Exodus chapter 34. Title of my sermon this morning is, A Cut Above, and as I get into the sermon, you'll understand the meaning of that title, A Cut Above. I'm going to just read one text verse to you this morning. Exodus chapter 34, verse 10. I really thought last Sunday that I was through with this chapter, but I'm not. I had planned to go on into chapter 35 today, But as I was preparing for today's message, I felt the need to read through from verse 10 down to verse 35 again to see if there was anything else that I needed to think about, or to see to, or even preach. I don't want to leave anything undone, and I don't want to leave anything behind if I can help it. There is never, and listen to me, as you read your Bible, folks, listen to me. There is never any reason to rush through Scripture. Take your time. You know, I hear people sometimes say, well, it's just too hard to read. I don't understand it. Listen, if you open your Bible and you have a sincere heart to know what's in there, God won't fail you. He'll help you. You'll see to these things. And if you rush through, you're going to do yourself a grave disservice. Plus, you don't want to miss a single nugget if you can help it. There are untold riches in this book. I mean it. Untold riches. So as I began to look over this second rendering of the covenant the Lord has given to the Hebrews, I was attracted to verse 10 again that reads thusly. And he said, Behold, and this is God talking to Moses, Behold, I make a covenant before all thy people I will do marvels such as Listen to this. Have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation, and all the people among you which thou art shall see the work of the Lord. For it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. Now I ask you this question this morning. What would you do if the Lord showed up and personally said that to you. Look at this verse again. Behold, I make a covenant, an agreement, before all thy people I will do marvels. such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. Do you see that? These marvels have never been done before. Never did in any nation or any country. And God says to Moses, I'm going to do these marvels amongst you, in front of you. All the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord. For it is a terrible thing I will do with thee." And that would have scared me to death right there. That last line would have got me, but if you really do some study on this, that terrible down there is not a bad thing. It means awesome. It means awesome. You know, in this day and age and this culture we live in, you know, the kids have their own vernacular. They talk different than what we talk. What was once good is now bad. Oh, man, that's bad. Of course, I can't get on too much, because when we were teenagers, we said things like, that's groovy, man. That's boss. That's really cool. We said those kind of things. Well, that's what that word is. Verse 10 means awesome. But I began to do further research. And sure enough, there was much more in verse 10 than I had realized. For example, the very first word the Lord says to a bowed Moses who is pleading for mercy in verses 8 and 9 is, behold. The word behold, everybody see that there? Now let me tell you something, when you're in the Bible, and you're reading, and you see such words as therefore, you need to stop and see why it's therefore. And when you see words like behold, you need to just... Tighten up, pay grave attention, because the Lord's getting ready to say a thing. The Lord's getting ready to do a thing. If He says, truly, truly, or verily, verily, is what He uses, verily, verily, that means truly, truly, you can bank on it, take it home with you, that the Lord is getting ready to issue, if you would, something that's going to benefit your soul. Now don't get me wrong, the whole Bible is going to benefit your soul. I found out the maps will even benefit your soul. The concordance will benefit your soul. The contents page will benefit your soul. Hey, I'm convinced that the cover of a Bible will benefit your soul. Holy Bible. It will, in every way, benefit your soul. But he says, behold, which literally means here in verse 10, observe. It means see, view, look at, watch, survey, witness, gaze at, or gaze upon, regard, contemplate, inspect, eye it out, catch sight of, glimpse, spot, spy, notice, behold, means all those things. Informally, it means clap your eyes on this. It means have or take a gander at this. Or, get a load of this, put your eyeball on this, and you may think that Brother Darrell came up with that part. Oh no, that was in the dictionary. It was in the dictionary. Those things informally, that's what it means. God is literally saying to Moses, hey, take a gander at this. Look at what I'm going to do. Well, you know how I am about doing further study, and so I decided to find out what the Hebrew word for behold is. And what I found out was, is that the word behold by itself doesn't do much for us. In the Hebrew, it's grouped together with three words. And the three words are verse 10, behold I make. That is a single word in Hebrew. Remember this. Behold I make is a single word, and the Hebrew word is kal-roth. It's spelled K-A-R-A-T-H in English, but it's cow rot, and that's how you say it, cow rot. Now, when you think on this word consisting of three words, you're compelled to think of the Lord saying it in modern day English. You can't help it. We're Americans. We speak English. And so we're going to look at the King James Version, which is English, and we're going to think in terms of English. We're going to look at, behold, I make. But if you take the time, and you have the means to do so like I do, to find the Hebrew derivation of, behold, I make, then what you're going to find out is this definition. And this was fascinating to me. I hope it will be to you. The actual definition, if you will, or the meaning of the word behold I make in Hebrew is actually to cut off. To cut down. To cut off a body part. Cut out. Eliminate. Or even kill. Cut a covenant. Now don't misunderstand, that definition does no damage to the idea of behold I make in the King James translation, none whatsoever. As a matter of fact, the definition literally goes farther in expressing the depth and the detail of what the Lord will do as a result of this covenant and all the ramifications of it. When he says in the Hebrew, Kairoth, he is literally saying, I'm going to do this thing that has extenuating circumstances that is going to blow your mind, if you say that in modern English. You're going to marvel at this. Look back there at verse 10. I'm going to do marvels. You're going to see things you've never seen before. That one word, kairat, means behold, I make, in the English, and it sets the tone for the extenuating circumstances involved in the rest of the verse whereby the Lord says He will do these things. And it will be terrible things, awesome things. Now as I told you last week, and I'm going to get on into the sermon now, but I had to lay that groundwork so you'll get the idea of why the sermon's entitled to cut above. But what I told you is here the Lord is saying to the Hebrews, keep this covenant, and the covenant runs from verse 10 down to verse, I think it was verse 30. Excuse me. No, verse 28. From verse 10 to verse 28, he gives them this covenant, and this is the second time the Lord will give it. And the reason why it's the second time, what happened to the first covenant? Does anybody know what happened to the first rendering? Moses broke it. He threw it down and broke it. So now he makes him, makes Moses get his own stones. God provided the first stones. God did the writing. God makes Moses get his own stones, and now Moses is going to have to write them down. And the covenant that they are to keep is also the Ten Commandments, and here is God saying to them, I will be your God, and you will be my people. And what did I say about that last week, if you remember? God says, I will, what? If you will. Now, don't get bored with me, because this is very important to us. The record is clear. The Hebrews never did, and don't, unto this very day, keep this covenant. They don't. nor has or does any man even now. You haven't ever, and you never will. And I was just going to raise my hand up with you this morning. It was Brother Darrell Lingerfeld. In our best abilities, we will never, ever keep one shred of this covenant. Not one item will we ever keep. Our flesh won't let us. No man means all men are at a loss in that they are unable to atone for their sins by the keeping of the law, this covenant with God. No man has. You cannot by trying and attempting to keep that law atone for your sins. It'll never happen. It'll never happen. Paul says in Romans 8, 3, the law could not do it, meaning atone or condemn our sin, because it was weak through the flesh. Now that doesn't mean the law was weak. It means that our flesh was too weak. Our flesh, being demonstrably depraved, cannot in any way do that which is righteous. And besides, you know and I know that God's Word has no defects. It's perfect. It's holy. It's just. It's good. It is inerrant. And if you don't know what that word means, it means it's without any kind of mistakes. Anybody tells you there are mistakes in the Bible, you say, show me. Show me! They can't. I've never met a man yet who has told me that nonsense that could show me. They come up with some really crazy stuff, and then to divert my attention, they'll ask me such questions as, how many angels can sit on top of the head of a pen? That's right. Men are weak, and they cannot keep the law. Do this and live, though, is the command of God. But we can't. And as a result, we stand in the crosshairs of the wrath of God. Hold your hand there. I may come back. You know me. And go to John chapter 3. And once again, let me appeal to your understanding and certainly let me appeal to your patience to show you this verse one more time. John 3 verse 36. Here is the greatest statement of the wrath of God abiding upon men. Verse 36, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. Can you say amen to that? If you're saved, you sure can. But if you're not, here's the case. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. You see that, don't you? Now notice down there that nowhere on that page, nowhere inside the cover of this Bible does it say here, by Daryl Lingerfeld. I did not write that, but I believe it. All men without exception then have a heart problem, in that the heart of man is desperately wicked. That's why they can't keep this. They come into the world that way. Men are thoroughly and totally depraved and cannot in any way discern or understand or acknowledge or act or react to the things of God. Now, that's a pretty safe statement to make, but folks will argue with you nonetheless. Oh, man's got enough faith to do this and do that. Not according to the Word of God. Not according to the Word. How depraved is man? Well, going back now to Exodus 34, and if you'll flip back a couple of pages to chapter 32, and in verse 22, Aaron tells us what the problem was that caused them to build a golden calf. Look at there, Exodus 32 verse 22. Aaron cried there and said to Moses, Thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief. Now when it says set on mischief, such is their heart, such is their depravity, that the only thing they know is mischief. That's a pretty sad statement, but it's true. And not only of them. But of all men, all men without exception are desperately wicked, clinging down to the bone. Well, brother, that can't be true. I saw a boy scout leading an old woman across the street the other day. He might do some things like that in the physical sense, but from the spiritual sense, he is just dark, blind, and stupid to the things of God. Man is bent on evil and mischief. He's set on it. These Hebrews are the best example you can find. So suddenly out here into the Exodus account, of course, you can go right back and you can go to the story of Noah and you'll see the whole world was like this. And all the eight people found grace in the sight of the Lord. God killed everybody on the planet except for those eight because their flesh, their heart, their mind, totally wicked where they would not turn to God. And listen, some say, well, they didn't hear the gospel. Oh, yes, they did. Moses preached to them for 120 years. Not a single convert. After God had done all that he had done in bringing these Hebrews out of Egypt, out of the worst conditions of slavery, out of the worst conditions of living that any person could ever endure down there in that hell hole, still, these people wanted to go back to Egypt every time something little came up. Every time. Whined. We had watermelons and cucumbers and leeks back there. You brought us out of the desert to kill us. And God had been feeding them every day with manna. Gave them water out of a rock for crying out loud. But we shouldn't be too hard on them because if the Lord hadn't saved us, we'd still be whining. And we whine now for crying out loud sometimes, don't we? Rather than follow the sure mercies of Jehovah willingly, without reservation or hesitation, their wicked hearts even devised a golden calf hoping that the golden calf will take them back. Isn't that stupid? The golden calf was just absolutely dumb as it could be. He was pretty, but he was dumb. Well, Holy Ghost, thank you. Want to see a present-day example of that? Want to see a present-day example of the golden calf incident? Look at Washington. We have a president who says he is a Christian. Yet on a daily basis, seemingly, he exalts Islam. when he fully knows that Islam would have already beheaded him for his advocacy of same-sex marriage and abortion. Even Islam would have killed him for what he's advocating. They would have got him for just his drink of alcohol. You can't drink alcohol amongst Islam. His wife's not dressing and acting appropriate would have brought the ire of Islam down on their heads. Well, I'm telling you the truth. Man is set on mischief. He's depraved and he cannot keep the law. So knowing this, God says, Calroth, behold, I cut. I was stunned at that in Hebrew. Behold, I cut. I know it says, behold, I make. But in the Hebrew, behold, I cut. Well, cut what? I know you said you were going to do marvels. And it's going to be an awesome thing. But why in Hebrew does it say, behold, I cut? Well, the first thing he cuts out of the stones that Moses brings up, as he had before, is a covenant. That's the first thing. But, since man cannot keep it, something has got to be done with this covenant, or all men, without exception, will go to hell. So, God does a tremendous marvel in cutting out this covenant. And how He does that in verse 10 of Exodus, if you would, chapter 34, is literally point forward to Hebrews chapter 10. Turn there. How much time I got left? Four hours? I don't want to stay past 12 too long because you all get mad at me. Hebrews 10, verse 1. The Lord literally points forward. This is what He says. Verse 1, Hebrews 10. Here's what Paul is told to say by the Holy Ghost. For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, and I'm going to iterate here, those sacrifices that the Hebrews made, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. Now, they're told to bring sacrifices by God. but as good as the sacrifice may be, it still cannot make the people perfect. Verse 2, for then would they have not ceased to be offered, they would offer them every day, because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sin. Their minds should have been wiped out from the sin. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. Now why? Well, Paul tells them why. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when Christ cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God. Now this is Jesus talking. Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither hence pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first. He literally takes away the first covenant that he may establish the second covenant, a new covenant. This is what he's doing. He cuts out, behold I cut, he's cutting away the old to bring a new. Now that's pretty awesome right there because what? What did I say? We can't keep the old. God will take away this first covenant, give this new covenant, and the extent of the new covenant comes out in Exodus 34 10. Behold, I will do marvels. I will do this terrible thing for you, this awesome thing. The awesome thing is I'm going to make it so that you still can come into heaven, though you can't keep my covenant. And you know what? That's why the Lord sent Jesus in the first place to bring many sons to glory. And that's what we want. We can't get there on our own. We can't reach up and drag God down to us. He has to come down and get us. We're enabled. We're unable. We need help. It's fascinating. The prophets wanted to get side of this. And the Holy Ghost gave them some views of it. Turn to Ezekiel, if you will, chapter 36. That's after the Psalms, after Isaiah. You can find Isaiah and the Old Testament and Ezekiel and Jeremiah. You'll be right in the right place. Those three books are like, if you would, a landmark to get through the second half of the Old Testament. So in Ezekiel 36, verse 24, God says to the prophet Ezekiel, everybody there, Ezekiel 36, verse 24, For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean. From all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you in heart a flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave you fathers, and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. Now some folks say, that's just for Israel. No. It's not. It's for us as well. And I want you to look down through there real quick. Notice what God says. Verse 24. I will. Verse 25, I sprinkle. Will I? Sprinkle. Look down there. Will I cleanse you? 26, a heart. Also, will I? A new spirit. Will I? I will take away the stony heart. I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you. That's not them doing this. This is God doing this. Oh my goodness. He cuts out the first and establishes new so we can be saved. We couldn't keep the old. He gives us a new one. Remember what I said now, all men have a heart problem. Verse 26 right here says, I a new heart also will I give you. That old heart was wicked. That old heart could not do nothing. It was inclined and set on mischief, on evil. Turn to Jeremiah real quick. Just a few pages forward and you'll be there. Jeremiah 31 to be exact. Jeremiah gets a vision of the new covenant that God would make. In Jeremiah 31, 31, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I will make, With the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wow! Has that happened? Well, go to Hebrews chapter 8. Let's see. Hebrews chapter 8. Now I've got to flip to the New Testament. I know I'm wearing your Bible out, ain't I? Sorry. You've got to see this for yourself. Hebrews chapter 8. Look at verse 7. Hebrews 8 verse 7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. There would have been no need for the second. For finding fault with them, not with the covenant, but with them, he saith, Behold, the day is come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continue not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel at those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their minds and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people, and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, And every man his brother saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins, and their iniquities. Everybody read with me right here. Will I remember no more? In that he saith, A new covenant he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. God will cut it out. He will cut it out. Cut out our hearts. Boy, that sounds funny, doesn't it? Cut out our hearts and install a new heart and write His law on our heart so that we'll be able to do for Him what we could not do by ourselves. It's running time. Let's have a fit, Brother Ted. He literally cuts out that new covenant. Forgiveness of our sins so that we can come into His presence. But secondly, in order for that to happen, he has to do some more cutting. And what is he to cut? He cutteth his own son. Behold, he cuts his own son. Christ will be cut from heaven for thirty-three and a half years. Remember this story? The title is A Cut Above? The Lord is cut from heaven. He will be cut into humanity by picking up human flesh. He will be cut out to fulfill the law. Matthew chapter 5 verse 17, Jesus says, He didn't come to destroy the law, but rather to fulfill it. He is cut to do the Father's will in every way. John chapter 6, you don't want to turn there, I don't want to hurry along. Verse 38, For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which He has given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and believeth on Him may have everlasting life, and I will raise Him up at the last day. He was cut out to go to Calvary before the foundation of the world. He's a lamb slain before the foundation of the world. That's what we're told in Revelation. That doesn't mean He was crucified back there, but it was already decided that He would be cut on Calvary. And He went there. John 10 says, No one takes my life from me. I lay it down freely for the sheep. But he was also cut from humanity, beaten, battered, bruised, spat upon, crucified, stabbed, and he died on the old rugged cross. He was literally cut out from all of humanity. Isaiah 53 says, He was taken from prison and from judgment. And who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of My people was He stricken. And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Isaiah 53 8 and 9 tells us. But He was also cut by His own Father. Isaiah 53 10 tells us yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him the father has put him to grief The Lord caught him. So in Exodus chapter 34 verse 10, when he says, Korah, behold I make and I'll do marvels and awesome things. It's talking about the father laying upon the son, the wrath for us all. He cut his son, he bruised his son, he battered his son for us. But he was cut out of the grave. He rose the third day. The grave could not hold Him. He showed Himself to His disciples. And nearly 500 men at once, He stayed here in His glorified body for 40 days and then cut out of here for heaven. You men of Galilee, why stand ye here gazing? The same Jesus who you see taken from you will likewise come again. Oh, praise the Lord. Now turn to Hebrews chapter 9. I think, I believe Paul wrote Hebrews. I don't care what anybody says. It sounds like Paul. In verse 11 of Hebrews 9. And here's Paul talking about all this. But Christ being come, and high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. He kept the covenant. For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifying to the purifying of flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause He is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament, that means the first covenant, They which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, I'll get it right here in a minute, there must also in necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament, or a covenant, is a force after men are dead. Otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. whereupon neither the First Testament was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people, according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wood and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover, he spake with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry, and almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these that Moses used. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true," but look here, folks, "...but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God," for who? For us! nor yet that he should offer himself often, or every year, as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with blood of others. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world. But now once, once, once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is reported, a man wants to die, and after this, or but after this, the judgment, so Christ was once once, once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." Isn't this grand? This is awesome. Which brings us to the third cutting, if you will. The first cutting was a new covenant. The second cutting was his son. Now here's the third covenant. I'm going to try to hurry along. We're already past 12. Hold on with me. Behold. God cuts out men to be law keepers. What? Here is the greatest marvel. Here is the awesome thing. Now standing on the pinnacle of Exodus 34.10, looking forward to Hebrews 10.1, we were just there. for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not of other image things could never, with those sacrifices, make us pure. And what God does instead, He cuts out His Son. His Son is cut on Calvary, cut out of death, ascends into heaven, and there pours out His blood before the Father, The Father is peased with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and thereupon allows for the righteousness of Christ to be put into us. Remember that God didn't destroy the law. Christ came and fulfilled it. But that alone does not make any man a law keeper. So Christ establishes the law and then writes it on our hearts upon our salvation. God imputing into us the righteousness that is Christ. So God doesn't see our law-keeping because we don't have any law-keeping to our account. He sees Christ's law-keeping. And He's satisfied. And these who have the law written on their hearts are now covenant keepers. through Christ Jesus. Without this infusion of Christ into a man, he will continue to be a felonious lawbreaker. And that's what you are today if you have not Christ. You are a lawbreaker! And the wrath of God abides on you. But for as many, though, who will call upon Him, believing that He died for them and that He has kept the law for them and that He was buried and rose again, cut out by the Father, the Lord will cut into them and place a new heart in them and make them His own. The law is good. It's our schoolmaster. We're just dumb students. The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword, though. And it cuts. And it cuts deep, piercing even to the dividing of the sunderer's soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight. God sees it all. All things are naked and open unto His eyes. Of Him with whom we have to do, you can't hide. He sees you. But Paul is not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. For he knows that it's the power of God unto salvation. And as a result, God does this marvel. You'll find the marvel in Romans chapter 10. Would you turn there with me? And I close. Hallelujah. He's closing. Romans 10. Romans 10. Now, you that have been under my preaching for a long time, you automatically know where I'm going. Romans 10. Listen very carefully. Listen. If you aren't able to hold your Bible, whatever the case may be, just listen to what Brother Darrell has to read to you from the Word of God. Chapter 10, verse 8. But what saith it? The it here is the Word of God. But what saith the Word of God? The word is nigh thee, because you've been listening to the message this morning. It's even in thy mouth and in thy heart. You probably believe already that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. The word of faith which we preach may already be in your very brain. And here's what it says for you to do. that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus." What does that mean? If you were to say, I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God that He died for me, and I'm trusting in Him, and shall believe in thine heart that God had raised Him from the dead. If you believe it, confess it. Look what it says. Thou shalt be saved. I didn't write that. Don't be mad at me. Verse 10, for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Unto salvation, for the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. God won't turn you down. There's no difference between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. Doesn't matter your station in life, doesn't matter your age, doesn't matter what sins you've committed. He will save you. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, says verse 13. And we've kept verse 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. Already, right here this morning. Verse 17, so then faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. We've done the word of God. And you know what? If you look at verse 15, this morning I got up and I washed my feet, trimmed my toenails, put lotion on them, and so, look at there, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace. I did my job. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't let the devil trick you. The Lord has Calroth. Everybody say it, Calroth. He's cut out the old covenant, put in a new. He's cut Jesus Christ out, a cut above. That's the title of the message, a cut above. He cut him out of heaven, he came to earth, cut him into humanity, cut him on the cross, cut him out of the grave, cut him back into glory, and here we are today, cut into the family of God. Woo! What a grand and glorious thing. And all can be partakers who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lord, for your word. Open the minds of the simple. Open the minds of the educated. Show yourself to them. Blessed are you, Christ Jesus. to provide for us so great a salvation. These things we beg and plead in the name of Jesus Christ, your son. Amen.