Identification Truths
Courtney Hemenway · Feb 12, 2006
Identification (2005-06), No. 19
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/48262343436942

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

All right, week 19, you should have the questions for that. And by way of review, again, I'm trying to go over this just so we don't get lost in the little details and go back over some of the things we've covered. just so we remember, and kind of going back and taking little chunks and redoing some of those, just so we remember, because Mike and I were talking about this. Sometimes we get so focused on a verse or a portion of a verse, and we look at that, and we look at it with such a fine magnifying glass that we lose track of what the whole passage is looking at. So I'm kind of going back a little bit, asking just a couple of quick questions. And hopefully by this time, this will be an automatic answer.

Is there anything in Adam that is good? And the answer is no. Thank you. Are there any attributes of our Adamic nature that are worth fixing up for approval by God? No. No. Which of the... I just put this one in for fun. Which of the currently popular church programs will help us fix up the old man? What would Jesus do? Yeah, wearing the wristband. What would Jesus do?

WWJD. Bumper stickers. Fish on your car. Prayer of Jabez. Yeah, Prayer of Jabez. I also thought too, Rush, I listened to Rush, he had a little morning commentary. Do you hear this woman who married a porpoise? And he said, yeah, now she's got the porpoise-driven life. I'm sorry, that's totally off the subject. Bring it back, bring it back. It's just to wake me up, to get me going. If you want any clue of the depravity of man, a woman marrying a porpoise, I mean, is there anything good in the old man?

Christ died on the cross for our sins, wiping out our trespasses or sins. Isn't that good enough to stand before God as a forgiven sinner? And the answer is no. No, it isn't. And why not? No such thing as a forgiven sinner. I don't know the answer back there. Is just being a forgiven sinner good enough that you have your sins forgiven? So if you have your sins taken away in Adam, is that good enough to stand before God?

We've been going over this, and Mike will just drive people nuts by this. This is kind of like hanging a carrot out in front of people. Now I'm doing it. Mike's having a bad impact on me. The reason is, can a sinner stand before God? No. You're forgiven through the blood of Jesus Christ. But if you are in Adam, identified in Adam... You didn't say that. You said your sins are forgiven. That's the requirement to the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. Right, but if just your sins are wiped out, what are you? You're a forgiven sinner, correct? So what is the English adjective and the noun? The noun is sinner. You're still a sinner. So, can a sinner stand before God? Right. But the sinner can't stand before Him. Right. So a sinner can't stand before Him.

So that means, that takes us to where we are in Romans, in the old man is crucified at the cross. There is nothing in Adam that is good. and that's what we've been looking through for the first month of this was, in Adam, what we identified, and in fact, I have a verse for that. This is an illusion you might think you're a Christian sinner, but when you die with Christ, you're no longer a sinner. We're a new creature in Christ, and that's the key, and that's the whole purpose of that, and I'm baiting like Mike does. The safe sinner, there is no such thing as a safe sinner, because there's a dead sinner, because we are crucified at the cross.

And that's the key, that's the whole key. And in Romans, I'll go back, I guess the question put, can God be in the presence of a sinner, saved or not? No. And that's the key. You can't be a forgiven sinner, you can't be any sinner in the presence of God. So you can't be a sinner in His presence. And if we're still identified with Adam, In Romans 3, 10-18, as it is written, and this is how Adam is described, or the Adamic man.

There is none righteous, not even one. There is none who understands. There is none who seeks for God. All have turned aside. Together they have become useless. There is none who does good. There is not even one. Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of Asp is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are their paths, and the path of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." So if I'm a sinner, that's still who I am. I mean, even if I had everything paid for, I'm still that person. So give me five seconds, one second. I'm still a sinner, and I'll still sin.

So that's the whole thing that brings us back to the cross, is the crucified old man. And that's how we go from the identification of an old man, being in Adam, to our identification in Christ, through a new creature in Christ. We crucify the old man, and that's really the whole key in Romans 6, is that process of the crucifying of the old man.

Once we figure out that being identified with Adam wasn't a good position to be in, where do we go? To the cross. To the cross. If we're still identified in Adam, we have all those attributes. The way we get out of it is crucifying the old man. The old man crucified. If I'm a dog, I bark. If I'm a sinner, I sin. So there's nothing I can do to get out of that until I get out of being a dog or a sinner. The only way through that is death. death on the cross, crucified with Christ on the cross, identified with Him.

Now our identification is with Him. And with our identification with Him, we get everything, the attributes of Him. And we get out of the attributes of the old man. And from Miles Stanford's in The Hungry Heart, this was kind of, I like this, how many earnest and religious people belong to the quote, old Adam improvement society? It is the recognition of the Christ life. It is union with the risen Christ that men need instead of the culture of religious self-life. Again, that's really succinct as far as many times trying to fix up the old man. We don't do that. We can't do that. There's nothing we can do. I said last time, you can't choose your parents. was Adam. And there's nothing we can do to get out of that family other than die.

And so through the death on the cross, the crucifixion of the old man, we are identified with Christ. Well, that's a lot of things in predestination, selection, and all those different things. And I went into a little bit of that last week in that all that predestination, selection, and everything, the only thing we are required to do is believe. That's all that we have to do is believe. That's the only requirement we have. Everything else is useless. It's human effort. The only thing He's required on us is belief.

And once we believe, then we are identified with Him, we're put in Him, and then everything that's true about Him is true about us. And now, when you have that, then you have all His... When we always think of the future, and we look out in the future, and what's identified with Christ in the future, well, if we're identified with Him, we have everything that's in the past. And so we have the eternity, we have everything from the foundations of the earth.

He knows us because we're in Him now. We're identified with Him. Everything that's true about Him is true about us now. So the predestination, selection, things like that, those are all based on us being in Him. Once we're in Him, we have all those. And it's kind of like you go through the open door. Through belief, you open the door.

Then once you look back, everything that's true about Him, you can look back and you're looking at all of His attributes and everything that's true about Him. So that's where the only thing required humanly of us is belief or faith in the Word of God and in what He told us there.

As we looked at Romans 6, we saw that we needed to be led to the cross of Christ. At the cross we found salvation, forgiveness of sin, but what else did we find at the cross? And I just went over it. We found that the old man and Adam needed to be crucified. The only way we could get out of our identification in Adam was to crucify the old Adamic man and get us new life identified in Christ. So, several different things, and again, this is all by way of review.

In John 12, 24, truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. Again, the grain theory. I mean, or that analogy, we have to die in order to get new life.

2 Corinthians 5, 17, Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is what? A new creature. The old things passed away, behold, new things have come. And Galatians 2, 20, I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live. But Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself up for me." So, we're new creatures in Christ. We've gone from the identification of Adam, we're now in the identification with Christ. And now that we're new creatures in Christ, what does that mean? And what do we have in Christ?

That's what we're going over with these 34 different attributes. These are the things that in Lewis Perry Chaffer's systematic theology, he basically, I think just to kind of uplift people, is the minute we believe and believe everything that God said about His Son, the crucifixion, and we're identified with Him, these are the 34 things that are immediately, not later, not to come, This is what we're identified right now with Christ, what we have, these 34 things that he just summarized. The minute we believe, we get these 34 different attributes, and that's what we've been going through. And last week, we went through four of them, and if you look on the back of your answer sheet, we'll just go quickly through those. The first one is in the eternal plan of God, and the different ones, as I was just going over, We are foreknown of God. We're elect of God. We're predestined. We're chosen. We're called under the eternal plan of God.

We're reconciled. And then the two different aspects of that, we're reconciled by God and then we're reconciled to God. So the two different attributes or aspects of that. The third one was we're redeemed. And then the fourth is no condemnation. So those are the ones we went through last week. and then we're starting on this week now. So, if you have your questions, and again, if your Bible's out, there are going to be verses that we will go over.

First question, what is propitiation? Someone doing something for you. Yeah. That somebody else is satisfied with. Yes. We've got portions of both the answers they have. Other thoughts? We use it in propitiation. What is propitiation? Other thoughts? To appease or to cause to become favorably inclined Godward. Wow. Yes. Yes, I know. Of course, I always like to, just from the purely secular side, from Webster's Dictionary, to gain or regain the favor of is propitiation.

I thought that was actually pretty good. The Greek word for it, when we go that way, is hilestirion. And it's an expiatory, which means a place or a thing, i.e. an atoning victim. It also said, which is kind of weird, I didn't know this one too, the lid of the ark. Yeah. It's the mercy seat. Yeah. When I first read it, I thought, what?

The lid of the ark? What does that have to do with propitiation? Well, that's it. the mercy seat, so it made sense, but it kind of went through my notes again, and I thought, why is it the lid of the ark? Yes, that's exactly it, it's the mercy seat. The other that I had was, propitiation means the satisfaction of God's holiness. Kind of what came out in the answers there, atoning or the satisfaction. and the lid of the ark. Okay, somebody... should we start in the back? Let's start in the back.

How about Romans 3.23-26? We'll read that and then we'll find out what is our part in being justified.

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth Let me declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say at this time, His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Okay, so we see in there a lot of different things. Gift by His grace in Christ Jesus, a propitiation in His blood, This was to demonstrate his righteousness, he passed over the sins previously committed, that he might be the just and the justifier, all those different things. But what is our part in being justified? Other than believing what's there, base zero. We have to be a sinner. Good point. And did you struggle to become that? No, we're born in it, so that's an easy part. Yeah, actually, that's exactly right.

And if you read in it, in verse 25, "...whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith." And then also in 26, "...that He might be the just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." That's our responsibility. It's again to believe the faith and trust in God's word. That's our responsibility. Anything else, we're horribly doomed for failure.

I looked in Vine's expository dictionary for the Romans in 325. It was kind of interesting. His blood stands for the voluntary giving up of his life by the shedding of his blood in the expiatory sacrifice under divine judgment, righteously due to us as sinners, faith being the sole condition on man's part.

That's the only thing. We just have to get that into understanding. As we've talked about it, and we'll get to it on the last point, I think, on law, We struggle. The old man struggles because he wants to do something. And the law is there. It just raises the flag of law because that gives him something to do.

And the only thing we have to do is believe. And we see this struggle time and time again about the old man wanting to do something. And all we have to do is believe. And we are new creatures in Christ. And it's His work. We're in Him. And the only one who wants a metric, a law, a something to do, is the old man. And when you realize that, when you see when you want to do something, you have to do something. Think about the old man who's trying to scream and justify his life. It's when you have to do something. Merit, human effort.

It's not part of the new creature in Christ. Yeah, I mean, that's faith. That's the only thing. A lot of the words I see now, as I read more and more, is faith and in Him. When you start looking at those phrases, they jump out all over the place. It's faith and in Him.

And in those two things, that's really all you need. When you boil it down and condense it, you need the faith to believe what God said, that you're in Him. And when you're in Him, that's this whole class's identification with Christ. And once you do that, you're in Him, everything that's true about Him is true about you.

That is just mind-boggling to me. I mean, when he stepped into that eternal realm, and it's like everything true about him, both past, future, those are true about us. He's known us, he's predestined, he's chosen us, he's selected us, he's called us, because we're in him. Once we step into him, my little engineering brain just finds it hard to figure that out sometimes, but I believe it.

And the more you believe that, the more rest you have, the more peace you have, the less struggle you have. The old man, the Adam, who was trying to just figure out and make you struggle, you know, the more peace you have, Adam starts to, you know, scream more a lot. That's when you start feeling that. But you start to suppress the old man and the new creation. It's amazing too how he starts to differentiate and be thorough.

It says, apart from the works of the law, and then down there in three it says, circumcised, justified by faith, uncircumcised through faith. I don't know why it says by and through. I think it's kind of the process, by and, you know, it's by this process and then through the process. So it's kind of two different aspects of it, by and through. By is kind of identifying the process and through is the process, kind of the way I look at that.

What are we down to, 3? 1 John 2.2 in the back.

1 John 2.2 if you have that. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Okay, so is propitiation for your sin nature or for your sins? Sins. Sins. Our sins. Okay, and again you can...

What's the difference between propitiation and justification? You know, I think I'll get to that later here on one. Justifies being declared. I'm sorry, I meant reconciliation. The difference between propitiation and reconciliation. Propitiation is just the satisfaction. Reconciliation I think is what we went over last week. We were reconciled by God to God. Yeah, reconciliation is... restoration and then propitiation is the payment for. So, I mean, I say, you know, the reconciliation is kind of our restoration process. Propitiation is the actual payment of. Reconciliation is from our side. Propitiation is from God's side. He does everything. He reconciles. Well, no, now think about this.

If God has been propitiated, that frees Him to reconcile us. If He hasn't been propitiated, there isn't any reconciliation. Now, I get reconciled, God doesn't get reconciled, right? Yeah, we're reconciled too, guys. I don't get propitiated, God gets propitiated. You see the difference?

Now, how do we gain His favor by just believing? But His favor is In Corinthians it was, you know, we are reconciled to him. We are reconciled to him. Well, but he does... Yeah, but he reconciles us to himself. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's got to be satisfied. Okay, yeah, I mean, yeah, the propitiation... The benefit to us is the reconciliation.

The benefit to God is that he has been propitiated and is able to reconcile us. The work of the cross did both of those, but I don't get propitiated, God does. His satisfaction is through Christ and the payment of Christ's blood on the cross for us. That's why propitiation is really important because he's not satisfied about the work of Christ. is being propitiated, then none of the rest of it is true.

Oh, that's true. I look at it too. If Christ wasn't raised, all bets are off. You're still in your sins because God did not accept that payment. He wasn't propitiated. That's right. If Christ wasn't risen, then God was not satisfied or was not propitiated for our sins. And that's the importance of Christ rising, was that's the acceptance of God for the payment of our sins.

And that's the important part, or the propitiation of it. So yeah, I mean, I guess I agree. Everything's done by God. Maybe it's kind of looking at which way you're looking at reconciliation. We're reconciled based on the propitiation, so our benefit, but it's still I mean, Christ does it all. I mean, the propitiation was done by Christ. Satisfying God. So, I mean, it's still not us.

I think on Thursday night we're going through the Resurrection. I want to try this on you. Read about the Resurrection, or read anything, and try to take yourself out of the picture, and look at it from the benefit derived only by God. Oh yeah, right. Oh yeah.

And that's what I think propitiation is. What did God get out of this deal? Oh yeah, He got us. And that's what He wanted. I think that goes back to that all should, none should perish. That's His desire. That's what He wants. He wants to draw us to.

And that's what He got out of it, through Christ, is He got us. And that's an amazing thought too. When you look at the whole picture, He gave us Christ. And He got us. And the reason why I sent Christ was to get us. That's an amazing love. The Lord Jesus Christ got the satisfaction of pleasing His Father, and He got brethren. Doing His will, and He got what He loved. And that's why in John 17, you see, that's the intimacy of John 17, is that love for us.

Romans, what we just read, how ugly are we in Adam? And yet Christ wanted us and died so he could bring us to be new creatures without all that garbage from Adam. That's an amazing thought when you think about that. Well, it's the contrary nature of the will of the first Adam. our satisfaction rests in God's satisfaction.

Because that old man, it's nature is to want to, for every gift there has to be a payment, and I'm going to pay it. Or else I have no righteousness. So then we start to see that it's God's righteousness. It's the righteous one. And propitiation has to do with God's righteousness. Yes, and satisfying his. I always think about, it creeps up when you say that, we struggle with getting a free gift. How many times, and I'm, I don't know if Ingrid is here. She won't hear the tape. The funny part is, somebody invites you over to dinner or gives you a gift.

What is your immediate reaction? Payback. Payback. I mean, you know, when can I have, you know, if they had us over for dinner, well, we'll have them over for dinner. Or, you know, if they give you a gift, well, you know, their birthday is coming up, their celebration, whatever. Your immediate reaction is to give back. You can't, I mean, that's, so when we get a gift of grace or anything like that, what is Adam's first response? Well, what do I have to do for it? Well, you know, I can't rest in that.

That's where his will is, the nature of his will is, and we start to learn. who we are in that first man and through all the struggle we learn to rest in faith in God's satisfaction. See, that's really the spiritual maturity I think is that key right there is resting. I think that's where maturity comes because that's really where you should be is resting in Him. When you're working at it, You're relying on the old man.

When you rest, when you have the rest and peace, that's when he's able to do something. When we're in a position of rest, we're able to do something. When we're not, he'll use us in different ways, but we can't be used effectively by God, I think, until we rest in him. Once we rest, then we can be active. And that's an odd concept. I'm going to rest and then I'll be ready for God. That's not what we're talking about. Like we've discussed on Tuesday, it's not within our own nature, to relax and rest.

We have to hustle. We need that hustle in order to feel satisfied. I am the first to raise my hand in that I need metrics. And the Lord is dealing with me in those. It's not what I have to do. I know I'm an engineer and I need it. If I had a plan and specs and everything, it's perfect. I could build it and make it right there. I can bridge that gap between God if I had the bridge design. But I can't.

We're always talking about principles in here too. All the way through time, one of God's principles has been that you must be satisfied. He's always designing things guys to do to satisfy him, which they always never do. He was just redesigning the program to where we are now.

We'll see, all the Old Testament, I think, obviously it points to Christ and what he did on the cross. Sacrifice, all the different things, blood, all those different things pointed to Christ, who was the perfect sacrifice. So, I mean, a lot of those things set up, I think, to demonstrate what he was going to do in Christ. that the sacrifice, the perfect sacrifice. So, you know, some of those things I think were not just, you know, kind of go out and keep busy. I think it was to point to Christ. All those were to point to Christ and what He was going to do in the perfect sacrifice. So, you know, we got to that point where Christ was the perfect and that's it.

I love the way J.B. Stoney describes Jonah in chapter 2. He says, we're like Jonah in the belly of the whale. You know, we don't have a wheel. At that point, yeah. What do you have? That's kind of like how even Miles explained it where we got on the ship and we're going somewhere and it's all of God. Yeah. You know, again, what do you do?

You rest. You know, you don't try to grab the rudder all the time and direct it. You rest. That man is going to, until he learns. Oh yeah, the old man is like, give me the chart, give me the rudder and I got the motor on full speed and I'm going that way. Somebody else? I was just looking at a note here with Henry Morris. Well, I'll just read this thing real quick.

The term propitiation originally referred to a pagan sacrifice to appease some angry god. Christian use, however, represents a perfect sacrifice which would satisfy both the justice of a holy God who must punish sin, and the love of a gracious God who would redeem sinners. So that love is the overwhelming thing that he is not willing that any should perish, and that he loved all mankind, and that's why he did it. Like I said, as I get all this stuff, I'm going through all this.

Mine is being distilled down to faith and in Him. When you start looking through the scriptures, especially in Paul's epistles, where he looked at it, in Him, in Him, in Him, in Him, in Him, in Him. I did a quick search on mine, and in Him, I think I did that last week, just in Ephesians 1. It's six times in Him, just in Ephesians 1. and in Him, in Him, in Him, in Him. You start looking through all these things, and when it usually says a benefit, it's always followed by in Him. And usually, faith and in Him, those are the two key elements.

And that's really all we have to do. That's our part, is faith, belief. So isn't it interesting how Christians then, while I accept that, that's hard to say, but now I've got to work to keep God believing in me. We were talking about that last week after class. This is a great thing.

We trust God that we believe He's creator of everything and that He's able to save us, but after that we're on our own. How dumb is that? We sit there and He's able to create all the universe, He's able to do all this, He's able to save us, wipe our sins out on the cross, but after that you're on your own. No way. But we think that way. And that is such a wrong concept.

It's actually itself, right? You know, it's the old man. He's off to the side there. Okay, boy, you got your sand. But wait a minute. Come right back over here. We got to work for this thing. And we're all traveling hustlers. Like Paul, I'm foremost of all. For much of my Christian life, was struggling to do things with a good, I mean, I thought it was a very good attitude, a very good, I'm doing it for the Lord. And that's not wrong, but it was like, you know, I think in the back of my mind was always, you know, if I just do a little bit, God will favor me just a little bit more, you know, just a little bit more.

And it's not that way. It's not that way. And you just have to get out of that mode. And it's really tough, but once you do it, guess what comes? You know, I tell Mike sometimes, you know, I have much more peace and rest than I've ever had in my life. As I rest in these facts, as I see this, as I come to this, I actually read what's there. And that's really, really hard to do. When you read Romans, and Mike said that, when you read Romans, and you really just go, do you believe this? If you do, wow. I mean, believe it. Not just read it, believe it. There is just utmost rest in that, in peace, that only God can give you. So, you know, like I said, faith and in Him are the two that kind of boil it down. And then, you know, peace and rest.

So, did somebody else have a hand? Four, and we are really behind. Four, where are we at? Do you want to go? Ephesians 1, 7, and then... And then Colossians 1, 14. And then coming up, 1 Peter 2.24. Okay?

And 1 Peter 2.24.

"...who is his own self, there are sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness. By whose stripes ye are healed." Alright, from these verses, what is the sixth thing that we have? I'll just read them real quickly again so you'll get the emphasis here. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

Colossians 1.14. In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. First Peter, and he himself bore our sins in his body on the cross.

And our sixth that we would have? You know, this is where, you know, it was, Mike sent me some notes, or something on propitiation, but he also, the rest of them, and it was redeemed. That was what he put. Actually, it's all sins removed. Forgiveness of sins. So, whether the word redemption is forgiveness of sins is what I was looking at. the forgiveness of our trespasses, the forgiveness of our sins. He himself bore our sins on his body on the cross. And the way Schaeffer puts it, all sins removed by his efficacious blood. Now who can tell me what efficacious means?

It was enough to pay the price. The cross was the blood of Christ and that's good enough. I had to look it up. I'm an engineer, you know, English is not my first language. Efficacious, producing an intended effect, effectual, effective, efficient. So, through his blood, all sins are removed. Effectively, efficiently, producing an intended effect. So, actually, from those verses I was looking for the sins removed, all sins removed by his efficacious blood. Number five. From these verses, how do we receive the all sins removed? How do we receive that? Inhale. Huh? Inhale. Yeah, but the sins were removed by what? The blood. the blood of Christ. It's on the merit, if you look at that, it's through His blood that the remission of sins or the removal of sins.

Lewis Perry Chaffer, he says, men either stand in their own merit or in the merit of Christ. If they stand in their own merit, there is only condemnation for each individual before God, but if they stand in the merit of Christ being in Him, whether all its righteous ground is comprehended or not. I like that part, because a lot of times we don't understand it, but it's true, even though we don't understand it. There remains naught but continuing union with God, and therefore no condemnation or no separation. And then also, the divine dealing with sin is doubtless difficult for the human mind to grasp, especially such sins as having not been committed.

I like this. We struggle with sins not committed. Right today, what about tomorrow when I kick the dog? You know, I don't know, whatever. You know, sin. Probably five minutes from now, sin. We kind of justify it on what we've done, but what about those ones tomorrow, the next day, and three weeks from now?

The divine dealing with sin is doubtless difficult for the human mind to grasp, especially such sins as having not been committed. However, it will be remembered that all the sin of this age was yet future to Christ, when Christ died. Its power to condemn is disannulled forever. So when you think about it, you know, he died for all the sins, but 2,000 years ago.

Oh wait, that was to today. So, you know, try to put it, it's for everything, all sins. Yeah. That's one of the subtle hooks back into the old man, is that I'm okay right now. Exactly. But if I sin a minute from now, The whole issue of, I've got to do something about that, kicks in. Exactly. And that's, I think, the point of this.

That very fact is that we think of today's sins, or what I did yesterday, or whatever. Well, when you think Christ died for all sins, that was 2,000 years ago. Well, that was for the one I just did right now, or whatever. Well, that was 2,000 years in advance of Christ. Put it out three weeks from now. Is that really going to make any difference from 2,000 years ago to three weeks from now? He's paid for it all. That's where Paul goes for the jugglers. Shall we continue in spirit, grace and love? May it never be. That's why it was so much more than just forgiveness. You could forgive a person and turn around and do the same thing. You'd have to forgive him again and again and again. But it was satisfied because of Because of the propitiation. Propitiation.

And just a quick note on that you can change this. My spell checker did this for me involuntarily. It was actually, you know, an engineer's greatest invention is the spell checker. In position possession number six, I put it, it actually, I mistyped it and then it corrected it and put virtually joined. It's vitally joined. I looked at that and I thought, what? And it's vitally joined together with Christ for judgment of the old self onto a new walk. And since the second bell went off, I heard it this time. Let's close.

Heavenly Father, we thank You for this time. We thank You for any time we can just look into Your Word. Father, we ask that as we do look into Your Word, we're not looking for knowledge or some push-up that we can say that we're gaining favor from You. We go to Your Word to know You and to get that relationship, because that's what it's all about. We thank you that you have your word for us to look into so we can get to know you intimately. And we just realize that all that we have is in Him, in the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.