In Isaiah chapter 45 and verse
20 we read this call. Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, ye that are
escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that set
up the wood of their graven image and pray unto a God that cannot
save. Tell ye and bring them near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who have declared this from ancient
time? Who have told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? And there
is no God else beside me, a just God and a Saviour. There is none beside me. Look unto me and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth. For I am God and there is none
else. Look unto me and be ye saved
all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is none else. Look unto me. This message has
gone out from the beginning of time and it will go out unto
the end of time. God says in the midst of an evil
generation Look unto me Salvation is of the Lord He is a just God
and a Saviour and He has declared His salvation and He has set
His Son the Saviour before the gaze of this world throughout
all time In his gospel he says unto all, behold my son, behold
the man, behold thy God. There is none without excuse. Look unto me and be ye saved.
All the ends of the earth And there are few places in the Scriptures
where God sets forth His Son so plainly and so vividly as
in the 22nd Psalm. In Psalm 22, David writes, in
a glorious spirit of prophecy, of the suffering and the travail
of the Lord Jesus Christ, how we see the cries of Christ upon the cross, how we see His
cry unto His God, how we see His Sonship, His cry unto the
Father, how we see the depths of His sufferings that cannot
be measured, that cannot be weighed, that cannot naturally be comprehended
and how we see the great victory and the great hope which is rewarded
under his faith. David writes to the chief musician
upon Ajaleph, Shehar, a psalm of David My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the
daytime, but thou hearest not, and in the night season, and
am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that
inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee.
They trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto
thee and were delivered. They trusted in thee and were
not confounded. But I am a worm and no man, a
reproach of men and despised of the people. All they that
see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They
shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver
him. Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. But thou
art he that took me out of the womb. Thou didst make me hope
when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the
womb. Thou art my God from my mother's
belly. Be not far from me, for trouble
is near. For there is none to help. Many
bulls have compassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have beset
me round. They gaped upon me with their
mouths, as a raven in an a-roaring lion. I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, it is melted
in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like
a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws. and thou hast brought
me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me. The
assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and
my feet. I may tell all my bones. They
look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them
and cast lots upon my vesture. but be not thou far from me,
O Lord. O my strength, haste thee to
help me. Deliver my soul from the sword,
my darling, from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's
mouth, for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren. In the midst of
the congregation will I praise thee. Ye that fear the Lord,
praise him. All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify
him, and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not
despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither have
he hid his face from him. But when he cried unto him, he
heard. My praise shall be of thee in
the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them
that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord that
seek him. Your heart shall live forever.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord. And all the kindreds of the nations
shall worship before thee. for the kingdom is the Lord's,
and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be
fat upon earth shall eat and worship. All they that go down
to the dust shall bow before him, and none can keep alive
his own soul. A seed shall serve him. It shall
be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come
and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born,
that he have done this. Verse 27. All the ends of the
world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds
of the nations shall worship before thee. all the ends of the world. Now
we read from Isaiah 45 where we read the same phrase. Look
unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for I am God
and there is none else. And here we see the Saviour upon
the cross crucified for sinners wading through the rivers of
wrath, drinking the cup of God's wrath to the dregs, feeling the fire of judgment,
despised and rejected, a worm and no man, a reproach of men
and despise of the people, hated by all, forsaken. of God. My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me? Here we see the Saviour, in His
anguish, in His torment, in His suffering, entering the darkness. And here, as in Isaiah 45, we
read as a consequence, the cry of victory All the ends of the
world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindred
of the nations shall worship before thee, because of this
man who cried and who suffered, this man who was forsaken and
hated, because of this man who gave everything, that those who
despised him, his people, should be saved. Look unto me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is none
else. I am God, and there is none else. Who was this man crucified in
the darkness. Who was this man who cries out,
my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Look unto me and
be saved, for I am God and there is none else. Title of the psalm, reads to
the Chief Musician upon Ajalef Shahar, the psalm of David. Again, as with a number of these
titles, as well as referring to the Chief Musician, the praise
of the people being lifted to he who is described as the Chief
Musician, the Lord. There is this reference to the
instrumentation, or in reality in the Hebrew the phrase has
the meaning of the hind of the morning and it is often thought that
it is allegorical of the one who is the subject of the psalm
here the Savior as it were enters the darkness of night to deliver
his people from darkness after which early in the morning
he arose from the grave victorious like a hind in the morning like
the hind that leaps forth full of life and vigour the hind of
the morning But that life could not come except he should first
die. He must first die because those
for whom he came to suffer were dead. Because those whom he loved
had already rebelled, had already sinned and were already dead
in sins and trespasses as a consequence of their rebellion against their
Maker. He came into this world of darkness,
this world of sin, this world of death to bring life to those
in the darkness. to make those who were once dead
to live again, to make those who had rejected their maker,
their creator, live to deliver them from their sins. Isaiah 45 says in verse 2, I
will go before thee and make the crooked places straight,
I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the
bars of iron, and I will give thee the treasures of darkness,
and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I
the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake,
and Israel mine elect's sake, I have even called thee by thy
name, I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am
the Lord, and there is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, though thou hast
not known me. that they may know from the rising
of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me.
I am the Lord and there is none else. I form the light and create
darkness. I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.
drop down ye heavens from above and let the skies pour down righteousness
let the earth open and let them bring forth salvation and let
righteousness spring up together i the lord have created it woe
unto him that striveth with his maker Let the potsherds strive
with the potsherds of the earth. Let the clay say to him that
fashioneth it, what makest thou? Or thy work he hath no hand.
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, what begettest thou?
Or to the woman, what hast thou brought forth? Thus saith the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker. Ask me of things
to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands,
command ye me. I have made the earth and created
man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched
out the heavens, and all their hosts have I commanded. I have
raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways.
He shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives. not
for price, nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts. Thus saith
the Lord, the labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia,
and of the Sabaeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and
they shall be thine. They shall come after thee, in
chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto
thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God
is in thee, and there is none else, there is no God. Verily
thou art a God that hideth thyself, O God of Israel the Saviour.
They shall be ashamed and also confounded, all of them. They
shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. But
Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded. World without end. For thus saith
the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth
and made it, he have established it, he created it not in vain,
he formed it to be inhabited, I am the Lord and there is none
else, I have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth,
I said not unto the seed of Jacob seeking me in vain, I the Lord
speaketh righteousness, I declare things that are right. This Lord,
this Creator, this Maker of heaven and earth, this Creator of good
and evil, of darkness and light, this Creator of all things and
all people, this One before whom we stand, sent forth his son
into the darkness of this world, into the midst of our rebellion. to deliver his people from their
sins. He sent forth his Son unto those
who were wretched, those who were hateful, those who were
wicked, those who didn't care, those who despised, those who
would take his Son. and mock him, and scoff him,
and cast him out, and rise up with one voice, crucify him. He sent his son unto people like
you and I, who when he came, we received him not. who when
he came unto us we said away with this man we will not bow
down and worship who when he came unto us we laughed and scoffed
who when he came unto us we cried out in our hearts you cried out
in your heart crucify him crucify him he said I am a worm and no
man a reproach of men and despise of the people. All they that
see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They
shake the head saying he trusted on the Lord that he would deliver
him. Let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him. All laugh
at him. all have said crucify him you
and I included and yet that is the people we are the sort of
people under whom God sent his son and he sent his son unto
such a hateful generation because he loved a people and because
he would save that people. Despite all that they are, all
that they have said, all that they have done, despite their
hatred, despite their scorn, despite their rebellion, he loved
them, and he loves them, and he delivered them, and through
his gospel, he delivers them today. But it cost him. It cost him. Oh child of God,
if you know this salvation, if you have looked unto him and
been saved, if you know this salvation, here in this psalm
you see the price of it. Here in this psalm you see what
it cost him. Salvation comes at a price. Christ loves the people, he loved
the people, he will love them to the end. And that love was
so great that he was willing to pay this price. But their
salvation, child of God, your salvation, comes at a price and
here's the price. Here's what it cost him in this
psalm. Here's what he endured. Here's
what he suffered. It's impossible, if you love
the Lord, to read this psalm without being moved by the pain
and the emotion and the travail through which the Lord passed. My God, my God. why hast thou
forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping
me and from the words of my roaring? oh my god I cry in the daytime
but thou hearest not and in the night season and I'm not silent my god my god why hast thou forsaken
me? All the ends of the world shall
remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindred of the nations
shall worship before Thee. Though this psalm is full of
suffering, it's the place where heaven and earth meet. it is the place from whence salvation
springs it is the place of greatest darkness from which the greatest
light shines forth in the psalm we see the death
of Jesus Christ but through his death we see the life the resurrection
of Him and all His people. Look unto Me and be ye saved. Here's the meeting place of heaven
and earth. The cross, the Saviour upon the
cross. Here God meets with men through
His mediator. There is one mediator between
God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. Here all the ends of the
world meet with eternity. Here time ends. Look unto me
and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and
there is none else. Here is where everything comes
to its conclusion. Nothing else matters. There is
one God. One God before whom you and I
must stand. And here he is. All time will reach its conclusion
here. There is nothing in this world
that matters beyond this point. And God will have his gospel. and the knowledge of His Son.
Go forth to all the ends of the world, to the four corners of
the earth, to every tribe, kindred and tongue, to all peoples, to
say before a world that shuts its ears and shuts its eyes and
shuts its mind and does not care and hates and despises, to say
before them all, this is my Son. And here is salvation. And here
is what it cost him. Here is the price he paid to
deliver my people from their sins. Isaiah 52.10 The Lord hath
made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations. He's
declared his power. And all the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of our God. Don't say you didn't know. Don't say you never heard. Don't say you weren't aware of
how important these things are. When the day comes that you stand
before your maker, don't say, well, it wasn't my fault. I didn't
know. Or I didn't know how serious
it was. And don't say, well, it wasn't
my fault I sinned. I was born that way. I couldn't
help it. Don't say unto your maker, as
Isaiah 45 hints, don't say, why hast thou made me thus, and put
the blame on him, when he throughout all time and history, through
his gospel, has made known his power, has made bare his holy
arm, and has said plainly, here's my son, whom I give. as a sacrifice for sinners. Here's
salvation, here's deliverance, here is hope. If you choose to shut your ears,
if you choose to go another way, and if the fruit of that choice
is your destruction in eternity to come, it will be your doing. I, you say, but doesn't God declare
in his gospel, his electing grace, except he chooses me, what can
I do? Yes, he does. But you still choose
to hate him. And you cannot say you never
heard. You still go with the will of
your own heart. And by nature, your will is set
against him. The Lord hath made bare his holy
arm in the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of our God. Psalm 98 free, he hath remembered
his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the
ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. As Isaiah 45 says where we've
just read, he hasn't done these things in secret. He hasn't kept
them in the darkness. He hasn't hidden them from the
world. He's preached and declared this
message throughout the generations, throughout the world, and to
all nations. And the nations shut their ears. And if you go to your grave not
knowing Jesus Christ, it's because you shut your ears. It's because
you're shutting your ears today. It's because you shut your ears
every day. But God has spoken and God has
said, behold my son. He's taken him and lifted him
up to your gaze. All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God. Hence, in Romans, Paul, sent
forth with the gospel, the power of God unto salvation, in declaring
that gospel and speaking of Israel of old, can say, in quoting Isaiah,
but I say, have they not heard? Yes, verily their sound went
into all the earth, and their words unto the end of the world. This message has gone forth. And Israel shut its ears. And
Israel, who had heard, Generation upon generation upon generation. They'd had God meet with them.
They'd had God speak unto them. They'd had God give them the
law and the priesthood and the oracles of God and the scriptures.
God went in the midst of that people more than any other nation. They were his people. He blessed
them. and yet when he sent his son
unto them as the promise fulfilled as the fulfillment of all the
prophecies which he had granted unto them he'd sent them the
prophets he'd said the saviors to come he said the messiahs
to come and then came the day when the fulfillment of time
was brought forth and messiah came christ came unto israel
and israel received him not Have they not heard? Yes, verily their
sound went unto all the earth and their words unto the end
of the world. You see, all the world knows. They know that Christ was crucified. This was not hidden, it was not
done in a corner and it's not been hidden from you or I. That's
John. Chapter 12 verse 31 records,
Now is the judgment of this world. Now shall the prince of this
world be cast out. And Christ says, And I, if I
be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what
death he should die. Because it's this event this
point in time and eternity, this meeting place of time and eternity,
this man who cries through this psalm, it's this one who is set
forth as the saviour of the world. If I be lifted up from the earth,
I will draw all men unto me. now is the judgment of this world
when he died when he died look unto me and be saved all the
ends of the earth oh what we see in this psalm what a picture
of what Christ waited for him Well I say unto you, O'er the
ends of the world, I say unto you, O'er the ends of the earth,
Look! Look! Hear the words of the Psalms,
See the Saviour crucified, Behold! I say unto you Israel, Behold
your God, Behold the man, Behold the Son of God. Behold the Lamb
of God. Behold. The psalm really follows
three parts. In the first 10 verses in Jesus'
cries, we see his cries under his God, under his Father. The cries of a son to the Father. They show forth his relationship
to God. This one who speaks, David speaks,
but he speaks in prophecy of Christ. They know God. There's a union, there's a relationship. There's a covenant relationship. Here is the son of the covenant. the one who was in the covenant
with God, who covenanted with his Father to come as a Saviour,
to offer up himself for his people. Here he is, in that covenant,
crying to his Father, that covenant into which he'd entered in an
eternity past. was one in which he promised
to endure this suffering to deliver that people whom God had given
unto him. But here he is, as he enters
this suffering, and he cries to his father, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me and from the words of my roaring? Oh my God, I cry in the daytime
but thou hearest not and in the night season and I'm not silent.
God could not hear at that hour. He must judge. He must judge
every sin. He laid upon his own son the
sins of all his people. He made him to be sin. He must
slay him. He could not deliver him at that
point. He could not spare him. How this
must have pained the father as much as it pained the son. How
God the father must have felt pain to bruise his own son. How he'd have longed to have
removed the suffering. How he'd have longed to come
to his help. How the people that look on scoff
and laugh and say he trusted on the Lord that he would deliver
him. Let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him. They see
him dying and they see his God leaving him there. and they use
this as a reason to mock and disbelieve but in fact the fact
that God the Father left the Son there is proof of what the
Son had said, is proof that He's the Saviour of His people, is
proof that He was delivering them. His Father wasn't stopping
short and He wasn't stopping short, He was enduring the judgment
to the bitter end. He must be forsaken. He must
be judged. He was made to be sin. He bore
the sins of his own people in his own body on the tree. God
must judge him as the sinner. God must pour out his wrath,
his eternity of wrath upon his own son. He could not spare one
drop. Christ must drink that cup to
the very dregs. But oh what it cost him! They
cried unto thee and were delivered, they trusted in thee and were
not confounded. Thy people in the past cried
and thou spared them, but here I'm not spared. He who spared
not his own son, but gave him up, delivered him up for us all,
he was not spared. He wasn't just brought to the
point of agony, the brought of anguish, and then God stepped
in and said, well, enough's enough. God took him through to the bitter
end. He was not spared. He died. He felt the sword cut right through
him. He felt the fires consume him.
He was not spared. I am a worm and no man, a reproach
of men, and despise of the people. All they that see me laugh me
to scorn, they shoot out the lip, they shake their head, they
mock, they scoff, but he knows, he's God. thou art he that took
me out of the womb that is make me hope when I was upon my mother's
breast I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from
my mother's belly be not far from me for trouble is near for
there is none to help oh what a place to be oh what a depth
he had to sink to. Oh what he had to endure. His
own father forsook him, judged him, turned his back. He must die. He must. He must complete the work. He must finish the work. He must accomplish salvation. he could not go, 99% of the way
and stopped short, he must die. The next 10 verses or so, verse
11 through to 21, show as it were the saviour entering
into the darkness. here he begins in the earlier
part of the psalm speaking under his guard we see the relationship
the son of God crying out under his father but here he is in
the next third of the psalm describing the pain describing what he must
endure he cries from the peril from the danger from the agony
Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to
help. Many bulls have compassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have
beset me round. They gaped upon me with their
mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of
my bowels. For strength is dried up like
a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought
me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me, the
assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they have pierced my hands
and my feet. Oh how much of this psalm we
see quoted and we see fulfilled in the New Testament to the letter. We hear Christ upon the cross
uttering the very words that David wrote here. We see the
people piercing his hands and his feet. We hear the scorn and
the mockery of the people quoting the very words of his opponents
in this psalm. they have pierced my hands and
my feet I may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me they
part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture and
they did in fulfilment of these very words But be not thou far
from me, O Lord. O my strength, haste thee to
help me. Deliver my soul from the sword,
my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's
mouth, for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn.
O what he faced! O the opponents! Many bulls have
compassed me, strong bulls of Bashan. They gaped, they roar
like a lion. Deliver my soul from the sword. My darling from the power of
the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth. For thou hast heard me from the
horns of the unicorns. He was devoured. The sword went
right through him. The sword of justice went right
through him. Dogs tried to rip him to pieces. The lion, the opponent, the adversary. Satan that goeth about as a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour. The lion thought he had him.
He was thrust through with the horn of the unicorn. He suffered. He died. He was alone. He was alone in the darkness.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? But from verse 22
to the end, we see as in many of the psalms
we see the Saviour rise up in hope as he passes through the
darkness as he sees the accomplishment of all that he came to achieve
as he sees the hope before him As he sees the light of morning
approaching, he rises up in faith and hope and trust and praises
his God. We see the foretaste of deliverance
from his lips. We see the faith of Jesus Christ. I will declare thy name unto
my brethren. In the midst of the congregation
will I praise He. Well how could He when He's fainting,
when He's dying? Because He knows He will live.
Because He knows He will rise again with the Brethren. Because
He knows He does this for a great company. He's bearing the sins
of His people. He's bearing the sins of the
congregation. He's delivering Israel. He's
bringing that people forth through the rivers of death. They're
going to come out the other side with him. His bride is going
to be with him. He's going to see her face. He's
going to see her cleansed in righteousness. He's going to
be wed with her. He's going to be with this congregation. He knows the day's approaching. He knows the price is being paid. He knows the darkness will ebb
away. He knows the light of morning
will shine forth. He knows he is accomplishing
salvation. I will declare thy name unto
my brethren. In the midst of the congregation
will I praise thee. Ye that fear the Lord, praise
him. All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify
him, and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he have not
despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. Do you feel
afflicted? He was afflicted. Do you suffer? He suffered. Are you in pain? He was in pain. Are you alone? He was alone. Do you travail? He travailed. Do you sorrow? He sorrowed. And He can say out
of His travail and His sorrow in encouragement to all that
suffer with Him and for Him and because of Him. He hath not despised
nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. He saves, God
saves, He saves me and He'll save you. We are saved. Behold the salvation of the Lord.
Neither have he hid his face from him, but when he cried unto
him, he heard. My praise shall be of thee in
the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them
that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord that
seek him. Your heart shall live forever. Your heart shall live forever,
O you with hearts full of sin. The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked by nature. It speaks evil continually. Your heart is the cause of judgment. Your wicked heart is the cause
of his death. But he can say unto his people,
your heart shall live forever because he will give you a new
heart. He will give his people righteousness. He will give his people life.
With him they shall live again. Your heart shall live forever.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord,
and all the kindreds of the nation shall worship before thee, because
of this man upon the tree, because of Jesus. For the kingdom is
the Lord's, the kingdom is the Lord's, because this is the king
who is crucified, the king of kings who suffered. He's a king
and he'll lead his people forth into a kingdom. He is the governor
among the nations. All they that be fat upon earth
shall eat and worship. All they that go down to the
dust shall bow before him and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him. It shall be accounted to the
Lord for a generation. They shall come and shall declare
his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he have
done this. Do you know his righteousness,
the righteousness he brought in upon the cross, the righteousness
of God which judged him because of the sin of his people? Was
he judged for your sin? Did he die for your iniquity? Did He bring in righteousness
for you? As a result, have you been born
again of God the Spirit? Has God taken you out of darkness
and out of death? and spoken by the Spirit of God
unto you his gospel, his power. Has he made known his holy arm? Has he bared his holy arm in
the eyes of all the nations? Has he bared it before you? Has
he brought his gospel in power? Has he said unto your soul, live? And have you who are once dead
lived? And living, have you been born
and beheld your Saviour? crucified for you. All the ends of the world shall
remember and turn unto the Lord. Oh don't remember on the last
day when it's too late. Don't remember on that day of
wrath and judgment when Christ returns in power to judge this
world. Don't remember then that he is
the one who was slain, who you despised when it's too late. but by God's grace. May you remember,
may you be brought to remember his salvation, his death, his
suffering. Oh may God take you, all the
ends of the world. May he take you to this place
where the man upon the tree cried out unto his God, my God, my
God. Why hast thou forsaken me? And may you, by his grace, know
that he was forsaken, if you are his, because of your sin
and your iniquity and your hatred. but that he suffered because
of his great love for sinners such as you and such as I. He suffered because he loved
his people. He loved them and gave himself
for them. Did he love you? Did he give
himself for you? Was he forsaken for you? Have
you remembered? Have you turned unto the Lord? Amen.