Substitution

Q: What does the Bible say about substitution in salvation?

The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is our substitute, bearing the weight of our sin so we can be reconciled to God. The concept of substitution is central to the gospel. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, we see that God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us. This means that Jesus took on the penalty for our sins, allowing us to receive God's righteousness in Him. Throughout Scripture, instances such as Abel's offering and the Passover lamb illustrate this principle of substitutionary atonement, showing God's design for salvation through a substitute that represents His justice and mercy.

Q: How do we know the doctrine of substitution is true?

The truth of substitution is rooted in Scripture, particularly in 2 Corinthians 5:21, which clearly states that Christ bore our sins. The doctrine of substitution is affirmed in the Bible, especially seen in 2 Corinthians 5:21 where it states, 'For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.' This verse encapsulates the essence of God's plan for redemption: that Christ, as our substitute, would bear the punishment we deserve for our sins. Additionally, the consistent use of sacrificial imagery throughout the Old Testament points to the necessity of a substitute for atonement, culminating in Christ's sacrifice at Calvary, which fulfills the righteous demands of God while showcasing His love.

Q: Why is the concept of substitution important for Christians?

Substitution is essential for understanding grace, mercy, and the depths of Christ's atonement for our sins. The concept of substitution is fundamental to the Christian faith as it reveals the nature of God's justice and mercy. By understanding that Christ took our place and bore the punishment we deserved, believers grasp the immense cost of salvation. This profound truth not only brings about a deep appreciation for God's grace but also leads to genuine repentance and faith. The joy of knowing that we are reconciled to God through Christ's substitutionary sacrifice invites Christians to live in gratitude and obedience, reflecting the character of Christ in our lives. Ultimately, substitution strengthens the believer's assurance of salvation, reinforcing the truth that our standing before God is based on Christ’s righteousness, not our own works.

Now, let me tell you a little
bit about the background of this message for tonight. The Lord has, in a most unusual fashion, been
blessing our congregation the last few weeks. He has been present in the services
in unusual power and revealing himself to the hearts of many
of our people. And I want to continue this type
of message that I've been bringing lately. I'd like for this to
go on and on, wouldn't you? revelation of His grace, this
realization of our sins, this closing with Christ, this public
confession of Christ. I'd like for these waters up
here in this pool to be disturbed frequently, wouldn't you? I got a letter from Australia
yesterday, or the day before yesterday. We were driving to
Fairmont, and Doris was reading it to about a ten-page or twelve-page
letter from Brother Alan McCarroll, who visited here in 1982, he
and his wife Dot. And they were telling us about
the history of this church in which I preached there, Smithfield
Baptist Church. It's the second oldest church
in the state of New South Wales in Australia. in the early 1800s. And it was originally, and has
been all these years, what they called a strict and particular
Baptist church. Very strong, strict, particular
Baptist church. And in its early days it was
quite a thriving church, but then it came under the leadership
of a pastor in the early 1900s. And he was more fatalistic or hyper-Calvinistic
or something. And Allen said that no one made
a profession of Christ or was baptized for forty years in that
church. Forty years. That'd be dreadful, wouldn't
it? And I'm so pleased that God regularly in this place has revealed
himself to the hearts of people and called out his sheep. I pray
sincerely and strongly that he'll continue this refreshing that
we're enjoying and experiencing at this particular time. And so, in wanting to bring a
message continuing on the subject of salvation and relationship
with our Lord, I read a message by Mr. Spurgeon entitled, Substitution. Substitution. And it was so good
and it blessed me so much that I want to bring you that outline
that he used for that message. Now he said this in the introduction, if a man would learn the gospel
of God, if a man or woman would learn the gospel, would we know
the gospel? Would you know the gospel? The
gospel of God, not just any gospel, I want to know the gospel, don't
you? The gospel of God. The gospel I talked about Sunday,
the gospel which saves. I want to know that gospel. I
want to believe that gospel. I want to preach that gospel.
I want people who hear me to embrace that gospel, receive
it, stand in it, and continue in that gospel because it'll
save you. But if a person would know the gospel, they're going
to have to learn the meaning of this word substitution. They've
got to learn the meaning of the word substitution because that's
a sum and substance of the gospel. Our dear friend, Brother Charlie
Payne. I picked up his Bible one day,
several years ago. He was quite a student of the
Old Testament. You remember how Charlie used
to preach so often in the Old Testament. And I picked up his
Bible one day, and I was thumbing through it, just noting the places
where he had underscored the words and he had written a note
or two. And as I thumbed through, Up
at the top of almost every page was the word substitution. And
he'd give the verse on that page that taught substitution. And
he found it all the way through the Old Testament. Substitution,
substitution, substitution. Is this not the meaning of Abel's
sacrifice? Now Abel's brother Cain brought
the fruit of the field. He brought the products of his
labor. and presented them to God as
an offering as he came to worship. But not Abel. Abel brought a
victim. Abel brought a lamb. Abel brought
a what? Substitute. A living substitute. And he slew that lamb and put
the blood on the altar. That's substitution. This lamb
in my place. This one dying the death, I deserve
to die. Isn't that what the meaning of
Abraham's sacrifice on Mount Moriah? You remember when Isaac
and Abraham went to the top of the mountain and Abraham built
the altar as God commanded him and put his son on the altar
and would have sacrificed him as God had told him. And as he raised the knife to
slay his son, offer him as a sacrifice to God, the Lord said, Do touch
not the lad. And Abraham looked over here
in the thicket, and there was a ram caught by the horn. And
he untied Isaac, took him off of the altar, went over and got
the ram that was trapped in the bushes, brought the ram over,
put it on the altar in the place of his son, and the ram died. That's substitution. That's what
it's saying. And in Egypt, when God said,
I'll pass through the land at midnight, and the firstborn in
every home will die. And he told, he said, the firstborn
in every home will die. And he told Israel, said, take
a lamb for each house. If the house be too small for
a lamb, then two houses go together. But take the first sling of the
flock, take a lamb without blemish or spot, put it up for four days
and observe it, and slay the lamb, kill the lamb, roast it
with fire, eat the lamb, put the blood on the doorpost either
side and the limelight, and when I pass through the land, I'll
pass over you. When I see the blood, I'll pass
over you." Well, the firstborn died in every home in Egypt. You say, they didn't die in the
home of the Israelites. Oh yeah, the lamb died. There
was death in every home. But in the land, in the home
of the Egyptians, the firstborn died. In the home of Israel,
the lamb died. That's substitution. You see
what I'm saying? That's substitution. That's what
Isaiah writes about when he says he was wounded for, in the stead
of us, for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities,
the chastisement of our peace was upon him. Christ our substitute. has totally satisfied all that
the living God demands, commands, and requires of those who believe. Now turn to the text. 2 Corinthians
5. This is the scripture Brother
Ronnie was reading a moment ago. 2 Corinthians 5. And he prayed
that the pastor might speak plainly and clearly, and under God I
desire to do that. And I pray this, as I speak plainly
and clearly I pray you'll hear plainly and clearly. We can make
the gospel as elementary. It's like I read an article today
by John Newton. I can tell people what faith
is in a few words, but how to exercise faith is a whole new
ballgame. You know that, don't you? And
I can tell men and women the gospel of substitution and satisfaction,
but believing it and receiving it is the gift of God. There's
no single verse in the Bible which makes clear the doctrine
of substitution than 2 Corinthians 5, 21. One verse of Scripture.
But let me tell you this. Someone said this to me right
here in this auditorium not so awful long ago. And let me handle it as carefully
as I can. I don't like to rebuke any of
you. I'd rather preach than rebuke.
But someone said to me, I'm reading the Bible through every year.
And I have to read so many chapters a day. And I've done it for some
time. That's not the way to read God's
Word. That's not the way to read God's
Word. If you've set a goal to read so many chapters, Read it
and miss what he's teaching you. Miss what he's saying. Don't
try to read too... This book is too rich. The treasures
are too great. It's too profound. It's too mysterious
for you to fly through four chapters in one day. There's no way that
you could absorb or receive or enter into or experience four
chapters of God's Word, could you have? One verse is all you
can handle. And all I, one word's all I can
handle. That's right. If we could get
a hold of what's taught in this one verse scripture, if we could
really take hold of it, receive it, love it, experience it, enter
into it, walk into it, it'd change our life. One verse. And I want you to see three things
from this verse. First, the truth of substitution.
The truth of it. Secondly, the purpose of it.
And thirdly, the joy of it. Now here's the truth of it. Listen.
For he, he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no
sin. Him knew no sin. He knows no
sin either, but Him knew no sin. He hath made Him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin, that we, us, might be made, literally
made, the righteousness of God in Him. Now, there are three
persons here. Can we get a hold of them? He.
He. The first person here, he is
the almighty, eternal, omnipotent, immutable God of heaven and earth. He, the Father. Now I can't,
there's no way I can comprehend God. I hear these fellas on television
and other places that speak so flippantly and so callously and
ignorantly of God. They use his name, it almost
appears to me to be blasphemy. God said to me, God said to me,
God told me to tell you that I can't comprehend God, I can't
understand God, the ways of God are past finding out. But my
friends, I do know this, I know that the living God, the God
that he's talking about here, He, the living, omnipotent God,
I do know the God of Scripture is absolutely sovereign. Now
any less than omnipotence, any less than sovereignty, any less
than the freedom to do as he purposes is no God at all. I
know that. Let God be God. Why are we unwilling,
Chuck, to let God be God? I don't want an impotent God,
a powerless God. I don't want a God who wants
to and can't, who wills to and is not able, who wants to do
something and stands off and the creature frustrates his will.
That's not God. David said, our God's in the
heavens. He hath done whatsoever he pleases.
Whatsoever the Lord please. That did he in heaven, earth,
in the seas and all deep places. The devil is God's devil. We're
breathing God's air, the earth is the Lord's in the fullness
thereof. He hath founded it upon the seas. He hath established it upon the
waters. It's His. We're the sheep of
His pasture. He's our God, omnipotent. Oh,
Nebuchadnezzar found that out. He said, when my senses returned
to me, I blessed the Most High God and I said this, the Lord
God reigns in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of
this earth and giveth it to whomsoever he will and none can stay his
hand or say unto him, what are you doing? That's my God. I know
that. He's omnipotent. He's sovereign.
He has all absolute authority and power over the birds of the
air. over the dust of the earth. He reigns. Secondly, I know this
God is holy. And just as I don't understand
the omnipotence of God, I can't enter into the holiness of God.
I can't enter into the holiness of God. I just know that God
is holy, infinitely holy. Holy in reverence is He dwells in a life to which
no man can approach. All that's associated with him
is defined as holy. His holy temple, his holy angels,
his holy spirit, his holy word, his holy presence, holiness to
the Lord. I don't know anything about holiness.
Do you? Real almighty God holiness, do
you? I know a little bit about morality,
I know a little bit about decency, I know a little bit about honesty.
You do too, integrity. But holiness? And these people
who call themselves holiness people are fools. Is that too
strong? But that's what they are. Because
they don't know anything about the holiness of God. He told
Moses, you just take off barefoot before God. Take off your shoes. You're on holy ground. No man
can look on me and live, God said. God's infinitely holy. I know that. Thirdly, I know
that God's just. In flexible justice shall not
the judge of the earth do right. He'll do right. That's the reason
he's going to judge every man according to his works. I know
that. He will by, you know when Moses,
that time when Moses said to him, show me your glory, you
remember that, Exodus 33? Show me your glory. And he said
to Moses, I'll cause all my goodness to pass before you, I'll be gracious
to whom I will be gracious, I'll be merciful to whom I will be
merciful. Read on a few more verses. And he said to Moses,
I will by no means clear the guilty. Underscore that, by no
means. And Mr. Spurgeon said this, if
you think for a moment, if you think for a moment that Almighty
God will overlook any sin in any person, that Almighty God
can put his tongue in his cheek and topple with sin in the slightest
way, you have on your hands another God. There are too many illustrations
in the Bible that declare otherwise. Look at Adam's fall. Here God,
God's, God's creation. He made the earth, the heavens.
He said it's good. He made man. Put him in the garden. In his own image. Breathed into
him the breath of life. He became a living soul. He made
the woman. help me. And he said to the man,
now you shall eat of any of the trees of the garden but this
one tree, you shall not eat of it lest you die. And that man,
and God said he was good, God made him holy and upright, and
that man rebelled against God and took that fruit. And here
he is now ruined in shame and reproach If that had been you
and me, pride would have forced us to make some alteration. Pride, our choice creation, our
choice product, our choice project is now ruined. We patch it up. That's what we
do. We patch it up, brother. Not
God. He said, out, away. And he cast the man out. And
his whole posterity and race died in him. God kept his word. In Noah's day, the whole earth,
God saved eight people in an hour and destroyed the whole
world. Sodom and Gomorrah? I mean they're
little babies in Sodom. Little children, women, teenagers. Almighty God's judgment and wrath
consumed that whole city and everybody in it. Even Lot's sons-in-law. You see, God will not trifle
with sin. God must punish sin. And then if you want to see the
justice, God's justice, go to Calvary. That's the Son of God
on that cross. And He's the substitute and representative
of a people. And Almighty God spared not His
own Son. He was made sin for us and He
delivered Him up to His Unspeakable wrath. Even in the garden when
he prayed, my soul is sorrowful unto death. Sweat great drops
of blood. Unrelenting justice. Justice
knows no pardon. Justice knows no mercy. You can't trifle with justice.
The soul that sent it must die. That's what God said. Must. Shall. But I know, fourthly, the God
of Scriptures is sovereign, He's holy, He's just, but He's
love. And just as I can't explain His
holiness, I can't explain His love. I can't fathom the depths
of His holiness, and I can't even commence to begin to get
started to fathom the depths of His grace and His mercy. The Word of God says God is love. It doesn't say love is God. That's
what this generation of emotionalism and charismatics, they say, let's
make love, not war. Let's all love each other. You
can carry on that sort of thing and not know God, because love
is not God. God is love. You see what I'm
saying? All demonstrations of some kind
of love is not God. Everything religious is not God.
Everything that talks about live and let live is not God. You've
got to define love in the person of God. God is
love. He's the definition of love.
He's the manifestation of love. And he delights to show mercy.
He's plenteous in mercy. Now then, that's the he. He of
absolute authority. He of absolute power. He of immutable, infinite holiness. God, the judge of the earth,
the righteous, just God, will manifest his love. How? Well, he hath made him. Him. That's the second person.
Him. Another person is brought before
us. Now, who is this Him? He hath made Him. He didn't make
the church to be sin for us. He didn't make the Father, the
priest, to be sin for us. He didn't make Mary to be sin
for us. He didn't make this, that, and the other, all these
confusing things. He made Him of His own will. He made him. According to his own purpose,
he made him. Who is him? Well, he's the Son
of God. He's one with the Father, who
thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Him, who is before
all things, by whom all things are made, by whom all things
are held together, for whom all things were created. Him, the
second person of the blessed Trinity, which cannot be divided.
And that him who came into this world, the Son of God, never
left the bosom of the Father. He that hath seen me hath seen
God, he said. Him, the revelation of God, the
second Adam, but him. Secondly, not only the Son of
God, but he's the Son of Man. And this is far beyond our understanding
or comprehension. It has to be believed, not understood. whom the heavens cannot contain,
came down to this world in the body, a body thou hast prepared
me, in the body of an infant." And some of you men have been
in the delivery room when your wife gave birth to a child. Here
comes that child who'd been carried in the womb nine months and is
born. There's that crying, helpless, weak infant, tender, plain. I don't know how to explain this,
but the God of heaven inhabited that little body. So Simeon held
him and said, I've seen your salvation. I've seen your salvation. And he grew in wisdom and favor
with God and men. He worked in a carpenter shop.
He was literally bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.
He knew what it was to cut his hand and it bleed. He knew what
it was to feel pain, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. He knew what it was to thirst
and hunger. He was a man. He had a human
nature. A human nature. But he is God. He not was God, he is God. He not was a man, he is a man
now. If you can say it in one word,
he's the God-man. You can just say it so that neither
of us... It's a human nature and divine nature in one. The
God-man. Just like us. In order to be
our savior, he had to be made like his brethren. He had to
be susceptible to all temptation, trials, and sin, and yet without
sin. But I tell you this about that
strange person. That never has been one since
or never will be one after. The God-man. He never sinned. But not only that, he knew no
sin. Now stop all the arguments about
whether Christ could have sinned or couldn't have sinned. Just
forget it. He knew no sin. He saw it in others, but it wasn't
in him. It's absolutely impossible for God to sin. Literally, absolutely
impossible. He knew no sin. He saw it in
others. But he was not acquainted with
seeing. He knew no seeing. Never did
his mind ever imagine anything but perfection. Nor his heart
entertain anything but holiness. He's a perfect man. He's my substitute. He's my heel. He made heel. He goes by many names, He's the
High Priest, He's the Mercy Seeker, He's the Righteousness of God,
He's the Messiah, He's the Christ, He's the Mediator, He's mine
elect, He's my servant, He's the Righteous Branch, He's the
Lamb and the Lion of Judah, He's the King of Kings and Lord of
Lords, He's Shiloh, He's the Son of David and the seed of
Abraham. And He hath made, He made Him
in all that He is and all that He became. To be sin. To be sin. Can you imagine that?
I can't. I can't comprehend it. Boy, I
can comprehend the rest of it. But here's the third person.
He made Him to be sin for us. He made Him to be sin for us.
He knew no sin. He wasn't even acquainted with
it. Knew nothing of it. But God made him to be sinned.
Our sins, it's our sins that were laid on him, it's our iniquities
that were upon him. When God judged Christ and dealt
with him in wrath, he was dealing with him not for his sin, but
for my sin. He made him to be sinned. Well,
who's us? Well, we know who the first person is, Almighty God,
in all that he is. We know the second person is
this him. in all that he is, all what he is, the man plus
Jesus, the man. Pilate said, behold, the man,
or what he said, the man. But he made him to be sin for
us. Who's us? Spurgeon said, you can't complete
the picture of substitution. You can't complete the plan.
You can't complete the gospel. Unless you know who us is. Unless you know us. The sinner
will never know him or approach he until he knows us. He made him to be seen for us. I'll tell you who us is. Here's
one. I'm an us. Us, sons of Adam. Us, born in sin. Us, conceived
in iniquity. Us, brought forth to speak in
lies. Us, full of blasphemy. Us, full of pride. Us, full of
evil thoughts. Us, laden with iniquity. Us. Well, I tell you, that publican
in the temple knew us. He said, God be merciful to me,
the sinner. That thief on the cross knew
us. He said, I'm getting what I deserve. Lord, would you remember
me when you come into your kingdom? The Canaanite woman knew us.
When the Lord said, it's not right to give the children's
bread to dogs, she said, that's true, that's what I am. But I'm
your dog. You own me. And I'll just take
the crumbs. Dogs eat the crumbs that fall
from the master's table. Peter knew us. One time when
he saw the power of Christ demonstrated, he said, Lord, depart from me,
I am a sinful man. Do you feel your sins? Do you mourn over your sins?
Do you weep over your sins? Do you get unhappy with your
sins? Do you get disgusted with your
sins? Huh? Your thoughts? Well, you're
an us. You're an us. Saul of Tarsus
knew about us. He said, I'm the chief of sinners.
Thank God I tell you this. He made him to be sin for us. The greatest blessing God ever
gave you. And I know people, people who
ever struggled with this, they said, Preacher, I'm so sinful,
I'm so wretched, I just get so unhappy with my thoughts and
my motives and my Actions my deeds and my words and everything
about me. I'm not fit for grace I don't I'm not worthy of his
least of his mercy. Thank God That's the greatest blessing
God can give you is to make you a sinner Now he didn't make you
a sinner But he revealed to you your center and that made you
a sinner A sinner is a sacred thing. Did you know that? A sinner
is a sacred thing. A sinner is an object of mercy.
Christ died for sinners. A sinner is a sacred thing. The Holy Ghost made him so. A
sinner is hard to find. Did you know that? You say the
world is full of sinners. There ain't no such thing. This
world is full of self-justifying, lying hypocrites. This world
is full of people covering their evil, covering their nakedness
with fig leaf aprons of personal righteousness, just like Adam
and Eve in the garden. There aren't many naked, open,
bona fide, genuine, hell-deserving sinners. But I tell you this,
if God ever finds one and makes one, he'll save him tomorrow.
That's right. He said, I didn't come to call
the righteous. I came to call sinners. If you've never been
a sinner, you've never been saved. If you've never been lost, you
ain't never been found. If you've never been stripped,
you've never been clothed. If you've never been in the grave,
you've never been raised. That's just so. Sinners. The first step a man takes toward
God is not when he feels religious, it's when he feels lost. It's not when he starts thinking
of Jesus, it's when he starts thinking of hell. That's right,
that's the first step. He starts thinking how that Almighty
God's going to judge him and damn him for his evil. That's
when he starts moving toward God. It's not your sins that
keep you from Christ. Your sins will never keep you
from Christ. It's your righteousness that
keeps you from Christ. It's not sin at all. He likes
to show mercy. He's plenteous in mercy. He made
Him, Him, to be sin for us! Isn't that so? Us! Us. Well, notice the second thing
about this text, the purpose of the doctrine. He made Him
to be sin for us. He knew no sin. In order that,
We might be made the righteousness of God, the holiness of God. That holiness I was talking about
a while ago, it scares you to think about it, that's what He
made us into. That unspeakable, undefinable
holiness. Unchangeable, infinite holiness. Of God are you in Christ Jesus
who is made under us? Righteousness. The blood of Jesus
Christ God's Son cleanseth us. You mean a beggar can be made
a king? By the blood of Christ he can.
You mean an enemy can be made a son? By the blood of Christ
he can. No other way. Can mud and slime
be made pure gold? The blood of Christ can make
it gold. Can the unrighteous become actually
righteous? The blood of Christ can make
it so. You mean the guilty can be not guilty? Now brother, that's
a pretty hard thing to perform, isn't it? The guilty, Jack, not guilty. The blood of Christ is that powerful.
Come ye sinners, poor and needy, weak and wounded, sick and sore,
Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, love, and power. And the greater the sinner, the
greater the glory. Fire, Lord. That's right. A lot of folks don't understand
that. That's the reason people looked at Paul and said, well,
shall we sin that grace may abound? If God gets glory out of saving
the chief of sinners and the most wicked of men, then let's
just see Him so that He'll get more glory. See, this is a mystery,
but it's so. Yes, the greater the sinner,
the greater the glory. He saved great sinners. This
is the purpose of He who made Him, to be seen for us, that
we might be actually made the righteousness of God, the holiness
of God, the very purity of God in Him. But I tell you, it's
in Him. Now, I hear people say, well,
you keep preaching Christ, Christ, Christ, because it's in Him. And if folks will quit trusting
everything else but Him, it's Him, it's Christ. And that brings
me to the joy of it. He says up here in verse 19,
Ronnie read it, verse 18, he said, All things are of God,
everything's of God, who hath reconciled us to himself. Reconciled! A dear lady said to D'Arcy and
I a couple of months ago, Married, been married 20 years, got teenage
children. She said, my husband's leaving
me. I'm stunned. I'm just killed. Our children
are beside themselves. He's just leaving. And he won't be reconciled. And
I sat down today to write to him and to her. wrote and I'd
tear it up, and I'd write and tear it up, write and tear it
up in another part of the world. Oh, if I had the power to reconcile
them. But I don't. But our situation's
a lot worse than that. It's not just hatred between
men and men or men and women, it's hatred between us and God. But He has reconciled us. in
him. He made him to be sin for us. And he reconciled us. That's
what it says. And he hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ. And he hath given us those old
sinful creatures like us, this ministry of reconciliation, this
proclamation of reconciliation, this announcement of reconciliation,
and Ronnie read it. Namely, listen, what is our message? What did he send us to preach?
That God was in Christ. God was in Christ. I can't figure
that out. God was in Christ, reconciling
this wicked, sinful world to himself, not imputing, not charging
their trespasses unto them. It's not charged to me, it's
charged to him. And hath committed to us this
word, this gospel. What is the word of the law?
Do it and live. What is the word of faith? Believe
and live. I like that. Now then. Paul does
that all the time. Now then. What you going to do
about it? Now then. That's the message. That's substitution. Now then.
I'm an ambassador for Christ. He's not going to fly a plane
over your house with a gospel on the end of the table. He's
not going to hit your house with lightning and shake you out of
bed. He's not going to come to the foot of your bed and stand
there in some grotesque vision. Now then, I'm an ambassador of
Christ. And as though God did beseech
you by me. As old us again, by us. I'm one
of those us's. But God uses clay pots. Humanist. It wouldn't do any good for an
angel to come down here and preach the gospel. What's he know about
the gospel? As though God did beseech you
by us, I pray you, in Christ's head, be reconciled to God. Lay down your shotgun. Lay down your tradition. Lay
down whatever is keeping you from bowing to Him and believing
Him and receiving Him. Huh? Come on now. How else are
you going to be saved? I wish people forget, but I'm
a Baptist, I'm a Methodist. If you're resting in that, you're
a fool. So drop the name Baptist and just say I'm a fool. Drop
the name Methodist and Catholic, whatever you're raised, just
drop it and say I'm a fool. Because those names aren't in
here. But Christ is. But I've always
been a good girl, you ain't neither. Well, I'm confused, so many people
saying different things. You can read this, can't you?
That's the reason I said quit trying to read the whole thing,
read one verse, just find out what that says, and you'll know
something. Isn't that right, Paul? You'll know something,
just find out what that is. He made him to be sin for us, that
we might be made the righteousness of God in him. That's put plain. in Christ. Reconcile this world
with Him. Now, as an ambassador to Christ,
I beseech you, knowing the terror of the Lord, I persuade you,
lay down your whatever you're holding up, lay down your pride,
lay down your arrogance, lay down your denomination, lay down
your I always thought or my mama always said or my old preacher
always put, lay down every excuse, alibi, you better lay it down
now before God brings you to judgment and be reconciled to
God. Kiss the son lest he be angry
and you perish in the way. Kiss the son. Kiss the son. I've preached long enough. All
right, that's it. Substitution.

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