Blessed, blessed weekend God
has given us. While you're turning to the gospel
of lamentations, let me add my thank you to this congregation. We have been so greatly, greatly
blessed of God under the preaching of the gospel, singing his praise,
worshiping our Redeemer. And I thank God for you, your
kindness, your concern for Myself, for the kingdom of God, your
generosity to me, and Shelby, your hospitality, thank you very,
very much. At these meetings, it's so difficult
to get to see and visit with folks you want to. I don't remember
exactly when it was I first came to preach up in Gettysburg. It's
been a few years back. I managed to make a lot of folks
angry, but I had some friends. Cheryl and Lenore have been friends
ever since then and today was the first time I got to speak
to them. So you forgive me for that. And some of you have been
asking again about the cancer that I have or had. I was still
there. I don't know. But it's a direct
result of the cobalt treatments I had 43 years ago. I had cancer
when I was 26 years old. I had Hodgkin's disease. Back
then it wasn't very treatable and had to go through a year
of chemotherapy and cobalt right at the end of chemotherapy or
right at the end of cobalt usage for cancer treatments and right
at the beginning of chemotherapy. So they weren't nearly as precise
as they are now. I got massive dosages of both
and I knew then the dangers associated with it. The doctors told me
what to expect, what I might possibly expect. And I knew I'd
be having to hug a commode for a year, and I did. But I asked
my doctor at that time, I said, if I don't take these treatments,
how long do you expect me to live? And if I do take them,
how long? My reason was very simple. I
wasn't about to put myself and my family through the difficulty
of that year to live another few months. And he said, well,
if you take the treatments, we think maybe four or five years.
If you don't, a few weeks to a few months, you will be gone.
And I thought, maybe in four or five years, I can accomplish
some things that are worthwhile. And here's some of you. First thing, my family doctor
said to me, when he told me that the lung cancer was here, when
he found out that it was, he said, Richard, it's not the pipe
you smoke, it's not the cigars you smoke now and then, it's
the cobalt. He said, they didn't expect you
to be here 43 years later. And this is God's doing and God's
good providence and I'm thankful that God's allowed you and me
to be joined together in heart in our Lamentations chapter one. We'll begin reading at verse
eight. The sweetest, most joyful, most heart-thrilling
thing in this world to me is the suffering and death of God's
darling son on my behalf. And the bitterest, most painful,
most heartbreaking thing in this world to me is that the suffering
and death of God's son on my behalf is the cost of my everlasting
salvation. The Jews kept their annual feast.
They were feast of celebrations. Seven times a year, they kept
feast to God. Celebrations of redemption. Always
with bitterness, with bitter herbs, with repentance, with
confession. We who are gods rejoice in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing causes our hearts to
dance like that. And nothing causes our hearts
to weep like that. Lamentations one, verse eight. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned,
therefore she is removed. All that honor her despise her,
because they have seen her naked Yea, she sigheth and turneth
backward. Her filthiness is in her skirts. She remembereth not her last
end. Therefore she came down wonderfully. She had no comforter. Now notice in the next sentence
there's a change of persons. Jeremiah has been talking about
Jerusalem her sin, her nakedness, her filth, her shame. Then at
the end of verse nine, he speaks in the first person about himself. Oh Lord, behold my affliction,
for the enemy hath magnified himself. Then in verse 10, the
prophet changes persons again and pours out his lamentation
to God. The adversary hath spread out
his hand upon all her pleasant things, speaking again of God's
church, Jerusalem. For she hath seen that the heathen
entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they
should not enter into thy congregation. All her people sigh, they seek
bread, they have given their pleasant things for meat, to
relieve the soul. Then beginning at the end of
verse 11 and continuing through verse 14, Jeremiah again speaks
in the first person. Be sure to connect what the prophet
said in the last sentence of verse 9 with what he says here
beginning at the last sentence of verse 11. Oh Lord, behold
my affliction, for the enemy hath magnified himself. See,
O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile. See, O Lord, and consider, for
I am become vile. That's my subject. I am become vile. Is it nothing to you? All ye
that pass by, behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto
my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted
me in the day of his fierce anger. From above hath he sent fire
into my bones, and it prevaileth against them. He hath spread
out a net for my feet. He hath turned me back. He hath
made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my transgressions
is bound by his hand. They're wreathed and come upon
my neck. He hath made my strength to fall. The Lord hath delivered me into
their hands from whom I'm not able to rise up. As a faithful
pastor, Jeremiah's heart was broken. because of the woeful
condition of God's church. He made the sorrows of Jerusalem
his sorrows. The people for whom and among
whom he labored, the people to whom God sent him, the people
whom he served faithfully rejected his counsel. They despised him. The man God sent to bring them
his word, they cast into a pit. By their own rebellion, sin,
and unbelief, the sons and daughters of Abraham brought the judgment
of God upon themselves. But Jeremiah, being the faithful
prophet he was, loved the people still. His heart broke for the
people. The very ones who had cast him
into the deep pit those who threw him aside and chose for themselves
prophets who would speak to them smooth things. And Jeremiah takes
their sin as his sin, and their judgment as his judgment. He speaks first of Jerusalem,
then of himself, then of Jerusalem, then of himself, as one with
the people. the people who had earned, who
deserved, and who received God's wrath and God's judgment. I have no hesitancy at all in
telling you, if we interpret the words of our text, Jeremiah
1, 8 through 14, as words only spoken by Jeremiah, we must conclude
that he was mistaken. Is there any sorrow like my sorrow?
Has anybody ever experienced things like this? Many had, many
had, as far as Jeremiah's experience is concerned. But we understand
clearly we're not reading a word that might have mistakes, errors,
or misstatements in it. We've read the word of God, given
by inspiration of God the Holy Ghost. the purpose of which is
to make known to our souls the person and work and glory of
Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. The prophet here speaks not just
of himself, but by the inspiration of God the Holy Ghost, speaks
to us personifying Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, who took our sins. and made them his own, and for
our sins suffered the wrath of God. So here are the words of
our text, not as words fallen from the lips of a man like Jeremiah,
but as words fallen from the lips of God's own darling son,
as he hung upon the cursed tree, suffering the wrath of God for
us. The prophet says, behold, I am become vile. I've searched diligently. I can
find no phrase like that anywhere in the word of God, except in
Job chapter 40. And Job made it a slightly different
statement. As God spoke to Job out of the
whirlwind, and Job acknowledged himself, what he was before God,
he said, behold, I am vile. Jeremiah here uses another word
in the statement. He says, I am become vile. Something has happened. I had
become what I was not before. Job couldn't say that. He was
born vile. Jeremiah himself tells us the
heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
But he here says, I am become vile. Oh, Jehovah, you who are,
and was, and is to come. Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost, behold and consider, I am become vile. I want this morning to bring
your heart and mind and my heart and mind again to this place
called Calvary and behold the Son of God as he endures the
wrath of God in our stead and the reason for it, both the cause
of it and the accomplishments of it. The Lord Jesus Christ,
our blessed Redeemer, God's darling Son, voluntarily endured the
shameful, painful, ignominious, violent death of the cross for
sinners like you and me, so that God might forgive our sins justly. That's the only way God can ever
do anything, is justly. Children of Israel marched out
of Egypt by the blood of a lamb, and the one leading the way was
a man named Moses, whose name is synonymous with law. God's
people are saved in perfect consistency with God's holy law, righteousness,
justice, and truth. By mercy and by truth, iniquity
is purged. Christ died the just for the
unjust, that he might be a just God and a Savior. Let me call
your attention to four things in this message. I'll give you
my outline, and then we'll go through it briefly. First, here
is a shocking confession. I am become vile. Second, here is an urgent appeal
to Jehovah. See, O Lord, and consider. Consider who I am. Consider for
whom I become vile. Third, here is a vision of indescribable
sorrow. All ye that pass by, behold,
and see if there be any sorrow likened to my sorrow, any sorrow
so deep so undeserved, so effectual. Fourth, here is a question of
great importance. Is it nothing to you? And I'll
conclude the message with an answer of humble faith. First,
as we read this portion of scripture, we hear the all-holy Christ,
the spotless Lamb of God, making a shocking confession. See, O
Lord, and consider, for I am become vile. How can this be? Can these things truly be words
from the lips of him who is holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate
from sinners? Is it possible that the holy
one who knew no sin, did no sin and could not sin, could bow
before the triune Jehovah with a broken heart and say, behold,
I am become vile? For a man to say that of him
would be utter blasphemy at its greatest depth. for me to say that of him would
be shocking blasphemy if the Son of God had not said it of
himself and written it for us in his Word. If he declares himself
vile, though no man can comprehend the mystery or explain the wonder
of it, we can and should fall on our faces before him. and
worship him with utter astonishment. When I was 21 or 22 years old,
I hadn't been pastoring very long, I was asked to preach in
a Bible conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, my hometown,
at Rosemont Baptist Church. Pastor was Brother Herbert Wilson.
And God gave me a message from 2 Corinthians 5, 21, that caused
a lot of disturbance. Our Lord Jesus speaks of himself
by the Spirit of God as being made sin for us. And that was
my subject. I don't understand how. I gave
up long ago trying to understand how. I do not understand how
God could become a man and not cease to be God, but he did. I had no idea how God could walk
on this earth in human flesh and must have as a baby the milk
of his mother's breast, just like any other baby, or die without
it, and yet be God supplying milk in her breast, but he did. I don't have any idea how God
could walk on this earth and learn as a child. Learn to walk, and learn to talk,
and learn to read, and learn to write, and still be God-omniscient. But he is, and he did. I don't
know how God Almighty could die and yet never die, but he did. You read it to us. God died and he didn't die. I don't know how God can make
a sinner righteous, perfectly righteous. I mean perfectly righteous
on the inside. a new nature, a divine nature,
partakers of his nature, holiness itself. And yet that same man
be as corrupt and vile as the day he came forth from his mother's
womb. But here he is. I understand nothing of the how. I'm here to declare to you the
wonder of the grace. I am become vile, our Savior
says. When our Lord Jesus was made
sin for us, when the reproaches of them that reproached the Almighty
fell on him, when he bore our sin in his own body on the tree,
the Lamb of God made himself vile before the triune Jehovah,
that he might be justly punished as our substitute. Justice could not otherwise have
punished him. Justice could not otherwise have
punished him. The wages of sin is death. Where there's no sin, there's
no death. Where there's no guilt, there's
no punishment. Where there's no transgression,
there's no wrath. The soul that sinneth, it shall
die. The father shall not bear the
iniquity of the son, nor the son the iniquity of the father,
but the soul that sinneth, it shall die, none else. God was meticulous in giving
the law. You read the books of Exodus
through Deuteronomy. God demanded that Israel keep
just weights and balances. And those who were found using
deceitful weights and false or false balances and deceitful
weights were to be put out of the camp. Is that because God's
concerned about how much hamburger you get per pound? No. because
God disposes himself, reveals himself from the beginning as
a just God and a savior. God punished his son for sin
because God made his son deserving of wrath. I have become vile is his testimony. Listen to what the Savior says.
If you want to turn back to the book of Psalms, I'll read just
a few verses here. Psalm 40. There's absolutely no question
that these are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ because God
the Holy Ghost tells us so in the 10th chapter of the book
of Hebrews. Psalm 40 verse 12. Our savior
hangs upon the cursed tree, and he says innumerable evils have
compassed me about. Mine iniquities. It could just as well be written
Don Fortner's iniquities, but it said mine iniquities. Mine iniquities. Job said, I will hold on to my
righteousness. My righteousness. The righteousness
of God, John Chapman, is my righteousness. My righteousness. righteousness
for which I shall be rewarded with all the glory of God's own
Son, Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, just as he was rewarded with
all the sorrow and suffering and shame and death of his iniquity. Mine iniquities have taken hold
upon me so that I'm not able to look up They're more than
the hairs of mine head, therefore my heart faileth me. Turn over
a few pages to Psalm 69. Save me, O God, for the waters
are coming unto my soul. I sink in deep mire where there's
no standing. I'm coming to deep waters where
the floods overflow me. I'm weary of my crying. My throat
is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for
my God. They that hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs of mine head. They that would destroy
me being my enemies wrongfully are mighty. Then I restored that
which I took not away. No one questions. Those are the
words of the Son of God. They're used in the New Testament,
speaking of him. So is verse five. Oh God, thou
knowest my foolishness. If you have a marginal translation
in your Bible, look at it. Oh God, thou knowest my guiltiness. My guiltiness. My sins, my sins
are not hid from thee. And then he speaks of his people. Let not them that wait on thee,
O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake. Let not those that
seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel, because
for thy sake I have borne reproach. Shame hath covered my face. I
am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
children, for the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the
reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. Verse 19, thou hast known my reproach,
and my shame, and my dishonor. Mine adversaries are all before
thee. Reproach hath broken mine heart,
and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity,
but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. We won't look
at it for the sake of time, But if you'd like to look at Ezekiel
chapter four, you'll have an example of this, just one of
many given in the Old Testament scriptures. Prophet Ezekiel was
required by God to lay on his left side for 390 days, bearing
the iniquity of Israel. Each of those 390 days representing
390 years of Israel's idolatry in Bethel and in Dan. Then he was required to lay on
his right side for 40 days. bearing the iniquity of Judah,
each of those 40 days representing the 40 years of Judah's idolatry
under the wicked reign of Manasseh the king. Doing so, God Almighty
showed by his prophet in picture, redemption by our Redeemer, the
Lord Jesus, bear our sin in his own body on the tree. For he
hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. That's the sweetest
thing in the world and the most bitter thing in the world. The most joyful thing I ever
think about. the most painful thing I ever think about. Here's
the second thing. We have in our text an urgent
appeal to the triune Jehovah. See, O Lord, and consider. The Son of God lifts his heart
to heaven. He says, O God, consider. Look down here on me
in my shame, in my reproach, in my agony. Look down here and
consider. Consider who I am, thy son, thy
servant. I have come here in obedience
to your will, O Lord. I've come here because my ear
is bored through with it all and I turn not my back away from
the work committed to me. I'm your son, your servant. Consider, consider why I'm here. I've come here to magnify your
law and to make it honorable. I've come here to make all the
world to understand God is just, righteous, and true. I've come
here to maintain all the righteousness of your law and all the justice
of your law. I've come here to fulfill it
all and to put an end to it all. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to them that believe. When the Lord Jesus
said, it is finished, he put a period to the law, a full stop
to the law. Christ is the finishing of the
law. To everyone who believes, the
law of God cannot demand from me anything, I haven't given
it. The law of God cannot require
of me anything. I haven't given it in the person
of God's own Son. Consider, consider, oh Jehovah,
consider. I came here to save your people
from their sins. Consider for whom I had been
made vile. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Not just treated
as though he were a curse, not just treated as though he were
vile, not just treated as though he were a sinner, but made a
curse because he was made sin that he might redeem them that
were under the curse of the law. Consider, consider, O my soul,
how he must love us. The third thing we have before
us in this vision is a vision of indescribable sorrow. All ye that pass by, behold and
see. If there be any sorrow like unto
my sorrow, any sorrow so deep, so undeserved, so effectual. What strong language the Savior
uses here to declare his indescribable sorrow, indescribable sorrow
that the Lord God himself put upon him. Look at verse 12. Is it nothing to you, all you
that pass by? Behold and see if there be any
sorrow like unto my sorrow. Sorrow which is done unto me,
wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me. Sorrow the Lord made mine. In the day of his fierce anger
from above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth
against them. He hath spread a net for my feet.
He hath turned me back. He hath made me desolate and
faint all the day. The yoke of my transgressions
is bound by his hand. They are wreathed and come up
upon my neck. He hath made my strength to fall. The Lord hath delivered me into
their hands. from whom I am not able to rise
up. What mind can conceive, what
tongue can declare the pain, the sorrow our Lord Jesus endured
yonder on Calvary's cursed tree, when he died in our room instead
under the just fury and the holy wrath of an angry God? Much we talk of Jesus' blood,
but how little is understood. Are the sufferings so intense,
angels have no perfect sense. Who can rightly comprehend their
beginning or their end? It is to God and God alone that
their weight is fully known. See the suffering, Son of God,
pouring out his precious blood, boundless depths of love divine. Jesus, what a love is thine. As he hangs upon the cursed tree,
under the curse of God's law, being made a curse for us, this
divine sufferer sends out this challenge, behold and see whether
there be any sorrow likened to my sorrow. There's no sorrow in all the
world, not even in the deepest, darkest pit of hell, like the
sorrow the Lord Jesus Christ endured when he hung upon that
cursed tree on that day of infamy and glory. Brother John, Brother
Paul, Brother David, all three, have stated plainly that our
Lord suffered the hell we deserve. And all three will tell you as
I do now, that doesn't come close to describing it. He, at one time, on one day, suffered all the fury of God's
holy wrath. against sin until fury was called. And God says to Jacob, fury is
not in me. Fury is not in me. The Lord God
cried, awake, O sword, against the man that is my fellow, smite
and slay the shepherd. And he wore out the sword of
justice. on his son until his son swallowed
the sword Hilton Hall. Our Savior suffered all the wrath
and all the fury there is in God against sin for his people. What was his sorrow? That wherewith
the Lord afflicted him. holiness was made sin. Innocence was made guilt. The spotless name of God was
made vile. And when the Lord God heaped
upon His Son our sin, at the apex of His obedience, God turned
His back on His And God's son cries, my God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me? And he answers the cry, thou
art of pure eyes, that to behold iniquity. God forsaken of God. When Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, died in our stead, the righteous, faithful servant of Jehovah,
was punished for rebellion and treason against Jehovah. And he did so when he was at
the point of his utter obedience as Jehovah's servant. Twice in
my life growing up, only twice that I can remember,
I tried to do something just for the pleasure of my father. And I didn't succeed very well.
It wasn't my inclination to do that. But one day when I was
a young boy, my dad had bought a 57 Cadillac. It was about a
year, two years old. And I decided to wash the car.
And I washed it. What did they have, Ajax? That
was the stuff called a Comet. Whatever that powdery stuff is
that you're not supposed to use on stuff like that, I scrubbed
it. And that Carolina blue Cadillac
looked like powder blue, sure enough. And I couldn't find a
sparkle on it anywhere. Would you like to see my reward?
I still have some of it on me. And then one day I decided I'd
clean out his tool house. He had a little shed in the house
where he kept all his tools. And he had screws and nuts and
washers and bolts and nails, all sorts of sizes of things.
And I cleaned it all out. and I put all that stuff in all
those mini boxes over in one big box so they'd all be together.
And he came home and I showed him. I was just as proud as I
could be. Would you like to see what I
got for that? I got some head on me too. But I tell you what, though he
drew blood from my legs and from my back and from my rump, the
wire with which I was whipped Didn't hurt near like the disappointment. Didn't hurt anywhere like the
disappointment. I can't feel the stripes anymore. I can still feel the disappointment. I had just done something for
Him, our Savior. speaks with broken heart at the
apex of his obedience and says, I am become vile. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? And with broken heart died as
our substitute. The just one was executed by
the sword of justice. because he who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, and separate from sinners is made sin and had become
vile. Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter
5 for just a minute. Therefore, verse 17, therefore,
since he became vile, therefore, if any man be in Christ, He's
a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things are become new. And all things are of God, who
hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given
to us the ministry of reconciliation. that God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and
hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then,
we're ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's name, be you reconciled to God,
for he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that
we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Yes, the Lord Jehovah laid on
him the iniquity of us all. The yoke of his transgressions
was bound to him by God's old hand like that crown of thorns. The curse, the symbol of the
curse was the crown on his head. The crown by which he won the
crown of gold he wears in glory now was made by God's own hand. The holy Lord God sent fire into
his bones that prevailed against him. He made him sin. made him vile, forsook him, and
killed him. And yet all was undertaken freely
and voluntarily by our Savior. As man drinks iniquity like water,
our Savior willingly took our sins and our wrath and made it
His own because of His indescribable love for us. Just as Adam loved
Eve and willingly plunged himself into the wrath of God, into the
curse of death because of his love for Eve rather than being
separated from her, so the last Adam loved us and willingly plunged
himself into our sin and our death rather than be separated
from us. Now, here's a question of great importance. Oh, God help you to hear him
speak. Is it nothing to you? All ye that pass by, you who
believe not the son of God, you pass by. Some of you have been
here now for a number of years, passing by once, twice, three
times a week. You hear the message and you
won't hear it. It's nothing to me. I'm just
not interested. I'm just not interested. Preachers
all over the world pass by and take up some meaningless theme
because this is nothing to them. Is it nothing to you? It's everything
to the thrice holy triune God. It's everything to the angels
of God. They're portrayed for us in the law constantly looking
down on the blood of atonement on the mercy saint. Astonished. It's everything to the saints
in heaven, everything. They never cease to sing the
praises of Him who was made sin and became vile for us. Thou hast loved us and redeemed
us and called us and made us kings and priests unto God forever. Worthy, oh, worthy, worthy is
the Lamb that was slain. And it's certainly nothing to
the damned in hell. Not one of them. can stop the
burning glare and torment of the blood of Christ on their
hands. It will not be nothing to you
when you come to die. It will not be nothing to you
when you stand before God in judgment. It will not be nothing
to you in eternity. Brother Paul, Mahan's father
and I, Brother Henry, many of you know him, knew him. Know
him's a better word, isn't it? Know him. For better than 20
years, Brother Henry and I traveled together and preached somewhere
at least once a month. And I heard him tell a story
very often that touched me. He was preaching somewhere in
North Carolina before, long before I ever met him. And there was
a widow lady there and her daughter had him for supper. And the young
lady, who was now nearly grown, talked incessantly about her
daddy, who had been dead for a number of years. And finally,
Brother Mahan asked her, said, if you don't mind, I'd like to
ask you a question. She said, well, certainly. He said, you
talk in such admirable, glowing terms with love for your father. Why? And she said to him, Brother
Mahan, my daddy died for me. When I was a little girl, we
were at the beach, and my dad had severe heart trouble. He
knew he couldn't take any strain, but I got out too far in the
water, and he feared for my safety. And when he saw where I was and
the danger I was in, he threw himself in the water and swam
out and brought me to shore, and when he did, he fell dead
on shore. My daddy died for me. Why is
Christ so precious to us? My everlasting father, the son
of God, died for me. He died for me. The painful,
shameful, ignominious, horrid death of the cross. He died for
me. Now let me give you an answer
to this question. Is it nothing to you? It was. until one blessed, blessed day,
the Son of God made himself known in me by the preaching of the
gospel. I'll give it to you in the words
of a hymn written by John Newton long ago that I can say is my
soul. I write this every day. In evil
long, I took delight, unawed by shame or fear, till a new
object struck my sight and stopped my wild career. I saw one hanging
on a tree in agonies and blood who fixed his languid eyes on
me as near his cross I stood. Sure never till my latest breath
can I forget that look. It seemed to charge me with his
death, though not a word he spoke. My conscience felt and owned
the guilt and plunged me in despair. I saw my sins, his blood had
spilt, and helped to nail him there. Alas, I knew not what
I did, but now my tears are vain. Where shall my trembling soul
be hid? For I, the Lord, have slain."
A second look he gave, which said, I freely all forgive. This blood is for thy ransom
paid. I die that thou mayst live. Thus while his death my sin displays,
in all its blackest hue, such is the mystery of his grace.
It seals my pardon too. With pleasing grief and mournful
joy, my spirit now is filled. That I Should such a life destroy,
yet live by him I killed." Oh, God make Christ crucified
everything to you. Only he can. Amen.