the book of Malachi. The last letter, the last book
before there are about 400 years until the time of Christ, until
the advent of our Savior. And as we find in this chapter,
chapter 3 of the book of Malachi, that there was going to be a
pre-announcer. There was going to be someone
going before. The announcement was made here,
it's made in the book of Isaiah, that there would be an announcer
go ahead of time, a herald, an ambassador, a declarer. Now it's
interesting to me that this word messenger, as it's used twice
in verse 1 of of Malachi chapter 3 is what we find in the book
of Malachi chapter 1. The very name of Malachi means
messenger of Jehovah. So we have a messenger of Jehovah
who has been called on by Almighty God to preach a message to a
group of people that were there in Jerusalem and in Judah that
were building the temple and setting up the sacrifices as
they once had been that is speaking to them because they have fallen
off and not taken the Word of God and have taken into consideration
many other things, particularly when it comes to the sacrifices
that were going to be offered. So he's proclaiming to this group.
He is a messenger to this group. And in chapter 3, we find this
messenger of Jehovah starts to tell us again There is a messenger
coming who is from the Lord and has a message from God that is
going to tell us about the messenger from God, the Lord Jesus Christ. So here in this third chapter
of the book of Malachi, verse 1, the Scriptures tell us these
words. Behold, I will send. Now, that's one thing that we
find over in the book of John where it says There was a man
whose name was John who was sent from God. I have sent him. So he has all the authority of
Almighty God in coming and preaching what he preached and what he
declared. He's not going out on a lark. He's not going out on a limb.
He is preaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. So this
messenger, this messenger of Christ, the messenger of God,
It tells us there, behold, I will send my messenger and he shall
prepare the way before me. So, all the things that went
on and all the things that John had to contend with when he had
people coming down for baptism and he said, you generation of
vipers, who's warned you to flee from the wrath to come? That
is exactly what God had decreed would happen. He is allowing
us here in to a conversation by a messenger of Jehovah about
how things are and how things should be and then it says here
and the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple even
the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in behold he
shall come saith the Lord of hosts He shall come, saith the
Lord of hosts. So this messenger, the word messenger
has a root meaning to dispatch as a deputy. So Malachi, he's
a deputy for the Lord. He's speaking for the Lord. John
is going to be a deputy for the Lord. He's going to be speaking
for the Lord. And then ultimately we find that the Lord Jesus Christ,
the messenger of the covenant, he is going to be speaking for
the Godhead. As we heard there this last summer
on Hebrews chapter 1, truly the last prophet spoke. He has spoken unto us by His
prophets, but now in these last days has spoken unto us by His
Son. That's the messenger of the covenant.
But we're going to have one that is going to go before Him. It's
been spoken of, He'll go before Him. He's going to have an announcer
ahead of Him. And His name is John. We've heard
about him in the book of Luke, there as Zacharias, his mother
Elizabeth. They were perfect before the
Lord and kept all His commandments. You know, if you and I visited
with Zacharias and with Elizabeth, and we said, look what it says
about you, they would say, when did we do that? We only can do it in Christ. He can only be the one that allows
us to say that He has kept the law perfectly, for me. So, as
we look at this, we find this messenger, he's one cent, an
angel, an ambassador, an emissary, a messenger from God acting as
an interpreter and declaring what is right. John the Baptist
was the herald, the forerunner. There's a couple passages of
scripture in the New Testament that I want to read about John.
We covered him a little bit last time, but there's some things
about him that I had never seen before. I don't know about you,
but every time I get in the Word, I say, there's something. I've
never seen that before. I've read it, but never seen
it. So, would you turn with me to
the book of Luke? Again, Luke chapter 3. In Luke
chapter 3, and there's quite a lengthy reading here. Brother
Mike is going to get here, but I'm just going to step in just
a little early. As we look at this passage in the book of Luke,
that is Luke 3. We should start with verse 1,
but we're not going to. Let's start with verse 10. And
it says here, And the people asked him, saying, What shall
we do then? And he answered and said unto
them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath
none. And he that hath meat, let him
do likewise. Then came the publicans to be
baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do? Now,
John is just really telling these folks, if you've been saved by
the grace of God, this won't be a problem. This will not be
an issue. You will love God, You will love
His Word and you will want to be a blessing to folks. So, it's
not going to be an issue. Now, if it's an issue for you,
we're baptizing the wrong folks. You're going to get wet and that's
it. So, if we've never had the new
birth, baptism is worthless. If we've had the new birth, it
won't be an issue. The Word of God will not be an
issue to us. So, John is just explaining that
to them. If you're a publican, if you're a tax collector, don't
take more than you should. Well, that's just an apparent
thing. God's going to work that work
of grace in people's hearts. And it won't be an issue. And
the people that God had saved, even though they were Republicans,
when they came to him and they heard those words, he says, oh
boy, that's right. That's been burning in my heart
anyway. I've been such a scoundrel. I've
been such an ornery person. I've taken advantage of folks.
And when God saved me, I've had a problem with that. And I said,
I won't have any more problem with that. what I should be doing. Well, he goes on to tell us here,
and he said, no more than that which is appointed you. You got
a living coming. Rome needs its, but that's enough. You don't have to go for more.
And the soldiers demanded of him, saying, and what shall we
do? And he said unto them, do violence to no man, neither accuse
any falsely, and to be content with your wages. Here's these
soldiers, they've been ruffians. Now, whether it is Temple Guard,
or whether it's Romans, doesn't make any difference. Civil servant,
doesn't make any difference. If you've really been born again,
this is not going to be an issue for you, when you hear the Word.
Now, that is having the Law of God written on our hearts. We may not know it all, but when
we hear the Word, We're going to have that aha moment. It's
just, oh, that's what that means. That's what that is. And so these
guys that were coming, when they heard it, those who turned around
and said, I can't handle that, they'd never heard of grace.
They'd never met with grace. But those who heard grace, who
were saved by grace, those who were regenerated, This is just,
this is what's right. This is what I should be doing.
Now we wrestle with that too, but that's what is right. And
then as it tells us in verse 15, and as the people were in
expectation, that's some words I've never noticed before. There
was a whole lot of folks in this day and in this time, and we
go back to verse one, we find out what time it was. It's almost
the time when the Messiah is going to be announced. And John
is doing that very thing. He's announcing the Messiah.
Well, there's a whole bunch of informed folks. In every generation,
there have been some informed folks. and the only folks that
are informed are those that have had the Word of God revealed
to them. There's some informed folks here, as it tells us there,
the people were in expectation of what? And all men mused. They thought, they were considering
in their hearts. What? In their hearts of John, whether
he were the Christ. Or not. They were talking among
themselves. They were musing in their own
hearts. Could this be? We've heard that
the announcement, there's an announcement, the Messiah is
coming. Daniel said, at this time. Micah said, at this place. And the words that were mentioned
as the prophet spoke and was coming to fruition here in the
days that we're looking at, and so there's a whole bunch of folks
that were in expectation. Now notice verse 16, and John
answered saying, unto them, I indeed baptize you with water, but one
mightier than I cometh." So he's just telling them, it's not me.
I'm not him. I am the predecessor. I am the declarer. I am the messenger. I am the messenger of Jehovah. I've got this commission given
unto me. And I'm just, he's just six months
older in age-wise, earth-wise age, than the one that's going
to be coming, but he is the announcer. And so, the people, he brings
that up, I'm not worthy to unloose his shoes, he shall baptize you
with the Holy Ghost and with fire. Now, along that same line,
would you turn with me to the book of John. John comes out
in the book of John, John Baptist. John chapter 1 verse 19. And
he comes out clear with a statement under the same circumstances.
Isn't it great that we have four Gospels? They're not in conflict with
each other. They complement each other. There are four that were
led of the Holy Spirit. Four holy men of God that spoke
by the Holy Spirit. And God gave this one this message,
and this one this message, and this one this message, and this
one this message. And when we put them together, we have a
pretty good idea of what's going on. Now, not everything about
the Lord Jesus Christ was written down because we find John saying,
if that were true, the world could not contain the books.
It couldn't contain the whole. So how much other He did? But
we have enough. These things are written that
you might believe. We don't have any contest. There
is no place open for saying, well, He didn't give us enough.
He gave us more. than he needed to. So, here in
the book of John, we have in chapter 1, verse 19, John chapter
1, verse 19. And this is the record of John,
when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask
him, Who are you? Who art thou? And he confessed
and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then,
art thou Elias? And he said, I am not. Art thou
that prophet? And he answered, No. Now that
prophet is the one that Moses spoke about. There will be a
prophet, and him you will hear. Well, those soldiers and those
publicans and those other folks that came to John, as we read
about in Luke chapter 3, those are the folks that we're hearing,
and they said, You know, God has changed my life. Now it wasn't
my change that gave me the new birth, it was the new birth that
gave me this outlook on life. And when I hear the gospel, it
makes an impact on me. And I am interested in following
what the gospel has to say. That should be our creed. I am
interested in knowing what the word of God has to say, and as
it impacts me, I pray to God, He will restrain me in another
area. Because we're not going to clean
up our act. But God is so gracious to do that very thing. Clean
us up. We have sanctification. And it's
not progressive. We've got everything we're ever
going to get. But I'm thankful for that restraining hand of
God as we walk through this line. Or we'd be just like... Anyway, it goes on to say here,
I am not, I am not, I am not, I am not that prophet. Then said
they unto him, Who art thou, that we may give an answer to
them that sent us? Now there's one thing about these
guys and Nicodemus. Nicodemus may have come at night,
but he came to ask the questions himself. And that is a wonderful
thing. We don't send someone else to
find out the answers for us. We're going to find out from
God alone. And that's what, what sayest
thou of thyself? He said, now notice this, he
knew something about who he was. He knew something about the scriptures
of who he was and his commission. There was a man sent from God
whose name was John. He was sent from God and he understood
that he had a commission from Almighty God. In fact, as we
read here in the book of Malachi, he's the messenger. He is the
declarer. And he tells us right here, he
tells us in John chapter 1, he said, after I'm not, I'm not,
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. He said, I am the voice
of one crying in the wilderness. make straight the way of the
Lord as said the prophet Isaiah. He knew who he was and he knew
what he was doing and he knew Christ when he saw him. Behold the Lamb of God which
taketh away the sin of the world. Go follow him. He was the announcer. He was the predecessor. He was
the one that was called on to make the way straight. There
is a true city of refuge and every hindrance has been removed
by the grace of God for all His elect to come and come in joy
and calm. It's life, and life more abundant. So, I am the voice of one crying
in the wilderness. He knew his commission. He knew what it was. There's
no greater than to hear someone like Paul saying, God call me. Left to myself, I'd have been
just what I always was. To hear Malachi, the messenger
of Jehovah, to have a commission. That meant folks could listen
to him and have some truth given to them. The prophets, the priests,
and the kings, they didn't have one at this time, but those were
scoundrels, rapscallions, by and large. But this prophet,
Malachi, he said, God said, tell the folks I'm going to send a
messenger. And he is going to be an announcer of the true messenger
of the covenant the true message this and they're back in Ezra
chapter 1 in the last part of that verse chapter 1 or excuse
me chapter 3 verse 1 this one the messenger of the covenant
the Lord whom you seek now in that verse there's the word Lord
is used twice they're not the same word in the original and
our translators let us know that If you'll notice there, going
back to the book of Malachi, Malachi chapter 3, verse 1, the
word LORD is used in this passage of Scripture. Verse 1 of chapter
3, we have here the word LORD, capital L, small o, small r,
small d. Now that's that gonad. Now, one
person put it this way, the basis and foundation on which the world
is founded and fashioned, the ruler and governor of all, that's
Adonai. Now that's pretty high. That's
a lofty one. That's God Almighty, the Lord,
the creator of heaven and earth. The One who spoke all things
into existence tells us there in chapter 3 and verse 1, He
says, and the Lord whom you seek, the ones who seek this One, the One who seek this One, have
been awakened to the fact that they seek Almighty God. Not a manipulated God, but the
Lord God Almighty. Now, there's much said in the
New Testament about this One, but I'd like to read three verses
of Scripture about this Adonai, this One who has put everything
in existence. And, as we follow through the
first, second, and third chapter, first and second chapter of the
book of Genesis, we find there a detailed statement about how
God does His business. There was, there wasn't, and
the only way it's going to get back to there was is God's going
to have to send His Spirit over the earth and then we're going
to have progress. God doesn't send His Spirit,
we're just as we were in our fallen condition, but when He
sends His Spirit, It's going to be on purpose and He will
not fail. Because He's Adonai. Almighty God. Alright, turn with
me to the book of Acts. New Testament. The book of Acts
chapter 10. Acts chapter 10. This is the
one that spoke. And this is the one that's going
to speak about the messenger of the covenant. Turns out they're
the same, but it's something to have this aspect of the Lord,
Adonai, speak about the Lord Jehovah, the Savior. Now, if you ever want to meet
the Jehovah, you have to listen to Adonai. He's not going to
be piddling around. He's not a little insignificant,
as I heard one time by a peanut God. He's not that. God is going
to bring His people to understand that He is and must be Almighty
God to save one person from their sins. A God that is less than
that can't do it. So we have the God of the Bible,
and He is not manipulated. He is not moved by any issue
on our part. He is only moved by Himself and
His own purpose. Alright, here in the book of
Acts chapter 10, verse 36. Acts chapter 10. Acts 10, verse 36, it says here, And the
word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching
peace by Jesus Christ, and then we have a parenthetical statement.
If you have any issue about who the Lord Jesus Christ is, read
the parenthetical statement which says, He is Lord of all. I heard a preacher say one time,
if He isn't Lord of all, He's not Lord of any. He is Lord of
all. This is the only Savior that
saves His people from their sins. So, if God has truly saved us,
we're going to have this attitude, this idea, this thought about
God, He is Almighty. There's none different. He is
not a small, crippled God. Earl Griswold spoke to his wife
one time when he was listening to a radio program and says,
they put God in a wheelchair. And we're having to push Him
around and make Him successful. The God of heaven is not in a
wheelchair. He is Lord of all. He is Lord of all. Turn with
me, if you would, to the book of Matthew, chapter 28. At the
end of the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, He shares
this great statement about Himself. He's Adonai. He's the absolute
monarch throughout the Old Testament. He is the Creator, in the beginning,
God. Adonai, the Lord, the Master. And here in the book of Matthew
chapter 28 and verse 18, we read these words, Matthew chapter
28 and verse 18, And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
Here is one time when all means all. All power is given unto me in
heaven and in earth. There is none held back. I am
in charge of all things. I'm in charge of the nucleus
of the atom. And I am in charge of the greatest
galaxy there's ever been. I'm in charge of every human
being. I'm in charge. I move their steps
according to my purpose. And then, would you turn with
me to the words of Gabriel as he spoke to Mary in Luke chapter
1. Luke chapter 1. Mary, if you
ever had any question about who you're going to bring into this
world, let me tell you. As Gabriel spoke to her, how
can these things be? She and I know not a man. And
he explains exactly what's going to happen. Now he doesn't explain
how it's going to happen, but he explains this. The Holy Spirit's
going to overshadow you and you're going to have a holy thing deposited
in your womb. There will be no human seed,
man seed here. It will be of God, the blessed,
holy, harmless, and undefiled Son of God. In the book of Luke,
chapter 1, verse 33, in the midst of this, he says, He shall reign
over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom there shall be
no end. If He has a kingdom forever,
He's the King forever. And He is the Almighty King.
So this one, the Lord, speaks over here in the book of Malachi
chapter 3, and He shall reign. Now, He is the messenger of the
covenant. This Lord, He's the covenant.
Now, there's a lot said about covenant. A lot said about covenant
grace and covenant of eternal grace and covenant of the eternal
everlasting covenant. But when we study about it from
the viewpoint of the Word of God, we find out God's in charge
of this covenant. And He's the one that drew it
up. And there were three on the Godhead
that participated in the drawing up of this covenant. And this
covenant is demonstrated, the essence of this covenant of grace
is the same throughout the Old and the New Testament. There
is no change of covenant. There is the everlasting covenant
and that is the only way that God saves sinners is by grace
alone. He has ever done that. He has
never had any other way of saving his people from their sins. It
is by grace alone, it is through faith alone, and it is in Christ
alone. That is the essence of the everlasting
covenant. It was drawn up in the Council
Halls of Eternity before the foundation of the world And in
that covenant there was an agreement made that there would be some
chosen and everyone that was chosen would be saved by the
grace of God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and the
regeneration by the Holy Spirit. He made a promise. Covenant is
a promise. It is covenant mercies, promised
mercies that God has given. It is promised grace that God
has given. This is the covenant of grace,
and Jesus Christ is the messenger of the covenant. I'm going to
come and share exactly what this covenant is. Now, throughout
the Old Testament, we find that grace was demonstrated to Adam
and Eve. There's only two people on the
earth that grace was demonstrated. It was, you know, from our standpoint,
we could find ourselves much like those disciples of the Lord
Jesus. Shall we call down thunder from heaven or lightning from
heaven and just destroy this and start over? But God demonstrated
what grace really is. And there was one that paid the
price so that grace could be made evident, and that was the
Lamb. Death, shed blood, and then a
covering as a result of it. We have that covering in the
righteousness of Christ extended to us. And we have that blood,
the blood of Jesus Christ, and we have His life that's been
given that is demonstrated there We find that throughout the,
as we follow through the Old Testament, there's a very narrow
line of grace. We go from Adam, and then we
go to Seth, because Abel was taken out. And then we follow
him. And then we follow, there was
a man that walked with God and was not, for God took him. There's
no one. Out of the, let's just say there's
only 12,000 people on the earth, Even at that, only eight were
taken into the covenant of the ark. It looks like there were
many more folks than that, but let's just say there's 12,000.
After that's over, God deals the next time that we have a
record of it. His grace is evident to one that
is in Ur of the Chaldees, one of the most pagan areas of all
the world, and he calls out Abraham, leave here. And by the grace
of God, he left there. We find out he had a son by the
name of Isaac. And Isaac had a son. And then
they had 12 sons. And then we have Israel, still
very narrow, very narrow. And almost all of the Old Testament
grace that we find, the covenant of grace is exercised to people
in this line, gets down to Israel, and we find out that it's very
narrow. Even among Israel, not all Israel
is of Israel. Many died in the wilderness because
of unbelief. But we have very few that were
Gentiles that are ever acquainted with this covenant of grace.
Rahab the harlot. Bathsheba. And there's an anomaly. That's Jonah sent to Nineveh. That's an anomaly. Jonah sent
to one of the... Those folks were bad folks. The
Ninevites were bad folks. They had the notoriety of being
terrible, terrible folks. They would kill you at the drop
of a hat. And God sent that man in there
and he preached the gospel. And it looks like there was a
great revival. That's an anomaly. There's some
Gentiles here that heard something. We have one leper, one widow. Jesus brought that up. Very few
Gentiles. in the covenant of grace as we
follow through the Old Testament. And out of all of the nations
of the world, Israel is really an insignificant nation. And
if it wasn't for God, they would be no different than Congo. But
God had his eye on those people because he had promised in the
covenant of grace before the foundation of the world that
the messenger of the covenant would come right through this
line. And he promised that and it fulfilled it. A whole bunch
of folks in the line of the Lord Jesus didn't know anything about
the covenant, but he used them to bring the messenger of the
covenant in. Many widows. Jonah preached. But the wonderful thing when
we get to the New Testament, we find out that this messenger
of the covenant, though it seemed narrow throughout the Old Testament,
the sacrifices were not for the Hittites or Hivites or anybody
else. The temple was for nobody else. It was for Israel. It was type
and shadow and picture that that covenant of grace is for a very
limited few. Those chosen by God before the
foundation of the world and he has the right to do it and the
rest he has the right to do with them as he pleases. And we dare
not argue with it. Because if we do, we find ourselves
just like those publicans that came and heard that and said,
I can't put up with that. I need more money than that. Or those
soldiers that said, I can't put up with that. I want to have
fun punching people in the face. And I want to have fun asking
for more wages. But those who heard something,
they said, oh my gosh. We're asked to do some things
that are terrible, horrific. And it's not because we're enemies. It's just because we're making
fun of them. When we get to the book of Revelation,
chapter 5, we find out it has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred,
tongue, and people, and nation. How broad, from the standpoint
of the Old Testament, does the covenant of grace become? Because
we have folks in New Guinea. We have generations of folks
in England and France and Germany, where the stronghold of the Gospel
was for years and years and years. And here, and all over the world,
it has been as Paul was used to bring it to Europe. He has
said to go over here to Asia. He has said to go over here But
the Lord prevented him, the Spirit prevented him from going, but
he brought the Gospel to Europe. The covenant of grace, the messenger
of grace is allowed to be known by a whole host of folks out
of all these kindred peoples and tongues. Now, when we think
about the everlasting covenant, we like to think as David thought. Yet he hath made with me an everlasting
covenant. He has made with me an everlasting
agreement. I will never leave you nor forsake
you. I will carry you through. Now,
it's interesting that in the same chapter we're going to find
that wonderful verse about God. I am God. I change not. Therefore He, children
of Jacob, are not consumed. We read in the book of Isaiah,
would you turn with me to the book of Isaiah chapter 55. the messenger of this covenant. Isaiah 55, throughout the Old
Testament the announcement is being made about a Messiah coming
and this is the ministry, the messenger of the covenant. In
the book of Isaiah 55, Isaiah 55, verse 3, what a wonderful
statement is made here about this covenant. The promise is
that there will be a messenger of the messenger. When He has
come, He is going to announce the messenger of the covenant.
When the messenger of the covenant is here, He is going to reveal
unto us all these rich blessings throughout the Old Testament
that spoke of this everlasting covenant. It was given to David. He hath made with me an everlasting
covenant. It's not the same with all my
household. I understand that. But with me, He hath made an
everlasting covenant. He has agreed to save me by His
grace. Through Christ alone. Through
faith alone. And here in the book of Isaiah
chapter 55, and there in verse 3, it says incline your ear and
come unto me, here, and your soul shall live, and I will make
an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of
David." I will make an everlasting covenant, even the sure mercies. Some time ago we mentioned that
mercy is causes us to understand there's
a problem. Sure mercies of David. I'm a sinner, but I'm a sinner
saved by grace. And that is the benefits of this
everlasting covenant and the messenger of the covenant came
to declare that. I will make a ransom for many. I promise that. Well, a couple
of more verses here and then we'll close in the book of Jeremiah,
chapter 32. Isaiah and then Jeremiah. Jeremiah
chapter 32. This is the Old Testament declaration. The New Testament, the fulfillment
of it, and we'll read one verse over there in just a moment.
Jeremiah chapter 32 and verse 40. Jeremiah 32 and verse 40. And I will make an everlasting
covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do
them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts. What a
wonderful thing God does when He regenerates us and give us
a reverence for God, a reverence for the Almighty God, that He
is the Sovereign Sovereign, that He is the King of Kings, that
we respect Him for that, we thank Him for that, If we have a God
that can be manipulator, a God that we just, well, He saved
me because I commanded it. My goodness. Well, He goes on
to tell us here in Jeremiah 32 and verse 40, He says, I will
put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from Me. What a wonderful thing. We're
tied with cords of love. where it fastened to the rock,
which cannot move. Alright, finally, over in the
book of Hebrews chapter 13. Hebrews chapter 13. The messenger of the messenger
of the messenger. Malachi spoke of the messenger,
the messenger, John spoke of the messenger of the covenant,
the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the way, he is the truth,
he's the life, he's the one we've been expecting, he's been announced
through all the prophets of the Old Testament, and he is here,
here ye him. This is the one we've been looking
for. This is the prophet. This is the Christ. This is the
Messiah. There He is. The Lamb of God. Hebrews chapter 13 and verse
20. Hebrews chapter 13 and verse
20. Now the God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ. What does that
say? Christ and Him crucified. Brought
him again from the dead. He was dead on our behalf. Our
Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd of the sheep. What does that tell us? He's
the covenant one. Great shepherd of the sheep.
He has absolute control over his flock. He is herding them,
watching over them. Even those that are off in, way
over there. this shepherd will bring them
all in. He's promised that. He knows
where they are. He's got his eye on them. He
will not lose them. And then it goes on to tell us
here in the book of Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 20 we read that
great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting
covenant. Through the blood of the everlasting
promise. So we have the Messiah come do and we have the privilege
of yet declaring that he is successful in all his covenant agreement,
the Lord Jesus Christ.