In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord. set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed unto the Lord and said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore, Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years, and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city, and this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken. Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the sundial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees by which degrees it was gone down. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness. I said, in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave. I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed. and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He will cut me off with pining sickness. From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones. From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. like a grain or a swallow. So did I chatter. I did mourn as a dove. Mine eyes fail with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed. Undertake for me. What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit. So wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. Behold, for peace I had great bitterness, but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. for the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee, they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the children shall make known thy truth. The Lord was ready to save me, therefore will we sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs and lay it, for he placed her upon the boil, and he shall recover. Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? Here ends the reading of God's word. congregation, the text can be found in verse 14, O Lord, I am oppressed and take for me the one who was oppressing, verse 12. Secondly, a prayer. And thirdly, an answer. The one who was oppressing, secondly, a prayer. Lord, we draw nigh unto thee from all the corners of this city. We draw nigh unto thee while thou hast said, Seek my face continually. This morning we have the grace of having the Lord's and thou wast a place to shelter behind thy blood. Oh, what a wondrous place! What a wondrous place for vile sinners like thee art, that thou hast made a provision and not looted, then only looted upon the blood of thy son, applied to the doors, to the hearths of thy people. But Lord, also they have eaten and drank, and were satisfied. Be with God. Oh, that we might this night hear thy word again. In the opening of the scriptures, we can, we are unable to preach and believe. But Lord, that this night might be a night of thy opening. Like Jacob saw it, a ladder, angels going up and down. And he on the side of the ladder is Christ, like we read in the New Testament. For as I said to the apostles, they will see the angels go up and down through him. Lord, we pray that Thou mightest bless us this time. with the blessings of everlasting life, everlasting life, everlasting life in Christ Jesus. Oh, that thou mightest uncover those who don't know who they are, what they did, and what they have to expect, dead in flesh, ashes, and skins. That thou mightest take away that cover by which they covered themselves. that they may be naked, set before Thee, having nothing but sin and guilt, and nowhere to live, nowhere to sleep, nowhere to sit, nowhere to hold, and crying like a crane and a squall, like a dove unto Thee. Lord, we pray that Thou mightest open their and Judas' churches, that he the undertaker of thy people might be revealed, might be seen, like we have seen this morning, that we might look unto him, the forerunner, looking unto Jesus afterward. Give us an eye, show thy counsel, that we might meet thy presence, which is better than temporal life indeed. Lord, we pray When this is our last service in a short time, we thank thee that we could be with the congregation. Oh, we had good times here. We have been tried in this congregation. Thou hast tried in the history, but not forsaken us. Lord, thou hast tried the congregation, and not forsaken us. all that thy eyes might be opened day and night, over this house, over thy people, that a young people might be converted unto thee, getting that faith, saving it, in the way of a true conversion unto thee. Lord, they have a mission in the United States. The word is here. Our people we've found. Where shall we go? that a seed might grow, that the birds of heaven might shelter in the branches. Lord, we pray thee with us. Remember the call which is brought out. If it's in thy favor, when it's in thy favor, please send it. Lord, and that can be a hindrance, for all the hindrances will be taken down. If it's not in thy favor, Let him say, Lord, that thy eyes might be open upon the souls of this people, that thou might extend the depth and the knowledge. It's a despised group of people. It's despised because of everything. But yet, not in thy eyes, we know it. It's favorable. It's like the lame. at the gates of beautiful Bethlehem. And thou hast said, Come and walk with me. And he who wrought up Christ walked with me. Lord, remember this sick. We pray for the work of mission, the Reverend Oman in Malawi. We thank thee for the sustaining grace in all the difficulties and trials. And we pray that his labors might be fruitful for the conversion of souls. Remember all the orphans, so many, Malawi. We pray that those orphans might be blessed by grace, O youth, Reverend Goldman, as an incident might it be. We pray for mine and Esther in Quebec, a very lonely spot. It's what the Bible says, everyone forsook neighbor, that he might experience the Lord with wisdom. O Lord, we seek it always in people and that we might leave these things as they are, to seek it with thee. And thou hast never forsaken thy people, although there are thousands of reasons to do it. Remember, please, the Reverend Scott Klein, his work for theme, for the education of elders and deacons and ministers and members of the church, and the truth of the Lord. We pray that he might know the truth. and preach it and experience it by grace, that he might be a living example for the people to whom we speak. Lord, we pray for the work of Governor Neely in South Africa. It's a difficult time for him. We pray that he might find a house suitable, that he might have a shelter, protection in the dangers in South Africa. taking the blessing in the congregation with all the young and old, which we know, Lord, thy ways are higher than our ways. And sometimes we don't understand it, but God never asked us. That when we understand it, we're free. Sometimes if we look into the Scriptures, who can understand thy ways? That Mary, according to the flesh, was born out of So many sinful women, Reb, Tamar, the wife of Uriah, and we know all these things. Thy ways are higher. You sometimes think it can't be the way of the Lord. And thou hast said, it's my way. These are higher ways of forgiving, ways of removing grace. Lord, remember the Reverend Budding, in these days when the appeal to Paul comes to him. Remember the church in the Netherlands, it's split apart, it's suffering, the dead are out of suffering, there might be a need to be. And we don't want a life of suffering, but thou hast suffered all thy life, and thou hast said what's happening, and has happened to the will happen to that old ghost. And Lord, you deserve it, but thou didst not deserve it. Oh, death, bitterness, and sin, but bring us down and ask for forgiveness, that we might rest with all our needs, sins, hopelessness, and helplessness, and be alone. Oh, we ask it, for Jesus said, Amen. congregation. In those days, says chapter 38, Hezekiah was sickened to death. God's ways are always higher than our ways. Those days were the days of the aggression of Assyria. They were ready to take over Jerusalem. They were at the gates. Hezekiah said that they could trust the Lord, but the general of the Assyrians said, don't trust Hezekiah. There were days of affliction politically. There were days of affliction spiritually. Hezekiah had started, by the grace of God, a reformation, taking away the idols. He had been blaspheming for the kinds of restoration of true religion in Israel. And then you see the affliction that always belongs to God. If God works, the devil attacks. If God doesn't work, The New Testament says, then all is quiet and peaceful. But if one comes who is stronger than him, than the devil, there will be a stir-up in the congregation. It might be in your personal life or congregational life, but the devil is always busy to darken what's light, to fight what's deeds. And therefore, you read it in your testament, when I am at peace, they are at war. My dear congregation, it's the life of Christ. It's always a text. There is no rest here. You might have rest sometimes in the wings of God. You might have find a place of rest in the cave of the devil. You might have some rest when The palm trees are there in the midst of the desert, and there is a well to drink, but then we have to go on through the desert, reaching Canaan. And you see, when the Lord gave a reformation, and I say it again, in the days of Hezekiah, the enemy is at war. It seems to unravel everything, seems to make everything, and then another thing. then God was against his desire. You read in this chapter, it was like a lion unto him to break his bones. I don't understand. When the world is against you, I understand where my flesh is against me, I know it. But when in the days of trial, in the days of darkness and affliction, God is against me. Do you understand me? And in those days, Hezekiah was sick and The days when you need to be healthy, God makes you sick. How do you know it? Well, he says in this chapter that his life was cut off in sickness, whining. And I said my first point was, who oppressed while the Lord did it? We don't know why the Lord did it. I know, I'll come to it, but there must have been a special reason. It says that, later on, that he would go forth softly, later on, will go forth softly, because in the bitterness was everything made bitter. Verse 15, the second part, Thou shalt go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. Probably his attire had a zeal, and now after what happened to his soul, he said, I shall so go softly in the bitterness of my soul. The sin became bitter to him by grace. And he says, now I will go softly. He had a zeal for reformation. He took the one side and the other side, the first idol and the next. And do you know what happened to congregation? He became something by it. A godly king. A true Christian. A man of reformation. The man of the United States. Such a beautiful church and church. You know, if we can't be something in the world, our flesh wants to be something in the earth. And, if we can't be something with works, we want to be something by work. But, if you say that you are something, and you are nothing, you're deceiving yourself and your heart. And, we want to be something. I want to be That's my old shameful art. And if they say that I'm nothing, I can't bear it. Then let God bring me down. We want to be something. I have seen a lot of coming together of the people of God, and you know what I found out? Everyone wanted to be the best. the most learned, the most experienced. So, the Lord says, if you're not like a child, you can't enter the kingdom of God. So, child, what's a child? Nothing. No understanding, no wisdom, no teaching. But, a child of God is the high apple of the Lord himself. Well, I think that's one of the reasons And therefore he says, after what happened to his soul and especially also to his body, he says, now I will go softly forward. I will restrain myself. And now I feel how bitter it is to sin against God. But pity, it doesn't matter. Because it's bitterness unto the Lord. Well, my dear congregation, the Lord sent a message. He brought him to justice. And what was the message he had for God? In the midst of reformation, in the midst of danger, of attacking enemies, he got a message. What kind of message? Well, we read it, said, Thou in halding order, for thou shalt die and not live. Make up your will. Arrange the successor. Tell it to your family. Say to your generals that time is up. They have to meet. That's the thing. The congregation, although it's not said the words it's said to us, to me, set your housing on, prepare your will, give instruction to your success, and be prepared to meet. May I ask you a question? This is terrifying. For is there under these words a heavenly desire of coming back. Leave that old body of sin to be with you. Set your house in order. It must be in a perfect order, and I'll take you on the side of it. Otherwise, we can meet God if we are not perfect, without any sin. How do you say it, Pastor? I say without any sin, meeting the righteousness of God and his requirements by the law. Said throughout the North, from the greatest young people, you don't know the day, I got a message from the Netherlands this day, that one of my church members passed away. He asked me faster if I was willing. I returned home in the afternoon to bury Hendricks mouth. I said, I hope so. I met him just before I left. Visited him. Now I won't speak to him anymore. He passed away. Said, you're out. in order for you and I. Congregation is not a sickness. We don't know what kind of. We know it were a kind of source. It might be cancer. It might be a very serious cancer that will take your life in some day. Might be another kind of sores, we don't know. Later on we know that a lump of face had to be placed upon the sore. And it had to be painful. It was pining. His bones were like broken. All his life hurt. But my dear congregation, That was not the worst part of it. I believe God came to reckon with them. Because I read, and then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall. He didn't seek help by the doctor. Nah, but the doctor knew. He didn't seek help by his generals. He didn't seek help with his life. I don't read that he first said to his wife, what shall we do here? He turned himself from all man to God. What a great vision. When the land is in affliction, The Reformation is not yet finished, and a deathly sickness is upon you, that you don't take refuge with man, but flee through your flesh. Congregationalistic of death returns from all man towards the wall and prayed unto the wall. Some have said the wall was the wall of the temple. I don't know. Might be. Because there was a visual presence of the wall. So, like the Jews do today, they turn to the wall. Some have said that's what it is. face to the wall of the temple where the palace was near to. But we don't know. I believe congregation, although it might be, it means that he turned away when he got this message from all men and he turned unto God. That's great. You know, a man in his natural state, when God afflicts him and calls him to meet You know what a man in his natural state does? He flees from God. That's what Adam and Eve did in paradise, isn't it? They fled. They feared. They fleed from God and by natural man Today and yesterday and every day I thought about it in the world, the old people said, the old Romans said, give the people place and bread and they won't bother you. The old emperors of the Roman Empire said, give the people bread and place. Now if you look into the United States, you find big stadiums, bread. And I'm not saying it's only in the United States, it's in Western Europe too. You can eat in every corner, eat and drink. Play. Get all your things for a little bit. And then next Monday we continue our life, life in sin. You know that we have to die. That is eat and drink, tomorrow we die, isn't it? That's the yell of the world, that's the talk of the world today. Look around you, that's the talk of the church even today. But is here a people that turns from all people? For in people is no help, and God is jealous of his honor, and turns to God. That's great. Peter didn't turn away from the Lord. He wept bitterly. If there is a sinful and a guilty sinner in our midst, there's one thing he needs that will forgive a little sin. How do you know that there's a guy conviction of sin. He will cut me off as well, with final sin. God was tripping with the knife, the knife of life. Later on, he says in 17 and This is a description of what he experienced in Isaiah 38. And later on in 17 it says, Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Do you know what the main point is? The sin from it will be all my sins of my youth The sins of my gallows, gallows, you know what I'm saying. Started to be in Corona. Sins of my marriage. Sins of my business. By who hid and who keeps. By black money. All passes, all doesn't deal with it. Every idle word. By hidden sins. The sins of my pastures among you. Sins of my prayer. sins of my preaching, the sins of your elders, the sins of your fatherhood, your motherhood, throughout the ages. And listen, my dear congregation, if he doesn't deal here with it, he will deal later with it, and then it's finished. Oh, he brings, says the Bible, my hidden sins before his counsel. And do you know what happened? And he wept sorely. He didn't weep because he was going to die. He wept in the first place, congregation, because he had sinned against God. That's a godly sorrow. Do you know congregation we have today, and many a conversion without grief, without sorrow? There said an old man in the Netherlands, he said to me, Pastor, that old sound is hardly to be heard, sighing and crying and sobbing, sin is for sin. May I ask you, has your walls heard your sighing and crying? Is your house a witness? Is your heart broken by the mercy of God? Are you broken because you have sinned against the holy and good-doing God, my dear congregation? They easily start with faith, and now I'm speaking about the fruit of faith. That's a contrite heart and a broken spirit. In that bitterness, and he speaks about it, is sweetness. In that bitterness is sweetness. When your sins are becoming bitter unto you, there is such a sweetness to pull you so out of your heart. I've said many times to you, when Jonathan Edwards preached as an instrument in the United States, There was a great awakening, and if you read something about that awakening, in the congregation of Jonathan Edwards, the half of the congregation wept of sins. When he walked through this image, he listened to the doors, and he heard them crying to God. And the other part of the congregation was weeping of God, that God had heard them from, and he left slowly. You know what I'm saying? You're guilty indeed. And I'm not saying that tears are saving. That's not. But without tears, I know you're not saved. God makes you evil. Awesome. Thank you. against the good doing and holy God congregation. Second thing he said, be thou my advocate. He started to pray. The congregation, if you read carefully, That prayer was not long. In the first place, he brought before the Lord that he wrestled with it a bit. Because you read in verse 3, and he said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight, and is a God aware soul. Now, I walked perfectly. What does it mean? Was he saying, Lord, remember that I did good, and therefore be gracious unto me? Like the Roman Catholics, they say that sanctification is going before justification. A Roman Catholic, isn't it? Theology is this, you're born again by baptism, and then you get grace in your heart to sanctify your life, and if you're sanctified enough, you've got justification to be forgiven. That's not the biblical road. The biblical road is when God convicts you of sin. You're going to know your sin, to be guilty, to accept judgment, to receive Christ out of the hand of the judge. and in Christ the Holy Spirit to renew your life. That's the order, spiritual order of the renewal of life according to the scriptures. Now, it is a kind of saying, Lord, I walked perfectly and think about it what I did. Now, congregation, I only can understand it out of what happened in his life. By the grace of God, he was a means for affirmation. He took away the idols, he restored the true work in the temple, and he was an instrument for a reformation in the day of Israel. You know that even he sent out messengers to the north, ten tribes, and he said, come, repent unto the Lord, humble yourself, and come. And he had passed over with the people in the temple at the time, of great, great grace in the day. And do you know what he said? And I think this is what he said. He said, Lord, the work is not done. Do you remember that time? Yes. I was walking these footings like my father hated me. And that always used me in that. Why does God take me away in the midst of the year? So much sad for me. I had to leave them. It's confirmed in the medallions that I had them. It's the purpose for it. Some of you have said to me, Pastor, the work is not done. Stay with us another time, another portion of your life. Now that's what Jesus Christ has to do. He was not boasting in his work, but he did. But he says, Lord, thou hast used me in this way, as a desire for holiness and that respiration of thine, thy work, thy grace, thy service. Remember, will thou take me away now? What's the purpose in it? You know, what I ultimately believe, that he said, Lord, how thou and rest, restoring the true religion and our nation. And it seemed to be that by the war, and now by the death of the main instrument, God spoke to us, and he pleads that we ought to remember. truth is the first part of the done that which is good in thy sight. Remembering that he was a means for reformation in the days of darkness in Israel or in Judah. Well, congregation, I think that's good. It's sad of one of the reformers, that he at the time was very sick. One of the reformers prayed to the Lord, I don't have names now, and he said, Lord, why are you taking this guy's life while we need him? Do you know what he said? I don't, I remember the name probably. Do you know what he said? He prayed him into life again. The first thing is a piety. The second thing, what he did, and I've said it already, that is he prayed about and he confessed his sins, and I did it already by saying that he said, now I've sped up my life. That's not sad in any way. He confessed his sins and he accepted judgment in himself and said, I have cut off like a weaver my life. Now, he got a message that he had to die to meet God, make all things in order. Do you know what he said? I have cut off my life. He said, and therefore thou hast cut off my life. I have cut off like a weaver my life, and he will cut off with whining sickness from day even to night. Will thou make an end for me? What's that thing we asked for? Why? We sin and ask for the reward of sin. We blame the Lord for sin. We blame the Lord sometimes in our lives and even the people of God for all things which happen not according to our wishes. But now here is a really Sinful sinner, and he says, Lord, I have cut off my life, and therefore now I have cut off my life. See, my dear congregation, if confession of sin doesn't come through, acceptation of judgment is not a problem. I was in Springfield, of someone praying for service. And he said, Lord, I've fought a long time to lose my life, but when I had to lose it, it was this, independence. When I accepted judgment, I found Jesus. The death is a reward us. God doesn't do unrighteousness in bringing us to death. My congregation have said many a time that it's harder to go bankrupt than to be bankrupt. fight against it, and every scar you can catch on it, but if the last scar is broken, what a great would it be if your mouth was closed. They would say, I prefer embracing. the righteous judgment of God. Being congregated, it's hard to find the soul. Old Brother said, many are saved from hell, but I am saved anyhow. I love them. My dear congregation, if you don't justify God in his righteous justice, you will never be justified. It's all inevitable. I've said it many a time here. Two boys, let's say it again. I'm not tired of it. One came to me and He said, Father, I've sinned against me, and I'm afraid for punishment. And he cried loudly, and I saw him trembling and shivering. I said, I'll punish you, couple, because I want you to go. And there he was. And that other boy, you know him. He came just some hours later, let's say. He said, Father, I've sinned against you. And he stared at me, and he cried. And he put his hands forward, and he said, Father, God is good. I deserve this. So these are the things I did. These are the things I took, and just take them. You know what it is. took his head in my hands and I kissed him. Do you know what I said? Yes, Father. For God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him, in his righteous judgment and grace, who thinks like that? everlasting life. My dear congregation, this is the blessing message. The righteousness of God cuts to the bone, cuts away all that. That we might be king and queen in the womb of Jesus. And he didn't open his mouth when he went through Gethsemane, because his father had prayed with him. I know it pained him. And he stood up and went to the cross of God. And he wasn't guilty. And we as guilty sinners, oh, that we might come to an end of our righteousness, accepting judgment. What a great wonder would it be if we fight against it our life long until God brings us to an end and brings us here to die and won't live. Prepare your hearts, for you must die, O congregation, that the vow of God's righteousness would be upon you. His life. Cut off all your life, all your hope, that you might be engrafted in Christ Jesus, the only and eternal God in Christ, having peace with God through him. What a wonderful congregation if we are allowed to be what we are. We always want to meet up with the law, and we can. I believe that one of the sicknesses even of the time, you have to be something, and we are nothing. We have to perform. You're always under pressure. All kinds of sicknesses. I call them all law. If you don't fit into old machinery, you're out. Them's people. But I wonder if you may be a poor sinner, a bagger. Not the best preacher. or an out-of-so-called help. Maybe you're worth it. You know, I thought about my life in the United States for three years here in Libya, before the response. I've come in all those bookstores always sanctification, holy life, family life, do this and do that. And then I heard that 90% of the American folks are divorced. And it's hard to get a church where they don't remarry. And you want us? Seems to be the fruit of sanctification then. You know what we are lacking? Justification of the ungodly. And God was sanctified by His Spirit for life. We are looking through the troops, look through the loops. Before you look through the troops, use the loops. A good tree brings forth good fruit. In congregation, I'm not your pastor, I'm not your boss, but if you have any calling in the United States, that should be preached the justification of the ungodly by faith. If you leave that pattern, you will lose the faith. You're always open for movement. And I tell you these nights, you'll move the place. If there's any call in the United States to preach the justification of the ungodly, lock the city. You have an open door in the prisons, an open door in the nurse homes, an open door where those who are lost. I heard today a remote, strict Baptist, and his name was Sporns, And we had a laugh there in the South Harlem neighborhood. You know what he did, my dear friend said it. When he went to the markets, animals, he did animals. You know who he brought home always in his van, drunkards. And they had home, sleep, and they had food to eat. And when they were awake, he'd send them home. But he asked the minister to come and put them around him. So he said, preach to them. You know how he did it? He was himself an Angarhotic saint, by mercy. And, he wasn't died, it was an accident. But, it was hardly understood by so-called holy people. Now, Hezekiah had to learn, in all his endeavors and business, in the restoration for the reformation of Israel, that he was an Angarhotic. Save thy mercy. Peter had to learn it before he had to preach. Paul had to learn it, otherwise he could never have preached. Praise the Lord. Therefore, he had to fall before he spoke to the masses. That's what we praise the Lord for. Well, congregation, he said, I could owe my life to the accepted judgment, and therefore He didn't blame Luther. He said, it's my own rule. I love what I'm shooting. But that's not all. And our text is set also in the text for me. In the Dutch translation it says, be thou my go-well. I'm oppressed. Well, you've seen what God is, a lion crying. Sometimes he had no words, he was a crane and a swallow. I'm not going to make you sleeping and crying to God even into the evening. But then he says in this verse, be thou my, be thou my Goel, or be thou my Fender taker. I've looked up the Hebrew words. Normally look through the Hebrew passage and I did. But the Hebrew words, wonderful words. It's a word that means exchange. Be thou my exchange. and her means to pledge oneself for another. Be thou my pledge, or we know another word in there that's used many times, that we have someone to replace you. to exchange your place. Exchange it in exchange for your place with his place. That's the word of Christ. We now might undertake it. You know congregation if we would like to pray with our death, we can. We can't pray to ransom. It's too short an eternity. And here's the guy I know. Congregation is good, and the Lord brings us to our end, but we can't pray to Christ. And therefore, hell is eternal. Righteousness of God is never to be satisfied without death, without pain. It won't last in eternity, says the psalmist. And now Hezekiah says, Be thou my exception. Be thou my savior. Be thou my place, God. is on my land." It shows, and it points to the sacrifice, points to the land of God, to the Lord Jesus. He said, Lord, pay thou for me by thy land. It's like Abram, He says, the Lord will provide himself a land for a sacrifice, my son. The Lord says, your son has to pay. God needs to be satisfied. Be thou my exile. Not only repentance, the repentance in your life, it's always accompanied by faith. Be thou my exchange, my understanding. Be thou the soul of Jesus. I one desire that thou would take my death, but I die. that thou would pay my bills by thy riches, that thou would honor thy father for obedience instead of me, give me thy obedience. It's a pleading for salvation in Christ, on the age of three. For I, he is unwilling to stay with me. Be thou my my replacement. Let's go to the cross. You see the Lord Jesus walking, an open bag, carrying the cross. And they took a man from the road, countryside, Simon of Cyrene, and they laid the cross upon him. Which cross? The cross of Jesus Christ, The cross of Simon himself congregated. It was his only cross and his own cross. There's only one cross. What's the cross? The cross is the means of putting to death, the means of the curse. Did Christ deserve a means of curse? No congregation. It was Simon's cross and it was laid upon him. He didn't want it. The Lord Jesus turned his head, and he said, Simon, give me your son, and I'll run away. I'll take away your curse. I've paid a penalty, temporal and eternal death. I'll pay the price for your son. And he turned himself and He was hanged on the cross. He laid down his life. He had no power or might to lay down his life. And to take it up again, and he did it again. He died, says Paul, for our sins. He was our exegete to take the blame, to satisfy all the righteous requirements of God. And he cried out, This is a loud voice, and we have heard it this morning. It is. It is. It's faith. Do you know what it means? Faith for less than God. It means, now is my people perfect. Now is the law satisfied. Now is my people perfect. And He gave up His Spirit, His Father, into thy hands. I give my spirit, holy man, in a downy vial, for many sins. For all his people, only congregation, and that's his entire prayer. He said, they found my undertaker. My undertaker. Taken my son. Oh Lord, I can't help it. And do you know what happened? the Lord heard his prayer while he was feeding and sleeping on the finished work of the Lord Jesus. He heard his work. And while Isaiah was going home, he was found. He says, go back to your house. And I tell to him that his life will be extended, and I say it with my 15 years. Isn't that a strange passage? For the Lord has first said that he would die and now it's extended another 15 years. He would die. It's not said that the judgment or the death is over, it will come anyway. The Lord said not now, 15 years. We have here the difference between the revealed will and the hidden will of God. The hidden will of God was that it was to be extended 15 years. And the revealed will, first when he said, we'll die, make ready your house, the congregation, if it is 15 years later. Don't you need to prepare your house then? You might have another 15 years. Don't you need to prepare your house? Get things in order? Make tools. Do you need to tell your children that it's not yet? It might be 5, 10 years. I'm 60, you know. The mess I had here and war and evil when I was here. Things like that come often to me. We don't know if we will see each other again. I open heaven. I have to prepare my house, do I? I have to be prepared to meet God. It can only be that the grave of God invites me for a vague, self-condemning spirit, vile and rotten insult, only by the failure of Christ Jesus at a successful Holy Spirit, without my understanding. And his entire inheritance, there was fifteen years to be given him to his ears. Well, congregation, it's hard to believe that God would forgive sins. But one of Now, let's say this, it's impossible to believe if you're really convicted as a sinner, to believe that your sins are forgiven. It's one of the most impossible things to believe. If you're a sinner, to believe your sins are forgiven. Now, you can just do it by superstition, or people push it into your ear, but now really to believe that your sins are forgiven, if you're such a load of sins, that's a great disdain of God. the most gracious thing God can give to him. Don't take it for granted. And I preached last week that Abel had a witness in himself that he was righteous. Believe him. It's hard to believe. And in the weakness of faith, God gave Hezekiah a sign that ten greats The sun would change, and ten grades he would go back. Now, all the world says, I don't believe it. But as hard to believe it is that your sins are forgiven, as hard it is to believe that the shadow was going ten grades backwards, and he has seen it, that he might believe that his sins were forgiven. Secondly, that he was restored to life. And God took care of him. Now, another means was given, a lump of faith. A lump of faith. God can do it without a means, and he can do it also with means, with medicine. The overwitnesses and some others are against this. things of medicine, or what it might be, and I think that's not right. There are medicines to be used by God to heal you, to learn to fix you. I don't know what it means to use it again, and probably a doctor will tell me what to use, or fix, or so on. But I don't want to figure it out, even. I believe that God can and they'd normally use it. He does it also for the salvation of his soldiers, the treatment of the wounded. God is a brother of me. And he took a pig, a lump of pig, and he laid it upon the soil. And the pig did it. The medicine, he had it brought to their house. The kids hear it, people. I have a strange question. They hear it, people. You're praying for your Ah, it's redemption. I bring it here. If you ever take medicine, do you pray for it before you take it? Why don't you? Is that such a custom to pray for the truth? You don't do that. You pray for an illness. The doctor can't do it. There's no chemical reaction, but biological reactions that might be. If the Lord is not in it, will that work? And the number six, the Lord explores the nine. The Greeks didn't do it. Isaiah didn't do it. God did. And they would explore through life, getting another five years, he said, the living, the living, it's two times, eh? 1960. All those who explain the scripture says he said it for double reason. He was restored to life temporally, and he was restored to life spiritually. He said, the living, the living, for the day, shall praise he. The living, the living, shall praise he. As I do this day, the living, the living shall praise Thee, as I do this day, congregation. God gave me to be with you for a little while. He opened heaven now and then. Be grateful to Him. Don't forsake the doctrines of justification of grace. and a cutting feeling. I know you're against it, and flesh doesn't like it, but it is the soonest way to the answer. It might be in a slow way that God cuts away all your life, and brings you to the center of God. It might be so. It might be soon, three hours at a time, to murder. all on the way to the Master. The end of the law is Christ. Everyone that we don't need God in preaching. We like a building of preaching. I have something, and now I have something more, and then I have got something more, and then I'm there. You know, the God's people are glad in that. when they lose all they gave up in Christ Jesus. He might be my life. And resurrection, I mean resurrection and life forever. Congregation. The tears might be taken away by the Lord Jesus himself. There won't be tears in heaven. But an everlasting joy. Oh, the Lord give who experience their day, when he has thrown all your sins behind his back in the fire, and he will never look at you, and he sees both sins and gapes through Christ, and trespasses in Israel, and when Christ pleases you, and you preach, or you have seen all your sins, but they are blind, and thrown behind the back of the black-skinned Christ, never putting Or you might remember them, do you not, people of God? With Mark, I mean. It might be a sure spot in your heart. When you think about the sins of your life, with Mark, I say, and he doesn't do that. Do you know what faith is? It seems like God. And he sees what sins in Jacob, but trespasses in Israel. Oh, my dear congregation, we must go away then. We are saved. There's a way to heaven. There's an island this far. There's a way to heaven even better, that we might meet each other at the throne of And when we won't ever see each other again on this side of death, thank you. No, Patrick, no. Thank you for all he has done. To him be the praises in Christ's name, from Avalanches to Avalanches. Oh, young people, you're so much weaker for him. will be the evidence to you. Open your mouth, and he will say, children, don't be disturbed by Armenians who say that you can do it yourself. Yes, I can. God does it. He will teach it and save it. Yes. Let the Lord bless his words. In his own glory, when we part again from God has given us to walk in, that his glory might be found also here, and where it might be in the world, that these dark days Christ might be lifted up, that the banner of truth would gather his people together for that solemn day that he will return from the clouds of heaven and gather all his ones to one flock and one shepherd. in glory. Amen. Let's pray. Lord, we can't pray, and Thou hast said we don't need to pray. Therefore it's for those who have nothing to pray, lost every honor and record, that vagabonds might be saved by mercy through righteousness, through the full payment of Christ Jesus by His precious blood. We have seen it in And it is a kaya experience that all these cities are cast behind the back of the Lord. Oh Lord, what they want. And Thou art not bothered by it anymore, although we are. That Thou art not seeing them anymore for Thy people. Lord, we know that there are people here who can't rest these things. Their arms are too short. And they have no faith and they don't know how to get it. Oh Lord, It's said in thy words this year, that thou mightest give them grace of ungrateful. In Christ Jesus be with them who stay here and be with us when we leave again for the heavens. Oh Lord, it's one church, one body, one head, one hope, one life, one breath. Be with us. Oh know what's wrong that we might be with thee. forever. I offer and finish your prayer. We ask this for thy own name's sake. Amen.