I want you to turn actually to Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews chapter 9 and then you can go ahead and when you put your marker in Hebrews chapter 9 I want you to make your way back to where we are in the Psalms which is Psalm 15. We're going to start in Psalm 15 but we're going to end up in Hebrews 9 and while you're Turning, as I always like to remind maybe our visitors and those that are listening online, that the Psalms is 150 individual Psalms. The Hebrew hymn book, for lack of a better term. And it is divided into five sections or books. And Psalm 1 through 41 is known as Book 1. And we've seen very clearly the theme of human suffering and the need for divine deliverance. And last week in Psalm 14, we saw the Scriptures paint a picture of the life of a fool. A fool is somebody who lives their life as if there is no God. They don't want to retain God in their knowledge. Psalm 15 is kind of the opposite of that because among other things, it gives us a picture of a life of someone who knows and worships the Lord. The opposite of a fool. Now at first glance, Psalm 15 seems to be unique because it would be the only Psalm up to this point that we do not see the theme of human suffering and divine deliverance, but it's all in this text. We're going to see it. The question that it really asks is who is able to come into the presence of God? Who is worthy to approach Him? And friend, let me say this, talking about suffering. There are eternal consequences for those who try to approach the presence of God unworthily. You know, when we die, the Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die, and after this, the judgment. And so every man, woman, boy, girl, everyone will stand before God one day in judgment and so they will be in His presence. So the big question is, what makes somebody worthy to be in His presence? Because there is a judgment. There is a lake of fire. There is eternal torment. There is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said it would be better to pluck out your eyes, cut off your wrists, cut off your feet. It would be better to do those things and go into eternal life maimed than to go into hell whole and for all eternity. Now of course that's just rhetorical language. I mean, you can cut off every hand, finger, you can cut off your feet, you can cut out your eyes, and without the salvation of Christ, you'll still go to hell. But he's giving a rhetorical speech in order to show just how awful hell is, how horrible the judgment of God is. I mean, I wouldn't want to pluck my eyes out. I don't know about you. I've never really sat around and thought, I think it would be a good idea to saw my wrist off today. But he's talking about how hell is eternal and how awful that it is. And so there is suffering for those that go before God unworthily. But really, and this is what we're going to get to when we get to Hebrews, we need Christ to save us from our sin. We're talking about deliverance. We need to be delivered from our sin, both the penalty, and the power of our sin. And so I guess we could ask the question today because this is what the psalmist does in the first verse. And that is ask who is fit for the presence of God. That's what we're going to look at today. So let's read the Word of God now that we've kind of seen the context. Psalm 15, verse 1. It says, Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart, he that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor, in whose eyes a vile person is condemned, but he honoureth them that fear the Lord, he that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not, he that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent, He that doeth these things shall never be moved. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we just come to you in Jesus' name. Thank you for the truth and the wonderful songs that have been sung. Lord, we're thankful for the truths that I know we're taught in Sunday school and Lord, just for having your word so readily available. Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to come to your house. We're thankful for salvation in Christ. And Lord, I pray that that would be at the forefront of our mind today. God, you would empty us of sin and self and fill us with your Holy Spirit and forgive us where we fail you. Just pray that you'd be with the messages, Lord, both this morning and this afternoon, Lord, that you would be bigger than my faults. And we give these things to you. It's in Christ's name I pray these things, amen. So when I look at Psalm 15, there's just some things that, I mean, just jump off the page at me. And the reason that I point that out is because typically I'm really careful and I know some people say this and use this and I'm not throwing stones but I've heard maybe certain preachers and teachers and maybe some Christians use the phrase that when you're reading the Bible that any given text has one interpretation and many applications. And I'm really careful about saying that because it's been my experience that most of the time it ends up being many interpretations, many applications. But when it comes to Psalm 15, there's four applications that just jump off the page. And honestly, I think it's because there are sometimes more than one meaning to a specific text. It could be speaking of something near and far. It could be speaking of something physical and spiritual. It could be something referring to Old Covenant, New Covenant. And I think you see all of these things in the text of Psalm 15. So my point this morning are going to come from four different applications that are just pouring off the pages of this text. And so what are these applications that can be made to us from this ancient Jewish text? Well, number one, the first application that I want you to see, which of course application is always based on interpretation, but the first thing I want you to see is the character here, the character really of God. Let's look at verse 1. It says, First of all, you didn't know that the tabernacle speaks of the temporary and mobile version of the temple. This was prior to the building of Solomon's temple. And so even in the wilderness, and even when they got settled in the land prior to the building of the temple, they had erected this tabernacle, this tent for lack of a better term. And it had most if not all of the items within the tabernacle that were later within the temple. And so this was where they said the presence of God was said to dwell, specifically in the very center in a room known as the Holy of Holies. And this was where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. And inside the Ark of the Covenant was the tablets of the Law and Aaron's rod. And so this is why they're essentially when they say, Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? And who shall dwell in thy holy hill? Which the holy hill is the temple mount where the tabernacle was and the temple was built. And so the question they're really asking is, who is fit to come into the presence of God? who is worthy to enter in to where God dwells. That's really a question that we all need to wrestle with. You know that really every single religion out there in some way, directly or indirectly, is attempting to answer this question. And that is, what makes a person right with God? This is the very question that sparked the Reformation. What justifies a man in the eyes of God? Is a man justified by faith alone? Or is it a combination of grace and works or faith and works? Or is there a certain amount of ordinances you have to do? Is there a certain church that makes you right with God? What justifies a person in the eyes of God? There is no more important question that a person could possibly answer. And so here's what we have to get at concerning this first point and the character of God. If somebody were just to read this text at face value, They may read it and they might just see a checklist of do's and don'ts that are required for a person to enter into the presence of God, but such a reading would completely miss the point. What they might miss is that this list is actually a description of who God is. I mean, if we're asking the question, who is worthy to come into the presence of God, it would really behoove us to know who that God is, what His presence is like, what He requires of us. And so when we read this list, it's really less about what we have to do and more about who He is and what He requires. Let's read this with that in mind here. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? Here we see our first adjective that describes God. That is holy. He is holy. He is separate. He is completely pure. He is incapable of sinning. He cannot lie. And therefore, He cannot tolerate those that do. His holiness requires that He is intolerant of sin. He is holy. Look at verse 2, he that walketh uprightly. The reason he requires people to walk uprightly is because he's upright. The reason that he says, and worketh righteousness, that's because he's righteous. He's perfectly righteous. And understand, this is what people don't get. They read this and they say, oh, well, he just wants us to live righteously. But my friend, he is requiring perfect righteousness. Not because, here's the thing, when you begin to talk about types of righteous living, you have entered into a world of subjectivity in which everybody is holding themselves to a different standard because they're holding themselves to their own personal standard. You ask, like if I was to take a Bible out to campus and say, excuse me, can I borrow a minute of your time? I want to read this to you. And I want to just see what your take is. When He says that in order to come into His presence that you must live a righteous life, what does that mean? Well, you've got to do good things. I mean, you can mess up and, you know, make mistakes and have problems and do this, but just, you know, kind of as long as you're a good person and you do good things, that's not what God's talking about. If you're talking about having sin in your heart, mind and life, that is the opposite of a perfectly righteous life. He goes on to say, and speaketh the truth in his heart. We've already done this test a hundred times. I'm not going to do it again, but listen, we've told lies within our life that's coming from a deceitful heart. That is not speaking the truth in our heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue. We've all done that at some point in time to somebody. Nor doeth evil to his neighbor. We've done that. Or taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. in whose eyes a vile person is condemned, certainly not to the level of God, but he that honoreth them that fear him, he that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not." Have any of us changed not? We started perfectly righteous and we've never changed since. This is not describing any of us or anybody else for that matter. He that putteth not his money to usury, that's literally putting out loans to your neighbor and charging them insane interest. That's not right. The old golden rule applies here. That's what's being talked about. Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. And so people read this and they say, well, I've done this well enough. Well, who gets to decide that? Certainly we could look at somebody else and think, well, we're doing better than they are. Well, that's all fine and good. But you're not going to be judged by their standard when you stand before God. And so we see that this list here, the reason that God condemns the vile person is because he's totally righteous. He's the one that changes not. He's the one that does no evil. He's the one that's perfectly righteous and upright and holy and all these things we looked at. So when we read this, it's really first and foremost about who God is, the character of God. And so when the reader really pays attention to this, that's what they're really supposed to get. Just like the Jews, when Moses came back with the law, they should have taken one look at those 618 laws and said, man, we could never do that. We couldn't even memorize that, much less do them. But you know what they did? They told Moses, we're going to keep them all. We're going to keep all the commandments of God. We're going to do all that God commands. Nope. They didn't last too long. They should have seen that as an Everest and say, God, I can't. God, I can't. That's the only way that a person comes to saving faith in Christ is coming to a place where, God, I can't. It's the same way here in Psalms 15. And we see this application of God's character. Number two, and I kind of alluded to this. I got ahead of myself a little bit. I don't want you to only see the character of God here. I want you to see the condemnation of every single person through this. You understand that we're condemned by the character and justice of God. You know, I was really shocked the other day. I subscribed to some of these, you know, Baptist Facebook groups and different types of theological things, and there was one of the Baptist groups where they posted a poll to get everybody's opinion, and the question was, Do you believe that God sends people to hell? Or do you believe that people send themselves? And to my shock, in this Baptist group, the answer was overwhelmingly that people send themselves. That's nonsense, folks. People don't jump into hell. God casts them there. In fact, hell would not even exist without the judgment of God. That's literally what it is. It's God's judgment against sin. Now God is so loving that He sent His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. But for those that don't repent and believe the gospel, they will face the wrath of God. And it's not a neutral thing. You read Revelation 20 at the great white throne judgment. They stand before God and they are cast into hell. Well, who cast them there? Well, it's God. That's why Jesus said, don't fear the one who can only destroy your body, but fear the one who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell. Who is that? It's God. We see the character of God, but on the flip side of that, we're condemned by the character and justice of God. And if we simply read this as a checklist of what is required to be fit for the presence of God and are honest about it, we would have to conclude that there's no one worthy to come into His presence. You know, and people look at this stuff and they tend to dismiss things like, you know, like it's no big deal. Because they've got a low view of sin, they've got a low view of God, they've got a high view of themselves, and they just don't let the Bible speak for itself. No one is worthy to come into His presence. That's really the whole point. You know, as if God is going to wink at their sin or if because they have done some good things that God will magically overlook these things. But this isn't the God of the Bible. He's a righteous judge. God must punish sin and good works can erase our sin. So that puts us all in trouble because Romans 3 verses 10 through 12 says, As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth. There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way. They are all together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. I know I often do the good person test, you know, different places, and I guess if I was just to be simple and direct, I don't believe there's a good person because God says there's no such thing as a good person. We just read it. And there's no parentheses there that says except for me, or except for you. Quite honestly, that text in Romans, that had more to do with me getting saved than probably anything else. because the preacher just simply read it like what I just did. And it just clicked with me. Wait a second. There's none righteous. But I thought I was, but it says none. There's none that's good. Well, I thought I was good, but it says I'm not good. And I realized, wait a second, I'm under the condemnation of God. I need help. I need somebody greater than me to save me. We see the condemnation of God just seeping off the pages of this text. And so we see the application of condemnation. None are worthy to be in the presence of God. Listen, this is a big deal. There's so many works-based salvation messages out there in these different religious groups and different cults and it absolutely breaks my heart. I mean, we know we're surrounded by one. And they, I mean, I try to listen to as much as general conference as I can just to try to you know, hear from the horse's mouth what they're teaching and to be able to defend that biblically. And I tell you a word that I heard more than anything else was the word worthy. Worthy. Walk worthy. Be worthy. Worthy. Worthy. Worthy. I'm just going to make this real simple, folks. If you're questioning whether or not you're worthy, you're not. I'm not. We're not worthy. We could never be worthy to stand before a God like that. Habakkuk 1 and verse 13 says that His eyes are so pure that He can't even look upon sin. Now, does that mean that He literally doesn't see what's going on in the world? No, that's not what it means. It means that God is so holy that He cannot look upon sin in a tolerable way. Now, I know that our society Man, I mean, you would think that tolerance is like the 11th commandment. But you won't find that from God. He's got a zero tolerance policy when it comes to our sin. Not one lie, not one evil thought, not one sin will go unpunished. Not one. And so we see this theme of condemnation before God in Psalm 15. It's not made to encourage us and say, you know, you're doing a good job. It's saying, no, you're a miserable moral failure and you need help. That's what it's literally saying. We see this theme of condemnation. But then number three, I've got two more and I'm done. I didn't want you to get too excited after I got through point three. But number three, we see this theme of consecration. When we look at like, again, I say this all the time. When you read the Bible, one of the best questions you must answer to try to understand the text is what would the original audience have understood? How would the Jews have understood this inspired writing from David here? And I think this would be it. It would be consecration. They are trying to prepare their hearts to go in the temple and worship God. They could go in the temple. They couldn't go into the Holy of Holies. And so when we read that and think about this, they sang this. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart, he that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor, and whose eyes a vile person is condemned, but he honoreth them that fear the He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. And let me say for those that are saved, by the grace of God and by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the direction and the cleansing of the Word of God, we ought to strive to live for the Lord. There's no doubt about that. And you know, when we partake of the Lord's Supper, the very first thing that I like to do is to have a time of examination. Let's go before God. Let's pray. Let's examine our hearts. Let's make sure that maybe perhaps we don't have any secret or hidden sin or any unconfessed sin because we just don't want to take that lightly. And so I think it ought to be really a daily practice for the child of God. Self-examination. Repentance is a lifestyle. But especially I would say this, we ought to take time to prepare our hearts for worship corporately. When we come together, and I really think this has been almost lost in the American church. You know, if we're honest and listen, if you did it this morning, or if you do it on a regular basis, don't think I'm throwing stones, don't think I'm meddling, because I've done this. There's times I'll continue to do this. If we're honest, most people tend to sleep as late as they possibly can, They get up, they're just throwing on their clothes, or if you're like me, hey listen son, this is a true story. Sometimes I've had to iron my shirt while it was on my body. And I've become really good at it, but it was painful to get that good at it, okay? And, you know, we're trying to get the kids ready, you know, we're brushing knots out of hair and we're, you know, and everybody's aggravated. If there's going to be a big blow-up in a family, it's going to be on a Sunday morning on the way to church and all the God's people said, the rest of you are lying. And we get here and we've been fighting in the car and, you know, Dad's trying to drive down the road and yell at the kids at the same time and, you know, and you all laugh because you know it's true. And we get here and we come in, well how are you doing? Oh, I'm blessed and highly favored preacher. And there's no way that we can sit down and flip a switch and just be in worship mode. And what I would encourage you to do, listen, make this a habit, make it a practice. On Sunday morning, and you should be doing this every day of the week to some degree, but especially on Sunday morning prior to Sunday night, prior to the worship service and the prayer meeting on Wednesday night, take enough time to stop and pray, get your family together and pray for the worship service. Pray that the Lord would put us in a mind of worship, in the heart and the spirit of worship, and you know, bring the spirit of worship here. You know, some people act like a church service, they call it like a worship experience. Like if you come here, you know, you can experience worship. And I'm not saying that that can't happen, but that sure shouldn't be our method of operation. We need to come with a mind to worship and get enough time to, I mean, get up and listen to good gospel music while you're getting ready and pray with your family and pray for that idiot pastor that he'll say something that will help you. And, I mean, I'm serious, I need it. I say that in jest, but I need that. And so we need to have this mind of consecration as these Jews would have sang this prior to going to worship in the temple. We ought to have a mind to worship. You know, and that's just, Sunday has always been special to me. Ever since I became a Christian, even at the age of 14 years, I just made it in my mind, made it up in my mind that I was just going to set aside, it was going to be a special day of the week. This is the Lord's day. I'm going to worship. I'm going to try to go every time the doors are open. If for some reason, you know, I'm out of town, I try to, you know, it can't always happen this way, but I try to find a church where I can worship. You know, I don't do recreational things on Sunday. Even if I have time to do it, I'm not going to do it. And I've told, I used to tell the men at the church, and you know, I knew those guys well, so they didn't get mad at me. But I noticed, you know, some of them, they would come to morning church, but, you know, they had brought their bass boats, you know, and they kind of backed in the parking lot, you know, and I told them, I said, listen, I'm glad you're here, but you're waiting on me to say amen so you can go get some bass, so you can get on the water. Your mind, your focus is divided, and I just, I think we ought to be careful about that. There ought to be some consecration there. Do you know why Christians worship on Sunday? You know, the Jewish Sabbath is from Friday evening to Saturday evening. Technically, they're Saturday. Why do we worship on Sunday? Because that's when the tomb was found empty. And I love how, you know, by the way, all of the days of our week, all of them are named after pagan gods, every one of them. But I find it interesting that Sunday, I think about it as S-O-N day. It's the Lord's day. And so we ought to have a mind to worship not only daily but certainly prior to worship and probably especially on Sunday we ought to consecrate that to the Lord. We see this application of consecration here. But then number four and lastly, and I really want to hit on this for a minute. Not only do we see this theme of consecration, we see the theme of Christ so clearly in this text. Let me put it like this. If no one is worthy to be in the presence of God, then how can anyone hope to be saved and go to heaven when they die? If no one is worthy, then how can anyone hope to be saved? Well, I do have some good news. There's one that's worthy. And His name is Jesus Christ. You already know that. But now, when we ask this question, and we'll read this text one more time in Psalm 15, then we'll go to Hebrews and be done. But when we read this from the point of view of answering the question of the one who is worthy, man, this text just comes alive to me. Let's read this again, thinking about the one who is worthy. Lord Yahweh, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? And who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly. Did Jesus walk uprightly? And worketh righteousness. He worked righteousness. Speaketh the truth in his heart. Not only did he always speak truth, he was incapable of telling a lie. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil. He never sinned. He never did anybody wrong. In whose eyes a vile person is condemned. Certainly, he is the judge of all men. But he honoreth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not Jesus swore to His own hurt when He predicted that He was going to go to the cross and be raised from the dead. And He changes not. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And to my Sunday school class, what is the attribute of God? What is it called when He changes not? Anybody remember that? He's immutable. That's right. And so, He that putteth not His money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent, He that doeth these things shall never be moved. And so when we read this list, we certainly don't check all the boxes, but Christ does. He's the one that's worthy. And as I read this text, Hebrews 9 just came flooding into my mind because it uses a lot of the same words, the same phrases, the same terminology to talk about this exact thing. This is so good. Go to Hebrews 9. Now in Hebrews, The theme of Hebrews, and listen y'all, I don't know when it's going to happen, whether I finish the John study first, or the Psalms, or whatever the case may be, but I'm planning on the very next thing I do, we're going to go through the book of Hebrews. The theme of Hebrews is better things. Hebrews talks about a better covenant, a better high priest, a better temple, a better sacrifice, and it's all about how Christ accomplished the Old Testament law, the ordinances, and how those things have been done away with because of Christ. And I'm just telling you, not throwing stones here, but the book of Hebrews by itself absolutely destroys the LDS church and the teachings of Joseph Smith. There's no way that you can believe the book of Hebrews and be a Mormon. It cannot happen. You cannot fit a square peg in a round hole. It cannot happen. And here in chapter 9, it's talking about Christ as our Great High Priest. Do you know the reason that we don't need any earthly human priest? It's because Christ is our Great High Priest. That's why you'll never find in the New Testament any Christian priest. It talks about apostles. It talks about pastors. It talks about bishops and elders and deacons. You know, we could go down the list of the office, you won't find priest. because it's been done away with. That's why the Jewish temple was destroyed in A.D. 70 and they have not been able to even rebuild the Jewish temple. Those things have been done away with. Christ is the new temple. He's the new high priest. He's the greater sacrifice, the perfect sacrifice. He's all these things. I may start Hebrews early, I don't know. But I'll be honest and I'll say this and I'll move on. I would be terrified. to take a title that only belongs to Jesus Christ. Listen, Christ is the only priest after the order of Melchizedek. You know, Melchizedek was a type of Christ. He was a priest and a king. Well, who is that? Jesus is the priest king. Man can't earn the title of Melchizedek priest. I would be terrified to rob Christ of a title that only belongs to Him. Here in Hebrews 9 and verse 11 it says, But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle. What did we just read about in Psalm 15 and verse 1? Who is worthy to come into thy tabernacle? I believe based on what this says, let me continue reading verse 11, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, but that is to say not of this building. I believe with all my heart there is a heavenly tabernacle. And the earthly tabernacle was a type and a picture of that heavenly tabernacle. because it says here that Christ came into this more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, not of a building. And so I believe that He offered His own blood here at this heavenly tabernacle. Verse 12, it says, neither by the blood of goats and of calves, But by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctify of the purifying of the flesh, How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Now think about that. He purges our conscience by His blood. When we read that list in Psalm 15, if we're reading it with open eyes, we recognize it condemns us. Our conscience ought to condemn us, but yet because of the One who is worthy, He purges our consciences by His blood. Verse 15, And for this cause He is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Aren't you glad about that? And so the only one who could ever enter the Holy of Holies was the high priest. Now think about this. I'm talking about the earthly priest in the Old Testament. The only one who could ever enter the Holy of Holies was the high priest. And he was only allowed to go in once a year on the Day of Atonement. And before this priest could go into the Holy of Holies to make the offering, he actually had to make a blood sacrifice for his sin. He had to make a blood sacrifice for Himself. If He had gone in the Holy of Holies, without that sacrifice, He would have been eviscerated. He was not allowed to do that. But think about this. Christ didn't have to do that because He was the perfect sacrifice. He was the ultimate sacrifice for sin. He had no sin that needed to be atoned for, but He atoned for our sin. Instead, He gave Himself as a perfect sacrifice on our behalf. and he approached God the Father and the heavenly tabernacle. So again, who is worthy to be in the presence of a holy God? It's only those who are in Christ Jesus by faith, that's it. Who is worthy to be in the presence of a holy God? Those that are in Christ Jesus by faith. For those that have forsaken their own righteousness and trusted in the righteousness of Christ, Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 says, For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It's not of works, it's the gift of God, lest any man should boast. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21, it says that Christ was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. And so for those who have been saved, they were bought by the blood of Christ, and we're worthy because He's made us worthy. We're righteous because He's made us righteous, and He's declared us to be righteous. That's what justification is. We can come into the presence of God because we have been adopted into His family. And so again, who is worthy to come into the presence of God? Who's fit for heaven? It's only those that are saved by grace through faith. Have you repented of your sin? Have you forsaken the illusion of your own righteousness and your own goodness? And have you placed your faith solely in Jesus Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection to save you, to make you right with God, to forgive you of your sin, and to promise you a home in heaven if you die? If it's anything less than that, it's not going to be good enough. Have you forsaken your own righteousness for the righteousness of Christ? I want to encourage you, if you've not done that, maybe there's somebody even here among mostly home folk today. Or maybe somebody listening online, maybe you've never been saved. Maybe even being in a Christian church, you may have a form of religion, but you've denied the power thereof that you don't have salvation. That you've never been born again. I would encourage you to repent and call on the Lord Jesus Christ today. We have seen in Psalm 15 the character of God, the condemnation of all humanity, the consecration of worship, and the salvation of Christ, all in that Psalm. But friend, if you die without Jesus Christ, you have never known pain and suffering like that. Talking about the, and I'll close with this thought, talking about human suffering and the need for divine deliverance, Christ is the only one that can deliver you. But have you trusted Him? Do you have that peace in your heart? Do you have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ? If not, today could be the first day of the rest of your life.