Summary
That's just, that's just the reverse, that's so often we can be tempted to think that I don't know what I'm doing, but I must be doing something right because, boy, my life seems to be really going good, right? The king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebiusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, you will not come in here, even the blind and the lame will turn you back, thinking, David cannot come in here, nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David. When you're on Facebook and you're giving your opinion on something that you just don't like you're witnessing because the people that read that say you know I know that I know that person they go living word. And so again, the Lord put his word into Bailem's mouth and he says, go back in the second or oracle in chapter 23 in verse 18 or beginning in verse 18, then Bailem uttered his oracle saying, rise, Bailek, and here, listen to me of son of Zippor. Would you open your Bibles, please, with me, to John the first chapter for our time in God's Word today, if you're using a Pew Edition of Holy Scripture, you're going to find that in the New Testament on page 80, John the first chapter. Jesus Christ laid himself as the sacrificial lamb upon the altar before the Lord, the altar that was the cross of Calvary, where he hung dying for your sins, for my sin to take the stench of our sin, and remove it from us, and instead lay before the altar of the Lord himself, the sacrificial lamb, the aroma that is pleasing to the Lord, to be there eternally in our place, eternally lifting the aroma of sacrifice before the Lord, in his death, Christ conquered death, and in conquering death, he has the eternal victory over sin.
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