Now, in Zechariah chapter 13,
it's a short chapter, but understand that chapters 12, 13, and 14
of the book of Zechariah is really one message. It's his last message
to the people of Jerusalem, the people of Judah. It's one message
that speaks of a day. He keeps saying over and over
again, in that day, in that day. Verse 1 of chapter 13 opens the
same way, in that day. And he's speaking of a day of
God's grace. A day of God's power and goodness
shown toward his chosen people. The remnant according to the
election of grace. Many people believe that these
verses are restricted to the Jewish nation. I don't. I believe
they're They speak of God's people out of every tribe, kindred,
tongue, and nation, Jew and Gentile, which makes up the true Israel
of God. But either way, I know this.
I know this, that God has a people, a remnant of grace out of the
Jewish nation. He has a people, a remnant of
grace out of the Gentiles, and he's going to bring them all
together eventually under the headship of Christ. And so this
is a day of salvation. Here we see another grand example
of one of God's prophets pointing the people of his day to Christ,
to the future, to the coming of the Messiah, and what he would
accomplish on Calvary by his death, his obedience unto death,
to put away our sins and to establish the only righteousness whereby
God could be just to justify the ungodly. And that's what
all of God's preachers and prophets do. They point sinners to Christ. He starts out here in verse 1,
In that day there shall be a fountain opened. I've entitled the message
tonight, A Fountain Opened. And this fountain is a specific
fountain. It's speaking of a saving view
of the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Emmanuel, the
God-man. a saving view of the cross, the
atonement, the redemptive work of Christ, the shedding of his
blood, his precious blood, which is his death, which is the righteousness
of God in him, whereby we who are so sinful and so wretched
in every way are saved by God's grace and mercy and preserved
under glory, though we don't deserve it. He talked about it
up in verse 10 of chapter 12 about a day when he would pour
upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the spirit of grace and supplications. Grace is God's undeserved favor
and blessing in Christ. Supplications is the cry of a
convicted sinner crying out for mercy, God save me else I perish. That's what supplications is.
And that's what this fountain opened represents. The fountain
is the blood of Christ, Christ himself, the fountain of blood
that was shed for our sins. That fountain being open means
that we who are so sinful and who are so wretched in ourselves,
who know our sins by the power of the Holy Spirit, have free
access to Christ. This fountain is the fountain
of the blood of Christ. This is the verse that the dear
brother who wrote that great hymn, There is a Fountain, was
reading when he penned that hymn. There is a fountain filled with
blood. drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunged beneath
that flood lose all their guilty stains. When God the Lord pours
out his spirit of grace and supplications, as he described up in the first
part of this message in chapter 12, when he pours out his spirit
of grace and supplications on the house of Israel and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, When God's people in Israel and God's people among
the Gentiles look upon Christ, remember he says up there in
verse 10, they shall look upon me whom they have pierced. When
we look upon Christ and mourn for him, mourn over our sins
that put him on that cross, then there'll be a fountain opened
unto us. God the Lord by his spirit will
show us a saving view of Christ and Him crucified, a saving view
of His blood for the cleansing of all our sins as we read over
in 1 John chapter 5. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanses us from all sin. Sin's past, sin's present, sin's
future, original sin, any aspect of sin that you can think of.
It goes on to say in verse 9, if we confess our sins, now who's
going to confess our sins? Those whom the Lord God pours
out His Spirit of grace and supplications. That's the only ones who's going
to confess that we, by nature and by practice, deserve nothing
but God's wrath and that based on our best. that's what we're
going to confess that if God would be just to send us all
to eternal death based on our best and it says if we confess
our sins verse 9 he God is faithful because he made a promise that
he's faithful to but he's also just You see, the soul that sinneth
must surely die. God must be just when he justifies. God must be righteous when he
forgives sin. He's faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now,
how is that possible? By this fountain, this blood
of Emmanuel, Emmanuel's veins. Think about it. Then there shall
be a fountain open and we'll see a saving view of Christ and
his righteousness for our justification. And as I said, that fountain
being open means that it's easily accessible and free to anybody
who wants it, anybody who desires it. Over in the book of Revelation
22 and verse 17, the apostle wrote, and the spirit and the
bride say, come. and let him that heareth say
come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him
take of the water of life freely you know what happens when God
the Lord pours out his spirit of grace that's the Holy Spirit
giving life in the new birth and his spirit of supplications
upon a sinner, he makes that sinner thirsty for righteousness
which can only be found in this fountain opened, only be found
in Christ. Blessed are they who hunger and
thirst after righteousness. They will be filled. How? Because they'll see it in Christ,
the fullness of the Godhead bodily and our completeness in him.
Christ said, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden
and I'll give you rest. When God the Lord pours out his
spirit of grace and supplication upon a sinner, you know what
he does? That sinner becomes heavy laden,
laden with sin, laden with self-righteousness, so laden that he knows that he
cannot bear that burden. So what does he do? He embraces
Christ and finds rest. a Sabbath in Christ. It says
back up in verse 10, they shall mourn. This fountain opened brings
a sinner to mourn. Christ said, blessed are the
poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed
are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. This mourning
will end in rejoicing because that's what the fountain opened
is all about. You see, it's not a mourning
to despair, but it's a mourning, a crying, a sorrow that brings
us to the foot of the cross. It brings us to see our sins
nailed to that tree in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It
brings us to see that precious blood which put all of our sins
away by paying our debt to God's law and justice. and enabling
God to be just when he justifies us. This morning will end in
comfort. The prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 40
in verse one, he says, comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith
your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem
and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity
is pardoned. for she hath received of the
Lord's hand double for all our sins our sins put away righteousness
imputed we stand before God accepted in the beloved that's the fountain
open this morning that he speaks of that brings us to faith in
Christ is the fruit of the fountain and the work of God pouring out
his spirit of grace and supplications upon us. You see, God doesn't
say here that I will save my people someday if they'll let
me. You notice, read this whole thing sometime. He doesn't say
I'll save my people if they'll let me. He doesn't say but they
must exercise their free will in order to get the process to
work. This prophecy is not based on God foreseeing what will happen,
but it's based on His mighty power and His grace to cause
it to happen, to bring it about. It's not God saying, finally,
after all these years, there's a people among the Jews who will
cooperate with me. Could you imagine that? It's
not God saying that finally I found a generation who'll do what I
want them to do. I've always wanted to save them,
but they just wouldn't allow me to do it. But now here's a
group that's not as stubborn as the ones who went before.
That's not what's happening here. That's how many view salvation
today. But it's not what the Bible teaches.
Salvation is of the Lord from start to finish. And it's true
that we as sinners must trust Christ else we perish. We must repent of our sins else
we perish. We must call upon the Lord in
order to be saved. But I'm going to tell you something.
This passage here tells us plainly that neither saving faith nor
true godly repentance originates from the fallen unregenerate
human heart. They are gifts of God's grace.
They're the product of His pouring out His Spirit of grace and supplications
and showing us this fountain that's open to the house of David
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. His spirit, as I said in the
last message, must convince us of sin and of righteousness and
of judgment. It's a mourning grounded upon
a side of Christ. Remember he says here back in
verse 10 of chapter 12, they'll look upon me whom they have pierced. You see, this fountain open is
shown to all whom God has poured out His Spirit of grace and supplications. And as I said before, what is
grace? It's God's undeserved favor. Come by Jesus Christ. Come to Him. This grace, which
is God's undeserved favor, reigns through Jesus Christ and through
His righteousness. Whereby sinners cry out in their
need, Lord, save me. and be merciful to me the sinner.
This mourning comes only as we see Christ whom we've pierced. That's why this fountain must
be open. This mourning, this sorrow, this
godly sorrow that brings us to Christ cannot come just under
the whip of the law. That won't drive you to Christ,
you see. Preaching of the law alone will
only drive you to despair. We must look to Christ. When
Paul described his own conversion, how he came to such a miraculous,
God-wrought change of mind and heart, whereas he thought that
all of those things that he was so proud of in his heritage and
in his works and in ceremony, that he came to think that he
always thought those things recommended him unto God until he saw the
glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and where are you going
to find the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ? it's in
Christ and Him crucified dying for our sins this fountain is
open to all the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
God's elect among the Jews God's elect remnant among the Gentiles
and it's open for sin and for uncleanness. What is sin? Well, it's missing the mark.
It's falling short. It's transgression of the law.
What is this uncleanness? This uncleanness is separation
from God because of sin. It leads to eternal damnation
unless there is a mediator who comes between God and men and
performs the conditions of redemption and salvation. See, salvation
is to see the Savior accurately. Who is He? in this fountain open
he's Emmanuel he's God with us why is he God with us in order
that he might die for us that's why he became man that's why
the word was made flesh and dwelt among us that he might stand
in our place in our name and in our nature without sin human
nature without sin and go to the cross for our sins charged,
accounted, imputed to him he's the substitute He's the sin bearer. He's the sin offering, you see.
And that's the only accurate way to see him. Anything less
is heresy. Anything less is really idolatry.
And then see him accurately in his finished work. This fountain,
if it's going to be open for sinners, it must get the job
done. This is not just a mere provision
if sinners will cooperate. This is not just a mere savability. You see, Christ in dying for
his people, his elect people, his sheep, he didn't make us
savable if we do our part. No, the scripture says his name
shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their
sins. If he didn't save us, we're not
saved. There's no such thing as being
savable. There's no such thing as being redeemable. And there's
no such thing in the Bible of our decision or our will making
His work effectual. It's His work and His will that
makes all that He accomplished effectual towards us. It's His
substitutionary work as He was made sin, Christ made sin. Christ who knew no sin, he did
it for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
That's what this cross is all about, this fountain. God forbid that I should glory,
boast, have confidence, save in the cross. This fountain opened,
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Look back up in verse 12 of chapter
12. These chapter divisions, this
is all one message. Look at it, he says, And the
land shall mourn every family apart, or alone, the family of
the house of David apart, and their wives apart, the family
of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart, the family
of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart, the family
of Shimei apart, and their wives apart, all the families that
remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. Now what's
he talking about? He's simply saying this, that
this issue of this fountain opened of the spirit of grace and supplications
being poured out on this, the inhabitants, the house of David
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem is an intensely individual and
personal matter. In other words, this is not God's
blessings upon any given nation as a whole. But it's God's blessing
upon each and every one of his people individually in each successive
generation. And then I mentioned this last
time, I said, you wives, you can't depend on your husband
for your salvation, and you husbands, you can't depend on your wives.
This is between you and God, you must look to Christ. But
what about these names? Obviously, the House of David,
we understand. That's the aristocratic, the
privileged line of Judah, the leaders of the people, the kings,
and certainly he's not talking about every king of Judah here. Listen, if this applies to the
nation Israel, either here or in chapter 13, verse 1, where
it says, In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house
of David, you'd have to say that every every successive king that
was from Judah, the house of David, would come to a saving
knowledge of Christ. And that's just not true. And
the same thing with the citizens of Jerusalem. Would every citizen
of Jerusalem come to a saving knowledge? Well, it hadn't happened.
Some say it's gonna happen in the future. I will say without
fail, I hope it does happen. Wouldn't that be great? Some say, when they go to verses
like this, well, that means there's going to be that every Jew that
exists in the world at that time, whatever time they say it is,
and that varies, they argue over that, is going to be saved. Well,
I don't believe the Bible teaches that, but if that happens, amen.
Wouldn't that be great? I believe it's talking about
those who come under the headship of Christ. And here he said,
this name Nathan. Why Nathan? Well, there's various
views of that. I won't give you all of them.
But David had a son named Nathan, and he was of the lineage of
the house of Judah. So it may be that he's still
just identifying the kingly line here, which had its fulfillment
in Christ, who came of the tribe of Judah. And then some say this
is Nathan the prophet. You remember Nathan the prophet?
Well, why would he be included in this? Well, he's talking about
the spirit of grace and supplications, isn't he? He's talking about
mourning over sin that drives a sinner to Christ. That's what
he's talking about, the fountain open. And if I were to ask you,
pick one psalm out that David wrote that exemplifies mourning
over sin more than any other, which one would you say? How
many of you'd say Psalm 51? Have mercy upon me. Well, who
was the prophet of God that was used to bring David to that morning? His name was Nathan. Thou art
the man. So that could be it. But it could be he's just David's
son, the king. It could be he's the prophet.
The house of Levi, that's the priestly tribe. They were leaders
of the people. Shimei is definitely one of the
priestly line too. It could be if that Nathan there
is the prophet that he's showing here that the kings, the prophets,
and the priests, all the leaders of Israel exemplified and typified
the Lord Jesus Christ, our prophet, priest, and king. And even they
who held such high position who are in the house of David and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, God's elect people will come
to mourn over the one they pierced. They'll come to a saving knowledge
of Christ. But it could be that he's just talking about these
leaders of the people, these kings and priests who were set
up to lead the people in the ways of the Lord. On the whole,
they failed miserably. But here, when God pours out
his spirit of grace and supplications, the leaders of his people, his
elect people, his chosen people, Jew and Gentile, they too will
mourn over their sin. They too will run to Christ for
salvation. There'll be examples to be followed
in looking to Christ, the fountain open. Let me show you something
over in Revelation chapter 1. Turn over there. And I believe
that's what it's talking about. You see, the leaders of the people
in Israel, the nation, on the whole, they failed miserably.
The kings, the priests, and many of the prophets, false prophets. But when God sets up His kingdom,
establishes His kingdom through this fountain open, then the
leaders of the people will lead sinners to Christ our King Christ
our great high priest Christ our prophet look at Revelation
chapter 1 and look at verse 4 John receiving
this revelation from the Lord he says 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 and washed us from our sins in his own blood there's the
fountain open and hath made us kings and priests that's who
Zechariah is talking about kings and priests unto God and his
father to him be glory and dominion forever and ever amen behold
he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also
which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail mourn
because of him even so amen that's parallel to what Zechariah is
talking about The ultimate fulfillment of that will be at the second
coming of Christ, obviously. But my friend, it's a blessing
of God's grace that's given to his people right now here on
this earth as he brings them to a saving knowledge of Christ.
And you think about this. To whom is this fountain opened? Well, to all whom God pours out
his spirit of grace and supplications. There is a fountain. filled with
blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners plunge beneath
that flood, lose all their guilty stains. Isn't that something?
Look back at Zechariah 13. Now these next verses describe,
I believe, the repentance, the repentance that God brings his
people to based upon this fountain open. In other words, when we
see Christ, in His glory. And we see the God of glory in
that great salvation by His grace that we don't deserve and cannot
earn. And when we see that our only
hope of salvation, of forgiveness, of righteousness, of eternal
life and glory is through the blood of Christ, that will bring
us to forsake every false way and we'll stand with God even
against our loved ones. in this matter look at it in
verse two he says it shall come to pass in that day sayeth the
Lord of hosts the Lord who is invincible you see this is this
has to be a work of God you know there's no way that you and I
are going to stand against our families in this matter except
the Lord of hosts do the work and he says that I will cut off
the names of the idols out of the land now he hadn't done that
in Israel in the nation Israel But he's done it in his church.
Christ is the head of the church. And they shall no more be remembered.
What he's talking about here is that they'll no longer have
any fondness or any attachment to that idol. You see, salvation
by the grace of God in Christ identifies and distinguishes
the true and living God, the true Christ, from all idols and
counterfeits. And he says, and also I will
cause the prophets and the unclean spirits to pass out of the land,
cleansed of all idolatry, all false prophecy and the unclean
spirit behind false prophecy. All salvation by the works and
the will and the righteousness of men will be gone. And as I
said, this did not and has not happened in physical Jerusalem,
but it's happened in heavenly Jerusalem. We've come to Christ,
the church of the living God. comes to him and this prophecy
is all connected with God pouring out his spirit of grace and supplications
opening that fountain and all whom God cleanses from sin will
separate themselves from idolatry and it's called repentance in
the book of Hebrews repentance of dead works in other words
I'll see that my works aimed at recommending myself unto God
are dead works that lead unto death and former idolatry. The God that I worshipped before
I found Christ, this fountain open, was an idol, is an idol.
How do I know that? Because he accepts sinners based
on something other than the blood and the righteousness of Christ.
And that's not the God of the Bible. That's not the Lord of
hosts. Think about it. Look at verse 3. He says, "...and
it shall come to pass that when any shall yet prophesy..." Now
he's talking about prophesying lies here. "...then his father
and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt
not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord." You
see that? A false message, you see. Now a false message makes
men feel good. but it leads to eternal death.
Satan's message, thou shalt not surely die. You remember his
message? Well, our message is this, my friend, if you don't
have Christ, you shall surely die. Not a counterfeit, not an idol,
but the Christ of this book. Not the one who's trying to save
you if you'll let him, that's a counterfeit, but the Christ
whose name is Jesus. All right? If you don't have
his blood, that fountain open, to wash you clean from all your
sins, you shall surely die. If you don't have his righteousness
imputed to you, which you've received by God-given faith,
you shall surely die. Now, false preachers will say,
oh, you won't die. You just have to try to do your
best. You know, you're sincere. You're a good old boy. I've seen
you. I've seen things. You look all right to me. You
shall not surely. But he says here, your father
and your mother who know Christ, that's what he's talking about.
They'll say thou shalt not live. You know why they do that? Well,
that's because they're mean and nasty and bigoted. No, it's because
they love you. That's right. Think about it. If one of your little children
or one of your little grandchildren were sick, would you lie to them
and tell them they're okay and let them go on? No. You'd tell
them you need help. You need a doctor. You need medicine.
You need an operation. It's not what they want to hear.
It's not what I want to hear. But sometimes you got to hear
hard truth to save your life. Well, my friend, Here's what
they say, look at it. Thou shalt not live for thou
speaketh lies in the name of the Lord. But now look at the
next line. He says, and his father and his
mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesied.
Now, that's not talking about physical murder. The Bible forbids
that. There was a system of capital
punishment under the old covenant, that's true, but that was to
be carried out in a proper way by the nation, by the state,
by the courts. But what does he mean, his father
and mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesied?
When he speaks his lies, they're going to tell him the truth.
And I'm going to tell you something, the truth stabs us to the heart. That's what he's talking about.
And when it stabs us to the heart, there's going to be one of two
reactions. One is when God pours out his spirit of grace and supplications. and opens this fountain to reveal
Christ to us. An example of that would be Acts
chapter 2 in verse 37. You write this down, I won't
have you turn to it. Stephen, or Peter, preached at
Pentecost. He preached that the only hope
of salvation for any sinner, Jew or Gentile, was Christ, the
grace of God in Christ. His blood and righteousness alone.
And it says in verse 37, now when they heard this, they were
pricked in their heart. Stabbed through to the heart.
And they said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles,
men and brethren, what shall we do? There's the spirit of
supplications. What are we gonna do? And what
did Peter do? He says, look to Christ. Look to Christ. But sometimes,
God leaves a man to himself. And when that truth stabs us
to the heart, it's a negative reaction. I'll give you two examples
of that. The first one is in Acts chapter 5 and verse 33,
Peter again preaching. He told them the truth. He told
the Pharisees. He told the religious leaders
that all that they rested in and had confidence in their works
their righteousness was nothing but Basically what he was saying
not in these words, but he said basically filthy rags in the
sight of God no good and it says in verse 33 of Acts chapter 5
when they heard that they were cut to the heart and Instead
of saying men and brethren, what shall we do? It says they took
counsel to kill them and And one other example of that is
in Acts chapter 7, Stephen preaching the gospel, the same gospel that
Peter and James and John preached before. And he told them the
same thing, that Christ is our only hope. Your works will not
save you. Your heritage will not save you.
Just like we tell people today, your baptism, your church membership,
your tithing, your attendance, your morality will not save you. It's only Christ. only his blood,
only his righteousness, and it says in verse 54 of Acts 7, when
they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they
gnashed on him with their teeth. And you know the rest of the
story of Stephen. Now what made the difference between the ones
in Acts chapter 2 who cried out from their sin, men and brethren
what shall we do, and those here who took counsel to slay him
and gnashed on him with their teeth. What made the difference?
Right here in Zechariah chapter 12 and verse 10, God pouring
out his spirit of grace and supplication on those who cried out for help.
Right here in Zechariah 13 and verse 1, a fountain opened whereby
they saw and looked upon him whom they pierced. Look back
at Zechariah 13, look at verse 4. He says, And it shall come
to pass in that day that the prophet shall be ashamed every
one of his vision. That's his word. He'll be ashamed
of what he preached. He preached salvation by works. He encouraged sinners to seek
salvation by works, to try to establish a righteousness of
their own. And now seeing God's holiness,
like Isaiah, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. They saw,
I'm a man of unclean lips. I dwell amidst a people of unclean
lips. I'm ashamed that I ever told anyone to seek God by their
works. And it says, when it's prophesied.
And it says, neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive.
Now that rough garment is an animal skin. It's a hairy garment.
And it goes back to Elijah. You know, Elijah is sometimes
used as a symbol of the school of the prophets. You remember
in the Mount of Transfiguration how Moses and Elijah appeared.
Moses represented the law, Elijah the prophets, and he wore a mantle.
It was an animal skin. Remember, he gave that mantle
over to Elijah. And many times these false prophets, what they
would do is they'd wear an animal skin and that was a sign to the
people that I'm a prophet. It's kind of like folks wearing
these funny collars today. Something outwardly that shows
you that I'm somebody. If you want to know about God,
come to me. If you want a word from the Lord, come and see me.
And so they're saying here, they're ashamed of that now. They're
not going to wear a rough garment to deceive, to lie. That's what
that is, that's a lie. God's preachers are up here in
funny robes and collars and stuff. That's nothing. That's deceptive.
It means nothing. I'm not to be set apart from
you that way. And if you think I am, you're
deceived. You see? I'm just a man preaching the
gospel to you. And that's what these false prophets,
they wanted that esteem. They wanted those titles. They
wanted that look. They wanted to turn people's
head when they entered a room that way. They said, no, I'm
ashamed of that now. But look at verse 5. He says,
but he shall say, I'm no prophet. I'm just a farmer. I'm just a
guy who digs in the dirt. I'm a husbandman, for man taught
me to keep cattle from my youth. I've been that way all my...
It's not that I used to be a prophet and then became... No, I was
all... I'm nothing but a farmer. Now, understand what he's saying.
What he's saying here is he will no longer claim the high station
of a prophet, but he'll take his place with the rest of us. The farmer working in the ground
and with cattle Certainly not one to whom a sinner would go
to seek answers about eternal life That's what he's saying
And then look at verse 6. He says and one shall say unto
me. What are these wounds in thy hands now literally It should
read this way. What are these wounds between
thine hands? Some translations say the chest
talking about wounded in the chest some say in the back but
what he's referring to is that here is the heart and What are
these wounds in thy heart? And here's the answer. He says,
Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house
of my friends. Proverbs 27 and verse 6. You
know what it says? Faithful are the wounds of a
friend, but the kisses of an enemy are dreadful, deceitful
rather. What's that wound between your chest and your heart? Somebody
had the courage by the grace of God to tell me the truth and
gave me a wound that I needed to have right through the heart and brought me by the spirit
of grace and supplications down in the dust where I belong, mourning
over my sin, but opened a fountain unto me, showed me Christ. That's
what he's talking about. Psalm 127, listen to this, verse
one. Praise ye the Lord, for it is
good to sing praises unto our God, for it is pleasant, and
praise is comely. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem.
He gathereth together the outcast of Israel, and he healeth the
broken heart, and bindeth up their wounds. That's what it
is. Our Savior is the great physician,
who heals all our wounds, You know how he did it? He was wounded
for our transgressions. He stood in our place. And when
God brings a sinner down, when he by the spirit of grace and
supplication wounds a sinner in the heart, he doesn't leave
him wounded, he heals him. He heals the brother, he binds
him up. The whole, they don't need a physician, but we do.
We're sinners. And he heals us, all right.