Well, if you have your Bibles, would you turn with me please to 1 Corinthians chapter 1. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, I'd like to read verse 30, and for the sake of completion, 30 and 31 together. I just want to find one more verse. 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 30, but of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that as it is written, he who glories, let him glory in the Lord. Please keep your Bible open there. Bill Faye was a converted businessman. And when I say a businessman in America, I mean the worldly type of businessman. Hugely successful, probably a millionaire, but lived an extremely worldly lifestyle before he was converted. When he was converted, he was as all out for Jesus as he was all out for sin before he was converted. And he was a soul winner, always on soul patrol, trying to lead people to the Lord Jesus. And he wrote a little booklet that got published by Our Daily Bread called, How Can I Share My Faith Without an Argument? And that was a title that really appealed to me, and I really enjoyed reading that little booklet. And it's a series of questions that he uses. You know, Ray Comfort has his way of evangelizing. Well, Bill Fazeway's is to use a series of questions to get somebody to open up and then to take them through a series of scriptures and get them to answer the questions themselves from the Bible. And the first two questions are this, do you have any kind of spiritual belief? And he just lets the person share what any spiritual beliefs they may have are. And the second question is the key one for me in this tonight, that he said, to you, who is Jesus? What is Jesus to you? Now, when I was reading that booklet, I couldn't help thinking to myself, you know, that's a great question. And I started thinking, how would I answer that? What is Jesus to me? What is he to me? And my immediate reaction is to say, he's everything to me. He's everything to me. Then I realized that's actually not an answer. That's actually talking about how valuable he is to me. It doesn't actually answer what he is to me. And this scripture came to my aid to show me very wonderfully in 21 words what the Lord Jesus Christ is to me. This verse is an absolute stick of dynamite of theological truth. about what Jesus Christ is to the believer. It's an amazing summary of gospel truth. But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. And yet, if we're honest, so few Christians really rejoice when they hear that verse or see it on a calendar. They don't go, oh, praise the Lord, that's just so wonderful. You know why? Because it's full of big words. And as Winnie the Pooh said, I'm a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. So we look at that verse and we don't really get excited. It reminds me of the story of a pastor who asked his deacons if they could buy a chandelier for the church. And the deacons went away and had a meeting about it and they came back with a reply of no. And there were three reasons why. Number one, the secretary didn't know how to spell it. Number two, nobody in the church could play one if they bought one. And number three, they thought the money would be spent better on lighting instead. they actually didn't know what they were saying. And actually, sometimes we're a little bit like that when we reject or turn away from this verse. We look at the big words, we don't know what it means, and we don't really take in the value of it. Well, I don't want us to be like that. I want us to see rather what Christ is to us in the four words of this text. He is our wisdom from God. He is our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption and see the treasure of this for us. Now the background to this verse here is Paul's discussion with the Corinthians about the wisdom of God. The Greeks which is where Corinth is, were people who really celebrated wisdom. You know, the great Greek thinkers over the years, the great philosophers and so on, were their heroes, and they had a high esteem of wisdom. And yet Christianity, for all intents and purposes, to the Greek mind, doesn't look wise at all. And this is what Paul has been talking about here, and he's been dealing with this issue in verses 18 through to 31. In verses 18 to 25, he dealt with the issue of the cross, because the cross doesn't look like a wise way of saving people. that God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, should become a man and suffer a criminal's death, it doesn't look like wisdom to the Greeks and to the Jews. It doesn't look like their Messiah either. They seek a sign, the Greeks seek after wisdom. And yet Paul says it is the wisdom of God. And it's the power of God to those of us who are being saved. But not only is it the cross that looks foolish to the unsaved mind in terms of wisdom, but the church does as well. And in verse 26 to verse 31, he talks about here the different believers that there are in the church. And he said, let's be honest. He says, you don't look like the sort of people God would choose if he was wise, does he? I mean, what does he say in verse 26? For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen. And the things which are not to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence. And what Paul is saying here is, you know, if we look at it, you know, there's not many of you who are noble, there's not many of you who are great intellects, there's not many of you who are celebrities. And yet, if we were God, we'd say, oh, I'd have the superstars. They would look great in the church. And I'd have the royalty. And I'd have the top athletes. And I would have the pop stars and that. I wouldn't have, forgive me, overweight pastors and little old ladies. I would have the pick of the best. But what does God choose? He chooses the things that are foolish in the eyes of the world, the things that are nothing in the eyes of the world, to shame the strong. He says, that's the wisdom of God. And you may say to yourself, well, how is that the wisdom of God? Well, the answer is in this verse and in the one that follows, because it says it's of him that you're in Christ Jesus, in verse 30. But of him are you in Christ Jesus? And verse 31, that as it is written, he who glories, let him glory in the Lord. None of us can stand here tonight and say, well, of course, God just had to have me. There's no way he could have let me not be in the church. I mean, you're talking about the best of the best. No, we all come here tonight and we all say, why on earth I'm here is a mystery. but I'm here by the grace of God, and to God alone be the glory. That he who glories, let him glory in the Lord. It's God who gets the glory for our being here. And so he says this is the wisdom. That's the background to this. And so when he says here, but of him are you in Christ Jesus, he is getting the glory for what he has done in these things that are Christ attributed to us. And the setting of this, the background is that wisdom discussion, but the setting of this for all these things is that they are things which Christ is to us through our union to him, union with him. He says, but of him you are in Christ Jesus. You know, if you ever put on a glove, you'll notice that the hand takes on the identity of the glove, doesn't it? If you put on a yellow rubber glove, a marigold, it takes on the identity of the yellow rubber glove. If you put on a boxing glove, it takes on the identity of the boxing glove. If you put on a surgical glove ready to go into theater, it takes on that identity. If you put on a child's woolly mitten, it takes on that identity. Well, so with us. Because we are in Christ, we take on the identity of Christ in God. And so that is our standing. And all these things that we're going to talk about, that what Jesus is to us, are as a result of us being in him. And we're in him because God put us in him. And by the way, that's one of the great proof texts for the sovereignty of God in salvation. It's not a matter of, I chose to become a Christian. It's of him you're in Christ Jesus. And all the way through he says, God has chosen, God has chosen, and it's of him that you're in Christ Jesus, that he may get the glory for all of this. So this is all God's doing, and this is all in him. And so I want us to see tonight these four wonderful things. So we can walk out of here tonight, rich people, with what Christ is to us. I read about a farmer who was a very wealthy farmer in America back in the 1800s. And he had a vast land, it was worth a lot of money. And when he died, he bequeathed all his, he had no children, but he bequeathed all his inheritance to one of the land workers, a poor man who he valued as a worker, who worked on his land. He worked for just a small amount of money. But when he died, he left all this money to this man. And so when the man died and the estate was sold, And it came to $50,000, which in those days, I mean, $50,000 isn't bad now, but I mean, you go back to the 80s, that's talking like probably millions what that was worth. The banker who was responsible for this, he found this worker and he said, now I've got to sit down and talk to you how you have come into this money. And the poor old man, he didn't even understand what $50,000 looked like. It was beyond him. He said, could I just have $2? I need some food for my family for this weekend. And the banker thought, how am I going to get this man to make notice? This man could not only buy enough food just to get by this weekend, he could buy the shop. He could probably buy the town. He's so wealthy. He couldn't grasp it. My worry is that sometimes we talk about these things that we walk out of here with just $2 worth of truth, and we leave behind 48, 50,000, whatever, millions, and we leave the truth. I don't want that to be the case tonight. I want us to get this and see what Christ is to us. So stay with me and let's have a look at these words and understand the treasure of them. What is Christ Jesus to me? He is my wisdom, my righteousness, my sanctification, my redemption. Let's go through them one by one. First of all, Christ is my wisdom. But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God. Now, this is perhaps the hardest thing to explain in this verse and the simplest thing to explain at the same time. You see, in the Old Testament, wisdom was a person. It was a person. And if you read in the Book of Proverbs, you'll find that wisdom is a concept which is personified as a person who is eternal and a person who was involved in the creation of the world. Now, does that remind you of anybody? It reminds us, of course, of the Lord Jesus Christ. But they didn't know that back then. But when... Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs. He talked about wisdom like this. He said, the Lord possessed me at the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning before there ever was an earth. When there were no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no fountains abounding with water, before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth. while as yet he had not made the earth or the fields or the primal dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there. When he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit so that the waters could not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, Then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in his inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men. So that's Proverbs chapter 8, verse 22 to 31, if you're making notes. And wisdom is a person in the Old Testament. Now, when Christ came into the world, He literally became wisdom for us. And you'll notice that's how Paul words it here in verse 30. He became wisdom for us. He's talking about what happened at Bethlehem when God the Son became a man. He became that fulfillment of wisdom for us here on earth. And he brought us the wisdom of God in person into our lives. And it wasn't just the wise work of creation. It's the wisdom of God's truth that we ourselves would be blind to having if he didn't reveal it to us. You see, when Jesus came, he revealed to us things that we wouldn't know and understand. He revealed to us our sin. Now we knew what sin was from the Old Testament, but when Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount, wow, we found out what sin really was. And we found out it's not just, you know, if a man looks at a woman, not just if a man commits adultery, it's if he looks at a woman too, lustfully. You know, there's the spirit of the law being broken as well. And we find out what sin really is. When Jesus came, we found out what heaven and hell was. Do you realize there's actually not that much in the Old Testament that reveals heaven and hell? But the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ revealed heaven and hell. He made us wise about heaven and hell. And of course, he is the wisdom of God. He revealed to us the saving work he was going to do when he died on the cross. That's why he gave his disciples the communion the night before going to the cross. He showed them that his body was to be the new covenant, and the blood was the covenant-redeeming blood that was promised in the Old Testament. And his death was going to bring us into a relationship with God. So he taught us what we could never know otherwise and which we would be fools without. The Living Bible puts it like this. He said, he showed us God's plan of salvation. That's how it explains that phrase, he's the wisdom of God. He showed us God's plan of salvation. and he made known to us what we wouldn't have without. Now, I've got to be honest with you. I'm really glad for that. I'm not naturally the brightest, most intellectual person, as you can probably tell. You know, I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Don't even spell it. And, you know, a bit like that guy at school who, when they asked him, what was the capital of Canada, he said, C. You know, that's like... and not the brightest. But you know, by God the Son becoming wisdom for me, I've received things that intellectuals do not know. He has become my wisdom. I know things that they don't know. And I glory in salvation, I glory in heaven, I glory in Christ in a way that is only possible because he has become the wisdom of God for us. Friend, aren't you glad Aren't you glad that he is that? That because Jesus came, we can know these eternal truths. He's my wisdom. I want to ask, is he your wisdom tonight? I hope so. Secondly, he is my righteousness, as it says there in verse 30. And it says, and righteousness, because now that we're adding one after another to this whole thing. And of course, when he talked about the wisdom of God and the plan of salvation, righteousness and sanctification and redemption were in that as well. Now, what is meant by righteousness? Well, that's a good word to know. It's like goodness, but it's in a legal framework, in a legal setting. It's if you're declared to be good in the eyes of the law, if you're to be without sin or having broken the law, you are said to be righteous. Or you are said to be justified. That's another term that's used in the same way. And it means not just as if I'd never sinned, It means just as if I'd never sinned and just as if I had done everything I should have done as well. It's not just dealing with the sin, it's dealing with all the acts of obedience as well. And Jesus is my righteousness." Now, friends, anybody who's seen my past can tell you I am not righteous. You know, I can think of things in a split second that would make me blush from my past, and you can with yours as well. Yet the Bible says here that Christ is my righteousness. How come? Well, as Quesi prayed in his prayer, He gave us his righteousness when he came into the world and died on the cross. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21, God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that in him we might become the righteousness of God. There's been a great exchange, a great swap has taken place. and we are declared righteous. And that now gives us a legal standing before God which says we are legally good in his eyes. We are without fault and perfectly obedient to the law before him. If you want an Old Testament illustration of this, Numbers chapter 23 is one of the best ones I know of. In the Old Testament we have the story of Balaam, and Balaam was hired by the Moabites to curse the people of Israel. And when Balaam got up to curse, he found he couldn't do it. And he gives, as one of his reasons in his oracles, this. In Numbers 23, verse 21, what he says about Israel, he says about God, listen, he says, he, that's God, has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen wickedness in Israel. Now, that's an amazing thing. If you've just read the previous chapters in the book of Exodus and in the earlier chapters of Numbers as well, you'd see the children of Israel, as soon as they came out of Egypt, what did they do for 40 years all through the wilderness? Grumble, grumble, grumble, and turn against Moses. And yet, Balaam says, God can't see anything wrong in them. God can't see any wickedness in them, can't see any iniquity in them. You know why? This is a picture of the salvation Christ is gonna give. They are declared righteous. They're sinless in his eyes. And that is what Christ is to us. Let me use another illustration to try and help explain it. Shepherds in New Zealand, I'm told, I've read this, so I trust it to be true. But apparently in New Zealand, where we have big flocks of sheep, they often have a problem where they will have a sheep whose mother will die, a lamb whose mother will die, and equally they will have a problem of a mother whose lamb will die. Now, both these animals will pine. So he says, what do they do? He says, what they do is a very clever thing. They matched the mother who's lost her child with the child who's lost its mother, the lamb that's lost its mother, and they bring them together. But they said the mother wouldn't accept the lamb on its own right. Do you know what they do with the lamb? They take the fleece of the lamb that's died, and they put it over the other lamb. So he comes in the fleece of the other lamb. Now, can you see what a picture that is of us before God? When we come before God, we come in the righteousness of Christ. And he looks at us, and he sees all the righteousness of his Son. Jesus Christ has become for me my righteousness, my legal standing before God. And T.C. Edwards, who's a Bible commentator, I had a really frustrating day yesterday because I waded through this. There's a big, big, thick commentary I've had up on my shelf for years. And it's full of stuff I don't understand. I'll be quite honest with you. And I turn over half a dozen pages, and I find one little bit. And I found this little bit, and it was brilliant. So I copied it in my notes. And then I read another little paperback book, and it quoted the one little bit out of the big book. I could have saved myself all that work, you know. But T.C. Edwards, he said this, and this is brilliant, it was worth wading through. He said, Christ is not only their justification, but also their abiding cause of retaining, of remaining justified. That is, he is their righteousness. So he's not only the cause of our being justified once, but he's our abiding cause of remaining justified. So that as time goes on, the devil can't come around and say, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, fair enough. When you became a Christian, there's been a lot of water under the river, under the bridge since you became a Christian, Johnny Eichen. And I could point out a few things. No, Christ wasn't my righteousness, he is my righteousness, and he is yours as well if you're a Christian. You know, when George Whitefield, the great evangelist, preached this, and I read his sermon in the Select Sermons by George Whitefield yesterday, which was just the blessing of God to me, and I recommend it to anyone. He said this on this, he said, of what then Should you be afraid, believer? Of what then should you be afraid? You know, I meet so many Christians, they're worried they're not gonna be accepted with God on the day of judgment because of something they've done wrong. But listen, if Christ is our righteousness, of what do we have to be afraid? Isn't this wonderful? Is he your righteousness? He is my righteousness, that's what he is to me. He can be yours if you will turn to him today. And then thirdly, we see here, here's my sanctification in verse 30, and sanctification. or if you're using an NIV, it might say the word holiness, because the two words are linked. And what is holiness? I mean, for years, I thought holiness and righteousness were just two words that were basically the same thing, but they're not. I was tripped up when I was reading the book of Romans, and I read in Romans 6.19 that righteousness leads to holiness, and I thought, ah, they're different then. And it showed me that there is something different to them. And the difference is this, if righteousness is our legal standing with God, holiness or sanctification is our moral standing with God. And the holiness of God is what is given to me as well as the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Now I want to tell you that is one of the things that's the most staggering thing in this verse to me. Christ is my sanctification. Now this is amazing because normally the work of sanctification in scripture is attributed to the Holy Spirit. Such as in Romans chapter 15 or 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 2, that we're sanctified by the Spirit of God and so on. But here, sanctification is attributed to Christ. And the reason for this is, this isn't our progressive sanctification, our progressive growth in holiness when we've become Christians. This is our positional thing that he's put us in when we're in Christ Jesus. Remember my illustration with the glove? The hand takes on the identity of the glove. Well, Jesus is holy. Therefore, when I'm in Christ, as far as God is concerned, I have a moral standing before him. I am sanctified. I am holy. Now, you can be quite sure that those who are given that standing, God is going to also progressively help them grow in holiness in their lives as well. But as far as my standing with him is concerned this means I have assurance I am made holy. In fact this is a wonderful chapter for this because if you go right back to the early part of this chapter 1 and verse 2 You see, Paul addresses the Corinthians in this way. He says in verse two, to the church of God, which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus. Now, if you read the book of Corinthians, you would say, man alive, what planet was he on? You know, I used to have an old Volkswagen, right? And it conked out once on the motorway. And we called out the AA. And I said to the guy who came out, I said, it's just been serviced. I thought it would be all right. The guy lifted the bonnet. He said, who serviced this, a blind man? Honestly, it was in such a state, the old car. And you know, you think, when you read those words at the beginning of Corinthians, by the time you come to the end, you think, Paul, are you blind? The Corinthians are sanctified? Yes. Because it's not by their... progressive sanctification, he's measuring it, but by their positional in Christ, who is their sanctification. And therefore, they're made positionally holy. That's an amazing thing. Now, why is that important to me, that Jesus is my sanctification? Let me rattle off three reasons why to you. First of all, it's a blessing to me when I come to communion. Because, you know, sometimes when we come to communion, we hear those words, you know, that we're to examine ourselves at the Lord's table. And do you know what immediately happens to me at that point? Guilt, you know, implodes upon my head. Thunder clouds appear over me. How can I take communion? Even more, how can I lead the church in communion? But you know what? Christ is not only my righteousness. He's my sanctification. He's my holiness. as far as God's concerned, in walks one who is as holy as Jesus. Isn't that a phenomenal thing? Not only that, that enables me to see God as well. One of the most terrifying verses in one way in the book of Hebrews is Hebrews 12, verse 14, which tells us, without holiness, no one will see the Lord. I used to think, I was like, well, that's me done. How am I going to see him? How am I going to get to heaven? How am I going to see the Lord? Maybe I'll be allowed in heaven, but I'll be just right in the back, just standing in the doorway, one foot in and one foot out. No, I've been declared holy, sanctified by him. And I could back that up with the words in Hebrews chapter 10 as well, which says that by one offering, he is perfected forever, those who have been sanctified. This is Christ's work in us. So it's a blessing to me because I can take communion. That means I can see him in heaven. I can serve him with my life. And I'll tell you something else as well. It's a blessing because it means I can pray. It means I can pray. I want to show you a verse. Just put your finger in the place and turn with me to 1 John a minute. 1 John in chapter three and verse 20 and 21. John, the apostle, is writing here for Christians who have come out of Some people would say it's Gnosticism. I've got suspicions it's something else as well. But they're coming out of a sort of cult-like situation, and he's reestablishing them in the truth. And among the ways of doing this is to make them confident in their faith. Now, this is what he says in verse 20. He says, for if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Isn't that a beautiful verse? If our heart condemns us, does it? My heart condemns me, my heart rises up and I've told you again and again, calls me all sorts of rude names like hypocrite and so on. But if my heart condemns us, there's one who's greater than my heart. It's God himself, God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ and his host. And he knows all things. He knows Christ is my sanctification. And look what the next verse says. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then we have confidence before, toward God. And whatever we ask, we receive from him. And it goes on. So it gives me that holy boldness to be able to come in prayer to God. Isn't that a wonderful thing? And that's all as a result of Christ being my sanctification. And of course, him working in me to help me grow in holiness as well. But this is a blessing. So what is he to me? He is my wisdom from God. He is my righteousness. He's my sanctification. I'm legally righteous in my standing. I'm morally holy before God. And the final thing here is, he is my redemption, as it says there, the last two words, and redemption. Now, if you read this through, you might think to yourself, very interesting, Paul, but haven't you got your order wrong? Isn't redemption the one you should have started with? Because it's to do with the cross and redeeming our souls from sin, and isn't that where it all begins? Yeah, it is where it all begins. But I want you to know it's where it all ends as well. Because there's a work of redemption which is still to come for the believer. Do you know what that is? The redemption of your body. when Christ comes again, and he will come to redeem us out of this world. So the work of redemption is one that spans the whole of the Christian experience, and he is my redemption. And bear in mind, Paul is writing to people who really understood what the word redemption means. It means to be brought out of slavery. There were a lot of Jews in Corinth and that's why Paul went through things like the Passover with them in chapter 5 and said Christ is our Passover lamb. He talked about the unleavened bread and said let us keep the feast without the sin, the yeast of sin in our lives and so on. And one commentator has said, you know, it's the most Paschal, Passover-orientated, of all the epistles. They understood what redemption was. And he's saying, Christ is that to us. He is our redemption. He's our deliverance. And he was in the past from sin, and he will be in the future. He's the one who has freed us, and he's the one who's going to keep us free. Isn't that a wonderful, wonderful thought to rejoice in? He is my redemption. I came across a book in a charity shop recently. Harriet Tubman, Show Me History. It's a comic book, all right? So, I mean, it appealed to my level of intellect, as you can tell. And I have books on Harriet Tubman at home, and I was familiar in a brief way of her story. But this went into a lot more detail, and I really enjoyed it. I was amazed. This woman is superwoman, I'll tell you. I'm looking forward to it. And she was a Christian, and I'm looking forward to meeting her in heaven very much. And do you know, single-handedly, as a slave, when she managed to escape, she went up past the Mason-Dixon line in the north to get to freedom, where the northern states, a person who was a slave, when they crossed the Mason-Dixon line, you were free. So that was the difference between slavery and freedom. She got across. And she settled down up there, and she had a great life. But do you know what she kept thinking? Left behind a lot of people like me. I found a way of escape. I could help them get out. And she set up what was called the Underground Railroad. And it wasn't a real railroad, but it was a system where slaves could go be carried or hidden or transported from one house to another house, all the way up from the south to the north. The people who were in charge of overseeing it were called the conductors. And the houses were the stations. And, you know, there'd be a farmer who'd say, you can hide in my barn. Nobody will go looking in that barn. And that was a station they could hide in. There would be ladies who would hang out big, you know, that you've seen, they made these quilts with them, amazing. What those quilts, a lot of those quilts had, they were maps. for the slaves and showed them the way to go. So they'd hang their washing out and nobody would realize what it was, but it was a map showing the way when a slave got to a certain point to go to someone's house to find safety. It was remarkable. And she herself would come back to rescue slaves and she would come back. First of all, she led one person out and went back and she settled down. She said, you know, I could do it again. I could risk it again. And of course, if she got caught, she would be back in slavery. But she came back again. She came back, she got two. She came back one time. They had five. Another time they came back, they had 11. She said, I've got to get 11 out in one go. I mean, if you ever tried 11 children from the school home here to the chapel, it's a handful. She did it again and again. I think one time, the biggest number she got in one go was 23, which was remarkable. And when she got them across the Mason-Dixon line, they were free. There was just one problem. the government changed the laws, and they said now the slave owners can go and get their slaves back. So do you know what she said? Oh, no. Oh, no. I rescued those slaves. So she got them all on a train and got them across into Canada. And I thought, what a picture of my Savior. What a picture. He didn't just save me in the past. He is my redemption. He's keeping me redeemed, saved for the future. What a wonderful thing. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ is to me. So what is the conclusion of this message? He can be this to each one of us. He can be this to you if you will put your trust in Him. Repent of your sin, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and God will put these things, these will be your truths as well. Not only that, But the point is to see the value of Christ for us as we go on in our Christian life. Somebody ever says to you, what is Jesus to you? You don't have to say he's just everything. You can say he is my wisdom from God, my righteousness, my sanctification and redemption. And when they say, what does that mean? Well, you'll be able to tell them. Let's sing our final hymn, shall we?