Alright brethren, let's go back
now to 2 Corinthians chapter 5. Paul was writing to the Corinthians. He had been rejected by those
that were glorying in appearance. And they rejected him for everything. They said, you know, bodily presence
is weak. That's judging after the flesh,
after the appearance. They said his speech is contemptible.
That's judging after the flesh. They were divided amongst themselves
saying, you know, I'm of Paul, I'm of Apollos, Peter, I'm of
Cephas, I'm of Apollos. And that was carnal. Judging
after the appearance. That's why Paul was writing the
first and the second letter. He said they were carnal. They
were carnal. There were many that professed
to believe in the church at Corinth that did not believe. They had
never experienced the grace of God. And then there were some
that were just babies who thought they were wise. And generally
a man that thinks he's wise is proving he is a baby, if anything. And that was the case with Paul.
And so Paul is writing here and he said back up in 2 Corinthians
5 and verse 12, he said, ìI am commending not ourselves again
to you, but weíre giving you occasion to glory on our behalf,
that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance
and not in heart.î And he said to them, Here are some things
you can tell them. He said, whether we are beside
ourselves or not, or whether we are sober, He said, we have
a new motive. The love of Christ constrains
us. He said, you tell them that. The love of Christ constrains
us. And He said, you can tell them this, we have a new object
of our affection. We live unto Him who loved us
and gave Himself for us. And he said, tell them this,
we have a new way of knowing men. We know no man after the
flesh anymore. As he said in Philippians 3,
he said, we worship God in spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus and have
no confidence in the flesh. We don't know men after the flesh
anymore. He said, you tell them this. He said, you tell them
that this is not just the work God does for the Jew only. He said, you know, you glory
in appearance and you think that it's just because you're a natural
born son of Abraham that you're the elect. He said, God does
this work If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Not just
elect Jews, elect Gentiles also. If any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature, a new creation. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things are become new. He said, you tell them this.
We have been made new creations by God. He said, you tell them
this. All these things are of God.
Verse 18. who hath reconciled us to himself
by Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. Paul is talking about himself
as an apostle. He is talking about his fellow
ministers. And he is talking about all the true church that
Christ had done this for, that God had done this for. He said,
you tell them this, we don't have anything to boast in, it's
all of God. We've experienced reconciliation. We've experienced
it because God reconciled us to Himself. You think about the
enemy Paul was. And he said, God reconciled us
to Himself. And He not only did that, He
has given us this ministry. He has given us this ministry.
This ministry of the Spirit, this ministry of righteousness.
He has given us this ministry of reconciliation. And here it
is, he said in verse 19, God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto Himself. Again, he uses that word world
because of the context. Not only the elect Jews, the
elect Gentiles also. Reconciling the world unto Himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them. Why not? for He hath made Him, verse 21,
for He hath made Him sin for us who knew no sin. He made Christ
sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. And because He accomplished that
and He made His people the righteousness of God in Him, God will not impute
trespasses unto them. And not only that, verse 19,
he says, and he hath committed unto us, he hath put in us the
word of reconciliation. He's put in us the word of reconciliation. And now, now, so not only are
we made new in all these other ways, we have, we have a new
message. A brand new message that we didn't
have before. the message of reconciliation.
And not only that, we have a new manner now. He said, now then
we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you
by us. We pray you in Christ's stead
be you reconciled to God. He said, we are not threatening
anymore. We are not bribing with rewards anymore. He says, we
simply come forth and beseech you by declaring the gospel of
reconciliation. See, everything has been made
new here. Now, we saw earlier that the
fact God's people needed reconciling shows us that we were enemies
to God by nature. When we sinned in Adam, we broke
the law. By his disobedience, we transgressed God's law. We became iniquity. We were trespassers
when we broke God's law in Adam. And so, that law has got to be
honored. The soul that sinneth shall die,
must die. The wages of sin is death. Every
person God saves, everybody God saves, God will crucify them. They have to be crucified. They have to come under the sentence
of divine justice and be punished. Everyone he saves. Everyone he
saves. And the way he does that is he
sent his own son to honor that law and satisfy that law for
his people. So that law has got to be honored.
Not only that, toward God, in our corrupt nature, God was our
enemy in our mind. So not only has He sent Christ
to reconcile us and He is going to have to come forth by the
Spirit of God and put this word of reconciliation in us. That's
the only way you and I will be reconciled to Him and stop fighting
against Him and surrender is for Him to put that word in us. But no reconciliation. Nothing
about this is of us. It's all of God. All things are
of God who has reconciled us. We're enemies. It couldn't be
of us. And since God in Christ accomplished reconciliation,
accomplished everything He came to do dealing with our sin, our
transgression, and making reconciliation, He accomplished it so that God
will not impute trespasses unto His people now. He says there,
He was in Christ not imputing their trespasses unto them. God
only imputes to a man what the man is. Did you see that in Scripture
when we looked at all the Scriptures? Did you see that? There are so
many more and every one of them, that's how it's used. I don't
know how it happened that over time, faithful men, I've heard
it said, you know, that Imputation is God treating you as if you're
something you're not. But I don't know where we got
that because that's not scripture. And I've heard it say that imputation
is making somebody sin or righteous by imputation. God imputes what
we've already been made, either by the disobedience of Adam or
by the obedience of Christ. That's right. That's what imputation
is according to the Scripture. So when God does not impute sin
or trespass or iniquity to His people, it's because in Christ
we don't have any. It's a fact. It's a fact. He
never talks to us in as if language. He never does it when He's dealing
with this stuff. He says, Reckon ye yourselves also to be dead
indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. You know, He said there,
our old man, is crucified. Let me read this Romans 6 real
quick. Let me just read this. He said, verse 6, Knowing this, that our
old man is crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be
destroyed. And he tells us it is. The body
is dead because of sin. The body is dead because Christ
has dealt with our sin. See, there was a second Adam
who came, the last Adam who came, and the first Adam was made upright,
he knew no sin, and he willingly by his disobedience made himself
sin. Well, the last Adam is Christ.
And He, by His obedience, presented Himself to the Father who made
Him sin. Who made Him sin. And that's what I want to show
you. It was necessary that Christ become His people. It was necessary
Christ become the Head who is the one person God's looking
to. And that's what Christ did. It
was such a real profound exchange. Such a real substitution that
He was made sin for His people. God does not impute transgression
to the reconciled believer. And God only imputes righteousness
to the reconciled believer. Verse 21, ìFor He hath made Christ
sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him.î Now first off, note what it does not say. It
does not say that God imputed sin to Christ. That would have
been a really good place to say it if thatís what He wanted to
say because He just said that the Lord will not impute sin
to His people. But here he says, it's because
he hath made him sin. He hath made him sin. Now most
people say that it was, it was, it means it was done by imputation. But scripture clearly bears out
that imputation could not make Christ sin. Because imputation
is the imputation of what a person is by a prior act. That's what
imputation is. I realize this is going against
all fine reform creeds, but it ain't going against God's Word.
And that's all that matters. That's all that matters. I'm
not the first person to deal with this. No faithful man in
my generation is the first man to deal with this. There have
been many faithful men preach what I'm preaching to you today.
It doesn't mean hear that it was by imputation, nor could
Christ be made sin by imputation, nor could God only treat Him
as if He were sin. That's not what this is. Not only have we seen in the
Scripture that God only imputes what's fact, and that it's not
properly said that anybody is made sin or made righteous by
imputation. We're made sin by Adam's disobedience,
we're made righteous by Christ's obedience. Adam's disobedience,
Christ's obedience. And therefore, and so, God imputed
sin to us. But besides this, did you know
that nowhere in the Scriptures does the Scriptures ever say
that sin was imputed to Christ? Not one place. Not one place. When you deal with imputation
in Romans, there's eight places, the word and its forms are used
in every place it's dealing with us. Imputation toward us. But never do you find imputed
to Christ. You don't find it anywhere. Most
say that God didn't make Christ bare. Now listen carefully. Most say God did not make Christ
bare our offenses. Another word for that is our
sins. our iniquity, our trespass, our transgression. Most say He
didn't make him bear that. He made him bear only our guilt. Some say He bore not even our
guilt, only our punishment. But Scripture says in various
places He was made sin. Scripture says He was made trespass,
our trespass. It says He was made our iniquity.
It says He was made our offenses. Scripture says that. Our very
crimes are removed because Christ, God has made Him sin for us. The transgression itself is dealt
with. It's removed because Christ bore
it away. He removed it. He removed it. You know, in the Old Testament,
some people say this word should be sin offering. Well, in the
Old Testament, the type and shadows are picturing the New Testament.
What is the reality? Christ. And so we ought to take
that word that is translated sin offering in the Old Testament. And that word is the same word
as sin. When God in ceremony and type,
they laid the sins of Israel on the lamb and on the scapegoat
and on the trespass offering, God says, it shall be sin. But it's translated, it shall
be a trespass offering or a sin offering. It shall be sin. Because
when we come to this, we shouldn't translate this sin offering because
this is the reality. This is what was really, that
was picturing. This is the truth of what was
taking place right here. And Scripture speaks of our offenses
themselves. It speaks of our iniquity, our
sin, our transgression for which Christ was suffering, that which
He was bearing. Romans 4.25, it says this. who was delivered for our offenses. That word for means because of. He was delivered because of our
offenses. He was delivered to divine justice
because He was bearing our offenses. Romans 5.16. Look at Romans 5.16. It says, not as it was by one that sinned,
so is the gift. He is saying there is a difference
between Adam and Christ in this right here. The judgment, the
imputation of sin, the judgment and death came about by one offense
to condemnation. But the free gift is of many
offenses unto justification. That means Christ by one offense
caused judgment to pass upon us and condemnation. Adam did
that. Christ by His obedience had to
bear many offenses. Look at Isaiah 53 and verse 5.
Isaiah 53 and verse 5. It says, He was wounded because of our
transgressions. He was bearing those and therefore
He was wounded for those. It says, He was bruised for our
iniquities. These are words for sin to make
sure you understand every kind of sin and all the sin of His
people He bore. He says, he was bruised for or
because of our iniquities. Verse 6, it says, Oh, we like
sheep have gone astray, we've turned everyone to his own way,
and the Lord hath laid on him, the Margin says, made the iniquity
of us all to meet on him. The Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all. This is the transgression itself.
These are the sins themselves. It says down in verse 8, it says
there, He was taken from prison and from judgment. Who shall
declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the
land of the living. Because of the transgression of My people
was He stricken. 1 Peter 2.24, Peter put it as
strongly as Paul put it. 1 Peter 2.24. He says here, "...who His own
self bear our sins in His own body on the tree, so that we
can be made dead to sins. Dead to sins. You know, in Daniel
9.24, let's go there one more place. In Daniel 9.24, he is
talking about what Christ came to accomplish on Calvary's cross.
Let me read this and I want you to see. See this laid out here
for us plainly on what Christ came and did. It says, 70 weeks are determined
upon thy people. Daniel 9.24, 70 weeks are determined
upon thy people and upon thy holy city. Christ doing this
for the elect of God. Here is what He did. He finished
the transgression. He finished it. He came and made
an end of sins. He made reconciliation for iniquity
and He brought in an everlasting righteousness. And all that was
sealing up all the prophecies and He anointed the most holy.
He was made sin so profoundly. Christ was made sin so profoundly
that before God, He experienced the weight of the offensiveness
of sin. He came so that he would be a
faithful and merciful high priest in things pertaining to God.
The Hebrew writers spent all of Hebrew showing how the high
priest was chosen from among his brethren, how he was one
with his brethren, how He knew the sin of His brethren, how
He knew everything about His brethren so He could be merciful
and faithful and make reconciliation. And that's Christ. He felt and
knew the weight of the offensiveness of sin as a man. As a man. Like we get a little glimpse
of it. He knew that. He felt that. And
He was made to experience the shame of sin before God. Scripture says He endured the
cross despising the shame. Remember Adam and Eve were naked
and they were not ashamed. When did they make fig leaves
and cover themselves? When they were made sin. They were ashamed. That's the
shame he bore. He experienced the shame of sin.
He experienced the wrath of God as a man against sin. These are
things his people experienced. In Psalm 38 too, if you want
to turn to these. Psalm 38 too. I'm going to go
slow because I just want you to see these. these passages. And this is such a serious subject.
Psalm 38 and verse 2. All the Psalms are the sweet
psalmist Christ our Lord. You know that. Look at Psalm
38, 2. Thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth
me sore. This is Christ speaking to the
Father. while He is bearing the sin of
His people. There is no soundness in my flesh
because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones
because of my sin. He owned our sin as His sin. They were made to be His sin. He says, ìFor mine iniquities
are gone over mine head as a heavy burden. Theyíre too heavy for
me.î Psalm 40, verse 7. ìThen said I, ìLo, I come, and
the volume of the book itís written of me. I do like to do thy will,
O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.î
Verse 11. Withhold not thou thy tender
mercies from me, O Lord. Let thy loving kindness and thy
truth continually preserve me, for innumerable evils have compassed
me about. Mine iniquities, mine iniquities
have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up. They
are more than the hairs of mine head, therefore my heart faileth
me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver
me. O Lord, make haste to help me. Look at Psalm 69. Psalm 69
verse 3. I am weary of my crying, my throat
is dried, my eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that
hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. They
that would destroy me being like enemies wrongfully are mighty.
Then I restored that I took not away. O God, Thou knowest my
foolishness, and my sins are not hid from Thee. I realize
that it goes beyond our conception how that sin itself could be
laid on Christ and He be made sin. I realize that's beyond
our ability to comprehend how that could be. We can understand
how somebody can take somebody's place and pay their debts. How
they can actually bear their crime and be looked upon by God
as the one who is by God himself numbered him with the transgressors. But what is impossible with men
It's possible with God. Many faithful men of old have
preached this. Tobias Crisp, John Bunyan, Samuel
Crisp, Spurgeon. William Rushton, another faithful
man, was dealing with Andrew Fuller. Andrew Fuller, he's the
inventor of what they call Fullerism, which is the free offer, you
know, that the Gospels are free offer to everybody. He also preached
that the blood of Christ was sufficient for the elect, but
efficient for everybody. That's just double talk trying
to preach universal redemption. That's what that is. But he,
Fuller said, there's no way, there's no way that Christ could
be made sin. That was impossible. And William
Rustin wrote this. He said, it is admitted that
among the sons of men, a third person may cancel debts, but
not crimes. which with mortals can only be
transferable in their punishment. But in the great affair of salvation,
our God stands single and alone. In this most glorious work, there
is such a display of justice and mercy and wisdom and power
as never entered into the heart of man to conceive. and consequently
can have no parallel in the actions of mortals. And that's fact. That's fact. You and I couldn't
have done this. We couldn't have done this. Only
God could do this. You see, it had to be because
when God... You go read the Judges and read
how God told the Judges to judge. And however God told the Judges
to judge is how God judges. And God said if an innocent man
comes into your courtroom, you impute righteousness to that
man. And He said if a wicked man comes in, you impute wickedness
to that man, you impute sin to that man. You do not, you do
not miscarry justice. Now don't we want a righteous
judge? Don't you want a righteous judge? If my son was not guilty,
and he had been arrested for a crime and he came before a
judge. I would want justice to be done. I would want to know
that he was going to be found not guilty. I would not want
a judge that says we are going to impute sin to you even though
you are not guilty. I would not call that a righteous
judge. How come we can understand that
if it comes to us in a court of law? We can't understand that
God, what He's doing at Calvary is strict justice. Well, Christ would never sin.
In fact, if you go back to our text, verse 21 says He knew no
sin. He knew no sin. You see, Adam,
here you got the only two men that ever started off in this
world without sin. That's Adam and the last Adam,
Christ Jesus. Adam willingly disobeyed and
that's how he was made sin and all his people in him were made
sin and so God imputed sin to us. Here you have Christ who
knew no sin and would never sin against God. So then how is He
going to be made to be our substitute and to really be made sin, it's
going to be by His obedience. It's going to be by His obedience. You see, it was not sin of His
own, but it was the sin of His people that He bore. Christ made
sin doesn't mean that Christ actively transgressed against
God Himself. That's not what I'm saying, is
what my accusers say. That's not what I'm saying. Christ
was not made a sinner in the sense that He was willfully rebelling
against God. That's not what was taking place.
Christ was not corrupted in His heart, in His nature. That's
not what we're talking about. We're not talking about sin being
infused into Him and a change being made in His person. The
Psalms show us that Christ was perfectly faithful throughout
the whole time He hung on the cross because you see Him there
crying to the Father while as yet He bore separation from God. I've looked at this before and
I've told you this before that there's a positive side to the
law and a negative side to the law. Not only was Christ fulfilling
justice for us and putting away our sin, Christ was also bringing
in an everlasting righteousness for us by His obedience. And
there you have both in Christ on the cross. There He is bearing
the sin of His people and He is bearing the separation of
God which is the eternal second death that a man will have to
face if he meets God outside of Christ. He is bearing that
to satisfy justice and at the same time in the midst of that,
He is loving God and His people as Himself and never ceasing
to do so. He is doing it in perfect faith
and fidelity, looking to God, trusting God to fulfill His covenant
that when this work is finished, He said, I know He will justify
me. That's what he said in Isaiah
54. He'll justify me. He's near that justifies me.
I've set my face like a flint. I gave my back to the smiters
and then they plucked off the hair of my beard because God
will help me. And he trusted God to do so. So he was obedient unto the death
of the cross. Think about the paradox in that
phrase. Obedient unto the death of the cross. Usually when you
think about somebody being obedient to God, that's not joined with
death. And when you think of somebody
being obedient, that's not something you would put with a cross. How
could a sinless obedient one die? How could that be? Christ's obedience was to declare
the perfect righteousness of God. Romans 3 tells us He was
sent forth to manifest the righteousness of God. In everything He did,
He showed pure righteousness Himself. In everything He did. and to become one with His people,
to be made one with His people as our head and representative.
Scripture says it became Him for whom are all things and by
whom are all things and bringing many sons unto glory to make
the captain of our salvation perfect through sufferings. To
consecrate Him and make Him our perfect captain through sufferings. For both He that sanctifyeth,
that's Christ, and they that are sanctified, that's His people,
are all of one. They had to be one. And for Him
to make us one with Him in righteousness, He had to first make Himself
one with us in sin. And that's what Christ did. His
obedience was to be made of a woman. If this thing is just to just
treat treat us as if we are righteous and treat Him as if He was sin,
why didn't we just save the trouble and just say, well, let's just
say it's as if you were made of a woman. He had to be made of a woman.
He had to be made flesh like unto His brethren. It behooved
Him in all things and He was. He had to be made under the law.
That law had to put him up like that lamb of sacrifice. It had
to put him up and look him over and inspect him for thirty-three
and a half years and make sure that there was no spot, no blemish
in him anywhere, that he's the holy, undefiled, separate from
sinners, spotless lamb of God. He had to be made under the law.
And he had to be, once he's proven himself faithful, he's proven
himself without sin, You know, they brought the lamb, spotless. Then what takes place? The sin
of the people has to be put on that lamb. Well, Christ's obedience
is that He presented Himself, just like the first Adam did
what he did in a garden, the second Adam did what he did in
a garden. He went to the garden of Gethsemane and He presented
Himself, holy, the just one, laying down His life for the
unjust. He presented Himself to the Father. for the Father to make him sin. That's why he was sweating great
drops of blood. That's why he said, my soul is
exceedingly troubled, almost to the point of dying. And he went to that cross and
he had to be made a curse. Once Adam sinned, And God went to him and imputed
sin to him. And then He said, you are cursed.
That was the order. And Christ was made sin. God
numbered Him with the transgressors. And He was put on a tree. Made
a curse. Made a curse. That is to bear
our curse. It's almost inconceivable that
that could be, that Scripture would say Christ was made a curse
for us. And then He bore our separation. Our separation on the cross,
on that cursed tree. He was obedient even unto the
death of the cross. And by His obedience. By His
obedience shall many be made righteous. As real as Christ
was made sin, as real, that real, His people are made the righteousness
of God in Him. Look at verse 21. He did all
that that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
Now by Him and in Him we are righteous as He is righteous.
Scripture says, as by one man's disobedience, many were made
sinners. Let me ask you a question. How
real were you made a sinner? How real did Adam make you a
sinner? Was it real? It was real, wasn't it? Well, as by one man's disobedience,
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. By the obedience of one. by the
obedience of Christ. By Christ, the obedient servant
of God, the head of His people in the place of His people. By
Christ, our substitute, many were made righteous. It doesn't
say we were made righteous by imputation. It says by the obedience
of one, shall many be made righteous. And as we saw with the non-imputation
of sin, God does not make one sin or make one righteous by
imputation. Imputation is God charging the
fact of what a person is. Christ truly made His people
the righteousness of God in Him so that when He brings you to
faith in Christ and brings you to trust Christ and He imputes
to you the righteousness of Christ, He is not treating you as if
you are righteous, He is imputing to you what Christ has really
made you. the righteousness of God in him.
God is not supposing we are righteous. He is telling us what we are.
Listen to this. Even as David described it, the blessedness
of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.
Why did he do that? Saying, blessed are they whose
iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. They are covered. They're gone.
They're removed. He's made righteous. That's why
God imputes it to Him. In those days shall Judah be
saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name
wherewith she shall be called the Lord our righteousness. Knowing this, our old man is
crucified with Him. The body of sin is destroyed
that we might live unto God. For he that is dead is freed
from sin. Sin shall not have dominion over
you, for you are not under the law, but under grace. Brethren,
you are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that you
should be married to another. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit. Because what the law couldn't
do, it was weak in our flesh, He sent His Son. And for sin,
condemn sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us. God imputing righteousness to
us. To be carnally minded is death. To be spiritually minded
is life and peace. And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because
of righteousness. This thing is real, brethren.
It's real. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believes. Make no mistake
about it. You and I didn't do it. God did
it. While we were yet enemies, Christ died for us. Being now
justified by His blood, we'll be saved by His life. When we
were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, He did it,
He accomplished it. We don't accomplish that. Having
made peace through the blood of His cross. But then, God puts
this word in us. He said there, He's committed
unto us, verse 19, the word of reconciliation. Now then, we
are ambassadors for Christ as though God didn't beseech you
by us. We pray you in Christ's stead. Christ sends His messenger
and He sends the Gospel. And I am speaking from experience. I have been reconciled just like
Paul is saying there. I have experienced Him putting
this Word in me. And He comes and He puts the incorruptible
Word in you. And He purges your conscience
with the blood of Christ so that you no longer serve in dead works.
You serve the living God and you have no more conscience of
sins. and He makes you to behold that Christ really reconciled
you. When He does that, you know what you'll do? You'll quit shooting
at God. You'll quit waging war against
God and you'll surrender to God on His terms of reconciliation,
on His terms of peace and say, thank you, Lord, that you made
peace for me. That's what He does. I want you
to know, brethren, I don't want you to walk out of here and I
don't want ever to preach to anybody and I don't want them
thinking that, you know, What you really are is a sinner. And
God is just treating you as if you are righteous. That is not
scriptural language. Scriptural language is you are
dead and your life is hid with Christ and God. I want you to
know that just as real as He made him sin, Christ made us
righteous. This is not of us. It is not
by our works. It is not by anything we did.
It is all by Christ alone. Our transgressions are removed
and He makes you receive it. We joy in God through our Lord
Jesus by whom we've now received the atonement, the reconciliation.
And it's only then that we really and truly rejoice. Now I'm an
ambassador for Christ and I'm beseeching you, be reconciled
to God. You want to be at peace with
God? You want to have no... Like Abraham, be called the friend
of God? Be reconciled to God. You know
what Ben is confessing today in baptism? He is confessing
what I have been preaching to you, that God did this work for
him and reconciled him and come and put it in his heart and made
him to be reconciled to God. And now it can be said of him
what is said of Abraham, he is the friend of God. No more peace. If when we were enemies we were
justified by the death of his son, much more now. being reconciled,
being friends. We will be saved by His life.
No wrath to come. As real as He was made sin, that
is how real we are made righteous. I pray God to bless it. Alright
brethren, we are going to go to the dudeness. Visitors, if
you don't know, just follow in line with somebody or we can
give you the address. Somebody will ask Ravi about
it and he will give you the address and put it in your phone. And
we will go over there to use their