We worship that gloriously unique God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of Mary. He is our Sacrifice. He is the very "sum and substance" (Spurgeon) of our Theology, that divine truth we know and love. What we call "Calvinism" or "The Doctrines of Grace" are embodied in Him. One may be familiar with those doctrines and not know Him, but one cannot know Him and have a lasting problem with those doctrines, because... they emanate from Him, being of the very essence of His glorious Person and Work. True faith (the gift of God wrought through His Word, Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 10:17) can not conceive of HIM as being anything less than absolutely sovereign, nor of His work, for and in the sinner, as being anything other than absolutely free and totally effectual. Thus, Praise His Name! He is a real and sure hope for real, helpless, "dead dog" sinners!