I want to say how very thankful
I am for you, you whom God has in recent years brought into
our lives and made so much a part of our lives. So good to see
you and to see this gathering. I said to someone just a few
minutes ago what a considerably larger A group of people are
gathered here now than at the first of these new focus conferences.
And thank God for the extending influence that he's given his
word in this generation. I want to thank the Nebworth
Church for your generosity in helping take care of my own expenses
and take care of the expenses of this meeting and your assistance
in the Free Grace Radio ministry. Brother Harry talked to us about
his connection with the gentleman in Pakistan. I know people think
I'm delusional, and they're probably right, but I'll tell you a story,
and then I'll tell you what I started to tell you. Some years ago,
someone, Brother Dan Parks, called my attention to something on
the Internet. You can find most anything there, true or not,
and said, you might want to look at this. Some fellow up in Owington,
Kentucky, he called himself the Internet Monk. Pretty good name
for it. Someone was asking him about
those sovereign grace preachers in Kentucky. And he didn't, wasn't
aware of anything going on. He said, not but two of them,
Mahan and Fortner. Mahan's dead and Fortner has
a severe personality disorder. So some folks think I'm delusional.
But let me tell you what I'm fully convinced of. I'm fully
convinced we are in the midst of a tremendous work of God. what we would call revival in
a biblical sense of the term. I have no regard, I can't stress
this sufficiently, I have no regard for those things people
talk about, stuff went on in Wales and all that stuff and
folks, you know, falling out in the aisle and ripping their
shirts and screaming and crying and acting like a bunch of Pentecostal
idiots. That's not revival. That's not revival. That's just
not it. That's just fake. It's just put
on. It's worked up and it's worked
out. Revival is demonstrated in the Old Testament scriptures
by kings and judges in Israel whom God raised up to restore
the worship of God And they did so in destroying the idols, tearing
down the groves, tearing down the altars, and establishing
the worship of God. And we have in our day a tremendous
opportunity for preaching the gospel of God's free grace by
such means as men of other generations never had. We have greater opportunity,
that means we have greater responsibility. We have greater privilege, greater
responsibility. And every day, literally every
day, God opens doors for the furtherance of the gospel before
us. Let us faithfully seize every opportunity God gives us and
put our hearts and our lives to the work of proclaiming the
gospel of God's free grace in this dark, dark age. If I read
the scriptures correctly, and I'm confident that I do, God
speaks of this little season. when Satan is loosed to go about
his work that he did before the binding of Satan, when he shall
be set loose to deceive the nations again. And we live in a day of
Arminian freewill works religion, the most blatant form of idolatry
established at any time, anywhere in the world, running rampant
in the world. But God speaks of his two witnesses
in Revelation 11. They are slain, but after three
days, he raises them up. And God has raised up men everywhere
to proclaim the word of his grace. Let us give ourselves to supporting
them, give ourselves to promoting them, and laboring together to
promote the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ the Lord. With that said, my subject this
evening is Christ, Our Substitute. Christ, Our Substitute. You can turn to 2 Corinthians
chapter 5, and verse 21 will be my text. About six years ago, maybe seven,
Shelby and I were here preaching, and one of the ladies in our
congregation, just the day before we got home, Drove out from her
house, one of her boys in the car, and she drove to a stoplight
and just fell over on the steering wheel. And she was in God's good
providence directly across the street from the emergency vehicle
station in Danville. When we stopped by the hospital
before we went home, we stopped by the hospital to see Mark and
Regina. Regina was in severe condition. And the doctors, After
much examination, asked Mark, has she lost a son or a daughter,
a mother, a father, someone dear to her recently? And Mark said,
no. And the doctor said, well, We
can't find a physical reason she should be in the shape she's
in. She just was in seconds of dying, just in seconds of dying,
as far as doctors are concerned. We understand better, but as
far as doctors are concerned. And the doctors told Mark something
that I was surprised to learn. They said the nearest we can
understand, Your wife has what we call broken heart syndrome,
and they gave it a medical term. I forgot what it was. I asked
Brother Paul Walmsley about it a little while ago, but if he
pronounces it, I can pronounce it. So broken heart syndrome.
Did you know people actually do die of a broken heart? Actually die of a broken heart? I know one who did. My reproach and my shame and
my dishonor, my adversaries are all before
thee. Reproach hath broken my heart. The reproaches of them that reproach
thee are fallen upon me, and reproach hath broken my heart. I am full of heaviness. I looked
for some to take pity, but there was none. For some, for comforters,
and I found none." And here in 2 Corinthians 5.21, you will
see the reproach that broke his heart. For he, the Lord God Almighty, the triune
Jehovah, the Holy One, He hath made wondrously, mysteriously,
inexorably made, caused to become Him, sin for us. The Lord God has made Him, His
darling Son, sin for us who knew no sin. He who did no sin, had no sin,
could not sin, and knew no sin. He hath made Him sin for us who
knew no sin. And here's the reason. that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now here's the vital truth of
the gospel. The foundation of Christianity,
the rock, the only solid rock upon which hope is built, the
only hope of a sinner, the only joy of true believers, This text
is talking about the great transaction that took place at Calvary 2,000
years ago, the substitutionary sacrifice of God's dear son in
the room instead of his people, the mighty transfer of sin from
sinners to the sinner's substitute, and the punishment of the substitute
in the place of chosen sinners. pouring out of all the fury of
God's holy wrath which we deserve upon Him who is God's darling. I have but one purpose in preaching
tonight. I want to drive home to your heart and again to mine
this wondrous revelation of God. Jesus Christ was made sin for
us that we who are nothing but sin might be made the very righteousness
of God in him. Not just righteous, good as that
would be, but the very righteousness of God in him. The text is talking
about substitution. the grand central truth of Holy
Scripture. And it needs to be declared,
declared relentlessly and declared plainly in this generation. There are no hidden meanings
in the text and no hidden meanings in my words. The time has come
for those who believe the gospel to declare the gospel in the
boldest, most decisive terms possible. I've set my foot down
on this solid pillar of gospel truth and God helping me, I never
intend to budge, not an inch. Let me try to answer from scripture
seven simple questions and I won't be long, I promise. Seven questions,
I hope you will take down the questions and the answers briefly
and not forget them. First, Who is it that was made
sin for us? Our text describes our great
Savior on this one point, He who knew no sin. He who knew no sin. Stephen, my dear friend, you
and I can't even begin to grasp the meaning of that statement.
Sin is so much us, so much companion to us, so much a part of us,
so much what we are that we have no idea what sin is. We have no idea what sin is. The text speaking of our Savior
not knowing sin is not speaking of ignorance in that regard.
It's speaking rather of his being and his life, his actions, his
heart, his nature, his character as the man who is God. He never
knew sin. He had no original sin. He had
no actual sin. He never felt evil. He never felt the rash hardness
of heart, the ill temper, the vile lust, the covetousness,
the envy, the pride, the hardness, the implacable bitterness of
heart that so much exercises us every day. He knew No sin. He did not sin. He could not
sin. He's the holy, immaculate Son
of God, conceived in the womb of the Virgin without the aid
of a man. The Lord Jesus, God's darling
Son, stepped into humanity and lived on this earth as a man
without the possibility of him ever sinning. Satan came to tempt him, but
he found nothing in him. He comes to tempt you and me
and he finds willing companions. He found nothing in the Savior.
Nothing there to be tempted. Nothing there to draw away his
heart away from God or the will of God. He knew no sin. And yet, this one who knew no
sin was made sin for us. Jesus Christ must of absolute
necessity be without sin. For had he any guilt at all,
he could never atone for sin. He is just such a savior as we
need. holy, harmless, undefiled, and
separate from sinners, he knew no sin. And this man, who is
God without sin, is himself the infinite God. That means that
everything he is and everything he does is of infinite worth,
though he is a man like ourselves. He is infinite God. God-man,
God-man, God-man. That means that because he had
no debt of his own and he being the infinite God is able to undertake
for us and satisfy all the requirements of the triune Jehovah with infinite
efficacy on our behalf. And yet this holy one condescends
to be made sin. for us. Amazing grace. Amazing love. Amazing mercy. He, our Savior, God's Son, was
made sin for us. Well, who did it? Who made Christ
sin for us? The Apostle says, here He, referring
obviously to God the Father, made Him sin. But Paul is quoting
from Isaiah chapter 53, where it says, the Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all. He who made the God-man, our
mediator, sin for us is himself the infinite triune Jehovah,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Our Lord Jesus Christ, our mediator,
was made sin for us, and his being made sin is the work of
the triune God, He. God, the Lord, made him sin for
us. It was the Lord God who appointed
Christ to be our substitute. He is gracious and says, deliver
him from going down to the pit, for I have found a ransom. Then
he spoke in a vision and said to the Holy One, I have laid
help upon one that is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out
of the people. God the Father laid our sin on
his beloved son before the world was. Turn back to Isaiah 53. Hold your hands here in 2 Corinthians
5. Turn back to Isaiah 53. Verse 6. All we like sheep have
gone astray. That's what sheep do. Ask a little boy one time, he
said, son, how did you find the Lord? He said, I didn't find
the Lord, he found me. He talked a little bit more to
this young man. He said, but how is it that you came to be
saved? What was your part? And the little
boy said, I didn't have any part. I guess you could say I did the
running and he did the catching. That's a pretty good description.
All we, like sheep, have went astray. We've gone astray all
at one time in our father Adam, all from our mother's womb, and
all of us, all the days of our lives, running as rapidly and
as fast from God as we could. All we, like sheep, have gone
astray. We have turned everyone, each
one of us, to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on him
the iniquity of us all. Verse 10. Yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. God the Father gave up his darling
to die for us, making Him sin for us. For God so loved the
world. God loved His people, scattered
through all the world. Here we are, Pakistani, some
black folks, some white folks, some Americans, some British,
some European. Here we are, all over the world,
God has His people scattered. God so loved the world of his
elect, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Would
you know love? Would you know love? Herein is
love. Not that we loved God, but that
he loved us. and sent his son to be the propitiation
for our sins. When did the Lord God make his
dear son sin? That's the third question. He
did it in eternity. The Lord hath, Isaiah said. The Lord hath. I know folks say,
well, that's speaking prophetically. Let me tell you a little secret.
And now this is deep stuff. You've got to listen to get this.
When God intends future, He speaks in the future tense. When God
intends present, He speaks in the present tense. When God intends
past, He speaks in the past tense. Now you can just mark that down.
Don't read the scriptures the way you want to read them. Read
them the way God wrote them. The Lord hath from everlasting
laid on Him the iniquity of us all. The Lord God Almighty laid
our sin on His Son, accepted His Son as our Savior and our
sacrifice, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,
and accepted us in Him, the beloved, redeemed, and righteous in Him
on whom He laid our sin from eternity. At Calvary, the Lord
Jesus Himself, God the Son, took our sin upon himself. He bear our sin in his own body
on the tree. As ugly, as hideous, as obnoxious,
as vile as sin is to him. He who knew no sin, Brother Peter,
is the only man who ever walked on this earth who really knew
what sin is. The only man who ever did. The
only one. We watch it, we laugh at it,
we tell jokes about it. He who knew no sin is the only
man who ever knew what sin is to God, for he's God. And in love for your soul, David
Burroughs, As a thirsty man drinks water, he took our sin and made it his own for the joy that was set before
him. Isn't that wonderful? What joy! What joy could there be for him
to endure the cross? The end result! that He may have
us, the righteousness of God, with Him forever in His glory."
The Savior made Himself sin. And in conversion, when God the
Holy Spirit comes to the sinner, chosen by God in eternal love,
redeemed by Christ at Calvary, this is what He does. He makes
Christ sin in your own conscience. So that when he, the spirit of
truth, has come, he convinces sinners, chosen and redeemed
sinners, of sin, your sin, of righteousness. Of sin because
they believe not on me. Of righteousness. Not yours,
you don't have any. Not how to live righteously,
you can't. But of righteousness because
I go to my Father. He came down here to bring in
everlasting righteousness as Jehovah's righteous servant and
He could not return to the Father until righteousness was brought
in. And the sinner called by grace to whom the gospel is revealed
now understands, I am sin. Christ is righteousness. I can't
do it. He did it. I can't do anything
but sin. He's righteousness. He's righteousness. All the righteousness there is.
And He will convince you of judgment. Not that judgment's coming Sunday.
I've known that all my life. You have to. You're born with
a God consciousness that makes you terrified of God. Well, what's
he talking about? Convince them of judgment. Convince
them of judgment because the prince of this world is judged. Do you remember what God said
immediately after the fall to the serpent? He said, the woman's
seed is going to come and you're going to crush his heel. But
when you crush His heel, He is going to crush your head! And when God the Holy Spirit
comes, He convinces sinners that this One who being made sin has
overthrown Satan. crushed his head, overturned
the work of Satan, and overturned the fall for his people. He's
accomplished redemption for us, and he sprinkles the conscience
with the blood of Christ, giving peace. Number four, what was
done with the Lord Jesus when he was made sin? Now I've come to the heart of
the message. I won't even attempt to explain my text, I can't. I simply want to remind you of
this wondrous fact. Our Savior took our sins and
made them His very own. He made them His very own. Brother Peter just told us so
well, God didn't treat us as if we were righteous. He made
us righteous by the sacrifice of his son. And God did not merely
treat his son as if he were sin. He made him sin. Now, you need
to understand this. You need to understand this. God never plays pretend. God never plays pretend. God deals with all men, all women
as they really are, either sin or righteousness. He deals with
all men, including his son, as they really are. The scripture
does not say the Lord acted as though he were made sin. The
Lord treated him as though he were sin. The Lord treated him
as though he were guilty. Oh no, the Lord Jesus was made
sin. Hear his own words. Innumerable
evils have come past me about. Mine iniquities have taken hold on me so that
I'm not able to look up. They're more than the hairs of
my head. Therefore, my heart faileth me. I am weary of my crying. My throat
is dry, mine 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 mine enemies wrongfully are mighty.
Then I restored that which I took not away. Oh God, oh God, thou
knowest my foolishness. My sins are not hid from thee. because for thy sake I had borne
reproach. Shame hath covered my face. I
become a stranger to my brethren and an alien to my mother's children,
for the zeal of thine hearths hath eaten me up. And the reproaches
of them that reproach thee are falling on me. God Almighty in
justice could never punish the Son of God for sin were He not
made sin. And He can never reward you for
righteousness unless you're really righteous. And all of this is
the work of His grace. He made Him sin for us. in order that he might by wondrous
mercy make us the righteousness of God in him. God Almighty then delivered his
sons over to the hands of divine justice and he was made to suffer
to the fullest possible infinite extremity all of God's infinite
fury, all the hail and terror of God's
fury, His wrath and His justice. People like to show themselves
smart and impress you with their study of scriptures and they're
delving into mysterious things, I would suggest that you quit
delving into mysterious things and bow to wondrous revelation. I've been asked over the years,
I remember one Bible college stuff, to stay up late at night
and discuss whether or not Jesus actually went to hell. He did
a whole lot more than that. He did a whole lot more than
that. He suffered all the hell of God's fury at one time. when he was made sin for us. The Lord Jesus, our Savior, died
under the wrath and justice of God as the greatest sinner who
ever lived. He was charged with all the sins
of all his people at one time. And all our sins were made his at once. I know he paid our debts, but
there's more to it than that. There's more to it than that.
Just pretend for a minute if you can. It's a real pretense,
but let's pretend I'm a rich fellow. I don't even own a grape
lot yet. I guess I'll get somebody to
buy me one when I'm dead, but I don't own anything. But let's
pretend I've got a lot of money. I've got unlimited resources. And Brother Allen Jellett, somehow
or another has messed things up and he's about to lose his
house. Lost all his money, he's accumulated his wealth, his retirement,
whatever he has. He's lost everything and he owes
a huge debt. A debt that he can't possibly
pay and it's going to cost him everything he's ever worked for
and still he can't pay the debt. And I come along out of my magnanimous
generosity and am willing to empty my own bank account and
pay his debt. Now I would hurt for it. I'd
hurt for it. But it wouldn't break my heart. It wouldn't break my heart. But the debt our savior paid,
in the paying of the debt, broke his heart. As he anticipated it in the garden,
he cried, my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from
me. And again he cried, if it be possible, let this cup pass
from me. And then he knelt a third time
and prayed the same thing, only now sweating great drops of blood
falling to the ground with a broken heart. Father, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me. Oh, my father, he said, what
shall I say? Save me from this hour? But for
this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. And thus he was made sin for
us. When he was, he suffered all
the shame and reproach of sin. Again, we can't identify with
that. Do you have any idea how embarrassed I would be if you
knew things about me that I know? You got any idea how embarrassed
I'd be? He suffered all the shame and
all the reproach. of our sin made His open to God. He was despised and rejected
of men, forsaken by His disciples, abandoned by His faithful Apostle
Peter, cursed and denied by Him. He was nailed to the cursed tree.
They mocked Him, railed upon Him, spit upon Him, and then
We hear him cry, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? At the apex of his obedience, at the crescendo of His obedience. When He had come now to the very
final moment of His obedience as Jehovah's Servant, the Lord
God turned His back upon His Son. And He cries, Why? God, You've never forsaken a
man who called on You. But You're a purer eye than to
behold iniquity, and You cannot look on sin. Forsaken of God. Martin Luther studied that passage
in the gospel and studied and studied, hour after hour after
hour, finally one day he closed his Bible, slammed it shut and
slapped his desk as he stood up and he cried, God, forsaken
of God, my God, no man can understand that. No man can understand it. But believing men can bow and
worship God, forsaken of God, when He was made sin for us.
Here's the fifth question. For whom was Christ made sin? I love the way Paul put it. For
us. For us. In due time, Christ died
for the ungodly. Helpless sinners, us. He was
made sin for his sheep, his church, his elect people. Made sin for
every sinner who believes on him. One of the brethren getting
ready to leave said, I've got to get home, so I've got to preach
in the morning. He said, I've got a great text. Knowing, brethren,
beloved, your election of the Lord. And we chatted for a little
bit. I said, there's one evidence,
just one. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the evidence of election.
Faith in Christ is the evidence of election and redemption and
calling. How do I know that Christ died
for me? I believe. And he that hath the
Son hath life. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath everlasting life. And the evidence of that life
purchased for us and given to us by effectual power and grace
is faith in Jesus Christ the Lord. So I call on you right
where you are. Sinner. Oh, needy sinner. Or would God,
He might call sinners here to know their need of Him. Believe
on the Son of God and go home singing redeemed. Redeemed how
I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb. Redeemed and is happy forever. His child and forever I am. Number six. What are the results? If this one who is God in human
flesh was made sin for us to accomplish specific task, to
accomplish a specific purpose, then there's no question that
the purpose for which he died is accomplished. Whenever you
think about the redeeming work of Christ, let me give you five
words. Five words always to remember
whenever you think about the death of Christ at Calvary. Number
one, sovereignty. He died according to his own
sovereign will. He is Lord and King and God,
even in his death. Number two, substitution. He died in the room instead of
his people. He died for God's elect. You
say, well, pastor, why do you keep insisting on this? You've
heard several of us refer to limited atonement. Why is this
so important? To say, as most people do, that
Jesus died in some sense for everybody in the world. To say,
as most people do, that Christ died for everybody. He died especially
for his elect, you might say, but he died in some sense for
everybody, is to say in some sense his death doesn't mean
beans. It is to say in some sense, his
death is a failure. It is to declare in some sense,
he really isn't God. He really doesn't have power
as God. He can't really be trusted. To
say that Christ died for folks who go to hell is to trample
underfoot the blood of the Son of God and do despite to the
Spirit of grace. No, we will not tolerate such
heresy. Jesus Christ died as a substitute
for his people. Number three, satisfaction. Christ Jesus made complete satisfaction
to the justice of God. By his death upon the cursed
tree, he completely satisfied all the purpose of God in the
redemption of his people. And by the death of our dear
Savior on the cursed tree, our Savior shall at last see of the
travail of his soul and be satisfied. That brings us to the fourth
question, or fourth word rather, salvation. Every sinner for whom
Christ died shall assuredly be saved by his grace. Every whatever, I preach the
gospel, I go somewhere every week, preach almost every night
somewhere, and I do so with great excitement. I'm fully confident
God's gonna call out his elect. I'm fully confident Christ's
gonna save his people. Failure is not a possibility
with God our Savior. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
shall never be discovered of miscarriage. Here's the fifth
word, success, success. All that he put his hand to do
was done. When he cried, it is finished. What are the results of his death?
Justice was satisfied. All the wrath of God taken away. The sword of justice swallowed
up in his holy being. The sins of God's people were
removed, blotted out, purged away. I wear white dress shirts
all the time when I'm preaching, have for years. It's all right
if you want to wear purple, I'll let you wear white. But these
white shirts, my wife, well, she won't tell you, but I will.
I sometimes get them dirty. I'll be eating, having barbecue
sauce and I'll get some right here or spaghetti sauce and get
it right here. Or one of the ladies might hug
me and get some lipstick right here or some makeup. And you
know what she does? She purges the stain away. Look
here. This shirt has been dirty so many times, and I've been
wearing it all day today. Look at that, just as white as it
can be. What's that mean? She acted as if the stain was
not there. No, she doesn't act that way. I do, but she doesn't.
She doesn't do that, no. She scrubs and scrubs and scrubs
and scrubs until the stain is gone. If she can't get rid of
the stain, you know what she does? She throws the shirt away. God Almighty never scrubbed at
a stain of sin that He didn't scrub it away. He cast our sins behind His back. He buried them in the sea of
infinite forgetfulness. The Lord God Almighty declares
He took our sins away. I'm fully aware of it. All the
time. And thank God I am. He never
is. He never is. He never is. How do
you explain that? I don't know how to explain that.
God knows all things. He does, but He doesn't know
what isn't. Does that make sense to you?
He doesn't know what is not. And He declares, my sin is not! He's not beheld iniquity in Israel,
nor sin in Judah. Righteousness was made ours. We were made the righteousness of God in Him. Made righteous. Made righteous,
God says so. And I never feel it. Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. All I feel in me is pride and
sin and filth and death and corruption and hell all the time. all the
time. But God says, I am the very righteousness
of God. And you know what? I believe
it more than I believe my name is Don Fortner and that woman
loves me. God said it. That means it's
so. The death of our Savior is an effectual atonement for
sin. Augustus Topley expressed it
so well. Complete atonement thou hast
made, and to the utmost farthing paid, whate'er thy people owed. Nor can God's wrath on me take
place if sheltered in thy righteousness and sprinkled with thy blood.
If Christ has my discharge procured, and freely in my room endured,
the whole of wrath divide. Pavement God cannot twice demand,
first at my bleeding, sure at his hand, and then again at mine. Now, one more question. Why was
Christ made sin? Two reasons, two reasons. because he loved us. He loved us. Hereby perceive
we the love of God because he laid down his life for us and
he made sin for us because there was no other way. For God, our God, to be a just
God and Savior and make us the righteousness of God in Him. Now, how can I persuade you to
believe Him? We beseech you as God's ambassadors
as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's
stead, be you reconciled to God. Be reconciled. Quit fighting
God. Quit fighting God. That's your problem, you know.
That's your problem. With everyone here who's an unbeliever,
you have one problem. You just keep fighting God. You
just keep fighting God. You still live with your fist
shoved in God's face saying, get out of my way, I know what
I'm doing. That's what unbelief is. Lay
down your shotgun and be reconciled to God. Bow to Christ the Lord. And for you who are gods, I've been trying to describe
something for you. that I just can't really describe. Listen to me. Listen to me. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Brother Ruben DeLaria. Are you listening to me, my friend?
The Son of God, completely, utterly is consecrated to you." I believe I'm saying that right,
Kenneth? He died for you. The Son of God is utterly consecrated
to me. Then how we ought day by day
to utterly consecrate ourselves to you. You're not your own. You're not your own. Brother Wickham, you've been
bought with a price. That means you belong to Christ, lock, stock,
and barrel. every minute of every hour of
every day, every ability, every power, every talent, every gift,
every opportunity, your life is His. You're bought with a
price. So glorify God in your body and
in your spirits, which are God, because He hath made Him to be
sin for us, who knew no sin. that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. Amen.