marks are there as the nail holes in the wall, but you have been able to look at them and have peace because you have said to yourself, "I am not an unwhipped of justice, my sins have been punished in my substitute; they have been fully answered for in his blood. He has forgiven me and justified me and made me clean. In him I stand clothed in the very 'righteousness of God.' I hate my sin and despise it for what it is in itself, for what it made him, my redeemer, to endure, but I have peace because he has fully satisfied in my behalf. I have actually satisfied in him and am delivered before God's court of holiness both from the guilt and the demerit of sin. I have, in short, _gone through the judgment with Christ on the cross_. He has pronounced forgiveness--absolution--upon me, and he has done so by virtue of his power and authority as the living one in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the godhead bodily--as my saviour and my God he has forgiven me and I am at peace." All this you have said within yourself and testified. But I ask you now to face the terrible fact--if Jesus Christ were not God--this terrible fact--that you have been deceived. You have had a false peace. You have been living in a fool's paradise. You are before God an unpardoned and as yet unpunished criminal awaiting your doom. All this is absolutely your state-- IF-- If Jesus Christ were not Almighty God. If Jesus Christ were not Almighty God, he had no authority nor power to forgive your sins. NO! And if Jesus Christ were not God I know not where to bid you turn. You must carry the load of your sins all your days; and when you die, go into eternity and face a holy God who tells you by every law and fact of nature that he never forgives in a single case till he has first punished the sin and with it the sinner. If Jesus Christ were not God, his death was not an atonement. And this surely should be plain enough. Only God can atone to God. Only an infinite being can satisfy an infinite being. If Jesus Christ were not God he could not make an atonement. If he did not make an atonement, then the world has never been reconciled to God nor brought up on mercy ground. Instead of being lifted up to the plane of grace and mercy, the world is still under the condemnation and judgment of God, no longer under a suspended sentence, but sheer and defenceless, with nothing to hinder the crash of doom at any moment. There is no hope. There is no daysman. There is no one to offer unto God what he demands, and unto man what he needs. There is no mediator between a holy God and a sinful man. If Jesus Christ were not God, then he did not rise from the dead. He did not bring life and immortality to light, and, as for me, the preacher, I have no light to hold out to you in the all-embracing gloom and night of death. There is no hope.