That is truly one of the great
hymns in our book, isn't it? A wondrous cross, on which the
King of Glory died. That's what we're looking at
this morning. Read with me again, Matthew 27.
Well, not again. We'll read it for the first time. Matthew 27. Matthew 27, read
with me, verses 35 through thirty-seven. And they crucified him and parted
his garments, casting lots that it might be fulfilled, which
was spoken by the prophet, which we read there in Psalm twenty-two,
saying, They parted my garments among and upon my vesture did
they cast lots. And sitting down, they watched
him there, and set up over his head his
accusation written, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Now this is not a message which
will It's a beautiful day today, isn't it? The sun is shining.
It's fitting that we look at this dark day. In verse forty five it was dark
from the sixth hour till the ninth hour. From twelve o'clock
noon till three o'clock dark. It's fitting I believe on this
beautiful day that we look at this terrible dark day that our
Lord was crucified. Our Lord said this earlier. He
said at a time when you think not. So shall the Son of Man appear.
Noah, I thought about Noah and his family. They were sitting
in that ark seven days after it was finished. The ark was
finished, the work was finished, and they sat in that ark when
the sun was shining. Not one drop of rain had fallen,
but they believed God who said it was. And they sat in that
ark when the sun was shining. beautiful day like this, as many
passed by and scoffed and mocked and surely said things like this,
where is the promise of this reign you're talking about, this
judgment? We don't believe in a God like that. And then it came suddenly. Our
Lord said, They didn't know it when it came.
It came sudden and swift destruction. And Noah's ark is a picture,
a beautiful type of Christ crucified. That ark bore all the wrath and
judgment of God, didn't it? Which was in the form of rain,
which killed all the inhabitants of the earth, but those in the
ark. All those inside the ark, the
love of God was upon them. The mercy of God, the grace of
God, they were saved from that overflowing scourge of God's
wrath. But everybody, every single person
outside that ark, which is a picture of Christ, every single one,
he that had not the ark, perished. And it was a beautiful day. And this story, the message of
Christ and him crucified, is the heart and soul of the gospel.
It is the sum and substance of the whole Bible, the essence
of our religion, the religion, true religion. Scripture talks
about true religion, the religion of God, the Bible. You know, the religion of God
is a bloody religion. It really is. Listen carefully. from the Garden of Eden, which
was paradise. And again, that was a beautiful,
it was a beautiful day, wasn't it? A day in paradise. Another
day in paradise. When man rebelled against God.
And then the Lord, I believe it was the Lord Jesus Christ
himself, who walked in that garden and right in front of two, the
man and the woman, much to their horror. They had never seen this before.
They had no idea what was going on. Much to their horror, the
Lord God took a lamb, an innocent lamb, a beautiful, beautiful,
lovely lamb, and took that lamb and slit its
throat right in front of their eyes.
To their horror. They had never seen blood before. and all that blood, and they
watched that living, beautiful creature, innocent, didn't do
anything to deserve this. They had. And they watched this
innocent, beautiful creature finally kick until it kicked
no more, and it was dead. Terrible. Do we have to go through
that? Huh. And then from that point
on, Rivers of blood were shed. Oceans
of blood were shed. God was the first to shed it. And he commanded it. Why? Why? Because it all points to
this. Everyone knows lamb. All of that
point. That lamb, that first lamb in the garden, the innocent
dying for the guilty. Bloodshed because of their sin
is a picture of Christ. It all points to the Lamb of
God that was to come 4,000 years later. The innocent, altogether
lovely son of God who didn't deserve this. But God, it pleased
God to bruise him, to kill him, make his soul an offering for
sin. Horrible, isn't it? Horrible and glorious. terrible
and beautiful, fearful and one. And blood, bright red crimson,
poured out of that beautiful creature, and he died. And from
there on, rivers of blood, all because of sin. It's all about
sin. And it all culminates in this
terrible, this is the worst, this right here, this is the
worst scene ever, right here. happened to the Lord Jesus Christ.
It wasn't simply at man's will or William. It wasn't at all. God was doing this to his son.
It had something to do with sin.
You know, in man, God allowed man, directed man, however you
want to say it, God to shed the blood of his son. But do you know you remember
when they said let his blood be upon us and our children remember
that you know because of that God sheds the blood of man. Listen listen. I'll read to you
from Revelation fourteen, this is the word, this is in the end,
it says the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, gathered
the vine of the earth, cast it into the great winepress of the
wrath of God, and the winepress was trodden without the city,
and blood came out of the winepress up to the horse's bridles. Man's blood. Listen, listen, I'm just reading
God's Word. Over in Revelation 16, verse 6, the Lord said, They
have shed the blood of saints. They have shed the blood of prophets.
I will give them blood to drink. They're worthy. It's terrible, isn't it? A lot
of bloodshed in it. Wars and rumors of war. Hasn't
there? This was worse. This was worse. And this is what God holds everyone
accountable for. You know that statement, Patrick,
when they said, let his blood be upon us and our children.
That'll either make you guilty or set you free. You're either going to be held
responsible and pay for that crime from now on or be absolved
of all crimes. And you understand, don't you?
Oh, blessed are you, you understand. You pray that, don't you, Brother
Patrick? Let his blood be on my wife and
I and my two daughters. If you understand that, you're
so blessed. It says here in our text, Matthew
27. It's a terrible scene. They were doing, man was doing
what he wanted to do. That's what Peter preached at
Pentecost, didn't he? He said, you with wicked hands have taken
and crucified the Lord of glory. Who? All we. Had we been there,
we'd have done it. Everybody was in on it. And they did it for sport. Look
at verse, in our text, it says, sitting down, verse 36, they
watched him there. They watched him there. You know,
irony of that struck me. They sat and watched him. You
know, the world even now, then and now, the world mostly is
watchers, observing, curiosity seekers, looking on as entertainment. Religion is mere entertainment,
but to a chosen few. to a chosen few, whom God Almighty
reveals to them who this is hanging there and why he's hanging there.
They're looking unto him. They're not watching, looking
at him as entertainment and not bloodthirsty and all that. They're
looking unto him. They're looking past his suffering. I hesitate to even deal with
this passage. I used to, but I don't know any better. I felt reading that. Did you
read that in Psalm 22 with me? But unto a chosen few who are
enabled by God to not just watch in mere curiosity, but actually
see and look. The difference between watching
and looking. Salvation is the difference. Look unto me, Isaiah 45 says,
and be ye saved. The look upon Christ crucified
as a scapegoat, as a sin offering, as a substitute, as a serpent on the pole, and
come away glorying as we sang. Do you understand what you sung? Forbid it, Lord, that I should
boast, saving the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. What he did
who he who's there and what he was doing is not a piece of wood.
That's idolatry. We don't cherish an old rugged
cross. No no that's idolatry. The Lord
plainly said don't make any graven images like that. You don't make
an image of the thing that killed our Lord. But you you you worship
the one who died there. You worship the one who hung
on that cross. We glory in the Christ of the
cross, not the cross, the wood, the piece of the instrument.
No, no, no, no, no. And to glory in the cross of Christ is to
glory in what he did. So great a work. We read there
in Psalm 22, the very last verse says they're going to know that
he did this. This is what he did for his people. Well, all things. After our Lord rose from the
grave, you remember, he preached to two of the disciples on the
road to Emmaus. You remember that? Oh, I'd love
to have heard that message. I believe we will someday. By
him. And no man's faith like he did.
But he said to them, ought not Christ to have suffered? and
enter into his glory. It says, beginning at Moses and
the Psalms and the Prophets, he expounded unto them the things
concerning himself. Surely he preached from Psalm
22. But all things must be fulfilled
that are written of him. Everything in Scripture. We read
that. Were you amazed when you read with me Psalm 22? Were you
amazed? Look at verse 27 of Matthew 27. said the soldiers of the governor
took Jesus under the common hall, gathered the whole band. They
got this whole band of these professional Roman soldiers.
This is where we learned our soldiering, Brother DeClay. We
learned it from the Romans. They were ruthless. They were
masters at the art of torture. They were ruthless, had no respect
for human life or dignity at all. They were masters at this.
And they gathered together these bulls, these bully fellas, strong
bulls of motion, Psalm 22 says. And we're going to reduce this
fella. That's what they were doing.
We're going to reduce him to it. And that's what they mostly
did to everybody they got a hold of, reduced them to whimpering
little puppies. Not this man. You know, we could stop right
there and preach a while, couldn't we? Not this man. You ain't dealing
with any man. You ain't never seen a man yet.
You think you're a man, you strong bull of Bashan? So the Lord was even glorious
in his suffering. Until Pilate, who saw many suffer
at his hands, many strong men reduced to whimpering little
puppies, until Pilate could only say, Behold the man, until Pilate
was shivering watching this man, man in bonds before him, man
beaten to a pulp, yet Pilate's trembling before him. Who is
this? that these strong bulls of Bashan,
dogs of war, Psalm 22 says, dogs have encompassed me. Dogs are
bloodthirsty creatures, aren't they? That's what dogs are, carnivorous
animals. Bloodthirsty. They've encompassed
me. Dogs have surrounded me. Dogs, they say, come from, I
don't believe this, but they say. come from wild dogs, you
know, which are carnivorous, bloodthirsty creatures. They
surround their enemy like wolves. They surround the helpless, the
weak, the sick, and surround them, and they kill them. And
that's what these dogs did. Surrounded them. And they gathered to mock him
and torture him. Bloody men. Verse 28, look at
this. And they stripped him. I mean,
they stripped him naked. That's the reason. You know,
all these depictions of Jesus Christ hanging on a cross, they
take away from his glory. Not only are they graven images,
not only is there not a description of Christ in the Scripture, so
if you make one, it's a graven image. It's not him. There's
not a physical description of Jesus Christ in the Scripture.
And God plainly says it over and over again, don't make one. He keeps saying that over and
over again. He calls it the abominable thing, the abominable thing in
Deuteronomy. That's an abominable thing. Not a spirit. And he didn't look
anything like they depicted. He didn't have long hair. It's
a shame for a man to have long hair. He did not have long hair.
They say he was a Nazarite. No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't. He wasn't a blue-eyed
Caucasian, he was a brown-skinned Jew with dark curly hair. Not pleasant to look at, not
beautiful. One that most white Caucasians would have nothing
to do with. Right? Like that old brown-skinned
tent in the wilderness, right? That tabernacle in the wilderness? They didn't see any beauty in
that. That's an old brown, badger-skinned tent. Our Lord was a brown-skinned
man. Well, they stripped him, and what did they put on him?
A red robe. Why? Deborah, you studied the tabernacle,
didn't you? What was the second covering
of the tabernacle? A red goatskin. Did anybody catch that for me?
A second covering. He's got to fulfill the scriptures.
This is the tabernacle of God among man. They stripped that
robe. Well, let's put something on
it. You got a blue robe? No, they got a red one over here. Put
it on him. The ram. That's what it was. Ram skin
dyed red. Who is this? John, this is Abraham
and Isaac's ram called the thicket. This is a substitute. This one's
going to die in the stead of Isaac's. Rams camp. They put this red
robe on him. See, it wasn't by accident. It's
as if they were standing, somebody standing off to the side. It's
as if somebody was standing off to the side and they'll hear
what we're to do next. Amazing, isn't it? He did what God determined
before to be done. Peter preached that day. He's
not helpless. You're not taking his life. You're
not in charge here. You're not giving. God is. No man takes my life from me,
he said. I lay it down. I submit to it. I'm doing this
under God. Then thou makest his soul an
offering for sin. These were pawns in God's hand.
They were doing what they wanted to do. They were doing what their
wicked hearts wanted to do, what their free will decided to do. They were doing what God determined
before they did. This is the God of the Bible.
This is the Christ of the Scripture. This is the gospel of our salvation. That right there is the lamb.
Put a red robe on him. And look at verse 29. And they
stripped him. I started to say these depictions
of Jesus Christ, they always show a little loincloth around
him, don't they? He was naked. He was naked. You couldn't put
that picture on display, but you could. He was naked. See,
that takes away from his glory, Dan, if you don't show him naked.
Huh? But you know he thought nothing
of it. You and I would be horribly ashamed.
What makes us ashamed to be naked? Adam and Eve in the garden before
they sinned, they weren't ashamed. What brought shame? Sin. He didn't have sin. He looked on the human body as
just a creation. under the pure, and I never thought
about this year, you know, the pure all things appear. He would
be on naked. Scripture says, who thought it
thought nothing of it, thought nothing of the shame. Hebrews
12 despised shame. But he hung naked. They thought
to his shame, but really to his glory. And it says they plaited a crown
of thorns and put it upon his head. They plaited a crown of
thorns and put it on his head as a mock crown. Why did this
happen? Well, who is this? And this is
what they mocked him as. This is the thing they mocked
him at from the beginning all the way through until finally
they put his accusation. Did you notice that with me,
Gabe? His accusation. You see, here's a thief. He's
a murderer. He's a rapist. They put his accusation
on there. And over here's another thief.
They put his accusation, his crimes he's guilty of. He's a
robber. He's a thief. He's a murderer.
He's a scoundrel. He's a know-it-all. What about
this man? He's the king! We can't find any fault in it.
What are you accusing of? He's king! From that day forward! I can't preach this but to shout
it. King accusation, fact. There's great evidence to say
so. But that's what they mocked him. So a king has to have a
crown, doesn't he? And these cruel fellows thought, what do
we use? Let's use something. Let's find
something, an emblem of a crown. There's a briar bush, a thorny
bush. Get that, get you some gloves
on and go over there and make us a crown. Kings have a crown.
So they took this crown. And people, I'm not trying to
make this graphic, not at all. But that tends to make people
feel sorry for him. I'm not doing that. Like that
blasphemous, idolatrous movie, The Passion. Not doing that at all. Just telling
you a fact here. And you're going to see the glory
in this. You're going to see the glory. I've never seen this,
why they got thorns. But they got a thorny crown.
They made this crown and they didn't just place it on his head,
did they? And then, why did they do that? Why? Listen and wonder. In the garden, man was a little
king. Yeah, he was. God created man
a little lower than the angel, didn't he? God brought the animals
whom he reigned over. Reigns, a little king. Told him
to name them. He had dominion over the fowls
of the air. Psalm 8 tells us that. But he was a little pain. OK, when he said what happened. What's the first thing that God
says right now. Thorns. He said, because of your
sin? Thorns. The earth is cursed. First thing he said was, cursed
is the ground for your sake. Cursed is the ground. Little
king, I'm the king. And you've tried to usurp me.
You're not the king. I'm the king. And now, cursed
is the ground and thorns is the first thing you're going to do.
And I believe Adam walked out of the garden with a thorn, a
thistle or something. So here comes the second Adam.
Here comes the second Adam, the Lord of Glory. He's not earthly,
but he's the Lord of Glory. Here he comes. All right, he
is king. But he's got to be made a curse for his people. He's
got to be made a curse. What crown can he wear to show
us he's been made a curse? And what's the sting, you know,
the sting, prick of death, the sting through with sorrow and
death and all that. Nancy, he removed it. He removed it. He himself took it. Oh, don't you marvel at the Lord's
amazing. Oh, my thorns, you've made a
curse. So his crown of glory, emblem of our sin, he wore it. Crown of thorns. He bore the
consequences of our sin. Thorns are the consequences of
our sin. He wore it as a crown. As a crown. I'm burying it away. Then it took a reed. What do
we do next? Let's get a reed. Each king needs
a scepter. Every king has a scepter which
he reigns with. You've seen kings of old, you
know, they've dubbed thee this, I've dubbed thee that, I say
this, so let it be written, so let it be done. You know, you
see old Ewell Brenner with his scepter, Pharaoh, you know, a
scepter. Well, so they got him a little
scepter. Verse twenty-nine, a reed in his right hand, a reed in
his right hand, and they put it in his right hand, a scepter
for a king. And they said, verse thirty,
they took that reed, spit on his face, took that reed and
smote him on the head, on the cheeks where they smote
him, because Micah five one says, they shall smite the judge of
the earth with a rod on the cheek. And he who in Revelation says
will take a reed and measure the city. the length and the
breadth thereof. Oh, he does have a scepter. He
does reign. And the scepter of Scripture
says of righteousness is the scepter of his kingdom, which
he dubs people, whoever he will. Doesn't it? I dub thee. I say
you're justified. Oh yeah, that's what a king does.
He gets his scepter and whoever Whatever he pleases, he does
it, etc. And in comes this Pharisee and
this publican. Well, this publican, you know, he did all in this
Pharisee. He looks like he ought to deserve it. And the king says,
righteous. Here comes a woman caught in
the act of adultery, cast at his feet, guilty as charged. All these other innocent people
charging her with all these crimes, with all these sins. What does
the king judge? Fair, the judge of the earth.
The judge says, guiltless. Wait a minute, you can't do that. I just did. Who shall lay anything
to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ
died. And he puts that on whom he will,
doesn't he? Blood supplied to whom he will,
just as his righteousness. We're talking about a king here.
This is what we're building up this case. We're talking about
a king here. He's reigning right now in all
of this. They're mocking him. And the
whole world right now is watching all this. You know, they love
to put on these pageants and play, and they come to feel sorry
for Jesus. You remember they did that when
he was carrying his cross. You remember that? They started
crying for him, the women, the bat women started crying. In that. Week from a week for yourselves
and your children. Oh it's not helpless some helpless
fellow a martyr. This is King. He's getting in
they get great glory even now. Great glory. He's fulfilling
scripture. Fulfilling scripture after scripture
it must be fulfilled. Is this the Christ we're waiting
on? Yes. How do you know? He's fulfilling it all. Every
tight jot, tale, symbol of the Old Testament is being fulfilled
right before our eyes. They put a reed in his hand.
And it said, Hey, O King of the Jews. And they spit on him. And
look at that. And after that, they mocked him. They took the
robe off of him and put his own raiment on him. Oh, what a picture
that is, huh? Christ, when he came to this
earth, veiled himself in human flesh. That wasn't his first
form. That wasn't his first form. That
wasn't the first garment he wore. He had a glorified body. He left
that. He took that off. Well, no, he
didn't take it off. He didn't take it off. He covered it in
human flesh, the likeness of sinful flesh. But he didn't have
sin. He came down here, and one day he took three of them up
on the mountain and just opened his robe. And from that day forward, they
were telling me who he was, who he is, who he really is. Not
like you think he is. This is not Jesus who you think
it is. This is God! You saw him with handling jars
and said, Life! Well, when he came, he put on
this robe, and when his work was finished, he put back on
his original garment. That's what he's in now. That's
what he's in now, that's what he's wearing now, just like they
did here. All right. But anyway, they,
verse 32, they found a man, and oh, I hope you'll come out Wednesday
night, because I saw something in this. We're going to see something
together that's just going to just, you might jump up here. This man here, this bystander,
this fellow that's walking along, minding his own business, he's
come from out of town. He's a thousand miles away, damn
it. He's a thousand miles from home. He's walking by and all
of a sudden somebody grabs him. I'm not going to tell you the
rest, but they put this cross on him. And that's another story. Now,
verse thirty-three, they came to a place called Golgotha. That
is to say, a place of the skull. Calvary tree in verse thirty
four. They come, they gave him vinegar
to drink, mingle with God. Because that's what the scripture
says. Psalm sixty-nine said it was.
In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Gave him vinegar to
drink. What about vinegar? Vinegar is
rather bitter isn't it? Vinegar has a stain to it. has
a sting to it. Scripture talks about man being
in a gall of bitterness. You know, man is, right now,
is forced, he's drinking the gall and the bitterness of his
own sin. People are drinking that in.
This world is, it's drinking its own death. And man is and shall be forced
to drink the gall and bitterness of his own sin, yet Christ, to
substitute for his people, tasted it. He tasted it. He drank the cup
of God's wrath completely, emptied it. But this gall, this bitterness,
he tasted it. And that's all we're going to
have to do. So, he's our substitute. Ron, he's our substitute. He
tasted it. He would not drink it. And we taste it, don't we? As he is so are we. We taste
it. We taste the bitterness. We better. We better hope God
makes everything with bitter herbs and a little sting to it. But we don't have to drink it.
We don't have to drink it. Bitter is the, what's the song? Bitter is the bud, but sweet
will be the flower. And they parted his garments, verse thirty-five,
they crucified him. They parted his garments, casting
lots that it might be fulfilled. We read that, didn't we? Psalm
twenty-two, eighteen. They parted my garments, some
of them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. The lots were cast. Here they
sit in and they decided, one of us needs to get this rope.
Let's tear it in pieces and each one of us can have it. No, don't
do that. No, no, no, let's don't do that.
Let's not rend the garment. Let's leave it complete. So this
garment he wore was without seam. That's an emblem of Christ perfect.
Wherever there's a seam in your clothing is liable to be ripped
and to tear, to rend, to leave you naked. There was no seam
in his garment. He wore a seamless robe. Is that
significant? There's no seam in his character.
There's nothing in him. Satan came, nothing in it to
rend and tear him. Well, they parted his garments. They cast lots. These soldiers
decided, we'll cast lots. We'll draw straws and see who
gets this seamless garment. Let's see who gets to wear. Are
you with me? We're going to draw lots here
and see who gets to wear this beautiful, this lovely, this
complete garment and cover themselves with this garment. Let's draw
straws here. The lot is cast in the lap. OK, who got it? I do. It's yours. Put it on you. I've never seen this verse before.
Over in Isaiah 34, it says, The Spirit of the Lord has cast the
lot for them. We get to wear his righteousness.
That robe. Who's going to get it? The Lord
cast the lot. Sherry Anderson gets to wear
it. She doesn't deserve it. Those
men don't deserve that robe, do they? Who gets it? The whole
disposing thereof is of the Lord. Well, I've got to conclude. Verse 36, they sat down and they
watched him there. They watched him for sport. I
didn't really know who he is or why he was there. I didn't know. But to all of God's
people, those of you who know whom he's
chosen to reveal himself to, to know and believe me and understand
that I am he, you know, don't you? John said, God hath given
us an understanding that we might know him that is true. You know
who he is, don't you? You know why he's hanging there,
don't you? He said in Isaiah 45. See, these people are just
looking at him, watching him. But he said, Surely, shall one
say of me, this one who looks unto me. God, look unto me and
be you saved. We see him as our scapegoat,
don't we? Our substitute, our sin offering. The Lord, our King,
like that old thief on the cross. He was, he was crucified between
two thieves, wasn't he? Why? He was numbered with a transgressor. Made his grave with the wicked.
Scripture said that. But, you know, that thief, one
of those thieves saw his glory, didn't he? One of those thieves, one was
watching him. The other one was looking to
him. You see the difference? That's the difference. That's
the difference. One was watching him. Save us! Get us down from here!" The other
one's looking to him. Save me! You're coming into your
kingdom. He looked beyond the veil, right
into the Holy of Holies. Dear Lord, you're not hanging
there because they hung you there. And if you'll save me, I'm going
to perish. Well, it says here in our text, it says he was,
and those two thieves, one on the right hand. Which thief did
the Lord say? Which hand? Right hand. Why? Because he said in Matthew 25,
in that last day shall be gathered on thee all the sheep, shall
be gathered on his right hand. Come, you blessed of my Father,
into the kingdom." There ain't one coincidence in Scripture
all o'er day. Right here. Right here. Two things. Two things. Well, in verse 37, they said,
This is the King of the Jews. This is Jesus, the King of the
Jews. And I close by reading this.
He is indeed King. That they were mocking. When
they said that, they were mocking him. They put that over his head
in derision. They put over his head what they
wanted him to put over, didn't they? Remember, Pilate, the people
said, don't put that, put he said he is. Remember that? They
said, don't put that there, put he said he is. Pilate, somebody
divinely constrained him, didn't they? Somebody said, you will
write what I tell you to write. And Pilate said, what is written
is written. What? Big king. They did it in
mockery, scoffing, mocking. Says that he was king. He's not
king lest we say he's king. He's not king lest we let him
be our king. No. You know what no means, don't
you? He is king. Nobody makes him
king. Never has, never will. He is king. I'm sorry, somebody's
not going to get excited. I am. OK? How could this bother someone
who really loved his glory? Can we shout this from the roof?
He is king. It's blasphemy to say you make
him so. It's blasphemy. This other Jesus is another God.
He's an abomination to God. This Jesus is King. And it says,
and I quote, Look unto me, and be ye saved. I am God, there
is none else. I have sworn by myself the word
is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return. Unto me
every knee shall bow. They were doing it in mockery.
They were doing it in derision, Samuel. But they were baptized. And every tongue confessed, what? Him. And he that sitteth in the heavens
laughs. Until all someday will be gathered
and standing before him, the king. The salvation is right
now, to know, to see who he is. And have God, and we're going
to look at this Wednesday, have God apprehend you, put you under
a great burden, and bow that knee. We won't bow it unless
God causes us to bow. And confess he's Lord, to the
glory of God the Father. Christ and him crucified. Okay,
let's sing in closing that great hymn number, what number? 27. 127. 127. Hallelujah. That
means praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Man of sorrows, what a name For
the Son of God who came Ruined sinners to reclaim Hallelujah,
what a Savior There in shame and scoffing grew, In my place
condemned He stood, Sealed my pardon with His blood. Alleluia! What a Savior! Guilty, vile, and helpless we,
spotless Lamb of God was he.