Since the fall of Adam and the first proclamation of the gospel in Genesis 3:15, God’s people have been waiting for the Messiah, the Anointed One.

Do you recognise your need for a redeemer? Do you know the redeemer? Do you live as one who knows your redeemer?

Thank God that the Messiah has come. We have eternal life because the covenant of grace has been fulfilled for us. 

We cannot save ourselves because all our righteous deeds are filthy rags in the sight of God. We cannot pay for our sins, nor can we win a place in heaven by good works. What hope, then, do we have?

If you know that you are a sinner, dead in trespasses and sin, know that you are bound for hell, and hear Christ calling, you are Lazarus. Christ is calling you: “Lazarus, come forth!” 

Adam’s sin resulted in sin and death for all mankind. You and I are sinners because of Adam’s sin. You and I deserve to die because of Adam’s first sin.

Righteousness is not what people say of you or how honest or gentlemanly you are. To be righteous in God’s eye is to be perfectly aligned with God’s law.

Divine covenants are the relational mechanisms God has employed to bridge the distance between infinite God and finite man.

You are reading this sermon because God has ordained, from before the foundation of the world, that you should be doing so now.