Psalm 71, beginning at verse 1, we read these words. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape. Incline thine ear unto me and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort. Thou hast given commandment to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man, for thou art my hope. O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. I believe that will go well with our study tonight in Matthew. As you know, we're coming to the end of the book of Matthew and we're in the days, actually we're in the hours, the minutes before our Lord is taken to the cross and crucified.

We'll begin with the handout if you would like to take that. Turning in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 26 for our text. And I open with a psalm in the handout. So we'll read that first, and then we'll go to our text in Matthew. In the handout, you'll see the title for tonight's message is Condemned Without a Cause. And if you consider that phrase while we read these words, to the chief musician, a psalm of David, hold not thy peace, O God, of my praise, for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me.

And you'll see how this goes with our reading here in just a moment. But I want to bring this out to you. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without cause. For my love, they are my adversaries. But I give myself unto prayer, and they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Psalms 109 verses 1-5. Now turn to your Bibles if you would, and you'll see why this Psalm goes right along with what we have before us in God's Word tonight.

Beginning, this is Matthew chapter 26, beginning at verse 57. and they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. But Peter followed him afar off into the high priest's palace and went in and sat with the servants to see the end.

Now the chief priests and the elders and all the council sought false witness against Jesus to put him to death, but found none. Yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses and said, this fellow said I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days. And the high priest arose and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? What is it which thou hast witnessed against thee?

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tellest whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus said unto him, Thou hast said. Nevertheless, I say unto you hereafter, shall ye see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven?

Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy. What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now we have heard his blasphemy. What think ye? Then they answered and said, he is guilty of death. Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, prophesy unto us, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee?

Now, if you would turn back to your handout, and we'll be there for a few moments before we Pick up in other scriptures in John chapter 11 Mid page of your handout we see a page one in the passage before us We see the Lord of Glory dragged before the religious court of the Jews before Caiaphas the chief priests the scribes the elders and everybody who was anybody among the Jews was represented in this massive assembly of madness and I thought about the phrase monkey court as I was going through these words.

These men were not religious crackpots, but leaders of the mainstream religion, both conservative and liberal, both orthodox and unorthodox. All of them had come together to excommunicate the Lord of Glory and condemn him to death. They were determined to get rid of Christ and his gospel while maintaining their religious status quo. They wanted to keep their temple, keep their priesthood, keep their religious customs, keep the name of God, but they were determined to put an end to the influence of the Son of God and the gospel of his grace.

I hope you have not missed the point. It is, is it not evident, is it not evident as the noonday sun throughout scriptures, the religious world, the mainstream religions of the world in all of its branches, denominations, are now and always have been enmity to Christ, his gospel, and his kingdom, page two. Brother Don Fortner, wrote these words, he said, every church in the world is acceptable in the religious world except the church of God. Every religious notion in the world is acceptable in the religious world except the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace in Christ. Every way of salvation promoted by the perverse imaginations of man is acceptable in the religious world except the declaration that Christ is the only way. the declaration that salvation is to be had only by the shedding of his blood for the satisfaction of divine justice, that righteousness can be obtained only by divine imputation, and that salvation is the gift and operation of God's free, sovereign, effectual grace.

So I want to consider the sacrifice bound. Listen to these words that we read in verse 57. And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. It seems only fitting, doesn't it, that our Savior be brought before the high priest of the Jews at this time. The great day of atonement was at hand. The wondrous types of the paschal lamb and the mercy seat and the scapegoat were about to be fulfilled. Now, before he is led forth to be crucified, the high priest, by the arrangement and providence, pronounces sin to be upon the head of the innocent Lamb of God.

Listen to these words from Leviticus 16.21, And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness.

That's in Leviticus 16.21. Now, ever remember that our Savior's sufferings were voluntarily endured.

He who had his mere word smitten the band of soldiers, who by his mere word smitten the band of soldiers who came to arrest him. You recall last week in a different part of the scriptures, the Lord said, I am, when asked who they came. They said, we're seeking, I think they said Jesus by his name. And he says, I am he, and they all fell back. This too came to pass according to the purpose of God, that the scriptures might be fulfilled.

That was in John 18.6, by the way. Is it not? I lost my place in this spot. In Psalms 22, our Savior cried, many bulls have compassed me, strong bulls of Bashan have beset me, round dogs have compassed me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me.

And that's exactly what is going on here, but it was all by the purpose of God. Let me read for you from Acts chapter 2, a verse over there. chapter 2, Acts chapter 2 verse 23, Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken by wicked hands and crucified Him. So the Lord did all this voluntarily. He endured all that He had to go through voluntarily. It was predetermined by God himself before time began that his son would go through these things.

Now our blessed Savior, this is the last part of page two, was bound as the sacrifice of old. just as Isaac was bound and put on the altar, as we see in Genesis 22, verse 9. Turn to page three. And all the sacrifices of the law were bound at the horns of the altar, as stated in Psalms 118,

27. The binding of the sacrifices in the Old Testament typically pictured the sins and iniquities of God's elect binding the Lord Jesus. Robert Hawker observed this, he said, for as chains and fetters tie down the body, so sin and iniquity bend down the soul. And our blessed Savior cried as one whose soul was bound. when he was restoring that which he took not away. Listen to this from Psalms 40 and Psalm 69. O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee. Innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs on my head, therefore my heart faileth me.

Again, I quote from Brother Don, he says, perhaps the binding of our substitute was intended of God to set forth the binding of all the sins of His people to Him, when the Lord had laid on Him the iniquity of us all, making Him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. I said, perhaps. That was the intent of our God in the providential binding of our Lord, because it cannot be stated with certainty, but perhaps it was, is what he's saying. Robert Hawker made another observation concerning the binding of our Lord, sins to our saviors.

That is a matter of certainty. He wrote this, he says, it is a very, very precious thought to the soul of every truly regenerate believer that all the sins of his redeemed without the omission of a single infirmity or sin, in thought or word or deed, were laid upon Christ as the sacrifice was bound on the altar.

Hence, the high priest under the Jewish deposition was commanded to be thus particular on the great day of atonement. And Aaron shall lay both hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat. And shall send him away by the hand of a fit man, a man of opportunity, margin have it, and as Christ was, into the wilderness as Christ was led away when he was bound and given in Leviticus 16, 21, page 4. When our blessed Savior was bound, led away, and at last put to death as our sin atoning sacrifice, he fulfilled all the typical sacrifices of the law that foreshadowed and represented him.

Remember in the book of Luke, And I believe it's chapter 24, on the road to Emmaus, the Lord was with two men on the road and he spoke to them, he opened the scriptures, he expounded in the scriptures. Now that's the Old Testament, and he even mentioned from Well, let me read it right here. I'm so forgetful sometimes. Luke 24. And beginning at Moses, this is verse 27, and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning him. concerning himself. And then verse 31, and their eyes were opened and they knew him and he vanished out of their sight. So this is what this is talking about. Our Lord fulfilled everything in the Old Testament scriptures. That's the only scriptures they had at that time. The New Testament had not been finished. So that's what this is talking about.

He fulfilled all the typical sacrifices of the law that foreshadowed and represented him. Thus he who has made sin for us put away all the sins of all his people by the sacrifice himself. Now considering Caiaphas, he represents the worst of the lot, the worst of the lost unregenerate religious leaders. John Gill tells us that his name means one that vomits at the mouth.

Though he had had all the power all the proper outward credentials of a high priest, he obtained his office by the appointment of men, the Roman governor, either as a result of bribery or as a favor done to him rather than the appointment of God. Like most religious leaders who obtained their offices and positions by the appointment of men, Caiaphas was a leader for the people. He knew, at least in theory, certain aspects of divine truth, but he was a subtle politician. When it was to his advantage to do so, he could act very manly and speak truth in the face of others. I do not know how much, if anything, he understood about what he said, but he certainly spoke truth.

Look here in John chapter 11 with me, if you would. Several verses. John chapter 11, beginning at verse 47. Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees and a council and said, what do we? For this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our palace and our nation. And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, and here's the truth that he spoke, ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perisheth not. And this spake he not of himself, but being a high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation.

And not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. Then from that day forth, they took counsel together for to put him to death. Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but went next to the country near to the wilderness into a city called Ephraim. and there continued with his disciples. And the Jews' Passover was nigh at hand, and many went out of the country unto Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. Now, I've gone too far there, but that's, you get the point there, what I was talking about as far as Caiaphas.

We don't know, you know, our Lord uses wicked things all the time to bring out His truths. He can use anything. He can use His entire creation. Folks, he even used a donkey. Now can you imagine this? A donkey to speak words that he needed spoken. He used a donkey to do that very thing. Our Lord can use anything to bring His truths out, even those things that don't understand what they're speaking is truth or not.

Caiaphas had no interest in the glory of God, second paragraph from bottom of page four, the people of God or the souls of men. But he did speak the truth. There are multitudes just like him in the pulpits and positions of great leadership and influence around the world today. I've got to stop for just a second.

You know that I have shared with you about one who is hounding me about speaking more on the fruits of the Spirit, spending more time about what man's responsibility is rather than spending my time on what God's grace is. And I try to explain this because he knows the Scriptures. Folks, Charles Stanley knows the scriptures as well as any man that walks this earth. Charles Stanley can speak practical godliness better than any man that I've ever heard. But practical godliness is not grace. It's not salvation.

And the more time you spend on it, the less time you spend on God. And therefore, you bring out men. These men know the truth, they just don't know grace. And that's what we're talking about here. We're talking about people who don't understand grace and mercy. They know the good deeds of Christians. They know how we should be walking according to what they read in scriptures, but they don't know what grace is. They don't understand that there are no men who can walk that way the way they should.

We're all filled with sin from the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet. That's what God's people know. There's no goodness in us at all. There's no righteousness in us at all. We need one to be righteous for us. And that's what Christ is. He who has made sin, who knew no sin, that we would be made the righteousness of God. Not the righteousness of men, but the righteousness of God in Him.

And that's what we're talking about here. So, back to paragraph page four. The multitudes of people who are standing in pulpits speaking truth. You know what comes to my mind about that? I'm gonna get leading away from it once again. Here's what comes to my mind about that.

If it were possible, it would even deceive God's elect. But notice the scripture says, if it were possible. It's not possible. It's not possible for anything to draw God's people away from him. Last paragraph of page four, the high office in the church is no indication that a man is God's servant. Read the Bible with your eyes open.

The chief priests of our Lord's crucifixion and death were the priests, the elders, and the scribes of Israel. These priests could trace their lineage back to Aaron. They held the highest offices of religion. They led the people in their acts of worship. They lived lives of devotion, or at least it seemed so in public, appeared to live such lives. But these men were the murderers of the Son of God.

Beware, hold no man in high esteem because he is reputed as a great preacher or a religious leader. The teaching of any man who comes in the name of God must be tested by the standard of Holy Scripture. And I give you two scriptures that relate to that. Look on page 5, Isaiah 8, verse 20. To the law and to the testimony they speak not according to this word. It is because there is no light in them. Why does this man that hounds me not speak of grace and of mercy? Instead he wants to speak of how we're supposed to walk in this world before others. Because there's no light in him, that's why.

Beloved, believe not the spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. Because many false prophets are gone out into the world, hereby know ye the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God. And this is that spirit of antichrist.

Wherefore ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them. Because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. They are of the world, therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God, he that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

1 John 4 verses 1-6. Next we consider Peter followed him afar off into the high priest's palace and went in and sat with the servants to see the end. That was in verse 58. Now I want to be careful not to say more than is suggested by this, but it is placed here by divine inspiration to prepare us for that which is later revealed about Peter's denial in the Lord Jesus. And we're going to see more of that in next week's study. It says Peter followed him after first forsaking the Lord. Remember last week they all left him? Let me go back to our text in Matthew there. Verse 56, then all the disciples forsook him and fled. Remember that?

It says Peter followed him. After first forsaking the Lord with all the rest, Peter and John turned back to follow him. Now Peter alone is mentioned here because it is Peter who is being considered. But we must not be too severe in our judgment of Peter. John Gill wrote this, he said, Peter's following Christ showed love to him.

He was lost, he was reluctant to leave him. His bowels, his heart, in other words, moved towards him. He wanted to know how it would fare with him and what would become of him. But sadly, that's not all we are told. Firstly, we are told Peter followed him, but he followed him afar off. As Matthew Henry observed, some sparks of love and concern for his master were in his breast, and therefore he followed him. But fear and concern for his own safety prevailed, therefore he followed him afar off. Page six. He goes on to say, here began Peter's denying him. For to follow him afar off is by little and little to go back from him. Then we're told that Peter went in and sat with the servants.

He went in not to speak for Christ, but to hide himself, hoping not to be identified with Christ and his disciples. In fear and unbelief, this bold display played the hypocrite, disciple played the hypocrite, foolishly and needlessly. He puts himself in the way of temptation. He had no intention when he came in to the high priest's house of denying his Lord, but he put himself in the path of danger by putting himself in the company of the Lord's enemies. When a servant of Christ By his own choice, sits with the servants of the wicked, sin and sorrow speedily follow Charles Spurgeon.

The reason why Peter followed and went in was to gratify his own curiosity about the most sacred of all things, the death of Christ. Look what the Holy Spirit tells us. He went in to see the end. Peter went in simply to indulge his curiosity. He wanted to see what was taking place. He wanted to see how the Lord would be condemned and delivered up to die. Perhaps he wanted to see what he knew no one else would see. Lord, help us to rest our concerns in you and trust all that is to you alone. Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief. Next, we consider this.

Now the chief priests and the elders and all the council sought false witness against Jesus to put him to death, but found none. Yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses and said, this fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days. and the high priest arose and said unto him, answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witnesses against thee?

Even though they were plotting the murder of the Lord of Glory, these men were meticulous in their religious duties. They knew that the law required at least two witnesses for anyone to be convicted of a capital crime. Before long, two men were found who perverted the Lord's words into an accusation of blasphemy, page 7. Though these two false witnesses could not get their tails together, it sufficed to give these religious infidels a conscious, soothing grounds for murder.

Falsehood and ridicule are Satan's favorite weapons. The old serpent is a liar and the father of all lies, as declared in John 8, verse 44. Throughout our Lord's earthly minister, he was constantly accused of being an evil man and of doing wicked deeds. This was nothing new for him.

We must not be surprised to find men and women who oppose the gospel of grace of God falsely accusing God's saints of wickedness. Do not believe their evil reports that reprobate men give of God's saints. Gospel preachers particularly are the objects of scandalous gossip inspired by Satan.

That has always been the case, it is the case now, and so it will continue until time shall be no more. And then lastly, verses 63 through 68, we read these words, but Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Now I want to stop there for just a moment before we see the Lord's scene. What brings me a memory of this to me is in John chapter 3, or no, John chapter 10. The Lord was on the porch, Solomon's porch.

And they came to him and they said, tell us plainly if thou art the Christ. And the Lord says, I told you in verse 25, and ye believe not the works that I do in my Father's name. They bear witness of me, but ye believe not, because ye are not my sheep. As I send unto you my sheep, hear my voice. Now listen to how the Lord answers this.

Jesus saith unto them, thou hast said, nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power. He's talking to those who know the scriptures word for word. Those who were taught to memorize every word of the Old Testament and they know exactly what he's saying here. He's telling them, Hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Then the high priests rent their clothes saying he has spoken Blasphemy. There he goes. He has called himself God Almighty, the King of Kings, returning in the day of his power. What further need have we of witness, he says? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy, what think ye? And they answered and said, he is guilty of death. Then did they spit in his face, and buffet him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, Thou Christ, who is he that smote thee?

Now we see here the Son of God enclosed by the assembly of the wicked once again fulfilling Scriptures. That's what Psalm 22, 16, listen to this. For dogs have compassed me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. When accused by these false witnesses, our Lord held His peace. When He saw that His enemies were determined to have His blood, He choked their spite with silence. It says, but Jesus held his peace. He kept his mouth quiet. He spoke no words, because the scripture must be fulfilled, which said, page eight, he was oppressed and was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as the sheep before her shears is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

Isaiah 53.7, Caiaphas was angered by the Savior's composure and his silence. Then in Matthew 26, 64, our Savior plainly declared himself to be the Christ, God the Son.

He told the enraged mob that he would be seated upon the right hand of power, of omnipotence, and that they would see it. That is to say, it would be made manifest to them. The right hand of power is the right hand of God. Being seated there signified his finished work. Being seated upon the throne of God also implied that his work was accepted by God. Here, our blessed Savior made a claim of deity, which the Jews clearly understood.

Indeed, if Jesus of Nazareth is not God, he was guilty of blasphemy and did deserve to die under the Mosaic law. Listen to the words here of Leviticus 24, 16. And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death. And all the congregation shall certainly stone him, as well the stranger as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall he be put to death. Then our Master gave a bold declaration of his second coming, and the fact that these godless reprobates would see him again in judgment, almost the last word spoken by our Lord before his crucifixion was about his second coming. Let us never question it. After that, in great pretense, the high priest condemned our Redeemer to be crucified, ripping his garments as he screamed, blasphemy, in verses 65 through 68. Caiaphas ripped his clothes in a pretense of righteous indignation, only to hide his murderous heart. He denounced the Son of God as a blasphemer only to disguise his own blasphemous heart.

I can't help but read that and think of what's going on in the world around us now. The very ones who are accusing one side of all these atrocious things are the very ones who are committing it themselves. That's exactly what's happening here. They're accusing the Lord Jesus, who knew no sin of sin, that they had committed in their very own hearts.

The penalty for blasphemy was death by stoning, but our Lord had foretold that he would be crucified. Therefore, rather than stoning him on the spot, these men spit upon him as they beat and mocked the Son of God. Then they delivered him up for the Romans to be crucified. All this the Son of God voluntarily endured as our substitute. John Trapp wrote this, he said, Christ was content to be spit upon to cleanse our faces from the filth of sin. to be buffeted with the fists and beaten with rods to free us from the mighty hand of God and from those scourges and scorpions of infernal fiends.

See how patient Jesus stands, insulted in his lowest case. Sinners bound his almighty hands and spit in their creator's face. What multitudes there are who daily repeat the crimes of this bloodthirsty mob by their willful unbelief. Unbelief is nothing less than what these elite, sophisticated, barbaric religionists did. It is spitting in the face of God. He that believeth on the sign of God hath a witness in himself. He that believeth not of God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son.

1 John 5.10. The good shepherd laid down his life for his sheep as a voluntary sacrifice of sin offering.

John 1.16-18. And he did it according to the will and purpose of God Almighty. You can read that. You know what? Let's do this.

Let's turn over to Acts 2 for a moment. We've got some time. I didn't think we were going to have time, so I was just going to refer to it. Turn over to Acts chapter 2. I've got a couple of references here in the book of Acts I want to take you to. The first one that we just talked about there, our Lord did it according to the will and the purpose of God. We already read that a moment ago. Acts chapter 2 verse 23. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken by wicked hands and have crucified and slain. All that was done, back in our handout, all that was done to our Savior was done according to the purpose of God and had been beforehand revealed in the Old Testament Scriptures. Look at chapter 4. Turn over to Acts chapter 4. Two verses over there. Verses 27 and 28 regarding the prophecies of what was going to happen to our Lord. Verses 27 and 28.

For of a truth against thy holy child, Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together. For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. So they're all doing it according to the determining counsel of God, as we read in verse 23 of chapter two. But here it shows that God is causing them to do it for him. Look over at chapter 13 now, Acts chapter 13. Verse 27, Acts chapter 13, verse 27.

For they that dwell at Jerusalem and their rulers because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, They took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulcher.

Last paragraph of page 9 there. After these things, after suffering the wrath of men, our Savior yet had to endure the wrath of God to save us. That too, He voluntarily endured as our substitute. Turn over to 2 Corinthians, go to the right, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 21. For He hath made Him to be sin for us. who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

The day shall soon come when the Lord of Glory will respond to the challenge of mockery in Matthew 26, verse 68. Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, who is He that smote thee? Listen to these words on page 10 from 2 Thessalonians 1, verses 7 through 12. For the mystery of the iniquity doth already work, Only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, even him whose coming is after the work of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivables and unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth. that they might be saved, and for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned to believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Let us never forget, folks, If it wasn't for God's grace, if it wasn't for His mercy, if it wasn't for His everlasting love as He declares for His people in Jeremiah chapter 3, we would be right there. Those words would be perfectly describing us. Listen to Revelation 1 verse 7. Behold, He cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him. And they also which pierced him, and all kindreds of the earth, shall wail because of him, even so. Amen. Revelation 20 verse 11, And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them.