Whom do I see in the garden yonder, in such agony of soul, prostrate in prayer, and sweating great drops of blood? Job’s Living Redeemer. Why is his heart thus wrung with anguish? Is there a dark register of sins in his conscience, like the fiery handwriting of God upon the wall? No, he has not a single crime to confess. He has done no iniquity, neither is guile found in his mouth. Why then does he suffer? He is bearing our griefs, carrying our sorrows, and receiving the chastisement of our peace. Behold him on the mountain, “wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities.” “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” “He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.” “Who shall declare his generation?” Who shall give us his pedigree, his history, his character? Will none of the angels of heaven make the air of Calvary ring with the sufferer’s name? Behold! the darkened sun and quaking earth proclaim him God! Hark! he speaks—“I am the true God, and eternal life. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning of the Creator’s way, or ever the earth was. When there was no depths, nor fountains of water; before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth; while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the deep; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the foundations of the deep; when he gave the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment; when he established the foundations of the earth; then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable parts of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men; and therefore I am here, hanging on the cross to-day!” V. Job’s Living Redeemer was to deliver him from the power of death.