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Rediscovering and Proclaiming the 5 Solas, Part 5

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Rediscovering and Proclaiming the 5 Solas, Part 5

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Christ is the main point of the Bible, and the whole Bible testifies to him. The Reformation emphasized Christ alone as the mediator between God and humanity, and the Holy Spirit applies Christ's saving work to those who hear the gospel. Through faith, believers can experience the power of the gospel for salvation, and Christ's blood cries out for forgiveness and cleansing, making it possible for people to draw near to God without fear.

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Hi, this is Josh Montez and welcome back to the Hymn We Proclaim podcast. In this special six-part series, we're revisiting the foundational gospel truths that turned the world upside down 500 years ago and still shape the Christian life today. We're talking about the five solas of the Reformation.

Sola Scriptura, Scripture alone, it's our final authority.

Sola gratia, grace alone saves us, not merit.

Sola fide, faith alone, not works, justifies.

Solus Christus, Christ alone is our only mediator. and solia deo gloria to God alone be the glory. But these aren't just historical slogans, they're fuel for the Christian life. Pastor John unpacks how each one connects directly to our daily battles with sin. our assurance in Christ and our joy in the gospel.

You'll come away not only understanding what these solas mean, but how they free you to live with confidence, conviction, and clarity. Here's Rediscovering and Proclaiming the Five Solas, Part 5. What I have to see the most. is Christ. I have to see him.

Because the Apostle Paul says, by beholding. Christ. We are changed from one degree of glory to the next. And you're thinking, oh gosh, how does that happen? I can't explain it.

I'm just telling you, that's how it works. We have to see Christ. And here's the thing, we cannot see him. We can't see him from scripture. We can't see Christ.

We cannot hear Christ. As Jesus says, my sheep hear my voice and they follow me. But how can we hear? How can we see? It's the gift of the Spirit.

It's the Holy Spirit. That's why we always pray that before, this sermon, the message. A miracle has to take place in church, something that is supernatural. Coming to church is not just Just this perfunctory duty that we do. We don't come to church because, oh, it's Sunday, so let's retire, but let's just get up and drag ourselves to church.

If we understood the gift that was here for us. We would walk to church, even in Jacksonville, as big as it is. We would do anything to get here because we know what is here for us when we come. And he asked the Holy Spirit to come. Why is this important?

Christ alone. He is our mediator before God. That's our hope. That is our only hope. That's who we're going to see today.

Because back in the Middle Ages, the minister, please never view me like this. Yeah. The minister was seen as having this special relationship with God. As though he mediated God's grace and forgiveness through the sacraments. But it was against this unscriptural teaching.

That The Protestant reformers. Emphasize. Christ alone. Which what does that mean? What does this phrase mean?

Solus Christus. What does it mean? This, that Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah, He is the only mediator. Between God, a holy God, and sinful man, myself. This is what the Apostle Paul states in 1 Timothy 2, verse 5.

He says, There is one God and one mediator. Also, between God and man, the man, Christ, Jesus, the Messiah. The one who is the fulfillment of all the scriptures, we'll come back to that. It's him. Question 15 in the Heidelberg Catechism asked this question: What kind of mediator and redeemer must we seek?

It's a great question. And it says, This one who is a true and sinless man. Yet more powerful than all creatures, That is at the same time God. Question 16. Why must he be a true and sinless man?

Yeah. Listen, because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which has sinned shouldn't make satisfaction for sin. But No man, being himself a sinner, could satisfy for others. Question seventeen. Why must he be at the same time true God?

That by the power of his divine nature, he might bear in his human nature. What? The burden of God's wrath. And so obtain for And restore us to righteousness and life. Question 18.

So who is this mediator? Who is at the same time true God? Infant man. A sinless man. Who is it?

Who is this mediator? And it's as this, Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who is freely given unto us. Freely. What is he given for? And here, here's the prize.

Here's Christmas morning. Here's the gift that we come to receive at church. He has been freely given. For unto you a child is born, unto you, a son is. Given.

For what? Complete redemption. Complete righteousness. What a gift. And you can't have that gift without the work of the Spirit.

You can't understand it. You can't receive it. It has no power. It's what Calvin says when he's talking in 2 Corinthians about the new covenant. He says that the gospel comes to us without power apart from the Holy Spirit.

The gospel is just a dead word. And so, Holy Spirit, we pray, come and open my eyes. I don't understand these kinds of things. This is not natural. No, it's not natural.

It's supernatural. This is miracles that take place for us to understand and grasp these things. Not just intellectually, understand that. But to feel it deep in my soul. To feel the freedom of righteousness before God.

To feel the liberation of the gift of repentance when I sin and I turn from it and I come back to Christ. to find life. Have some work of the Holy Spirit. To understand that Jesus is my mediator before God makes all the difference. You're going to see that as we continue.

But it is by Christ, solus Christus, Christ alone, that my sins are taken away. It's by Christ alone that I have righteousness before God. It's by Christ alone, not that I've just been reconciled to the Father. Listen to this, but the articles of religion, our church's confession of faith from the Protestant Reformation. It says that Christ has reconciled the Father to us.

You see that because God is our what enemy? He is against us. Apart from Christ. And so we're going to see in just a moment, God. apart from the mediation of Christ is terrifying.

Christ bridges this gap between the holy God. And a sinful humanity. How? Because as our mediator mediates his life that he has, that he has lived for us, that we shouldn't live but can't. He has paid for us as our mediator.

He mediates his, the payment fully for the penalty we deserve for the life we have lived but shouldn't. And so it's just this message that can give us assurance that we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ because He is our mediator. Michael Horton, who's coming to our conference, I'm just going to give this advertisement again. I just cannot tell you, I was up with some people last week at this retreat, and I was telling about all the speakers who were coming, and they looked at me and they said, you've got to be kidding. How in the world did you get five world-class Reformation scholars who just oozed the gospel?

to come to your church. And I said, God did it. It is such a gift for us to have this coming up. Tell the world about it. Tell everybody, invite everybody to come.

They've got to hear this. Listen to what Michael Horton says about Christ allos Christus. He says the Reformation was more than anything else an assault on faith in humanity. And it was a defense of this idea that God alone reveals Himself and saves us. We do not find him, he finds us.

We just sang that right before I got up. How did he come to me? On the cross. He came and found me. When I was lost in my sin, We do not find him, he finds us.

That emphasis was the cause of the cry: Christ alone.

Solus Christus, Christ alone. Why? Because Jesus was the only way of knowing what God and who God is really like. It's the only way of entering into a relationship with Him as our Father, not as our judge. It's the only way of being saved from his wrath.

Thomas Cranmer. The great archbishop who gave his life for these doctrines. Burnt at the stake in Oxford. for preaching what I've been preaching to you. This is what he wrote about Christ alone.

He says we're justified only only by faith. In Christ. I'm not sure if I can do it. According to the meaning of the ancient authors, the ancient church taught this. And he says, and this is what they taught.

We put our faith in Christ that we're justified by Him alone. that we're justified by God's free mercy alone. By the merits of our Savior Christ alone. Do you hear that? Faith alone.

Grace and Loan. Christ alone. Those are three always in one sentence. This is what they preached. This is what they were burnt at the stake for.

This is worth dying for. He says, This comes by no virtue or good works of our own that are in us. or that we're able to have or to do. Kim deserved the same. Christ Himself, listen to this, Christ himself.

Is the only meritorious cause of our salvation. That's what we pray up here each week when we're giving thanks to God as He feeds us through His visible gospel, bread and wine in the sacrament. We say thank you based upon the merits, the perfect merits of your Son. Listen carefully. Christ is the main point.

of the Bible. People say, no, he's not. The glory of God is, to which I reply, Christ. is the glory of God. The whole Bible testifies to him.

Last week On this retreat, Pete Wilkinson from Oxford, St. Ab's Church. came and preached. I had no idea who was coming to the retreat to preach. And when he got to the retreat, he stood up and he says, Please open up to Zechariah.

And I'm thinking, oh, no. What are we gonna get? I never even heard of him. And he began to unfold Christ from Zechariah throughout that whole book. And my heart just sat there and burned as tears dripped off my face.

It was incredible. And guess what? Pete's coming to our church from St. Ebb's, Oxford, to preach for us. Because it was that good.

It was incredibly good. And I can't wait for our church to hear him. Christ is the main point. of the Bible. The whole Bible testifies to him.

Luke 24, Luke records for us. This scripture lesson that Jesus gives to two of his disciples as they walk together on the Emmaus Road. It's what my professor Dennis Johnson calls the walk through the Bible that sets hearts afire. Because that's what happened to them. Listen, verse 27 and Luke 24, beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, he explained to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures.

That's talking about Genesis to Malachi.

Now, the Old Testament. Verse thirty-two. They said to one another, were not Our hearts Burning. Right, Wayne said it. I saw his lips.

Were not our hearts burning, burning within us? Why? While he was speaking to us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us. We got to taste that. I got to taste that last weekend, and it just ministered to me, and it's continuing to to this day.

Because the greatest need that we have, the greatest purpose for why we come to church, is to see Christ. To see him. Why? So that we can feel our hearts burn, which changes us. Jesus taught these two disciples how to find him in the Old Testament scriptures.

He gives them the definitive interpretation of the Old Testament. He reveals that there is one supreme subject that binds all of Scripture. Together. Which is this Jesus Christ in the salvation that the triune God offers through him. This is what Jesus says in John chapter 5, verse 39, speaking of the Old Testament.

He says to these Jewish unbelievers, He says, These are the scriptures that testify about me. And so as you go through the Old Testament and you see the New Testament interprets the Old Testament through the interpretive key, which is the gospel, the Jesus event. You see how the New Testament shows us that Jesus is our prophet, priest, and king. Moses, a great prophet, not good enough. He's pointing us to Christ.

All the prophets, not good enough, pointing us to Christ. The priests, they all failed, not good enough. They pointed us to Christ. Every king of Israel, every son of David after Solomon. Failed.

Another one comes to the throne. Failed. Another one comes to the throne. Failed. Another one comes to the throne.

Failed. When is the Son of David going to reign forever and more? Jesus comes. the son of David, and he succeeds. The Great King.

Christ saves his people from their sins, Matthew 1:21, because why? He's our prophet who reveals to us through his word. And by the power of His Holy Spirit, the will of God for our salvation. Christ is our priest, who offered himself as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice for us. Christ is our King who is subduing us to himself, not by, listen, coercion and fear, but by kindness and grace.

As we sang, he's good and he's faithful and he's kind and he's strong. He subdues us to Himself. He rules us. He defends us. He restrains us.

And he conquers all his and our enemies. He is our king. And he's coming again. Listen, don't lose heart about election season. I get it.

I love politics, but I'm never going to talk about it in the church because it's not what the church is for. I tell you something. Christ, the kingdom of God is not coming on Air Force One. It's coming on a white horse called Jesus, who is the king. And when he returns, you're gonna know.

It's going to be the Bible says loud and clear. That is our hope. That is our hope. Richard Hooker, this great theologian in the sixteenth century from the Reformation. He says that Christ that Scripture has Christ as its center and interpretive key.

Listen to what he says. The main drift of the whole New Testament is that which Saint John sets down as the purpose. of his own history. What is it? What was the purpose of John's gospel?

To convince the Jewish people this. These things are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, that he is the Messiah, that he is the fulfillment of the entire Old Testament. The Son of God. and that by believing you might have life through his name. The draft of the Old Testament.

is that which the apostle mentions to timothy The holy scriptures, the Old Testament. Paul was talking to Timothy about the Old Testament. When Paul wrote this to Timothy, they still didn't have the complete New Testament. And so he says, Timothy. The Holy Scriptures, the Old Testament are able to make you wise unto salvation.

And Hooker says, so that the general end of both the Old Testament and the New Testament is one. The difference between them consists of of this. Done. Dang y'all. Old Testament did make wise by the teaching of salvation through Christ that should come.

And he says, and the Jesus whom the Jews did crucify and whom God did raise again has come. It is he. Said it simply, the Old Testament promises Christ to come. The New Testament shows us the fulfillment of what the Old Testament promised. But they both had the same purpose to testify to Christ.

There's one supreme subject that binds all the scriptures together: Jesus Christ and the salvation God offers through him. And so, through the preaching of the gospel, The Holy Spirit sets forth the person and work of Christ and applies Christ. And his saving work to those who just simply hear. That's why, when you come to church, you just sit a bunch. Why?

Because we all want to be Martha. None of us want to be merry and just sit. How can sitting change me? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ. Jesus says, Mary has chosen the better.

When Jesus is present, what do you do? You sit down, stop talking, open your ears, and listen. And he changes here. Because he doesn't need our service. We need him to serve us.

Graham Goldsworthy says: the gospel is the power of God for salvation. And he says, this means a whole of salvation for the whole person.

Some of you here this morning, your hearts are broken. Your emotions are wrecked. You have deep sorrows and you've got struggles and trials and anxieties and depression and discouragement. Felix, your life is shot. I get it.

From age 30 to forty. That's what I thought about my life. My life is done. My life is shot. I'll never speak again.

I'll never preach again. I'll never teach again. I'll never pray with my kids again. I just married Olivia. A couple weeks ago, and she never heard me speak to her till she was seven, and that hurt her.

Mommy, what's wrong with Daddy? Why won't he why won't daddy speak to me? I get it. You don't want to get out of bed in the morning another day, and the sun comes up. You don't want to get out of bed.

I get it. For a decade I got it. And in that pain, that's where the Holy Spirit. Slowly and gently open my eyes to say, you don't know me. You don't know this gospel.

I'm going to teach it to you. I'm going to teach this to you, Christ. You don't know what the cross is about. You don't understand. God is your father.

He's not angry with you. Your penance is not repentance. It's your fig leaves that you're trying to give to me to restore your relationship with me. And it's not going to be acceptable. I'm not going to look at that.

I don't take that. Salvation is for the whole person, your mind, your emotions, your body, your nervous system, all of you. We're not Gnostic Platonic spirits. We are humans. That have bodies, and the body matters.

That's why, when we come to our church, people say, Well, gosh, I don't like all that nailing stuff they do at Paramount Church. Too bad. Because we worship God with our whole body, not with just this ethereal spiritual. Practice. We give him everything.

Salvation is to the whole man. He restores our brains. He restores our nervous system. He restores our health. He restores our emotions.

He heals the brokenness of our hearts. He takes all of our disillusionment and he gives us life. He takes all of our guilt, all of our shame. He redeems us and he reconciles us to the Father. He ministers to us.

He's kind. Christ, our mediator, is a friend of sinners. And so Branton Goldsworthy says: the gospel converts us, the gospel sustains us in the Christian life, the gospel brings us to maturity, and the gospel brings us to perfection through our resurrection from the dead. That's good news. All of that comes through the mediation of Christ, our mediator, solus Christus, Christ alone, all of it.

This is what Martin Luther says. In Christ. The door of grace is open to you. Did you hear that? In Christ, the door of grace is open to you.

Do you have sin this morning? Oh, yes. I've got it piled up. What? overflowing out the top of my head.

I'm filled with it. And in Christ, the grace, the door of grace, it's open to you. We need this kind of assurance that God is for us. Where do I get the assurance that God is for me? This is where the Holy Spirit's witness to Christ is so important because in Christ alone, God has come near to us.

He is Emmanuel, He is God with us. I started listening to Christmas music early this year. And I've already sent to her some text, and I say, here's a good song, and here's a good song. Why did I do that?

Well, I like Christmas music, but because I love the Christmas message: God is with us. What is that? God is with us. How? He's with us in our sin, He's with us in our guilt, He's with us in our failure, He's with us in our weakness, He's with us in our fears, He's with us.

He has drawn near to us. And it's in Christ alone that we come to see that God is for us. Who's us? Sinners. Yeah.

Do you know why this is so important? Know that God is for us. Again, listen to Michael Horton. He's just brilliant. He says, we can perceive God's nearness as a threat.

All our fears come down to this. We're afraid of someone knowing our deepest secrets. our cherished transgressions. and our failures to fulfill our chief end. He's exactly right.

Because of the fall, all men, like Adam and Eve, hide themselves in fear of God and take their fig leaves of whatever it is to cover up their guilt and shame before God, their sin, and they hide in fear. And when God comes calling in judgment to Adam, where are you? Adam replies, I heard the sound of your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked.

So I hid myself. I was fully exposed to you, a holy God of judgment, in my guilt and sin, and I'm terrified. And tragically, Adam's fearful response becomes the reply of every human conscience in the presence of God as God's question of judgment just rings through the conscience. Where are you? Where are you?

Where are you? Where are you in relationship to me?

Now that you've broken my law, how do you stand before me? Where are you? And your conscience hears this, and so it has to hide and it has to suppress it and it has to pull back from God in fear. People have to medicate themselves. People have to indulge in all kinds of licentious lifestyles.

People have to have midlife crises and buy their Ferrari. They've got to go have a yacht or whatever it is they do to try to placate. To try to get the conscience to just somehow stop ringing in their head, where are you? And so out of fear, like Adam and Eve, we just pull away from God and we try to hide and cover up our sin with our fig leaves. But as we've heard, no man, being himself a sinner, can make satisfaction for himself.

cannot satisfy satisfaction for others.

So, being fully exposed before a holy God in our sin without a mediator is terrifying. And I don't want to just say it. I want to show it to you.

So turn to Hebrews chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12. Look at what the author of Hebrews says. The author of Hebrews chapter 12, beginning in verse 18, he is comparing and contrasting the old covenant, Mosaic covenant, with the new covenant. All right.

He's comparing and contrasting law and gospel. Look what he says. He says, Lauren, you have not come to a mountain. This is Mount Sinai. This is the law.

This is the Mosaic Old Covenant. That had Moses as the mediator. For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched. And to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and a whirlwind, and to the blast of a trumpet, and to the sound of words, which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them. Just stop speaking, please, don't speak.

Please don't speak. For they could not bear this command. is even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned. Look at verse 21. And so terrible was the sight of Mount Sinai, the giving of the Ten Commandments.

So terrible was the sight that Moses said, I... Am full of fear and trembling. Moses said that. As God said to Moses, come up on the mountain. You don't want to go up on that mountain.

What happened to Moses on that mountain where God's law was given? I am full, full of fear and trembling. We all know what that feels like. to be f with fear and trembling. This is before God.

Look at the contrast, verse twenty two. But Here's the good news. You have come to Mount Zion. and to the city of the living God. To the heavenly Jerusalem.

and to myriads of angels. To the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to the God, and to God, the judge of all. And through the spirits of the righteous made perfect, listen. And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant. And to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

Abel's blood cried out for justice, vengeance. Christ's blood cries out for salvation. Forgiveness. Cleansing because he is the mediator of a new covenant, which is far better than the old covenant. Moses was a terrible mediator, full of fear and trembling, but Christ is a great mediator who's full of forgiveness and salvation because of his sprinkled blood, his death on the cross.

He is our mediator, and we don't come to a mountain that cannot be touched. We come to Mount Zion to a God that we can touch by faith. and have no fear. Because Christ is our mediator. What is this benefit that we receive?

Listen to that again to the Heidelberg Catechism. What is the benefit that we receive as Christ is our mediator? The benefit we receive from his holy conception and birth to be our mediator is this. That, as our mediator with his innocence. And his perfect holiness covers in the sight of God our sin in which we were conceived and have committed.

Isn't that beautiful? With his innocence. With his Perfect holiness covers all of my sin in the sight of God. He is my mediator. That's the benefit.

So we don't have to be afraid of God and pull away from fear. Because Christ is our mediator, who with his innocence and his perfect holiness, he covers all of my sin in the sight of God. Listen to the author of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 4, verse 16. We can draw near to God, we can draw near to him. Myth, listen.

Confidence. Confidence. to the throne of grace. Not judgment. Why?

So that we might receive mercy and find grace. to help in the time of need. We can come to Christ, who is a friend of sinners. Martin the third. From his commentary on Genesis He comments on this passage in Genesis chapter 38, verse 24.

And it was just so good. I had to share this with you.

So just listen. Here's the verse. About three months later, Judah was told: Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, is guilty of prostitution. How's that for your morning wake-up daily devotion? All right.

She's guilty of prostitution, and as a result, she is now pregnant. Judah said to her, Because in the old covenant, Bring bring her out. and have her burned to death. Because the soul who sins shall die. That's what God's law says.

There's no mercy in God's law. There's no do-over. Listen to what Luther says about that verse. God's people often fall into sin. Their examples show us God's endless grace and mercy.

He saves not only those people who are faithful and moral, like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, though if you read the story, they weren't faithful and they weren't moral. But he says he also saves those who are immortal, like Judah, Tamar, Reuben, Simeon, and Levi. Therefore, none of us should be self-righteous about our own morality, our own morality or wisdom. On the other hand, None of us should give up because of our sins. Scripture praises the examples of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, relatively speaking against other people, because at the end, Paul calls them what?

ungodly. But at the same time, Scripture describes the worst kinds of sinners. We see the virtues of the godliest people and the sins of the most wicked people, yet they all come from the same family. These bad examples teach us about repentance, faith, and the forgiveness for sins. None of us should brag about how good we are.

None of us. But those who have fallen into sin shouldn't give up either. Don't ever give up. The Bible records the mistakes, weaknesses, and horrible sins of God's people. This is meant to uplift and comfort those who are depressed because of their sins.

Sinners need to be told, don't give up. God wants you to trust Him and believe in His promises. He can forgive you. He can make you holy. He can bless you, just like he blessed Judah, Tamar, and other sinners.

God doesn't want us to depend upon our efforts or despair because of our sins. He wants us to trust entirely In his mercy. and grace. We would have no hope if Peter hadn't denied Christ. If the apostles hadn't taken offense at Christ.

If Moses, Aaron, and David hadn't fallen into sin, No, God wants to comfort sinners with these examples. It's as if he is saying to each of us, If you have sinned, Turn around. That is repent. If you have sinned, turn around. Listen, the door of grace is opened to you.

What a beautiful statement. As we reflect this morning upon St. Louis, Christius, Christ, and the good news. Is that in Christ, the door of grace is always open to you? It's never too late.

Never. I'm just going to finish with these words from Walter Marshall. Christ wants you to believe in him who justifies the ungodly. He does not require you to be godly before you believe. Jesus came as a physician for the sick.

He does not expect them to recover their health before they come to him. The vilest sinners are properly qualified and prepared for the gospel's design. What is that design? To show forth the exceeding riches of grace which God pardons their sins and saves them freely. This is the reason that the law of Moses was given, that the transgression might abound, that where sin abounded, grace might all the more abound.

Jesus, listen carefully. Christ alone, he's your mediator. Jesus loved you in your most disgusting, sinful corruption, and he died for you. He will receive you if you come to him for the salvation that he has purchased for you. Jesus has given full satisfaction to the justice of God for sinners so that they might have salvation, righteousness, and holiness through fellowship with him by faith.

It is no insult to Christ. It is no sliding of God's justice and holiness to come to Christ.

Well, you're a corrupt sinner. Within The real insult to Christ. Is when you condemn the fullness of His grace and merit. By trying to make yourself righteous and holy. But you receive him.

You condemn the justice and holiness of God when you try to improve yourself before you can receive the righteousness and holiness that comes only through faith.

Sola fide in Christ. Christ don't. Jesus did not hesitate to touch a leprous man. He condescended to wash the feet of his disciples. Jesus did not expect the leper to heal himself before he touched him.

Jesus did not expect the disciples to meet him washed and perfumed. before he washed. their feet. Jesus, Christ alone, is a friend of sinners. And in Christ, the door of grace is always open to you.

Come, taste, and see in just a minute how good He is to you, a friend. of sinners. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we just thank you.

So grateful. This message of Christ alone is so fantastically too good to be true sounding. that we confess that apart from your Holy Spirit, we need it and we cannot grasp and enjoy this. Make a miracle happen in our hearts here today. Make a miracle of grace happen by the power of your Holy Spirit.

And as we come to your visible gospel, Take this visible gospel and seal these Powerful promises to our hearts. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Yeah. John Fawnville sends his thanks for listening today.

And before we wrap up, can I tell you about an encouraging book you might want to get soon? It's called Hope and Holiness: How the Gospel Enables and Empowers Sexual Purity. You're not alone if you've tried to conquer sexual temptations and tried all the methods available. only to find yourself feeling defeated again. This book may be just what you're looking for.

with his shepherding heart. John shows that the gospel, not practical steps or more self-discipline, is God's provision for the power to live a life of sexual purity. and it's available to every Christian. What I like is the book is available in three convenient ways, paperback, audiobook, or Kindle. The links are in our podcast descriptions, or just search for Hope and Holiness by John Fawnville on Amazon to get a copy for you, and it's a wonderful book to go through with a small group.

Him We Proclaim is a ministry of Paramount Church in Jacksonville, Florida. You can find us at paramountchurch.com. We'll talk again soon.

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