to you this morning that I've
titled, A Wonderful Savior. And you will see, though I've
chosen a passage that might not be traditional for this time
of year, you'll see as we proceed through the text of Judges chapter
13, you'll see where I extracted that title from. Here in Judges
13, we have the story of how an angel appeared unto the parents
of Samson, that is, before Samson was born, and foretold of his
miraculous birth. For his parents, Manoah and his
wife, they were barren. And this angel, as we'll see
here in the text, he appeared unto Manoah and his wife, unto
his wife initially, and he told them how this child would be
born, that they would name Samson. And we know that Samson is a
type of Christ in the scripture. You know, we'll see in the text
today that he came to deliver the nation Israel, God's chosen
people under the old covenant. He came to begin the deliverance
of them from the Philistines. And so just as Christ came to
deliver his chosen people unto eternal salvation, from sin and
Satan. But today, instead of concentrating
on Samson as a type, I want us to look at this foretelling,
this appearance of this one, this man who's called an angel
in the passage. And as we proceed through the
passage, you're going to see that this in actuality was a
pre-incarnate presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is a
man who was God manifest in the flesh, appearing long before
his actual incarnation, before his miraculous virgin birth,
as so many celebrate this time of year. And so we're going to
look at that, and let's just begin in verse 1 of Judges 13,
and we read, "...and the children of Israel did evil again in the
sight of the Lord. And the Lord delivered them into
the hand of the Philistines forty years." And there was a certain
man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren, and
bare not. And the angel of the Lord appeared
unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren,
and barest not, but thou shalt conceive, and bare a son. Therefore, beware, I pray thee,
and drink not wine, nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean
thing. For lo, thou shalt conceive,
and bear a son, and no razor shall come on his head. For the
child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb." This is speaking
of, he is telling him that this one who would come sentenced
to be a Nazarite. And as a Nazarite, they withheld from themselves
certain things, food and drink, didn't cut their hair and so
forth, as a manifestation of their commitment to God, to consecrate
it, to serve the Lord, so to speak. And he goes on and he
said, He shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines, verse 5, and then verse 6. Then the woman came
and told her husband. saying, A man of God came unto
me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of
God, very terrible. But I asked him not whence he
was, and neither told he me his name. But he said unto me, Behold,
I shall conceive, and bear a son, and now drink no wine, nor strong
drink, neither eat any unclean thing. For the child shall be
a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death." Then
Manoah entreated, or asked the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let
the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and
teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah. And the angel of God
came again unto the woman, as she sat in the field. But Manoah,
her husband, was not with her. And the woman made haste and
ran and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man
hath appeared unto me that came unto me the other day. And Manoah
arose, and he went after his wife. And he came to the man,
and he said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the
woman? And he said, I am. And Manoah
said, now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the
child and how shall we do unto him? Your Bible may have in the
margin notes as mine does that better explain that phraseology
and says, what shall be the manner of this one who would come, this
child who would be born? And what shall he do? What will
be his work? And the angel of the Lord said
unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman, let her beware.
She may not eat of anything that cometh of the vine, neither let
her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. All
that I commanded her, let her observe. And Manoah said unto
the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee. And
until we shall have made ready a kid, a goat, for thee." He
wanted to kill a goat and serve him a meal. And the angel of
the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat
of thy bread. And if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew
not that he was an angel of the Lord. And Manoah said unto the
angel of the Lord, What is thy name? that when thy sayings come
to pass, we may do thee honor." And the angel of the Lord said
unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? Let's stop right there for just
a moment. First of all, there in verse 17, there's a parallel
you may recall another occasion when the God-man appeared as
a pre-incarnate presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the book
of Genesis chapter 32 that is to Jacob and it's interesting
because that he asked that same question if you recall he this
was a man who came and wrestled with Jacob and who Jacob discovered
to be the God-man and Jacob asked him for the same reason that
Manoah asked him here he said I What's your name? Jacob, in
the context we saw, was willing to name that place to do honor
unto this one. And here, Manoah, still not recognizing
this was God, he's saying, tell me your name so that when this
child is born, we may give you the proper credit, so to speak.
And our Lord answers. And of course, we know Jacob,
you know, went on and he named that place Penuel or Peniel,
which means the face of God, for he had seen God face to face. And we're going to see, as we
go through the rest of this passage, that this indeed is God that
Manoah is talking and dealing with here now. And he said, Why
askest thou after my name? And that's what he said to Jacob.
And he said to him back in Genesis 32, Why do you ask my name? And
he goes on and says he blessed him there, and then he revealed
himself to him. And here he says, Seeing it is
secret. And that's an interesting, interesting
word there. That secret in the original,
the word is Pali. And it's taken from the root
word Palaw. And it means wonderful. Seeing
it is wonderful. We have the sense here that our
Lord is saying to them, why do you ask? Because it's a secret. If you look at it strictly as
the translators put it here. But the word meaning wonderful,
see, it suggests that perhaps just as he had indicated to Jacob
in that place he called Peniel, meaning face to face with God,
that our Lord is saying that you're before one here who is
too wonderful for you to even comprehend until I choose to
reveal it to you. See, it's secret, it's hidden,
but it's wonderful. I want you to think about this
word. and in hopes that it will draw out our hearts and minds
to consider the wonder of the Lord Jesus Christ this morning.
In looking up this word, listen to these descriptions that I
found of that Hebrew word, secret or wonderful. It means marvelous. It means distinguished from all
others, separate. It means, listen, made singular. In other words, it's not just
something that we're to hold in awe and wonder here, but it
is to be held above all things. It's distinct from all in that
it is wonderful. It is great. It is remarkable. And it does mean hidden, as in
the word secret, as translated. So the sense is that this one's
name, his identity, see, is to be held in awe, a wonder that's
unique. unique to Him and to Him alone. So I want you to hold your place
in Judges 13. We'll come back to this passage. You can turn
to me to another scripture, Isaiah chapter 9, where we see this
same Hebrew word used to describe our Lord and Savior when it prophesies
of His coming, of who He would be, and what He would accomplish. For there's where we see, indeed,
how He is wonderful. Isaiah 9, beginning in verse
6, we read, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon
his shoulder, and his name shall be called, what wonderful, Counselor,
the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.
Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it,
that kingdom of David being typical of the kingdom of Christ, to
order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth, even forever, the zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this. Here where we see this same word,
wonderful, describing our Lord, we're told, for unto us a child
is born. And that speaks of his humanity,
of his miraculous virgin birth. God, taken into union with deity,
humanity. A child is born, but he is God. For unto us a son is given, speaking
of the deity of Christ. Christ, God the Son, who is co-equal
with the Father. and co-equal with God the Holy
Spirit. So his deity cannot be and was not created and yet this
one who is God came into being in the miraculous conception
by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary. He is God in human flesh. As the scripture says, Immanuel,
meaning God with us. So Christ here is identified
in Isaiah 9 And he's distinguished, first of all, beginning with
the constitution of this person. I want you to see that. For there's
where we see how he indeed is wonderful. He's wonderful. He's
unique. He's remarkable. And he's distinguished
from all counterfeits, which the epistles warn us about so
often, in that he's one who has all of the qualities, see, of
both true, essential deity and true humanity. only without sin. He was made like unto us, the
scriptures tell us, yet without sin. Sinless humanity, made under
the law, the scripture says, to redeem them that were under
the law. You see, he had to take in the union with deity humanity
if he was going to be under the jurisdiction that we're under
as humanity. And so he came, what he came
to do in fulfillment of his mission He came in establishing righteousness,
that's what he's talking about there and we'll look at in a
moment when he said to establish and order this kingdom with judgment
and justice. What he came to do, he did in
his entire person as God-man. And then we see in this passage
here in Isaiah 9, we also see he's wonderful based upon, secondly,
his work. It says the government shall
be upon his shoulder, and that's referring to the kingdom of God.
That is, the government or economy of his very reign of grace. So we see that the establishment,
the continuance here of the kingdom, the increase of the kingdom,
and look, the everlasting perfection of the kingdom. It's totally
and completely upon his shoulder. This is speaking of salvation.
Conditioned solely upon the Lord Jesus Christ you see it's upon
his shoulder It's not he met some prerequisite in order that
you might then be put upon your shoulder So that you can make
a decision for Jesus so that you could usher yourself into
that kingdom But the establishment of this kingdom is solely upon
his shoulder because of who he is God man and He's indeed wonderful,
you see, so the stability of this kingdom is not based upon
mutable me, but it's based upon the immutable God-man. So the
increase of this kingdom, the eternality of this kingdom is
sure and certain because it was established by the God-man. It was established, it said there
in verse 7, with judgment and with justice. Now that's speaking
of the very righteousness through which grace reigns. Romans 5.21,
grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by whom? Whose righteousness? Jesus Christ
our Lord. That is, that speaks of the perfect
satisfaction to all that this holy God demands His justice
demands. He's going to establish it with
judgment and justice. All that he demands both in precept
and in penalty. In other words, God says, be
ye therefore perfect, as he said through Christ. We must have
a perfect obedience. God is holy. The God we have
to do business with is holy. And yet the scripture says there's
none of us righteous, no, not one. We must have a perfection,
you see. This kingdom has to be established
in judgment and justice, and the penalty, you see, this one
who knew no sin, who the scripture says offered himself up without
spot, the impeccable Lord of glory, this God-man who came,
he did so to establish a kingdom for the inhabitants of that kingdom,
you see. And so those he came to establish
this for, They were what? Sinners. That is, they transgressed
the law. They broke it. So therefore,
the penalty due unto them while he came and provided for them
a perfect righteousness, a perfect obedience in precept, he also,
there must be extracted a penalty sufficient now to pay the dead
ode to an infinitely holy God. And it took no less than the
infinitely valuable blood of this wonderful Savior, this God-man. His identity here in verse 6
as mediator, as we heard in the 10 o'clock hour, I love that
message. Some of you, if you weren't here, you might want
to get that. But there's just one mediator between God and
man in 1 Timothy 2, we read. The man, Christ Jesus. And that's what we have described
in these names that we read. It's speaking of his person and
his offices as mediator, prophet, priest, and king. In other words,
his role as the go-between, the daismon, as the scripture says,
the one who would reconcile sinners unto a holy God. And he says
his name shall be called what? Wonderful. And that word wonderful
there, is the word Pele, and it's derived from the same root
word of Judges 13, Pelah. It means wonderful. And some
believe that in this phraseology here, that when it says, his
name shall be called wonderful, that the comma after wonderful
doesn't belong. That perhaps this should read,
his name shall be called wonderful counselor. And really, either
way, when you consider what the word wonderful means, it really
doesn't change much of the meaning for me at all. You see, he's
wonderful in all that he does. He's wonderful as we're seeing
here and as we will see back in Judges 13. He's wonderful
because of his person, the God-man, and two, because of this awesome
and glorious work which he undertook and completely successfully accomplished
at the cross of Calvary. He's a wonderful counselor. That is, he's the very wisdom
of God. Didn't Christ say, come to me
and learn of me? The scriptures, do they not tell
us that we can only know the Father by the Son? So what better
counsel Advice, guidance could we have than to look at what
this word tells us about this one who is a wonderful counselor. That is, this one, what it tells
us about his person and his work in ordering and establishing
this kingdom with judgment and justice. You see, for there in
his work, in his person and work, which cannot be separated, There
along we have revealed unto us the glory of God the Father as
both a just God and a Savior. And that makes him a wonderful,
uniquely wonderful counselor indeed. He says his name shall
be called the mighty God. He's mighty. He's God, you see. He cannot possibly fail to save
everyone for whom he lived and died, for he's omnipotent, all-powerful,
mighty God himself. And here again it speaks of his
deity. He, this one who came. This babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes that lied in the manger. He's mighty God. God who subsists
in three distinct persons, but one God. And he is indeed wonderful. It says his name shall be called
the everlasting Father. Now, here he had said unto us,
unto us a son is given. This is God the Son he's speaking
of. So this isn't to confuse the Godhead. He's not saying
this is also God the Father. He's speaking of his fatherhood
in relationship to that which he came to do for a people. A
relationship to those, all those for whom he lived and died. Those
he came to save. Because you see, he gives spiritual
life. And he gives eternal life to what? To his offspring. He sired his people, so to speak. He's the head of the family.
And as the father is the legal representative of the family,
so is he the legal representative of the spiritual family. You
see, that's what he did at the cross of Calvary. He represented
sinners before the bar of justice as a legal representative. And
there at the cross, God made him, the scripture says, to be
sin. He legally, that means legally constituted. He didn't, we know
that he didn't contract sin in his nature because the Bible
says that he offered himself up without spot. He who knew
no sin was made sin. So it was, it was judicially
reckoned to him. It was put upon him. The scriptural
word is imputed to him, charged to his account. And likewise,
the very merits of what he accomplished in his life and death, the perfect
satisfaction he made to justice, called righteousness, then was
legally put upon all those for whom he lived and died, imputed
to them. You see, this is the great work
of this wonderful Savior. And he's a father. He is an everlasting
father. in that He acts as a Father toward
us. He provided for us life. He provides all we need. He protects us. He chastens us
to bring our focus back to Him, to cause us to look to Him in
glory, in the cross of Christ, and nowhere else. He eternally
cares for us. He's the everlasting Father.
And that makes Him wonderful indeed. He's the prince of peace. And here, this peace that is
spoken of here, it's not peace among nations or peace among
men, between men. But this is speaking of peace
between God and man. It's talking about that which
he accomplished in establishing this kingdom with judgment and
justice. in providing that very righteousness at the cross, because
you see, that's the only basis of peace between man and God. Luke chapter 2 is a passage that
will be read in many pulpits across our land this morning,
for it tells of the Savior's birth. And during this time of
year, it's often read. And in verse 14 there, When the
angel had appeared unto the shepherds, then we read that suddenly there
was a host of angels, and they sang, Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. If you study that
and look into the literal wording of that verse, it should read,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, speaking
of peace between God and man, for that's what he came to do,
this Prince of Peace, you see. It should read, Glory to God
in the highest and peace on earth among the men with whom he is
pleased. And you see he's only pleased
with those for whom he's made peace. Those for whom he, that
he reconciled unto God the Father in perfect satisfaction to justice. He established that peace in
his finished work at the cross as the Prince of Peace. And look,
this is indeed wonderful. For there we behold God as He
is. As He spoke through the prophet
Isaiah when He said, Look unto Me and be ye saved, all the ends
of the earth. I am God and there is none else like Me. And He
identified what that distinction was when He said, a just God
and a Savior. So if today you imagine this
One whom you're trusting in, if He sets aside His justice
in order to show you mercy. He's not this God. No, this God,
He established peace by establishing a kingdom with judgment and justice.
And He says the zeal of the Lord a host will perform this. The
zeal of the Lord a host is speaking of His glory. You see, that's
the moving cause behind all that God does. As we heard in the 10 o'clock
hour, it's not about us. We're here for His glory. Everything God does is to reveal
Himself. And in Jesus Christ and there
alone, we see how all of His attributes come together, not
conflicting with one another, not as I once imagined in thinking
that Jesus Christ came and lived and died for all men, and actually,
think about that, for sins, He paid a debt, but it didn't get
the job done. That was no mighty God at all.
It certainly wasn't the Prince of Peace, for I imagine, but
I had to believe if I would do my part and I received him, I
would take him in. But the zeal of the Lord of Hosts
will perform this. He's going to get all the glory.
And that glory is wrapped up in revealing how not that he
shows mercy by just lowering his standard and setting aside
justice, but no, it was paid in full. So, none for whom he
lived and died can possibly perish. He got the job done. Well, turn
back with me to Judges chapter 13. We left off there, verse
18, where we read, And the angel of the Lord said unto him, unto
Manoah, Why askest thou after my name, seeing it is secret? It's wonderful. And read with
me in verse 19, it says, So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering,
And he offered it upon a rock unto the Lord. And look at this
next phrase. But the angel of the Lord did
no more appear to Manoah and to his wife, and then Manoah
knew that he was an angel of the Lord." I love that phrase. That's what caught my eye in
studying this. The angel, this God-man, who had come to Manoah
and his wife before time, said it did wondrously. And that word
there is, in fact, the root word, palah. Same word used in the
preceding verse when it said he is wonderful. It's the same
word used in Isaiah chapter 9 when it says his name shall be called
wonderful. And in verse 20 he describes what this doing wondrously
was when he says he ascended into the flame. You know Christ,
he said, he revealed to his disciples how the Old Testament scriptures
all spoke of him. And that's what we look for when
we read this and what a type we have here. For it's like that
incense that came up off the altar that was called a sweet-smelling
fragrance in the nostrils of God. You see, it's typifying
the very satisfaction that this God-man would come in time and
produce, for he arose into heaven. This wonderful Savior would come
in time and do what? Do wondrously. Establishing that
kingdom with judgment and justice and perfect satisfaction to God
as Acts chapter 17 tells us that's whereby we have he gives assurance
unto all men that he's going to judge us on that basis that
I must possess the very righteousness that Christ produced in that
he says he raised him from the dead for righteousness as your
bulletin the verse on your bulletin says it demands life just as
sin demands death Oh, that's a wonderful Savior indeed. And
we know that he did wondrously by virtue of his ascension unto
the Father. It's showing that satisfaction
was made. Look at verses 22 and 23 now
at the reaction of Manoah and his wife to this God-man. Manoah said to his wife, we shall
surely die. because we have seen God. But his wife said unto him, If
the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received
a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he
have shown us all these things, nor would, as at this time, have
told us such things as these." And it goes on, it says, And
the woman bare a son, and he called his name Samson. Notes
here that what we see is that when one is confronted with a
holy God, like Manoah, he sees that now something he didn't
see before. There's a new revelation. And
what he sees is that if God would judge him on the very best that
he had to offer at his hands, he'd have to die. This is a holy
God who's inflexibly strict with his justice. And yet, as his
wife points out, he's also a loving father and a merciful God. There's good news. He's a wonderful
Savior. Look at the comfort. You see, I'm reminded here of
what you often hear at funerals when they tell you that this
man made peace with God. You can't make peace with God.
No, like Manoah, if you imagine that, when God reveals Himself
to you, He'll show you that No, if it's based on me making peace,
I'll surely die. I cannot stand before this holy
God. My very best act of faith is so insufficient. And think
of this, when I imagine that as all of us once did, as we
all do. The Scripture says we come into
this world imagining that there's a way that seemeth right unto
a man, Proverbs, but the end thereof is the way of death.
There must be a revelation of who God is in time in our lives,
and there will be for all those who will be ushered into this
kingdom. You see, we find out that we have to have the merit
of the Prince of Peace, and that alone will do for us. And as
his wife gave him that comfort when she said, no, he's not going
to kill us, he would not have been satisfied. You see, he wouldn't
have received up that offering And I love what he said there
when he said, he wouldn't have shown this unto us. You see,
we're born in darkness. And all those for whom Christ
lived and died, he says, they will come to me. I want you to
see that. Turn to John chapter 6 real quick. We'll look real
quickly at just a few verses there. For there's great assurance
in this if God has shown you how He is wonderful and how He
did wondrously. John 6, verse 37, a familiar
passage to most of you, I know. Christ said, All that the Father
giveth me, that is, all the very elect of God whom he gave to
Christ to come in time and establish a kingdom for, all that he giveth
me they shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. Then look over at verse 40. Says,
and this is the will, Christ said, of him that sent me. This
is the will of God the Father who sent me, that everyone which,
what, seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting
life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Who? Everyone
that sees the Son. Now, look back up in verse 39.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that all
which he hath given me, I'm not going to lose any of them. You
see, and I'll raise them up again at the last day. I did not come
to make salvation possible. I completed it, and guess what?
I'm going to raise every one of them up, and now in verse
40 we see, and all of them are going to what? They're going
to see the Son. Like Manoah and his wife, they're going to look
on and see what he did wondrously in perfect satisfaction to God's
justice. And then verse 45 we read, it
is written in the prophets, and they shall what? Be all taught
of God. Who? All those that the Father
gave him, all those that he said, I'm not going to lose any of
them, all those that will see the Son. They're going to be
taught of God. Every man, therefore, that hath
heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. Well,
has God shown you these things of wonder that, listen, are secret
and are hidden? to our natural minds and hearts,
until God, as the scripture says, in the day of His power, under
the sound of His gospel, which is unique and distinguished in
Romans chapter 1, is that gospel wherein this righteousness is
revealed, this wondrous work of establishing a kingdom with
judgment and justice is shown. As today, all around this land,
people are celebrating the historical fact of the birth of Jesus Christ. And they see the manger scenes,
the baby in a manger, and they'll be reading these passages in
Luke 2 and Isaiah 9 that refer to our Savior's birth, and they'll
speak of this child who was born in a manger and wrapped in swaddling
clothes. They will speak in Isaiah 9 of,
unto us a child is born. And when you think of that, you
know, babies are cuddly little things. They're things we desire
to hold and coddle. I'm, Susan and I, anxiously awaiting
the arrival of a first grandson. And I'm ready. I'm ready to hold
it. So I can understand that sentiment. But babies are also helpless
little creatures, you know, and there were you and we all over
them. I've noticed with my granddaughters
now that, you know, I they're not quite as easily manipulated
as the. little baby is that, you know,
the baby's helpless and it needs a lot of attention, but we can
set it down or put it on them crank up swings or whatever.
And now I'm following my little granddaughters, Susan and I,
all over the house trying to make sure they don't get into
something. See, they start to develop a personality and some
independence. And it may not be all that we
imagined they would be, good or bad or whatever, because they're
individual people. And you see, my fear is, no,
it's not my fear, the reality is, is that most who look at
this babe that was born in a manger, you see, he never in their minds,
he's still what they imagine him to be. They see him as that
helpless creature, you see, for they imagine, as I once did,
that God can only save me if I do my part, if I'm compliant. So he's really powerless to save
me. He didn't establish a kingdom.
He just set the stage, is what they imagined, for a kingdom
to be established if I will sign on the peace treaty, so to speak.
If I will, as I said earlier, make my peace with God. But my
friend, that's not this one, this child who was born and this
son who was given. No, he came and he established
a kingdom. He's not a helpless Savior. As Isaiah 9 proceeded there,
if you think about that in the context, it said unto us a child
is born, but it wasn't in context we see to point out the wonder
of human birth. Even the wonder of this virgin
birth is wonderful and majestic as that is. That's not the purpose
of that passage. No, it was to point, the emphasis
was on the wonder of who he is, God and man. Unto us a son is
given. And what he accomplished when
he did wondrously on the cross of Calvary in establishing that
kingdom. As Manoah and his wife saw, he
did wondrously there. And so today I pray that God
will draw your heart to think on, to ponder the wonder that
they saw, that they beheld in this one with whom God was satisfied
as signified by His arising in the flame ascending unto heaven.
You see, for apart from that pleasing sacrifice that He made,
the satisfaction none of us can stand, We'll be like Manoah and
say, he'd have to kill me before a holy God. But the good news
is, there's salvation in this one. You see, I hope you grasp
the necessity that the Prince of Peace here had to establish
for you The reconciliation. Had to reconcile you unto God.
He was the one mediator, the man Christ Jesus. And that in
doing so, this person who is wonderful, also did wondrously
in his life and death on the cross. For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon
his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful. What a wonderful
Savior.