Jesus Christ - Saviour of Sinners

Now, if you listen to most preachers
preach, and if you listen carefully to most religious people talk,
you'll come to the conclusion that Jesus Christ came into this
world to save good, moral, righteous people. If you listen to most
preachers preach and most religious people talk, You'll come to the
conclusion that Jesus Christ came to call to himself people
who need no repentance and heal those who never were and are
not now spiritually sick. Instead of the church being a
hospital for sick sinners, it has become a social club for
self-righteous religious hypocrites. Instead of the church being a
wayside rest for weary souls, it has become a place for people
to brag about how well they're making the journey theologically,
doctrinally, and morally. Instead of hearing from the pulpit
and from the pew what great things God has done for us, We have
to suffer under the preaching that tells us what great things
they're doing for God. But the grace of God in the Word
of God, the Scripture declares, is for the guilty. The mercy
of God, according to the Bible, is for the undeserving. Christ
came to seek and to save the lost. This is a faithful saying
and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the
world to save sinners of whom I am the chief. The Word of God
declares that He died for the ungodly. When we were without
strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. The atonement is to bear real
sin away. God's glory According to this
Bible, God's glory is his goodness to the undeserving, to the hell-deserving,
to the ill-deserving, and to the needy. Moses said, Lord,
show me your glory. Show me your glory. And God said
in Exodus chapter 33, I will cause my glory, my goodness,
to pass before thee I will be merciful to whom I will be merciful,
and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious." A man does
not have a glimpse of God's glory until he has an understanding
of God's free, sovereign grace. It's only when we see Jesus Christ
acting in grace as a redeeming Savior, showing forth redeeming
mercy that we get a glimpse of his glory. Now let me ask you
this question. When does the great shepherd
appear most lovely? Is it when he's standing in the
midst of the green pastures? Is it when he's standing by the
still waters? Is it when he's shown holding
a lamb in his arms? With the sunlight bathing the
fields, is that when the chief shepherd appears most lovely?
Or is it when he's seen returning from the wilderness, his clothes
tattered and torn, his hands and his forehead and his feet
dripping with blood from the wounds which he bore to find
and redeem his sheep? When does the good shepherd,
the great shepherd, the chief shepherd appear most lovely?
Isn't it when he's coming back from the wilderness of suffering,
bearing in his arms a rescued sheep? That is his glory. And that's what he said. I will
cause my glory to pass before you. I will cause my goodness
to pass before you. I will be merciful to whom I
will be merciful. Let me ask you another question.
When does the Heavenly Father appear most lovely? Is it when
he's dividing his wealth among his sons? Is it when he's receiving
their praise and their devotion? Or is it when he goes forth in
love and mercy and grace and forgiveness to meet the wayward,
wandering prodigal and put his arms around him and cried, this
my son was lost and now he's found. He was dead and now he's
alive. That's God's greatest glory. Mercy for the chief of sinners,
grace for the guilty. That's God's glory. And we haven't
seen his glory until we've seen his grace. Let me ask you another
question. When does the great high priest
appear most glorious? Is it not when he takes the blood
atonement into the holy place, under the veil, into the holiest
of all, and there in the presence of God alone, for the sins of
Israel, for the sins of the people, he puts that precious blood on
the mercy seat covering the broken law? Is it not when through that
blessed sacrifice that great high priest puts away all our
sins, and obtains for us eternal redemption. That is his glory. When does the great Mediator
appear most glorious, the great Advocate? Is it not when he stands
before God's awful, holy throne of justice and righteousness
Is it not when he stands there and presents his wounds and his
stripes and receives for the people whom he represents justification
from all their guilt? And here's the Father say, they
are accepted in the Beloved. Because of thy death they live,
because of thy suffering they live, because of thy sacrifice
they live. That's his greatest glory. And
if men would open but one eye, they would see that Jesus Christ
is the Savior of sinners, great sinners, lost sinners, helpless
sinners, hell-deserving sinners. And in saving sinners, Jesus
Christ receives His greatest glory. Let me show you that in
verse 12 of our text in Isaiah 53. His chief glory is redeeming
the lost. His chief glory is bringing back
the lost. His chief glory is putting away
guilt. It says in Isaiah 53, now watch
this carefully, this is our text, therefore, therefore, it talks
about him being despised and rejected, a man of sorrows acquainted
with bearing our griefs and carrying our sorrows, stricken, smitten
of God, afflicted, wounded, chastised. With His stripes we are healed.
As a sheep before her shearers is dumbed, so He opened not His
mouth. He was oppressed, He was afflicted. He made His grave
with the wicked, with the rich in His death, pleased the Lord
to bruise Him. He put Him to grief, He made
His soul an offering for sin. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great." My friends, at this moment our Lord Jesus
Christ is enjoying the rewards and the glory which the Father
hath given him. He's no longer despised and rejected. He is now seated at the right
hand of the Majesty on high. And the book of Psalms in chapter
24 declares this, in Psalm 24, Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory
shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your
heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors.
And the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory,
the Lord of Hosts? He is the King of Glory. He's no longer despised. He's
no longer rejected. He's no longer a man of sorrows
acquainted with grief. He's the King of Glory. And my
friends, right now all the heavenly hosts surround and adore Him.
All the cherubims and seraphims sing His praise. All the pomp
and majesty of heaven surround him, all the redeemed in glory
sing his praise unto him who loved us and washed us from our
sins. He's not only king of kings,
he's the kingmaker, for he hath made us kings and priests unto
our God. In my words and my thoughts and
my greatest imagination, cannot explain to you the majesty, the
majesty and the glory and the power that belongs to him who
said before he left this earth, all authority is given unto me
in heaven and earth. He's King of kings and Lord of
lords. All hail the power of Jesus'
name. Let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth the royal diadem
and crown him Lord of all." And the preacher who stands tonight
trying to persuade people to feel sorry for Jesus Christ is
wasting his time. And the preacher who stands tonight
and pictures Jesus Christ as a helpless, defeated, frustrated
Savior up there in heaven crying his eyes out because men won't
let him have his way, doesn't know the Lord of glory. He's
King, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Our God has said,
I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide
the spoil with the strong. Why? What has he done? What are
his credentials? Here they are, here's four of
them And I'll give them to you tonight, and if you can get a
grip on these four things, you'll learn the gospel. If you can
get a grip on these four things, you'll learn the gospel and you
may not be lost. If you can get a grip on these
four things, you'll find out who Christ is. And you can't
be safe if you don't know who Christ is. Eternal life is to
know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. Paul cried, O that
I may know him and the power of his resurrection. I count
everything but dumb that I may win Christ and be found in him,
not just a Jesus, not just a religion, not just a form, not just a ceremony,
that I might know him. God says here, I have divided
him a portion with the great. And he shall divide the spoil
with the strong. He's the king. He's the king
of glory. Who is this king of glory? The
Lord of hosts. He is the king of glory. He has
the world in his hands. He does with us what he will,
when he will. He has all authority. And here
are his credentials. Here's what he hath done because,
you see that? The word I'm looking at in verse
12 first is therefore. God said, therefore I'll exalt
him that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess
that he's Lord in heaven, earth, and hell. That's the gateway
into the kingdom of God, the Lordship of Jesus Christ. That
was the magic word that that thief on the cross used. Lord,
remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. That's the
magic word that leper used when Christ came down from the mountain
and he said, Lord, if you will, you'll make me whole. That's
the key word that Thomas used when he fell at his feet and
said, My Lord and my God. That's the word that Saul of
Tarsus used when God struck him off that horse blind on the road
to Damascus. Lord, what will you have me do?
And if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus to be Lord, not
a fire escape from hell, not a doormat that you walk on here
and grab hold of as an insurance policy before you die, Lord. He's not your Lord, He's not
your Savior. That's so. If He's not your King,
He's not your Redeemer. If He's not your Master, He is
not your Savior. Therefore, God said, I'll divide
him a portion with the grace. Why? Because, four things. Look at it here. Because, number
one, he poured out his soul unto death. That's why he's Lord. He died that he might be what? Lord. That's what the scripture
says. He died that he might be Lord of the dead and the living.
He bought that right at Calvary. This whole world was bought by
the Lord Jesus Christ. The whole world is His. The whole
universe is His. He bought that right at Calvary. He died that He might be Lord
of the dead and the living, the saved and the unsaved, the believer
and the unbeliever. They all belong to Him. He poured
out His soul to death. Now, my friends, the penalty
of sin is death. The Scripture says the soul that
sinneth shall surely die. The Scripture says, sin when
it's finished bringeth forth death. The Scripture says the
wages of sin is death. And this death we're talking
about is not just the death of the body. We're talking about
spiritual death, soul death, eternal death, eternal condemnation,
eternal separation from God, eternal punishment. The Scripture
says these shall go away into eternal punishment. This is the
death that Christ died. Look at Isaiah 53, verse 10. Soul death. Soul agony. It says in Isaiah 53, 10, It
pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief, when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. Christ gave his back
to those that used the whip. He gave his brow to the crown
of thorns. He gave his side to the spear. He gave his hands to those that
drove the nails. He gave his beard to those that
plucked out the hair. He gave his face to those that
smote him. But I'll tell you, he gave his
soul an offering for sin. His agony was soul agony. In the garden he cried, My soul
is exceeding sorrowful even unto death. As the mist of rebellion
that rose up from Eden's garden fell upon Christ in that garden
of Gethsemane, he cried, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto
death. On that cross of Calvary he cried,
My God, why hast thou forsaken me? His soul was forsaken of
the Heavenly Father. It was deliberate. He poured
out His soul. Look at that verse 12. God Almighty,
the Heavenly Father said, I'll give him the greatest portion.
I'll give him all authority. I'll give him all majesty. I'll
deliver all judgment into the hands of the Son, because he
poured out his soul." I'll tell you, the agonies of hell will
not be the fire that preachers make so much of. That's not going
to be the agony of hell. The agony of hell is going to
be the soul agony. Separation from God, eternal
condemnation, Christ made his soul an offering for sin, a deliberate
death, a real death, a voluntary death, and thank God, an effectual
death. Turn to John chapter 10 with
me and read this scripture. The tenth chapter of John, beginning
with verse 14, our Lord speaking here, and he said, And I know
my sheep, and am known of mine. And as the Father knoweth me,
even so know I the Father. And I lay down my life for the
sheep, and other sheep I have which are not of this foal. Them
also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and they shall
be one foal and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love
me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No
man taketh it from me. I lay it down of myself. I have
power to lay it down. I have power to take it again.
This commandment have I received of my Father." He's exalted above
all God's creation. He's exalted above all angels,
above all seraphims, and all cherubims, and all the redeemed
of all ages. He is exalted above all. Why? He poured out his soul to death. All right, look at the second
statement in Isaiah 53, 12. He poured out his soul to death,
and secondly, look at this, and let it ring in your heart. There's
not in the Bible anywhere a more important sentence than this
one right here. And a person does not know the
gospel who doesn't understand this. A person can't understand
the gospel who can't understand this sentence right here. He
poured out his soul to death and he was numbered, he was numbered
with the transgressors. Do you know what that means?
It's repeated three times in the Bible. It's written here,
he was numbered with the transgressors. It's repeated in Mark 15, 28,
he was numbered with the transgressors. If repeated again in Luke 22,
37, he was reckoned among the transgressors. You know what
that means? I'll tell you what it means.
What would you think if you saw a government report published
by the United States Supreme Court and all the agencies of
the federal government with a list of traitors to this country?
If you saw a list put out tomorrow of the names of the people who
were traitors to this country, who would stoop so low as to
sell out their own nation, And on that list, you saw your name
numbered with them. What would be your reaction?
You'd be shamed. Shamed. Oh, how shamed you would
be. Well, what if you women here
tonight saw a list tomorrow of all the harlots in the tri-state
area, all the prostitutes, all the call girls, and that list
was posted right down in the public square, right for all
to read, and you walked by and saw that list, and there was
your name. What would you men feel if you
went to the post office tomorrow, and you thumbed through the wanted
list, and there was a picture of all the murderers, and kidnappers,
and rapists, and right there with them was your picture, huh? Numbered with the transgressors.
One of them, reckoned one of them, the innocent, numbered
with the guilty. Jesus Christ did that very thing
last day. When he came down here into this
world and was born from Mary's womb, when he came down into
this world and was made in the likeness of our sinful flesh,
when he came down here into this world, he took upon himself bone
of our bone and flesh of our flesh, and he became before God's
justice and before God's holy law one of us. He became our
representative. He was numbered with us in the
Roman census. That's the reason Mary and Joseph
went to Bethlehem, to be numbered among the people in that area. He was numbered with us by public
opinion. They said, that fellow's a friend
of sinners, that fellow's a wine-dibber, that fellow's a gluttonous man,
that fellow's a friend of publicans. He was numbered with us before
earthly courts. The scripture says He stood on
trial before Pilate. And my friends, He was numbered
with us back yonder in that covenant of mercy when the Heavenly Father
made Him our sugarcane. Our debt was there, and Jesus
Christ signed it as our guarantor. He signed it as our surety. He
signed it as our representative, and he says everything that's
chargeable for, put it on my account. I'm one of them. I'm
one of them. He was numbered with us before
the Father's justice. That's why he was treated like
he was treated. Christ Jesus, our Lord, was numbered
with the transgressors. He was a man. He was a fleshly
man. He was a human. He was a person
who walked on this earth in human flesh, and when the Heavenly
Father looked on him, he looked upon that second Adam representing
all of his people. The only two Adams mentioned
in this Bible, the first Adam who sinned in the garden, and
in him we fell. In Adam we died, and the second
Adam, Jesus Christ, who came down here as a man and kept the
law and obeyed the law and satisfied justice and restored to us everything
we lost in Adam. God is a covenant God, and he
deals with men through covenants. We fell in Adam, we were restored
in Christ. And he fulfilled all that was
required of the transgressors. All right, let's go on number
three. As I say, if you can get a grip on these things, you'll
learn the gospel. You'll learn the gospel, and
I'm telling you, you'd better learn it. Now, this thing of
getting religion is not the same as getting salvation. This thing
of making a decision for Jesus is not the same thing as being
regenerated. I read about a fellow one time
that He said, well, he said, this thing of being born again
is something like this. Suppose they were to pass a law
tomorrow that the only person, the only person who could hold
an office in this town was a man who was born in this town, who
was born in this town, who was a citizen born right here and
no one else could hold an office. So a fellow comes in and says,
well, I'll tell you what I'll do. He said, I'll just, I'll
change my name so it'll sound like a Kentuckian. But that won't
give him the right to hold office, he wasn't born here. Another
fellow comes in and says, well, I'll change my dress. I'll dress
like a Kentuckian." Well, that won't give him the right to hold
off as he wasn't born yet. Another fellow comes and says,
I'll change the way I talk. I'll start talking like a Kentuckian. Well, that won't give him the
right to hold off as he wasn't born yet. And the same thing
is true of this saying of salvation. Except the man be born again,
born of the Spirit, he'll not see or enter the kingdom of God.
And you can change your name and call yourself a Christian,
you can change your dress and dress like a Christian, you can
change your talk and talk like a Christian, but you're still
not born again. God's people are born again.
Born again. Come to grips with this thing.
Learn the gospel. He poured out his soul unto death. He was numbered as the representative
with the transgressors. Now the third thing, watch it.
And he bare the sin of many. Now brethren, the Word of God
says, he who knew no sin would lay sin for us. The Word of God
says he bare our sins in his body on the tree. It says here
in Isaiah 53, verse 6, verse 5, look at it. Start at verse
4 and take out this plural pronoun here and put in your own name
here. Read verse 4 here. my grief, and carried my sorrows."
Look at verse 5. He was wounded for my transgression. He was bruised for my iniquity. The chastisement of my peace
was upon him, and with his stripes I am healed. Now let me tell
you something, and you take this home with you. Jesus Christ did
not die as a martyr. A lot of martyrs have died. Cramner,
Latimer, John, Hus, Knox, the disciples, a lot of martyrs have
died, but Jesus Christ did not die as a martyr. Jesus Christ
did not die as an example. Jesus Christ died as a substitute. He died bearing our guilt. It says that here. He was wounded
for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and because of his strife we are healed. This
is the gospel, and if this is not the gospel, we have no gospel. And if this is not the gospel,
if he did not actually die for my sins, then I'm lost. If he didn't die for your sin,
then you're lost. But if he bore my sin, I bear
them not. If Christ died in my stead, I
shall not die. If Jesus Christ went to the judgment
and to prison and to the place of execution in my stead, I shall
not go there. Payment God's justice cannot
price the man, first at my bleeding, sure at his hand, and then again
at mine. He bear the sin of many. He bear
the sin of many. And because he bore them, I bear
them not. On him all my vengeance fell. that would have sunk my soul
to hell. He bore it for this sinful race,
and thus he became my hiding place." Should storms of thundering
vengeance roll, And shake this globe from pole to pole, No flaming
bolt shall daunt my face, Because Jesus Christ is my hiding place."
He paid it all, all the debt I owed. Sin left a crimson stain,
he washed it white as snow. He has been exalted because he's
been humiliated. He has been lifted up above all,
and given a name above every name, because he stooped lower
than any name." He poured out his soul to death. He was numbered
with the transgressors. He bared the sin of many. Now
what's the fourth thing? And he made intercession for
the transgressors. Christ gets glory because he
died for sinners. Christ gets glory because he
was numbered with the guilty. Christ gets glory because he
effectually bore our sins. And Christ gets glory because
right now he's at the right hand of the Heavenly Father. Pleading
for you and me. Pleading for you and me. He is
our advocate. He is our lawyer. I was preaching
in Lucasville Penitentiary two and a half years ago. I was standing
out in the hallway in front of the chapel in Lucasville Maximum
Security Penitentiary, and some of the men were coming to the
service, and a big fellow walked up who used to be a boxer in
West Virginia, heavyweight boxer. He was a big man. He's in jail,
in prison for life, because he murdered someone. And they introduced
me to him, and I put out my hand, and I said, What's your name?
And he told me. He looked at me, and he said,
Are you the fellow I heard on the radio last Tuesday night?
And I said, At six o'clock, WCAK? He said, Yes, sir. I said, Yeah,
I'm the fellow. He took my hand in both of his,
and he squeezed my hand. He looked at me, and he said,
I thank God for you. Oh, he said, I listened to that
sermon, Christ my lawyer, and it blessed my soul. I need someone
to plead my case. And my friend, let me tell you
something. You need someone up there to please your case. You
might think you're, compared to other men, a pretty good fellow,
but compared to God's holiness, you're a rotten, corrupt, vile,
sinful son of Adam. And unless someone there, someone
who has, someone who has something to please, See, you're guilty,
I'm guilty. He can't plead our righteousness,
can he? That's filthy rag. Huh? He can't plead our righteousness,
that's filthy rag. Even my righteousness is a filthy
rag. But he can plead his righteousness.
You see, I failed, and I fail now, and I can't keep the law,
but he did. Standing there before the Heavenly Father with my name
on the palm of his hand and on his breastplate like the high
priest of old, he pleased not my righteousness but his. He
said, Father, I kept the law for him. I obeyed it in every
jot and every tittle. I came not to destroy the law.
I came not to take the edge off of it. I came not to take the
sharpness off of it. I came not to take the weapon
out of the hands of the holy law. I came to fulfill it. And
for my sheep I kept it personal. He can't plead our works. When
we've done everything we ought to have done and none of us have
ever done everything we ought to have done or even could have
done. He pleased his work. He did it all. The Heavenly Father
looked at him and said, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased. He said, I must work the works
of him that sent me while of this day, the night cometh when
no man can work. His work was a perfect work. You can't plead my faithfulness
because I fail, I have failed, I will fail. There's no need
for me to stand here tonight and tell you I will do anything.
There's no need to make vows and resolutions because we will
fail. But he never failed. The scripture
says he cannot fail. And I'll tell you something else,
he has to plead. He has his righteousness to plead. He has his works to
plead. He has his faithfulness to plead. And then by God's grace, he has
his blood to plead. And the blood of Jesus Christ,
the scripture says, cleanses us from all sin. The blood of
Jesus Christ makes atonement for our souls. The blood of Jesus
Christ purifies us. The blood of Jesus Christ completely
justifies us. That's what he prayed. He'd make
it into session. Old Roland Hill said he dreamed
he died. And they took him to judgment. And it was a tremendous thing. There he saw the throne of God.
And there out in front of the throne of God, such a vast multitude
which no man could number. He couldn't see the beginning
of it nor the end of it in any direction, just a vast multitude. And the angel of God was calling
out names. And he sat there thinking, well,
I'm a Christian, I'm a believer, I believe God saved me, I live
for God, I preach. He said, I sat there with a little
complacency, listening to names being called, people being judged,
and cast away from God's presence. And he said, as I sat there a
few moments in my dream, I heard someone call, Rowan Hill! And he said I couldn't move,
my legs wouldn't let me stand. I broke out in a cold sweat,
it was so real, he said, so real. Everything was so quiet, all
you could hear echoing through that great place of judgment
was my name, Rowan Hill! He said, finally I got a grip
on the rock upon which I was sitting and tried to push myself
up to stand and face a holy God and give an account for my sin.
to stand and face a righteous, sovereign, holy God, and hear
my sin, secret and open, brought before my eyes again. But he
said, just as I started to rise, I heard someone say, I'm here,
I'm here. And he said, I sprang to my feet,
I looked around, I wanted to find that other rolling hill,
somebody else has my name. And he said, I looked around,
finally I looked right into the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord Jesus was standing
there before the throne of majesty and whiteness and holiness. And he was saying, I'm Roland
Hill. Father, back yonder in eternity, you gave me Roland
Hill. Back yonder in eternity, I set
my love upon him. And I came down to the earth,
Father, and I took his place. And I faced the law for Roland
Hill, and I obeyed it, and I went to the cross. And on that cross,
Father, all of Roland Hill's sins were poured out on me. And
there I bear his sins. I poured out my soul in agony
and death. I was numbered with that fellow,
Roland Hill, and I boyscanned, and now, Father, I'm praying
for him. I want him. I want Roland Hill. He's mine, and all that my Father
giveth me shall come to me. All that my Father giveth. And,
Father, this is your will, that of all which you've given me
I lose nothing, and you gave me Roland Hill. And he said, I heard the Father
say, Enter into the glory prepared for thee before the foundation
of the world. And he said, I swept through
with my Redeemer, I swept through in great majesty and glory to
my inheritance which my Lord bought for me. And I laid all
my crowns at his feet, because it's by his grace that I live."
You ever learn that? If you ever learn it, that's
the gospel, that's it. That's it. The Father told about
all his suffering and death in Isaiah 53, and then he said,
I'll divide him a portion with the great. Bow down, heavens! Bow down, earth! And on him is
the Lord. Why? He poured out his soul to
death. He was numbered with the transgressors. On that cross he bare the sin
of many. And I'll listen to him pray,
and I'll listen to him plead. And a bunch of those folks said,
but we preached in your name, and we prophesied in your name,
and cast our devils in your name. I'm listening to my son do the
praying up there, and I listen to you. Depart from me, ye workers
of iniquity. If Christ doesn't plead for you,
you don't have a prayer. If Christ doesn't stand for you,
you don't have a hope. If Christ Jesus the Lord doesn't
come to your aid as your advocate, you're without God, without hope,
without help, and without Christ. That's it. That's the reason
Christ is all. Christ is all. He's not all now.
He won't be in glory. But if He's your all, He will
be throughout eternity. That's the difference in heaven
and hell is Christ. It's Christ. Our Father in Heaven. turn our eyes upon Christ. Let us look full into his wonderful
face. And then the things of this world,
the social world, the political world, the religious world, the
things of this world will grow strangely dim in the light of
his glory and his grace. As I stand in his holy presence
I am made aware of my sin. As I stand in his sufficient,
strong, sovereign presence, I am made aware of my weakness. As
I stand in his perfect, obedient presence, I am made aware of
my unfaithfulness and my failure. But oh, thank thee, Father, as
I stand in his presence, I am made aware that I have a refuge,
I have a hope, I have a mediator, I have one who loves me, who
gave himself for me, and I'm not alone. We won't have to walk
that lonesome valley alone. Christ is already gone that far.
We don't have to enter into the grave alone. He's already gone
there and won the victory. He has come out the conqueror.
We don't have to go to that judgment trial alone, because Christ is
bearing our names in his hands, and he's pleading for us, and
he won't cease to plead until we're made just like him, conformed
to his image. Christ is our hope. Christ is
our hope. Take away from us the traditions
and customs and ceremonies of religion, and ground us on the
rock of ages, the chief cornerstone, the triad, and the faithful stone,
Christ the Redeemer. In his name we pray, and for
his glory. Amen.

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