Join Douglas Wilson, Dr. Joseph Bood, Brian Sovey, Eric Kahn, and myself on March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for our 2024 conference.

It's called Blueprints for Chrysidum 2.0. Our early bird pricing ends on Thursday, August 31st.

So go and visit riteresponseconference.com to register today. We hope to see you at the

conference in March. The first thing that I couldn't help but think of as I was reading the text

and preparing to preach this Lord's Day is about Jesus.

Here's Joshua, and if I were him, I would be very tempted to let Gibbon go.

They would send messengers to me and say, come and defend us.

Wait, come and defend you?

Didn't you lie to me?

Just a few days ago?

Didn't you trick me?

I'm not going to come and defend you.

But that's not the way that Jesus engages us.

We've all lied.

We've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

And whether we've been walking faithfully with Christ for five minutes or 50 years, when you get Christ, you get all of Christ.

All his devotion, all his protection, all his commitment, everything.

And the first thing that Jesus saves us from is actually the wrath of the triune God.

But secondly, beyond that point, it is also true that God spares the righteous,

not only from God's just wrath against us by Christ atoning for our sin

and His righteousness being imputed to our account through faith.

But in addition to God saving us from himself,

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