Characters of True Believers, The Distinguishing Characters of True Believers by Thomas Boston. This audio was created with an artificial voice for the Audiobook Initiative on Sermon Audio. the distinguishing characters of true believers. 1. In relation to God in Christ as their refuge and portion. Psalm 142 verse 5. I cried unto thee, O LORD, I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. That is a pertinent question to put to each of you which was proposed to Elijah in the cave. What dost thou hear, Elijah? 1 Kings chapter 19 verse 9. Sure I am, you have weighty business to do here, whether you lay it to heart or not. ye are in this world as in a weary land, a wilderness, a place of great danger and of great wants. And if you have felt it so, ye are come with a design to seek a refuge, where ye may be in safety, and a portion for your souls, whence your wants may be supplied. Our text discovers where ye may find both. I cried unto thee, O LORD, I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. These words show us the course David took for relief in most straightening circumstances. He was hiding himself in a cave, that of a dalam or injedi, for fear of Saul, by whom he was in hazard of his life. His spirit was like to sink under the burden of perplexing fears and griefs. He was in the utmost perplexity. Verse 3. My spirit was overwhelmed within me, says he. He was deserted by all and as an outcast that nobody cared for. Verse 4. I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no man that would know me. Refuge failed me, no man cared for my soul. In this case he betakes himself to the Lord by prayer. And here, one, we may notice his praying in that case, I cried unto thee, O Lord. Though his case was extremely heavy, yet it did not render him incapable of praying, but quickened him to that delightful exercise and caused him to cry to heaven out of the belly of the earth. Fears, sorrows, and perplexities on any account whatsoever are gone too far when they restrain prayer to the Lord. Yet it may be the case of a saint, as of Asaph when he said, I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Psalm 77.4. Such would do well to hearken to that word. Canticles 2.14. O my dove, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. The best ease for a heart full of trouble and grief is to give it a vent into the bosom of a gracious God, as appears from the title of Psalm chapter 102. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord. Hannah found it so in her comfortable experience, 1 Samuel 1.18, who having poured out her soul before the Lord, went her way, and her countenance was no more sad. 2. His faith in prayer I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion. He said it not only with the mouth, but also and chiefly in and with his heart, as the word is often used. His heart and soul said it, upon the discovering of the Lord's holding forth Himself in His Word, the ground of faith, for a refuge and portion to the sons of men. And here three things are to be observed. First, faiths discerning the Lord Jehovah's fullness for and suitableness to the soul's case, and this must be by the perspective of the Word, illuminated by the Spirit. The psalmist saw the Lord by faith, perfectly suited to his case, in the several exigencies thereof. One, he was compassed about with evils threatening to swallow him up, and in all the creation he could find no place to flee to where he might be safe. Refuge failed me, says he, or a place to flee to is perished from me. But by faith he discerns a refuge above him, though there was none in all the world. Above me thou art a refuge, and if I can get there I would be safe. 2. He was under many wants, and there was none to supply them, though he could have got a place to flee to in the earth, where he might have been safe, yet how could he live in it? For no man cared for his soul or life. Verse 4. But faith discerns Jehovah to be a portion that one may live on when the world will afford him nothing. Thou art a portion, and if I can get that, I will have enough. Secondly, faith's discerning the soul's liberty of access to the Lord as a refuge and a portion. This also must be by the perspective of the Word, illuminated by the Spirit. The Gospel offer casts open the door of the refuge and proclaims the portion to be free to every man that will take it. Revelation chapter 22 verse 17. which general offer is equivalent to a particular one, as if the Lord should say, The refuge is open for you and you, every one of you, so that you may flee to it without fear. And the portion is free for you and you, and every one of you, and you may take and use it as your own, without fear of vicious intromission. Hence our Lord says, He that believeth shall be saved. Mark 16.16 And the Apostle, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Acts 16.31 And this offer the Spirit of the Lord carries home on the soul, that the man believes the offer is to him in particular, the refuge is open to him, the portion free to him, according to the word, 1 John chapter 5 verse 11. This is the record that God hath given to us eternal life. Thirdly, faith's appropriating of the Lord as a refuge and portion, to itself, Thou art my refuge and my portion. The Lord speaks by His Spirit in His Word, and says to the soul, I am a safe refuge and a full portion, and I am willing and offer myself freely to be thy refuge and thy portion. The soul believes God and says, Then, Lord, Thou art my refuge and my portion, even so I take Thee. And thus the bargain is closed, and the soul takes possession of the refuge and portion which was offered. This is that direct acting of faith in the cave which the psalmist reflects upon with pleasure afterwards. I said it then. and it shines bright in sincerity as faith unfeigned, away with all other refuges as refuges of lies. Lord, I take Thee for my refuge, and Thou art my refuge, where I shall be in safety as desperate as my case appears to be. And I take Thee not only as my refuge, but my portion, and my portion from this moment as well as my refuge. I design not to take the crown of Israel for my portion on earth, and thee for my portion in heaven, when that is gone from me. But thou art my portion now even in the land of the living, for my heart to live upon while in this world, as well as in the next. As this text affords a large field of discourse, I shall only at present take notice of one doctrine from it, namely, Doctrine, the soul that would have safety and satisfaction must take the Lord Jehovah for a refuge and portion to itself, saying whatever others say, that he is its refuge and portion. In discoursing from this doctrine, I shall a little at present consider the nature of this refuge and portion. And here I will offer a few things, one, concerning the refuge, two, concerning the portion. First, concerning the refuge, I offer the following particulars, one, the Lord Christ, or God. In Christ is the refuge itself. Isaiah chapter 4 verse 6. There shall be a tabernacle for a place of refuge, the branch of the Lord, verse 2, namely the man whose name is the branch, Zechariah chapter 3 verse 8, and chapter 6 verse 12. is the tabernacle here spoken of, which is for a place of refuge, as appears by comparing John 1.14. The word was made flesh, and dwelt, gr., tabernacled among us, and Isaiah 32.2. A man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covet from the tempest, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. A man who is also Jehovah, the Lord our righteousness. Jeremiah chapter 23 verse 6. None less than a God, the eternal God, is or could be a sufficient refuge for guilty creatures. No arms less strong than the everlasting arms could bear the weight. Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 27. Yet sinners could never have taken refuge in an absolute God more than dry stubble could be safe in a consuming fire, Hebrews chapter 12, last verse. For our God is a consuming fire. Wherefore, that God might be a refuge for sinners, He put Himself in our nature, He took upon Him our flesh. The fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in Christ, Colossians chapter 2 verse 9. Thus He became our refuge, which we might safely flee to. But a God out of Christ no sinful creature can deal with to its salvation, but to its certain destruction. For thus saith Jehovah himself, Isaiah chapter 27 verses 4 and 5. who would set the briars and thorns against me in battle, I would go through them, I would burn them together. Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me, none that no God will dare to approach him out of Christ. 2. This refuge is by a legal destination a refuge for lost mankind, for sinners of Adam's race. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 19 God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. John chapter 3 verses 14 and 15 and 16 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. This destination gives men a right to flee thither for safety, which sinners of the angelic tribe have not. For as to sinners, there is a man love, though no angel love, called the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man, Titus 3.4. Hence the call to the refuge is directed to men, Proverbs 8.4. Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men, and to the people, Psalm 62 verse 8. Trust in him at all times, ye people, pour out your heart before him. And this call is their warrant, God is a refuge for us, Ibid. Wherefore be what ye will, if ye be men or women, if of the lost family of Adam, stand not disputing whether ye may enter this refuge, and take possession of it for yourselves or not. Your warrant to enter it is clear, and your safety upon your entering it infallibly sure. God knows who are His, and for whom the high priest died, and for whom the refuge was designed in the eternal decree of election. These are secrets, on the knowledge of which your warrant to enter the refuge does not depend. You must first enter, upon the warrant of the legal destination of the refuge registered in the Word, whereby it is appointed for sinful men, and then ye will know what concerns you in these secrets. Remember, the cities of refuge were appointed not for Israel only, but for the stranger and sojourner among them, Numbers chapter 35 verse 15. If a stranger and a sojourner would not believe that he might have access to the cities of refuge, because he was not an Israelite, and therefore would flee for refuge to his own country, no wonder he fell by the hand of the avenger of blood. Maury particularly, I will tell you of four sorts of men whom God in Christ is a refuge for, and I am sure each of us may find our name among them. He is a refuge, one, for the oppressed. Psalm 9 verse 9. God will be a refuge for the oppressed, i.e. oppressed by sin. Do ye find it holding you down as a giant doth a weak man, so that your souls are saying, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Romans chapter 7 verse 24. Are ye oppressed by Satan? Do ye find the strong and subtle adversary an overmatch for you? Are ye oppressed by the world? By the men of the world, in your goods, in your name and reputation, or on any other account are you crying out of violence and wrong? Are ye oppressed by the things of the world, the cares, business, or frowns of the world? Here is a refuge for you, come in hither unto a God in Christ, saying, O LORD, thou art my refuge, and, O LORD, I am oppressed, undertake for me Isaiah chapter 38 verse 14, and there is a promise for your safety, Psalm 72 verse 4, he shall break in pieces the oppressor. This promise is branched out to your several cases, as to the oppression by sin, Micah chapter 7 verse 19, he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. As to Satan, Romans chapter 16 verse 20, the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. And as to the world, John chapter 16 last verse. In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. 2. For Outcasts. Psalm 142 verses 4 and 5. The text and context. Are there any among us to whom the world's face is quite changed, and the brooks of comfort in it are dried up, and they are so tossed, chased, and harassed in it, that they have forgotten their resting-place? Are any of you become a stranger unto your brethren and an alien unto your mother's children? Psalm 69 verse 8. Is it grown such a strange world, that even your own familiar friend, in whom you trusted, which did eat of your bread, hath lifted up his heel against you? Psalm 41 verse 9. And that wherever ye turn yourselves in it, to find rest and refuge, the door is cast on your face. Here is a refuge for you, here is one open door. Come in thou blessed of the Lord. Psalm 147 verse 2. The Lord gathereth the outcasts of Israel. It seems the Lord minds to have you in. He is doing with you as a father with a stubborn son run away from out of his father's house, thinking to shift for himself among his friends and not come back. The Father sends peremptory word through them all, saying, In whosoever house my Son is skulking, presently turn him out of doors, and let none of you take him in. And if he come in, give him not one night's lodging, nay, let him not heat in your house. Wherefore is all this, but just to get him back again to his father's house? 3. For debtors, broken men, unable to pay their debts. Isaiah chapter 25 verse 4. Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm. Herein David was a type of Christ, for every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt gathered themselves unto him. 1 Samuel chapter 22 verse 2. All Adam's family is drowned in debt. Our father Adam made a bond, wherein he bound himself and his heirs to perfect obedience to the law, as the condition of life to him and all his, and that under the penalty of death in its utmost extent. This bond is the covenant of works. And when he subscribed it, he had enough to pay the round sum, and so to secure heaven and glory for him and his. But alas! By his own mismanagement he broke, and could never more pay it. So the bond lies upon the head of all his heirs, till getting into the refuge, they are discharged of it upon their pleading the Cautioner's payment. Romans chapter 6 verse 14. Ye are not under the law, but under grace. Whence it is evident that those who are under grace in this refuge are not any more under the law or under that bond, and that they who are not in the refuge under grace are still under the bond, the law as the covenant of works. And know, O sinner, that thou art liable in payment both of the penalty and principle, some contained in the bond. For it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Galatians chapter 3 verse 10. And either of these are farther out of your reach to pay, than the buying of the richest inheritance in the world is out of the reach of a beggar in rags. And though perhaps ye know it not, there is a caption out against you, and ye know not what moment ye may be laid up in prison upon it, from whence ye can never come forth, Matthew chapter 5 verses 25 and 26. But here is a refuge for you, into which as soon as ye enter, your debt is paid, Romans chapter 7 verse 4. Ye are become dead to the law by the body of Christ. Four, for criminals liable to death by the law, Hebrews chapter six, verse 18. Sinners, ye have by your crimes against the King of heaven forfeited your life and laid yourselves open to the stroke of justice. The avenger of blood is at your heels, and if you be seized by justice and fall into the hands of an absolute God, you perish forever. But here is a refuge for you which will afford a rest to your weary souls. Matthew chapter 11 verse 28. A hiding place where ye shall be safe. Isaiah chapter 32 verse 23. The gate of this refuge through which sinners enter is the veil of the flesh of Christ, rent, torn, and open to let in the guilty creature unto Jehovah as a refuge. Hebrews chapter 10 verses 19 and 20. It is only by a crucified Christ the sinner can come unto God comfortably. John chapter 10 verse 9. The sinner fleeing for refuge must fix his eyes in the first place on the wounds of our glorious Redeemer and come by the altar unto the sanctuary. Romans chapter 3 verse 25. When Jacob had seen the ladder set on the earth, whose top reached heaven, representing Christ not only as God, but as man descending into the lower parts of the earth by his death and burial, he saith, This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. Genesis chapter 28 verse 17. without such a costly gate sinners had never had access to God as a refuge, for the covet in this refuge is the righteousness of Christ. Hence Christ is called the Lord our righteousness, Jeremiah chapter 23 verse 6, and the apostle glories in that righteousness, which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, Philippians chapter 3 verse 9. The sinner getting in under this covet is safe from the reach of revenging justice, the curse of the law, and the hurt of anything. Luke chapter 10 verse 19. Isaiah chapter 27 verse 3. This covet, which is ever over the head of the sinner from the moment he enters the refuge, is threefold plies. 1. The satisfaction of Christ's death and sufferings. 1 John 2.2. He is the propitiation for our sins. Thus they are under the covet of the Mediator's blood, through which no revenging wrath can make its way. Canticles 3.10. Romans 8.1. This is imputed to the believer who is reckoned to have suffered in Christ even as he sinned in Adam. Hence the Apostle says, I am crucified with Christ. Galatians chapter 2 verse 20. 2. The righteousness of Christ's life and conversation, who obeyed the commands of the law as a public person, as well as he suffered the penalty of it in that capacity. Romans chapter 5 verse 19. As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. so that his obedience is theirs too and all the good works that he did, for the space of thirty-three years that he lived in the world, the believer has them all in order to found his plea for heaven upon, Romans chapter 8 verse 4, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us. 3. The holiness of his birth and nature. Hebrews 7.26. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners. This also is theirs and upon them. John 17.19. For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. not as it were imputed to them in the point of gospel sanctification, as antinomians say, but in point of justification, as a part of the law demand of righteousness for life. Which law requires for that end, not only satisfaction for sin, but also good works, and not only good works, but a good and holy nature, having no bias to evil, Exodus chapter 20 verse 17. all of them perfect in their kind. And as Christ's satisfaction for sin is the only solid plea against the first, and the righteousness of His life the only solid plea against the second, so the holiness of His birth and nature is the only solid plea against the last. Romans chapter 4 verses 5 and 8. To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Hence Christ says of the spouse, Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee. The several apartments in this refuge, for the various cases of the refugees, are all the attributes and perfections of God the Lord Jehovah, Proverbs chapter 18 verse 10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. And hence the sinner's refuge is said to be in God, Psalm 62 verse 7. Everything in God is a refuge to the man who is once under the covet. Is he in perplexing difficulties that he knows not how to be rid of? Let him flee into the room or chamber of the divine wisdom. Is he under anything quite above his ability? Let him flee into the chamber of the divine power. Is he under guilt? let him flee into the chamber of divine mercy. Does the law bend up a process against him for debt already paid by his cautioner, take him by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest, or I will cast thee into the prison of hell? Let him flee into the chamber of divine justice. 1 John chapter 1 verse 9. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. And so in other cases. 6. The boundaries of the refuge are the everlasting covenant. Psalm 46 verse 7. The God of Jacob is our refuge. It is God's covenant title. The borders of the cities of refuge were to be nicely marked, for upon the outside of the line was death to the criminal on the inside life, for death could not come over the line, Numbers chapter 35 verses 26 and 27. Sinners without the covenant, there is no refuge for you, but come within, and none can touch you there. 7. Lastly, the sinner's entering into the refuge is by faith, as in the text, I said, Thou art my refuge, of which more afterwards. Secondly, concerning the portion, I offer only two things. One, the same God in Christ who is the refuge for poor sinners, is also the portion for them to live on, Thou art my portion in the land of the living. They are but silly refuges that men can find in the world, they may be starved out of them and forced by want to abandon them. But God in Christ is a refuge for us, and He is a portion in the refuge, and those who take refuge in Him need never go abroad without the border of their refuge to bring in provision for themselves. 2. God in Christ is what one may live on, Psalm 16, verses 5 and 6. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage. The men of the world cannot understand this, but the experience of the saints in glory puts it beyond question, and so does the experience of the saints on earth. Witness David, Psalm 72 verse 25, Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee, and Habakkuk, chapter 3 verses 17 and 18. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. One may live upon that happily, which is commensurable to all his desires, for the perfecting of his nature, and maintaining it in its perfection. And this, no creature can be to a man, but God is, and will be to all who take Him for their portion. In Him the man has a dwelling place. Psalm 90 verse 1 raiment, Revelation chapter 3 verse 18. Meet and drink, John chapter 6 verse 55, and all in a word, Philippians chapter 4 verse 18, 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 10. And here too belongs the sanctification of the soul, in the beginning, progress, and consummation of it, as that which is for the perfecting of the soul, 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 30. So that as sure as the soul is made safe in Christ, it is sanctified in Christ, Isaiah chapter 45 verse 24. Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength. I shall now make some practical improvement of this subject, which I shall discuss briefly in a twofold use. Use one of trial. Hereby ye may know whether ye be believers or not, and will be welcome guests at the Lord's table. 1. What is your refuge? Where take ye shelter, or what is your refuge from avenging justice, the curse of the law, and the wrath of God for your sins? If ye flee for refuge to your own working, doing, and suffering, your repentance and reformation, your case is bad, but is the covet of Christ's righteousness your only refuge, and, renouncing all other pleas, do you hold by that? Then God is your refuge. Psalm 62 verse 6. Do you make him your refuge and flee to him when pursued by sin, Satan and an evil world? Alas! Most men either seek no refuge from sin or they make themselves, their own strength, wisdom or resolution their refuge, but the believer makes God his refuge for all. 2. What is your portion? Many pretend to make God their refuge, but the world and their lusts are their heart's choice for a portion. But the believer takes God in Christ for a refuge and portion too, not only for a defense from evil, but for a treasure of provision to live upon even in the world. the world's good things they may take for comforts, but God alone for the portion of their souls. And therefore whatever fondness they may sometimes fall into, through temptation, for other things, they will show God is their portion in the case of competition. Like the child who may be fond of others that caress it, yet prefers its mother to all others, use too, I exhort you to take God in Christ this day for your refuge and portion. First, oh, flee into this refuge, for motives consider one. You need a refuge, for your souls are in the greatest hazard, the avenger of blood is pursuing you, and ye are in an evil world, and judgment is fast approaching on the land wherein ye live. It is high time for you to look out a place of safety. 2. There is no other safe refuge for you. Have ye not already found other refuges, where ye expected safety, fail you, and so will ye find it unto the end? Death will cast you out of them all, but if ye flee by faith into this refuge, it will never fail nor disappoint you. This refuge is open to you. God in Christ is ready to embrace you with open arms and afford you all manner of safety, from revenging justice, the fiery law, hell, wrath, an evil world, and sin, the worst of all enemies. Secondly, take God in Christ for your portion this day. For motives, consider, one, the Lord is willing to take you for his portion. when all the world is divided into two parts, such as will believe in Christ and such as will not, though the latter may be great and wise men in comparison of you, and ye never so little worth, he says, they shall be my portion, Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 9. For the Lord's portion is his people, and will not you say thou art my portion, too? There is no shadow of just competition betwixt the Lord and all other portions. You will get the double portion, a firstborn, by taking him for your portion. He is a full, complete, satisfying portion and a lasting portion that will never decay. Now the all is divided into two parts, God Himself, and the world and all that is in it, choose you this day which shall be your portion. And remember that upon this choice your everlasting happiness or misery depends. But one may say, How shall I take the Lord for my refuge and my portion? How shall I say, Thou art my refuge and my portion? 1. be sensible of thy need of a refuge and apportion to thy soul, which it cannot find among the creatures, as the prodigal deeply felt. Luke chapter 15 verse 14. till the vanity of created refuges and portions be discovered, and they appear refuges of lies, the soul will never take God in Christ for its refuge and portion. Jeremiah chapter 16 verse 19, O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Two believe God in Christ to be a safe refuge and a full portion. The soul will never come to Christ till it be persuaded that that safety and satisfaction is to be found in him, which is to be found nowhere else. Luke chapter 15 verse 17. 3. Believe the gospel offer with particular application to thyself, namely, that the Lord is offered for a refuge and portion to thee. This is the report of the gospel, and he who does not believe it makes God a liar. 1 John chapter 5 verse 10. 4. from a steadfast resolution of spirit, to take God in Christ for thy refuge and portion, to venture to flee into the refuge and lay hold on him as thy portion, upon the warrant of the gospel offer, as the prodigal did, I will arise and go to my Father, etc. Luke chapter 15 verse 18. 5. Renounce all other refuges and portions, and lay the whole stress of thy safety and provision, for time and eternity, upon God in Christ, saying, Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains. Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. Jeremiah chapter 3 verse 23. God is a refuge for us, Psalm 62 verse 8. Bid farewell to the refuges of lies, lift thy confidence and dependence from off all others, and fix it upon God in Christ, upon the warrant of the word, saying as Psalm 62 verse 5, My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him, 6. Lastly resolutely cleave to the Lord as thy refuge and portion, saying with Job 13.15, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, Thou art my refuge and portion, I will seek no other, I can take no other, for time and for eternity. The end of the distinguishing characters of true believers. This audio was created with an artificial voice for the audiobook initiative on Sermon Audio. There may be mispronunciations or occasional repetitions. To report a mistake, please email us at info at sermonaudio.com and include the sermon ID or title of the message and the time at which the error occurs. We will do our best to get it corrected for future listeners.