It's not my purpose here this
morning to tear anything up or divide. It's my purpose. And this is what these two chapters
here are all about. I just read them to you a few
minutes ago. It's reconciliation. It's not division. It's taking together, pulling
together, reconciling. I want you to be reconciled to
God and to one another. Now, here's the enmity. You can
read about it over in Ephesians 2. You've got Gentiles and you've
got Jews. You've got natural men and you've
got natural religious men. And they're at each other's throats
all the time. God comes along and takes that
enmity out of there and creates in them, Paul said, one new man. Ain't that what he said? So making
peace. The religious man in all his benefits, he's just as empty
as the guy who had no God. He's the same thing. He's empty. And if it wasn't for this one
new man, this new man that God creates in the heart, they'd
still be at enmity with one another. But when God establishes this
one new man, Glenn, the enmity is gone. It's gone. And they're
at peace. They're at peace with one another.
Those believing Jews were at peace with the Gentiles whom
they couldn't stand. They couldn't stand around them.
And I'm telling you, there's something wrong with folks who
go around making divisions. And that's enough said about
that. I'm not going into that anymore. But I do want to declare
to you this morning what this is saying down here in 1 Corinthians
5, verse 21. And Lord, help me. and give me the proper words
and the proper spirit to bring this to your attention. I do know this. When God establishes
love, here's what love does. Love doesn't expose. I just visited
by my daughter and my grandchildren. And they're in there. I'm not used to children. And
they're bouncing and jumping and saying things. And one of
them says something out of the way, I'm not going to take him
out in the backyard and shoot him. I'm going to take him aside in
love and try to explain to him what he said that it was wrong,
if indeed it was wrong, and restore him. I love him. I'm not going
to take him out and shoot him. I'm telling you, if we get to
that place where we're so judgmental, and we get that judgmental spirit
and that harsh spirit, and somebody says something out of the way,
boom, we're going to take him out and pow! That's not of God. I'm just telling you it's not
of God. It's not of God. Unbelief divides and separates. It rejoices in others' faults
and falsehoods. You can read about it throughout
the whole New Testament epistles, every one of them. There's not
a one of them in there that doesn't mention it. Now, let me say this. Salvation
is an eternal work. I just kept running on to this
word. Look back here. I tried to emphasize it as I
read it. He says up here in verse 17,
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh
for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. This glory is an eternal weight
of glory. While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things
which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not
seen are eternal." See that word again? Eternal. For we know that
if the earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we
have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal. Salvation is an eternal word.
Now, I know we view it in time and we experience it in time,
but it's an eternal work. And there's nothing going to
appear in time that wasn't predestinated from eternity. There's nothing
that I'm going to experience in time that wasn't settled in
the council halls of eternity. And that's another issue they
have with Brother Don, Brother Henry, and they're going to have
it with me now, because justification is eternal. God doesn't have
a work that's not eternal. Everything God does is eternal
because He is eternal. I'm the typical one. I'm the
one who comes about in time and who doesn't know anything sitting
in darkness. I'm the one in darkness. I'm
the one being reconciled. God reconciled Himself when He
put me in Christ. Read about it over in Ephesians
chapter 1. Why did He put me there? That I might be before
Him holy, Without blame, in love. Isn't it? Brother, you can't
be any of those things and be an enemy. Now, you can't be. You can't be. And I'll tell you
this, when he talks about that lamb, that eternal lamb, what
does he say about it? He was slain. Ain't that what
he said? God killed him in eternity. He
killed him in eternity. Now, I know we come about in
time, and I know that Jesus was manifested as a man in time,
and I know that He went to the cross and that He actually suffered
and He actually died. But I'm telling you, that work
in the mind of God was accomplished in eternity. It was manifested
in time. When the fullness of the time
was come, ain't that what it said? God brought forth His Son,
made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were
under the law. Nothing in this world of chaos
and confusion with all of its daily surprises and circumstances
that's not exactly according to the will of God. He sits on
a throne. Sits on a throne. He doesn't pace with his arms
crossed, looking down, hoping somebody's going to do this and
hoping somebody's going to do that. He's seated. Sitting down. Seated. expect
until his enemies be made his footstool. Who's going to resist
him? Who's going to resist God? Even
the winds and the waves obey his voice. You're going to resist
God? He's the Lord of creation, he's
the Lord of providence, and he's the Lord of salvation. God's not a dispensationalist.
Now, He's just not. God is eternal. And these things
of God that we experience in time are eternal things. They're eternal things. Back
here in chapter 4 of 2 Corinthians, in verse 16, the apostle talks
about this outward man and an inward man. Though our outward
man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. And in
the light of that work in us, And in expectation of what lies
yet ahead, he calls his suffering light afflictions. Now, look at this last verse
here in chapter 4, verse 18. He said, while we look not on
the things which are seen, but on the things that are not seen,
we are looking at these things in a natural light, in a carnal
light, perceived by carnal principles. You read in the Bible of rudiments,
the rudiments of the world. He's talking about rudimentary
principles. That's how we view things. That's
how that outward man, that's how he sees everything. That's
how he perceives things. That's why he flies off the handle.
He can't see these eternal things. It's the things that are not
seen. God created in me a new man, and you can't see him. And
I can't see him in you. I just know what happens when
He is there. I know what kind of an attitude that new man has
because I see that attitude in Christ. It is Christ in you,
the hope of glory. How do I know how that Christ
acts? Because I look at Him. He manifested. I know how He
acts. I know what His attitude was.
I know what His behavior was. I know what His motives were.
I know all those things. And if you have a new man in
you, you have that identical same thing. You might not have
it to that extent and in that perfection, but you've got it.
As Brother Barnard said, it will leak out on you. You can't hide
it. Everything spiritual eyes perceive,
natural eyes cannot see. They are eternal. Now, verse
21 of 2 Corinthians 5 will never benefit you. I want you to hear
me. It will never benefit you unless you first, at least to
some degree, fit the character of those described in the preceding
verses. See, that is what we want to
do. That is what religion does. It skips over the Word of God
and finds something that it thinks it understands and then builds
on it. True faith takes all the Word
of God. He buys the field, the whole
field, because in the field is the treasure. You see what I'm
saying? He buys the whole Word of God
because he knows in the whole Word of God is hid the treasure
of God. He buys every verse, every word,
every comma, every period. He buys the whole thing, cover
to cover. Why does he buy it? Because he
knows that's where the treasure is. And you'll never see the
treasure until he uncovers it. He has to uncover it. He uncovers
it in these verses. And we have to, in some degree. It's just a bad thing for a man
to sit back and say, well, I'm saved. But he doesn't fit any
of those descriptions that God gave of those to whom the promise
was given. Listen to this, 2 Corinthians
4, verse 3, "...if our gospel be hid, it is hid to the lost,
unconverted, ignorant, blind, at war with God, opposed to his
word and his person and his gospel." How'd he get to be blind? He's
got a head, he's got a mind, he's got ears, he's got eyes.
What in the world is he talking about? He's talking about a spiritual
blindness. And the reason he's spiritually
blind, he's blind in his mind and in his heart because the
God of this world. What does he do? Well, he appears
as an angel of light and as a minister of righteousness. Now, that's
how he appears. The God of this world, this minister
of righteousness, this angel of light appears, hath blinded
the minds of them that believe not. He blinded them. He will give them over to believe
a lie. Isn't that what he says in the
Scripture? To believe a lie. He gives them over to that deception
and darkness of religion, and their minds are blinded. He said
the whole Jewish nation, there was a veil on their face that
blinded them to the Old Testament even unto this day. They can't
see Christ in that Old Testament. That veil hung on their face.
And even so, men who are lost, they can't see this glory. because
they are blinded by religious deceit. It is on every corner. And the only hope for a lost
man is that the God of all grace will be merciful to him and send
him a faithful witness like Paul to preach to him. That is what
Paul was telling these Corinthian people. They had folks in there
that were brilliant speakers. They had folks in there who came
in there who were trying to mix. They called them Judaizers. They
were trying to mix the law of God with the grace of God. And
they had all kinds of people in that church. And Paul called
them back to himself. And he said, I want you to look
at myself. I didn't come down here for a
paycheck. He said, you ain't paying me anything. I didn't
come down here because of the good life. He said, look at my
past. It's filled full of suffering.
It's filled full of persecution. Casting down. I read it to you
a while ago. All those things. Always bearing
about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus. Always, he said. Filled with persecution on every
height. And he said, I came to you. And
the same God that commanded light to shine out of darkness shined
in your heart. Shine in your heart that light
of the glorious gospel of Christ. Shine in there. And a new man
was created. A new man. And this man dies
and lives at the same time. Isn't that what I just read to
you over there? He dies and he lives at the same time. This
outward man, he grows weary and old. Boy, I hate looking at them
pictures of me before my hair turned white and before I gained
all this weight. A little skinny thing. Healthy
and all that. Now I'm old. My hair is white.
I can't talk very good. I get tired at the least little
thing. This old man is weary. It's going to perish. But there's
an inward man, and that inward man is renewed. He's growing.
He's not dying. He's growing. He's getting healthier
every day. And Paul said, after a while,
he said, you're going to reason this thing out. Why do I want
to stay in this old body? Why do I want to stay in this
old world, corrupt and sinful? He said, I begin to desire now
to leave this thing, to leave this body, and to have my house
from heaven, to have that body that God has for me, that tabernacle,
that eternal, that eternal body. Oh, he said, now, that's what
I desire. And that inward man, that's what
he desires. God puts this treasure in an
old clay pot. Isn't that what he said back
there I read to you a while ago? He said, we have this treasure
in earthen vessels that the excellency of the glory might be of God,
not of us. He puts it in an old clay pot.
You know what I was thinking? I've got a bunch of flower pots.
And those old clay pots, I'm telling you, if you touch one,
it breaks. You're too old. Go to pick that
thing up, and the bottom falls out of it. Clay pot. God takes
his eternal treasure and puts it in a clay pot. And he maintains
it, and keeps it, and protects it, and he lets folks do all
kinds of stuff to it, but they can't kill it until he's ready
for it to die. And He does it that the excellency
of that glory might be of Him. The excellency of that power
might be of Him. Know God about it. Now, I'm telling
you, I don't know what trials lay ahead for you or me. But
they're out there. But when they're over, here's
what He's going to prove. The excellency of the power was
of Him and not of you. That's what He's going to prove
in that trial. Because you can't destroy the treasure. All you
can do is destroy the pot. Two men, an outward man and inward
man. And in that old ugly clay pot,
God puts a new man, an inward man. He puts that treasure. And
this inward man has eyes that can perceive eternal things.
He can see eternal things. And he judges by eternal weights
of glory. And then in chapter 5, verses
1 through 9, that man in whom God has begun a work, a work
unseen of men, that inward man that longs for that new body,
begins to groan in himself for that new body. He talks about being sealed over
there in Ephesians 1. He talks about being sealed. He says here in 2 Corinthians
5, He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God. who
also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." He says that
again in Ephesians 1, verse 13, talking about being sealed with
that Holy Spirit of promise. Sealed. God comes down, He manifests
that gospel to you by His witness, and God the Holy Spirit takes
and seals those promises on His heart. He burns them into the
heart. That's how believers are born. Now watch this, we rejoice in
this hope and peace and comfort of Christ because we have eyes
to see and ears to hear something about the terror of the Lord. Something about the terror of
the Lord. Something about a justice that
demands eternal consequence. Something about a righteousness
that requires perfect obedience and motive, thought and deed.
Something about a holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.
Something about a sovereign judge that will have mercy on whom
he will have mercy, and whom he will, he'll harden, just like
he did Pharaoh. Now look here in verse 10. For
we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Now,
religion takes away that chair by saying that this judgment
seat is just for believers, and it's not a judgment unto death. It's not a judgment of hell,
but it's a judgment of good works that you do. Men say that because
they don't understand God. God only has one judgment, and
that judgment requires perfection. And he said in Acts chapter 17,
he said, God has appointed a day in which He'll judge this world
by that man whom He hath ordained. So if you stand before the judgment
seat of Christ, you're standing before God. And you're standing
before that judgment seat that is the great white throne over
in Revelation 20. The same judgment. The same judgment. Now, God give you a heart to
hear what I'm getting ready to tell you. A believer is a man
in whom God is performing a mysterious work. It can't be seen with these
eyes. Quit looking for it. It's in
here. The kingdom of God is not out
here. The kingdom of God, he said, is in you. It's called
an inward man. You can't see it. He talks about
these things not seen, eternal in the heavens. There is an inward
man. And by new birth, by regeneration,
he creates in us a new man, totally separate from the old man. And
this new man loves God, and he loves other believers. And he
loves even his enemies. He has the love of God in him.
He has the mercy of God in him. It's an inward man, you see what
I'm saying? And this new man is gracious
and kind and caring and loving, and he's willing to serve and
willing to bow and willing to sacrifice and willing to suffer.
He's a willing man. My people shall be made willing
in the day of my power, he said. And this work cannot be accomplished
by a man. It cannot, John. It's of God.
It's of God. And it is this sovereign work
of grace done in our bodies, which God Almighty will judge
at that throne, done in you, whether it be good or bad. A
work done in you. I'm telling you, you can't fake
this thing. That's what Paul said. This thing is going to
come right before the throne of God, and God is going to justify
His justification. He is going to justify in His
people that justification declared in eternity. That is what this
judgment is all about. And it is about this work done
in you without laws to govern, without
fear to threaten. Without any kind of a chain to
bind, he just comes in, turns his sheep loose, and lets them
go. Isn't that what he said in that little demonstration over
there in John? Dr. Good Shepherd, he comes in,
the porter knew who he was, knew him by name, he called his sheep,
his sheep knew who he was, called them by name, and they all come
out, and he put them right out in front of them. He didn't order
them to line up behind him. He didn't chain them up. That's why, because He knew they'd
walk with Him. That's why. He knew they'd follow Him in
the Word. Without laws to govern, fear to threaten, or a chain
to bind, He constrains us by His love. That's it. Ain't nothing else there. There
ain't no bars. Nothing else. No laws. I love my wife. I don't always agree with everything
she says. I don't always approve of everything
she does, but I love her. And loving her, I have given
and continue to give myself without any threat of punishment, without
any payment, without any chain to bind me whatsoever. If I wanted
to leave, I could walk away tomorrow. She can't do anything about it.
I mean, I might get a fine. I might have to pay. alimony
or something, but there's nothing to bind me, nothing to hold me,
nothing to cause me to sacrifice myself for her except my love
for her. Husbands, he said, love
your wives even as Christ loved the church and gave himself for
it. Now look here in verse 14 of 2 Corinthians 5. For the love
of Christ constraineth us because, because, you see that? Now, here's where this love begins.
This is where it grows. This is where it matures. Because
we thus judge. What's that word mean? Judge.
I'm no judge. You are when it comes to this.
That word means to understand. It means you look at this, compare
it to what you always believe, and you judge this to be right
and that to be wrong. That's what he's talking about.
We thus judge. That is, we understand. But if
one died for all, then we're all dead. Now, the sense of this
passage is not that Christ died for everybody that's dead. That's
not what he's saying here. Well, what is he saying? He's
saying that all were truly dead for whom Christ died. Well, what do you mean? I mean
when he died, I died. When he died, the whole outfit
that was in him died. God is not going to kill me because
I died in Christ. I died in Christ, verse 15, and
that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth
live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose
again. The end for which he gave his
life was not just a deliverance from the punishment. Now, I used
to have a jail ministry, and I'm telling you, everybody in
there is innocent. Everybody. Never met a guilty man in jail.
They've all been framed. They've all been lied on. Put
in there for no good reason. Every last one of them. Well,
and here's what they want. They want to pay the fine so
they can just get out and go. When the Lord died, He didn't
die just to pay you fine. died so that you could escape
hell and escape punishment. The end for which he died was
that you might live, that you might have this life of God in
you. You see, it's that corrupt life,
that fallen life, that darkness that we call life that he's delivering
you from. Translated, I think, is the way
the Scripture says it. out of darkness into his marvelous
light, into the kingdom of his dear Son. That is the end for
which he died. Verse 16, Wherefore, henceforth,
know we no man after the flesh, for though we have known Christ
after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. What is
he saying there? He is saying that we don't look
on the outward potential of men. In other words, I'll get somebody
in here that's just an out-and-out bum. We had one down Kitchens
Creek one time, just wandered in. You couldn't hardly stand
the smell of the man. He was that bad. He wandered
in and sat down and I preached to him. And on the other side
was some visitors, and this man had a great job. He was a smart
man. He had all kinds of potential.
What Paul is saying here, we don't know men after the flesh.
I'm going to preach to that bum the same as I preach to this
man. I don't try to read men for potential to see what kind
of potential they might have. You know, boy, if we could get
this guy now, he's not like them other guys. Oh yes, he is. He's
exactly like them other guys. I don't care how smart he is. I don't care how much he goes
to church. He's dead and trespasses and sins. We don't consider that. Now, listen to this, Yea, though
we have known Christ after the flesh, Paul didn't know Christ
after the flesh. Boy, I looked at that for a long
time. He didn't know Christ after the flesh. Christ called him
up into the third heaven and taught him everything he knew.
Now, John knew him after the flesh, and Peter knew him after
the flesh, but Paul didn't. So what on earth is he talking
about? He is talking about his judgment of who this Christ was. He had an understanding of that
Christ, a natural understanding, a fleshly understanding of that
Christ that every Jew had. That he was going to come and
establish an earthly kingdom. He was going to be a man like
David and Solomon. He had an earthly idea and conception
of who Christ was. But he said that is out the window
now. Now I know who He is. Now I know who He is. And though
I have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know
we Him no more." We don't know Him in that respect anymore.
We know Him as who He is, very God of very God, and yet pure
man in one person. We don't consider the outward
appearances and predicaments of men. We don't define eternal
things by things that we see. Look here in verse 17. Therefore,
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are
passed away, and behold, all things become new. Now, let me
tell you something. I want you to go back, and every
Scripture you can think of that has this word in it, I want you
to go back and look at it this afternoon. Get your concordance.
It's an interesting study. What does that mean to be in
Christ? Faith doesn't put me in Him because
it said, the Father put me in Him. Over there in Ephesians
chapter 1, isn't that what it says? Paul was thanking the Father
who blessed us with all spiritual blessings and heavenly places
in Christ according as He has chosen us in Him. He put us in
Him. Faith doesn't put me in Christ. So what's that mean, to be in
Christ? That means that I have a being in Christ. Now, just
listen to me. There is a secret being that's
in Christ, who God put in there before the foundation of the
world. He put all of his elect, all of his elect, he put them
in Christ. It means to have being in him,
and there's two things here. There's that secret being in
Christ before the foundation of the world. And here's an interesting
thing for you to read over in Proverbs chapter 8. Before creation, he said, I was
by him as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight. rejoicing always before him,
rejoicing in the habitable part of the earth. And my delights
were with the sons of men." Now, wait a minute. There wasn't any
men. This is before creation. This is before the angels of
God gathered together and sang. This is before anything was ever
made known, and here he is rejoicing in the habitable parts of an
earth that's not created yet. And his delights were with the
sons of men." What in the world is he talking about? Those in
him. There is a secret being in God. Being in Christ that we should
be holy and unblameable before him in love. Being in Christ
to the praise of his glory. Being in Christ that the eyes
of your understanding might be enlightened. And that secret
being is brought to light by the preaching of the gospel and
the power of God's Holy Spirit. He makes you to see what always
was. He makes you to see that being
who always was. He takes that being who always
was and creates him in your heart. So you become aware of him. God's
always been aware of him. There never was a time when we
weren't in fellowship with God and in Christ. What He does is
bring it about in time, in you. If any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature. He's a new creation. He's not
what that son of Adam was. He's not the same. His principles
are not the same. His thinking is not the same.
He doesn't walk the same. Paul said we walk by faith, not
by sight. He's a new creation. Listen to
this over in Galatians chapter 4. I quoted a little bit of this
to you a while ago. When the fullness of the time
was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under
the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive. Receive. the adoption of sons."
Now listen, "...and because ye are sons, God hath sent forth
his Spirit into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father, because
ye were sons." Now look back here in 2 Corinthians
5, verse 18, "...all things are of God." All these things are
of God. They're not of me. I can't do
this. I can't create this. I can't fake this. And this is
what's going to stand. This is what man can't destroy. This is what I can't tear up
myself. This is what I can't corrupt,
this new man in me. You see what I'm saying? And
now what Paul's declaring these things, waiting on the Holy Spirit
of God who's going to come in and give you that spirit of adoption. A believer can't help but believe.
I don't have to coax Him. I don't have to force Him. I
don't have to argue Him into the Kingdom of God. All I've
got to do is declare it. Only the Spirit of God can come
down and press those things on your heart and call you to Himself.
No man cometh unto me except my Father draw him. Ain't that
what He said? Oh, it's that spirit of adoption. All these things are of God.
They're of God. And all faith does is receive
it. It's an empty clay pot, and God pulls in His treasure. All
an empty pot can do is receive whatever somebody puts in it.
I've got them out in my shed, and they'll still probably be
out there next year if I don't go put something in them. But
I might put something in them. If I do, I might have this beautiful
flower blooming that I can enjoy all summer. God puts His treasure
in the pot, and all the pot can do is receive it. Well, what
is this ministry then, this ministry of reconciliation? Too wit. I
just keep standing up and telling you that God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. But you've got a question, and
I know it. And here's the question. Are you saying that God doesn't
charge His elect with sin? That's what this says. Now, does
it or not? Yeah, but it says, he that believeth
not the wrath of God abideth on him. Is that what that says? That's exactly what that says.
Well, how can these two things be so? How can God not charge
me for my sin, and yet the wrath of God be on me in unbelief? How can those things be? Because you have a secret being
in Christ. Now that's what this thing teaches
from front to back. Front to back. And I'm telling
you this, this old man is still under the wrath of God, and he's
going back to the dirt. He's going right back to the
ground. And no matter what I do, this body is still going to the
ground. I can preach. Henry's preached for 50-something
years. Scott's preached 60-something
years up there in West Virginia. These men are going back to the
ground. and back to the ground. That wrath poured out on him. But there's peace given, and
that peace resides in that new man. That outward man is going
to perish. That new man isn't going to perish.
He's not going to perish. I've got a secret being in Christ.
We're in Him. And what's the basis for this?
Here's the basis down here in verse 21. For He hath made Him
to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the
righteousness of God in Him. Now, in the light of everything
that I've said to you here this morning, let me ask this question. In what sense was Christ made
sin? Ain't that what the controversy
is all about? In what sense was Christ made sin? Did God compromise
His nature and His glorious name? God forbid. not going to happen. I will by no means clear the
guilty. Did our righteous representative compromise his obedience? If
he did, we don't have a righteousness. It says he was obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross. Is that what it says?
There was no place in there for that righteous man to be made
saint. Then in what sense was He made
sin. He was made sin when He was made
me. When was He made me? Before the
foundation of the world. And that's why He's a lamb slain. It's that being of me in Him
that's made sin, that God poured out His wrath on, that God cursed,
that God hung up before heaven and earth and killed on the cross.
It was me, not him. Me. In what sense was he made
sin? He made sin in the sense that
he was made me. And I tell you this, you can
cry legal transfer until hell freezes over. And I'm telling
you, those old Jews came up and by legal transfer, they laid
their hands on them lambs and handed them to the priest, and
the priest took them over and killed them. And millions upon
millions upon millions of Jews and lambs and animals and he
goats and heifers and all those things offered to God, all by
legal transfer, wasn't a one of them saved. Now come on, every
last one of them, the carcass died in the wilderness, every
one of them, didn't it? And that whole generation that
stood before Him that still hung on to that old legal transfer,
every last one of them went their way doing their thing. in unbelief. He said it's going to be better
on Sodom and Gomorrah than it was on them. A few, now listen to me, a few
of them looked past that lamb to the lamb. And they saw themselves
dying in that lamb. Now look back up here just for
a second, and I'm going to close. He said, for the love of Christ,
back up in verse 14, constraineth us because we judge. that if
one died for all, then we're all dead. I died in Him. I died in Him. That's what they're
saying down there in verse 21. He was made me. And I tell you
this until you can see yourself. You take that legal transfer
and you try to quiet that guilty conscience. It won't quiet it
down. That won't work. That won't flow. That conscience
is not going to be purged until you can see yourself in the substitute,
dying under the wrath of God. Then that conscience is cleared
just like that, and you've got peace with God. Am I saying God
was made sin? Absolutely not. Am I saying my
righteous Christ was made sin? Not upon your life. I'm saying
He was made sin when He was made me. And He was made me when God
put me in Him before the foundation of the world. And He manifested
that on the cross. God help you to hear that, believe
it, and rejoice in it.