Let me tell you, believers, you were in this world in a worse dungeon than Jeremiah was, in which you were ready to die for hunger and to be drowned in the mire thereof. And the Lord Jesus Christ came not only to the brink of the dungeon with cords to draw you up, but into the dungeon itself, to take you up in his very bosom and to bring you out from perishing there. I came forth from the father, said Christ. This was great love, but he added, I am come into the world. Here was love indeed. For Christ to come from heaven, the father's throne, into the world, Satan's kingdom. For Christ to come from the place in which glory shines and to the place that lies in evil. For Christ to come out of the presence of the father who always smiled upon him and to come into the place of men who ever frowned upon him, for him to come from thence where he always heard the hallelujahs of angels, to come here where his ears were filled with the reviling of sinners. Oh, the height and the depth. Oh, the breadth and the length. Oh, the transcendence of Christ's love to believers. John Durant.