Good evening and welcome to our
study in the book of Zechariah. Would you turn with me tonight
to the book of Zechariah chapter 3, Zechariah chapter 3. We've been going through this
book and it's just been a glorious study as we see the different
aspects of the gospel found here as Zechariah, the preacher, the
prophet, the evangelist, the minister of the gospel sharing
the good news with those that had come back from Babylon. And here in Zechariah chapter
3, we are caused to view a high priest by the name of Joshua.
Seems to be in some respects a vision or a dream It's a it's
a picture and it's a type in a shadow There may have been
a real Joshua that was the high priest there But what is is said
about this Joshua is of great importance we notice in verse
1 and he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him
and And the Lord said unto Satan, now that Lord there, if you notice
in your Bibles, it's capital L, capital O, capital R, capital
D. And that is the word that's been
used in our translation for Jehovah. So Jehovah said unto Satan, the
Jehovah rebuketh thee, or the Lord rebuketh thee. O Satan,
even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not
this a bran plucked out of the fire? Now it's interesting, as
we've noticed in the past, that the Lord deals with the situation
of Satan standing at his right hand to resist him or to bring
up things to the brethren, to accuse the brethren, as it's
mentioned over in the book of Revelation. This being that is
mentioned here, this Satan, is a created being. And I want to
reemphasize again, as we've said in the past, that this being,
created by God, is God's creation, and is used by God, and he is
God's Satan. Now there's some things about
Satan that we need to keep in mind. He is not omniscient. He doesn't know everything. He
doesn't know what's in your mind. It doesn't matter what some preacher
has told you. Satan does not know what's in
your mind. He may know natural man, but
he doesn't know what's in your mind. Satan is not omnipresent. He can't be everywhere at the
same time in the world. That belongs to God. These attributes
are God's attributes and it is a crime. It is a sin. It is blasphemy to apply these
attributes to this created being. He is not omnipotent. He cannot
do all things. I don't know how many times I've
heard in the past, and it continues to go on, that every bad thing
going on in people's lives and in the world is caused by Satan. My friends, if God uses Satan
to do that, he's still God's Satan. God worketh all things
after the counsel of his own will. Now it is by God's providence
that Satan is here, and it is by God's rebuke that Satan departs,
and it is emphasized three times in verse two that Jehovah emphasizes
who is in control of this, and that is Jehovah, that is God. I rebuke thee, O Satan. And he
goes on to share with us, even as he instructs Satan in his
departure, I have chosen Jerusalem. I have an elect people. I have
an elect people that I will pull as a brand out of the fire. And
this man that is standing before me, this Joshua the high priest,
is one of those that I have plucked out of the fire, that I have
delivered in the covenant of grace. and you cannot touch him. He may have illness, but that's
the result of the fall. How much God uses Satan on his
people is something I don't completely understand, but I know this,
that he cannot touch God's people without direct permission. We
have that illustrated in the Old Testament in the book of
Job. And we also find out in the New Testament that God put
away him who had power over death, that is Satan, that is the devil. So there is something very precious
in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15 with regard to the serpent,
with regard to Satan, with regard to the devil. Our Savior is going
to bruise his head or put him out of the way of all of the
elect. The Lord said that in verse 2. And then in verse 3, we have
these wonderful words that are brought out here. Joshua, this
Joshua, just as much as the Joshua that's mentioned over in the
book of Exodus and that leads the children of Israel into Canaan
land, that Joshua, this Joshua, their names mean Savior, And
both of them had the same problem. Joshua, the one mentioned in
the book of Joshua, or in the book of Exodus there, that led
the children of Israel into the promised land, into Canaan land,
that man, if he sat down with us tonight, And he was permitted
to speak. He would declare to us that he
was simply a sinner saved by grace. He had the same problems
that we have. He had the same birth that we
have. He had the same relationship to Adam that we have. And he
was a sinner, a fallen sinner, one that fell in Adam. and needed
salvation just as any of God's elect need. So this Joshua we
find here, he had the same problem and it's illustrated here in
these words in this passage of scripture. He had his clothes,
Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the
angel. And he answered and spake unto
those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy
garments from him. Who but the Lord Jesus Christ
could say as this, I will cause thine iniquities to pass from
thee? Notice that in verse four, it
goes on, unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thy iniquity to
pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. Now let's look at that tonight
for a short time. As we notice the Lord speaking
here, he's the only one that has the ability, he's the only
one that has the authority to speak like that. I will cause,
I have caused thy iniquity to pass from thee. What a blessed
statement that is. And we find, let's look at a
couple of verses in the New Testament along this line. The book of
Hebrews. chapter 9. Would you turn with me there
to the book of Hebrews chapter 9? How often we find something
in the book of Hebrews that helps us with Old Testament situations
and Old Testament verses, particularly when we are studying the book
of Leviticus or studying the law. But here in the book of
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 24, We have this this statement made
as it says for Christ Hebrews chapter 9 verse 24 for Christ
is not entered into the holy places Made with hands now. We have a temple that's built
rebuilt there in Jerusalem We have the service started even
though they didn't have all the parts or pieces in the holy place
in the holy of holies that they once had they had it set up and
we have a high priest and no doubt he has been active in participating
in the services there at the temple in Jerusalem after the
70 years of Babylonian captivity and here we have in the book
of Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 24 for Christ is not entered
into the holy place made with hands which are figures of the
true but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of
God for us so when this high priest Joshua found in the book
of Zechariah entered into the holy place or into the holy of
holies it was a figure he's it's typical it's pictorial this is
not reality this is not going to be salvation here This is
a picture and a type of the shadow of that. And verse 25 here in
the book of Hebrews chapter 9, for yet that he should offer
himself often as the high priest entered into the holy place every
year with the blood of others. So every year this is going on. That's one thing that we've noticed
as we look at the high priest and the other priests in the
Old Testament that were doing service at the tabernacle and
later at the temple that they When it came to their responsibilities
in their priestly office, they never finished it. It was always
there for them next day. It was always for them there
the next month. And every year, the high priest
went into the Holy of Holies, and he took blood, animal's blood,
in there and sprinkled it. And we find that this priest,
no doubt, had been participating in that, or soon would, as they've
got the temple reconstructed and the offices going. And then
in verse 26, for then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world. Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ,
if he's a mere man, he must have suffered since the foundation
of the world, but now, once in the end of the world, hath he
appeared to put away sins by the sacrifice of himself. Now
over there in the book of Zechariah chapter 3, we read there in verse
4 that the Lord said, I will cause iniquities to pass from
you. Here we have the Lord speaking
to us through The writer of the book of Hebrews, and it tells
us about him, he said that he put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. And that's a real putting away.
It's not hanging it over our head every day. It is a real
putting away of sin. And the believer is so thankful
for that, that that sin has been dealt with, and it has been dealt
with completely. It's not just a salve over the
sore. It is a completely taking care
of the issue, and that is putting away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. There in Hebrews chapter 9 and
verse 26. And as we look again in the scriptures,
the book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, there
in the book of Revelation chapter 1, beginning with verse 4, we
have these words shared with us as John was going to be writing
this great book of Revelation, the book of the Lamb. The Lamb
is mentioned here in the book of Revelation as the Lord Jesus
more times than any of the other places in the New Testament.
It's a glorious book. It's a victorious book. It's
a book of success. It's the book of the success
of the Lamb in all his activities against sin and on the behalf
of the church. And here, very early in this
book, we have John was used to record these words. Revelation
chapter one, verse four, John, to the seven churches which are
in Asia, grace be unto you and peace. from him which is, and
which was, and which is to come, the Lord Jesus, the only one.
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He had a mission,
he has accomplished the mission, and he will be back from his
mission, which is to come, and from the seven spirits which
are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of
the kings of the earth, unto him that loved us. Notice this,
him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. This is a wonderful promise that
God has made to us through the Lord Jesus Christ, that he will
cleanse us or wash us or loose us from our sins in his own blood,
or because of the shedding of his blood, because of his own
death on the cross, he can put away sin. And that's what he
shared with us back there in the book of Zechariah. We notice
there in Zechariah chapter three, And verse four, let's just go
there for just a moment, Zechariah chapter three and verse four,
let's just notice what the Lord said here, the only one that
can say things that would deal with sin, who but the Lord Jesus
could say as this, I have caused thy iniquity to pass from thee
and I will clothe thee with the change of raiment. The reason
that we have Joshua mentioned as having dirty
clothes is Zechariah was permitted to see farther than just the
clothing that he had. Just as we find, you know, if
you ever have been saved by the grace of God, if you've ever
been born again, if you've ever had that peace that passeth all
understanding, If ever we ever quit depending upon an experience
or upon a church or upon that stuff, if we have been saved
by the grace of God, then we have a heads up about what's
wrong with everyone in our family, about what's wrong with all of
our neighbors. And that is, they're sinners, they've fallen in Adam.
They have the same problem that we had when God came to us and
saved us by his grace. We have a heads up. We know what's
wrong with our children. They're sinners. And by the grace
of God, and only by the grace of God, will they ever be saved.
So we have this problem. We'll never educate them out
of that problem. We'll never, ever, whether it's
in Christian schools, people have told me that they want to
prevent their kids from falling into the bad habits that go on
in the world. Well, I'm sure that there are
certain things that they'll be prevented from seeing or hearing
or doing, but they cannot eradicate the problem of the heart wherever
you send them. And so they have a problem. And
it's been among grace people, and grace people alone, that
I've noticed that this is something that they just naturally say,
God is right on this issue. Well, Joshua had a real problem,
and that problem was he had fallen in Adam. But we have this great
declaration that the Savior shares with regards to him, I will cause
thine iniquity to pass from thee. Turn with me to the book of Psalms,
if you would. Psalm 31, Psalm 31. Let's back up a little bit here.
We find this wonderful subject everywhere in the Bible, the
work of the Lord. the work of salvation, that he
is able to save. He is powerful enough to save.
He's powerful enough to put away sin. He's God and he came in
the flesh. In the book of Psalm 31, Psalm
31, we have there in verses 1 and 2, would you turn there with
me? It says, to the chief musician, Psalm of David, in thee, O Lord,
do I put my trust. Let me never be ashamed. Deliver
me in thy righteousness. Bow down thine ear to me. Deliver
me speedily. Be thou my strong rock for a
house of defense to save me. Now, the psalmist is sharing
with us here, as we find so many times through the Psalms or through
all the books of the Old Testament or the New Testament, The authors
that God had saved, those holy men of God that spake as they
were moved by the Holy Spirit, they all realized that the Lord
was their defense and he had saved them. This is what he tells
Joshua there in the book of Zechariah, chapter four. Sin is not counted
as much in a self-righteous natural state. Oh. I used to get more mad at my
brother for reporting the fact that I had taken cookies out
of the cookie jar, then I got mad at myself for doing it. He
was the rat. and he ratted me out. And that's
generally what we find when people are caught doing something that's
wrong, they find fault with the person who pointed it out to
them. And you know, that's just so
common to do, but we find through the scriptures that when a believer
is pointed out as having an issue, that they are like David, against
God, and God only have I sinned. So we have sin is just a very
small thing to most people in the natural self-righteous state.
But when a soul has once seen God in Christ by faith and that
the only way God could deal with sin was Jesus putting sin away
only by the sacrifice of himself, our self falls to the ground. Our self-righteousness falls,
it's taken away. It took the death of the Lord
Jesus Christ to do what is mentioned here in the book of Zechariah
chapter four and verse three there and four with regards to
Joshua. I will remove, I will take away,
I will pass your sin from you. Turn with me if you would to
the book of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter six. This passage
of scripture has been great thoughts for our many studies, and it's
just good to have it brought up from time to time as we look
at Isaiah's life and we look at how the Lord dealt with him. We have a lot of good things
said here in the book of Isaiah. Brought out truth is spoken and
then we come to the chapter 6 here and we find that Isaiah when
the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord now look with
me at verses 5 and 6 and 7 here in the book of Isaiah Isaiah
chapter 6 verse 5 after he had seen the Lord he said I Woe is me, then said I, woe is
me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and
dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for my eyes
have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. My, the word is like
a fire that breaks the rock to pieces. The very next thing that
happens here in verse six, Jeremiah mentions that in chapter 23 and
verse 29, my word is like a hammer and like a fire. Here in verse
six, then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,
which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. Now let's
just be reminded what an altar is. The true altar is not a piece
of wood at the front of a church. The true altar is not a box used
around the temple or the tabernacle where sacrifices remain. The
true altar is the person, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is only
one altar, Christ. So we see here a picture of grace
from Christ coming to a wretched sinner and cleansing. This is
the Lord's act alone to forgive sin. The messenger cannot Cannot
but only the director can the one that brought it could not
forgive sin but the coal from the altar the word from the altar
brought by and Delivered by God Almighty. It says here. He put
that coal upon his mouth and said lo this hath touched thy
lips notice now and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin is
purged. Now friends, did you see what
that says? Isaiah and everyone that God
has ever worked this work of grace, Everyone that God brings
to salvation brings to Christ brings to the true altar brings
to to Hear the Word of God. He says thine iniquity is taken
away and Thy sin is purged Thine iniquity is taken away now. It's taken away as far as the
East is from the West and In verse 7 it says, And he laid
it on my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, but
the result of it is found there, thy iniquity is taken away. Do you remember what John said
as he saw the Lord Jesus at a distance? He had a number of disciples.
John the Baptist had a number of disciples. And they're walking
along, and by God's infinite mercy and grace, by God's providence,
by God's goodness, one day as John is walking along with his
disciples, he sees the Lord Jesus and his words that came out of
his mouth. And I can just see him as he
turned to those that were following him. John was one of those odd
guys that said, I must decrease and he must increase. Don't look
to me for salvation. Don't look to me for glory. Don't
depend upon me." He said, Behold the Lamb of God which takes away
the sin of the world. This wonderful promise is brought
out. And in Romans chapter 6 and verse
23, we read those awful words to begin with. It says, For the
wages of sin is death. Let's just look at that Romans
chapter 6 in verse 23 the Apostle Paul was led by the Holy Spirit
He's a holy man of God Was moved by the Holy Spirit to write the
Word of God and here in the book of Romans chapter 6 as he as
Paul is led by the Spirit to bring such wonderful truths out. And a lot of people were stumbling
over the truth. A lot of people that Paul was
writing to, they were stumbling over the truth. They just stumbled
at the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's the natural
thing to do. It is just natural to stumble
over the gospel. And it's so wonderful when the
lights are turned on, when our eyes are caused to see and our
hearts are caused to comprehend, to see the gospel and realize
it is a person, the Lord Jesus. Here in the book of Romans chapter
6 and 23 is Paul is explaining the real problem, and then he
goes on to tell the real answer to the problem. For the wages
of sin is death. That is the wages of one sin. Now, we may say, you know, I'm
going to do better tomorrow, but what about all this yesterday
and today? Who's going to take care of that?
Well, we find out That's the responsibility that's laid upon
us, that without grace, without the gospel, without Christ, without
his salvation, all that will be answered by us, and it will
be an eternal answering. Well, to the elect, he said this. But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. But the gift of God is
eternal life. What a glorious statement. The
wages of sin is death, but there's a gift that God gives, and it's
an unmerited gift. It's a gift that we can't procure.
It's not a gift that we can buy. It's not a gift that our righteousness
has anything to do with. It's a free gift. It's free grace. There's no strings that we have
attached to it that God is going to notice what we have to do.
This is a free gift. It is the gift of God. It is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Turn with me just a
little further here in the New Testament again, back to the
book of Hebrews. Hebrews there, in Hebrews chapter
8 and verse 12, Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 12, the God of heaven
said this. For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember
no more. That's the promise of God with
regard to sin. That's the promise that God gives
us because he has put away sin. There was nothing in Joshua's
person or possession, being a high priest, in his life, in his service,
in his tears, in his prayers, or his righteousness that could
cause his iniquity to pass from him. All our efforts just actually
make us sin more, so we're having more hanging on us. But it's
only the grace of God that can deal with this. Now that word
that we found there in the book of Zechariah, let's go back to
Zechariah for just a moment, and then we're going back to
the book of Exodus. But there in the book of Zechariah chapter
three, notice with me when the Lord said this. He said there
in verse four, behold, I have caused thy iniquity to pass from
thee. Now, God has taken care of it.
The Lord has taken care of it. He took care of it for Abel. Now, I have a personal opinion
about Adam and Eve that the Lord saved them by His grace. We don't
have the clear record about it as we do with Abel. and many
other people in the Old Testament. But we do have what the Lord
said to Joshua, I will cause thine iniquity to pass from thee. Excuse me, I have caused thine
iniquity to pass from me, and only the Lord can do this. Now
that word pass is found several times in the Old Testament, and
one of them is found in the book of Exodus, Exodus chapter 12. Would you turn there with me?
Exodus chapter 12. Well, if you remember correctly
and you do Exodus chapter 12 has to do with a great event
in the lives of the Israelites that were in bondage in Egypt
Exodus chapter 12 and there in verse 12 it says here now God is sharing with Moses what's
going to happen. Now, God didn't make this up
as he's going. He's purposed it before the foundation
of the world. He purposed those people to be
in bondage for 400 years. They're not there by mistake.
They're there on purpose. He told Abraham that they would
be there 400 years. And the day that the children
of Israel left Egypt, It's recorded that they left the self same
day, 400 years later. Now God doesn't do anything by
mistake. He is not trying to keep up with
what's going on in the world. He's taking care of it way ahead
of time. He's not reactive. He's proactive. He has purposed all things after
the counsel of his own will. Here he said, for I will pass
through the land of Egypt. Now he's already instructed the
Israelites what to do. And to the house, all of those folks that were
in Goshen, that were Israelites, all those folks had blood on
the lintel and the doorposts. Every one of them. To the house.
Why? Because they're a picture of
the elect. Now we have a whole bunch of non-elect people that
God is sharing with us here, and he will deal with it in time.
He said, for I'll pass through the land of Egypt this night
and will smite all the firstborn of the non-elect of the land
of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt,
and I will execute judgment. I am Jehovah. I am the Lord. I'm gonna do this. Verse 13,
and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where
ye are. And when I see the blood, now
he's passing from the non-elect in judgment to the elect in grace. Notice this, and the blood shall
be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And when
I see the blood, I will pass over you. Now that's a different
word, but here we have this whole concept that the Lord said, I'm
going to go through the land and I will judge Egypt. I will judge those that are without
blood. And when I get to you, I have
already judged that house through a substitute. There was death
there. That was a death of an innocent
lamb and his blood was displayed on the outside. And God said,
as I now, He didn't have to pass through the land. We have that
benefit to us. He's showing us his care for his people He could
have just done that from heaven. He could have done that from
eternity. In fact, he purposed it from eternity But here he
said and when I see the blood I will pass over you and the
plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the
land of Egypt what a absolute blessing it is that God has fixed
it so that his people, his elect, will not face that judgment. How glorious, how blessed that
is. Now, join me, if you would, in
the book of Exodus chapter 15. This is some time later. The
children of Israel have left, left Egypt, and they have got
to a place where they ran into the Red Sea, and on one side
of them is a mountains and The Red Sea is in front of them and
behind them here comes the host of Egypt here comes Pharaoh and
his army horses and chariots and soldiers and It really put
the folks in a dither now when God opened up that Red Sea and
they walked through on dry land and They got through, and you
know what happened. God released that great flood,
and all those folks drowned. Now, take time to read the 15th
chapter of the book of Exodus, but I just want to read a couple
of verses down here, verse 16. This is Moses' prayer, his prayer
of thanksgiving, his song, his song, his hymn, his hymn of thanksgiving. Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound that saved a wretch like me. This is a hymn of thanksgiving. It's a hymn of praise. It's a
hymn of grace. In verse 16 of Exodus chapter
15, fear and dread shall fall upon them. By the greatness of
thine arm they shall be as still as a stone till thy people pass
over, O Lord, till the people pass over which thou hast purchased. Notice that? God's grace is to
those he has purchased. Joshua was evidence to have been
purchased by the words of God to him, by the word of the Lord,
I will pass your iniquities from you. I have passed your iniquities.
And then thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain,
O thine inheritance in the place, O Lord, which has made for thee
to dwell in the sanctuary, O Lord, which by thy hands have established."
What a promise is brought out as Moses presents this wonderful
Him this wonderful song now this sin passed from Joshua Let's
go back there for just a moment Zechariah once again the book
of Zechariah chapter 3 Zechariah chapter 3 and there in verse
4 Just as we read that the Lord God Almighty passed through the
past over Egypt and inflicted that great judgment upon them.
He came to the blood and he was satisfied. Now here we read,
I will pass through the land. Here in the book of Zechariah,
it says there in chapter three, chapter three and verse four,
it says there in the last part, behold, I have cleansed thine
iniquity Excuse me. I have caused thy iniquity to
pass from thee Now there's only one way that this could have
happened. There's only one way sin passed
from Joshua Not to oblivion not out into the desert like it's
pictured with the scapegoat That's a wonderful picture But in reality,
sin must pass from the sinner to the substitute. Sin must pass
from Joshua to Christ. Sin must pass from you to Christ. That's the only way that it can
be taken care of. Sin passed from Joshua to Christ. Christ to his iniquity. took
his iniquity upon himself. He did not become a sinner, but
he took sin upon himself. It was imputed to him and it
was removed from Joshua, but it was placed upon the Lord Jesus
Christ and in his death on the cross, in his agony and death
on the cross as a lamb on an altar was consumed by the fire
when it was finished, when Christ said it is finished on the cross,
he had taken that sin that had passed to him and it had been
so dealt with in the consuming fire of God in his wrath that
there was nothing left of that sin. It is spoken of in the scriptures
that our sin is taken as far as the east is from the west.
Now it's not on us. It is taken from us. Now we have
in our flesh this old sin nature and we'll take it to the grave.
God saw fit in his marvelous act of grace not to save our
flesh. At this time, we still deal with
it. It is still ages. It aches. And
our mind, even in our dreams, our mind during the day, preparation
for this coming Sunday's message, I was reminded of the Lord saying
at the last communion service there, the last Passover in the
institution of communion, he said, one of you is going to
betray me. And you know what all of his disciples said? Is
it I? Is it I? And when Judah said,
Is it I? And Jesus said, Thou hast said.
He didn't say that to the rest, but they knew they were capable.
That's the thing about a believer. We know, except for God holding
on to us, except for God leading us, directing us, upholding us,
we'd be gone. We just need that absolute care
that the Lord gives us, the support, the uplifting, the carrying.
He must take care of our sin. So this one, Joshua, is spoken
of as the Lord spoke to him. He said, I have caused thine
iniquity to pass from thee. Where did it go? It went on Christ. In that day of agony, And then
it just puts more meaning to his words when he spoke from
the cross. It is finished. Sin is put away. That's what
we find. Sin is put away by the sacrifice
of himself. He put away sin. Sin had passed
from Joshua to Christ. took his iniquity upon himself,
removed it as far from the east as from the west, free and full
pardon was given to everyone that God saves by his grace. So what a glorious statement
that we find here. And then it tells us in this
passage of scripture, it tells us in the latter part, and I
will clothe thee with a change of raiment. Well, that just opens
the doors for the next study when we look at Isaiah chapter
61 where it says we're given a robe of righteousness. And
it's a robe of righteousness is Christ. It's his righteousness.
It's not something that he puts around us. Something that he
is to us. He is our righteousness. And
so we'll go on and we'll look at that Robe that's given to
his uncle of you It tells us I'll give you a change of Raymond
Oh how we started out and how he was accused and how the accuser
is shut up Rebuked thee the Lord rebuked thee the accuser was
shut up we have no more comments out of him the one that brought
the accusation is judged and Joshua is declared that I will
take your iniquity from you. I'll pass it from you. I'll Assume
it to myself I will have the sins of my people imputed to
me on the cross and as a result of that I give you my righteousness. He becomes our righteousness
in such a glorious manner. So we'll look at that next time.
We're able to get together that robe of righteousness that was
given to Joshua here. And I thank you for your time
tonight and may God bless you as we go through this life and
as we're permitted from time to time to study his glorious
word. Amen.