if you would, to the book of Isaiah, chapter 45. Isaiah 45. While you're turning, I heard from our pastor last night. He said they're at a conference in Pennsylvania. He said the conference is going really well. Isaiah chapter 45, we'll start our reading in verse 18. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it. He hath established it. He created it not in vain. He formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord. There is none else. I've not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. I said not under the seat of Jacob, seek me in vain. I the Lord speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. Assemble yourselves together. Draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge, set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a God that cannot save. Tell ye, and bring them near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? There is no God else beside me, a just God and a Savior. There is none beside me. Look unto me. and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. For I am God, there is none else. I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return. That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely shall one say in the Lord, have I righteousness and strength? Even to him shall men come. All that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory. We'll end our reading there. Sean will lead us in our call to worship. Glory to God on high. Let praise us fill the sky. Praise ye his name. Angels his name adore. All our sorrows bore, and saints cry evermore, Worthy the Lamb! ♪ All they around the throne ♪ ♪ Cheerfully join in one ♪ ♪ Praising his name ♪ ♪ We who have felt his blood ♪ ♪ Sealing our peace with God ♪ ♪ Spread his dear name abroad ♪ ♪ Worthy the Lamb of God ♪ To Him our hearts we raise, none shall so lowly fall. Okay, if you would turn in your hymnals to song number 287, Like a River Glorious. 287. Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace. in its bright increase. Perfect yet it floweth, fuller every day. Perfect yet it groweth, deeper The Jehovah hearts are fully blessed Finding as He promised perfect peace and rest Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand Never traitors stand Not a surge of worry Not a shade of care Not a blast of hurry Touch the spirit there Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blessed Finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest Every joy or trial falleth from above traced upon our dial by the Son of Love. We may trust Him fully, all for us to do, they who trust Him wholly. Turn with me, if you would, to Mark chapter 10. Mark chapter 10. We're delighted to have today Paul Pendleton here with us from Sovereign Grace Chapel in Beaver. Paul, we appreciate your faithfulness to preach God's name and your friendship to us to come declare it to us and worship together with us. We thank you. Mark chapter 10, we'll start in verse 17. There's a excellent article in this week's bulletin from Brother Larry Chris that quotes one of the verses. Very good article. It led me to this text. We'll read together starting at verse 17. When he was gone forth into the way, there came one running and kneeled to him. and asked him, good master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, why callest thou me good? There's none good, but one, that is God. Thou knowest the commandments, do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honor thy father and mother. He answered and said unto him, master, all these have I observed from my youth. Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest, go thy way, sell whatever thou hast, and give to the poor. Thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, take up the cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved, for he had great possessions. And Jesus looked around about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God. And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in the riches to enter into the kingdom of God? It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God. For with God all things are possible. We'll end our reading there. Let's pray together. Our Holy Heavenly Father. We pray that you send your spirit to be with us this morning. Grant us liberty to. To worship you in spirit and in truth. We pray for our brother that that you give him strength and recollection of his studies and. And a word. from you. We pray that you strengthen him and speak through him. We pray for ourselves that you give us ears to hear and a heart to worship for father. We we know when we repent and we admit we kneel before you in sorrow knowing that left to ourselves we would we would not seek you. We're thankful that that you've seen fit to seek a people, even us. We're thankful. We pray for our community, for our country. We pray that according to your will, there might be a revival, that you would continue to call people to repentance as you promised and as you do. We rest in your promise. We thank you for Christ, for his work and his accepted sacrifice for sinners, that you would see fit to save those of us that have no right to call upon your name whatsoever in and of ourselves. But according to your good pleasure, you've made us worthy in Christ. We're thankful. We're thankful for him. We pray that you be with us, pray with those that are away from us at this time, that you give them traveling mercies, bring them back to us according to your will. Father, increase our faith, increase our faith that we would that we would see your goodness. Bring glory to your name. We pray these things in Christ's name and for his sake. Amen. Good morning again, everyone. I'm thankful to be here. Thankful that I was asked. Thankful you would be here to hear me. If you'll notice, Paula is not with me this time. She had planned to come with me, but we have the two Bernice Mountain Dogs and the girl Katie at Chapel. She usually watches our dogs for us, but she got sick and couldn't watch it, so Paula had to stay and not come. But I am thankful. I'm thankful that God's put me where I am at Chapel. I'm thankful those folks, supportive as they are. And we have two other faithful men there that preach the gospel. I'm thankful for that. And I'm thankful for all the other preachers we have out here, too, because you can listen to a lot of messages out there and get some comfort. It's good. If you would, be turning to 1 Timothy 1. 1 Timothy 1. And I'll try to get turned there, but then I want to tell you a little story if I can. A little story before we get started. But 1 Timothy 1. I heard this from Bruce Crabtree, so blame him if you think it's no good. This church, they were having a conference this one time. It was real hot, and the air condition wasn't working in the place. So the first preacher got up, and man, he went for a long time. And it was hot in there, and the kids are, everybody's sweating, and the kids are getting sleepy and going to sleep. Well, he finished his message. And then the other preacher got up, and he took even longer, maybe an hour and 15 minutes. It's hot, and the kids are all falling asleep. Even the older ones are nodding off, you know, nodding off. But after the services were over, they went out to the vestibule. This mother and her son went out to the vestibule. And they had all these pictures of these men out in the vestibule. And, you know, they were military members who had died in the line of duty. And her son asked the mother, said, Mom, who are these? And she said, these all died in service. And he was kind of puzzled. So he looked up at his mom. He said, was it the first service or the second service? Bruce does a lot better job at telling that, but that just kind of tickled me, but I'll tell you. So 1 Timothy, are you there? 1 Timothy 1 and verses 12 through 15 to start off with. 1 Timothy 1, verse 12. And I thank Christ Jesus, our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious, but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. What a comforting passage that is. And I mainly want to concentrate on verse 15, which I would venture to say most of us here are familiar with this. But as we said this morning, it's good for us to say the same things over and over. It's safe. But that last verse, verse 15. This is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am It's sad to say, but not everyone can read this and truly see who this is talking about or put themselves in this passage. Then there are those who say they can, but you can tell when you hear them, they don't really understand what this is saying. God has to reveal to you who this is talking about in this passage. And that, and what you hear about is that which causes this to be a faithful saint. God has to cause you to see that this is true of you in this passage. If he does, what a glorious and faithful passage it is. And I want to go through this verse, verse 15, and break it down and talk about some things that have come to my mind. This is a faithful saint, Christ Jesus, and sinners saved, but then my last point is gonna be the believer's way of life. So first, this is a faithful saying. In other words, this saying is full of faith. I'm not even gonna talk about God giving us faith, not yet, which he absolutely does if you have it. I'm talking about one who is the author and finisher or perfecter of faith. Romans 3, 21 and 22, we read this. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ. And that little word is important. It's of Jesus Christ, not in Jesus Christ. This is talking about of Jesus Christ. This saying is full of faith because of the one who is faithful. He authored and he absolutely had faith in the father. He trusted the father with the covenant that they had made. He fully executed his part in that covenant all the way to the end. And we see it here in this passage. Now that same faith given to us in measure by him, who is the object and source of that faith. We just read it, that it is of the faith of Jesus Christ. But this faith given is in measure, and it's given for a reason. That reason is that we might believe the record God gave of his son. That is why this is a faithful saying, because he is worthy to be believed and accepted This saying is worthy of all acceptation, even though not everyone accepts it. But he needs no acceptance from us. He is accepted by the Father. You see, we read this and this is a saying worthy of all acceptation. It is worthy whether we accept it or not. But Jesus Christ was set like a flint toward that purpose. He tells us in scripture, I must be about my father's business. And to this hour came I into this world, he says in another place. So we can see this is full of the faith of Jesus Christ who came into the world. So next we have Christ Jesus. He has said here to came into the world is what the words say, came into the world. It does not say he came into existence into the world, This is Christ Jesus, so let's look at his name for a minute. First, we have Christ. This tells us some things. This word means Messiah or anointed one, my chosen one, mine elect. Isaiah 42, one, we read, behold, my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. I have put my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment, to the Gentiles. This is one who was promised from the beginning of time. It was said to the serpent and there was a record written down by God that tells us this. It says, I will put enmity, that is hostility or hatred between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3 15 And it says him Your word says his heel there in Genesis. So it is a man this is the one which is spoken of throughout all the Old Testament and It is said that he shall save his people from their sin. I And there are several places where we can see in what we call the pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ, several places that we see this. But in the New Testament, we hear of something that's referenced back to, but in 1 Corinthians 10, 4, we read, and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them. And that rock was Christ. He was a rock. We also have Melchizedek and we also have the captain of the host in Joshua and other places where we can truly see this is one who is God. But we are also told of this one that was the guarantor of the covenant, that covenant of promise. Galatians 3, 16 and 17 we read. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, The law, which was 430 years after, cannot disannul that it should make the promise of none effect. So the Christ spoken of here in all of scripture is the Messiah. The one we read in our text, he is God. But we also see this in his name, Jesus, amen. That man that was promised. You remember Eve and what she said because she heard what she was told about the seed. In Galatians 4.1 we read, and Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. I'm sure she was thinking about it back to that time she was told this. And she was just thinking, is this the one? Now of course it was not Cain. But she was looking for that one to come, even back then. And I want to say, this says in her text, Christ Jesus. It does not say Christ, although he is every bit Christ. It does not just say Jesus, although he is every bit Jesus. But this is Christ Jesus, the God man. And that's my point here. Not just a man with the spirit of God in him, but God himself, manifest in the flesh. Real true bonafide flesh and bone, with blood coursing through his veins. He got tired, he got hungry, so much so that the scripture says in Hebrews 4.15, for we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the filling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. He knows what it's like to be human. because not he was, he is human. But he did not just become flesh because he wanted to know what it felt like. The covenant involved him being a man. He had to be a man to pay that sin debt for man. He could not do it in spirit. No one would have survived that. Scripture says God is spirit and no one can look upon him and live. Seeing him would kill you instantly. But you remember Moses? God put him in the cleft of the rock and he covered his face. He covered his eyes, covered his face is what it says. And God passed by. And when he passed by, Moses seen his hinder parts. Moses saw the glory of God. He saw Jesus Christ. One of those pre-incarnate appearances that we read about in the Old Testament. But here's the thing, man had to pay for man's sin. It could not have happened if he would have shown himself in spirit, because everyone would have been consumed before anything got done. But God, by his determinant will and purpose, said it will have to be done this way. It in fact pleased him to do it this way, to give himself glory. Moses would have been consumed had God not concealed his face. But first and foremost, God purposed it this way. The love of God for his people was so great that he wanted to be made like unto his brethren, Hebrews 2.17. Wherefore, in all things, it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Says that it behooved him. He was obligated to be made like unto his brethren. He obligated himself, that is, for all the reasons why this had to be this way. So this Christ Jesus, the God-man, came into the world. Scripture says, unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. Again, we read this previously in previous message, but for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And just for a minute here, I know that this world uses this verse and says that God loves everybody, but just quickly, I'll put this verse in here. Here's what it means when he says the world here. Revelations 5, 9 we read. And they sung a new song saying, thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. That makes up the whole world, but it does not include everyone in the world. So let God be true and every man a liar. Not all, but all kind, and that makes up the world. But back to it. A child was born and a son given. I am thankful to God for that. but there's something that he came into the world for. We read it in our text, so next we have sinners saved. If Christ came into the world to save sinners, and he did, because that's what it says right here in our text, but it goes without saying there has to be some sinners, at least one sinner. There's one right here. But this says sinners, so there are more than one, and I believe I'm surrounded by some today. But we are told by God in Scripture that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but there are not a lot of people who ever come to where David the king did. I pray God has brought us here today to that same place that David said, and here's what David said, against thee and thee only have I sinned. He did not say he didn't do anybody else wrong. He just is acknowledging that when he did those wrong, he did this against God. If you all remember the account of David and Bathsheba. One, that he did this to, one of those that he did this to was a servant of God as far as I can tell. But Uriah was at least committed to doing his brethren right who were all out fighting the war, remember. David tried to get him to go home to his wife And he wouldn't do it. He stayed right there at the doors He wanted to go back out there with his brethren where they were fighting. He wouldn't want to do that But God will if he is pleased he will come to you in his time. He will let you know You are the man It will not matter if there's anybody else around you that's a sinner or not you will know that you are the man But God be thanked, he won't leave you there to despair. This is a faithful sin. A saying full of the faith of Jesus Christ to let sinners know he came into the world to save sinners. Even the chief of sinners, of which I am. Some might say, well, you don't know how bad my sin is. And I don't wanna know anybody's particular sin. But I can tell you this, if you are in Christ Jesus, I can tell you how bad your sin is. It is so bad that Jesus Christ came into the world to die for it, if you're one of his. Sin is such an offense to God that if there had been only one sin and that sin would have been going into a grocery store and stealing a candy bar, he would have had to come and die for that one sin. And he did. There's no question of why Jesus Christ came into the world and what he came to do, because we have it written down and we read it. But there's also no question that he accomplished that. We read in Matthew, Matthew 121, and she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. So that's an absolute fact there. We are assured that this would happen because that's a shout of God. But now we know it goes even further than that. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and he did. We read it in John, John 19, 30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. He said it's finished, so something was finished. And it's what He came to do. He did save His people from their sins. Jesus Christ tells us Himself that He did, because we have it recorded in God's Word. He says it is finished, so it is. They say this word, tetelestai, has the meaning like when you go, you have a banknote or your car loan or whatever, make that last payment on it and they stamp it. Paid in full, paid in full. Salvation accomplished, nothing more to do to work out the salvation of those he died for. Salvation is not due, salvation is done. God the Father stamped the bill, paid in full. I am totally satisfied with this sacrifice. All we are told to do is believe it. Even that's impossible for a fallen, sinful man. I think you just read that. But what God requires, God supplies. He gives us faith, and we're talking about the faith of Jesus Christ. To each one of us, he gives the measure he is pleased to give of his faith. Ephesians 2.8, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. He gives faith so that we might believe Him. He has justified us before God, and that means we've done everything right before God in Christ Jesus. So faith is the believer's way of life, right? It's how they live. Christ is the author and finisher of faith. Galatians 3.11 we read, but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. 2 Corinthians 5.7 says, for we walk by faith, not by sight. And that word for we walk by faith, that word means to tread all around, walk at large, To live, deport oneself, follow, go, be occupied with, walk. It's our daily walk, and we do this by faith. My point is this. Jesus Christ did it all. There's nothing left for me to do for salvation before God. And this leads me to my last point. Nothing but Christ saves. I know there's many people out there that say the law, the Ten Commandments, is the believer's way of life, or that it is our guide for how we should live. But that's not true. We just read from God's Word what our way of life is. You can say this with all confidence. The Ten Commandments are not my way of life, but faith is my way of life, the faith of Jesus Christ. In fact, no law of any kind is my way of life or to life other than this, the law of faith. You know what one of the commandments is? Thou shalt not covet. You know what that is? A thought. To covet something, you're not even doing anything other than in your mind. You're thinking about it. You know what a kind of thought that is? Sin. Christ even tells us if you look upon a woman to lust after, it's a sin. So just thinking about it is a sin. God says it's a sin. We cannot recover even from one sin, not on our own. It's not that the good has to outweigh the bad. It is the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Now folks, we've already went too far. We've already went too far. We've missed the mark already. There's no making up for that. God tells us that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and sin is the transgression of the law. The law does not say give it your best shot, or if it doesn't work the first time, try, try again. There's no giving the law. You either keep it every jot and tittle, or you must die. What are we to do? Look to Jesus Christ. Believe Jesus Christ. And we can only do that by a God-given faith, which is the faith of Jesus Christ. This is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Those who are just like the Apostle Paul, because it says here he is the prototype. That's what that word means. Are you in need of a savior? Maybe it is with you as it is with me sometimes. I must cry out like the one man did. Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. If we believe, it's not because we worked it up. We believe him and are sure because we are given faith with which to believe and we do believe. We hear the gospel of who Christ Jesus is and what he has done. And listen, when we hear the gospel, we are hearing of the faith of Jesus Christ. But God be thanked, we are given a measure of that faith by God and that faith given makes possible what was totally impossible before. It enables us to believe. It causes us to call out for him. He saves sinners such as this. I've said this before, but Carapoole made a statement one time, and I like this statement, but he said, we do not exercise faith. Faith exercises us into believing. That record says, that record that God gave of His Son, that record says He came into the world to save sinners and He accomplished the work. But we still have this flesh, and Paul says in Romans 7, verses 15, for that which I do, I allow not. For what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I. And he goes on to say in verse 18 of seven, for I know that is in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. Let me tell you, there is sin there. There's sin. We still see it. God doesn't. And that's because of what Christ has accomplished. But it's there. As another preacher said, Christ came into the world to save sinners and he did this by paying for their sins with blood. So I have to commit those sins. Else what did Christ die for? but there's nothing good in this flesh and it will raise its ugly head from time to time. I must reckon those sins gone in Jesus Christ who died and gave himself for me. But this flesh, I will have the thought of I should have done that or I shouldn't have done that. Or it might be I should have not done that or I shouldn't have done that. Of course, I should have not done those things, or I should have done those things. That's obvious, right? In my flesh, I will say things like this in my mind. I should have studied more. I should have read scripture more. Of course we should. Or maybe I might do something that's outright unrighteous and begin to look within. How could a child of God do that? Well, of course I shouldn't have, or I should have done that. But what am I really doing? I'm looking to this flesh to try to improve upon this flesh. Trying to perform some righteousness before God, that's what I'm doing when I do that, when I start to look at myself. I'm trying to put myself under a law, and that law is of my own making. which says do this and live to somehow make myself righteous before God. Don't get me wrong, we are to watch what we do. We should walk worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Scripture tells us so. But what we do will not bring us one ounce of righteousness before God. It is this flesh raising its ugly head, but we are to look to him, the author and finisher of faith. God tells us that even our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in his sight. But where can we find the righteousness of God? Turn with me to Romans 3. I know I've read it before, but I just want to turn there and read that. Romans 3. Romans 3 verses 21 and 22 for right now. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference. That makes me like this faithful saying a whole lot more, you know that? God's righteousness is found in Christ and His cross work. But still yet more. First I want to say we are to blame for any unbelief. We are to be blamed for any rebellion against God, we ourselves. I'm not trying to say others are at fault for my sins by saying what I'm about to say. I am to believe God, and if I don't, it's my fault. But I will only believe by Him. But we are to watch. We are to pay attention. There are some, and Paul even warns us about them, but there are some who teach doctrines they should not be teaching. They teach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, but There are some additional things you must do to perfect what Christ has done. Some of them teach that. They may not say it that way, but the way that they're saying things, the way they're teaching things, they have to add something in to Christ and His cross work before you were saved or after you were saved. It does not change. Christ is the one who perfected us forever in dying on that tree. Most of them are subtle in how they will tell you these things. and they are wrong. Most of them that do this call themselves reformed. Now, I don't wanna paint too wide of a brush, cause not everyone that calls themselves a reformed may not be this way, I don't know. And they teach this, that is, that the Ten Commandments are our way of life or our guide to life. In Paul's day, it was circumcision, and it's a very dangerous thing to do. But listen, Christ and His faith is what saved us. Our text verse lets us know this. It is a faithful saying. But listen to this, Galatians 2.16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. When we believe, God counts the faith of Jesus Christ as our righteousness. It doesn't matter what law it is. It can simply be church law. There's nothing other than faith which we live by. The just shall live by faith, that's what scripture says. So it is faith that is our guide. Faith that we hear in the gospel and faith that is given us to believe. Not the Ten Commandments or any other commandments. Scripture says so. Looking to the law for any reason other than what God has intended for the law to do is not good. Read Philippians sometime. Turn over to Galatians 3. Turn over to Galatians 3. Galatians 3, right now verse 11. Galatians 3 and verse 11. But that no man is justified by the law and the sight of God, it is evident. For the just shall live by faith. These hucksters will say things like, the law is our way of life. It shows us how to live. But we are not justified by the law. It is evident, Paul says. Here is why it is evident. The just shall live by faith. That is their way of life, by faith. Faith given to them by God for this very purpose. So that they might put their trust in Jesus Christ, who came into the world to save sinners, and he accomplished it. Salvation is not due, salvation is done, because God says so. But now let's look in verse 12 of Galatians 3. Verse 12. Here it says it plain and right out. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them. God said it, I didn't. I'm just repeating what he breathed for the Apostle Paul to say. He says the law is not of faith. So don't try to tell me that God by faith enables me to keep the law. Because the law is not of faith. But it does say that if you're going to keep them, that is the law, then they will be your way of life. And you have to keep them every jot and tittle. Every year, every month. Every week, every day, every hour, every second. That is for your whole life. That just makes me tired thinking about that. It says you shall live in them. That is, it will be all that you have as your guide of life if you want to go under the law. If you look to the law. The problem is if Jesus Christ did not come to save you, then it's too late to keep the law. You've already broken it. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It tells us right there you will have to eat, live, and breathe the law and think it rightly as well. But the problem is we don't and we will never do that because it's evident that no one is justified by the law. What is the conclusion to all this? Christ is all. All my salvation, all my justification, all my sanctification, all my wisdom, all of my redemption. You could just keep going on. Christ is all, says it all. But when we read in Scripture, 1 Timothy 1 15, our text, this is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. We know it is full of the faith of Jesus Christ who condescended, he came into the world for a very specific purpose. He came into the world to save sinners and you can look at that legalist Paul whom God saved. He is a pattern of those that Christ Jesus came into the world to save, and the conclusion to all this is he accomplished it. It is finished, he cried, and he gave up the gloss and died, and in dying, we died with him. Sinners dying the death they should have died in and of themselves. But he did this in their stead. And I don't know about you, but that will make you a shouting Baptist right there, woman. But I do know this, this faithful saying and the record God has given of his son. To all of this, if you're one of his and you're a chief of sinners, all of us can say, amen. So be it. Thank you. Dear Lord God, may you apply these words to our heart, dear Lord. Open our eyes, open our ears, our hearts, dear Lord. Calls us to take these things with us. Calls us to see Christ every day in everything. Don't let us look to ourselves, dear Lord. So much despair there because there's nothing good there in this flesh. But call us to see Him. All these things we ask in Christ's name. Amen. Well, that's been a good morning, hadn't it? Any morning we get together and we get to hear it's all of Christ alone. Look at Christ and let's not look to ourselves as a good morning, isn't it? Yeah. Amen. Thank you, brother. Be sure to greet Paul on the way out and anyone who's free and is so inclined, we're heading to Cheddar's afterwards. If you'd like to come out to lunch, come on. All right. All right, Sean. Okay, if you would, turn in your hymnals to song 509, song number 509, and stand as we sing The Sands of Time Are Sinking. The sands of time are sinking, the dawn of heaven breaks. The summer born outside for the fair sweet morn awakes. Dark, dark hath been the midnight, the day spring is at hand. O Christ, He is the fountain, the deep sweet well of love, the streams on earth I've tasted, for deep I'll drink. There to an ocean fullness His mercy doth expand, And glory, glory dwelleth In Emmanuel's land. I am my beloved's, and my beloved's mom. He brings a poor, vile sinner into his house of wine. I stand upon his merit. I know no other. The bride eyes not her garment, but her dear bridegroom's veil. I will not gaze at glory, but on my King of grace. Not at the crown He giveth, but on His pierced hand. ♪ All that is all the glory of Emmanuel ♪