WEBVTT - The Richness in Redemption, Part 1 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 We need to understand the futility of what we think 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:10.960 can give us authority over our sin other than Jesus 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:12.600 Christ and Him crucified. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.120 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, Jr. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.720 Senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. I'm 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.600 Steve Hillard. Glad you're with us today. Now, pastor, I 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.120 think everybody listening who would say, of course it's it's 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.400 Jesus Christ who is going to give us authority over sin, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.960 you know, his death and resurrection. But what are some 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.360 of the other things that we may think can give 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.640 us authority over sin? 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.800 Well, we really don't think these things, but there are 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:50.640 others who think like their water baptism can deal with 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:56.360 their sin. And I forgot what a great theologian it was. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.600 But he said, if water washes away my sin, I 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:05.959 feel sorry for the fish. Yeah. And so, you know, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.480 some people think, you know, it's all in the water. 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:13.479 And I tell the assembly that I pastor under the 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.440 water is not under the blood. You can be baptized 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.320 so many times that the fish can hit you up 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.360 on Facebook and know your Social security number. It will 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:29.360 not save you. Some people think it's transformation turning over 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.160 a new leaf because it's brown on one side, but 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.199 when they turn it over, Steve, they find out it's 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.240 brown on the other side too. Yeah. And then, of course, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.560 there are those who think that it's church attendance going 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.119 to church, quote, unquote. Well, going to church makes you 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.520 a Christian and deals with your sin. Like going in 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.800 a garage makes you an automobile. Like walking into McDonald's 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.160 makes you a Big Mac. Number one supersize. It just 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.640 doesn't work that way. Yeah. And so, you know what 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.080 can deal with my sin? The songwriter said, what can 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.120 wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.480 What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.600 of Jesus. Oh precious is the flow that makes me 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.160 white as snow. No other fount I know. Nothing but 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:17.360 the blood of Jesus. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.120 Well, that's what we're looking at in our broadcast today. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.680 Join us in First Peter chapter one as we begin 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:28.280 the message, the richness in redemption. Here's Pastor Ford. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.760 There's a story that's going about, uh, that's told about 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:38.120 Albert Einstein. Nobody in here is Einstein challenged, are they? 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:40.280 Alright. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.400 He was traveling from Princeton University, where he taught on 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:49.800 a train. Uh, the conductor was going through, uh, the cabins, uh, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.040 punching the tickets, making sure that everybody had one when 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.320 he came to Albert Einstein. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.320 Uh, he said, uh, your ticket, sir. And Albert Einstein 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.910 checked in his vest pocket. No ticket. There's pants pocket. 0:03:03.950 --> 0:03:07.149 No ticket there. He opened up his briefcase. No ticket there. 0:03:07.150 --> 0:03:10.230 He looked beside his seat. No ticket there. He looks 0:03:10.230 --> 0:03:12.590 up at the young man, and before he could say anything, 0:03:12.590 --> 0:03:16.270 the conductor says, don't worry, sir, I know exactly who 0:03:16.310 --> 0:03:19.549 you are, and I'm sure that you bought a ticket 0:03:19.550 --> 0:03:21.470 to get on here. Don't worry about it. Don't worry 0:03:21.470 --> 0:03:25.430 about it. He turned to walk away. He turned around 0:03:25.830 --> 0:03:28.669 after he had punched about five more tickets. He saw 0:03:28.669 --> 0:03:33.990 Albert Einstein on the floor of the car looking for 0:03:33.990 --> 0:03:37.510 the ticket. He went back and he said, sir, I 0:03:37.790 --> 0:03:41.270 told you, I know who you are, so don't worry 0:03:41.270 --> 0:03:45.190 about the lost ticket. To which Albert Einstein replied, I 0:03:45.190 --> 0:03:48.710 know who I am too. I just don't know where 0:03:48.710 --> 0:03:55.710 I'm going. Well, I tell you, he's not by himself. 0:03:56.310 --> 0:04:00.150 There's a whole lot of people in this world that 0:04:00.150 --> 0:04:03.390 don't know where they're going. Now, there's some people that 0:04:03.390 --> 0:04:06.590 don't think they're going. Oh, but guess what? They're going 0:04:07.030 --> 0:04:10.190 because it's appointed unto man once to die. But after this, 0:04:10.190 --> 0:04:12.830 the judgment. You know, what's the death rate in the 0:04:12.830 --> 0:04:16.390 city of Chicago? One for one for everyone that's born, 0:04:16.390 --> 0:04:21.110 that one will die. And so everybody's going somewhere. And 0:04:21.110 --> 0:04:25.310 guess what? Everybody is going to live forever. You say, 0:04:25.310 --> 0:04:28.830 I didn't know that. Yes, you'll live forever in heaven 0:04:28.830 --> 0:04:34.670 or you'll burn forever in hell. Oh, yeah. You know, 0:04:34.710 --> 0:04:37.710 and the biggest problem. You know what it is. Uh, pastor, 0:04:37.990 --> 0:04:41.150 you know, the biggest problem is. The biggest problem is 0:04:41.990 --> 0:04:44.710 most people are like the little boy who is at 0:04:44.710 --> 0:04:49.029 Disney World. He was walking around and the officer saw him, 0:04:49.029 --> 0:04:53.830 walked up to him and said, little boy, are you lost? 0:04:54.070 --> 0:04:56.990 And he looked up and said, Uh-Uh, I ain't lost. 0:04:56.990 --> 0:05:01.309 But my mommy and my daddy, they lost. And so 0:05:01.310 --> 0:05:06.830 people are lost and they don't even know that they're lost. See? See, 0:05:06.870 --> 0:05:10.789 in order to get somebody saved, you first got to 0:05:10.790 --> 0:05:16.349 get them lost. And people, if they don't realize that 0:05:16.350 --> 0:05:19.429 they're lost, you're never going to be able to lead 0:05:19.430 --> 0:05:24.430 them to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. And here's 0:05:24.430 --> 0:05:27.669 the thing. You know, now, nobody in this service, of course, 0:05:27.670 --> 0:05:31.430 but a few in our 8:00 service and and people 0:05:31.430 --> 0:05:34.110 in the world, I mean, they're looking for something to 0:05:34.150 --> 0:05:38.110 satisfy them and they're going to find out, like some 0:05:38.110 --> 0:05:40.270 of us who are in the latter stages of our 0:05:40.270 --> 0:05:43.750 life or everything, you thought as a young person that 0:05:43.750 --> 0:05:46.710 would give you satisfaction. You get here and some of 0:05:46.710 --> 0:05:49.150 us done had all of it, and we could tell 0:05:49.150 --> 0:05:52.470 you that there is, according to the book of Ecclesiastes, 0:05:52.710 --> 0:05:56.870 a void in your life that only Jesus Christ can fill. 0:05:59.830 --> 0:06:01.510 You need to talk to some of us. But you 0:06:01.510 --> 0:06:04.950 don't believe we've been where you've been. I've got grandchildren, 0:06:04.950 --> 0:06:07.870 and they be trying to pull stuff. I say I'm 0:06:08.070 --> 0:06:11.110 the one who raised your daddy when he tried to 0:06:11.110 --> 0:06:13.710 do it and get away with it, and I tried 0:06:13.710 --> 0:06:18.589 it on my mama, and it didn't work. It ain't working. Amen. 0:06:18.950 --> 0:06:21.870 Been there, done that. Got the t shirt, doing conferences 0:06:21.870 --> 0:06:25.950 about the stuff you trying to pull. And here's what 0:06:25.950 --> 0:06:29.110 we found out. We found out that you try to 0:06:29.110 --> 0:06:34.150 fill it with the party, but guess what? The party's over. Yeah. Yeah. 0:06:34.190 --> 0:06:37.910 It always ends. Hey. Guess what? We tried it with 0:06:37.910 --> 0:06:42.270 the high. You always come down or come up, depending 0:06:42.270 --> 0:06:47.830 on what your higher preference was. Amen. We thought it 0:06:47.830 --> 0:06:52.469 was the money, but it always ran out. Have you 0:06:52.470 --> 0:06:57.830 found out yet? The car gets old, the house runs down. Yeah, 0:06:58.589 --> 0:07:00.669 we thought it was the sex. I ain't going to 0:07:00.670 --> 0:07:12.430 say nothing. Mm. Yeah. And so we need to understand. 0:07:13.710 --> 0:07:16.230 Y'all leave me alone now let me preach. Now quit. 0:07:16.230 --> 0:07:19.950 Quit bothering me now. And so we need to understand. 0:07:19.950 --> 0:07:23.310 There's a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. 0:07:23.590 --> 0:07:26.670 Now some people don't believe in hell. And I know that. 0:07:26.670 --> 0:07:29.830 I know they don't. Uh, you remember what happened to 0:07:29.870 --> 0:07:33.550 the Christian young man in the secular, uh, school? Uh, 0:07:33.550 --> 0:07:36.390 his professor was saying no such thing as heaven or hell. 0:07:36.430 --> 0:07:39.630 The Bible is not real. And, uh, Jesus and God, 0:07:39.630 --> 0:07:43.030 that's all fantasy. And and nobody believes that. And the 0:07:43.030 --> 0:07:45.510 young man said, I do. And he said, you believe 0:07:45.510 --> 0:07:48.230 that there was a whale that swallowed a man and 0:07:48.230 --> 0:07:50.630 then spit him back up and he was okay? Yes, 0:07:50.630 --> 0:07:52.910 I do, because the Bible says so. He said, well, 0:07:52.910 --> 0:07:55.270 how are you going to be confirmed in that? He said, well, 0:07:55.270 --> 0:07:57.870 when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask Jonah. 0:07:58.430 --> 0:08:01.590 He said, well, wonder if Jonah's Jonas. Not in heaven, 0:08:01.590 --> 0:08:10.309 he said. Then you asking? Mm. Yeah. And so here, here, 0:08:10.350 --> 0:08:14.110 here we are. Here we are. Because if we don't 0:08:14.110 --> 0:08:17.869 know how broke we were and how impoverished in our 0:08:17.870 --> 0:08:21.150 sin we were, we won't understand the richness of the 0:08:21.150 --> 0:08:25.710 redemption that's been given to us in Jesus Christ. Romans 0:08:25.710 --> 0:08:28.430 three puts it this way in verses ten and 11, 0:08:28.430 --> 0:08:31.950 there is no one that seeketh after God. All have 0:08:31.950 --> 0:08:36.189 gone their own way. Everybody wants to do their own thing. 0:08:37.309 --> 0:08:39.910 So no preacher can get up and say, y'all have sinned. 0:08:39.950 --> 0:08:43.150 He's gotta say all have sinned and come short of 0:08:43.150 --> 0:08:47.030 the glory of God. Yes. And so we need to 0:08:47.030 --> 0:08:51.750 understand the futility of what we think can give us 0:08:51.750 --> 0:08:58.990 authority over our sin other than Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 0:08:59.030 --> 0:09:01.459 Some people, I mean, you talk to religious people and 0:09:01.460 --> 0:09:05.020 you talk to individuals who think they got it together 0:09:05.020 --> 0:09:08.459 apart from Christ. They act as if they filled out 0:09:08.460 --> 0:09:11.860 an application. And the Trinity has become a quartet, and 0:09:11.860 --> 0:09:15.580 it's now no longer a Trinity. They were accepted as 0:09:15.580 --> 0:09:20.900 the fourth member of the Godhead. This Bible tells me 0:09:21.860 --> 0:09:25.980 there's no other way. Jesus said, I am the way, 0:09:26.179 --> 0:09:29.060 the truth, and the life. No man comes to the 0:09:29.059 --> 0:09:32.740 father but by me. You know what they're going to find. 0:09:32.820 --> 0:09:35.059 They're going to find out. Like that FBI agent. I 0:09:35.059 --> 0:09:38.140 know y'all heard about him. He went, uh. And they 0:09:38.179 --> 0:09:42.500 suspected this farmer, you know, of growing weed, marijuana, Mary Jane, 0:09:42.500 --> 0:09:46.780 whatever you call him that blunt. And so they sent him, and, uh, 0:09:46.820 --> 0:09:48.180 he came up to the farm, and he said, we 0:09:48.179 --> 0:09:52.140 suspect that you're growing marijuana on some of your acreage, 0:09:52.140 --> 0:09:55.260 and I'm going to check it out. And, uh, so 0:09:55.260 --> 0:09:58.179 you just, uh, stay here till I come back. And 0:09:58.179 --> 0:10:00.179 the farmer said, well, wait. Well, you could go anywhere. 0:10:00.260 --> 0:10:02.660 I don't have any. You just go anywhere you want 0:10:02.700 --> 0:10:05.260 to go. But listen. The far field over here. Don't 0:10:05.260 --> 0:10:08.660 go over there. Because don't tell me where not to go. No, 0:10:08.660 --> 0:10:11.340 but I'm trying. No. Don't tell. He put out his badge. 0:10:11.380 --> 0:10:15.339 See that badge? FBI. I go anywhere I want to go. 0:10:15.860 --> 0:10:20.620 That's my authority. Swami said. Okay, try to tell you, 0:10:20.660 --> 0:10:22.060 he said. As a matter of fact, I'm going over 0:10:22.059 --> 0:10:24.540 there first because you're trying to hide something. So he 0:10:24.580 --> 0:10:27.820 went over there about five minutes later, the FBI agent 0:10:27.820 --> 0:10:30.620 is running across the field. He's screaming and hollering for 0:10:30.620 --> 0:10:33.900 the farmer, and there's a bull that's chasing him. And 0:10:33.900 --> 0:10:37.660 he said, oh, help me, help me, help me. Farmer 0:10:37.660 --> 0:10:40.540 ran to the fence. He said, show him your badge. 0:10:40.860 --> 0:10:44.260 Show him your badge. Show him your badge. You. Hey, 0:10:44.260 --> 0:10:47.340 there's meaning to the madness now. Come on. Here it is. 0:10:47.380 --> 0:10:50.459 Here it is. He thought he had authority. And he thought. 0:10:50.500 --> 0:10:53.780 I'll show you my badge. It doesn't work with everybody. 0:10:53.780 --> 0:10:57.459 You need to understand that when you stand before God, 0:10:57.460 --> 0:11:01.699 your work's your badge of your self-worth will not get 0:11:01.700 --> 0:11:04.740 you into heaven. You're coming to church will not get 0:11:04.740 --> 0:11:07.700 you to heaven, because there are people who are in 0:11:07.700 --> 0:11:11.540 church and not in Christ. So they're coming to church 0:11:11.540 --> 0:11:17.220 and they're going to hell at the same time. Freeze, man. Freeze! 0:11:17.580 --> 0:11:21.900 No no, no. The only thing that God accepts is 0:11:21.900 --> 0:11:25.420 the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. 0:11:26.580 --> 0:11:29.340 That is such a sobering thought, but an important thing 0:11:29.340 --> 0:11:33.059 for us to understand. It is the work of Jesus 0:11:33.100 --> 0:11:36.100 that gets us into heaven. You're listening to Treasure Truth 0:11:36.100 --> 0:11:40.100 with Pastor Ford and a message called The Richness in Redemption. 0:11:40.100 --> 0:11:43.660 Really a look at First Peter chapter one today. And 0:11:43.660 --> 0:11:45.700 we're going to get back to this teaching in just 0:11:45.700 --> 0:11:48.179 one moment. If you ever want to find out more 0:11:48.220 --> 0:11:51.260 about this program and about upcoming broadcasts, you can come 0:11:51.260 --> 0:11:54.820 to our website. It's Treasure Truth radio.org. While you're there, 0:11:54.820 --> 0:11:57.620 you can begin podcasting this program. And if you happen 0:11:57.620 --> 0:12:00.500 to use iTunes for your podcasting, Casting. Would you go 0:12:00.500 --> 0:12:03.180 ahead and rate the podcast that'll help us be found 0:12:03.179 --> 0:12:05.459 by even more people. You'll find the links you need 0:12:05.460 --> 0:12:09.020 at Treasure Truth radio.org. Again, here's Pastor Ford. 0:12:09.260 --> 0:12:10.980 And so let's talk about it. I'm going to drop them, 0:12:10.980 --> 0:12:16.819 not push them. The five aspects of our rich redemption, 0:12:17.100 --> 0:12:21.180 of which Peter says here we should already be assured of. 0:12:21.740 --> 0:12:23.780 This should just be a highlight. Here it is. First 0:12:23.780 --> 0:12:25.900 of all, I want you to notice that he says, 0:12:25.900 --> 0:12:29.620 that the richness of our redemption is seen in the 0:12:29.620 --> 0:12:34.460 price of that redemption. What's the price? Verse 18 and 19, 0:12:34.460 --> 0:12:36.140 for as much as you know then that you're not 0:12:36.140 --> 0:12:39.179 being redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold, 0:12:39.179 --> 0:12:42.860 from your vain conversation received by tradition of your fathers, 0:12:42.860 --> 0:12:45.100 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a 0:12:45.100 --> 0:12:50.860 lamb without spot and without blemish. Do you see what 0:12:50.860 --> 0:12:53.860 he's saying? He's saying that there are some people on 0:12:53.860 --> 0:12:57.780 church rolls, uh, that God doesn't have, and there are 0:12:57.780 --> 0:13:01.660 some that aren't God's role that the church doesn't have. 0:13:02.460 --> 0:13:05.380 Notice the first thing he does is he deals with 0:13:05.620 --> 0:13:11.260 the counterfeit price before he gives us, uh, the confirmed price. Say, 0:13:11.260 --> 0:13:13.179 what do you mean? He says, let me tell you 0:13:13.179 --> 0:13:17.179 what it's not first. And that's very important because he 0:13:17.179 --> 0:13:19.020 wants us to know. Listen. No no no no no 0:13:19.020 --> 0:13:24.100 no no no no, it's not by the vain tradition 0:13:24.100 --> 0:13:29.340 of your father. Now, the word vain, uh, literally means futile. Empty. Uh, 0:13:29.380 --> 0:13:35.459 it's a counterfeit payment. He says, listen, you must understand, uh, 0:13:35.580 --> 0:13:39.420 that there are those trying to give a substitute for 0:13:39.420 --> 0:13:45.059 what God actually wants. He's not looking for your church attendance. 0:13:45.700 --> 0:13:50.380 He doesn't care about your tithes and offerings. He doesn't 0:13:50.380 --> 0:13:52.820 care what kind of service you're doing. You say. You 0:13:52.820 --> 0:13:55.260 mean you don't care? No no no no no. That 0:13:55.260 --> 0:13:57.860 has nothing to do with your salvation. Let me take 0:13:57.860 --> 0:13:59.700 you all the way back to the book of Genesis. 0:14:00.020 --> 0:14:04.740 There were two sacrifices Cain and Abel. Cain sacrificed the 0:14:04.740 --> 0:14:09.940 fruit of the ground. God rejected it. Why? Because it represented. Works. 0:14:09.940 --> 0:14:13.420 Because God had cursed the ground. So Cain was giving 0:14:13.420 --> 0:14:18.460 him the best of his human ability. But it was cursed. 0:14:18.900 --> 0:14:27.340 And Abel brought the pleasing sacrifice that God wanted. Mm. 0:14:28.780 --> 0:14:33.500 Look at the confirmed price. We've been redeemed by the 0:14:33.500 --> 0:14:40.020 blood of Jesus Christ. Over and over again, the Bible 0:14:40.020 --> 0:14:43.420 tells us. The Bible says. What does the word redemption mean? 0:14:43.460 --> 0:14:46.820 It literally means to buy out of the slave market 0:14:46.820 --> 0:14:52.900 of sin so that God purchased us. And the price 0:14:52.900 --> 0:14:56.660 was blood. Okay. Leviticus 1711 I've given the blood upon 0:14:56.660 --> 0:15:00.450 the altar as an atonement for sin. Hebrews 922. Without 0:15:00.450 --> 0:15:03.370 the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. 0:15:03.370 --> 0:15:06.210 I went through and and looked at some of the passages. 0:15:06.210 --> 0:15:08.850 There are over 100 passages in the New Testament about 0:15:08.850 --> 0:15:11.090 the blood. I'm not going to go through all of them, 0:15:11.090 --> 0:15:15.650 but Romans 325 and 26 says that the price was blood. 0:15:15.650 --> 0:15:19.770 Romans five nine the price was blood. Ephesians one seven 0:15:19.770 --> 0:15:24.810 redeemed through his blood. Colossians 119 and 20 his blood. 0:15:24.850 --> 0:15:31.450 Hebrews 911 through 15. Blood. Hebrews 1320. His blood. Acts 2028. 0:15:31.490 --> 0:15:36.530 His blood. So he says, you weren't redeemed by tradition 0:15:36.530 --> 0:15:39.130 or anything. It was with the precious blood of our 0:15:39.130 --> 0:15:42.010 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And so he tells us 0:15:42.010 --> 0:15:50.010 that his blood is precious. Okay. Um, could you help me, sister? 0:15:50.490 --> 0:15:52.050 Come help me. I just want you to help me. 0:15:52.050 --> 0:15:53.570 I want to see. I want to show you what 0:15:53.570 --> 0:15:56.570 what he's talking about here. Now, here's what I want 0:15:56.570 --> 0:15:59.690 you to do for me. I want you to give 0:15:59.850 --> 0:16:01.650 me $100. 0:16:01.930 --> 0:16:03.890 I don't have $100. 0:16:03.930 --> 0:16:08.650 You don't have $100? Do you have any dollars? Personally, no. 0:16:08.690 --> 0:16:09.810 That's personal. No. 0:16:10.450 --> 0:16:11.490 You put me on the spot. No. 0:16:11.530 --> 0:16:11.890 You don't. 0:16:11.890 --> 0:16:12.690 Have any. No I don't. 0:16:12.730 --> 0:16:14.410 Okay, so here's what I'm going to do. Here's what 0:16:14.410 --> 0:16:18.210 I'm going to do. Okay. I'm going to give you 0:16:18.410 --> 0:16:27.050 $100 to give me back the $100. Really? Right. 0:16:27.090 --> 0:16:27.370 Yeah. 0:16:28.650 --> 0:16:31.010 Yeah, yeah. This is just an illustration. 0:16:31.010 --> 0:16:32.970 Okay. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just got here. I 0:16:32.970 --> 0:16:33.970 just got here. I just got. 0:16:33.970 --> 0:16:39.130 Here. Okay, so now, because, see, I want you to 0:16:39.170 --> 0:16:42.650 give me what you don't have. So I'm going to 0:16:42.650 --> 0:16:45.450 give you what I want so you can give it 0:16:45.450 --> 0:16:46.650 back to me. 0:16:47.330 --> 0:16:47.690 Okay. 0:16:47.810 --> 0:16:54.010 You got it. Okay, so now I want $100. Now 0:16:54.010 --> 0:17:02.290 you can give it back to me. Come on, come on, 0:17:02.290 --> 0:17:05.010 come on, come on, come on. Now, what was the point? 0:17:05.010 --> 0:17:11.010 You saw the point. God wants something from us. We 0:17:11.050 --> 0:17:14.490 don't have it. As a matter of fact, this morning, 0:17:14.490 --> 0:17:17.690 the sister I called up, she had $5 and I 0:17:17.690 --> 0:17:21.370 said I didn't ask for five. I asked for 100. 0:17:21.730 --> 0:17:24.010 She said, well, I can't give it to you. I 0:17:24.010 --> 0:17:26.330 don't have it. I said, and you know what? And 0:17:26.330 --> 0:17:28.530 there's a lot of people that want to give God 0:17:28.570 --> 0:17:33.130 their $5 righteous works. Some of you got $6, some 0:17:33.130 --> 0:17:38.210 of you have 650. None of you have $100. So 0:17:38.210 --> 0:17:42.610 then what God did for us is he paid the 0:17:42.609 --> 0:17:48.090 price for us. Now, whenever he sees us, he does 0:17:48.090 --> 0:17:52.530 not see our sin. He sees his son because we're 0:17:52.530 --> 0:17:57.210 covered in the blood of Jesus Christ. It's called imputed righteousness. 0:17:57.210 --> 0:17:59.890 He put to our account what he wanted us to 0:17:59.890 --> 0:18:03.129 have that we didn't have, and he gave it to 0:18:03.130 --> 0:18:05.770 us so we could give it back to him what 0:18:05.770 --> 0:18:09.730 he wanted by faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. 0:18:09.770 --> 0:18:16.409 Let's give her a hand. And so it's the chemistry 0:18:16.410 --> 0:18:20.410 of the blood. Doctor DeHaan used to say that God 0:18:20.850 --> 0:18:25.290 can take a brown cow and it eat green grass 0:18:25.290 --> 0:18:29.730 and give white milk and produce yellow butter. That's the 0:18:29.730 --> 0:18:33.650 chemistry of God, where he can take the darkness of 0:18:33.650 --> 0:18:37.090 my sin, wash me in his blood and make me 0:18:37.130 --> 0:18:43.810 whiter than snow. Yeah. I wonder if you remember this, sweetheart. 0:18:43.930 --> 0:18:47.530 My wife and I were the first African American members 0:18:47.530 --> 0:18:52.330 of an all white, over 100 year old Southern Baptist church. 0:18:53.369 --> 0:18:55.929 And that was a miracle right there. Because I told 0:18:55.930 --> 0:18:58.169 you before and you know it. I was so racist, 0:18:58.170 --> 0:19:01.570 I wouldn't even eat white Right, right. I was so racist, 0:19:01.570 --> 0:19:03.170 I wouldn't even take aspirin because you had to pick 0:19:03.170 --> 0:19:05.970 cotton out before you got to the hospital. And we 0:19:05.970 --> 0:19:08.530 became the guy who led us to Christ was not 0:19:08.530 --> 0:19:11.929 only white, he's southern white, y'all. And we went to 0:19:11.970 --> 0:19:14.450 his church, and we're sitting there and we're singing. We're 0:19:14.450 --> 0:19:16.650 singing a song. And, you know, I didn't like him. 0:19:16.650 --> 0:19:18.530 I didn't like him at first because it's like I'm 0:19:18.530 --> 0:19:21.050 a jitterbug. And some of y'all don't know what that means. But, 0:19:21.090 --> 0:19:23.570 you know, I'm a jitterbug, you know? And so even 0:19:23.570 --> 0:19:26.570 the music I listen to, I very rarely listen to 0:19:26.609 --> 0:19:31.290 slow music. Amen. So. But, uh. But I'm a jitterbug. 0:19:31.290 --> 0:19:34.210 So we're sitting there, we sing the song, and Ron Kuykendall, 0:19:34.250 --> 0:19:37.290 our worship leader, he begins to crack up. And then 0:19:37.490 --> 0:19:40.050 I understand what he's cracking up about. I start cracking up. 0:19:40.050 --> 0:19:43.010 Preacher Bob gets upset. What are you guys doing? You're 0:19:43.010 --> 0:19:46.050 disrupting the service. And we were like, tears rolling out 0:19:46.050 --> 0:19:48.850 of our eyes. And then I think everybody else began 0:19:48.850 --> 0:19:51.490 to catch on. And before you knew it, the sanctuary 0:19:51.490 --> 0:19:54.129 was ablaze in laughter. And so we had to explain 0:19:54.130 --> 0:19:58.530 to preacher Bob, we're singing a song. Whiter than snow. 0:19:58.770 --> 0:20:03.530 Whiter than snow. Jesus washed us. Whiter than snow. And 0:20:03.530 --> 0:20:06.169 Ron looked at me and my sugar babe and said, 0:20:06.170 --> 0:20:15.170 God missed two people. Yeah, but here it is. Here 0:20:15.170 --> 0:20:19.210 it is. And he says he's like a lamb without spot. See, now, 0:20:19.210 --> 0:20:21.690 you know I'm not going deep into it because this 0:20:21.690 --> 0:20:24.130 would have been two messages or three messages by itself. 0:20:24.130 --> 0:20:27.210 But he says, as of a lamb the word is amnesty. 0:20:27.290 --> 0:20:31.170 And in the Septuagint it was used in Exodus chapter 29, 0:20:31.170 --> 0:20:34.850 verse 38 of the sacrificial lamb, the lamb that you 0:20:34.850 --> 0:20:39.010 brought for sacrifice. Uh, J. Sidlow Baxter, in the master 0:20:39.010 --> 0:20:41.810 theme of the Bible. It's a tremendous book. I'm going 0:20:41.850 --> 0:20:44.730 to read it a second time. He says this. Listen, 0:20:44.730 --> 0:20:48.250 he says there are ten primary passages where the lamb 0:20:48.290 --> 0:20:51.410 is specifically mentioned, and then he names all of them 0:20:51.410 --> 0:20:54.770 in Genesis four. It proves the necessity of the Lamb 0:20:54.770 --> 0:20:58.170 in Genesis 22. It presents the provision of the lamb 0:20:58.170 --> 0:21:01.280 in Exodus 12 records. The slaying of the Lamb in 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:05.720 Leviticus 16 describes the character of the Lamb in Isaiah 53. 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.480 The personality of the lamb. John chapter one reveals the 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:14.960 identity of the lamb. Acts eight declares the promised Messiah 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:19.400 is the lamb. Peter confirms the resurrection of the lamb. 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.560 Revelation shows the enthronement of the land, and finally, revelation 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:29.400 2122 proclaims the everlasting kingship of the lamb. It's all 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.359 about the lamb. And he's saying, listen, you need to 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:37.440 understand that. Secondly, uh, this wasn't new and improved. He's 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.560 talking about the plan of redemption was before the foundation 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.840 of the world. That's the next point. Y'all can go on. 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.200 It is just the plan of redemption. Who was foreordained 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:52.200 before the foundation? In other words, before man ever sinned. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:57.800 God provided that the lamb would come and be slain. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.439 It is all about the lamb. Well, you're listening to 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.000 Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford. And the first part of 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:10.000 a message called The Richness in Redemption. Taking a look 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:14.240 at First Peter chapter one. And we'll continue this next time. 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:15.960 If you want to make sure that you don't miss it, 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:17.640 or you just want to go back and listen to 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:19.879 programs again, you can always do that by coming to 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:24.320 our website. It's treasure truth Radio.com. 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