The other night I was just, I couldn't sleep and I was having to think, this song came to mind. And a few weeks ago I read in Exodus where Moses asked to see the Lord's glory and the Lord protected him by putting him in a cleft of a rock. So I just want to read these verses from Exodus 33, 19 to 23. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. And he said, thou canst not see my face, and I will cover thee with my hand when I pass by, and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. Jesus, my Lord. Behindeth my soul in a cloud through the rock, and shadows adorn the ceiling. Behindeth my life in a dance in the snow, and blows in the wind. The wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Lord. He taketh my burden away. Behold, beyond that I shall not be bought. I live within His arms. Behindeth my soul in the craft of the rock that shadows the dry thirsty land. Behindeth my life in the dampened swamp that calls me the return, that calls me the return. As blessings each moment he crowns And filled with his fullest divine I sing in my rapture a glory to God For such a Redeemer as I Behind my soul is the path to the road that sheds a dry, dusty land. Behind my life, in the depths of the snow, I know there's neither way nor time to bend. When clover is bright, it strikes forth like bombs to beat him in clouds of anxiety. His perfect salvation is wonder for all the shouts in the air. We look forward to our future, the shadows of Jesus demand. We hide our life in the depths of this world, encompassing the evil's hand. Amen. Let's open with a word of prayer. Dear Father, we thank you that we can be covered by the hand of our Savior, those of us who have trusted genuinely the Savior as our Savior, as long as we die in our place, for our sins upon Him, that is, in direct assuring of service, to preach the Word unto our people and take the Word of God, the Scriptures, as, for us, today, that is, and direct us throughout this service. We pray in Jesus' name, for His sake. Amen. Well, let's turn on our... I guess we're already turned on there, or are we turned on here? Okay, we're ready to go. We're in the Book of Romans, Chapter 4, this morning, and I want to speak on God's blessed forgiveness. Bless and forgive. Let's read verse number 1 together. What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, has pretended to the flesh and has found? Well, he's found peace with God. He's found faith. 400 years before this, Abraham lived. The law was given 400 years later. So he's way before the law of Moses. And he's a man that was justified by faith without any works of the law at all. And that's what he's found, faith. Then let's read verse number two together. For if a man were justified by works, he had nowhere before to glory, but not before God. This is important to see. This is very important. If you're justified by works, when you do works, you're paid by the works that you do. There's no faith involved. You get paid when you work something, a job or anything else. But Abraham was not justified by his works, any kind of that at all. The word for righteous, to declare righteous, is decarato, decarado. And that means to render righteous, or such as ought to be, to show, exhibit, or evince the one to be righteous, such as he is, and wishes himself to be considered, to declare righteousness and pronounce someone to be righteous. That's what righteous means. And Abraham was justified by faith, mocked by the works of the law. Four hundred and some years later, the law of Moses came. Then as far as justification, God is divine and immutable. Declaration that the one who has been redeemed by genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ He's absolutely righteous in His sight and in His books. We're not righteous in man's sight by faith in Christ, but in the Lord Jesus Christ, He declares us to be absolutely, perfectly righteous before Him by genuine faith in Christ. Like the blood that was shed on Calvary. Then in Job 25, in verse 4, how can a man be justified with God? How can he be clean that is born of a woman? That's a good question that Job asks. In the Old Testament it wasn't possible. Before Calvary, Psalm 143-2 gives one answer. And enter not into judgment with thy servant. In thy sight shall no man living be justified. In the Old Testament that was true. Only when Christ came, dying for the sins of the world, can we be declared absolutely, perfectly righteous in His sight. Not necessarily in man's sight, but in His sight. Psalm 141-2 was finally fulfilled. In Romans 3, in verse 20, Therefore by the deeds of the law, the works of the law, shall no flesh be justified in his sight. It may be justified in our own flesh, the man's sight, but not in his sight, ever, without the, justified in his sight by the deeds of the law of Moses, or any works of the law. And in Romans 3, in verse 24, Being justified as declared righteous. That's what justified means. Being justified freely by His grace. Giving us something we do not deserve. Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. That's the only way we can be justified. Through God's redemption, through our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Genuine faith in Him justifies this. Without faith in Him, there's no justification possible. For any man will learn trial on this earth. In Romans 3 in verse 28, 26, 28 rather. Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the works. Although the Lord Moses could never save anybody. Only when Christ came, dying for the sins of the world could he be justified before God. Then in Romans 5 in verse 1, 3 to 11, let's say it together. Therefore, to be justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Peace with God. We have no peace in this world. Wars, rumors of wars all over. In Christ Jesus, with genuine faith in Him, we can have peace with Almighty God. That's a great peace, regardless of what the world thinks about it or what the world thinks it does. In Romans 5, verse 9, much more than may now be justified by His blood, we should be saved from wrath through Him. The heretic John MacArthur Blood is Haima. That's the Greek word for blood. No, no, we're justified by his death. Thanatos. That's not blood. Thanatos and Haima are different. He's got seminaries. He's got huge works on his books. All kinds of things he has. And he says we're not justified by blood. We're justified by death. As I say, he's a heretic. Many, many watch for him and look to him. He's got books and everything else. The Lord Jesus is true and he is false. Anyone else is false, who said they can be justified by our works. Justify that by his blood, the shedding of his blood, when we trust in him, we shall be saved from wrath, saved from hell. Nobody is saved from hell by their good works. Nobody. But by his death, just because he died. Because the Lord Jesus died, that doesn't save anybody. Whether it's a believer in his death or not a believer in his death, it's through his blood. The shedding of his blood, like in the Old Testament. By blood were sacrificed, were set apart, and it's the blood that makes the atonement for sin, even in the Old Testament. In Galatians 2 and verse 16, knowing that a man is not justified, not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, faith in Him, Even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Him, not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." Not a single person in God's sight. And then in Titus, rather Galatians chapter 3 verse 11. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident. For the just shall live by faith." It's amazing. It's not by anything we do, we're just before God and can go to heaven. It's by genuine faith and trust in the Savior that died for our sins, rose again into heaven. In Titus 3, in verse 7, He justified by His grace, giving something we do not deserve, justified by His grace, declared righteous. We should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Now the first, the three verses in the book of James, it seems to talk about justification by works. That's before man, not before God. In James 2.21, for example, this exception, was not Abraham, our father, justified by works, when he had offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar? God wanted to test Abraham. He said, offer your son. If he didn't do it, God would not be pleased. took his son to the mount. For the mount, as he walked up, his son said, I see the various things, but where is the land? God will provide himself the land, said his father Abraham. And raised the knife and tried to kill his son, knowing that he could raise him up if need be. Faith Abraham had in God. So by works, by what he did, he was justified in God's sight. God was pleased. That's by the works of man. Not before God, but before God. Before man. James. Another verse in James. James 2, in verse 24. You see that how a man, by works, is justified, not by faith only. Abraham was justified by what he did. Justified before God. In offering up his son. In James 2, verse 25, another verse seems to be an exception. But it's before man, not before God. Likewise also was not Rahab, the harlot, prostitute, justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and sent them out another way. She was justified. She was a wicked, wicked woman, but because she obeyed God, in man's eyes, she was justified, not before God. Let's read verse number 4. Abraham believed God and was counted unto Him for righteousness. Abraham believed God, trusted in Him. That's by faith he was justified and was counted unto Him for righteousness. Abraham was told to do something and he did it. It was just before God. In Genesis 15 verse 6, And he believed in the Lord and was counted unto Him for righteousness. He was counted to be righteous because he believed and trusted by faith. And the Lord God gave him instructions. And he followed them. He believed in them. Then in Galatians 3, in verse 6, the same thing is true. Even as Abraham believed God, there was countenance for him. A countenance for righteousness. Righteousness by genuine faith in the Lord is what it was. And Abraham believed, and there was a countenance for righteousness. Then in Galatians 3, in verse 16. Not to Abraham and his seed, but a promise was made. He promised many things. He hath said not unto seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. It was Abraham's seed, the Lord Jesus Christ, that the promises were fulfilled. He kept his word. Abraham's son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is mentioned right here. in Galatians 3.15. Let's read verse number 4 together. Not by hand, but by work, if this is your work, and not by grace, but by debt. Yes, you work, so don't you? You're supposed to get money paid for because you work for it. It's by debt, not by grace. You get paid for what you do. And that's not what it is as far as the Lord Jesus Christ is concerned. It's not by debt, but by faith indeed. Let's read verse number 5 together. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Justifieth the ungodly. The title of my message today is God's Blessed Forgiveness. It's a wonderful thing that God could forgive in any of this, for wickedness and sin and corruption. But to him that worketh not, justifieth the ungodly. Leave the thing that justifies the enemy. In Psalm 1, in verse 1, the ungodly are mentioned in scripture many times. And God considers the ungodly. A lot of people don't consider the ungodly. They're just trash before us. And at times, many of you consider them ungodly. They're one of the ungodly themselves. A lot of times, the ungodly just tell us, let them go. Just forget them. God does not forgive the ungodly. Psalm 1, in verse 1. and that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. God does not want him to walk in that counsel, nor standeth in the way of sinners, but God sitteth in the seat of the scornful. Then Psalm 1 verse 4, another verse on the ungodly. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. God loves them, and His Son died for them. In Psalm 1, in verse 5, Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, or sinners in the congregation of the righteous. If they're still ungodly, they will not stand. They will not be with God in Heaven, if they're still ungodly. But God didn't say anything. God wants them to be godly. He wants them to be saved. He wants them to be righteous. He wants to be born again. Again in Psalm 1 in verse 6. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Without Christ, the ungodly shall perish. Millions and billions all over the world. Those who are dead already indeed. In Romans 5 in verse 6. A wonderful verse for the ungodly. For when we were yet without strength, We were yet ungodly, if we're saved. No, I warn you, ungodly, without strength. In due time, Christ died for the ungodly. He died in the ungodly's place. For the sinners and wickedness of the ungodly. For all of us, we're ungodly. And then Jude 1 and verse 15. To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly, among them all, Most of the times this word ungodly is used in this verse. That's the first verse. Commits all their ungodly deeds that they have ungodly committed. That's three verses. And all their hard speeches, which ungodly, that's the fourth verse, fourth word, have committed against Him. In 1 John 1.9, for the genuine Christian, the ungodly are told that if we confess our sins. We know that. Let's say it. If we confess our sins, it is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. To confess. Homo and logau. We've said that many times. Homo is the same. Logau means to say. To say the same thing about our sins that God says. To agree with God. If we don't agree with God, what we've said, and wickedness in our deeds, we've talked about, Our thoughts, if we do not agree with Him, that's sin. He will not confess us and He will not cleanse us. If we agree with God, confess our sins, then and only then is He faithful to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That's a wonderful thing about God's forgiveness. Let's read verse number 6 together. even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. He imputeth. He grants righteousness without works by trusting Christ we can be forgiven and we can be blessed because we are imputed by God of righteousness without any works at all. In Psalm 32, in verse number 1, for example, The only thing that will cover our sins is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. When we trust Him, receive Him, believe on Him as our Savior. And then in Psalm 32, verse 2, Blessed is the man, or the woman, the person, blessed is the person, blessed is the man, unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no vial. The only one that God imputes, does not impute iniquity, is one that's trusted faithfully and really decided on it for the sins of him and the rest of the world. That's the one God imputes. Not sin, not iniquity of any kind. Let's read verse number 7 together. Now that's the theme of my message this morning. God's blessed forgiveness. Many verses are not in the word forgiveness here. The blessedness of Jesus is forgiven. He says, this word for forgiven is ethairo, ethairo. And to take away, to place Send away, that's what forgiveness means. Apo is away and Iroh is to send, to leave, to push. That's what forgiveness is. Sending away of all of our sins, if we trust the sin bearer, the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. That's what forgiveness is. Apo yimi, send away. One of our former pastors in the church right here close by has on his tomb a genuine Christian, born again, wonderful man of God. One word, forgiven. His great pastor, remission, said to say the Bethlehem churches had thrown out pastors and people that don't agree with this other godly man. We have in this tomb the one word, forgive. They've gone astray. Strange, strange. Don't even call themselves Bethel Baptist Church. Baptist is gone. Church is gone. Just Bethel, what's the word? Can't even remember. Worship Center. Right, Bethel Worship Center. How apostasy succumbed to church in one generation. One or two pastors away. It's sad, indeed. In Matthew 9, verse 2, the Lord Jesus said, Behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, these people, their faith, not the blood that was on the bed, the faith that brought this man, seeing their faith, said unto the sick of palsy, Son, be a good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee. The faith of the people that bought him, the sins were forgiven. In Luke 7, verse 42, Wherefore I say unto you, her sins, her sins which are many, are forgiven. For she loved much, but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth fully. Worship the Lord Jesus Christ, bow down to Him and accept Him. Her sins are forgiven. Many sins. Wicked, wicked prostitutes she was. And then, Ephesians 4, verse 32. Be kind one to another. Tenderhearted, wonderful believers. Forgiving one another. We've sinned, all of us sinned. We don't mean to, but we do. Regardless of what it may be, some we do mean to. forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you. Thus, forgiving all of us who trust in His Son as their Savior, genuinely, forgive one another, as Christ has forgiven you. Then in Colossians 2, and verse 13, And you, being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, as they quicken together, made alive together, with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses." In Christ the trespasses are forgiven. You don't have to stop doing them, stop making them. It's forgiveness only in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amazing, amazing indeed. And then in Psalm 85 in verse 2, Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Off he is. He ran away. In Christ, they can be forgiven. They can be forgiven. Only in the Lord Jesus, trusting Him. Thou hast covered their sin. Selah. Then in Psalm 140, verse 7. 140, verse 7. Another verse on forgiveness. O God, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of wrath. in battle. Covered my head. That's forgiven. Covered over the sins, the wickedness of David. Covered, which means forgiven. In Isaiah 61, verse 10, Isaiah said, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation. Here in the Old Testament, trusting the Lord. covered me with the garb of salvation. He hath covered me, forgiven me, covered, saith, with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with the jewels. God is covered over, forgiven. He no longer trusts in the Lord. Let's read verse number 8. Not declare sin. Not impute. Not make it possible. That can only be done through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not impute sin. In Psalm 32 in verse 2. What says the man? Unto whom the Lord imputes not iniquity, and whose spirit there is no guile. No fondness in God. And then in 2 Corinthians 5 in verse 19. To which God was in Christ. Reconciling their world unto himself, those who trust in the Savior. Reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. We're supposed to preach the word of reconciliation, trusting the Savior as ours, who died for the sins of the whole world. That's what we're to do, and keep righteousness unto him. Very important. And the book of James 2 and verse 23, the shift is fulfilled. It says, Abraham believed God, trusted Him by faith, and was called a friend of God. Let's see if I can get the wrong verse here. See if I can get the wrong verse. Oh, all right. Verse 9, right? That's what we're ready to read now. Okay, let's read. Cometh this blessedness not upon the circumcision only, but upon the uncircumcision also. For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. And it was not reckoned to him for righteousness when he was in the circumcision of the law of Moses. That was 430 some years later. This was reckoned by faith before the law ever came, not by works of any kind. Let's read verse number 10 together. How was it then reckoned that it was either circumcision or an uncircumcision? Not uncircumcision, but an uncircumcision. It was only before the law was ever made, 430 years later. With the law coming, it was reckoned by faith, Moses by faith, and so with us today by faith alone, not by Jewish reconciliation and circumcision. Let the priest read verse number 11 to you. And he reckoned the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Righteousness by faith, not by circumcision, not by the law of Moses of any kind. Christians in Romans 3 verse 25. justification through faith in His blood, the blood of Christ. That's where faith comes, not by the works of the law of Moses. To declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God. Sins are passed once we trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and Redeemer. No more sins. We may commit sins, but in God's sight. Keep out of sin. Sins are paid for. Stay away from them. And if we get into sin, 1 John 1, 9. Use it. And all the time it would be sin by works, by faith, by something else. In Exodus 31, verse 13, for example, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily, my Sabbaths He shall keep what is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." Now this is the Old Testament, Exodus 31, 13. Keeping the Saturday Sabbath has nothing whatever to do with the Christmas. Don't keep The Lord's Day is the first day of the week. A lot of Christians think that Sunday is a Sabbath. My father-in-law said that was what he believed. He did everything right on the Sabbath. He was dead wrong. We are dispensationalists here, and we have a division between the law of Moses and the grace of Christ. And nothing would ever go to the Sabbath. If you want to keep something on a Friday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, or Monday, or Tuesday, you keep what you want. There are special things that are done on the Saturday and the Sabbath, but not for genuine Christians whatsoever. A lot of Christians are all hung up on the Law of Moses. They're not dispensationalists. They don't keep the dispensation of grace separate from the dispensation of the Law of Moses, as they should. And then, also in Exodus 31 and verse 17, is a sign between me and the children of Israel It was the Sabbath day, forever. For in six days, the Lord made heaven and earth. On the seventh day, He rested and was refreshed. The Sabbath. Now in Isaiah 7, 14, here's a sign the Lord has given to us. The sign of the birth and birth. We may know it if you do, let's say together. God with us. God with us. God with us. The Lord Jesus Christ was God with us. God the Son, perfect Deity of Christ. In Matthew 12, verse 39. But He answered and said unto them, the Lord Jesus, an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. There shall be no sign given unto thee as unto the prophet Jonas. Now, Jonas was set in Matthew 12, 40. As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. He was not crucified on Friday as the unbelievers and some Christians hold to. They recommend Good Friday. It's not Good Friday. He was crucified on Thursday. Not on Friday. You see, Princess was crucified on Wednesday. Wednesday was the last day. Probably crucified at 3 p.m. But he was buried on that Wednesday about 6 p.m. which was the end of the Thursday. It was the beginning of Thursday really. Wednesday at 6 p.m. for the Jews it was Thursday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Not Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It wouldn't be three days at all. Jonas was a sign. Jonas the prophet. And Thursday was a Sabbath, Feast of the Passover. So they had to bury them that same day. Thursday, the next day. They had to bury them after he was crucified in order that they would not be still on that cross on the Feast of the Passover Sabbath. Then on Saturday, it was a weekly Sabbath. began at 6 p.m. Jewish time. Our days began at 12 midnight, but their days began at 7 p.m. 7 a.m. was the beginning, the ending, and 7 p.m. was the beginning. And at 7 p.m. Saturday evening was considered the Sunday morning. The next day, the second after Saturday evening, 6 p.m., is Sunday. The first day of the week, the Lord Jesus was raised from the dead on that Thursday day of the week. Three days and three nights the heart of the earth. Why don't everyone, why doesn't everyone obey that? Why do these Christians think that they're following the Bible, just forget that very clear interpretation of the resurrection and the crucifixion? There's a golden rule of the Bible interpretation. Authors unknown, that's a good rule. Let me read it. It's the golden rule of Bible interpretation. When the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense. Therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning, unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise. God is revealing his word. Neither intends nor permits the reader to be confused. He wants his children to understand the word of God. To the groove of Bible interpretation. Very good reading. Those Jews that walk in the faith of Abraham and believe God and accept the Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, that's one who is justified by faith, not the one who is a Jewish person only. In John 8, verse 44, The devil's true father is the devil's father and God's father. This is the devil's father. All those that are unsaved and lost and bound for hell, not justified by faith in Christ, not genuine Christians, they have a fatherhood like Christians have a fatherhood. God is our father, we're genuine Christians. But the devil is the father of all those that are lost and bound for hell, never trusted Christ. And the Lord Jesus names them in John 8, 44. He, he said to her, if you're a father of the devil, I wasn't too popular I'm sure, when he told the Pharisees that was the case. If you're a father of the devil, the lust of your father, he will do. He was a murderer from the beginning. Abode not in the truth, because there's no truth in him. He speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he's the father, he's a liar, the father of it. But, the ones that are trusted by their Savior, Not another devil as your father. Jesus said in John 8, 58, Verily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I was, and I am. Galatians 3, verse 8. The scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith. Through faith in Christ. Justify the heathen through faith. before the gospel unto Abraham, saying that in thee shall all the nations be blessed. In thee and in thy son, the Lord Jesus, be blessed. In Genesis 22, verse 18. And in thy seed, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. Abraham's son was the Lord Jesus Christ. And him shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Let's read verse number 13 together. That is true and our faith repeated many times. He was justified by faith, not by law of any kind. Thou which hath kept with thy servant David, my father, thou which thou hast promised him, and speakest with thy mouth, thou hast fulfilled thy hand, as of this day." That promise, the faith of Abraham, the Lord Jesus Christ, and David himself. Then in 1 Kings 8 and verse 56, Blessed be the God that has given rest unto his people, Israel. According to all that was promised, there is not one failed, one word of all the good promises he has promised by the hand of Moses his servant. God makes promises. He keeps his promises. He doesn't violate the promises in any way. And then in Romans 9 verse 8, That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God. The children of the promise are caught in the sea. This is the word of promise. At the time I will come and bear Sarah, and I will have a son. And through Sarah, the Lord Jesus Christ was born. That was the lineage. It's through the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, that He's promised eternal life by faith in Him. Then in Hebrews 10 verse 23, let us hold fast the profession of our faith. Hold it fast. If you trust in Christ as your Savior, don't give it up for anybody, any person, any relative, any friend. Hold fast the profession of our faith. Allow wavering, for He is faithful. Let it promise. We see in these verses the wonderful forgiveness of our God. I don't understand His forgiveness, but He's promised it in His Word. It's in the Lord Jesus Christ, His perfect Son, to the death and the cross of Calvary for the sins of the world, and applicable only to those who have genuine faith in that Savior. He's promised. I'm glad for Pastor Alvina. We ought to be thankful to the Lord that He has forgiven our sins, but the death of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary, He was smitten of God, He was afflicted, He was hurt, He was spat upon, He was beaten, by our sins that we might be forgiven all trespasses. We should be grateful to our God for that wonderful gift. Willing to go from heaven itself to this wicked world. Willing to suffer on the cross. Willing to die for our sins. The Garden of Gethsemane, not in my will, but Thine. Be done. And that be our wishes, Lord, with those of us who are genuinely saved today. Thy will be done. Help us to find Thy will in Thy words. With anybody who is listening to us who is still outside of our Savior, never truly trusting Him. If they trust and believe on Him as their Savior, they will be saved for all eternity. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Take our hymnal again. I won't fight.