Here is the quiz today, it's a one segment answer, but where are we going in the scriptures today? Hosea, there we go, amen. Hosea chapter 7 is where we are going to be starting in, or not starting in, right smack in the middle of Hosea. So the idea here in Hosea chapter 7 is that God, as that loving father and husband, has offered up the gospel, offered up forgiveness of sin, forgiveness of transgression in chapter 6. And yet, knowing that the people would not heed, He promised that even Israel and even Judah would be harvested, taken into captivity, but a glorious message at the end that He would return the captivity and bring his people of Judah back into the land, and that foreshadows the end, the millennium, when he will bring his people back from all the four corners of the earth, or the world, and bring them back again into their land, and guess what? We are grafted in, we will partake of that promised land as well when Christ returns. We'll be taken with him, in the rapture and come back with him and inhabit the millennium. So we pick it up in chapter 7 and we're just going to read through chapter 7 and hopefully just cover the first 7 verses. It says, when I would have healed Israel, that's God's will. God's will, let me just read it. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own doings have beset them about. They are before my face. They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from rising after he hath kneaded the dough, and until it be leavened. In the day of our king, the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners. For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whilst they lie in wait their baker sleepeth all the night. In the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. They are all as hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is none among them that calleth unto me. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not. Yea, great hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face. And they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. Ephraim also was like a silly dove without heart. They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them. I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven. I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard. Woe unto them, for they have fled from me. Destruction unto them, because they have transgressed against me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me, and they have not cried unto me with their hearts. When they howled upon their beds, they assembled themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. They return but not to the most high. They are all like a deceitful bow. Their princes shall fall by their sword for the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. And Lord, we just ask you to bless your word this morning. May you help it to be clear and that we would understand how what you meant for the people of that day as well as an application for us today. We do pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. You're going to learn in chapter 7 about four metaphors that God uses for His people. The first we'll look at today is as an oven. The people are hot like an oven. All of them. The people, the priests, everybody. And we'll see that it's not like an Amana radar range or a GE gas oven or an electric oven like we have today. So we'll see how God applies the people as being like an oven. And we'll see that they're like a cake that's not turned. We all hate when that happens, don't we? Even much more so is God. That's the second part of chapter 7. Then my favorite one is Israel is as a silly dove. That's the third metaphor that's used, and the fourth one, there is a deceitful bow. And that will tie right in with the Antichrist, where the Antichrist is the rider on the white horse who has a bow, but no arrows. This is false religion, that it's a deceitful bow. I once picked up a bow before, a bow and an arrow, and little did I know, it looked pretty good, but when I shot it, it went That way. It was a deceitful bow. It had a bend in it. It wasn't directed to the right place. So it was off target. But today we're going to look at the beginning here and the metaphor of being an oven. Now you ladies who cook, you can probably understand this a little more than us guys can. In one sense, it's more like having a cookout. If we look at that, a campfire would be more of a better understanding of the metaphor. Verse number one, when I would have healed Israel, God's will was to heal Israel. Remember, they were torn. God had promised that because of their work, He was going to do that, and He was going to be their bandage for them that would bring them back together. Beginning of chapter 6, they rejected that. That was chapter 5, they rejected it in chapter 6. They said, come, let us return to the Lord. Fleeting words, they didn't return. So now God says, I wouldn't have healed Israel Now here's where the magnifying glass of truth really does its work. Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. See, God didn't... He said He was giving up on them because of their sin, but notice through the whole thing it's they were the ones giving up on God. He gave them over. Sounds like Romans chapter 2. He gives people over to their own lusts. Where the Word of God is elevated, guess what? To the non-believer and the sinning believer, it's a magnifying glass upon their sins. God takes it out, He knows it all, but to us it's elevated even more, or magnified even more. They had the offer of forgiveness, and yet continued to reject that offer. I want to go to the New Testament for a second, to Luke chapter 13. Luke chapter 13, you can't see anything else. Look for Jesus. Luke chapter 13, we're going to look at the end of the chapter, verses 31-35. Israel rejected the Messiah, rejected God, continued to do so, went into captivity, or Judah rather. Israel was scattered throughout the world, never to return again. God promises that he's going to bring them back again. They continued to reject and paint those 400 dark years between the Old Testament and John the Baptist. So enter Jesus. Jesus is on the scene, the very God-man come to redeem his people And look where we are here. Verse number 31 says, The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out and depart hence, for Herod will kill thee. And he said unto them, Go ye and tell that thought. Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. In other words, he was talking about his resurrection. Don't worry about Herod. I've overcome Herod. As a matter of fact, I've overcome the world. I'm going. And I'm coming back on the third day. I'm dying and rising again. Nevertheless, I must walk today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. He has to go to Jerusalem to fulfill the prophecies of his death. And by the way, he was carried outside of the city where he suffered a common man's death. Outside the walls of Jerusalem. Verse 34, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem which killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, And he would not. That's the history of Jerusalem. Of Israel. Of Judah. Continual rejection. Now look at what Jesus said. Like a hen takes a brood under her wings so I wanted to do with Jerusalem. What a great metaphor that is of the loving. care and protection that Christ, or in this case, Yahweh in the flesh, had for His people. And by the way, side note, this actually, I've heard this verse about the hen gathering, I've actually heard that Jesus literally had feathers. I've heard that before. I've heard that. Heard that because Jesus was about 6 foot tall, He must have had a 9 inch span. And He created the world with a span of His hand, so it was about 9 inches wide as the span. So that must mean Jesus was 6 foot tall. Again, taking metaphor and trying to apply where they shouldn't be. Side note done. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. And verily I say unto you, you shall not see me until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. So to the Pharisees, to everybody that rejected, you will see me when I come again. He's going to come back again to judge the living and the dead. Yes, even the rejecting Pharisees would be judged by Christ when He comes. Remember, every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. The Pharisees at the judgment seat of Christ will go there and our works will be investigated or judged. But at the great white throne of judgment, these very same Pharisees, very same religious leaders that rejected Christ, guess what they'll be now doing? They'll be kneeling before Him, and they will know that He is Lord. Amen? So the continual rejection of Israel leads up to the salvation of the Gentiles where we partake of that. Yes, we today, because of Christ, we have the privilege, and I do say privilege, of being able to bend our knees to Christ and declaring Him Lord. All because of what He's done. Let's go back to Hosea chapter 7. when I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoiled without. Yes, God would now be turning up the heat. and metaphorically as this oven that we're going to look at in a few seconds. Christ would come, the people would continue to reject, and because of that rejection their hearts would be turning harder and harder and harder and harder. Much like 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 2 says, today they have a seared conscience. Their sins were so wicked they couldn't see the truth. Or they refused to see the truth. The truth is always there exposing transgression. Exposing sin. And yet what one has to do is yield to that instead of yielding to the flesh. That's what Israel was doing. They were continuing to yield to the flesh. So for they commit falsehood, and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without." Chapter 6, we saw that those thieves, those troop of robbers were the priests who were taking everything from them, actually lining in the way and setting up ambush, literally stealing from them. And because they would not, the remnant of people would not go and worship the false gods. So the false professors were the ones persecuting. Sounds like something that happened back in the 11s, 12s, 13s, and 1400s with the Inquisition. Where Bible-believing Christians were killed by the thousands for believing the truth of the Gospel by an institution that believes not the Gospel. It was just like this group here. Verse number 2. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness." They consider not in their hearts. They entirely had forgotten or had been passed off to the side that God is the Creator. He knows everything. Let's turn over to a couple places here. Let's go to Psalm 90. Psalm 90. Let's start with verse number 1. I'm interested mostly in verse 8. And verse 10 is one of my favorites. Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations, before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hast formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. Now these are the words of Moses here in the Psalms. It's Moses testimony of who God was. Thou turnest man to destruction and sayeth return ye children of men. See that? God brings the judgment to his people and offers the invitation to return where he will heal. For a thousand years in thy sight or but as yesterday when it is past. And as a watch in the night. How quickly does God forget our transgressions? You might be a thousand years old and forget, not that anybody in here is even close, but you could have transgressed back when you were one and you're a thousand now and just like that God will forgive transgression. With your 8 or 80, God's forgiveness is the same. He loves everyone, but yet His judgment is towards everyone who does not believe. Thou carriest them away as with a flood. They are asleep. In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. Amen. The judgment comes to be gone like a flood, but yet God revives His people. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. That's important there to look at the light of God's countenance. Because if you could look at God's countenance, guess what? You would not only be blinded by staring at the sun, God's countenance would destroy you. It's so immense. God's glory is so incredible that just like that, you would be taken away. You'd be fried to a crisp. That's how powerful the glory of God is. That's why in the Old Testament, the priesthood, that's why they had to go into the Holy of Holies with bells on their feet and a rope so they could be dragged away if they were consumed by God. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We spend our years as a tale that is told. See, Moses is talking about the history. We have this history of transgression, but yet God is faithful. The days of our years are three score years and ten, and if by reason of strength, they be four score years. In other words, we have 70 years is what our lifespan is to be, and by 80 years if we're strong. God, of course, has people older and some younger. But for the most part, 70 to 80 years. If you're not healthy, you're gonna be 70. If you are healthy, 80. But God has it all in His sight. And if by yet, is there strength, labor, and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away. It's like the silly dove in Hosea. We fly away, we're off. Our years are cut off just like that. who knoweth the power of thy anger, even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Return, O Lord, how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O, satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish Thou the work of our hands upon us. Yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it." So we see a picture. of God's glory, this all-consuming glory, and yet He calls people, just trust Him. Trust Him and He will be the one that will set apart our work. But yet, we can only do this if we acknowledge sin and understand that He knows it all. Let's go to another couple places in Proverbs chapter 5. Proverbs 5. Look at verse 21, the answer for man right here. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction. I think I should have read the whole chapter there. Let's go back and set it up here. My son, attend unto my wisdom. Now again, when you read the Proverbs, you have to read them in light of salvation, because a saved person cannot make sense of the Proverbs, because they are for redeemed people. My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding, that thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil." He's saying, you're only going to know these sinful people, these adulteresses, by knowing God's Word. Because what he's talking about is women, not women in general here, this particular woman will be seducing you to commit sin. The only way to not do that is to keep the knowledge of the Lord. For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil, but her end is bitter as wormwood. Sharp as a two-edged sword, her feet go down to death, her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them. Think of the opposite of wisdom. Anything not just for this strange woman that's talked about anything That's not the wisdom of God is movable changes with the time so you can't keep track of it Verse 7, Hear me now, therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house. Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cool. Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in the house of a stranger. And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed. and say, how have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof?" That's what happens when you turn from the Word of God. "...and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Drink waters out of thine own cistern." In other words, guys, stay home. and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streams. Let be only thine own, and not strangers with thee. Let the fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. Pretty simple. Let her be as the loving hind in pleasant roam. Yes, dear. That's where we get that from. let her breast satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. Sit with home, with the home, with your wife. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? Then we go to our setup here. For the ways of man are For the eyes of the Lord may pondereth all his goings. His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. Just like Israel with spiritual adultery and idolatry, so too with physical idolatry and adultery, God knows it all. Men can be fooled by not only women, but by other men. But yet God knows the heart. God knows exactly what's going on. What was the old commercial for butter? Bluebonnet, was it? Where they had all of a sudden the lightning came down and said, you can't fool Mother Nature. Oh yes you can, you can be fooled by Mother Nature. But you can't fool God. He knows everything. Let's go back to our text. I had a lot of other references dealing with God's eyes upon all things. Let's go back to Hosea 2. 3. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own doings have beset them above. In other words, God is saying, it wasn't me, it's not my, it wasn't the reason that I have where they turned away, their own sin has turned them away from me. They are before my face. Yes, their sin was so egregious that it was right before the Lord. It was right out in the open. Nothing to hide, they thought, they were having favor, next verse, they had favor with the king and with princes. I have something, the very first thing that was in my headlines today is the same thing that was going on then. The headline in My news feed today, high school boy wins all state honors in girls track and field. That was in Alaska, so a boy won the girls championship, and that's paraded around thinking that it's fooling God. But of course, society has rejected God. Look at verse 3. They make the king glad with their wickedness. You know why? Because kings love wickedness. Ungodly kings love to divide and conquer. The reason they can do that is because they want to get people pitted against each other and they can come in and clean up the mess. So wickedness is before the kings. They make the king glad with their wickedness and their princes with their lies. Same thing that's happening. Government-sponsored murder. Government-sponsored idolatry and adultery. The kings are glad because pro bono, who benefits at the end? They think they're benefiting, but they're really not. Let's go to verse number 4. They are all adulterers. All again means all. every single person in Israel. All the government, all of the leaders, all of the priests, they were all adulterers. Look at, as an oven heated by the baker who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough until it be leavened. Here's this first metaphor of the oven. We today, all we have to do is we have to set our oven at 350, press a button, preheat. When it's preheated, the oven dings. But back in these days, they were usually earthen ovens or possibly a brick kiln oven, and they needed constant attention by the baker. So the baker would have the perfect amount of fuel, either wood or straw, or in some cases human dung was used for heating. That's where peat moss comes from in Ireland. Old, supposedly dinosaur poop. But whatever the fuel was used, it would have to come to a proper level in order to cook right. Just like when we start our barbecue grills, used to work better with the coals as an analogy, but you didn't go and stick the food on those coals when it was flaming. You wait until the coals settled down so that the meat or whatever you had on there would be proper, or the proper temperature to get a proper cooking range. So, but here, the priest, I mean the baker, he ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough. Alright, the analogy here is that the baker is just, put the fuel in the fire, set it, closes the door of it, or leaves it open, and he walks away and lets it go to full blast. He's not watching. So that's what's happening. He's kneaded the dough, it's ready, he's fired the oven, that's what the people's hearts are like. They're hot. Now you let that fire go. One thing, when I was a kid, I always used to enjoy this, I still do actually, to have a fire go off on its own and in the morning there's still embers burning. Still there glowing and guess what? You could just do a simple bellows or blow on it and that fire would kindle back up again. It would stop. It would be pockets of fire. This is a picture of the people's hearts. Yes, their hearts were getting hot. They were like, they were kindled. There was a burning sin that was inside of the heart of mankind just waiting to be ignited again. That's what's inside of every person. This is the anger they had toward the Lord. And it would ultimately be shown in their outward actions. But inwardly, they were just burning inside. I have my article about the girl or boy or whatever it was that won that race. So they turned up the heat in the oven, let it go down, and this was a picture of the people. Now let's go on here for a second. It says, they were all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker who seethes from raising after he hath kneaded the dough until it is leavened. And we take a little break here. It says, in the day of our king, the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine. He stretches out his hand with stoners. We don't know exactly what the day of our king in this case would be, but if you think of Nebuchadnezzar, would have a day unto himself to honor him. Kings love to do that. Kings love to put themselves on the center stage and create a day for them. Matter of fact, I just got an email from Africa, in Nigeria, in Benin City, they're putting in a new king of Benin City. And they're saying that nobody can cook today. I don't know what that has to do with the king of Benin City, but that's the decree by the leadership. I guess while they are getting a new king, through their tribal ceremonies, their decree, and nobody cooks. These are the things that royalty do, they make things, they do things that don't make any sense. So the king's here, the day of our king, the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine. Oh yes, the princes, all the other leadership, they literally would get the king drunk, and look at what he does here, he stretches out his hand with the scorners. Think of what, when John the Baptist was beheaded, what was going on? There was a party there with the king, with Herod, and they were all joyful. That's the late word. They were all drunk. And we had that one man that saw Herod's daughter dancing, and Herod asked him what he wanted. Remember that story? And he wanted the king, or his wife rather, they wanted the king, they wanted John the Baptist's head on a platter. Herod was consenting because of what had happened with the booze and the alcohol that was around there. He joined with the scorners. Herod was actually open towards hearing the gospel from John the Baptist. But yet now he had to do this. He gave his word. That's what happens with kings and joining with the scorns. They'll do whatever they're told under that influence of the alcohol they're under. So now with this little commercial break here, both the king ends, and then we have it in verse number five, or verse number six. For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whilst they lie in wait, their baker sleepeth all the night." They lied in wait. Remember who lied in wait before? It was the priests. It was the robbers. They lied in wait. As that hot oven, the people's minds were cooking up a scheme, basically. Cooking up against God. And against all rationality, they had turned against the Lord, turned against His people. Now look, here's what happens here. Their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. It's kindled again. They are all hot as an oven, verse 5, and have devoured their judges. All their kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth unto Me. They have this burn. It's a popular thing that's said today a lot of times, and you've got to be careful in the context. Did you ever hear the term, somebody's on fire for the Lord? It's dangerous. There's nothing in Scripture about being on fire for the Lord. In all the places where they use that, it's about God's judgment of fire. See, fire in this case is a metaphor People were going against their Lord that fire was so burned up inside them and metaphorically that's what they were like. What does fire do when it's let on the loose? It burns. It consumes everything in its path. Now fire is a good thing. See the oven, the use of the fire was a good thing to cook cakes. which we'll be looking at next week, about these cakes that were being cooked that weren't cooked very well. Sounds like me cooking them. But that metaphor is of a cake not turned. I'm getting ahead, but we'll go through it next week. A cake not turned. What happens when you don't turn a cake that you're cooking over a fire? Think of a pancake. I've had some beautiful looking pancakes that I've cooked in my day That would look so good with strawberries and bananas on it. I flipped it over and the other side was charred. Black as a coal. I actually scraped the pan of all the burnt stuff at the bottom. The bottom would be so burnt, it would be useless in that fire. And the top would look good. It deals with the religious mixture. Looking good on the outside, but not. But back to the fire here. Just as fire could be a menace left uncontrolled, so too are raging men's emotions and desires. That's what it's talking about. They burn like that oven. And eventually it even burns those people who taught them being out of control. And the tragic thing here, Isaiah 9.13 says, For the people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. In spite of all that happening, the people still would not turn. Let's go back a couple chapters to Hosea 5. Hosea 5.15. I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offense and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early. That was his desire. Chapter 6. They didn't. Back to chapter 7. Go down to verse number 10. It says, And the pride of Israel testifieth to His face, and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek Him for all this. It's the pride that keeps them from seeking the Lord. Verse 14, And they have not cried unto Me with their heart. When they howled upon their beds, they assembled themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against Me. So they have not cried unto Him for help, the One who could save them. Praise the Lord for the Gospel. Praise the Lord that we sit here. Yes, we all had that fire, that hatred towards God and His ways. And might not have as heavy duty as that metaphor of the oven, but that's what we were all like. We're all gone out of the way, all gone astray. There is none who seek Him. But yet, praise the Lord, He sought us. We heard the Gospel, believed the Gospel, and we have redemption because of it. We have the Word of the Lord. Just as Butch was saying that Dr. Stanley said, You know, it's so true. What else do we have? You see, what happened to people who lean to other things, they were consumed by the very same sin that they teach. I'm not totally shocked over nowadays stories about men's rooms and ladies' rooms and transgenders, because people are just defiant against God. But if we know history at all, these same sort of people who are used will be the first ones that are going to be taken out either by the people they support. Same as that, the people are going to go against their judges. They have devoured their judges. Now one of the first, I'm getting on a little tangent here for a second, Nazi Germany we hear of the Jews and the tragedy of the Holocaust. But you know the very first people that Hitler recruited, almost all of the SS were homosexuals. All of Hitler's aides, and possibly Hitler himself. See, but Hitler hates competition. Unrighteous judges, unrighteous leaders, they will build up those that can further their cause, and the first ones they take out were the ones that they propped up. Don't be dismayed at the homosexual movement. It could be like Hitler. The very first people he took out were those that he felt that could compete with him. The homosexual leaders of that day. I think it was only Joseph Goebbels that survived until the end of the war. Outside of that, they were the first ones gone. The ones promoting the sin, people that they promote, they'll be the first ones to take them out. And that's exactly what we see here in verse 7 of Hosea 7. They're judges. They'll take out their judges, those that taught them to avoid any kind of competition. But as we can say, Jesus has no competition. Where we were in Luke 13, Jesus, you're going to have to deal with Herod. Don't worry about that, Fox. Because I'm going to be made perfect. Three days, I'm rising again. Herod's going to die. He did. Full of worms and everything. But the Lord lived. Today, we can trust Christ. Look to Him and Him alone. It's where our salvation is and our sanctification. We'll carry that through through our communion service. Remember, the greatness of Christ dying on the cross for our sin, buried and risen again on our behalf.