21, verse 27 We see where sin of every kind is shut out of heaven. Then there’s the beginning of sacri fices for that’s to be the means of God’s grace. That’s the way He shows grace. The sacrifice of the animals in the Old Testament and the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus in the New Testament ending up in Revelation 22, verse 3 where the sacrifice had stopped. The results of it are completed and no more Sacrifice is needed and the sacrifice is something you do constantly. Now today, tonight or the next morning you have some thing to eat at the table. Everything you eat is dead. It died for you. The cow died for you, the chicken died for you, the rabbit died for you, the fish died for you, and the beans died for you. Everything died for you. It’s sacrificed for you. Then the Saviour came and gave His life for you so you could take Him and live. You may con sider a table loaded with the finest things in the world and starve to death if you don’t eat. So you can hear about the Lord Jesus, think about Him, read about Him and sing about Him but you have to take Him, beloved. When you take this living Christ who was dead and now alive forevermore, then your soul is saved. Your heart is relieved. Then there is the beginning of the nation of Israel which happens to be the channel of God’s grace. You see everything God has for us has come down through Israel and you get it in Genesis 12:2, “In thee and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” Now the end of that is in Revelation 21:12 where Israel comes to an end. You go into a new city and end up there nationally. They join in with everybody else all around the throne of God and of the Lamb. Then the beginning of the nations is there, Genesis 11:8, because that’s to be the scope of God’s grace. Every kin dred and nation and tongue and people anywhere, everywhere in the world, they can have this lovely Saviour. They can trust this lovely Lord. They can belong to Christ and live here for Him and then go over there and live with Him. We walk with Him here and so
we walk with Him there. In this na tion, or no matter who they are any where in the world, people can trust the Lord Jesus. Their lives are changed. You know it’s a wonderful thing to me that anybody would turn away from Christ where the results of trust ing Him are so wonderful, so beautiful, so successful. The reason our nation has become so great in education, re ligious things and all sorts of bless ings—music, the arts and sciences—is because we were founded on the Scrip tures and our forefathers were reared according to the Word of God. They loved the church, they went to church and took their children with them. Well the nations become the scope of God’s grace. He doesn’t care whether they are black, white, red, yellow, or brown — “Whosoever will may come and take of the water of life freely.” And then the life of faith is the 7th beginning, Genesis 12, verse 4, and that’s to be the result of God’s grace. First we get the earth the sphere of His grace, then man the subject of His grace, then sin the cause of His grace, then sacrifice the means of His grace, then Israel the channel of His grace and the nations the subject, the scope of His grace, and the life of faith the result of His grace. And all this life of faith is the result of believing God. Then we begin taking God’s path. God’s way. We believe His Word and we want to walk with Him and do what He says because we believe in Him and His program and His way of life and His way of death and His way of eternity. We live a life of faith as did Abraham, Paul, Moses, Mary, Martha, James, and Jude. All of that ends up Revelation 22 and verse 4 where the life of faith isn’t needed any more for they see Him by faith there— it’s wonderful to believe God! He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and Calvary is applied to your heart and soul and life when you trust that lovely Saviour. So I just advise you to come to Him, make Him yours, trust Him with your life and heart and soul now. 7
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