Lord.” Remember how Hosea, speaking of the dead who were slain as you are, says, “The third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” And that passage we read just now—“I kill, and I make alive”—do you not see the comfort of it? That “and” is a diamond rivet, joining the two sentences together. You cannot separate the “I kill” from the “I make alive,” for where God kills by his Spirit, he always quickens by the same; he does not in this life kill our legal hopes and our carnal security,