All right, let's turn back in
our Bibles to Jeremiah. Book of Jeremiah, chapter 8.
And I'll ask you to bear with me all the sniffing and coughing
and all that, trying to fight off a cold. I've been around too many sick
people, that's what. So we get it. All right, let's look at Jeremiah
chapter. We're going to conclude this chapter concerning five
serious questions. Five serious questions. These
questions, you know, sometimes you've heard of a rhetorical
question. And that's basically what these
are. Now, these questions do demand an answer, but these questions
are aimed at teaching lesson a very serious lesson that's
why I called it five serious questions showing forth our need
of salvation by the grace of God in Christ he asked why have
the people backslidden why is that the state and the nature
of man continues because we're sinners And if the Lord don't
save us, and if he doesn't hold us and keep us, preserve us,
then we will all perish. Isn't that the case? Salvation's
of the Lord, it has to be. We cannot save ourselves. And
then he asked that question, how do you say we are wise and
the law of the Lord is with us? It speaks to the pride of man.
By nature, we're proud. self-righteous, thinking ourselves
to be wise. The Bible says, thinking ourselves
to be wise, we're fools. Man seeks any and every way of
salvation but the one right way. That's what Romans chapter 3
speaks of. When it says, there's none that
seeketh after God. They've all gone out of the way.
There's no fear of God before our eyes. And then, the third
question, why do we sit still? In other words, we, we, and that
speaks to man's false refuge. We sit comfortably in this world
in our own ways when times, especially when times are going, going well.
Sometimes when we're hit with adversity, such as fatal diseases,
we might stand up and get busy, but we always go the wrong way.
Unless the Lord God comes and reveals himself to us, isn't
that right? that this is the false sense of security that
the people of judah and jerusalem have the wrath of god was coming
and it was a sure thing now they'd gone past the point of no return
and so god asked this fourth question through jeremiah he
says why have they provoke me to anger and that speaks to man's
unbelief and idolatry look at verse eighteen Jeremiah shows
forth a lament here. A sorrow. The sorrow of the... And I told you last time, this
reminds me of our Lord weeping over Jerusalem. Oh, Jerusalem,
Jerusalem. He says, when I would comfort
myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. In other words,
I find no comfort in men. That's what Jeremiah is saying
there. There's no comfort in this world for a child of God. There are times of comfort for
the unbeliever. They won't last. But when you
look at this world and the sorrows of this world, the state of man
by nature, there's no real comfort there for a believer. That's
why we're not of the world. That's why we're strangers in
a strange land. We know that this world and everyone
in it is dying, perishing. And so Jeremiah, he says, my
heart is faint within me. Verse 19, behold the voice of
the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell
in a far country. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not
her king in her? And then that's when he asked
that fourth question. Why have they provoked me to
anger? And with their graven images,
their idolatries, with their strange vanities. God is a jealous
God and he will not share his glory, you see. And then in the
last part here, here we come to the fifth question. And listen
to how he introduces this question. He says, the harvest is past.
That means nothing's left. The summer has ended. The time
of fruitfulness has ended. And we are not saved. Isn't that
sad? For the hurt of the daughter
of my people am I hurt." Now here's Jeremiah's lament again. He says, I am black. That's a
color that represents sadness and sorrow and death. That's
what he means. Astonishment hath taken hold
of me. He's just amazed that it could.
Haven't you looked at our country here in the last several years
and just been amazed at things. That's what Jeremiah is saying
about his country. And here it's on the brink of
destruction. But he asked this question. Here's the fifth question.
He says, is there no bomb in Gilead? Is there no physician
there? Why then is not the health of
the daughter of my people recovered? Is there no balm in Gilead? Now
this question speaks to man's only hope of salvation. And that is Christ, the great
physician. This balm in Gilead or balm of
Gilead is another name, one of those many, many, many names
in the Old Testament of our Savior. For Christ is the balm of Gilead. Just like he's the rose of Sharon,
he's the balm in Gilead. Gilead was a town, I think it
was about north of Jerusalem, and it was well known for a type
of tree that grew in abundance there. This tree grew all over,
but it seemed to grow in abundance there, and it produced what is
called here a balm, or a resin, or a rosin, which was made into
an ointment that was used widely and greatly for healing. It had great healing properties. It was a precious ointment. And
it was used to heal all manner of wounds and diseases. And it's a picture, just like
the balm and gill, it's a picture of Christ, the great physician,
and the healing power of his precious blood to heal us from
sin, from the disease, the deadly disease of sin. It's a type of
His precious blood in the healing of all sin for it's through the
blood of Christ that all our sins are put away, taken away,
which means that the guilt and the defilement of sin that keeps
sinners in bondage is taken away by Him. Peter wrote that we're
not redeemed with things of the earth that men hold dear like
silver and gold and the traditions of men. He says, but we're redeemed
with the precious blood of Christ. How powerful is that blood? We
sing the song, what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the
blood of Jesus. And it can, and it does. It has
washed away our sins, hasn't it? Now the case in Judah and
Jerusalem can be illustrated here in many ways, but I want
you to turn to Mark chapter five with me. Here's an episode in the historic
record of our Lord's earthly ministry in Mark chapter 5, in
which he was going about preaching the gospel and healing the sick. And he was on his way at this
point in time, here in Mark chapter 5, to heal a man's daughter. And it says in verse 25, look
at Mark chapter 5 and verse 25. It says, and a certain woman. Now don't you just love how a
lot of times the scripture when our Lord encountered these certain
people that it says a certain man or a certain woman. Because
it shows you that God's grace is specific. God's grace is aimed
at His people. It's not just some kind of a
general amnesty if men want to choose it, like people present
the gospel or what they call gospel today. But it's a powerful
arrow aimed at a specific person. And we thank God, thank God that
he's chosen a multitude which no man can number. but it's still
a certain man, a certain woman. And he says, and a certain woman
which had an issue of blood 12 years. That's hemorrhaging. A
lot of commentators speculate on what exactly the disease is.
I don't know what it is. It doesn't say, but she was bleeding
12 years. You think about that. And look
at verse 26. And she had suffered many things
of many physicians. They tried to put her through
treatments for 12 years and had spent all that she had. They
took all of her money, not unlike today. And it says, look here,
it says, and was nothing bettered. She didn't get any better. They
couldn't heal her. They were powerless to do so.
And look at the next line, but rather grew worse. Now that is
a great picture there this woman with the issue of blood before
now you know the Lord's going to heal her you've read this
story before you've heard many messages on this but her state
before the Lord healed her is a great picture of the state
of Judah and Jerusalem spiritually in Jeremiah's day. Her state
Her case before the Lord healed her is a great picture of our
state by nature in sin and depravity. Some people say, well, that doesn't
go far enough because we're dead. Well, listen, the Bible puts
it in different ways, doesn't it? That's the wisdom of God.
Don't ever think you're wiser than God. He knows how to put
things, doesn't he? And he's just showing here, he's
making a point. And yes, we're dead in trespasses
and sins by nature. But the Bible also says we're
sin sick. We're like this woman with the
issue of blood. We try to heal ourselves. We
do have some physical life. We don't have spiritual life.
And we use that physical life in a sinful way, acting in the
flesh, trying to save ourselves by our works. And what happens? And we'll spend all our money
and all our time, and we'll suffer of many false shepherds, false
preachers, and spend all that we have, and we're nothing bettered.
And in fact, we grow even worse. Because, and that's a great picture
of the false refuges that Jeremiah's talking about here. Oh, that
woman. Well, back here in Jeremiah chapter
eight, Judah and Jerusalem were just like this woman with the
issue of blood. They had prophets, but they were
lying prophets. They told them what they wanted
to hear instead of what they needed to hear. What if that
woman with the issue of blood had gone to one physician and
that physician said, Oh, you're not sick. You're fine. Go on
your way. Now that's what she wants to hear. And now what you
want to hear when you go to the doctor, you got a pain. You go
to the doctor, what do you want to hear him say? You want to
hear him say, you're fine, nothing wrong, go home, live a good life. That's what you want to hear.
But what if you've got a cancer? Starts out so small and then
grows and spreads. He didn't tell you the truth.
He didn't tell you what you needed to hear. And that's the problem
with these people in Judah and Jerusalem. As far as we know,
there were just a few prophets, very few now, Jeremiah and maybe
a few others, that were telling them what they needed to hear.
But let me tell you something. The great physician, the Lord
Jesus Christ, He doesn't tell me, and thank God, listen to,
thank God that he sent a man to tell me not what I wanted
to hear, but what I needed to hear. He told me about the holiness
of God. about how this holy, sovereign,
righteous judge must punish all sin unto death. That's the righteous
and only right payment for all sin. The soul that sinneth, it
must surely die. He told me that I was a sinner.
I thought I was pretty good. I knew there were people better
than me. Don't get me wrong. I didn't think I was the best
of the best, but I thought I was pretty good. I thought I'd done
enough to be saved. But this man stood up here and
told me that I hadn't even come close. In fact, my efforts to
do my best to be saved drove me farther away from God. That
it did not make me righteous, it did not wash me clean from
all my sins. And this man told me there's
only one cure for sin. Only one way, and that's through
the great physician, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the balm of
Gilead. That precious ointment is His
blood alone, nothing else. The waters of baptism wouldn't
do it. Church membership wouldn't do it. Trying to live a good
life wouldn't do it. Prayer and meditation wouldn't
do it. Reading my Bible wouldn't do it. Nothing would put away
sin but the blood, the blood, the blood of the Lamb. And that's
it. That's that balm of Gilead. And
think about this. And you know, here's the saddest
part. Look back here, Jeremiah 8. Here's the saddest part of
all of it. Listen to what he says here.
Look back up at verse 20. The harvest is past, he says. The harvest symbolizes the end
gathering. That's when they went out and
they gathered in the crop. That's the harvest. Well, that's
past. And what he is saying is, the
day of salvation has passed here. Look, he says, summer has ended.
Summer is the season of life when everything is in bloom.
But that is over, he says. What is he teaching? Then he
says, and we are not saved. We are not saved. What is he
telling them? Jeremiah is saying, it is too
late to save Jerusalem. It is too late to save Judah.
God's wrath is coming through. And my friend, this is a lesson
in a spiritual way to show us that there's coming a time when
the day of salvation will be over. There'll be no more salvation. Christ spoke to his disciples
and he said, the harvest is ready but the laborers are few. Pray
that the Lord will send laborers to go in. What's he talking about?
Preaching the gospel. God's people. The harvest is
ready. He's going to gather them in.
And He sent the gospel to the Jews first and then to the Gentiles. And He raised up His people.
He brought them into the kingdom. They've been chosen of God and
redeemed by the blood, justified in His righteousness and as the
result of that righteousness, the fruit of that righteousness.
Romans 8, 10. Remember what He says? This body
is dead because of sin. But the Spirit is life because
of righteousness. The Holy Spirit comes and through
the preaching of the Gospel, He gathers them in in the new
birth. He calls them in. But there's coming a time when
that day is going to be over. Look at that passage that Brother
Bill read, Isaiah 55. This is exactly why I had him
read that. There's the call of the Gospel in this chapter, Isaiah
55. Verse 1, ho, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters. He that hath no money, come ye
buy. In other words, this is a free gift. You can buy this
without money. You say, well, that's not really
buying. That's exactly right. This is grace, friend. This is
mercy. You don't have what's required
here, but there's one who does. And here's where he says it,
he says, come ye, buy and eat ye, come buy wine and milk without
money, without price. Why do you spend money for that
which is not bread, labor for that which doesn't satisfy? Hearken
diligently unto me and eat ye that which is good and let your
soul delight itself in fatness. That means health. That's what
that means, that fatness there means health. Incline your ear
and come unto me he says Here in your soul shall live and I
will make an everlasting covenant with you And here's here's how
it all comes about even the sure mercies of David now. There's
another name for the Lord Jesus Christ Christ is the sure mercies
of David. He's the mercy seat but he goes
on and look at verse 6 of Isaiah 55 he says seek ye the Lord and
All right, seek ye the Lord. Now look at the next line, while
he may be found. Now when the harvest is past,
when the summer is ended, if you're not saved, then there'll
be no salvation. Seek ye the Lord while he may
be found. Call ye upon him while he's near. When may he be found? right now,
friend, when the gospel of God's grace in Christ is preached.
That's right. When is he near? When the gospel
of God's grace, the gospel is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone that believe it, to the Jew first and the Greek
also, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed. Seek ye the
Lord while he may be found. Psalm 34, 18, let me just read
these to you. He says, a few verses here. He says, the Lord is nigh unto
them that are of a broken heart, and save us such as be of a contrite
spirit. Now back over there in Jeremiah
chapter 8, all those five serious questions show that these people
were not of a broken heart. In fact, Jeremiah says you're
uncircumcised in heart. In other words, these prophets,
they heal your wounds slightly, and they say, peace, peace, but
there is no peace. You see, the Lord is nigh unto
them of a broken heart. Who breaks that heart? God does. He breaks that heart over sin
and brings us to see our need of Christ and makes us a penitent. sorrow over sin. Let me read
you this, Isaiah 61, this is a prophecy of Christ. In fact,
this is the passage that was read in his hometown synagogue
in Nazareth when he stood up and said, today this prophecy,
this word is fulfilled before your eyes. And he says in verse
1, the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath
anointed me to preach the good tidings unto the meek. Preach
the good tidings unto the meek. The meek are those who are submissive.
Now, who makes us submissive? God does. We won't submit of
our own free will. Don't let anybody fool you on
that. You won't do it. It's the power of God that brings
a sinner down into the dust. Isn't that right? Where we need
to be. And it says, he has sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. Through
how? To preach the good tidings. How
God saves sinners? Through Christ. By His grace. Let me read you one more. Ezekiel
34 and verse 16. The Lord says through the prophet,
I will seek that which was lost and bring again that which was
driven away and will bind up that which was broken and will
strengthen that which was sick but I will destroy the fat and
the strong. I will feed them with judgment.
Are you sin sick? Broken hearted? And the Lord
spoke of a time of judgment when he would separate the sheep from
the goats. The day of salvation is over.
He said, Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 6 and verse 2, he said, I've
heard thee in an accepted time and in the day of salvation have
I succored thee. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Now Jeremiah says here, the harvest
is past. The summer's over and we're not
saved. Well, it's too late. Just like
that rich man in hell, too late. Remember he lifted up his eyes
in hell and he said, he said, Father Abraham, he said, send
back Lazarus to tell my brothers about this so that they won't
end up where I am. Remember what, what they, what
God said to him? He said, he said, they have Moses
and the prophets. Huh? They have them. If they
won't hear Moses and the prophets, they won't hear the one rise
from the dead. Now what are we doing right now?
Preaching the gospel. We're preaching Moses and the
prophets. We're preaching the apostles. We're preaching Christ.
Now's the day of salvation. Time is passing. Soon it'll be
too late. When will it be too late for
a person? Well, at death, it'll be too
late. At His second coming, it'll be
too late. When the harvest is passed, you
know what? There's nothing left when the harvest is passed. And
that's why Jeremiah's sorrows here in verse 21, for the herd
of my, the daughter of my people, there's no hope for them now.
This is a hopeless situation right here to save that physical
city and physical nation, Judah and Jerusalem. It's beyond hope. But, he says, and this is something
else, but is there no bomb in Gilead, he says? Is there no
physician there? Well, the answer to that question
is yes. It's like somebody who's sick
unto death with a physical ailment and they won't take the cure.
You know, there's these religions, some of them call themselves
Christian, who don't believe in taking any medical treatment.
when it's there and they do it upon biblical they claim it's
upon because they that would destroy their faith and my friend
that is foolish that is foolish who do you think created and
allowed and brought forth in divine providence the means of
physical healing that we use now he may bless it to our physical
healing he may not But people who do that, there's the cure,
and it's sad, especially children. You know, parents who won't let
their children take medicines and things like that because
they say, well, we have faith in God. That's so sad, isn't
it? And that's what Jeremiah is saying here. There's a cure.
Well, it's the same way in salvation for sinners. There is a cure.
There is health. There is balm in Gilead. There
is a physician, and oh, he's a great physician. He can heal
our disease. He can raise us from the dead.
Is there no bombing Gilead? Well, there is. And His name
is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Great Physician. And He can and
He does heal all who come to Him with this disease of sin.
He said, Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I'll give you rest. Look over at Exodus chapter 15
with me. You know, many of the names of
our Lord, compound names of Jehovah. We see them Jehovah Shalom, that's
Jehovah our peace. Jehovah Sid Canu, that's Jehovah
the Lord our righteousness. Remember back here in Exodus
15, when Moses was leading the children of Israel through the
wilderness. In verse 23, they came upon a
place called Marah. Mara you know what Mara means
it means bitterness bitterness and it says in verse 23 of Exodus
15 listen to this when they came to Mara they could not drink
of the waters of Mara for they were bitter and therefore the
name of it was called Mara bitterness what a what a there's another
picture of our sin sickness our depravity And he says in verse
24, and the people murmured against Moses saying, what shall we drink?
And he cried unto the Lord and the Lord showed him a tree, which
when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. And
there he made for them a statute and an ordinance. And there he
proved them. He tested them. Now you know
that tree is a picture of Christ who was cast into the bitter
waters. He was a tree cast into the waters,
the bitter waters of sin. He was made sin, Christ who knew
no sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God.
And He made those waters sweet by purifying them with His own
precious blood. That's how He did it. And it
says in verse 26, and Moses said, if thou will diligently hearken
to the voice of the Lord thy God, and will do that which is
right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments,
and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
thee which I brought upon the Egyptians. For I am the Lord
that healeth thee. There's Jehovah Rapha. That's Jehovah our healer. The Lord heals. the Great Physician. Now how suitable is this name
to describe our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, in taking our sins
to Himself and making an atonement for them? By His stripes you're
healed, the Scripture says, Isaiah 53 and verse 5. Look at Psalm
103, I quote this Psalm all the time, or part of it. But listen,
this Psalm expresses in a very simple way how He heals us. And listen to in Psalm 103, look
at verse 1. It said, Bless the Lord, O my
soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless
the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgiveth
all thine iniquities, and who healeth all thy diseases, now
that's talking about our spiritual diseases, who redeemeth thy life
from, he does it by redemption, the redemption of blood, who
redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with loving
kindness and tender mercies. And one more, turn over to Malachi,
the last book of the Old Testament. Listen to how our Lord is described
here. in Malachi chapter 4, the last
words of the Old Testament, verse 2. And he says in verse 2, but unto
you that fear my name, fear the name of God, shall the sun, notice
it's S-U-N, the sun rises in the east, sets in the west, gives
off light. Everything in our solar system
revolves around the sun, that's a picture of Christ. The son
of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. And you shall go
forth and grow up as calves of the stall that is ready to burst
out of the stall full of life. That's what that means. Verse
three, you shall tread down the wicked. They shall be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith
the Lord of hosts. The Lord heals our diseases. In the book of Revelation chapter
22 and verse 2, let me read it to you. It says, in the midst
of the street, that's the street of heavenly Jerusalem, and on
either side of the river, that river that runs through the middle
of it, everything, here's a picture of Christ, it says, there was
a tree of life, which bared twelve manner of fruits, and yielded
her fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations. Christ the healer. eternal and
spiritual health in our salvation by Him. The psalmist prayed,
God be merciful in us and bless us and cause his face to shine
upon us that thy way may be known upon the earth, thy saving health
among all nations. Book of Proverbs, the wise man
said, be not wise in thine own eyes, fear the Lord and depart
from evil. It shall be health to thy navel and marrow to his
bones. There's healing in His Word,
Proverbs 420. The wise man says to his son,
my son, attend to my words, incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let
them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thine
heart, for they are life. His Word is life unto those that
find Him and health to all their flesh. Healing. His word is a
healing word. The scriptures are able to make
us wise unto salvation. His words are the words of life.
You remember Peter said that, to whom shall we go? You have
the words of life. I don't want to go to a quack.
I don't want to go to some doctor who's going to tell me what I
want to hear. I want to go to the great healer, the great physician,
the Lord who heals. Proverbs 13 and verse 17, speaking
of His word and its healing power. It says, a wicked messenger falleth
into mischief, but a faithful ambassador, an ambassador of
Christ, is health. He'll tell you what you need
to hear. He'll point you to Christ for salvation. He'll point you
away from religion. He'll point you away from self
and self-righteousness. He'll point you to Christ. And
then there's healing in His righteousness. Turn to Isaiah 58. Look at this
passage with me. There's healing in His righteousness. Sin brings death. Righteousness
brings life. That's what the Scripture teaches.
Isaiah 58, look at verse 8, talking about the coming of Christ, the
promise of Christ. It says, then shall thy light
break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth
speedily, and thy righteousness shall go before thee. The glory
of the Lord shall be thy rearward. That's what that is. In other
words, the glory of the Lord's going to go before you, and the
glory of the Lord's going to come after you. It's going to
head you in and keep you safe and healthy. That's what he's
talking about. Righteousness. I quoted this
before, Romans 18. If Christ be in you, this body
is still dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because
of righteousness. That's the unction, the anointing
of the Holy Spirit. Now back over here in Jeremiah
8, let me just conclude with this. He asked this question
at the end. Now is there no bomb in Gilead? Yes, there is. There's
Christ. He's a ready Savior. He's an
able Savior. He's a willing Savior. You want
spiritual health? Run to Christ. You want righteousness? Run to Christ. Salvation. And
he asked this, why then is not the health of the daughter of
my people recovered? Well, he's already answered that
question. Why? It's because of the sins and
the state of this people as described in the first four questions.
sin and depravity, self-will, stubbornness, pride, false security,
no fear of God. We could go on and on and on.
And my friend, but for the grace of God, that's us, isn't it?
That's us. You will not come to me that
you might have life, Christ told the Pharisees. You will not come
to me for health, for safety. You know, There's blessings in
Christ. But why will people not come
to Christ? Well, because they've not seen
their sin. You see, in order for us to come
to Christ, we've got to know we've got a disease. We've got
to know our sickness. That's why the Holy Spirit in
Regeneration, one of the first things He does, it says He convinces
us of sin because we believe not on Christ. Christ said, you
are they which justify yourselves before men, but that which is
an abomination, which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination
to God. We have to be taught. Remember
he was eating with publicans and sinners in Matthew chapter
9 and Mark and Luke it's recorded too. And the Pharisees come along
and says, why does your master eat with such people like that?
And the Lord heard him say it and he looked at him and he said,
the whole need not a physician for I came not to call the righteous
but sinners to repentance. That's the reason men and women
won't come because they don't know their sinfulness. They don't
know their depravity. They don't know their need. Also, they've not seen their
hopelessness in themselves. They'll dwell in pride and self-righteousness. They'll get religion. They'll
do what some preacher tells them to do, but they won't come to
Christ. And then also, they've not seen
the glory of God in Christ. Paul or Saul of Tarsus saw the
glory of God in Christ on the Damascus Road, didn't he? And
then he saw his sickness. He saw spiritual death. And you
know how it was evidenced? He said, I was a Hebrew of Hebrews,
a Pharisee of Pharisees, circumcised there. All those things that
he thought recommended him unto God. All those things that he
thought healed him spiritually and took care of the sin matter
and made himself righteous before God. He said, I count them all
but lost for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord. And do count them but dung that
I may win Christ. You know, people look for healing,
but they look for it in all the wrong places, don't they? The
Jews sought after righteousness, but not by faith, but as it were,
by works of the law. There's no healing in the law.
There's only healing in Christ. And one other thing, you know
that word recovered there at the end of the chapter? It's
an interesting word. If you look it up, you'll see
it's the same word that is sometimes in the Old Testament translated
offered or an offering. For example, when Abraham was
going to offer up Isaac on Mount Moriah in Genesis 22, and you
remember when he raised his hand and he was going to plunge the
knife into that boy, and God stopped him and he turned around
and they saw a lamb for an offering, same word, recovered, an offering
there. It's the same word that was used
when Noah built an altar in Genesis 8 and verse 20 and offered sacrifice. Now, I don't know if there's
any direct connection here, but you might have it in your concordance.
It might say the word gone up. Well, here's the fact of the
matter, that if there's going to be any healing of our problem
of sin, it's going to have to come from above. and it's going
to have to come through an offering unto the Lord one that meets
all the qualifications one that has all the power to heal me
and save me from my sin and there's only one place that that's going
to come from and that's in Gilead through that balm not speaking
physically but typically the Lord Jesus Christ the great physician
who heals the sick