I think it is a real joy and privilege and honor to be able to be here another Monday afternoon. We are thankful for the Lord's precious love. We appreciate his infinite wisdom, his understanding, his mercy, his tenderness toward us. And then, of course, the saving of sorry-good-for-nothing sinners such as myself. I realize that I'm not worthy. I've never been worthy, but I've been made worthy through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nobody is worthy. There's not but one that's worthy. Of course, in the book of Revelation it talks about that, when John wept much when nobody was able to approach God Almighty and take the book out of the Father's hand, but a lamb that was found worthy, slain from the foundation of the world, and that's the Lord Jesus. And the only way to be made worthy to get to heaven is through his worthiness, through the blood that he shed, the price that he paid, the offering that he made up at Calvary to take our place and to die at the death of a sinner. Yet he knew no sin, but he became sin for you and I that we might be made the righteousness of God. If you are going to spend forever with the Lord in heaven, and go to heaven when you leave this world, you will have to experience the new birth. born again. Now, that's a necessity. That's something, beloved, it must take place in your heart, in your life. He's got to transform you and change you and forgive you of all your sin. But before he can do that, he'll never force you. He'll invite you, he'll speak to you, he'll deal with you, he'll encourage you to come and deal with you through the preaching of his Word. But if you reject the Word of God, you've got no hope of getting to heaven. The Bible said, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. And, beloved, real saving grace, Bible belief, faith, real faith, And on Finch faith, it comes by the preaching of the Word of God sent down from heaven, and not through some puppet in the pulpit, I call them some spiritual pimp who is a prostitute of Satan himself, and selling himself to sin, a bunch of phonies, and God have mercy, they are wolves in sheep's clothing, whose God is their belt in their back pocket, their glory and their own shame. And the woods are full of them, and so is the TV set, I call them religious things, multimillionaire preachers. God have mercy. But if you just listen, you've got real good common sense. You don't have to be a genius. Just have common sense. You realize these people are trying to pick over the dead. They came like a buzzard, and they're picking everything they can out of these dead people. I mean, by dead people, It's not saved. They don't have an understanding. They are dead and trespassing sin. And there they are, religious thieves, blubbering, just inducing them, enticing them and speaking flattering words and using the scriptures, twisting the scriptures, rattling with the scriptures, blubbering, and they are just polished up. professional religious thieves. They transform themselves as a menace to righteousness. They are not a thing of the world but a tool of the devil, and they are binded by the God of this world, and they leverage their own selves. They are proud and bolsters and blasphemers. They blaspheme the really holy name of Jesus, and they make mockery out of the Word of God. But I am glad the Bible said, The Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every man that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. And God have mercy. on this poor, pitiful, pathetic, lost religious world. Beloved, there's not but one way from earth to heaven. It makes no difference what you and I think about it if it's not according to the Word of God. Beloved, it's a falsehood. This Bible that I preach from, this King James Version, beloved, is God-breathed, God-inspired. And you don't have to believe that. That'll be between you and God. But if so, whether you believe it or not, it's not going to be changed. God ordained us and put this Bible together, and He inspired holy men of old to speak as they was moved by the Holy Ghost and put in their hearts and in their minds what He wanted printed for you and I today. Of course, it's been translated, not changed, brother, but translated out of the original Psalms and put into the English language, of which we've got something precious, brother, this blessed Bible. The psalmist said, Oh, I love that law. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. The word of God does divide the son, the soul, and the spirit. The only man who gives discernment is the very seeking and intending thought of your heart. You cannot and will not, blabber, know yourself that the word of God is really that you see yourself. The Bible said that the word of God is like a mirror, like a looking piece. When we look into that mirror, behold what manner of person we are. When we don't do something that's about Correcting the error of our ways, when we get away from that, and after a while we forget what manner of person we were. We forget what kind of condition and shape that we're in. Then we get further into confusion, in a state of confusion. The Bible says that God is not the author of confusion, but of the peace in all the churches. Confusion is of the devil. And when you don't pay attention, you don't take heed of the word of God when God speaks to you that here comes the devil trying to take away the seed that was sown, bloodied, where it has an opportunity to fall on the good ground of your heart. He desires to take it away from you, steal it away, and cause you to go on in confusion and ignorance and wind up dying in your sins and going to hell. But you don't have to. Jesus died in your place. He that knew no sin, thank God, became sin for you and I. We might be made the righteousness of God in Him. If you want to be made righteous, If you want to be found worthy before God Almighty, you'll have to know the Lord Jesus has your personal sake. The Bible said that our righteousness according to the flesh is as filthy rag in the sight of God Almighty, and there's none worthy, beloved, there's none worthy. Not a person in this world has been found worthy before God Almighty except this lamb that God talks about in the book of Revelation. This lamb, of course, this sacrificial lamb slain before the foundation of the world is the lovely Lord Jesus Christ. From the top of his head to the bottom, of his feet. He is altogether lovely. There is no blemish in him. He is altogether lovely. He is beautiful to behold. He is precious to the soul. He is the Savior of all mankind. He died in the death of a sinner, yet he knew no sin, but he became sin. If you and I, we might be made to righteousness or become righteous because of him. He alone is found worthy. Our righteousness is a filthy rag in the sight of God Almighty, and there is none righteous. There is not a just man, upon all the face of the earth. If you get to heaven, you'll have to be justified. You'll have to stand just before God. And the only way to be just, beloved, is to have your sins forgiven. He was delivered from our offenses and raised again for our justification. Now, to be justified, beloved, means to have everything in your past, everything you committed, beloved, guilty before God, found to be found guilty before God. To have all that to be justified means to have it covered by His blood. Your sin place under his blood. The Bible said that our sins as far as the east is from the west, so that the Lord removes our transgressions, or our sins, from us. Yes, sir, he put them in his sea of forgiveness, never brought his remembrance anymore. That's what forgiveness of sin is all about. Everything I've ever done is up before I got saved. Thank God it's no longer remembered in the sight of God Almighty. He's put it away. He's covered that blood with the atoning blood. The Bible said outside the shedding of the blood there is no remission, no forgiveness, for sin. If you try to come up any other way, you'll be the same as a thief and a robber, and you'll be cast out in that day. You better not be found guilty before God, bloody, without a blood atonement, without the sacrifice that I'm talking about. God is highly pleased with him. God has gave him, that is, Jesus, a name above every name, and there is no other name unto heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Now, there's cults and there's all types of religions that kick against this blessed name. I know there's a lot of people that don't believe that he's a son of God, out of this cult, and there's different types of denominations, but they don't believe that he's the Messiah. That's not going to change a thing. God has highly exalted him, and God has raised him from the dead. How many got up from the dead? On the third morning, Sunday morning, early that morning, the first day of the week, he got up from the dead. Thank God, a bodily resurrection. He didn't suffer his soul or want to see corruption or let the soul in hell, but he got up from the dead. Got up from the grave, he arose. He arose a victor over the dark domain. Thank God he lives forever and he reigns, reigns, reigns. He's a reigning and a ruling Christ. He has an unchangeable priesthood. Beloved, he's Antiochus Melchizedek. Without father, without mother. That's earthly father, mother, beloved. Without that, he swears after the order of Melchizedek and has an eternal or everlasting peace to it. Thank God, I'm glad he's a great mediator between God and man, that man being Christ Jesus. Yes, there's power in the name of Jesus, beloved. It's the only name, beloved, that has the power to save man from his sins. He took our place. He became our substitute. He paid the price. for us. His love compelled him to leave the portals of heaven's glory, come down to the sin-cursed world, and give himself as a slaughtered lamb, as a suffering servant, as a sacrifice for the sin of the world. Yet he knew no sin, but he became sin. Thank God for you and I that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. If you try to get to heaven and you are found guilty before God in sin, not being justified, you are going to wind up dying in your sin And then Aidan, Aidan, turn to Aidan, Aidan, Aidan separated from God Almighty, and you'll wind up burning in the place of eternal torment and damnation, where the fire will never go out, where the worm will never die, and the smoke of the torment of a second death will ascend up ever and ever, and there'll be no rest day nor night. God help you, you don't have to die in your sin. Jesus died in your place. His love compelled him to leave the portals of heaven and glory, come down to Sinclair's world, be born to the lowest of the meekest of all births, beloved, in a cattle trough where they feed the cattle in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes, beloved, in a little barn there in a place where the animals lay. There was no room for him in the inn. He was raised up as a carpenter's son. He was the world's greatest master builder, the world's greatest carpenter. He never done anything that wasn't perfect. He did not do anything that was sort of perfect. He was perfect. He is perfect. That's what made him, Bloodbath, the atonement and the sacrificial death that he gave at Calvary. That's why his death and his birth was a supreme sacrifice, and God was highly pleased with it and accepted the death, the burial, the resurrection of his son. And that's why he was buried back in Jerusalem, went from top to bottom. Bloodbath made the wind the holiest of holiest. where only the high priest worked one time every year, not without blood, first for his own sins, and then for the sin of the people. Jesus only had to enter in one time for the veil. But he didn't have to bring no offering for his own sin, because he didn't have sin. He entered in once and signed the veil. Yes, sir, he appeared in the presence of God for us, thank God, and broke down that middle wall of Tissum that was between us, thank God, Jude and Gentile, and nailed them to this cross. Hallelujah this afternoon for the Lord Jesus Christ, the author and the finisher, thank God, of my faith. I'm not much of anything, and I know I'm just a wretched, vile sinner saved by grace. Now, I don't mean that I'm still counted a sinner inside of God. I've been sanctified, and of course, I'm saved, and I'm one of His, and I'm just one of His saints, and I'm not much of anything, but I'm here because He forgave me all my sin, beloved, but at my very best, my flesh is still full of holes. That dwelling, Paul said, no good thing in me that is in my flesh. Our flesh is depraved and wretched and vile, but on the inside of me, Thank God there's a new nature, there's a divine nature, there's God in me, Christ in me, the hope of glory. And that's what I delight in, the innocent man, I don't have any confidence in this rotten, stinking flesh. My flesh is undone, my flesh is wretched, I'm still tempted on every hand, so is every human being that ever got in human flesh suffers temptation from the very beginning all the way up to now. Even the Lord Jesus himself was tempted, all points as we are, thank God, yet he is. without sin. That's why he is the Son of God. That's why he's not just a prophet, he's the prophet, the one that all the prophets prophesied that would come, and Moses spake of him, he said, a prophet of the Lord God, raised from the rock of man, him shall he hear in all pains. He's the one, blessed, the prophet of all prophets, the Son of God. Yes, the one that the prophets prophesied about, yes, of the Messiah, the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who took our place and bore our sins in His own body on the tree. He is the Savior of all mankind. If you pass by Him, you have the privilege to do that, but if you do that, you will be eternally, beloved, you will be eternally and forever sorrowful, beloved, and suffering in a place where eternal torment and damnation, where the fire is never going to go out, where the worm is never going to die, and the smoke of atonement of the second death will ascend that river never, and there will be no rest day nor night. God help you. I don't want you to die in sin, beloved. I want you to think about it. Don't listen to your head. Listen to your heart. Listen to your heart speaking. Your heart is convicted. Your conscience is convicted, and you're condemned. Listen to your heart, and God will liberate you from your sins. He won't make you, but He'll invite you, so you need to come when He bid you come, so you can get in before it's too late. See my time is on that, but I bless you. Write to us, pray for us, and God bless you. And I pray in His name, Amen.