Okay, Psalm 38. You might notice that the psalm
has, I don't know what you call this, a title or whatever, but
it says a psalm of David to bring to remembrance. And there's titles
in many of the psalms saying this is a psalm to be sung at
such and such a time or whatever. I don't know how much stock to
place in those things, but that did catch my attention. This
is a psalm to bring to remembrance. And you read this psalm, you'll
see what we're reminded of throughout the psalm. We're reminded of
Christ, our sacrifice, which is the reason for all of scripture.
And we need that often, don't we? Our Lord told us concerning
the Lord's table, this do in remembrance of me. And that's
why David, the Holy Spirit, moved David to write this psalm that
we might remember our Lord Jesus Christ when our sin troubles
us. It doesn't trouble us like it
should, but there are times, by God's grace, our sin troubles
us. And we think, look at me, I can't be saved. somebody that
does what I do, that thinks somebody like me can't know the Lord.
When you find yourself there, you remember the sacrifice of
our Lord Jesus Christ. His sacrifice took away the sin
of his people. We find ourselves filled with
fear and doubt because we know we ought to live serving the
Lord. And if we're honest with ourselves, we all have to say,
I haven't done enough. If you're troubled by that, you
remember this. You remember Christ's sacrifice. You're right. We didn't do enough, but he did.
So you remember him. He did everything that was necessary
to save his people from their sins. We should live every day
remembering the sacrifice of Christ, our Savior, so that we
live serving him and live serving his people. When that day appointed
of the Lord, and it comes our day, to lay in our deathbed and
leave this life, we can lay there remembering Christ's sacrifice
for our sin. Will we remember Him? There's
nothing to fear. There's no anxiety. There's only
things to look forward to and anticipate. So I want us to see
two main points in this psalm tonight. Number one, I want us
to see how the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, satisfied justice
for God's people. Second, I want us to see this.
The salvation from sin in Christ is very real. First, remember
Christ's sacrifice. He satisfied justice for his
people. Verse 1, he says, O Lord, rebuke
me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Now these words are the words of Christ our Savior, and he
speaks here of his people. I say not himself, he's speaking
of his people. But he's not speaking of himself in this sense. He's
not asking that the Father spare him any of God's justice against
the sin of his people. He's not asking the Father to
not convict him. That's what the word rebuke there
means. It means to convict in justice, in accurate judgment. He's not asking his Father to
not convict him. He's not asking his Father to
not punish him in his hot displeasure. Christ has been made sin for
his people. He knows he must be convicted. He knows he must
suffer God's hot wrath and displeasure against the sin of his people.
Christ is not asking for mercy for himself. He went to the cross
with the desire to take all of the punishment that his people
deserve. He willingly went to the cross
to suffer God's judgment, to suffer and die so his people
wouldn't have to. Look over to Isaiah 51. He did
this willingly. He took the cup of God's wrath,
and he drank every bit of it dry, all of it, so that his people
would not have to. Isaiah 51, verse 22. Thus saith the Lord, thus saith
thy Lord, thee Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of
his people. Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
trembling. Even the dregs of the cup of
my fury Thou shalt no more drink it again. Thou shalt no more
drink it again because he took that cup of trembling, he took
the dregs of God's wrath against the sin of his people and turned
that cup upside down and drank every last drop. So there's no
more of it for his people to ever suffer. There's none left.
All right. Then why does he say here, O
Lord, rebuke me not? Believe I got something here
that will thrill your soul. Why does he say, rebuke me not, neither
chasten me? Here's the reason. Because Christ
is so much one with his people, that when he pleads for his people,
he doesn't say them. It's not like Eric, he's not
like saying them over there. When he pleads for his people, he
says me. Because he's one with his people. He's one with his
people. They're one body. They're one
flesh. They're one. So when he pleads
for his people, he says, give me mercy. Give my people mercy. That's a whole lot different
than the son going to the father and saying, Father, I got these
people over here, these nameless people. Be merciful to them. It's a whole lot different than
the son coming to the father and saying, be merciful to me.
Reckon he will? Well, here's the reason, verse
two, that Christ can plead for mercy. He can plead for mercy
for his people because he has satisfied justice for them. For
thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. Now, these arrows are the arrows
of God's justice that pierce the guilty. Look back at Deuteronomy
chapter 32. Deuteronomy 32. Here Israel had provoked the
Lord to anger with their idolatry. He's going to deal with that
idolatry. Look what he says, Deuteronomy 32 verse 23. He's talking about burning them
with fire and taking all their foundations away. Verse 23 says,
I will heap mischiefs upon them. I will spend mine arrows upon
them. I'm going to shoot all of my
arrows at them. These are the arrows of God's
justice. And then Job chapter six. Job chapter six, verse four,
this is interesting. Job six, verse four, he says,
for the arrows of the of the almighty are within me, the poison
whereof drinketh up my spirit, the tears of God to set themselves
in array against me. Now that word poison job uses
there. It's from the same root word,
displeasure, in our text. These are God's arrows of justice.
They're like poisoned arrow of justice that always kill the
victim. Because God is just. He hates
sin. And this is what Christ our substitute
is telling his people. All of God's arrows against the
sin of his people, every last one of them, were shot at Christ
our substitute. And they all hit their mark.
God has no arrows left, no arrows of justice left for his people. Not only was our Savior's body
pierced with the nails and the spear and the crown of thorns,
but his soul was pierced with the arrows of God's justice.
So his people do not have to fear those arrows. Psalm 91. All those arrows of God's justice
have found their mark in Christ our substitute. So there's nothing
left for God's people to fear. Psalm 91 verse 4. He shall cover
thee with his feathers. Under his wings shalt thou trust.
His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be
afraid for the terror by night nor the arrow that flyeth by
day. You don't have to be afraid of the arrow that flyeth by day
because All of those arrows have been poured out on our substitute.
So when you find yourself afraid because God's going to judge
you for your sin, you remember Christ sacrificed for sinners.
He satisfied justice for his people. And he says here, thy
hand pressed me sore, pressed me down. It pressed me all the
way to death. Well, you know what that is.
That is the heavy hand of God in judgment. God did not spare
his son, but he gave his son that whole heavy hand of God's
fury that pressed him all the way to death. God said, because
of the sacrifice of his son, there's no fury left in me. So
his people don't have to fear that hand. Matter of fact, God's
people love that hand. Look at Isaiah chapter 59. God's people don't fear the hand
of the Lord, but we love that hand. It's the hand of almighty
God that reached way down to save us, to pull us up from the
deep my reclaim, set our feet on Christ, the solid rock. Isaiah
59 verse one. Behold, the Lord's hands is not
shortened that it cannot say neither his ear heavy, that it
cannot hear that the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
say because that hand pressed down sore upon Christ, our substitute. Now, his people love that hand. How we need that hand, it's that
hand that saves us from our sin. All because Christ satisfied
justice for us. Look at verse nine. He says,
Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not
hid from thee. Now, only the Lord Jesus Christ
can honestly say this, that all of my desire is before thee.
And that word desire means a longing. or a delight. That's the Savior's
longing. He longed to please His Father. He delighted to please His Father.
And throughout His life, that's exactly what He did, didn't He?
He pleased His Father by perfectly obeying the law. All His obedience
pleased the Father. Now remember, He's already told
us He and His people, Christ and His people are one. Since
His people are one with Christ, whatever He did, We did. Not figuratively now, not figuratively,
literally. When Christ obeyed the law perfectly,
so did we if we're in it. So when you think, boy this is
Satan's temptation, he whispers in your ear. When you think you've
got to do some good things so you'll be righteous, so you can
keep a righteousness before God, you just stop and you remember
Christ. He is our righteousness. He is
our righteousness. So just remember Him. Just trust
Him. Just look to Him. Because in
this matter of righteousness before God, our works don't enter
into it. Not unless they're going to make
us unrighteous, they don't. You just remember Christ. And you
look to Him and you trust Him. It was the Savior's delight to
honor and to satisfy His Father throughout His life. And the
same thing's true of his death. It was his delight to be the
substitute for his people. So they'd be saved, so they'd
have life. It was his delight to suffer
before his father, to please his father's justice. His groanings
were heard. They were not unheard by the
father. His groanings were heard. They weren't hid from him because
the groanings weren't offered to him. The sacrifice of Christ
His suffering, physical suffering on the cross, is really unimaginable. To our polite society, a crucifixion
is unimaginable to us. But those things were not done
to make us feel sorry for Jesus, so that we'd trust him, so that
we'd do something for him. Those groanings were before the
Father. The blood was offered before the Lord. And the Father
said, it's enough. He was well pleased with And
since the death of Christ is enough, His people don't have
to fear death. We don't fear death because,
listen now, we don't fear death. It's not like God's elect already
died to the law and already died to sin. It's not like we died
so that God's holy demands are satisfied. Brethren, if we believe
Christ, we have already died. If we believe Christ by faith,
we believe Him, we've already satisfied God's justice through
our death. So there's no reason for the
believer to fear death. There's no reason for us to fear
judgment. We've already, please God, we've already satisfied
His justice. You remember when Paul told the
church at Galatia, he said, I'm crucified with Christ. He was
speaking literally. If we believe Christ, if I believe
Christ, I was crucified with Christ. Really. Adam, the first Adam, when he
sinned, I was in it, wasn't I? You were too. When Adam sinned,
what did we do? It wasn't like we sinned. We
sinned. We really did. In the exact same
way, everyone who believes Christ has already died to the law.
They've already satisfied God's law. And that's just as real
as our sin in Adam. Our righteousness in Christ is
just as real as our sin in Adam. So what does that mean to us?
We already died to the law. Tell you what it means. The believer
has no more relationship with the law. None whatsoever. I don't
have to feel compelled to keep the law. And I don't have to
fear it either, because I have no relationship with the law.
I've already satisfied the law in Christ. Instead, I can cry
out to God for mercy, because the holy God will hear me. If
I've already satisfied the law in Christ, the holy God can show
mercy to me, because Christ satisfied justice for me. Justice already
satisfied. There's no reason for God to
withhold his mercy, is there? He's well pleased. Right? Verse 15. For in thee, O Lord,
do I hope. Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. Now we know our Lord Jesus always
perfectly hoped in his father, and with good reason. He knows
the father. He's one with the father. He
knew the father would do what he said he'd do. So even in his
dying agony, our Savior was suffering in hope. He was dying in hope. And that hope is not like, well,
I hope this is gonna happen, but I don't know if it will or
not. No, this hope, is an expectation. Christ expected that his father
would accept his sacrifice. And because of that, he expected
that the father would save everyone for whom he was dying. Now that
gives sinners a good hope. A sinner can't have a good hope
any other way except in Christ. And that also is a good reason
for a sinner to come begging for mercy. If you know you come in Christ
begging for mercy and the father will hear you and give you your
request. What would stop us from begging
for mercy? What would stop us from coming to him and begging
for forgiveness? The father will accept everyone
for whom Christ died because their sin is washed away. Justice
is satisfied. The savior knew the father always
heard him. Well, of course he did. There's
no reason for him not to hear his son. He's perfect. Well, since
his people are one with Christ, the father always hears his people
too. He always hears a sinner cry for mercy. Always. Now, if you're a sinner, that's
comforting. So when you feel your sin and you feel your sin
is so bad that the father will never hear you, that he'll never
accept you, You just stop right there and remember the Lord Jesus
Christ. You remember his sacrifice. God
can hear me and be merciful to me because he already took out
his wrath on his son. And God can hear me because he's
well pleased with his son. He'll hear me if I'm in him because
Christ satisfied justice for his people. All right, second,
this salvation that Christ secured for his people by his suffering,
by his blood, by his death. This salvation from sin is real. This gospel that we preach is
not a pretend thing. The gospel that we preach is
not something that people can go off in their ivory tower and
think about and enjoy, but it really is not going to help anybody
down here on the, you know, the muck and the mire fighting through
this earth. No, salvation from sin is a real
thing. It's real life. The gospel that
we preach is strength and comfort and life for all of our days. Everything that God does is real,
and that affects the daily life of a believer. This is not something
I'm preaching to you that's just good on Sunday morning, Wednesday
night, and by the time you fight through traffic on the way home,
it's gone, don't apply anymore. You go off to the salt mine tomorrow
morning, and what you heard Wednesday night doesn't apply anymore.
That's not the kind of gospel we're preaching. Now this is
for every day of the believer's life. And when you have those
times that your heart is so burdened down with a sense of sin, and
like I said, it's never burdened down with a sense of sin like
it should be, but there are times we feel such a sense of our sin.
Let me give you some comfort for your heart at that time.
Remember the sacrifice of Christ. Just remember Him. The imputation
of sin to Christ is real. Christ was actually made sin
for His people. Now that's a pretty good theological
sound of words, isn't it? Let me tell you what that means
in plain old Eastern Kentucky language. Christ took the sin
of His people away from them. So it can't hurt them anymore.
That's what it means. The imputation of sin to Christ
is real. And the flip side of that coin
is this. The imputation of Christ's righteousness
to his people is real, too. Christ has already made his people
righteous. It's not something you've got
to wait to receive in glory. Right now, God's people have
been made righteous in Christ. And there's the sinner's hope
again. It's an expectation of salvation in Christ. because
God's never going to reject anybody's righteousness. Never. Now, why
would the father rebuke his son in such wrath and chasing him?
Why would he convict him of sin? Why would he chase him in his
hot displeasure? Why would he do that? This is
his only begotten son. He loves the son. Well, I'll
tell you why he did it. Because Christ was actually made
sin and the father must cause him to suffer his justice for
it. Verse three, there's no soundness in my flesh because of thine
anger. He is completely destroyed. There's not a spot that God has
missed in his anger against sin. There's no soundness in my flesh
because of thine anger. Neither is there any rest of
my bones because of my sin. When Christ was made sin, the
sin of his people became his sin. Now he wasn't a sinner. I wish I don't know where people
get that. Nobody in their right mind is saying that Christ was
a sinner, but he owned the sin of his people as his sin. What do you say right there?
I'm suffering body and soul because of my sin. It's my sin. He says the same thing. Verse
four, for mine iniquities are gone over mine head as a heavy
burden. They are too heavy for me. This
mountain of sin that became Christ's sin was not too heavy for him
in the sense that he could not carry the sin of his people away.
No, he did that. What he's saying here is this
mountain of sin that was laid upon him was so great it crushed
him. He actually died to satisfy God's
justice. In verse 10, he says, My heart
panted. My strength failed me. As for
the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. The light of
mine eyes, that's life in the body. When that light's out,
the body's dead. Christ actually died for the
sin of his people because he'd been made really guilty. Those
sins really became his sin. That's the only way it's possible
for a holy God to put him to death. He was really made sin. Look what he says here in verse
12. They also that seek after my life, lay stares for me, and
they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine
deceits all the day long. But I as a deaf man heard them
not. I as a dumb man opened not his mouth. Thus I was as a man
that heareth not, and whose mouth are no reproofs." You know he's
speaking here of the Jews. They came and they had all these
made-up charges against the Lord Jesus. They had to go find witnesses
to accuse him, but they had to find witnesses who were willing
to lie. None of their lies matched up, you know. Even Pilate could
see there's no fault in this man. I mean, everybody knew there
is no fault in this man. Well, then let me ask you this
question. All those accusations were made against him. Why did
our Lord fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah 53 and open not his
mouth? Why does he go as a shearer,
as the land before a shearer is dumb, never opened his mouth?
When they accused him of saying things he never said, of wanting
to do things he never wanted to do, why didn't he stand up
and scream, I did not? Why didn't he? Because he was guilty. He couldn't
say, I never lied. Because I did. He could never
say, He's not guilty of insurrection against the government because
I'm guilty of insurrection against God's authority. He didn't open
his mouth because he'd been made guilty. And since his people,
since he was made guilty, his people are made not guilty. Brethren,
that's a whole lot more than a paper transaction. I can show
you that verse five. My wounds, he says, my wounds
stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled. I am bowed down greatly. I go
mourning all the day long, for my loins are filled with a loathsome
disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and
sore-broken. I have roared by reason of the
disquietness of my heart." Whoever it is that's making that statement
is not pretending to be made sin, is he? He's not pretending
to know something about sin. No, he knows the full weight
of everything that sin is. He describes himself, the holy,
perfect Savior, describes himself as being filled with a loathsome
disease. He says there's no soundness
in my flesh, but my flesh is full of stinking wounds and corrupt
flesh. Now, you and I can identify with
that. That's our flesh. That is the effect of sin and
we've lived with it all of our days. Look at Isaiah chapter
1. This is the way that God's elect.
Spiritual Israel is described by nature. Isaiah chapter 1 verse 5. Why should you be stricken anymore?
You revolt more and more. The whole head is sick. The whole
heart is faint. From the sole of the foot, even
unto the head, there's no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores that have not been closed, neither bound
up, neither mollified with ointment. Isaiah is describing God's people
there. That's the way we are by nature.
It sounds a whole lot like the way the Savior describes himself
in Psalm 38, doesn't it? You know why that is? because
the Savior has become what his people are so that he might make
them what he is. Christ suffered everything that
sin is so that his people will never suffer any of it. He actually
took away the sin of his people. So if Christ died for you, your
sin can never hurt you. Now, it's going to kill these
bodies. We'll suffer the consequences of it in this life, but it'll
never hurt us. But it sure hurt him. He suffered
everything that it deserves and he endured it all willingly because
he loves his people. When our Savior was made sin,
how he mourned over it. Now we can't do that. We can't
really mourn over sin. We can't say we're truly sorry
about our sin. Sin's all we know. We have no
point of reference. But Christ is holy. So he was
sorry when he was made sin. Verse 17. For I am ready to halt, and my
sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity. He's owning it. And he says,
I will be sorry for my sin. Only the Lord Jesus could ever
feel sorry for sin. He called this sin my sin. He's done it throughout this
song. He says it's mine. And it brought him great sorrow.
Look over at Mark chapter 14. Let's see the fulfillment of
this psalm. Mark chapter 14. This great, awesome moment is
coming. This is not a paper transaction
to our Savior. Mark 14 verse 32. And they came to a place which
was named Gethsemane. And he saith to his disciples,
Sit ye here, while I shall pray. And he taketh with him Peter,
and James, and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be
very happy. And he saith unto them, My soul
is exceeding sorrowful unto death. Tear ye here, and watch. The Savior was so sorrowful,
even unto death, he thought this sorrow might kill his body. Right there in the garden, before
he ever got to Calvary. What could possibly fill him
with such sorrow? He went to the cross with joy,
for the joy set before him, didn't it? The joy of redeeming his
people. So what is it that caused him
so much sorrow he thought it may actually kill his body? He
had already begun to be made sin. Now, I grant you I'm talking
about something I say, begun to be made sin. I don't know.
But he knew it was coming. He knew it was happening. He
was being made sin. And he was so filled with sorrow,
he thought it may kill his body. You and I both know we can't
feel that. Because all we know is sin. Now,
we feel sorry for the effect of sin, don't we? Yeah. We feel
sorry we got caught, that we'll get punished, you know. We're
sorry that we'll get sick and die because of sin in our body. We're sorry for all the sorrow
that sin causes in this world. But only the Lord Jesus was ever
truly sorry over sin. He's holy. He felt the shame
of it. He's perfect. So he felt the
filth of it. He knows what it is to be holy,
and he was made sin. Can you imagine? We can't imagine. He sees sin like his father sees
sin, and he hates it like the father hates it. So when he was
made sin, he felt the true sorrow of it. Christ, whose longing
of his heart was to please his father in obedience to him, felt
the true guilt of sin, and he was ashamed. Now he's feeling
the hot displeasure of his father's wrath, not his father's love
and tenderness. And Christ felt that sorrow because
he was truly made sin for his people. So when you feel sorrow
over your sin, your heart's broken over your sin, your heart's broken
over the effect of sin, whatever it may be, Child of God, you
stop and you remember the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews
chapter two, you're remembering and you look to him, you cry
to him. He knows what it feels like.
He knows what it feels like better than we do. And he can comfort. Hebrews chapter two, verse 16. For verily he took not on him
the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
He took on him the seed of a man. He became a man. Wherefore, in
all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren,
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things
pertaining to God, to make reconciliations for the sin of his people. He
had to be a man so he could suffer as our substitute. An animal
couldn't do it. A man had to do it. He became
a man so he could make reconciliation for the sins of his people, by
his sacrifice. Verse 18, for in that he himself
hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor, he is able
to comfort them that are tempted. Christ, our great high priest,
is touched with the feeling of our infirmity. He knows what
it feels like. And since he knows what it feels
like, he's able to comfort. You see, this work of redemption,
the taking away of sin, It's something only the Lord Jesus
Christ, who's both the Son of God and the Son of Man could
do. And He did it alone. Verse 11, back in our text. My
lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore. My kinsmen stand
afar off. You know how that mob came to
take our Lord in the garden. All the disciples ran away and
deserted Him. His friends all deserted Him.
But you know, it had to be that way. It had to. Oh, Peter was
willing to die with him that night, but he couldn't do it
that night. No. If Peter would have died with
him that night, we'd have thought, well, maybe Peter had something
to do with this. No, Peter had it deserted. Peter's day was
another day, wasn't it? Christ had to suffer alone with
all of his friends deserting him so that no man, and that
means you and me too, can contribute anything to the salvation of
our souls. Whatever it is you got, you think you can contribute
to make yourself more savable, throw in the trash. Because Christ
suffered alone. Because no man can contribute
to anything, anything to this work of redemption. Salvation
is a work that Christ does alone, with the help of no man. But
more than that, since Christ had been made sin, the Father
deserted him too. So he cried in agony, my God,
my God, why has thou forsaken me? Now the father never left
Calvary, did he? He was always there. His presence
was enormously felt at Calvary. It was felt in his wrath against
sin. But he deserted his son. He took away his loving, gracious
presence from his son. And his son suffered alone. He
suffered all the wrath, all of the hatred, of sin that was in
his father and he endured it all. So his people will never
suffer any of it. So when you feel alone, being lonely, tough business
isn't it? Tough business. You feel alone. You remember
the sacrifice of Christ. You might be alone in the room.
None of your family or friends may be around, but if Christ
died for you, you're not alone. You're not. You know, I know
that. Our Savior promised, I will never
leave you nor forsake you. He's with you because he promised
he would. This is the one who loved you
and gave himself for you. He's not going to leave you now.
He did not believe in Him. Now, verse 21, look at the final
cry of our Savior to see this sacrifice is complete. Forsake
me not, O Lord, O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to
help me, O Lord, my salvation. At Calvary, Christ received no
help, no mercy from His Father, did He? He was forsaken by His
Father. He was given justice by His Father.
And he's not asking him to change it. He wants justice to be fulfilled
in him. He wants to suffer it all so
the salvation of his people is secure. But remember, just like
in the first verse, when the Savior says me here, he doesn't
just mean him alone. He means his people. He means
his body. He's so much one with his people
that when he says me, he means his people, his body, all of
them. The sacrifice of Christ means that our Savior can ask
His Father to not forsake me, not to forsake His people, because
justice is satisfied. So He won't. The Father will
never forsake the Son, but He will always be near Him. He will
always be with Him. And the exact same thing is true
of His people. The Savior can ask His Father
to make haste to help me, make haste to help my people. Make
haste to save my people. Make haste to strengthen them.
And he will. He must. Because the redemption
price is paid. The sacrifice is complete. So if you ever get a sense of
your sin, it'll never be the full sense. It'll never be the
full weight of it. But by God's grace, you ever get a sense of
your sin. You ever get some sense of needing mercy from God. You
remember the sacrifice of Christ and you make the same cry as
our Savior. Lord, help me for Christ's sake. And the Father
will. Lord, save me for Christ's sake. Lord, don't forsake me for Christ's
sake. And he never will. You remember
the sacrifice of Christ. He's our only reason for hope.
He is our salvation. He says here, let me turn back
so I don't misquote it. At the end of this psalm, he
says, make haste to help me. He doesn't say, O Lord of my
salvation, O Lord who brings salvation. He says, O Lord, my
salvation. You are my salvation. That makes
it secure. Now remember Him. Look to Him. Rest in Him. You'll find salvation
for yourself. and you'll find comfort for yourself.
Take that with you to Salt Mine tomorrow morning. I promise you,
it'll be just what you need. I promise you it will. All right,
let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, after hearing the words of our Savior, We're embarrassed of our own
words. But Father, the cry of our heart is thank you. Thank
you for this Savior. Thank you for sending your Son
to endure everything the sin of your people deserves. Thank
you for your wisdom in finding a way to be both just and justifier,
to pay the ransom, to pull your people out of the deep miry clay,
bring them into your very bosom. Father, how we thank you. love
and grace and mercy and pity to a people who could never deserve
it. As much as in us is, we ascribe
to you all the glory, all the praise, all the honor. One Savior,
Father, we thank you. Cause these words of our Savior
to take root in our hearts, that they not just be something that
we think about this evening, but cause us to take Take these
things with us out in the world to strengthen us, to comfort
us, to give us armor to go through the rest of this life until such
time as you're pleased to call us home. Bless your word, Father,
we pray. First, in the matchless name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray and give thanks. Amen. I think I'm pretty much
over the cold I had last Sunday, but just to be on the safe side,
I'm going to hang around and stay away from you all, stay
down here. If you want to risk infecting yourself, you can.
If not, head out the door. And Lord willing, we'll see you
Sunday morning, all right?