The 20th chapter of John, Jesus
having been crucified, having had the soldiers come under him
and discover that he had died already, before they needed to
break his legs as with the others, they thrust a spear into his
side and out came blood and water. Then his body was taken, laid
in a grave. And in John chapter 20, on the
first day of the week, the disciples come to the grave and find that
he is not there. Mary comes, and Peter and the
disciple that Jesus loved, who we take to be John, came to the
grave and found the stone was rolled aside and the Lord was
not in the midst. Simon went in, John went in,
and then went home. And in verse 11 we read, but
Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping. And as she wept, she
stooped down and looked into the sepulcher and see if two
angels in white sitting, the one at the head and the other
at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain, And they say
unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because
they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have
laid him. And when she had thus said, she
turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not
that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman,
why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing
him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne
him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take
him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself and saith
unto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto
her, Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father, but
go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father
and your father and to my God and your God. Mary Magdalene
came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that
he had spoken these things unto her. The angel said unto her, woman,
why weepest thou? She saith unto them, because
they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have
laid him. They have taken away my Lord,
and I know not where they have laid him. Now this lament of
Mary's, Mary Magdalene's, when she comes to the sepulchre, There's
also a lament which is shared by many believers throughout
history. Often at times they might cry
out, they've taken away my Lord and I know not where they have
laid Him. They long for their God, they long for Christ, they
long to know Him, they long to be with Him. But so many places
that they go to to seek Him they find to be empty. They go to
those places which take the name of Jesus and profess to be churches
and congregations which follow him. They go longing to hear
his gospel, longing to meet with him, longing to hear his voice,
and he's not there. The very places in this world
that they should find him or they should think they would
find him, they find to be empty. They discover them to be as sepulchres. There's no one there. Despite
all the form and all the structure, despite all the appearance, despite
all the claims and the profession, despite all the scripture that
might be quoted, despite the words, despite the activity,
they listen for Christ. and he's not there. They listen
for the gospel and it's not there. And they cry out, they've taken
away my Lord. And I know not where they have
laid him. Where is Christ? You've got your meetings, you've
got your Bible, you've got the words, you can recite the form,
you can tell me the facts, but where is Christ? There is a cry
from their hearts. which is a real cry. The true
believer has life within him, life within her. She knows what
it is to be united to Christ. She's heard his voice in the
past. She knows what she's listening
for. And when she goes to a place
where they have all the form and all the profession, but none
of the power, none of the spirit, where the true gospel is missing. She knows it's missing. The words
won't do, the form won't do, the profession won't do. They've
taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him.
She longs to hear the cry, the voice within. True religion is
inward, not outward. The gospel, when we hear it,
must be heard inwardly, not just outwardly. We must hear the voice
of the Spirit of God. There must be life. And where
there isn't life, whatever the appearance, we find the place,
we find the people, we find the form, we find the organisation,
we find the church to be just a sepulcher. There's no one there. There's no one there. Much of religion today, much
of Christendom today has taken Christ away. They've taken his
gospel away. and they've substituted his gospel,
they've substituted the grace of the gospel and the righteousness
of the gospel with the works and the will of man. They've
put law where grace should be. They've put works where faith
should be. They've put the will of man where
the will of God should be. They've taken away the Lord.
Or indeed, The Lord has departed from them. For they have not
truly the ability to take him away. He's gone, he's not there. Ichabod is above the door. The
Lord is not present. He's not in the midst. And the
child of God knows it. The child of God goes to their
congregation seeking food, seeking meat, seeking bread, and he goes
away hungry. He goes looking for the voice
of Christ and he goes away having heard nothing but the words of
man. They've taken away the grace
of the gospel and put in its place works. They may adorn what
they have to make it look beautiful. They may be able to quote the
scriptures inside and out. They may have the best form and
conduct. They may have the best meetings.
They may know the doctrine and be able to quote this and quote
that and argue this and argue that. They might adorn themselves
wonderfully. They might live in such a noble
manner they've turned from the world and its ways and they live
like this and they live like that but it's all in their own
strength and it's all of man. We read last week Paul's exhortation
in 1st Timothy and Peter's exhortation in 1 Peter 3 regarding the adorning
of the woman And we noted that that exhortation beyond being
simply an exhortation to a believing woman had at its heart an exhortation
regarding the woman the bride of Christ. It's a picture of
the bride and the difference between the bride and her adornment
and the earthly woman and her adornment. The bride of Christ
is not adorned with her own righteousness, her own works. She is adorned
in Christ. Christ is within. She is arrayed
in righteousness, the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. The world
and its religion, this other woman, knows what the scriptures
say. knows how men should be before
God and seeks to adorn itself. It works. It brings forth self-righteous
works of righteousness. It dresses itself. It appears
wonderful. It broids its hair. It wears
gold and pearls and costly array. But it's all outward. Where the bride
of Christ, it's all inward. It's all inward, in like manner
also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, in shamefacedness
and sobriety. It's inward. Peter says, whose
adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting
the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel,
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is
not corruptible. Even the ornament of a meek and
quiet spirit 1 Peter 3, which is in the sight of God of great
price. You see the adorning of the child
of God, the adorning of Christ's bride is not an outward form,
it's not her outward works, she's adorned in Christ. And there
is a hidden man within her heart. Christ is within. And it's his
life which is seen without. But where Christ is missing,
in the world's religion, in Christendom that professes Christ, in the
world's false profession of Christ, where Christ is missing there
is no hidden man of the heart. There is no true life within. So all they can do is adorn themselves
with their own works and righteousness. All they can do is put on a show
and an appearance, just like the Pharisees, who put on a show. They kept the letter of the law
outwardly. They looked beautiful when inside
they were filthy. But whatever the outward appearance,
However it appears before men, in God's eyes, this self-righteous
adornment is but filthy rags. It's full of sin, it's full of
pride. And there's no life within. There's no life. And the believer
who comes in their midst, the woman of whom Paul speaks in
1 Timothy 2 and Peter in 1 Peter 3, the woman, the bride of Christ,
the believer who comes in their midst, sees that there's nothing
there and cries out, they've taken away my Lord. And I know not where they have
laid. Mary Magdalene here is one such believer. She's a woman
who loved the Lord. She loved him. He was everything
to her. Well he would be, what sort of
a woman was Mary Magdalene? She was a filthy sinner. There
was no good in her. Like there's no good in you. And there's no good in me. She was a sinner. And she knew
she was a sinner. And she knew that any outward
adornment she could put on was worthless. Everyone knew she
was a sinner. But in Christ, she was perfect. Christ was all to her. And her
love for Christ was all within. He was in her heart. She longed
to be with Him. She longed to hear Him. She longed
to kneel at His feet and learn of Him. Her glory was in Christ
alone. She thought nothing of self.
There was no outward adornment here. All she wanted was the
hidden man of the heart. The hidden man of the heart. The world's religion is all outward.
They cover themselves in their own glory, their own works, their
own filthy rags of self-righteousness. It's all outward. Mary's religion was all inward.
Adorned in Christ. Christ within. The world and its religion, however,
despises God. and despises the work of God.
This is why the world in its natural state, this is why women
in the world and men in the world despise how God has made them.
They despise the natural, they don't see the natural as being
beautiful, they've got to dress it up. They've got to add something
to it. They've got to improve on how
God has made them. And as they do naturally, so
they do spiritually. They've got to add, they've got
to dress up, they've got to add something of their own. They've
got to work. Mary's days of working were long
gone. She knew that by her strength she was heading for hell. She
knew that by her deeds All she done was condemnation. She knew
that her works were self-righteous. Her works were filthy. She knew
that works could not save her. She knew that her will could
not save her. Men speak of having a will, a
free will. But what man presented with the
gospel has ever truly chosen Christ? He doesn't. His will
is free, but it's free to choose sin. It's a fallen will. He's
captive to his own nature. He's never sought God. There's
none that have sought God. No, not one. There's none that
are righteous. No, not one. We've all gone astray. We're dead by nature. We need the gospel, the power
of the gospel, the voice of Jesus Christ to make us willing. As David says in Psalm 110, thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Oh yes, there's
none who believe on Christ who are unwilling. There's none who
believe on Christ who do not choose to follow Him. They want
to, but only because God has changed their will and made them
willing. Only because God has brought the dead to life. He's breathed life into their
souls and they've risen up with Him. And they cry out with life
and they long to be with Christ. And when they go to those sepulchres
where they thought they would find Him, and they find he is
not there, they cry out, they have taken away my Lord and I
know not where they have laid him. Now in Magdalene, this woman
knew grace because she knew the Lord and she longed to be with
him. Is he the one you're looking
for? This day, is he the one you're looking for? When you come to hear the gospel,
when you come to worship, what are you coming for? You coming
for some guidance of how to live? You coming for some instruction
on how to adorn yourself? Or are you coming looking for
the Lord? Where was she? Where was Mary? The place, where was she? She
was at the sepulcher. She was at the grave. where they
had laid the dead body of Christ. She was at the grave, the place
of death. The place of death. And she was
looking for the living in the grave. The other gospel writers
record these accounts in various manners. In Luke, we read they
came to the grave and they found the stone rolled away from the
sepulcher and they entered in and found not the body of the
Lord Jesus and it came to pass as they were much perplexed there
about behold two men stood by them in shining garments and
as they were afraid and bowed down their faces to the earth
they said unto them why seek ye the living among the dead
he is not here but is risen Remember how He spake unto you when He
was yet in Galilee saying, The Son of Man must be delivered
into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and the third
day rise again. And they remembered His words. Why seek ye the living among
the dead? But it should be no wonder to
us when we go to many of these places that take Christ's name. but never preaches gospel. But
he's not there. Because despite the name, despite
the appearance, despite the profession, they are sepulchres, they are
graves. They're the place of the dead.
And the living isn't amongst the dead. He's not there. In
some places he was there once. when his gospel was preached
when his servants were in that building in which they gather
he was there once and he spake but there came a time when that
servant moved on when that servant died and when God ceased to speak
in that place Perhaps he was cast out by the people. Perhaps
the people sought something else. Perhaps when that faithful preacher
died, they sought somebody else, more modern, more relevant, more
able to get the young people in. Somebody who's moved with
the times. And they have someone else come.
And despite all the words and all the scripture, God never
sent him. God never speaks by him. And
Jesus had gone. More relevant, moving with the
times. Well, you can move with the times,
but you'd be better moving with Christ. You'd be better going
where Christ is. And if in your congregation,
which once was faithful to the truth, if you are no longer hearing
Christ, you're better to get up and to move and to go and
to seek where He is. And to remain looking for the
living among the dead. Other places have never known
Him. They've taken His name, they say much about Him, they
promise life to all around them and all they do is lead people
under death. Christ was never in their midst. We call this apostasy. There
are many places, taking Jesus' name, taking the scriptures,
saying they preach the gospel and they're dead. All they preach
is the works and the will of men. All they preach is get into
heaven by your own strength. All they preach is a tower of
Babel by which you build and climb up to heaven. And they
despise the God of the scriptures, and they despise his son, and
they despise his grace, and they despise his sovereignty. They want to be the ones to choose,
not be the ones in the hands of an angry God who has the power
to judge and the power to justify. Whomsoever he pleases. This world and its religion is
apostate. There's a darkness in this world
and a darkness which has penetrated its religion. Christ isn't there. He isn't found there. And if
the believer goes there they'll cry out, they've taken away my
Lord. When Christ came into this world
came into the darkness, when the light came into the darkness
as John's gospel opens, he came to his own, the Jews. He came
to the religion in this world which could truly testify that
God had been in their midst. He didn't come to the false religions
of the other nations, he came to the Jews. He came to that
people who at one time he had chosen and called out of Egypt. that people under whom he had
spoken, that people under whom he had given the law, that people
under whom he had given the priesthood, he came unto that people, that
people who had the oracles of God, the scriptures, that people
who professed to worship him, who professed to serve God, who
should have known him and received him at his coming, he came unto
them and they received him not. He came unto them and they rejected
him. He came unto them and they said
he's a troubler in Israel. They came unto them and they
took up stones to cast at him to put him to death. The scribes,
the Pharisees, their priests were filled with envy and hatred. Who was this man coming into
their world? Who was their man upsetting everything? Who was their man taking the
authority away from them? They hated him. And in the end
they slew him. And they buried him. The Jews
did it then. Religion in that day did it then. And the religious do the same
today. And you and I have done the same
at one point perhaps, perhaps still. You and I do the same
by nature. We don't like this gospel. We don't like this God. We don't like this saviour by
nature. We despise him, we hate him,
however religious we may be. We're happy to follow a Jesus
of our own making. We're happy to follow a Jesus
who follows our will. We're happy to follow a Jesus
who receives our works. We wanted Jesus who does our
bidding because we want to sit upon the throne. Christ is not found in the world's
religion. He wasn't found amongst the Jews
at the time he came unto them. A few maybe. A few looked for
his coming. A few faithful there were who
knew the scriptures, who knew Messiah would come and saw him
and beheld him and saw his day and rejoiced. But the rest were
blinded. And they hated. And they put
him to death. Are you with your religion? You
with your much knowledge of the scriptures? you of your Christian
upbringing perhaps, what do you know of this gospel? Do you know Jesus Christ? Do you long to hear his voice? He isn't found in that religion,
he isn't found in that religion today, he isn't found in that
which is outward, either in the world or in its religion. He
must be known inwardly. We must see him within, he's
the hidden man of the heart. We must hear his voice, he must
be real to us. God must speak and we must hear. As she came to the sepulcher,
there were two angels in white sitting. The one at the head
and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain. And
they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto
them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not
where they have laid him. They spake unto her. Two angels,
two witnesses, two messengers from God, one at the head and
one at the feet, pointing us to that Halfway of their message
coming from the head down to the feet, coming down from the
head from heaven above right down to the members upon the
earth. God speaking to man, God mediating,
Jesus the one mediator between God and man. One was at the head
where Jesus had lain. One was at the feet where Jesus
had lain. They speak of God speaking to
his people, their witnesses, their preachers, their messengers.
And their message, as recorded in Luke, is that he's not here. He's risen. Why seek ye the living among
the dead? He's not here. He's risen. And God has sent his messengers,
God has sent his preachers into this world and he sends them
still and he has them today and their message in the darkness
of this world is that Christ is not in the darkness and he's
not in the death and he's not in the grave and he's not in
the world's religion. He's risen. And you'll know him
through the gospel. And you'll hear him when he speaks
unto you. Don't look for him in the darkness. Don't look for him in the grave.
Look for him alive. Look up above. You must hear
his voice. That's what preachers do. That's
why they're here. That's why God sends them. He
sends them into the darkness of this world to say that Christ
has come. Christ has died. Christ has made
an end of transgressions. Christ has brought in everlasting
salvation. Christ has brought in the righteousness
of God for his people. Christ has taken away the judgment. Christ has answered the penalty
for all his own. He's died and he's risen again. He's conquered death. He's conquered
hell. He's justified his people. He's made an end. He's finished
the work. He's accomplished salvation.
It's all over. It's finished. There's no more
to do. There's no more to add. There's
nothing to add to what he's done. There's nothing he demands from
you. He's brought it all in by grace
freely for sinners such as you. He's done it all. And having
done it all, he's risen, he's alive, he's seated on high, he's
in glory, and today he's preaching his gospel by his spirit, by
his servant, to you this day, and we're sent as witnesses to
it. Why weepest thou? They've taken
him away. Why, Lord, he's in glory. Don't weep. He's conquered. He's brought in a great victory.
He's brought in more than you could ever have hoped for or
wished for. This is a wonderful day. This
first day of the week. This day of the Lord, it's a
wonderful day, Mary. They've not taken Him away, they
never had Him. He's in control and He's sat
down victorious. You need to hear him. You need
to find him. She answers, because they've
taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him.
And then she turns. When she had thus said, she turned
herself back and saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus.
She turned. and there is Jesus right there
behind her and he's not dead he's not lying in the grave he's
not at the mercy of men he's not at the mercy of men's religion
he's alive and he's standing and he's victorious but she didn't
know him because even though Jesus should stand in front of
you Even though He should stand in front of you this day. Even
if the messengers of God so present Christ unto your gaze and so
preach Him and set Him forth in the Gospel and He stood there
as it were in the words of the Gospel right in front of you.
Until God puts faith in your heart and opens your eyes to
see Him and opens your ears to hear Him, you still won't see. Because it's not in your grasp,
it's not in the intellect. You can hear the gospel and never
hear. You can have Christ presented
to you and never see. And she turned and saw him standing
and knew not that it was Jesus but he was there. He was there. She turned and saw but didn't
know. She turns from the grave. She
turns from death. She turns from the darkness.
She turns from the sepulchre. She turns from the world to see. She's turned. Oh how we need
to be turned. How we need repentance. A turning
of the mind. a complete change of mind, a
complete change of understanding. We need to turn from looking
as the world looks, from thinking as the world thinks, from doing
as the religious do. We need to be turned by grace
to Jesus. She's turned and she sees and
she knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman,
Why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She supposing
him to be the gardener. Sayeth unto him, Sir, if thou
have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and
I will take him away. She saw him, and she supposed
him to be the gardener. The gardener. Well, here she
was by a sepulcher, presumably in the garden. Presumably where
a gardener would tend to the graves or tend to the landscape
around. Here's a garden. But it's a garden
of death. For in this garden, there's a
sepulcher. And she wasn't so mistaken to
think him to be the gardener. He may not have been the earthly
gardener, but he was the spiritual. In terms of the garden and the
gardener this alludes back to the very beginning. Right back
to the Garden of Eden. Right back to Adam. Adam was
placed in a garden as a gardener to tend to that garden. To name
the animals, to look after the garden. There he was, the first
man Adam. A picture of Christ. A picture
of the second man, the last Adam. A picture of God's gardener.
who has a garden in which he tends, in which he brings forth
life, a garden which is his church. Here is the gardener, not just
the gardener at that time in the graveyard, but he's the gardener
before her. Adam in the garden, found Eden
ultimately to be a place of death. In disobedience to the will,
to the command of God, in disobedience he followed Eve in eating of
the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and
in so doing death entered, sin entered and death by sin and
he fell and was cast out and knew the cataclysmic effects
of sin, of death and of rebellion against God. He found that garden
ultimately to him to be a garden of death even though in the midst
there had been the tree of life of which he never ate. Well here's
Christ, the gardener, the second man, the last Adam, who knew
what it was as with the first to experience the fruit, the
effects of that tree of which Adam ate in the beginning. That
tree brought death to Adam and all his posterity. Christ came
for his people and took that death, took that judgment and
drank it up. He ate, as it were, that fruit
and died as Adam had died. But he took the penalty, the
judgment, the wrath of God against the sin that Adam brought in
for his people. He took the penalty and took
it away. He endured death that he might
bring that people to life. He brought them out of a garden
of death into a garden of life. He brought them out into another
garden, a garden where the tree of life was in the midst and
where they would eat of that tree forevermore. And when Mary
comes to him, supposing him to be the gardener, he says, Woman,
why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? And in so asking, he repeats
a question he had uttered earlier in another garden. Here he is,
this side of his death, risen from the dead. The other side
of his death, when the hour of suffering, the hour of judgment
approached him, he went with his disciples into another garden,
Gethsemane. We read in John 18 verse 1, When
Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples
over the brook Cedron, where was a garden into the which he
entered and his disciples. Jesus entered a garden over a
brook with his disciples. You must come this way, my people,
into this garden with me. If I'm to bring you into another
garden wherein there is life everlasting. And he took his
disciples into that garden. And Judas also, which betrayed
him, knew the place. For Jesus oftentimes resorted
thither with his disciples. Judas then, having received a
band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees,
cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. Jesus,
therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went
forth and said unto them, Whom seek ye? ye? Whom seek ye? They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus saith unto them, I am. And Judas also which betrayed
him stood with them. Here he was with his disciples
in a garden over the brook Sedron. And his enemies come unto him.
And he says unto them, Whom seek ye? and they took him and they
tried him and they sentenced him to death and they crucified
him and the people spat upon him and derided him and hated
him and nailed him to this cross and he suffered untold agonies
in the heat of the sun and the Lord God laid upon him the sin
and the sins of his people. And the light of the sun was
taken away. And for three hours there was darkness upon the face
of the earth. And he endured the judgment of
God's wrath for his people's sins. And at the end he cried,
it is finished. And he was laid in the grave.
And then on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came
early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and she found
he was not there. And she turned, and she saw Jesus
standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. And he said unto her,
Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? The same question. Here you are
in a garden. Here is Jesus. Who are you seeking? But here It's the woman who sought
him, his bride, his church, his people, who loved him, who like
those others, those chief priests who found him in Gethsemane,
who put him to death, they too, by nature, hated him, despised
him, and put him to death. But now they are the other side.
now he has taken away their sin now he has taken away their rebellion
now he has taken away their hatred now he's taken away the judgment
and he says unto them the other side having washed them clean
having forgiven them their sins having taken away the iniquity
having made them to be righteous he says unto them now whom seekest
thou? have you seen this gardener? in this garden Did he die in
your place? Did he die for you? Did he die
because you'd eaten of that other tree? Are you seeking him? They'd taken him from that other
garden. They'd taken him away to kill him. But now here he
is in another garden, appearing to a woman to whom he brings
life. He is the tree of life. Oh, the travail he went through
in that garden of Gethsemane as his death approached. Oh,
the suffering he must endure, not the suffering, the physical
suffering, not the pain of the nails, not the physical death,
but the judgment of God against him. And to know his father,
forsake him in that hour because of what he was made to be, what
he bore on their behalf, because of the judgment which rained
down from on heaven. Oh the shame, oh the terrible
depth to which he went and the travail he endured in Gethsemane
as that hour approached. What he endured we will never
understand, we never comprehend. God must reveal it to us. We
cannot fathom it. But O what it brought in! O the
life which springs forth! Here he is, the other side of
death, the firstborn, the firstfruits, here he is! He was sown into
the ground as a seed is sown, he died, but now life springs
forth and he comes forth as a tree of life unto his people. He is
the vine, And we are the branches. He is the tree of life. And we
in him are planted as trees of righteousness by the waters,
by the brook. Here he is with Mary, the woman,
the bride, the church, in his garden. In his garden. For the church is his garden.
Son of Solomon chapter four alludes to this. the garden, the fruit,
the things that are brought forth, his people, there they will find
him. Have you found him? Are you in
this garden? But she did not know him, not
until he spake. And you will not know him, and
I did not know him until he spake. We can read all about him, we
can read all the facts, we can have all the scriptures, we can
hear a thousand messages preached, but we must hear him speak. Jesus
saith unto her, Mary, Mary. She turned herself and saith
unto him, Rabboni, that is to say master. Jesus saith unto
her, Mary. And when he uttered her name,
she knew it was him. They have taken away my Lord,
and I know not where they have laid him. Mary, master. He speaks her name. He knows
her. And she knows him. And when she hears his voice,
she knows it's him. She'd heard him before. Now she
hears him again. This is him. Have you heard his
voice? Has he spoken your name? Has
he said unto you, Mary? Have you said unto him, Master?
It's a revelation. You'll only know it when he opens
your eyes, opens your ears, speaks your name. He puts faith in the
heart to look and to behold and to know. Life within is inward. It's inward. But when you hear,
there's no need for weeping. The tears are gone. Why weepest
thou? He is risen. Whom seekest thou? I am here, Mary. I am here. All is well. The judgment has
come, the judgment has gone. Your sins have been blotted out.
I have washed them in my own blood. I have paid the price. I have set the captives free.
I've set you free, Mary. There's no more trouble, Mary.
All will be well, Mary. You're in my garden, Mary. eat
of the tree of life and you shall live forever merry all is well
merry master. Has he called your name? Has
he called your name in such a way that he's spoken the gospel he's
spoken it in such power to your heart that he just needs to utter
your name and you know all is well all is forgiven All that
is in front of me is everlasting life and glory. The few years
I have to sojourn in this world as I pass through the darkness
will be but a moment, but nothing. Those few days, those few years
of trial and persecution and sorrow but nothing because I've
seen the Lord he's risen he's spoken my name and all is well
and one day I will be with him forevermore in his garden by
the brook eating of the tree of life one with the tree of
life there he is. Have you seen him? As he said
unto you, Mary As we said unto him, Master.