I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES . . .

“I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter
day on the earth.” (Job 19:25)

“Job’s life was filled with uncertainty and confusion. Although he did
not understand what God was doing, suddenly his declaration of truth
came like a light in the dark tunnel of his life. “I KNOW that my
Redeemer lives.”

Many things happened that he couldn’t understand. Doubts filled his
mind. Heartbreaking calamaties robbed him of his peace and joy. Yet his
solid confidence in God carried him through the turbulence of his life.
His assurance was a present reality. ‘I KNOW that my Redeemer lives!’ It
gave him hope for the future. ‘He shall stand at the latter day on the
earth … In my flesh I WILL see God.’ (25-26)

We can have this same confidence today. Jesus said, ‘Because I live, you
will live also.’ (John 14:19) His crucifixion and burial left His
disciples seemingly without hope. But He came forth a LIVING Savior —
victor over death and the grave.

The angel said to the women who came to the tomb, ‘Fear not; for I know
you seek Jesus which was crucified. He is not here: for He is risen, as
He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay’ (Matthew 28:5-6). The
resurrection message dispels fear. It brings hope. He IS risen! He IS
alive!

Victory, joy, peace, and praise characterize our Christian faith because
Jesus came forth triumphant over death: ‘I am Him that lives, and was
dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore’ (Revelation 1:18).

At a rehearsal of Handel’s oratorio, MESSIAH, the soprano soloist began
to sing the aria, “I Know that My Redeemer Liveth.’ Her technique was
perfect, but something was lacking. The conductor asked, ‘DO YOU REALLY
BELIEVE THAT YOUR REDEEMER LIVES?’

She looked surprised. ‘Of course I believe it.’ “Then sing as if you
believe it,’ said the conductor. Again she sang of the resurrected
Redeemer, this time from her innermost being. All who listened were
moved to tears. When she finished, the auditorium was quiet. Finally the
conductor said, ‘Yes, you do believe it.’

Jesus Christ is alive! Are you singing today from the depth of your
innermost being, ‘I know that MY Redeemer lives?’ Do people know you
believe it?” from HE IS REAL — 365 Daily Devotions by Millie Stamm
(Zondervan).

Have a blessed Easter.

IT IS FINISHED

One of the the truly amazing last words from the cross is this word that
is packed with meaning and a message that should send your heart
soaring. “Tetelestia” — It is finished!!! Holy God was satisfied with
the payment for sin! The blood of His Son paid the debt completely —
not partially for our debt — completely — once and for all.

Our son Josh was conceived after I had started a new job and our health
insurance had a 3 month waiting period. Our health insurance said that
they would only pay for the doctors portion of the birth so we would be
responsible for the total hospital bill. Back then, the cost was nothing
like it is today, but the bill still hung over us like a weight. We
didn’t have a clue how that debt would be covered. All we could do was
commit to making monthly installments to pay off the debt. Most likely
this would take years to pay off the complete debt.

I will never forget this as long as I live — the day the bill arrived
in the mail our hearts sunk as we saw in writing the enormity of the
debt. A hour later there was a knock at the door and it was the Pastor
of our church. He came in and said, “My understanding is that Josh’s
hospital bill arrived today. May I please see the bill.” He looked at
the bill, pulled out his pen, and wrote these words across the page —
PAID IN FULL. We don’t know who did this — but the COMPLETE bill was
satisfied by someone who had paid not part of the bill, but the entire
bill. The hospital was completely satisfied.

The “IT” which was nailed to the cross is YOUR SIN AND MINE — past,
present and future. It was a ONCE AND FOR ALL payment. The Father was
COMPLETELY satisfied. Dr. Erwin Lutzer says in his book CRIES FROM THE
CROSS: “Put your sin the ledger and write “Paid in full” next to it.

* An abortion: Paid in full!
* Fornication: Paid in full!
* Cheating: Paid in full!
* Greed: Paid in full!
*Abandoning responsibility: Paid in
full!
* Criminal behavior: Paid in full!
* Selfishness: Paid in full!
* Lying: Paid in full!

Horatio Spafford penned the words to one of the classic hymns of the
Christian faith, “It Is Well With My Soul.” One of my favorite verses of
that hymn in verse 3: “MY sin, O the bliss of this glorious thought! MY
SIN not in PART but the WHOLE — is nailed to the Cross and I bear it NO
MORE — Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!”

My friend, YOUR SIN DEBT WAS PAID FOR BY THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST —
ONCE AND FOR ALL! May this truth fill your heart to overflowing as you
prepare for Resurrection Sunday!

COLONY GRADS: We are looking for pictures for our COLONY GRAD HALL OF
FAME which is now on our website. You can send your pictures to me at:
bwelte@americaskeswick.org.

HALLELUJAH! What a Savior!

This morning I share with you from Isaiah 53 from THE MESSAGE
(NavPress). As you reflect and meditate today on what HE did for YOU on
the Cross — He paid a debt that He didn’t owe because we had a debt we
couldn’t pay — He did this all for you and me!!!

1 Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought
God’s saving power would look like this? 2 The servant grew up before
God – a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was
nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look.
3 He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew
pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down
on him, thought he was scum.

4 But the fact is, it was our pains he carried – our
disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it
on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. 5 But it
was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him
– our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his
bruises we get healed. 6 We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and
gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has
piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him. 7 He
was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn’t say a word. Like a lamb taken
to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared, he took it all in
silence. 8 Justice miscarried, and he was led off – and did anyone
really know what was happening? He died without a thought for his own
welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people. 9 They buried him with
the wicked, threw him in a grave with a rich man, Even though he’d never
hurt a soul or said one word that wasn’t true.

10 Still, it’s what God had in mind all along, to crush him with
pain. The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin so that
he’d see life come from it – life, life, and more life. And God’s plan
will deeply prosper through him. 11 Out of that terrible travail of
soul, he’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad he did it. Through what
he experienced, my righteous one, my servant, will make many “righteous
ones,” as he himself carries the burden of their sins. 12 Therefore I’ll
reward him extravagantly – the best of everything, the highest honors –
Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch, because he
embraced the company of the lowest. He took on his own shoulders the sin
of the many, he took up the cause of all the black sheep.

Take some time today to get alone with the Lord and tell Him how
much you love Him. Thank Him for dying for You! Hallelujah! what a
Savior.

MY SAVIOR’S LOVE . . . Please don’t skip over this because it appears
to be JUST a hymn quoted . . .

I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love ME,
A sinner, condemned, unclean.

How marvelous! how wonderful!
And my song shall ever be:
How marvelous! how wonderful
Is my Savior’s love for me!

For ME it was in he garden
He prayed, “Not My will, but Thine”;
He had no tears for His OWN griefs,
But sweat-drops of blood for mine.

In pity angels beheld Him,
And came from the world of light
To comfort Him in the sorrows
He bore for MY soul that night.

He took MY sins and my sorrows,
He made them HIS very own;
He bore the burden to Calvr’y
And suffered and died ALONE . . .

Alone! Alone! Hanging on the cross, listening to the cries and jeers
from the crowd. And yet he cries, “Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they do.” And then the darkness comes. Horrible darkness. C. J.
Mahaney writes “an atmospheric confirmation of the judgment of God . . .
It’s a darkness you can feel. Even the sky reflects what is happening to
the Son of God. Jesus is being made to drink from the cup which He had
asked to be removed. He’s being made to experience the full fury of the
wrath of God — the intense, righteous hatred of God for sin, a wrath
that has been stored up beginning with Adam’s sin and extending to all
of your sin and mine, and to all the sin to the end of world history.

The sinless One — innocent and holy Himself — is made the object of
that vast and vile immensity of sin. This is His severe test, His
cruelest and most demanding ordeal, a torment far beyond the pain of His
physical suffering . . .”

And He cries from the Cross, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
“He who for all eternity has never been alone is now wholly abandoned.
Such utter desolation has never existed before in all eternity, because
infinite love and fellowship of the Trinity, which can never be broken.
But now the incarnate Son, must be forsaken by the Father . . . because
the Father is holy, and there in the Father’s sight is ‘the most
grotesque display of ugliness imaginable.’ It’s the monstrous sight of
the unbounded totality of human sin resting upon the Son of Man.

Therefore that Man must be utterly removed from the presence of the holy
God, utterly separated, as far as the east is from the west. Jesus
doesn’t FEEL forsaken; He IS forsaken. In an unfathomable mystery, at
that moment, as God’s wrath is poured upon Him as the substitute for our
sin, Jesus is rejected by God, His Father turns away from Him. It isn’t
a deceptive feeling — it’s reality . . .

Why alone? He’s alone so that we might never be alone. He cries out to
God so that you and I will NEVER have to make a similar cry. He was cut
off from His Father so that we can boldly say, “Nothing shall separate
us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.’ He’s forsaken so that we might
be forgiven . . .

God, in abandoning His Son, is treating Jesus as a sinner so that He can
treat you and me — who ARE sinners — as if we were righteous — all
because of JESUS!”

from LIVING THE CROSS-CENTERED LIFE by C. J. Mahaney (Multnomah
Publishers)

Powerful words for you to reflect on as many reflect of the hours before
Good Friday.

IN THE GARDEN

I have been meditating on the events leading up to the Cross and have
been thinking through what Christ experienced and went through for me.
Jesus had just left a very intimate gathering with the disciples in the
upper room and moves to the garden of Gethsemane. The One who seemed so
confident and comforting in the upper room with his disciples now seems
to come unglued in the garden. He is in agony. His emotions are raw.
Physically and emotionally, He is in upheaval. Why?

C. J. Maheny in his book, LIVING THE CROSS CENTERED LIFE reminds us that
“in this garden, our Savior is beginning to confront as never before the
ultimate and deepest agony of Calvary — an agony that will go
infinitely BEYOND any physical aspects of suffering. For Jesus, the
Cross will bring incomparable and unprecedented suffering — not just
physical — but suffering of wrath and abandonment.”

Jesus is laying prostrate on the ground crying out to HIS Father — the
One with whom He has had fellowship with — unbroken fellowship with for
all eternity. His cry, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You.
Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Why is he is so much agony? What is it about this cup that troubles him
to the point of sweating drops of blood? Isaiah 51:17 tells us that this
cup in God’s extended hand is the “cup of His wrath!” Mahaney says “this
cup contains the full vehemence and fierceness of God’s holy wrath
poured out against all sin, and we discover in Scripture that it’s
intended for all of sinful humanity to drink. It’s your cup and mine . .
. It is filled with ‘fire and sulphur and a scorching wind’ like some
volcanic firestorm, like all the fury from Mount St. Helens eruption
concentrated within a coffee mug.”

“What Jesus recoils from here is not the anticipation of the physical
pain associated with crucifixion. Rather it’s a pain infinitely greater
— the agony of being ABANDONED by His Father.” Mahaney shares that one
commentator said Jesus entered the garden “to be with the Father for an
interlude before His betrayal, but found HELL rather than heaven opened
before Him. Knowing the hour for His death is fast approaching, Jesus
has come here in need as never before of HIS Father’s comfort and
strength. Instead, hell — utter separation from God — is thrust in His
face.”

He receives no response … He is willing to complete the will of His
Father and will drink the WHOLE cup for you and for me. Mahaney reminds
us that “Jesus has every right to turn His tearful eyes towards you and
me and shout, ‘This is YOUR cup. You’re responsible for this. It’s YOUR
sin! YOU drink it!’ Instead, Jesus freely takes it HIMSELF … so that
from the cross He can look down at you and me, whisper our names, and
say, ‘I drain this cup for you — for you who have lived in defiance of
Me, who have hated Me, who have opposed Me. I drink it all for You.”
Wow . . .

“O the love that drew salvation’s plan — O the grace the brought it
down to man — O the mighty gulf that GOD did span — AT CALVARY!
Contemplate today what HE experienced in the garden of Gethsemane for
YOU and ME!

MY HEART — CHRIST’S HOME

Years ago when I was a student at Philadelphia College of the Bible (now
Philadelphia Biblical University), we were assigned to read a little
book entitled, MY HEART — CHRIST’S HOME. While it has been over 30
years that I read this little book, the impact of its message is as
fresh as it was when it was read.

The message of the book is this … when we invite the crucified Christ
into our lives, He wants EVERY part of us! The word picture is
thought-provoking. Christ wants to come to our “heart-home” and we are
willing to invite him into our living room. He sits there for a while,
then wants to go with us to the dining room and kitchen. Everything is
fine — until He asks to go upstairs. Now he wants to go into our
bedroom. After inspecting most of our heart-house, He notices a closet.
Looking into your eyes, He says, “Please open the door and let me in
their!”

Most of us have them in our houses or offices. There is some closet or
drawer that we have stuffed to the max. When company or friends come for
a visit, we are willing to let them have access to every area of our
homes, but please — that closet or drawer is off limits. Is it off
limits to your kids? Your spouse? No one knows but YOU what is hidden in
the closet.

For some of us, there is stuff hidden in an actual physical closet or
drawer. For some it might be pornography — magazines, videos or other
offensive materials. It may not be in a physical closet — but it might
be stored on your computer where no one but you can find it. Christ
wants access to that area of your life — because of His death on the
Cross, He invites you to open that area of your heart to Him.

For others, the closet is in your mind — You’ve stuffed all kinds of
“stuff” in there — lustful thoughts, fantasies, things that you would
be ashamed of if they were to be exposed! Christ wants access to that
area of your life. He wants to free you from the junk that is there. He
wants to work with you to clean out that closet of your mind and bring
healing.

Oswald Chambers said: “the Holy Spirit cannot be accepted as a guest in
merely one room of the house — He invades all of it. And once I decide
that my “old man” should be identified with the death of Jesus, the Holy
Spirit invades me. He takes charge of everything. My part is to walk in
the light and to obey all that He reveals to me. Once I have made that
important decision about sin, it is easy to “reckon” that I am actually
“dead to sin,” because I find the life of Jesus in me all the time
(Romans 6:11) . . . God puts the holiness of His Son into me, and I now
belong to a new spiritual order.”

If He comes today to do a house inspection or wants to come for a visit
— will you give him complete access to every area of your heart-home?
Think about it today!

COMPLETE AND EFFECTIVE DECISION ABOUT SIN

Serving at America’s KESWICK and rubbing shoulders with the men of the
Colony of Mercy has been a very rewarding experience. In listening to
their stories and observing their lives, God has revealed so much to me
about my own heart.

At the heart of the Keswick message is the truth that we do not have to
be dominated by sin in our lives. Why? Because when Christ died on the
cross for you and me, “our old man was crucified with HIM, that the body
of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to
sin.” (Romans 6:6)

Oswald Chambers asks the question: “Have you made the following decision
about sin — that it must be completely killed in you? It takes a long
time to come to the point of making this complete and effective decision
about sin. It is however, the greatest moment in your life once you
decide that sin must die in you — not simply restrained, suppressed, or
counteracted, but crucified — just as Jesus Christ died for the sin of
the world . . .

Pull yourself up, take some time alone with God, and make this important
decision, saying, ‘Lord, identify me with Your death until I know that
sin is dead in me.’ Make the moral decision that sin in you must be put
to death . . . Are you prepared to let the Spirit of God search you
until you know what level and nature of sin is in your life — to see
the very things that struggle against God’s Spirit in you? If so, will
you then agree with God’s verdict on the nature of sin — that it should
be identified with the death of Jesus? You cannot ‘reckon yourselves to
be dead indeed to sin’ (Romans 6:11) unless you have radically dealt
with the issue of your will before God.

Have you entered into the glorious privilege of being crucified with
Christ, until all that remains in your flesh and blood is HIS life? ‘I
have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ
lives in me . . .'” (Galatians 2:20) from MY UTMOST FROM HIS HIGHEST
(Discovery House Publishers)

Is the Spirit of God speaking to you today? Is there an area of your
life where you are experiencing the roller coaster of ups and downs? A
besetting sin that has you living in despair? The cycle of sin was taken
care of at the Cross, my friend. I urge you today to do as Chambers
suggest — get alone with God and allow Him to speak to your heart and
transform your life. One of the ways you can do that is to get away at a
place like America’s KESWICK. We have a special for our Freedom Fighter
family.

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THE PRECIOUS BLOOD

Blessed Lord Jesus,
Before Your cross I kneel and see the heinousness of my sin,
MY iniquity that caused You to be ‘made a curse’,
the evil that excites the severity of divine wrath.
Show me the enormity of my guilt by
the crown of thorns,
the pieced hands and feet,
the bruised body,
the dying cries.
Your blood is the blood of the incarnate God,
its worth infinite, its value beyond all thought.
Infinite must be the evil and guilt that demands such a high price.
Sin is my malady, my monster, my foe, my viper,
born in my birth,
alive in my life,
strong in my character,
dominating by faculties,
following me as a shadow,
intermingling with my every thought,
my chain that holds me captive in the empire of my soul.
Sinner that I am, why should the sun give me light,
the air supply breath,
the earth bear my tread,
its fruit nourish me,
its creatures subserve my ends?
Yet Your compassions yearn over me,
Your heart hastens to my rescue,
Your love endured my curse,
You mercy bore my deserved stripes.
Let me walk humbly in the lowest depths of humiliation,
bathed in Your blood,
tender of conscience,
triumphing gloriously as an heir of salvation. Amen

from THE VALLEY OF VISION — Prayers of the Puritans published by Banner
of Truth

Behold the Savior of mankind
Nailed to the shameful tree!
How vast the love that Him inclined
To bleed and died for ME!

Hark, how He groans, while nature shakes,
And earth’s strong pillars bend!
The temple’s veil in sunder breaks;
The solid marbles rend.

‘Tis done! the precious ransom paid!
‘Receive my soul!’ He cries;
See where He bows His sacred head!
He bows His head and dies!

But SOON He’ll break death’s envious chain,
And in full glory shine;
O Lamb of God was ever pain,
Was ever love, like Thine?

Samuel Wesley (1662-1735)

Good words to ponder on this Lord’s day in preparation for the
celebration of Good Friday and Easter.

ALL DIE!

As we continue to reflect on the Cross and what Jesus did for us when He
died for us, I share with you a story from C. J. Mahaney’s new book,
LIVING THE CROSS CENTERED LIFE — KEEPING THE GOSPEL THE MAIN THING
(published by Multnomah).

Mahaney writes: “In World War II, Ernest Gordon was a British captive in
a Japanese prison camp by the River Kwai in Burma, where the POWs were
forced to build a ‘railroad of death’ for transporting Japanese troops
to the battlefront. They were tortured, starved, and worked to the point
of exhaustion. Nearly 16,000 died.

Gordon survived the horrors of that experience and wrote about it in a
monumental work, THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE KWAI, published in 1962 (and
later made into the movie TO END ALL WARS). He described one occasion
when, at the end of a work day, the tools were being counted before the
prisoners returned to their quarters. A guard declared that a shovel was
missing. He began to rant and rave, demanding to know which prisoner had
stolen it.

Working himself into a paranoid fury, he ordered whoever was guilty to
step forward and take his punishment. No one did.

‘All died!’ the guard shrieked. ‘All die!’ He cocked his rifle and aimed
at the prisoners. At that moment, one man stepped forward. Standing at
attention he calmly declared, ‘I did it!”

The Japanese guard at once clubbed the prisoner to death. As his friends
carried away his lifeless body, the shovels in the tool shed were
recounted — only to reveal that there was no missing shovel.”

Mahaney goes on to say: “Imagine, if you can, the effect upon his fellow
prisoners this man’s substitutionary sacrifice for them . . . Unlike
the situation of those prisoners staring into the cocked and loaded gun
of a deranged guard, you and I do not face death from a fellow sinner.
What we face is the righteous threat of furious wrath from a holy God.
THAT is the threat faced by all who have gone astray, by each one who
has turned to his own way. In our case, the shovel is missing; there is
in fact a great deal more that’s missing. We are indeed guilty of sin
and deserving punishment.

BUT . . . the innocent ONE, the holy One — God the Son — stepped
forward to die for the rest of us. On that Cross the Servant suffered
FOR sinners like you and me, BECAUSE of sinners like you and me — and
as the SUBSTITUTE for sinners like you and me. He takes the punishment
that you and I richly deserve.”

And my friend, HE DID IT ALL FOR YOU and ME! Hallelujah! What a Savior.

“Man of Sorrows!” what name
For the Son of God who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim!
Hallelujah! what a Savior!

Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
IN MY PLACE condemned He stood —
Sealed MY pardon with His blood;
Hallelujah! what a Savior!

Guilty, vile and helpless we,
Spotless Lamb of God was He;
FULL ATONEMENT! can it be?
Hallelujah! what a Savior!

Lifted up was He to die,
“It is finished!” was His cry;
Now in heav’n exalted high:
Hallelujah! what a Savior.

When HE comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring,
Then anew this song we’ll sing:
Hallelujah! what a Savior.

Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876)

Good words to consider today and throughout these days of preparation
for Easter.

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HE MADE HIM TO BE SIN . . . FOR YOU!

“For He made Him who knew NO sin to be sin for us, that we might become
the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21

As we prepare to remember the events of the last days of our Savior
leading up to his death, burial and resurrection, I want to share with
you some thoughts about the Cross during the next several days.

Henry Blackaby, the author of EXPERIENCING GOD, writes that “this verse
from 2 Corinthians, should startle us and cause us to tremble. It is not
a verse to be read quickly and passed over. As Christians we are
grateful to be forgiven of our sins. We are thankful we have been
adopted as God’s children. Yet we will never comprehend the awesome
price that Jesus paid to cleanse us of our sin and to give us HIS
righteousness. How abhorrent was it for the sinless Son of God to have
EVERY sin of humanity placed upon Him? What love was required for the
Father to watch His only Son bear the excruciating pain of our sin upon
the Cross?

The prophet Isaiah summarized his human condition: ‘We are all like an
unclean thing, and all OUR righteousness’s are like filthy rags’ (Isaiah
64:6). Even the high priest, Joshua, in his exalted position among God’s
people, was clothed in filthy rags before God (Zechariah 3:3). T

The Apostle Paul, who labored arduously to be righteous before God,
realized that his most strenuous efforts to please God were no more
valuable than rubbish (Philippians 3:4-10). The plight of humanity is
that nothing we could ever do could satisfy God’s desire for
righteousness. But the miracle of God’s mercy is that God exchanges our
‘filthy rags’ for ‘rich robes’ of righteousness (Zechariah 3:4).

In this awesome exchange, God placed the sin of humanity upon His
righteous Son. Jesus became so identified with our sin that the
Scriptures says God MADE Him to be sin on our behalf. The holy Son of
God could not possibly do more for us than this! Experiencing the
Father’s wrath upon the sin He carried would have been more painful to
endure than any human rejection or physical suffering.

NEVER take the righteousness God has given you for granted. NEVER take
the forgiveness of your sin lightly. IT COST GOD A TERRIBLE PRICE IN
ORDER TO FORGIVE YOU AND MAKE YOU RIGHTEOUS. Walk in a manner worthy of
the righteousness He has given you.” from EXPERIENCING GOD DAY-BY-DAY
— published by our good friends at Broadman Holman.

Good verse to meditate on throughout the day.