Let's be turning to 2 Samuel chapter 10. 2 Samuel 10. And I wanna begin reading the first five verses of this chapter. This is the primary text here for this evening.

Verse one, and it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died. And Hanan his son reigned in his stead. Then said David, I will show kindness unto Hanan the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me.

Now, just so you know, the scriptures don't record the specific kindness that Nahash shown to David. Jewish historians say that it has something to do with the king of Moab, when David, back in 1 Samuel, it tells us that David, when he was being persecuted by Saul, went to Moab and got permission to leave his father and mother there, and probably some other family members, and it's said, according to tradition, that the king of Moab slew all of David's family and that one of his brothers fled and went to the Ammonites and he took him in. That king took him in and showed David kindness in that sense. That's what it's believed to be.

And David sent to comfort him, Nahash's son Hanun, by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? Hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

Wherefore, Hanan took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho, until your beards be grown, and then return.

So these verses can be summarized as David showing kindness to the children, or the people of Ammon, specifically the son there, by sending his servants with a message of comfort. He was bringing a message of comfort concerning their dead king. But they viewed the message with suspicion. They didn't trust that David had good intentions, or they didn't trust this message, and so they refused it. They were suspicious of it, they refused it, and they rejected it. And not only that, but they treated David's servants who carried that word of comfort to them, they treated them shamefully and with contempt, and they did cruel and mocking things to them.

And David sent word to his servants to comfort them, telling them to tarry in Jericho until all the evidence of their shame had been removed. And there, in doing that, in not making them come back home where they might see their friends and family and be even more shamed in front of them, he said, you tarry there. And so he covered their shame. And he consoled and comforted them with an abundance of grace.

And then just so you know, the rest of the chapter has to do with Ammon realizing, in verse 6, they saw that they stank. before David, and they feared what David was going to do to them. And so they went and got themselves an army, not only of their own people, but hired the army of Syria, some soldiers out of Syria there, to fight against them. And Joab went out, and they soundly defeated them, basically. They defeated them. But the children of Ammon saw they were defeated, so they just pulled back to the city. And that's it. We don't read of Joab destroying the city, or setting it on fire, or attacking the city at all. And Syria withdrew, but they gathered another army, came out, and still got beat, and then withdrew away. But David didn't destroy them. He didn't just annihilate them at that time, but he put them down. He contained them, constrained them, and put them back in their place. So that's the overall view of that chapter there.

But I want to pause here on these first five verses to observe what this foretells to you that morn of the comfort of the Lord by the gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Now, why do I say that? We know that the scriptures, right, the Lord didn't give us these things for history lessons, right, just to learn a history about the Jews, but rather, as our Lord said, ye search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me, right? So what is our Lord teaching his children concerning our salvation? How does this speak of what our Lord has accomplished for us. What is he saying to us here?

Well, the account begins with the death of a king. The scriptures also tell us of such a death. The scriptures tell us that God, Almighty God, created the first man, Adam, and he put that man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for that garden. And he gave Adam dominion. dominion, authority, a reigning over all the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And in that manner, in such a manner, God created man in his own image. He gave him dominion. He's as a king there. He's a king. He has dominion and authority over the earth.

And this man, Adam, like a king, he died. He died. When he ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he died. Just as God told him, Adam, in the day that thou eatest thereof, you shall surely die. You're going to die, Adam. And he did die. He died spiritually. That fellowship and that union and communion with God was severed. It was broken. He died spiritually. And he died physically. He began to die physically. as he ate that he was corrupted and all his seed in him, all his posterity in him died with him. Adam is our federal head. He is the king. He's the federal head, the first in line there. And also, he's the seminal head, meaning we are born of his seed. We come forth of his corrupt seed. And that's why in the womb, we're all spiritually dead sinners before we ever do anything. Before we say or do anything, we're spiritually dead sinners and in need of the grace of God.

And so the Lord tells us of this rebellion, of this corruption, of our death. And it begins with the death of this king, Adam. His death. Paul saying in Romans 5, 12, wherefore as by one man, not man, one man, just one man, sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. And what happened there? After that, no matter what man did to try and reconcile himself to God, to try and purge himself of the stain and the stench and the guilt and the shame of his sin, no matter what he did, he could not deliver himself. He could not free himself. He could not put away that stench and make himself righteous and reconciled and acceptable unto God. Some, Paul tells us, some tried through idolatrous means. They tried to have a relationship and worship God and know God and please God through idolatry in the world. And Paul tells us in the first chapter of Romans, and you should be turning there to Romans, but he tells us there, I'll just give you one verse, that these changed the truth of God into a lie. They didn't hear God.

Just like we see immediately, you know Adam and Eve taught their boys, Cain and Abel, of the true and living God and what he did to cover their sin in the shedding of the blood, and yet, right away, Cain despises God and comes his own way. He doesn't come in the blood. He comes his own way. And he hates his brother, who does hear and does worship the God in truth.

But man decided to do his own thing there. And they changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. And men still do that. Men still glory in the creature. They still look at and focus on themselves and what they have to do in fixing themselves and trying to come to God in their own works, still glorying in the creature rather than the creator. Still doing that same idolatry.

And then Paul tells us, if you're there in Romans, now go to chapter 10. I want to read A few verses here with you from Romans 10, where Paul is telling us of his own countrymen who had the law, who had the prophets, who had the oracles of God, who knew these things, had a knowledge and an understanding of the true and living God, who revealed himself to this people here, and they were very zealous for God. very passionate for the Lord, very zealous for the Lord.

And yet, for all their zeal, when the truth of God, when the glory of God stood before them, they refused him. They rejected him. They wanted nothing to do with Christ, the Christ of God, the righteousness of God. And so Paul says there in verse two, I bear them record that they have a zeal of God." They're very zealous, but not according to knowledge.

A man can be very zealous for the true and living God and yet not know the truth of God, not know him in spirit and truth. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness. God is holy, God is righteous, and he has provided righteousness, he's provided the Comforter. He's provided the salvation of sinners, but going about to establish their own righteousness, right? They're ignorant of God's, they're going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

They're not bowing down to God, they're doing it their way. according to their understanding and their knowledge of things. Four, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. And so what he's saying there is it's not your doing or my doing, it's not our doing under the law whereby a man is righteous.

Many slap a bumper sticker Jesus on their faith now, but they keep on serving under the law of Moses. They have not heard, they're not submitting to the righteousness of God, which is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He is our very righteousness. We don't now trade in the name of Moses for a button that says, I love Jesus. That's not how it is, and then go back to the law and worship, trying to worship God and make a righteousness by our own works.

No, Christ himself is the very righteousness of God's people. And yet, when the Jews heard this, when they heard Paul, when they heard Christ, they refused it. They said, it can't be. It can't be. My works count for something. My righteousness counts for something. And so they refused the righteousness of God. They would not submit to what God had revealed in sending his son.

And our Lord tells us, because they don't believe him who sent me. They don't love him who sent me. They hate him just as they hate me.

But look at what Moses tells us about the law. For Moses, verse 5, describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them. If you're going to look to the law for righteousness, Moses says, you better keep looking to the law. And you better get it right perfectly. And you better get over there and build that temple as fast as possible and get the blood sacrifices going because you are coming short. And if you are looking to the law for righteousness, when you come short of it, you better have blood to cover that sin. You better look to it to the very, very end. Otherwise, you're going to die in your sins without a cover.

But the righteousness, which is of faith, This is what we're talking about, the righteousness which is of faith. You mean there's a righteousness which is of faith and not of doing? And not of works? Yes, the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise. Say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down from above. Or who shall descend into the deep? That is to bring up Christ again from the dead.

Man, when he's looking at the law, He's also looking at everybody else, what they're doing. Who's going to heaven and who's going to hell? I'm going to judge. That's what he's saying. I'm going to look at the law, and I'm going to determine who's put a good profession of faith out there, or a good profession of being a Christian under the works of the law, and who hasn't. And that's how we're going to assess who goes to hell and who goes to heaven.

But that's not the gospel of Jesus Christ. We don't look on the outward form. This is why Christ said to the Pharisees, who did a lot under the law, he said, the publicans and the sinners go in to the kingdom of God before you. You're looking at the outward form and not at the heart, not looking at what the Lord has done in his people.

And so we don't want to look at the accursed flesh which only bears thorns and thistles and go to the flesh looking for figs and grapes, because it's not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. We're hearing the word of faith by the grace and power of the Spirit of God. That's what the Lord has given to his people. This is the message of comfort here to you that are sinners, to you that will be reconciled to holy God. This is the kindness of God, the mercy and grace of God revealed in this word of faith.

So what saith it? What saith it? Verse 8, The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of faith which we preach. This word of faith, this comfort of God, is made known through the preaching of the gospel, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." That is the gospel.

You that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ are the very righteousness of God. You submitted yourselves to the very righteousness of God, God working it in you. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So he's saying it's a heart work in the sinner by the operation of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 11, for the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. And that's very moving to someone who sees their sin, who knows what a sinner they are. And that's why they're looking to the law. They're trying to fix it and trying to remove that stain of sin, that guilt of sin. And they're looking to the law. They mean to do it. They want to please God.

But the Lord is saying, I've sent my word of comfort. This is the gospel. This is the good news. Hear Christ. Hear the Lord Jesus Christ. And you will not stand before God ashamed for trusting him. You can believe that the promise of God who said, all who believe my son shall be saved. For there's no difference between the Jew and the Greek. It doesn't matter if you're a Jew and did great under the law for a long time. It counts for nothing. Paul said, I count it dumb. I count it as dumb. For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And this is why Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey went out and boldly preached that through this man, the Lord Jesus Christ is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Apart from your doing, apart from your works, apart from what you've been doing or your genealogy or whatever it is, through this man is preached unto you the accomplished redemption of God's people. And by him all that believe are justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses. That's a glorious message, a good news.

And so this message is carried to a fallen world, a world of sinners in Adam whose king has died and now they are mourning for their sin. And it says in Ephesians 2, 4 and 5, but God. We were born of Adam's corrupt seed, born sinners, dead in trespasses and sins, but God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love, wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened, made alive, us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved. And so that's the message of comfort. That is the comforting message that the servants of God carry into a wicked world.

These servants of David are going into Ammon, enemies of the people of God, enemies. And yet he's bringing this kindness, this message of comfort to these enemies of God's people. And that's what we do in the preaching of the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, a comforting message declaring unto you the kindness of God for sinners, of what he has done, what he's done. And so our God sends forth this gospel of what he has accomplished. God the Father, declaring, making known that God the Father sent his Son into the world, like unto his brethren, to bear their sins, to bear them in his own body, and went to the cross faithfully, willingly, as the Lamb of God, to obtain, to sacrifice himself to the Father, to purge us of our sins, to remove the sins from us, to remove that stench and filth and vileness of our nature and sins that we do, to put them away forever. He did that. And he obtained it. He obtained our redemption and our forgiveness.

God raised him from the dead, thereby justifying, showing, yes, all you that believe him, you are justified. You're justified for trusting him and believing him. And so that's why this word of grace of what God has done, has accomplished, goes forth into the world. So David said, I'll show kindness unto Hanun, the son of Nahash. Well, look over at Titus 3, how it describes this of what Christ has done for us.

In Titus 3, picking up in verse 3, He says, Paul says, for we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, right? We sound like a nation of Ammonites. For we ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

But after that, the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared. by God showing what he did to save sinners, what he accomplished, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, that being justified by his grace. we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

And so this is a glorious message, a glorious message of good news of comfort proclaiming the grace and kindness of God toward sinners through his son, whom he sent to save his people from their sins. And so our God reveals them for whom Christ died by the operation of faith in them.

How do you know who to preach this to? How do you know who to bring this good news to? We just proclaim it, and God reveals those for whom it is a comfort, for whom it comes as a sweet smell. as a comfort and a kindness and the love of God, and they're thankful for it, and they submit to that righteousness of God. Not rejecting it, not despising it, not going off on their own way and works of righteousness, but they rest in Him.

If you look at, and here's the danger, looking at Isaiah 50, Isaiah 50, at the end of that chapter, It's almost as if it's a contradiction, you would think, because religion would say, you have all the light, and the sinner has all the darkness. But the Lord says, in Isaiah 50, in verse 10, the prophet asks, who is among you that feareth the Lord? You that fear the Lord. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? The servant is Christ. I mean, I'm an ambassador for Christ, but the servant is Christ. That walketh in darkness. You that are walking in darkness. You that have no light. What's he talking about? If you have no sight, no light to see by, you're walking by faith. You're walking by faith. That's what he's saying. You that walk by faith, let him trust in the name of the Lord. That name, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ whom he sent and stay upon his God. You stay right there.

Now watch this, behold, all ye that kindle a fire. All you that have not submitted to this righteousness of God, that compass yourselves about with sparks, walk in the light of your fire. Your works under the law, the heat that you're creating with the works under the law, and you're whipping it up and creating this light for yourselves and warmth for yourselves. He says, go ahead, you do that, and in the sparks that you have kindled, this shall ye have of mine hand, ye shall lie down in sorrow.

And so there's an example of ones who are not submitting. They're zealous. They're zealous for the law, but they've not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. But you that walk by faith, that are troubled by your sin, and confess, Lord, have mercy on me. I thought I was close, and I'm so far away. I'm a sinner, coming short of the glory of God. Lord, have mercy on me. He says, you walking in darkness, you walking by faith, you do that. You stay right on the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust him. Believe that name, that name.

And so that's what our Lord does. He sends his preachers into the world carrying this message of comfort, of a finished, accomplished redemption, all of grace. It says this in 2 Corinthians 5, 19 through 21, to know that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself." Right? Not just the Jews, but also the Gentiles. That's what he's saying there. He's got his seed, his chosen seed among, scattered throughout the world there.

"...not imputing their trespasses unto them, which he hath committed unto us, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." And what that says there is, we don't need to go and turn to our brethren to try and fix them and get them to do what we want them to do there. We don't have to fix their sins by sawing off various branches of their sin poking out. Because as John said, the ax is already laid at the root. It's been done. The Lord Jesus Christ has put away the sins of his people.

You can operate in and among your brethren knowing that Christ has put away the sins and the imperfections, the stain, the guilt of his people. Whether you know it or not, whether they've confessed or professed Christ yet or not, you can deal with them in love. You can deal with them gently, revealing to them Christ and why he came and what he accomplished. You can do that without fixing them. Because even if they get fixed, what are you doing? Are you just going to make them a Pharisee? No. What good is that going to do for them? They're not going to be any closer to Christ. They're actually going to be further away from him. because they're going to think that they've done it, that they've arrived.

No, we can love them, be merciful to them, trusting them to the grace of God. to open their ear and to actually give them a heart, not an exterior with a whitewashed coat of paint on the outside but full of dead men's bones. No, we can trust God to turn their heart and that they would hear and come and believe and submit to Christ and bow to him and rejoice and worship God with you. We don't have to put the cart before the horse. We can trust, Lord, you said you put away their sin. Lord, help me to declare this message of comfort to your people, to encourage them, and Lord, open their ear. Open their ear, and you instruct them so that it's of the heart and not of an outward thing. Outward, because it doesn't work. It doesn't work outward in. It's inward out. He changes the heart, and then there's obedience to the faith God.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God. Don't try and make your own righteousness. Be reconciled to God who has provided the righteousness and made his people righteous in the Lord Jesus Christ for he hath made Christ to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. In him. So he's our righteousness and And by him all who believe, it's of faith, it's of grace, all who believe are righteous before holy God so that it's all of his grace.

All right, now, this message goes forth, all right, to them whose king is dead and you mourn for your sin. For you that mourn for your sin and are troubled by your sin and just can't figure it out. I've turned to idolatry, I've turned to good religion, I've turned here and there, and I can't get it right. I can't figure it out. Lord, I'm troubled. What do I do? What do I do?

So this message, this is the gospel of what Christ has done. You don't do anything. hear him, and the heart, he creates that faith in the heart, believes Christ, lays hold by faith of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Well, when that message goes out to the world, what happens? The world looks at it with suspicion and mockery. This cannot be possible. This is absurd. How can it be that God, holy God, would graciously save people who aren't working for it. How can that be?

And it says, verse three, back in our text there, 2 Samuel 10, three, and the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hain and their Lord, thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father? You think God has a good message for you? You really think that? No, you can't trust a message of free grace. That can't be. Can't be. That he hath sent comforters unto thee? Hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

And that's exactly how man is, how suspicious he is of the free grace of God. He thinks that cannot be. You're going to be destroyed. God's going to get you. If that's what you're going to hold on to, is Christ believing that he's all your righteousness and salvation? No way. No way. He has evil intentions to destroy you. You've got to work for your salvation. You've got to work for your righteousness.

And so man doesn't believe it. He looks at the gospel with great skepticism, just like these men counseling Hanan deceitfully. They were turning him away from from life and salvation. And so the gospel declares the full free grace of God in Christ, and man rejects it because God has no works for him to do. That cannot be. That cannot be.

But the truth is Christ is the true light which cometh into the world and lighteth every man. The problem is that man by nature left to himself rejects him, refuses him. If left to himself, he will not believe Christ. But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, to Christ, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. That is, if you consider his faith, what of his faith? That's wrought in God, meaning that even my faith is according to the working of God's mighty power. God has done this, he did it.

But just as Hanan the Ammonite took David's servants, in verse four, shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. All right, a shameful thing. So this world of sin and flesh shamefully treats God's servants. They despise the Lord's servants who come with this message. They mock it. They speak ill of it. They will not hear them.

And our Lord warned us of this, saying, If you were of the world, if you brought a message of the world, if you brought, Paul said it, for him it was, if I just preach circumcision, if I just gave you a work to do, I'd be fine. They'd receive me, they'd love me, they'd have me speak in their temples, in their synagogues, but because I preach grace alone, because I preach Christ, they don't receive me. They hate me. They persecute me. But if you were of the world, they'd love you, but because you're not of the world, because you preach a message of free grace, and I have chosen you out of the world, therefore they hate you. Remember the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

And I think it was in Luke 4 where the Lord preached one of the most clearest messages of election, of sovereign electing grace, and they wanted to kill him for it. They brought him up to the brow of the hill to throw him off, and he just walked through the midst of them. And they didn't have their way then.

But all these things They will do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. That's what the issue is. That's what's being revealed. If they will not hear Christ and submit to the righteousness of Christ, it's because they do not know the true and living God. No matter how much doctrine and of the Bible they know, and how sincere and zealous they are, they don't know the true and living God.

And it manifests because they can't get at God. hate his servants, and they persecute the servants of God. Paul said a few things about that. He said in 1 Corinthians 4, 9, I think that God had set forth us the apostles last, as it were, appointed to death, for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men." And he went on and said, verse 13, being defamed, we entreat, right? Because what else are we going to do? All we can do is say, don't turn from the Lord. Trust Him. It is a message of comfort. We're not here to deceive you and to trick you. And you're not going to be ashamed to believe in Christ.

We are made as the filth of the world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. And so that's what the world does. They look for every opportunity to mock and shame and belittle the grace of God. They're just turning it against themselves. They're only hurting themselves, really. And so they seal themselves up in that condemnation.

But just as we see with David, who shows tender care and comfort for his mistreated servants, and said to them, you tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown and then return. Well, so our Lord covers our shame. He covers our shame. He heals his people. He heals his servants when they're persecuted or troubled. He strengthens us with hope and resolve in him. to trust him and to believe him, because this is the salvation of God. This is the word of comfort.

And Paul said, I do all things for the sake of the elect. And so it's a joy to bear that burden for God's people, knowing that we're hard-hearted. I'm one of God's people. I know what it's like to not hear and to oppose and resist the truth, but we labor long because in the hour of his grace, the ear is open, the heart is softened, we're humbled by the Lord in such a manner so that we hear that word and receive that word gladly, rejoicingly.

The enemies of God, they turned against David, they mounted a war against him, but David did put down that rebellion. If you read the rest of the chapter later, you'll see he didn't utterly destroy them, but he did contain them. He restrained the wrath of man. It only did what he purposed it to do, and then restrained it. but he could have destroyed them, but he didn't wipe them off the face of the earth.

And so it is that our Lord does this very thing. He continues to bear long for his people. This world is not destroyed. This world has not been utterly wiped out. Why? Because the Lord still has a people in this world. He still has a people in generations, in families, in nations, in tongues, in people that he's calling out by this comforting message of what he has done for sinners whose King Adam died, and they died in him. He's got a comforting message for them.

And so Peter tells us this in 2 Peter 3. Let's go there, because this will be our final verses. 2 Peter 3, and we'll pick up in verse 8. He says, but beloved. Verse 8, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

All right, we seem like this is going on forever. There's generations and generations and generations and it's just not coming to a head. And Lord, where are you? Well, Peter says, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise. as some men count slackness, but as longsuffering to us-ward." To his church, to his chosen people in Christ from before the foundation of the world, not willing that any of us, that's what he's saying. He says, not willing that any should perish, any of us, any of his people who he's chosen in Christ, but that all of us should come to repentance.

He's sending this message of comfort out. He's raising up his servants and sending them into the land of Ammon, to preach this word. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. There's coming a time in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." Right? And so what he's saying there is there is coming a time. There is going to come a time when all those nations are going to be destroyed and all peoples are going to be brought to judgment.

The Lord knows. He sits on the throne. He knows exactly who's doing what. But brethren, today is the day of grace. Hear that comforting word and rejoice in Him. Submit to Him and He will reveal and make known to your hearts all things, all things. He'll settle you in Christ. So I pray He do that for each one of us, brethren.