Now open your Bibles with me
to the book of Job chapter 25. Job chapter 25. Now I have three
passages of scripture that I'm going to rely on heavily tonight,
all three which could serve as the text of the message. The
first one is included in our study of the book of Job as we're
going through Job verse by verse, and it's Job 25 and verse 6.
Now let's read that chapter again, just six verses. Job 25, Bildad
the Shuhite speaking. And he says, Then answered Bildad
the Shuhite and said, Dominion and fear are with him, that is,
with God. He maketh peace in his high places. What he's talking about is how
God sovereignly controls the heavens, the greatness of this
vast universe. Is there any number of his armies?
You can't number God's armies, God's power. And upon whom doth
not his light arise? God is omniscient. He sees all. He knows all. He looks on the
heart. So how then can man be justified with God? Sinners have
a right standing before a holy God. How can we who are so sinful
be saved? Be declared righteous and not
guilty before a holy God. Or how can he be clean that is
born of a woman? We're born in sin. We fell in
Adam. We're born dead in trespasses and sin. David said we come forth
from the womb speaking lies. That's our nature. That's sinful
human nature. So how can we be clean? Jeremiah
asked that question in another form. He said, Can the Ethiopian
change his skin? Can the leopard change his spots?
Then how can you who are accustomed to doing evil do any good? Verse
5, Behold, even to the moon, and it shineth not. Yea, the
stars are not pure in his sight. Compared to God, these things
are nothing. Verse 6, now here's the text, or one of them. How much less man, that is a
worm, Now the word worm there would be the word that we would
use for a maggot. That's what he's talking about.
And there he's talking about man as in his sinful nature,
born in sin, born in corruption, living off of corruption, the
total depravity of man. That's a good description of
it. And then he says in verse six,
and the son of man, which is a worm. Now the word worm there
is a different word for worm. the word there would be what
the Bible refers to as the crimson worm and we're going to talk
about that and so that's that's one text now the next one is
the is out of Psalm 22 that brother Ron read and as you know this
is this is called the psalm of the cross because this is a prophecy
of our Savior on the cross the Lamb of God dying for our sins
you notice how it started out there verse 1 my God my God why
hast thou forsaken me both Matthew and Mark reference this in quotation
of our Savior on the cross talking about that separation of the
Father and the Son as he was dying for the sins of his sheep
our sins charged to him and separated from the father what an awesome
thought that is and then this whole song launches into language
that is prophetic of the crucifixion of christ you'll see uh... later on their talks about how
they parted his garments things like that he alone by his one
offering perfected them that are sanctified he walked that
wine press of the wrath of god alone in this song states that
but the text that i want to look at is verse six of song twenty-two
this is our lord speaking this is the way we need to look at
it he says but i am aware and no man a reproach of men and
despised of the people now the word warm there is the same the
exact same word that bill that use the second one there in job
twenty-five inverse six talking about that crimson war All right? And that's where we want to go
to. I'm going to refer to this text. The next one is found in
Isaiah chapter 1. Isaiah chapter 1. And this is
where Isaiah the prophet begins bringing an indictment against
the people of Judah for their false religious practices. They're
practicing religion without grace. religion without truth religion
without christ religion without heart and he brings an indictment
in fact it goes yeah i mean he uses some pretty tough language
here i mean uh... he says if it weren't for a remnant
in juda and you know what a remnant means that means a small part
a small piece this whole nation would be just like sodom and
gomorrah now that's pretty tough language You know what Sodom
and Gomorrah was like. You know what happened to Sodom
and Gomorrah. But then after he brings that indictment, he
calls them to Christ. It's what he does. And we know
this verse very well. Verse 18. Isaiah 1, 18. He says,
Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord. This is the call
of the gospel now. And he says, Though your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, And though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Now that word
crimson there is the exact same word that is translated as worm
in Job 25, 6 and in Psalm 22, 6. The crimson worm. Many times that word is translated
scarlet also. The scarlet worm. the crimson
warm now i've been taught the title of this message to not
actually comes from isaiah one eighteen instead of job twenty
five sixteen that's what we're studying i've entitled it read
like crimson white like wool read like crimson quite like
wool but now let's let's put this in in the proper context
you know I was thinking about this as I was studying for this
message and really as I told you I got it from going through
Job and studying chapter 25 and when I was studying and researching
the wording of Job 25 I came upon this, uh, this issue
of the crimson worm. It's something I've read about
before, heard messages before, but never really got into myself.
But I got to thinking about this, you know, Christ in it's recorded
in John chapter five. And Christ standing before the
Pharisees in verse 39, he told the Pharisees that in their searching
of the scriptures, remember he said, you do search the scriptures.
that they had missed eternal life. He says, now, you know,
the scriptures, the word of God is the word of life. We know
that. The Bible itself testifies of that. We know it because the
Bible says so. We know it because of experience.
If you know Christ, if you're a believer, if you're born again
by the Spirit, then this has become the word of life to you.
This is your word of life. But he told them that in all
their searching and their researching and their study and memorization
and reading of the scripture that they had missed eternal
life. And you want to know why he said that he said because
they missed him. They missed him. Remember he
said you do search the scriptures for in them you think you have
eternal life. They are they which testify of
me. In other words, the Scriptures
testify of Christ and the Scriptures are the word of life because
Christ is our life. If you read the Bible and you
don't see Christ, you missed it. Now that sounds very simplistic,
but it's just true, isn't it? That's the truth. And my friend,
that includes the Law of Moses. You know, the Law of Moses was
not a legal way of salvation. It was a testimony to the sin
and depravity of man. You're guilty. You deserve to
die. No hope in the law. That's what the law of Moses
was about. But Moses wrote of me, Christ said, over later on
in John chapter 5. He said, if you'd believe Moses,
you'd believe me. Moses wrote of me. And then that
includes the writings of the prophets. Isaiah and Jeremiah. Isaiah there's talking about
Christ. and how salvation is in Christ. Though you be red like crimson,
red and crimson, scarlet, crimson being the color of sin there.
Somebody mentioned that last week when we were talking about
like the red heifer, that's the color of sin. You shall be white
as wool, white being the color of righteousness and holiness.
How can a sinner Red with sin, crimson with sin. How can he
be white like wool? White as snow, he says here.
And the answer is in Christ, and by the blood of Christ, by
the righteousness of Christ. We don't know the exact date
of the events of the book of Job, for example, but it was
probably written, probably happened around 2,000 years before Christ
came to this earth. We'll say that conservatively.
We can't pin it down. It doesn't matter. Man has the
same problem in every age, doesn't he? Whether it's 2,000, 4,000,
or yesterday. Same problem. Sin is our problem. But just to put it in context
here, Job, probably about 2,000 years ago, 2,000 years before
Christ, rather, came. So it would be 4,000 years ago
for us. Psalm 22, that Brother Ron read there, was written nearly
1,000 years before the crucifixion of Christ. Isaiah prophesied
around 700 years before the coming of Christ. And yet Job, in Job
chapter 25 there, Bildad, that man Bildad, he posed the question
of questions. It's the same question in every
age. How can a man be just with God? There's your issue. Well,
Psalm 22 provides the answer to that. It really provides the
answer in the first verse. Christ, the Lord of glory, the
God-man, the substitute, the surety, crying out, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? That's substitution. That's satisfaction
there. That's imputation. That's representation. That's
everything that he accomplished on behalf of his people. If God
forsook him for a people, then those people cannot be forsaken.
And why did God forsake him? Because of our sin charged to
him. So then how can God not forsake us? Because we're not
charged with sin. We have a righteousness that
answers the demands of God's law and justice. Where do you
find that? In the blood of the Lamb of God. Now come, let us
reason together. Sayeth the Lord. Though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they
be red like crimson. Now, The perfect sin-bearing
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ is the answer. And in Psalm 22,
it's recorded as a prophetic event that would take place one
day on Calvary. And it has taken place. We look
back on that great event, the crux of redemptive history. God
purposed and predetermined the death of his only begotten son
for the redemption of his people, his elect. And they're identified
in Psalm 22. He calls them a seed, a seed
shall serve him, a generation generated from him. He's the,
he's the generator of the new creation. God sent forth his
son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were
under the law. Psalm 22 is that great chapter
of the Bible that tells us about the suffering and death of Christ
1,000 years before he actually gave up his life on the cross.
That's amazing to me. Don't let things like that just
wash over you. I think they're amazing. I think
that's great. That's astounding to me. Verse
1, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? In the gospels of
Matthew and Mark, Jesus cried out those same words while hanging
on the cross. The Lord Jesus Christ. Now, in
Psalm 22 and verse 6 there, listen to it again. Here's what he says,
Psalm 22 and verse 6. Here's the Lord of glory. Now
I want you to think about this. Here's the great I am. Christ
is the great I am. You remember he said that? Remember
when they came to arrest him? He said, I am. And they fell
back. Here's the great I am making,
here's a statement. Now if this doesn't cause you
to sit up and think and wonder in amazement, I don't know what
will. If this doesn't do it, you can't
be impressed. I just can't impress you. But
here's the great I am saying in verse six, I am a worm. Isn't that something? That word,
as I said, it means crimson or scarlet. He says, I am a worm.
The most common word for worm in the Hebrew language is the
first one that Bildad used in Job 25 6 when he made that statement
about man. When he says, how much less man
that is a worm. That first word, that maggot
there, that's the most common word. Again, it refers to the
sinful depravity and wretchedness and corruption of man by nature.
And certainly. certainly is not uh... not given
out to flatter us and to build us up but that second word worm
that bill dad uses that our lord uses psalm twenty-two the word
crimson as isaiah uses it that's used in the same word to describe
sinful man by nature in the in the cesspool of depravity and
sin yet here The perfect sinless God-man in Psalm 22 6 describes
himself as such. Now here's the one who knew no
sin. That's what the Bible says about
Christ. He knew no sin. He was never touched. He took
our sins. He bore our sins. He bore our
griefs and our sorrows. Our sins were fully and really
charged to Him, but He was never touched by our depravity. He
was never touched by our contamination. That's part of our fallen human
nature. Yet he was tempted like as we
are, yet without sin. And when he took the place of
his people on that cross, he remained the spotless Lamb of
God without blemish. Yet he refers to himself here
as a worm, the crimson worm. Now, how can that be? Now, it's
easy for men to reason in their own limited knowledge and foolishness
and say, well, he became a sinner. No, that's not what he's saying.
He wasn't changed into a literal worm. We know that that's silly. He didn't become sinful. I even
heard one man preaching from that. He said he became what
I am. No, he did not. He said this,
he said, he became what I am so that I can become what he
is. That's a lie. Now he was made sin. That's true,
but he didn't become what I am. Do you know what I am? Let me
tell you what I am. I'm a sinner. You know what a
sinner is? A sinner is a murderer, an adulterer. Did Christ become a murderer,
an idolater, an unbeliever? Did he become an unbeliever?
There wasn't one word of unbelief spoken on that cross. He didn't
become what I am. And I don't become what he is.
He's God-man. You know, from here on, well,
he's always been, always is, always will be much, much greater
than what we are or ever will be, even in our justified state.
We're made the righteousness of God in him. We have his righteousness
imputed, charged to us. but we're not what he is he's
the king of kings he's the lord of lords folks if you mess up
that that distinction between the savior and the saved you're
gonna mess up in the whole scripture now let me tell you but this
is what this this still amazing how can he say I am a worm what
what what is this all about Let's not try to speculate on it. Let's
not speak out of our ignorance and let's not even have a think
tank on it because that's a think tank. I'll tell you what a think
tank is on stuff like that. It's a cesspool of ignorance
and sin. There's a much deeper meaning
here than one any man can explain. And the only way we're going
to have any idea of what he's talking about here is to go to
what he says in the Word of God and see what he means. And what
we have here is in this crimson worm. And like I said, it's not
a very pleasant subject, is it? But what you have there is a
picture of Christ in His humiliation and in His death as He bore the
sins of His people to the cross of Calvary. The great I am cries
out, I am a worm and no man. You know, when build that back
there in Job 25, when he stated the son of man was a worm. And when David spoke prophetically
in Psalm 22, Christ saying, I am a worm. As I said, that's remember
that's a specific kind of worm. And it certainly was not the
maggot, the word used for fallen man. What is the significance
of the crimson worm? Well, bear with me a little bit,
and I want to tell you about this crimson worm. I want to
give you some... You know, God's testimony in His Word, He testifies
of His greatness and His glory even in nature. Now, He does.
That's not to say that sinners are saved by looking at trees
and rocks and hills and all that. That's not what I'm saying at
all. But there are testimonies to God's grace in nature. And this is one of them. This
worm was a very special worm. In fact, it looked more like
a grub than a worm. It's still around today over
there. In fact, it's nothing much to look at, you know. It's
like what Isaiah described in our Lord, you know, when we esteemed
him not. He would he grew up as a tender
plant over there in Isaiah 53 as he he starts out talking about
how man by how men in unbelief look at Christ and It said he
hath no form nor comeliness No outward beauty this worm has
no outward beauty He's like I said like a grub that we should desire
him. He's despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows acquainted
with grief That's that's in other words an outward appearance What
much to look at? In Hebrew, it's a particular
female worm called the crimson worm. And listen to this now.
Let me give you some facts on this. And I want to show you
how this is related as a type of Christ, a picture of Christ.
When it's time for this female crimson worm or the mother crimson
worm to have babies, which she does only one time in her life,
she only has one time, what she does, she finds the trunk of
a tree. a wooden fence post or a stick, some people say, but
usually a tree. And what she does, she attaches
her body to that wood and makes a hard, red, crimson, scarlet
shell. And she's so strongly and permanently
stuck to the wood that she can never be removed without tearing
her body completely apart and killing her. In other words,
that's it. Once she goes to that tree, and
attaches herself to that tree, she's not coming back in that
sense. And this crimson worm climbs
on that tree by itself. No one forces it up there. No
one puts her up there. She does it willingly. She finds
it. Usually, they called it the Kermes
Oak. And that's what she would attach
herself to. And she attached... It's kind of like it was her
destiny always to do that. And it's kind of like it was
her desire to do that. And I'll tell you what, isn't
that a great testimony in time of the Lord Jesus Christ who,
because of his covenant obligation, his destiny, our sins charged
to him. And because of his love of his
people, willingly attached himself to a wooden tree, the cross of
Calvary. He said He was oppressed and
He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth. He's brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as sheep before their shears
is done, so He openeth not His mouth. He didn't argue, He didn't
debate, He didn't fight, He didn't fuss. He said in John chapter
10, He said He lays down His life willingly. No man takes
His life from Him. He did it willingly. It wasn't
the nails that kept Him on that cross. Did you know that? It
was the glory of His Father and the love of His people. It's
said in John 13 and verse 1, He loved His own unto the end.
Why? Just like that crimson worm attached
herself for the sake of the birth of her young. That's what she
was doing. Christ died willingly under the
obligation of dead as it was charged to Him and He did it
because He loved His people. He wasn't forced. This crimson
worm knows when it climbs on the tree, it will not come back
down alive. It's going to the tree to birth
a family. And to do that, it has to die. Well, our Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing all things, still was willing
to die on the cross to birth a family. The good shepherd gives
his life for his sheep. Over in Psalm 22, in verse 30, It says, a seed shall serve him. What is that seed? That's his
children. How were his children birthed
in that sense? Out of his death on the cross,
just like the crimson worm. He said, it shall be accounted
to the Lord for a generation. That's his generation. That's
his people. We talked about this morning
how Christ was made sin, he who knew no sin for us that we might
be made or become the righteousness of God. That word be made, the
righteousness of God in him, that's a generation, that's a
generating. Our being, the righteousness
of God in him, being made the righteousness of God in him is
the result of his death, just like that crimson worm. Her death
on that tree brought about the birth of her young. And it says
in verse 31 of Psalm 22, they shall come and shall declare
his righteousness unto a people that shall be born that he hath
done this. That's the new birth. That's
spiritual life given by the Holy Spirit. This crimson worm then lays her
eggs when she attaches herself to that tree permanently. She lays her eggs under her body
and under the protective shell. And when her babies hatch, they
stay under that shell, that crimson shell. You see, when she does
that, she secretes that crimson color. And they stay under that
shell. And they don't come out. They're
under her protection. And that's the way it is with
Christ's children, the children of His power. We're under the
blood of Jesus Christ, safe in the shepherd's fold, under the
blood of Jesus, safe while the ages roll. Under that blood,
there's no sin that can touch us as far as condemnation is
concerned. Under that blood, there's no
charge. Our record is clear. We're washed white in the blood
of the Lamb. Our sins are... Did you hear
what Jesus said to me? They're all taken away. My sins
are pardoned. I'm free. They're all taken away. And not only does her body protect
her babies, but it also provides them with food. They feed on
the living body of the mother. And that's why we feed on Christ,
the living Christ. We feed upon him as the bread
of life. He is our life. And during the
birthing process, this crimson worm secretes that crimson fluid
or gel, covers her entire body and all the eggs that she lays,
also leaves a stain on the tree that never fades away with time.
Once she's been there, you can always tell she's been there.
And that's the way the blood of Christ is to his people. The
blood of Christ stained him, the cross, and all of us which
are saved, and it never lose its power. Dear dying lamb, thy
precious blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed
church of God be saved to sin no more. Now concerning this
crimson worm, after just a few days when the young worms grow
and live and the mother dies, And as the mother crimson worm
dies, she secretes a crimson or scarlet red dye, which not
only stains the wood that she's attached to, but also her young
colored scarlet for the rest of their lives. That's their
color for the rest of their lives. And listen to this. After three
days, that dead mother crimson worm's body loses its crimson
color, and it turns into a white wax, white as snow. which falls
to the ground like snow. What do you suppose that pictures
in our Savior? It pictures that righteousness
that He accomplished on Calvary through His death. Though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they
be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Christ sacrificed
Himself on a tree so that His children would be washed with
His crimson blood and their sins cleaned white as snow and covered
in his white robe of righteousness imputed to them he died for us
that we might live for him and here he says it Psalm 22 he says
but I am a worm verse 6 I am a worm what's he focusing on
here in this Psalm prophetically and then when he repeats these
words on the cross of Calvary he's talking about his suffering
He's talking about his passion. They talk about the passion of
Christ. You know what that's about? He
was passionate about what he was doing. He set his face like
a flint, the scripture says, for the glory of his father and
the salvation of his people. He compares Himself right here
in Psalm 22 to this crimson worm that we've been talking about.
Fixed to the wood of the cross, that's what Christ is. His blood
ran down and stained it red like crimson. But you know what the
result is? The result of His sacrifice was
that our sins were washed white as snow, borne away. Let me give you just a couple
more things of interest about this crimson worm. And these
are scientifically proven things about this crimson worm. After
dying to birth the family in this crimson worm, something
amazing takes place. For a period of three days, the
worm can be scraped from the tree and the crimson gel can
be used to make a dye. And you know what they used that
dye for? That was the dye that made the red or crimson or scarlet
color that was used in the tabernacle and on the priest's garments.
Isn't that something? You can read about that in Exodus
chapter 39, verse 28 and 29 about the priestly garments. And after
its shell turned to a wax as white as snow, they could still
harvest the wax. And you know what they used it
for? Shellac. Shellac is a preservative. It's
a covering that preserves. Another good picture of the righteousness
of Christ. The righteousness of God in Him,
imputed to us, which will never diminish or never fade away.
An eternal, everlasting, unchangeable righteousness that gives us a
perfect, complete, right standing before God forever and ever and
ever and ever, dot, dot, dot. A dot, dot, dot's an ellipsis.
That means you can't stop it. It just goes on. And also, when
they crushed this white wax, it had a sweet, very fragrant
smell. Well, Christ, being crushed under
the wrath of God for his people, is a sweet-smelling savor of
life unto life, isn't he? And also, one other thing, this
crushed worm, it was also used to make medicine. Well, Christ
is the healer of all our diseases. He's the only one that has the
power to break the curse of sin and save our soul from destruction.
By his stripes, you're healed. We're healed. Now, let me give
you something else. Now, what a great picture of
Christ that is. He says, I am a worm, like the
crimson worm. Now, come, let us reason together.
That's what Isaiah said. Let me give you something else.
Look over at Mark chapter 9. Do you know there is, in the
Bible, probably about three times, this crimson worm mentioned,
but in these passages that I want you to look at, the worm never
dies. Never dies. Look at Mark chapter
nine. Look at verse 43 of Mark chapter nine. This is the
Lord speaking and he makes this statement. He made these statements
in the Sermon on the Mount. He said, if I hand offend thee,
cut it off. It's better for thee to enter
into the life maimed than having two hands to go into hell, into
the fire that never shall be quenched. Now you know that he's
not talking about literally cutting off limbs. You remember in the
Sermon on the Mount, he talked about the eye. If thine eye offend
thee, pluck it out. First of all, we know from scriptural
testimony that would not take care of the matter of sin. You
can cut off every limb you've got and you're still a sinner.
You can poke out every eye and you're still a sinner. But what
he was doing, he was showing by symbol there the source of
sin and proving to men, you can't take care of this problem. This
problem of sin is too big for you and it's too big for me.
Religion won't do it. It won't do it. But look what
he says in verse 44, he's talking about the fire that shall never
be quenched, verse 44, where the worm dieth not. That word
worm, there's the crimson worm that we're talking about. The
worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. He says it again,
verse 45, and if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It's better
for thee to enter a halt in the life than having two feet to
be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched,
where the worm dieth not. And the fire is not quenched.
Christ referred to this in his preaching three times. What was
he doing? Well, turn back to Isaiah 66.
I know I'm having you turn to a lot of scripture here, but
this is important. Turn to the last verse of the book of Isaiah. And that's what he's quoting.
The last verse of the book of Isaiah. Here, Isaiah actually ends on
a positive note talking about how the people of God, and it's
a prophecy of the church, the people of God in the future,
coming to Christ. Israel had forsaken Christ. Judah
had forsaken God. But God's going to have a people,
a remnant according to the election of grace, and they're going to
come and they're going to worship Him. But look at verse 24 of
Isaiah 66, the very last verse. He says, and they shall go forth
and look upon the carcasses. Now you know what a carcass is,
that's a dead body. They're going to look upon the
dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me. Now
we're all sinners, but here he's talking about those who died
in unbelief. In other words, their sins are
charged against them. You see, in Christ, we have no
charge against us. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? In Christ, we're accounted righteous
before God. But here's men whose dead bodies,
they died in unbelief. They died without Christ. They
weren't washed in his blood and clothed in his righteousness.
And he says, for their worm shall not die. Same word, worm. neither shall their fire be quenched
and they shall be an abhorrent unto all flesh what's he talking
about well think about this crimson worm christ said i am a worm
and no man talking about his humiliation his death what if
the crimson worm doesn't die you know what that means means
no life for the children it means nothing but death it means eternal
Punishment and that's what Christ was talking about in Mark chapter
9 and in other places where he quoted this Isaiah 66 in verse
24 he's preaching and quoting a description of eternal damnation
Described in the final verse of Isaiah here, and here's what
he's saying. He's saying without the death
of the crimson worm Without the death of Christ there is nothing
for a sinner, but eternal damnation That's right. Christ, the crimson
worm of God's covenant, died for our sins. He took our eternal
damnation upon himself and quenched it. But here without Christ,
the worm will never die. The fire will never be quenched.
Eternal damnation. Ah, but not for the people of
God. Turn to Isaiah 41. Look here. What about for the people of
God? He says in verse 10 of Isaiah
41, we read it at the beginning, Fear not, fear thou not, for
I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy
God, I'll strengthen thee, yea, I'll help thee. Yea, I will uphold
thee with the right hand of my righteousness. You know who the
right hand of the righteousness of God is? It's Christ. He is
the right hand of God's righteousness. He says in verse 11, behold,
all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded.
They shall be as nothing. They shall, they that strive
with thee shall perish. He goes on about that. But he
says, look at verse 13, for I, the Lord, thy God will hold thy
right hand, saying unto thee, fear not, I will help thee. Look
at verse 14, fear not thou worm, Jacob, same word, crimson worm. What's he saying there? He's
identifying the people of God, for whom Christ died, for whom
the crimson worm was crushed, with Christ. We're identified
with... Fear not thou worm, Jacob, and ye men of Israel. I will
help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel. You see, Christ has redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Yes,
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree, just like that crimson
worm attached herself to that tree and died. Our Savior attached
himself to that cross and died. He was made a curse for us, but
his death wasn't the end. He arose again the third day.
that red crimson worn, that shell turned white. Righteousness was
established and the blessing of Abraham comes on the people
of God. Christ who his own self bare
our sins in his body on the tree, that we being dead to sin should
live under righteousness by whose stripes we are healed. You see, I don't think Bildad
had any inkling of an idea of what he was saying. Based on
his testimony back there in the book of Job, he didn't know the
answer to the question of how then can man be justified with
God. But he stated it out there when
he mentioned that crimson worm and didn't even know it. You
know, even unbelievers can sometimes speak truth and not even know
the significance of it. That's the sovereignty and power
of our God, isn't it? But what did Isaiah say? Come,
let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they'll be white as snow. Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be like wool. Red as crimson, white like wool. How? In Christ.