Good evening. Let's open this
morning, or this morning, this evening's service with hymn number
33. It's a good gospel hymn out of
the Gospel Hymn Spiral hymn book, and it comes to a Christmas,
it's a Christmas song. So let's all stand together,
number 33. Behold, I come, our Savior said,
the Savior promised long. I come to do Thy will, O God,
and thus our hope was born. Behold, the Virgin has conceived
and born a Son of flesh. His name is called Emmanuel. God dwells in human flesh. The angels left their high abode
to see this mystery The great almighty sovereign God, a babe
of feeble clay Mortals beheld His lovely face, the Father's
only Son. How full of truth, how full of
grace, Christ came to save His own. His spotless life of righteousness
and sin-atoning death fulfilled His Father's holy will and satisfied
His wrath. Our glad Hosannas, Prince of
Peace, your glory shall proclaim. Enthroned in heaven as our King,
we love to praise your name. Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles together
to Ezekiel 16. I know everybody here remembers,
but for the sake of those that may be watching, we'll have one
service this coming Sunday at 11 o'clock. It looks like several folks are
already getting ready for that. Christmas, I mean. All right,
you have your Bibles open to Ezekiel chapter 16. Again, the
word of the Lord came unto me saying, oh, how we hope the word
of the Lord will come to us tonight. Son of man, cause Jerusalem to
know her abominations. That's where our salvation begins,
isn't it? The Lord would cause us to know
our sin. And say, thus saith the Lord
God unto Jerusalem, thy birth and thy nativity is of the land
of Canaan. Thy father was an Amorite and
thy mother an Hittite. We just came from paganism. And
as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, thy navel was
not cut, neither was thou washed in water to supple thee. Thou
wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. was nothing in our father's
religion to help us or save us in our birth. Mine eye pitied
thee to do any of these unto thee to have compassion upon
thee, but thou wast cut out in the open field, cast out in the
open field to the loathing of thy person in the day that thou
wast born. And when I passed by thee, and
saw thee polluted in thine own blood. I said unto thee, when
thou wast in thy blood, live. Yea, I said unto thee, when thou
wast in thy blood, live. I have caused thee to multiply
as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen
great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments. Thy breast are fashioned,
and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. Now
when I passed by thee and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was
the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee and covered
thy nakedness. Yea, I swear unto thee and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest
mine. Let's pray together. our merciful heavenly father,
we come before thy throne of grace, confessing that our father was a Hittite,
our mother was an Amorite, and Lord, we've come into this world
as sinners in need of you to spread your skirt over us, in
need of you to have pity upon us, In need of you, Lord, to
call us your own, to wash us from our sin, to cause us, Lord,
to find our life, our hope, our comfort, and our salvation in
thee. We do pray that you'd be pleased
to do that again for us tonight. And we ask it in Christ's name.
Amen. number 294 from the Hardback
Tymnal, 294. And let's stand again, please. Savior, like a shepherd lead
us, much we need Thy tender care. In Thy pleasant pastures feed
us, for our use Thy folds prepare. Blessed Jesus, Blessed Jesus,
Thou has bought us, Thine we are. Blessed Jesus, Blessed Jesus,
Thou has bought us, Thine we are. We are thine, do thou befriend
us, be the guardian of our way. Keep thy flock from sin, defend
us, seek us when we go astray. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
? Hear, O hear us when we pray ? Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
? Hear, O hear us when we pray ? Thou hast promised to receive
us ? Poor and sinful though we be Thou hast mercy to relieve us,
grace to cleanse and power to free. Blessed Jesus, blessed
Jesus, early let us turn to Thee. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
early let us turn to Thee. Early let us seek Thy favor,
early let us do Thy will. Blessed Lord and only Savior,
with Thy love our bosoms fill. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast loved us, love us still. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast loved us, love us still. Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Isaiah chapter 38. Isaiah chapter 38. I went this week to one of my
favorite authors in hopes of getting some insight on Isaiah
chapter 38. Now I have not read every page
of his commentaries, but I've read most of it over the years,
and I was amazed to find out that he completely skips Isaiah
chapter 38. He makes absolutely no comment
on it whatsoever. And I wasn't able to get any
help from him. And I understand in reading this
chapter why he felt a need to just leave it alone. He didn't
have a word from God on it, I believe I do. I believe the Lord has
given me some light on this chapter that will be an encouragement
to each of us. I've titled this message, He
Set His House in Order. And I want us to consider this
passage of scripture with Hezekiah being a type of Christ. You remember
what Hezekiah's name means? The Lord is my strength. And the father was the strength. Behold, my servant, mine elect,
whom I uphold. John chapter 5, the Lord makes
it clear that he was following the instructions of his father
perfectly, speaking only the words that his father gave him
to speak, and doing only the works that his father gave him
to do. And in his dying breath, he declares
from Calvary's cross, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. We have a faithful savior that
followed his father perfectly. That's what God requires. You
and I can't satisfy the demand of God's holy requirements. The Lord Jesus Christ did. And
in doing that, he set his house in order. And I'm so thankful
for that. If we don't have spiritual eyes
to see this in light of the gospel, we might conclude that our God
is immutable. He changes. He had told the prophet
Isaiah that Hezekiah was going to die, and Hezekiah on his deathbed
turns his face to the wall and cries out to God and confesses
his innocence before God, and whereby the prophet Isaiah comes
back and says, the Lord has heard your prayer and he's extended
your life by 15 years. If we just see this in light
of Hezekiah, we might be tempted to conclude that our God is fickled,
that his purposes can be changed by our prayers, that he will
reward us for our works. It's a works gospel if you're
not careful. Name it and claim it. Now, do
we pour out our hearts to God when we're sick? Of course we
do. I do. I do for myself, for my loved
ones, and for you, I pray. You have a dear sister in Tennessee
that watches our services faithfully every Wednesday and every Sunday.
And she doesn't live near a church. And I knew that she was facing
her 10th cancer surgery this morning. And so I texted her
to let her know that we would be praying for her. And she texted
me back and quoted from Daniel. You remember when Nebuchadnezzar
threw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the fiery furnace?
And I just said, I hope the Lord will comfort you and give you
peace. And she said, he has. And she quoted this, I see four
men loose, walking in the midst of the fire and they have no
hurt. And the fourth is like unto the
son of God. And I was so encouraged. I pray the Lord will heal her.
And I pray he'll heal me. I pray he'll heal you but you
know, the truth is one day we're gonna die and the healing that
we're most concerned with is the is the healing of our sins
by his stripes we are healed all our diseases are taken away
and that's the healing that we need and the Lord is is pleased
to to draw near to his children's hearts when they go through trials
and troubles, tribulations, necessities, as we saw Sunday, to show them
his mercy and his grace for their souls. And so I hope that that
will be what we'll see here in this chapter. Look at verse 1 of chapter 38.
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. Turn with me to John chapter
5. Let's just read a couple of verses. This is what I was making reference
to a moment ago, John chapter 5, verse 30. I can of my own
self do nothing. What's Hezekiah's name mean?
The Lord is my strength. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
saying, I can of my own self do nothing. He could only do
exactly what the Father purposed and willed him to do. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment
is just, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me. If I bear witness of myself,
my witness is not true. There is another that beareth
witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesseth
of me is true. Now, where did the Father witness
of Christ? In the volume of the book it
is written of me. Jesus Christ the Lord is the
spirit of prophecy and beginning with Moses and the Psalms and
the prophets he expounds unto his children those things concerning
himself. So you know perhaps Perhaps when
those disciples on the road to Emmaus were walking with the
Lord and he elaborated on different Old Testament passages, maybe
this passage he spoke to them about and identified himself
with Hezekiah and showed them how it was that
he set his house in order. Look at, go back with me to our
text. And in those days was Hezekiah
sick unto death, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came
unto him and said unto him, thus saith the Lord, set thine house
in order, for thou shalt die and not live. Now, the disease
that you and I need to be that we need to be healed from is
the disease of sin. You know that. Isaiah chapter
53 says, he bore our griefs and carried our sorrow. He was wounded for our transgressions
and bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him and by his stripes, we are healed. Oh, what sickness
was laid on him? We can't even begin to comprehend
it, can we? We just know that all the sins
of all of God's people of every generation was placed on the
Lord Jesus Christ. By his knowledge, my righteous
servant shall justify many. The Lord Jesus Christ had a knowledge
of sin that you and I cannot begin to comprehend. But I tell
you one thing, I've talked to a couple people just recently,
and they were struggling with this idea of being the chief
of sinners. You know, to whom much is given,
much is required. We've been given so much light,
so many blessings. Somebody said, well, I haven't
murdered anybody. And yet, if you have aught in
your heart towards your brother without a cause, you've murdered
him in your heart. And the believer sins against
light. We sin against truth. We, we,
you see, if I wake up in the morning and I'm in a foul mood
and I take out my, my bad mood on my wife, in my mind, I'm more
culpable, I'm more guilty than the guy that actually pulls the
trigger on a gun, in a gun, in a, in a, in a, in a robbery. I believe that. He's just doing what comes natural
to him. He doesn't know. But here I am, I've got the light
of the gospel, I've got the day of love has come to me and I
continue to remain as sinful as I am. I don't know of anybody
like me. And our sin is more, we're more
aware of our own sin than we are of anybody else's, are we
not? You know, the only thing... There's so much self-righteousness
in us. We multiply our sin by trying
to atone for our sins, or by looking at the sins of others,
thinking, well, I'm not that way. I'm not doing that. Oh, how wicked that is. Paul
said, am, this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation,
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am
chief. I believe that. This is who Christ
came to die for. This is the disease that he bore
in his body upon that tree. And here's the picture of Hezekiah
Turn with me to Psalm 103. Psalm 103. God makes you to be a sinner.
You're just not going to be able to look down your nose at other
people. You're not going to be able to stand in judgment against
someone else's sin. You're just not going to be able
to do it. And if you are, then you don't believe yourself to
be the chief of all sinners. Look what the Lord says in Psalm
103. Bless the Lord, O my soul, verse
1. and all that is within me, bless
his holy name, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all
his benefits. And then what is the first benefit
that's mentioned? Who forgiveth all thine iniquities,
who healeth all thy diseases, who redeemeth thy life from destruction,
who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. as he bore your grief, as his
disease. The prophet Isaiah, now Isaiah
is a picture of the word of God. He's the prophet and We know
that in the in the fullness of God's Word Christ is who spoken
of and so Isaiah comes and says to Hezekiah set your house in
order For this disease this sickness that you have is unto death You're
not gonna live I'm sure that there's a message
in verse 1 for all of us in terms of setting our house in order, considering the brevity of life,
considering the fact that there is a God with whom we must do,
considering the fact that we are sinners and that we need
to be made right in the presence of God, But there's nothing we
can do to set our house in order. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that could do that. Have you heard someone say, have
you made your peace with God? What are you going to do to make
peace with God? How are you going to bring an offering? What offering
are you going to bring that's going to satisfy His divine justice,
that's going to be pleasing in His sight? The Lord Jesus Christ
set His house in order, didn't He? He fulfilled all of God's
holy law on behalf of his children. Sometimes when people know that
they're going to pass away, they put everything in order. You
know, they pay all the expenses for their funeral, they give
instructions on exactly how things are going to be, and they make
sure the will is up to date and in order, and so that when they
pass away, there'll be no question about how things are still to
be executed. And you know, that's exactly
what the Lord did. Matter of fact, the scriptures
in Hebrew speaks of when the testator dies, the, the, the
will of the testator, that his, his desires, his purpose shall
be fulfilled and heaven and earth will pass away, but not one Not
one word from my word is going to pass away. That's what the
Lord Jesus came to do. He came to set his house in order.
He came to justify all his people. He came to satisfy the demands
of God's law. His holiness was upheld. His
justice was fulfilled. And his people were saved. And
his will was executed without opposition. He set His house
in order. All of His children were provided
for in His death. And what a picture of our Lord
here. Isaiah, being a picture of the
Word of God, Jehovah has saved is what Isaiah's name means.
Jehovah has saved. It it's written in the volume
of the book that he has accomplished our salvation Salvation is not
something that we have to that we have to add to in order to
make it work It's it the Lord's done it all by himself he put
away the sins of his people and he presented himself before God
and Is at the right hand of God now interceding on behalf of
his people so All scripture has been fulfilled,
all the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ. Now the reason I know that this
is the only way that we can understand this passage is in light of the
gospel is Because of the next couple of verses look at look
at verse 2 then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and
prayed unto the Lord What a beautiful and simple description of prayer
What is prayer? It's a it's a confession of our
dependence upon God is it not a We don't pray in order to manipulate
God. We pray in order to say to God,
we can't, we can't do this. We're not able. We're completely
dependent upon you. And can you just see Hezekiah
now he's lying in his bed and his bed is up against the wall
and he rolls onto his side so that the walls right in front
of his face and he's praying. There's no distractions. What
do you got to look at? A wall. There's no help. He's not crying out to anybody
else. He's crying out to God with a wall in front of his face.
There's no one to help but God. There's no one to assist him,
to aid him. He's confessing his inability. And there's no distractions. Don't you? Don't you hate it
when you try to pray and you get so easily distracted? When the Lord Jesus Christ turned
his face to the wall and prayed to the Father, there were no
distractions. There were no distractions. When
he said to, what was the difference between Peter and Judas? They both did the same thing
on that fateful night. What was the difference between
them? Peter, be of good cheer, for I have prayed for you. I
prayed for you. I didn't pray for Judas. John chapter 17, I pray not for
the world, I pray for them which thou has given me out of the
world. Father thine they were, and thou hast given them unto
me, and I pray that thou keep them. Keep them in the world. The Lord Jesus Christ prayed
with his face to the wall. He was confessing his complete
dependence on the Father. He was undistracted by anything. When he cried from the cross,
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. He wasn't praying like we pray.
He prayed perfect prayers. We often, James says, you have
not because you ask not, and when you do ask, you ask amiss
that you might consume it upon your own lust. How much of our
flesh is involved in every prayer that we pray? You know, we just,
we pray selfishly, don't we? The Lord Jesus Christ didn't
do that. He set his house in order. He prayed for the salvation
of his people. And his face was against the
wall. He had no place else to go but to the Father. And the
Father heard every word. And look what he says in verse
3. Hezekiah said, Remember now,
O Lord, No man can pray like this. Matter of fact, Job prays
a very similar prayer many times in the book of Job. Remember
my works. Remember how faithful I've been.
And Job over and over again tries to justify himself before God.
He even says to God, let me bring my case before you and I'll prove
to you that I'm innocent. God wasn't impressed with Job's
prayer. Why? Because Job was praying like a man. Hezekiah
now is praying as a type of Christ. Many of the prayers that David
prayed were prophetic prayers. And this can only be understood
as a prophetic prayer. God's not going to remember our
works and bless us because of our faithfulness. Look what he
says. Hezekiah said, remember now,
oh Lord, I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and
with a perfect heart. Only Christ can pray that way.
God's gonna hear Hezekiah's prayer. And God's gonna bless him. You
know, in our self-righteousness, we think, well, if I could just
be a little more perfect. If I could be a little more spiritual.
You know, perhaps I could entice God to bless me. If I could stop
doing that and start doing the other, then perhaps God would
bless me more. Well, there's things we ought
not to do. But get this, if we stop something you shouldn't
have been doing, it's because God has blessed you. If you pray more and more than
you were, it's because God has blessed you. He's enabled you
to do that. You see, the cause and effect
here are very important. It's very important. God's not
going to bless us because we're faithful. But if God does bless us, All
the blessings of God, according to Ephesians chapter one, are
in Christ in the heavenlies. So the only way we're gonna be
blessed by God is if he looks on Christ for us. We look to
Christ for all our blessings. And if the Lord blesses us, we'll
be faithful. You see, that comes as a result
of his having blessed us. Remember now. Oh Lord. I beseech
thee. I have walked before thee in
truth. I'm with a perfect heart There's
the Lord Jesus Christ He walked before the father in truth He
did as we just read in John chapter 5 everything exactly how the
father willed and purposed him to do it and Isaiah chapter 40
Makes it clear. Turn, turn with me over just
a couple of pages to Isaiah chapter 40 verse 10. Behold, the Lord God
will come with strong hand and his arms shall rule for him.
Behold, his reward is with him and his work before him. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that was able to send his works ahead of him to recommend
him to God. And that's what Hezekiah is praying
here. Man tries. Man tries to present his works,
his faithfulness, his dedication, his commitment to entice God
to bless him. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that could do that. His reward is with him. His blessings
are with him and his work went before him. We can't send our
works before us. Christ is the forerunner. He's
the one that went before us. He's the one that entered into
the holies of holies and he's the one that secures all the
blessings of God for us. And we so often think, well,
I'm gonna send my work before me and God'll take, no, no. Hezekiah said, I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I have done
that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Oh, if I could just be more penitent. If I could just be more sorry
for my sins. If I could just weep more. Jonathan Edwards, I think, is
the one that said, the tears of repentance have to be washed
in the blood of Christ in order to be acceptable in the presence
of God. Our tears are so lacking, aren't
they? Our tears are often shed more
for the pain and consequences that our sin brings into our
own experience rather than what it did to him. Isn't that true? But Hezekiah says, I have done
that which is good in thy sight. Why callest thou me good? There's none good but God. What'd
the Lord say to Moses? I'll cause my goodness to pass
before thee. Goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my life. Christ is the only one that's
good in the presence of God. And when he wept, When he wept,
what did he say to those disciples? Could you not pray with me for
one hour? One hour? And he kept coming
back to them and where were they? Asleep. Can you identify with
the apostles? Me too. Me too. When the Lord Jesus Christ prayed,
oh, He poured out His soul. sweat drops of blood and God
saw it and was satisfied. And so Hezekiah prays, and the
word of the Lord comes to Isaiah in verse four saying, go and
say to Hezekiah, thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father,
I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold,
I will add unto thy days 15 years. 15 years. As I said, if we don't see Christ
in this passage and understand the gospel, we might get the
impression that we can manipulate God. The number five in the Bible
is the number for grace. David took five stones with him
when he went to fight Goliath. There were five faithful virgins
and five that were not faithful. There were five loaves of bread
to feed the 5,000. They're just example over after
example First Corinthians Chapter 15 Paul makes it clear that the
belief that the Lord Jesus Christ in his resurrection were seen
was seen by 500 of his disciples And if you go back to Exodus
and read the description, the very detailed description that
God gave Moses for the tabernacle, you'll be amazed to see how many
times the number five is used. And here's a multiple of five. And a multiple of three. And it's just, It's a picture
of what the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished by His faithfulness
to the Father. This is not going to be unto
death. I'm going to reward you. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm
going to save you. I'm not going to let you see
corruption and I'm going to set your house in order. Look what
he says. Look what he says in verse six and I will deliver
thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria and
I will defend this city. That's God's promise. Oh, brothers
and sisters, believe God. Believe God. This word is given
to us in order to encourage our souls, in order to cause us to
see this is Christ, who's interceding on behalf of his church, who's
presenting his faithfulness before the Father, crying out with tears. And God hears his cry and rewards
him with 15 years. Rewards him with his children. That's the Lord's, he shall see
the travail of his soul and in verse chapter 53, turn with me
to Isaiah chapter 53. Yet it pleased, verse 10, it
pleased the Lord to bruise him, yet he 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. He shall
see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. And by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many for he shall bear their
iniquities. Hezekiah. I want to give you
15 years. Three times five. Three, a number
for God, and five, the number of His church, the number of
grace. Here it is, Hezekiah. I'm going to reward you for your
faithfulness and for your prayers. And I'm going to protect this
city from the Assyrians. They're not going to overtake
it. What does Assyria mean? Steps. I'm not going to allow
my children to fall into a false gospel believing that they somehow
can earn favor with me by what they do, by making steps. I'm not going to let them. They're
going to be tried and tempted at every turn. As long as this
city's here, the gospel of my grace is going to be preached,
and they're going to be rebuked and corrected, and they're going
to agree to the truth. I'm not going to allow the Assyrians
to take over this city. I'm not going to do it. You see,
the truth is that if a church, if a gospel church falls to the
Assyrians, then it's no longer a gospel church. No longer a
gospel church. Verse seven, and we'll conclude.
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord that the Lord
will do this thing that he has spoken. Behold, I will bring
again the shadow of the decree which is done, which has gone
down in the sundial of Ahaz 10 degrees backward. So the sun
returned 10 degrees backward by which degree it was gone down. Do you understand what would
have to happen physically for the shadow of the sundial to
reverse by 10 degrees? I mean, this earth is spinning
so fast, it'd have to come to a screeching halt, reverse its
axis, and sling everything off of it in the process of doing
that. What a miracle! What's the point? What's the point? Time is going
to be reversed. I'm going to look back miraculously
to something that happened before you existed. And that's gonna
be your sign. That's gonna be your sign. I'm
gonna look to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. That
happened 2,000 years ago. Well, that sundial went back
way back there, didn't it? And that's going to be your sign. No sign will be given to a wicked
and perverse generation except the sign of Jonah. The resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ is the only evidence that the child
of God needs to know that God is satisfied with what Christ
accomplished. And then I'm going to go back
even further than that. Before the sun could cast a shadow on
the sundial, before the earth was created, God Almighty established
a covenant. Man says, I've made a covenant. No, no, Isaiah 28, I've made
a covenant with death, with hell, I'm in agreement, I'm okay. And
I will disannul your covenant. The promises that you make to
God are not sufficient. But the covenant that I made
before time ever began, God promised to give his son a bride. The
son promised to redeem her. And the Holy Spirit promised
to regenerate her. 15 years I'm gonna add to your life,
Hezekiah. And this will be your sign. Your
sign's gonna be miraculous. It's gonna be the reversal of
time. I'm gonna look back and I'm gonna give you faith to look
back not to what you've done but to what he did as the only
hope of your salvation. He set his house in order. The only question that you and
I have to ask is am I a part of his house? Am I a part of
his house? Oh Lord I want to be a part of
your house. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we ask that
you would speak peace and truth to our hearts and cause us, Lord,
to rejoice in the accomplishment of our Hezekiah. For it's in
his name we pray. Amen. 31 31. We'll repeat the last two lines. Hear the voice of grace and glory
in our dying Savior's cry. Rending rocks and hills asunder,
and the veil to bring us nigh. It is finished, it is finished,
our victorious Savior cried. It is finished, it is finished,
our victorious Savior cried. It is finished. See God's pleasure prosper in
our risen Lord. Covenant blessings with measure,
flow to us by Jesus' blood. It is finished, it is finished,
oh how sweet the Savior's word. It is finished! It is finished! Oh, how sweet the Savior's word! Finished all justice demanded,
finished all required by law, finished all portrayed and promised
in the shadows of the law. It is finished, it is finished. Bow, believe, rejoice with awe. It is finished, it is finished. Bow, believe, rejoice with awe. Jesus finished our salvation
when he died upon the tree. Righteousness and full redemption
for his love and chosen seed. It is finished, hallelujah. Praise the Lamb of Calvary. It is finished, hallelujah. Praise the Lamb of Calvary. says house of words.