"Though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it."

Another excerpt from last Sunday's sermon from Psalm 69:

At the end of Psalm 69:4 Jesus (the Messiah) says, "Though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it."

Think about that and just apply it to the Ten Commandments:

The man who never had any God above God had to suffer for our blasphemy.

The man who never made a graven image had to suffer for our idolatry.

The man who never took the Lord’s name in vain had to suffer for our profanity.

The man who never desecrated the Lord’s Day had to suffer for our Sabbath-breaking.

The man who never dishonored his human mother or any rightful human authority had to suffer for every instance in which you and I were dismissive of our parents or rejected the rightful human authority that was placed over us.

The man who never took a human life, had to suffer for all the murders, and abortions, and angry outbursts of humanity.

The man who never committed adultery had to suffer for every unchaste thought that we have ever had.

The man who never stolen had to suffer for the restoration of every act of theft.

The man who had never uttered a lie or falsehood had to suffer for every outright lie, half-truth, and piece of gossip that has every crossed our lips.

The man who never coveted and who was the most contented person who ever lived had to suffer for our restless and discontented hearts.

Here’s the thing this Psalm should shake us into realizing. Jesus did not die for some set of hypothetical sins of corporate humanity. He did not die for the sins of everyone else. He died for my sins.

JTR