Genesis 22. I thought it good to go back
to Genesis and pick up the story of Abraham and Isaac. It is one of those places in
the Word of God where the gospel is easily preached from. Such
a clear, clear story of substitution. And we are given another example
now of faith, the faith of Abraham offering up Isaac as a burnt
offering, a burnt offering. Abraham was going to have to
slit his throat after he bound him to the altar and then offer
him up as a burnt offering. And Abraham doesn't hesitate
to do it. We don't read of hesitation. But I thought in my study before
coming out here, it just struck me that if anyone ANYONE REALLY
UNDERSTANDS OR UNDERSTOOD SUBSTITUTION, IT HAD TO BE APRAHAM. HE WAS
GOING TO KILL HIS SON. HE WAS GOING TO DO WHAT GOD SAID,
WHAT GOD COMMANDED HIM TO DO. GOD?S COMMANDS ARE NOT OPTIONAL,
IT?S DO IT OR ELSE. trouble. And Abraham, I thought, now Abraham
understood substitution. He really understood it. He understood
the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ. He understood it. He
understood it very well. And Abraham took his son up on
that mountain, believing that God WAS ABLE TO RAISE HIM FROM
THE DEAD BECAUSE IT SAYS HE RECEIVED HIM IN A LIKE FIGURE. BUT ALSO
ABRAHAM BELIEVED THE PROMISE OF GOD THAT IN HIS SEED ALL NATIONS
OF THIS EARTH WOULD BE BLESSED THROUGH HIS SEED, AND THAT SEED
IS SPOKEN OF IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, IT SAYS THAT SEED IS CHRIST. ABRAHAM KNEW THE MESSIAH WAS
COMING THROUGH HIS SEED, THROUGH HIS LINAGE. he knew that seed
was the Messiah and he knew God is a God who cannot lie. God cannot lie, that's encouraging. Do you know anyone that cannot
lie? Have you ever met anyone that cannot lie? I haven't. All
men are liars, let God be true and every man a liar. You know,
there's a lot of things we haven't done, but every last one of us
has lied. We've lied, every one of us. But Abraham knew this, he knew
God could not, would not lie. And that God would keep His promise.
And for God to keep His promise, He had to raise Isaac back up. As He told those two young men,
Me and the lad are gonna go yonder, We're going to go up on this
mountain and we're going to worship and we are coming back. He was
confident of that. Abraham was absolutely confident
that after he killed his son, he was going to come back off
that mountain with him. And here's the reason why. He
believed God. HE BELIEVED GOD, HE BELIEVED
THE PROMISE GOD GAVE HIM, HE TOOK GOD AT HIS WORD. THAT'S
WHAT FAITH IS. IT'S NOT COMPLICATED. IT'S JUST
TAKING GOD, WHO CANNOT LIE, AT HIS WORD. WHEN YOU READ THE PROMISES
OF GOD, IT MAY SEEM FAR-FETCHED TO THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE,
AND IT DOES, BUT IT DOES NOT SEEM FAR-FETCHED TO US, DOES
IT? GOD SAID IT. And if God said it, He will do
it, and He has the POWER to do it! Now, substitution is revealed
all through the Scriptures starting in Genesis. God clothed Adam
and Eve with the skin of an animal. I went back and read that a little
while ago. God clothed them. He made coats of skin, it says,
for them and clothed them. They clothed themselves with
fig leaves. They sewed some fig leaves together
and put it around them to hide their nakedness. Well, their
nakedness didn't mean anything to God. But what they were hiding
was a guilty conscience. That's what they were trying
to hide. They felt guilty. They felt their nakedness. And so God, listen, God killed
that animal. He had to in order to take its
coat and skin and clothe Adam and Eve with. Then after that,
Abel offered unto God a more perfect sacrifice than Cain.
He offered a blood sacrifice, the sacrifice that God gave. and no doubt he gave to Adam
and Eve and then Adam taught his sons and of course Cain didn't
he didn't hear did he he didn't hear what he didn't hear the
message he didn't hear the gospel he said I'll just bring what
I want to bring proud of his fruit, proud of
his beautiful garden which God rained on it, God sun-shined
on it. He just planted it, but if God
had not prospered it, it would have been NOTHING! But He s going
to bring to God His proud works, and God REJECTED them. BUT HE
RECEIVED AND ACCEPTED ABEL'S OFFERING BECAUSE HE COULD SMELL
CHRIST IN ABEL'S OFFERING. IT POINTED TO THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST. So we see this, we see SUBSTITUTION
ALL THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES. IT'S THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL.
IT'S THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE GOSPEL. If you really want to
judge a man's message, his ministry, what is the heart of it? What's
the heart of it? It's the substitutionary work
and character of the Lord Jesus Christ. John, when he went to
the third heaven, said, I saw a lamb as it had been slain,
it stood, it was alive, in the midst of the throne. The first
thing he saw was a lamb as it had been slain. He saw Christ
in His sacrificial character. Paul told the Corinthians, I'm
determined to know NOTHING among you, not that he wasn't interested
in them, but we are going to SETTLE THIS FIRST. I'm determined
to not know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I don't want to know your philosophies.
I want to know about all your gods and all your idolatry. I
want to know about this, Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Let's
get this settled first. Then we can establish fellowship. And that's how I think every
one of God's children must establish fellowship with anyone out here
in the world. What? Thank you, Christ. Now we can establish fellowship.
on that basis. If your thoughts of Christ are
in agreement with God's Word, we can establish fellowship.
We can be friendly with one another, but fellowship? Friends? No. No, if you're not a friend
of Christ, you're not a friend of mine either. That's not hard, that's just
so. That's just the Bible. That's the truth. NOW THIS IS ALSO THE FIRST MENTION
OF HUMAN SACRIFICE. All of the times it s been a
lamb, it s been an animal, this is the first mention of a human
being being sacrificed to God. And the reason it s mentioned
is NOT BECAUSE GOD DELIGHTED IN but because it shadowed and
typified and pointed to the Lamb of God, God's Lamb, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who was sacrificed for us. And our Lord said this, He said,
Abraham, rejoice to see My day, and he saw it. and was glad,
and I think this is when that happened. I believe this is when
Abraham saw his day and was glad, he was glad. Now the chapter
here Genesis 22 starts like this, After these things, referring
to the many trials Abraham had already endured, leaving his
home, leaving Ur of the Chaldeans where his home was, left his
home. I imagine he lived in a pretty nice house, I imagine he did,
back in that day I think he did. Then he had to leave it, leave
it all, whatever his job was, he left it all and lived in tents
the rest of his life. LIVED AS A PILGRIM, JOURNEYING
THROUGH THIS WORLD WITH NO PLACE TO CALL HOME. HE WAS LOOKING
FOR HOME, HE WAS LOOKING FOR A CITY WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER
IS GOD. HE'S THERE NOW. HE'S THERE NOW. THINK ABOUT THAT. HE WAS LOOKING
FOR IT, AND HE'S THERE NOW. ABRAHAM'S THERE. ABRAHAM WAS
ALIVE AND WELL, AND HE'S BEEN THERE FOR A FEW THOUSAND YEARS
NOW. But he went through, after these things, he went through
a lot of trials and we can expect trials throughout life. And sometimes,
sometimes those trials come toward the end of life in our old age.
Sometimes the harder trials come at the end. But the final trial is going
to be death. That's going to be the final
trial. when we lay down to die, and we say goodbye to all the
relationships that we have built. Now, our relationship in Christ
will endure forever, but we still have to say goodbye for a while,
don't we? And that's not easy. I mean, it's sorrowful to say
goodbye to those you love, and you don't know, it may be 20
years, 30 years, who knows how long it'll be, but you won't
see them again till then. And that's what makes dying difficult. And we may die a death that's
painful. I've known believers that have
gotten sick and they've died painfully. They've had painful
death. So we don't know what these trials will be and
how difficult they will be, but we know this, they come to us
sovereignly. God brings them to us sovereignly.
God has appointed them for us. He has appointed their time for
us to experience them. And they are for our good His
glory and they are to conform us to the image of the Lord Jesus
Christ. I try to remind myself of this
more and more as I get older. This is for my good. This is
for my good. It may hurt. Well, I tell you
what, for the most part, if it doesn't hurt, would you call
it a trial? I don't know. I do know this.
I know riches are a trial. I do know that. Riches can be
a real trial. The danger of riches is that
they will take us away from God. We become self-complacent. See,
trials that hurt run us to Him. But oh, the dangers of riches,
they take us away from Him. What? And I know I'm getting
off the subject here, but this may be the subject, I don't know.
It's one thing I've learned about preaching, just preach. That's
why He said to the Son of Man, He said, Son of Man, preach,
prophesy. I mean, the message I prepare may not even be the
message. We don't know what trials God will bring our way. But we
know He s purposed them, and He has appointed them, and He
brings them our way to conform us to Christ, and what s wrong
with that? Nothing. Nothing. Now, here s the command, and
He says in verse 2, Take now thy son, NOW! Well, that s expressive,
NOW! Take NOW thy son! He's not giving
him time to think about it. See, when God gives a command,
it's now. It's now. Take now thy son, thine only
son. Did not Abraham have two sons, Ishmael and Isaac? God said you've got one son.
You've got one son of promise. You've got one son that was a
miracle. And God says this, He's your
only son by your legitimate wife, Sarah. He's the son that God
gave. But take now thine only son,
Isaac, whom thou lovest. God KNEW the love that Abraham
had to Isaac. Isaac is special! He's special! Through Him the seed is going
to be all through His seed, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. All
nations are going to be blessed through this man's seed, Isaac.
He's special. He's a special son, just like
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's a special son. This is my
beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. He's a special son. And He's special to us too. The
Lord Jesus Christ special to us. If He's special to the Father,
He better be special to us also. But God said, you take Him. God
commands Abraham to offer up his only son, not Ishmael, but Isaac, the one born by promise. And He sends him on a journey
to Mount Moriah. It's a three-day journey from
Beersheba, I think it's like 40 miles. Plenty of time to think
about it. Plenty of time to meditate upon
this. You know that as they walked
along, none of this is told to Isaac because he said, here's
the fire and here's the wood, where's the land? He didn't know. This is between God and Abraham. It's like it's between the Father,
the Lord Jesus Christ, and His Son. But anyway, he goes this three-day
journey, he's got plenty of time to think about it, and as he'd
look at that, he'd look at Isaac, which Isaac at that time, I don't
know, somebody said 14, 15 years old, he's not no child. He's not a child. He's young,
strong, no doubt. Abraham couldn't handle him.
I guarantee you Abraham couldn't handle him. I know he couldn't
catch him if he took off running. Either way, we'll see here in
a little bit how Isaac had to be willing to lay down on that
altar. He didn't have to wrestle him down and hog tie him. No, he just willingly laid down. I'm getting ahead of myself.
But anyway, he just, you know, he looked at Isaac as they walked
together, they camped and they're sitting there by the fire. He
looks at him knowing what he's going to do. He knows what that knife's for,
what the wood's for, what the fire's for. He knows it. It's
for you, Isaac. It's for you. God told me to
offer you up. And in Abraham's mind, Isaac
was as good as dead. He was going to do it. We don't
read of any hesitation at all, not at all. But here we have
the love of Abraham for his son Isaac and the love he has for
God and his obedience to God. And faith, God-given faith wins
the day because he obeyed God as much as he loved that son
whom thou lovest As much as he loved Him, he was going to kill
Him because he loved God more and he obeyed God. God must be obeyed without consulting
the flesh. He that loveth son or daughter,
mother or father more than me is not WORTHY of me. Now this
Mount Moriah where they are going, That was later the site of Jerusalem
where Jerusalem is and most believe it was the place of Mount Calvary where the Son of God would be
sacrificed. But in verses 3-7 we have a picture
of substitution. Abraham obeys at once, he rises
early, he takes Isaac, the wood, the fire, and the knife. HE DOESN'T
HESITATE OR ARGUE OR TALK IT OVER. LISTEN, HE DOESN'T TALK
IT OVER WITH SARA. HE DOESN'T GO IN THERE TALKING
OVER WITH SARA. HE DIDN'T TELL SARA WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO.
I THINK SHE WOULD HAVE HAD A PROBLEM. GOD IS DEALING WITH ABRAHAM,
THE FATHER. HE IS SAID TO BE THE FATHER OF
THE FAITHFUL. THIS IS BETWEEN GOD AND So he doesn't consult the flesh.
I've learned this over the years, is when you've really got something
on your mind, you pray about it, and if you're gonna consult
anyone, consult as few as possible. I have learned that, you know,
I confided and talked to Henry. I learned to talk to my pastor
and able to confide in him, but I didn't talk to him Very few
others. You know why? You don't need
too many voices. You don't need all these voices
in your head. You don't need them. Find a good mentor, spiritually. And make good use of it. Make
good use of that person. He doesn't talk to Sarah, he
doesn't talk to Flesh. And for three days they traveled
and he doesn't stagger. He staggered not, it says over
in Romans. It says he was strong in faith,
giving glory to God. He staggered not. He didn't hesitate. And here we have the Father and
the Son walking together. Isaac carrying the wood. It's
a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember, he carried that cross. He carried the cross. Well, Abraham
carries the fire and the knife. It's a good picture of God the
Father, whose wrath is going to fall
upon his son and his son is going to become a burnt offering. Listen
to this scripture in Zechariah 13, 7. Awake, O SWORD, against my SHEPHERD and against the man that's my
fellow, saith the Lord of hosts, smite
the shepherd, sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn mine
hand upon the little ones, but awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
my shepherd, and the man that's my fellow. Oh, if we could really get a
hold of what went on at Calvary. You know, if we could really
get a hold of what, and I know you do, there's some of you that
have. You've gotten a hold of it. But if you really understand
it, you're not going to say that Jesus Christ died for everybody
and everybody has a chance to get saved. You don't know who He is, what
He did, You have no idea what went on at Calvary, no idea, or you wouldn't say that if you
didn't, you wouldn't say it, you don't say it, but there's
people listening to me that's not in this room. But now comes
the question of question, and it comes from Isaac, this 14,
15, 16-year-old boy, however old he was. WHERE'S THE LAMB? I'd like to say that to most
preaching today, WHERE'S THE LAMB? Where's the lamb at in
your preaching? You relegated him to the scrap
heap. Where's the lamb? Our children must understand
this question. Worship Without the Lamb there
is no worship at all. Isaac understood that. He understood
if they were going to go up that mountain and worship God, there
had to be an altar, wood and fire, and there had to be a Lamb
slain, blood shed, and that Lamb had to be offered up for a burnt
offering or there is no worship. He understood that. He understood
it. And then comes this POWERFUL,
POWERFUL STATEMENT from Abraham. GOD WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB. He didn't look at Isaac and say,
You're the one. He just said, What an answer! God will provide Himself a Lamb. This is one of the clearest gospel
statements in the Word of God. God will provide Himself a land. Now first, and this is important,
God provided the land for Himself. For Himself. The first person
something must be done for is God. It's not me, it's God. God's gonna provide a Lamb for
Himself. And then God provided Himself
as the Lamb for us. He provided the Lamb for Himself,
then He provided Himself as the Lamb for us. God needed the Lamb. Then He might be a just God and
a Savior. And we need the Lamb that we
might be cleansed from our sins and justified from all things
from which we could not be justified by the law of Moses. And the
Lord Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God's providing. Jesus Christ
is God incarnate. And we could look at Him and
say, Behold, the Lamb of God was taken away the sin of the
world. Now in verses 9 and 10 we see
Isaac as a WILLING SACRIFICE. Abraham builds the altar, lays
the wood in order, and then what does he do? He says he binds
Isaac. He didn't have to chase him down.
He did not wrestle with him. There's no struggle going on
here. You see Hebrews 11 picks up on the faith of Abraham offering
Isaac. But Isaac willingly allows himself
to be offered. I don't know what conversation
may have went on. I don't know what Abraham may
have said to Isaac. He may have said, I received
an elect figure that God's gonna raise you back up. I don't know
what he said, but I just know this, there was no struggle or
fight going on. That's what I know. As the Lord
Jesus Christ, He WILLINGLY laid down His LIFE, He says, for His
OWN! No man takes My life from Me,
I lay it down of MYSELF! No man, He said, takes My life
from Me. No man has that kind of power. The whole human race
does not have the power to take His life away. He said, I lay
it down Myself. Those men came out to get him,
and when he said he was looking for Christ, he said, Here I am. And they fell down. They fell
down. They fell to the ground. He had
to give them the strength to stand back up and finish the
job. When he was in Pilate's hall,
they were judging him. He opened not his mouth in defense
of himself. He didn't say a word. He did
not try to get out of it. He was there on PURPOSE, and
He was going to die on PURPOSE, and He's going to suffer on PURPOSE, and He's going to take a multitude
of sinners, and He's going to present them faultless before
the throne of God. That one man did that. He did that. Abraham raises the
knife to slay his son. Here's faith in action. You see,
what we keep seeing here in Hebrews, and it's a warning to those who
are wanting to turn back. There were some who were wanting
to turn back to the law, to the ceremonies, to the priesthood,
to the sacrifices, and some wanted to mix it. But he gives here
the faith of all of these Old Testament believers, and how
everyone by faith was obedient, not to the law, but to God. God said it, God commanded it,
and they did it. Abraham offered your son, and
he did it. He obeyed. He obeyed. You know, Abraham, it says, believed
God and it's counted to him for righteousness. That's before
the law was given. That's before the law was given. But Abraham
raised his knife, he's going to kill his son. You see, faith
is not just believing some things, it's obedience. It's obedience. Abraham trusted God even when
it seemed contrary to the promise. Listen to James chapter 2 verse
21-22. Was not Abraham our father justified
by works? His obedience. When he had offered
Isaac his son upon the altar, seest thou how faith wrought
with his works? And by works was faith made perfect
or complete? He said Abraham proved his faith
by his OBEDIENCE, by his OBEDIENCE. Accounting, listen, back in Hebrews
11, 19, listen, Accounting that God was able to raise him up,
Isaac up, even from the dead, from whence also he received
him in a figure. He BELIEVED that God was going
to do that. HE BELIEVED WITH ALL HIS HEART THAT WHEN HE DID
WHAT GOD SAID TO DO, HIM AND ISAAC WERE GOING BACK OFF THAT
MOUNTAIN. AND THEN GOD INTERVENES. GOD INTERVENES. THE ANGEL OF
THE LORD CALLS OUT, ABRAHAM, ABRAHAM! AND ABRAHAM ALWAYS ANSWERED.
HE SAID, HERE AM I. NOW I KNOW YOU FEAR GOD, SINCE
YOU HAVE NOT WITHHELD YOUR SON, YOUR ONLY SON, FROM ME. IT'S
NOT AS IF GOD DIDN'T KNOW THAT! IT'S NOT AS IF HE DIDN'T KNOW
ABRAHAM FEARED GOD! THIS WAS NOT FOR GOD'S INFORMATION! THIS WAS FOR ABRAHAM AND US! RIGHT NOW! 2025! HERE IN SPRING
LAKE! WE ARE GETTING TO LOOK AT THIS!
AND THIS IS FOR US! It's the gospel of substitution
and it's an example of faith. Because faith is tied up in substitution. If you don't truly believe in
substitution, you don't believe. You don't believe. I mean, scripture
teaches substitution. Christ died for some people and
they're going to be saved. And they are SINNERS! And they
are sinners all the way home! All the way home! They are going
to stumble, and they are going to fall, and they are going to
SIN! But they don?t stand in themselves,
they stand in Jesus Christ! And that?s exactly why you and
I, by God?s grace, will be there NOT because of us, NOT because
we straightened up, NOT because we because Jesus Christ died
for us, and we believe because He died for us. God sees to it that all those
for whom He died will be brought to faith. They will be brought to faith
in Him through the preaching of the Gospel. You see here, listen, this confirms
that true faith holds back nothing from God I just I can't even imagine I
can't even imagine doing what he was about to do and was doing
it as far as he was concerned Isaac was dead he was going to
offer him up he didn't hold back His only son, the one that you
love, you love so much, that one that's just apple of your
eye, you didn't hold him back. You gave him up. And then let me wind this down.
THE SUBSTITUTES REVEALED in verse 13, Abraham lifted his eyes and
he sees a ram caught in the thicket. Wow, that's the Lord Jesus Christ,
isn't it? A crown of thorns on his head. I thought of this, caught in
the thicket of our sins, a crown of thorns on his head. Isaac's
taken off the altar and that ram is put in its place. And
I bet you Abraham and Isaac was really glad to see that ram.
Especially I can imagine, I imagine they were both elated. I was
going to say, Isaac, you know, he's when his dad unties him
and he goes over and gets that ram and takes that ram over there
and puts it on that altar and sets it on fire. And Isaac's
standing there saying, that would be me. That would be me. One time I was in a, very close
to having an accident, a deadly accident. I almost, it was in
the wintertime, I was driving to work in my car, and going
across a bridge on Interstate 64, and I almost went under a
semi. I lost control of it, we were on a bridge, there was nowhere
to go. And I was fishtailing, and I was going under the truck.
My heart went into my throat, I mean, that was just like, and
that car just straightened up, And I didn't wreck. Three days
later, I thought they'd be having my funeral today. I thought we'd
be having my funeral today. And I thought about that all
day long. This would be my day. This would be my funeral day
today. If I had died right in that wreck.
God didn't let me die. And there stands Isaac. Yeah,
Isaac, he's looking at this ram, his throat's cut, after they
did all they were to do to it, and then they BURN IT! And he
said, THAT WOULD BE ME! THAT WOULD BE ME! When I look
at Calvary, THAT WOULD BE ME! THAT WOULD BE ME! Under God's wrath, screaming
in torment, that would be me that's substitution here's the gospel christ died
for our sins in our place is our substitute god provided the
substitute god accepted the substitute and the sinner goes free he's
taken off the altar and the ram, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb
of God, here it's a ram, but the Lamb of God died in my place,
your place, executed in our place. This is the heart of the substitutionary
atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, the JUST, dying for the UNJUST,
that He might bring us to God. And then we have the revelation
of God's provision Abraham names the place Jehovah-Jireh the Lord
will provide well he did didn't he he did God did he provided
a substitute for Isaac and God provided his son as a substitute
for many many sinners of which some are sitting in this room and in the mouth of the Lord
it shall be seen. And at Calvary it was seen. Have you seen it? Behold, the Lamb of God which
takes away the sin of the world. This chapter teaches us the necessity
of a substitute. Sin demands death, and only Christ
can bear the death for which it demands and set us free. WE LEARN HERE THE OBEDIENCE OF
FAITH, TRUE FAITH, TRUE TRUST IN GOD MOVES US TO OBEDIENCE. YOU KNOW WHAT THE FIRST ACT OF
OBEDIENCE IS? BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THOU SHALT
BE SAVED. AND IF GOD SAVED YOU, I CAN TELL
YOU WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO. YOU'RE GONNA SAY, I'M GONNA BE
BAPTIZED, I'M GONNA FOLLOW HIM. IF GOD SAVED YOU, YOU'RE GONNA
DO THAT. THAT'S GONNA BE YOUR FIRST ACT. YOU'RE GONNA FOLLOW
THE LORD IN BAPTISM. You are going to follow Him.
I like what my granddaughter said some time ago. She said,
Most people are waiting for this epiphany to happen. And it's
just believe God. I thought, Man, you don't have
much wisdom in that statement. It's just to take God at His
Word. And then we see here, this chapter
teaches us the certainty of provision. God will provide. God will provide. I keep reminding myself of this
all the time. GOD WILL PROVIDE ALL THAT IS
NEEDED FOR OUR SALVATION, AND GOD WILL PROVIDE ALL THAT WE
NEED IN TIME. I KNOW SOME OLDER PEOPLE GET
WORRIED ABOUT HOW THEY'RE GOING TO GET ALONG. YOU'RE GOING TO
GET ALONG. AS THY DAYS, SO SHALL THY STRENGTH
BE. WHAT KIND OF GOD WOULD GOD BE
IF HE DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF US ALL THE WAY HOME? THE GOSPEL
OF SUBSTITUTION IS NOT JUST A DOCTRINE, IT'S OUR ONLY HOPE. That's the
only hope we had. Christ died in my place. All
those people whom the Lord said, depart from me, I never knew
you, not one of them, not one of them said, didn't you die
for me? And you shed your blood for me? You know what they said?
You know what they said. Lord, we preached in your name,
we cast out devils in your name, we've done many mighty works
in your name. If it had just said, Lord, didn't
you die for me? Didn't you die for me? That wasn't
their hope. Their hope was in what they did,
not what he did. Where's the lamb? Where's the
lamb? Isaac asked. Well, I can tell
you exactly where he's at. Seated at God's right hand, interceding
for a bunch of wretched people like me and you.