A Christian is one who has been redeemed, not by silver or gold, but by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, as highlighted in Ephesians 1. This redemption involves ransom, emancipation, deliverance, elevation, and enrichment, bringing believers into a position of immense spiritual riches and security in Christ. The sermon emphasizes that believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit, marking them as God's possession, and are the delight of God, possessing eternal redemption and an inheritance in glory. The core lesson is that believers are not merely forgiven but are profoundly enriched and eternally secured through Christ's sacrifice, urging them to live in the reality of these spiritual possessions.
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We are joy having you here this morning and we just trust the Lord who continues to bless his world to all of our hearts and bring forth fruit, lunches and joys for his glory. Now some of you are saying that you are getting too much in one message, some are saying you are getting as many as six messages in one. Well, don't worry about that. I believe like being a good housewife. She believes in spreading her table well. Now what may not be for you may be for somebody else. And just take what belongs to you and forget all about the rest. Now some of your trouble too, but not hearing too well.
Don't worry about that. All the Lord wants you to hear, that's what you'll hear. Did you get that? All the Lord wants you to hear, that's all he wants you to hear. Just take what the Lord gives you and forget all about the rest. And don't get any headache and worry about it. The Lord himself knows exactly what you need, so just take what he wants you to have and accept that with all from his own heart. Right, Ruben, let us go back and go over to Ephesians and chapter one. Ephesians and the chapter one. Now remember we're looking at that wonderful little scripture. A Christian is one remembered who is a child of God.
He is the leader of God and remember now he is redeemed. And redeemed not with corruptible things as silver nor gold, but with the precious blood of our adorable Lord Jesus Christ. So let us look in please at verse number three of the very first chapter. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly in Christ. Now verse number six, to the praise of his glory, the glory of his grace, wherein he had made us accepted in the beloved.
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Now down to verse number eighteen. The eyes of our understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of the inheritance in the saints. And remember we finish off with verse number nineteen last night. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him his own right hand in the heavenly, far above all principality and power, and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, that put
all things under his feet, and get him to be heard over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him, that filleth all and in all. Remember the little words pre-gene. We are thinking of the first letter R and it reminds us of the ransom. The ransom price. The Lord remember he himself is the ransom. Then letter E, emancipation, we have been emancipated, we have been set free through the efficacy and the value of the precious blood of our adorable Lord Jesus.
Then D, we have been delivered with a peaceful deliverance. Two Corinthians chapter one, verse number ten. We are being delivered from sin's penalty. We are being delivered from sin's power. And one day will be delivered altogether from sin's presence. Then we finish with the word. What was the second of the letter E? Elevation. That's right. I'm glad you're still with me. The world is elevation. And we notice redemption is something that lifts up.
The gospel elevates. And thank God for the elevation we have today. Bless with every spiritual blessing in the heaven is in Christ. raised up together, made to sit together in the heavenly in Christ Jesus. And we know this just as God has placed His Son far above all, principality and power, might and dominion, name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is at come, serve the loving, that is our position today. We too have died with Christ, we have been buried with Christ, we have been raised with Christ, and that they were with Christ in the glory.
Mr. T.B. Gilbert met me at Nashville Airport a few weeks ago. As I came out through the gate, he said to me, J.K., yes, T.B., he said, What is the next best thing to know you're going to heaven? I looked at them and said, To know you're there already. I said, That's the answer. That's the answer. Not just going to heaven, we're there now. That's the position now. Our home address is in the heaven is in Christ. Our business address is right down here at Park of the Palm. Got that?
And because I'm holy and without blame before God in love, Peter Pell would say, Now be what we are. Because we're holy in Christ, then let us live a holy life. Because we're righteous in Christ, then let us live a righteous life. Because we are pure in Christ and live a pure life. And He says the Holy Spirit comes to entwell us and to empower us and to enable us that we might live the life down near what we are in Christ before the Father. The wonder is just this, that God is upon the Son with a complete delight and satisfaction.
And notice now, God has accepted Christ and has accepted us in Christ. And the wonder of wonders is that we have complete conference before God this morning. And God sees us right down here now as we are before Him at this very moment. May the wonder it grit your heart and grit my heart. Now the word I want to give you this morning for the next year is the word enrichment. We are Christians, we are enriched. And we shall never be able to measure the immensity of our riches into which we are being brought by the wondrous grace of our adorable Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice something here that will cause our hearts to exalt. In Corinthians chapter nine, we read these wonderful words. Isaiah chapter eight, verse number nine, ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich. Had we been able this morning to fathom the debt from the poverty in which the Lord Jesus Christ has gone, then that we be able to measure the heights of the glory in which he has gone, and we might be able to measure the immensity of the riches that we've been brought into as children of God.
Think of this one co-eternal, and co-equal with the Father, in perfection and in power. Never a time when it was not God, never a time when it will never be God, but God of very God. And this one he veiled all his glory. He took that terrific steward and he came right down, down, the seven steps down in condescending grace. And he says unto the kingdom of Egypt, up unto death, even the cruel, despicable, loathsome death of the cross. Wherefore God has highly exalted him. And give him the name which is above every day.
And in the name of Jesus every knee shall bow. of things in heaven and things in there and things under the air. And every time you confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, the glory of God the Father. Yes, my friend, he came right down to very low death. Thank God, God is highly exorbitant. You know the only other time you come across the world highly? is the connection with the birth of the Lord Jesus. And he says to Mary, The highly favored art thou among women. In connection with his humiliation, and now beloved in his association with his exaltation, wherefore God has highly exalted him.
And this word highly means a super exaltation. It excels all others. And you know something? That's where God has placed His Son. And that's where we are this morning, accepted in the beloved, all the immensity of the riches. I know there's a stupendous. I know my friend on little mind can't grasp it. We just simply can't comprehend all who have been brought into by God's master's grave. Come with me now and see something here. Verse number seven, Ephesians chapter one, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins are called into the riches of his grave.
Now go to verse number eighteen. The eyes of our understanding being enlightened That's another good E for you, by the way, regarding redeem. The Christian is one who has been enlightened. The eyes of our understanding means the eyes of our heart. The eyes of our hearts have been enlightened. That you may know what is the whole of its calling and what the riches of the glory of the inheritance in the sake. Now notice, verse number seventeen, it is the riches of grace. Here it is, the riches of glory.
The riches of glory. Now remember, grace is glory in the bud. Glory is grace in full bloom. We also use the classic underword grade, G-R-A-C-E, God's riches at Christ's expense. And we this morning have God's riches, but at the expense of His beloved Son. All that we ever will hope to have, and all that we ever will be, and all that we are now, is all because of the Son of God.
And all because we'll link up with our adorable Lord Jesus Christ. And so now notice verse a number seven of the next chapter. Chapter two, verse number seven. That in the ages that come he might show, notice now, the exceeding riches of his grave in his kindness toward us, through Christ Jesus. Notice first of all the riches of his grave. the riches of his glory, but then he comes to the exceeding riches of his grace. The exceeding riches.
Now go across the chapter three, please, and verse number eight. And notice over your very last phrase. The last five words. The unfilpturable riches of Christ. The unfilpturable riches of Christ. Romans chapter eleven verse number thirty three says, O the debt of the riches of God in Christ. We shall never be able to fathom them, nor measure the heights of them, nor measure the breadth of them. Beloved not only have the riches of His grace and the riches of glory and exceeding riches, but now He says they are the unsearchable riches.
Oh, let some of you have just come over your spirit life. And here you'll cry, Oh, the depths of the riches. When I go back in my Bible, So Proverbs chapter ten and verse number twenty-two, I read a very remarkable statement. It says this, The blessing of God, which make us rich, and addeth no sorrow, there too. Now let us get the three pictures. The blessing, the riches, and the joy. Notice now, we have the blessing because Christ became the curse.
We have the riches because He became poor. We have the joy because He became the man of sorrows. Oh, haven't we got a wonderful Lord? Haven't he got a wonderful Savior? Oh, is he precious to you? We'll sing this morning to you who believe he is precious from having not seen beloved. Is he really precious? Do we really know Him a living reality? Not just in the abstract, not just theoretically. Someone that died upon the cross two thousand years ago lives with Him someplace called heaven millions and millions of miles away.
But do I know Him a living reality, living in my heart? Remember what the Apostle Paul said in Galatians one verse number sixteen, And it pleased his father to reveal his son, Where in me? Oh, have I had that revelation? John Nelson Darby in his wonderful translation, recognized by scholars, and especially by Moody Bible Institute, The Son is one man translation we have. But what does it say? And it pleads the Father to unveil his Son in me.
The wonder of it all. The Lord is burdened dwelleth to beside the veil and reveal Christ living in you. How about Harper and I were together at the convention some time ago? And we were discussing Ephesians chapter three, verse seventeen. that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. I turned to my good God and I said, Harold, does the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ both dwell in the believer? He smiled and said, Jim, look at verse sixteen.
trend all might by his spirit in the inner man. That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. And he said the whole thing hinged upon that little word, that. The Holy Spirit strengthens the inner man Christ. May dwell in your heart by faith. Beloved, one of the first evidences of the filling of the Holy Spirit is He gives an overwhelming sense of the injury in Christ. His presence with all the corresponding peace and joy flooding the heart, they were able to say with the Apostle, It's no longer I, but Christ.
that liveth in me, that Christ that liveth in me. The one of it all, then we can sing, oh, what a salvation is this, that Christ liveth in me. What I'm trying to get across this morning is the realization of the presence and the life of Christ, and all the enrichment that has become ours, all because of that revelation that Christ is the life of my life. Giving that story before you now, remember again the blessing of God, we had the blessing before it because he became a curse.
Major's rich, we have the riches because he became poor. We have the joy and is no sorrow because Christ became the man of sorrows. I thank God this morning he is the man in the glory, the man in the glory. I am let arise receive in all his glory and beauty, yet by his Spirit he lives in you. and he lives in me. Oh, the one with all. Now, keep that before you, go back to me now to another scripture. Second Corinthians chapter eleven. I want to see the progress here and the ever deepening and the ever widening result of the riches we've been brought into.
Oh, we're such a wealthy people. We are such a rich people. Then the other day there's some preacher who got the idea and I trust I'll never get this. I'm trying to get hands out from other people. Just because you're a preacher you think you should have great favors and people should give you things on the cheap. This preacher went to this motor mechanic and he said to him, there was something you'd do wrong with his car, he'd like him to repair the car. They're saying, now when you give me your account, remember, I'm just a poor preacher. He says, yes, I know, I heard you on Sunday.
Well, that's one thing I trust, I'll never do. Give anybody the impression, I may be a poor preacher, but I don't want anyone to ever think I'm poor because I never am poor. I'm a multimillionaire in Christ Jesus. He's actually everything to me, the wonder of it all. Now let's go to please. Chapter eleven, the second chapter of the Corinthians, and verse two. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you a changed virgin as a Christ. The word I want to give you is the word espoused.
We are his espousal and the idea here is that we are married as a Christ. Remember the bridegroom is just so happy because of the bride. And remember the friend of the bridegroom, John three, twenty-nine, rejoices with the bridegroom. He's just so happy. And the word here is, we are espoused at the Christ, members of his body, flesh of his flesh, bone of his birth.
Remember, just as it was taken from Adam's sight, Mary said, Why? She's burned of my bone, flesh of my flesh. So beloved this morning we are the completeness in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. He we are not only his body, thank God we are his bride. And we've been espoused to Christ, a chaste, a virgin. Now go back with me to chapter nine, will you? And verse eleven. Being enraged in everything to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God.
The wonder of being espoused to Him just filled our heart with joy. But now we are enriched in everything. Not only are we espoused, that we are enriched, being enriched in everything to all bountifulness. And notice the result, which causes through us thanksgiving to God. Now go to chapter six and verse number eleven. O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Notice the creedal expression, is pounced, enriched and enlarged.
It's ever increasing, ever deepening, Thank God the day because we are a spouse to Christ that is very blind. So this morning we are enriched. And Psalm one hundred nineteen thirty-two says, I will run the way of thy commandment when thou shalt enlarge my heart. So thank God this morning for the enlargement of heart. Now I cannot but think that is the desire of us being here in these days of conference, not only to know the joy of this wonderful espousal, only to know the joy of this wonderful enrichment, but that our own heart may be enlarged in a fourfold way, enlarged for the Lord Himself.
Remember it says in Ephesians chapter three, verse seventeen, that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. The word dwell means to settle down and be at home. Not just as a guest, he comes in as a host. It's not enough to give Christ a place in my life. He must have not only the prominent place, he must have the preeminent place. so our heart must be enlarged for the Lord himself. People sometimes, you know, as we travel up and down the country, say, there's your room, Mr.
Basel, now make yourself perfectly at home. I usually take them at their word and do that very thing. I am just as happy in the kitchen as I am in my own study or bedroom, whatever they may put me. I like to be at home. But you know, After I have left me in my room and I get down by the bed or by the chair, and thank the Lord for taking me to that area. And pray the great plan of my being that will be wrought out of his own glory. Now I begin to unpack. Now I go across the closed cupboard. Now I'm going to put away my suit. I've got another suit, by the way. I go and I'm going to put away my suit.
Now, the door springs open. There's not an inch of room from my suit. about make yourself perfectly at home. I've got a chance to draw the tall boy, and I'm going to put away my regiment key or my study books. The first draw is lost. The next one is lost. It comes out right now. The third one is already fooled about make yourself perfectly at home. See what I'm getting at. Come in, Lord. But Lord, that cupboard there, Lord, is rather fool. I don't want to go in there, Lord. Lord, I've got that drawer locked against you. I don't want you to look in that drawer, Lord. Oh, the other drawer.
Lord, the certain things has drawn us really fool. Don't be trying to do that with the Lord. Oh, the day, beloved me, your heart, my heart being large, every avenue, every cover, every drawer, every shelf in the shell behind the door, all cleaned up. Then he came into all his wonderful folders, for we might know the wonderful enrichment which is ours in him here and now. For he comes in, he brings all the blessing with him. For the same Revelation, verse twenty. Behold, I stand in the door and knock. If anyone here, my bosom, open the door, I will come into him, and will stop with him, and he with me.
Harold Barker... who along with Harold Wilde is to my mind, I think, of the world's best storytellers. Now I mean storytelling in the right sense of the word. Hey, Botley, Harold Barker told the story of a man who worked as a gardener for a very wealthy gentleman in Cumberland in England. And one day after the morning service, the breaking bread, the master said to his servant, says, John, I'm coming home for lunch with you today. Am I a little cottage down by the gate?
Yes, John, I'm coming home for lunch with you today. And immediately John looked at his wife and he thought that the little vegetable soup was going to have and that little cheese sandwich was going to have for life and now the master's coming for lunch. Oh, what shall we do? See, don't worry, John, I am bringing everything with me. Everything with me. So the carriage and pair in those days, not the car, the carriage and pair stopped at the lodge. And it occurs then that the footman, he carried all things in. John's wife fed a beautiful white woman to him across the table.
They brought a near turkey, they brought in a boiled ham, they brought in sausage, they brought in butter and eggs, and all the various trimmings, all the nice desserts and pudding and cake brought everything with them and the people was loaded. What happened? John and his wife, along with a man from the other gates, they are just drawn here. And they participating. They become, my friend, the recipients of all the masters have provided for them. She loves these ass words.
The boss said to John, John, I want you and your good lady to come up to the big house. Come up with us today for lunch. You've never been up there, John. You want to come back with us. And so John and his wife were very happy about this. They drew right past the lodge, right up the lone driveway, right up the big hill, and the butler met them, see them in the reception hall, into the drawing room, and then as they gone away, and they all assembled there in the dining room. John and his dear wife. The table was creaking with all the riches and the royalties there on that board. What's the lesson? It was all provided by the master.
Now the child of God, get it. The Lord said, I will come into him and suffer with him, and he brings everything with him. Pardon, peace and power, love, light, liberty and light. He brings joy and awe so unspeakable and full of glory. Oh, a needful time present. He brings everything with him because it's all treasured up in his own glorious person. And one day along, do you know something it may be today, he's going to say, now I want to come home with me. Come home with me. And all that rich royal marriage suffer.
All my friends think of all the royalties and the dangers they're waiting. I think of the Queen of Sheba when she had come and seen all the glories and all the wisdom and all the riches belonging to Solomon. Why, with no more strength less energy, Christ, the half has never yet been told. All we could only just get what we've been brought into is a child of God. Oh, the immensity of the riches. Oh, what a wealthy people we really are. Do you believe that, my friend, this morning? I see some of you nodding. I know you believe that.
Don't be afraid to say, Amen. Here's the whole thing, children of God. Now, a Christian is not only redeemed but a ransom. That only is he, my friend, emancipated and delivered and elevated. But, oh, thank God today he is enriched. He's enriched, and enriched with all the riches that God has for us treasured up, and His beloved Son. Let us this morning go in unto them. our possessions in Christ Jesus. Someone leaving yesterday morning said, Why, I never lied, I was so wealthy. I think I'm asking for a loan.
I think I'm asking for a loan. Oh, children of God, go and draw. Let us say, remember, in Philippians chapter four, verse number nineteen, My God supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Now notice, not out of the abundance of his riches, but according to his riches in Christ Jesus. Now notice, according to his riches in glory, who are in Christ Jesus.
An illustration. A dear man from time ago gave me forty dollars as a gift in the Lord's name. I appreciated it immensely. Came at a time when it was needed. But you know, I knew that man, and still know him, to be a multimillionaire many times over. Now that man did not give me according to his riches, but out of the abundance of his riches. His daughter sent me a check for two hundred dollars sometime afterwards. But again I knew her to be a lady, a millionaire over and over and over again.
She did not give me according to her riches. but out of the abundance of her riches. But he doesn't do that. You know? He gives it according to his riches in glory. And so the Samuels could say, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not walk. I know you can't divorce these two little praises. You shall never walk, because the Lord is your shepherd. Like the little boy in Scotland was there to repeat Romans Psalm number twenty-three of the Sunday school tree.
He got up and he said, The twenty-third Psalm, the Lord is my shepherd. He forgot it. The twenty-third Psalm, the Lord is my shepherd. Again he forgot it. Well, third time's working. The twenty-third psalm, the Lord is my shepherd, that's enough. He walked off the clapper. But isn't that good theology? Eh, is it? The Lord is my shepherd, that's enough. Lord, thou art enough. The mind and heart are filled. O fix my eyes, so holy the Lord of thee, that with thy beauty occupied, I elsewhere, none may see.
So let us go now to our next letter, M. And the word is, our redeemed person is marked. There's a mark upon him. Now go back to Ephesians chapter one, just to find the mark, shall we? Now it is a verse that we might easily quote for you, but it's good for you to see them for yourself. Verse number twelve. that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom he also trusted, as that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, In Him also after that you believe, you are sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, and through the redemption, the purchase possession.
Notice now, under the praise of His glory. The words found in verse through the reading, You are sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. Now there you have the mark. We are being sealed, and the Spirit himself is the seal. He doesn't make the seal, he himself is the seal. Remember the old thing we sometimes think, and on each he set his own secret sign. They have my Spirit. They say, He are mine. When my all-adventured on Christ's atoning blood, the Holy Spirit entered.
and I was born of God. Yet to love it therein had we the seal this morning, the mark, we're a child of God. Way beyond the Ephesus, and it calmed those great harbors there, and they bring the magic timbers in, and they sell the timbers. And there's a certain mark, a certain stamp, the same with the shepherd. They go to the market and they buy the sheep. And they've got a pot of paint, a certain color, and it belongs to that particular farmer. And his shepherd takes the paint, having bought the sheep, and he plays that stamp, that paint on that sheet.
And everybody knows that particular flood of sheep. or that individual sheep belongs to a certain farmer. There's the mark. There's the mark of ownership. Remember, too, how the timber is taken and there's a stamp there, a seal put upon that timber. It belongs to certain merchants. So I'm thinking now the idea of the seal. The wax is melted, and there is that seal that's tapped, and that remember, that seal's taken, placed in the melted wax, and put upon the document. And there, my friends, their impression is made, the image of the seal is transferred to that document.
Now, I know this, the first point, is a mark of ownership. It's a mark of security. is a mark of identification. Now because we be redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, and we are his own dear children, his place is mark upon us. And remember first of all, there is the seal. There is the seal. What is it? The mark of ownership. See my friends, We're all were virtues by him, not the silver and the gold, for his own particular possession purchased by his precious blood.
Now the seal does not make me his. The price paid for me makes me his. But he placed a stamp upon me. There's a mark of ownership. Now I want you to get this. Now I think we ought to preach it more in our gospel ministry. Not only do we have the forgiveness of sins the moment we believe, but that moment the Holy Spirit enters into our lives. The two go together. The forgiveness of sins are the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And there you have the mark, the seal. They're the mark of ownership. And the mark of security. Thank God that seal can never be broken. That seal can never be broken. I notice what it says in chapter four, verse thirty, or the same letter.
First of all, he remembers him, there is a person and he is himself the seal of the Spirit. There's a time when, notice now, on believing, we were sealed with the Spirit. And notice now the duration. It says in verse thirty, Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby we are sealed unto the day of redemption. My friend, known as the duration, this refers now to redemption of the purchased possession. The redemption of the body refers to Romans chapter eight. And my friend, this may take place today.
Oh, the wonder of it all. So there is a fact of identification. Now, the stamp is being placed upon us. And we shall reveal something of the image. of our adorable Lord Jesus. Your life and my life should be an outshining of the indwelling Christ. Remember when we lose some of us all together, but see him in all his glory and beauty. The Mark. Now go down to the next one, will you? And this is a very precious one to me too. It really fills my heart. And remember Hebrews chapter nine and verse number twelve. Hebrews nine.
and verse number twelve. This is a very precious one regarding redemption. Kneel by the blood of God and caused by his own blood. He entered in once into the holy place, notice now, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Verse number fourteen. How much more shall the blood of Christ hurl through the eternal Spirit, offer themselves without spot to God? Purge your conscience from dead works to save the living.
God. Notice in verse fourteen the work of the Trinity here. The blood of Christ, by the eternal Spirit, offer themselves to God. Now verse fifteen, the latter part. They which are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Notice this, that threefold picture won the eternal redemption by the eternal spirit and all for the eternal inheritance. I love the word eternal, don't you? There is a duration. and were sealed unto the day of redemption.
Now notice, this is an eternal redemption, not just for time, but for all eternity. Now go to Isaiah, will you, in chapters forty-three for my last picture. Now I wish we were just starting in here now, instead of having to finish. In fact, I may continue here tonight. I think I wouldn't be able to finish this. But notice where you please, it's after forty-three and verse number one. But now thus says the law that created thee, O Jacob, and here it formed thee, O Israel, Fear not, for I have redeemed thee.
I have called thee by name. Thou art mine. Verse four, Since thou was precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable. I have loved thee. Therefore, when I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Verse number seven, even every one that is called by my name, for I have created him for my glory. I formed him. Yea, I have made him.
Keep that before you and go back to Psalm number eighteen, Psalm eighteen, verse number nineteen. You get the word I have for you regarding the deed. Psalm eighteen, verse number nineteen. He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. He delivered me because he delighted in me. The word I want to give you for the last letter D is the word delight.
Thank God the redeemed of those who have been ransomed at a price. They are emancipated. They are delivered. They are elevated. They are enriched. They are marked with an eternal mark. And thank God they are the delight. of God. We find all our delight in him. A dear brother John leaving yesterday morning came to me and quoted a verse I meant to finish with. Now do it right now. Again written the fly leaf of John Nelson Darby's Bible.
That thou should find delight in me and be the God thou art. It's darkness to my intellect. but it's sunshine in my heart. Or he should find the Lord in us. I simply can't understand it. But thank God he does. I go on from there tonight. I want to speak on that last word tonight. The word, we are his delight. We are his delight. From Sam now, there are there in Isaiah chapter forty-three. May I read the verse again? He brought me forth also into a large place.
He delivered me because He delighted in me. May God add His blessing to the meditation upon His word this morning. Hymn number, one hundred and forty-nine. One hundred and forty-nine. redeemed how I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, redeemed for his infinite mercy, his child, and forever I am. One full night. Oh, here now, shall we?
Here they came how I lost her from David. In Zion and forever I am There is he, there is he, there is he by the blood of our men There is he Now remember, you're a child of his, so when you call it his child, say, But all the power is far away. There may be someone here, and you're not yet a child of God.
You've never yet entered into the good of your redemption. The price has been paid for you. but you're not in the good of this, if you're not saved, may God give you grace to trust him this morning. If you are a Christian, are yet going round and not entering into your possessions, may God give you grace to appropriate by faith, all to the jewels in him this morning. The second verse of it goes, Raising man and happy is Jesus, in a land made by your ashes and guilt. I dare the light of His presence, which made us continually dwell.
Every day, every day by the blood of the Lamb, A regime, regime, be his child and forever I am. I think of my blessed Redeemer. I think of him over the Lord. I think of him ahead of me silent. His love is the theme of my song. Received by the blood of the Lamb, Redeemed, Redeemed by His child and forever I am.
Now notice the words, the last verse, and the light of what we're going to go on with tonight. Beautiful words, all together. Through nothing which girdeth my thirsteth, giveth me strong, given thee the night. And re-giveth, re-giv, re-giveth I the blood of the Lamb. There he is, great he is, his child, and forever I am.
Our Father, we thank thee that we can bow my presence this morning as our own dear children. claims by precious blood, saved by matchless grace. We have once a far offer been made known to thee, and look up this morning and say, Abba, my own dear Father. O God, grant all of us here, may be able to say triumphantly, Thank thee, O God, for saving my soul, showing me the good of this wonderful redemption, Now give me grace to enter writing and present all thou hast for me through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Father, with thy blessing, keep us in the hollow of thy hand, mere demeanor, our deportment, our manner of living. All enhance the person's work of the Lord Jesus, that we shall walk before man as those redeemed and possessed by the Lord himself in his spirit's name. Amen. Page was coming out this morning. God bless you each one.