That was 30 years ago that he's
referring to, which means I had exponential decay since then. If you know what that means. The song that Denise sang goes
along well with the sermon. I'll try to keep it as simple
and short as I can. If you want to turn to the book
of Mark chapter five, this is a second part of a two-part message
last night. If you weren't here and you want
the first part, I think they have it on a recording. Mark
chapter five, and I want to read back through the scripture that
we read in Luke eight last night. In verse 24, Jesus went with
him, Jairus, and much people followed him and thronged him.
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent
all that she had, and was nothing better, but grew worse. She grew
worse. Communist sinners. When she had
heard of Jesus, she came in the press behind and touched his
garment. For she said, if I may touch
but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain
of her blood was dried up. And she felt in her body that
she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing
in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about
in the press and said, who touched my clothes? And his disciples
said to him, thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou
who touched me? And he looked around about to
see her that had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him
and told him all the truth. And he said to her, daughter,
thy faith hath made thee whole, go in peace and be whole of thy
plague. The word whole is the word normally
translated saved, saved. This has to do with salvation.
If it was just about physical healing, you know, those people
who claim to be able to heal people, and they can pack buildings
with thousands, I would rather go where they had salvation,
wouldn't you? That's what I need. Healing is
a temporary thing. Salvation is eternal. Remember last night when we talked
about this, we looked at the garments of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the border of his garments specifically. And I want to remind you that
the scripture we looked at in the book of Numbers taught us
that God had told Israel to make fringes in their borders and
that fringe in their borders was to remind them of all the
commandments of the Lord that they might do them. and that
they might be holy to the Lord. And you know, it says in the
book of Romans that by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh
be justified in his sight. Therefore, nobody ever kept that
law. Nobody. And so the ribbon on
the bottom of their garments didn't do them any good, did
it? Unless, of course, they understood
what it signified. And we know that this woman who's
plagued by the law said she was unclean and that uncleanness
could only be healed by God himself. And when he did that required
a sin offering and a burnt offering to make atonement. So her healing
had to do with sin, didn't it? Sickness is because of sin, just
like death is because of sin. And so over and over in scripture,
we read about the connection between these two things. And
this is a most blessed thing. I find the greatest comfort in
it. In Psalm 103, for example, in Psalm 103 in verse three,
it says this, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth
all thy diseases. So the Lord equates the two because
they're so intimately connected. who healeth all thy diseases,
and who forgiveth all thy iniquities, and healeth all thy diseases."
So the hem of the garment, as we saw last night, reminds us
of one who did keep the law. And he didn't keep the law for
himself. He was made under the law. He
was made of a woman, made under the law, for what purpose? To redeem those who were under
the law. To redeem those, how? Well, redemption
is by blood, isn't it? There has to be a price paid.
Redemption is really four things. Four things are involved in redemption. First, there is a redeemer. Secondly,
there's a ransom. A ransom price has to be paid.
And third, there are the redeemed, and they have to be released.
And if you remember that, you'll understand that redemption has
to be specific to God's elect. There is no redemption without
release. Is there? And the release had to be obtained
by the purchase of blood. And so that's why the blood of
Christ is so precious. Because he actually released
his people. Judah stood before Joseph, the
governor, pleading as a surety for his brother Benjamin. And
he was the surety to his father for Benjamin, his younger brother,
Judah. To Joseph, the governor, the
judge. They stood accused before Joseph,
the judge, the governor. Judah had already engaged with
his father before he left. I will be surety for him. If
I don't bring him back, I'll bear the blame forever." And
he stood before Joseph and he said three things. First, he
pleaded his father's love for his son, Benjamin. Second, he
pleaded his own engagements with his father as his surety. And
third, he told Joseph, take me instead of the lad. And then
he said this, and let the lad go up free. with his brethren
to his father again. Do you see the redemption there? There was no redemption without
the surety, no redemption without the price, which was Judah had
to pay with himself. He answered the charges with
himself as the surety, and he obtained the redemption, the
release of Benjamin and all his brethren. Amazing grace. And so in the book of Ruth, we
find something very amazing about this garment. And I want to point
this out to you because you might have thought about the book of
Ruth as we were reading about this garment. If you remember
what happened in the book of Ruth, Ruth was a Moabite and
the Moabites were not allowed to come into the congregation
of the Lord. And yet she was a near kinsman
to a famous and rich man named Boaz. And in the book of Ruth
in chapter three and verse nine, Ruth, who knew her relation to
Boaz because of her mother-in-law, Naomi, she was instructed by
Naomi to go into the threshing floor. And when Boaz was asleep
to put herself under the border of his garment. And it says in
Ruth chapter three, in verse nine, when he woke up and saw
this woman laying at his feet, he said, who art thou? And she
answered him, I am Ruth, thine handmaid. And notice what she
said, spread therefore thy skirt. And the same word is the border
of garment. Spread therefore thy skirt over
thine handmaid, for thou art a near kinsman. What is the Lord
saying here by this woman coming to Jesus and touching his garments? But the redeemed of the Lord
by an invisible hand of God's grace are driven by this desperation
of being unclean under the law. And that hand of grace drives
them to their Redeemer. To whom they plead, spread your
skirt over me. You're a near kinsman. And so
you see here in this, the unfolding of this close, very close relationship
between this woman and Christ. A very, very close relationship.
In Matthew chapter eight, I referred to this last night, and I need
to direct your attention to it one more time. Matthew chapter
eight. In verse 17, it says here that
the way that the Lord touches his people, he says in Matthew
8, 17, that these sick that came to Jesus and were healed, it
says that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the
prophet saying himself took our infirmities and he bear our sicknesses.
Now, there's two things I want you to notice about that, that
the only way the Lord Jesus Christ could heal is he had to actually
bear our sins in his own body on the tree. We sang that song
a bit ago about how great thou art. I don't know about you,
but I have a hard time keeping a straight face when I see you
singing, Brother Donnie, because I thought I was about to cry,
but I looked at you and I couldn't help keep my smile. How great
Thou art, the One who created the universe with His Word. God, how great Thou art, our
Savior. He had to take our sins, didn't
He? He who is the Son of God could
only heal this woman if He bore her iniquities. The Redeemer
had to spread His skirt over us, cover us. Now, it also says
in scripture that what the Lord Jesus Christ did in shedding
his blood obtained for us a righteousness. In Romans 5, 9 it says, being
now justified by his blood. Have you ever thought about that?
We use that term blood a lot, don't we? But what is the blood
of Christ? Well, someone had to die to shed
that blood. It wasn't just a cut, it was
a death. And it wasn't just a death of a man, it was a sacrificial
and a substitutionary death that actually succeeded, made satisfaction. The death of Christ is Christ,
the son of God, as man giving himself. The son of God who loved
me and gave himself for me in blood, in sacrifice to God with
our sins and obtained our eternal redemption. And so when she touched
his garments, Remember in Revelation 19, his vesture is dipped in
what? Blood. And there was a fountain open,
a fountain of blood opened for cleansing, for sin. And so the
blood of Christ not only cleanses us from all sin, but the act
of shedding his blood is the will of God fulfilled, the work
of God fulfilled, the everlasting righteousness of God. made known,
this was God's work. This was God's work. Like Brother
Todd said a moment ago, the resurrection, this is the eternal purpose of
God. This is the will of God. This
is His work accomplished. Amazing, isn't that? And so she
touched the border of his garment, her cleansing and her righteousness
in her Savior. She touched Christ, didn't she?
It wasn't like an abstraction. Righteousness is not an abstraction.
It's Christ crucified. His blood justifying us. And
what a wonder that is, that the Lord Jesus Christ would love
us and give himself for us. She touched his clothes. It says,
As I mentioned, it says that the Lamb, and Todd mentioned
this too, the Lamb of God, the Lamb slain, the worship of God
before time, now in time, and after time is no more. It's all
about the Lamb slain, isn't it? That's where our righteousness
is. And so she touched Him, and in touching Him, she was made
clean, and she received the very virtue of Christ because his
virtue flows to us through his blood and righteousness. You
can't separate them though, that's not an abstraction. It's a truth,
it's God's work, it's God's character made known in his work. Even
a child is known by his doing. How much more God eternal? But
when we think about that, we see that not only was he clothed
in those garments, but she was asking him to be clothed in them
too. Christ is dressed in the same garments that he gives to
his people. How can that be? It says in Isaiah
61 10, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be
joyful in my God. This is obviously a prayer to
God. For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he
hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself
with her jewels. Same thing, the husband and the
wife both dressed in the same beautiful garments. And so here
we have this woman teaching this to us, the Lord, it's the sermon
to the unclean, the Lord himself is teaching this to us. And so
as this woman touched him, what was happening? Well, she was
receiving the benefit of what he had done in his person coming
into the world. She touched him because he was
made man. And she could not have touched him had he not been made
man. And because as we know now that the cleansing of her uncleanness
was only through blood and it was the forgiveness of sins by
the burnt offering and the sin offering. Therefore, we know
that that touch was her receiving the virtue of Christ herself
by faith. And this is describing so much
to us that we can see this. Look at Romans 8. I wanna look
at these first four verses in Romans 8. I know that you're
familiar with them, but when you look at it from these different
angles, I think we can see the jewel of God's grace in Christ
to us more clearly. Romans 8, verse one, there is
therefore now no condemnation. to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit." First
of all, understand what is the timeframe of this verse? It's
the timeframe of our experience, isn't it? We walk not after the
flesh, but after the spirit. What does it mean to walk after
the flesh? Well, Abraham learned something about the flesh, that
it didn't profit anything. in bringing forth Isaac from
Sarah. Both he and Sarah were dead to
bearing children. And it came down to this, God
had to raise their inability from the dead in order to bring
forth Isaac into the world. And so Abraham did not consider
his own body now dead. He didn't consider his own flesh.
And so to walk after the flesh is to trust ourselves, to make
some contribution to our own salvation. But to walk after
the Spirit is the exact opposite, is to see that God has said all
of our salvation is in Christ, and like Todd said, to look,
look, and see it there. Behold the Lamb of God. And so
this is a context of our own experience, isn't it? There is
therefore now to those who have received the gift of God's Spirit,
In salvation, to them, they experience this. There's no condemnation.
And how? They look to Christ, right? So
they look to the Lord Jesus Christ, and seeing him, they find out
there's no condemnation, justified by his blood. It is Christ that
died. It is Christ that died. That's
what verse 34 says. So they walk not after the flesh,
they don't depend upon what they can do or what they can find
in themselves. Never think of coming to God
by what you are in yourself, either before or after you believe. That would be opposing faith
in Christ. We always come only upon what
God has done and what he thinks of what he has done in his son.
And so he says here, there is therefore now no condemnation.
You've been taught this. To them which are in Christ Jesus,
that's why, because you're in Christ, you're justified in him
who walked not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Then he
takes a little back step. He says, for the law of the spirit
of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and
death. What is the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus?
It's the fact that because Christ died, he gave his spirit, the
spirit of God's son is given to us. Because he died, the spirit
is given. If the Lord Jesus had not gone
into heaven, the spirit could not have been given, not only
to preach the gospel, but to us, it was based on what he would
do. And so he says here, The law
of the spirit of life, Jesus refers to the spirit when he
says in John 6, 63, the words that I speak to you, they are
spirit, they are life, the gospel. And the gospel is the account,
it's the report of what Christ did. And so what he did, Christ,
is declared to us in the gospel, and when that comes to us, from
heaven by the Spirit of God, it's life to us. Because Christ
died and fulfilled righteousness for his people, then the Spirit
of God is given to us. Notice, he says, has set me free
from the law of sin and death. This is the timeframe right now
in our own experience. We experienced the fact when
we heard the gospel about our salvation in Christ alone, We
realized that we were now free from the law. We were free from
sin. We were released. You're set
free, forgiven. How many times in the New Testament
did Jesus speak this to someone? Your sins are forgiven you. Our
sins are forgiven for his namesake. Verse three, for what the law
could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending
his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh, his flesh, but we died with him. By his
stripes we were healed. And when he died for our sins,
with our sins and was buried, it says that we died in 1 Peter
2, verse 24. So God condemned our sin, laid
on him, made to be his in his flesh, and he died. He was put
to death under the judgment of God. Verse four, that the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the
flesh, but after the spirit. What does it mean that the righteousness
of the law is fulfilled in us? I have thought about that. I
don't know how many times. But it occurs to me where we
know that it has to be the fact that because of Christ's righteousness
made ours, what he did, we did in him. He didn't do it for himself,
he did it for his people. But because he did it, we did
it in him. Because he shed his blood, our
blood was shed with his. We died with him, we were buried,
we were raised. And so that righteousness that
he established is fulfilled in us, how? I talked about many
points here. Look at John chapter 6. I want
to read this one to you because it ties in with this woman, what
she did. What did she do? She came behind and she touched
him. In John chapter 6, Jesus is talking about a very intimate,
a very intimate, the most intimate thing that you can describe here.
In John chapter 6, he says, listen to this, in verse 50, 51, Jesus said, I am the living bread
which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever. And the bread of life, I'm sorry,
and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give
for the life of the world. Don't get tangled up with the
fact that it says the life of the world, because if he gives
his life, all those who receive this life for the world, he intended.
Verse 52, the Jews therefore strove amongst themselves or
among themselves saying, how can this man give us his flesh
to eat? Then Jesus said to them, verily,
verily, I say to you, listen, except you eat the flesh of the
son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. What
is this life? The spirit of life? Christ in
us. How do you get it? Well, you
don't make it happen. But when God shows Christ to
you as all of your salvation, and you latch hold of him by
God-given faith, you're eating his flesh and drinking his blood.
It's believing him. Notice, he says, getting to the
intimacy, he says, verily, verily, I say to you, except you eat
the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no
life in you. Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my
flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. Now, the
woman touches Christ. Listen, he that eateth my flesh
and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him. It's the evidence of our being
in Christ. But the result of His blood and righteousness is
that from heaven, He was born of a woman, made under the law
to redeem them that were under the law. For what reason? That
we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are
sons, God has sent forth what? The Spirit of His Son into your
hearts so that you can cry, Abba, Father. Christ in us, the resurrection,
He lives, I died with him, I live. But not I, Christ liveth in me.
And now life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son
of God. Not my faith, my faith is in His faith. It's everything
about Him. I don't look to myself for anything. I don't find, I can't find anything
in myself. If I found faith in myself, it
would be God's work and it would still be imperfect. And that's
not righteousness. So this woman is touching his
clothes now, if you can understand that according to scripture,
is that we lay hold on Christ by faith. We lay hold on his
virtue for us. We're healed by our substitute,
aren't we? Healed by our substitute. But
I want to consider just briefly here that she knew she was healed.
When she was healed, she knew she was healed. In Mark chapter
five, he says this in verse 30, Jesus, actually, it says in verse
33, and the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done
in her, she knew she was healed. She had said, if I can touch
his clothes, I will be made whole, and straightway the fountain
of her blood was dried up. As soon as she touched Jesus's
clothes, she knew she was healed, as soon as she touched them.
And when you see that the Lord Jesus Christ is all of your salvation,
what do you know? I have been made whole, I've
been saved. You look for things, don't you?
We naturally think, well, what am I gonna find? People always
say, how do I know I'm saved? Like Todd was asking, how do
you know? It's by grace, for by grace you are saved. How do
you know? Through faith, through faith. And that not of yourselves, it's
the gift of God. And that's not perfect. So it
can't be the virtue of your faith. No, the virtue came from Christ. Faith just sees the Lord Jesus
Christ. When we see Him, we don't change
Him, He changes us. We see His virtue is all of our
salvation. And so the blood of Christ's
blood alone cleanses our record, but faith in His blood on earth
in our experience in this time state gives us that experience
of having been cleansed. It happened at the cross. We
find it to be true when the Lord gives us faith. Now, Jesus in
this text of scripture also says this in verse 30. He says, who touched my clothes?
I wondered why he said that. Why did the Lord Jesus say this?
After he knew that virtue had gone out of him, he immediately
says, who touched my clothes? On the way to raising Jairus's
daughter, he stopped and turned to see this woman. Who touched
me? He could have just said, OK, someone touched me and just
gone on. No, stopped. Inside of a miracle,
another miracle. He says, he knew. So why did he stop? Why did he
stop? Why did he turn around? He knows the hearts of men, doesn't
he? He's the one who searches the hearts. He didn't have to
turn around to search her heart to find out and discover who
it was, did he? He knew her, didn't he? He knew
her. But why did he turn around? He
knew it was her who touched her. He knew that she had touched
him in faith. That's why he stopped. And that's why he turned. Remember
Romans 8, 29, for whom he did foreknow. He also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his son. And whom he did predestinate,
them he also called. And whom He called, then He also
justified. Whom He justified, then He also
glorified. All in the past, all from God's perspective, all done. A chain with links that cannot
be broken. You can't take one out. It all
falls apart. If you are glorified, it's because
you were foreknown. If He predestinated you to be
conformed to the image of His Son, you will be conformed to
the image of His Son. This is God's work. So he turned
around because he knew her. Not to know her, but because
he knew her. And he stopped and turned to
make her know that he knew her. If you eat my flesh and drink
my blood, Christ is in you. And when Christ is in you, you
live by faith. The life of Christ causes you
to live by faith on Christ. So when we understand that Christ
knows us in his saving purpose and work, then we know we are
his and that he will save us to the uttermost. Don't we? If he who has begun a good work
in you will perfect it to the end, won't he? Faithful is he
who called you who also will do it. And isn't that where our
trust and hope and confidence lies? That the one who promised
is actually going to do it and that he's able to even save me
from my sins. Nothing can separate us from
that love. Nothing can stop him from doing it. He also stopped
and turned not only to make her know that he knew her, but because
she was his work. And he always looks at his own
work, doesn't he? We are his workmanship. We are
the work he's interested in. He's the one who does the work. It's Christ in you. She was his work, and what a
work. And when he sees his work, what does he say? This is one
the Father has given to me, drawn of the Father. and I'm glad that
it is you. I've been waiting for you." He
called her, drew her by his grace, irresistibly drawn out of the
uncleanness and the desperation of a sinner who could not find
any cleansing anywhere else after spending all. Come ye sinners
without money, come and buy from Jesus Christ. What a thing that
is. And he also turned to show her
not only that he knew her and that she was his work, but that
he approved of her taking a hold of him. Isn't that what the Lord tells
us to do? Come, come, come to the Lord Jesus Christ, taking
saving virtue from him. He commended her for taking from
him. When Jesus came to the Samaritan
woman at the well in John chapter four, you know what he said to
her first thing? Give me the drink. Of course,
she said, why are you asking me, a Samaritan, a woman, for
a drink? He wasn't playing. In verse 34,
that same chapter, he said, my meat and drink is to do the will
of him that sent me and to finish his work. She was his drink. And when he asked her for water
to drink, and she had nothing, then he gave her. If you knew
the gift of God, you would have asked, and he would have given
you living water. So her, then when she understood,
come and see the man who's told me all that I ever did, is not
this the Christ? He was drinking from her. He
received from her what he had asked. He was drinking water
from his own cistern. Not another, but from her. So he saw her. She was his work,
and he commended and approved her. And isn't that what it says
in Song of Solomon, Chapter 5? I think it is. He says, I'm going
to have to look it up, because I can't find it in my notes here.
Listen to these words. Song of Solomon. If I can even
find it in time, it says in chapter five, verse one, he says, eat,
oh friends, drink, yay, drink abundantly, oh beloved. Do you hear the intimacy between
the Lord Jesus Christ and this woman, these women and his people? It's incredible, isn't it? The
son of God who loved me. I thought I was, it was me. No,
he was drawing you. We spend so much time thinking
about our work for God. We spend so much time thinking
about how we think about the Lord, don't we? But what work
is important? It is his work to glorify himself
and making known his salvation to us. And so Jesus turned to make her
know and make us know that he delights when those he loves
must have him. She pressed. She was insistent. She wouldn't take no for an answer.
It says, I think it's in Matthew 12, that the kingdom of heaven
suffers violence and the violent take it by force. She wouldn't
take no for an answer. Has anyone ever told you, salvation
is something that you have to do? What happens to you when
you believe Christ and hear that? I was telling Donnie, I was about
10 years old and I was fishing in this high mountain lake and
caught a rainbow trout. Like my first one, it was about
that, it was probably this big. I remember I was all by myself.
I was so excited to show my dad and all my brothers. I knew they
would be proud of me. And I got this fish out and I
grabbed a hold of it because I didn't want it to get away.
And you know what it did? It was wriggling so hard I couldn't
hold on to it. That's what happens when someone
tells you that Christ is not enough. if you're a believer.
You get desperate, and you go to the scripture, and you cry,
Lord, is it really true? And you stumble on these scriptures
that says, it is Christ that died. And you say, Lord, answer
for me. I don't have another answer.
I can't give an answer. And so he commended her, he delights,
she must have him, and he had to have her. There's a mutual
attraction here, isn't there? So he turned to see her, to see
who touched her. He didn't turn to scold her,
did he? He didn't turn to reprove her.
He turned to commend her for taking virtue from him, to commend
her faith. Now, if the Lord commended her
for taking virtue from him, then the Lord is commending us who
are unclean. He's recommending himself to
us, isn't he? That's the Lord's work. The other
thing we read here in Mark chapter five is that it says, the woman
in verse 33, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done to her
came. Fearing and trembling, knowing
what was done to her. She had heard of him. She believed
that he was able to heal her. But she came fearing and trembling.
Why was she fearing and trembling? Because she was unclean. But
she had been made whole. But the law said she was unclean.
But the Lord made her whole. But all these people were around.
That was the first problem. She was fearing and trembling
because she had been unclean. And now she wondered if there
was still Trouble to pay. She was certainly ashamed, wasn't
she? What was she ashamed of? She was ashamed of herself, wasn't
she? Have you ever been ashamed of yourself? But you know one
thing she wasn't ashamed of? She was not ashamed of the one
who healed her. She was not ashamed of him. She
didn't want to come out of the crowd. She didn't want to do
that, but she was not ashamed of Christ. So he had to draw
her out, didn't he? He had to say, who touched me?
And then, it says, knowing what was done to her, she came and
she fell down before him and told him all the truth. She might have wondered, I was healed, but Did I only
come by the word of somebody else? I heard of Jesus, but it
was their word, it wasn't His. Or she might have wondered, is
my act of faith presumptuous? Did I believe on Him for too
much? Maybe it was one-sided. Maybe
He didn't really want me to touch Him. Maybe I'm not one of those
he would allow to touch him, and now he's going to scold me. Did I have a warrant to do this?
Had I thought that he could do something that I shouldn't have?
It was inappropriate? Aren't those kinds of things
coming to your mind as a believer? Have I really understood the
truth? Did I make this up? Am I just believing a fairy tale? The Lord had to comfort her,
didn't he? She was fearing and trembling
for all these reasons, ashamed of herself, wondering if it was
the right thing to do, wondering if it was just a one-sided love.
But no, it wasn't. In verse Verse 33, it says, she
came and she fell down and she told him all the truth. You see,
when the Lord saves us, we want everyone to know, we want to
say it in our prayers, don't we? Lord, all my hope is in Jesus
Christ. I have no other savior. No other God, no other Lord,
no other Savior. And we tell it all, don't we?
I've been brought through religion. I've been brought through my
own wickedness. And here I find myself in all my uncleanness.
All I have is Christ. That's all we have. And so we're
happy to tell that. We tell all the truth about what
he has told us from his word. And he said to her, daughter,
thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace. and behold of thy
plague. What a comfort that is. That's
the word of the one who heals us, the one who shed his blood
to establish righteousness in which he could clothe us and
also to wash us from our sins in his own blood. The saints
in heaven will sing unto him who loved us and washed us from
our sins in his own blood. Amen. Another wonderful night. What
another wonderful night.