It's good to see everyone here
today. If you would, be turning in your Bibles to Joshua 10. I'm going to bring a message
today that I've titled, The Day the Son Stood Still. And many
of you are probably familiar with that story in the book of
Joshua. Joshua was doing battle with
five Amorite kings. And God, on this day when this
miracle was performed, when the sun stood still in the midst
of the sky, He used that to prolong the battle, to deliver the enemies
of Joshua, to give them and the Israelites total and complete
victory. That is victory for God's chosen
people under that old covenant, the nation Israel. Complete and
total victory over His enemy. And he did so by causing the
sun to stand still. So the sun stood still over Gideon,
and the moon stayed over the Valley of Agamemnon, as we'll
read. Well, those of you who are familiar with the ministry
here at Eagle Avenue Grace Church, you know that we agree with Apostle
Paul who said, I've determined not to know anything among you
save, that means except, Jesus Christ And with that in mind,
what I want us to do today is look at this story of the battle
of Gideon in the book of Joshua, the day that God caused the sun
to stand still, and I want us to see the parallels between
that battle and a battle of far greater significance, an eternal
victory that God gave for his chosen people unto eternal salvation. That is, from every tribe, kindred,
tongue and nation, spiritual Israel is there known in the
scriptures, on the day that the Son, the Son, God, the S-O-N,
stood still. Some might say, well, you take
great liberty to draw these parallels between what took place in this
battle in the day of Joshua and God's victory over Satan and
sin for his people. on that day when he rested from
his work and the Son of God stood still, and yet we know that this
entire book is the story of redemption of Jesus Christ. Didn't Christ
say that to his disciples? It said that he was expounding
to them the Scriptures. Well, the only Scriptures they
had in that day were the Old Testament Scriptures. And he
said he explained to them how those scriptures spoke of things
pertaining to himself. And so that's where I hope to
point you today. So let's consider this battle
here in the book of Joshua, chapter 10. First of all, let me give
you a little background. In chapter 9, and I'd encourage you to look
at that later when you have time to read that chapter, leading
into chapter 10, Joshua had been deceived. entering into a treaty,
kind of a defense alliance, so to speak, with some men who had
come to him from Gibeon. And he discovered the deception
and he made them servants as a result of it. It said they
had to chop wood and carry water for the Israelites. They were
the servants of the nation Israel. And yet, even though he had been
deceived, he kept his oath that he had made for this mutual defense
treaty, so to speak. It was called in chapter 9 a
league or a covenant. Then in chapter 10, in the first
five verses we read here, beginning in verse 1, where the king of
Jerusalem, Adonai Zedek, he was an Amorite king and he lived
in the mountainous region near Gibeon. We see there that he
had heard of Joshua's great victories over Ai in Jericho. and he feared Israel, for they
were enemies of Israel. He had also heard of this treaty,
this alliance that they had entered into, as reported in chapter
9, with Gibeon. Gibeon was a city-state there
among the mountains where these other five Amorite kings ruled
and reigned their city-states. Adonai Zedek went, as we see
in these first five verses, to the other four kings in that
region, and in fear of disalignment between Joshua and Gibeon, he
thought he could take advantage of the opportunity and go after
Gibeon. For see, Joshua was camped some
25 miles north of Gibeon in a place called Gilgal, and it was some
4,000 feet lower in altitude. In other words, down from the
mountains from where these Amorites were. He thought perhaps they
could leave the safety of their walled city and go and attack
Gibeon and be victorious before this alliance had time to gel,
so to speak. So at the end of verse 5, we
read of the Amorite kings, the five of them, who agreed to go
together to Gibeon, and it says they encamped before Gibeon and
made war against it. Then our text for today, verses
6-14, we read, And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the
camp of Gilgal, saying, Slight not thy hand from thy servants.
Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us, for all the
kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered
together against us. So Joshua ascended from Gilgal. and he, and all the people who
were with him, and all the mighty men of Baur. Verse 8, And the
Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not, for I have delivered them
into thine hand. There shall not a man of them
stand before thee. Joshua therefore came unto them
suddenly. Therefore, having heard the promise,
the purpose of God, that he had already delivered them into his
hand, He came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night,
and the Lord discomfited them before Israel." That is, the
Amorite alliance. And he slew them with a great
slaughter at Gibeon, and chastened them along the way that goeth
up to Bethlehem, and smote them to Ezekiah and unto Micaiah. And it came to pass, as they
fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhorin,
that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them
unto Uzziah, and they died. And they were more which died
with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with
the sword. Then spake Joshua to the Lord
in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children
of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, sun stand thou
still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Agion, and the
sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had
avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written
in the book of Jasher?" That was a state book of poetry and
war stories. And it says, "...so the sun stood
still in the midst of heaven." and hastened not to go down about
a whole day. And there was no day like that
before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice
of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel." Well, let me make
a few comments just to begin with about this miracle, the
day the sun stood still. That word, or those two stood
still. There's really only one Hebrew
word, and the word means ceased. So, stood still is a good interpretation. It means ceased or rested, the
day that sun seemed to stop in the sky. Some argue who deny
God's sovereign power and ability to control the elements that
even he created, they argued that that word, seeth, means
that perhaps there was an eclipse. But that doesn't fit at all with
the context, if you think about it. In that day, it was a known
thing among the warring nations and city-states here that if
you could survive to nightfall, you could regroup and live, perhaps,
to face another day. And here the indication is that
the day was prolonged. In other words, he had told Joshua,
if you remember back in verse 8, there will not be a man left
among them. And here Joshua was slaying them,
God was slaying them with hailstones. And Joshua, knowing God's purpose,
prayed to him for the sun to stand still. That was directed
to him, that command. If you look at the first part
of that verse, verse 12, it says, he's spoken to the Lord. So the
invitation is that the day was prolonged so that the battle
could be completed. Can you imagine that, these Amorite
kings? Here are the few who were escaping,
probably thought they were about to get away, and all of a sudden
the sun was about to go down and it ceased. Many think it
might have been late in the day. You know, that's oftentimes when
you can see both the sun and the moon in the sky. Some would
scoff, those who, many who would deny that God's Word is true,
that this is a true account, they will say, it can't be true
because we know today that the sun really, it isn't the sun's
movement that determines day and night. Notice the earth rotating
on its axis every 24 hours, a point on the globe, turning into day,
turning into night, and yet that's a kind of foolish argument. If
you read it here, it says it stood still in the midst of heaven.
That's the language of observation. It's funny that men would use
such an argument when today even our scientists who are well aware
of it, they keep laws of what? The sunrise and the sunset. And when we speak of those terms,
no one accuses us of foolishness. No, this was a great miracle
that took place in that day. Actually, this miracle, not that
we need any other confirmation, but it's interesting here that
this inspired Word of God mentioned it being recorded in another
book, the book of Jasher. And I read where the historical
records of Chinese, I believe it was, Mexicans, and one other
group, I believe it was Egyptians, they all spoke of the long day. Contemporary writings to this
period of time, and even the lore, the historical lore, the
Aztecs and the Peruvians and the Babylonians spoke of a day
that was twice as long. But my friend, this Word says
it, and that's good enough for me. We don't need that sort of
confirmation. But it's good to know. And so today I want to
bring you a very simple message. I think this will be easy for
all of us. Sometimes simple, I think, is better. But I want
to make four observations about this battle of Gibeon on the
day that the sun stood still. And they are this. One, that
God is able. God is able to deliver His chosen
people, this nation who was chosen under that temporal covenant
that He made with Israel. God is able and God is willing. That is, He purposed to deliver
this nation, these people. Thirdly, God did deliver. Being able and being willing,
He delivered. And fourthly, those whom He delivered
nation of Israel here, they beheld it. It was done in their sight. So, very simple. First of all,
God is able. He is sovereign. If you worship
the true and living God, you worship a God that is in control
of all things, that holds this universe in place. You know,
sometimes people will pit science against God's truth. And I've
yet to come away from any established scientific fact and not just
marvel at the intricacies of the laws of physics and natures
that hold all this in balance. For God put those in place. He holds it in balance. He is
able, considered to those Amorites, it was said of them that they
worshipped nature gods. I read where it was presumed
that the principal deity of Jericho, for example, was the moon. And
the principal deity of Gibeon was perhaps the sun. Can you
imagine the Amorites who were trusting in their gods for their
safety and their deliverance, when all of a sudden it's nature
itself, it's God's control of nature that's destroying. Hail
stones kill more of them, we just read, than was slain by
the sword. And then the deity of Gibeon,
the sun. The God of Israel even held it
in His power and He stopped, He caused the sun to appear to
stand still, perhaps ceasing the rotation of the earth. I'm
not sure how He did it, but He did it. But that seems to be
logical. So that they could finish out
the battle in accordance with God's purpose that He had stated,
that not a man would be left standing. The biblical history,
if you think about it, talks much about God's control. Remember
the disciples, they marveled that he even controlled the wind
and the seas when he calmed the seas. But in particular, with
regards to light and darkness and day and night, even in the
creation, it said darkness covered the face of the earth. It was
upon the face of the earth, and God spoke this world into existence. He's able. He said, Let there
be light, and there was light. He said he divided the day and
the night, the sun to rule the day, the moon to rule the night,
Remember when this same nation Israel was being led out of captivity
from Egypt under the bondage of Pharaoh, and God brought plagues
upon the Egyptians to cause Pharaoh to let the people go. One of the plagues was three
days of darkness. Oh, he's able. God's certainly
able to do this. And yet there was light in the
Israelites' homes. And then, of course, we consider
this God as control of all the elements, day and night, light
and darkness. Consider that in the day that
the Son of God stood still. When He was crucified, there
was darkness upon the face of the earth for three hours. Now, this God is able. Secondly,
this God is willing. Look back at verse 8. In verse
8 of chapter 10, the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not, for
I have delivered them into thine hand." In other words, he's letting
his willingness, his purpose, he's making it known unto his
people. And you know, Joshua, many would
say, Oh, if I had the faith of Joshua that I could just command
the sun to stand still, he must have had some great faith. Oh,
no. You know why the sun stood still?
Because God purposed for it. to stand still. As he told him
there in verse 8, he said, Not a man shall stand before thee.
So God must have impressed upon Joshua's heart and mind that
this is how these fellows aren't going to be able to escape into
the safety of darkness. No, I'll cause the sun to stand
still. So Joshua merely commanded that which was in accordance
with God's will. You know, even in our prayer, if you think about
it, in John chapter 14, Christ told his disciples, he said,
Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do. And did
he lie? Did you ever ask for something,
but it doesn't take place? He said that the Father may be
glorified, and the Son, if ye shall ask anything in my name,
I will do it. Well, then his name is in accordance
with his identity. And God is identified based upon
who He is and what He has accomplished. So when we pray in His name,
we're praying in accordance with that purpose. If God purposes
it, it shall come to pass, you see, for He is able. And so,
therefore, if we truly pray, if we don't just vow the words,
if it's in accordance with your will, If we name that, then our
prayers are always answered, are they not? And what better
will to be in compliance with than one that's attended by infinite
wisdom of God, rather than our puny ideas of what is best for
us and for those that we love? God laid that purpose, I believe,
on Joshua's heart when he commanded that son to stand still. God
is able, God is willing, and God delivers. You know you think
about it, one who is able to do something and is willing,
purposes to do something, they generally deliver. I know in
my business with employers I often try to keep things simple and
I say well if I have a performance problem It's usually because
of one of two things or some combination of them. Either they're
not able. They didn't have the skills,
the training, the background, or perhaps circumstances beyond
their control just got in the way. They couldn't do the job.
They were not able. Or they just wouldn't do it.
Wouldn't do the job they were hired to do. You see, but if
they were able and they were willing, then they could. But
you see, we're not, as we learned during the 10 o'clock hour, we
failed. We're not omnipotent. But God
is. He's able. So what God determined
to do, being all-powerful, shall be done. And so God delivered. Being willing, being able, He
delivered. He delivered a people from their
enemies. during the battle of Gideon.
Total victory. And let there be no doubt, he
did it. As we read there, more of them
were killed by the hail than by the sword. And he did that,
if you look, he did that in front of Israel. They beheld it. They
knew this victory was God's victory. In fact, I think in verse 12, when it speaks of this day, it
calls it the day when the Lord, not when Joshua defeated the
Amorites, when the Lord delivered up the Amorites. He delivered,
and then look at the last phrase of verse 14, when he said there
was no day like that before or after He says, for the Lord fought
for Israel. God delivered. God was able. God was willing. God delivered.
And Israel, those whom he delivered, they beheld it. Look there in
verse 12. Then spake Joshua to the Lord
in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorite square before
the children of Israel. And he said, what in the sight
of Israel. Son, stand thou still. They beheld
that their salvation, see, was from God. Doesn't that remind
you of earlier when this same nation was delivered out of that
bondage in Egypt after those plagues, including the three
days of darkness I mentioned? And Moses led them out Pharaoh
let them go, and then Pharaoh relented and wished he had not
let them go, and he took off after them, and there they were
trapped, if you'll recall, at the Red Sea with nowhere to turn. Pharaoh's mighty army, here they
were, unarmed and helpless, and Moses told them in verse 13 of
Exodus 14, he said, Fear ye not, stand still and look, see the
salvation of the Lord. You see, you see what he did. And he goes on and uses the same
language we saw in verse 14 of Joshua 10. In verse 14 of Exodus
14, he said, The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your
peace. Israel beheld it. Well, as I
said, I want to point you to a battle of far greater significance. far more important battle, and
that is God's victory over Satan and sin. A victory that is everlasting
unto eternal salvation for his chosen people from every tribe,
from every nation of the world, the day the Son of God stood
still. Likewise, I want you to just
see these four simple observations that God is able, that God is
willing, that He has delivered, and all those whom He delivered
on that day when the sun stood still, all of them shall behold
it in each successive generation in time. Now, you may not have
time to turn to all these scriptures. I want God's Word to speak for
itself as we consider these things, and I'm going to be quoting some
very familiar passages to you. But, you know, they always take
on a freshness when we consider them from a different perspective,
and I want us to consider these very familiar passages today
that I'll be reading from this perspective of God's being able
Yet there's such consolation in this, you know, that God is
truly able to save, that he is really willing, that he's told
us he's willing to, and that he has delivered. and that we,
the recipients of that victory that Jesus Christ made when he
laid his head at the rest on that cross, when he ceased, when
he entered into his rest and sat down at the right hand, there
is such great consolation as we behold what took place there. Todd is able, and I read chapter
46 and verse 9, he was speaking to this nation of Israel and
reminding them of having led them out of Egypt, of things
such as this victory he gave Joshua on the day the sun stood
still. And he said, Remember the former
things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am
God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning."
Now, if your God is not the God that declares, determines the
outcome before it ever happens, the end from the beginning. He's
not this God of Scripture. This God declares the end from
the beginning. If your God is waiting to see
what you will do with his Word, with his truth, with Jesus Christ
in order to deliver you, he's not the God of this Bible, because
this God, you see, he's able and he has made a determination.
He's declared the end from the beginning. And from ancient times
of things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel," that is,
his purpose, "...it shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. I have spoken it." Just as when
he said, Let there be light, there was light, he's saying,
I have spoken my purpose and I will bring it to pass. I've
purposed it, I will also do it. And then in the New Testament,
in the book of Hebrews, in chapter 7, The writer there is comparing
the superiority of the priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. And in doing so, he's comparing
it to that old biblical priesthood. That whole economy that they
were under was to be a schoolmaster. The law was given to be a schoolmaster,
the Scriptures tell us, to bring us to Christ. And so that priesthood
was a picture, but he's speaking here in Hebrews 7 of the superiority
of the anti-type, that which was being typified. Oh, it's
far greater than a picture. A mere picture. I was listening
on the radio to our radio broadcaster, Ken Wymer, speaking there this
morning, and he used the example of a picture of a loaf of bread. He said, now that picture, it's
an image of a bread, but it won't feed you. No, you've got to have
the real thing. And this is speaking of Jesus
Christ, the real thing. And he says, "...by so much was
Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were
many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason
of death. They succeeded one another. But
this man," speaking of the God-man, "...because he continueth ever."
He hath an unchangeable priesthood. You see, he arose from the grave
for what he accomplished, righteousness, perfect satisfaction to the justice
of God. It demanded life, and he came
out of that grave. So he continued forever, and
he hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore, listen, he is able
to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him. seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. He is able to save
them, save and defile the Lord. For the Scriptures say, having
risen, he rested. He ceased the day the sun stood
still. He rested and he was satisfied
and he sits there ever making intercession for all the objects. You see, the outcome of that
victory can never change for the unchangeable God is their
mediator, interceding on their behalf. And it says he is able
to save them to the uttermost. that come unto God by him. It doesn't say that he is able
to save those if they will come unto God. No, he says they come
unto God by him. That is, as a fruit and effect
of the victory he won. He didn't just fight and assist
you in a way that you could now make some decision to save yourself. Just as in the battle at Gibeon,
The Lord fought for Israel, and so it is with us. He goes on
there in Hebrews 7. He says, For such a high priest
becomes us. He's standing for us. It's what
we needed. But you see, God's holy, and he requires perfection. And he said this high priest,
he was becoming. He was holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners. The Scriptures say he was made
like unto us in every way. See, we needed a substitute who
had to walk in our stead under the jurisdiction of God's law
here on earth. And it says he was made like
unto us in every way. It says, yet without sin. That's what
we needed. And he was made higher than the heavens. You see, he's
victorious. He's earned an exaltation. that puts him on the throne at
the right hand of the Father interceding for us. And it goes
on. That's a great passage in Hebrews
7, too, if you want to look at it later. But God is able. And when it comes to this eternal
victory, to our eternal salvation, we've got good news. God's stated
his purpose to save a people. He's willing. In Hebrews chapter
6, speaking of Abraham and those Old Testament saints in the context,
he said, wherein God was willing, willing more abundantly to show
unto the heirs of promise, an heir, he inherited something
that he didn't earn, willing to show unto the heirs of promise
the immutability of his counsel, the unchangeable His unchangeable
purpose, that's what his counsel is. It's his purpose that's attested
by his infinite wisdom, or a product of his infinite wisdom. He confirmed
it by an oath. He promised it, that by two immutable
things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have
strong consolation. Listen, if God ever convinces
you of your desperate need for Christ, that you're a sinner
and that he's holy, You need some consolation. And he says,
well, here's two immutable things. God's promised it, and God has
purposed it. And what God's purposed, he performs,
for he is ultimately and totally able Now, who has strong consolation?
It says, "...who have fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the
hope set before us." That hope of a Messiah for Abraham and
those Old Testament saints that would come, but this is the hope
set before you today. The hope in Jesus Christ based
on his accomplished work on that day that he, the Son, stood still. Which hope we have as an anchor
of the soul is sure and set steadfast. and which entereth into that
within the veil, that veil, the picture of the tabernacle and
the temple that separated the holy of holies, that was rent
into on the day that Jesus Christ died. It was on the day that
the sun stood still. In other words, he ushered in
a way for all those for whom he lived and died to enter into
the very presence of God with a forerunner, he said, is for
us to enter even Jesus, made on high priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek, who had no father
or mother, in other words, who was without end. A picture in
the Old Testament of Christ. God is able to deliver spiritual
Israel. God has told us he will, he's
purposed it, he's willing, and God delivered. Now, I do want
you to turn to 2 Corinthians 5. You have your Bible, 2 Corinthians
5. Again, another very familiar
passage, but we'll look at it afresh from this perspective,
the certainty that a deliverance has been made. In verse 17, we
read, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
Old things are passed away, behold, all things are to come to you.
And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself
by Jesus Christ. Work's been done, he's delivered,
and he hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to which,
or namely, here it is again, The proclamation that he has
delivered, that this has taken place when he says that God was
in Christ, reconciling not just the national Jews, those who
were chosen from that nation who was chosen under that old
temporal covenant, but the world, out of all the world, unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them, not charging them
with their sins. for they were being charged to
the one who died in payment for those sins. And the merit of
his accomplishment in perfect obedience before a holy God,
even unto death. You see, his obedience was for
a people of a substitute, but the people he would substitute
himself for were sinners. And before God's holy justice,
God doesn't play. Those sins had to really be dealt
with. And so the penalty had to be extracted. That was his
righteousness. God was reconciling the world
unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and he
hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. That's the
gospel. That's the good news of how God saves sinners on the
day that the Son stood still. Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's stead. on the basis of what he
accomplished. In your room, instead, be ye
reconciled to God. On what basis? For he hath made
him to be sin for us, who ye know sin. He legally constituted
Christ to be sin by imputing, charging him with sins that he
had no part in producing. And the implied language here
is that likewise, when he says that we might be made in the
same manner, the righteousness of God in him, that I can stand
before him as the scriptures proclaim is true of spiritual
Israel. Me, a sinner, standing before
God, holy, unreprovable, unblameable? Yeah, based on righteousness
I had no part in producing, but one that resides there at the
right hand, continually interceding for me on the basis of that righteousness
that he accomplished on the day he stood still and entered into
his rest. 2 Corinthians 4.6. We're hitting all the familiar
passages this morning, but in describing what takes place when
God is pleased to bring to our eyes, to spiritual Israel's eyes,
his chosen people, the knowledge of what he accomplished at the
cross of Calvary. It says, it starts out, and it's
speaking of this same God who controls the day and the night
and the light and the darkness, and says, for God who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness. He said, let there be light.
That God who is all-powerful, who is indeed able. He has shined
in our hearts. to give us a light of the knowledge
of the glory of God, where? In the face, that is, in the
person and work of Jesus Christ. You see, there we behold something
about God, His glory, what He's like, that we see in no other
act. We see much about Him in creation,
but we only see in the work that Jesus Christ accomplished on
the day that the sun stood still. We only can see there how God
can be just. how He can deal justly with sins
and still save us now. Boy, that's great news. And that's
what God calls His people to behold, their victory, an eternal
victory in the Lord Jesus Christ. So just as Israel beheld on that
day that the celestial body of the Son stood still over the
Gibeon, the Scriptures tell us in Galatians 4, that in the fullness
of time, here's God that controls the time, that suspended it back
there in the day of Joshua, but in the fullness of time, he sent
forth his Son, born of a woman, made under the law, to redeem
them that were under the law. Now, redemption, remember, is
not an attempt made to wait and see how the battle will turn
out later. No, it's not an attempt made,
it is a payment made. And you see, for the vast majority,
even many of us, who, when we began our religious journey,
imagined that God died for everybody, or Christ died for everybody,
and yet we knew there were atheists out there that we assumed are
among those, the Scriptures say, the many who will perish in hell.
They're unwittingly, as we all once did, declaring that he didn't
gain the victory, see, and he's an unjust monster, for he killed
his son for sins, and he's going to still send some people to
hell whose sins have already been paid for. He doesn't require
payment twice. But thank goodness God is pleased,
and he shall reveal to his people in the day of his power that
it was finished at the cross of Calvary. and that they had
total victory in that Jesus Christ and what he accomplished on the
day that he stood still. So as we read there in 2 Corinthians
5, now then we are ambassadors of Christ as though God did beseech
you by us. We're here spreading the word
of reconciliation. As though he did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God,
for he hath made him to be sin for us. Do ye know sin? On that
basis that we might be made to righteousness of God in him."
I know this has been a real simple message, but I don't know about
you, but I take great comfort, strong consolation from knowing
that God is able. God is able to save to the uttermost,
as we read. He purposed to save a people,
and all that he intended to save he delivered at the cross of
Calvary on the day that the sun stood still. And all those for
whom that victory was won, they too shall behold it." They'll
look to Christ. They'll look to that day that
the Son of God stood still and flee to him for their refuge.
And I pray God will so richly bless you.