Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood? In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you walking daily by the Savior's side? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Do you rest each moment in the crucified? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood? In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? When the bridegroom cometh, will your robes be white? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Will your soul be ready for the mansion's bride, and be washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood, in the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin, and be washed in the blood of the Lamb. There's a fountain flowin' for the soul unclean. O be washed in the blood of the Lamb. Are you washed in the blood? In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? I'm going to be reading in Psalm 51. Psalm 51. To the chief musician, the Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness. According unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight. that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it. Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure, unto Zion, build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness with burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Our gracious Lord, we thank you for your grace and mercy that we see here in your word for sinners, guilty, vile, wretched sinners who have no righteousness of their own. Lord, that describes all your people. We are sinners, Lord, and we need the grace and mercy which you freely give in your Son, Jesus Christ, whom you sent to lay down his life for the life of his people. to put away their sins forever, and to obtain for them eternal redemption, life in Him, and inheritance in Him, and fellowship with our God. Lord, we thank you for this grace. We thank you for your salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. And Lord, we thank you that we may come to you in prayer, that we may thank you, that we may worship you in spirit and in truth with the knowledge of what you've done for us in the Lord Jesus Christ. how that you've made known the mystery of your salvation and grace to us hidden in the Lord Jesus Christ, established, made in eternity past, before the foundation of the world. Lord, we thank you for this and we thank you that we may lift up our brethren to you in prayer. We pray for Brother Scott as he recovers from a bad sickness. We pray and ask that you would bless him, that you would heal him, that you would help him Lord, to be able to care for himself and to get well. Lord, we pray for Brother Ron. We thank you for the good news, Lord, that the cancer is gone and in remission and that he's doing well. We thank you so much for that news. And Lord, we pray that you continue to heal him. Lord, there's many sicknesses and illnesses that hit our bodies, some known but are kept quiet and others that are not known. Lord, we ask that you would keep us. that you would provide for us, that you would heal us, that you would nourish us and strengthen us in the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, that you would help us, especially when we are spiritually sick, when we are cold and weak and in darkness and unwilling to turn to you. Lord, have mercy upon us. Be gracious to us. Draw us to Christ, Lord. If you don't draw us, then we will never come. Lord, we pray that you would continually turn us from death, turn us from dead works, turn us from wicked works and things that cannot save, and turn us to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior, our husband, our friend, our all. Lord, we pray that you be with us tonight. Bless us with your presence. Help us to sing. Help us to worship you, to hear your word, and to rejoice in the salvation you've freely given us in Christ Jesus. It's in His name we pray and give thanks. Amen. If you would, turn to 110, and let's sing, Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed, 110. Sorry. Give me another minute here. The lesson did my Savior preach, And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head For such a worm as I? Was it for crimes that I have done He groaned upon the tree Amazing pity, grace unknown And love beyond degree Well might the sun in darkness hide, And shut his glories in, When Christ the mighty Maker died, For man the creature's sin. The drops of grief can ne'er repay the debt of love I owe. Here, Lord, I give myself away, this all that I can do. Thanks. Good evening, brethren. We're going to go to Colossians chapter 1. Colossians 1. Last week when I was preparing the message from the text that I preached from this last Sunday, when I read verse 22, it tickled my heart. It just gave me such joy. to think of the grace of my God who loved me and gave himself for me, and not for me only, but for my brethren. And when I read this, it just gave me such joy. Paul says in verse 22, speaking of Christ in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy, unblameable, and unreprovable in His sight. And so, the Lord is saying to us that in Christ, because of Christ, you that are in Him, who are you that are in Christ? You that love Him, you that believe Him, you that follow Him by the grace and power of God. you that are in Christ, when holy God looks at you, He finds no fault in you. He sees no sin, because it's been put away in Christ. He's forgiven you of all your sins, all your trespasses, all your iniquities, all your transgressions are put away in and by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is what Christ came to do. And so, it gave me great joy to think on these things. It really touched my heart. And so, I want to spend this evening looking at this precious truth with you from the scriptures that it would, and I pray that it would bless your heart. that it would comfort you and cheer you and give you gladness in the Lord Jesus Christ. Because this is the hope of every believer, which our God gives to us, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And we shall not know glory, we shall not stand before the glory of our God, rejoicing in Him in that day, except we be clean and washed and cleansed from our sin in the Lord Jesus Christ." So, the Scriptures teach us that by His death, He obtained our eternal redemption. He obtained the forgiveness of our sins. He sets at liberty the sons of God. Liberty from the bondage and ruin of sin. and the sons of God includes you ladies. There's neither male nor female in Christ. We are all the sons of God, and that's because we receive the inheritance. The inheritance goes to the Son. And all who believe Christ and come to Him, all who come to God, believe in Christ, they have been cleansed. They receive the inheritance of God in Christ. He's called us with a holy calling through regeneration to present you holy, unblameable, unreprovable in His sight." So, our Lord tells us that this was His purpose before the foundation of the world, before He laid the foundations of the earth. Our God chose a people in Christ to be blameless, to know Him, to stand before Him for all eternity as His own peculiar people. Let's turn over to Colossians chapter one. Go to Colossians chapter one and we're going to pick up in verse three. I'm sorry, Ephesians chapter one. Ephesians chapter one. And we're going to pick up in verse three. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. What our God is telling us there of all our spiritual blessings given to us in Christ is that, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, we receive no blessings from God. There's no blessing, there's no fellowship with God, there's no understanding of God, there's no forgiveness of sins outside of the Lord Jesus Christ. He doesn't give us any blessings except in the Lord Jesus Christ. If you would know God, if you would know the forgiveness of your sins, if you would know Him who created you, we must come in the Lord Jesus Christ. If you know someone, Maybe it's you, but if you know someone who you think is a good person, who is a spiritual person, who does good works, is a kind person, they show love and kindness and patience, they have joy and seem to be at peace. If they don't know the Lord Jesus Christ, then they don't know God. They may claim to know God, they may come to God in their own way, but they're not coming to God. not outside of Christ, because God only receives His people in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where He's gracious to them. And so, He tells us now His eternal purpose in verse 4, according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. So before we ever fell in Adam, before we ever transgressed against our God in the Garden in Adam, God had chose a people in Christ. He chose them to be holy. He chose them to be without the spot or stain of sin. He chose them to be without blame, a people who know the love of God. who love him because they are loved of God. And they will be made to know who the true and living God is. God purposed this, and so he predestinated the whole work. And in wisdom, he committed the whole work to the Lord Jesus Christ. He put the whole of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. He didn't leave it to his child. He didn't leave it to the sinner. He gave it to Christ to fulfill completely. Look at verses 5 and 6. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will. So God purposed this salvation within himself. He chose whom he would by his own choosing apart from any outside influence. Meaning he did not look down through the annals of time and history and see what we would do under certain circumstances and if we did the right thing then God chose us. No. That's a man-made lie. God chose us independently of what we do or don't do. He chose us according to His own love, His own choosing, and He put us in the Lord Jesus Christ to save us, to deliver us from death and darkness, to give us light and life in Him. Verse 6, to the praise of the glory of His grace. It's of His grace. It's of His doing, not of our works, but of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved. Now, as we go on here in Ephesians 1, we see here how He accomplishes this salvation in His people, who fell in Adam, who are sinners, who are ruined by sin. who have no light, no life, nothing in them to recommend them to God, no righteousness before God. Verse seven, in whom, he's speaking of in Christ, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of what? His grace. His grace, again, not our works, just reaffirming to us over and over and over that it's all of grace, that our eyes will be taken off of us and what we do and our religious works and our eyes will be put on Christ who did this whole salvation for us according to the will and purpose of God. And so it's freely given to us in Christ, whose death on the cross was according to the scriptures which the Father gave to us, and purposed and shows us what He was doing in Christ for us. Christ died a vicarious death, and that means he died as the substitute. He stood in the place of his people as the God-man mediator who came as the surety for his people to pay their debts, to put away our sin, to die our death, to bear the curse of the law for us, and to put away our sin forever, to cover it, to remember no more. wherein, verse 8, he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. And so this mystery that Paul is speaking of here is the gospel now made known in the face of Jesus Christ. that which is hidden to the natural man, that which is foolishness to the natural man, that which is foolishness and unbelievable to those who think they can come to God by their works, that is the mystery now revealed to us in Christ. And he makes it known to sinners how we may be justified with God and be found blameless standing before holy God. Because that right there is an entire mystery. It's a complete mystery to the natural man. He doesn't know how God may be just and merciful. He doesn't know how righteousness and peace kiss one another and are aligned with one another perfectly in Christ. He can't imagine God forgiving him except he does something for God. and he doesn't see how that all that he does for God, if he is a child of God, is wrought in him, worked in him by grace, by the grace of God in Christ. Now we can't touch on every spiritual blessing that we have in Christ, but what we can do is we can see in these verses that we'll look at tonight, how that they describe this blessedness of our God, who purposed to present you holy, and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight. We see in these scriptures that we'll look at tonight how he did this. He did it in the Lord Jesus Christ. We see who he did it for, for his people. We see what he did for them and why he did it for them, why he needed to do this salvation for his people. And then we see when he makes it known, or how he makes it known, in the preaching of the gospel. So let's return now to Colossians 1.22. We read here how he did this gracious work of salvation for us in Christ. Verse 22, in the body of his flesh through death. Now we have the purpose. The purpose is to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight, but how he did it is in the body of his flesh through death. And this is why Christ, the Son of God, came into the world. This is why He took upon Him flesh made like unto His brethren, that He may come and die in their room and place. That He worked all righteousness with us, for us. And He came to bear our curse, to pay our debt to the justice of God. You know, when John the Baptist saw Christ coming, and he was with a couple of the disciples who would follow Christ, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world. What a powerful thought. What a moment that must have been. And what a glorious moment it is for each sinner, each of us, when we see Christ is the Lamb of God, He's the Savior, He's the one by whom the Father saves His people. Lord save me, cover me with Thy blood, Lord. He's the Lamb of God, and when we see Him as John the Baptist saw Him, what a glorious day that is, what a blessed day that is to see Christ our Savior. He died bearing the sin of His people as the Lamb of God. He died and put away our sin. He cried, it is finished. meaning all the work was done. The redemption was complete. His blood atoned for the sins of his people, and he delivered us out of the hands of justice and brought us into fellowship with our God. He came to make satisfaction unto God for his people, to reconcile us by the propitiating death of himself for us, when he shed his blood to atone for our sins and obtained our pardon with God. He came to justify us, to bring us into the family of God through adoption. to call us within holy calling, through regeneration by His Spirit, to convert us, turning us from dead works that cannot save, and trusting in the flesh, trusting in foolish things, and looking to the Lord Jesus Christ, believing Him. Christ did all this, and He brings us safe unto Himself all the way through this wilderness, and brings us safe upon the shores of heavenly Jordan. where we receive that inheritance in Him. So all these spiritual blessings which our God has given to us in Christ are to present you holy, unblameable, unreprovable in His sight. That's what He did. That's why He came. That's what He accomplished in Himself. Now who Christ did this for? These are described in verse 21. Look up in Colossians 121, those first two words, and you. How wonderful are those words, those words sound when you're afraid and trembling because you see your sin. When you doubt, when you wonder, would God do this for me? To you who hear these words, to you who read these words, and look to Christ knowing He's the Savior, Lord save me by His precious blood. These words are to you, and you, even you, a sinner like you, a sinner who has no righteousness, a sinner who has no right to come to God, but for Christ's sake, and you. He did this for you because God gave you to Christ to redeem you, to purify you, to heal you, to save you with his own blood. Our God makes it personal. He makes it personal. The scriptures tell us that those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. And those who believe him The Spirit reveals to us that love and fellowship and hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. He'll teach you. Just keep looking to Him. Believe Him. Follow Him. Don't depart. Don't go off into the world. Don't trust your own flesh. Look to Christ. Trust Him. And God reveals over and over the preciousness of Christ to you, His child. And He keeps you. not departing from Him, not going away from Him. And He's the one that draws you to the Savior by His power. Hold your place here in Colossians 1, and let's turn over to John chapter 6. John 6. We'll pick up around verse 43. Christ was speaking, revealing to the Jews that were gathered there that He is the bread of heaven, that He's that bread which the Father gave to the children of Israel in the wilderness. And when the people heard that, they couldn't hear it. The people couldn't hear it. I don't mean that they couldn't hear him because they were too far back in the crowd. They would not hear it. They would not hear that Jesus Christ is the salvation of God. So they murmured. They were offended and they murmured. And he said in verse 43, He answered and said unto them, murmur not among yourselves, because murmuring is such a gross and violent sin against others, not only to yourself, but when you're whispering and you're complaining about what that guy is saying, the people aren't hearing him. And they're doubting him then. And they're not believing the God of their salvation, the only one who can save them. They're now murmuring themselves and complaining. And they're not hearing. They're not hearing what Christ is saying. But he says in verse 44, no man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him. And I will raise him up at the last day. Now, we know that they could not hear what Christ was saying. They didn't hear the blessedness of the words which you that believe him hear, that he is the salvation of God. And you that believe, that is precious. Christ is precious. He is your hope. But in verse 60, were told many, therefore, of his disciples. These were people who at one time followed Christ. Many of his disciples, when they had heard this, that he's the salvation of God, and that by him we live, by him we live, said, this is in heart saying, who can hear it? And they left him, and they followed him no more. But the thing about grace is that God always has a people. Even in the darkest hour, when it seems like there's no other believers, Christ, as he said to Elijah, I yet have 7,000 who have not yet bowed the knee to Baal. He has a perfect, complete number. The number 7,000 is not as important as the fact that it means completion. I have a complete number. I have a remnant, an elect remnant, who love me. who are my people, whom I love, whom I chose and put in Christ, and they shall never fall away. And so he says back up in verse 47, John 6, 47, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. And I know what it is to struggle, to doubt, to fear, and to be afraid, that I'm not a child of God. And it's always when I'm looking at myself, and I'm looking at my works, and I'm looking at my thoughts, and I'm trying to find some bit of hope in myself, rather than looking to Christ. who assures me that I am the bread of heaven, he says, and all who believe on me have eternal life." They have everlasting life. Naturally, we're always looking for a better religious track record. We're always looking for a good track record in ourselves. We always want to know that I can look to me and find something in me that gives me some assurance, some hope that God loves me. But look at what Christ said in verse 49. He said, your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. The Jews had a long religious track record. They had a long religious history, and he says they're now dead, spiritually, eternally dead. Religious track records are not anything to be assured of, to find assurance in, because man deceives himself all the time. Our God saves in the Lord Jesus Christ alone. He is the bread of life. He is the bread of heaven whom the Father hath sent. Believe him. Verse 50 and 51, this is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." And so there's a people who are trusting their works. This very night, this very day, there's a people that trust what they have done. rather than trusting the Lord Jesus Christ and what He has done. And they think that believing Christ and trusting Him alone is foolishness. But you, who is not foolish at all, who hope in Christ, who look to Him, He is your salvation. He is the life of God given to save sinners. And He came into the world to know the grace and mercy and glory of God, to save his people by grace, by grace. Now back in Colossians 1, 21, where we read, and you, we see why Christ came, why he had to save his people. And you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works. yet now hath he reconciled." So what we see here is that we, by nature, even the children of God, are filthy, vile sinners who have no righteousness of their own. God didn't choose us because we're good, because we're better than others. He chose us because we're sinners who need his grace, who need his mercy, who need his salvation given in Christ. He purposed it to be that way. He chose us in Christ, bringing us to see that we have no righteousness in ourselves. And so we're corrupt, not by nature, we are corrupt in our minds and in our thoughts of God. Our practices were always false and fruitless and darkness. And those things which man calls his righteousness, which we hope is our righteousness, God says those are wicked works. Those are the wicked works. those things that we trust in, that we count as righteousness, our righteousness before holy God. Our Lord says those are wicked works. And this is why Isaiah, what Isaiah wrote of when he said, but we all are as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. And we all do fade as a leaf. We dry up and crinkle up and crumble and blow away just like a leaf that falls from the tree. And our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. God is holy. God is perfect. His eye sees all things. He sees right through us. He sees how fake, how phony the natural man is. He knows the games that we play, the things that we fool ourselves with. He's holy, he's perfect, he knows all things. And he in Christ, though we are sinners, he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to present us holy, unblameable, unreprovable in his name. That's how perfect, how complete the salvation that our God has given to us freely in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let me show you what He accomplished in them. Turn over to Revelation 14. Revelation 14. here again we're seeing what our Savior has done to present us holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight. Now John here sees the redeemed in heaven So we've seen God's purpose, we see Him sending Christ, and now we see us in heaven, the redeemed in heaven, rejoicing in the salvation of their God. Because the blood of Christ has removed and delivered us from all trespasses. All trespasses, and all trespasses are any time we walk on forbidden ground. Any transgression, any iniquity, which think of inequity, anything that's unjust, untrue, unrighteous, that is a lie and wicked and is a transgression against our God, that's a trespass. And Christ has put away all trespasses. Forgive us our trespasses, Christ said. Forgive us our trespasses because we've walked on forbidden ground and we are to be punished. Accept God, forgive us. in the Lord Jesus Christ. And Christ obtained that forgiveness. Now look at verse 3, Revelation 14, 3. And they sung, as it were, a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders. And no man could learn that song but the 144,000 which were redeemed from the earth. No man knows it because no man understands it. Every man's looking to his own works. He's looking to his righteousness. He's looking to his religion and trusting what he's done to recommend him to God. But there's a people who are singing a new song, another song about redemption, the redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we see that he lists there 144,000. Again, the number is not important. What it specifies to us, what it says to us is there is a Perfect. There is a complete number, a fullness of the body of Christ. And that's who's pictured here. These, verse four, are they which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. In other words, they've been delivered from the whore of Babylon and her false gospel. They've been turned from it, so they don't follow the whore of Babylon. They're not believing a lie. They hear the truth. And it says, these are they which follow the Lamb. withersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, from among the disobedient, from among the inhabitants of the earth, the children of wrath and disobedience, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb, and in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before the Lamb of God." They're without fault before the throne of God because Christ redeemed them. and he accomplished their salvation. He fulfilled the eternal purpose of God as Father to obtain the pardon of their sin, to present you holy, unblameable, unreprovable in the sight of holy God. Now, because Christ has finished the work, he sends the gospel forth, and that's when he makes it known, when he makes you to hear the call of the gospel, when he calls you by the gospel, attending that word with power. and command you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, convincing you that in Him and Him alone, you shall be saved. And when He comes with power, you shall hear that word and believe. You'll come sitting right where you are, looking to Christ, believing Him that He is your salvation. And this is the when, verse 6, Revelation 14, 6, And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people. And so we see that glorious fulfillment of Christ, what he had accomplished for his people in redemption. And this word now goes forth, calling his lost sheep, calling them out of darkness, calling them out of the broad way that leads to destruction, and bringing them, drawing them, dragging them by grace to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now turn over to Ephesians 5. Ephesians 5. this everlasting gospel has been delivered to you that believe. We see this encouraging word, Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, his wife, his bride, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word Why, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. This was the purpose of God, and this is the purpose accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ. He shall not fail. He always saves His people. He's the successful Savior, and He's accomplished our redemption, and it's for that very purpose. When you stand before Holy God on that day, you shall stand before Him in the blood of Christ, holy, unblameable, unreprovable in His sight, in a spotless, white-robed garment, the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe Him. Trust the blood of Christ to deliver you from the wrath of God, to present you spotless unto your God and Savior. His blood is sufficient to save all who come to Him, even the vilest, filthiest, dirtiest sinner. Christ's blood is able to cleanse from all sin. He's able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him. Now let me close with one more verse of Scripture. And it's in Jude, that's the book just before Revelation, the book of Jude. And there's only one chapter, and we're gonna read verses 24 and 25 together in closing. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, And to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and ever. Amen and amen. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you for your great grace, your wonderful salvation, your sufficient, whole, complete, fulfilled salvation in the blood of Christ. Lord, we thank you for your grace. We thank you for your power and glory which has delivered us from darkness, turned us from trusting vain, filthy works, corrupt works, vile works, wicked works that cannot save, and turned us to Christ who alone saves his people, the people of God, from their sins. Lord, we thank you for this salvation. We thank you for mercy and patience with us and not leaving us in darkness but bringing us out and drawing us to Christ to feed upon the bread which comes from heaven the Lord Jesus Christ whom you sent that we eat his flesh and drink his blood even as you purposed it in yourself and have given us your spirit whereby we walk in faith feeding upon him Lord, we thank you for this. We pray that you would bless our hearts, tickle our hearts, Lord, with this glorious thought, that we stand before you even now in Christ, wholly unblameable and unreprovable in your sight. We thank you for this grace. It's in Christ's name that we pray and give thanks. Amen. Our closing hymn will be Heavenly Sunlight, 472 Heavenly Sunlight. Hoping it's sunlight all of my journey Over the mountains, through the deep vale Jesus has said, I'll never forsake thee, promise divine that never can fail. Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. Hallelujah, I am rejoicing, singing his praises, Jesus is mine. Shadows around me, shadows above me, Never conceal my Savior and God. He is the light, in Him is no darkness, Ever I'm walking close to His side. Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. Alleluia, I am rejoicing, singing His praises, Jesus is mine. Bright sunlight ever rejoicing, pressing my way to mansions above. Singing these praises gladly I'm walking, walking in sunlight, sunlight of love. Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. Hallelujah, I am rejoicing, singing His praises, Jesus is mine. Thank you.