Crossroad Currents

So let's have a prayer and launch into the Bible.

Father God, I pray today you'll hold us in Jesus.

You'll keep us in Jesus, and that we will discover

what it means to live in the crossroad, in the current,

where the great rock is found that does not get

blown away by the flood. In Jesus' name, Amen. Now,

sometimes we live our life thinking that we exist at

the center of the universe. Have you ever thought that

the whole thing rotates around me? And then we discover

that it doesn't rotate around us, That somehow the crossroad

of reality, the current of reality, doesn't flow through us.

It flows through God. But we have our own center.

If you look, you'll see the center of the universe.

It's all you gotta do is turn around, and you're

at the center from your own perspective. This week, I've

been studying Psalms nineteen ninety one. I mean, Psalms ninety

is perhaps my favorite psalm in all of the Psalms.

It's not by David, it's by Moses. And Linguistically, I

stayed up all night after prayer meeting. I could not

give doctor Schaeffer. I could not go to sleep Wednesday

night after prayer meeting, not because of prayer meeting, but

because I got into an analysis of Psalms ninety and

ninety one in the Hebrew that took me up until

six am. It was so sweet I couldn't let it down.

And I don't often do that, but boy, that night

I could just feel God in the Bible. Moses wrote

Psalms ninety It just says it's a Psalm of Moses,

but the Hebrew rabbi's taught that Moses wrote also Psalms

ninety in Psalms ninety one, And I know by interacting

with the text that Psalms ninety and ninety one form

a single linguistic structural system, as if they were written

by one author. Now Moses may have written both, he

may not have written both. But who's the ultimate author

of scripture? As God is Jesus, the mind of Christ,

the Holy Spirit, it doesn't matter. And so they unite

in what they call a chiastic structure. I've spoken as

to what this is before. Chiastic structures are, in a

real sense, represent the linguistic math mind of God diffused

through the profits into the Bible. A chiastic structure works

kind of like this. You start with the beginning. It's

called a the end is called a prime. It matches

or cross talks, moving toward a center, and there are

no gaps until you get to the center. And the

bookends of A and a prime always meet in some

meaningful way in the center. And then I have found

in my analysis of the Bible that it'll fractal. And

we say fractal, it'll break into two, and you'll have

two subsets, and then you have subsets within this. And

really it's like a tree, a tree of life, where

the structural branches of the Bible move toward the micro

structures of words and sentences. And the mind of God,

as that says in the Spirit of Prophecy, is diffused.

She speaks of channels, deep currents in the Bible and

Christ's object lessons that are yet to be discovered. The

mind of God is in the document we hold in

her hand. Now, some people will say, well, you know

the Bible, it's got all these errors, and every people

say that, yeah, and now you have smart theologian types. Well,

I have found this discrepancy, which you've really found that

you have a shrunken mind because God integrates. He puts

things together in ways that forces us to stand outside

of our logic and observe the awesome power of God

in the Bible. Now, I don't believe this just because

I have strong emotions about the Bible. I am sixty three,

and you can say, oh, Pastor Mike, how's that possible? Well,

look at the gray hair. You see the gray hair

I got. I'm sixty three, and I don't say this.

I don't say this just to say it. I know

from the evidence of years a study of the Bible,

and I quit worrying about theologians a number of years ago.

I don't care what they say the Bible. From the

Bible alone, that we have in our hand, the intentional

word of God meant for the last days of human history,

in its exact order as it exists, so that we

will be ready for the same coming to Christ whoos

I'm so sorry, should be gentle with the word of God. Okay,

now I say that, not the pontificate, but to proclaim

that which I have learned from the evidence. Now, a

chiastic structure. They're all through the Bible. The serm of

the Mountain is one they went up the mountain a

prime a no excuse me, A on the front side

the end of it. They went down the mountain, and

in between that structure, you'll come to the center, the

secret place where God Almighty in prayer meets with us.

That's the top of the mountain, the top of the

chiastic structure, the mountain, the mountain, the secret place with

God is the center, which is the top of the

out The Bible is obsessed with these chiastic cross structures.

At the center of Psalms ninety ninety one, verses one

and two. Here is the chiastic center of it. He

who dwells in the shelter of the most High, who

abides in the shadow of them Almighty. We'll say to

the Lord, my refuge, my fortress, my God in whom

I trust. That's the secret place. The shelter in Hebrew

is the word secret place. A chiasm, as I sayd

as a linguistic cross with the left side and the

right side match moving toward a meaningful center that meets

in the middle. So Psalms ninety ninety one, meet right

there in verse one. There is a fractaling of these

chiastic structures. As I said, when they break into subset

structures where you see another cross, where it meets in

the middle, time and time again. It's like this, the

currents of scripture the cross, currents like a giant Monora tree,

a fract system giving light understanding the cross, the cross,

the cross, the cross, time and time again. I don't

think for a moment that this is an accident that

our Bible is embedded so deeply with the cross. Our

Almighty Father God values the Cross of Jesus Christ more

than any other truth in the Bible. It is structurally

embedded as the apostle of the Gospel of God. Paul

affirmed the same truth that I'm speaking here that God

affirms by what he does in scripture in Galatians six fourteen.

Look at this verse with me, But far be it

from me to glory except in the cross of our

Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified

to me and I to the world. Can you affirm

that with me by a hearty amen or the raising

of your hand. I mean, this is central truth here.

Far be it from me to focus on anything but

the Cross of Christ. Paul says, So when we teach,

when we preach, when we work with our children. When

we are we laboring long in the church, we should

be cross centered christ centered people. God forbid that we

lose our focus and think about You know, I love

studying prophecy, but prophecy is not the ultimate truth. It

points to the truth of the Cross. And so when

we come and we integrate truth correctly, we are cross

centered christ centered Christians. Now, you can't be a cross

centered christ centered Christian if you don't believe jesus death

on the cross mattered. Right, you can say, well, you know,

Christ didn't need to die. That's a pagan idea. You know,

whoever's teaching you that nonsense is teaching you pagan theology.

Christ had to die for our sins based on one

Corinthians fifteen, the most important truth. And I've seen smart

theologian types try to argue this away with what they

call the moral influence there that somehow Christ only came

to show us God's love. Well, he did come to

show us God's love. But friends, Christ came to do

more than show us God's love. Christ came to die

for us because he is God's love and God's love

will not tolerate sin. And Christ died for our sins,

so that you can stand at the second coming justified

by faith in Jesus Christ, by virtue of the Cross

of Christ. God forbid that we should glory in anything

but the Cross of Christ. We all live amazing in

the amazing plan and province of God at the crossroad.

We meet at the cross. All humanity meets at the cross.

We live in the violent currents the river of life.

And somehow the cross is planted in time and our current,

in our struggle and our life, God meets us right

there at the cross, and the river flows through the cross.

Dear heart Ess stood in the wild currents of the

flood at the cross, the flood of human lives, of

human minds, of human sin, and it all went through him.

He drowned at the cross. But the rock is the

platform that was not swept away. The suddenly prophecy of

Dan nine well read by you today. Thank you. The

suddenly prophecy of Dani nine has been called the cornerstone

of the Christian religion if you study the themes of

the four hundred ninety year time prophecy, by the way,

a prophecy linked with the twenty three hundred year Time

prophecy that gave rise to the Seventh day Abonist movement.

I want to say this very forthrightly. If this church

that I'm attending right here today, the Seventh day Abnist Church,

is not a movement in Bible prophecy, I wouldn't be

a minister in this church. Do you hear me? I'm

not pontificating here. Because God raised up the Apostolic Church

at the end of the seventy week prophecy of Dale nine,

the four one hundred and ninety year prophecy, the cornerstone

of the Christian religion. In Dale nine, He raised up

his church with that time prophecy. The apostles taught that

time prophecy in the New Testament. But when he had

to restore his church at the end of the Middle Ages,

when everything had gone south, when you had the papal

apostasy predicting the Book of Daniel, when he had to

restore his church, when the Reformation fell short of Bible truth,

became the sleeping Church of Sardis. In the relation at

the end of the twenty three hundred years that reaches

to the year eighteen forty four, the autumn of eighteen

forty four, God Almighty in Heaven linked the coming of

Christ in the seventy weeks, which was cut off from

this longer time prophecy, and he moved in history through

the Great Disappointment of eighteen forty four, guided by prophetic activity,

to raise up out of fifty people the fastest growing

church on the face of planet Earth that meets the

credentials of Revelation twelve seventeen. Here are those who keep

the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. Now, friends,

I don't believe that because I want to believe it

when I was a young By the way, this is

not in my manuscript. I just feel impressed to say

this today. I don't do that because I want to

believe it when I was a young person. Exactly that

truth was challenged theologically when I had attended Southern College

and I left the Ministerial Department program for a year,

went into pre med because I was troubled by the

attacks on the teaching of the investigative judgment of the

Great Time Prophecy of Day on eight fourteen, and I

took time went overseas to lol Isle in the middle

of the Pacific. The Marshall Islands, And there I studied

my Bible, nothing else, just my Bible. And God sent

a wonderful man into my life by the name of

Hm asked Richards Junior, who prayed for me, the speaker

of the Voice of Prophecy radio broadcast. And there I

was able, by God's grace to piece together the framework,

not all the questions answered, but enough to see that

where else would I go? How could I go back

to a Sunday keeping church that violates the Fourth Commandment?

How could I go to any church that would teach

that God's laws set aside? And how can I be

a part of anything that it's not as Christ centered

as the beautiful book The Desire of Ages. You know,

people say, well, in a spirit of prophecy, it's crazy,

man alive. You read that book. My Father's Dying Thoughts

was the last chop chapter of the Desire of Ages

and the Life of Christ to my father and yours.

By the way, which is chiastic, it's a supernatural document.

There's no way I could go back. And friends, I'm

in it for the long game. I believe, enfeebled and

defective as our church is at this time of our history.

God is going to discipline it. He's going to help us.

He's going by the way, he's going to correct it.

We need correction at times. But God's Church does not

dependent upon any man any new idea. It's prophetic truth

unfolding in time that leads to our time. We're in

the current the great river. So, by the way, when

you study Danie nine, you would discover that the imagery

of the seventy week prophecy Daana nine is strongly rooted

in the imagery of Isaiah fifty two thirteen to Isaiah

fifty three. The end we call it the fourth servants song.

We know Isaiah fifty three. How many of you are

familiar with it? Like a lamb to the slaughter, It's

the great prophecy of Jesus dying as the lamb going

to the cross. Paul's theology of justification by faith in

Romans three and other places comes right out of Isaiah

fifty three. Paul. Perhaps Isaiah has the greatest impact on Paul.

In fact, Paul's theology of justification by faith is rooted

in Isaiah fifty three and Daniel nine nine twenty four,

In particular, seven weeks of Day one nine is interacting

through the Holy Spirit with Isaiah firfty three. Now, the

suffering servant in Isaiah fifty two and fifty three is

in fact the Messiah Prince of Daniel nine twenty three,

twenty four to twenty seven, and they are both presented

as the Maray. That's the keyword that links the two chapters.

Hebrew word maray. Why don't you repeat it with me?

Come on, try it? Maray? Maray. Do we have anybody

named Mara here? Mara? Mara can mean two things in Hebrew.

It can mean, it can mean bitterness or vision. It's

the feminine of the masculine. Marey. So marey said one

more time with him. Marey. It means appearance, that what

you can see with your eyes. Behold maray. That is

the cross link between these two chapters. Turn with me

Isaiah fifty two thirteen. Let's start a little bit in Isaiah. Behold,

my servant shall prosper, and that Jesus said he came

to be a servant, He shall prosper. He shall be

exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. The

Antichrist of Daniel eight tries to do what the servant

has a right to do. In Isaiah fifty three, behold,

my servant, I think of John one twenty nine, when

John saw Jesus coming to the Jordan, and it says,

behold the lamb of God. He's getting it right out

of here. Of Isaiah fifty two and fifty three. I

think if Pilot and John when he said behold the

man Daniel eight and nine interacting with Isaiah fifty three.

Look at verse fifteen when I Daniel had seen the vision.

Now he means the twenty three hundred year vision, the hodzone,

the long time prophecy. I sought to understand it, but

God had different plans for him. He wanted to explain

something more important than the longest time PropheC of the Bible.

And behold, there stood before me, one having the what

is the Hebrew word? I wrote it on the screen,

Say with me the mare appearance of a man, literally,

a mighty man, a gever, a gover. It's in pause

and Hebrew, so standing before him the appearance. Suddenly he

can see with his eyes the mighty man. You see,

God would rather have us understand Jesus first before we

attempt to understand long time prophecies. If your focus is

on long time without knowing Jesus, it doesn't get you anywhere.

Look at you. On nine twenty three, at the beginning

of your supplication, so time passes, he explains the mare.

He comes to verse twenty five of Daniel eight, and

we see the death of Christ, where the king fierce

of faith, which is Rome identified in Daniel eleven, stands

upon the Hebrews, stands upon the Prince of Princess. Horrifies

Daniel how Jesus could die, and in the mare the

mighty Man would be crushed by this evil Roman power.

Nine twenty three, now years past, Gabriel comes back to

explain the mara. To explain Jesus. At the beginning of

your supplications, a word went forth dav Ar, and I

have come to tell it to you, for your greatly beloved. Therefore,

consider the word Davar, and understand the mare the appearance

that means of the mighty Man. Christ is both. We

will switch this thing out next week. Sure, okay, let

me just regot it. Christ is both the word the devar,

and he is the appearance of the mighty Man. The

seventy week Prophecy Dale nine explains both, because Jesus is both.

Look at verse twenty four seventy weeks of years. That's

the revised standard version our decreed. The Hebrew is katok.

It's a cut off. It's the only time this verb

occurs here, concerning your people. Cut off of the longer

time prophecy of the twenty third years is the mare

of the Mighty Man, the appearance of the coming of Jesus,

concerning your people in your holy city. To do what

to finish the transgression of the Jewish people understood, to

put an end to sin that means all sin, to

atone for iniquity in the Hebrew without a definite article

which means all iniquity. And then here is pauline justification

by faith to bring in what kind of righteousness? Come on,

help me now, look, if Christ, if God brings in

an everlasting righteousness, don't you go thinking that you can

add to God's righteousness by being perfect? Do you hear me?

God's righteousness is in Jesus. We acquire it by our

connection to Jesus. We don't acquire it because we impress

God with how much we know, how good we are,

or how perfect we think we are. Now God will

have a perfect people, but a perfect people will never

rely on their righteousness, They will rely on Jesus righteousness.

Do you get the point to bring in everlasting righteousness

because we don't have that, to seal both vision and profit,

and to anoint and most holy. Literally the Kodesh kurda

shame in the fourth century Iranius excuse me, Athanasius, in

his treatise on the Incarnation use this very verse to

demonstrate that Jesus Christ is God, the Messiah, was anointed

in this time prophecy, and a holy of holy a

is a codis koda shim. You cannot be holy of

holies unless you are God. And so the anti trinitarian

theory that would attack the divinity of Christ, that would

diminish his divine credentials to die on the cross for us,

is at war with the everlasting righteousness that God would

bring us in Jesus. You see, everlasting righteousness goes back

into eternity. Everlasting righteousness goes forward into eternity. Christ Our righteousness,

the righteousness of God is God's righteousness. Paul says, all

right Dale nine twenty four. Now the mighty Man of

Daniel eight point fifteen shows up as the mare in

the appearance of Dale nine, twenty three, twenty four, and

then twenty six identified as Messiah Prince. I say Isaiah

uses the same word mare for appearance in Isaiah fifty two,

fourteen and fifty three to two. Right then in your

Bible fifty two, fourteen fifty three two, same use of mare.

In fact, certain word study books will indicate that this

is a specialized use of mare for the Messiah appearance.

And time and time again, the New Testament says he

has appeared once and for all at the end of

the ages. That's mare, I did mare. But now a

righteousness has been as appeared. Paul says Romans three been manifested.

Apart from the law and the prophets, the appearance of

Christ is the answer to all our needs. He appears

in the seventy weeks. Look what he says here, and

this is the servants song of Isaiah. As many as

were astonished at him, his mare. His appearance was so

marred beyond human semblance, and his farm beyond that of

the sons of men. Christ was pulverized, Christ was mutilated. Christ.

If the shroud of Turin is in fact evidence Christ

was butchered for our sins, and a mangled body hung

upon the cross of Christ Calvary. Look at Isaiah fifty three,

verse two, another use of mare, for he grew up

before him like a young plant, like a route out

of dry ground. He had no form or comeliness that

we should look at him, and no beauty the Hebrew mare,

no appearance that we should desire him. He appears, but

his appearance isn't like a rock star. He comes as

the humble servant of God to save the world. The

mighty man we all need in life is the suffering

servant of Isaiah fifty two and fifty three, who was

the lamb of God. And so Daniels saw the mighty

Man dying in Daniel eight twenty five by at the

hands of the of Rome. He was horrified, and he says,

I didn't understand the mara. He was not expecting a

suffering mighty man, a broken mighty man. In Isaiah fifty

three to two, for the suffering servants, Christ has no form,

no form. But in Isaiah nine and excuse me. In

Dane nine twenty six, the Messiah prince appears, and it

says he has nothing. There's nothing for him. He loses

it all. Isaiah fifty three eight says the suffering servant

was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of God's people, and dal nine

twenty six the Messiah Prince is cut off and has nothing.

In Isaiah fifty three eleven, the suffering servant, who is

the lamb, bears our iniquity so he can forgive us,

give us his righteousness. In dal On nine twenty four,

the Messiah Prince atones for iniquity transgression to bring in

everlasting righteousness. Daniel is quoting Isaiah fifty three when he

speaks of Jesus showing up as the mighty Man in

the Suffering Servant. Let me ask you a question. In

your life, do you worship a weak savior or a

strong one? What do you think? Is he a mighty man?

He is? Don't you ever pull the power of God

out of Jesus Christ in your life. Christ doesn't put

up with evil. Do you know that he disciplines us,

but he loves us? Because the Mighty Man has a

mighty heart of love for you and me. He's not

satisfied that you would be lost Isaiah fifty three to eleven.

Look what it says, he shall see the fruit of

the travail of his soul and be satisfied by his knowledge.

Shall my righteous one make my servant, make many to

be a count of righteousness, that is palling justification by

faith in the Book of Romans, coming from that verse,

and he shall bear their iniquities. You can't get any

closer to us than that Christ took us into him

and down nine twenty six. Gabriel tells Daniel that the

end comes with a flood. Now, I've been in a flood.

I've been in where my life was put in danger

by a raging stream. But the Hebrew can be translated

his end or its end with a flood. Both are true.

The city representing God's people, its end came with a flood.

We are all in the flood, the currents. But his end,

his end for us, happened first there. He drowns in

our sin on the cross, the city's sin, and we

escape to the surer life. Now the King of the

North and the King of the South. Discourse given by

Gabriel and Dannel ten twenty one to Daniel, twelve to

one expands on this idea of crossroads and currents. According

to Daniel ten fourteen, Gabriel's Discourse of the King of

the North and the King of the South is a commentary.

In fact, it's a full commentary on the vision of

the twenty three years. Have you ever scratched your head

and you said, Pastor Mike, what is going on in

Daniel eleven, The King of the North, King of South?

Have you ever had that? I'm going be brave and

raise your hand. Raise your hand. If you're honest. The

rest of you will work with you for moral you know, improvement,

now just having fun with you? Do you realize it's

really kind of basic? The twenty three hundred year prophecy

of Daniel eight fourteen, according to Daniel ten fourteen, is

explained by Gabriel in the discourse of Daniel levin The

King of the North, King of South. The whole history

of the world, from the meat of Persian Empire to

the coming of Christ is in one chapter of your Bible.

How do you like that? So if you want to

know history right, study Daniel eleven. And if you want

to get some help, go to Angels Intheglen dot org.

Now I happen to know that Elder John Dom is

working on a book on Daniel chapter eleven, verse by verse, right,

and you're getting there. It's about a third of the

way through that book. And that thing's going to end

up on the web with a video presentation of Daniel eleven.

So we're working on that for product purposes. But but

you read it, watch God work in your life. But

we're gonna talk a little bit about it right now. Okay,

getting back to this where we're at here, God's people

are always at the crossroad, the center of the struggle

in Daniel eleven, the North, the South, Judea in the middle,

and the north represents more than just the Seleucia Empire

in verse sixteen that becomes Rome, and the south represents

more than just the Tomaic Egyptian Empire, because as these

kingdoms pass in Daniel eleven, they're replaced by systems that

represent the North and the South globally, and the North

and the South in a real sense represents the right

and the left. Now, I don't want any political people

here to run up and say, well, I want MAGA

or I want you know, social justice. How many of

you know that we all tend to go to the

left a little bit on how we vote. Come on,

raise your hands. Is that true? Do you realize that

God's people are always in the middle of the right

and the left. They're caught in the great current, the

great struggle. So we shouldn't be identifying with any group

other than God's people, the glorious land. We're in the middle.

And so this is why we leave politics out of

the church. We don't promote candidates. We promote conscience, and

we're about the truth of God and his word. Now

let me just go on here a little bit. I

my manuscript here is not happening today. We all meet

in the middle at the crossroads in Daniel eleven. Now,

let's put this chart on the screen here if we

can now this is a very basic picture of Daniel eleven.

Really danel ten twenty one to Daniel twelve to one,

which is the King of the North, King of the

South discourse. And I wish the slide was brighter you

could see the colors. So I'm gonna have to draw

out what I say on my screen. Ear, But the

Prince of the Covenant is in blue. Michael, the Prince

and Michael the Great Prince is in blue. Why because

in Daniel ten twenty one, which is a a prime

in the structure, Daniel twelve one, No, excuse me, a

Daniel twelve one, which is a prime at the end

of the structure. It meets in the structure at the

very center in Daniel eleven twenty two. And Daniel eleven

twenty two is the cross of Christ in human history.

So what's the center of the King of the North,

King of the South discourse? Based on the calastic structure.

You can look at the chart Daniel eleven twenty two.

I have one symbol there. What is that? The cross?

What matters to God the most in Bible prophecy the cross. Okay,

now you'll see here in Daniel ten twenty one, Michael,

your prince standing. It says with me, Gabriel, I'll tell

you what's in the Book of Truth or the writing

of truth. Now on the other side, at the end

of the prophece, you have Daniel twelve one, Michael, the

Great Prince standing over your people, literally in the Hebrew,

guarding them, found written in the book. Now Jesus said

that he has guarded us. He's the great Guardian. And

in fact it's notice the book on the right side

and the book on the left side attached to Michael.

Now the book revelation. What's the book that gets us

out of trouble? What's it called the lambs come on

help me? Book of Life? Well here it's Michael's Book

of life. You get the point. He's the one who

has the book. And then in the very center, we

don't have Michael the Great Prince. We have the Prince

of the Covenant. So Michael the Prince on each side

meets with the Prince, but he's the Prince of the Covenant.

Now Malachi will call him the Angel the Covenant, mean

the messenger of the Covenant, who's Christ who comes. But

right here the Covenant matches the book on the left

side and the book on the right side. Because God's

Covenant is the Book of life. If you're in the Covenant,

you're found written in the book. So on each side,

Daniel's in trouble. On the last time, God's people are

in trouble. At the time of the end, you had

a sudden coming. But in the center, Jesus is in trouble.

The text says he swept away in the flood and

broken the cross of Christ in the eighteenth year of

Taber Caesar and Daniel eleven twenty two. Christ dies in

the center of this discourse. Now look at it. I'm

gonna read Danel ten twenty one very briefly, but I

will tell you was inscribed in the Book of Truth.

There is no one who contends by my side against

these except Michael, your prince Daniel twelve to one. At

the time shall arise Michael, the great Prince, who has

charge of your people. He's the great shepherd. And there

shall be a time of trouble such as never has

been since there was a nation till that time. But

at that time your people shall be delivered. How many

of you want to be delivered? Raid your hand. It's me.

Everyone is God trying to keep people out. No whose

name should be found written in the book the Lamb's

Book of Life, Michael's book. Now look at Dane eleven

twenty two. Chiastic sinner armies shall be ly swept away,

flooded away before him and broke. And it's Rome and

the Prince of the Covenant also, he dies in the flood.

He's broken for us. Michael's a question Hebrew that literally

means who is just like God? Friend, Jesus is the

only answer to that most important and profound question in

your life. Jesus is the great Prince who stands watch

over God's people in every age, as Michael, the one

who is just like God, who stands over the waters

of the angry Stream, as the Man in Lenin and

Daniel ten and Daniel twelve, as Michael the Great Prince

in Daniel twelve one, as one as the on of

God in the Fiery Furnace in Daniel chapter three, as

the Messiah Prince of the New Covenant in Dale nine

twenty seven, as the Prince of the Covenant in Daniel

eleven twenty two, broken in the flood. Friend, Jesus is

the Word of life. Jesus is the book of life.

Jesus is the writing of truth. Jesus is the covenant

that God has made with us. Jesus is the Way,

the Truth, and the life at the chiastic center. Guess

who we find at the cross? We find that we

are at the cross. We were there in the mind

and the heart of Jesus. As the flood of humanity

from Adam to the end rolled through the lamb of God,

who takes away the sin of the world. Every evil

I've ever committed, every evil you've ever committed, he atoned

for in his mind in the hours from Kyssemite to

the Cross, until there was nothing left to condemn. And

when he was finished, he said, Father, it is finished.

Your sins were no longer the roadblock to keep you

from access to God in Christ, and everlasting righteousness has

been brought in, and we are treated as if we

had never sinned. We experienced the beautiful truth of justification

by faith in Christ alone. Our tears, our fears, our hopes,

our dreams met in Jesus at the Cross of Christ,

and his tears mingled with ours. You're on the serm

of them Mount, which is that beautiful clastic structure. It says,

blessed those who mourn on the other side of the Chiasm.

It says, the floods came and beat against the house

that was founded on the rock. See, the flood is

sorrow and tears in our life. But if you're on

the r you're not going to be swept away by sorrows,

fears and tears, because you're in the secret place with God.

At the top of the mountain. Somehow Jesus proved at

Calvary's Cross that he is the Way, the Truth, and

the Life. Christ found the way through the darkness of

the flood of the Great River. Save us, dear heart,

crossroad and currents matter to God. Why because you matter

to God at the cross and every day of your life,

in the currents that lead you through time, you matter

to God. You matter to God. Don't ever forget it.

You matter to God. Father, God. Thank you for Jesus

all sufficient, God, for us, everything that you are here

for us. God with us, he Manuel. Thank you for

the ever lasting righteousness that is most holy, because Jesus

is most holy. And Lord, we want to leave this

place feeling saved, and we know we will be saved

in the future, but right now, every day we want

to right now righteousness and ever now lasting righteousness good

enough for the judgment day. Lord, this service represents it.

Bless your people with Christian assurance, so that we will

obey for the right reasons. And may we will live

for you with joyful lives, and we will give our

sins to you, knowing we're not cast off, and that

we will be your children. For all eternity. Bless your

people name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy

Spirit in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen,