We were talking in Bible study
about the Gospel of Christ. If a man gets up before a group
of people and does not speak of the Gospel of Christ, he's
doing absolutely nothing. What those folks are doing, those
who are sitting and listening and those who are doing whatever
it is they're doing in pulpits around the world is in vain.
Salvation is of the Lord. That's it. Plain and simple.
And that salvation is the good news to sinners. I pray the Lord will give me
a little umption this morning to preach to like-minded, like-minded
like myself. sinners who need grace. There
were three things that I want to bring before you this morning
that were accomplished on the cross. And these three things
need to be brought out in every message. Maybe not in as great
a detail as I want to bring these out this morning, but they need
to be spoken of, otherwise you're not preaching the gospel. In
John chapter 12, we read in verse 27, Now is my soul troubled,
saith the Lord. And what shall I say? Father,
Saved me from this hour, but our Lord went willingly to that
cross, folks. Was it troublesome for Him? Was it a burden? Father saved
me from this hour. Consider what it was for He who
knew no sin to come to this world knowing that His Father was going
to turn His back on Him. Consider how profane that is. knowing that this is what was
going to happen. Our Lord was acquainted with
sorrows. He was acquainted with grief. He knew that the sorrow that he was going to have to
go through with his father turning his back on him. He knew the
pain and the sorrow that he was going to have to go through coming
to this world for you and I. And before he ever even was made
of a virgin, before he was ever born of a virgin, before he ever
stepped foot on this earth, he was satisfied with what he was
going to do. Because he knew what it would accomplish. It
would accomplish salvation. for you and I. Three things that
will be accomplished on the cross. Father, save me from this hour,
but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy
name. Father, glorify Thy name. This
is the cause that our Savior came to this world and went to
the cross for. To glorify God Almighty. To give Him all the glory through
salvation. Going on, then came there a voice
from heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify
it again. The people, therefore, that stood
by and heard it said that it thundered. Others said an angel
spake unto him. Then Jesus answered. And he said,
this voice came not because of me. Did you catch that? The voice
from heaven. He was talking to his father.
He didn't need to hear what his father was going to say. He and
his father as one. He knew what was going to happen. This voice did not come down
that you just heard. All the people around Jesus did
not come down for my sake. It did not come down for me,
but for yours. For all of those people that
were standing there. All of those who heard it. It was for their
sake. Verse 31, now is the judgment
of this world. Now shall the prince of this
world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from
the earth, will draw all men unto me. This, he said, signifying
what death he should die. So we know he's talking about
the cross, right? After speaking of his soul in verse 27, being
troubled, our Lord said these words. He said, Father, glorify
thy name. And then the Father spoke from
heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.
And then we read in verse 29, the people therefore that stood
by and heard it said that it thundered. Others said an angel
spake to him. Some said one thing, some said
another. without God making his word effectual into people's
hearts. They'll go out into the religions
of the world and worship anything. They'll hear different things.
They'll look at God's word and come up with things of their
own imaginations. You know this to be true. That's why we have so many different
religions. If there was only two people on earth, we'd only
have two religions, wouldn't we? Without our Lord making His word
effectual, sinners would not be of one mind. Only when God
blesses His word to our hearts are we of one mind concerning
Christ. They said an angel spoke to Him. It seems as though they
thought Christ needed an angel to speak to Him. But our Lord told them why this
voice came. He said, this voice came not
because of me, but for your sakes. How was it for their sakes? Well,
I can tell you this, folks, the Word of the Lord always serves
a two-fold purpose. To strengthen the faith of His
people, to strengthen our faith, to give us the ability to go
through this valley of the shadow of death with the strength of
our Savior, and to remove all excuses from
unbelievers. How many will hear this word
today and say, I'll not have that God that you're preaching
rule over me? We never know where these recordings
go out. I've shared with you before, we were sending out CDs to our dear brother Ron Halsey. Ron Halsey takes the CDs after
he's listened to them several times and goes down and puts
them up on the local post office bulletin board. Kind of like
what we got out here. And every one he puts up disappears and
goes somewhere. We don't know where they go.
One day we got a phone call from a lady who was a traveling salesman
or something. She traveled around in a car
a lot. And she said, you did a series of messages. I can't
remember what the title of it was. It was nine messages that
I brought out on the characteristics of God's grace. That's what it
was. She goes, I don't have number eight. And I've listened to all
the other ones, and they're about worn out. Can you send me number
eight? I said, I don't have it. Our
recording device quit working, and I didn't rerecord it, didn't
redo it. Alright, I'll just keep listening
to her. I don't know what happened to her. She moved down south.
I kept in touch with her for a little while and she moved
down to Alabama or something. She was up in Missouri and next
to Arkansas there. She moved down to Alabama and
would be with her daughter. I never heard from her again after that.
But we never know where God's Word is going to go. Our Lord
sends His Word out for two purposes, to strengthen the faith of His
people and remove the excuses of believers. God said, like
the rain and snow accomplishes His purpose and never returns
void, He says these words, so God's Word never returns to Him
void. That means it never returns without
accomplishing its purpose. The Word always accomplishes
these two things, and this is why we value the preaching of
the Gospel. Isn't that why we come here? To be strengthened. To grow in grace and in the knowledge
of our Savior. To hear more about what our Lord
has done for us, so as we walk back in our flesh throughout
this world, we have strength remembering, maybe God will bring
it to our memory, what we heard this Sunday. The three things
that He accomplished for me on the cross. as my boss is yelling
at my face, or as something else, whatever it might be. Is that
not why? It's why the preaching of the
gospel is such a joy to a child of God. It's such a joy, but
yet it's a weight. Speaking of Christ's ministers
who preach the gospel of Christ and truth, Paul said these words
in 2 Corinthians 2, verses 14-17. in Christ. Did you notice that?
It's not in me. I don't triumph in me. But if
I preach Christ, He'll work in somebody's heart one way or another,
and everything He does shall be accomplished. I have faith
in that. Why? Because He's God. And He never
fails. which always causes us to triumph
in Christ and make it manifest to the Savior of His knowledge
by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet saver
of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish. To the
one we are a saver of death, unto death, and to the other
the saver of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these
things? For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God,
but are as sincerity, but as of God and the sight of God speak
we in Christ. And then the Lord Jesus declared
three things after we see where he declared his trouble, calling
upon the Father, the voice from heaven, he declared these three
things that were accomplished by his death. In these three
things, the name of the Father is glorified. First, the judgment.
That's what we read in verse 31. Now is the judgment of the
world. The second one is Christ conquered the devil. That's what
we also read in verse 31. Now shall the prince of this
world be cast out. And the third one is his death
is calling his people. Judgment was accomplished on
the cross. The conquering of the devil was
accomplished on the cross. And our Lord accomplishes calling
His people by bringing out the gospel of His cross. That's what
we read in verse 32 and 33. And if I be lifted up, He says,
from the earth, will draw all men unto me." Then he said, signifying
what death he should have. Now, my subject this morning
are three accomplishments of the cross. Christ's death and
resurrection is the gospel accomplished. The gospel concerns the person
and the accomplished work of Christ Jesus, our Lord. These
three things must be declared, as I said earlier, or you're
not calling on the gospel. You're not preaching the Word
of God if you're not talking about judgment, Conquering of
the devil, putting away sin, and calling God's people out
of darkness. By God revealing Christ and the
work He accomplished in our hearts, He makes His people of one mind. Number one, we are of one mind
to speak this gospel to one another. I just keep, I just keep doing
this. I can't get away from it. It
besets me. It comes out of my mouth or out
of my mind before I even know it. You know, I got stuff like
that too, brother. Maybe not exactly as yours, but
I got stuff just like that. I'm in the same boat as you are. You know what helps me through
that? What helps me through that is to know that my Lord has not
let anything go and left it to me. I'm hoping what I just said to
you may be to one of you. I know I don't know the details. I don't want to know the details.
I'm not going to share my details with you. I'm ashamed of it. And I hope you're ashamed of
yours, but I know you have them, and I know you fight with it. If you're a child of God, you
can't help but fight with it. This is what our Lord uses His
Gospel for, to help us be of one mind. It is, lay it at the
feet of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Brother, I know your problems. I've got one of my own, and the
only way I can deal with it is to look to my Savior. Lay it
at His feet, where all things are taken care of by Him. If
He decides that it's best for me to keep going through it,
then he knows better than I do. I was listening to a message
about Daniel. You know Daniel, he was a leader
in a group there and the king had put him as one of the princes,
as one of the governors. And some of the other governors
didn't like Daniel being in the position he was in, so they started
watching him. They all knew he was Christian. They all knew
he was Christian. They went to the king and they
said, Maybe you should put up a decree." And they talked to
him nicely and talked the king into making a decree. And the
king made the decree. And then they went to Daniel's
room and they found out, see how Daniel's doing just exactly
what we thought he'd be doing. He's praying to his God. He's
worshiping. He's offering up sacrifice to
his God. Go tell the king real quick.
Did you not make a decree? Yes, I did. Daniel! Alright,
bring him to me. Why in the world did I do that?
Bram Timmy! And I don't remember the exact words that Daniel said,
but he said that if it be my Lord's will, so be it. They threw him in a lion's den.
And it was not the Lord's will for those lions to eat him. It
was the Lord's will for the alliance deed to all the other people.
Did you know it said not only their wives, those other men,
their wives, but also their children? Whatever God has for me, He knows
what's right. And I may go into it kicking
and screaming that it's not fine, but I know in my heart it's right
for me. And if you're a child of God,
you know it too. We are of one mind to speak this
gospel one to another because we have experienced and we know
the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
believes. It is the gospel that the Spirit
of God blesses to the heart to work whatever we need. So is
the word we are to speak one to another at all times. That
is the gospel. Secondly, by revealing the finished
work of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus in our hearts, the Lord
makes us of one mind to intercede for one another. Well, what do
you mean by that? Brother, I know you're troubled. I can't help
you with that other than tell you where I take my troubles.
Let me pray for you. Let me pray. Nevertheless, thy will be done,
but Father, if it be your will, I ask that you would get this,
dear brother, through the trouble that he is in. I pray, Father, that you would
take care of this child of yours with love and mercy as you do
in all of your children. Father, give him the strength
that you have given me to get through mine. And help
me, Lord, as I stumble into another trouble, that I might have that
strength again, too. Thank You, Lord, for giving it
to my heart to intercede on behalf of my brothers and sisters in
Christ to You. Folks, we see Christ on his throne
interceding for us. We have a great high priest,
touched with the feeling of our infirmities, who is able to sustain
and comfort his needy children. So we pray for one another, don't
we? Thirdly, by our understanding
that Christ accomplished this work by his death, having experienced
his power and ability in ourselves, we are of one mind to trust Christ. The gospel brings trust. It gives us the power gives us
the ability, ourselves, we are of one mind to trust Christ to
work in the heart of one another. He is our master. He shall make
his people stand. We know this because we have
experienced it ourselves over and over again. So we trust the
work into his hands. So now I want to look at the
accomplishments that are Christ's death. And may God the Holy Spirit
make us of one mind to see these truths. First we saw in scripture
was judgment, wasn't it? Verse 31 of John chapter 12.
Now is the judgment of this world. Our Lord accomplished. That's
the subject. Three things our Lord accomplished
on the cross. Our Lord accomplished judgment. What? I thought that was at the
end of the world. That judgment came at the end
of the world. What are you talking about, John? It says, now is the judgment
of this world. And because our Lord uses the
words world and all in this passage, we want to be very careful and
understand them correctly. Now is the judgment of this world,
and I be lifted up from the earth. Draw all unto me. Folks, this
is speaking of His elect. You say, well, what do you mean
by that? If you believe in a God who has died for every person,
Is your God strong or weak? We know people go to hell, don't
we? Is there anyone who can argue
that point with me? Anybody who's religious of any point? People
go to hell, is that correct? So if your God is praying for
all the world, if your God has gone to the cross to save the
whole world and all that are in it, Where is the power of
your God? The God of Scripture is all power
in heaven and earth. He does nothing that fails. He
saved His people, He shall save His people, He is saving His
people, and they will be saved. Period. When He says that these words,
all, or the world, He's talking about all of His saints, all
of His elect, all of those who were written in the Lamb's Book
of Life before the world was ever created. He was talking
about all of those who were inscribed in the palms of His hands when
He was nailed to that cross. He speaks of His elect, and we
know that because our Christ, the Christ of Scriptures, does
not fail. In Matthew 1.21, we read these
familiar words, and she shall bring forth a son, speaking of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt call His name Jesus, for
He shall save His people. In Christ crucified, the judgment
of God's elect is complete. The world of His elect, Jew and
Gentile, was accomplished. Christ did not come to judge
the world, but to save, and He did not fail. He said these words.
He says, God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world through Him might and shall be saved.
In John 12, verse 47, He says, I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world. For the Son of Man has not come
to destroy men's lives, but to save them. How is judgment fulfilled
in the cross of Jesus Christ? Our judgment was fulfilled. What
we deserve, by His grace are we saved through faith in Him. Our judgment was laid upon Him
who sinned not. He was yet without sin. Our judgment
was fulfilled. Our judgment was accomplished
by Jesus Christ coming to the cross and laying down His life
for us. God's not going to charge us
again for something He's already charged His Son for. If His Son
has already paid the debt, is it not paid in full? Is not redemption
complete in Him? along with sanctification, justification,
all of that is fulfilled in our Savior, is it not? Is that not
what we read in Scriptures? Christ did not fail. He went
to the cross to be judged by God in place of you and I. Christ
on the cross is the one man being judged by God in the place of
all of His people throughout all time, throughout all the
world. The first Adam was created without
sin and given one law, which he broke, thereby making all
of who he represented guilty before God. Every single one
of us. All became guilty, but the last
Adam came forth a holy man without sin. He was willingly made under
the commandments of the law. The God-man was proven holy,
spotless, and without sin. First Adam sinned in a garden.
The last Adam went to a garden, and he who knew no sin, he was
willingly made to be sinned for his people. He bore not only
Adam's one transgression, but he bore all the sins of all of
his elect. Every sin that I will commit
until he takes me out of this earth was put on him. Every sin
for every child throughout all of time that belonged to him.
And folks, there's a lot. There's more than any sand on
any beach that you could count. There's a lot. And even all that there are is
but a remnant of all of mankind. Our Lord, God the Father, will
not, He will not clear the guilty. He won't just say, alright, yeah,
yeah I love you so we'll just write off your son John. No,
He laid everything of mine on His son. Judgment was accomplished. The
curse of judgment is God justly casting sinners into outer darkness
for eternity. You can read about that in 2
Thessalonians 1-9. Folks, the sinner who meets God
without Christ... They first die physically, and
then they suffer the second death in outer darkness. But Christ
bore that living death first on the cross in darkness. In
judgment, our substitute was cast out of the glory of God's
presence. God turned his back on his son,
and he cried out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? When it was you and I that should
have been forsaken. That was the just judge executing
justice on all of his people and all the world on Christ in
place of his people. Secondly, we read, the devil
was conquered. Again, John chapter 12, verse
31, now shall the prince of this world be cast out. By Christ's
death, the devil was conquered and cast out. It is obvious that
after Christ arose and poured out the Spirit of His Church,
the power of the devil was broken. The Gospel began to spread into
all the nations beginning at the day of Pentecost. Is that
not what the Word says? How has Christ cast out the devil? Two ways. Before God and in the
hearts of His people. He cast him out before God. He
accomplished what he was supposed to in front of His Father. Therefore, the devil was cast
out. And he does it in the hearts of his people. In Revelation
12, verse 10, we read these words, and I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom
of our God, and the power of his Christ. For the accuser of
our brethren, who is that? Who is the one who stands in
heaven and says, wait a minute. Remember what John did? How can
you say this? Remember what he did? Christ
was sitting on his intermediate seat saying, I paid
for that. He shut the devil up. He conquered
the devil, the accuser. For the accuser of our brethren
is cast down, which accused them before God day and night. That
is the first way the devil is cast out, and it's before God
himself. It concerns judgment being settled. You can't charge
this one. Who can charge anything to God's
elect? Is that not what we read in Romans
8? The sins of God's elect were
put away by Christ Himself. Christ made us righteous so that
the devil has nothing with which to accuse us before God. He conquered
the devil, our accuser. The second way Christ cast ears
of His people by which He brings us to believe on Christ and to
confess Christ as our all in our salvation. He's my all in
all. He's not my all and then I got
some. He is my all in all. The devil
hates that. Wait a minute. No, John, there's
got to be something you can do. No, there's not. Salvation is of the Lord and
of the Lord alone. It is not of him that willeth, nor of him
that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. He brings us to believe Christ
and to confess Christ is all of our salvation, and this is
through the preaching of the gospel, which is the word of
our testimony. And then we love not our lives
under death, but Christ's power and grace working in our hearts.
We lay down our lives. We forsake all of our works and
our sins. We love and we trusted in Christ.
Now we lay at His feet. By Christ's power and grace,
we do so even when it means death from persecutors. What do you
mean by that, John? Listen to Revelation 12, 11.
And they overcame Him by the blood of the Lamb. How do I overcome
those who persecute against me? By the blood of the Lamb. How
did David, I just told you, how did he overcome what was back
before him? By the blood of the Lamb. If
it be God's will, it's good enough for me. Whatever you have for me. David
went up against Goliath the same way. He had faith in his God
that whatever happened, it was the purpose of his God to have
it done in such a way. Oh, Lord, help you and I. I would imagine going in to fight
a fire that's raging around you and can kill you in a second
would drive you to pray each and every time, God, thy will
be done. If I live, thy will be done. If I die, thy will be done. When we have experienced Christ's
power in our heart, we stop usurping God's authority. We turn it all
over to Him. We bow and trust Christ in the
work that this is in the hearts of His people. We lay down our
lives trusting Christ to work in our hearts through the gospel,
through the preaching of His word. This is the love of Christ. He has worked in our hearts.
Many have been killed by Pharisees because they refused to renounce
Christ, but they overcame by the blood of the Lamb. The Pharisees
took their lives of this world, but they live in eternity by
the blood of the Lamb. By the word of their testimony,
the confession of Christ, and the preaching of the gospel by
which we are saved, we are brought to lose our lives for Christ's
sake. Fine. Whatever happens, it's
going to happen. I know that's easier said than
done. I'm preaching to myself right now. I need to hear that myself. I
need to hear that with my own heart. Before God, by the blood of the
Lamb, by Christ's intercession on our behalf, Christ defends
His people from the devil's accusations. And since Christ settled judgment
for us, and fulfilled the law for His people, and put away
our sin, and made us the righteousness of God in Him, the devil has
nothing wherewith to accuse us before God. Turn over to Zechariah,
if you would. Zechariah chapter 3. We'll come
back to John chapter 12 in just a moment. Christ made intercession for
Joshua before God. It was because Christ was Joshua's
righteousness. Joshua was no more a man than
any of us. He was no more righteous than
you and I, other than the righteousness that is in God and our Savior
Christ Jesus. And Christ made intercession
for Joshua before God. It was because Christ was Joshua's
righteousness. Joshua had no sin to condemn.
There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them who are in Christ. He
was sinless in Christ. As it was for Joshua, the devil's
accusations of you and I will be of no avail before God. God
the Father rebuked the devil because Christ made intercession
for Joshua. And be sure to get this. Christ
made sinners' decision and trusted the Father to honor him by rebuking
the devil for his sake. Look at Zechariah 3, beginning
at verse 1. And he showed me Joshua, the
high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan
standing at his right hand to resist him, to accuse him, to
tell him, look what Joshua's done. Now look what the Lord
says. And the Lord said unto Satan,
The Lord rebuke thee. O Satan, even the Lord that hath
chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a bran plucked out
of the fire? Are we not a bran plucked out
of the fire? That brings joy to my heart.
Because I know I'm right there in that fire. I'm right there in that fire,
yet not even my clothes will get singed. Because my Lord makes
intercession for me. That doesn't mean I want to go
out and do everything. That doesn't mean I want to go
and live as I want to live. That means I want to live for
Him. Because of what He's done, I
want to live for Him. I hate sin, do you? That means I hate myself a lot,
but I love my Lord, who has taken it for me. Even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem to rebuke you is not this, a brand plucked out of
the fire. Now Joshua is clothed with filthy
garments. and stood before the angel, and
he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying,
Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said,
Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from me, and I will clothe
thee with the change of remnant." Look over at verses 3-7 now.
Alright, we'll pick up again in verse 5. And I said, let them
set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon
his head. And clothed him with garments. And the angel of the
Lord stood by. And the angel of the Lord protested. of Joshua
saying, thus saith the Lord of hosts, if thou wilt walk in my
ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also
judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give
thee places to walk among these that stand by. The Lord took
the filthy garments of Joshua. Christ caused his iniquity to
pass from him, and he clothed him in the righteousness of Christ.
The Lord put a crown on his head. He has made us kings and priests
unto God. He spoke into Joshua's heart,
revealing the grace and the mercy of love. And God's mercy for
Christ's sake broke Joshua's heart. Joshua experienced God's
mercy for Christ's sake in the face of his own sin. Lastly,
I want to bring about drawing of all. That's what we read back
in our text again in John chapter 12, verse 32. And if I be lifted
up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. By our Lord's
death, by Him going to the cross, He has accomplished everything
for His people. By His death, Christ has arisen
to draw all redeemed children of God unto Himself. When His
people standing by heard God speak from heaven, they disagreed
on what He was and what it was for. It's an example of why Christ
must do the calling. He must make the word effectual
in the hearts. All of those standing by, only
some knew what it was. Those who Christ had done a work
in their hearts. By his death, Christ has arisen
to draw all of his redeemed unto himself. They all heard, but
God did not make them all hear effectually in the heart. So
they were not of one mind. Therefore they disagreed. Another
time the Lord said this over John 8.43, Why do you not understand
my speech? Even because you cannot hear
my word. Our Lord was lifted up on the
cross and he accomplished these things, so now he is at God's
right hand. And it is Christ who does the
calling. He says, I will draw all unto me. Christ is the only
way who can say, I will. He's the only one who can say,
I will. The all are those that he has redeemed in the world
throughout all time, for whom he settled judgment. He draws,
in other words, in power, like Peter drew his sword, irresistibly. He compared the spirit to the
wind, in that which it cannot be resisted. He said that no
man can come to Him except the Father draw him. Here He says,
I will draw unto me. It's because Christ and the Father
are one. Christ never stops calling us
to Him. Therefore, we never stop coming to Him. Brethren, this
is the work. This was the work, the joy that
was set before Him. for which Christ endured this
cross, despising the shame, and is set down now at the right
hand of the Father. Christ had just said, and His
soul was troubled, and then He declared these three things.
This was His joy. His soul was troubled, yet this
is why. So that when I go to that cross,
judgment will be accomplished. So that when I go to the cross,
the devil will be defeated. So that when I go to the cross
and then rose again, I can call all my children. After Peter was sifted, he was
converted. He was converted all over again. He experienced this work of Christ.
He said the only way to resist the devil is by faith in Christ,
and he declared Christ never fails. 1 Peter 5, verse 10, but
the God of all grace, this is Peter writing under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit, but the God of all grace who has called us
unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus. After that He had suffered
a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. From our conversion until the
day that we must cross the river of death, it is this good news
of what Christ accomplished that God blesses us with. It's this
good news that God makes us perfect. It's this gospel message that
our Lord establishes us, strengthens us, and settles us, no matter
what our needs are. Brethren, We only overcome by
the blood of the Lamb. He settled our judgment. Because
God is satisfied in our hearts, He makes us satisfied. He's cast
the devil out. All the devil is now to you and
I is a lion going about roaring, just making a noise. He can't
do anything to us. He can't condemn us. He can't
charge us for all that we have that has been laid on our Savior. When we experience this power
in calling us when we would have sent away like Peter did, when
we have went away just like Peter did, beholding Christ's satisfied
justice for worms like us, and beholding how for His sake, for
our Lord's sake, He is merciful and He forgives us. It breaks the heart. Does it not? It breaks the heart. It makes
us use the gospel to each other. I know. I know you're troubled with your
sins. It's all mine. With mine. Take it to the Lord. Go to your
closet. In private, get out on your knees His word is true, he has purposed
it, and he will do it. Three accomplishments by our
Lord going to the cross. My judgment was accomplished.
The devil who tried to charge me is put away. And my Lord keeps
calling me over and over and over again. Amen.