Go ahead and turn back to Judges
17 with me if you would. Our lesson this evening will
be a little bit different. Instead of clearly seeing a picture
and type of the Lord Jesus Christ like we have in so many of these
studies and judges, especially in the studies of Samson, Tonight
we'll have a clear picture and type of religion, and that being
false religion. This passage of scripture and
this message serves as a warning, much of scripture does, and a
warning of just how subtle and deceitful our adversary The devil
is. You know, Paul said in 2 Corinthians
11, verse 3, he said, but I fear less by any means as the serpent
beguiled Eve through his subtlety. So your mind should be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in Christ. And then Peter said,
for us to be sober and be vigilant because your adversary, the devil,
as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom
resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions
are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. And one
of the greatest proofs of the gospel I think is the simplicity
and that simplicity that's always in Christ. That's what he said.
Don't be beguiled through his subtlety and corrupted from the
simplicity that's in Christ. You know, the message of Christ
is a very simple message and it's simple. In its singularity,
the scripture's clear. There's one God and there's one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. That simply
means that if you and I or any sinner's gonna be saved, it's
gonna have to be through Christ. No other way to be saved. That's
pretty simple and it's pretty singular. And that's what the
Lord himself said. And we say it all the time, but
it's, such proof of what I'm saying, he said, I am the way. A very distinguished way, the
way. There's only one way. I am the
truth and the light, and no man cometh unto the Father, but by
me. That's pretty singular. That's
pretty simple. John wrote in John chapter three,
verse 36, he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.
And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the
wrath of God abideth on him." Again, very singular, very simple. John said in 1 John 5, verse
11, and this is the record that God had given us, to us, eternal
life, and this life is in His Son. That's the only place that
this life is found, in His Son. Singular, simple. He that hath
the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath
not life. Now we looked at the whole chapter
here in the beginning of service, but it's important to know that
the first 16 chapters of Judges that we just finished, last study,
follows a chronological pattern of Israel's various enemies and
oppressors. Each of these enemies were sin
of God because Israel continued, continually did what was evil
in the sight of the Lord. And as we read in this chapter
just a minute ago, what was right in their own eyes. And we saw
in the first 16 chapters, that Israel adopted the ways of the
gods of their surrounding the surrounding heathen nations.
They endeavored to incorporate these idols of the pagans that
these pagans worship and to incorporate that in the worship of the true
and the living God. And God had said, no, not gonna
do that. He had warned them time and time
again. It was one of the 10 commandments. as we'll see, and then God would
send them an enemy and put them in bondage to that enemy. And Israel would cry out for
help. God would send them a judge or deliverer. We've mentioned
this so many times. God would deliver them. The judge
would die and they'd fall right back into the same idolatry.
But Israel cried to be delivered from their enemies, but not once
did we see them ever cry to be delivered from the idolatry that
was the cause of their bondage. And that's the difference in
being truly sorry for your sin or just being sorry that you
got caught in your sin. You know, I can remember many
times as a young boy being sorry that I got caught, but I wasn't
sorry for what I did because I'd go right back out and do
it again. The latter will never completely
deliver you, but only for a season as it did Israel. And because
of man's persistence in their sin, they fall right back into
their bondage of sin and eventually eternal death. Now, what we have
beginning here in chapter 17 of Judges, through the end of
this book, is not a continuance of the first 16 chapters. Samuel,
excuse me, Samson was the last judge of Israel. It's not a continuance of the
first 16 chapters. It's actually an account and
a record of why Israel was in the mess that they were in during
the first 16 chapters. The timeframe of the remaining
chapters of Judges begins at the end of Joshua's life and
continues until the death of Samson. And the remainder of
the book of Judges gives us the rest of the story, so to speak,
as it reveals to us how Israel, without any government, without
a king, and without any spiritual influence, possessed no honor
or virtue. We call it anarchy in our day. Anarchy is a disorder due to
the absence of authority, its lawlessness, its insurrection,
its mutiny, and its rebellion. And verse six tells us their
problem. Israel had no king and they did
what was right in their own eyes. So in verse one, we see that
this chapter begins with a man of Mount Ephraim whose name was
Micah. And it's interesting that Ephraim
means double ash heap and Micah means who is like Jehovah. An ash heap is the remains of
something destroyed. It means ruins, decay, remains,
destitution. It refers to the remains of a
human body, one that's been cremated and only the ash remains. It means something worthless
or extremely disappointing. And this is where the man Micah
was from. And spiritually speaking, that's
where all of us by nature are from, from the double ash heap. But then Micah's name means who
is like Jehovah. Micah lives in a double ash heap
of nature, but his mother named him one like Jehovah. Now, how
true it is that many parents today give their children Bible
names, biblical names. I've got a Bible name, David.
It means beloved or beloved. And here tonight, we have a Paul. Paul has a son, his name's John.
Those are Bible names. We have a couple of Stevens.
I don't know if you go by Steven or not, but it's a biblical name. I have three sons with Bible
names, Matthew, Aaron, and Andrew. I have one daughter named Leah. Amanda's my only child that didn't
get a Bible name, and she's the sweetest one. So having a Bible
doesn't mean anything. A Bible name doesn't mean anything.
Daniel is a Bible name. Tina's not a Bible name, but
her and Daniel have a son named Matthew and a son named Aaron
also, which are? We've got a Mary, we've got a
Sarah. There's a prophetess named Anna. And there was a Mother Teresa,
but it's not a Bible name, sorry, honey. There are several names
of folks that attend here that have biblical names. And when
you think about the number of children in our generation today
that have biblical names, there's little doubt in my mind that
the majority of those who gave biblical names to their children
did so in hope that their children would be Christians, followers
of Christ. I have no doubt that's why my
parents named me David. And there's nothing wrong with
that in and of itself, but my point is having a biblical name
does not make you a Christian and doesn't make you a believer
or a follower of Christ. And growing up in a so-called
Christian home or family does not make you a child of God.
And this is one of the lies and deceptions of Satan and false
religion. You know, it's just like it's
common practice today for parents to take a newly born child after
they're, I don't know how old, I guess it varies in different
religions. and they have a child christened
or sprinkled or baptized, or the big thing today among churches
is dedication. You know, the parents come up
front and dedicate their children to the Lord. And I can, without
any reservation, tell you that it probably does more harm than
it does good. Matter of fact, it doesn't do
any good. It doesn't mean anything. And sadly so many times that
child grows up into adulthood trusting that they have some
special favor with God by this act done by their parents. Some
never grace the door of a gospel preaching, Christ trusting, Bible
believing church, but all their lives they trust in an outward
act of religious deception. They think that their parents'
dedication of them did something when it didn't at all. Just an
outward act, just the same as the outward act of circumcision
of the flesh. It doesn't do anything to save
the soul. And Micah's name, who is like Jehovah, doesn't mean
anything for the one with the name. One can only be conformed
to Christ. Micah means who is like Jehovah,
but only one can be conformed to Christ by grace through faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how we're conformed to
Jehovah. That's how we become conformed
to Christ. How's a sinner conformed to Christ?
Paul tells us, for whom he, God, did foreknow, he, God, also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his, God's son. And moreover, whom he, God, did
predestinate, them he, God, also called, and whom he, God, I'm
reiterating that because I want us to know who's behind this,
God also justified in whom he, God, justified, them he, God,
also glorified. So what shall then we say to
these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that
spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he, God, not with him, with Christ, also freely give us all things? That's the only way that a sinner
with a Bible name or not, can be saved by the grace through
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in, by, and through the will
and purpose of God. Now there is none with a name
who is like Jehovah that has not been made so by God through
Christ, no matter what your name is. Religion will deceive many
into thinking that there's another way, but there's not, there's
not. Our name doesn't make us anything.
As I said, my name means beloved, but I'm not beloved of God because
David's my name. The only reason any of us are
beloved of God is if we belong to Christ, God's beloved Son. Now the devil in this world's
religion is so deceitful and it's so subtle, and it'll have
you trusting in anything and everything but Christ. How are
sinners saved? Only one way. It's not blood,
not man's blood. Christ's blood, yes. Man's blood
is polluted with sin. It's not by the will of the flesh,
not by our free will. Let me let you in on something.
We don't have a free will. Did you know that? We don't.
We don't have a free will because our will is in bondage to our
nature, to our sin. Everything that we do is affected
by sin. Sin influences everything that
we do. So there's nothing free about
it. Our will is not free. You will not come to Christ.
Now that's There's your will. Pilate delivered the Lord Jesus
unto the will of the people. There's your will. You'll kill
God if you get your hands on it. You will not come to Christ
that you might have life. It's not the will of man. The
best of men, Abraham, David, who was the apple of God's eye,
neither had the ability to come to God. How do they then come? It says, but of God. It's not
of the will of the flesh, not the will of man, but of God. Now Micah's mother named him
who is like Jehovah, but Micah came from ash heap of ruling.
Now, another great deception of man's works religion today
is an outward confession of change. Look at verse two again. And
he, Micah, said unto his mother, the 1,100 shekels of silver that
were taken from thee, about which thou cursest, and spakest of
also in mine ears. Now, I can just picture Micah's
mother here. She's missing 1,100 shekels of
silver and she's not happy about it. And she's cursing about it. And she's cursing in his ears,
and he's hearing it. And he says, behold, the silver's
with me. I took it. And his mother says
the strangest thing here, blessed be thou of the Lord, my son.
Now, the story in this chapter begins with Micah betraying his
own mother. He steals from her 1,100 pieces
of silver. And having broken the commandment
right off the bat to honor his father and mother, he's guilty
of the whole lot. And here we see that idolatry
begins with false repentance of getting caught He's not feeling
bad about taking the money, he's feeling bad about getting caught.
He sees his mom's hurt, he sees she's upset, and he's got a guilty
conscience. And he heard his mother cursed,
the one who took the money, and he's got a guilty conscience,
so he confesses. You know, it was the same with
Adam. Adam, who sought to steal the glory of God in the garden.
Micah confesses, I took it. Confession of a guilty conscience,
though, is often thought to be synonymous with forgiveness. But it's not. It's not. It's
the beginning of the idolatry. Men will trust in their confession. Men will trust in their supposed
sorrow for sin. Well, I said I was sorry. The
Lord has to forgive me. Religion tells men and women
to confess their sins to men. That's why we have priests, you
know, confessional booths. People get in a little phone
booth and tell a man all their sins. There's nothing in scripture
that talks about that. The scriptures are so clear.
We're to confess our sin, singular, to God, not our sins, plural,
to man. To confess our sin, singular,
is to confess to God what we are. It's not to sit there and
say, oh, Monday I did this, and Tuesday I did this, and right
on down the line. It's to come before the Lord
and say, Lord, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am. Lord,
oh wretched man that I am. I need help. I need forgiveness. I need salvation. Lord, help
me. Lord, save me. That's to confess
our sin. Confession of sins doesn't mean
a change of heart. Most of the time, it simply means
that I'm sorry that I got caught. And we confess our sins, in most
cases, to relief relieve our consciences. And that's what
Micah did. And he was rewarded for it. But
his reward was actually a curse. Now Micah's mother went from
cursing to blessing here. Do you notice that? As soon as
Micah confessed his sin to her, she proclaims him to be blessed.
This is the deception that false religion practices. Come down
front. Confess your sins. Come to the
preacher and pray this prayer. Religion declares that you don't
even have to come to church or down front anymore. You can sit
in your recliner at home and say the sinner's prayer with
Franklin Graham on the television and you'll be saved. And you
know, I'm not just picking on Billy Graham's son. This is the
sad state that religion is in today. You can wash your sins
away in baptism. No, you cannot. You can get back
here in this and get wet until you're chapped. And it won't
wash away the first sin. It's the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ that washes away sin. It's trusting in Him and Him
alone to put your sin away. Baptism is just an open confession
of dying with the Lord, being buried with the Lord, rising
with the Lord. You can't wash your sins away
in baptism. And join the church. What about
that? You can join the Do Good Club
at the first church and everything's okay. And folks will be quick
to bless you. Oh, bless you, brother. Bless
you, brother. Today, everyone is blessed, aren't
they? Have a blessed day. I'm so sick of that. God doesn't
bless days. Have a blessed sneeze. Gesundheit
or whatever it is. Have a blessed life. That's not
up to you to bless me. God's the only one that can bless
me. He's the only one that blesses. The psalmist said, Thou art blessed
in Him. We're blessed in Christ, nowhere
else. He's the only one that blesses.
People say, I got saved. That's impossible. You can't
get saved. That suggests that you do something
to get it. Men and women get religious,
but they don't get saved. They do plenty to get religious.
God saves sinners, salvations of the Lord. No other name by
which we are saved. We don't get saved. We get religious. God does the saving. We do the
sinning, God does the saving. Now look at verse three. And
when he had restored the 1100 shekels of silver to his mother,
his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the
Lord from my hand for my son. to make a graven image and a
molten image. Now therefore, I will restore
it unto thee." Now Micah's mother here at first says that she had
set aside or dedicated this silver to the Lord from her hand for
her son. Now in the name of religion,
people will say and promise anything and everything to impress me. Did she mean it? She said, I
had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand. You
see, she makes sure that the Lord and everyone else knows
where it came from. And she did it to be seen and
heard of man. And she says, I did this for
my son. But did she? Read on, because
she says, to make a graven image and a molten image, now therefore
I will restore it unto thee. And what Micah's mother is saying
here is I'm gonna make you a God and I'm gonna give it to you
as a gift. I'm going to have you a God made, son. And that's exactly what false
religion does. These gods come in many shapes
and forms. Some are in the shape of a cross. I heard not long ago that someone
gave them a cross with their name engraved upon it. That's
just... Some are in the form of memorial
plaques. I remember in the church that
I grew up in, they needed new pews. And if you gave enough
money to buy a pew, they'd take a little brass plaque and put
it on the back of the pew with your name on it. So everybody'd
know that you gave the money for that pew. That's my pew.
And people sat in the pew that had their plaque on it. Ain't
that precious? I went into a bookstore one time
in Houston, Texas. Theresa went with me. We went
with a couple that wanted to take us to this bookstore. They
were big on Spurgeon's books. They carried the whole set of
the Metropolitan Tabernacle books. And the fellow there was talking
to the guy that owned it, and he said, do you think you could
show it to me, talking about me? And he goes, oh, I don't
know. He probably doesn't want to see
it. And I'm thinking, what are they talking about? And he finally,
he said, OK, I will. And he takes off. He's gone for
5, 10 minutes. He comes back. with a box and
he opens this box and pulls something out of this box. It's all racked
up and he unwraps it. And it's an offering plate. Like,
you know, that we used to pass around before we put a box in
the back. And he said, this is believed to be Charles Spurgeon's
offering plate. And the guy that took us to it,
he was just, you know, he's just gleaming, you know, he's just,
and I'm like, okay, an offering plate? I don't care if it's Charles
Spurgeon's or George Washington's, you know, it's an offering plate.
There's no salvation in it. There's nothing in it to work.
They just made it an idol. You remember what King Hezekiah
did with the brazen serpent that Moses made? The people began
to worship it. They began to burn incense to
it. And he broke that thing into pieces. Not going to worship
it. It's like I told you in, I think,
the last message. Brother Henry said one time,
if you found the actual cross that the Lord was buried on,
the best thing to do with it would be to burn it. because
men will make an idol out of it. They'll begin to worship
the piece of wood instead of the one that hung upon it. Men
and women by nature will attribute some spiritual significance to
such things and then worship and trust those things instead
of the one they should worship and trust, the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know, religion does the same thing, as I said, with baptism
and church membership. My grandmother, I loved her dearly,
but she had never attended church, and she was a little girl. She
was well in her 80s when she died, never remembered her saying
anything about God, showing any interest in the things of God.
She was good at telling off-color jokes. But when she died, the
preacher preached her right on into heaven, right on to the
streets of gold, into the heavenly mansions, because she had been
baptized when she was eight years old. I was raised in a Southern Baptist
church. I don't know what other churches
did, but they had church letters. Do any of you remember them?
If you decided you wanted to go to another church, you had
to transfer your letter. So it basically wasn't anything
but a membership. That's all it was. And you had
to write a letter to the church that you attended, and they would
have to approve or accept your letter of resignation from that
church before the other Baptist church could receive you. And
when Teresa and I got married, we started attending another
church. It wasn't a gospel church. But I heard from a lady from
that church, but I hadn't heard from them in 10 or 12 years.
And they had heard that I had gotten religious and was attending
another church. And she asked me, she said, well,
are you going to transfer your letter? And they didn't care
about me or my letter until they found out that I was going somewhere
else. And as long as they thought I
was going to hell, they could have cared less about me or my
letter. This is just all man-made garbage. In verse 4, we're told that Micah
gave his mother back the money, and she took 200 of the 1,100
shekels, which I thought kind of Funny in a way, you know,
like I'm dedicating this to the Lord, but she holds back 900
shekels. I guess she made her tithe with
the 200 shekels, it'll be 1,100, and gave it to the founder, the
silversmith of the refinery, to melt and fashion and make
a graven and molten image, and they placed it in the house of
Micah. And this was a symbol of their
religion. It's like hanging a cross or
a picture of Jesus on your wall and sitting there, you know,
and just admiring it all the time. God said in Exodus 20,
verse four, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or
any likeness of anything that's in heaven above or that's in
the earth beneath, or that's in the water under the earth,
thou shalt not bow down thyself to them or serve them. For I,
the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation,
of them that hate me. You see, to do this is to hate
God. So whether it's statutes or crosses
or plaques or memorials or the Ten Commandments, to hang the
Ten Commandments on a wall and idolize them, it doesn't matter. Even the church buildings, you
know, they build these big buildings today and they wind up worshiping
the building. nothing but idols, nothing but
idolatry. This building that we're meeting
in tonight, and it's nice that we've made it, it's not the church. Believers are the church. Christ's
people are the church, and the church's one foundation, as we
just sung, is Jesus Christ the Lord. He's the head, and we're
the body. The head and the body of what?
The church. for the husband's head of the wife, even as Christ's
head of the church, and he is the Savior of the body. Therefore,
as the church is subject unto Christ, so let wives be to their
own husbands and everything. Colossians 1, 18, 19, and he
is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have
the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that
in him, in Christ, should all fullness dwell. We worship Jesus
Christ. He's our message. He's our salvation. He's our acceptance with God.
He's our righteousness. We don't have any. He's our forgiveness. Nothing we can do to be forgiven.
He had to keep God's law perfectly forced, satisfy God's justice
completely in order for us to be saved. He's the only reason
that we're saved. That's the reason we took the
cross off the front of this pulpit. We don't worship the cross, we
worship the Christ of the cross. Now verse five, and the man Micah
had a house of gods. And he made an effort and a tariff
from him and he consecrated one of his sons who became his priest. Now here we have the man, Micah,
doing what only God can truly do. We have a lot of men and
women today called into the ministry by everyone but God. And this
is just another subtle and deadly deception. This wasn't Micah's
decision to make. Micah didn't have the authority
to appoint his own priest, and much less his son. Religion today
puts great pressure on people, children and adults alike. Used
to be just children, but anymore it's adults too, to make decisions. And the whole purpose is to get
them involved, get them working in the church, to serve the church,
not Christ. Parents in religion pressure
their children to go to a, quote, Christian college. Listen, I'm
convinced there is no such thing. I don't believe there is such
a thing as a Christian college. And seminaries today are religious
cemeteries. Greg Elmquist told me that. He
went to seminary. He said, seminaries are just
cemeteries. That's so true. A lot of people
called into the ministry day, but it wasn't God that called
them. Maybe mama, maybe daddy called him, maybe grandma, grandpa.
Maybe another preacher, but not God. And the writer of Hebrews
said that no man takes this honor unto himself, speaking of the
high priesthood. This honor is given by God. Just as Aaron, the high priest,
was called of God. This is God's business, this
is God's calling. Romans chapter 10 is very clear
on the order of things. How then shall they call on Him
whom they've not believed? And how shall they believe in
Him whom they've not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? Who sends them? God does. That's why the feet of them that
bring good tidings of good things are beautiful. Their sin of God
with His Word, His gospel, His message of His Son, which is
beautiful. What a beautiful message. That's
why their feet are beautiful. They bring that message. Faith
comes by hearing and true hearing by the Word of God. That's why
our feet are beautiful. My feet are far from beautiful,
trust me. Michael made and ordained his
son to be his high priest. And people claim today that you
don't have to go through Christ to be saved. There are other
ways. No different than appointing
your own high priest. They say they like, well, just
be zealous. Just do the best you can do.
What about that one? Treat people the way you want
to be treated. That'll get it done. That's all
that God expects. God doesn't expect any more than
that out of you. Oh, yes, He does. He expects
you to be perfect. Perfect. God requires perfection. If you offend the law in one
point, you're guilty of the whole law, James 2.10. I remember my
dear friend Paul Mahan telling me one time about getting a speeding
ticket. He was going one mile. over the
speed limit, just one mile an hour over the speed limit. And
he went to court, and he had hoped that when he went to court,
the judge would have some mercy on him, especially since he was
only gone one mile an hour over the speed limit. He hoped that
he would dismiss the charge. But the judge didn't. And the
judge said, well, one mile an hour is still over. Still over
the speed limit. Speed limit is this and you went
this fast, so you're guilty. No, you know, there's no such
thing as barely guilty. There's no such thing as almost
guilty. You're either innocent or you're
guilty. One mile an hour over the speed limit is an infraction
of the law. You broke the law. A half a mile
over. So you know what Paul did? I texted him today, and I said,
I remember that story. I said, is there more to that
story? And he said, yep, you're right. He said, I took my car to a mechanic
and had the speedometer tested. And he said, knowing that it
would at least be off one mile an hour, and I had it sent to
the judge to try to prove My innocence, just one mile an hour
over the speed limit, the speedometer was off a little bit, and Paul
said, it was. He said, actually, it was 15
miles an hour off. It was really messed up, but
it was in the other direction. So instead of going one mile
an hour over the speed limit, he actually went 16 miles over. And Paul said, I was more guilty than I thought.
And that's a good illustration because we're more guilty than
we even think. Same today, men and women are
still doing what is right in their own eyes. If we're one
mile over, we're still guilty and guilty of the whole law.
That's my point. You see, friends, there's a way
that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof is a way
of death. And it's so subtle, and it's so deceiving, and it's
all to keep you from missing the simplicity that's in the
Lord Jesus Christ. You know, you look at the mass
multitudes today and false religion, and people say not that many
people can be wrong. Well, according to the Bible,
not that many people can be right. You see, broad is the way that
leads to destruction, and many there be that find it. Straight
is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few
there be that find it. Man's way is never, ever the
right way. This was the cause of all Israel's
problems. That's what the Holy Spirit is
showing us in this chapter, chapter 17. Men and women did what was
right in their own eyes. In Judges 3.12 and Judges 4.1
and Judges 10.6, we're told that Israel did evil again in the
sight of the Lord. You remember reading those. The Lord delivers them, they
go right back into idolatry and it says, and Israel did evil
again and again and again. You see, God's ways are not our
ways. God's thoughts are not our thoughts.
Us doing what is right in our own eyes is always doing evil
in God's sight. There was no king in Israel's
day. And in this day of man's religion,
works religion, false religion, there's no king of kings. Religion's
chief business today is to exalt man, to follow man, to receive
spiritual guidance from a man. And they do so, yet claiming
to serve the true God. Micah had a house of gods and
a priest of his own making, but he was lost. And this is the beginning of
that which will result in the end of the last judge. Next we're
gonna see this anarchy continue and we'll see the tribe of Samson
join in the idolatry that began right here in Micah's house.
So this should serve as a warning to us. May God grant us the grace
to ever look unto Christ and His perfect work and trust in
Him alone is our only High Priest who finished the work. He finished
the work by the sacrifice of Himself. He died to finish the
work that you and I can never finish. That's why we preach
what we preach here. We preach Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. It's the only hope any of us
have of ever being saved. How wonderful is it that the
work is finished? You can rest now. You can never
rest unless the work's finished. And we can rest now. So rest,
rest in the Lord Jesus Christ, your great high priest.