Thank you, Ravi. Daniel chapter
nine. Now let's, let's go there. I was, uh, last week I preached
a message called undeserved. When I got to the last point,
I rushed through it rather hurriedly. And, and it was from this chapter
and I wanted to go back and just look at just what I wanted to
show you from that point. And I began to see quite a bit
more in this, and I hope it'll be a blessing to you. Why do
we supplicate God? Why do we supplicate God? Verse
17, Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant
and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary
that is desolate for the Lord's sake. O my God, incline thine
ear, and hear, open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and
the city which is called by thy name. For we do not present our
supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for
thy great mercies. O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, hearken and do. Defer
not for thine own sake. Oh my God, for thy city and thy
people are called by thy name. Beholding our sin and beholding
God's mercies to his people for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. We see Christ. We see all God's
mercy is in Christ. And the more we see our sin and
his mercy for the sake of Christ. The more brethren, all our supplication,
all our supplication will be simply for the sake of Christ,
simply for the sake of Christ. Beholding our sin, beholding
God's mercies for Christ's sake, we supplicate God. We come to
God and supplicate God, but not for our righteousness sake. We
supplicate God because of his great mercies. The more you see
his great mercies, the more willing he makes you to come to him and
supplicate God. See it again there in verse 18.
We do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses,
but because of thy great mercies. It's the great mercies of God
to his people. his great mercies to us for the
sake of his son that makes us willing and have boldness to
come to the throne of grace to supplicate God in prayer. Now,
first of all, what does it mean to supplicate God? What does
that mean? Supplication is earnestly, humbly
begging God to provide our need. It's humbly earnestly begging
God to provide our need, to supply all our need. Do we need just
for God to occasionally supply our needs? Like, you know, do
we do all right most of the time, but we just have a few needs
now and then and occasionally we need him to supply those needs?
Well, we certainly have the time of need, The scripture tells
us, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we
may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. But
our time of need are those special times when the Lord actually
makes us see we have a need. There are some times when he
makes you see your need. That's our time of need. But
truthfully, all the time, is our time of need. We need the
Lord to provide all the time. And it's not just some of our
needs, the ones we see occasionally, we need our Lord to provide all
for us all the time. That is so brethren, that is
so. It's God our Father through his son, Christ Jesus, who is
providing all the need of his elect people. He supplies all
our need. Everything we're given is from
God. That tells you he supplies all
your need. You have all need and he supplies
all your need. Philippians 419, Paul said, my
God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory
by Christ Jesus. John said, a man can receive
nothing except it be given him from above. You remember whenever
David and the children of Israel, they offered so abundantly to
build the temple. and David prayed to God and he
said who am I and what is my people that we should be able
to offer so willingly after this sort for all things come of thee
and of thine own have we given thee. He's saying everything
we have you gave it to us God and we've just given you what
is already yours. All that we have God gave us. It's because we need all. We
need God to provide all. So when we supplicate God, asking
him to provide for our need, we're asking him to provide for
all. To provide all for us. All for us. Now, so you get supplicating
is begging earnestly, begging God to provide to meet all our
needs. That's what supplicating God
is. It's okay to call out for particular needs. We're going
to see that in this as we go through it, but it's supplicating
God. It's asking God to supply us
with our need. Now, secondly, I just want to
take what he says here because this is such a good statement.
We do not present our supplications to God because of any good in
us. Verse 18, we do not present our
supplications before thee for our righteousnesses. The Pharisees
in our Lord's parable, the Pharisee in our Lord's parable, he didn't
supplicate God at all. He didn't supplicate God at all.
He declared himself full of righteousnesses. You remember? He said, the Lord
said, the Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself. God,
I thank thee. I'm not as other men. I'm not,
they're extortioners, unjust, adulterers. I'm not even as this
publican. I fast twice in the week. I give
tithes of all that I possess. He didn't need God to supply
him with anything. He was telling God all his righteousnesses. That's not supplicating God at
all. But that publican stood afar off and wouldn't even look
up to God, but smote upon his breast and asked, Lord, be merciful
to me, the sinner. That's what Daniel's doing in
this chapter. And the Lord said, that man went
down to his house justified rather than the other. For everyone
that exalts himself should be abased, and he that abases himself
should be exalted. We need to hear that all the
time. That's one of our needs that we supplicate God for. Lord,
save me from this Pharisee that's in my sin nature that wants to
be exalted over others. Now, it was the Spirit of God
that moved Daniel to pray. And when we pray, it's always
Spirit of God that does it. He moves us to supplicate God.
Now, Daniel, along with the children of Israel and the children of
Judah, had been in Babylonian captivity for 70 years. They'd
been in captivity for 70 years. The Spirit of God revealed to
Daniel that the 70 years of captivity had come to its end. That's what
moved him to pray. And this revelation humbled Daniel. He humbled himself down to God's
feet and began to supplicate God. In verse 3, I set my face
unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with
fasting and sackcloth and ashes. When God first called us and when He first called you, we've
been in Babylonian captivity all our days. When He first called
you, you had been in Babylonian captivity all your day. And each
time God delivers His saint from chastisement, each time He's
delivering you from His chastening hand, He's delivering you from
the captivity of our sinful flesh. Just as real as Daniel and the
whole nation was being delivered out of Babylonian captivity.
The Spirit of God comes and He reveals the good news in our
hearts and brings us to confess to God that we don't present
our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses. We begin
to supplicate God, confessing our sins and breaking all God's
law. I want you to see this now. Daniel
praised God for two things. He praised God for doing two
things, for God doing two things. Verse four. He said, I prayed
unto the Lord my God and made my confession and said, O Lord,
the great and dreadful God, that means the great God to be feared.
Now this is what he said, keeping the covenant and keeping mercy. That's what he, keeping the covenant
and keeping mercy to them that love him and to them that keep
his commandments. Daniel glorified God as the great
and fearful God who keeps the covenant. The covenant's the
law. The covenant's the law. He glorified
God for being the great God who keeps his own law and all the
promises in it. God keeps his law by pouring
out justice on every sinner who breaks his law. That's how he
keeps his law. He pours out justice on every
sinner that breaks his law. God keeps his law by no means
clearing the guilty. Daniel saw God keep his covenant. He saw that. He saw God keep
the law. He saw him keep his covenant.
Not by God pouring out the full fury of wrath upon him and upon
the nation. But he saw it by God afflicting
him and all his brethren by putting them in Babylonian captivity. He saw that God really keeps
his covenant by God justly putting them in Babylonian captivity.
Now that was the first thing he thanked God for and praised
God for. And then the second thing, he
praised God as the great and fearful God who also shows mercy
to his elect people. He prays God for making justice
and mercy meet in harmony. He prays God for making truth
and mercy meet together in peace. That's what he said. You're the
great and fearful God who keeps your covenant and keeps mercy. And keeps mercy. He saw a glimpse
of God's justice by God afflicting him in Babylon in captivity for
70 years, and he saw God's mercy by God delivering him from it.
But be sure to get this. Be sure to get this. It will
take the Spirit of God teaching us in our heart to make us get
this right here. Here's the paradox of the gospel
of God's grace right here. God only does this to them that love Him and to
them that keep His commandments. That's what He said. He praised
Him for being the God who keeps His covenant and shows mercy. and that he does it to them that
love him and keep his commandments. And in the very next breath,
Daniel confesses, and we've never once kept your commandments. Not one time. Not he, not any
of the children of Israel, not any of the children of Judah.
That's what he confessed, that they had sinned in departing
from God's commandments by refusing to hear God's, and by refusing
to hear God's preachers. Look here in Daniel 9, 5. He
says, he just said, you do this to them that love you and keep
your commandments. And he said, we have sinned and
have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled,
even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments. Neither
have we hearkened unto thy servants, the prophets, which speak in
thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the
people of the land. This is the paradox of God's
grace right here, brethren. This is what it takes the Spirit
of God to teach us, to make us understand. Loving God and keeping
His commandments include hearing the Ten Commandments in our heart
declare us guilty. so that we confess that we have
no righteousness of our own by the law, so that we confess we've
sinned in breaking every commandment. That's who God loves, and that's
who keeps his commandment. Those who love God and keep his
commandments, keep his commandments by confessing to God, we've never
kept your commandments. Never kept them. The point we're
looking at is verse 18. We do not present our supplications
before thee for our righteousnesses. And that's what Daniel's declaring.
Listen to Daniel justify God. He's justifying God as he confesses
his own sin and as he makes intercession for the sins of his brethren.
He's praising God for God's mercy and God's forgiveness. Look at
this in verse 7, O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee. We don't
have any righteousness to come and deserve any favor from you,
God, to supplicate you. We don't have any righteousness.
Righteousness belongs to thee, God. but unto us confusion of
faces as at this day. He includes himself and all his
brethren. Daniel includes himself. He said
to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and
to all Israel that are near and that are far off through all
the countries where the valley has driven them because of their
trespass that they've trespassed against thee, O Lord, to us belongeth
confusion of face. That's what belongs to us, he
said, to our kings and to our princes and to our fathers, because
we have sinned against thee. Daniel's putting himself right
there in the mix as being the sinner. He's like the publican
in our Lord's parable. Verse nine, to the Lord our God
belong mercies and forgiveness. Now he just said to thee belongs
righteousness. Righteousness is God's justice.
It's God doing what's right and just. And now he says, to thee
belong mercies and forgiveness, though we've rebelled against
him. Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to
walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants, the
prophets. Yea, all Israel have transgressed
thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice.
Therefore the curse has come poured upon us and the oath that's
written in the law of Moses the servant of God Because we've
sinned against him God promised in the law He promised him in
the law that he would destroy the nation Israel that political
nation for disobeying him he promised that and Daniel saying
all that's come upon us because we've sinned against you Lord
and Righteousness belongs to you. You're keeping your covenant.
And he said, and you're showing us mercy and forgiveness. Verse 12, and he hath confirmed
his words. He said it in, he gave us an
oath in the law of Moses, and he's confirmed his words which
he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by
bringing upon us a great evil. For unto the whole heaven earth
hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. And as it's
written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us.
Yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God that we might
turn from our iniquities and understand thy truth. Therefore
hath the Lord watched upon the evil and brought it upon us.
For the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth,
for we obeyed not his voice. You know what is happening with
Daniel right here? I don't, you know, people, this
is one of the most debated chapters in all of scripture because it
talks about the 70 weeks and all the weeks and the time and
time I have, and people get hung up on that and they completely
miss Christ and the gospel. But I want you to see Christ
and the gospel. Just hear what Daniel himself
is saying, just himself, as one sinner, just like it's just you
and God. And hear what he's saying. God brought Daniel to do exactly
what God brought Paul to do when the commandment came to Paul.
Remember that, Romans 7? Paul said, I was going along
and I thought I was righteous and I thought I was keeping the
law. And he said, but when the commandment came and God made
me hear it, he said, sin revived. I saw my sin and all of my so-called
righteousness died, completely died. This is the paradox that
only God is able to teach His people right here. This is the
paradox right here. He makes you hitherglaw declare
us guilty. And every believer God saves,
loves God. We do by His grace. He's put a new heart in you to
love Him. And one of the ways we keep His commandments is this
right here. We agree with the law. And we
confess to God that we're the guilty sinner with no righteousness
of our own with which to supplicate God. We confess to God, we've
transgressed your law, God. We've done exactly opposite of
what your law tells us to do. We haven't done what the law
commands. That's when you delight in the
law of God in the inward man. Tell me so. Isn't that so, believer?
That's when you delight in the law of God in the inward man
because God taught us our flesh is only sin. Paul said, I had
not known sin but by the law. He said, wherefore the law is
holy and the commandment holy and just and good. I delight
in it. It showed me I don't have a righteousness
with which to ask God to meet my needs. I have nothing to present
to God, to supplicate God with. And Daniel's not just talking
about that they've done a little sin here and there. He's talking
about from the time God gave them the law all the way to that
point. Lord, we've never kept your law
one time. We've never kept your covenant.
They stood at Mount Sinai and said all that God commands, we'll
do it. And they, before God, they entered
a covenant and we're gone. They said everything God commands
in this law, we'll do it. And so they were saying, we'll
take care of our side of the covenant, we'll do it. And Daniel sat here praying to
God saying, Lord, we have never once kept one commandment, not
one. We transgressed your law, and
then you sent prophets after prophets after prophets to us,
and we didn't listen to them either. You see, the purpose of the law
is to show us our sin. That's the purpose for which
God gave it. You know, them breaking God's
law was not a surprise to God. When God was giving Moses the
law, they were down there at the bottom of the mountain dancing
around a golden calf. And besides that, we all had
already broke the law in Adam when God gave the law. Why then
was the law given? Why was it given? It was given
to show us our sin. That's why it was given. Listen
to this now. I want you to look at this. Go
to Joshua 23, 14. I'm going to try to be shorter in this message.
I got carried away last time on the first message. But look
here at Joshua. Look at Joshua 23. This is what
Joshua told them, just like Moses had told them all the curses
that would come upon them. Well, look, Joshua, when he was
about to die, He told them this, and I want
you to pay attention to this. He told the children of Israel
that they would surely disobey God and disobey His commandments,
and that God would destroy the nation. He told them that. It's
no if, then, to it. Watch this, Joshua 23, 14. He
said, And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth.
And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not
one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord
your God spake concerning you. All are come to pass unto you,
and not one thing hath failed thereof. The Lord fulfilled everything
He promised them. delivered them into Canaan, defeated
their enemies, did everything He promised Israel. Look at verse
15. Therefore it shall come to pass
that as all good things shall come upon you which the Lord
your God promised you, so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil
things until they have destroyed you from off the good land which
the Lord your God hath given you. when you have transgressed
the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you."
He didn't say if you do it. He said when you have done it.
When you have done it. And have gone and served other
gods and bowed yourselves to them. Then shall the anger of
the Lord be kindled against you and you shall perish quickly
from off the good land which he hath given unto you. See,
when God gave the law, this was God's purpose from the beginning.
God knew they weren't going to keep the law. He knew They weren't. Why did he give it then? Romans
520. Please, if you don't have this
marked, please mark it and read this. Romans 520 is why he gave
the law. Moreover, the law entered that
the offense might abound. That's why it entered. He said,
he had said in Romans 5, by one man's disobedience, by Adam,
sin entered the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon
all men. We all sinned in Adam. And then
he said, and then at Sinai, God gave the law. The law entered
that the offense might abound, that you might see how you broke
the law in Adam. and have no possibility of coming
to God and presenting your supplications because of any righteousness
in you, ever, ever. Romans 3.19 says the same thing. We know what things soever thou
sayest, it saith to them who are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before
God. By the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in its sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. But here's the good news. Where
sin abounded, grace did much more abound. If there's any here
who would supplicate God, then you go to God confessing you
are the sinner. Don't go to God trying like the
Pharisee. Go to God like the publican,
saying, Lord, we're not supplicating you because of any righteousness
in us. Go like Daniel went. We've broken
every law you've given, Lord. You're just to put us in condemnation. You're just to do it. You've
upheld your covenant. You've done exactly what you
said you would do in your law. What gives God's child a willingness
to supplicate God? If that's true of you, and God
makes you see, just like He made Daniel. Daniel sees his sin. He sees, I don't have a righteousness
to come to God. Then what made Daniel willing
to go to God and ask God to supply all his need? What made him do
that? Verse 15. He said, Now, O Lord, our God,
that has brought Thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with
a mighty hand, and has gotten Thee renowned as at this day. You've made a name for Yourself,
Lord, by bringing us out of Egypt. And he said, We've sinned. We've done wickedly. O Lord,
according to all Thy righteousness, I beseech Thee, let Thine anger
and Thy fury be turned away from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy
mountain, because for our sins and for the iniquities of our
fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people have become a reproach to all
that are about us. Hear what he just said. This
is why he went to God and made a supplication. and asked to
be delivered. He said, Lord, you've delivered
us out of Egypt, and when you do that, you put your name on
us. And he said, for your righteousness' sake, for your name's sake, don't
let them go on reproaching us anymore. Deliver us out, Lord. He's praying for God's righteousness'
sake. Well, doesn't that seem strange
that a sinner who just declared, I completely disobeyed your law,
would plead God's righteousness? Lord, and justice do this for
us? When he's sitting there saying,
we don't have a righteousness to bring to you, I have no righteousness
we wish to ask you this. That's the point. He's not pleading
his righteousness. He's pleading the righteousness
of the Lord. Look here at verse 18. I'm sorry,
verse 17. Therefore, O our God, hear the
prayer of thy servant and his supplication and cause thy face
to shine upon thy sanctuary that's desolate for the Lord's sake,
for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, your son. Somebody will
say, well, Christ hadn't even come forth yet. Christ has always
been the righteousness of God's people. From eternity, he's been
the righteousness of God's people. He was the one pictured in the
Passover lamb. And that's what he's saying here.
You delivered us out, Lord, through that Passover lamb. And for that
Passover lamb's sake, Lord, have mercy on us. That lamb's Christ. That lamb is Christ. Look at
verse 18, Oh my God, incline thine ear and hear, open thine
eyes and behold our desolations in the city which is called by
thy name. For we do not present our supplications before thee
for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. It's because
of your great mercies that we're coming to you. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hearken
and do, to lay not for Thine own sake, O my God, for Thy city
and Thy people are called by Thy name. Everything is for God's
sake. Do you see this? Everything is
for the righteous because of the sake of Christ and for the
sake of His righteousness. We don't have any righteousness
to bring, Lord. But just like He said before,
He said, It was your mercies that delivered us. And you've
upheld your law, you've kept your law, and you've also been
merciful. How can God uphold his law and
be merciful? The only way he can do that,
brethren, is to send his son. And he, you know, there was a
lot of people in Israel that were not God's elect. We saw
that Thursday night from Romans 9. Not all Israel are of Israel.
There's a lot in Israel that weren't God's elect, but for
Daniel and others that were God's chosen, God, while he poured
out this justice and was desolating the nation, he was being merciful
to his people. And it's because in Christ Jesus,
Christ already satisfied the full fury of God's justice for
us. And so now God's just to be merciful
to us. And so that's why God didn't
totally destroy Israel at that time is because he had a remnant
in the midst of it. He had a remnant like Daniel.
He had a remnant. And so for the sake of our Lord
Jesus Christ, God is righteous to sow us great mercies and forgiveness
and deliver us all our days. Just like he did Daniel. Daniel
would have been, this would be like, Daniel would have been
in that for 70 years. This would be like you being
chastened for your sin for 70 years. And then the Lord sends
you a word that says, I'm delivering you out of this. That's what
happened when he first sent the gospel to you. When he first
sent the gospel to you, you've been in that captivity all your
days, and he comes and he declares, I'm delivering you out of it.
What did it make you do? It made you hit your face and
declare, God, you've been just to do this. You've been just
in everything you've done. I see your justice now because
you've shown me Christ, and I also see how you can justly be merciful
to me because you've shown me Christ. Brethren, salvation's
not about God saving us and our puny little butt out of our troubles
we get ourselves into. Salvation is about God bringing
glory to his holy name, declaring himself righteous. That's what
salvation's about. And it's about giving His Son
all preeminence, making Him the fullness of His people because
He is that righteousness God's provided for His people. That's
what our salvation's about. Heaven is going to be about praising
the King of glory all our days for eternity. That's what it's
going to be about. God's put his name on us. He's
put his name on his people. And therefore, Daniel's begging
God, for your namesake, save us. They're reproaching us for
your namesake. This sanctuary is broken down,
Lord, because of our sin, my sin. And he confesses to God,
it's my sin. And it's the sin of all the children
of Judah. It's the sin of all the children
of Israel. They were divided. They didn't want to have anything
to do with each other. And he said, and there's not
a person that's innocent. We've all sinned and come short
of the glory of God. We don't have a righteousness
to come before you with, Lord. It is only your righteousness,
God. It is only your mercy that saved
us. And the only way the two can
be true. I'm trying to think how I can say this and make it
as plain as I can say it. There is no way you could go
to the electric chair and God let you live. There's no way
both could happen. So what did God do? He sent his
son to go to the cross. That's what that was. The cross
was the capital punishment. It was the death penalty for
all those Christ represented. It was not in any shape, form,
or fashion just God giving you the possibility that if you want
to avail yourself of that, then you can. and you can apply that,
his righteousness to you. That's not what it was. Do you
know how arrogant you would have to be to say God sent his own
son? and left it up to a sinner who
scripture says by nature hates God and will not come to God
and doesn't want to know God that he sent his son and then
left it to you. That's us giving ourselves so
much arrogancy and so much worthiness. Not only that, but brethren,
the whole thing that took place on Calvary's cross is the Lord
Jesus Christ, he didn't just die for ambiguous sins. He died for the sins of a particular
people. Scripture says, He hath made
Him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. Listen to this past tense. And
when He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the
right hand of God. And these last days He hath appeared
to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Well, right here
in this chapter, the next thing that the Lord revealed to Daniel
is when Christ comes, this is what he would accomplish, verse
24. He would finish the transgression, make an end of sins, make reconciliation
for iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up the vision
of prophecy, fulfill it all, and anoint the most holy. And
that's what he did. So then, When justice has been poured
out, the law can't say anything else. Whenever, whenever, we'll just, I know there's conspiracy
theories, and we'll just say that it really was Lee Harvey
Oswald that killed JFK. As far as we know it was. We
don't know the truth of it. But here's the thing. When he
come out of that basement and that parking garage, and Jack
Ruby shot him and killed him, the law couldn't say nothing
else to him. Why? He died. That was it. When Christ died on Calvary's
Cross, everybody he represented died, and the law can't say another
thing to them. Not another thing to them. And
not only that, but because every one of them died under the justice
of God's law, and God was righteous and just and poured out his justice
on them, now, because his law is honored, God's just to show
every one of them mercy and give you eternal life and save you.
That's salvation. That's salvation. That's what
Daniel's praying for right here. The reason we come to God, brethren,
needy sinners were scared to death of the Pharisees because
they were afraid they would be condemned by them. They wouldn't
come to them. Why do we come to God? What makes you willing
to come to God? You know, you hear this and you
might say, well, if I was that guilty and I saw myself as that
much of a sinner, I wouldn't come to God. Well, it's not that
only that makes you come to God. It's Him making you see what
a vile sinner you are, but making you see that in Christ you are
righteous and God is just to show you mercy. And Daniel says,
it's for your great mercy's sake, Lord, that we come to your throne
of grace. That's why we come. He saw this coming, and as soon
as he prayed this, the Lord sent Gabriel and showed him Christ. And as soon as you pour out your
heart to the Lord and beg His mercy and show and confess your
sin and take sides with God against yourself and all Christ to be
your righteousness, God shows you Christ in your heart again
and shows you you're His. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need. I'll end with this, Hebrews 10.
I tell y'all, I'm going to have to start dialing it back. I've
got not a hand. I'm preaching too long. Hebrews 10, verse 16. This is, well, verse 15. The
Holy Ghost is a witness to us. This is what the Lord teaches
us. He said, This is the covenant I will make with them, and after
those days sayeth the Lord. This is after Christ accomplished
what Daniel was told there in Daniel 9. He said, I'll put my
laws into their hearts and their minds will I write them. That's
how you're going to know you're a sinner and confess you don't
have a righteousness to come to God with. and their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more." That's how you know God's
merciful and He's forgiven you. Now where remission of these
is, there's no more offering for sin. What's that going to
make you want to do? Having, therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, to come
to God and pour out your heart to Him in supplication by a new
and living way which Christ has consecrated for us through the
veil, that is to say, His flesh, and having Christ our high priest
over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and
full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience. and our bodies washed with pure water. I hope
some of that made sense to you. I'm trying to say the reason
we come to God is for His great mercy's sake. He's righteous
to show us mercy and that's what makes you come and freely pour
out your heart to God and ask God, please provide all my need
because you see He's made you righteous and He's just to be
merciful to you. Lord bless his word. All right,
Brother Greg.