Genesis chapter 18. This is Abraham's prayer of intercession
for the righteous in that plain of Sodom. And there's two things
I'd like for us to learn from this this morning. The first,
I want us to see a pattern that we can follow when we pray for
others, when we pray the Lord's mercy for others. And secondly,
most importantly, I want us to see the result of Christ's intercession
for his people. That's the title of the lesson,
the righteous shall not be slain. At the beginning of chapter 18,
three men come to visit Abraham. One of those men is a pre-incarnate
appearance of Christ. If you look in verse three, Abraham
calls him Lord. He said, my Lord, if I've now
found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from my
servant. And this man that Abraham called
Lord told Abraham that in a year, he himself is going to be the
one to return and enable Sarah to have a son when she's old.
And only God can do that. Look at verse 10. And he said,
I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of
life. And lo, Sarah, thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
it in the tent door, which was behind him. Abraham and Sarah
were old and well-stricken in age, and it ceased to be with
Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore, Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, after I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my
Lord being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham,
wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, shall I of a surety bear a child
which am old? Is anything too hard for the
Lord? At the time appointed, I will return unto thee according
to the time of life, and Sarah, shall have a son. Now that's
the Lord Jesus Christ speaking. You'll notice in verses 13 and
14, that Lord is all capitalized, capital L-O-R-D, that's Jehovah. This man speaking is Jehovah,
the Lord Jesus Christ. The other two men with him are
angels. Now verse 16, this is where I want to begin. And the
men rose up from thence and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went
with them to bring them on the way. And the Lord said, shall
I hide from Abraham that thing which I do, seeing that Abraham
shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations
of the earth shall be blessed in him, for I know him, that
he'll command his children and his household after him, and
they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment,
that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken
of him. Now the Lord said, I'm not gonna
hide this that I'm getting ready to do from Abraham. And he said
that for two reasons. First, Abraham's the friend of
God. God called Abraham his friend. You think just of the enormity
of that statement. This man who, by his own admission,
said, I'm just dust, is the friend of God. And you don't hide from
your friend what you're getting ready to do. And second, God's
not gonna hide what he's getting ready to do from Abraham because
he knows Abraham will teach his children what God's taught him.
Isn't that being a good father, teaching your children Christ?
And I say to all fathers, that's what we're to do. We should teach
everyone Christ, shouldn't we? But especially our children.
And us fathers, don't just leave that teaching of Christ, teaching
your children to pray, teaching your, you know, don't just leave
that to mama. Mother and father are both to
be involved in this thing of teaching our children Christ.
Talk about the Lord frequently in your home. This is my advice
to young parents. You let your children hear you
speak of the Lord. You let your children hear you
speak of the message. When something happens, you let
your children know the Lord brought that to pass. Talk to your children
about the Lord. Don't just let them hear about
the Lord when they come here. You talk to them about the Lord.
Teach your children about Christ and teach them by your example.
Now, you live your faith. Don't you say one thing and do
another. A child sees through that every time. Now, you live
your faith. Walk the walk. And I'll tell
you something else about teaching your children the scriptures,
teaching your children to worship. You bring your children here
to hear the gospel. We've got classes for our children
every Sunday morning. See that they're in there. Now,
we've got, I'm telling you, we've got the best teachers for children
you will ever find. Take your pain. This is the Lord's
blessing to this congregation. You, of course, I guess I'm preaching
to the choir. You're here, your kids are in
there, but it's what more important thing can we do for our children
than teach them Christ? Not one thing. Now, and this
is what the Lord knew about Abraham. Abraham's going to teach his
household. He's going to teach his children.
He's going to teach his servants why God did what he did. When
we teach people why God did what we did, we're teaching them who
God is. We're teaching them the character of God. He's going
to teach his children why God did what he did and how and why
God delivered Lot from Sodom. Now, verse 20. And the Lord said,
because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because
their sin is very grievous. Now I want to make this point
to us this morning. I want us to see how awful sin
really is. Sin is not a light, small matter.
Sin cries to be punished, cries to be punished. Sin must be punished
and must be put away from God forever because sin is so offensive. And the only thing holding back
God's wrath against the sin of all mankind at this moment is
God's mercy. God's mercy to his people is
holding back his wrath until all of God's left, all his objects
of mercy are saved and brought to faith in Christ. It's covenant
mercy to God's people that's holding back his wrath against
sin right now, but that won't always be the case. There's coming
a day that sin is going to be punished. because sin cries out
to be punished. And you know what's going on
in Sodom. This is not just the sin of homosexuality. Now, homosexuality
is a sin specifically marked in scripture. I want you to see
that Romans chapter one. It's specifically marked in scripture
as evidence of a reprobate heart and a fallen nature. Romans one
verse 18. Boy, if anything addresses what
you're gonna read in the newspaper this morning, see on news channels
this afternoon, this is it. Romans 1 verse 18. For the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness. Because that
which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has
shown it unto them. For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made. even His eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse. Because of that, when they knew
God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, who changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image, made like
the corruptible man, into birds and four-footed beasts and creeping
things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through
the lust of their own hearts, to the dishonor of their own
bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into
a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator
who's blessed forever. For this cause God gave them
up unto vile affections. For even their women did change
the natural use into that which is against nature, and likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their
lust one toward another. men with men, working that which
is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of
their error that was meet, that was just right. And even as they
did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them
over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. Now that's homosexuality. That's
a clear mark of God giving someone over to a reprobate mind. But
now, Paul doesn't stop there. He goes on to list all manner
of sin that's in all of our hearts. Read on verse 29. Being filled
with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, and there's the root of the whole
thing, haters of God. Despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things. It's not enough there's evil
in the world, we gotta invent more. Disobedient to parents, without
understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit
such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them. Well, that pretty much covers
it, doesn't it? That's our sin nature. But this sin of homosexuality
is specifically marked in scripture as evidence of a reprobate mind.
But that does not mean a homosexual is any worse of a sinner than
you and me. Come on now, is that offensive? Do we really mean it when we
say we're the chief of sinners or are we just whistling Dixie?
Now which is it? If I'm the chief of sinners,
you know what that means? There's nobody who's a worse
sinner than me, and that includes a homosexual. We're all just
as guilty and just as vile before God. And if you want to put one
sin above another, you want to say one sin will be punished
more severely than another, I tell you what you ought to worry about.
Look at Matthew chapter 11. We ought to be much more concerned
about the sin of self-righteousness. that keeps us from coming to
Christ a whole lot more than we ought to be worried about
all these other sins, homosexuality included. Look at Matthew 11,
verse 20. Then began he to upbraid the
cities where most of his mighty works were done, because they
repented not. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe
unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which
were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would
have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you,
it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of
judgment than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which are
exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell. For if
the mighty works which had been done in thee had been done in
Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto
you that it should be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the
day of judgment than for thee. You could just substitute Ashland,
Kentucky in there. If the gospel that for how many,
60 some odd years, had been preached in Ashland, Kentucky, had been
preached in Sodom, Sodom would remain until this day. I mean,
that's serious business. And the reason I point all this
out is this, so that we learn not to look down our noses at
other people thinking that they're a worse sinner than me. Because
Larry, they're isn't a worse sinner than me. They're isn't.
That's either so or it's not. Sin is sin. And all sin, our
sin, cries out to be punished. And the one that's gonna judge
sin and punish sin is our Lord Jesus Christ, just like he's
doing here in Sodom. Now look back at Genesis 18 verse
21. For I will go down now and see
whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which
has come unto me, and if not, I'll know. Now here's another
reason I know this man speaking to Abraham's Christ. Only Christ
can judge sin. Only Christ can punish sin. Just
like he's getting ready to do here in Sodom. Now you know he's
speaking as a man. God knows everything. God knows
what's going on down there in Sodom. But Christ is personally
going to go stand face-to-face with them and judge them. Just
like every one of us one day must stand before the judgment
seat of Christ face-to-face. He's going to go to Sodom and
judge them face-to-face. Verse 22, And the men turned
their face from thence and went toward Sodom. But Abraham stood
yet before the Lord. These two angels went on and
left Abraham alone with the Lord. And Abraham takes this opportunity
to intercede for Sodom. I want you to look at what he
does here, how he does this, verse 23. And Abraham drew near
and said, will thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Perventure there be 50 righteous within the city. Will thou also
destroy and not spare the place for the 50 righteous that are
therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay
the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should
be as the wicked, that be far from thee, shall not the judge
of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, if I find
in Sodom 50 righteous within the city, then I will spare all
the place for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said,
behold now, I've taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which
am but dust and ashes. Perventure, there shall lack
five of the 50 righteous. Will thou destroy all the city
for lack of five? And he said, if I find there
40 and five, I will not destroy it. And he spake unto him yet
again and said, per venture, there should be 40 found there.
And he said, I'll not do it for 40's sake. And he said unto him,
oh, let not the Lord be angry and I'll speak. Per venture,
there shall 30 be found there. And he said, I'll not do it if
I find 30 there. And he said, behold now, I've
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord. Pert Venture, there shall
be 20 found there. And he'll say, I'll not destroy
it for 20's sake. And he said, oh, let not the
Lord be angry. And I'll speak yet but this once.
Pert Venture, 10 shall be found there. And he said, I'll not
destroy it for 10's sake. And the Lord went his way as
soon as he had left community with Abraham, and Abraham returned
unto his place. Now there is a very good example
set here before us. how to intercede for others,
how to pray for mercy for others. And the first thing is this,
Abraham drew near. Did you see that in verse 23?
He drew near and talked with the Lord. If you had plead for
mercy, draw near to the source of mercy. If you'd plead for
mercy, draw near to God, his throne of grace, draw near to
him and come boldly. in Christ, pleading for mercy. Draw near to the Lord, begging
for mercy. And secondly, come boldly, but
always come reverently. Abraham spoke to the Lord here
as a friend, didn't he? He's talking to his friend. But
you notice how reverently Abraham spoke to the Lord? Yeah, they're
friends, but the Lord's still the Lord, and Abraham's still
Abraham, isn't he? Look at first how he speaks in verse 27. And
Abraham answered and said, behold now, I've taken upon me to speak
unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. Come reverently and
admit who and what you are. We're just dust and ashes. We're
just sinners, we're just mercy beggars. Come to the Lord that
way, reverently. And look at verse 30. Abraham
said, oh, let not the Lord be angry and I'll speak. Lord, I'll
only speak if you allow me to. Now that's reference, isn't it?
I just speak if you allow me to. I understand the relationship
here between you and me. In verse 31, he said, behold,
now I've taken upon me to speak unto the Lord. What better reason
to be reverent than that? The great difference between
God and us When we speak to the Lord, we come before the Lord
in prayer. We're taking it upon ourselves
to speak unto almighty God. Do that reverently. That's the
way Abraham spoke to the Lord, did it reverently. And third,
when you plead with the Lord, plead the character of God. See
verse 25 with Abraham, he's pleading the character of God. That'd
be far from thee to do after this manner. To slay the righteous
with the wicked? and that the righteous should
be as the wicked, that be far from thee. Shall not the judge
of all the earth do right? Yes, he will. Abraham's pleading
the character of God, and Abraham's right. God will never destroy
the righteous with the wicked, never. Well, when we plead with
God, let's plead the character of God. What is it that we know
about God's character? We know God's merciful. He said
he delights to show mercy to sinners. Then plead the character
of God. Plead his mercy. Don't ever plead
merit. Say, Lord, I did this and this
and this. Can't you do this for me? No. Plead for mercy. His character is to be merciful.
God's character is true and right altogether. What God does, he
does in truth and righteousness. When God saves a sinner, he does
it in truth. He does it in righteousness.
Then pray that the Lord will reveal himself as a sacrifice
for our sin. That injustice put our sin away. Pray that Christ be our substitute. Pray that we be seen and heard
in Christ. It's only right. That's God's
righteousness. I know this about God's character.
God softens. Now God does what he will, with
whom he will, when he will. He saves whom he will. Then pray
that it would please the Lord to have mercy. Just pray, Lord,
would it bring glory to your name to save someone like me?
Would it bring glory to your name to save my children, to
save these I'm interceding for? Then Lord save them because you
will. Nobody else can but you. See
how we're plead God's character. And then this, look at Luke chapter
18. Come with importunity. I looked that word up yesterday
in the dictionary, and one of the definitions of that is a
pest. Keep coming to God. And that's
not being a brat. It's the way the Lord himself
taught us to pray. Look at Luke 18, verse one. And
he spake a parable unto them to this end. that men ought always
to pray and not to faint. Don't quit. Saying, there was
in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man.
And there was a widow in that city. And she came unto him saying,
avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while.
But afterward, he said within himself, though I fear not God,
nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me, she won't
quit, she won't shut up, I will avenge her. Lest by her continual
coming, she weary me, And the Lord said, now you hear what
that unjust judge said. And shall not God, I mean, you
think this judge, he's a wicked man, he doesn't fear God, he
doesn't regard man. Shall not the judge of all the
earth who shall do right, will he not avenge his own elect,
which cry unto him day and night, though he bear long with them?
I tell you, he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when
the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith, shall he find
that kind of faith on the earth, Well, pray with importunity. That's the way the Lord taught
us to pray. You want me to tell you when we'll pray like that?
We don't have any hope but Christ. When God takes away every hope
we had, except the Lord Jesus Christ, we'll pray like this
widow did. We'll keep coming and we'll keep
coming. We'll follow his feet and we'll stay right there. Because
Dale, we got nowhere else to go. That's when we'll pray like
that. And then I find this very interesting.
Fifthly, pray as the Lord leads you to pray. You ever wonder
why Abraham quit at 10? Wonder why he quit at 10? I really
believe this. If Abraham would have gone all
the way down to one, Lord, if you find one righteous, will
you spare the city? The Lord would have said, okay, I won't
destroy the city for just that one. Then why didn't Abraham
go all the way to one? because that was not the Lord's
will. If it was the Lord's will to spare that city, if one righteous
person had been found in there, you know what? The Holy Spirit
would have laid it on Abraham's heart to pray to go all the way
down to one. But it wasn't the Lord's will.
So Abraham quit at 10. You know, there have been times,
there's been a matter on my heart and for years, Every single day,
I prayed for it. And suddenly I realized, I quit
praying about this matter. Wonder why? It wasn't on my heart
anymore. And I'd go on for a couple years,
and suddenly it was just on my heart again. I prayed, and the
Lord led me to pray for it, and I prayed. And the situation worked
out. Now, I don't know what to say
about that other than this. Who can explain God? We know
God has an eternal purpose for everything. But before the Lord
brings something to pass, some particular part of His eternal
will, before He brings it to pass, God's going to lay it on
the heart of His people to pray for it, and then He's going to
do it. The point of all that is this. Pray for what's really
on your heart. The Lord's the one that put it.
If it's really on your heart, the Lord's the one that put it
there. Don't think, well, this is silly, or I prayed about it
so long, the Lord hasn't done anything. If it's really on your
heart, pray for it. Pray for the way the Holy Spirit
leads you. And last, pray and leave it there. Don't pray and
go try to make it happen. pray and leave the matter in
God's hand. The songwriter said, take your
burden to the Lord and leave it there. Just leave it there.
Isn't that what Abraham did? Verse 33, the Lord went his way
as soon as he had left community with Abraham and Abraham returned
unto his place. He left the matter with the Lord,
knowing the judge of all the earth shall do right. Now that's
a good example for us to follow. If we would intercede and beg
for mercy for others, But most importantly, this is what I want
us to learn from this text. I want us to see a picture of
Christ interceding for his people. And I want us to see why when
Christ intercedes for his elect, his elect are always spared.
Now we know when Christ makes intercession, who does he make
intercession for? Isaiah 53 says he made intercession
for the transgressors, isn't that right? Well, Abraham's making
intercession for the righteous. How is that a picture of Christ
interceding for his people? Let's look at Isaiah 53. The
people that Christ intercedes for, they're transgressors. I
mean, they're sinners. They're sinners by birth, they're
sinners by choice, they're sinners by practice, they're sinners
through and through, but they are made righteous. They're made
righteous by the sacrifice of Christ. Isaiah 53, verse 12. Therefore, and you know all the
verses that go before that, speaking of the sacrifice of Christ. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he'll divide the spoil with the strong,
because he hath poured out his soul into death, and he was numbered
with the transgressors. He bare the sin of many, and
he made intercession for the transgressors. I want you to
look at Romans chapter eight. I want you to look at how the
Apostle Paul describes those that Christ makes intercession
for. Yes, they're born transgressors. That's who they are by nature.
But look at Romans 8, verse 33. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifieth. Who
is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died. Yea, rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us. He makes intercession for
God's elect. He makes intercession for those
that God has justified. Now, how did those transgressors
become justified? How did those transgressors become
without sin? Not just as if they'd never sinned,
but that they are made without sin. How did that happen? Well,
Paul told us it's Christ that died. died for them. Christ took their sins and died
for them and gave his people his righteousness. He put their
sin away under his blood and made them righteous by giving
them his righteousness. So when Christ pleads for his
people, when he makes intercession with his Father for his people,
he always gets what he asked for. You know why? Because he's
pleading justice. He's pleading his blood, which
washed away the sin of his people. He's pleading justice. He's not
asking for a favor. He's pleading justice. It seems
like Christ at the right hand of the father doesn't even need
to say a word when he intercedes for his people. His very presence
in the sight of the father is constant intercession for his
people. Who's at the right hand of the
father? the lamb as it had been slain. His sacrifice, his blood
constantly before the father is always intercession for his
people. And when the son pleads with
his father, he pleads like Abraham. He pleads the character of his
father. He says, father, surely you won't
slay the righteous with the wicked. Father, surely you'll deliver
the righteous. Well, of course he will. God
can't do anything less, can he? Of course he will. Now God's
holy, and whenever we think that, what's the first thing that comes
to your mind? God must punish sin. That's so. But I'll tell you what the other
side of that coin is. God's holy, so God can never punish the righteous. God can never punish for the
same sin twice because God's holy. That punishing for the
same sin twice, destroying the righteous, would be against the
holy character of God. And you know that played out
in Sodom. Look back at Genesis 19. The righteous cannot be destroyed. Genesis 19, this is when the
angels have come there, and this is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's
going to destroy that city. In verse 21, He said unto him,
unto Lot, see, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also,
that I will not overthrow this city for that which thou hast
spoken. Am I in the right place? Yeah, in verse 22, haste thee,
escape thither, for I cannot do anything till thou come thither. You've got to get out of this
city because I can't destroy it as long as you're in it. Because
I cannot destroy the righteous because that's my character to
be holy. And verse 29, it came to pass
when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered
Abraham. God remembered Abraham interceding
He remembered Abraham's seed and he sent Lot out of the midst
of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Lot could not be in that city when God overthrew it. Now, what
about God's elect? When God's judgment for sin comes,
God remembered his son. He remembered the Lord Jesus
Christ and he cannot destroy the righteous. because their
sin was already punished in Christ. He hears the intercession of
Christ. That blood of Christ is always
a sweet savor before the father, and he cannot destroy the righteous
with the wicked because their sin has already been punished.
And that sacrifice of God's son is precious to the father. He'll never violate that sacrifice.
He'll always give Christ what he purchased at Calvary. And
in this plane, where Sodom and Gomorrah were, there wasn't a
single righteous person destroyed in all of that plane. Not one. Just like there'll never be a
righteous person in hell. Not one. The righteous were delivered
from Sodom. And he said, fine. You're calling
Lot righteous? Insane. Don't you know what Lot did?
I do. I understand. Lot had a decision
to make one day. Would he stay with Abraham or
would he part from him? He chose the well-watered plain and divided
himself from Abraham, God's friend. God didn't call Lot. God called
Abraham. Lot would have been wise to stick
with Abraham, but he didn't. He chose Sodom instead. And when
Lot got to Sodom, their actions were grievous to him. They grieved
his soul. He knew it was wrong, but he
stayed anyway. There must have been side benefits.
He must be getting rich, doing good in business or something.
He stayed even though he knew it was wrong. And Lot kept quiet
about it. Look in chapter 19, verse 14. He kept quiet. He kept what grieved
his soul to himself. When he told his sons-in-law,
you better get out of here. God's gonna destroy this place for
its sin. They thought he was joking with them. Look at the
end of verse 14. But he seemed as one that mocked
unto his sons-in-law. They never heard that from Lot
before. They thought he was mocking. Then all those men of the city,
they heard about these three men that came to Lot. They wanted
them. They were going to get them.
And Lot said, now, don't do this. You leave these men. They're
guests in my home. Lot tried to trade his daughters,
send his daughters now out to these men of Sodom to keep these
visitors safe. I mean, what a scum. And then
God delivers Lot from Sodom and what did he do? He got drunk
and committed incest with his daughters. That's Lot. Now there's no denying it. That's
Lot. That's the story of Lot we have in scripture. That's
who you and I are too. If you're God's elect, you see
yourself. That's me. When I look at 2 Peter
2, Yet, after all that, Scripture
calls Lot righteous. In the New Testament, after the
death of Christ, how does Scripture refer to Lot? 2 Peter 2, verse
6. And turning the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making
them an example unto all those that should after live ungodly,
and delivered just Lot. Vexed with the filthy conversation
of the wicked, for that righteous man dwelling among them, and
seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day
with their unlawful deeds, the Lord knoweth how to deliver the
ungodly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust until the
day of judgment be punished." Righteous lot. That's who Lot is too. But no
denying it, that's what scripture calls him. How? How can Lot be righteous? The same way, the only way you
and I could be made righteous, by being in Christ. All of God's
love are scoundrels, scum of the earth, just like Lot, but
we're made righteous in Christ. God imputed the righteousness
of Christ to their account. He imputed their sin to Christ
so that Christ could put that sacrifice away with his blood
or put that sin away with his blood. The righteous are those
that God has made righteous. They're righteous in God's sight.
They're not righteous in their own sight. I'm not righteous
in your sight, but I'm righteous in God's sight. And that's all
that matters. Abraham couldn't find one righteous
person in Sodom, but thank God God did. He found the one he
made righteous and spared him. What about all Lot's sin? Lot's
sin is the same as mine, same as yours. It was put on Christ
and Christ suffered the death that our sin deserves and I go
free. You know why I go free? because
the judge of all the earth shall do right. God will never punish
two men for the same sin, ever. I go free in justice because
Christ paid my debt. And I'm telling you, salvation
in Christ is sure because the judge of all the earth shall
do right. When Christ died, the judge of
all the earth did right. God didn't put an innocent man
to death. That wouldn't be right, that wouldn't be just. God made
Christ to be guilty of the sin of his people and God killed
him in justice because sin was on him. And God made his elect
righteous in Christ and in justice. God accepts them into his presence.
He'll never turn them away and never destroy them. That's how
the righteous always live when Christ intercedes for them. All
right, I hope the Lord will bless that too.