OUR SURETY!
"Jesus made a surety." -Hebrews 7:22 [KJV] My soul, look at Jesus as a Surety, and as "made the Surety" this morning! Blessed view, if so be the Holy Ghost will enlighten thine eyes to see Him under all these characters. First; a Surety. We are all ruined by a debt incapable of ever being paid by any, or by all, the fallen sons of Adam. Jesus steps in, becomes a Surety for our debt, and pays the whole by His obedience and death. But we owe a duty also, as well as a debt. Jesus becomes here again the Surety. He will put His Spirit in us, and we shall live. He becomes also a Surety for promises, that all God hath promised for His sake, shall be fulfilled in Him, and in us for Him. But He is not only a Surety, but made a Surety; for the Father's name, and the Father's authority, is in Him. It is God the Father which saith, I have given Him for a covenant. Precious thought for faith to act upon! And, my soul, is not Jesus thy Surety? Yes, if while the Fath...