. And
the reason he believed it was because God had given him faith
to do so. He believed it based solely on
words. And that's what your faith rests
on, too, is what God has said, not what you can prove or not
what you have evidence of. There's a great movement among
some folks, even those who call themselves grace believers, called
Lordship Salvation. It's a big deal. And what it
is is that If you don't have the fruits that people can see
as evidence of your salvation, you're not really a child of
God. Yet they preach that salvation is holy and completely by grace.
What they preach and teach concerning evidence of salvation is simply
a lie. Peter knew, he was sure, he was dead sure on that, that
Jesus Christ was the Son of the Living God and he knew it because
he believed it. He believed the words that the
Lord Jesus Christ has spoken. And in this sixth chapter, John
has a whole lot of fine words spoken. Our Lord sets forth the
fact that His elect will be saved and never be lost. Our Lord sets
forth the fact that all who come to Him are the ones, or the only
ones who come to Him are the ones who are taught by God and
all those that are taught by God come to Him. Sets forth the
fact that His words are spirit and they are life. And Peter
got it and understood it. and believed it. Simon Peter
knew. He knew. And the question I ask you this
morning is, do you know? Do you know? Do you know who Jesus Christ
is? Do you know who he is? When the
old blind man was healed by Christ and he was thrown out of the
temple, our Lord came to him after he was made an outcast
and said, do you believe on the Son of God? And the old blind
man says, who is he that I might believe on him? Who is he that
I might believe on him? Who is Jesus Christ? Do you know
who he is? I know everybody has an idea. Everybody's seen this picture
supposedly plastered at Walmart at Easter and Christmas. Whether
he's in a manger or standing outside some door knocking on
some door, Christ don't knock on your heart's door. First of
all, your heart don't have a door. But if it did, Christ would break
it down, bolt and bar if he wanted inside. He's the sovereign Lord. If you think of over in the Church
of Laodicea, that was a local church in Asia Minor, and he
was saying that If they would open up the door, he'd have fellowship
with them. So he stood at the door of the
church at Laodicea. And the reason he stood at the
door and not, because they were increased with goods and had
need of nothing, and cared not for the things of God. And he
says, you open the door of the church and I'll come in and I'll
fellowship with you. I'll sup with you. I'll eat with you.
That's not the heart's door. The heart don't have a door. Who is Jesus Christ? We see in
our text right here, He is the Son of God. The Son of the Spirit. Almighty God. He is the only
begotten of the Father. He's the uniquely born Son of
God. In Luke chapter 1, here's how the angels described Him.
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall
overcome thee, And the power of the highest shall overshadow
thee, therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of
thee shall be called the Son of God. That holy thing, didn't
even know what to call it, that holy thing that's going to be
born of you is going to be born of the Son of God. Somehow God's
seed entered your womb. And you produced the Son of God. You produce a son of God. He's
the only man born of woman who did not have the taint of imputed
sin from Adam. Because Adam was not his federal
head. Adam was not his father. He's
our father. God was the Lord Jesus Christ's father, so he
was without sin. His father is God, and he is
the sovereign Lord over all. That's how he's described in
Scripture. All the prophets gave witness to that. Peter said he
is Lord over all. He's absolute Lord. That's who
Jesus Christ is. Now think of how men are presenting
Him in this day and see if that compares. He is the revealed
glory of God. For the glory of God is seen
in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, it says in 2 Corinthians
chapter 4. He's the very God of very God. That's how the old
Puritans used to call it. Great is the mystery of godliness.
God manifests in the flesh. Very God. It is a mystery and a wonder
that that took place. Who can measure what condescension
was involved when God united with humanity? When God Almighty,
omnipresent God, everywhere God, all things are before Him, somehow reduced Himself to a
spermatozoa and fertilized the egg of a young
woman named Mary, a virgin. That which was brought forth
was the Son of God. God uniting with humanity. And
who can know and understand what glory is involved in man being
united with God? You're talking about glory as
you think of what men are and then they're united with God.
In that one person, Jesus Christ is both God and man. Christ is
the true and living God. In Him brought the fullness of
the Godhead bodily. In 1 John 5, verse 20, it says,
This is true God, Jesus Christ. This is true God. It doesn't
say the true God. It says, This is true God and
eternal life. Matthew 1, 23, it says, That
child that's going to be born, you shall call his name Immanuel.
Which means God's with us. God with us. He's the glue that
holds the universe together. That's what it says in Colossians
115, that all things are held together by Him. By Him. If there was no Christ, there
would be no universe. There would be nothing. Nothing
at all. The titles by which He is known
are not titles that speak of possibilities or job applications
or being up for election. There are titles that speak of
a state of being, of things earned, of things accomplished. Savior. Why? Because He saves. He has
saved. That title does not belong to
Him. If any part of that salvation
is up to you, He's the Savior. That's a title. Because He earned that title.
Because His name shall be called Jesus, for He shall save His
people from their sin. He's the Redeemer. Why? Because He wants to redeem you.
That's what men say. No. And don't make Him a Redeemer.
That makes Him up for election. What makes Him a Redeemer is
that He is redeemed. He has redeemed His people. He's the Lord. And that's not
up for a vote. I mean, people say, won't you
make Jesus your Lord? You can't make Jesus your Lord.
He made you to start with altogether. And He is your Lord. He's everybody's
Lord here today, whether they believe Him or not, whether they
bow to Him or not, whether they want Him to be Lord or not, or
whether they think they made Him Lord or not, He's still their
Lord. That means He owns you lock, stock, and barrel. He's the advocate with the Father
for those children of God when they sin. When we sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous.
That's his title. Why is he an advocate? Because
he advocates for the children of God. He intercedes for them.
He's called the daysman in Scripture. That means someone who stands
between God and men and can deal with both because he's both God
and man. Counselor. He's the only one.
Mediator. There's only one between men
and God. The man Christ Jesus. He's the mediator. That's not
a job he's applying for. Prince of peace. King of kings. He's the eternal son of God.
The ancient of days. He's the way, the truth, and
the life. All these things are titles that are what he is. Not what he hopes to be. Or not
what he waits on your affirmative vote to be. He is all and in
all believers. And to the believer, He is our
righteousness, our only righteousness, our peace, our redemption, and
our wisdom. He's our elder brother and our
dearest friend. And He is God's salvation. There's
no salvation outside of Him. He alone is God's salvation.
Do you know who He is? Do you know who He is? Do you
know why He came? Peter did. Because he heard the
Lord say in John 6, verse 37, I came down from heaven not to
do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me. Sent me. This is my Father's will which
sent me. Of all He's given me, I shall lose nothing but raise
Him up again in the last day. Why did Jesus Christ come to
earth? You can't even say His name without setting forth His
person and His work and what he accomplished on Calvary. So
you can't say his name. Men dandy it about, they even
use it as a curse word. Jesus is used all kinds of ways. When somebody wins the lottery,
it's, thank you, Jesus, you know. What about when they was broke?
Thank you, Jesus. Because you're alive and breathing
and able to be broke. Thank you, Jesus. Why? What's
that name mean? It's batted about, but do men
know what they're saying when they say that name? They're saying that He shall
save His people from their sins. That's what they're saying by
just saying that name. You can't separate His name from
His work. When they say the name Lord,
what does that mean? He's the Lord of salvation. That
means He has power and has used that power to perform what he
promised to do, and that was to save his people from their
sin. And he's the Christ. He's the
sent one. He's the sent one, the one that
God anointed for the task of saving the elect. That's his
name. You can't say his name or any
of his titles without discussing what he has accomplished on Calvary
3. That's a fact. Those titles don't even make
sense if he didn't save his people. Think about it. That name means
nothing. It means nothing if he didn't
save his people. He got named wrong. He should
have been called Zacharias or something. But Jesus, that name means something. So when you say it, let it come
into your mind and know what it means. It means he saved his people.
Don't say it if you don't mean it. Don't say it if you don't
know what you're talking about. Because if you're talking about
Jesus, you're talking about one who saved his people from their
sins. Because that's what that name
means. That's why they named him that.
Thou shalt call his name Jesus because he shall save his people
from their sins. Why did he come? He came to suffer
and die. He didn't come to set up an earthly
kingdom or to start a whole bunch of big churches. He came to suffer
and die. He never went more than 50 miles
from his hometown. Never had more than 120 followers
all the time he was there. Twelve major followers. One of
them was ordained to betray him and did. But he came to suffer
and die. That's why he came. He told all
his disciples over and over again, I must need to go to Jerusalem.
There, I'm going to be taken prisoner. There, I'm going to
be crucified. That's going to take place, because
that's what I came to do. That's what I came to do. He
did not come to die as a martyr, or to make salvation available,
or possibly die to save somebody. He said, I laid down my life
for the sheep. Nobody takes this, my life, from
me. I laid it down freely. I received this commandment of
my Father. He died to save somebody. Who? His sheep, His church, His elect,
His people. Those who the Father gave Him
before the foundation of the world. Those who were chosen
in Him before the foundation of the world. He came to suffer and die. To
bring men to God. He died once. But just for the
unjust. To bring us to God. That's why
He died. to bring us to God. He came,
according to Scriptures, to take away our sins. He was manifested,
John says in 1 John 3, chapter 3 and verse 5, He was manifested
to take away our sins. That word take away is Elo. It
means to go up under a burden, put it upon your shoulders, and
carry it away. That's what it means. Our sin
was made to meet on the Lord Jesus Christ. He took that burden
upon Himself. And like the scapegoat that was
taken out of the wilderness and disappeared, He made our sins
disappear. He came not to call righteous
men, He said. Not to call righteous men, not
to call good people, not to call reformed people. He came to bring
sinners to repentance. To bring sinners to change their
mind about what recommends them to God. To bring sinners to turn
from their idols to serve the living God. He came to save sinners. He said that many times. The
Son of Man is coming into this world to save sinners. That's
why He came. Paul said that. This is a faithful
saying. Worthy of all acceptation. Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners of whom I am chief. He came to save sinners. He came
to do what the law could not do. What the law could not do,
and that it was weak in the flesh, Jesus Christ coming in the flesh,
destroyed sin in the flesh. And that because of that there
is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Jesus Christ.
Those laws were a shadow of good things to come, but they were
not the substance of the things, because they could never make
the comers thereunto perfect concerning conscience. So he
said, Lo, I come, and the volume of the book is written to me,
to do thy will, O God. And his will was to save his people.
When Peter, or rather Paul preached, I think it was Paul preached
in Acts chapter 13. He said, I'm going to tell you
about a man, all you folks who think you're going to become
righteous by the law. All of you who think that you're
going to be good enough that God will accept you no matter
what the Bible says or no matter what the preacher says, you think
somehow you're going to get by. Anybody in here think? Now come
on. Somewhere down deep inside. You
said, I don't read none of this Bible stuff. I know how to live. I was raised right. He said in verse 38 of Acts chapter
13, Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through
this man, that is Jesus Christ, is preached unto you the possibility that your sins
might be forgiven. Is that what it said? For unto
you, men and brethren, that through this man is preached
unto you The forgiveness of sin. Definite article. Forgiveness
is taking place. And by Him, by Him, all that
believe are justified from all things from which you could not
be justified by the law. He came to do what the law could
not do. And to save His people. He came
to fulfill the law, to satisfy justice and bring in everlasting
righteousness. That was the promise of the Messiah in Daniel chapter
9 and verse 24. Do you know who Jesus Christ
is? It's imperative, I think, you know. For He has the words
of eternal life and there's no one else to turn to. He is eternal
life. Do you know why He came? Do you know what He did? They just celebrated a big holiday
couple of last Sunday. I guess it was last Sunday, Easter
Sunday? Or as I like to refer to it,
as Rabbit and Egg Day. But it was celebrated throughout
the universe or throughout the world, all over places. And some
people were actually killed by ISIS because they were celebrating
the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether they knew Christ or not,
I hope they did. I pray they did. But it's a big deal. Christ and his cross. Do you
know what actually took place? One man said there's three areas
that people are totally ignorant of. First of all, what really
happened in the fall? What happened when Adam died
because of sin? What was this thing of the knowledge
of good and evil? Why was that tree planted in
that garden? Well, it was planted because
there can't be no sin without the law. Sin is not imputed where
there is no law. I watched a program last week
that was talking about a woman who was stalked by a man. It
was horrible what this man put her through. It was horrible.
The law couldn't do a thing. You know why? There was no law
about it. No law was written about stalking Now there's a law. And now if
you stalk a woman or a woman stalks a man, you'd be put in
jail. But before that you couldn't
be. Why? Because there was no law. But for sin to be imputed, which
it must be in order for the imputation of righteousness to come down
the line, there must be a law. What about this good and evil?
Did that just happen with Adam's seed? The truth was of the knowledge
of good and evil that already existed in the world. That serpent
was not a nice guy. And he was in the garden. Evil
was present there. Evil was present. But men didn't
know how to use it and still don't today. They don't know
how to look at good and evil and measure it for what it is.
Everything we do is tainted by both. But God can look at good
and evil and use it for His glory and for the good of His people.
I create evil, He said. I create good and he knows how
to use it. Man's knowledge of it ruined
humanity because he didn't know how to use it. He had no power
over either good or evil to manipulate it and use it for the glory of
God. And so he failed and was ruined
in the Garden of Eden. And Jesus Christ came to fix
that. That's what he did. What really
happened in the garden, people don't understand. But what happened
on the cross, people don't understand either. This is a transaction
between the father and the son. What happened on the cross? He accomplished salvation for
his people. Flat out. Now, if you believe
otherwise, you believe a lie. I'm just telling you, I'm here
to tell you right now, if you believe that His salvation simply made
something possible for you to do. Then you believe a lie. Jesus Christ accomplished salvation
on the cross. In John chapter 19, the word
teleok, accomplished, fulfilled, and finished, used three times
in just a few sentences, speaking of the work he accomplished on
Calvary's tree. It is finished, was his cry. Hallelujah. What a Savior. What did He do? He put away the
sins of His people. That's what Scripture said. He
put away the sins of His people by the sacrifice of Himself.
He put them away. Where are they? I don't know.
You say, well, I'm a sinner. God don't know that. God doesn't remember that. God
doesn't take that into account concerning you if you're in Jesus
Christ. If Christ died in your place, your sin is G-O-N-E gone. And your salvation is D-O-N-E
done. He obtained eternal redemption
for his people. That's what it says. He obtained
it. He got it. He has it for his people. He finished the work
that God gave him to do. He cried in John 17, Lord, glorify
me now, I have finished the work which thou hast given me to do.
And that work was the salvation of his people. He has perfected
his people. That's the language of Scripture.
He has perfected his people. For by one offer he's perfected
forever them that are sanctified. He did that. It's done. I'm looking
out here at a bunch of sinners that all together ain't worth
nothing. Add them up all together and it ain't worth a dime. But
you know what you are before Almighty God? The only opinion
that matters in this universe? Perfect. There are no degrees
of perfection. Not a one. Old Crow. I know Sylvester. I've known
him for 37 years. I've known him 38 years. I know
he can be rascally. How does God see Carl? Perfect. I wonder what it would be like
in this world if we saw each other that way. I wonder how
different our attitudes would be toward each other if we saw
each other as how God sees us. You know, we wouldn't be so uppity
and so crass and so mean. so judgmental for each other
if we actually saw that all of God's people are just like Jesus
Christ. They're perfect. They're a little
perfect phyllis back there. That's right. Perfect. Think about that. He hath perfected
forever them who are sanctified by the will of God. Why? What did he do? He removed
the possibility of us ever being charged with sin. Who shall aim him to the charge
of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Who
shall lay anything to your charge? What does that mean? That means
wondrously in that act where he died in the room instead of
his people and satisfied God's law, he removed all possibility
of you ever being accused of sin. So let me tell you, if you feel
an accusation of sin, it ain't coming from Christ. It's coming
from your old wretched conscience or your own legalism, which you've
not got rid of yet, and I haven't either. It ain't coming from
Christ because He said nobody can lay a charge to you. He has
removed your sin. He's put it away. And He's made
it so that if the law were to scam you from top to bottom,
it would find no grounds upon which it can accuse you before
God. There's nothing better than that. No accusation. He redeemed us. He also removed any possibility
of His people standing anything other than accepted before God. What did you do to be accepted?
I didn't do anything. How come I'm accepted? I'm accepted
in the Beloved because of what the Beloved has done. He redeemed us and says we are
kings and priests in the earth. Kings. Oh, what a gathering of
royalty here in Cherokee this morning. Pews filled with royalty. Kings and priests who can offer
gifts to God acceptable by the Lord Jesus Christ. He wears that holiness under
the Lord's crown upon his miter. and all your gifts, hallowed gifts. You said this is for God. It's
still filled with iniquity. But He bears the iniquity of
the holy things and all God sees is holiness unto the Lord. Holiness unto the Lord. Do you know what He did? He justified
us by His blood. Justified us. Justified us. There's nothing against us. There's
never been a record of us ever having sinned against God if
we're God's people. The record's not been expunged.
The record does not exist. That's what it means to be justified. He purged our sins by one sacrifice. Purged us of sin. He loved us and laid us. He loved us and
washed us in his own blood. And he made us accepted before
God. And he pleased God in doing so. So much so that God says, I was
right and righteous. I was. Now the world say, Malcolm? You talking about Malcolm? I
know Malcolm. The Lord says to anybody who
would dare challenge the fact, he said, Malcolm. Malcolm. is accepted in my presence and
I was right to save him. He had declared his righteousness
into salvation of his people according to Romans chapter 3.
It pleased God. What does that mean? This is
talking about propitiation. This is what the Lord said about
His Son. This is what he called men to recognize throughout the
New Testament and the Gospels. He said, this is my son. He'd break heaven open, bust
heaven wide open, cover everybody with a fog where they couldn't
see. I want to hear his voice and say, this is my beloved son
in whom I am well pleased, satisfied, propitiated. That's speaking
of his death on the cross. That's what he did. He satisfied
and propitiated God. God is pleased with him. He said
that at his baptism, when the Holy Ghost had sent him on like
a dove, he said, this is my son in whom I am well pleased. On
the Mount of Transfiguration, when Peter was going to raise
up three temples to Christ and Moses and Elijah, he broke heaven
open and said, this is my son in whom I am well pleased. You
hear him, not Moses and Elijah. Moses and Elijah spoke of him.
They talked of him. But here he is. You hear him.
He says, my son, do you know what he did? You won't know if you listen
to the mess that's going around in this world today called preaching. Do you know where he is now? He ain't showing up on the side
of some water tank, or on an Eddie McMuffin, or on a piece
of toast. You see that on the internet
all the time. Somebody has a piece of toast come out of the toaster.
Jesus is on the toast! Or if it's wheat toast or rye
toast, I wonder what it is. You know where he is right now?
He's shitting at the right hand of the Father, having finished
the work of salvation, and he is glorified. called in Hebrews 1 to express
the image of God's person, the effulgence of the outflowing
or the outshining of his power and his might. He's at the right
hand of the majesty on high. What does that right hand symbolize?
That's where salvation is, on the right hand of God, the arm
of God. He never said to the angels,
according to Hebrews 1.13, He never said to any angel, sit
thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
He said that to the Lord, His Son. Psalm 110. Hebrews 8, it says, Now of the
things which we have spoken, this is the sum. We have such
a high priest who is set at the right hand, or the right hand
of the throne of the majesty in heavens. He sets there. You ain't gonna stir him up.
He's an old lion who shall rise above. You ain't gonna get him
to do something. I don't care how long your prayer
chain is and how many links you got in it. You ain't gonna get
him to do nothing. He's finished his work. The only
thing he does now is advocate. Say, why do we need an advocate?
Well, we sin. But what is that advocacy? Is
it in a courtroom? No, it's in the father's house.
We have an advocate with the father. That's what it's saying. Not
the judge. It's the son talking to his father. Oh, sinner me, I sin. The Lord
says, ain't he precious, ain't he perfect. That's what we say
about our young. That's what I'll say about those
two. One of these days, if they come into this world, these two
come into this world out of my sweet baby and sweet daughter's
womb, I'll say, oh, they're just precious. They're perfect. They've got ten toes and ten
fingers, and I just love them to death. And you can say anything
you want to. You better not say it in front
of me, but you can. Now, you can ask anybody in this congregation.
Now, I've told this congregation many times, say anything you
want to about me. Don't say anything about my kids.
And I've never said anything about anybody's kids in here
but praise. Ask. And because I love them. And I don't have anything for
them but praise. The Lord thinks that way about
His children. See my perfect little ones. See
my lambs that I carry in my bosom. That's his advocacy. Jesus Christ,
the righteous. But this man, after he had held
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of
God. That's where he is now. Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith, before the joy set before him, endured
the cross, despising the shame, and is sat down on the right
hand of the Father, who has gone into heaven, Peter said. and
is on the right hand of God. Angels and authorities and powers
being made subject to Him. Do you know who He is? Do you
know why He came? Do you know what He did? Do you
know where He is now? Simon Peter did. He knew. Father, bless us to understand
and pray in Christ's name. Amen.