Our reading today from God's Word will be in the book of Hebrews. Chapter 10 will be going from verse 8 to verse 20. So let's listen to the words of the great God of forgiveness. Presently, saying sacrifice, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them, which are offered according to the law. Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. By that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down at the right hand of God. From that time, waiting till his enemies are made his footstool, for by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us. For after he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts and in their minds, I will write them. Then he adds, their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember. No more. Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he consecrated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh. Amen. You may be seated. Let's bow and pray together. O righteous Father, as we have heard your word read and as we have just sung, we pray to you Be thou our vision. Open our eyes that we may see more clearly. Soften our hearts that we might understand better. That the soil of our heart would be fertile. And the content of our mind could absorb these magnificent truths. that the man, the second person of the Godhead, becomes man. May we be like Nathanael who said, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel. Or like Thomas, My Lord and my God, this is the same one who died on our behalf that we praise you for, O Lord, not leaving us dead in our trespasses, but granting us by your grace and his sacrifice once for all time. forever. And so may you open our hearts and our minds that we might have a deeper sense of the majesty and the amazing grace through what you have done in Christ. And we ask that you might bless the one preaching guiding and directing him through all that he has put together by the work of the Spirit, that it would be for your glory and your namesake above all, but that it would be for the growth, the grace, and the salvation of all who hear, in Jesus' name, amen. with the title of the sermon this morning, Holy Unto the Lord. Many, if not all of you would be familiar with Daniel chapter five, where we have recorded the last of the Babylonian kings. Actually, he was really a vice regent to his father. Man's name was Belshazzar. And he threw a feast rejoicing in their drunken orgy. All of them here eating themselves till they literally would be sick and drunk out of their minds. These are the people who had conquered Jerusalem, had destroyed the temple, looted the temple first. They took all the gold and the silver vessels and the bronze elements, utensils that were used in the holy of holies, in the holiest of all, in the holy place and at the altar. Those that were consecrated, set apart unto God and God alone, only in the hands of God's anointed priests and to do God's commanded worship ceremonies were these to be used. They were in the king's treasury, so they gather them together. They fill them with their wine, and they drink out of them, toasting the pagan gods of Babylon. They took what was holy, and violated it, and used it for a pagan ritual, if you will. Well, you know what happened. You have two times in the Bible where we assume this is the Lord or the angel of the Lord anyway, but two times that the Lord writes something himself. Not through a prophet, not through an apostle, but he wrote it. The Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, it says that God wrote the Ten Commandments with his own finger. The other place is here, in this time. where the hand of the Lord apparently is revealed writing on the wall, many, many tickle you farson, you've been weighed in the balances and found wanting. It was interpreted for the king by Daniel in his old age. And he tells him what it means, and he says, the Lord has decreed that tonight, this very night, Babylon will be destroyed, overtaken, and that you will be slaughtered. And precisely that occurred. You do not take what is holy unto the Lord and defile it. It's pretty weighty stuff, especially in terms of the text that is open before us. that would make it clear that you and I are holy, sanctified unto the Lord. And so I'd like for us to consider the text that's open before us and to see the But the teaching here, in the beginning of verse 7 really, and going through verse 9, we see there that it is the will of God expressed in the book. You'll remember from last week it was written in the volume of the book of what should be of Christ's coming, a body prepared for me. That he was the one who would be sacrificed in our behalf. And so in verse 7, it talks about, I behold, I come and in the volume of the book that is written of me to do your will, oh God. So here in verse 7, it makes it clear that he's come to do the Father's will. And it goes on in this text, and it talks about the Father's desire. And what he did not desire, have pleasure in, in verse 8. In verse 9, it reiterates, behold, I have come to do your will. So three times here in the space of three verses, it talks about the will of God. And so you and I that are consecrated unto God certainly should understand what it means that the Lord would have us to do his will. We'll make it clear in a moment what that means, but it does not mean searching around in some mystical condition, thinking we can determine some hidden secret will of God. Many of you know Deuteronomy 29, 29 that says, the secret things belong unto the Lord. But the things that he has commanded, these are the things that are for us and for our children to obey what's written. His secret will is hidden within the counsels of his own being. But that which he's revealed, the scriptures, the holy scriptures, that is for us. And so when we look at this, first of all, we think of the will of God. First of all, with regard to Christ, it was ordained before the foundation of the world. It wasn't something that happened spontaneously. You find that, well, passages like John chapter 17 or in Ephesians chapter 1 and elsewhere, where it talks about the father covenanting with the son. before the foundation of the world to perform His will. Also, it is the idea that the Bible is the place where we find God's covenant promise, His picture, His prophecy, the promises of God's covenant. It is that God binds Himself sovereignly to perform these things that He has promised. It's not you and I can oblige Him, obligate Him to do it, but God condescends sovereignly to obligate Himself. and pictures. As we've been going through the book of Hebrews, we've found type and shadow, where we've seen that these sacrifices, for example, the Lamb of God, when we read that, we see clearly that it's talking about Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. As we see the priests who are functioning within the Holy of Holies, we see them, pictures, types, that are of Christ, our great high priest, who is Also the sacrifice in the Holy of Holies, and there the throne of God pictured in form of the Ark of the Covenant, etc. Thing after thing, the furniture, the tabernacle, the people, the ceremonies, all pictures pointing to the greater fulfillment that God performs in Jesus Christ. So you see promises, pictures, but also prophecies. What God has promised here we see in the verses that were read for us. He says, sit at my right hand, the father to the son, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. Obviously quoted numerous times out of Psalm 110 in the New Testament, talking about the second coming of Christ. Acts chapter three, verse 20 and 21 talks about, it says that whom heaven must receive at the father's right hand until he comes. to fulfill all the things God has prophesied by the prophets that He's promised. And so, those three things. It's written of the book, but furthermore, what else do we have written in the book? In the scriptures that we've seen, it is the idea of the drama of redemption. God didn't work this out in some, what do you want to say, some antiseptic type environment. but was wrought out in world history. Or we see betrayal. We see a people who would cry out, we have no king but Caesar. Or we see the sweat drops of blood that come from his brow with a thorny crown. Or we see him nailed to a cross. We see him rise from an empty tomb. He cries out forevermore. And so, beloved, as we look at all of this on the stage of the drama of redemption, God has worked this out by this means from Genesis all the way up to the time of Jesus Christ. And the book of Hebrews, in vivid detail, relates it to us in ways we understand. It was all showing forth, teaching us about and preparing us for Jesus the Christ who fulfills it all. I like the way Galatians 324 talks about the law that has all of these things in it. And it describes the law as a schoolmaster, a tutor, that would lead us ultimately to its goal, Christ. And so we have the will of God in these verses. Christ came to fulfill God's will. Yes, even the cross, or perhaps especially the cross. The will of God. You say, I thought sinful people did it. Yes. You read in Acts chapter 2, 23 or 4, 28, in both places it describes how it says, you know, that according to the predetermined purpose and foreknowledge of God, wicked men took with wicked hands, took Jesus and put him to death as God had foreordained that it should be done. And so all of us, according to the purpose and the design, the redemption God has foretold. And so as we have considered this together. Furthermore, I would like for us to consider in verses 9 and 10, the concept of the new covenant that permanently connects us to heaven. Last week we talked about, and verse 19 explicitly describes, how you and I are connected in Christ Jesus by the Spirit to heaven itself. Everything that was on earth, remember, was a shadow of the heavenly realities, the temple, the tabernacle, all of that. And they're showing forth the realities that take place in heaven. Some of you, some even came up to me and said, I did the homework. You gave us homework last week from the pulpit. I did, by the way. And it's in Revelation chapter 4. No, don't scramble to read it now. I'll tell you about it. And it describes, you can do it afterwards, but it describes heaven. At the center of heaven is the throne of God himself. the son at his right hand, the spirit before him. I told you this before the cherubim or the seraphim around the throne, the 24 elders around them, and then all the redeemed of all time arranged around the throne and myriads upon myriads of angels in the heavenly places. What glory in chapter 12 we'll talk about it, how you and I have come to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the heavenly city, that place we're just describing now. But it says here, remember the high priest alone could come into the Holy of Holies once a year with great fear, and he had to repeat it every year. Here in verse 19, what does it say? But therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the holiest, that's the Holy of Holies, by the blood of Jesus, et cetera. And so you see, there is the reality. He has entered once for all time. We're coming to that. But because He has, you and I come in Him, our mediator, by the Holy Spirit. Okay, we just got through singing praises together, praying together, reading scripture together. You do realize that your praises don't stop at the ceiling, don't you? You do realize that when we read the scripture, beloved, that's why we stand for the reading of the word of God. What is it that we're reading? It is, thus saith the Lord, God is speaking to us. I don't care that this was written almost 2,000 years ago. Remember we saw in chapter 4, it is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. This is not like just any other book. This is God speaking through the pages of Holy Writ now. And the power of God to transform us just is real now. It's mind-boggling. And it says that you and I here are connected to the heavenly realities in Jesus Christ. Because in the New Covenant, we're permanently connected to all that's taking place in the heavenly places. Notice the will of God here in verse 9. He talks about the old sacrifices. He took no pleasure in them. Go through them, whether they're burnt offering, blood sacrifice. Wait a minute. God commanded them, yes. They were to stand in the place and give a guarantee and a picture and instruction for the sacrifice to come, Jesus the Christ. But once He has come, once He has died, once He has risen, He says, I remove the first covenant that He might establish the second. Let's make it clear, and this will make it clear, that we are not to go back to the old covenant ways, to the old covenant sacrifices, to the old covenant dietary rules, and that kind of thing. But you see here, he is fulfilled. As you think in verse 10, notice it says, we have been set apart. It uses the word sanctified. You know what sanctified means. I illustrated it with my opening, with the idea of those vessels. They were set apart. just for that, just unto God. Don't you dare use them for anything else." And they did, and the consequences followed. And so here it says in verse 10, let me read it. By that will we have been. Now notice it's a perfect tense, that means it's been accomplished in the past, and the effect continues into the present. I know you're not grammarians, but that basic information you need to know about grammar this morning. It's accomplished. It's in the past. But it's benefit, it's effect, continues into the present and into eternity. That's the idea. So by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. The word there is ephaphax. Hapax means once. Epi, added to it, intensifies it, means once for all, not to be repeated. And so when we think of having been set apart, I was talking about this recently, we use a theological term, you know, a kind of eight-cylinder term, we call it definitive sanctification. That means once out of all of redemptive history, once in time and in space, think of a timeline, and there's the center at zero, okay? and all the other shrinks to insignificance. Everything else disappears. And that one place, there's the cross. And there at that cross, paid in full for all the redeemed, from the Garden to the Second Coming, all the redeemed for all time, there we were bought, redeemed. Our Substitute died once for all time for His people. Those long dead, We saw that in chapter 9, didn't we? He fulfilled it for those of the Old Testament who are believers. And those who at that time, that would be you and me when this was written, right? Were not yet born. And yet in some sense, there definitively we were sanctified, set apart unto God, bought with a price. Mind boggling. And so there is a legal or the covenantal the historical redemptive meaning of we were set apart from sin and death and the world and the flesh and the devil and everything else, and we were set apart unto the Lord at that time. But it comes into our experience, the existential level, we call it. In other words, when you and I, we have to be born, We have to hear the Gospel and the Spirit of God open our hearts and our minds to receive the Gospel, and there He is the one who raises these who are dead in trespasses and sins to a life in Christ by the Spirit. We are they who are in bondage to sin, it says. He breaks the shackles free, and He draws us into Himself, and He's the one who explodes in our thinking, and we recognize Him, we trust Him, we're melted before Him with the burden of sin, and we fall and we see He and He alone is the one. Because of the life, the dynamic, the holiness of the Holy Spirit. saying this gospel is true for me. That's what salvation is. That's the experience you see. That we have been set apart. We are his and he is ours. And so, what does that mean? Once for all in this body of sacrifice. Well, we've been set apart from, first of all, and unto, but also in. We talk about union with Christ. Union with Christ is the idea that we're identified with Jesus Christ, that we're so seen by God in this gospel, we are united to Him, legally speaking. Let me describe it, if I can. One of the verses that's been used by God in so many people's lives, is Galatians 2.20. All of you know it by heart, or at least a lot of you do. Many of you do. I am crucified with Christ. Now if you're crucified with Christ, what does that mean? You died. It means you died. The old us, the cursed, sinful us, the children of Adam. It says in Romans chapter 5, we mentioned that before too, about all of those who were born from Adam and Eve, or in Adam and Eve. And when Adam sinned, we sinned. When he died, we died, spiritually speaking. When he fell, we fell. And so the curse fell upon all Adam's race. So we're in union, or identified with him, legally. But we also have the nature of Adam. What is the nature of Adam? We see that he is, by nature, a sinner. How many of you have children? Don't raise your hands, but just think in your minds. Those of you who don't have any children, how many of you have ever been a child? That's a trick question. There's something we learn about children is that we're constantly trying to train them, trying to teach them, trying to pull them away from things and direct them to other ways. And we have varying degrees of success by God's grace. But here's the point we know from the beginning, you do not have to teach a child to sin. You don't, why? Because we all, even that blessed little child, that you love with all your being is born with the nature of Adam, a sinner. And so you see we are set apart in Christ legally, and in Adam they are legally declared sinners before God, but there's also practically in their nature sinners. And so there is the ongoing sin. Well you see both uses are addressed here. That's the good part. And I talked about the legal aspect, we were sanctified in Christ at that cross, but look at verse 14. In verse 14, it says, for by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. In case you think that's just some playing with the translation, it's not. It uses a particular word. It's not even a tense of the verb that we can say is maybe iffy. It's not the tense of the verb. It is an extra word put in there, making it clear that it is a continuous, ongoing process. In fact, it's frequently translated continuously. And so it says not only have we been sanctified, we are being sanctified. Now it's talking about the idea of the application of that sanctification in practical terms in our lives. Let me go back to Galatians 2.20, you thought I forgot it. I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. In the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. And so you see, beloved, I'm not my own, and neither are you if you're in Jesus Christ. And we are being sanctified. In other words, there is that practical process that we will develop here in a few minutes of that progressive sanctification That is, where God is working to die to these things. Still, union with Christ is the paradigm. I've already gone that far. I guess I better just have you turn to a passage that helps. Ephesians chapter 4, verses 22 to 24. In Ephesians 4.22, it's gone through so much theology in the book of Ephesians that's similar to what we find here in the book of Hebrews. But it comes to this time and it describes in verses 17 through 19 the idea of being a slave to sin. It talks about the heart that is calloused to sin and talks about being insatiable. Anyone ever heard of or seen someone who seemed to be insatiable? They couldn't get enough of something. I've known people about certain kinds of soda pop. They just couldn't get enough. You say, man, you just, where's the last one you opened a minute ago? Oh, it's gone, and it's time for another. Or chain smokers, you ever known a chain smoker? They gotta have another, light it up, almost like two at a time. Or people that are drug addicts, they can't get enough, they gotta have more. It's to your destruction. I can't help it, I'm insatiable. It says sin is like that. Sin, we're insatiable that the sin nature is that way. And it goes on to talk about these are those who are the total depravity, or in other words, under the bondage, the slavery to sin. And so it says in verse 20, though, but you have not so learned Christ. There's a distinction. So that in verse 22, it says, put off concerning your former conduct the old man, which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. Remember that old Adamic nature? The old us. It says, put off the old man with its desires, its lusts. And it says in verse 23, be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Or you could even say by the spirit in your mind. It can go either way. So notice, first of all, to put off, repent of it. Put it behind you. Reckon yourselves dead to sin. That's the way Romans 6 describes it. Reckon yourselves dead to sin. Or mortify the old man, Colossians 3. And so, you look at these things, that's the way we look at our old self. It's talking now practically, it's talking now because of that cross once for all, now practically it has an effect that I look in my life, I died. And so put off the old man based on that dynamic, the engine of it all is that we are united to Christ. We died with him, we were buried, we're raised with him. We'll come back to that in a moment. So put off the old man, be renewed by the spirit of the mind. It must be a transformation of our minds. If you think you can go on with a darkened mind, a mind that does not see the truth, here is one of the biggest dangers. A lot of people have talked about how they've tried this and it doesn't work. And I've gone through the gospel with them and I found out why it didn't work. They're lost. You see, beloved, you cannot be sanctified if you're not regenerated. if you're not in union with Christ. They said, but I prayed the prayer. I walked the aisle. Uh-huh. Can you show me that in the Bible? You see, the gospel, beloved, was as I described. Knowing Christ that way. We cannot take sin lightly. Being in bondage to sin in the description I was giving of it. Lightly. and think that Christ just came to improve our life. And so, they think, if I do more, I'll be sanctified. Here's, and I'm gonna have to do this next week, I apologize. Some of it. But let me give you this much that's key. What happens in progressive sanctification is that we become more and therefore we do more. In other words, God works these things in our hearts and in our minds and in our lives where more and more it's what we are by nature. He changes us at the deepest recesses of our being. He changes the nature. And therefore, the fruit of that, the results of that, are the good works, are the things of doing those things unto the Lord. And we see that no longer is it self-centered, but we see more and more that for me to live as Christ, it is all about Him and also about them, that is, our fellow believers in Christ. And the motivation, not self-glorification, but all His glory. all out of love, even self-sacrificing love. You see, that's the picture progressive sanctification presents. So it says put off the old man. It says be renewed by the spirit or in the spirit of the mind. But then thirdly, don't miss that part, it says here to put on, put on the new man. which was created. Notice there's a new creation involved. This is why the sanctification is effective. Put on the new man, which was created according to God or in true righteousness and holiness or image, according or image of God. It can go either way there. I put in the, or we had put it in the bulletin for you, Romans chapter 6 verse 4. You can turn there in your sermon notes. Therefore we were, speaking of what baptism represents, therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death. Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, don't miss this last phrase, even so we also should walk in newness of life. This is why baptism is the first step for a believer. After one is reborn, after one is effectually called, after one is engrafted into Christ, after one repents and believes, after one sees themselves as in Him alone, and that He their only hope, and He their righteousness, and His blood the satisfaction for their sin, and that all their life now is His. When that happens, you see, then baptism We go through it in great detail, or some detail anyway, for those who receive baptism, so they don't miss everything it means. But think of what it says here. A lot like that Galatians 2.20 text, but notice the emphasis here. What is the emphasis? As we're in union with Christ, that means so identified with, so in this legal sense, but also vital union. You know what vital means? Well, it means it's essential, but it also means living. By the Holy Spirit, we are joined to Christ. By the Spirit through faith, we are so identified with Christ legally that all our sin is imputed, that means accredited, that's legal, to Christ. The propitiation at the cross, satisfied, paid in full for our sins, past, present, and future, and His righteousness accredited to us so that God sees us in Christ righteous. Isn't that the glory of the gospel, Romans tells us? Not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation. And it goes on, that 16 goes into 17, for in it, the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed. from faith to faith, that just live by faith, so it is decreed unto us, righteous in Christ." Remember that cross? Erase all of the other parts around it and just look at it in isolation. Christ and the cross, there, set apart unto God. You see, that's the righteousness of God that's put to our account, because we're identified with His death, His burial, and His resurrection. But progressive sanctification is now the power of the Spirit taking all of that reality of dying to sin, being made alive unto righteousness that it describes here in this verse. That is an ongoing reality in our lives. I remember talking to someone about the gospel and salvation and faith. I said, We talked about belief in Jesus Christ. He says, oh yeah, I prayed the prayer. And I said, well, the prayer, what do you mean? Well, I knew what they meant, but I wanted to hear it from them. And as they described it, I said, OK, so the way you're looking at this then, that prayer, you had faith then. What about now? What do you mean? Like that's an astounding question. I said, you know, faith is something we grow in. Faith is something that deepens. Faith is something that strengthens. Our relationship with Jesus Christ is something that becomes more and more real in the life. And I went on and on to describe it, you see. And they were looking at it as, I believed once. I signed the card. I'm in. Now don't bother me with anything further. They didn't understand. Gloriously, they came to understand. But you see, beloved, this is not the way it works. When the Lord comes into the life of someone, into the believer's life, he does not leave us the way he found us. But he changes us forever. And so it says, we are not just united to his death on that cross. were united also to his resurrection from the grave. In other words, that life principle, that glorious recreated dynamic, that holy sanctifying power, that means that intense, deeply transforming reality has come into our lives and so it says we walk in newness of life. One verse, very simple. Study it, learn that one. And think of the impact on that. That's why I am being sanctified. Because I'm walking, you're walking, we're walking in newness of life, the resurrection life of Jesus Christ. That's why. Oh, I'm sure most of you here are baptized. You remember it? Some of you looking like I'm thinking. Let me refresh your memory. Some of you I've baptized not all that long ago, so I know you remember it. And you've watched, many of you. And when you go through this whole ordeal of baptism, it's vivid in its drama it portrays, isn't it? Where it says, we go through the gospel, we go through the profession of faith, we go through what it means, we go through union with Christ. And so when I baptize someone, you baptize in the name of the triune God. That means he owns us. That means it's his power, his will, his doing, it represents. And when one is buried, or died and buried under the waters, What a vivid portrayal of how the old man is to be viewed. Put off the old man. But when we're brought, if I left you under there, that would be a sad day, wouldn't it? But when you come back out of that water, what a picture of being raised from the dead. Raised, cleansed, new to walk not just to come out and sit, but to walk in newness of life. We died to death. We rise to newness of life in Christ Jesus. Get the union with Christ in him. And so beloved, he died once for all time. that he might sanctify us. And because of that, he is working in those who are being sanctified. That means you and me. That means every believer are wholly set apart unto the Lord. May God give us the grace of that so impacting our lives, our thinking, that revival would break out, not in all the other pews, but within each of us. That progressive sanctification would not be looked at something as academic, but we'd recognize that without progressive sanctification, we are a fruitless tree. Picture in your mind those windblown desert trees that have grown up or out there and you don't know how they got there or where they came from. They're all cracked, dry as a bone, and bare. No fruit. You see, beloved, that's the life of a professing believer who does not know the Lord. The Lord said, by their fruit you shall know them. His resurrection fruit. When the Lord convicts us of having lives like that, the true believer, what do they do? Well, we'll see. No. We fall on our faces before Him. We say, God, have mercy on me, the sinner. But there's more. You say, more? I'm sad enough now. That's why there's more. The flip side of that is, if you're in Jesus Christ. It's progressive sanctification. You say, but I'm convicted by my sinfulness and I'm still wrestled with temptations and I, even though I try, I frequently stumble again and again. Those who are conscious of that and those who have sorrow and grief and shame over that, but say, I will, for the Lord's sake, pursue. Ah, see there. The Lord is at work in you both to do and the will of His good pleasure. And that work which He has begun, He will most certainly complete. And you are sealed by the Spirit of God unto the day of redemption. Christ died once for all time. Satisfaction made. We will look at that next time, briefly. But this is what we must remember. Christ is sufficient. And see, all the artificial things that people try to add or put into the mix are just confusion. So take heart and be joyful. Rejoice, because those whom God has redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, for how long were you redeemed? Well, once. For how long? Remember what we saw there in verse 18? It says, there now remains no sacrifice for sin. And in verse 17 it says, he will remember our sins no more. So you see, we don't go on in progressive sanctification because we're afraid we might lose our salvation. We go on for Him to the glory of His grace. That we would like to develop next week. Until then, may God richly use His word in our lives. Amen. Let's pray together. O Heavenly Father, as we cast our cares upon You and Any of us here who have been restored and redeemed by your grace, we think of the Word you've given us. Therefore, if any man is in Christ Jesus, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. And again you have said, he who begins a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. But oh Lord, we pray, if any of us here or who hears the sermon and all this that's been preached, who does not know you, It brings us to those places of your word. We think of the classic one that is a 2020 vision. 2 Chronicles 2020, you've given us, put your trust in the Lord your God. Paul declaring, the Apostle Paul, saying repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul and Silas that you put in scripture for us to see in Philippian jail. And the jailer's going to kill himself, and he said, what must I do to be saved? And Paul declares, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust in his blood, his righteousness. And so we pray, oh Lord. that if this day is a day of salvation, we pray it to be so for any hearts that you would do that heart transplant, not physically, but spiritually today in Jesus name. Amen. I receive the benediction of the Lord. And may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be presented blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. Amen.