Let us look at this crucified robber. There was work in him, and the work for him. What does he
say? The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom; it is the sense of what God is. He says, "Dost
thou not fear God?" Then he confesses his sins; he owns he is suffering justly. The light had got
into his soul.

The only comforter the Lord had upon the cross was this poor robber! "Remember me when Thou
comest in Thy kingdom."

Messiah remembers a robber, who had just owned he was suffering justly! Can you trust Him like
that, honestly confessing your sins, but trusting in God’s heart when you own them? Do you trust
Christ’s heart? If you cannot, you do not know Him, for He is trustworthy.

The robber owns his sins, but trusts Him. And we get the Lord’s answer:"To-day shalt thou be
with Me in paradise." Now is the Son of Man glorified, "for today shalt thou be with Me."

The robber was bearing the punishment of his sins from man; but who was bearing sins from
God? The One Who hung beside Him. "He bare our sins in His own body on the tree." When I
have confidence in Christ, I say, I must go to God, and I find Christ on the way; and what is He
doing there? Judging me? No; bearing all my sins. There is the blessed One, Whom I have been
despising all my days; and I see He has suffered for my sins, and borne my burden_He has taken
them all, that I should not bear them. Trust Him, no matter how bad you are. If you cannot trust
any man, trust Him.

Christ’s work for me is totally finished; but all is not finished in me. I ought to grow more like
Him every day; but the work for me, as regards my guilt, is finished; and if it is not perfectly
finished, when is it to be? He cannot die again _ cannot suffer again _ cannot drink the dreadful
cup again. He suffered once, and cannot more. That cup made Him sweat great drops of blood
in only thinking about what it was to be made a curse for us; and this He cannot be made over
again. He is set down because the work is done. How little men thought they were sending the
poor robber straight to paradise, when they sent to break his legs. The Lord told him he was to
be with Him that day, and he had only to believe Him.

When I come to Him, I find that, instead of meeting me in the day of judgment, He has met me
in the day of grace.

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit." 1 Peter 3:18.