Good morning. I would like to read a few verses
from Romans chapter 3. And start in verse 10. As it is written, there is none
righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher.
With their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of ass
is under their lips. His mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed
blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way
of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before
their eyes. Now we know that what thing soever
the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law that every
mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before
God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh
be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of
sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested. being witnessed by the law and
the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by the faith
of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. For
there is no difference for all sinned and come short of the
glory of God, being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare
his righteousness for remissions of sins that are passed through
the forbearance of God, to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness,
that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus. Dear Heavenly Father, we ask
that you manifest your righteousness to us this morning. Cause us
to see our sinful nature and show us your glory. Be with the
people that aren't able to be with us this morning and give
Greg the words to speak to our hearts. In Christ's name we pray,
amen. All right, let's sing the hymn
in your bulletin to the tune of Oh, Worship the King. Let's
stand as we sing. Though troubles assail and dangers
affright, ? Though friends should all fail and foes all unite ?
? Tis one thing secures us whatever be tied ? ? His promise assures
us the Lord will provide ? The bird without barn or storehouse
are fed. From them let us learn to trust
for our bread. His saints what is needed shall
ne'er be denied. So long as tis written, the Lord
will provide. His call we obey like Abram of
old. We know not the way. but faith makes us bold. For though we are strangers,
we have a sure guide, and know in all dangers the Lord will
provide. No strength of our own, nor goodness
we claim. Our trust is all cast on his
precious name. In this our strong refuge for
safety we hide. The Lord is our refuge, the Lord
will provide. When life is most sore and death
is in view, the word of His grace will see us safely through. Not fearing nor doubting, with
Christ on our side, we hope to die shouting, the Lord will provide. Thank you, Scott. You do well for a third string
music leader. Let's open our Bibles to Hebrews
chapter six. There was a line in that hymn
we just read, we just sang. The Lord is our refuge, our refuge. The Lord will provide sinners
are in need of a refuge. They're in need of a hiding place.
They're in need of a place where they can escape the judgments
of the law, the wrath of God. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
that hiding place. He is that place of refuge. And
we're going to be looking at the cities of refuge in Joshua
chapter 20. But before we do, by way of introduction,
I'd like to read this passage in Hebrews chapter six. You have
your Bibles open to Hebrews chapter six. We'll begin in verse 17,
wherein God, more willing abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise
the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. Now the Lord is taking us back
to Genesis chapter 15, where God had made promises to Abraham
and then confirmed it with a vision that he gave to Abraham. You
remember it's when Abraham was instructed by God to take the
animals and to cut them in halves and to lay the two halves side
by side. And Abraham was required of God
to, and the circumstances about this sacrifice to keep the unclean
birds from picking away at the sacrifice. What a glorious picture
of, you know, we preach the gospel because there is a world full
of unclean birds that would pick away at the sacrifice if we don't
keep them away. And so one of the things we do
in preaching the gospel is expose the error of those who would
turn the grace of God into lasciviousness as we saw in the previous hour. If you weren't here for that
hour, I'd recommend you go back to listen to that before drawing
conclusions on the comment that I just made. But after Abraham divided the animals,
he was put into a deep sleep, the scripture says, and that's
where the vision was. that between the animals came
a smoking pot and a flaming torch. And this is what the Lord's referring
to here. He confirmed his promises to
Abraham with an oath. so that by these two immutable
things, these things cannot be changed. Immutability can only
be applied to God. Nothing else is immutable. God himself is the same yesterday,
today, and forever. And though everything else in
our lives, including ourselves, is in constant change, our God
has never changed. What comfort, what strength.
So in the mutability of his counsel, he confirmed it with an oath.
Now that confirmation that he gave to Abraham pointed forward
to what the Lord Jesus would do on Calvary's cross as the
sacrifice. And the one smoke in the Bible
is a is a picture of prayers going up into heaven. And the
fire is a picture of the wrath of God that falls upon the Lord
Jesus Christ. And the hope that sinners have
is that the Lord Jesus Christ prayed for us. He told the father
in John chapter 17, he said, father, I pray not for the world,
I pray for them, which thou has given me out of the world. Peter,
before the cock crows in the morning, you're going to deny
me three times, but be of good cheer. I have prayed for you. Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do. We pray, but it's not our prayers
that save us. It's the prayers of the Lord
Jesus Christ, our high priest, who offered up his prayers to
his father. And it's his prayers that we
see in that confirmation of the oath that was given. It's our
Lord's prayers. And then the burning torch is
a picture of the fire of God's wrath that fell upon the sacrifice
and satisfied the justice of God by fire. And so in light
of the cross, what the Lord is telling us in verse seven, is
that the heirs of promise, that's the elect of God, chosen by God
in the covenant of grace, by the immutability of his counsel,
that's the counsel that God the Father made with God the Son
and God the Holy Spirit in eternity past, purposing the salvation
of a people. was confirmed by an oath. That's
the cross. The cross of the Lord Jesus Christ
is the confirmation of the covenant. It is the fulfillment of the
covenant. And these things cannot be changed because our God cannot
be changed. So what is the Lord saying to
us? Well, verse 18, that by These two immutable
things, the covenant of grace, where the father promised to
give his son a people, the son promised to redeem them, the
Holy Spirit promised to regenerate them, confirmed by the work of
Christ on Calvary's cross, fulfilling what was required for that covenant
to be fulfilled. by these two immutable things
in which it is impossible. It is impossible for God to lie.
We might have a strong consolation. Our strong consolation does not
come by looking to anything in us. It does not come by looking
to the evidences of salvation that we might see or not see
in our lives. That's not where the strong consolation
comes. The strong consolation comes
from the immutability of his counsel confirmed by the cross.
By these two things, it is impossible for God to lie. And by these
two things, we have a strong consolation. Who have fled for
refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us? You see, when we find ourselves,
and we do every day, every day we look somewhere else for our
assurance. We look somewhere else for our
hope. We look somewhere else for our comfort. And in doing
so, we see nothing but our sin. We see nothing but failure. We
see nothing but fear and doubt. And we're brought again to realize
the only thing that's immutable I mutate, you mutate. The only
thing that's immutable is our God who by his immutable counsel
in the covenant of grace confirmed by the oath of the cross by which
it is impossible. We flee to him. We can't find
refuge anywhere else. We've been wandering in the wilderness
looking for a safe place to hide and we can't find a place to
hide. And now we know. Now we know that there is a place
of refuge. There is a hiding place. There
is a place for sinners to be safe from the wrath of God, from
the rigors of the law, and from the judgment of sin. Which hope, look at verse 20
and 19, which hope we have. as an anchor of the soul. The way of the Lord is through
the seas. We saw recently that the sea is a picture of turbulence
and separation. And in heaven, there is no more
sea. But in the meantime, you and I are being tossed about
in a turbulent sea. And we have an anchor for our
soul. And this anchor is sure and steadfast. This anchor is the Lord Jesus
Christ, then placed upon the rock. And faith is nothing but the
rope that connects the boat to the anchor. That's what faith
is. Faith is not saving us. It's
the sure, steadfast anchor that's been planted by Christ, our forerunner, which hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which entered into that veil,
within the veil, The high priest once a year would go into the
holies of holies and put the blood on the mercy seat. And
God said to the children of Israel, here, I will meet with you. And
when our Lord Jesus bowed his mighty head on Calvary's cross,
he cried, it is finished. And God, God, by his own hand,
rent the veil from top to bottom. The Lord Jesus had gone into
the holies of holies. The high priest, by the one sacrifice
of himself, had put that blood on the mercy seat, not that one
made by the hands of men, but the one in heaven where God could
see his blood. And when God said when I see
the blood, not when I see your commitment, not when I see your
sacrifice, not when I see the evidence of faith in your life,
not when I see your love or even your faith, when I see the blood
I will pass by you. And the Lord Jesus put his blood
on that mercy seat. There's our strong consolation.
You see there's no strong consolation anywhere else is there? You've
looked other places for a consolation, for a hope, for comfort, for
peace, for a hiding place, for assurance of salvation and it's
not to be found there. Only the one who is deceived
and under the law can convince themselves that, you know, that's
what Isaiah chapter 28 says. The unbeliever says, well, I've
made a covenant with death. Well, that wasn't God's covenant,
it was your covenant. And with hell, I'm in agreement. And when
the overflowing scourge shall come, it shall not pass over
me. And they have a false hope because they believed a false
gospel, where the liars are saying, peace, peace, when there is no
peace, and they put their trust in something that they've done,
in a faith that they've exercised, or in a life that they're now
observing that's different than it used to be. We can't find
consolation there, they can. But what does God say to them
in Isaiah chapter 28? I'm going to disannul your covenant. I'm going to disannul your covenant,
I'm gonna put it away. Your covenant won't stand before
me. And when the overflowing scourge comes, and that's talking
about the wrath of God on the day of judgment, your lies shall
be swept away and you with them. So now our Lord's saying, our
hope is not in these lies. Our hope is in the immutability
of God's counsel confirmed by an oath in which it is impossible
for him to lie to whom we flee. We flee for refuge. We find safety
and hope where the forerunner, the Lord Jesus Christ for us
entered, even Jesus made a high priest forever after the order
of Melchizedek. That eternal priest, the lamb slain before the foundation
of the world, confirmed, confirmed the immutability of God's counsel
in the covenant of grace when he offered up his prayers on
behalf of his people and his life. and shed his blood for
the forgiveness of their sins. We flee to him. He's the forerunner. He's gone before us into the
heavens. Those Old Testament saints couldn't
go to heaven until the Lord Jesus Christ went. That's why we have
the graves being opened up in Jerusalem after the resurrection
of Christ. And those Old Testament saints
walking around and believers seeing them Those saints couldn't
go to heaven until the Lord Jesus Christ as the forerunner went
first. Now, if you will, I hope that
you need a place of refuge. I hope that you haven't been
deceived to believe a lie and that God has given you concern
for your soul. The world, Tricia and I were
talking about this this morning, you know people, unbelievers
prepare for everything in life except for the next. They We were talking about a
neighbor we were talking to and as soon as we started bringing
up death, they turned on their heels and got away from us as
quickly as they could. And they're older than we are.
And we don't want to think about that. We don't want to talk about
that. That's a subject that we just bury it under the rug and
it'll go away one day. Yeah, it'll go away one day.
You see, that's a work of grace. That's what I just described
to you is the whole world. I mean, they're spinning their
wheels and, you know, living their life for worldly things. And if you have a concern for
your soul, for your immortal soul, that's a work of grace
that God did for you. And here's the answer to that
need. Christ, our refuge, our hiding place. In the Old Testament, the Lord gave to the children of Israel
a picture of this. I mention this, I think, I can't
remember when I said things, but I think it was last Sunday.
the cities of refuge. Will you turn with me to Joshua
chapter 20? Joshua chapter 20. The children of Israel were a
nation of laws. These laws were inflexible. And it was an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth. And so if you killed another
man, the next of kin in that person's life had the legal responsibility
of taking your life in retribution for the life that you took. But
knowing that there would be accidental deaths, that there would be manslaughter,
the Lord gives an example. He says, if two men are out in
the forest and they're cutting down wood and the axe head comes
off of one of the man's handles, it hits the other man and kills
him. There was no intent in that. there's no reason why that man
should lose his life for that accident. It was unwitting and
so the Lord provided in this nation of laws six, which is
the number of man, cities of refuge and these six cities of
refuge were evenly spaced throughout Israel. From north to south on
the west side of the Jordan River and from north to south on the
east side of the Jordan River, there were six evenly spaced
so that any place you might live in Israel among the 12 tribes
of Israel, if you committed unwittingly the killing of a man, you could
flee. to that city of refuge and the
avenger of blood, the nearest of kin, could not touch you as
long as you were in the city of refuge. Now, we are the ones guilty of
manslaughter. You say, what do you mean by that? I'm
not talking about our sin. We committed our sin with our
eyes wide open. There is not a sin that you and
I have ever committed that we did unwittingly. We willingly
follow after our sins. That having been said, God's
elect do not know that their sin is what is responsible for
the death of Christ until the Holy Spirit shows them that. The Holy Spirit has to make you
aware of the fact that it was your sin that put Christ on the
cross. Look with me at Joshua chapter
20. The Lord also spake unto Joshua,
saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out
for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand
of Moses. God had already revealed this
to Moses. And now Joshua has, the tribes have dispersed, and
Joshua is now going to set up these cities. The city of refuge is Christ.
We are the slayer and the avenger of blood is the law of God. The law of God requires an eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, life for life. What is the hope? The hope is for those who unwittingly,
unwittingly, they did not know until it was revealed to them
by the Holy Spirit that it was their sin that put Christ on
Calvary's cross. Let me show you that in the scripture.
Well, let's read on. That the slayer that killeth
any person unaware and unwittingly may flee thither and they shall
be your refuge from the avenger of blood." These six cities will
be a place of refuge from your avenger of blood. And when he
that doeth flee unto one of these cities shall stand at the entering
of the gate of the city and shall declare his cause in the ears
of the elders. He is confessing to the elders
of this city. that what he had done, and shall declare his cause in
the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into
the city unto them and give him a place that he may dwell among
them. Now, we often are reminded that
the Lord Jesus Christ as the living word cannot be separated
from his written word. But I want to remind you also
this morning that the Lord Jesus Christ as the head of his body
cannot be separated from his body. The husband and the wife
are one flesh. So not only do these cities of
refuge represent the Lord Jesus Christ as our hiding place, but
they represent the church of the Lord Jesus Christ where he
has promised to meet together with his people and manifest
his grace and his glory to sinners who need a place of refuge. There's
no other place where this message is being declared in all of the
world. No other place a sinner can go to find refuge. Zechariah chapter 12, if you'll
turn with me there, I wanna show you something. You're familiar with this probably,
but let me remind you, Zechariah chapter 12, the Spirit of God. You see, we go about our lives either thinking that Jesus died
for everybody or thinking that he didn't die for me. And in either way, we are unwitting
manslayers. And it's not until the work of
grace in our heart come by the Spirit of God that makes us aware
that it was for my sin that he died. Now I'm no longer unwitting. Now I'm no longer unwitting,
now I'm no longer unaware. The Spirit of God has shown me
that the Lord Jesus Christ died on Calvary's cross for my sin,
and the Spirit of God's the only one that can do that. Now look
at Zechariah chapter 12, verse 10, and I will pour upon the
house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace
and of supplication. The spirit of grace is, I need
free grace to be saved. I need God to do something for
me that I cannot do for myself. And I need for him to do it all.
And supplication is my prayer. God, you've got to do this. You've
got to supply this for me. And God gives the spirit of grace
and the spirit of supplication and they shall look upon me whom
they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth
for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him as one
that is in bitterness for his firstborn." You see now, the
manslayer has come to the gate of the city and he has said to
the rest of the manslayers in that city what he has done. He was unwitting. He was unaware
that he had done it, but now he knows. Now he knows by the
spirit of grace poured out upon him that it was for me that he
died. You can't have any hope in coming
to Christ until the spirit of God gives you that conviction
of sin. Verse 11, in that day there shall
be a great morning in Jerusalem as the morning of Hadarim in
the valley of Magedon and the land shall mourn. Now look at
this, every family apart, the family of the house of David
apart and their wives apart and the family of the house of Nathan
apart. and their wives apart, and the family of the house of
Levi apart, and their wives apart, and the family of Shimei apart,
and their wives apart, all the families that remain, and every
family apart, and every wives apart." In other words, this
is a work of grace that has to be done for you and for me. This
is not a corporate work, this is an individual work of grace.
that has to be done in your heart and in my heart as the spirit
of grace and supplication is poured out on us. Now I'm no
longer an unwitting manslayer. Now I know by the revelation
of God that it was for me that he died. And now and only now
can I come with a mourning spirit over my sin. And in that day,
In that day, when this happens, when this happens for you and
when this happens for me, in that day there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
for sin and for uncleanness. Oh, it's a fountain of blood,
brethren. It's a fountain that flows from Emmanuel's veins. It's a fountain that washes away
those sins. But here we are, unwitting manslayers. Paul said I was a blasphemer,
I was an injurious man, but I did it in ignorance. And God has
forgiven me. Now that I have the revelation
of truth of who I am and what I've done, I can't claim ignorance
anymore. I can't claim that I was unwitting
or unaware. That's what Paul said in 1 Corinthians
3. He said, the princes of this
world would not have crucified the Son of God had they known
that he was the Lord of glory. They wouldn't have done it. if they knew who He was. You see, we're no longer unwitting.
When God makes us to be sinners, we realize that it was for my
sin that He died. We mourn after Him. We follow
after Him. We long for Him. We know that
He's the only one that can open this fountain. and that can put
away our sin and we flee, we flee to the city of refuge and
we confess before the elders. You see this is the judgment,
look back with me to our text, verse 5, and if the avenger of
blood pursue after him. That's the law. Then they shall
not deliver the slayer up into his hands because he smote his
neighbor unwittingly and hated him not before time. The law cannot have retribution
because he did not do it. He did not do it willingly. What does that mean? Well, Hebrews
chapter 10 paints a horrible picture of those who have heard
the gospel of God's free grace and the accomplished work of
Christ and they have forsaken the gospel and gone back to a
works gospel. And the Lord makes it clear that
there is no more remission of sins. They have trampled underfoot
the blood of Christ. They can no longer claim ignorance.
They can no longer say that I was unaware, I was unwitting. And
it's a fearful thing. Well, as a matter of fact, Hebrews
chapter 10 concludes with that statement. It is a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of an angry God. Now here's the hope that we have,
brethren. If this conviction is of God and he's made you witting,
he's made you witting and he's made you willing, you know that
it was for your sin that he died. You can't go back. You can't
go back. You can't forsake the gospel.
You can't go back to your works. Though you're tempted every day
to try to find comfort somewhere else, the Lord has his sheep
and his dogs on a leash, and he will keep them from falling
and present them faultless before the throne of God. There's our
hope. You see, we remain And here's
the judgment, look at verse 6. And he shall dwell in that city
until he stand before the congregation for judgment. So this man who
has now come before the city and confessed that he had killed
someone but he did it unwittingly and he's received into the city
to become part of that city. He now has to stand before the
elders of that city in judgment. In other words, they're going
to interrogate him and ask him, did you do this willingly or
not willingly? Did you have forethought and
intent when you killed this man? And they'll ask him for the details.
And if he admits that he was willing and had forethought,
then they will put him out of the city and the Avenger of Blood
will have his way with him. But if he convinces the elders
of that city that he was unwitting. Here's the standard of judgment
and the only standard of judgment that we use in the church to
discern believers from unbelievers. Did you willingly participate
in your salvation? Did you have anything to do with
this? Did you have forethought and
intent to be saved? And are you trusting something
you did along with what Christ did for the hope of your salvation?
And if you say yes to that, then you're not my brother. But if you say, oh no, Oh no,
I had no forethought. This was something done to me.
I was passive in my salvation. I didn't make any contribution
to what God has now shown me and what he's done for me. Then
you're my brother. Christ gets all the glory. This
is the judgment. Notice the In verse 6 also, not only must
this man stand in judgment, but and, notice the word and,
until the death of the high priest. That shall be in those days,
then shall the slayer return and come into his own city and
unto his own house and unto the city from whence he fled. He
must remain in that city of refuge. Two things have to happen. He
has to confess that he didn't have anything to do with his
salvation. He has to wait for the death
of the high priest. before he can go home. What a glorious picture of our
hope. This is a strong refuge. We have a consolation. We have
an assurance that we didn't have anything to do with our salvation.
And the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is the only hope
that I have that my sins would be covered and that the law,
the pursuer of me would be satisfied and would be kept away from me
so that the law can now have no condemnation because the law
poured out its full fury on my sin bearer, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who bore in his body my sins and fulfilled the requirements
of the law. He's died and I can go home now. I can go home. I can go home
to glory. I passed the test of judgment
that I'm not looking to anything that I did for the hope of my
salvation and that I'm looking in faith to the shed blood of
my high priest for the putting away of my sins. And it's now
safe to go home. Safe to go home. Oh, that's glorious. That's an anchor planted for
my soul. That's a sure hope. You know, the severity of a crime, humanly
speaking, is determined by the innocence of the victim. You think about it. A man on
death row in prison kills another man on death row. It's not even
gonna make the local newspaper. Nobody cares. It's no big deal. They both deserved it anyway. No one was innocent. But an adult given responsibility
for a child and takes advantage of that child and kills that
child, that man deserves the full weight of the law. And so we see that even in our
legal system, the severity of a crime is determined by the
innocence of the victim. Now what does that say about
your sin and my sin being placed on the one who is holy, harmless,
undefiled and separate from sinners and higher than the heavens?
What does that say? See, this is the message of grace
and supplication that causes us to flee to the fountain and
come to the city of refuge and say, yes, I did it. I did it. Let me in. The avenger of blood
is hot on my heels. Let me in. This is the strong
consolation that we have. And he shall stand at the end
of the at the entrance of the gate and he shall declare his
cause. With the heart man believeth
under righteousness and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. We stand at the city gate. We
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a work of grace in the
heart where we where we flee to him and we rest all of our
hope in him. And then we confess. faith in him in baptism and so
the Lord says he that believeth and is baptized and he that denieth
me before men I will deny before my father which is in heaven
he that confesseth me before men I shall confess before my
father you see this work we come before the city gate and we don't
we're not ashamed of Christ Paul said I'm not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
that believeth." God does this work of grace. We confess Christ. We confess Him. We rejoice in
Him. We encourage one another in who
He is and what He's shown us of Himself, don't we? We delight
in hearing about Him and preaching Him. being where he is among
his brethren. And the members of that city would
not let him go for the avenger of the law to take advantage
of him. And by that, I just simply mean that I believe God means,
I understand this to be his meaning, that we don't put one another
under the law. We don't crack the whip of the
law. We don't try to compete with one another to see who's
holier than thou. We each believe that we are the
chief of all sinners and dependent upon Christ now more than we
ever have been before. And the more he grows us in his
grace, the more of our sin we see and the more of our need
we have to flee to that strong consolation There was no excuse
for anyone in all of Israel to not be able to get to a city
of refuge. They were evenly spaced throughout
Israel. They were well-marked. The roads
going to them had signposts on them that said city of refuge
that way. May God remove from our hearts
any reservations or hesitations that we might have in fleeing
to Christ and cause us to see that it was for us that he died. I actually thought in preparing
this message that we would have time this morning to look at
verses 7 and 8 the six cities of refuge. And I'm not going to do that
because there's too much here and we'll reserve that for another
time. But I want to encourage you to
read verses 7 and 8 and if you have means by which you can look
up the names of those six cities, you will see that each of those
six cities have a significant meaning to them. as they relate
to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ as our city of refuge. Let's pray together. Our heavenly
Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for the Lord Jesus
Christ, who is our hope, our life, our
city of refuge, our hiding place. Lord, we thank you for the work
of your spirit that convicts us that it was for me that he
died. It was my sin. Oh, the innocence
of Christ bearing my sin in his body upon that tree. Lord, thank
you for the fountain that flows clear as crystal from the throne
of God, washes away our sins. Or give us grace to have an interest
in our own immortal soul and give us faith to look to Christ. For it's in His name we ask it.
Amen. Scott. Number 126. Let's stand together. Number
126. Number 126, Rock of Ages. Rock of ages, cleft for me, let
me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure.