From back to Psalm 131. Christ, the perfect man. He was truly the perfect man.
He knew no sin. He's the God man. That ought
to astound us, God. creator of heaven and earth,
the universe, became a man. In fact, he's cried on the cross
in Psalm 22, I am a worm. You know why? Because that's
what I am. I'm a worm. He became what I
am. And he might make me and you
what he is. Holy, holy, holy. Now this is
a short psalm. You know, it doesn't matter,
I've learned this, it doesn't matter if the psalm is 30 verses
long, I'm gonna have six pages and about 1,200 words. And I
looked at this psalm this week, I thought, this is just three
verses. I've got six pages and about 1,200 words, so it doesn't
matter. The psalm, you know, the word
of God is rich. It doesn't matter if it's a verse.
I've learned over the years, I cannot exhaust even a verse
of scripture. It's like swimming in the ocean,
trying to find the depth of it. It's like God, it's infinite. It's his word. But this psalm
is short and it's full of meaning. It's full of Christ. Now it says
it's written by David, it's of David, and David's pouring out
his heart before the Lord. What he's saying to the Lord
here, he means. He means it. And David, in saying this, he's
not saying that he's without sin, that his heart doesn't give
him heartburn. He's the one who wrote, I was
born in sin and shaped it in iniquity. My sins are ever before
me, and yet he can say right here, he can say, my heart's
not haughty and my eyes are not lofty. You know, that new heart
that God gives to a believer is not haughty, it's not lofty,
it's not arrogant. God, that new heart, is after
God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Now that old
heart we still have, that old nature, it's haughty and its
eyes are lofty. But not that new man, he's not. But when I read this psalm, I
immediately saw the Lord Jesus Christ in it. He is our greater
David. You know, if you take Christ
out of the picture, then this psalm doesn't work. It doesn't
work, apart from him. He's the perfect man whose heart
was never haughty and his eyes never lofty. You know, in Genesis
1, 26, it is written, and God said, let us make man in our
image after our likeness. And this was accomplished in
the man Christ Jesus. Unto us a child is born. Listen
to this. In Hebrews 1, 3, who being the
brightness of his glory and the express image of his person,
this image of God that was spoken of in Genesis was fulfilled in
the Lord Jesus Christ, the man Christ Jesus. It was fulfilled
in him. In 1 Corinthians 15, 45, it's
written, the first man, Adam, was made a living soul. The last
Adam, that's what he's called. The last Adam was made a quickening
spirit. You see, the first Adam was a
type. He was a type in this. He was a federal head of the
human race. Christ is a federal head of all
of God's elect. He was a representative. Adam
was a representative of the whole human race. What Adam did, we
did in Adam. That's taught in the book of
Romans. And Adam all died and Christ all are made alive. All
whom they represented. That's what that means. All whom
they represented are made alive. So we have in Christ, we have
in Christ that perfect man made in the image of God. And we in
Christ are also made into that image. Now he says here in the
first verse, Lord, you know the Lord Jesus Christ always
spoke reverently of and to his father. We should never ever
speak of God lipidly. We should never even use God's
name in a flippant manner. We should never do that. Our
Lord never, never did that. He spoke of his father reverently. We are told in the scriptures
to honor our father and mother. He always honored him. Listen
to John 17 four. I have glorified thee on the
earth. In this world of sin, this world
of corruption, he said, I have glorified thee on the earth.
I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do. I finished
the work. Obedience is honoring. He honored the father by his
obedience. He magnified the law, it says,
and it was God's law. It was his father's law. He magnified
the law and made it what? Honorable. By his obedience,
he made it honorable. And then we see here in this
first verse the purity and humility of his character. My heart is
not haughty. He said, my heart is not haughty. It's not arrogant. There wasn't
an ounce of arrogance in him. He's a son of God. He's God.
And yet he's meek and lowly. He's meek and lowly. Look over
in Philippians chapter 2. We see his character here in
Philippians chapter 2. In verse five, listen, five through
eight, let this mind, this attitude, this spirit be in you, which
is also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, he
being God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made
himself of no reputation. Now listen, he made himself of
no reputation. In other words, he went about
making sure that he didn't get a reputation, and that's why
people followed him. He wasn't trying to get a reputation.
He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
a servant, a slave. He took upon him the form of
a slave, and was made in the likeness of men. I'm a worm. That's our likeness. And being
found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross, even the worst death
that he could be subjected to in that day. That was the worst.
That was for the worst of criminals. Cursed is everyone that hangeth
on a tree. And he became obedient to that
curse because that curse was on us. And he removed it. And he said, my heart's not haughty. This belongs to Christ in a way
that no other person can claim. We know that. His heart was never
lifted up, and David didn't, and listen here, as far as David's
concerned, David didn't seek, he did not seek to be king, did
he? He was out there keeping sheep.
David could say this. You know, David, like Peter said,
Lord, you know all things, you know I love you. David knew that
the Lord knew his heart. He's going before God in prayer. I'm telling you, all you who
believe, when you go before God in prayer, you know God knows
your heart. Ain't no sense being pretense
here. Don't put on any pretense. We don't do that because we know
God knows the heart. And when David is saying this,
he knows that God knows his heart. He knows that God knows he did
not seek to be king. Whenever he found Saul in the
cave and had the opportunity to kill him, he didn't do it. He didn't do it. He said he's
the Lord's anointed. He did not. He did not try to
get the kingdom by hook or crook. I've heard Henry use that term
several times. He didn't try to get it by hook or crook. He
waited on God. He didn't seek high office or
he didn't seek. He didn't seek the praise of
Israel. He waited on God. He waited on
God. And you know, the father called
forth his son to be king. The son didn't go to the father
and say, let me be king. No, he didn't do that. He didn't
exalt himself. The father called him forth and
made him king of kings and lord of lords. He didn't seek after it. He said, my heart's not haughty.
You know, David said this, as far as David goes, and I believe
every believer now, every believer, and I was gonna say every mature
believer, because you know more about what you're talking about
than a young believer does. I mean, it's just so. But you know that
God knows your heart, and you're not seeking a high position.
Listen, God knows my heart. I didn't seek to be pastor here.
It didn't cross my mind ever to be a pastor here. Even when
I started coming down here, I had no idea or no intentions of ever
being a pastor. But God had other intentions.
And God knows my heart. He knows that. I can say that
with honesty. I know that. God knows my heart.
I didn't seek this position. And that's what David's saying.
David says this, who am I, oh Lord God, and what is my house
that thou hast brought me hither to? That sounds like a heart
that's not haughty. He said, who am I? You ever,
I was talking to a man the other day, and we were talking about
new heaven, new earth, and being on that new heaven, new earth,
and I said to him, I said, and to think, we had nothing to do
with it, zero. I'm only there because God loved
me, chose me, gave me to Christ, Christ died for me, went, buried,
rose again, seated at God's right hand, making intercession for
me. That's the only reason I'm gonna be there. That's the only
reason. That's astounding to me. That's
astounding. Now how in the world can we be
lifted up and be haughty about anything? Go over and read 1
Corinthians. Well, let's do that. In 1 Corinthians chapter one, and this would be
offensive to the natural man, it's offensive. Verse 26, for
ye see your calling brethren, 1 Corinthians 1.26, for ye see
your calling brethren, here's your calling, now that not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are
called. You know, we have to be careful
that we want our children to be the very things that God doesn't
call. We gotta be careful about that. Not many mighty, not many noble
are called, but God has chosen the foolish things of the world
to confound the wise. Now that, that offends, that
offends the natural man. I'm foolish? You calling me foolish? And God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things that are mighty, and
base things of the world, and things which are despised hath
God chosen, yea, and things which are not to bring to naught things
that are. Do you fit that? Do you fit any
one of those? I do. I fit every one of them.
I'm foolish. I was foolish as could be. You
know how foolish it is not to believe God? There's nothing
more foolish on this earth you can do than to not believe God. To not take him at his word. I was foolish in a lot of ways. And he says here, nor mine eyes
are lofty. Proud look. You know, it says
in Proverbs 21, for a high look, proud heart, and a plan of the
wicked is seen. My eyes are not lost. You know,
Christ never looked down on anyone. He never looked down on anyone. And I know every one of us, at
one time or another, we have looked down on somebody. We've
looked down on them. Our Lord never felt sinners to
be beneath Him. Never. He was not ashamed to
call them brethren. To think that the Lord God of
heaven and earth is not ashamed to call me his brother. This
is my brother, my sisters. He's not ashamed of you. He ate with people whom we wouldn't
eat with. Would you sit down by a harlot
and eat with her? Would you? We might now, that God has saved
us, you know, by grace, by grace we would do it, by grace we would
do it. But there's a time we wouldn't, there's some people
we wouldn't sit down beside and eat with. We wouldn't be seen
with them. And yet the Lord of glory sat
down beside people like me and you. And he ate, he ate with
him, he's eating with us. Oh, if we could see ourselves
as we really are in God's sight, what we really are, if we could
only see that. Our Lord, his eyes were not lofty. He didn't
feel himself to be above anyone. His eyes were eyes of compassion
and tender, he had tender eyes. You know, sinners felt comfortable
in his presence. You know who did not feel comfortable
in his presence? The self-righteous, the Pharisees, the religious
people. They did not feel comfortable in his presence. You want to
make a religious man feel uncomfortable, just a religious lost man, but
you want to make a religious man feel uncomfortable? Just
preach Christ. Just set forth Christ. If I be lifted up, just lift
up Christ, and he'll be uncomfortable. Sinners are not uncomfortable.
He didn't make sinners uncomfortable in his presence. He sat down
and ate with them, and they felt, I think they felt comfortable
sitting there eating with him. I do. He put them at ease. In Song of Solomon 512, it says,
his eyes are the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters washed
with milk and fitly set. Beautiful eyes. I say a lot about
a person. The old saying is, your eyes
are the windows to the soul. He had tender eyes. When he looked at Peter, after
Peter denied him, and he looked at Peter, there was no anger
in his eyes. There was no, I told you so. I have no doubt he looked at
him with the eyes of mercy and tenderness, and it broke Peter's
heart. There was no anger in those eyes.
Now, over in Revelation, when it describes him, his eyes are
a flame of fire. You know, a person dies outside
of Christ, those are the eyes they're gonna see. But those
who are in Christ, he looks at them with such tender eyes and
tender mercy and compassion. He looks at them with eyes of
love and not hate. You ever see two people love
each other, look at each other? You can tell it. I'm telling
you, you can see it. You can see it in the eyes. They
just light up in each other's presence. They do. They light
up in each other's presence. And you can see it in their eyes
if they don't like each other. You can see that too. He says, neither do I exercise
myself in great matters or in things too high for me. Our Lord,
as I said, he didn't seek this for himself. The Father called
him to it. The father laid it upon him. He said, I have laid help upon
one that is mighty. I've laid help upon one. He called
him to this office. He called him to be a priest.
He called him to be a prophet. He called him to be king. He
was called to it. He didn't seek it. He didn't
seek it. He said, I don't exercise myself
in great matters when things too high for me. And if anyone
could, he could have. All the mysteries he could have
spoken, but he didn't. He didn't. He could have said
many things. But as this applies to believers, David's speaking honestly here,
and the Lord, as I said, knows his heart. David's saying, I didn't exercise
myself in great matters. God called me to this position. God called me to this position.
But I think there's something else here. Neither do I exercise
myself in great matters. In other words, the secret things
of the Lord belong to the Lord. I had a young man ask me a few
weeks ago. He said, let me ask you something.
He said, I want to ask you something. He says, God knows everything.
Why did he let sin come into the world? And he started asking
me some of these questions. And I quoted that verse. I quoted
this verse to him. I said, the scripture says that
the secret things of the Lord belong unto the Lord. And the
revealed things belong to us and our children. Now God's children,
you, you who believe, You're just, you're fine with not knowing
these things, aren't you? I don't, there's a lot, you know
Spurgeon said this, he said, we don't need to worry about
how sin came into the world, which we know in Romans by one
man, but he said we need to be concerned with how to get him
out. We don't need to be concerned how the thief got in the house,
but how to get him out of the house. There's a lot of things that
are secret with God. And the one thing we know is
who God is and we trust him. I'm not exercising myself in
matters that are too high for me. I couldn't understand it
if he told me. He proved that when he questioned
Joe, where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Where were you? You're gonna read that chapter.
When I laid the foundations of the earth, when God created all
things, he said, Joe, where were you? Well, if you can't answer
that, then why would I tell you why I did what I did? If he told Joe why he did what
he did, he still wouldn't be able to grasp the depth of it. He wouldn't be able to grasp
it. You and I cannot grasp. Why God does what he does with
us. The trials he sends us, the things he gives us, and the things
he takes away from us. We can't grasp the eternal consequences
and the eternal glory and benefits of that. We can't grasp it. But
I trust the one who gives it. I trust the one who takes it. The Lord giveth and the Lord
taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. That's the attitude
of a child of God. We do not exercise ourselves
in great matters that's way over our head. He said, my thoughts
are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways. As high
as the heavens is above the earth, so are my thoughts and my ways
above yours. It is. So we don't exercise ourselves
in great matters. And our Lord, you know, he said
this, as I hear I speak. He did exactly and said exactly
what he was given to say and to do. That's what he did. Now,
as far as we're concerned and we look at Christ, he did do
great things. He redeemed us. He satisfied
God's law. He honored God's law. He's gonna
bring us home spotless. Those are great matters and great
things, but you and I can't handle them. We couldn't handle them. He's the only one who could do
that. And then we see in verse two, our Lord's behavior from
cradle to grave. Surely I have behaved and quieted
myself as a child at weaned of his mother. My soul is even as
a weaned child. I sent this to Jeremy the other
day. Madison's about to go off to college and she's crying,
don't want to leave home. She's going through that. I said,
look at verse two. I said, tell Madison that's her
problem. She hasn't been weaned yet. I said, you got to wean her off. You got to get her away. You
got to wean her away. That's the problem. I watched this on
one of those nature channels. And he was trying to find it
because he's going to let her watch it. And there was a chimpanzee. And she had a baby. And she was
weaning it. It was throwing rocks, dust,
branches, everything it threw at that mother because she wouldn't
let it nurse. She was weaning it. It was having a fit. But
David here is not saying, I'm being weaned. He said, I have
behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned. Here's
maturity. Here's maturity. And this belongs, first of all,
to our Lord. He was truly meek and lowly. I have no doubt he
was a well-behaved child. No other child ever lived as
behaved as Jesus Christ. He was a well-behaved teenager.
He was a model. He was an example to follow.
He's the example to follow. And he was a well-behaved adult.
It says he went about doing good. It's all he ever did was good.
He never went around causing trouble on purpose. I mean, real
trouble, like thieves and robbers. No, he didn't do that. The trouble
was with the Pharisees in the lost world. They were the trouble,
not him. Even under great affliction,
he opened not his mouth. He didn't complain. He took it.
Now, as far as believers are concerned, David says, I have
behaved and quieted myself as a child that's weaned. And
this weaned is being weaned from the world, not God. We need him. We're not weaned
from him, we're weaned from the world. That's what he's talking
about, being weaned from the cares of the world. Has God weaned
you from the cares of this world? Well, they still got you. They
still have you. Weaned from carnal ambition. You know, Paul was a very rich
man at one time, Apostle Paul. He was very rich, very well off,
no doubt with his position. He said, I've suffered the loss
of all things for Christ, for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus. You know what his one ambition was? Here's
his one ambition. This is the ambition of everyone
who believes God, to be found in him, not having mine own righteousness. Their ambition is not to have
this material world, whatever it is. That's not their ambition. To be found in Christ is their
ambition. That's my ambition, that's your
ambition, is to be found in Him. It doesn't matter whether I live
in this over here, this parsonage over here, or if I live in a
shack. Does it matter? Does it matter whether I'm ruling
the country or if I'm digging a ditch? Does it matter? It doesn't
matter. As long as I am found in Him
when I die, that's all that matters. I wish I could get that across.
John Calvin said this, the quiet of soul, he alludes to, is opposed
to those tumultuous desires by which many cause disquietude
to themselves and are the means of throwing the world into agitation. David's on the throne, but he's
saying, my soul is quiet. I don't want anymore, I'm not,
you know, if I'm the king, if you wanna put me off the throne
today, that's all right. That's all right, it's the Lord,
let him do as he will. Our Lord said this in Matthew
18, three, unless you become like this little child, you shall
in no wise enter into the kingdom of God. What does he mean by
unless you become like this little child? You know, one thing you
know about little children, they have no ambition. They have
none. But whatever mom says. There's
a point there before they grow up and the rebellion comes out.
But there's a point when they're a little child, their ambition
is to be with mom. Their ambition is to be with
mom and dad. Their ambition is to do what they say. For a little
short time, that's their ambition. is to be pleasing to them. And
whatever you tell them. I taught, Henry had me to teach
the, when we had Bible school there, Bible school, he had me
teach the young people before we all, before they all went
into their classes. These little kids in front and
then, you know, went on back to teenagers. There's probably
200 there, maybe. There's probably 200 there. I
mean, it's a bunch. And I told them as I was getting
ready to teach them that morning, I said, you know, I said, one
of the things that scares me about you little ones sitting
on that front row, the littlest one sat on the front row. I said,
the one thing that scares me, you're gonna believe everything
I say. I said, you're gonna believe everything I say without checking
it, without consulting with mom and dad, you're gonna believe
exactly what I say. And I said, and that's frightening.
But what I say better be right. You know, children, they have
no ambition and they're teachable. Unless you become like little
children, teachable. Are you teachable? Some people
not teachable, I'm telling you. Know-it-all, you can't teach
a know-it-all anything, they know-it-all. They ain't got nothing to put
it in. They're filled up. Boy, if you're teachable. Lord,
teach me. You ever pray that before you come here? Lord, teach
me tonight. teach me something here, teach
me some truth, let me go away with something, teach me, be
my teacher. Little children, they have no
ambition, and listen, they are not affected by the world. You can drive a a Bentley down
the road, or you can drive anything down the road right in front
of him, just drive it right in front of a two-year-old, three-year-old,
four-year-old, and that's no different than a horse and buggy
going by him. They're not affected by the world. That's why he says
you gotta become as little children, not affected by the world. Let's not get too disturbed about
what's going on in the world. It's God's world. It's God's
earth. Whoever the next president will
be, be the one he picks and puts on there. It may be time to bring
this nation to its knees. I can sure see why. But I hope
for the church's sake that he spares us so we might be able
to meet like we are meeting right now. But I can see that the church
even needs it. I don't deny that. She's, you
know, it's soft. Talking about that to somebody
the other day, about World War II. I said, you notice what happened
before World War II? You know what happened before
World War II happened? The Great Depression. God put that generation
through a Great Depression to fight that war. He toughened
that generation up to fight that war. And we have become so soft,
even in the church has become so soft, That it's just, it's
just, I can see, I can see where we need hard times. We're so
soft, so easy, life's gotten so easy. This is why you need
to become like little children. Have no ambition other than Christ. That doesn't mean you don't have
to go after it, do a good job, whatsoever your hands find to
do, do it with all your might, but you do it unto the glory
of God. That's a different attitude. It's the attitude in which you
go with it. Then the purpose of this weaning is this. Paul
gave it in Galatians 6, 14. But God forbid that I should
glory because I'm going to glory. Man, we're going to glory in
something. If you just mark it down, we're going to glory in
something. You and I can't say we don't glory in anything. Oh,
yes, we do. And Paul said, but God forbid that I should glory
save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world
is crucified unto me and I unto the world. The world has nothing
for me and I don't have anything for the world. We're not buddies.
We're not gonna be calling each other. Me and the world's not
gonna be calling each other. Paul said, my glory, my glory
is Christ crucified. Jesus Christ crucified is my
glory. And I don't have anything apart
from that. And then listen, this is spiritual
maturity. Right here is spiritual maturity.
When we can quiet ourselves, this shows spiritual maturity.
Instead of complaining and whining, we actually can quiet ourselves.
To show you that, look over in Psalm 42. to show you the maturity of a
believer. And how David can, you know, David's doing this.
He's not making this up. Of course, you know that. In Psalm 42, look in verse five. Why art thou cast down, O my
soul? And why art thou disquieted in
me? Hope thou in God. I shall yet
praise him for the help of his countenance. But why are you
cast down? See what David's doing? He's quiet in his soul. He's
quiet in his soul, you know, when he's anxious. Now we get
anxious. I'm not going to say we don't. We get anxious. We
get troubled at times, but maturity shows up when we say, all right,
hold up. Hold on now here. Hold on, my soul. Hope thou in
God. Why are you so disquieted? This is of God. Are not all things
of God? This is of God. Look at verse 11. Why art thou
cast down, O my soul? Why art thou disquieted within
me? Hope thou in God. I'll yet praise
him who is the health of my counsel. He's my health. And he says the
same thing over in Psalm 43. In Psalm 43, in verse 5, he says
the same thing. Why art thou cast down, O my
soul? Why art thou disquieted within? Why are you so upset?
Why are you so anxious? You see, this is spiritual maturity. See, our Lord was always quiet. He was not disturbed inwardly.
Now he was grieved at times in spirit because of the blindness
and the deadness and the hatred that was against him, but yet
he was quiet. Just like calm. There's nothing
like being calm. It's hard to be around people
that are just like buzzing, anxious. Quiet, yet spiritual maturity. It's the Lord, let him do what
seems him good. Unlike Israel in the wilderness
who murmured on every turn. When our Lord was standing in
the judgment hall, he opened not his mouth. Try to do that
sometime. My grandpa said, your ears slap
your brains out. Open not his mouth. We use that
on John Hill. That's so. When we have no greater
ambition than to be conformed to the image of Christ, we have
spiritual maturity. And then let me start winding
this down. For those who have been weaned from the world, Christ
exhorts to trust in the Lord, that's Jehovah, the self-existing
one. Let Israel hope in the Lord from
henceforth and forevermore, from right now. If you never have,
if you never have, do it right now. Do it right now. Look to Him right now. Hope in
Him right now. And if you have, do it again
right now. Do it right now. Our Lord speaks to God's Israel. If you believe you're God's Israel,
and He says trust Him, trust the covenant God, God's a covenant
God. What was it we was reading there in Jeremiah? He said, if
you can break the covenant of the day and the night, You can't
do it. You can't do it. He's a covenant
God. He's a God of all grace and a
God of all comfort. Trust Him. Trust. Oh, how quiet the soul is that
really trusts the Lord. When we're anxious, and I mean
anxious, and troubled and anxious, we are not trusting. I always
say we are, but we're not. I know we don't completely abandon
trust, but you're afraid, is he going to do this? Is he not?
Is he going to show up? Is he not? Is he going to help? Is
he not? He's going to do exactly what you need for your good and
his glory. We hope in the Lord, a real person,
not a profession, not merit, not heritage, we hope in the
Lord, who loved us and gave himself for us, who redeemed us, and
is seated at God's right hand interceding for us. We hope in
the Lord. This is what Paul wrote to Timothy.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our
Savior, and Lord Jesus, our hope. See, our hope's a person. It's
a person. Christ and Christ alone. And
that being so, that being so, it's a blessed hope. It's a hope
full of blessing. It's full of blessing. In Titus
2.13, looking for that blessed hope. You know, if you're looking
for Christ to return, most of the time we don't even think
about it. We don't. We think about what's going on today,
what we're gonna do today. Most of the time, our mind is so busy. But I know we do look for his
return. But if you really look for his
return, you're looking for that blessed hope, who is Christ,
our hope. And he said, looking for that
blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and
Savior, see, he's the great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. And then it's a lively hope.
First Peter 1.3, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten
us again into a lively hope. Not a dying hope, not a dying,
it's a lively hope, it's a living hope. It's a hope that lives,
it's like a well of water and you're springing up. It's lively
because our Lord is live. He's living. Our hope is living. And then it's a good hope. Second
Thessalonians 2 16. Now, our Lord Jesus Christ himself
and God, even our father, which has loved us and have given us
everlasting consolation and a good hope through grace. You won't be ashamed. You won't
be ashamed. And you won't be disappointed.
In fact, we'll just be. All be on measure. Real trust
brings real quietness. This is where real quietness
comes from trusting the Lord. It's the Lord. This is of the Lord. This is
of the Lord. And that being so, it gives us
what? Quietness of conscience. Our Lord went through everything.
For 33 years, he went through everything. You know why? This
is of God. This is appointed, this is purpose,
it's of God. And he walked right through it. Christ is that perfect man. He
is that perfect man. Our perfect representative, our
perfect righteousness. All right.