What is the great problem of mankind? What's the great problem of your life? What's the problem that you have as a husband or a wife or a mom or a dad or son or daughter, person, employee maybe? Do you know what the Lord says your great problem is? He says it's sin and the effects of sin. We have all displeased God. and we are broken, and it's our fault, and we can't make things better. The great problem of mankind is that God is good, and he's the source of all good things, but we have made ourselves his enemies. You can go back to the beginning of the Bible after Adam and Eve first sinned. What happened? Genesis chapter three, verse 23, God drove out the man. And at the east of the Garden of Eden, he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. So not only are we sinful and estranged from God because of that, but in addition to that, we are sinful and selfish. That's like who defines our nature now. And that brings problems into our lives. Because of our sinfulness and our selfishness, not only are we distant from God, but we can't get into relationships with other people without doing damage to them, and them doing damage to us. Our relationships with each other are ruined by our own selfishness. I mean, think about marriage. Marriage is great, gift of God. Valentine's Day was this week. When Adam first saw Eve, he cried out with delight. He said, this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. They lived together in wonderful unity and joy, and they never hurt one another. But then after the fall, look at what's said. Genesis 3, 16, God says to the woman, I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing. In pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you." And in that last sentence there's so much pain. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband means that the wife's desire will be to control her husband. So instead of lovingly completing him and helping him as she was designed to do, now she'll want to be in charge of him and run his life. And how will sinful husbands throughout history respond when their wives try to control them? He shall rule over you. Marriage is now turned into a power struggle. Men use their physical strength to force their wives to please them and they crush them and abuse them and belittle them. So what was supposed to be the most intimate and beautiful of all human relationship is now the hardest. But it's not just marriage. Any human relationship is like this. And at the back of all of it is we, we are sinners and we can't fix ourselves. We can't get back into God's good graces and we can't get along with each other. And the effects of sin have now filled our world with death and disease and hate and hardship. And 6,000 years of human history haven't done anything to make any of these things better. Mankind has tried to solve this problem of sin. We've invented religions, and philosophies, and psychologies, and various forms of human government. And some of those things have made our lives a little bit better, and some of them have made our lives much worse. Ultimately, all of mankind's attempts to deal with sin and its effects have failed. Okay. When we come to our passage in Hebrews 10 today, there's one big idea, and every person needs to understand this. Listen, your sin can be dealt with. There's only one way. The point of this whole section that we're gonna cover today is that Christ's one sacrifice is all you need to cleanse you from your sin. Christ's one sacrifice is all you need to cleanse you from your sin. That's the point of the passage. And the author, as we walk through these verses, he's going to prove that in four different ways. So the first proof that God's, that Jesus' one sacrifice is all we need to cleanse us is this. He starts by looking back. He says, Old Testament sacrifices could never cleanse a sinner's soul. See these old, these readers of the first, the people that first got this book of Hebrews, they'd grown up as Jews. And so they built into them from their childhood, They had this idea that when it came from God's word, they had this idea that if I sin, what I need to do is I need to take an animal and I need to kill it, and I need to take it to the temple and offer it as a sacrifice for my sin. Well, now they've come to Christ, and they're being taught that Christ's sacrifice is enough, but some of them feel this pull, like, well, should I also sacrifice an animal? Is this sufficient? Is Christ's sacrifice all that I really need? The Old Testament says a lot that we have to take animals and sacrifice them. So what about that? Well, the Old Testament sacrifices could never cleanse a sinner's soul. Look at Hebrews 10 verse 1. The author addresses this concern. He says, for since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who are drawing near. So, animal sacrifices, they never really were able to cleanse a soul. The author of Hebrews says, well, how do we know for sure that those animal sacrifices weren't cleansing us? And what he says next is the way we can see that they never worked is the fact that they never stopped offering them. So, letter A on your sheets, the fact that the priest could never stop offering sacrifices was proof that those sacrifices didn't work. Look at verse 2, 10 to it says, otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered since the worshipers having once been cleansed would no longer have any consciousness of sins. Imagine you have a really bad cough. And so you go to the doctor, you say, hey, doc, I got this horrible cough. He says, oh, I've got just the thing for you. You take this medicine tonight, tomorrow your cough will be gone. You're like, oh, this is great. You go home, you take the medicine, you get up the next day and your cough is just as bad as it was before. So you go back to the doctor, you say, hey, doc, I still, listen, I'm coughing, it's not better. He says, oh, don't worry, I got this medicine for you, you take it tonight, tomorrow you'll be better. And he gives you the same thing. You're like, okay. So you go home, you take the medicine, Wake up the third day, and your cough is just as bad. You go back to the doctor, you're like, doc, I took the medicine, still coughing. He says, oh, don't you worry, I've got just the thing. And he gives you this medicine, he says, you take this tonight, and tomorrow your cough will be all gone, but it's the same thing. At some point, you're gonna start to question the effectiveness of this treatment, right? And that's what the author of Hebrews is saying about the sacrifices that were given in the law. Like, they would go over and over again. And they felt guilty, and they would kill this animal, and they would sacrifice it, and they would leave the temple, and they wouldn't feel like they really dealt with their problem. They still feel guilty. And then, the next time they sin, there's another animal they gotta go sacrifice, and just every year, every day, they just keep going back, well, there's something wrong here. We're not really being cleansed. So, but God, it was his idea that they do these offerings. So is it doing anything? That's the next thing we see. The sacrifices that God commanded them did accomplish two things. The first thing is those animal sacrifices foreshadowed the way that God did intend to deal with man's sin. Those sacrifices foreshadowed the way that God did intend to deal with mankind's sin. And find that, we read it in verse one, but look there. But for since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come, instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. So the sacrifices didn't cleanse them, but it pointed to a sacrifice that was coming. Another thing those sacrifices accomplished is they constantly reminded people how hopelessly sinful they were. It was something that sacrifices did for them is by the fact that they had to keep going and offering them, they were continually reminded, yep, I am a sinner and this isn't making it better. Look at Hebrews chapter 10 verse three. But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. He doesn't say in these sacrifices there was a release from sin every year, just a reminder. The sacrifices did that for them, it showed them they were sinful. Verse four, for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. And so, the big idea of our passage is, listen, to be cleansed of your sin, you need one thing. You need the sacrifice of Christ. He starts by saying, listen, those animal sacrifices, that's not what you need. And boy, guys, if God commanded the animal sacrifices, we don't have any other way of dealing with sin outside of Christ or animal sacrifices that God has ever commanded. So if that doesn't work, then what else could you do? So, Old Testament sacrifices couldn't ever cleanse this inner soul. Now, second point, second proof that we're gonna find in our passage about the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice is this. It has to do with what Jesus said to the Father when He entered the world. And we're gonna look at what Jesus said to the Father when He entered the world and that's gonna show us that Christ's sacrifice is all we need to cleanse us. Okay, look with me at Hebrews 10, verse five. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, just pause there, this is kind of epic. So we're gonna read here, when Jesus was in heaven, and he's about to come down to earth, like to take on human form, there's a conversation between Jesus and his father, and Jesus says something. Or maybe it's looking a little bit farther on into Jesus' coming to earth. It could be Jesus said this to his father as he walked through his life. So if you read the Gospels, often Jesus will, he'll get away from his disciples and he'll go pray by himself all night. What is it that Jesus talks to his father about? Well maybe this, these are the words that Jesus expresses to his father. Now it's interesting, Hebrews 10, five, these words that he's going to quote, these are words from Psalm 40, verses six to eight. If you go back and read Psalm 40, verses six to eight, it's a Psalm that David wrote. And you probably, if you're just reading through the Psalms in the Old Testament, you're probably not gonna stop and think, oh, these are the words of Jesus. but the Old Testament is full of things that picture Jesus. So the sacrifices picture Jesus' sacrifice. Also, there's a common correlation that the Old Testament makes to Jesus, and what it does is David is the king after God's own heart, and David pictures Jesus. So there's some events in David's life that are intentionally meant to picture events in Jesus' life, and here, words that David spoke that were written intentionally to picture what Jesus was going to speak. Okay. So what is it that Jesus said to the father as he was coming into the world? Let's look into that. So what Jesus said to the father when he entered the world first, he said, you do not really want animal sacrifices. Christ says to the father, you don't really want animal sacrifices. Look at Hebrews 10 five. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sin offerings, you have taken no pleasure. Jesus here references four different kinds of offerings that were required by the Old Testament law. Some of you are reading through the Old Testament now, and you like your Bible reading plans, or you're going through Exodus and Leviticus, and you know that there's lots of required sacrifices. This lists four different kinds. Sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, sin offerings, and Jesus says to the Father, I know you don't really want those things. You don't ultimately take pleasure in the sacrifice of animals. Okay, well then what does the Father want? The next thing Jesus says is what you really want is for me to take on a human body and offer myself as a sacrifice for sinners. You don't really want animal sacrifices. What you really want is that I would take a body and that I would be the sacrifice. Do you see that in Jesus' words there? Look at 10.5. He says, consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me. Skip down to verse 10. What's Jesus supposed to do with this body that the Father's going to give to him? Hebrews 10.10, it says, and by that will, by the Father's will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So all of those Old Testament sacrifices, they were pointing to the ultimate sacrifice that would come when the father would give his son a body so that Jesus could offer that body as a sacrifice for humans. And Jesus knew, he knew all along that this is what he came for. If we are reading through the Gospels, you'll find that Jesus starts talking about his crucifixion. He starts telling everyone that this is what's coming before it gets there. So in Mark chapter 10 verse 32, taking the 12 again, Jesus began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, see, we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise. There's no question in Jesus' mind what he has come to do. Even when he was coming to earth, he said, Lord, this is what you want. I know your will is. I'm gonna take a body so I can offer it as a sacrifice. Okay, what did Jesus say to his father as he's coming to the earth? You don't really want animal sacrifices. You want my body as a sacrifice. Third, what you really want was written down in your Old Testament promises. Okay, let's look in verse seven, we'll find that. What you really want was written down in the Old Testament, in the promises you made. Verse seven, this is still Jesus talking to the Father. Then I said, behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book. And so Jesus is coming into the world, and what's on his mind is the promises that he and the Father have made. They've told the people what the plan is. And the plan is God's son is going to have to suffer. You read through the Old Testament, it talks about this king that's coming and his victory. It also talks about the servant that's coming and his sacrifice. Just one example of an Old Testament passage that looked ahead to Jesus' sacrifice is Isaiah 53. I'm just quoting a piece of it. What does the Lord want? Well, it was the will of the Lord to crush him. He has put him to grief when his soul makes an offering for guilt. He shall see his offspring. He shall prolong his days. The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied. By his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous and he shall bear their iniquities. So what did Jesus say to the Father when he was coming to earth? He's saying, Father, let's do it. We made these promises that I would come and die, and so I've come to do it. Fourth thing that Jesus said to the Father when he entered the world is just that, I have come to do your will. I've come to do your will. Verse seven, you see it? Then I said, behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me. Last time we were in Hebrews, I quoted the blasphemy of Bishop John Shelby Spong. You remember, John Shelby Spong said, I would choose to loathe rather than to worship a deity who required the sacrifice of his son. Others have picked up on this and they said, well, the cross, with the cross, it's nothing more than just a cosmic form of child abuse. Because here's the father intentionally sending his son to die and to bleed and to be beaten. What kind of a father is this? Well, what those men are missing when they say things like that is it's not just the Father's will for Jesus to die for us. The Father didn't knowingly send His Son to die for us, but the Son wants the same thing. The Son wanted the same thing. Jesus fully agreed with the will of the Father. Hebrews 12 too will later tell us that for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, despising the shame. Jesus wanted to die for you. He wasn't forced. Father wasn't sending him into something that he didn't know and want. Jesus wanted to die for your sins. And when the time came that he was to lie down on the cross and take the nails of the executioners and the wrath of the father, then the heart of Jesus cried out to his father with these words, he said, behold, I have come to do your will, oh God. Jesus gladly chose to die so that you might live. Okay, now the author of Hebrews, he's gonna make a couple of applications from this. Jesus spoke these things to the Father when he was on earth, when he was coming to earth. And what does that mean? Well, one thing we learn from this is that this one sacrifice, Christ's sacrifice of his body, that does away with all the Old Testament sacrifices. They're replaced now because the real thing has come. So look at verse eight and nine. When he said above, you have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings. These are offered according to the law. Then he added, behold, I have come to do your will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second. Right, so we don't need animal sacrifices that have been done away with. The real thing's here now. Christ has offered his body. Also, The author of Hebrews highlights that this one sacrifice, that's Christ's, this one sacrifice accomplished what God wanted. Okay, think about this. What was God's will? Well, God's will was that his son would suffer. Is that it? Is God's will just that the son is going to come and he's going to pour out his life as kind of like a in solidarity with mankind and their suffering or as an example of service or something. No. God's will is that his son would come and pour out his life so that we might be made whole. He has a purpose for this. He's dying so that we can be made righteous. Hebrews 10.10 says, listen, This God accomplished by Jesus's death everything that he meant to. This one sacrifice to accomplish what God wanted, it made every believer holy. Look at Hebrews chapter 10 verse 10. He says, and by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Okay, once for all, that's one Greek word. It's the word once, but it's an emphatic form of the word wants. So that's why they want to add more words to show you like, once for all. You could translate it, we're made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus once and never again. See, if you've trusted in Christ, then he died once, once and never again. And that death is fully sufficient so that God sees you, a sinner, as holy in his sight. That's what sanctified means. We have been sanctified. So we've been, in God's sight, made holy. Because Christ died once, like it was effective. Christ didn't just come to help us, he came to do all that needed to be done, and it's effective. Okay, that's the point of this passage, is that Christ's one sacrifice is all you need to cleanse you from sin. And so our author is walking through the proofs. Some of you didn't know there were notes on the back. Surprise! So you flip the sheet over. And we come now to the third proof of this one point. The one point he's making is Christ's one sacrifice is sufficient. It's sufficient to cleanse you for your sins. The third proof he gives of that is, hey, look at what Jesus is doing now in heaven. And that ought to show you that what he did was sufficient. Look at what Jesus is doing now in heaven. Okay, to get there, first he stops and he takes a look back at the Old Testament priests and what they did. The Old Testament priests, they never sat in the temple. The Old Testament priests never sat in the temple. They constantly worked and never accomplished anything. Look at Hebrews chapter 10, verse 11. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. In previous weeks, I've put up lots of pictures of the tabernacle. Do you remember any chairs? There aren't any chairs, there's no seats in the temple. And the reason is, the priests were always standing, they were always working, because they didn't ever accomplish their task. Sin wasn't really dealt with, they couldn't sit. But what about Christ? Is Christ also always standing? Does Jesus have to keep on standing in heaven? Is it like he's gotta keep on offering himself for you over and over again, continually suffer for you? Is his work, Ongoing? Look at this, Hebrews 10, 11. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. So letter B, Christ offered one sacrifice, then sat down in heaven because his work was complete. Christ offered one sacrifice and then sat down in heaven because his work was complete. There is zero need for Jesus to ever suffer again. What he did on the cross was sufficient. Okay, so what is Christ doing in heaven now? Well, he's sitting and he's waiting. This is letter C. We'll find this in the next verse. Now Christ waits eagerly. Now Christ waits eagerly until the day the Father defeats all his enemies and sets Christ as ruler over all. What's Christ doing? He's waiting eagerly until the day comes when the Father defeats their enemies, sets Christ as ruler. Okay, that's verses 12 and 13, look there. Hebrews 10, 12, but when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. Oh, friends, don't think for a second that Christ is done with his work. That all Christ meant to do was to give a sacrifice for sin so you could know him. He is not done with what he has planned. Jesus Christ has not just left the world forever in this mess of chaos of sin and death until the sun burns out and we all go into existence. That's not what's happening here. Jesus is done with his sin-burying. but he's not done with his work until everything hurtful, everything evil, everything bad is done away with forever. He's sitting and eagerly waiting. The time when the father says, okay son, it's time, let's finish it. Here's a verse from 1 Corinthians 15, 24 to 26 about what's coming. Oh, Jesus is eagerly waiting this and we're eagerly waiting it. The father has a plan, we're waiting for the time. But then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death." So what's Christ doing now in heaven? He's sitting because the work of dying for sinners is done. He's waiting. One more thing, letter D on your sheets. What's Christ doing now in heaven? Those whom Christ has perfected for all time, Christ is currently growing in day-to-day holiness. Those whom Christ has perfected for all time, Christ is currently growing in day-to-day holiness. Okay, that's coming from verse 14, look there with me. Hebrews 10, 14. Four, by a single offering, he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Notice, believer, this verse highlights two actions of Christ in your life. One is in the past, and one is ongoing. Okay, first, in the past, by his sacrifice, Christ has perfected you for all time. That is an amazing statement. Right? By Christ's sacrifice, he has perfected you for all time. Do you know, believer, if you've come and trusted in Christ, as far as your standing with God is concerned, you are already perfected for all time. Your standing with God is not dependent upon you being good and maintaining it. It's already accomplished. His perfecting you for all time is done, it's passed. As soon as you trusted in Christ, that was granted to you. But notice, Christ is still working in our lives. There's something he's doing now, verse 14, by a single offering he has perfected for all time, those who are being sanctified. Some of you have translations that don't highlight that, but the ESV does a good job of bringing out that this is something that's ongoing. So if you know Christ, not only has he perfected you for all time, but he's working in your life because you know and I know you're not perfect yet. At least your spouse knows, your parents know, right? We're not perfect yet. And the beginning of the verse, it says we are perfected for all time. You might think, well, so therefore I act perfect? No, you don't. This is how God's intended to do it. It's like he gives you perfect standing and now, day by day, he's making you more like him. So you're being sanctified, though you've already been perfected for all time. This is the status of a Christian. Okay. The point of this whole passage is Christ's one sacrifice is all you need to cleanse you from sin. So the author's giving proofs. How do I know that Christ's sacrifice is enough and that I don't need anything else? The third thing he says is, well, look at what Jesus is doing in heaven. He's sitting and waiting. It's done, right? As far as your forgiveness goes. There's a fourth proof that he gives that shows that his work is complete and enough. And that's this, what Jesus is doing now in the heart of whoever believes proves that his sacrifice is enough. What Jesus is now doing in the heart of whoever believes proves that his sacrifice is enough. Okay, do you want proof that Jesus' sacrifice is enough to cleanse you from all of your sin? Here's what you need to do, you need to receive Him as Savior and Lord. If you receive Him as Savior and Lord, you'll see how He transforms your heart and your life. If you wanna see how powerful His one sacrifice is, what you need to do is realize that this is the living God and come to Him and put your faith in Him. So here in verses 15 to 17, he's quoting from promises made in the Old Testament, new covenant promises. What he's saying is, for everyone who believes in Jesus Christ, his cleansing, his sacrifice provides these things to you. Okay, so what's he doing in the life of whoever believes? First, you trust in Jesus Christ as your savior. Then he will give you a new heart that truly wants to obey him. Trust in him as your savior, he'll give you a new heart that truly wants to obey him. Look at verse 15. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us, and he means through the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah here. For after saying, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord, I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds. Maybe you go to church every week. Maybe you always have. but your life has never really been changed. Maybe you listen to sermons about what's right and wrong, but the problem is you know you don't even really want to do what's right. You know what you need? You need to come to Christ and say, oh Christ, will you cleanse me? I don't even want to obey you. Christ, will you cleanse me by the power of your one sacrifice? Will you make my heart new? And this is what Christ does when people come to him in faith. He gives them a new heart. So it's not just he forgives you and makes you ready for heaven, but he changes your heart. There's a cleansing that makes you, I wanna obey him now, I wanna love him, I wanna serve him. Only he can do that, but he does if you believe in him. He'll give you a new heart that truly wants to obey him and he will completely forgive your sins. This is what Jesus does in the hearts of those who believe. He gives a new heart and he completely forgives sins. Look at verse 17 for this. Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. Do you know if you come and receive Jesus Christ, what that means? From then on, because of his once and for all sacrifice, he will never hold your sins against you. So, say you come to Jesus Christ and you trust in him today and then tomorrow you blow it. You know what's gonna happen? Jesus is not gonna despise you. Sinner though you are, though you failed, though you blew it, he doesn't despise you, he doesn't turn his back on you, he doesn't hate you. No, because he has completely forgiven your sins. He says, I won't remember your sins anymore. And so if you as a believer sin, then what Christ's attitude is to you is okay, All right, son, daughter, let's go. I've forgiven you for that. My sacrifice is sufficient. Now let's go. I wanna teach you to be like me. I wanna teach you to walk like me. And he's gonna pick you up there, he's gonna love you, and he's gonna keep you going forward. This is the kind of forgiveness that he gives. And not only does he forgive you as you walk through this life, but when you stand before him, if you are a believer, when you stand before him at the end to be judged, he's not going to remember any of the things you've done. Like, it's just clean, come on in. My sacrifice was sufficient. You're holy. It's awesome, the sufficiency of His sacrifice for us. What does He do? He gives us a new heart that wants to obey Him. He completely forgives our sins. And third, there's nothing you can ever do to add to the sufficiency of His sacrifice. There's nothing you can ever do to add to the sufficiency of His sacrifice. Look at verse 18. Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. So some of these Christians were thinking, well, boy, I know you say Jesus forgave me, but do I also need to go offer some animals? And we don't think that today, but maybe we think, oh, Jesus, I know you forgave me, but do I also need to, like, will it help you be happy with me if I give a lot of money to the church? Well, I know you've died for me, but do I also need to, This or that, and what this is saying is listen, no, to cover your sins, for your soul to be cleansed, you don't need to add anything. Christ did it. It's accomplished in him. Many years ago, there was an evangelist named Ebenezer Wooten. He was conducting a series of summer evangelism services in a village in England. The last meeting had been held, and the crowd was melting slowly away, and the evangelist was taking down the tent where the meetings had been held. As the evangelist is taking down his tent, a young man approaches him and asks, kind of casually, Mr. Wooten, what must I do to be saved? The preacher looked up, he took the measure of the young man, and he replied, too late. And then, kind of in a matter-of-fact way, he says this, and he starts pulling on an obstinate tent peg. It's too late, too late, my friend. Well, the young man was startled out of his indifference. And he said, oh, don't say that, Mr. Wooten. And a new note of pleading came into his voice. Surely it's not too late just because the meetings are over. Yes, my friend, the evangelist said. And he dropped the rope in his hand, he straightened up, he looked into the face of the questioner and he said, it's too late. You asked what you must do to be saved. And I tell you, you're hundreds of years too late. The work of salvation is already done. It's finished. It was finished on the cross. Jesus said so with the last breath that he drew. What more do you want? See, we ask, what must I do to be saved? And the answer is Christ has done it for you. It's Christ who saves, all by himself. Now, we need to respond. We need to come and say, oh, Christ, you've died for me. You're saying Christ is sufficient. I trust in you. Will you cleanse me? Are we gonna ask him to? But the work is done. You don't have to add to it. You don't have to wonder, what else should I do? Am I in? No, you just come to Christ and his one sacrifice is sufficient to cleanse your soul forever. It's only one way to be saved. Trust in Christ. His sufficient work will cleanse