Well, I've called this message Heartburn. I like to sometimes give messages a title that even if somebody's not very interested, if they stumble across it on the internet, they'll go, oh, that's an interesting title. I wonder why he's called it heartburn. Have you ever had heartburn? It's that horrible indigestion, isn't it? And it keeps burning in your gullet and you take those milky medicines for it to calm it down. But you see, that's not the heartburn I had in mind. It's prompted by verse 32. of Luke 24, the disciples on the Emmaus road, they said to one another, did not our heart burn within us? While he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures. Our heart burned within us. This is the kind of heartburn I want to talk about this morning. Not indigestion, but an emotional glow. You know, you get that burning in the heart. that emotional glow in the heart about all sorts of things. It might be sport. You might get, you know, the people that won the Grand National yesterday or the boat race or the football, whichever thing it is, you get this heartburn, this burning in the heart of emotion about sport. You might get it about your career. You might get it about your family. pride in what family members have done. You know, you saw them born as little infants and they grew up and then they achieved great things. Heartburn, burning of joy in the heart over these things that have happened. Well, these disciples, the Emmaus Road disciples, their hearts were burning with spiritual sight. They'd seen something. Their hearts were glowing within them. While he talked with us by the way, while he opened to us the scriptures, they'd been with Christ. and their hearts were burning with spiritual blessing. Blessing. Their souls were comforted. They'd seen something of salvation accomplished. They'd seen righteousness imputed. In what Christ had said to them, they'd seen something of righteousness imputed to them. Do you remember we were thinking last week about that Imputation of righteousness, which Abraham experienced, and Paul says, is the experience of all who believe him who raised Jesus from the dead. All who believe that Christ bore our transgressions. He was offered for our transgressions. And he was raised again for our justification, to prove that it was accomplished. And there's blessing, there's soul comfort, there's heart-burning soul comfort in seeing that righteousness imputed and confirmed by belief of the truth. There's no more comfort in place. to be than that. Oh, there's all sorts of things that switch you on and tick your box in this life, but truly, knowing that it is well with your soul because of what Christ has done, and you're standing before the judgment seat of Christ in eternity, there's no more comforting place to be than in the good of the gospel of grace. But all are prone to heart trouble. All are prone to heart trouble. In verse 38, just look down a few verses, Jesus said to them, why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts? The heart, we know that the brain is where thoughts occur, but by talking about the heart, it's the seat of the emotions. Why do thoughts, troubled thoughts, arise in your thought processes, in your hearts? Why was that surprising that they were still troubled? The risen Christ had come into them. He was there, they were in a state of confusion. It's just a day, it's the third day since Christ was crucified, and they're in a state of turmoil, and there are these people saying that he's risen from the dead, and then he appears in the midst of them, and they're terrified. They're terrified. Even with him in the midst of them, they have trouble in their hearts. Well, this is my outline this morning. I want to look at troubled hearts, what it is that causes us trouble. I want to look at the remedy for troubled hearts, and the remedy is resurrection proofs. The proof of the resurrection, because that's what Christ does to these troubled hearts. In verse 38 he goes on to show them it's him, he's risen from the dead. And then, with the resurrection proofs, he goes and he leaves them in the wilderness of this world, which is where we are, but we're comforted here. And he leaves us with comfort. And I want to look at that. So first of all, troubled hearts. Troubled hearts. You know the story of the account of the disciples on that Sunday, the third day after Christ was crucified. they were walking back to Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem, a little bit further than seven miles from Jerusalem. And they were walking that road and they were in turmoil because they had thought that their king Jesus was going to be established as a king of a physical nation. And he was going to subdue the Romans, and he was going to restore the kingdom to Israel, and he was going to reign in Jerusalem as a king, as David and Solomon had reigned. This is what they thought was going to happen. And their hearts were troubled, and the priests and the Pharisees, they'd taken him, and the one in whom was all their hope had been nailed to a cross, and they'd seen him die a death of shame. And they were despondent, but, but, they were talking and saying, but there are rumors that he's risen from the dead. There are rumors, people say, some of the women said that he's risen from the dead. And this man comes alongside them and walks with them. And it's held from their sight who he really was. They didn't see who he really was. Verse 16, their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And he said to them, what manner of things, what are you talking about? And one of them says, are you the only one in Jerusalem that doesn't know what's going on about Jesus of Nazareth, a mighty prophet, and they killed him and we trusted that he was going to come and save our nation from this domination and he says certain women also of our company made us astonished which were early at the sepulcher and when they found not his body they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels which said he was alive and you see they're in a state of confusion. And he goes along and then he said to them, verse 25, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. It's already there in your scriptures. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things? Don't the prophets make it clear, don't the scriptures make it clear, that when Christ comes will he not only do the things that Jesus of Nazareth did, but He will go to the cross. He will die an ignominious death for the sins of his people. He will suffer and then enter into his glory. And, verse 27, beginning at Moses and all the prophets, the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. He showed them something. of how the Old Testament Scriptures, what they were about, was about him. These are they that testify of me, said the Lord Jesus Christ. These Scriptures testify of me. They see him, and they constrain him to go in with them. And he took bread with them and ate it. And then, verse 31, their eyes were opened and they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way and while he opened the scriptures? And what did they do immediately? Let's go back to Jerusalem and tell the others. Where the others are gathered together, let's go back there and tell them. And they went back, and they got back there, and they started comparing notes back in Jerusalem. They went back to Jerusalem, verse 33, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, and they were all talking about these various accounts of how he was risen from the dead. The Lord is risen indeed. And somebody said, yes, he's appeared to Simon. Simon's seen him. And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking bread. There's all these accounts of the fact that he's risen from the dead. And there are several witnesses to the resurrection already. And then in verse 36, as they thus spake, Jesus himself, the risen Lord Jesus Christ, the one whom they'd seen dying in ignominy and shame three days before on the cross, stood in the midst of them and said to them, peace be unto you. And they were terrified. Verse 37, they were terrified. They thought they'd seen a ghost. They thought it was a spook. They thought it was something to be terrified of. And he says to them, why are you troubled? Why do these thoughts arise in your hearts? These disciples, even in that situation, experienced fear and trouble in their hearts. And we all, don't we, experience troubled hearts at times. Those who are without Christ, those who do not believe the Lord Jesus Christ, they have great cause for a troubled heart. If you're without Christ and don't believe Christ, you have great cause for your heart to be troubled. Because I don't care how strong you think you are, how much in a state of health and vitality you are, you're mortal, and you will die. You will go As David said to his son, I go the way of all the earth. All the earth. Nobody, no exceptions. I go the way of all the earth. you're going to go the way of all the earth, we all are. However young and full of life you might appear, you will grow old. And when you get to those days of old age, if you grow to an old age, it will seem, though now when you're young it seems stretching out like an eternity before you, when you get to old age you will look and you will say, where did that time go? How quickly has that time gone? Some of us here, 80 years old and more, and you look back and you think, wow, it doesn't seem five minutes since I was a little boy or a little girl. And there you are. How quickly it goes. Yes, if you're without Christ, you're without hope in this world. You have cause for a troubled heart. Why do you have cause? Because you're going to die. Whatever your state of health and prosperity is, you're going to die. You will be stripped naked. Naked came I into the world and naked shall I go out of it. You will have nothing to take with you, but you will stand before the judgment seat of Christ in your sins. And you will be found guilty, for the law of God has declared you guilty. For the soul that sins, it shall die, and all have sinned, and there is none righteous, no, not one. And judgment is inevitable, and condemnation is inevitable, for a holy God cannot look upon sin. He is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity. And there are no words of comfort whatsoever if you stay unbelieving. If you remain outside of Christ, if you remain without God's righteousness imputed to you, you must have that righteousness before that throne. before that judgment seat. And if you don't have it, and you're outside of Christ, you have no hope. You have cause for a troubled heart. But listen, you're still here. Today is the day of salvation. Today. Today. And Jesus says, come to me, all you who labor and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and he that comes I will in no wise cast out. Today is the day of salvation. So if you're without Christ, if you're unbelieving, I say this to you most seriously, settle the matter before you go to sleep tonight. For as the Psalmist said in Psalm 4 verse 8, knowing Christ, I will both lay me down and sleep in peace, for you, Lord, only make me dwell in safety. So that's unbelievers. But believers, they don't ever have troubled hearts, do they? Oh yes, I think they do. Believers have troubled hearts. Believers have troubled hearts about all sorts of things, don't they? Believers have troubled hearts about their health. Believers have troubled hearts about their finances, about their property, about their family. Don't believers have troubled hearts? Believers have troubled hearts about all sorts of things, big things and little things. I'll confess, I've got a troubled heart this morning. Do you know why? You'll laugh when I tell you. I've got a lovely garden pond, but it keeps leaking the top two inches of water. And it never goes below that level, but every time I fill it up, and can I find where it's leaking? You say, what a trivial thing. I'm telling you, my heart's troubled about it. I've got a troubled heart about my pond that won't stop leaking. I'm determined to find it, but oh, I don't know how I'm going to find it. I know that's a trivial example, but you know, we all have troubled hearts. in some degree or another. People are concerned about politics. We've got a time of elections coming up and you know, you hear it and it's... It's dreadful, some of the things you hear. The lies and the false promises and the accusations and the untruths because people only want to vote for cake today and nobody thinks about reality. And they're all making bigger promises than the other one to give you a nicer, bigger, sweeter piece of cake. And it's just a pack of lies, isn't it, from all of them. And you think, what are we going to do? Where are we going to turn? Politics in a world of turmoil causes believers to have troubled hearts. Do you know what it all is? It's Satan's schemes. It's Satan, the prince of this world, scheming. He's in league with fallen flesh, and especially fallen flesh in positions of political power. And it causes alarm, it causes heart concern, troubled hearts. The disciples were even troubled about Christ when he came into them. They had, what would you want? Christ here, if only he was here. The disciples had him and they were troubled, they were terrified. Is it a ghost? Is it a spook? Believers today can be troubled concerning Christ and their relationship with him. Do you ever ask this? Am I truly saved? Am I truly saved? Do I have You know, I read of people, and they have certain feelings when they're saved. Oh, do I have those feelings? Because if I don't have those feelings, then I can't be saved, can I? And I, my heart gets troubled. Have I had the same experience? This is why it's so, be careful. When you read biographies, of Christians, believers that have gone before, be careful. Because the writers that write them always write with rose-coloured spectacles. And more often than not, they miss out the heart troubles of those who have gone before, and they live lives floating several feet above the ground compared with the rest of us, but not really. They're men and women of flesh and blood, who are troubled with the same things. But believers say, am I truly saved? Do I have the right feelings? Have I felt a deep enough sense of sin? Oh, you know, I read that believers are in a state of anguish for weeks on end before they come to know Christ. Have I felt a deep enough sense of sin? My heart is troubled because I don't know where I stand with Christ. Have I? I read about, I sing the hymns talking about the tears that believers shed. Have I wept enough tears? Have I wept at all to be sure that my repentance is real? Or what about the way I live? Oh, is my daily walk sufficiently holy? Is it? Oh, my heart gets troubled by all these things! And the psalmist comes and says this to us, and to himself, Psalm 43, verse 5, Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Why are you troubled, my heart? And why are you disquieted within me, hoping God? for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God." Don't look to yourself and the things of your own feelings and experience, look to him. Why are you cast down? I shall yet praise him, hope in God, not in yourself. Have you come to faith in Christ, sorry, to Christ in faith, believing that his death satisfied the law for you, particularly, for you. And if it was particularly for you and all those for whom he died, therefore it was effectually, it got the job done. Have you come to Christ in that faith? then you know that you're His. All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and Him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. There's no qualification in there about the number of tears you should shed. There's no qualification in there about the sense of sin you should feel, the extent of it. There's no qualification there about how holy your life should be. All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and Him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. There is no qualification other than coming to Christ in faith. I'm a poor sinner. What did he say? Happy, Jack? I'm a poor sinner and nothing at all. What are your qualifications, Jack? I'm a poor sinner and nothing at all. But Jesus Christ, he's my all in all. He came to Christ in faith, believing that all he had done made him rich beyond measure in terms of eternity. And therefore, that was his qualification. What should I do to be saved, said the Philippian jailer? Believe. But what about everything? Believe. What of all these things I've done? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and everyone in your household who does so. You see, it's Christ, Christ alone who is made to believe as wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, It's He that is all those things, not we or anything that we are or anything that we feel. Yes, we have feelings, but don't rely on your feelings. Rely on the truth. Rely on what the Word of God says. The Word of God says this, Colossians 2 verse 10, we are complete in Him. Yes, but apart from, no, we are complete in Him. Complete means nothing missing. Complete means nothing lacking. We are complete in him. And so, Jesus said to his disciples, just after he told Peter that Peter would betray him, as strong as he felt he was, you, Peter, will deny me three times, and then the cock will crow. As strong as you feel now, you're so weak in the flesh, Satan will have you. He's desired to have you, to sift you, but I've prayed for you. And he says to him, John 14 1, let not your heart be troubled. Did you hear that? In the midst of your sin and your troubled heart, let not your heart be troubled. We have troubled hearts, but let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. When Jesus says to them, why are you troubled and why do thoughts arise in your heart? Verse 39, he goes straight on and look what he says, Behold, my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit, a ghost, hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.' And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of fish and a honeycomb, and he took it and ate." Resurrection proofs is a comfort. Believer, what's the most effective remedy for a troubled heart? Yes, we're all prone to troubled hearts. What is the most effective remedy for a troubled heart? It is this. It is the truth of salvation accomplished. It's the truth that on the basis of salvation accomplished, I'm justified before the judgment seat of Christ. What is it that reassures me? It's the fact that Christ has risen. Is it not? He has risen. How do you know you're going to rise from the dead and go to be in eternal glory? He has already risen. He is risen from the dead. This is the cause of rejoicing. Salvation is accomplished, but he didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead. Christ is risen. He was offered for our transgressions, for our offenses. for our sins against the law of God. He paid the penalty of them, but then having paid, the proof that he paid was that he was raised from the dead. He was raised for our justification. He was raised to show that we are justified by what he has done in satisfying the law of God in his death for us. For the law says, you must be perfect or you must die and we're not perfect and we can never make up for that but he died in our place that we don't need to die and so the law is satisfied he's raised for our justification it's the proof it's the confirmation and if he has done it We will. You see the trees in blossom at this time of year, and you know that means there's going to be fruit. I can tell you now the maximum number of plums we're going to have on our little plum tree. It had a few on it last year, but this year I think it's building up its strength for the future. I think I've seen five flowers on it. I doubt whether we'll have more than five plums this year. But when you've had one, you know that there are others coming. And he rose from the dead. He's the first fruits. He's the harbinger of that which is to come, the indicator of that which is to come, that there's more fruit to come, and we who are his people are those fruits who will be raised. John says this, 1 John 4 verse 17, Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this. He's risen from the dead. As He is, so will we be. So are we. We will rise from the dead. Don't be troubled, my heart. Look at the resurrection. Isn't this why we believe? If there's no resurrection, we're of all men most miserable. Why do we do it? Why do we bother with this religion if there's no eternity, if there's no eternal life? If we all go the same way, if the lights are just switched off, we should say with the rest of the world, let's eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. But we don't, we believe in eternity. And the proof of it is the resurrection. Christ is raised. He is risen from the dead. And we shall be as he is, so are we in this world. He is risen. So all his people will rise as he has. Look at his hands and his feet. Behold, my hands and my feet." What's he saying? He's saying, look here, can you see where the nails went in? This is his real body. Can you see where the nails went in? Look at my side. Can you see where that spear pierced my side? Come and look. On another occasion he said to Thomas, who is known as Doubting Thomas, he said, Thomas, come here, look, feel, put your fingers in here, feel it, it's real, put your hand in the hole in my side where the spear went in. Now, now do you believe that I'm risen from the dead? And Thomas falls to his knees, my Lord and my God. And Jesus doesn't rebuke him for calling him my God. He's his God, this is our God, the God-man. in the flesh, risen from the dead, having accomplished the salvation of his people. He says, it's me. And he says in verse 41, yet believe not for joy. It means that they were confused and in a state of elation, but not clear what they were seeing and they were wondering. And he says, look, let's go further. Have you got any meat? Have you got any food? And they gave him some fish and a honeycomb and he took it and ate it. And he said, look, A spirit doesn't eat, does it? Here's a man who's risen from the dead. As he is, so are we in this world. He ate troubled, he ate real food. And troubled hearts were turned to rejoicing hearts. They were rejoicing because they saw. There was a book written in the 1930s. and it was by a man who took the pen name, it wasn't his real name, Frank Morrison, and he set out, highly sceptical about religion and about Christianity, and he set out to write a book disproving the resurrection. and proving to people how this was a load of mythical nonsense. You know, like that man Richard Dawkins wrote his God Myth book and all this sort of stuff. Well, this man Frank Morrison set out to write a book like that, disproving the resurrection. And he ended up, the more and more he looked, the more convinced he became that Jesus truly did rise from the dead. And he wrote the book called Who Moved the Stone? And many people have been greatly moved by reading that book. Resurrection proofs. Is your heart troubled? If Christ is risen, listen, right? Listen to the logic of this. If Christ is risen, what can possibly threaten your eternal security and confidence? Christ is risen from the dead. What can possibly threaten your eternal security? You have confidence, don't you? Romans 8, 32 and 34, I know I read it a lot. He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died. Yea, Rather, listen, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. I ask the question again, if Christ is risen, what can possibly threaten your eternal security and confidence? Nothing, nothing, nothing at all. Troubled hearts? Think on those things. Think on the resurrection. Think on the fact that Christ is reigning in glory now. That He's building His many mansions. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. That He's going to take all His people in resurrection glory to be with Him. But He's left us here now. He's left us here. He's left us. He's risen from the dead, but He said, look in verse 44, He said to them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning me. Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures and said unto them, thus it is written. And thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. Christ is now in glory, and we, his church, visible, are still here in this fallen world of flesh and sin. We have the assurance of the scriptures concerning the resurrection. We have a good hope based on confidence in Christ's resurrection. But still our hearts today are prone to trouble. What comforts us now? What is it that comforts believers now? The picture in Revelation 11 is of the church being driven into the wilderness to be kept there. to be fed there by God. But it's a wilderness place. We're in a wilderness world. Regarding spirituality, this is a wilderness. However beautiful it may appear on a spring day like today, spiritually we are in a barren desert wilderness world. You talk to your unbelieving relatives and neighbors and you will know the coldness and the hardness and the unbelief of the human heart. What's going to comfort us now? We can't look physically on the risen Christ. He's not going to appear in this room before us as a physical person whom we can go and touch. So what has he given us to comfort us? What calms troubled believing hearts? Just turn to John's gospel, just a few pages over. John's gospel, chapter 14. John chapter 14 and verse 16. And I will pray the Father, says Jesus, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. He's speaking of his Holy Spirit, that when he goes away he will send. Verse 26 of the same chapter. But the Comforter, and now he tells us, which is the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things. He'll teach you the gospel. He'll teach you those things you need to know, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Chapter 15, verse 26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me. We have Him. What comforts us now? It's the Holy Spirit, because He testifies of Christ. Now, how does He testify of Christ? How does He do it? By what means? What means does He use to testify of Christ and comfort us? It's the Scriptures. Through the Scriptures, he comforts us with the things of Christ in this wilderness journey. These are the wilderness comforts. The Holy Spirit comes and takes the Scriptures and reveals the things of Christ to believing hearts. Romans 15, four, for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we, listen, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. What comforts us in this wilderness journey? the Scriptures. The Scriptures alone? Many people read the Scriptures. No, the Scriptures interpreted by the Holy Spirit. who gives us the mind of Christ, who reveals the things of Christ to us. How do the Scriptures comfort us and give us hope? Look at Luke 24 again, verse 25. I'll read those words that I read earlier. Oh fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, all the Old Testament, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. And then on at verse 44, he said to them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses. Why? Because they were written concerning him. All things written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms, what were they all about? Concerning me. Can you imagine a man before their eyes saying that everything that was written in this book was concerning me? This was our Lord Jesus Christ, our risen Lord Jesus Christ. And then he, verse 45, opened their understanding. He opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures and not just view them as an academic book, a theology, but that they might see them as a book of Christ, that they might see them as revealing Christ, the mind of Christ, the spirit of Christ to us. And he said unto them, thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day that repentance and remission of sins should be preached. This is it. This is what the scriptures are about. This is it. They were written for our learning that they might give us comfort. They all speak of Christ. But the Holy Spirit alone gives the sight of faith to see what they say concerning him. And what in particular? The necessity of Christ's suffering. Why did he have to suffer? He had to satisfy the law. Why did he have to die? If his people are going to be in glory, they can only be in glory if they're justified before the law of God. What does the law demand? Their death. They cannot die and then be in glory. They must be in an eternal hell. But he died in their place, the infinite one for them. And thereby, he satisfied. This is why it's necessary. This is why it behoved Christ to suffer. That he might fulfill the law for his people. That he might satisfy it in his death for his people. and that he might rise to prove that the work that he'd done, the death that he'd died, had satisfied the law, and that that would lead to repentance and remission of sins. This is the whole counsel of God. This is all of it. This is all God has to say. He's not teaching us how to live as a society, he's teaching us about Christ. Paul said to the Ephesian elders, Acts 20, 27, I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. What's all the counsel of God, Paul? 1 Corinthians 2, verse 2. I was determined, says Paul, to know not anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified. To Paul, preaching Christ and Him crucified is the same as preaching the whole counsel of God. There's nothing else. There's nothing else. There's nothing else to say. That is it. It's the sum total of what God has to say. It's not a book of morals. It's not a book of religious organization. It's about Christ. And what He has done, saving His people from their sins, do you understand that? Has God opened your eyes, your understanding, given you faith, given you soul sight, to understand what the Scriptures declare concerning salvation? That there's no condemnation? No condemnation. that the word will be to you on that day before that judgment seat of Christ, come ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. This is the pearl of greatest price. This is what thrills your heart. Knowing that you were destined as children of wrath deserving of condemnation to experience the liberty of the redeemed slave. Can you imagine that? It's just a picture. The liberty. Imagine the slave market, you know? Slavery's wrong, it's a horrible thing, but imagine the slave market. And imagine the complete bondage of the one who was a slave in chains. And somebody steps forward at that market and comes with the price of redemption to set that slave free. That's it. liberty of the redeemed slave. This is true spiritual heartburn. This is true joy in believing. No wonder it prompted believers to write, you know, the hymns that we sing, why do you think the men and women that wrote those hymns wrote what they did? Their hearts were burning within them of the joy of what they believed in the gospel of grace. So yes, In the flesh, we're prone to doubts and to fears and to unbelief and to trouble. But this comfort here in the scriptures that only the redeemed of God know, this comfort that makes our hearts burn within us at the thrill of it.