We're going to turn to God's Word. Let's turn to Luke chapter 2, Luke's Gospel chapter 2. We'll read this familiar passage and then we'll come to the Lord in prayer and then bring the Word today. So Luke chapter 2 verse 1. And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. And his taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria, and all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth unto Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And though the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid, And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly hosts, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will. toward men. We'll end just our reading at the verse 14. Shall we unite in prayer together? Our loving Father, we now come to the central act of any worship service, the preaching of thy word. We pray, Lord, that enablement might be given, the unction and power of God. We pray for the infilling of God, the Holy Spirit. Come, Lord, and help me as I preach. May there be clarity, dear God. May there be simplicity, and may each person leave blessed and challenged and comforted as thy word has been preached. So answer prayer, close us in with God, draw every wandering thought now into captivity, and glorify thy son. Revive the church, save the lost, restore the fallen. We offer prayer in Jesus' precious name. men. What is the primary task of a minister? What is the primary task of a minister? There's a question to think about. Some see the minister as a social worker. Others, an event organiser. Some see the minister as a marriage counsellor. Some see him as a motivational speaker. Others see him as a branch of the diplomatic service that's parachuted in when there's family issues and family problems. Let me turn you to Ephesians chapter 4 and we'll read there what the inspired scriptures say, the task of a minister and what that task ought to be. We'll read from the verse 8 of the chapter, Ephesians 4 verse 8. Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on the high, he laid captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Now he that ascended, what is but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the sins, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, that we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie and wait to deceive, but speaking the truth in love, may grow up unto him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. The minister's role, according to Ephesians 4 verse 12, is the perfecting of the saints. In other words, the complete furnishing and the entire equipping of the saints with regard to how they live in this life and how they leave this world and enter the world that is yet to come. Not only that, but they are also to be involved in the edifying of the body of Christ. In other words, in the building up of the sins. The question that then arises is this, how is such a task accomplished? Is it accomplished by means of spiritual retreats? Is it accomplished through lively worship? Is it accomplished by spiritual and Christian seminars and workshops? Well, Ephesians 4 verse 13 informs us that such is accomplished by the minister in his preaching as he brings his congregation to the knowledge of the Son of God. Without such a knowledge of God the Son, a knowledge of who He is and the work that He has accomplished for us in His life and in His death, the believer, the Christian, the child of God will be left spiritually immature and in a state of spiritual infancy. The task of a minister is to bring his congregation to a knowledge of the Son of God. It is for this reason that we have been studying the names and the titles of the Lord Jesus Christ over the last little while. It is to bring us to a better understanding of who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for us, what He is doing for us, and what He is yet to do for us as the people of God. We must never presume that what previous generations of Christians believe concerning the Son of God is what this generation of Christians believe about Him. Every generation must be brought to a knowledge of the Son of God, and that is done through pastoral preaching. Surely it ought to be the desire of then every genuine Christian, as it was the Apostle Paul's. It ought to be the desire of every genuine true Christian that I might know Him, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, there's no doubt that we need to know God personally. But for that to happen, we need to know Him intellectually. We cannot divorce the one from the other. And so today I want us to continue then in this series of messages on the titles and on the names of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I want to focus on one of the most precious titles that is given to the second person of the Trinity, namely the title Savior. Savior. The little chorus puts it like this. He did not come to judge the world. He did not come to blame. He did not only come to seek, but it was to save he came. And when we call him Savior, then we call him by his name. The angel of the Lord told Joseph to call the little child that was born of Mary, that he was to call that child Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin. And so we're thinking about this title, Savior, Savior. I want you to think first of all about the occurrence of the title in Scripture. The occurrence of this title in Scripture. The title Savior is one that is employed some 37 times in the Old and New Testament Scriptures. In fact, a third of all of the references are found in the pastoral epistles. Those pastoral epistles are those books in the New Testament that really deal with the issue of how we are to behave in the church and also with regard to our practical obedience in society at large. The very first time the word Savior appears in the Scripture is in a song, a song. to memorialize his deliverance from the hand of his enemies and from King Saul, David sings a song in 2 Samuel chapter 22. The opening words of the Sweet Psalmist song go something like this, and I'm not going to sing it. I wouldn't want to even attempt to do that. But let me read to you what it says here in 2 Samuel 22. It says, The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer. the God of my rock, and Him will I trust. He is my shield, the horn of my salvation, my high tower and my refuge, my Savior. Thou savest me from violence. Now notice whenever David comes to identify who his Savior is in the song, he identifies him as the Lord. L-O-R-D, capital letters, Jehovah. Jehovah God is his Savior. You'll find that in the Old Testament Scriptures. You find it repeatedly so that the title Savior is attributed to Jehovah, to the Lord, to the covenant-making and the covenant-keeping God. You see, the Savior is the God of the covenant, the covenant of grace, the covenant of redemption, the covenant of peace. He is the God of covenant. The Savior is Jehovah. God in Isaiah 43 verse 3 we read these words for I the Lord thy God the Holy One of Israel thy Savior Isaiah 43 verse 11 I even I am the Lord capital L-O-R-D I'm beside me There is no Savior. Isaiah 49, 26, And all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, Jehovah, am thy Savior, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. Isaiah 60, verse 16, Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, as thou shalt suck the breasts of kings. And thou shalt know that I, the LORD, Jehovah, am thy Savior, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. And in Hosea 13, verse 4, Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me, for there is no Savior beside me." And thus, whenever the title Savior came to be used in the New Testament, it already had this basis this knitting together, this attributing of Savior to Jehovah in the Old Testament. And thus when there were those in the New Testament who used this title with regard to the Lord Jesus Christ, those people were affirming their belief that Jesus of Nazareth was the Jehovah who saves that we meet in the Old Testament Scriptures. The Saviour of the Old Testament is the Saviour in the New Testament. This is none other than Jehovah Himself. And thus, when they spoke of Jesus of Nazareth as being the Saviour, they were saying that the Saviour of the Old Testament, Jehovah, has now come to live and has now come to minister savingly among us in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is Jehovah. He is the God who saves. Before I proceed, let me ask you, do you recognize Jesus Christ to be the Savior of sinners? And if you have, have you gone further than simply recognizing Him as the Savior of sinners? Have you come to trust in Him as your personal Savior, like Mary? the mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Can you say that Jesus Christ is my Savior? He's my Savior, not our Savior, not this Savior, but simply that He's my Savior. Archibald Alexander was a renowned 19th century American Presbyterian. He was the first professor of Princeton Theological College. And Archibald Alexander, he wrote on one occasion these words, all my theology is reduced to this narrow compass. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. You think of that. Of all of the truths that Alexander came to learn through his theological studies, the truth that summarized them all was that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. But the question I put to you this afternoon is, has he saved you? Has he saved you? That's the only question that you need to ask yourself in this service today. And I trust that you're able to answer in the affirmative. I trust that you're able to say, yes, I know His saving power. I have known His saving power in my life. Yes, He is my Savior. Not only did Christ Jesus come into the world to save sinners, but Christ Jesus came into the world to save me. A lost, guilty, hell-bound, hell-deserving sinner. He saved me. He rescued me. He delivered me. He emancipated me from the bondage and from the enslavement and from the guilt and from the shame and from the penalty and the pollution of my sin. Savior. And thus the Savior we find to be none other than God manifest in flesh. Jehovah. Jehovah says. That's what the name Jesus means. Jehovah says. but has he saved you from your sin? If you think about this title, Savior, consider with me the meaning of the title, Savior, the meaning of this title, Savior. The title, Savior, was a term that was commonly used in New Testament times. The Greek word from which we get our word, Savior, is derived from a word that means sustainer, provider, deliverer. In Greek literature, the word was used to describe rescuing someone from danger. We think about a lifeguard, we think about maybe a fireman, we think about them in terms of them being saviors, small s's. It can also mean preserving someone safe from harm, delivering someone from potential ruin and disaster, salvaging someone in the midst of death. In secular Greek literature, the word Savior was a laudatory term that was used by men with regard to recognizing those men who had been engaged in notable actions. It was used commonly with respect to the Roman emperor, in recognition of his ability to maintain and restore peace to the empire, The emperor was given this title, the saviour of the world, small s, or the saviour of the inhabited earth. Christians, believers, however, declared that Jesus Christ was the only saviour of the world. You think of those Samaritan men in John chapter 4, the woman from the well, sent back into the city. She returns to the place where she had committed her sin. She gathers together a number of men, those men most likely the men that she had committed her sins and wickedness with. And so they come to the Lord Jesus Christ and they come to say these words in John 4 verse 42. They say to her, having been introduced to the Savior by this woman, they return to the woman and these are the words that they say to her. Now we believe That affirmation by the Samaritan man that Jesus Christ was the Savior of the world must have lodged itself in the mind of the one who wrote 1 John, especially one of the Lord's disciples, I speak of John here, because whenever John, who would have heard these men say these words, he writes these words in 1 John 4 verse 14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. You see, before coming into the world, the Christ, the Jews believed concerning the Messiah that he would only be the Savior of the Jews. But having come into the world, they now find that that was not to be the case. Through the Savior's teaching and through His ministry, they find that the Messiah was not only just the Savior of the Jews, but He was going to be the Savior of the world. In other words, that his salvation would reach into every corner of the world, drawing out of those nations and tribes and kindreds a people unto himself. And thus he could rightly be termed the Savior of the world. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. And so there's a conflict, there's a tension here between those who were living under Roman authority, and they were declaring that Caesar, the emperor, he was the savior of the world, where now Jesus Christ steps into human history, and he is declared by his followers to be the savior of the world. And Jesus Christ is the savior. The emperor was only one who tried to take that position, but that was not rightfully his. Now the title Savior has a rich and biblical meaning. It has a rich biblical background, can signify a number of things. Firstly, a Savior is one who can provide salvation from military foes. The Saviour is one who can provide deliverance in the sense of a military rescue from one's enemies. And that's how the title was employed by David in 2 Samuel 22 in his song. David refers to the Lord as my Saviour because God had saved him from being captured and killed by his enemies. And so he looks upon this title, the use of this word Saviour, in terms of a military rescue, a deliverance from the foe. Secondly, the title Savior in the Bible can also be used with regard to recovery from sickness or a recovery from illness. Isaiah 38 records for us King Hezekiah's illness and how God healed him when he asked the Lord to make him better again. And from that day and after his recovery from health, Hezekiah, he comes to praise God for the mercy that God had shown to him and how God had saved him, how God had delivered him from his illness. Isaiah 38 verse 20, the Lord was ready to save me. Therefore, we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. And so David, or Hezekiah, speaks here about God saving him, in a sense that God was his Savior. A recovery from health was given to Hezekiah from God himself. And in that way, the Savior is termed as one who is the physician, the one who brings about recovery to health. In the third sense, a Savior is one who saves sinners from their sin. That's how we consider the word Savior. Forgiveness of sins and cleansing of our sins is what God does as the Savior. Ezekiel 37 verse 23 looks forward to the day when the people of God would be saved from their sins and rescued from their backsliding into idolatry. God would cleanse them and restore them again. In that verse we read Ezekiel 37 verse 23 God makes a promise, I will save them out of all their dwelling places wherein they have sinned. and will cleanse them, so they shall be my people, and I will be their God." And so we have these three thoughts together. What does a Savior do? A Savior rescues us from our enemies. A Savior recovers us from our health. or from our sickness, and our Savior redeems us from our sins. Those are the three ways in which this term, Savior, this title, Savior, is employed in the Scriptures. And in Jesus Christ, we have the fulfillment of all three. Does he not save us from our enemies? Does he not rescue us, deliver us from the devil and from his power? Does He not deliver us from the world and the flesh? Does He not come and bring healing to our sin-sick soul? Does He not recover us to health? We who are dead in our trespasses and sins, He imparts life to us. And does He not come and redeem us from our iniquities and save us from our sins? You see, Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of all of these three things. Now, throughout the history of Israel, God sent many a savior to his people. Now don't get me wrong, I speak of savior in the small s sense. The saviors were sent by God to bring about deliverance, particularly in the sense of deliverance from their enemies. You think of the judges of Israel, they were saviors. They were people who God used and employed and commissioned to deliver the Israelites from various oppressive regimes. We think of Gideon. We could see Gideon as a small s saviour. We could think of Samson, another small s saviour. We could think of Shamgar, another small s saviour. And then we think about kings and national leaders, men like David and Moses and Joshua, also enabled by God to secure salvation from the numerous foes that came up against God's chosen and God's covenant people. And yet all of these saviours, small s, could not bring about the salvation that man needed, the greatest salvation that man needed. Such saviors were inept. Such saviors were powerless. Such saviors were incapable with regard to the bringing about the salvation from sin. They needed a divinely appointed savior to come into the world, to live and to die and to rise again for them in order that they might be delivered from sin's power, Satan's control, and the world's temptations. And God sent such a savior into the world. We read about it tonight. or this afternoon. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord." And so throughout Jewish history, they looked forward to a Savior, a Messiah, a deliverer, one who would deliver them. Deliver them, yes, they looked for a military deliverance at times, But deep in the soul, they understood well that they also needed to be delivered from their sin. And so they looked to these men and they found that Moses and David and Joshua and Gideon and Samson and Shangar, these were failures when it came to the salvation that they desperately needed. Thank God, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to be the Savior. Jesus Christ said that the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. And so He is the Savior. He is the Savior. Jesus Christ is the Savior. Whenever we begin to understand that and whenever we begin to accept that Jesus Christ is the Savior and that Jesus Christ saves His people from their sin, that takes off the pressure whenever we come to witness and we come to minister for Him. What do you mean? Well, folks, sometimes in our zeal and sometimes in our wrong thinking, we can begin to think that a sinner's salvation depends on us, not on God. But folks, our task is simply to make the gospel known, make the gospel message clear and plain. It is God's job to save the lost. We don't save people, He saves people. He shall save his people from their sin. Now, that is an argument for us not having zeal or fervency or passion in our witnessing for Christ. We ought to be fervent in calling men and women and young people to repentance, but in the end, we cannot change the sinner's will. We cannot regenerate the sinner's heart. We cannot illuminate the sinner's darkened mind. That is exclusively a work of God. And thus, whenever your theology is cracked, correct? When you understand that it is Jesus Christ alone who saves sinners from their sin, then you can go to bed at night and have a good night's sleep, because then you realize that it is God who saves and not you. Jonah got it right there in the belly of the fish when he said, salvation is off the Lord. And that's why we read Psalm, or that's why we sang Psalm 3 today, because we find at the end of the Psalm these particular words written by David. He said, Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. Thy blessing is upon thy people, Selah. Salvation is God's prerogative. That is God's task, that is His work, the saving of the soul. The work of the Father, the work of the Son, and the work of God the Holy Spirit. And He comes and He delivers us from our enemies, He delivers us from our death and our sickness, and He delivers us from our sin. As we think about this title, Savior, I want to think in the third instance about the Bible's revelation of the Savior. Progressively, the scriptures of truth, they come to relate to us various details concerning the Savior whom God sent into the world. We come to find in the Bible's revelation of the Savior, we come to find, first of all, that he is the promised Savior, the promised Savior. Fast on the heels of Adam's catastrophic decision to disobey God's command concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God promised to send a Savior in the seat of the woman who would triumph over sin and death and hell. That promise would be then backed up with some 300 other promises in the Old Testament Scriptures about the one who would come to save the lost, save sinners from their sin. And thus, when Christ arrives, The people were already acquainted with this truth that there is a Savior coming, that there's one who's coming to rescue, there's one who's coming to deliver, there's one who's coming to emancipate sinners from their sin. He was the promised Savior. Jesus Christ is not only the promised Savior, He's the powerful Savior. We read of his power to save in Isaiah 63 verse 1. Who is he that cometh up from Edom with thy garments of bozrah? That is glorious and is apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength. I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Or in the words of Zephaniah 317, the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty. He will save. I say, sinner, today Christ's saving power reaches sinners who are found at a great distance from Him, raises sinners who are found in great depths of sin and despair, redeems sinners who are found greatly defiled because of their sin. And because He has done that in the past, and because He has not changed, He has power to save you today. He has power to save you. He's a powerful Savior. He's a proficient Savior. We read of his proficiency to save there in Hebrews 7.25, Wherefore he is able, he is able also to save them to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, seeing that he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Who but Christ can save from the sinner, from the guilt and the shame and the penalty of their sin? Maybe you would sit here today. Maybe you sit in your home. You would say to yourself, Preacher, God can never save the likes of me. With all my past, my sins are too great, my rejection of Christ all too frequent, my guilt and shame too great, and yet He's able to save to the uttermost. He saves completely. He saves eternally all the proficiency in Christ. He saves all who come. Will you come to Him today? He's not only that, He's a personal Savior. I've quoted the words of Mary, but she speaks of Him as my Savior. Christ was a personal Savior to Mary. She speaks of Him in that way there in Luke 1, verse 47, in light of the revelation that we're given then of our Savior. Let me ask you the question, with regard to this promise, this proficient Savior, Have you found him to be on a personal level? Have you found him to be proficient to save? Have you found that he's power to save, personally in your own life? Can you say today, yes preacher, he's my savior. He saved my soul. He redeemed me. He delivered me from my enemy. He delivered me from my death. He delivered me from my sin. Consider finally with me the work of the Savior, the work of the Savior. When the scriptures speak about the work of the Savior, we find him engaged in the saving of his people from their sins. That's what a Savior does. He saves from sin. But that work takes various forms. We could look at it with regard to time in the life of the child of God. Let me explain to you. In the first instance, Jesus Christ saves His people from the penalty of their sin, and that speaks to us about our justification. saves from the penalty of sin. That speaks about my justification. Ephesians 2 verse 8, For by grace are ye saved, past tense, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. When Annie seeks God for salvation, at that exact moment, that person is cleansed from guilt. They're forgiven of sin. They're born again. They're clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. They're freed from sin's condemnation. They're made eternally safe in Jesus Christ. The penalty of sin has been paid for in the death of Jesus Christ. For the penalty, the wages of sin, is death. And because He died, then I can live, and I do live, and I am a possessor of eternal life. And so He has saved me from the penalty of my sin. That speaks to me about my justification. But secondly, Jesus Christ is saving His people from the power of sin. That speaks about my sanctification. We are being daily saved from the power and the dominion of sin as we allow the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ to live in us and through us, and we are also committing our lies and aligning our lies to the teaching of God's precious word. Daily the believer is dying on to sin more and more and living on to God and on to righteousness. And so he is saving me from my sin. It's power in my life. It's influence in my life. And so we have, he has saved me from the penalty of my sin. He is saving me from the power of sin. Sin shall not have dominion over you, child of God. That speaks to me about my sanctification, the first about my justification. But in the third instance, Jesus Christ will save me from the presence of sin, and that speaks to me about my glorification. Romans 5 verse 9, much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Note the tense, we shall be saved through wrath through him. God assures us in Romans 8 verse 30, that all who have been justified will also be glorified. Moreover, whom he did predestinate them he also called, and whom he called he also justified, and whom he justified them he also glorified. Our glorification, when we are brought into that state from which we cannot sin, is the consummation of our salvation. Oftentimes we consider salvation in narrow terms, but I'm looking at it in broad terms. Salvation, the salvation that God provides for His people is not just something that happens in a service, not just something that happens in your bedroom, in an inquiry room, The salvation that God works and the salvation that God has provided in the gospel and in His Word is a salvation that deals with my past sin, my present sin, and my future sin. He saves me from the penalty of sin when I confess my sin and repent of it. He's saving me day by day as I live under the control of the Spirit of God and someday He's going to save me from the very presence of sin when He glorifies this soul of mine. The salvation that occurred in the past when we were justified, listen to this, works itself out in the present in our sanctification and comes to completion in the future in our glorification. Why does the Bible speak of salvation in these three terms, these three tenses? Well, the answer lies in considering what happens at salvation. Initially, at the point of regeneration, our sins are forgiven entirely and completely. We've been delivered, as I've said, from sin's penalty through faith. We are reckoned to be righteous, as righteous as Jesus Christ himself is. But then in our sanctification, it's a process where we are being delivered from sin's power. And ultimately in heaven, we will be delivered from sin's presence. In other words, the salvation that Christ offers is a complete salvation. Dealing with my past, my present, and my future. But let me be clear, there is only one salvation. The salvation consists in these three inseparable parts. It's a salvation that incorporates justification, sanctification, and glorification. It's a salvation that originated in the past and is consummated in eternity future. But it incorporates these three great truths, my justification, my sanctification, and my glorification. And here is where the rubber hits the road. If you desire to be glorified, in other words, if you want to be in heaven, you must first be justified. And the evidence that you have been justified is that you are being sanctified. For it all comes together. God binds it together in Romans chapter 8. Those He predestinates, He calls. Whom He calls, He justifies. And whom He justifies, He also glorifies. And so there is a bundling of it together, and you must come to the appreciation that if I am to be glorified, if I am to get, as it were, to this final consummation, this place where I will be delivered from the very presence of sin, then I must first be justified and the evidence that I have been justified is that I am being sanctified. And thus, if the sanctification is missing, if you're not dying more and more on to sin and living more and more on to righteousness, if you're not dying dearly to self and sin, You need to take a step back and ask yourself the question, have I ever been justified? For justification leads to sanctification that leads to glorification. You cannot skip any in order to get to the final glorification, heaven. You cannot miss justification. God, having justified you, he will sanctify you if you are truly a child of God. So ask yourself the question, I desire to be glorified, I desire to be in heaven, but am I justified? And how do I know that I am justified? I know I'm justified because I am being sanctified. Oh, too many people say, yes, I'm heading for glory. I'm heading for heaven. Heaven's going to be my final home. And yet the evidence, nothing in their lives that would suggest that they have ever been justified because they are living just as any ungodly man or woman lives in this world. O child of God, God gives, and ladies and gentlemen, God brings about a complete salvation. He saves us completely. He saves us entirely. I wonder, have you come to know his saving work in your life? Many hope to be among the glorified, but they've never been justified. I trust you're not one such person. And if you are, then come to Him today in faith. Trust in Him. Believe in Him. Repent of your sin. Believe on Christ to the saving of your soul, and He will save you. He will save you. Hallelujah. He will save you now, because He is the Savior. But is He your Savior? Is He your Savior? Has he saved you from your sin? Are you being saved from sin? Will you be saved from sin? In order that you will sin no more in heaven itself. Oh, it is an entire salvation. It's all bundled up in God's so great salvation. May God bring salvation to your soul today. May God, by His Spirit, so work in your heart that you're brought to faith in Jesus Christ. Let's bow our heads in prayer together. If you need help with regard to this matter, I'll be more than happy to speak with you afterwards. Well, may God give all who know the Savior the desire to die unto our sin, May we look to the Lord for Him to enable us to do this. He come and help us in this matter of sanctification by the Spirit of God, by God the Holy Spirit. He comes and works in our hearts. Oh, to be saved more and more from our old life and our old habits, that grieve the Lord. May God help us in this matter. Our loving Father, we come to Thee. We thank Thee for Your Son, Jesus Christ, the Savior. We thank Thee for the purpose for which He came. He came to save us from our sin. Oh, we thank Thee that He does that in our justification. He deals with the penalty of sin. He pays the price. He deals with our sin in our Christian life by sanctifying us. The Lord, He deals with our sin. With regard to our future state, whenever He will glorify us and give us a body and a soul that will sin no more, we'll be changed like onto His body and our souls. Oh God, made perfect, made perfect, Lord, in glory itself. Taken to that position where we will never sin again. Oh, what a glad state that will be for us. O Lord, help us to understand that if we are to be glorified, then we need to start where God starts, at the point of hearing the gospel call and being justified, declared righteous before God on the grounds of what Christ did for sinners at the place called Calvary. Lord, work in hearts, we pray. We pray for those who are not yet converted. Oh, that today they'll come to know Jesus Christ not only as a moral teacher, not only as someone who is a good example, but may they come to know him as their Savior, their Lord, and their God. Answer prayer and part us with thy blessing, and may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the Father, and the fellowship of God, the Holy Ghost, be with all and abide upon all who know and love thee, until you either come or call.