Alright brethren, let's go to
Psalm 89. I want to read this again. These psalms
are our Lord speaking and the true fulfiller of every word.
And this is Christ speaking here later in the psalm. We won't
get to it today, but later He's still suffering the cross even
as He was in Psalm 88. But in the midst of this, he
says in verse one, I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever. With my mouth will I make known
thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, mercy shall
be built up forever. Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish
in the very heavens. I have made a covenant with my
chosen. I have sworn unto David my servant. Thy seed will I establish forever
and build up thy throne to all generations. Drop down to verse
13. Thou hast a mighty arm. Strong
is thy hand. High is thy right hand. Justice
and judgment are the habitation of thy throne. Mercy and truth
shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know
the joyful sound. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of Thy countenance. In Thy name shall they rejoice
all the day, and in Thy righteousness shall they be exalted. For Thou
art the glory of their strength, and in Thy favor our horns shall
be exalted. For the Lord is our defense,
and the Holy One of Israel is our King. Then thou spakest in
vision to thy holy one and saidest, I've laid help upon one that
is mighty. I've exalted one chosen out of
the people. I found David, and you can put
Christ there. And when you find David in this
psalm, if you read it as Christ, you'll get who's speaking and
to whom and about whom. I found Christ my servant with
my holy oil have I anointed him. with whom my hand shall be established.
Mine arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact
upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down
his foes before his face and plague them that hate him. But
my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him. And in my
name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the
sea and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto me,
Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also,
I will make Him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the
earth. My mercy will I keep for Him forevermore, and my covenant
shall stand fast with Him. His seed also, all God's elect,
will I make to endure forever in His throne as the days of
heaven." David was a type of Christ. God the Father entered
into everlasting covenant with his Son as typified in the sure
mercies of David. God made some sure covenant of
sure mercies to David and that's typical of the Father entering
into covenant with the Son and giving him sure mercies. And
Christ is the one in whom all the covenants accomplished. He's
the one who came forth and accomplished all the terms of the covenant.
He's the king who David typified. Christ is God's firstborn. Romans 8 says, God predestinated
His people to be conformed unto Him that He might be the firstborn
among many brethren. Colossians tells us He's the
firstborn from the dead. Hebrews 12 tells us His people
are the church of the firstborn. Christ is the firstborn. And
Christ sings to His church of the mercies of the Lord. He sings
to His church of the mercies of the Lord. He says in verse
1, I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever. Christ sings
of the Lord's mercies. Christ is the great psalmist,
the sweet psalmist of His elect Israel. He's the one who declares
to us the mercies of God and teaches us the mercies of God
and in whom we behold the mercies of our God. Psalm 22 we know
is the psalm of Christ and He said in Psalm 22, 22, I will
declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation
will I praise thee. in the midst of the congregation,
in the midst of His church. Through the preaching of the
Word, He's singing the mercies of God. Are you sure that's Christ? Look over at Hebrews 2. Hebrews
2, and look at verse 10. He said in verse 9, we see Jesus
made of the Lord and the angels for the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God should taste
death for every man, for each of his people. For it became
him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, and
bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through suffering. For both he that sanctifieth
and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he's
not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name
unto my brethren. In the midst of the church will
I sing praise unto thee. Christ is the one singing of
the Lord's mercies to us through His gospel. And the Lord's mercies
include everything included in our salvation. The Lord's mercies
is how His people are saved. It includes everything in the
everlasting covenant of grace made between God the Father and
His Son in eternity. Everything included in that covenant
of peace are the mercies of God to His people. By God choosing
His Son, and choosing a people in His Son, and trusting His
Son to fulfill all the covenant for His people, for God, that
was God's mercies. He blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places according as He chose us in Christ
because He trusted it to Him. And in Him, His people have always
been without blame, holy and without blame before Him in Christ
the Beloved. That's mercies. That's mercies.
And everything involved in this thing of salvation is the mercies
of the Lord. He predestinated us into the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself. That's the
mercies of the Lord. That's the mercies of the Lord.
His justification, His sanctification accomplished by Christ's blood
is all His mercies. He's calling us to Him. He's
given us life and faith in Him. This is all His mercies. growing
us in grace and knowledge of Christ, keeping us, preserving
us, teaching us continually of Him and His tender mercies. This
is all the mercies of our Lord. He said, I will sing of the mercies
of the Lord. You think about mercies. Mercies,
by the very nature of mercy, is God doing for His people what
we do not deserve or merit, even what we demerit. It's all mercies,
all mercies. That's the very nature of mercies.
And until a sinner is made to know he's a sinner and what that
is, until he's made to know that, brethren, he will not rejoice
that God saves entirely according to his mercies. God creating
a new nature in us so that he can teach us in the new man that
all we are in our flesh is sin. And all our good works and all
our religious deed was nothing but enmity against God, hating
God. Until we're born anew, we don't
even know we hate God. And that, creating that new man
and teaching us that about ourselves, that's mercies. It's all mercies,
brethren. We see the Pharisees, how they
thought that they were righteous within themselves and they despised
others. Why? They didn't know a thing
about God's mercies. They didn't know that they were
sinners. They didn't know what a sinner is. They didn't know
they were sinners. They didn't think they needed
mercies because they didn't see they were sinners. The Apostle Peter was regenerated. He was a believer. And we see
how easily we can forget our need of mercies. Peter told the
Lord, these other disciples may deny you, but I will die with
you before I'll deny you. I love you more than all these
other disciples. The Lord permitted the devil
to sift Peter. Hard trial. Pride of Peter's sin nature had
overtaken him and deceived him. And Christ had to show Peter
again what he was in himself. Oh, what mercy. That was mercy. And then the Lord came to him
and converted him from the error to see that all his mercies are
in the Lord. And the Lord was showering him
with mercy to teach him that. Keep him ever mindful of what
he was in himself. That was the Lord Jesus coming
to Peter and singing of his mercies to him. And that made Peter sing
of the Lord's mercies. And then he says here, Christ
makes known the faithfulness of the Lord. He says there in
verse 1, with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all
generations. Lamentations 3.23, great is thy
faithfulness. We begin in faith, rejoicing
in God's faithfulness as a doctrine, divinely revealed by God's Word,
revealed in our heart, We believe great is God's faithfulness.
We believe Him. We rejoice in His faithfulness
from the beginning, but over time, through many trials and
temptations and sorrows, just like Peter experienced, through
experiencing the weakness of our sinful flesh and our sin
nature and our self-righteousness. Over and over the Lord continues
to teach us His great faithfulness toward us and He makes us experience
it just like Peter experienced the Lord's faithfulness. And
then we know by experience, great is thy faithfulness. The more
the Lord makes us experience His faithfulness and His mercies,
the more we delight that we're saved by God's faithfulness and
His mercies fulfilled in Christ by His everlasting covenant of
grace. The more you rejoice in Him alone. God's mercies and His faithfulness
is in Christ due to God's covenant in Christ. It's all due to God's
covenant in Christ. The everlasting covenant that
God made with David is the covenant God makes with each select child
He saves. Isaiah 55.3, He said, Incline
your ear and come unto me, here in your soul shall live, and
I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies
of David. God made a covenant with David,
the man. He made this everlasting covenant
with sure mercies. And he says to every sinner that
he calls, come to Christ, believe on Christ, cast all your care
on Christ. He said, I'll make these same
sure mercies with you, the sure mercies of David. When it came
to David's last words, that's important, the man's last words. It came to David's last words.
He said it was that everlasting covenant made by God that was
all his salvation. All his salvation. David did
some mighty good works. He did some mighty good works.
He defeated enemy armies. He brought the ark back. He reigned
as king over Israel. But in those last words, David
didn't mention any of his works. David committed some mighty wicked
sins. David numbered Israel, and I
think it was 80,000 Israelites died because he did that. He
had multiple counts of adultery, murder, many seasons of unbelief. None of those discouraged David
in his last words. With his last words, he declared
his only hope of salvation. He said, although my house be
not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and sure, for this is all my salvation
and all my desire, although we make it not to grow. Now how
was that covenant so ordered and so sure in all things? How
was this covenant so ordered and so sure? It wasn't by David. We know that clearly. How was
it so ordered and so sure? How was that all David's salvation? Why was it all David's salvation? It's because God the Father's
mercies that he promised to David were sure to David and sure to
all who believed because the everlasting covenant is between
God the Father and God the Son, and God alone fulfills it. The
mercies are sure by Christ accomplishing our salvation. They are sure
by Christ. God's everlasting covenant was
to Christ. God the Father made an everlasting
covenant with His Son. in Christ, with Christ, sure
mercies to Christ, sure mercies to our King David, the Lord Jesus.
And our Lord Jesus promised the Father to fulfill all the covenant
for His people so that His people would have these free, sure,
ordered mercies given to us through faith in Christ's blood. Let's
go over to Acts 13. I want you to see that David
is a picture of Christ who fulfilled the covenant for His people.
Acts 13, in verse 32. Let's begin in verse 30. Yeah,
verse 32, I'm sorry. We declare unto you glad tidings. Here's the good news. This is
the gospel. This is the good news. How that
the promise which was made unto the fathers. You see that word
promise? It's the covenant. This is the covenant, the covenant
that was made to the father, made to Abraham, made to David.
God hath fulfilled the same. You see that? We declare unto
you good news, the promise which was made unto the fathers, God
hath fulfilled it. He's fulfilled the same unto
us, their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again. As it's also written in the second
Psalm, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And
as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no
more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will
give you the sure mercies of David. He's speaking to Christ.
I'll give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore, he saith
also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to
seek corruption. You see, he's showing us that
all these psalms are speaking of Christ. David's a picture
of Christ. It's to Christ He made these
sure mercies. It's through His blood that these
sure mercies are made to His people. Look, he says, verse
35, In another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to
seek corruption. David, the man, after he served
his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep and was
laid unto his fathers and he saw corruption. His body went
into the grave and it was eaten by worms. God should give him
a new glorified body, but David didn't arise from the grave.
But look at verse 37, but he whom God raised again saw no
corruption. Why did God raise him? Hebrews
13.20 says, the God of peace brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood
of the everlasting covenant. He fulfilled everything. Look
at verse 38 in Acts 13. Be it known unto you therefore,
men and brethren, here's the result, here's what he says to
you who believe. Through this man, through Christ,
through our King David, He's preached unto you the forgiveness
of sins. And by Him, this is the pure
mercies of Christ Jesus that He gives His people. This is
why David said, this is all my salvation. By Him, by Christ,
all that believe, all that believe are justified. from all things
from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. That means
past sins, present sins, and sins you hadn't even committed
yet. Justified before God from all of them by Christ dying in
the room instead of his people. Now watch, beware therefore lest
that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets. Behold, ye
despisers, and wander and perish. For I work a work, the work Christ
worked, he worked it, he finished it. I work a work in your days,
a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare
it unto you. Oh, we don't want to be found
there. All who Christ inter-covenanted to save, he redeemed. He justified
by His blood. Before God, they're without sin,
they're perfect, they're complete, they're righteous. It says, having
obtained eternal redemption for us, having purged our sins, having
accomplished it Himself on the cross, He entered into the presence
of God. It was done. Long before we knew
anything about it, it was done. When He arose, His people arose
in Him without sin, perfect, complete, righteous in Him, and
they shall not perish in unbelief. Those He redeems shall not perish
in unbelief. They cannot perish in unbelief.
They shall be brought by the Spirit of God to put all, all,
all their confidence in Christ alone. in this sure mercy that
Christ accomplished. In this covenant that is ordered
and sure in all things by Christ. And they are going to be saved
entirely by those covenant mercies fulfilled and freely given by
Christ. Now that is my subject, covenant
mercies. Covenant mercies. The Lord God
said in verse 2 of our Psalm, Mercy shall be built up forever.
mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish
in the very heavens. I've made a covenant with my
chosen. I've sworn unto Christ my servant. Thy seed will I establish
forever and built up thy throne to all generations. You see,
it's almost confusing to us when we read about the eternal God
making a covenant with himself because He's speaking about what
He will do for Himself and what He accomplished for Himself and
for His people. God the Father built up His mercy
in Christ and His mercies are built up forever. He's the firstborn
chosen of God in eternity to build up mercy for all His elect
people chosen in Him. Christ is God's mercy Himself. He is the mercy of God. Our Lord
Jesus is. God's covenant is Christ. He promised from the garden,
as soon as sin entered, as soon as Adam fell, He promised this
promise from the garden. He said, the seed of the woman
shall bruise the serpent's head. He promised this from the garden.
Every promise of mercy that God made to our spiritual fathers
was in Christ. Every promise that He made was
that Christ would do all their saving and save them and be their
salvation. That was the promise He made
to them. And the sure mercy promised was full forgiveness of their
sin, perfect righteousness with God through Christ's blood given
to them through faith and He even gives them the faith. Abraham
was saved by God's everlasting covenant. He's called the father
of the faithful. He was saved by God's everlasting covenant
mercy. The sure mercies of Christ Jesus
our Lord were given to Abraham. And that's how Abraham was saved.
And Paul said in Galatians, that law that came 430 years later,
it didn't disavow that promise. That promise was sure in Christ. It was all accomplished in Christ
and by Christ. As His surety, Christ came to
him and told Abraham, It's all ordered and sure for you, Abraham.
I'm going to save all mine elect, all your spiritual children,
and you're going to have a spiritual family that's more than the stars
in the sky. And by His grace, Abraham believed
God. He believed the words spoken
to him by our Lord. Zacharias sang of the Lord's
mercies. Whenever our Redeemer was coming
into this world, he said God sent his Son to perform the mercy
that God promised. Go over to Luke 1. Luke chapter 1, look at verse
67. He said, His father Zacharias was filled
with the Holy Ghost and he prophesied saying, Blessed be the Lord God
of Israel. He hath visited and redeemed
his people. and He has raised up a horn of
salvation for us in the house of His servant David, as He spake,
as He promised by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have
been since the world began. Back there starting in the garden,
through all the prophets, He'd been promising Christ would come
and save us by His covenant grace, that we should be saved from
our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us. He promised
to perform the mercy, to perform the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he swore to our
father Abraham, that he would grant unto us that we, being
delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve him
without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all
the days of our lives. Thou, child, should be called
the prophet of the highest." Christ is the highest he's speaking
about there. Christ is the mercy God promised
to his people. Christ has built up mercy forever. He's the holiness and righteousness
of his people so that we can walk before God without fear. without fear. He hasn't given
you the spirit of bondage again to fear. He's given you the spirit
so that when He shows you our sin, you can go to Him and pour
it out to Him and confess your sin to Him and He's faithful
and just to forgive us our sin. In Christ is a leper blessed
and they shall be forever. Every mercy for fallen sinners
is in and by Christ, and it's only in and by Christ. For I
have said, mercy shall be built up forever. That's God the Father's
promise to Christ. That's God the Father's promise
to His people in Christ. And that's Christ's promise to
the Father and to His people by Christ. Throughout the ages, just like
in our psalm, he gave his people assurance that Christ would build
the tabernacle of David which is fallen down. What is that?
He keeps saying that he's going to build up the tabernacle that's
fallen down. Amos 9.11, In that day will I
raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up
the breaches thereof, and I'll raise up his ruins, and I'll
build it as in the days of old. What is this? This tabernacle
that's fallen. The fallen tabernacle is His
people. The fallen tabernacle is His
people that fell and were ruined completely, thoroughly, totally
in Adam so that we can't put our hand to the work. Thank God
for His grace we can't. But Christ said, I'll build it
up. That's the promise God made. Christ will build the tabernacle.
He'll build it from the ruins and create it anew. the fallen
tabernacle, the desolations of many generations. That's God's
elect in every generation, ruined by Adam's fall, that Christ builds
up. There's only two covenants. There's other covenants. He made
a covenant with Noah. He made a covenant with Abraham.
He made covenants to David. He made covenants to David. But
there's only two covenants. And men, all men will be found
in one of two covenants. God made a covenant with Adam,
and he said, do this and you'll live. You eat of that tree, you'll
die. That was a covenant of words. And Adam broke it, didn't fulfill
the covenant, and he died. And all Adam's children died
in him. The whole tabernacle was ruined
in Adam. All his people fell in Adam.
The other covenant was made with Christ. It really came first.
It's the covenant He made in eternity with His Son before
the world was made, and Christ promised to represent all the
elect God gave to Him. And Christ came forth and fulfilled
that covenant. Christ alone restores the desolations
of many generations. Those desolated by the fall,
He restores by His blood, by His covenant promise, by His
righteousness, In every generation, He's restoring His people. And
He takes His people and He builds us up as His holy temple. And it's His temple. It's His
temple. Christ is the one who builds
it up. That's what God the Father promised. That's what He promised. Look at verse 3. I've made a
covenant with my chosen, I've sworn unto Christ my servant,
thy seed will I establish forever and built up thy throne to all
generations. This is Jehovah's purpose of
redemption, founded in his everlasting love for his Son and for his
people in his Son. Everlasting love. There's nothing
about this that can be undone. There's no blemish that can be
had in it. This is his promise. Assured
to the elect and the counsel of peace between the persons
of the Godhead before the world began. That's how he blessed
us with all spiritual blessings. Brethren, you do not want to
be found. No sinner, you do not want to
be found. Looking to anything you have
done for acceptance with God. Not before He calls you or after
He calls you. Christ Jesus is the righteousness of His people. He is the covenant who has fulfilled
all for His people. He is building His people up
and when that last living stone is put in the temple, the temple
will be complete. And His throne is for everlasting. Everlasting. We want to be found
only in Christ. Throughout the scripture, the
Lord's eternal purpose of redemption is spoken of being between Him
and His Son. Look at verse 19. Verse 19. He
said, Then thou spakest in vision to
thy holy one and said, I've laid help upon one that's mighty,
I've exalted one chosen out of the people, I've found my son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, my servant, and with my holy oil I've anointed
him with whom my hand shall be established. You see that? Mine
arm also shall strengthen him. This is a work between God the
Father and God the Son. Look down at verse 27. My mercy will I keep for him
forevermore. My covenant shall stand fast
with him. His seed also, that's his people,
will I make to endure forever in his throne as the days of
heaven. How's this going to be that his children are going to
last forever? Christ came forth and fulfilled
it all. Isaiah 49.8. He said, in an acceptable
time. He's speaking to Christ. God,
the Lord Jehovah, is speaking to Christ, His Son, and He says,
Thus saith the Lord, in an acceptable time I have heard thee. And in
the day of salvation I have helped thee. When was that acceptable
time? When He cried out and said, It
is finished! That was the acceptable time.
And that was the day of salvation. He heard His Son. He said, You
are going to establish My covenant and I am going to help thee.
When He had finished the work His Father sent Him to do and
redeemed all His people and purged our sin and honored God's holy
law, then the Lord raised Him from the grave as He promised.
And he said, and I'll preserve thee, and I'll give thee for
a covenant of the people to establish the earth, to cause, to inherit
the desolate heritages. I'm gonna take this desolated
inheritance that I've given you, that you've made perfect and
complete, and you're gonna build them all up and make them perfect
and complete. that you may say to the prisoners,
go forth, and to them that are in darkness, show yourselves.
They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be in
all deep places. This is that hope of eternal
life which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. You know, when David wanted to
build him a house, the man David, he wanted to build him a house,
and the Lord said, you're not going to build me the house, David.
He said, your seed's coming. He's going to come through you
and He's going to build my temple. Who is He talking about? He's
talking about Christ. He's talking about Christ. He
said in 2 Samuel 7-12, He said, When thy days be fulfilled and
you sleep with your fathers, I'll set up thy seat after thee,
which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I'll establish his
kingdom. He shall build a house for my
name and I'll establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I'll
be his father and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity,
I'll chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of
the children of men. And that's what he did when he
bore our sin on Calvary's tree. God looked upon him as the one
who had committed iniquity because he owned our sins as his own
and God poured out his judgment on him in our place. He said,
but my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul,
whom I put away before thee. Thine house and thy kingdom shall
be established forever before thee. Thy throne shall be established
forever. That's Christ. He's God's mighty
arm. He's the strong hand of God,
that high right hand. He's the one who made justice
and judgment meet together. He made mercy and truth meet
in harmony. And he's the only one that ever
did it. Only one. You're a liar, so am
I. We come forth from our mother's
womb speaking lies. We're not honest about our sin. We are to God by His grace. By
His grace. But He made mercy and truth meet
together. And He saves in mercy and truth.
And whatever's preserving His church and preserving His kingdom,
He'll bless it. He'll bless it. And he says,
whatever enemy tries to destroy it, I'm going to destroy him.
He's going to bless his people. And if you don't delight in mercy,
God has mercy on you. Because you're going to need
mercy. If you want judgment, that's what he'll give you. But
his people rejoiced that he made mercy and truth meet together
in harmony. This is what he said in verse
15. Happy is the people that know the joyful sound. Do you
know the joyful sound? Is this message joyful to you? You, your brethren, in Christ
are complete, perfect, righteous, accepted of God. He says there
is no spot in you, my beloved. They will walk, O Lord, in the
light of Thy countenance. And He will keep us walking in
the light of His countenance. Just like He did the widow. He'll keep us seeing He's the
light. He'll keep us coming to that
light. He'll keep us doing truth, confessing all our works are
wrought in Christ our God, by Christ our God. He's going to
keep you walking in the light of His countenance. In Thy name
shall they rejoice all the day, and in Thy righteousness shall
they be exalted. Oh brethren, He's our strength,
verse 17. Thou art the glory of their strength. In Thy favor our horns shall
be exalted. He's our defense. He's our Holy
King. Verse 18, the Lord is our defense. The Holy One of Israel is our
King. And we're His children and this is His promise to us
in Christ. Verse 29, His seed, Christ's
seed also will I make to endure forever in His throne as the
days of heaven. How long are the days of heaven? No beginning, no end. I'll make
my children endure as long as the days of heaven. Oh, He says,
I'm going to correct them in love. He's going to correct us
in love. What is the correction, brethren?
What is the correction? It's to keep you looking to Christ
and finding Him to be all your salvation. It's to keep you helping
one another to look to Christ to be all your salvation. It's
to help one another by his grace through the word that he uses
you to speak to be restored to Christ. It's not to kill, it's
not to cast out, it's to point one another to Christ so that
together You ever heard the story of the man whose children were
feuding, and they were fussing, and the man said, he took a bundle
of sticks, and he gave him a bundle of sticks, and he said, break
these sticks. And they took those bundle of sticks, and they tried,
and they tried, and they tried, and they couldn't break them.
And he said, now let's separate them. And he separated them out,
gave them all a stick. He said, now break it. They broke
it right in two. He said, you need each other.
Together, Christ said to it, you're not going to be broken.
Separated, you're going to be broken. You're going to be broken. And this is what he's doing.
He's keeping his people united in him. He's building the temple.
He's building the tabernacle. He's making us one in him. And
he's going to be our defense and our strength and keep his
people together. That's what he's going to do.
That's what he's going to do. What this world does, Let them
do it. Let departure start with departure.
This is what He's going to do in His people. My covenant, verse
34, will I not break nor alter the thing that's gone out of
my lips. If you know your sin, that's the most blessed word
you've ever heard in your life right there. God said, I won't
alter my covenant. Listen, we just don't see the
magnitude of this. Adam murdered everybody ever
born in the history of the world. You don't want to talk about
a serial killer. He murdered everybody on the
face of the planet, and God saved him. You know why? My covenant
will I not break nor alter the thing that's gone out of my lips. Once I've sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to Christ, my son. His seed shall endure forever,
and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever
as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven. Oh, that's
a joyful sound. Thank God it's so. Amen.