Alright, if you take your Bibles
now and turn them into Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3. Entitle this message, The Immutable
Covenant of God's Will. The Immutable Covenant of God's
Will. Begin our reading in verse 15.
The Scripture says, I speak after
the manner of men. Though it be but a man's covenant,
yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereunto. Now to Abraham and his seed were
the promises made. He saith not to seeds as of many,
but as of one, and to that seed which is Christ. And this I say,
that the covenant which was confirmed before of God in Christ, the
law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul,
that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance
be of the law, it is no more of promise. God gave it to Abraham by promise. As we have been studying this
passage of Scripture, we see this very plainly that Paul is
setting forth these two distinct covenants. Two distinct covenants. The covenant of grace and the
covenant of works. The covenant of the law. That
these two cannot be mixed. Either you are under one or the
other. And Paul tells us plainly that
the blessing of Abraham, that Abraham believed God and it was
counted unto him for righteousness, that that blessing was not obtained
by the law, but through the redemption of
Jesus Christ. that we who were cursed by the
law should be justified not by works but by the substitutionary
death of Jesus. And so then the scripture tells
us that He was made a curse for us. Verse 13, Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for
it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. He suffered
the curse of God by being made a curse. He suffered the full
measure of the justice of God in the stead of His people so
as to free us from the curse of the law. And this was our experience.
At the appointed time, the experience of this redemption occurred to
us at the appointed time of God's grace. We received the Spirit
of promise. Now listen, that Spirit was promised
us in Christ before we received it. It was promised to us in
a covenant. The covenant was promised to
Christ. And we in Christ, this was promised
to us. And we now have received it. That blessing of Abraham. We
have believed. This is the evidence. I was speaking
with a young lady about this recently. She was so concerned
about her guilt and her shame and her sorrow. She said, I don't know. I don't
know if I'm saved. What's the evidence of my election?
What's the evidence of my redemption? Simply this, do you believe on
the Son of God? He that believeth on the Son,
listen, hath life. And again, they kind of stare
at you like Catherine Duquesne. They don't understand. And to you that have received
Christ, it is very simple. And you don't understand them.
You've got to look at them kind of strangely. But we have received
the blessing of Abraham. Now, I want us to consider the
greatness of this covenant. I want us to consider the greatness
of this covenant, the immutability of the covenant of God. Now,
what Paul is going to show us here, that this covenant that
God has made, this covenant that He purposed, this covenant that
He willed, which is our salvation, Spirit through faith. This covenant
was made with Christ and Christ actually accomplished this covenant. And we by now, by grace, have
received the benefits of this covenant. But I'll tell you,
there's times where we just are fearful. We're troubled. The circumstances surrounding
our lives are just so tempestuous. I mean, the things that are going
on around us, I'm telling you, it's hard not to be disheartened. It is. I mean, you see our country,
it's falling apart. But what country hasn't? You
think this one would last forever? It just won't. I thought this was funny. Somebody
wrote this. The election results are in.
Christ is on his throne. He's on His throne. And so I
want us to consider the greatness of this covenant and the immutability
of it. That the unchangeable knows it. And that there's nothing
superimposed to it. There's nothing added to it.
We are saved by a covenant of grace. And this covenant is enduring. It's forever. It never ends. And there's nothing that happens
in time that can alter it. I hope God will be gracious to
show us that. This covenant. The eternal covenant. These promises
that are in this covenant given to us as Christ as our surety.
Now, as we come into this world, we were cursed. We were cursed. We were unable and unwilling
to obey the law of God. Therefore, what is the result
of this? We could not merit. We could not merit God's favor. Yet, now, Now we are free. Now we are free from curse. We'll
never be cursed again. We never can be cursed. There
is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. We are saved from the curse.
Jesus Christ, our federal head, offered Himself willingly, bore
our sins in order to obtain eternal redemption. Eternal redemption. How long is your redemption?
How long have you been redeemed? It's an eternal redemption. It
was one ordered in eternity. Yes, accomplished in time, applied
in time, but was there anything that was going to thwart that?
Is there anything that was going to disrupt that? I kind of laugh
when you read that those Pharisees saying, we can't crucify him
on the Passover. God said, I bet you will. Because
I ordered it. I determined it to be on this
day. And by grace, we have fled to
Christ. Have you fled to Christ? Have you felt your need? Oh,
have you run to Him? Like the man who is being pursued
by the avengers of blood in the Old Testament. He ran to the
city of refuge. He left everything. He didn't
go back home. He didn't get packed his clothes. He fled. We fled to Christ for refuge.
Oh, that sinners would do that. That God would make them feel
their need, feel the danger of their souls, and flee. Flee to Christ. And now we have
been blessed with faithful Abraham. We now have been made the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus. So now, in our text, the apostle
explains how this blessing of Abraham, namely the receiving
of the Spirit through faith, how this is the benefit of the
covenant, of a covenant. that the only reason that we
have ever experienced the salvation of God is based and rooted in
a covenant God made with the seed, with Christ. Now, as I've told you before,
there are two distinct covenants in this book. Two distinct covenants
in this book. Two separate covenants that cannot
be mixed. the covenant of law and the covenant
of grace. Now under one covenant, you have
the promises of God that are ordained, promises obtained,
and promises received. That's one covenant. And the
other covenant is one that has and the other covenant, had no
part in the obtaining or the receiving of the promises." See,
the covenant of the law is not based on promise. It's based
on merit. That's a covenant. It is a covenant. It is based solely on merit. And it has no part in the obtaining
or the receiving of the spirit of promises. Now the covenant
of the law is the one which has no part, nor can it by any means
accomplish or obtain the promises of God. Any part. This law, I
want you to get this, this is vitally important. The law has
no part in our salvation. It has no part in our justification.
It has no part in our sanctification. It has no part in our righteousness. It has no part in our wisdom.
That law is another covenant. Now if you desire to be under
that covenant, you must understand it. It's an all or nothing principle. In order to obtain the acceptance
with God, it is a daily, constant necessity to keep the whole law. The whole law. And so this covenant of grace,
I want us to see the covenant of grace ordained all these promises. The promise of righteousness,
justification, sanctification, redemption. All of this God promised.
And this promise was obtained by Jesus Christ and then applied
by the Spirit of God. And so we saw that unfolding
as Christ came into the world. We saw the unfolding of all the
promises in the Old Testament As Christ came into the world
and was made a curse for us on the tree and by which He redeemed
us, He merited the everlasting righteousness of God according
to the will of God. The blessing of the covenant
of the law is different. The covenant of the law is only
carnal. You see, the law is truly spiritual
in its nature, but man is carnal. Man is carnal. He cannot do that
which is spiritual. So therefore, when you give carnal
men the law, all it can produce is carnal blessing. And this
law, I know this, this law was only given to Israel, the nation
of Israel. And as they tried to honor this
law, they were given carnal blessing. And when they disobeyed this
law, you remember, God came in and took away those carnal blessings,
put them in captivities. And so this law was given to
them, but it only could produce carnal, not any spiritual results. It couldn't produce spiritual
life. But this promise of the covenant,
this promise of the covenant promises to give us the Spirit. of God. In verse 14, the blessing
of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit. You see, this
promise of God is spiritual. And it promised to give us a
Spirit, His Spirit, and life. That's what this promised. Now
in our text, the covenant of promise, or the covenant of grace,
He likens to a man's last will and testament. Look at this in
verse 15. He said, Brethren, I speak after the manner of men,
though it be a man's covenant. That phrase there, man's covenant. It is a will and testament. That's what it means. A man's
last will and testament. This is a covenant that he's
talking about. It is a covenant. And he likens this will and testament
He likens it to the covenant of grace. While the law, again, is a contractual
covenant. And so these two covenants are
very distinct and different. Now the covenant of the law,
when I say it's contractual, listen, it means this, that two
parties get into an agreement to have an outcome. The outcome
is eternal life. And God says, okay, I'll be holy
and just and righteous and demand that of you. And your part is
what? To continually, constantly obey the law forever. And only then may you receive
the outcome of eternal life. Both parties are agreed upon.
But the covenant of a will and testament, consider this covenant.
The only active person in this is one person. The only person
that can make a last will and testament is you. If you're making
a will and testament, you can make it. Nobody else can make
that for you. And this is the same with God.
God made a covenant by Himself. He is the only active party in
this covenant. And so if you consider the law,
you remember what he said in verse 10 that if you want to
be under the law, you have to obey the whole law constantly.
Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things written in
the book of law to do it. I was reading John Gill just
this morning. And I can't tell you how many
times he's made excuse to omit the moral law. He said, well,
the law is done away with except the moral law. No, that's not what the text
said. The text said, "...continueth not in all things written in
the book of the law." If you want to say the moral law, all
of them. If you want to be under the law
in any measure, you've got to be under the whole law. And this
is all you're going to get. Cursed. Cursed. So it's been established that
we have all sinned. that none of us could ever be
justified by the deeds of that covenant. And so I ask, who in the world
wants to be under that covenant? Why would men desire in any measure
to forsake a covenant full of promises and grace for a covenant
of works that they cannot perform? It's either this, they're either
just foolish or they're lost. That's what Paul's dealing with
in this text. He says, I don't know which one you are. You're
either foolish or you're lost. Why would we go back under this?
There's no hope in it. To remain under the law is to
remain under the curse. So Paul concludes that it's impossible,
impossible that this contract should apply in any degree to
the obtaining of promises. He said the law is not a promise. The law is not a faith. It can never be merited. These
things can never be mixed. But behold, the only covenant
by which a sinner is justified and may receive the promise of
the Spirit is this covenant, the will of God. The will of
God. God has a testament. God has
a will that He has determined from eternity. A covenant. The will of God assures us this,
that all who are named in this covenant will receive the blessing
of Abraham. I'll tell you what, in an unsure
world this is comforting. I'm not sure of anything except
this. I'm sure that God will fulfill
His covenant. I'm sure that He will. And listen,
these people are going to receive the blessing of Abraham without
any of their obedience. No merit on their part. No value
in themselves moved God to give them these promises. And listen,
no amount of disobedience disannulls them from this covenant. You see, it wasn't your obedience
that brought you in, and it's not going to be your disobedience
that kicks you out. You see, this covenant wasn't
based on anything you've done or don't do. It is a complete,
free, grace covenant. Now I'll tell you this, to the
natural man in our minds, that don't make a lick of sense. We
base everything on merit, don't we? Yet God didn't. And you that
have received this, you should be thankful. You should see that
none of this was dependent upon you in any measure. It's a covenant solely based
on the love and grace of God toward His elect people. In a man's last will and testament,
remember that the full responsibility of this last will and testament
belongs only to the man that writes it, the testator, the
one that writes it. If you write in there that your
children should not receive any of your inheritance, well, that's
your own. It's your inheritance you give
to whoever you want to. Consider that salvation belongs
to God. You know what? He can give it
to whoever He wants to. He's the testator. He's the testator
and the full responsibility of this falls on Him. So therefore,
if God hath made a covenant, listen, who then can disannul
it? You can kick, and you can spit,
and you can hate God, and you can curse Him. You can do all
that. It doesn't move the fact that
God's will is always going to be accomplished. Whatever God
determined to do, He's going to do. Don't care. Matter of fact, your cussing
and spitting and kicking is all part of His will. You know that because when they
crucified Christ, that was part of God's will. That was exactly
what God determined to be done. They're doing exactly what they
wanted to. But I'll tell you this, they did not escape the
determinate will and counsel of God. Neither do we. Listen to this in Isaiah chapter
9. Go to Isaiah chapter 9. So then
the full responsibility of this covenant rests on the testator.
That's the point I was making. Chapter 9. Get over there. Look at verse 6. I know we all know this text,
but this shows that the responsibility of this promise rests on the
testator, which is Christ. Now look at this. For unto us
a child is born. This child was always in existence.
I mean, this child was born. That's just humanity. Unto us
a son is given. The son was always in existence.
Therefore, the son was given to be born as a child. And the
government shall be upon His shoulders. Now what does that
mean? That means His kingdom, His government is squarely resting
on His shoulders. It is his full responsibility
to make sure that the covenant of God is accomplished. And what are we going to call
Him? He'll be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace. And the increase of
His government and peace, there shall be no end. And upon the
throne of David, upon His kingdom, to order it, to establish it
with judgment and justice from henceforth even forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts
will do what? Perform it. So you see in this
covenant, who's doing all the work? Who's responsible for this
covenant promise of receiving the Spirit through faith that
is mentioned here? It is all of God. It is all on Christ.
In that text, did you read anything about you? Was there anything
in there about you? Other than you're the government,
you're the one on his shoulders. What else? What are you doing?
What are you doing to maintain this kingdom? I hear this and
I just want to throw up. I said, you know, we need to
be out there building the kingdom of God. No. Kingdom's built. He established it. He ordered
it. The zeal of the Lord will perform
it. What? The covenant. God will
do it. God will do it. Christ then is the surety of
this covenant. Christ is the testator of this
last will and testament of God. He's the surety for all those
that are named in this covenant. all those that were given to
Christ. He came as their representative to redeem Israel from the curse
of the law. Now, an illustration of that
surety, of that covenant. Listen, I think that Judah is
an eminent type of Christ in this. You remember in Genesis
when Jacob would not let Benjamin go. Benjamin was his love. Jacob loved Benjamin more than
his life. He would have starved to death
rather than lose Benjamin. And you remember Judah saying,
look, Dad, if you don't let the boy go, we're all going to die,
not just you. We're all going to die. This
is what he said. that allowed Jacob to let Benjamin
go was this, Judah said, send the lad with me and we will arise
and go that we may live and not die both we and thou and the
little ones I will be surety for him of my hand shalt thou require
him If I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, let
me bear the blame forever." This is exactly the words of
Christ unto God. God had a darling. His Benjamin
is us. We were His Benjamin. And Christ
said, Give him to me. Give him to me that he not die. And if I fail, let me bear the blame. And I'm so glad we were given
to Christ in that covenant because He can't fail. He can't. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. Christ is the surety of this
covenant. He's a surety for all of God's
elect. So in this covenant, there is one who is responsible. In a worst covenant, listen,
both parties are responsible. That's religion, isn't it? Religion
says God does his part and I do my part. I don't want a contractual
covenant. Because I tell you what, no matter
how small my end is, I can't keep it. Have you? I can't. Can't keep it. I don't want a
contractual covenant. I want a testament. I want a
covenant made by God, with God, for God, for me. That's what I want. I want it
to be done. Go to Hebrews chapter 7. Look
at this. Scott and I were talking about
this earlier. You know, the book of Galatians is so short. It's
got one focus. It's to separate the law and
the grace. Separate these two. But if you
read his other works, his other epistles, he takes these same
points and expounds them in further detail. Let's look at Hebrews
chapter 7. This is the idea of assurity,
the idea of a priest. And that's exactly what a priest
is. A priest is a mediator. A priest is assurity. A priest
is one that performs the work in the stead of the people. And
notice what he says, look at chapter 7, beginning of verse
18. It says, for there is verily
a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness
and unprofitableness thereof. He's talking about the law. There's
a disannulling of this. Because it's weak. And how is
it weak? It's weak through the flesh.
It's weak because it could not take away sin. It could not remove
sin. All those sacrifices, all those
things it commanded, all those laws that we were to obey, it
could not ever save us. So of necessity, barely, it had
to be put away. For the law made nothing what? Perfect. Nothing. Nothing was made perfect. But
here it is, but the bringing in of a better hope did. The
better hope. The better hope is Christ. Why? Because what the law could
not do, the better hope did. By the witch we draw nigh unto
God." We draw nigh, not by law. That was weak. We couldn't do
it. But by Christ. "...and insomuch as not without
an oath, he was made a priest. For those priests were made without
an oath." Remember those priests were in succession of physical
birth. They were a Levitical tribe.
Those were the priests. or of that line. But they didn't
have to make an oath. But the priest that we have is
not made one without an oath. He has an oath. And look at this. He said, "...the Lord swear and
will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
By so much was Jesus made a what? surety of a better covenant. Surety of a better covenant. They truly were many priests
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death,
but this man, because he continued forever, hath an unchangeable
surety. Unchangeable priesthood. Our
Lord Jesus Christ is a better hope of a better covenant because
he is a better surety. He's a surety. A high priest
that has come and offered an acceptable sacrifice by which
we are now made perfect. You got that? If you would believe it, you
can go look in the mirror and say, that man's perfect. Because God
made it so. You have to see it by faith. You're not going to see it by
You're not going to look at what you do or how you feel or what
you think. That's not it. You look at that through the
Word of God and you see that, that Christ made us perfect. And so Paul then testifies of
this. Go back to your text. Christ, God having a covenant,
ordaining the promises from eternity, giving them to Christ, making
Him the surety, making Him the high priest of this better covenant
by which He redeemed us from the curse of the law. And notice this. He now tells
us the immutable nature and the binding nature of this covenant.
Look again at verse 15. Brethren, I speak after the manner
of man, though it be a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed,
no man disannulleth or addeth thereunto. In every human last will and
testament, what do they do? You write it out. You have somebody notarize it. Somebody comes along and opens
that up and adds something to it. What does it do to the whole
thing? This and those, the whole thing. It's not legal. It's not
binding. It's destroyed. That covenant
is gone. There's no blessings or benefits.
You can't be sure if it's true or not. But listen, God has made
a covenant. And if you can talk like that
about a man's covenant, how much more can you say about God's
covenant? You cannot disannul or add to
the covenant of God. This covenant of God is binding. It's a covenant of God that cannot
change because God doesn't change. For I am the Lord. I change not. I change not. All that God has
willed to do in this covenant, He will do. God says this, I am God and there
is none like Me. Declaring the end from the beginning.
From ancient times the things that were not yet done. Now listen,
that covenant was ordained in eternity. Yet it was not done. I mean, Christ did not yet come.
But it was as good as done. declaring the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, the things that are not yet done, saying,
My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure." You that have received the Spirit
of promise through faith, what was His pleasure? Your pleasure
is that you receive it. Have you received it? Well, this
is caused by an eternal, immutable counsel of God. God says, I'm going to bring
my salvation near and ain't nobody going to stop it. He said, I bring near my righteousness
and it shall not be far off and my salvation shall not tarry.
I will place salvation in Zion for Israel. My glory. God's will and testament was
from eternity and nothing can affect it or disannul it. His
purpose and grace. And therefore, listen, nothing
can be added to it or taken from it. Now the covenant of promise was
decreed from eternity. He was declared to Abraham in
time. And notice this. Go back to your
text. Now in verse 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were
the promises made. He saith not to seeds as of many,
but one. As of one. And to thy seed which
is Christ. Christ. This covenant is all
wrapped up in one. In Christ. And this covenant, look at verse
19. I'm sorry, verse 17. For this I say, that
the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the
law which was 430 years after, cannot disannul, that it should
make the promise of God of none effect. This law was given to
Abraham, this covenant was given to Abraham 430 years before the
law. And seeing then this covenant
of grace was established long before the law, nothing can be
added to this covenant, especially the law. Listen, the law is not
an addition. I know men believe in progressive
revelation. I mean, this is how you get the
Catholic Church. They believe that these were
the revelations at that time, but now you get more people receiving
messages from God, they start writing them down and the old
ones are disannoyed. No, this law was never intended
to be added or supplemented with the testament and promises of
God. It is not to be transposed upon
salvation of God that is in Christ. It is not added to help or to
be the rule of a man's life. That's not the purpose of the
law. Law has a purpose. Law has a purpose. What is the
purpose of the law? It doesn't have anything to do with our
salvation. What is the purpose? Why did God give the law? Simply this, Paul said that the
law was added for the transgression. The law was added for the transgression. It was not added to the covenant
of promises, nor was it superimposed to grace. It was added to reveal
transgression." Go to Romans 3. Again, Paul is going to expound
on these same points in a little bit greater length. Romans 3. Look what he says about
us. He says there's none righteous,
no, not one. What's the conclusion of that? In verse 19 he says, And we know that whatsoever things
the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, listen,
that every mouth may be stopped, and the world become guilty before
God. Now you don't know the purpose of the law, that's it. Shut you
up and show your guilt. That's it. Therefore by the deeds
of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight. That's
the purpose of the law. Look over in Romans 7 and see
Paul's experience of this. He conveys his own experience,
which is our experience. Look at verse 9 of chapter 7.
He said, I was alive without the law once. What does he mean
by that? He said, I thought I was alive.
I thought I was doing what the law commanded. I thought I was
living under God. When the commandment came, sin
revived and what? I died. There's the purpose of
the law. To reveal our spiritual death.
And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to
be unto death. For sin taking occasion by the
commandment deceived me and by it slew me. Wherefore the law
is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was
then that which is good made death unto me, God forbid, but
sin." Nothing wrong with the law. Why am I guilty? Why am I dead? Is it the law's
fault? No, it's mine. Sin. That it might appear sin working
death in me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment
might become exceeding sinful." Now here's the purpose of the
law. That's it. Does that interpose
in any way on the covenant of grace? No, because the covenant
of grace doesn't talk about this. Covenant of grace is not for
this. The covenant of grace is to justify us. to cleanse us
from sin, not to convict us of sin, not to condemn us of sin,
but rather through a substitute, deliver us from sin. That's what
the New Covenant is about. Over there in Romans 3 again,
he says this, even the righteousness of God, which is by the faith of Jesus
Christ. the faith, the righteousness
of God. How is that merited? Can the law tell you how that's
merited? The law can't tell you that. Only grace can tell you
that. By Jesus Christ, assurity. And then that righteousness is
unto all and upon all them that believe. and seeing that the salvation
of all the elect is according to the covenant of God's grace,
and was in effect from eternity fulfilled are the qualifications
of justification by Jesus Christ, which God determined in His will,
and was it ratified by the death of Jesus Christ." You see, we're
talking about the Last Will and Testament. When does that go
into effect? Write your Last Will and Testament. You seal
it up. But when is it revealed? When is it expounded? When you die. When you die. Over in Hebrews 9 it says, for
this cause he is a mediator of a new covenant. that by means
of his death, for the redemption of the transgression that were
under the first testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance. For where the testament is, there
also of necessity must be the death of the testator. For the
testament is a force after men are dead, otherwise it hath no
strength at all while he liveth." Christ told him this many times.
He said, I must die. I must die. It is expedient that
I go away. If I go not away, I cannot give
you the covenant promise." But listen, he did. The testator
of God's will had died, fulfilling all that God had purposed. Righteousness,
justification, redemption, salvation. All of it. He finished it. And
now that he's dead, but listen, this is wonderful. When you die,
who's really going to make sure your will is executed? You may
get a lawyer. Now, good luck with that. They
may or they may not. They may be a crook. I don't
know who's going to be the executor of your last will and testament.
But listen, Christ who is the surety, Christ who is the testator
is also the executor. You got it? Because He died,
Yet now He is risen. What is He doing? What is Christ
doing? I tell you what, sometimes I
shake my head. I don't quite understand His
providence, but I still know what He's doing.
He told us what He's doing. John 17. glorify the Son, that
Thy Son may glorify Thee, as Thou hast given Him power over
all flesh." Why? That He should give eternal life
to as many as Thou hast given Him. He's the surety, He's the
testator, and He's the executor. And I'm so glad it's so. I am,
because in grace He has come to me. This eternal covenant that was
given to Christ was for me. Christ merited it, Christ obtained
it, Christ earned it, and Christ gave it. And guess what? He keeps
it. This is to be comforted. This
covenant that we are in, friends, is not based on any merit of
ourselves. It's God's will. Isn't that what
he says in the end when he gathers his people together? He separates
the goats and the sheep and he says to the sheep, come you blessed
of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you when? for the foundation of the world.
It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. It's
His good pleasure. Why? It was His will. And so then, what do we do with
this? Is there any way that you would transpose the law upon
this? No! You would disannul the covenant. That's why Paul says if you be
circumcised, Christ your prophet, you're nothing. Listen, if you
tithe or if you try to keep the Sabbath, Christ your prophet,
you're nothing. If you offer sacrifices, Christ
your prophet, you're nothing. You try to do anything in that
law, you dissent all the promises. The law is not a promise. The
law is not a faith. Stop trying to put it together.
They were never intended to be so. And so that after Abraham
received this covenant, let me ask you this. How did he live? Every day. God did not tell him
exactly where he was going. Did He? He didn't lay out a blueprint.
Say, look, here's a road map. Let me show you where you're
going. No, he had to live daily by faith waiting to hear from
God. Well, guess how you're going
to live? Same way. You have the same blessings.
Why would you not think that you wouldn't live the same way?
You live by faith. What am I going to do today?
I'm going to believe. What do you think you're going
to do tomorrow? God willing, I'll believe. until my faith
is lost in sight. That's the rule of my life. And the more I believe Him, I
tell you this, the more I love Him. You can't believe Him and not
love Him. Can you? Is that possible? Is that possible
to look at Christ and not love Him? No, man. He's a testator of this
will. He's a surety of this will. He's
the executor of this will. He's all my salvation. And I'm
not going to add one thing to Him. Not one. I'm just going to believe Him. Pray God will bless us. Let's
stand and be dismissed in prayer.