Having looked at Chapter 1 previously,
I had intended to move to Chapter 2 for today, but as I read the
text again of Chapter 1, There was a very important subject
that stood out to me and I felt we should contemplate it a little
more. The title of my message is The
Sinner's Substitute. My text is found in verse 12.
And he said unto them, take me up and cast me forth
into the sea. So shall the sea be calm unto
you, for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. So in making my way to my text,
I'd like us to read through this chapter once again. And as we
do, I want to briefly call to our remembrance Some of the wonderful
truths and gospel pictures we saw. Just look at the main points.
There are many, many pictures and types in this passage of
the Lord Jesus Christ. So let's start at verse 1 there.
Verse 1 of Jonah 1, Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the
son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before
me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence
of the Lord, and went down to Jobba. And he found a ship going
to Tarshish. So he paid the fare thereof,
and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from
the presence of the Lord. Of course we see in this sense
Jonah the sinner. Jonah the sinner. A sinner just
like you and I. Human nature at its very best
is always contrary to the things of the Lord. But the Lord sent out a great
wind. into the sea and there was a mighty tempest in the sea.
It said that the ship was likely to be broken. And we looked last
time how that storm, that storm is a picture, isn't it? It's
a picture of the wrath of God upon all sin, all sin. It pursues sin wherever it be
found. Then the mariners, verse 5, were
afraid and cried every man unto his God, lowercase g, and cast
forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea to lighten
it of them. But Jonah was gone down into
the sides of the ship. and he lay and was fast asleep. So the mariners were in fear
of their lives and they looked for Jonah. They looked for Jonah.
Where'd they find him? They found him in a sleep, asleep
in the sides of the ship. And perhaps of course you recall
that time when the Lord was with his disciples on the sea of Galilee
and in just the same manner the storm came up, didn't it? The
storm came up and the disciples were in fear of their lives and
they went and found the Lord Jesus and where was he? He was
asleep in the ship. Just the same. What a beautiful
parallel that is between Jonah and our Lord Jesus Christ. Just
another confirmation that the life of Jonah here, the life
of Jonah is a representation of him. Verse seven, and then they said,
everyone to his fellow, come, let us cast lots that we may
know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots
and the lot fell upon Jonah. Then said they unto him, Tell
us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us. What is
thy occupation? Whence comest thou? What is thy
country? And what people art thou? And
he said unto them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God
of heaven, capital G, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why
hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled
from the presence of the Lord, because he told them. So now there is a fear, isn't
there, a fear, because they were speaking of the true and living
God, not the gods of their own imagination. Then said they unto him, What
shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? For
the sea was wrought, and was tempestuous. And he said unto
them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea, so shall
the sea be calm unto you. For I know that for my sake this
great tempest is upon you. So Jaina declares to these sinners,
these sailors, the way of salvation. And so we see this theme of substitution,
substitution. But there's always resistance.
from the carnal will of man to the things of God. Verse 13,
nevertheless, the men rode hard to bring it to land, but they
could not. They could not. For the sea was
wrought and was tempestuous against them. And so we see the futility,
the absolute futility of the works of men against the wrath
of God. They rode hard, didn't they?
They rode hard, but they could not. They could not. That's the
truth, isn't it? Work salvation, you cannot. There
is no good work, no good work at all that you can do to merit
yourself to God, to atone for your sins, or to escape the judgment
of God. Wherefore, verse 14, they cried
unto the Lord, and he said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech
thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon
us innocent blood. For thou, Lord, hast done as
it pleased thee. That innocent blood is the spotless
Lamb of God, isn't it? And you recall, of course, how
he was handed over by the hands of wicked men to be crucified. They nod upon us, innocent blood,
for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee. So they took
up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea, and the sea ceased from
her raging. After toiling in vain, they heeded
what Jonah had said, didn't they? And so we see the wrath of God
satisfied, which otherwise would have consumed them. I love that verse in Romans chapter
7. Chapter 5, I think it is. Chapter
5, for scarcely for a righteous man one will die, yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward
us, toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us. So the scriptures speak of believers
having fellowship one with another. Fellowship in the gospel. We
are a fellowship of believers. Those sailors were fellows in
that ship, weren't they? Fellows in that ship. And that's
what believers are. We are fellows in that ship. That ship. Fellows
in that ship of salvation. We stay in that ship because
we know that ship will be saved. We know that ship will be saved.
The love of our savior is evident, isn't it? Even while we were
yet sinners, we were enemies. We were hostile, rebellious. Even while we were yet sinners,
he was our substitute. He stood as our substitute. What
a picture Jonah is of our Lord. Jonah is cast into the sea of
the wrath of God and he disappears beneath the water. That's a picture
of death, isn't it? That's a picture of death. That's
why baptism is such a powerful symbol, being plunged beneath
the water. Pictures us being baptized into
his death and then rising up out of the water. Pictures us
being risen with him again, being raised with him. And having been
cast into that sea, the justice of God is satisfied. There is a word in the scriptures
called propitiation. That's another term you could
use there. that the wrath of God has been
propitiated against our sin. His fury has been exhausted. The wrath of God is abated. And then, what happens? There is peace. There is peace. That's why our Lord Jesus Christ
is called the Prince of Peace. I've heard men say, I've made
my peace with God. Have you heard that before? I've
made my peace with God. I've heard men looking like they're
knocking on death's door and they're still proud. I've made
my peace with God. We don't make peace with God.
God must make peace with us. He's the peacemaker. The Lord
Jesus Christ is our peace. He is our peace. Verse 16, then the men feared
the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice under the Lord and
made vows. And finally in verse 17, we see
Jonah swallowed up for a specific time. Now the Lord had prepared
a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of
the fish three days and three nights, exactly as the Lord had
said of himself. So shall the mount some of man
be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. And
so chapter two, when we move on to that, perhaps next week,
Lord willing, speaks of the time of his affliction. And at the
end of the chapter two, recall last week we saw how the Lord
God speaks to that fish and vomits Jonah up onto dry land. That's
a picture of resurrection, isn't it? You might recall how we contemplated
those words Jonah declared in his affliction in verse 9 of
chapter 2. Look at that verse. Jonah declares
these words. He says, salvation is of the
Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. Now we ought to take that statement
and just run as far as you can with it. How much of salvation
is of the Lord? Salvation is not 95% bubble ward
and 5% man. It's not even 99.999% repeat,
and the rest is up to you. There's no part of salvation
that is up to us. Salvation is of the Lord, and
that simply means he does it all, doesn't it? If he does it
all, then he gets all the glory. That's the true gospel, and that's
a good measure. It's a good measure. Any gospel
that gives him all the glory will be the true gospel. If you
get a message that gives some sort of glory to man in the scheme
of salvation, then that is not a true gospel. I'm so thankful
that salvation is in His hands. His hands and not mine. Because
if salvation is in His hands, that's the salvation I can hang
all my hope upon. Cast me forth into the sea, Jonah
says. So shall the sea be calm unto
you. For I know that for my sake this
great tempest is upon you. What a great picture of substitution. Now what is, what is it? What's substitution? And possibly
the simplest definition that I could come up with was Christ
in my place. Christ in my place. God is looking to a saviour. He's looking to a substitute,
isn't he? If God is looking to me for righteousness,
I need Christ in my place. If God is looking to me for some
penalty to pay for sins, I need Christ in my place. We understand
the concept, don't we? It's a pretty simple concept.
We've all watched a game of football. And if you watch that game, you'll
know that there's things called a substitute. If a player is
injured, incapacitated on the field, the coach goes, well,
we send in a substitute. And that substitute takes the
place of that one on the field, that one that's been injured,
incapacitated, and he takes on all the responsibilities of that
other. Now if there is a substitution,
if there is a real transfer, both those people cannot be on
the field at the same time. Salvation is a work of grace
100%. It cannot be touched by our filthy
hands. If you insert something of yourself
into that scheme of salvation, then that is not grace anymore,
is it? If you play on that field, you
want to play on that field the same time as a substitute, you'll
be disqualified. It's no longer grace. And so
the scriptures The scriptures are saturated, aren't they? Saturated
with the theme of substitution. All the scriptures are written
in some way to point us to the person and the work of the sacrifice
that would put away sin forever. Here's the sinner's sacrifice. That sacrificial system, you
might recall, involved the death of animals. They all pointed
us, didn't they? They pointed us to that one sacrifice
that would put away sin forever. The priests in that tabernacle
in the time of the wanderings of the Israelites never entered
the holy place without blood. Animal sacrifice was always offered
for the sins of the people, again pointing to the precious blood
of the Lamb of God who was to come. We see substitution from
the very beginning, don't we? We know that story. Adam and
Eve knew the commandment of God, a simple commandment of the fruit
of the tree which is in the midst of the garden. God hath said
ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. I encourage everyone to read
that account of Genesis 3, because there we see our fall. That's
where we see our fall, and if you get that wrong, you're wrong
on it all. We sinned in Adam, and then we see the penalty for
our rebellion, don't we, against God, the consequences. The consequences
plainly stated. The scripture says the soul that
sinneth, it shall die. the soul of the sinner that shall
die. And after that fall, Abner and Eve went and hid themselves,
you recall, hid themselves away from God. But here's the wonder
of the gospel. What did the Lord do? We see
substitution, don't we? He went and killed an animal,
and he shed its blood, and he took that skin, and he clothed
him. He clothed him in his righteousness. He killed an animal. And soon
after that, we see another picture of substitution, don't we? You
see it in their children, Cain and Abel. In the offerings of
Cain and Abel, Cain was a tiller of the ground, you might recall,
and Abel was a tender of the flocks. And Cain brought the
firstfruits of his garden as an offering to the Lord. And
Abel brought the firstlings of his flock to the Lord. He brought
a lamb, didn't he? He brought a lamb. And the scripture
said the Lord had respect to Abel's offering, but he had no
respect to Cain's offering. Why was that so? Why was that
so? Why did the Lord not respect
Cain's offering? Sure, they were good vegetables. Because Cain's offering represented
the works of his hands, the works of the earth. But Abel's offering
represented the work of the substitute, our substitute. In Hebrews 11
we read, By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous.
He was a sinner, but he was declared righteous. Why? Because his offering
signified the one sacrifice that God would provide and would accept. And we have that wonderful story
in Genesis chapter 22, which Angus touched on a few weeks
ago. If you'd like to turn with me there, please, Genesis chapter
22. I know you visit it a lot, but
I just think it's such a wonderful picture of substitution. Genesis
chapter 22, where the Lord calls on Abraham, verse 2. Take thy son, thy only son Isaac,
whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and
offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which
I will tell of thee. And Abraham said unto his young
men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder
and worship and come again to you. This task. It's unbelievable. This task
is an awful thing for them to undertake, isn't it? But notice
the hope and faith of Abraham. Abraham fully expects them to
come back. He fully expects it because he
had faith that God would provide. Him and the lad were going to
come and return. Verse six, and Abraham took the
wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son,
and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they both went
of them together. Verse seven, and Isaac spake
unto Abraham his father and said, my father, he said, here I am,
my son. And he said, behold the fire
and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And
here are the words that fill me with wonder, absolute wonder,
every time I read them. Verse eight, Abraham said, my
son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. I love the wording of our translators
in the King James Version. My son, God will provide himself
a lamb. Not only will God provide the
sacrifice, the sacrifice he provides is himself. God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And as you read on you'll see
an angel of the Lord intervenes and Isaac is spared and there's
a ram caught in the thicket and that becomes a sacrifice, a substitute. A substitute is provided, a substitute
provided by God, a substitute that is God. And Abraham called
that place Jehovah-Jireh, which can be translated, the Lord will
provide. He provided, didn't he? He provided
the substitute for them. And that's the key, isn't it,
to knowing what God accepts, I think. Everything God requires,
he provides. Everything God requires, he provides. What about faith? Everything God requires, He provides.
He provides us faith. Faith is not of ourselves, it's
not of works, as any man should boast. Everything God requires,
He provides. And everything He provides, He
accepts. If He provides it, He's not going
to reject it. What is our offering? What is
our offering? Our offering is Him, isn't it?
When the Lord Jesus was baptized, that voice from heaven said,
this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. There would
be no possibility of our Lord, the Lord our God, rejecting that
offering. If He is our offering, that offering
will be accepted. He is well pleased with that
offering. Well pleased. So we need to remember
too that these things were determined from long ago. Revelation declares
Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of
the world. What a remarkable statement that
is. Slain from the foundation of
the world. provided from the foundation of the world. The
Lord God gave us his son, his only begotten son. We didn't
earn him. We didn't desire him. And when
he came, we despised him. We rejected him and we nailed
him to a tree, didn't we? And we mocked him as he died.
God gave his son to be our savior in the covenant of grace before
the world began. The Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily
gave himself and he stood as our surety. Have you heard that
word before? The Lord Jesus Christ is the
surety of a better covenant, a better covenant, a better testament. The Lord Jesus Christ willingly
became the surety of his people. That word surety is a legal term,
a guarantor if you like. A surety takes on the responsibilities
of another, including their debts, all their debts, he becomes responsible. And if that person cannot pay,
the surety must pay because he's committed themselves to paying
for it. And so when we think of the Lord Jesus Christ as the
surety of his people, There is a twofold debt paid by our Lord. One of the debts is his obedience
to the law. A debt that was paid by his perfect
obedience under God, to the law of God. Every thought, every
word, every deed, perfectly in conformity with the law of God. That's the first debt paid. The second debt as our sorority
is a debt of punishment. The debt of punishment, remember
what God said, don't eat that tree, lest you die, and we incurred
that debt. That debt was upon us. The debt of punishment then became
His, as the surety. because we fail to keep God's
law at every point in any sense. And so he is both the sinner's
substitute in terms of righteousness and he is the sinner's substitute
in death as well. And having paid both debts, the
righteousness of the law is fulfilled. He didn't come to do away with
the law. He came to fulfill the law. He
fulfilled the law as our surety and as our substitute. Here's
our surety. Everything he did, he did as
an us. And everything he accomplished,
he accomplished as an us. And I trust at this point you
are seeing how substitution, substitution is always for a
particular people. In the book of Leviticus we see
how the scapegoat, do you remember the scapegoat? The scapegoat
is used as a substitute. We still use that term today,
don't we, when we talk to somebody that takes the blame for someone
else's crime, goes to the scapegoat. And the priest would lay his
hands on the scapegoat and confess the sins of the people upon that
animal, and that animal was sent. Out into the wilderness, out
into the wilderness, never to return. And the Lord God has
removed our sins as far as the east is from the west. That scapegoat
was only provided for the Israelites, was it not? It was not provided
for the Ammonites or the Moabites or the Edomites or the Philistines.
That offering was only made on behalf of the people. the people. In 1 Corinthians
15, Paul says, Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. And the simple question we need
to ask is, who is the hour? Who is the hour? If I'm to have
an interest in this plan of salvation, in this wondrous, beautiful covenant,
if I'm to have an interest, I want to know who the hour is. In 2 Corinthians 5, we see that,
for he hath made him to be sin for us, us, who knew no sin,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Who are the us?
Well, the answer is actually in the verse, if you read it.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that
we might be made the righteousness of God in him. The answer is
in the verse, the us are those who are made righteous. They
are made righteous. Made righteous as a direct result
of his bearing our sins in his body on the tree. Where there
is a substitution, there is always a transfer. If the Lord Jesus
Christ is the substitute, there is a transfer, and when there
is no transfer, there is no substitution. He doesn't substitute for those
who he does not transfer for. There is no transfer when there
is no substitution. In Acts chapter 20, we read that
amazing verse that the church was purchased with his own blood.
That's an amazing verse, isn't it? The church was purchased
with his own blood. And my question is this, did
he get what he paid for? get what he paid for. If God
purchased the church with his own blood, then they're his,
aren't they? They're his. They're his forever.
He purchased them. He redeemed them. Redeemed them. He's the redeemer, isn't he?
He redeemed them by paying a price for them. And the price was the
precious blood of God. He loved them. He loved them.
Who are they? Who are the loved ones? Is everyone loved of God? Is
everyone loved of God? Did he give his life for everyone?
If he gave his life for everyone, if he loves everyone, then what
makes the difference? See, one of the things you might
know is that any gospel that gives any credit to man in salvation
is a false way. We've already read that salvation
is of the Lord in its entirety. If God loves everyone, then who
makes the difference? Who makes the difference in that
equation? It has to be us, doesn't it then?
There's no alternative. Ephesians 5, we have another
answer to that question. Paul answers this question so
wonderfully in the picture of marriage. The picture of marriage.
Verse 25 of Ephesians 5 says, Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. He gave himself for the church. Is there any love more particular,
more jealous, more exclusive than the love of a husband for
his wife. Can you imagine a groom standing
at the altar, pledging his vows to his bride, and he says, honey,
I love you just like I love every other woman. That would not wash
very well. The words of that groom would
be an insult, would it not? And that pledge of love becomes
meaningless. Love by its very nature must
discriminate. It must discriminate. It must
favor. Love has an object, doesn't it?
The objects of his love. We're talking about the objects
of God's love and care. And he sends a substitute for
the objects of his love and care. That's just the nature of love,
isn't it? It is exclusive. Such is the love of Christ for
his bride that he gave his life for her. Friends, his eyes have
been fixed on her from before the foundation of the world,
and there's no possibility that she can be lost to him. He paid
the price with his own blood, and if he paid the price with
his own blood, we know that that offering is accepted. accepted by his father. Jeremiah
says, The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea,
I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness
have I drawn thee. So what does our Lord say concerning
his substitution? I am the good shepherd. I am
the good shepherd. The good shepherd laid down his
life for the sheep. He calls them by name, doesn't
he? And they know the shepherd's voice. They were redeemed by
his blood. They are a purchased possession,
made holy and without blame before him, chosen in him before the
foundation of the world, and all of it according to the covenant
of grace. Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.
The sinless, spotless lamb of God died for our sins. The Lord
Jesus Christ didn't die for any of his own sins, did he? He died
for our sins, our sins. He was cut off from the land
of the living for our sakes. He died not for his own sins,
he had none, he had none. And yet our sins were made his
by divine imputation. He died not for his own transgressions,
did he? transgressions. As Isaiah says,
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.
And yet with that said, here is a very important observation
to that. We know that our sins were made
his sins. We know this. But the Scriptures
declare that God made him to be sin. But there is more to
this imputation, isn't there? There is more to this transfer.
The Lord Jesus Christ called those sins his own. Where is that found? We've known
for a long time that the Psalms have no meaning except they be
the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. They are Messianic Psalms. All
the Psalms And in fact the cries of Jonah in Jonah chapter 2 include
references to at least eight psalms, maybe more. The Lord willing we'll look at
that another time. But listen to these words from
Psalm 40. You can turn there if you wish. Verse 7 says, Then said I, Lo,
I come. In the volume of the book it
is written of me. Immediately we know this is the
Lord speaking, don't we? I delight to do thy will, O God. Yea, thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness
in the congregation. Lo, I have not refrained my lips,
O Lord, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness
within my heart. I have declared thy faithfulness
and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy loving-kindness
and thy truth from the great congregation. No man can say
these things, can they, except they be the God-man. Verse 11 says, withhold not thy
tender mercies from me, O Lord. Let thy loving kindness and thy
truth continually preserve me. And now listen to these words
in verse 12. He says, for innumerable evils
have compassed me about. Mine iniquities have taken hold
of me. Mine iniquities have taken hold
of me. That's what the Lord says, mine
iniquities, so that I'm not able to look up, they are more than
the hairs of mine head, therefore my heart faileth me. And he experienced,
the Lord Jesus Christ experienced those sins in his own body, beginning
in Gethsemane, where his sweat were, as it were, great drops
of blood. That's when it came upon him. The affliction of our Lord is
for another time. But in finishing, before I finish,
I want to look at another amazing picture of substitution just
quickly. If you would like to turn with me, if you will, to
Mark chapter 15. Mark chapter 15. Verse 1, Mark chapter 15, and
straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation
with the elders and the scribes and the whole council and bound
Jesus and carried him away and delivered him to Pilate. These
religious leaders delivered him to Pilate. They delivered him
to Pilate because they had no authority. They had no authority
to take Jesus to themselves and do what they wanted to do under
Roman rule, to put him to death. They were captives of the Romans
and so they used Pilate to do what they could not do themselves.
In verse 2, And Pilate asked him, Aren't thou the king of
the Jews? And he answered and said unto him, Thou sayest it.
And the chief priest accused him of many things, but he answered
nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou
nothing? Behold, how many things they
witness against thee! But Jesus answered nothing, so
that Pilate marvelled. Now at that feast he released
unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. That was the custom
of the Roman government to release a prisoner Whomsoever they desired,
the people's choice, if you like. Verse 7, and there was one named
Barabbas, which lay bound with them, that had made insurrection
with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection. Committed
murder. And the multitude, crying aloud,
began to desire him to do as he had ever done to them, to
give them this prisoner exchange. But Pilate answered them, saying,
Will you that I release unto you the king of the Jews? For
he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy, for
their own devious, wicked purposes. But the chief priest incited
the people, and moved the people, that he should rather release
Barabbas unto them. And Pilate answered and said
unto them again, Will ye then that I shall do unto him whom
ye call the king of the Jews? And they cried out again, Crucify
him. Then Pilate said unto him, Why,
what evil hath he done? And they cried out more exceedingly,
Crucify him. And the scripture says, he had
done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Scripture
says that? Scripture says they hated me
without a cause. And so Pilate, willing to content the people,
released Barabbas under them and delivered Jesus when he had
scourged him to be crucified. Barabbas is a picture of us,
isn't it? This is a picture of us. We ought not ever think that
we are innocent victims in all this. We rose up against God
in insurrection and we are perfectly guilty as charged. We sought to overrule the authority
of God and run our own way. The way it is, Isaiah says, all
we have like sheep and gone our own way. We have turned everyone
to his own way. Everyone has raised their fist
in the face of God. Can you imagine yourself as Barabbas
in that cell? Remember, this is a picture of
us. He was on death row, awaiting that sentence, justly condemned.
He knew full well that he was a transgressor and I trust that
you know this is a description of us as well, that we've broken
every law, broken every law and every precept and we fully deserve
that sentence. That's the burden of everyone
who knows something in their own sin. Barabbas, you think
about it, he may have heard the cry of that crowd. Crucify him. Singing out, crucify
him. He would not have known who they
were talking about. The pilot released Barabbas under them
and delivered Jesus, and so there's a transfer, isn't there? There's
our substitution. An actual exchange, one for another. One goes free. Can you imagine
the amazement of Barabbas when those guards came down to his
cell and opened that cell door and he said, you're free. you
are free and pronounce his release. We justly deserve to die, don't
we? But Christ took our place. Is there anyone like the sinner's
substitute? Is there anyone like our Saviour?
May the Lord bless these words to us. Let's have a break and
back with Psalm. Thank you.