WEBVTT 00:00:01.119 --> 00:00:06.667 Well, it's a great privilege for me to be with you 00:00:06.667 --> 00:00:10.227 and to have these opportunities to speak to you, 00:00:10.227 --> 00:00:11.705 and have happy conversations 00:00:11.705 --> 00:00:13.910 with so many of you. 00:00:13.910 --> 00:00:18.576 I've enjoyed my five weeks now in the U.S.A. 00:00:18.576 --> 00:00:23.367 I have written faithfully back to my family 00:00:23.367 --> 00:00:25.941 and told them all about every day. 00:00:25.941 --> 00:00:28.371 And tonight you will be on record 00:00:28.371 --> 00:00:32.511 and read about in London and in Wales. 00:00:32.511 --> 00:00:35.690 I want to speak to you at this hour 00:00:35.690 --> 00:00:40.302 about the work of Jesus Christ, 00:00:40.302 --> 00:00:42.037 and I want to draw your attention 00:00:42.037 --> 00:00:45.155 to Hebrews 1:3. 00:00:45.155 --> 00:00:49.455 "When He had by Himself purged our sins, 00:00:49.455 --> 00:00:51.706 He sat down at the right hand 00:00:51.706 --> 00:00:54.083 of the Majesty on high." 00:00:54.083 --> 00:00:56.244 Hebrews 1:3 00:00:56.244 --> 00:00:58.432 That's the King James Version. 00:00:58.432 --> 00:01:01.408 "When He had by Himself purged our sins, 00:01:01.408 --> 00:01:03.780 He sat down at the right hand 00:01:03.780 --> 00:01:07.118 of the Majesty on high." NOTE Paragraph 00:01:07.118 --> 00:01:09.841 Well, you realize who this is then. 00:01:09.841 --> 00:01:12.289 I've spoken to you about that. 00:01:12.289 --> 00:01:16.446 He's the One through whom God speaks to us. 00:01:16.446 --> 00:01:19.082 "God has spoken through the prophets, 00:01:19.082 --> 00:01:21.010 but now in these last days, 00:01:21.010 --> 00:01:22.974 He speaks to us by His Son." 00:01:22.974 --> 00:01:26.831 He speaks to you by creation. 00:01:26.831 --> 00:01:29.037 The heavens declare His glory. 00:01:29.037 --> 00:01:30.877 The firmament shows His handiwork. 00:01:30.877 --> 00:01:32.711 Day and night there's speech coming, 00:01:32.711 --> 00:01:34.107 and it's saying, 00:01:34.107 --> 00:01:36.801 what a great and mighty God made this world. 00:01:36.801 --> 00:01:39.335 It didn't come about by chance or accident. 00:01:39.335 --> 00:01:41.189 It isn't just by luck - 00:01:41.189 --> 00:01:44.033 atoms join together and spontaneously 00:01:44.033 --> 00:01:45.767 out of nothing, something came. 00:01:45.767 --> 00:01:49.156 Nothing comes from nothing. 00:01:49.156 --> 00:01:51.041 But God made it. 00:01:51.041 --> 00:01:53.060 And God speaks to us in it. 00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:55.496 And God speaks to us through conscience - 00:01:55.496 --> 00:01:57.250 the great monitor that God has put 00:01:57.250 --> 00:02:00.242 in our hearts and minds 00:02:00.242 --> 00:02:02.678 that rebukes us when we do what's wrong 00:02:02.678 --> 00:02:04.975 and commend us when we do what's right. 00:02:04.975 --> 00:02:07.286 That's the voice of God. 00:02:07.286 --> 00:02:08.614 It has said to you: 00:02:08.614 --> 00:02:11.063 "You know you can't go on in unbelief like this. 00:02:11.063 --> 00:02:13.681 You ought to go and find a place 00:02:13.681 --> 00:02:16.569 which worships Me, the living God." NOTE Paragraph 00:02:16.569 --> 00:02:22.015 And God has now spoken by His Son. 00:02:22.015 --> 00:02:23.568 Wonderful words. 00:02:23.568 --> 00:02:27.010 "When He was set, His disciples came unto Him, 00:02:27.010 --> 00:02:29.200 and He opened His mouth and He taught them 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:32.398 saying, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit. 00:02:32.398 --> 00:02:34.023 Theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. 00:02:34.023 --> 00:02:37.492 Blessed are they that mourn; they shall be comforted. 00:02:37.492 --> 00:02:40.035 Blessed are the meek; they shall inhabit the earth. 00:02:40.035 --> 00:02:43.025 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, 00:02:43.025 --> 00:02:44.932 they shall be filled. 00:02:44.932 --> 00:02:46.709 Blessed are the pure in heart, 00:02:46.709 --> 00:02:49.725 for they shall see God. 00:02:49.725 --> 00:02:51.495 Blessed are the peacemakers; 00:02:51.495 --> 00:02:53.593 they shall be called the children of God. 00:02:53.593 --> 00:02:55.312 Blessed are you when men revile you 00:02:55.312 --> 00:02:57.870 and persecute you and say all manner of evil 00:02:57.870 --> 00:02:59.704 against you for my sake. 00:02:59.704 --> 00:03:01.479 Rejoice, be exceeingly glad. 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:06.095 They treated the prophets like this before you.'" 00:03:06.095 --> 00:03:08.304 William Shakespeare never said anything 00:03:08.304 --> 00:03:10.674 as wonderful as those words. 00:03:10.674 --> 00:03:12.249 But He did. 00:03:12.249 --> 00:03:14.109 He spoke and He prayed 00:03:14.109 --> 00:03:15.925 and we have a record of His prayers. 00:03:15.925 --> 00:03:19.194 And He taught us how to pray like Him. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:19.194 --> 00:03:21.279 He's the God who made the universe then. 00:03:21.279 --> 00:03:25.986 We are fascinated with origins. 00:03:25.986 --> 00:03:28.999 We say that this One who was once tired 00:03:28.999 --> 00:03:31.881 and sat on the edge of a well in Sychar 00:03:31.881 --> 00:03:33.571 in Samaria, 00:03:33.571 --> 00:03:38.996 and asked a woman for a drink of water, 00:03:38.996 --> 00:03:41.542 He made the Gulf of Mexico. 00:03:41.542 --> 00:03:43.533 He made Texas. 00:03:43.533 --> 00:03:45.399 He made North and South America. 00:03:45.399 --> 00:03:47.843 He made the world. 00:03:47.843 --> 00:03:49.938 He was crucified. 00:03:49.938 --> 00:03:52.926 He made the forests whence there sprung the tree 00:03:52.926 --> 00:03:55.383 on which He hung. 00:03:55.383 --> 00:03:58.077 He died upon a cross of wood, 00:03:58.077 --> 00:04:01.486 yet made the hill on which it stood. 00:04:01.486 --> 00:04:04.221 The vastness of space. 00:04:04.221 --> 00:04:08.861 There's nothing in it that's contrary to 00:04:08.861 --> 00:04:11.937 the power and glory of Christ. 00:04:11.937 --> 00:04:15.132 He's relevant to the outdoors. 00:04:15.132 --> 00:04:17.460 God put the first Adam in a garden, 00:04:17.460 --> 00:04:20.237 and He put the last Adam in the indoors 00:04:20.237 --> 00:04:22.884 in a carpenter shop. 00:04:22.884 --> 00:04:28.244 He's the brightness of God's glory. 00:04:28.244 --> 00:04:31.706 The most Godlike thing that God ever did 00:04:31.706 --> 00:04:35.657 was to send His Son to the cross. 00:04:35.657 --> 00:04:37.388 And when He hung there, He prayed, 00:04:37.388 --> 00:04:38.601 "Father, forgive them. 00:04:38.601 --> 00:04:41.717 They know not what they do." 00:04:41.717 --> 00:04:43.374 There's the glory of God. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:43.374 --> 00:04:46.124 This is the one, then, this verse is talking about. 00:04:46.124 --> 00:04:48.893 Then it tells us what He did. 00:04:48.893 --> 00:04:51.862 "He purged our sins." 00:04:51.862 --> 00:04:54.505 He came into the closest contact 00:04:54.505 --> 00:04:58.787 with these people whose forefathers 00:04:58.787 --> 00:05:03.512 God had chosen and set apart. 00:05:03.512 --> 00:05:04.875 He lived among them. 00:05:04.875 --> 00:05:07.331 He came and pitched His tent 00:05:07.331 --> 00:05:09.376 in the valley of the shadow of darkness. 00:05:09.376 --> 00:05:12.857 He came where men crucify other men. 00:05:12.857 --> 00:05:17.088 He came where they throw a young woman at His feet 00:05:17.088 --> 00:05:19.229 and are going to throw jagged boulders 00:05:19.229 --> 00:05:22.395 into her face and ribs. 00:05:22.395 --> 00:05:24.317 And He was there. 00:05:24.317 --> 00:05:25.840 He came where the blasphemy, 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:27.667 where the gambling is 00:05:27.667 --> 00:05:31.824 as they gamble for condemned men's clothes. 00:05:31.824 --> 00:05:34.303 He came. He came there. 00:05:34.303 --> 00:05:38.458 And He saw their sins. 00:05:38.458 --> 00:05:41.382 And sins defile us. 00:05:41.382 --> 00:05:44.400 Sins make us dirty. 00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:46.360 And we need more than a little washing; 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:47.922 more than a little sprinkling. 00:05:47.922 --> 00:05:50.670 We need purging. NOTE Paragraph 00:05:50.670 --> 00:05:52.425 I'd walk to church with my mother 00:05:52.425 --> 00:05:56.048 on a Sunday night. 00:05:56.048 --> 00:05:59.122 She'd notice I had tomato soup stains 00:05:59.122 --> 00:06:01.674 around my mouth. 00:06:01.674 --> 00:06:05.184 She'd say, "Spit on this hanky." 00:06:05.184 --> 00:06:07.593 And then she'd scrub my face 00:06:07.593 --> 00:06:09.377 so that I'd look presentable - 00:06:09.377 --> 00:06:15.819 worthy to sit next to her. 00:06:15.819 --> 00:06:19.692 We need more than a little spittle 00:06:19.692 --> 00:06:22.633 to wash away our stains. 00:06:22.633 --> 00:06:25.142 They stain our hearts. 00:06:25.142 --> 00:06:26.522 Our inmost being - 00:06:26.522 --> 00:06:28.244 the dispositional complex, 00:06:28.244 --> 00:06:31.138 out of which are all the issues of our life. 00:06:31.138 --> 00:06:33.579 There's dirt there. There's defilement there. NOTE Paragraph 00:06:33.579 --> 00:06:35.541 A man knocked on the door of my house, 00:06:35.541 --> 00:06:36.685 and I went to answer. 00:06:36.685 --> 00:06:38.890 I didn't recognize him. 00:06:38.890 --> 00:06:42.600 He said, "I wonder, could you baptize me?" 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.695 So, he came in and I spoke to him. 00:06:44.695 --> 00:06:46.557 He'd lived with a woman in Canada, 00:06:46.557 --> 00:06:47.737 and she got pregnant. 00:06:47.737 --> 00:06:50.447 And she'd had an abortion. 00:06:50.447 --> 00:06:54.274 And he felt defiled. 00:06:54.274 --> 00:06:58.173 And he thought this defilement, this dirt, 00:06:58.173 --> 00:07:01.397 of what I've done needs to be washed away. 00:07:01.397 --> 00:07:02.953 I said to him, 00:07:02.953 --> 00:07:05.607 "baptism is an outward sign 00:07:05.607 --> 00:07:08.253 of an inward change - 00:07:08.253 --> 00:07:12.091 that God washes our hearts. 00:07:12.091 --> 00:07:15.494 And you must come and listen to the gospel now." 00:07:15.494 --> 00:07:18.539 And he started to attend church. 00:07:18.539 --> 00:07:21.892 Because sins have made us dark and defiled - 00:07:21.892 --> 00:07:24.506 spotted like the leper. 00:07:24.506 --> 00:07:26.851 And we need to be washed. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:26.851 --> 00:07:30.356 And He's come. God has sent His Son 00:07:30.356 --> 00:07:32.617 into the darkness. 00:07:32.617 --> 00:07:36.741 He sent Him where sinners are in need. 00:07:36.741 --> 00:07:39.346 And He's done something for our sins. 00:07:39.346 --> 00:07:41.845 He says, you see, that's the phrase 00:07:41.845 --> 00:07:43.014 the apostle uses 00:07:43.014 --> 00:07:46.307 talking to these Jewish Christians. 00:07:46.307 --> 00:07:49.432 "Ours..." - "Mine too" he says. 00:07:49.432 --> 00:07:51.923 Mine need to be washed too. 00:07:51.923 --> 00:07:55.579 He stands in solidarity with them. 00:07:55.579 --> 00:07:57.415 In acknowledgement with them 00:07:57.415 --> 00:07:59.431 that he too is a sinner 00:07:59.431 --> 00:08:01.601 and needs to be cleansed. 00:08:01.601 --> 00:08:04.637 He's not writing this letter to the Sanhedrin. 00:08:04.637 --> 00:08:07.228 He's not writing this letter to Caiaphas and Annas 00:08:07.228 --> 00:08:09.469 or to Pilate or to Herod. 00:08:09.469 --> 00:08:11.976 He's writing to a certain constituency 00:08:11.976 --> 00:08:15.152 when he says "our sins." 00:08:15.152 --> 00:08:18.724 He's writing to Jews who have seen 00:08:18.724 --> 00:08:21.949 the Man on the cross is the Messiah. 00:08:21.949 --> 00:08:25.205 And He died there as the Lamb of God 00:08:25.205 --> 00:08:27.514 that all the types and offerings 00:08:27.514 --> 00:08:29.775 were pointing forward to the coming 00:08:29.775 --> 00:08:33.512 into this world of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:08:33.512 --> 00:08:37.847 The God who had spoken through Isaiah and Elijah 00:08:37.847 --> 00:08:39.960 and was now speaking to them 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:41.771 by His own Son. 00:08:41.771 --> 00:08:45.197 So this letter is written to these people - 00:08:45.197 --> 00:08:47.289 a certain constituency, a definite, 00:08:47.289 --> 00:08:49.956 a particular constituency. 00:08:49.956 --> 00:08:52.329 It's not a promiscuous letter. 00:08:52.329 --> 00:08:54.212 It's not a letter to everybody. 00:08:54.212 --> 00:08:56.154 It's a letter to these people. 00:08:56.154 --> 00:08:57.311 To a church. 00:08:57.311 --> 00:08:59.134 When he writes to the Corinthians, 00:08:59.134 --> 00:09:03.094 he says, "Christ died for our sins." 00:09:03.094 --> 00:09:06.524 When he writes to the Ephesians, 00:09:06.524 --> 00:09:11.246 he says, "Christ loved the church 00:09:11.246 --> 00:09:13.119 and gave Himself for the church." 00:09:13.119 --> 00:09:14.822 When he writes to the Galatians, 00:09:14.822 --> 00:09:17.345 he's very personal: "He loved me, 00:09:17.345 --> 00:09:20.517 and He gave Himself for me," he says. 00:09:20.517 --> 00:09:22.558 It's always so definite. 00:09:22.558 --> 00:09:25.537 Not for those who died in Noah's flood, 00:09:25.537 --> 00:09:27.539 but for our sins. 00:09:27.539 --> 00:09:30.663 Our sins have a total answer 00:09:30.663 --> 00:09:34.495 and that is found in the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. 00:09:34.495 --> 00:09:38.953 He purged our sins. 00:09:38.953 --> 00:09:43.165 He made an effective purgation of them. 00:09:43.165 --> 00:09:45.516 He removed every spot, every stain, 00:09:45.516 --> 00:09:48.366 every wrinkle, every such thing. 00:09:48.366 --> 00:09:50.226 It's taken away. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:50.226 --> 00:09:53.599 You see the consequences of this then, 00:09:53.599 --> 00:09:59.367 that my sins as if they never were. 00:09:59.367 --> 00:10:00.996 It's magnificent. 00:10:00.996 --> 00:10:04.618 It's an incredible concept. 00:10:04.618 --> 00:10:06.728 They do not control 00:10:06.728 --> 00:10:10.280 my relationship with God this morning. 00:10:10.280 --> 00:10:13.274 They do not modify how it is 00:10:13.274 --> 00:10:15.107 between me and God. 00:10:15.107 --> 00:10:17.746 It is as if they weren't there. 00:10:17.746 --> 00:10:21.142 There is no defilement. 00:10:21.142 --> 00:10:23.309 It's all been removed. 00:10:23.309 --> 00:10:24.945 He's taken our past sin. 00:10:24.945 --> 00:10:27.411 He's taken our present sin. 00:10:27.411 --> 00:10:29.969 He's taken our future sin. 00:10:29.969 --> 00:10:31.776 And He's put it away. 00:10:31.776 --> 00:10:37.301 He's provided purification for it. 00:10:37.301 --> 00:10:41.167 And we are whiter than snow. 00:10:41.167 --> 00:10:44.660 I'm not sure that my conscience can believe it. 00:10:44.660 --> 00:10:47.339 I am not sure that there isn't in me 00:10:47.339 --> 00:10:50.791 and in some of you an egotism 00:10:50.791 --> 00:10:53.366 that wants to cling in some self-pity 00:10:53.366 --> 00:10:57.301 to some remnants of our sin, 00:10:57.301 --> 00:10:58.779 of our guilt, 00:10:58.779 --> 00:11:03.353 so that we can feel sorry for ourselves. 00:11:03.353 --> 00:11:06.584 If only I can let this truth 00:11:06.584 --> 00:11:08.353 be the whole truth 00:11:08.353 --> 00:11:11.214 about the way things are 00:11:11.214 --> 00:11:14.403 between me and God this morning, 00:11:14.403 --> 00:11:17.818 there's no barrier whatsoever, 00:11:17.818 --> 00:11:21.129 there is no impediment whatsoever, 00:11:21.129 --> 00:11:23.953 it is all forgiven. 00:11:23.953 --> 00:11:25.666 It is all forgotten. 00:11:25.666 --> 00:11:29.146 It's all blotted out. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:29.146 --> 00:11:32.671 It may even be that sometimes 00:11:32.671 --> 00:11:34.523 you use this very belief 00:11:34.523 --> 00:11:37.587 that one day I've got to go to purgatory. 00:11:37.587 --> 00:11:41.050 And one day, I've got to pay for my sins. 00:11:41.050 --> 00:11:45.283 And that leads to a little less commitment, 00:11:45.283 --> 00:11:48.768 a little less resistance to sin. 00:11:48.768 --> 00:11:51.463 A little less discipleship; a little less purity, 00:11:51.463 --> 00:11:53.928 because, well, I've got to pay for them anyway. 00:11:53.928 --> 00:11:56.127 Let me enjoy them, because I'll pay for them. 00:11:56.127 --> 00:11:59.270 I'm prepared to pay for them. 00:11:59.270 --> 00:12:01.839 So, let me take that illicit weekend 00:12:01.839 --> 00:12:03.606 with that woman. 00:12:03.606 --> 00:12:06.768 Let me lace my speech with blasphemies 00:12:06.768 --> 00:12:10.862 and foul language. 00:12:10.862 --> 00:12:12.708 Let me take another drink, 00:12:12.708 --> 00:12:14.611 another drink, another drink. 00:12:14.611 --> 00:12:17.491 Because I've got to pay for my drunkenness anyway. 00:12:17.491 --> 00:12:19.916 I've got to go to purgatory. NOTE Paragraph 00:12:19.916 --> 00:12:25.531 I am saying they are all forgiven. 00:12:25.531 --> 00:12:29.235 I am saying He's purged them all. 00:12:29.235 --> 00:12:32.826 He's dealt with every molecule 00:12:32.826 --> 00:12:34.687 of our guilt and shame. 00:12:34.687 --> 00:12:39.716 Not one rogue molecule remains 00:12:39.716 --> 00:12:42.663 that I have to purge myself. 00:12:42.663 --> 00:12:45.129 Every spot imputed to Him. 00:12:45.129 --> 00:12:49.415 There is absolutely nothing left. 00:12:49.415 --> 00:12:51.518 Do you believe it? 00:12:51.518 --> 00:12:53.762 The single determinant 00:12:53.762 --> 00:12:57.532 of your relationship with God this morning 00:12:57.532 --> 00:13:00.258 is what happened on that cross. 00:13:00.258 --> 00:13:03.382 Nothing else matters. 00:13:03.382 --> 00:13:06.086 Nothing else is relevant. 00:13:06.086 --> 00:13:08.880 There are only two factors 00:13:08.880 --> 00:13:12.013 in that equation: 00:13:12.013 --> 00:13:14.569 What Christ did 00:13:14.569 --> 00:13:17.673 and how God responded. 00:13:17.673 --> 00:13:19.051 And the way you feel, 00:13:19.051 --> 00:13:20.738 and the way you struggle, 00:13:20.738 --> 00:13:23.960 and what you achieve and how you fail - 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.512 that is irrelevant. 00:13:26.512 --> 00:13:28.605 The one thing relevant 00:13:28.605 --> 00:13:33.192 is what the Lamb of God did on the cross. 00:13:33.192 --> 00:13:35.779 And I don't for a moment believe 00:13:35.779 --> 00:13:38.917 that the heart that knows that 00:13:38.917 --> 00:13:43.117 will take advantage of it and go from it 00:13:43.117 --> 00:13:46.366 to live a life without law, 00:13:46.366 --> 00:13:48.224 because that cross, that grace, 00:13:48.224 --> 00:13:50.224 won't let you. 00:13:50.224 --> 00:13:52.696 I believe on the contrary 00:13:52.696 --> 00:13:53.951 that a bad conscience 00:13:53.951 --> 00:13:57.241 and a feeling that, well, I've got to pay for it anyway, 00:13:57.241 --> 00:13:59.267 and God has something against me - 00:13:59.267 --> 00:14:03.193 that serves as an unconscious grudge 00:14:03.193 --> 00:14:08.080 against God that somehow justifies me 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.496 acting badly; being less perfect. 00:14:11.496 --> 00:14:14.293 Permits a relapse here 00:14:14.293 --> 00:14:16.442 and a shortcoming there. 00:14:16.442 --> 00:14:18.241 And I want you to know in the depth 00:14:18.241 --> 00:14:19.934 of your own being 00:14:19.934 --> 00:14:24.179 that Jesus Christ made a good and decent job 00:14:24.179 --> 00:14:27.257 of the work that God gave Him to do. 00:14:27.257 --> 00:14:31.114 That He made a real purging for sin. 00:14:31.114 --> 00:14:33.170 He's the brightness of God's glory. 00:14:33.170 --> 00:14:36.026 He's God the Son. He's Jehovah Jesus. 00:14:36.026 --> 00:14:38.257 He's the infinite, eternal One 00:14:38.257 --> 00:14:40.127 who's taken human nature. 00:14:40.127 --> 00:14:43.862 And He focused at the climax of His life 00:14:43.862 --> 00:14:47.689 on Jerusalem and the task that lay before Him. 00:14:47.689 --> 00:14:50.819 He was walking with destiny to Golgotha, 00:14:50.819 --> 00:14:53.477 there to deal with sin - 00:14:53.477 --> 00:14:56.517 the way it dirties us and defiles us 00:14:56.517 --> 00:14:58.261 and corrupts us. 00:14:58.261 --> 00:15:00.368 And God hates it. 00:15:00.368 --> 00:15:03.614 The way it's created a gulf, 00:15:03.614 --> 00:15:06.885 an alienation between ourselves and God. 00:15:06.885 --> 00:15:08.558 He comes. 00:15:08.558 --> 00:15:11.109 He comes who raises the dead. 00:15:11.109 --> 00:15:13.268 He comes who speaks 00:15:13.268 --> 00:15:15.425 and the winds and the waves obey Him. 00:15:15.425 --> 00:15:16.767 He comes. 00:15:16.767 --> 00:15:18.232 Jehovah Jesus. 00:15:18.232 --> 00:15:21.293 There's one more thing He has to do 00:15:21.293 --> 00:15:24.296 before He can say, "It is finished." 00:15:24.296 --> 00:15:27.074 He must purge our sins. 00:15:27.074 --> 00:15:29.827 He must take the defilement that comes - 00:15:29.827 --> 00:15:32.905 every lapse; 00:15:32.905 --> 00:15:34.924 every sin of omission. 00:15:34.924 --> 00:15:36.611 He comes. 00:15:36.611 --> 00:15:38.457 The guilt of every failure - 00:15:38.457 --> 00:15:40.319 He must take them 00:15:40.319 --> 00:15:43.292 into the judgment of the lake of fire. 00:15:43.292 --> 00:15:45.700 He must take them 00:15:45.700 --> 00:15:47.834 into the bottomless pit. 00:15:47.834 --> 00:15:50.484 There to fall and fall and fall 00:15:50.484 --> 00:15:53.548 further and further from us. 00:15:53.548 --> 00:15:55.529 For all eternity. 00:15:55.529 --> 00:16:02.299 A vaster and vaster separation of us and our sin. 00:16:02.299 --> 00:16:06.869 And it leaves us de-sinned. 00:16:06.869 --> 00:16:09.857 It leaves us guiltless. 00:16:09.857 --> 00:16:12.722 As sinless as God is sinless. 00:16:12.722 --> 00:16:15.615 As holy as the angels are holy. 00:16:15.615 --> 00:16:20.958 Look, there is flowing a crimson tide. 00:16:20.958 --> 00:16:24.772 Whiter than snow you may be today. 00:16:24.772 --> 00:16:27.223 So you see the consequences 00:16:27.223 --> 00:16:28.944 of what He has done. 00:16:28.944 --> 00:16:32.939 That the dying of Jesus is purgatory. 00:16:32.939 --> 00:16:35.495 Golgotha is the only purgatory 00:16:35.495 --> 00:16:38.487 in this world or in the world to come. 00:16:38.487 --> 00:16:40.673 There's no need of another purging. 00:16:40.673 --> 00:16:45.130 There's nothing left to purge. 00:16:45.130 --> 00:16:47.547 And there is no force, there is no power 00:16:47.547 --> 00:16:50.068 except the death of Christ 00:16:50.068 --> 00:16:52.175 that can deal with our sin. 00:16:52.175 --> 00:16:54.169 And then when we see Him, 00:16:54.169 --> 00:16:55.337 we shall be like Him. 00:16:55.337 --> 00:16:58.674 He will present us faultless before Him in that day. 00:16:58.674 --> 00:17:00.038 No fault. 00:17:00.038 --> 00:17:03.056 Because all our sin has been dealt with. 00:17:03.056 --> 00:17:06.766 Christ didn't do half a job on Calvary. 00:17:06.766 --> 00:17:10.440 He didn't do 90% of a job on Calvary. 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:14.011 Jesus paid it all. 00:17:14.011 --> 00:17:16.903 All to Him I owe. 00:17:16.903 --> 00:17:19.341 Sin had left a fearful stain. 00:17:19.341 --> 00:17:22.104 He washed it white as snow. 00:17:22.104 --> 00:17:26.273 He purged our sin. NOTE Paragraph 00:17:26.273 --> 00:17:27.608 And then you see, 00:17:27.608 --> 00:17:30.539 He did it by Himself we're told. 00:17:30.539 --> 00:17:34.173 "When He had by Himself purged our sins..." 00:17:34.173 --> 00:17:35.822 What was He doing? 00:17:35.822 --> 00:17:37.592 Well, He was offering Himself 00:17:37.592 --> 00:17:40.507 without spot to God. 00:17:40.507 --> 00:17:42.642 He wasn't offering His body; 00:17:42.642 --> 00:17:45.219 He wasn't offering His obedience only; 00:17:45.219 --> 00:17:48.015 He wasn't offering His sufferings only; 00:17:48.015 --> 00:17:50.320 He wasn't offering His blood only; 00:17:50.320 --> 00:17:54.319 He wasn't offering His human nature only. 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.264 He was offering Himself. 00:17:56.264 --> 00:18:00.660 The God-man was offering to God 00:18:00.660 --> 00:18:04.177 the sacrificial obedience of the holy Lamb of God. 00:18:04.177 --> 00:18:06.549 He was offering Himself to God. 00:18:06.549 --> 00:18:10.647 He was the ransom price paid. 00:18:10.647 --> 00:18:12.132 And we are free. 00:18:12.132 --> 00:18:14.204 He was the propitiation. 00:18:14.204 --> 00:18:16.708 The appeasement of the holy wrath of God 00:18:16.708 --> 00:18:19.269 against all that contradicts what God is. 00:18:19.269 --> 00:18:21.641 All that is cruel and tawdry 00:18:21.641 --> 00:18:24.741 and mean and nasty. 00:18:24.741 --> 00:18:27.067 And He dealt with that 00:18:27.067 --> 00:18:29.214 and God's anger towards it. 00:18:29.214 --> 00:18:31.062 He's the great satisfaction 00:18:31.062 --> 00:18:32.528 rendered to God. 00:18:32.528 --> 00:18:35.933 He's the price of our liberation. 00:18:35.933 --> 00:18:38.663 There is nothing left undone 00:18:38.663 --> 00:18:41.759 that any of you or me have to do. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.012 He made a purging for us. 00:18:44.012 --> 00:18:46.190 And He did it not by enabling you 00:18:46.190 --> 00:18:47.788 to do something. 00:18:47.788 --> 00:18:51.157 He did it not by inspiring you to choose. 00:18:51.157 --> 00:18:54.431 He did it not by encouraging you to repentance. 00:18:54.431 --> 00:18:57.592 He did it not by challenging you 00:18:57.592 --> 00:18:58.829 to discipleship. 00:18:58.829 --> 00:19:01.718 Not by exhorting you to faith. 00:19:01.718 --> 00:19:05.089 Not by commanding you to live a holy life; 00:19:05.089 --> 00:19:07.548 by pleading with you to have compassion 00:19:07.548 --> 00:19:09.566 on your fellow men. 00:19:09.566 --> 00:19:12.125 Because if my standing before God 00:19:12.125 --> 00:19:14.643 depends on any of those things, 00:19:14.643 --> 00:19:16.993 then I'm a lost man; 00:19:16.993 --> 00:19:18.836 if it depends on my repentance 00:19:18.836 --> 00:19:20.933 and my faith and my obedience 00:19:20.933 --> 00:19:22.467 and my holy living. 00:19:22.467 --> 00:19:23.936 I have no hope. 00:19:23.936 --> 00:19:28.573 He did something absolutely by Himself. 00:19:28.573 --> 00:19:31.666 And it was absolutely sufficient 00:19:31.666 --> 00:19:34.455 for all that the Father had given to Him. 00:19:34.455 --> 00:19:38.029 He purged away every speck 00:19:38.029 --> 00:19:40.853 of their sin and guilt. 00:19:40.853 --> 00:19:42.864 And He did it alone. 00:19:42.864 --> 00:19:44.832 After His temptations, 00:19:44.832 --> 00:19:47.629 angels came and ministered to Him. 00:19:47.629 --> 00:19:50.023 After His baptism, the voice of God came 00:19:50.023 --> 00:19:51.426 and spoke to Him. 00:19:51.426 --> 00:19:53.081 After His transfiguration, 00:19:53.081 --> 00:19:58.416 Moses and Elijah came and talked with Him. NOTE Paragraph 00:19:58.416 --> 00:20:02.810 But on the cross, He was there by Himself. 00:20:02.810 --> 00:20:04.631 He was there alone. 00:20:04.631 --> 00:20:06.077 No friend there. 00:20:06.077 --> 00:20:08.081 Nobody catching His eye and saying, 00:20:08.081 --> 00:20:09.624 in a glance, 00:20:09.624 --> 00:20:12.878 "I love You and I know why You're doing this." 00:20:12.878 --> 00:20:15.412 No disciples. 00:20:15.412 --> 00:20:18.121 No family. 00:20:18.121 --> 00:20:19.768 They all forsook Him and fled. 00:20:19.768 --> 00:20:21.411 You were no good, were you? 00:20:21.411 --> 00:20:23.269 You weren't there. 00:20:23.269 --> 00:20:28.123 What contribution did you make on Golgotha to Jesus? 00:20:28.123 --> 00:20:31.348 Your guilt and shame. 00:20:31.348 --> 00:20:33.307 Nothing more than that. 00:20:33.307 --> 00:20:38.677 He by Himself purged that guilt and shame. 00:20:38.677 --> 00:20:40.536 So what could be more glorious? 00:20:40.536 --> 00:20:43.462 What could be more liberating than that? 00:20:43.462 --> 00:20:46.396 That there was a real and a total; 00:20:46.396 --> 00:20:48.114 a comprehensive, 00:20:48.114 --> 00:20:51.504 an infinite purging of sin? 00:20:51.504 --> 00:20:52.893 Which He accomplished. 00:20:52.893 --> 00:20:56.510 He did it by Himself. NOTE Paragraph 00:20:56.510 --> 00:21:01.091 And then we are told that He sat down 00:21:01.091 --> 00:21:02.716 at the right hand 00:21:02.716 --> 00:21:05.107 of the Majesty on high. 00:21:05.107 --> 00:21:08.855 We know where Jesus is today. 00:21:08.855 --> 00:21:10.706 He is at the right hand of God 00:21:10.706 --> 00:21:13.914 and He is present here. 00:21:13.914 --> 00:21:15.862 He's sitting next to you. 00:21:15.862 --> 00:21:18.426 He's nudging you. 00:21:18.426 --> 00:21:22.191 He is bearing testimony that what I say is true. 00:21:22.191 --> 00:21:24.472 He's giving you this opportunity 00:21:24.472 --> 00:21:29.013 to start having dealings with God the Son. 00:21:29.013 --> 00:21:31.145 He is here and He's there. 00:21:31.145 --> 00:21:34.918 And there He sits at the right hand of God. 00:21:34.918 --> 00:21:38.536 He's a sitting Savior. 00:21:38.536 --> 00:21:42.022 It means that He's finished the work. NOTE Paragraph 00:21:42.022 --> 00:21:44.449 Your husband comes home from work 00:21:44.449 --> 00:21:49.657 and you say, "Supper's almost ready." 00:21:49.657 --> 00:21:52.305 And he sits down. He picks up the paper. 00:21:52.305 --> 00:21:56.953 He's sitting after the work is over for the day. 00:21:56.953 --> 00:22:02.875 Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God. 00:22:02.875 --> 00:22:08.671 Like God in Genesis 1 looked at creation. 00:22:08.671 --> 00:22:10.916 The firmament and the seas, 00:22:10.916 --> 00:22:14.668 and the light and the darkness, 00:22:14.668 --> 00:22:18.590 and the sun and the moon and the stars, 00:22:18.590 --> 00:22:21.713 and the birds and the animals and man 00:22:21.713 --> 00:22:24.625 and God said, "It's good." 00:22:24.625 --> 00:22:26.036 He looked at all creation. 00:22:26.036 --> 00:22:27.899 He said, "It's very good." 00:22:27.899 --> 00:22:30.074 So, today, God is looking 00:22:30.074 --> 00:22:32.183 at what Jesus Christ did - 00:22:32.183 --> 00:22:34.512 the work of redemption - 00:22:34.512 --> 00:22:35.847 "Very good," He says. 00:22:35.847 --> 00:22:38.134 "Sit at My right hand." 00:22:38.134 --> 00:22:40.925 "Very good," God says. NOTE Paragraph 00:22:40.925 --> 00:22:43.276 So, I'm saying at this moment 00:22:43.276 --> 00:22:45.145 God the Father and God the Son 00:22:45.145 --> 00:22:47.819 and God the Holy Spirit look back 00:22:47.819 --> 00:22:51.773 at the whole travail of redeeming grace 00:22:51.773 --> 00:22:55.048 and the death of Christ - its great climax. 00:22:55.048 --> 00:22:57.035 All the pain and the blood 00:22:57.035 --> 00:22:58.652 the obedience, 00:22:58.652 --> 00:23:06.127 and they are completely satisfied. 00:23:06.127 --> 00:23:07.908 There's nothing more glorious 00:23:07.908 --> 00:23:10.535 in heaven or earth today than that. 00:23:10.535 --> 00:23:15.965 That Jesus Christ is completely pleased 00:23:15.965 --> 00:23:17.710 with His own work. 00:23:17.710 --> 00:23:20.061 He looks at it and He says, 00:23:20.061 --> 00:23:22.278 "Very good." 00:23:22.278 --> 00:23:24.929 And He sits down. 00:23:24.929 --> 00:23:27.415 And He rests. 00:23:27.415 --> 00:23:31.220 He sees the travail of His soul 00:23:31.220 --> 00:23:34.302 and He is satisfied. 00:23:34.302 --> 00:23:36.405 And God the Father looks at the obedience 00:23:36.405 --> 00:23:37.982 of His Son. He is satisfied. 00:23:37.982 --> 00:23:39.607 The Holy Spirit looks 00:23:39.607 --> 00:23:41.165 at what Christ has done 00:23:41.165 --> 00:23:43.859 and the Holy Spirit is satisfied. 00:23:43.859 --> 00:23:47.387 The angels can't believe their eyes. 00:23:47.387 --> 00:23:52.935 And all are filled with wonder, love, and praise. 00:23:52.935 --> 00:23:57.106 God is filled with love and praise. NOTE Paragraph 00:23:57.106 --> 00:24:00.780 And the terrible thing is that everybody 00:24:00.780 --> 00:24:06.429 is satisfied with it except you. 00:24:06.429 --> 00:24:09.494 And you won't come. 00:24:09.494 --> 00:24:14.249 Just as you are to Him 00:24:14.249 --> 00:24:19.443 just as He is - seated at the right hand of God. 00:24:19.443 --> 00:24:21.081 You won't come. 00:24:21.081 --> 00:24:22.629 Alone. 00:24:22.629 --> 00:24:24.011 Naked. 00:24:24.011 --> 00:24:28.422 Nothing in my hands I bring. 00:24:28.422 --> 00:24:30.869 You feel, well, I've got to make 00:24:30.869 --> 00:24:37.151 a little contribution myself. 00:24:37.151 --> 00:24:41.881 A little bit of Christian experience. 00:24:41.881 --> 00:24:48.300 I've learned a few marks of grace. 00:24:48.300 --> 00:24:50.169 A little growth; a little progress; 00:24:50.169 --> 00:24:51.900 a little courage in testimony; 00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:54.653 a little persecution in the office; 00:24:54.653 --> 00:24:58.623 a little laughter from some of your mates; 00:24:58.623 --> 00:25:00.140 a little pain in providence - 00:25:00.140 --> 00:25:04.806 you won't come alone. 00:25:04.806 --> 00:25:08.503 You won't come exposed. 00:25:08.503 --> 00:25:12.239 You won't sit down 00:25:12.239 --> 00:25:14.958 and survey Christ. 00:25:14.958 --> 00:25:20.371 You won't rest in the work of Jesus. NOTE Paragraph 00:25:20.371 --> 00:25:23.793 Now, that's what God the Son did. 00:25:23.793 --> 00:25:26.096 He said, "It is finished." 00:25:26.096 --> 00:25:28.957 He was buried. He rose. He ascended. 00:25:28.957 --> 00:25:34.352 And He sits at the right hand of God. 00:25:34.352 --> 00:25:36.748 The Father is thrilled. 00:25:36.748 --> 00:25:38.490 And the Spirit is delighted. 00:25:38.490 --> 00:25:40.625 And all the angels glory in it. 00:25:40.625 --> 00:25:42.673 And the spirits of just men made perfect - 00:25:42.673 --> 00:25:45.107 any achievements, they take the achievements 00:25:45.107 --> 00:25:48.196 and they throw them at His feet. 00:25:48.196 --> 00:25:50.074 Worthy is the Lamb that was slain 00:25:50.074 --> 00:25:52.358 to receive power and riches 00:25:52.358 --> 00:25:53.982 and wisdom and strength 00:25:53.982 --> 00:25:55.349 and honor and glory 00:25:55.349 --> 00:25:56.855 and blessing, they say. 00:25:56.855 --> 00:25:59.221 That's all the say because they know 00:25:59.221 --> 00:26:02.385 that Christ has made a complete purging. 00:26:02.385 --> 00:26:04.367 There's nothing in the world 00:26:04.367 --> 00:26:06.338 more glorious than this. 00:26:06.338 --> 00:26:10.493 That's why the Bible is a magnificent group. 00:26:10.493 --> 00:26:12.051 That's why we all have a Bible, 00:26:12.051 --> 00:26:14.030 and that's why the climax of our worship 00:26:14.030 --> 00:26:16.526 is to open the book and find the place 00:26:16.526 --> 00:26:18.208 and preach the Word. 00:26:18.208 --> 00:26:19.857 After we've sung to God, 00:26:19.857 --> 00:26:23.355 He speaks to us in His Word. NOTE Paragraph 00:26:23.355 --> 00:26:24.548 And that's what you want. 00:26:24.548 --> 00:26:25.887 I want to find a church 00:26:25.887 --> 00:26:27.970 which will tell me about Jesus 00:26:27.970 --> 00:26:29.118 and what He's done. 00:26:29.118 --> 00:26:30.102 That's what I want. 00:26:30.102 --> 00:26:32.542 I don't want men dressed up in religious costumes. 00:26:32.542 --> 00:26:33.420 I don't want that. 00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:35.163 I don't want a lot of entertainment 00:26:35.163 --> 00:26:37.378 and humor and laughter. 00:26:37.378 --> 00:26:39.493 I don't want that. 00:26:39.493 --> 00:26:43.838 Give me Christ or else I die! 00:26:43.838 --> 00:26:46.140 Do you live by the words that proceed 00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:48.353 from the mouth of God? 00:26:48.353 --> 00:26:51.619 If you are a Bible Christian this morning, 00:26:51.619 --> 00:26:55.393 you sit before the cross of Christ; 00:26:55.393 --> 00:27:01.111 before what Jesus did in purging your sins. NOTE Paragraph 00:27:01.111 --> 00:27:05.525 What do I want you to do? 00:27:05.525 --> 00:27:07.785 What have I come from Wales here 00:27:07.785 --> 00:27:10.676 to ask you to do? 00:27:10.676 --> 00:27:14.415 I want you to do nothing. 00:27:14.415 --> 00:27:19.914 I want you to do absolutely nothing. 00:27:19.914 --> 00:27:22.242 I don't want you to get out of your seats. 00:27:22.242 --> 00:27:24.164 I don't want you to come to the front. 00:27:24.164 --> 00:27:26.222 Of course, if Jesus was here in the front, 00:27:26.222 --> 00:27:27.769 I'd say come and meet Jesus. 00:27:27.769 --> 00:27:29.600 But the word is nigh you. 00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:31.991 It's in your mouth. It's in your hearing. 00:27:31.991 --> 00:27:34.214 It's in your heart. It's in your understanding. 00:27:34.214 --> 00:27:36.879 It's in your conscience. 00:27:36.879 --> 00:27:38.883 The word of faith that we preach to you, 00:27:38.883 --> 00:27:39.718 it's there. 00:27:39.718 --> 00:27:43.579 You don't need to come to the front for that. 00:27:43.579 --> 00:27:45.866 I don't want you to be baptized. 00:27:45.866 --> 00:27:47.596 I don't want you to join the church. 00:27:47.596 --> 00:27:49.593 I don't want you to make any resolutions 00:27:49.593 --> 00:27:51.868 that from now one it's going to be different, 00:27:51.868 --> 00:27:53.611 and you're going to be religious man 00:27:53.611 --> 00:27:55.223 and you're going to be in church 00:27:55.223 --> 00:27:57.981 every Sunday. 00:27:57.981 --> 00:28:00.547 I don't want you to think 00:28:00.547 --> 00:28:04.561 of what you're going to do in your future. 00:28:04.561 --> 00:28:09.047 I want you to sit. 00:28:09.047 --> 00:28:13.108 I want you to be absolutely still. 00:28:13.108 --> 00:28:14.356 I don't want you to move. 00:28:14.356 --> 00:28:17.371 I don't want you to plan. 00:28:17.371 --> 00:28:20.517 I don't want you to decide. 00:28:20.517 --> 00:28:22.947 I want you to look away from all of that 00:28:22.947 --> 00:28:26.050 to look - 00:28:26.050 --> 00:28:28.443 the head that once was crowned with thorns 00:28:28.443 --> 00:28:30.183 is crowned with glory. 00:28:30.183 --> 00:28:32.109 See Him at the right hand of God. 00:28:32.109 --> 00:28:33.489 The Jesus of the Bible. 00:28:33.489 --> 00:28:36.760 The Jesus who's with us now alive 00:28:36.760 --> 00:28:40.562 who reigns in glory. NOTE Paragraph 00:28:40.562 --> 00:28:45.038 When the children of Israel were sinners 00:28:45.038 --> 00:28:47.196 and were whinging and complaining 00:28:47.196 --> 00:28:49.943 in the wilderness, 00:28:49.943 --> 00:28:54.980 and God finally, as reluctantly as any father, 00:28:54.980 --> 00:28:57.323 chastens His children. 00:28:57.323 --> 00:29:03.606 He sent burning fiery serpents 00:29:03.606 --> 00:29:05.842 into that wilderness and they bit them. 00:29:05.842 --> 00:29:08.002 They were hiding in their tents 00:29:08.002 --> 00:29:10.398 and in the piles of wood they were gathering 00:29:10.398 --> 00:29:11.628 and they were bit. 00:29:11.628 --> 00:29:13.317 And oh, they were in anguish 00:29:13.317 --> 00:29:15.849 and they repented. They knew why. 00:29:15.849 --> 00:29:17.703 They knew why He didn't deliver them 00:29:17.703 --> 00:29:19.897 and they cried for mercy. 00:29:19.897 --> 00:29:22.224 You remember what God told Moses? 00:29:22.224 --> 00:29:25.304 To set up a great pole 00:29:25.304 --> 00:29:31.528 and on the top, cast a brass serpent 00:29:31.528 --> 00:29:35.432 that glittered in the sun. 00:29:35.432 --> 00:29:37.565 And then what did He tell the people to do? 00:29:37.565 --> 00:29:40.330 Did He tell them they had to walk on their knees up to it 00:29:40.330 --> 00:29:42.127 and walk around it seven times 00:29:42.127 --> 00:29:44.773 and kiss the pole? 00:29:44.773 --> 00:29:46.997 No. 00:29:46.997 --> 00:29:51.421 "Look," He said. 00:29:51.421 --> 00:29:53.593 Set your eyes on that serpent. 00:29:53.593 --> 00:29:57.724 Look. Look at it. Look and live. 00:29:57.724 --> 00:29:59.161 My brother, live. 00:29:59.161 --> 00:30:03.152 Look to Jesus Christ and live. 00:30:03.152 --> 00:30:06.222 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 00:30:06.222 --> 00:30:08.464 so the Son of Man was lifted up 00:30:08.464 --> 00:30:12.707 that all who look, all who believe in Him, 00:30:12.707 --> 00:30:15.908 all whose trust is focused in Him 00:30:15.908 --> 00:30:17.188 should not perish, 00:30:17.188 --> 00:30:21.656 but have everlasting life. NOTE Paragraph 00:30:21.656 --> 00:30:25.661 You've heard this morning what Jesus has done. 00:30:25.661 --> 00:30:27.300 He's done it all by Himself. 00:30:27.300 --> 00:30:29.567 You've heard of the glorious achievements 00:30:29.567 --> 00:30:34.352 of the Son of God. 00:30:34.352 --> 00:30:41.593 That He's purged our sins. 00:30:41.593 --> 00:30:46.595 I've told you that God is absolutely satisfied with that. 00:30:46.595 --> 00:30:53.568 Are you satisfied with what Jesus Christ has done? 00:30:53.568 --> 00:30:58.339 Are you absolutely satisfied 00:30:58.339 --> 00:31:00.853 with what Jesus Christ has done? 00:31:00.853 --> 00:31:03.959 Are you completely satisfied 00:31:03.959 --> 00:31:07.416 with what Jesus Christ has done? 00:31:07.416 --> 00:31:15.513 Are you sitting and looking at Him? 00:31:15.513 --> 00:31:17.833 And when you feel your sin and your guilt, 00:31:17.833 --> 00:31:20.608 you look to Him and you say, 00:31:20.608 --> 00:31:23.231 He took it away. 00:31:23.231 --> 00:31:28.483 All my past sins are forgiven sins 00:31:28.483 --> 00:31:33.286 because of what Jesus Christ has done. 00:31:33.286 --> 00:31:35.424 And when Satan comes and reminds you 00:31:35.424 --> 00:31:37.520 of how you hurt people you love 00:31:37.520 --> 00:31:38.842 and people who love you, 00:31:38.842 --> 00:31:40.650 who were dependent on you, 00:31:40.650 --> 00:31:44.519 how terribly you treated them, 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:49.511 you say: but Christ dealt with that sin, 00:31:49.511 --> 00:31:52.041 that guilt, that shame. 00:31:52.041 --> 00:31:54.628 When you fall for the thousandth time 00:31:54.628 --> 00:31:57.270 into sins of imagination and thought 00:31:57.270 --> 00:32:00.091 and omission, 00:32:00.091 --> 00:32:02.231 He dealt with that sin. 00:32:02.231 --> 00:32:07.507 He took it in His own body on the cross. 00:32:07.507 --> 00:32:10.007 Christ by Himself purged our sins. NOTE Paragraph 00:32:10.007 --> 00:32:13.487 Now, do you believe that? 00:32:13.487 --> 00:32:17.078 Does everyone in this congregation believe that? 00:32:17.078 --> 00:32:21.956 Everyone who believes in it is a Christian. 00:32:21.956 --> 00:32:24.696 Not great Christians. 00:32:24.696 --> 00:32:28.538 I'm not interested in great Christians. 00:32:28.538 --> 00:32:33.420 I'm interested in mere believers. 00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:39.764 Mere lookers at this Jesus. 00:32:39.764 --> 00:32:43.274 It is settled once and for all. 00:32:43.274 --> 00:32:47.700 You've left it all with Jesus long ago. 00:32:47.700 --> 00:32:49.485 When a man is drowning, 00:32:49.485 --> 00:32:52.230 and the life guard swims out to him, 00:32:52.230 --> 00:32:55.091 the lift guard doesn't speak to him 00:32:55.091 --> 00:32:56.182 and say to him, 00:32:56.182 --> 00:32:58.067 "Now, there's the shore. 00:32:58.067 --> 00:32:59.912 That's the direction. 00:32:59.912 --> 00:33:03.174 That's where you've got to swim to." 00:33:03.174 --> 00:33:05.003 He doesn't tell him that, does he? 00:33:05.003 --> 00:33:07.826 He says, "Don't move now. Don't move. 00:33:07.826 --> 00:33:13.769 Don't stop me from saving you." 00:33:13.769 --> 00:33:16.322 And he puts his arm around him and he holds him 00:33:16.322 --> 00:33:18.051 and he powerfully swims 00:33:18.051 --> 00:33:22.200 and he saves the man. 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:26.328 Please, don't stop the Lord Jesus Christ 00:33:26.328 --> 00:33:29.943 from saving you this morning 00:33:29.943 --> 00:33:33.238 by thinking you've got to do something; 00:33:33.238 --> 00:33:36.824 that you've got to add to what He's done. 00:33:36.824 --> 00:33:39.281 You just look at Him. 00:33:39.281 --> 00:33:41.036 Look at Him. 00:33:41.036 --> 00:33:42.304 I want you to sit. 00:33:42.304 --> 00:33:44.666 I don't want you to bat an eyelid. 00:33:44.666 --> 00:33:46.227 I don't want you to breathe. 00:33:46.227 --> 00:33:50.931 I want you to purge the word "do" from your mind. 00:33:50.931 --> 00:33:56.011 I never want you to think about doing. 00:33:56.011 --> 00:33:59.568 This has to be settled first. 00:33:59.568 --> 00:34:03.392 Till to Jesus' work you cling, 00:34:03.392 --> 00:34:05.753 by a simple faith, 00:34:05.753 --> 00:34:08.187 doing is a deadly thing. 00:34:08.187 --> 00:34:10.905 Doing ends in death. 00:34:10.905 --> 00:34:17.613 Sit and consider what Christ did 00:34:17.613 --> 00:34:20.503 and where He is now. 00:34:20.503 --> 00:34:23.361 Be absolutely satisfied with that. 00:34:23.361 --> 00:34:25.937 Let your conscience be satisfied with it. 00:34:25.937 --> 00:34:29.527 Let your intellect be satisfied with it. 00:34:29.527 --> 00:34:31.675 Let your mind; 00:34:31.675 --> 00:34:34.269 let your past be satisfied 00:34:34.269 --> 00:34:37.532 with what Jesus Christ has done. 00:34:37.532 --> 00:34:39.995 If God is satisfied with it, 00:34:39.995 --> 00:34:45.010 then Texas sinners can be satisfied with it. 00:34:45.010 --> 00:34:49.331 Don't move a muscle. 00:34:49.331 --> 00:34:51.538 Settle on this. 00:34:51.538 --> 00:34:54.900 I the chief of sinners am, 00:34:54.900 --> 00:35:00.121 but Jesus died for me. NOTE Paragraph 00:35:00.121 --> 00:35:04.478 And when God gives you a chance to speak, 00:35:04.478 --> 00:35:07.100 all you can say is, 00:35:07.100 --> 00:35:11.798 "I wish it wasn't me." 00:35:11.798 --> 00:35:15.576 And when He gives me a chance to speak, 00:35:15.576 --> 00:35:21.178 I will say, "Mercy. Mercy." 00:35:21.178 --> 00:35:25.439 Mercy, mercy... 00:35:25.439 --> 00:35:28.007 The world is full of religions. 00:35:28.007 --> 00:35:30.761 And all those religions say, "Do this." 00:35:30.761 --> 00:35:32.296 "Give your money." 00:35:32.296 --> 00:35:36.040 "Say these prayers five times a day." 00:35:36.040 --> 00:35:37.335 "Meditate." 00:35:37.335 --> 00:35:40.057 "Keep a month in which you don't eat 00:35:40.057 --> 00:35:41.650 during daylight hours." 00:35:41.650 --> 00:35:44.692 "Don't eat pork." 00:35:44.692 --> 00:35:46.855 "Do, do, do, do," they say. 00:35:46.855 --> 00:35:48.700 That's their message. 00:35:48.700 --> 00:35:51.291 "Do this." 00:35:51.291 --> 00:35:56.808 Christ says, "Sit." 00:35:56.808 --> 00:36:00.167 Look at what the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:36:00.167 --> 00:36:03.230 the Son of God has done. 00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:09.333 Be satisfied with that. 00:36:09.333 --> 00:36:11.415 That is salvation. 00:36:11.415 --> 00:36:13.795 That is Christianity. 00:36:13.795 --> 00:36:15.768 That is Life. 00:36:15.768 --> 00:36:17.632 That is grace. 00:36:17.632 --> 00:36:20.885 Look and live, my brother. 00:36:20.885 --> 00:36:23.173 Neither is there salvation in any other. 00:36:23.173 --> 00:36:24.962 There is no other name under heaven 00:36:24.962 --> 00:36:25.937 given amongst men 00:36:25.937 --> 00:36:28.010 whereby we must be saved. 00:36:28.010 --> 00:36:29.658 Look unto Me and be saved 00:36:29.658 --> 00:36:31.686 all the ends of the earth. 00:36:31.686 --> 00:36:34.494 For I am God and there is none else. 00:36:34.494 --> 00:36:36.090 Let the wicked forsake his way 00:36:36.090 --> 00:36:38.399 and the unrighteous man his thoughts. 00:36:38.399 --> 00:36:41.104 Let him look to Christ 00:36:41.104 --> 00:36:45.392 who will pardon all who look to Him. 00:36:45.392 --> 00:36:48.314 Don't move. 00:36:48.314 --> 00:36:53.430 Speak like the dying thief who said: 00:36:53.430 --> 00:36:55.746 Just don't forget me 00:36:55.746 --> 00:36:58.112 when You're dealing with the Milky Way 00:36:58.112 --> 00:37:01.826 and outer space. 00:37:01.826 --> 00:37:06.212 Just remember me. 00:37:06.212 --> 00:37:08.993 And He will abundantly pardon. 00:37:08.993 --> 00:37:13.482 For He has by Himself purged our sins. 00:37:13.482 --> 00:37:15.145 And He is seated at the right hand 00:37:15.145 --> 00:37:17.526 of the Majesty on high. 00:37:17.526 --> 00:37:20.086 There He ever lives to make intercession for us 00:37:20.086 --> 00:37:22.081 and so He can save to the uttermost 00:37:22.081 --> 00:37:25.295 those who come to God by Him. 00:37:25.295 --> 00:37:28.463 By looking at Him. 00:37:28.463 --> 00:37:30.450 And then when that is clear, 00:37:30.450 --> 00:37:32.390 be steadfast and unmovable 00:37:32.390 --> 00:37:35.638 and always abounding in the work of the Lord. 00:37:35.638 --> 00:37:38.331 It's not in vain, your work in the Lord. 00:37:38.331 --> 00:37:44.011 But first, you sit 00:37:44.011 --> 00:37:47.416 and survey the wondrous cross 00:37:47.416 --> 00:37:52.462 on which the Prince of Glory died. 00:37:52.462 --> 00:37:55.164 Let's pray. 00:37:55.164 --> 00:37:57.452 Lord our God, we beseech You, 00:37:57.452 --> 00:37:59.931 help sinners to look now. 00:37:59.931 --> 00:38:03.674 If there's a veil in front of their eyes still, 00:38:03.674 --> 00:38:05.524 take it away. 00:38:05.524 --> 00:38:08.272 If there's glaucoma spiritually; 00:38:08.272 --> 00:38:09.752 if they can't see, 00:38:09.752 --> 00:38:12.184 Oh Lord, show them 00:38:12.184 --> 00:38:15.044 Jesus Christ the Son of God. 00:38:15.044 --> 00:38:17.777 Help them, Lord. Draw them. 00:38:17.777 --> 00:38:20.099 Draw them irresistibly. 00:38:20.099 --> 00:38:22.811 Help them to face up to their sin and guilt 00:38:22.811 --> 00:38:26.760 and the way it's stained them and marred them. 00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:28.825 Oh, may they then look; 00:38:28.825 --> 00:38:31.343 may they look to Jesus Christ. 00:38:31.343 --> 00:38:34.704 May they set their eyes on Him 00:38:34.704 --> 00:38:37.207 and look at Him 00:38:37.207 --> 00:38:39.898 and be saved, God. 00:38:39.898 --> 00:38:44.104 Oh, in Your mercy and in Your love 00:38:44.104 --> 00:38:46.996 for San Antonio sinners 00:38:46.996 --> 00:38:51.057 who repent and look to Jesus. 00:38:51.057 --> 00:38:54.618 Give them the inner witness of the Holy Spirit 00:38:54.618 --> 00:38:59.447 that they ever be satisfied 00:38:59.447 --> 00:39:01.586 that they have a Savior 00:39:01.586 --> 00:39:02.945 who is seated in glory; 00:39:02.945 --> 00:39:07.003 who has gone to prepare a place for them 00:39:07.003 --> 00:39:11.166 and who will take them to Himself 00:39:11.166 --> 00:39:13.276 that where He is, there they will be 00:39:13.276 --> 00:39:14.999 forever and ever. 00:39:14.999 --> 00:39:17.742 Oh, happy home awaiting us. 00:39:17.742 --> 00:39:19.631 Oh, blessed place. 00:39:19.631 --> 00:39:25.114 Enable us in these last years of our lives 00:39:25.114 --> 00:39:31.165 to live ever, only, all for Thee, 00:39:31.165 --> 00:39:32.628 our God and Savior, 00:39:32.628 --> 00:39:35.684 we ask it in Jesus' name, Amen.