The story of Christ crucified
is both terrible and yet wonderful, gruesome yet glorious, sorrowful yet joyful. I told Mindy that I cannot say
I really enjoy preaching on this actual story. It's the most difficult
thing of all, actually. None of us can enter into what
actually went on there. But I do rejoice in what our
Lord accomplished at Calvary. As said last week, this is the
sum and substance of the Bible. The reason the Bible was written,
the whole Bible is a story of Christ's crucifixion. All the
Old Testament, all the types and symbols and everything, ceremony,
everything pointed to Christ's crucifixion. Everything. Everything. All the Gospels, all four Gospels
lead up to, lead up to this hour, this event, that Christ said
for this hour, came I into the world. The epistles all remind
us and rehearsed us Christ crucified. The revelation is how that everybody
in glory is singing and praising and worshiping the Lamb that
had been slain. So you see, It's the reason the
world was created. It's the reason the world still
turns and stands. It's Christ crucified. Christ crucified. Pilate. We read about this man named
Pilate. His name is mentioned 20 times
in the book of John. 20 times. Pilate is a puppet
ruler. Your puppet is someone controlled
by another. You know what? Every ruler is
a puppet. I'm so glad. Puppet rulers. Everyone is. Proverbs 21 says,
The king's heart is in the hands of the Lord, like the rivers
of water. Who's going to be elected? Whomever God puts in there. Pilate
was a pretended judge condemning the judge of the earth. You imagine. And one day he stood before this
same wall. He's trembling now. He's trembling
now. But then he was even afraid then.
You read with me. It says he was the more afraid.
He was afraid. His wife was afraid. His wife
sent word to him, don't have anything to do with this just
man. Couldn't sleep all night thinking that. This is this judge,
this puppet ruler, judging the king of the universe, and he's
trembling. You know, every human being should. Every single human
being should tremble, fear the Lord. Why? We're in His hands. It's not the other way around.
Preachers have preached so long that God is in our hands, that
Jesus is in our hands to do with as we will, and so men believe
Him, and there's no fear of God before their eyes. But God's
people fear the Lord, and we tremble. Pilate was actually afraid of
Jesus Christ. All should be, all will be. Psalm
2 says that. Serve the Lord with fear and
tremble. Ye rulers, be wise now. Pilate tried to get out of this,
didn't he? He tried to get out of this.
He washed his hands and said, I'm free from this man's blood. He tried to be neutral. No one
can be neutral. No one is neutral. Listen to
me now. No one is neutral. There's not
a person in this room who's neutral. There's not a person passing
by. There's not a human being on
the face of the earth that's neutral to who Jesus Christ is. What are you doing? Man's indifference is his own
judgment. Lamentations one, is it nothing
to you, all of you that pass by? I think of that whenever
we meet together and I hear these cars zooming by. I did it once. I did it. I remember literally
driving by the church that I grew up in before the Lord dealt with
me, driving by. I was kind of embarrassed, kind
of guilty. I wanted to get by there as fast
as I could. Is it nothing to you? You can't
be indifferent. Your indifference, man's indifference
is his condemnation. It's to say, what it is to say
is I don't care, I don't care if there is a God or if there
isn't a God. I don't care if there is a Jesus Christ or isn't
a Jesus Christ. I don't care if he lived or died,
whether he died on a cross, what he did on that cross doesn't
matter to me. You know what God says about that? And I don't care about you. When
the time comes, help me. Nope. He won't answer. Read Proverbs
1. It's the most frightening passage in all the Bible. He
says, I'll laugh. They laughed at him on the crowd.
They mocked him. People still do. He says, I'm
going to laugh. So Pilate Oh, he's a symbol of
not only the rulers, but all mankind in general. He kept saying,
did you notice? He kept saying, I find no fault
in it. I find no fault in it. No, and no one could. God said,
this is my well-beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. I'm well
pleased for his righteousness to say. Satan came, found nothing
in him. Man, Christ stood up before man
and said, who convinces me of sin? Convince me of one wrong
thing. Some man on earth convinced Christ,
find something wrong with him. Nothing. Altogether lovely. Altogether beautiful. altogether
righteous, just, holy, good, merciful, love, kind, then why
doesn't man worship Him? Why didn't Pilate fall on his
knees? It's the only one ever. Why didn't
he worship Him? Why didn't he admire Him? Why
didn't he admire this man instead of get rid of Him? What's that
tell you? What does that tell you about
man? The true character of man is when holiness and goodness
and love actually stands before him. Man says, away with him. This is the true character of
man seen at Calvary. And oh, the mercy of God has
never been seen like this. That man said, we don't want
your son. Get him out of here. And me passing
by and you passing by and pretending like these Pharisees didn't love
Jesus and you didn't, you didn't care. The fact that God revealed
Christ to you and in you is infinite mercy. You and I are going to
be standing on the front row in glory. Religious or irreligious? I find no fault in it. Why did
Pilate not let him go? Why didn't Pilate then admire
him and say, no, we're not going to do this innocently? Why didn't
he? He loved his job. He didn't want to lose his job.
He'd lose his job if he sided with Jesus Christ. And the same
thing is happening today. No, I'm not going to leave my
job for the gospel. I'm not going to do it. It means
more to me than Christ. Okay? Same thing. He loved the praise
of men. He loved the praise of men more
than the praise of God. What will men think of me? I'll
lose my job, I'll lose my influence, and they'll think I'm weak. You
are. Same thing happened today. Pilate
is a picture of all of mankind. So they, look at verse 13. Here's
where we pick up. Pilate heard that saying, that
you speak against, if you're this man's friend, you speak
against Caesar. And you know what? If we stand
up for God, you know who we're speaking against? Man. Is that all right with you? Man's evil. God's good. Man's
sinful. God's holy. Man's a liar. God's true. Is that what you
say? You can't serve both. You can't
stand with both. Opposites can't stand together.
Can't stand each other. Right? That's a fact. You're no friend of Caesar's
if you're this man's friend. But I'll tell you what, by God's
grace, that man. That's what baptisms
say. You know, that's what confessing
Christ is saying. I don't care if the world likes
me or not. I do want to know that God loves me. If you speak, if you're that
man's friend, you're no friend of Caesar. So be it. Who sees
her? Worms are going to eat him. When Pilate heard that saying,
verse 13, he brought Jesus for him, sat down in the judgment
seat, a place called the pavement, in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And
what this was, was an elaborate judgment hall. Gabbatha, pavement,
it means they took, they made this judgment hall out of mosaic
stones, beautiful stones that they collected, and made this
judgment hall. And where they took great pride,
like a courtroom, you know, you go into a courtroom and it's
pretty elaborate, all the beautiful wood and all that. A lot of injustice
going on there. They try to make it, you know,
the judge comes out with his robe and all that. All rise. Justice is going to be served.
Yeah, right. So he had all these stones, and
they named this place after these beautiful paved stones. When
standing there on that pavement is the chief cornerstone. But they reject him. Look at
what we've done. Look at our beautiful courtroom.
Oh, we love our justice. And while we're doing this, we're
doing the Passover. The Passover's standing right
there. The chief cornerstone is right there. Bow before him. No, man loves his works, his
places of religion and worship and all that. Not the person,
he loves the place. Not the judge, but the hall of
judgment. It was preparation, verse 14,
of the Passover. The Jews were out there preparing.
Who's doing this? What is the Passover? Who's preparing
the Passover? What's going on here? What's
this all about? Passover. It just so happened
that they took Jesus at the very time of the Jewish Passover and
killed Him. Who did that? God did. See, His hour has not yet come.
They kept trying to take Him and wanted to kill Him all His
life. They wanted to kill Him. It's not time. It's not time
until finally the Passover is coming around and He says, It's
time. Take me. God did this. God's doing this. Preparation.
The Lord is preparing to pass over, though men are His instruments. And they brought him out, verse
14, and Pilate said, Behold your king. Now Pilate first said, Behold
the man, didn't he? Behold the man. Lamentations. Oh, I love it. We read it together.
I am the man. Lamentations 3. I am the man
whom he set his arrow. I am the man of whom God's wrath
and justice is aimed at. I am the man. You see, all mankind is judged
in two men. One of two men. Adam and the
second Adam. The man Adam, in Adam all die. If we don't have another person
to represent us, we're going to die forever. The second Adam
came, Jesus Christ, covenant head, Adam. And he'll all live. He's the man. Adam failed. He shall not fail. In Adam, we
died and sin came. In Christ, righteousness came. In Adam, we were rejected and
kicked out of the presence of God. In Christ, we're accepted.
You're brought in again, he said. Behold the man. We're saved by
a man. The God man. Jesus Christ. Now
here he says, behold your king. I love this, that God had this
man keep saying that. Don't you love that? God had
him saying that. He didn't know what he was saying. The scripture
says, the preparation of the heart in man and the answer of
the tongue is up in the Lord. Everything everybody was doing,
God was saying, do it. Everything. Everything everybody
was saying, God was saying, say it. Behold your king. They said, don't say that. He
said, I've said it. Was it Caiaphas? said before,
he said, it's expedient that one man should die for the nation.
He did not know what he said. God said, say this. And then he wrote down, Jesus
of Nazareth, King of the Jews. They said, don't write that he's
a king. Write that he said he is. He
said, I've written it. It's written in every language
and not going to be changed. So when Pilate said, Behold your
king, he's talking to you, every one of you. He's talking to me.
He's talking to all those people. He's saying, Behold your king. Behold the man. You know what?
Behold means stop, look, consider, look on, think upon. Stand in
awe of, behold the man. Behold that God would become
a man. Behold this. Stop and think about
this. That God would come down to this
place. What is man that God is mindful of him? Or that he would
visit him? Why would he do that? Why would God become a worm and
no man? Why? Because he's God. That's
His glory. Behold the man. Every human being
should stop and behold. And every human being needs to
behold your king. The people said, we have no king
but Caesar. Didn't they? I got news for you. You know, preachers, and I bring
this up all the time because Oh, would to God that God would
open the eyes of some blind human beings that these preachers say,
make him your king, make him your lord. He is king. He always has been. He is right now. He ever will
be. Nobody makes him king. God did. Behold, your king. He's not my king. Yes, he is.
Yes, he is. He's not king till I let him
be. You're going to find out, all right. You're going to find
out. Too late. Behold your King. Bow before the King. Bow before
the King. Behold your King. What a word. You know, He is
King. He is Lord over all. He's King
of kings, Lord of all. And every knee will bow from
death. Every single human tongue that's
ever been born is going to say, Jesus Christ is Lord of this
universe. It's going to be made to. Hit
your knees and say it. Sister Helen, Aren't you glad that God in great
mercy and tenderness and compassion revealed to your heart that He's
King, your King, and put in your heart the love to have it so,
and made your spiritual knees bow right now, and your tongue
to confess, He's my King. No, Caesar's not my King. Jesus
Christ is. Aren't you glad? We're so blessed,
sister. So we have people we know and
love that don't, you know, they don't know him, but we do. Why?
Why? Why? Melody, why do you know
and love Jesus Christ and bow to him as king and family members
don't? Do we understand how blessed
we are? No, we don't. One day we will. One day we will. as we're shouting and glorying
and singing praises and also happy gathered around our king
and the rest of the world is weeping and wailing and gnashing
their teeth, wishing it wasn't so. And we're eternally grateful
that it is. King, is he your king? Behold
your king. They cried away with him. Array
with him. Then, verse 16, look at this.
Then delivered he him therefore unto them. Who did? Who delivered
him up? What's the Scripture say? Acts 2 says when Peter stood
up before all those thousands of Christ-haters, he said, here's
what he said. Let me read it to you. Acts chapter
2. It said, Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, you have taken with wicked hands and crucified
and slain. You did what you wanted to do,
but you did what God determined. The determinate counsel of God
willed and purposed and delivered Jesus Christ up or he would not
have been killed. He could not have been killed.
God's will is being done in everything. Has, it is, and it shall be done.
Man's will, man is not doing his will, man is doing God's
will. Man doesn't have a free will.
God does. I'm so glad. I am so glad. See, it's even God that made
us willing to eat His pie. It is God that worketh in us
both to will and do of His good pleasure. God's will will be
done. As I said, I love the thought
that everybody around the cross is doing what they think they
want to do, but they're doing exactly what God said today.
John, it's like, I love this thought, it's like somebody standing
over the side saying, now we're supposed to beat him. Now we're
supposed to pluck his beard. Now we're supposed to spit in
his face. Now we're supposed to, it's time to give him vinegar.
It's time to part his garments. Somebody is standing over there
doing that. The Spirit of God. The one hanging there is in control
of it all. He said, take me. Who delivered
him? God did. He keeps saying, look
at verse, let's see, what verse is it? It says they led him away. Verse 16. They took Jesus and led him away. He keeps saying they led him.
They led him. They didn't force him. They didn't
drag him. They didn't put a rope around
him and pull him and drag him. He willingly, of his own accord,
walked to the judgment hall, agreed to be judged, agreed,
willingly submitted to be acquitted. Willingly, his face like a flint,
went straight to Calper's tree. He let them nail nails. They could not have done that
if he hadn't have willed it. They led Him. Who led Him? God
did. Love led Him. Man did lead Him. And He, look at this verse 17.
Now here's where I want to dwell. This is the title subject to
the whole message. He, bearing His cross, went forth
into a place called the place of the skull in Hebrew Golgotha. This is the name, it's only used
one time in the Bible. Calvary. one time, Calvary. That's Golgotha. That's the skull. Okay? A place called Calvary, or Golgotha,
or the place of the skull. Now, it says that he bearing
his cross. Listen to me now, please. Don't
let me lose you. We're talking about Christ on
the cross. And I can't do this. You pray for me right now. We
got to know that this is our salvation, Him bearing His cross. Look with me at Genesis 22. Genesis
chapter 22, okay? Several years before this, maybe
100, maybe 200 years, a tree was planted. Who planted a tree?
God did. Who made all that? God did. You
know, it's the first thing God made was trees and stuff. In
the garden there was something called the Tree of Life. Hmm,
what's that? Christ crucified. Well, there
was a tree planted and several people wanted to cut it down
over the years. Couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. Like that sycamore
tree that Zacchaeus went up. This tree was meant for one purpose. They're going to make a cross
out of it. And somebody's going to hang on it. What kind of tree
was it? Anybody know? I kind of think
it was gopher wood. Why gopher wood? Because Noah's
Ark was built out of that. Or it could have been shed of
wood. What's that? The Ark of the Covenant is built out of
that. The Table of Showbread is built out of that. The Altar
of Incense, the Altar of, yeah, the altar is built out of that,
shed of wood. Christ's sinlessness. But they,
a tree was, growing and finally they cut it down. They cut that
tree down. Somebody cut it down. Who's doing
all that? God. And they made a cross out of
it. They made a cross out of it for the very purpose, the
one purpose for that tree's existence was for the Son of God to hang
on it. It had no more purpose ever again. It died, it rotted,
and it's gone, like Noah's Ark, like the Ark of the Covenant.
All right? God is the one that made that
tree, and God is the one that laid it on Christ's soul's shoulders,
the cross. Look at Genesis 22. Oh, don't
you love this story? This is the story of Abraham
and Isaac. going up the mountain, father and the son, to do this
work for this blood to be shed. And it says in verse 6, Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son.
Now Isaac is about 18 years old here. And I just see him as being
maybe 5'10 or 6 feet tall, 190, 200 pounds. Abraham is 115 or
120 years old. He's an old man. He's now weak. And Isaac is in the prime of
his life. And Abraham took the wood that's going to burn his
son's body and laid it on his son's back.
If Isaac hadn't agreed to that, if Isaac hadn't submitted to
that, if Isaac hadn't been willing to do that, that old man's not
going to lay that wood on his shoulders. But you know what
Isaac did? He took that wood on his back.
And Christ bore his own cross at Calvary Street, willingly,
in the strength of the prime of life. He said, lay it on me,
put it on me. My own instrument of death, the
instrument which my people deserve, I'm taking it. Put it on me.
And read on. It says, He took the fire in
His hand, that's God's wrath against sin, and the knife, that's
His justice. And they went both of them together.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father. The question of all
questions, he asked him. He said, Father? He said, Here
am I, son. He said, Behold the fire and
the wood. Where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Without
the shady blood, there's no remission of sin. God said, when I see
the blood, I'll pass over you. It's the blood that make the
atonement for the soul. Where's the lamb? And Abraham said, the
father said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb, or a
burnt offer. So they went, both of them, together.
And Isaac had that wood on his shoulder. And he walked up that
mountain. What a picture this is of Christ
crucified. God laid on him not only this
tree of his torture and death, but on him the iniquity of all
God's people. Yes, God provided himself a land. It's got to be a land without
spot and without blemish. Pilate said, I find no fault
in him. Perfect land. And God laid on him the cross. The cross, the cross, the cross,
people, the cross is something we deserve. The cross is a curse. Cursed is he that hangeth on
a tree. The cross is an emblem of, a thing of torture. Deserved for malefactors, for
criminals. To be exposed, to be stripped
and be seen by all as the malefactors that they are. That's what we
deserve. And God laid on him the cross
that we should have taken. There's an old song somebody
used to sing, I should have been crucified. The cross is not a
thing to be worshipped. The cross is not a thing to be
worshipped, it's just a piece of wood. When they found the
pole upon which the brazen serpent was lifted up in, remember that?
It was a Hezekiah. Josiah, one of them, one of the
kings of Judah found that serpent on a pole and the people were
worshiping it. And he had it ground to powder
and he threw it in the water and made them drink it. He said,
you're making an idol out of this thing. This thing doesn't
save anybody. It's an idol. God said don't
worship idols. Don't make idols. Don't make
any graven thing. Don't make a picture. Don't make
a cross. Don't wear it. Don't do it because
you'll worship it. You'll take pride in it. It's
not an it that saves us. It's Him. It's not a thing to
be worshipped. It's not a thing to be worn.
Christ is in us, not around our neck. And that's all people are
doing when they do that is to show you that they're a good
Christian. No, I don't think you're a Christian at all. I
think you're an idol worshiper. Set forth the cross. In a minute,
I'm going to get to this. The cross we bear and the cross
we wear is Christ's cross. We go forth with the gospel.
Not a little similar. We go forth telling men about
Him who hung there. Well, how people know you're
a Christian? Seriously? Rock stars wear a cross. Does
that mean they're a Christian? God said don't do it. He said
don't do it. It's not a thing to be worshipped,
but the one who hung on it is to be worshipped, be extolled,
be honoured, be spoken of. It's not a symbol we're to wear,
display and kiss it. We're to kiss the sun. That's
to be angry. You won't share His glory with
anybody. God forbid, when Paul said, God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ. He's not talking
about that piece of wood. It's just a piece of wood. What
if God had purpose for Christ to be hung around the neck by
a rope? Would we wear a rope around our neck? What if God
had purposed for Christ to be killed by a sword? They did kill
the sword. Why don't people wear a sword?
The centurion took a sword and pierced his side. Why don't they
wear a sword around their neck? Oh, no. The only symbols that Scripture
tells us to use is the bread and the wine and baptism. Why
is that? Because you can't wear that. You eat it. Take it in. Right? It's not seen. It's digested. Eat my flesh. Drink my blood. And this? It's over. It's over. Christ's work is finished. But
God made our Lord bear this cross. He bore it willy-nilly and God
put it on Him. Look at Luke 14. Luke 14, and
I'll quit. This cross, cursed is everyone
that hangs on a tree, and man is cursed by the law. Man is
cursed by the law. Man's under the curse. The handwriting
of ordinances is against us. It's against us. It's against
us. And so Christ came by the mercy and love of God and the
grace of God and the purpose of God. Christ came and God,
He lived under the law, made a woman, made under the law to
redeem us from the curse of the law. Christ kept the law. I know this is doctrine, but
this is the glory of what he's doing here. This is why he's
doing this. This is why he's hanging on the cross. The cross
is a curse. You don't wear a curse around
your neck. You don't wear the Ten Commandments around your
neck. You've got Christ in your heart. So Christ came, he made
a curse, and he cursed his everyone, and hangeth on a tree, and God
hung him on that tree. God put him on that tree. God
nailed him on that tree. Why didn't he use nails? Why
didn't he just tie? They tied ropes around the other malefactors
and let them die a long, slow death. But they pierced his hands
and his feet with nails. Why? Why did they do that? One soldier said, let's just
do this. Let's put nails in them. God
said, pierce him. Because God said they'll look
on him whom they've pierced. And John, he's the nail in a
sure place. God hung on him, John Cheesley,
Jr., he's the nail in a sure place that God hangs the whole
house. It's all hanging on this one. It's hanging on the cross. Now listen to me. There's an
old song I remember hearing as a boy, and a man sung it, and
I thought it was so beautiful, and it touched me. It moved me
to tears. And what it says is, Christ, the cross became so heavy,
He fell beneath the load. And I remember thinking, ah.
That's not in the Bible. He did not fall under the weight
of that cross. You go over here to this Catholic
place, And you walk around and look at all those idols all the
way around, you'll see the whole, supposed to be the steps of Christ
to the cross. And you'll come to one where he fell on the ground
with a cross over the top of it. That's not supper. Jesus Christ did not fall under
the cross, He carried it. And He holds the weight of the
world on His shoulder. And Scripture says He will not
fail. He didn't fall and He didn't fail. You understand? He didn't
need... And so they got a man, three
gospels say, they got a man named Simon and put on him the cross
and had compelled him to carry it. Why? Because Christ couldn't
carry it all the way? Oh no! No, no, no, no, no, no. Look
at Luke 14 with me. All right? Luke 14. Luke 14, 27. Our Lord said this.
Verse 26. If any man come to me and hate
not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren
and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his
cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." They compelled
this man named Simon to bear the cross of Christ because every
single saint of God, every single child of God carries his cross. And it's not a piece of wood,
it's not something you wear around your neck, it's the gospel. You
stand for the gospel. This is persecution. Why was
Christ crucified on a cross? For what he said, for the truth's
sake. He suffered persecution for the truth's sake. And we
go around bearing this cross, the cross of Christ. It's his
cross we carry. It's his work we talk about.
We go around bearing this and they want to crucify you too.
They'll hate you too. They'd kill you if they could
do it. That's the cross. His cross is
the cross we preach. His cross is the cross we declare. His cross is the one we bear
up. His cross is the one we hold forth. Christ crucified. My arthritis is not a cross. I cannot, why would anybody,
men are dead wrong about this. I have a cross I need to bear,
this arthritis. You don't compare arthritis to
what Jesus Christ did on Calvary. Oh, no, no, no, that's a trial,
that's a little bit of, it's a light affliction, but the cross
we bear, the cross we carry, the cross we set forth is Christ
crucified. You understand that? Human beings
are just dead wrong about everything. His cross. And unless you bear
His cross, you're not His disciple. Everybody goes through troubles.
That's not the cross. Not the cross we bear. Uh-uh.
It's persecution for the truth. It's declaring Jesus Christ.
And if you don't do that, you're not His disciple. That's what
it says. It's a problem. So, read on. I'll close. It says, He bearing
His cross, verse 17. went into a place called the
skull, Golgotha, Calvary, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha
or Calvary, the place of the skull, the place of the skull. That's a head. What is it? And you know it so, there's some
kind of fixation that human beings have now with skull and crossbones. See that? Skull and crossbones. Why is that? Man can't get away
from the fact that we're dying and dead. A skull. You know what
the hardest, one of the hardest things there is, is your skull. Harder than a coconut. Skull. The head. The head. That's the
head, isn't it? Christ is our head. Our head. He's at Calvary, the head of
the covenant. He's on this place called Calvary,
being crucified. But not a bone of His will be
broken. And it goes on to say, where they crucified Him and
the two other with Him, on either side, and the Lord Jesus right
in the middle. All of this is according as it
is written. And let me read it to you in
closing. Surely, he's despised and rejected of men, a man of
sorrows acquainted with grief. We hid as it were our faces from
him, away with him, away with him. He's despised, we esteemed
him not, crucify him, crucify him. But surely, he bore our
grief, carried our sorrows. We did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. He said he's a son of God. He's a son of God, let him have
him. But he was wounded. for our transgression. He was
bruised. He was whipped for our iniquities. The chastisement of our faith
was upon Him. And with His stripes, we are
healed. The Lord laid on Him the iniquity
of us all. It pleased the Lord to bruise
Him. He had put Him to grief. He made
His soul an offering for sin. The Lord laid on Him the iniquity
of us all. And when He sees this, He will
be satisfied. And by His justice, by His knowledge,
He'll justify many. For He shall bear their iniquities. Christ wasn't just bearing a
piece of wood that day. He was bearing our iniquity and
he didn't fall. He didn't fail. He bore them
away. Johnny's that fit man, isn't
he? He's that fit man in the wilderness that took those sins
as far as the east is from the west and they'll never be seen
again. That's what he bore. Okay. Let's sing in closing number.