The Necessity of Absolute Truth | Voddie Baucham

well amen it is a privilege to be here with you this evening it really is it's a privilege to be here with you on this weekend and these are indeed strange days are they not it is amazing we've lived in zambia for the last five years and it has been amazing to um to to watch things from afar um we left here we every every couple of years every two or three years we come back as a family my wife bridget and i have nine children and seven of them are still at home with us and uh so the the nine of us try to come back every two or three years and we were back um a year ago i had a preaching tour i usually have a preaching tour in january so we came back in december hang out with family then had the preaching tour and we left at the uh at the end of of january uh beginning of february and i usually come back three or four times a year to do a preaching tour like the one i'm on right now two weeks two and a half weeks and uh everything this past year has has been canceled and so this is my first time back in a year and so it's been very interesting to to watch things develop both on this whole covet 19 front and seeing the way you know the whole world has been affected and how we've been shut down and how we you know with our masks on and everything and how people are losing their lives and all of the implications of that and then simultaneously to see the way everything's been rocked by um many of these issues that we'll be talking about over the course of of this weekend these these these issues of of justice and questions of justice and how we define justice and and what we do um based on those those definitions so it's been fascinating for me and sometimes frustrating for me to to to watch that from afar but i'm excited about the opportunity to come back and for us to deal with these issues over the course of this weekend um tonight my assignment is to deal with a question of the necessity of absolute truth why is it necessary for us to think in those terms why is it necessary for us to hold to absolute truth why is absolute truth necessary to christianity and i i want you to understand it from this perspective over the last few generations um christianity has been sort of herded into a pen if you will i can borrow a a ranching metaphor there we've been we've been herded into a pen right now i am i'm a texan but i'm the worst kind of texan i'm a texan by choice i'm a californian by birth but a texan by the grace of god right i wasn't born in texas i just got there as quick as i could all right um and so you know you you gotta you gotta understand ranching metaphors if you're gonna be a texan right and so we have we've been we've been we've been herded into this pen and that this pen that we've been herded into is a as a pen that says christianity at its core when you boil it all down to who we really are to what really makes us um unique to what really gives us value is activism now think about this if you watch a movie or television show and there is a positive portrayal of christians and christianity what is it based on uh well it's probably something about soup kitchens something about dealing with orphans something about hosting aaa meetings um you know something about it it's it's at political activism on behalf of the poor and the message that has been communicated and the message that in many ways evangelicalism has embraced is this message that our worth and our value in the culture and the society at large is tied up in social activism that's what's good about the church and what's good about christianity now what has happened is we've been herded into this pen and the way that we've been herded into this pen is that the culture at large has basically said to us if you will stay in that pen if you will stay in that lane then we will praise you we will laud you we will accept you we will love you but the minute you start talking about theology you're out of bounds the minute you start challenging in areas of morality you are out of bounds even when it comes to jesus the culture at large has said listen you can talk about jesus we're great we're fine with you talking about jesus as long as you talk about jesus the same way you would talk about gandhi or mother teresa or any other person buddha as long as jesus is just a guy who said some provocative things as long as jesus is is just another guru right as long as jesus is is just someone who lived a a moral life by the way defined by the same pen that we've been herded into then you can talk about jesus but the minute jesus becomes anything more we got a problem and what's worse the minute you have a problem with jesus being put on the same level with all other religious figures and the minute you start to claim that jesus has some unique place or some unique claim well now you're out of bounds now enter the modern social justice movement and i'll be referring to it over the course of this weekend as the critical social justice movement and i'll explain on tomorrow why why i use that terminology but um i use the term critical social justice is not it's not my term um but i think it's a a very helpful term uh because it it helps to remind us that the modern social justice movement is rooted and grounded in critical theory critical race theory so on and so forth and it is part of a long-standing ideological movement so enter the critical social justice movement and the language of of justice and the language of advocacy the language of equality that fits very well in this pin into which we've been herded does it not it fits very well until we start to listen and until we start to learn and until we start to figure out wait a minute these ideas actually come from somewhere these ideas are actually rooted in world views that are antithetical to and diametrically opposed to the gospel and the worldview of christianity now we need to have a discussion about whether or not the worldview in which these things are rooted are acceptable stay in your pen stay in your pen and we'll accept you we'll even applaud you let your jesus be wrapped and cloaked in our terminology and and you're great but if you get out and if you let him out then we have a problem well i stopped by to tell you you ain't hurting me and no pen you're not hurting my jesus into a pen because there is more to who we are than what we do i'm not arguing that doing good is unimportant it's absolutely important but it is woefully insufficient because we don't do good for goodness sake we do good for christ's sake we do good in christ's name and we do good because of who christ is and who christ is in us and so you have to have the whole package and the truth about who christ is matters the absolute truth about who christ is matters but if you have your bibles with you open them to the book of first corinthians first corinthians chapter 15. first corinthians chapter 15. let's look there at this penultimate first corinthians chapter 15. and i believe paul here just really lays out for us in a very logical systematic fashion why it is that the truth matters and why it is that truth is necessary why it is that this truth ought to be held to clung to and defended there's several arguments that he makes here for the truth of the gospel and again there are those who would argue that you know you can have jesus without the the theological necessities of the gospel he can just be good man and good teacher and so on and so forth and that has to be rejected outright and paul does so here he makes an argument from authority and then he makes an argument from history or evidence and then he makes an argument from logic makes these three arguments and let's look at them in turn first the argument from authority and by the way these these arguments are are are all to be to be taken together but each of them is powerful in its own right the first one is the argument from authority first corinthians 15 verses 1 and 2. now in order to put this in in context we'll see here in this chapter and what we're going to look at that there are individuals attached to adjacent to the church in corinth who claim on the one hand to be followers of christ but claim on the other hand not to believe in resurrection they don't believe that resurrections are possible they don't believe that resurrection makes sense they know that that they believe that jesus is good man good teacher good prophet all of that but but they draw the line at this at this supernatural side of things you know a famous example of this is is thomas jefferson you know the thomas jefferson bible thomas jefferson had a problem with some of the supernatural aspects of the gospel um and there are others who have you know wanted to have jesus and and recognize that you can't get around jesus right i mean he split time in half literally between bc and a.d so you you can't get you can't get around jesus so these individuals recognize you can't get around jesus you can't get around the impact that he's had but but philosophically they would say i just have a i just i reject the idea that when people die there's something after that that they can be raised from the dead so paul's essentially taking on this argument paul's essentially saying you you can't do that that the truth that these principles that the essence of our message and of our gospel the facts of it are essential it's no good for you to have a jesus without the absolute truth of the gospel it's insufficient and here's three reasons why first the argument from authority verse 1 now i would remind you brothers of the gospel i preached to you which you received in which you stand and by which you are being saved if you hold fast to the word i preached to you unless you believed in vain now let's unpack this a little bit paul's arguing here and by the way he starts off the book of first corinthians by identifying himself as an apostle so paul has apostolic authority he's writing this letter as one with apostolic authority and he says here i would remind you of the gospel but not just of the gospel he's being very specific here of the gospel i preached to you as an apostle with the authority of an apostle paul so paul here is saying it's not just any gospel that matters it's not just the gospel that you like it's not just the gospel that you're comfortable with i am reminding you of the gospel that i preached to you secondly which you received the gospel i preached to you the gospel which you received from me when i preached it to you and the gospel in which you stand all three of these things are important beyond important they're essential the gospel has to be preached to you you have to receive the gospel and you have to stand on the gospel thus preached and received that is non-negotiable negotiable and then something comes from that there's a fruit of that you know you have a sender and a receiver and a message for effective communication to take place right and here we have a sender this this paul who's preaching this gospel we have a receiver right these individuals in corinth who received this gospel that he preached and what is the message the message is and we'll see this soon here the information that he preached to them about jesus this is what they're standing on and in verse 2 and by which you are being saved by which you are being saved i preached this gospel as an apostle you received this gospel from me as an apostle you you took your stand on this gospel and you were saved by this gospel and then there's this controversial clause if you hold fast to the word which i preached to you unless you believed in vain now there's a couple of things that paul could be saying here paul could be saying you know i preached the gospel you you you received the gospel and you took your stand on the gospel and you're being saved by the gospel if you hold fast to the word that i preached to you but if you don't hold fast to the word that i preached to you then you you you started out being saved but now you're not being saved anymore well the context here doesn't allow for that nor does the rest of pauline theology allow for that paul knows nothing of a salvation that is potential he knows nothing of a salvation that is partial nothing of a salvation that comes and goes but what he is saying is this you're being saved by this gospel if you hold fast to the word that i preached to you in other words you're only saved by the gospel if it's the gospel that i preached to you if it's not the gospel that i preached to you that gospel won't save you remember the context here the context here is people saying yes i believe this and i received this but but i just got a problem with this part all of the elements of the gospel i'm fine with and i'll take it but this thing about resurrection i'll leave that i'll be committed i'll do everything i'm supposed to do i'll be a good christian i'll be a faithful christian i'll come to church i'll i'll i'll do whatever i'll serve i'll do all of these things but this little one issue here this resurrection issue here i've got a philosophical problem with it and paul says there's an issue because there is only salvation if you receive the gospel that i preached if you take your stand in the gospel that i preached but if you're taking your stand in nine out of the ten things that you heard from me and you're rejecting one of them then believed in vain you believed in vain you don't get to do that you don't get to do that so this is the argument from authority the way i like to illustrate it is like this um am a graduate of the university of miami did you all not know that my miami grad how could you not know that i'm a miami grad right now i couldn't find the university of miami to save my life never been on the university of miami campus never never not one time in my whole life have i been on the university of miami campus now i've seen a lot of you giving me the you know the the you right like wow i can't believe that now you're sitting there and what are you thinking you're thinking well if you've never been there you don't even know where it is you just lied to us you can't be a miami grad if you didn't go i'll give you one better what if i had been but i didn't finish what what if i went and i took 90 of the courses necessary for my degree and didn't take the last 10 percent of my courses and then left the university of miami and stood up here and claimed that i was a miami grad i'd be a liar and the university of miami would have the authority to call me a liar because they're the ones who get to determine who's a grad and who's not are you smelling what i'm stepping in that's the argument from authority and if you have a problem with paul making this argument then you believe that christianity has less authority than the university of miami because you believe it's fine for the you to say i'm sorry you didn't complete what we required but somehow you believe it's it's mean and insensitive for paul to say no all the gospel or not but that's exactly what he says there is a truth it is absolute and it is necessary for you to hold to that truth now let me tell you what paul's not saying paul's not saying that in order to be a christian you have to know everything there is to know if that's the case you won't even be a christian in when you're in heaven because we'll spend all eternity all eternity unfolding the matchless endless measureless infinite glory beauty and knowledge of god amen so that's not what he's saying if that was the case why would we need to continue to sit under the word of god why would we continue to study to show ourselves approved unto god why why why that's not what he's saying he's not saying you can only be a christian when you have every piece of information that there is to have what he's saying is when the gospel is presented to you you receive the gospel as it is presented now he can say this because he's speaking with apostolic authority i can't say this unless what i'm preaching is what the apostles have said amen i get to adding and taking away stuff then i'm guilty of the very thing that he's talking about he's talking about the individual who hears the gospel as presented by the apostles and says i have a a presuppositional commitment to an ideology that you just contradicted and when the gospel that i hear from the apostles contradicts my presupposition my presupposition wins not the gospel you're outside the camp you're outside the camp that's the argument from authority now he gives the the the argument from history or from evidence beginning at verse three for i delivered to you as a first importance what i also received again this goes back to his apostolic authority why is this important not why because i'm paul and because i'm smarter than you no why must you receive the gospel from me now i wouldn't say this i can't say this but paul says this and he has the authority to say this i don't have apostolic authority he does and he's explaining why he can make the argument from authority four i deliver to you as a first importance what i also received that christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures that he was buried that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures that he appeared to cephas or peter then the 12 then he appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time most of whom are still alive though some have fallen asleep then he appeared to james then to all the apostles and last of all as to one untimely born he appeared also to me there's the argument from evidence the argument from authority says there is a truth that you must receive there is a truth that you must believe it is absolute and every bit of it is necessary now the argument from evidence says the reason that i can make the argument from authority is because it happened christianity doesn't say as some religions do that that you need to search within yourself to find the truth god forbid the heart is desperately wicked above all things who can know it amen that's what my bible says forget that follow your heart stuff it'll lead you to a ditch don't follow your heart luke in luke chapter one beginning in verse one he says inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have have delivered them to us it seemed good to me also having followed all things closely for some time past to write an orderly account for you most excellent theophilus that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught then if you go over to first john chapter one look at first john chapter one that first paragraph in first john chapter one that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes by who by the way who's the we this is the apostolic we which we have seen with our eyes which we looked upon and have touched with our hands concerning the word of life the life was made manifest and we have seen it and testified to it and proclaimed to you the eternal life which was with the father and was made manifest to us that which we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also that you too may have fellowship with us and indeed our fellowship was with the father and with his son jesus christ and we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete we've seen we've heard we've touched we've handled this happened this happened paul says first look at how he hands out the lays out the evidence i delivered to you as the first importance but i also received christ died for our sins according to the scripture so his first piece of evidence is the scriptures and the fulfillment of the scriptures christ died for our sins in accordance with the scripture the bible said it was going to happen and it did that he was buried that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures the bible said it was going to happen and it did that he appeared to cephas or to peter after now not only does he fulfill the scriptures and being born and dying and resurrecting but after he is resurrected he is seen by multiple eyewitnesses first he's seen by peter and then he's seen by the 12. i'll just pause here for a moment because it's always necessary to pause here because if i don't somebody comes up and asks me this question right they're like well actually you know that there seems to be a contradiction there and sometimes i'm asked this question by a sincere believer who just has i mean they read that text and they just immediately go oh that seems problematic sometimes though it's not a sincere believer it's it's a sincere skeptic you know them right they read the bible looking for contradictions or any any any any whiff of controversy and they look at this and immediately red flags go off and they go wait a minute how does he appear to the 12 if judas had already committed suicide riddle me that batman well what's interesting is when they come together in the upper room in acts chapter one do you remember what happens they replace judas but they replace him with one and the criteria was he has to have been with us from the beginning who witnessed all the things that we've witnessed and they replace him with matthias why do they need to replace judas because they are the 12 and the number is kind of important all the way through in the book of revelation the number is important 12 tribes 12 apostles the number 12 is incredibly important so matthias comes to complete the number and by the way part of the criteria was christ had to have appeared to him as well so when paul refers to the twelve here he's referring to the twelve with matthias not the twelve with judas then he appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time most of whom are still alive though some have fallen asleep then he appeared to james to all the apostles that would have probably been over the 120 being referenced there anyway here's what's interesting paul makes this argument and he says christ came he lived he died he was resurrected according to the scripture so you have the evidence of the scriptures being fulfilled that's good but beyond that you have the evidence of eyewitnesses and if you do the math there are over 300 eyewitnesses to the resurrection still alive when paul writes first corinthians they're still alive which means that his claims are falsifiable now that may sound bad but it's a good thing if you make a claim that's falsifiable that means that there are people around who can say you lied and i can prove it now if i make a claim and there's nobody who were your witnesses well there weren't any witnesses that's not a very strong claim but if i make a claim and you go who are you witnesses and we go and i say well there's over 600 witnesses and and more than half of those people right now can be questioned that means you can falsify my claim you can prove that i'm lying which strengthens my argument rather than weakening it and then i love the last part of this verse eight i love verse eight and the reason i love verse eight is because it comes at the end and not at the beginning this is a huge problem we have in modern culture in modern culture verse 8 would not only have come at the beginning but it would have been the only thing paul would have said you need to believe this because it's my truth you can't say amen you ought to say ouch if i hear one more person say i just have to live my truth i just don't know i just don't even know i don't even know what i'm going to do i just have to live my truth no no paul says last of all and that's not just last of all but least of all as to one untimely born one born out of season he appeared to me also in other words paul doesn't make the argument this thing is true and i know it because of my personal experience no no paul makes the argument this thing is true and this thing is true and i know it first because of the scriptures secondly i know it because of the historical evidence and the eyewitnesses and thirdly oh by the way me too if you need that for i am the least of the apostles unworthy to be called an apostle because i persecuted the church of god but by the grace of god i am what i am this grace toward me was not in vain on the contrary i worked harder than any of them though it was not i but the grace of god that is with me whether then it was i or they so we preached and so you believe by the way i am they all the way through this is what apostles first argument the argument from authority and specifically apostolic authority the second argument the argument from evidence and he comes back at the end of it with what apostolic authority now he's going to make a third argument and this is an argument from logic and i love it i just do beginning in verse 12. now if christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead remember they have a philosophical disagreement here you're saying that jesus raised from the dead i'm saying that kind of thing can't happen i'm with you on all the rest of the stuff but i just that's a non-starter for me verse 13 but if there is no resurrection of the dead then not even christ has been raised by the way here's the wonderful thing about all of this paul is getting ready to lay out a logical argument why it's why this is why this is problematic but first he wins the argument before he makes it in verse 13 he wins the argument look at it again but if there is no resurrection of the dead then not even christ has been raised um what did he do in verses 1-11 he proved that christ has been raised now he's about to give seven things that logically have to be the case if there's no such thing as resurrection by the way already demonstrated that christ has been raised now he's saying you believe there's no such thing as resurrection you got a huge problem because you got over 300 eyewitnesses and the bible which says christ was raised from the dead so you got your philosophical commitment and your philosophical commitment is staring at a fact and that fact demands a response from you and while you think about how you're going to respond here's seven things that must follow if there's no such thing as resurrection verse 14 and if christ has not been raised one our preaching is vain our preaching is vain if christ has not been raised preaching is the dumbest thing in the world because we preach christ and him crucified now unfortunately there are some in this world whose preaching is unaffected by the resurrection because they preach self-help and not the gospel so so when i say preaching i'm talking about gospel preaching i'm talking about preaching christ if there's no such thing if christ has not been raised then preaching is useless it's vain it's futile it's empty literally it's empty the preaching is empty if christ has not been raised because we preached christ and we preached him crucified number two your faith is vain your faith is meaningless if christ has not been raised why because the object of your faith is the resurrected christ if the object of your faith is gone it doesn't matter how strong your faith is what if i'm you know i'm standing here and i'm just saying this not because it ever happened to me before several years ago in the church where i was preaching but let's say that i was standing here and i had stood up from a chair and i'd get my message having stood up from the chair and somebody behind me noticing that i was moving back and forth a lot decided that in order to protect me they would move the chair while i was preaching and i finished preaching and believe with every fiber of my being that there's a chair right behind me when i go to sit down will it matter how much faith i have in the presence of the chair no because the object of my faith will no longer exist and your faith is only as significant as its object and if christ has not been raised then the object of your faith is ruined so preaching is vain faith is vain number three we are even found to be misrepresenting god because we testify about god that he raised christ whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised for if the dead are not raised that even christ has been raised i'd say that's three and four here's what's interesting that there are people who want to say on the one hand that they don't believe in the resurrection but on the other hand they don't want to call me a liar isn't that interesting don't believe in the resurrection so you're saying i'm lying beyond that i'm not just a liar i'm a blaspheming liar because i'm saying that god did something that god didn't do no no no no i'm not i'm not calling you a liar i mean because i'm sure that that's what you believe doesn't matter remember faith is vain if there's no resurrected christ if you believe there's no resurrection you believe that everyone who preaches christ and him crucified is a liar and a blaspheming liar but ironically nobody wants to take that step but logically you have to it's irrefutable again that fourth point don't miss that fourth point right in the middle of his argument not even christ has been raised which by the way already proved verse 17 and if christ has not been raised your faith is futile you are still in your sins you are still in your sins christ's atoning death the bible says was acceptable to the father and the resurrection again if the death of christ is payment for your sin the resurrection is your receipt the resurrection is christ being victorious over death and hell and the grave the resurrection is christ being the firstborn from among the dead and you're only the firstborn if others are born after you the resurrection is christ saying god's saying in christ that the payment for your sin has been accepted all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god all of us all of us have a debt to pay before god and the wages of sin is death isaiah says all we like sheep had gone astray each of us had turned to his own way but god has laid upon him the iniquity of us all again paul tells us god made him who knew no sin to be sin for us in order that we might be the righteousness of god listen listen if there's no resurrection none of that is true if there's no resurrection jesus is still dead he has not been victorious over death and you will not be victorious over death you're still in your sins you're unforgiven and the only thing that you have hoped for is the wrath of god to come 18 then those who have fallen asleep in christ have perished i was telling somebody that i've had to have three coveted tests in two weeks why because this whole traveling thing christmas morning we got a call that my wife's mother died and so she and i got things together and flew to dallas my mother-in-law made me promise to preach her funeral like several times and so bridget and i got on a plane and we went to dallas to do our mom's funeral and then we left there on the 4th and we got back to lusaka on the 6th yeah it takes that long and then i had to turn around and fly back here leaving on the 12th it's a 36 hour trip i just died y'all just just tired if christ has not been raised then we wasted our time if christ has not been raised my wife will never see her mother again or her father i'll never see my father my grandfather and on and on and on and on any of those individuals because if christ has not been raised then those who have fallen asleep lamb those who have died in christ have perished there is no hope for them or for anyone finally verse 19. if in christ we have hope in this life only we are of all people most to be pitied we are the most pitiful lot on the planet now some of you are looking down right now you looking looking pretty you know you got your masks on but i can at least tell when you you know don't look like you've heard the greatest news in the world that's pretty bad news but remember what i said he won the argument in verse 13. before he laid out the logical conclusion because in verse 13 he demonstrates that christ has been raised and that he's proved that christ has been raised because he points to this absolute truth that is the foundation upon which our faith rests that means we can actually flip the script you see if christ hasn't been raised and all these horrible things are true but he proved earlier that christ had been raised he reiterates that in verse 13. christ has been raised so my preaching is not in vain it is not it is not i preach christ and him crucified preach the gospel of jesus christ the power of god unto salvation our preaching is not vain it's powerful it's the most powerful thing in the world it's the most useful thing in the world it's the most beautiful thing in the world that's why that's why we can say beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news your faith is not vain your faith is not empty you place your faith in christ you place your faith in the god who raised christ from the dead your faith is alive your faith is powerful because you place your faith in christ thirdly i'm not a liar i'm not a blaspheming liar i'm a truth teller and i'm telling the most beautiful truth that the world has ever heard or will ever hear you are not in your sins if you have placed your faith in christ jesus if you have placed your faith in christ then he nailed your sins to the cross if you placed your faith in christ then god has cast your sins into the sea of forgetfulness as far as the east is from the west to bring them up no more you are clean you have been washed of your sins you were sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful shore very deeply stained within sinking to rise no more but the master of the sea hurt my despairing cry from the waters he lifted me now safe am i i'm clean i'm spotless washed in his blood those who have fallen asleep have not perished they've not been lost because a thing can't be lost when you know where it is they've not perished they've received their inheritance they've not perished they've gone to be with their redeemer and finally don't you dare pity me because there is nothing pitiful about one who's placed his faith in christ one day you're going to hear the news that i'm dead unless the lord comes first amen last time i checked the death rate was one per person i mean i didn't look today but i don't think it's changed amen nobody gets out of here alive for me to live is christ and to die is gain how can we pity those who die in christ how see the truth matters the truth of the gospel matters and what the world wants us to believe is that we can just sort of go into this pen where we reduce christianity to just doing good things for people when we reduce christ to just this this guru and this teacher who who gave some principles that can help you have a happy and fulfilling and successful life but the truth of the gospel is everything it is necessary an absolute truth not relative truth not my truth not your truth not paul's truth and i love the fact that when paul lays out this argument he makes it absolutely clear that this is a truth that he believes this is a truth that he embraces but it is not merely his truth it is absolute truth and he believes it because it's absolute truth and therefore it's non-negotiable so whatever else we talk about whatever else we do whatever else we pursue we must do so in light of the truth of the gospel and we must do so from the foundation of and from the assumptions of the truth of the gospel so when we talk about justice we can't take the absolute truth of the gospel and put it aside and then begin to think through what justice is as though the gospel doesn't matter because if it doesn't matter nothing does we begin there and we end there and every step in between because this is necessary let's pray oh our good and great god god and father of our lord jesus christ god we bible for you tonight in humble adoration of your majesty and your goodness and your grace and your truth we bow before you with gratitude for the person and work of your son our lord and savior jesus christ the one whom you promised and foretold the one whom you sent to redeem your people the one who gladly gave his life for us the one who died and rose again on the third day the one who is seated at your right hand forever making intercession for us and the one who will come again at the end of the age to judge the living and the dead and to receive us to himself we thank you for christ and we ask these things in his name and for his sake and by the power of your spirit whom you have shed abroad into our hearts who opens our eyes to these truths and grants us grace to understand it in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit we pray amen amen

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