Alright, let's turn in our Bibles
to Genesis chapter 28. Genesis chapter 28. Our text is going to be a little further down the page,
but let's begin by way of introduction and begin in verse 10. And Jacob went out from Beersheba
and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain
place and tarried there all night because the sun was set. And
he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows
and laid down in that place to sleep." And we've got here a
picture of an unregenerate sinner in his lost condition. Because
of his own sin, Jacob is separated from his father's house. That's
where he left. He left Beersheba, went out from
Beersheba, separated from his father's house. Sin separates
a sinner from God. He's in the wilderness. He's
halted between two places. He's alone. He's in a place called
Luz, which means separation. That's where he is, separated.
He lighted up on this certain place. This, to him, this place
was just as good as the next. He was just as content being
at this place as the next place. It was all the same to him. The
sun was set. He's in the dark. He took stones
of that place for his pillow. I bet that was a mighty comfortable
pillow, don't you? Stones. He lay down in that place
to sleep. Picture of a spiritual death.
being in darkness. But God's about to appear to
him. God's about to appear to him and reveal His great mercy
to Jacob in Christ. What had Jacob done to deserve
that mercy? He'd done nothing. He'd done
nothing. And here's the point. If God
ever comes to you, dear sinner, this is where He's going to find
you. Asleep in sin, asleep in rebellion, brought down in the
dust of your own darkness. Here's the one reason that God
came to Jacob. In Romans 9-11 it tells us, the
children being not yet born, neither having done any good
or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might
stand. Not of works, but of him that
calleth. It was said unto Rebekah, Jacob's
mother, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but he shall have I hated. In verse 12 it
says, he dreamed a dream and behold a ladder set up on the
earth. and the top of it reached to
heaven. And behold the angels of God ascending and descending
on it. This ladder is a picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the God-man mediator, the
one that reaches between heaven and earth. He said in John 1.51,
he said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter you shall
see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending
upon the Son of Man. The Lord stood above this ladder.
It says there in verse 13, Behold, the Lord stood above it. The
Lord stood above this ladder, and it reached down to Jacob.
When Christ Jesus, when He became a man, He never ceased being
God. He's the Lord above, and He's
the ladder that reaches down to man. He said, No man has seen
God at any time. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared it. There He
was. He was there in the earth, but
yet He was in the bosom of the Father. He's man, but He's God.
He's that ladder. He's going to bring God and His
children together in one. Those angels ascended and descended
upon that ladder. His ministers that He sent to
minister to them who shall be heirs of salvation are continually
going up by Christ Jesus to the Father to receive word, to bring
down to God's people. And this is how we're going to
come to Him. He's the way. We transgressed
the law. That's what we've done. And it's
the only way that God can be just and a justifier and yet
show us mercy. There's never in the history
of the world ever been any man wise enough to show absolute
perfect justice and at the same time give absolute perfect mercy. But our wise God has done that. He's done it in one, in Christ.
He's God and He's man in one. And He brings together God and
men in one. That's what He does. How so? Romans 3.24. Romans 3.24. This is how He does it. By what He's done. His people are justified freely
by His grace. You know, those are two words,
justification and grace. Those are two words that you
and I, we could never have left ourselves to make those two words
reconcile in harmony. We just could not do it. One's
going to have to be at the expense of the other if it's left to
us, but not God. Justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. This is He whom
God set forth to be a propitiation. Atonement, the mercy seat, the
seat of all mercy through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance
of God. To declare, I say at this time, His righteousness
that He might be just and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus. Now let's look back at our text. Now Christ is that, He's that
good news, He's that seed that's revealed in the heart of every
single sinner that God saves. everyone, the same good news
is revealed. Look back at Genesis 28, 13. And behold, the Lord stood above
it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father and the
God of Isaac your father. The land whereon thou liest,
to thee will I give it, and to thy seed, to your children, and
thy children shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed. This is that seed that was promised
Abraham. It's that seed that was promised
Isaac. It's the same seed promised Jacob.
It's the same seed promised wherein all these words are true to every
sinner whom God calls. In thy seed shall all the families
of the earth be blessed." Paul told us that seed's Christ. He's
that one in whom these promises are sure. Now that's what we
saw, what I read to you in 2 Corinthians 1.18. Let's go back over there
and read that again. 2 Corinthians 1.18. Paul said this. He said, as God is true, our
preaching to you was not yes and no. Not yes and no. No possibility that any for whom
Christ died are not going to be saved. No possibility that
you can undo what God has done. No possibility. It's not maybe.
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by
us, even by me, Silvanus, and Timotheus, it was not yes and
no, but in Christ it was yes. It was yes. For all the promises
of God, all the promises of God, the whole Word of God, this everlasting
covenant He makes in our heart, all the promises of God in Him
are yes, and in Him, Amen, unto the glory of God by us. He which
establishes us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God.
He seals us. He gives the earnest of the Spirit
in our hearts. He makes this thing certain for
us. He makes this thing certain for
us. He's the one who has the dominion.
Now look back at our text. And now here we come to our text. And I want to show you four great
promises. Four great promises. They're
full of comfort for God's believing children. These promises to you
who believe are not yes and no. They're not maybe. They're yes
and they're amen in Christ Jesus. They're certain. Here they are.
This will be the divisions of our message. Genesis 28, 15. Here's the first promise. Behold,
I am with thee. Here's the second promise. And
I will keep thee in all places whither thou goest. Here's the
third promise. And I will bring thee again into
this land. And here's the fourth promise.
For I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee of. Four great promises. Here's the
first promise. I am with thee. This is a I realize
that am is added by the translators, but I can't read those two words,
I am, without thinking of this double blessing here. I mean,
it's great to know He's with us. It's great to know He's with
us, but to know who it is that's with us, the I am, the great
I am, Moses was concerned about this. The Lord said, tell them
I AM hath sent you. Tell them I AM hath sent you. Moses said, if you don't go with
us, Lord, if your presence doesn't go with us, that's what we want,
the presence of the great I AM. We saw that in Psalm 9 on Thursday
night. Listen to the Scripture. The
Lord Jesus Christ singing to us. He says, When mine enemies
are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. For
thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou set us in
the throne, judging right. You remember when He came out
of the Garden of Gethsemane and those soldiers came to Him, and
the brilliance of His Godhead, the glory of God shined through.
He said, Who do you seek? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
And He said, I am. And when He did, the presence
of God, they just fell back. That's what He promised, I am
with thee. And He says, I am with thee.
Here's the second thing of that promise that will give us some
blessing. Who are we? Who am I? Have you ever asked
yourself that question? Who am I? Who am I? We have some places in Scripture
where some of the Lord's people asked that question. Look at
Genesis 18, 27. Whenever the Lord called Abraham
on one occasion, Abraham said in Genesis 18, 27, he answered
and said, Behold, now I've taken upon me to speak unto the Lord
who am but dust and ashes. That's all I am. Look at Exodus
3, 11. Exodus 3, 11. Moses was called by God and God
said, I'm sending you to Pharaoh that you bring forth my people
and the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto
God, Exodus 3.11, who am I? Who am I that I should go unto
Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children of Israel
out of Egypt? What did God answer him? He said, certainly I'll
be with thee. I'll be with thee. You're not
anybody. I'm not anybody. But here's our
strength. I'll be with thee. Here's what
David said. Look over at 1 Chronicles 29.14.
1 Chronicles 29.14. 1 Second Kings. 1 Chronicles. 1 Chronicles 29.14. David said, but who am I? Who am I and what is my people
that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? Are you there? 1 Chronicles 29,
14. 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. We hadn't given We haven't given
God anything, have we? He gave us everything and gave
us a willingness and gave us a heart to give what He gave
us to Him. Paul answers this question. What
do we think of ourselves? Paul answers this question. He
said, unto me who am less than the least of all saints is this
grace given. this grace given, that I should
preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.
Who am I? Who am I? Dust, ashes, the least
of the least. But my Savior is God. My Savior
is the great I Am. My Lord and Jesus Christ, God,
He's the great I Am. And He says, I'm with thee. And
when He's with us, there's no harm that can come to us. When
He's with us, You know, the Lord was with Joseph. It doesn't mean
we won't go through trial. Joseph was sold down into Egypt,
you know, and he went down into Egypt and was thrown in prison
in Egypt. But it says the Lord showed him
mercy and gave him favor in sight of the keeper of the prison.
That keeper of that prison, he took a shine to Joseph. It was
God gave him favor in Joseph's eyes. That's why. It wasn't Joseph's
Joseph was probably a real nice guy, but God gave him the favor
in that man's eyes. He told Gideon, he said, this
is a strength for you, Gideon. Surely I will be with thee, and
thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. Isaiah said, take
counsel together. He said, let everything, say
everything you want to. Take counsel together. It won't
come to anything. It'll come to nothing. Speak
the word. It won't stand. Why? For God
is with us. God is with us. Well, let's look
back. Genesis 28, verse 15. Here's the second promise. And
I will keep thee in all places whither thou goest. I'll keep
thee in all places whither thou goest. He keeps us by going before
us, and He keeps us by going behind us. That's how it keeps
us. You remember the angel of the
Lord in the cloud and pillar when Israel had come through
the Red Sea and the Egyptians were following after them? And
that angel of the Lord in that pillar of the cloud went around. It got between them and Egypt. It got between them. And it came
between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And it
was a cloud and a darkness to the Egyptians. It gave light
by night to his people. Light in the night. That's what
Joseph's finding. He's seeing light in the night.
We get in darkness, don't we? We get, we get, we get, this
is not just for unregenerate sinner. This is for a regenerated
sinner. We get in this darkness where
Joseph was. We get between two places, halting
between two opinions, stuck out in the land of separation. And
God, God's going to make these promises real in our heart by
showing us Christ Jesus the latter in whom we have access to God
and make us to know these promises are yes. These promises are real. These promises are true in Christ
Jesus because of what He's accomplished for His people. And He said,
He said, I'll keep thee wherever you go. Wherever you go, wherever
you wander, our path takes us through some mighty Jacob's leaving
this land right here, and he's going to go on an adventure where
he's going. But God's keeping him wherever
he goes. wherever He goes, and that's what God's promised to
do. As we go through this land, that's what He's promised to
do. But there's something even more important than that in John
6, John 6.37. I do want Him to keep me as I
walk through this land, but here's what I want, John 6.37. I've
been made to see something that is more important than things
of this earth. I want Him to keep me eternally, eternally. Look at John 6.37. He said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me, and I will in no wise cast out. There's
no, listen to that. Listen to that. There's no maybes
in that statement. There's no ifs in that statement.
There's no conditions in that statement. All that comes to
me, all that comes to Christ, he says, I will in no wise cast
them out. I won't cast them out. Verse
38, For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but
the will of Him that sent me. And this is the will of Him that
sent me. And this is the Father's will
which has sent me, that of all which He hath given me, I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone which
seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting
life, and I'll raise Him up at the last day. That's certain. This is what the Lord said. It's
certain. My brothers and sisters, do you
sometimes get faint in your mind? Do you? Do you faint in your
mind and your heart? Does your heart become troubled?
Does that ever happen to you? We do find ourselves troubled,
don't we? We find ourselves afflicted. We find ourselves pressed. We
find ourselves without strength. We do find ourselves perplexed.
Do you? We do. Sometimes we don't know
what to do. Sometimes we don't know what's
the right direction or what is it the Lord would have me to
do. We're perplexed. Paul said that. You know that?
Paul said, we are troubled on every side. He said, we are perplexed. We are. That's true. But here's
what he said. We're troubled on every side,
yet not distressed. Not distressed. We're perplexed,
but we're not in despair. Why not? We're kept by the power
of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last
time. We rejoice in Him. And it may be for a season that
we're in heaviness because it's needful. We're in heaviness through
manifold, multiple, perplexing, and troubling providences that
God Himself has sent. that God Himself has ordered
and arranged for us. But even in those times, look
at John 14.1, even in those times, brethren, can you think of a
more troubling a more perplexing time, that when the Lord told
His disciples, this one they walked with, this one they loved,
this one that they had received so many blessings from Him in
their heart, spiritually, and in their bodies temporarily.
And He's telling them now, I'm fixing to go to the cross and
lay down my life for you. I'm fixing to go there and you're
going to see me be crucified and my form be marred more than
any man And you're going to see these things, and you're going
to go off and leave. But look how tender he deals
with this. He says, John 14, 1, let not
your heart be troubled. You think he said that because
he didn't know what was in their heart? He said it because he
knew exactly what was in their heart. He knew what they were
feeling in their heart. And he said, let not your heart
be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in me. Believe the
words that I've spoken to you. In my Father's house are many
mansions, and if it were not so, I would have told you." The Lord's not keeping anything
from His people. He's not doing anything. Men
do things in secret and privily. damnable heresies that we've
been seeing in 2 Peter, but our God doesn't do things that way.
He speaks plainly. Our Lord taught and preached
openly, publicly everywhere He went. He didn't have anything
to hide. And He said, if it weren't so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that
where I am, there you may be also. And he says, I'm going
to keep you wherever you go. And this is the next promise
that he gives. He said, I'm going to come again
and bring you to where I am, that where I am, there you may
be also. And that's the next promise in
our text. Look back there. He said, I'm with thee. He said,
I'll keep thee in all places where thou goest. And he says,
and I'll bring thee again into this land. bringing you again
into this land, that land of Canaan that pictures the great
promised land, heavenly glory with our great shepherd. He said,
I'm bringing you there. I'm going to prepare a place
for you and I'm bringing you there. Jacob was in that land
at the time when God was speaking to him. He was in that land at
this time, but he was going to be, he was having to go out of
that land and he was going to go through a lot, a lot, but
he's coming back to that land, the Lord said. You know, before
God made anything in the will and purpose and creation of His
people in Christ Jesus, before He made a grain of sand, we were
in the land of Canaan with Him and have been with Him in His
Son. But we went out. We went out
in sin and rebellion against God. We went out. And now that
he's called us, we still, we have to wander like exiles in
a foreign land. This land which has now been
made foreign to us. We wandered through this land
like Jacob wandered in that foreign land. But God has promised us,
I'm bringing you again to this land. I'm bringing you back into
my presence. I'm bringing you back into union
with me. Did he do that? Did God do what He promised Jacob?
Did He bring him there? Don't you love it when God saves
a Jacob? Because that's what we are. Do you think that when
God called him by His grace, do you think that tricking, supplanting,
do you think that went out of Jacob? That's who Jacob was in
himself, and it was still there. And everywhere he went, he was
still trying to do those things. But God dealt very patiently
with him, in long suffering with him. Jacob was a conniver. He was a conniver. But in God's
grace, God kept him and led him and brought him through everything.
He walked through that land. And in all of his ups and downs,
and all of his sin, everything that he did, God's love for him
never changed. These promises were in Christ
Jesus, and therefore these promises never changed towards one of
his chosen people. Never. Ever. God showed Jacob
faithfulness, which no unfaithfulness on Jacob's part could change.
That's what he showed him. And in the end, God brought into
that land this worm Jacob, He brought him there. And when He
brought him there, you know what He did after He brought him there?
He changed His name to Israel, the Prince of God. You see a
picture of that? I'll be satisfied when when He brings me into that
land, and I awaken His presence, and I see Him, I wake as He is,
and I'm conformed to His image, and I'm truly, then, fully, finally,
completely made a prince with God in His very image. He did
that. He brought Him there, and He
did that for him. Why? Why did He do that? How
do I know the Lord's going to do that? How do I know the Lord's
going to do all these things for me? What does it always ultimately
come down to? Where does it begin? Where does
it continue? And where does it come down?
What does it come down to? What is our salvation? How does
our salvation begin? It began here with Jacob being
shown this revelation. And behold, the Lord stood above
it and said, He spoke. He said. He said. This is how
salvation begins. The Word of God speaks into the
heart of His child. He said. He said. He said, I'll be with you. He
said, I'll keep you wherever you go. He said, I'll bring you
again into this land. He said it. He said it. That's
how we're kept continually. He keeps saying this in our heart.
And that's how we continue and walk. Though we're in heaviness
and manifold temptations, we walk because He keeps saying
this. Is He saying it to you today?
Is He saying this in your own heart? He keeps saying this to
us. And this is the fourth thing.
The Lord God brought it all to pass because He said He would,
because He promised Jacob. It all comes down to this. Do
I trust the Word of God? If God said it, it's so. Whether
I believe him or not, it's so. Look at Genesis 28, 15. For I
will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken
of thee of. I will not leave thee until I
have done it. If God left Jacob for a minute,
would Jacob have done it? Nope. He'd ended up right where
he was, right where he was found. But God said, I won't leave you
until I have done that which I have spoken to you of. You
know what happened to Jacob in this revelation? When God spoke
and he heard this Word, you know what happened to him? I'll let
you read the rest of this out at your leisure, but I'm just
going to give you a few things. Verse 16, Jacob awaked out of
sleep. Wouldn't that be something? Jacob
woke up. And he said, surely the Lord
is in this place. And I didn't know it. Wouldn't
it be amazing if God did that today? If he spoke and somebody
woke up and said, the Lord is in this place. And I didn't know
it. I didn't know it. You know what
he did? He found himself in the house
of God. That's where he found himself.
Where's the house of God? Is it these four walls right
here? No. Where's the house of God? It's
the stones that He's assembled that make up His house. The tabernacles
that every believer is in whom He dwells. The place where He
assembles His people together. The place where He comes and
makes His presence known. Wherever it is. It might be on
a mountain. It might be by the riverside. It may be in a chariot with an
Ethiopian running back down to His land from Jerusalem. It may
be in some strange places, but never strange enough for God
not to be able to come to where His people are and find them
and make this known in their heart. He always does. And He
found Himself there and He went from being in a land of separation,
look, verse 19, He took those pillows and he
made an altar, verse 18 says, and he poured oil on the top
of it. He started worshipping God. That's what he did. He started
worshipping God in Christ our altar. That's what the picture
is here. And he quit sleeping and slumbering somewhere in between
out there in the land of Luz. And this is what happened. He
called the name of that place, verse 19, Bethel, but the name
of that city was called Luz at first. He was out there separated
from God at first, but now God separated him from that place
and brought him into the house of God. That's what God does. He separates us from this world
and brings us into His house. But love not the world, neither
the things that are in the world. If any man loved the world, the
love of the Father's not in him. What is in the world? What is
all that is in the world? Remember what Eve, how Eve was
tempted? She saw, lust of the eyes. She desired it, lust of the flesh. She thought it was a treated
desire to make one wise. That's a lust of wanting honor,
and wanting to be exalted, and wanting the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. That's what Christ
was tempted with by Satan. Satan came to Him, had the audacity
to come to Christ Jesus, the Son of God, and promise Him and
say, He's hungry, He's been out there, He's been fasting from
the world, He's out there in that wilderness, and hungry,
and if he would have had any lust in his flesh, which our
Savior had none, but he, Satan came to him and said, make these
stones bread. Start eating off of this earth.
Start depending on this earth for your food. Look to this earth
for your food. Look to earthly things for your
food. That would make us, if we were
hungry in the lust of our flesh, it takes less than that to make
us say, I'm going to live for this world. He came to him and
He showed him the lust of what would have been in us the lust
of the eyes. He said, look at all these kingdoms right here.
I'll give all this to you. I'll give everything to you.
All honor, pride of life, I'll give everything to you. Our Lord
said, get behind me. Say, you can't give me anything.
He said, it's written, man doesn't live by bread alone, he lives
by every word, every word, every word that proceeds from where? From the mouth of God. All that's
in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes,
the pride of life, it's not of God. It's not of God. It's not of God. It's just not
of God. You know, as soon as they sinned
in the garden, you know what they did then? They had the lust of the
eye. They saw themselves as naked. They had the lust of the flesh. I got to be covered up. I've
got to be covered. I've got to cover myself somehow. And they had the pride of life.
I can do it. And they took fig leaves and
tried to cover themselves. That's not of God. That's not
of God. The Word. How did God cure that?
How did He cure that? Adam heard the voice of the Lord.
He heard the Word of the Lord. That Word that was made flesh
and dwelt among us. He heard the Word walking in
the garden. You ever heard a voice walk?
John did. He said, this is Him of whom
I've been telling you about. The Voice that's walking, the
Word that's walking among us, been made flesh and dwelt among
us. He heard him. When he heard him the first time,
and he heard him walking in the garden, you know what he did?
He went and hid himself from him. Because he's still under
the dominion of the lust of his flesh, and the lust of his eyes,
and the pride of life. He went and hid himself from
God. But when God spoke particularly to him, affectionately to him,
and said, Adam, where are you? He heard him in the heart then,
and he answered then. He answered him. And when he
brought him to himself, and he brought him there, and he expected
he was going to get a curse. He did, and men fell under the
curse. But when he brought him there,
God did what He does for every child that comes to Him. He gave
him mercy. He said, I'm saving you in the
seed of woman. And He stripped all those leaves
off of him. And Adam believed God. He named
his wife Eve as the mother of all living, of Christ alive,
of the one in whom all are made alive, the one in whom all the
elect of God shall live and be with God forever. And through
faith, God stripped him and put the clothes and the robe of that
slain lamb upon him. Why? Because God said it. God made it. He did it. He spoke
it. He did it. Wouldn't it be something
if we woke up and really began worshiping God at Christ our
altar? He consecrated him. Look at verse 20. Jacob vowed
a vow, saying, if God would be with me and keep me in this way
that I go and give me bread to eat, raiment to put on so that
I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord
be my God. He's saying, God's going to do
all this for me. What Robert just said, how can
I not worship Him? How can I not rejoice and be
glad? This is my God, my Lord and my God. And he said, this stone which
I've set for a pillar shall be God's house. I'm going to worship
Him right here, right here. And all that thou shalt give
me, I'll surely give the tenth unto thee. Now everything I have,
everything I am and everything God has given me, it's all given
of God. Who am I that I should be able
to give anything to God when He's given everything to me?"
And he said, he worshipped God, he consecrated to God. That's
what we see here. I wish we could just believe
the Word of God, don't you? Hardest thing in the world. No
simple thing, just believe God. leave his word, and the most
difficult thing for a sinner to do, just believe him. This
is what he said, heaven and earth shall pass away. That's what
God said through John. He said all this in the world,
it's not only is it not of God, it's all passing away. It's all
going to burn up, every bit of it. But Lord said, but my words
won't. What I've said Does it mean just
His words or not? It means what I promised you
is coming to pass. It is not going to pass away.
It's sure. It's not maybe. It's yes. It
is yes and it's Amen. So let's look over to 1 Thessalonians
5. 1 Thessalonians 5. This is what we've heard in Hebrews. Let your conversation be without
covetousness. Be content with such things as
you have. For He said, I'll never leave
thee nor forsake thee. He said that. So that we may
boldly say with confidence and assurance, the Lord's my helper.
I'll not fear what man shall do unto me. How can I be so sure? Look at 1 Thessalonians 5 verse
24. Faithful is He that calleth you,
who also will do it. That's everything we need right
there. That's everything we need. You want to go into some deep,
dark, mysterious theological debates and stuff, this right
here is as simple as it gets. This is what we need. We need
a God who's faithful. Faithful is He. We need a God
to call us in power, make us trust Him. Faithful is He that
calleth thee. We need a God who'd do everything
for us. He'll also do it. That's all we need. Amen.