If you'll find your seats. The song I'd like to start with
to open our worship this morning is not in the music hymn box,
so we'll sing it acapella. I'd like to start with 474 in
the hardback hymnal. 474. And we'll stand together and
sing this song. Not have I gotten, but what I
received. Grace hath bestowed it since
I have believed. Boasting excluded, pride I abase. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story, to God be the
glory. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. Once I was foolish and sin ruled
my heart, causing my footsteps from God to depart. Jesus hath found me, happy my
case. I now am a sinner, saved by grace. Only a sinner, saved by grace. Only a sinner, saved by grace. This is my story, to God be the
glory. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. Tears unavailing, no merit had
I. Mercy had saved me, or else I
must die. Sin had alarmed me, fearing God's
face, but now I'm a sinner. ? Saved by grace ? Only a sinner
? Saved by grace ? Only a sinner ? Saved by grace ? This is my
story ? To God be the glory ? I'm only a sinner ? Saved by grace
? ? Suffer a sinner whose heart overflows ? ? Loving his savior
to tell what he knows ? ? Once more to tell it would I embrace
? ? I'm only a sinner Saved by grace Only a sinner Saved by
grace Only a sinner Saved by grace This is my story To God
be the glory I'm only a sinner ? Saved by grace ? Be seated,
please. Good morning. We're going to be in 1 Samuel
chapter 16 this morning. 1 Samuel chapter 16. Are believers, as we just sang,
sinners? Or are they saints? You got it, Michael. Yeah. The
answer is yes. Yes. Believers clearly have two
natures, and we'll be looking at that this morning. Our old
man is nothing but sin. Our new man in Christ is perfectly
righteous and cannot sin, cannot sin. This truth explains much
about the believer's life. And I hope that the Lord will
comfort us this morning by revealing this glorious truth to each of
us. You go, went in the hospital
yesterday, and he's had blood pressure issues for a long time,
and night before last, it went up to 240. And they have it right
now under control, but he's having a stress test and an EKG today. So I want us to pray for Hugo. Jennifer is home, recovering
from her treatment that she had, gosh, time flies, was that Monday
of this week? All right, let's, Robert and
Deanna, so good to have you all here. Been two months, what a
blessing. All right, let's pray together.
Our merciful Heavenly Father, we have such hope and knowing
that we can come into thy holy presence being accepted in thy
dear son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We ask that you
would send your Holy Spirit in power. We pray that you would
give to our hearts understanding and truth and light and faith
and grace, Lord, that you would enable us to look upon Christ
and to rest all our hope in him. We pray that you would give us
the faith to believe what you have declared in your word and
Lord, speak and make your word effectual to our hearts. We pray
for our brother, Yugo. We ask, Lord, that you would
give those that minister to him the wisdom and knowledge that
they need to be instruments of healing in your hand. Give him
strength and recovery and, Lord, enable us to worship thee together. We ask the same for Jennifer.
We thank you, Lord, for the medical, treatments that you've made available
to us, and we pray, Lord, that you would use them for our good
and for your glory. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. In 1 Samuel chapter 16, the Lord
sends the prophet Samuel to anoint David the youngest son of Jesse,
to be king over Israel. And David is identified by God
as a man after God's own heart. A man after God's own heart. Now, clearly, David is a type
of Christ. who is the man after God's own
heart, the man who had only the heart of God. David, though he clearly represents
our king, which we will consider in the second hour, the one who
reigns over the kingdom of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, David
also is a picture of every believer. Every believer is a man after
God's own heart. You say, in what sense? Well,
in the new man, the one given to us in the new birth, All of
God's elect, all of God's people, all of God's redeemed, all of
his regenerated, let me rephrase that, all of his regenerated,
some of his redeemed haven't been regenerated yet. Some of
his elect haven't been regenerated yet. But after regeneration,
after the new birth, we have the mind of Christ. We have a
new nature. We have We have the man that
is after God's own heart. The man that hates what God hates. The man that loves what God loves. The man that rests and rejoices
in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have that
man. And alongside that man, we still
have the old man. which explains so much in the
believer's experience and in the believer's life. Scripture says in Jeremiah chapter
17, verse nine, that the heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked who should know it. And the child of God
shaking his head and said, I can identify with that. I can identify
with that. Genesis chapter six, the scripture
says that God looked down from heaven and he saw that every
imagination of the thoughts of man was only evil and that continually. Our best thoughts are fraught
with our Old man, man of sin that we live with. Scripture says, there is none
good, no, not one. What are these scriptures in
reference to? They are in reference to the
natural man. They're in reference to our old man. They're not a reference to our
new man. To the contrary, the new man, well, turn with me to
Psalm 7. Psalm 7. This glorious truth of two natures
explains so much in the believer's life and experience. And before we go any further,
let us be warned not to use this truth in any way to justify or
to excuse the behavior of the old man. You know, I've heard
believers say that, well, that was just my old man, that was
just, you know. No, that's, you know, the fact that our old man
is there, that we carry with us this body of death is a reality. But in no way does that Does
the presence of that old nature justify or excuse our sin? We sin, we're fully responsible
for that, aren't we? We bear the, we can't say, well,
that's just, you know, that's just who I am. You're gonna have
to deal with it. No. Look at Psalm 7. beginning of verse eight. The
Lord shall judge the people. And then David says, judge me,
O Lord, according to my righteousness. Or don't judge me according to
my old man. Don't judge me according to that fleshly man of death
and sin that I live with. Judge me according to my righteousness. My righteousness is Christ's
righteousness. Judge me in him. That would be
another way to interpret this. Lord, I fear not your judgments
as long as you judge me in Christ. And according to mine iniquity
that is in me. Now we say, well, David's speaking
prophetically of Christ and he is, but he's speaking of himself
as well in Christ. He's speaking of this description
that God gives of him, a man after God's own heart. And every believer can say this,
the inequity, according to my integrity, I'm
sorry, I misread that, didn't I? According to mine integrity
that is in me. That integrity that is within
me is the new man. That's my righteousness. Look
at the next verse. Oh, let the wickedness of the
wicked come to an end. He's not just pointing his finger
out into the world and saying, let those worldly wicked men
who don't know God, let them be annihilated. No, Lord, I look
forward to the day. I look forward to the day when
you put an end to this wickedness, to this old man that's in me,
when this corruptible shall be made incorruptible, and this
mortal shall be made immortal, and I shall be given a new body,
a resurrected body, a perfect body, so that I'll know nothing
more of sin. Hasten the day. Come, Lord Jesus,
even now come. Is that your experience, child
of God? Your struggle with that old man? Let the wickedness of the wicked
come to an end and establish the just. He's talking about
the two natures here. Lord, I look forward to the day
when this old man is going to be put where he belongs, where
he came from, the earth. And the just man, the new man,
is gonna become the only man that I know. The man who is after
God's own heart. For the righteous God trieth
the hearts and reigns. My defense is of God, which saveth
the upright in heart. A child of God, if you know Christ,
You have a new nature. You have a perfect man who cannot
sin. And this is the man that you
long to be. This is the desire that you have.
You see, a man after God's own heart is a man who wants to be
like God. He wants to be without sin. He longs for that experience. And he lives every day in hopes
and in hatred of the sin that exists. within him. What is the explanation of this?
Two natures. Paul said in Romans chapter 7,
in me, and I'm so thankful for this next phrase, in me, that
is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. There's nothing good in
our flesh, but that doesn't mean there's nothing good in us. In
the new man, in Christ, we have absolute perfection, absolute
holiness, absolute sinlessness, and there is our hope. There is our hope. John put it
like this, as he is, so are we in this world, and this is our
boldness in the day of judgment. This is our hope. This is our
courage. This is our faith that in the
day of judgment, I'm not going to be judged according to my
old man. I'm going to be judged according to my new man. Judge
me in my righteousness and in my integrity, not in my iniquity. Now, how is it that we can not
be judged in our iniquity? How is it that the old man cannot
be judged in the day of judgment? He's already been judged. He's
already been judged. Everything about him has already
been justified before God. The sacrifice that the Lord Jesus
Christ made on Calvary's cross was the judgment of God against
that old man. And he's been put to death. He's
been put to death. He's waiting to die. But spiritually speaking, he's
already, he died in Christ. He died in Christ. John put it like this in 1 John
3 9, whosoever is born of God doth not sin. For his seed remaineth in him
and he cannot sin because he is born of God. Now that can
only apply to our new man. That can only apply to the man
who's after God's own heart. That can only apply to the new
nature. Because at the same time, we have a man who cannot sin. we have another man who does
nothing but sin. Peter calls this new man the
hidden man, the hidden man. You see, we're a lot more conscious
of the old man in our experience than we are of the new man who's
hidden by faith. We live with that old man. We
live with the experience of that old man. We live with the grief
of that old man. We say with the Apostle Paul,
to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is
good, I find not. Oh, wretched man that I am. Wretched
man, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks
be to God. In Christ Jesus, I'm free. There
is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Child of God, the man after God's
own heart, David, is Christ. And it's every believer in Christ. A man after God's own heart and
therein is our hope. Our hope is not found in the
old man. Our condemnation is not in the
old man. Our hope is in the hidden man,
the man that the eyes of flesh cannot see. Peter calls him the
hidden man of the heart, which is incorruptible. The hidden man of the heart.
That's the man created after God's own heart. That's the mind
of Christ. That's the new nature, the hidden
man of the heart, which is incorruptible. So while the old man is deceitful
and corruptible and corrupt, we have a new man who's incorruptible. Why do I hate my sin and at the
same time I'm attracted to it? Why is it that I see the vanity
of this world, the emptiness of this world, and yet at the
same time I try to fill my heart with happiness in the world?
Why is it? Why is it that I want to pray,
I want to worship, I want to read God's word, I want to fellowship
with God's people, and yet there's something in me that makes it
so difficult. Why is it? You see, is this not
the explanation? God's word is filled with examples
and truths relating to this glorious truth. Christ, the sinless man, was
in totality a man after God's own heart. He didn't have the
sinful nature that we have. He had a nature of flesh, and
like your flesh, like our flesh, his flesh tired, and it got hungry,
and it could only be in one place at a time, and his flesh was
capable of death. but what his flesh was not capable
of is sin and God made him who knew no sin to be made sin for
us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
You see that's why we need it that's why we need the new man
we need a man who is able to bear the shame and the guilt
and the weight of our sin and satisfy before God his justice
and his righteousness by the sacrifice of himself. And that's
exactly what the Lord Jesus did. He was conceived of the Holy
Spirit. He did not come into this world
the way you and I came into this world. He did not inherit that
old man nature of Adam. He was made, the scripture says,
in the likeness of sinful flesh, but he wasn't sinful. He had
no sin of his own until he bore our sins in his body upon the
tree and suffered the wrath of God in order to put them away. Christ is the man after God's
own heart in perfection. in totality, in the fullness
of his being. We are a man after God's own
heart, only in our new nature, only in Christ, only by virtue
of our union with him and through faith in him, we have a perfect
man. You say, well how do I know if I
have this If I have this new heart, if God, how do I know
if God has taken out the heart of the dead, lifeless, cold,
hard, heart of stone and put in a living heart, a breathing
heart, a warm heart, a loving heart, how do I know if he's
given me the mind of Christ? How do I know if he's made me
a man after God's own heart? Well, the scriptures tell us
that gives us some ways to make that judgment. Turn with me to
Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. And look with me at verse 16.
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,
saith the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts
and in their minds will I write them. Now this is a direct quote
from Jeremiah chapter 31. Well, the Lord prophesies of
that day where he's going to, where he's going to make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, the spiritual house of Israel.
This is not the physical house of Israel. This is the house
of Israel in Christ. And might I pause here for just
a moment and say that all the promises that God made to national
Israel and to Abraham and the physical descendants of Abraham,
were made to Christ and to all of his spiritual descendants. Turn back with me to one page
back to Hebrews chapter eight and look at verse 10. The Lord
repeats this twice. He says to the children of Israel,
he said, no longer will it be necessary for a man to say to
his brother, you need to know the Lord. You see, in Old Testament
Israel, there were believers and unbelievers. In New Testament
Israel, there's only believers. Only believers. That's all there
is in New Testament Israel. Only those who have, now, am
I saying that there's not tares among the wheat? No, I'm not
saying that. There's tares among the wheat. Are there unbelievers
that associate with believers? Yeah. we're talking about the
hidden man of the heart we're talking about spiritual Israel
we're talking about those who God has done this work for and
he says no man will need to say to his brother you need no more
why because they will all know me from the least of them even
unto the greatest and here in verse 10 of chapter eight, for
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their mind
and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and
they shall be to me a people. Now go back with me to chapter
10 and compare the way in which the Holy Spirit writes Jeremiah
31 in chapter 10 to chapter 8. Notice in chapter 8, I will put
my laws in their minds and I will write them in their hearts. Notice
in verse 10, in chapter 10, at verse 16, I will put my laws
in their hearts and write them in their minds. It's very important. What's the
Lord telling us? Telling us where our heart. He's
saying the disconnect is not between the heart and the mind.
The heart and the mind are the same. The heart and the mind are the
same. What you believe in your heart. How many times you thought,
well, you know, you can miss heaven by 18 inches. or whatever
the distance is between your head and your heart. I tell you,
that kind of talk, I listened to a message yesterday. And it
was a man that I highly esteem him, but I wasn't comforted by
the message because it was a message of lordship salvation. It made
me look to myself and how much I love God and how committed
I am to God to evaluate whether or not I'm a believer. There's
no comfort in that. You see, if you make a distinction
between what you know to be true and what you believe in your
heart, then you're left with, well, I wonder if I'm being deceived
by what I think and I really don't have in my heart. The Lord is making it clear here
that what you believe in your mind, you believe in your heart.
The disconnect is not between the head and the heart. The disconnect
is between the heart and the lips. Men will say things they
don't believe. They will say things they don't
believe. They will speak words that they've not bowed to. But if the Lord has given you
the mind of Christ, if he has If he has made you a man after
God's own heart, your heart and your mind are going to be in
perfect union on these things. What things? The law that's been
written on your heart, and the law that's been written
on your mind, and the law that's been impressed upon your heart,
and the law that's been impressed upon your mind is gonna be the
same law. and he's not talking about the moral law. Let me show
you that. Turn with me to Romans chapter two. We have to move
quickly now because Romans chapter two, look at verse 14. For when the Gentiles, which
have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,
these having not the law are a law unto themselves, Now remember,
what the Lord's referring to here is pagan cultures who never
had access to the word of God. Never. He's talking about people
who wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about when you
said the Ten Commandments. They wouldn't have a clue. What
Ten Commandments? They don't know who Moses is. They don't
know who the law of God is. Verse 15, which show the work
of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing
one another. What's the Lord saying? Those
people in the world who have never even heard of the 10 commandments
have the moral law of God written on their hearts from birth and
their conscience they know right from wrong. They know right from
wrong. Now they may sear their conscience,
they may excuse themselves, they may say, well, that's not wrong
anymore, but they know in their heart of hearts, all men know
that, the moral law. They know what's right and what's
wrong. Before God, before God. So when the Lord says in Jeremiah
31 and quotes it in Hebrews chapter 8 and Hebrews chapter 10, I will
write my laws upon their hearts in the new birth. He's not talking
about the moral law. That was on your heart before
you were born again. That moral law you had before
you ever, before you ever became a man after God's own heart.
So what is it to be made a man after God's own heart? What is
the hidden law that's written on the heart? Well, the scripture
refers to seven of them. And I think that's a perfect
number. Well, I know it's a perfect number,
but seven times the scripture speaks of a law that's written
on the heart in the new birth that the unbeliever doesn't have.
And the first one is found in, we won't look all these up, let
me just tell them to you. Malachi chapter two, verse six. The scripture says, the law of
truth. The law of truth. He's speaking
prophetically of Christ and of his people who will have the
law of truth on their lips. And we know that from the abundance
of the heart, the mouth speaketh. So whatever comes out of the
lips is a demonstration of what's in the heart. And what is the law of truth? Well,
it's truth about who we are, left ourselves without Christ. We have no righteousness, we're
nothing but sin. It's the truth about who God
is. He's the sovereign, omnipotent, immutable God who hath done whatsoever
he wills with the armies of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth.
He is the only one able to save. He's the only one with the power
to save. And the means by which God is pleased to save sinners
is in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, who himself is
the truth. I am the way, I am the truth,
and I am the life. No man can come to the Father
but by me. The law of truth is written on the heart in the new
birth. You know the truth. You know the truth. in your heart
and in your mind and you can't make a distinction between the
two. It's because you're a man after
God's own heart. You rejoice in the truth. You
love the truth. You don't try to butt the truth. You don't try to take the edge
off the truth. You don't try to say, well, you
know, yeah, it's kind of this way, but you know, maybe I mentioned
recently I've listened to several messages by very popular preachers. I wanted to know what they said
about what is the gospel. So I just went on YouTube and
typed in, what is the gospel? And I listened to seven or eight
messages, what is the gospel? And most of the men I listened
to were Calvinist, were Calvinist. And without exception, they all
left man with something to do in order to be saved. And if
they got anywhere close to declaring the gospel, they said this, Christ
died for everyone that would believe. Well, that's true. But why say
it like that? Why say it like that? To take
the offense out of the gospel. to leave man with the idea that
he's got some power left to himself. You see, you love the truth,
and the truth has been written on your heart. You don't want
the truth compromised. You want it unvarnished. You
want it clear. You want it simple. You want
it plain. You want to take the rough edges
off of it. You don't want to make it more
palatable to the flesh. You just want to know what God
says. What does God say? And wanting
to know what God says and rejoicing in what God says and delighting
in Christ and delighting in the truth is evidence that we have
the law of truth written on our hearts. The natural man doesn't
have that. He doesn't want to know the truth.
He's like Pilate. What is truth? Don't you know
there's nothing, there's no such thing as absolute truth? Don't
you know that it's all, you know, it's all up to us? It's all relative
to circumstances and feelings and idea. You have the law of
truth written on your heart. You just want to know the truth.
Just tell me the truth. The whole truth, nothing but
the truth. Whatever it leaves me, I just want to know what
God says. Why? Because the law of truth has
been written on my heart. in the new birth. Second one, Romans chapter three,
verse 27, where is boasting then it is excluded by what law? By
the law of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. There's the law that's written
on the heart. When the Lord says to Jeremiah,
I'm gonna write my laws upon their hearts, he's not talking
about the moral law, he's talking about these laws, the law of faith. And those who have the law of
faith written on their hearts know that faith wasn't something
they came up with. Faith was something that was
given to them. Faith was the gift of God. For by grace are
you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it's a gift
of God. And to make a work out of faith
is to deny the very nature of faith. Faith by its very definition
means that I don't have anything, I can't do anything, I don't
know anything. I'm completely dependent upon
another. And I'm looking in faith to the
one who has shut me up to himself. The law of faith. Faith is not,
you know, men talk about faith as if it's some sort of stalwart
character. You know, I'm gonna, look, there's
a man of faith, look at him. Except you become as a little
child, you should not be in the Kingdom of Heaven. Faith is what a child does when
it buries its face in the neck of its father out of fear and
trust and dependence upon that father to care for it. That's
what faith is. There's nothing to be... Faith
doesn't take pride in itself. Faith takes pride in the one
that's protecting it. That's the law of faith. Has
the law of faith been put on your heart? That's the man after God's own
heart. Faith is not the cause of salvation,
it is the proof of it. It's the proof of it. Romans 3.25, the third law that
God writes upon the heart is the law of sin. Romans 3.25,
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, so then with the mind,
I serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. My old man can do nothing but
sin. And the new birth didn't improve
him, didn't make him any better. He's just as sinful as it's all.
Now again, we're not excusing sin. We're not justifying sin. We're just acknowledging its truth. Paul said, when I would do good,
Evil is ever present with me. When the new man would desire
to live after righteousness, evil is ever present with me. Can't get away from that old
man. Is that your experience? You
know why that's your experience? Because you're a man after God's
own heart. That's why that's your experience. You have the
mind of Christ. You have the new man. You see,
you didn't know you had an old man until you got the new man.
You didn't know he existed. You thought he was pretty good.
You boasted in him. When he did something good, you
wanted everybody to know about it. You still do that, but now you're
ashamed when you do that, aren't you? Now you're ashamed when
you do it. Why? Because the spirit of God
convicts you of, oh, what are you boasting in yourself for? You see, that's the law of God
written on the heart. Fourth, Romans chapter eight,
verse two, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free. from the law of sin and death. Free from that old man. The old
man's dead. Reckon yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin. Why? How can I reckon myself
to be dead indeed unto sin? Because you are. That old man's
been put to death. He died on the cross. The law of the spirit of life
in Christ. The only life I have. You see,
I can't find any life in that old man. He's dead. I can't find
any hope in him. I can't find any boasting in
him. I can't find anything in him that I can present to God
for my righteousness. The spirit of my life is Christ. For Christ is my life, and my
only hope of having any life before God is in Him. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith
Christ has made you free, and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage. Don't go back to that old wall.
Don't go back to the old man. Try to find something in him
that's going to, you see, it's the old man that tries to, that
has to live under the wall. Romans chapter nine. We're gonna, I'll prepare everybody
ahead of time. We're gonna go over here. We
have to finish these. Romans chapter nine. Turn with
me. Turn with me there, if you will. Romans chapter nine. We're talking about the hidden
man of the heart. We're talking about the law of
God that has been written on the heart in the new birth. This is the evidence. This is
the evidence that I am a man after God's own heart. Because
if God didn't write these laws on my heart, I wouldn't have
them on my heart. The only thing I would have on my heart is the
moral law, which I've never been able to keep. But I rejoice in
knowing that the law of truth and the law of faith and the
law of sin and the law of the spirit of life in Christ had
been written upon my heart because this is my new man. This is my
salvation. Fifthly, Romans chapter 9, verse
31. But Israel, talk about national
Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath
not attained to the law of righteousness. They were trying to live under
the law. They were trying to earn favor with God by their
law keeping and they were unable. Wherefore, because they sought
it not by faith, because it were by the works of the law, For they stumbled at the stumbling
stone. As it is written, behold, I lay
in Zion a stumbling stone, a rock of offense, and whosoever believeth
on him shall not be ashamed. Now this is the stone that was
rejected by the builders. The builders had this stone as
the capstone. This is Christ, the stone is
Christ, you know that. And so the builder said, we don't
like that stone in our building. And they cast it out into the
yard, and now everybody's tripping over the very stone that's going
to hold the whole building together. The capstone, the cornerstone,
the stone, it becomes a stumbling stone now, a stone of offense. Why? Because once this stone
comes into the building, it becomes the whole building and everything
is held together by that one stone. And men won't have it. Why? Because they've got their
building shored up. They've got it shored up with
all sorts of scaffolding and everything else trying to hold
it together. And they're proud of all that
shoring that they've built. And once the capstone gets put
in place, all the shoring comes down. And the capstone holds
the whole building together. They won't have it. Brethren, verse 10, chapter 10,
verse one. My heart's desire and prayer
to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them
record, they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
For they being ignorant of the of God's righteousness are going
about to establish their own righteousness and they've not
submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God, for Christ
is the end of the law for righteousness. To everyone that believeth. Go
back, look at verse 31. I didn't make emphasis of this
phrase in verse 31, but Israel which followed after the law
of righteousness. There's the law. Have you had
the law of righteousness written on your heart? Do you believe
in your heart and in your mind that all your righteousnesses
are as filthy rags before God? That you would dare not present
anything that you've ever done, thought, said, or spoken to God
for your acceptance before him or for your righteousness before
him and that if God judged you by the best thing you'd ever
done, you'd go to hell for it. You believe that about yourself.
Why? Because the law of truth has
been written on your heart. The law of sin has been written on your
heart. The law of life in Christ has been written on your heart.
The law of righteousness has been written on your heart. I'm
going to write my laws upon their heart. Galatians chapter 6 verse 2,
bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. What is the law of Christ? Bearing
one another's burdens, putting up with each other, forgiving
one another, loving one another. That's the law of Christ. God
written that law in your heart? You get aggravated at somebody,
maybe you hold them at a distance for a while, but the law that
God has written on your heart is unstoppable. Unstoppable. You can't not forgive. You've
been forgiven. You can't not love. You've been
loved. That's the law. The unbeliever
might be able to live all their lives with an unforgiving spirit. Those who have the law written
upon their hearts can't do it. And finally, number seven, James
chapter two, verse 12. So speak ye and so do as they
that shall be judged by the perfect law of liberty. I'm free, free
in Christ. I'm free from the law, free from
the wrath of God, free from judgment. I'm free from having to pretend
before God and having to present some sort of righteousness. And
I'm free from fear and death and judgment and wrath. Why?
Because Christ has made me free. That's the law of liberty. Stand
fast in the freedom with Christ has made you free. And be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. I'm not going to
let anybody put me back under the law. I do enough of that
myself. And if I hear somebody preaching
a message that makes me feel like there's something I have
to do in order for God to save me, I'm under the law. And I
can't go back to Egypt. The taskmasters of Egypt, they're
drowning the sea. You can't go back there. God's
made me free. You know, people come to America
from from countries where they're not free and love their freedom. Can you imagine an American who's
lived their whole lives and the freedoms that we enjoy happen
to go and live in North Korea or China or someplace where we
wouldn't adapt to that? It wouldn't be like those who
come to freedom, now they don't go, they're not gonna go back.
Somebody comes to America from North Korea, they're not going
back to North Korea. What if you went to North Korea? You'd have a hard time, wouldn't
you? See the contrast? The law of
liberty, where with Christ has made us free. been written on
the heart. And that's the hidden man. And
that's the man created after God's own heart. And might I
just close by saying we're talking about David and David's name
translated means beloved, beloved. Oh, what love the Lord has shown
to us. that we of all people should
be called the sons of God. All right, let's take a break. All right.