44. We've already dealt with the
last part of chapter 44, very briefly, which was Judah's plea. And now we're going to look at
the first part of chapter 44. Wednesday night, the Lord willing,
We will look at chapter 45 if you want to read that ahead of
time. Chapter 45 is a most blessed passage. This is where Joseph
reveals himself, makes himself known unto his brethren. And if you will just merely read
it this week, you'll get a tremendous blessing. Our story this morning
is a striking picture of Christ, just a striking. picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ and so great salvation that he accomplished. And Christ is represented in
this story by Benjamin. Once again, Benjamin is a picture
of Christ who has made sin for us, who knew no sin. Now, we've
already seen Benjamin before as a type of Christ, when Joseph
as a type of the Lord of God, Joseph as a type of God, plainly
told the brethren that they would not see his face again unless
Benjamin was with them. And that's the picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And they were granted entrance,
these evil and wicked brethren, were granted entrance into the
house. And Joseph communed with them, and all of this was because
of Benjamin, which is a picture of Christ. All things are for
Christ's sake. Otherwise God would have no dealings
with us. Now, one thing I want you to
note before we begin. Benjamin is the only one of the
bunch. who did not take part in that
sin against Joseph. He's the only innocent one. He was blameless in the transgression,
the innocent one. The other ones were guilty, all
of them. All right, verse 1. And as I said, Benjamin represents
Christ. All right, verse 1. And Joseph
commanded the steward of his house. Say, fill the men's sacks
with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money
in his sack's mouth. Fill their sacks with food, he
commanded. Listen to the psalmist in chapter,
Psalm 40, verse 5. He says, Many, O Lord my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done, thy thoughts which are
to usward. They cannot be reckoned up in
order unto thee. If I would declare and speak
of them," or attempt to declare his wonderful works to me, and
speak of them, they more than can be numbered. Our blessings
are innumerable. His mercies, the scripture says,
endure forever. Just keep on coming. God's mercy. His blessings just keep on flowing
down upon us guilty, unworthy sinners. He says, fill their
sacks. Again, he said, fill their sacks. He keeps saying that. And that
should be a blessed thought, us thinking about how God keeps
giving the command to his Holy Spirit, to his ministering angels
concerning his people, fill their sacks. Fill them up. When we feel like we're filled
with sin, and he says, well, fill their sacks. That's how
faithful our God is. And he says here, did you notice
he said, as much as they can carry. feel their sacks as much as they
can carry. And we're not promised as much
as we can store. He didn't say give them overabundance
as much as they can store, but as much as they can carry. Which
is enough. And sometimes he does, though.
Sometimes he does give us over and above that which we need. But our cups, our needs, surely
run over, don't they? Our needs are always met, always
met. Our vessels are always filled. This church here is a striking
example of that. We have, like you, like you and
your homes, you live from check to check, nevertheless you've
never missed payments, you've never missed Having your needs met, have you?
It's always there. You might enter into some tight
times, but the needs are always there. Our cups run over. Our needs are always met. Look at it in verse 1. He says,
Fill every man's sack. Fill the men's sacks with food,
as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his
sack's mouth. The Lord always returns unto us what we give,
doesn't He? Have you ever outgiven the Lord?
I mean. How many of you or everyone here could probably think of
some? At some point where where unexpected
gifts came your way. Money or whatever. And that's
the Lord returning your money in. We don't give for that reason. An evil. And wicked. world that loves filthy lucre,
the religious world, that's their motive for giving. You give ten
dollars and God will give you a hundred. You keep giving so
you'll receive faith and God will bless you with new this
and that and the other. That's not our reason for giving. It
shouldn't be. Our reason for giving should
be out of gratitude, out of thanksgiving. It's our reasonable service. And this is the reason tithing
is wrong. Ten percent is not enough. Ten percent is, a hundred
percent of what we have is given unto us. And the scriptural rule
for giving is, as the Lord hath blessed you. That's how we're
to give. As the Lord hath blessed us and
given us abundantly, then we should give back abundantly.
And I guarantee you cannot out-give the Lord. You can't do it. You
cannot do it. These men brought money to give
for the corn, and they got it back. It's always been the case
with us. Our Lord says it's more blessed
to give than to receive, and he certainly proved that himself. And I believe if we would prove
him on that count that he would prove himself to us in great
ways. You can't out give the one who
has a storehouse. You can't out give the one who
has a storehouse. God always gives us back what
we have given with interest, with interest. It kind of reminds
me, though, of that story of that couple who on their way
home from church one day and they were complaining about this
and that and the other. You've heard this, I know, but
they were complaining about, oh, the preacher mostly, that's
generally it, but they were complaining about the message and complaining
about this and just critical of everything. And their young
son in the back seat spoke up and said, well, Mom, Dad, It's
a pretty good show for a quarter, though, wasn't it? Well, Joseph said, fill their
sacks with food. We have every reason to give. All right, fill their sacks with
food, as much as they can carry. Put every man's money in his
sack's mouth. Now, let me remind you who he's
doing this for. Who is he doing this for? Who
does Joseph keep pouring these blessings out upon? Some fine,
upstanding, moral fellows, some worthy recipients of his... No, them. You remember them,
don't you? These evil, wicked brethren of
his, them, they're guilty, vile, wretched, children of wrath,
unworthy. These were the ones, earlier
on, who despised and rejected Joseph. Remember that? They despised and rejected him,
and Scripture says they couldn't say anything good about And yet, they were his brethren. And as I said before, the reason
he was doing this was not because there was anything in them worthy
of it. The reason he was doing this,
because he was a fine man. Because he was above them. Because he was Joseph. And what,
who does the Lord show kindness to? Worthy people? Fine, upstanding people? Do we
deserve the Lord's kindness? Do we deserve His mercy and grace?
Have we done anything ever to deserve His mercy and His grace?
Well, mercy is never deserved, is it? No, we are despisers and
rejecters of Him. We did esteem Him. So our Lord
does this for sinners, but they're his elect. They're his brethren. They're his brethren. And all
men, all men and women, all over the world are recipients of God's
benefits. The Scripture says, and you may
have had trouble with this Scripture before. Scripture says He's the
Savior of all men, especially of them that believe. You remember
reading that before? Well, He's the Savior of all
men in the sense that Christ, because Christ lives, this planet
keeps on spinning, the sun keeps shining, and the blessings keep
flowing. It's for the elect's sake. He
maintains the world and everything in it for the elect's sake. But
all men reap his benefits, don't they? The sun shines, the rain
falls on the unjust as well as the just. He's the Savior in
that sense. The reason we're not consumed
is of the Lord's mercies, that all men and women, God-haters,
are not consumed. But he's especially the Savior
of them that believe. Scripture says he is especially
the Savior. He's the Savior of them in the
special sense in that he's going to save their souls. God sustains
all men and women and their lives here on this planet, but he gives
eternal life to his elect. So Joseph commands the blessings
to be upon these evil brethren, and he puts a curse upon his
beloved one. He commands the blessings on
these unworthy ones and puts a curse on the only one who didn't
do anything wrong. All right, let's read on. Verse
2, Joseph commanded, Put all the corn that they can carry
in their sacks and their money back in their... But put my cup,
the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his
corn money. And the steward did according
to the word that Joseph had spoken. Put my silver cup in the sack
of the youngest. Joseph had devised a plan whereby
he would continue to break and humble these wicked brethren
of his. They needed broken still. They still needed to be broken.
And he was going to prove, they showed some contrition before,
they showed some contrite spirit and heart before, that he was
going to further prove it, how broken they were. And also to
make them still consider their sin against him, against Joseph,
though they didn't know him yet. And in so doing, he devised this
plan whereby he was going to break and humble his brethren
and prove their contriteness and for their sin against him.
And in so doing, In this plan of his, he's going to finally
bring them into fellowship with him. He's going to reveal himself
to them, bring them into fellowship with him, and they're going to
love him from here on out. They didn't love him before.
They hated him. They despised him. And they rejected
him. But his goodness toward them
is going to give them repentance. And they're going to love Joseph
like they never loved him before. All by this plan of his. All
of this is going to be accomplished through Benjamin. You see the
picture? Yeah, you do. By making Benjamin
the guilty one. It's the only innocent one of
the bunch. It's the only one that didn't deserve it. He's
going to make Benjamin the guilty one. He's going to set these
guilty ones free and prove their hearts. Look at verse 3 through
5. As soon as the morning was light, and the men were sent
away, they and their asses, and when they were gone out of
the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward,
follow after the men. And when thou dost overtake them,
say unto them, Wherefore have you rewarded evil for good? Is
not this it, or the cup in which my Lord drinketh, and whereby
indeed he divineth? He hath done evil, and so do
him." And God Almighty devised his plan of our salvation. whereby he would break and humble
us." Over and over in the scriptures it says, "...to this man will
I look, to him that is of a broken and contrite heart, and tremble
at my word. I dwell with him," he says, "...that
is of a broken and contrite heart." Whoever God humbles, he will
exalt. You must be humbled before you're
raised up. of whoever is exalted shall be
abased. But if God Almighty breaks and
humbles us, he intends to exalt us. He will exalt us in due time. And it will bring forth godly
sorrow and repentance. When God Almighty brings us down
in the dust to see what we are and what we've done and our sin
against him, we've got to reach the point that David did in Psalm
51 when he said, Against thee and thee only have I sinned.
That all my sin is against God's goodness. All my sin, though
others seem to be the direct object of my sin, yet it's God
that I sinned against. I sinned against mercy. I sinned
against love. I sinned against grace. I sinned
against him, against thee and thee only have I sinned." And
he's going to bring us down, he's going to humble us, he's
going to give us godly sorrow and repentance which need not
to be repented of. True godly sorrow and repentance. And finally, through this purpose
of his, this plan of our salvation, he's going to bring these former
God-hating, Christ-hating Christ despising and rejecting sinners
into fellowship with him, and revealed himself to us, and we're
going to love him forever. We're going to love him for his
mercy and his love and his grace and his goodness toward us. How?
How does he do all this? What is it? What's behind all
this? What is it that brings this about in our lives, in our
heart? What is it? By making Christ
to be sin for us. like Benjamin. Do you know where
that verse is found? I told you that if there was
one verse of Scripture that could most clearly describe the gospel,
it would be this one verse of Scripture. Do you know where
it's found? Do you know what 2 Corinthians 5.21 says? You
need to learn it, because that's the gospel. That's the gospel
God hath made him to be sin for us. Who? Us. Who's us? Them. Lowlifes, wretched, vile,
children of wrath, even as us. God hath made him, who? The innocent one, the beloved
son, to be sin for us. Who knew no sin? He knew no sin. He was the only innocent one
of the bunch. He was numbered with the transgressors,
but he had no sin. He took upon him the likeness
of sinful flesh, but he had no sin in his flesh. Our Benjamin
was without sin, who knew no sin, that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. Christ was made guilty that we
might be justified. That's the gospel. That's the
gospel in a verse. Christ was given the cup of God's
wrath. Look at it again. It says the
silver cup. Put my cup, the silver cup. Silver
is the price of redemption. Put it in his sack's mouth. Sack
mouth in a vessel. Put the silver cup in his vessel. Scripture says we have this treasure
in earthen vessels. As a tabernacle in the wilderness,
Christ was like that tabernacle of old. It looked like an old
tent, didn't it? It was covered with, if you will,
sackcloth. That's what that old tent in
the wilderness looked like, sackcloth. But within was silver, gold, silver, and
precious stone. Christ, he said, a body hast
thou prepared me, a vessel, an earthen vessel. A body hast thou
prepared me, and Christ came and tabernacled among us. He took, I like to say, and he
took a plain brown wrapper. But within was redemption's price. Within was gold and silver and
precious stones. Do you remember our study in
the tabernacle earlier on, several, I guess a couple, three years
ago now? Do you remember what the tabernacle
itself sat in, the whole thing rested upon? Do you remember
that? Do you remember everything was set in these things, these
silver sockets? Do you remember that? They dug
holes in the ground and poured in silver sockets, and they stuck
the posts. That was the foundation, if you
were. The foundation, that upon which the tabernacle rested,
was silver. Do you know where it came from?
It was the price of redemption. Silver was the price of redemption
that was brought to pay for. It was the foundation upon which
the tabernacle stood, was stayed. And that's a picture of Christ's
blood. He said, silver, a picture of
Christ's blood. And he said here, it's the cup
that I drink out of, verse 2. Silver cup, or verse, I'm sorry,
verse 5. He said, is not this it in which
my Lord drinketh? It's a cup of the fellowship
of our suffering. We have a high priest who's touched
with a feeling of our infirmities, tempted in all points like as
we are, fellowship of our suffering. He said, The cup which my heavenly
Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? You remember that? Christ drank the cup of our suffering,
the cup of fellowship. And read on. and whereby indeed
he divineth. Is this not the cup wherein he
divineth, or my margin says he makes trial or judgment?" It's
a cup of judgment. Evidently, Joseph, when he was
about to make some serious judgment, or someone was before him and
he was holding a trial, someone stood before him. And he was
to decide whether they would go free or be incarcerated or
killed or something. He drank out of his cup for some
reason. I know the reason. It's for the sake of this type.
But he did. He brought this cup and evidently
drank from this cup in fellowship with others, but then in time
of judgment, as he pondered how he was going to deal with those
that stood before him. Well, Christ drank from that,
didn't he? The cup of our judgment. God
Almighty judged him in our place. He drank that cup of our judgment. All right, verse 6. So the steward
overtook these brethren. He says he overtook them. He
spake unto them these words. He told them what Joseph told
him to say. It's not just the cup my Lord
drank at the end wherein he devoured. You've done evil and so do it.
So this steward accuses these brethren, speaks hard things
again to them. They needed him. He spoke hard
to them again. He spoke roughly to them again.
You remember that? He spoke roughly to them. And
that's how God Almighty deals, first of all, with his people.
And then from there on out, he doesn't just keep always speaking
peace and peace and peace and peace, does it? Comfort? There's
not always comfort. Once God speaks peace, do you
remember Joseph said, fear not? Do you remember the steward said,
fear not? You're God, the God of your father. Your money is with me and so
forth. You remember that? Fear not. Come on in, let's eat. And God Almighty, when He reveals
the gospel to us, He speaks peace to our heart. The Holy Spirit
comes and speaks comfort to us and consoles us, but not from
there on out. Does it? We're still sinners,
and we still need to be spoken roughly to at times. Don't we? We still need to be, the Scripture
says, reproved, rebuked, corrected, admonished. Don't we? Our Lord spoke peace to his disciples. Constantly was saying, fear not.
The thing he said to them more than anything else was, fear
not, because they were so fearful. Remember that? The thing he said
more than anything else to them was, fear not, fear not. But
then there were times when he said, O fool, it is slow to believe
all that the prophets have spoken. Another place he said, why are
you yet fearful? He admonished him and upbraided
him. He kept saying, fear not, fear not, fear not, and they
feared, and he said, well, why are you so fearful? And he upbraided
him. And then he reproved or rebuked
him. He called Peter one time Satan. Boy, it struck fear in Peter,
I bet you didn't. Peter was full of pride and all lifted up and
all that. And because he, you know, Christ
said, Blessed art thou, Simon, Barjona, flesh and blood. And
then he said, Thou shalt be called Cephas or Peter, a stone. Upon this stone, I'll build my
church and all that. And it wasn't just a little while
later, he said, Get behind me, Satan. He said, You're a devil. Why did you say that? Do that.
Peter needed it. He needed to be broken. He got
a little above himself, didn't he? He got to thinking he was
something. See, we never rise above being
a nothing. We ever get to thinking we're
something when we're nothing. God Almighty, if we're His now,
He'll bring us down. He'll speak roughly to us again.
We need it. We need it. Well, the whole,
the steward comes and speaks these, spoke these words to these
brethren, spoke roughly to them. Verse 7. Verse 7 and 8. And they denied it. Verse 7,
They work for, saith my Lord, these work. God forbid that thy
servants should do according to this thing. The money we found
in our sacks, now we brought it to you again out of the land
of Canaan. How then should we steal of our Lord's house of
silver and gold? Well, we haven't done anything. That's right. We're self-righteous
by nature. We're self-righteous, real, just
wickedly self-righteous before the Lord deals with us. That's
the reason he has to show us our sin. Especially people who
have gone, so-called gone to church all their lives. They
reek with self-righteousness. And if God's going to save them,
he's going to have to show them that that's the worst form of
sin there is. That's pride. That's pride of
grace. Sin's bad enough, open, rebellious,
wicked, perverted acts of sin bad enough, but for someone to
be lifted up with pride thinking they're good when all their goodness
came from God, for someone to mistake God's restraining grace
for their own personal holiness, oh, that makes God especially
angry. He said, You are what you are
by my grace. The reason you're not a whore
in the gutter is because I because I restrained you." The reason
you're sitting in church this morning as a relatively moral
lady is because I restrained you. I just took my restraining
hand off of that lady down in the street. The positions could
have been reversed, God says. And it may yet, he says, if you're
not broken, if I don't break you. Well, we're self-righteous
by nature. And nobody is saved until God
breaks them. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody is going
to be saved until God Almighty shows them their utter sinfulness.
I don't mean you have to have shaking, quaking fears, laying
on your bed fearful of hell and just be just overcome with guilt
and and all of that, and have to be an out-and-out open sinner
in that sense. But God's going to show you that
you don't deserve his mercy, or you're not going to be saved.
God's going to show, and see only the guilty receive mercy.
And only the guilty, mercy only means something to the guilty
from there on out. Self-righteous people, he said,
I didn't come to call the righteous to repent. They don't think they
need to. I didn't come to call the righteous
to repentance, but sinners. Sinners. And, you know, I hope
that God Almighty, my daughter has been a role model as a child
so far. I know she's young. There's a
lot to go through. The teen years are coming. But I hope the Lord restrains
her from evil. I do. I don't want her to wallow
in sin. I want her to be restrained from
it. I don't want her to become a fallen woman per se. So if it takes, and I say this,
oh, can I say this? I think I can say this. If it
takes a terrible fall for her to bring her to Christ, I'll
say hallelujah. I will. It'll break her heart
in the meantime. But if he brings her to the end,
to Christ, it will all be forgotten and we'll say thank you. We'll
say thank you, Lord, for bringing her down. Can you say that about
your own? That's the way it is. The only
way up is down. The only way up is down. Well,
they said, it doesn't apply to us. We'd be not sinners. Paul,
the apostle, said that, didn't he? He said, well, I was a Pharisee.
I was blameless. Then the commandment came. I
was found out to be, and I died. Look what happens to these fellows.
Verse 9, the steward, or they said, With whomsoever of thy
servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be
my Lord's bondmen. Boy, they were pretty, pretty
arrogant, weren't they? Pretty presumptuous, weren't
they? Why, I've never sinned. You've heard them before, and
your liquor's never touched my lip. I've never seen. Man. God doesn't usually save
people like that. Not usually, but he did Paul. Saul of Tarsus said, I was blameless. Concerning the law, blameless.
But when the commandment came, when God finally sent that prick
of his law, I died. No more spirit in me. I found
I was worse in the worst, less than the least. They said, Well,
let him die and let us be your bondservant. Verse 10. Verse
10, the servant said, No, let it be according unto your words.
He with whom it is found will be my servant. Well, you'll be
blameless. No, whoever is found with the
cup is going to be guilty. Not going to punish everybody.
punish whoever this sin is found on, whoever is guilty. The others are going to go free,
blameless, blameless. Now I read on. Then they speedily,
well you can just look in my sack. They speedily put down
every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack
and searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest,
and the cup was found in Benjamin's sight." And they ripped their clothes.
They rent their clothes and saddled up their donkeys
and returned to Joseph, returned to the city. Oh my, what a picture this is.
God, the scripture says, God hath laid on Christ the iniquity
of us all. We've gotten down to 2 Corinthians
5.21 means something. God hath made him to be sin for
us. There's only one innocent one
of the bunch. It's Benjamin. And he was with them. He was
with them. The only innocent one was with
them. Without spot or blemish, the innocent son, the rest of
them were guilty, vile, wretched brethren, unworthy, no good,
deserving of Joseph's wrath and anger. Well, who did Joseph make
the guilty one? Benjamin. Oh, my. And Christ was made sin
for us. God made him to be a curse for
us. And realizing what he has done
for us, that ought to make us rend our hearts,
shouldn't we? You know, all of this, everything,
the whole scene, all these weeks and months and years that have
passed by, and the goodness of this man and them being found
guilty over and over again, recalling their sin against Joseph and
now Benjamin. Benjamin and Joseph were brethren,
the only true brethren of Jacob, their father. And all of this
brought about true sorrow. Surely all of their sins floated
in upon them now. And they said, You know, all the goodness that
was bestowed. Why is this happening? This is it. And then Benjamin
may give. Oh, my. This is all our fault. That's what they were saying.
That's finally what the conclusion they came to. This is our fault. Now, another innocent one is
going to be punished on our behalf. And when they reach that point,
Joseph is going to reveal himself to. And this ought to, in seeing
that Christ was the innocent one, punished for us guilty ones,
should make us rend our heart. It says they loaded or burdened
their, laded their ass. It ought to burden us with a
sense of gratitude and service. It says they return to the city.
It ought to make us return to the Lord constantly. with thanksgiving
and return to this place. Why do we come here? Oh, my. Because our hearts are broken
with our own sin and we've got a burden. We ought to have a
burden in our hearts to thank him and praise him, and we come
here and we return again to give thanks. Where are the nine? He said to those, to that one
leper that was healed. Where are the blind man? Leper. One leper. He said, where are
the nine? Were there not nine others that were healed? Where are the nine? Why didn't
they return to give thanks? Only one did. Return to give
thanks. And that's why we return here,
and not very often. One time, in Winchester, two
days away. Oh, what gratitude. Verse fourteen,
he says, and Judah speaks up again. Judah speaks up, and he
came to Joseph's house. Judah and his brethren came to
Joseph's house, and he was yet there. You read that? Look at it again. "...Judah and
his brethren came to Joseph's house, for he was yet there."
That jumped out at me. Why did it say that? Came to
Joseph's house, for he was yet there. He was still there. And
they fell before him on the ground. Well, believers, brethren, We
are found out to be sinners, and we come back. We come back
to our God. We come back to him. We come again through a mediator,
Judah. Why did it mention Judah first?
And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph. Remember, Judah was
the surety. Judah went out before them. He
said, Let's go back to Joseph's house. We've been found out again.
Let's go back to Joseph's house, and I'll go in front, and I'll
plead with him again, and I'm going to keep making intercession.
There is a picture of Christ again. We're found out to be
sinners, and we come again through a mediator, a surety, and we
fall down before God for mercy, and he's yet there. He's still there. You see that? Let us come boldly
to the throne of grace, that we might find mercy. Well, what
if God's not? What if He's not? No, He's yet
there. He's still there. Oh, He's turned His back on us.
Is His mercy clean gone, David said? Huh? Is He going to leave
off showing mercy? No, He's still there. It's still
a throne of grace, and He's sitting on it. And he'll still show mercy. Keep coming. To whom? Coming. The script. Coming. How? Sinners. Keep coming. Keep coming. He's a very present help. He's
yet there. Oh, it's great. Verse fifteen. Joseph said unto them, What deed
is this that ye have done? What do you not that such a man
as I can certainly divine? Don't you know he warns them
I can judge you? Don't you know that I can kill
you or give life? Don't you know that?" And Judah
speaks up again. And Judah speaks up again. And Christ ever lives, he says,
to make intercession for us. And God warns us, I have the
power. And this is the reason we still
fear God. We still fear God. We need to fear the Lord. And that's him. Not presume upon his mercy, but
fear him. But not a slavish fear. Remember, we still have an advocate. Amen? See, we've got an advocate
with the Father. Jesus Christ, our surety. Verse 17, and Judah said here,
and he doesn't represent Christ right here, he says, God has
found out the iniquity of thy servants. We are thy Lord's servants,
both we and he also with whom the cup is found. Let's all be
found guilty. We'll all take the blame. Verse
17, Joseph says, God forbid. that I should so do. But the
man, Marie, this is the climax. The man in whose hand the cup
is found, he'll be my servant. But as for you, you get up to
your father's house in peace. But they could have said, but
wait, he's the only innocent one. We're all guilty here. Nope.
I've spoken it. He's going to pay for the sin.
y'all gonna go free. Oh, this is not right. No, but
that's the way I've decreed it. That's the way believers believe
about salvation. They say it's not fair. They
say it's all mercy. It's not fair. Salvation is not
fair. It's not fair that God should have held his son guilty.
It's not fair what God did to his son, is it? That's the sense in which it's
not fair, isn't it? It's not fair that we should
go to heaven and others go to hell. We ought all to go to hell.
It's not fair. Salvation is not fair. An innocent
one was held guilty, and the guilty went free. It's not fair
as a judge. Always mercy. We'll take it.