to us, and that would be Genesis
chapter 15. It is just a little bit warm up
here, so I think I'll take this off. And I'll read Just a verse, one
verse to begin with, and that's verse 18. Genesis chapter 15
in verse 18. The scripture says, in the same
day, the Lord, that is Jehovah, God, our Savior, made a covenant
with Abram. And he said, unto thy seed, Have
I given this land? And that's the land that God
had indeed made a promise to this great patriarch that God
would give it to him and to his seed. I said this morning in talking
about I said that all of God's dealings
are on the basis of a covenant. Now, there are lots of different
covenants mentioned in the Old Testament, and I'm going to mention
a few of them here in just a very few minutes, but there are basically
just two great covenants, the Old and the New. The old covenant is the very
first one that's set forth in the scriptures. It was made with
Adam, who was our representative. That covenant basically consisted
of this. God said, this do and live, disobey
and die. God said to Adam, of every tree
of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. but there's one tree. God called it the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. God said, don't eat of the fruit
of that, for in the day ye eat thereof, you'll surely die. And we know Adam disobeyed God's
law, God's commandment. He broke the covenant that God
made with him, which is the old covenant, and he died. And Eve died. And you died. And I died. And everybody who
would ever be born as a result of a union of a man and a woman,
we all died in Adam. Romans chapter five and verse
number 12 says that. And I would say this to every
individual who lives and dies without Christ Jesus, who goes all the way through
life, have no interest in the gospel, have no desire for God's
salvation, God's way of salvation. They're always under this covenant
of works. And when they die, they're still
under the covenant of works. And they must therefore face
the just wages of their guilt, which is death. Death. And you see when folks who die
without Christ Jesus, when they die in their in their guilt,
in their sinfulness, they will discover at the judgment that
every ungodly word, every evil deed, every vile thought, in
fact, everything that they did all the way through life, God
despised. and God's gonna send them to
adjust the just penalty for sin. Learn this, everything outside
of Christ Jesus is unacceptable to God. That is a basic truth. You've got to know that. Everything
and everybody who's outside of the Lord Jesus is unacceptable
to a holy God. That's the old covenant. And
then there's the new covenant. It's the newer one revealed in
the Bible. And this is the covenant under
which all of God's people have always been. It isn't that we are brought
under this covenant at conversion, though we will be converted.
It isn't that we're brought under the umbrella, the wonderful umbrella
of this covenant, when we're brought to faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ, though we will be brought to faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. You see, God has always dealt
with His people on the basis of this new covenant. And though that covenant was
hidden from us, Though it was unknown to us, though we didn't
understand anything about this new covenant that is of the grace
of God and based upon the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, God
has always viewed us and he's always considered us to be under
this new covenant. And therefore he has never, You've
got to get this. He has never looked to us for
anything as a basis of our acceptance with Him. Everything that God
demanded of us, He looks to our Savior, that one who is the surety
of the new covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ. This new covenant,
it was hidden in the Old Testament, in pictures, in shadows, in prophecies. But it's new. And it's newly
revealed to us. He shows it to the hearts of
His people. He reveals it. He discloses it
to us. He makes it known to us that
the reason he deals with us in such a wonderful and marvelous
way is because of what he did way back in old eternity when
he established this covenant, which to us is the new covenant.
This is a covenant made between the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit as we set forth this morning. It's a wonderful truth. And those who have no appreciation
of this new covenant, the reason they have no appreciation of
it is because they have no understanding of it. Because as you understand,
as you're brought by the Spirit of God to grasp, how wonderful it is that God
has always dealt with us on the basis of grace and on the basis
of our Lord Jesus. When you understand that, when
you perceive by the leadership and the revelation of the Spirit
of God that all of God's dealings with you have been because of
our being put into the Lord Jesus before the foundation of the
world, it'll make your heart rejoice. And you'll sing songs
of thanksgiving to God. Look with me, hold your place
here. We'll come back of course to
this chapter in Genesis, but look in 2 Samuel chapter 23. And I love to go to this passage
of Scripture because these are the words of a man who's dying.
He finds no consolation in the things that he's done. Though
he has been a king of Israel, though of him it was said that
this is a man after, God said, this is a man after my own heart. That's what God said about this
man. But he took no consolation in that upon his deathbed. Here's where he found his comfort
and his consolation in that covenant that God made with him, that
is, with his representative back in old eternity. Now, he begins
this way. Of course, these are the words
of David, and I'll begin here in verse five because I don't
want to take too much time here, but he says, although my house
be not so with God. And here's what he's saying.
My house is not right with God. And I believe in this, he's saying,
I've failed as a father. I've made failures as a king.
I'm just a sinful man. I've failed on a lot of levels.
I haven't been the right example to my family. And I haven't been
a good example to the nation. because I brought embarrassment
to the nation. I brought great shame to the
nation. I've not behaved like a man who
loves God, like a man who believes the Lord. Although my house be not so with
God. Now watch the next word, yet. In other words, notwithstanding
me and my failures, Notwithstanding all my faults and how pitiful
I've been throughout all of my life, yet, in spite of me, in
spite of my own transgressions and my failures, he says, God
has made with me an everlasting covenant. David knew something
about covenant mercy, didn't he? Do you remember he made a
covenant, he and Jonathan? In fact, you can read about it
in 1 Samuel chapter 20. Things weren't looking good for
Saul and his household. And Jonathan and David, they
were the very best friends. They were so close, they could
have been brothers. Here's what Jonathan, he pulled
David aside and he said, I wanna talk to you. He said, I know
the day's gonna come when my dad's gonna die and I'm gonna
die. I want you to make me a promise. I want you to enter into a covenant
with me that if anybody out of my household survives this, I'm
gonna die, my dad's gonna die at King Saul. But if there's
anybody who survives all of this, I want you to make me a promise. In fact, he asked David to swear,
take an oath, enter into covenant. I want your word, you'll take
care of them. That's a covenant. David knew
what a covenant was. And David said, I promise you,
I'll take care of it. Well, Jonathan, died and King
Saul died. Later, David, he thinks about
his dear friend and he calls his servants in and says, is
there anybody left of the household of Saul that I could show them
mercy and kindness for Jonathan's sake? Got that covenant in his
mind. I gave my word. I made a promise
to Jonathan. Somebody said, yeah, there's
Mephibosheth. He's lame on both feet. He's down in Lodabar. He's a pitiful case. David said,
go fetch him. Bring him to me. Thank God for
fetching grace. They brought Mephibosheth to
King David. I'll tell you, when King David
looked at Mephibosheth, you know who he saw? Jonathan. He saw Jonathan. For Jonathan's
sake, Mephibosheth ate at the king's table the rest of the
days of his life. For Jonathan's sake, David took
good care of Mephibosheth. David He remembers that covenant. And I'm telling you, when God,
due to His covenant of grace, this is where it all began now,
way back in old eternity. It's actually always been this
way. We'd say it had a beginning,
but as God had no beginning, this covenant of grace had no
beginning. And here's something that it'll
break your heart, and it's one of the sweetest things that you
can ever think about it. As I worked on this message,
I thought of this. You see, when God looks at me, he sees Christ. Ain't that the sweetest thing
you ever heard? You see, the reason He's merciful
to us, the reason He's gracious to us, the reason He blesses
us is because when God looks at us, He sees us in His Son. He sees the beauties of His Son,
the glories of His Son, the majesty of His Son. He sees the goodness
of His Son. We don't have any goodness. We
don't have any majesty. All we've got is sin. That's
all we've got. But when God looks at us, He
doesn't see us. He sees His Son. And he's well
pleased. You see, that's the reason when
we die, we go to heaven. We go to be with the Lord. The
Lord says to every one of his people, as we enter into glory,
he says to each of us, well done, thou good and faithful servant.
And you say, I don't know how God could ever say that about
me. Oh, wait a minute. He's looking
at Christ. And he says to each of us, notwithstanding
how short a time you've been converted, or how long a time
you've been converted. He said this to the apostle Paul,
and he said it to that believing thief. Well done, thou good and
faithful servant, because when God looked at the believing thief,
when he entered into paradise, right upon the heels of Christ
Jesus, the Lord looked at him, God looked at him, he saw Christ. He saw his righteousness. He
saw his sacrifice. So David knew very well what
a covenant was. And He says that He's made with
me an everlasting covenant. You know what that means? It
reaches out both ways. Both ways. This predates creation
and it postdates when God makes a new heaven and a new earth.
This is an everlasting covenant that God made. We weren't there. We had no part in this. And I'll
show you in a few minutes, just like there in Genesis chapter
15, Abram had no part in that covenant. And when God in the
very next chapter enlarges upon the covenant and gives Abram
the name Abraham, Abraham still didn't have any part in the covenant. Notice what he says here. He
says he's made with me an everlasting covenant. Made with me through
my representative, through my surety, through my substitute,
an everlasting covenant. It is perpetual. And I would never encourage anybody
to sin or to violate God's revealed will. But I'll tell you this,
if you are included in the covenant of grace, this everlasting covenant,
there's nothing you could ever do to cause God to put you out
of the covenant. That's an impossibility. Peter
denied the Lord three times. Here's an apostle who walked
with the Savior, who listened to the Savior. He got his instructions
right from the mouth of the teacher himself. And he denied even knowing
Him. How vile is that? Oh, it's awful. But God doesn't see it. God looks
at Simon Peter. His justice looks at Simon Peter
and says, well done. Now a good and faithful servant.
And there are people who say, that can't be. The reason they
say that is because they have no understanding of the gospel
of God's grace. There are multitudes of people
who they'll say they believe in grace. but they really have
no grasp of the depths of grace and the necessity of grace to
undeserving sinners like you and me. They have no idea of
how great this grace is that covers all of our sins and God
looks at us in the righteousness of His own Son. He's made with
me an everlasting covenant. And then he says, ordered in
all things, ensured, furnished, ordained, arranged. Let's put
it this way. Whatever the covenant demanded,
the covenant provides. Whatever the covenant has promised,
it will come to pass. It's ordered in all things, ensured,
it's guarded, it's kept. It's watched over. Actually,
the meaning there is somebody had charge over it. You know
who's got charge over the covenant? The same one who made it. And David says, this is all my
salvation. All of my salvation and all of
your salvation is dependent upon this covenant. and the fulfillment
of the conditions of the covenant by our substitute. Everything necessary to take
us from this vile body of flesh and make us new creatures in
Christ Jesus and glorify us. Everything is all included in
the covenant. God didn't leave anything out.
You say, well, I've got to believe though. Yeah, but that was in
the covenant. You see, you don't believe to activate the covenant. You believe as the result of
the covenant of grace. You believe as a result of the
covenant that God made with His only begotten Son. That's the
reason you repent. And that's not a condition of
the fulfillment of the covenant. It's a result of the covenant. All of these things of believing
and repenting and persevering, all of those things we will do,
not as conditions of the covenant, but as results of the covenant. This is what David means when
he says, this is all my salvation. And he said, it's all my desire,
it's all I want. I was reading this afternoon
Matthew, Henry, And sometimes he disappoints me, but he didn't
disappoint me on this. He said, direct quote, on this
statement, this is all my desire. He said, let me have an interest
in this covenant and all the promises of it, and I have enough,
and I don't desire anything else. That's really good, to be included
among those who have a part of this. whose names are written
down in the Lamb's Book of Life, that's absolutely glorious. And then he says this, although
he'd make it not to grow. That's my house, that's what
he's talking about. Here's a man who's on his deathbed. What if you were on your deathbed?
And you will be one day, and whether you'll be conscious of
that or not, but you know, there is a sense in which we're on
our deathbed now. Because the scripture says, we
walk through the valley of the shadow of death. We're always
in the valley of the shadow of death. But if you knew you were
dying tonight, where are you gonna find your comfort? In what
you've done? In your faith, you think you believe like you
ought to? Is there anybody here who would dare to stand up and
say, I believe God fully? If you did say that, you're a
deluded soul. You're deceived. Nobody believes
like they ought to. Nobody prays like they ought
to. Nobody behaves like they ought
to. I'm not gonna find any joy. I'm not gonna find any consolation
on my deathbed looking back upon something that I have done. Because
everything I have done is flawed. And that's the way it is with
you too. My hope, my confidence, and all
my desire is in this covenant. All of it. Let me put it another
way. I'm not gonna find any joy in
what I've done. All my joy and all my assurance
of everlasting life is what God in Christ Jesus has done for
me. That's all. And if you try to find comfort
or assurance or consolation anywhere else, I got news for you. It'd be a false confidence. A
false confidence. Go back then to Genesis 15. Genesis chapter 15. As you look
through the Old Testament, there are several covenants that are
mentioned. There's a covenant with Adam before the fall. I've already mentioned that.
There is also, are you aware of this? A covenant with Adam
after the fall. You know what God said he'd do?
He gave his word. I'll send the seed of the woman.
That's covenant, that's his word. I tell you, God, when God says
something, you can put it down. That's the way it is. That's
the promise of the seed of the woman, the promise of Christ
Jesus. You get over a little bit further, there's a covenant
with Noah. And God said, I'll never destroy
the earth with water again. He'll destroy it with fire, but
he won't destroy it with water. He said, and as a token of that,
as a sign of that, I put my bow in the heavens. And then of course,
there's this covenant with Abraham, and then there's that covenant
that he made with David. But let's look at this one he
made with Abram. Go back to Genesis 15, you're
there. Verse one, after these things, after what things? You
remember how Abram and Lot, they were together, but they started
accumulating greater possessions, their herds got bigger, and finally
there was a squabble among the servants of Abram and the servants
of Lot, and Abram said, We just can't stay together like this.
And he said to Locke, he said to his nephew, hey, go wherever
you want to go. Wherever you go, I'll go in the
opposite direction. And Locke looked, and he said,
boy, I tell you, those down there in the valley and the plains
sure looks like good land down there to me. And there's cities
down there, Sodom and Gomorrah. And I'll choose that, Abraham
said. That's fine. I'll go somewhere
else. And that was okay. And then one
day, somebody came to Abram and said, did you hear? These four
kings got together and they invaded Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham said,
what's that to me? Well, they said they took all
the goods of the people. Abraham said, so? And they said,
they also took a lot. And Abraham said, what? They
took a lot. Abraham said, you just wait. He went and got 318 of his own
his servants who were, they were trained in combat. They were
also shepherds. They went after those four kings
who took, they took all these people captive and they took
all the goods of Solomon and Gomorrah, took all their wealth,
got into the banks and took all their silver and all their gold
and all that kind of stuff and then they hightailed it out of
town. Abraham said, I'm going after him. But you only got 318
men. That's okay. They know what they're
doing. I know what they're doing. They went after him. Abraham
divided them up. And to make a long story short,
he defeated all the kings who rose up against Sodom and Gomorrah.
And he rescued all the stuff that was stolen. And he also
rescued all the captives and he rescued Lot. And as he was
coming back, he was met by Melchizedek. He was a king of Salem, a type
of Christ. Maybe he was Christ, I don't
know. But Abram received from Melchizedek bread and wine. Bread to strengthen, wine to
make the heart merry. And then here comes the king
of Sodom. And he sees all these people with Abram. Oh, wonderful,
you brought back all these captives and you brought back our goods
too. And the King of Sodom said, man, you did such a good job. Tell you what, we'll give all
the goods to you. You just keep them. Abraham said, I don't want
one thread of what you've got. Lest you say you made Abram rich. I don't want anything. Just take
care of the food for these men that went with me. After these
things, the word of the Lord came to
Abram in a vision. The Lord said, fear not, Abram. I'm your shield. I'm your exceeding
great reward. I'll take care of you. I'll protect
you. I'll provide for you. I'm your
portion. I'm your reward. Abram said,
Lord, what will you give me? Saying,
I go childless. You talked to me earlier about
a son. I'm still waiting. He said, behold,
verse three, thou hast given me no seed. One born in my house
is mine heir. Behold, the word of the Lord
came unto him saying, Verse four, this one shall not be thine heir,
but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall
be thine heir. And he brought him out and he
said, now look toward the heavens. Earlier, he told Abram to look
toward the sand, look at the land. He said, you see all this,
see all these sands out here, every grain of sand, that's how
you see it's gonna be for their number. And now he takes him,
he says, look up toward the heavens. You see the stars, all these
stars in the sky? Can you count them all? So shall
your seed be. That's for the glory of them.
Now, what is this seed? Well, first of all, there's the
natural seed of Abraham, which is Israel. And then secondly,
it's the spiritual seed of Abraham, because the scripture says in
Hebrews chapter two, that Christ Jesus took not on him the nature
of angels, he took on him the seed of Abraham, the seed of
Abraham. This is all God's spiritual Israel.
And thirdly, from Galatians chapter 3, we know that thy seed, the
seed of Abraham, is Christ Jesus. Because it says there in Galatians
chapter 3, he said, not seeds as in many seeds, but seed as
in one. That's the Lord of glory. That's Christ Jesus. And Abraham
believed in the Lord. He believed in Jehovah who saves. He believed Him and God counted
it to him for righteousness. Not that his faith was righteousness,
not that his faith made him righteous, but his faith received the righteousness
of one who would come into the world, even the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord said to him, I'm
the Lord, verse seven, that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees
to give thee this land to inherit it. I brought you out. You know
what that is? That's effectual grace. Abraham's
down in Ur of the Chaldees. He's not looking for the Lord.
He's not seeking salvation. He's not seeking the God of heaven
and earth. He has no interest in God the
Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit. He's wrapped up
in heathen idolatry. He didn't seek the Lord. The
Lord sought Him. The Lord come after Him. That's
what God does for His people. You see, Abram is one of those
with whom God had made an everlasting covenant with Christ Jesus before
the world was made. And now this is the time when
he's going to deal with him in saving grace. I brought you out. This is the effectual call. To
give you this land. I brought you out to give you
something. Not so you can earn it. I didn't
bring you out so you can merit it. I didn't bring you out so
that you can do so many good works and then I'll give it to
you as a reward. No, I'm gonna give it to you.
I brought you out to give you something. And that's what the
Lord does for us. He brings us out of bondage.
He brings us out of the love of the things of the world. He
brings us out of false religion to give us all things in Christ
Jesus. It's a gift. It's a gift. And verse eight, he said, Lord
God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And God said,
in essence, blood's gonna be involved in this. Blood. You don't get far away
from the blood in any passage of scripture, do you? We attended,
some of us, a funeral here several days ago. No blood from the preacher. I asked the Lord, I sure, Lord,
if it be your will, I'd like to cross paths with that preacher.
I'd like to ask him why he didn't preach the blood of Christ Jesus.
Wasn't the Lord's will, that guy went out the side door. He
never mentioned the grace of God. I was gonna ask him, how
come you didn't say something about the grace of God? How come you didn't even use
the word S-I-N? Didn't say anything about the
man being a sinner. Tell you, these things are vital.
There is no gospel message unless there's a problem of sin. And
unless there's the grace of God that brings in the remedy, and
the remedy is the blood. It's the blood that maketh atonement
for the soul. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sins. And so God tells Abraham, bring
some animals now. He said, take me a heifer of
three years old, a she goat of three years old, a ram of three
years old and a turtle dove and a young pigeon. You know, when
I think of, when I hear the number three, the years of the public
ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, And so he took unto him, that
is Abram, took unto the Lord all of these. He divided them
in the midst and he laid each piece one against another, but
the birds divided he not. And when the fowls came down
upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. You see, there's always
somebody trying to steal the glory of redeeming grace from
Christ Jesus. It's our job to drive them away. There's always somebody who comes
in, oh, but man's got a free will. Jesus died for everybody,
trying to save everybody. If only you'd let him. Let's
drive those vultures away. Because they're just trying to
steal his glory. Abram drove them away. You up
for the fight? I'm ready to drive them away.
I'm not gonna put up with it. Not gonna have that junk in here.
Not gonna have those lies in here. We're gonna drive them
away. Look at verse 12. And when the
sun was going down, God put Abram in a deep sleep. Here's what this tells me. Nobody
is active in this covenant making but God. Because Abraham's asleep. He doesn't have a part in it.
There's no participation of Abram in this covenant. He's asleep. Well, who is active in the covenant? Only Jehovah God. No wonder the
Bible says salvation's of the Lord. And don't you try to steal
any of his glory. They won't turn out good for
you. Here's the problem with the free
willers, those works mongers, those who insist you gotta be
baptized to be saved, you gotta go to the front to be saved,
you gotta do this to be saved. Here's what's wrong with all
of those guys. They're trying to rob God of
that which is only His. It just belongs to Him, the glory
of the salvation of sinners. Abram has no part in this. This
is God. So he's asleep. And as Abram
slept, the Lord spoke to him in his thoughts, in his dream. Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. They shall
be. because God ordained it. Don't
you look at the shalls of God? I'm gonna show you, look at the
shalls of God. They shall be. Well, how in the world are they
gonna wind up in Egypt? Well, it's kind of a long story,
but several brothers gonna get upset with one brother, Joseph,
and then he's gonna be put into prison, and he's gonna be sold,
and he's gonna wind up in Egypt. But lo and behold, He's gonna
be seated beside the king of Egypt. And God's gonna send a
famine, a famine. And that man, Joseph, he's gonna
have charge of all the grocery stores, all of them. And nobody's gonna get any food
except through him. And when his daddy and his brothers,
when they get hungry, they've gotta come to Egypt, and guess
who they gotta deal with? They gotta deal with Joseph.
And they don't recognize him, but he recognizes them. And as we know, his father, Jacob,
brings all of his family into Egypt. And things go good under the
Pharaoh. Family's growing. But then another Pharaoh comes
into power. And he doesn't like Israel. And things go from bad to worse,
but it's all in the providence of God. And then they wind up
in bondage, in captivity. according to the will of God.
They shall, that's what God said. He shall, they gonna wind up
there. You get ready for it. Look at verse 14. Also that nation
whom they shall serve, I'll judge them. And afterward, watch this. Afterward
shall they come out with great substance. In fact, Pharaoh's
gonna say, and all the Egyptians are gonna say, leave our land
and don't come back and take whatever you want. Take our silver,
take our gold, take our jewelry. We don't care what you take,
take it all, but you go. And boy, I tell you, they were
wealthy. Well, God said that's the way
it's gonna be. You'll come out with great substance.
And then the Lord said this to Abram, and thou shalt go to thy
fathers in peace, and thou shalt be buried in a good old age. You're gonna die in peace. Peace
with God. Boy, it'd be wonderful to die
in peace, wouldn't it? not troubled about anything. The only reason for you to be
troubled, the only reason you would be troubled about anything
you've done is if you're not resting in Christ Jesus, the
Lord. If you're worried about whether
your good deeds gonna outweigh your bad deeds, you got it all
wrong from the get-go. Lord's gonna have to teach you
how he saved sinners. Verse 16, but in the fourth generation,
they shall come hither again. There's his shall, they shall. And he says, because the iniquity
of the Amorites isn't yet full. And it came to pass that when
the sun went down, it was dark. Behold a smoking furnace and
a burning lamp that pass between those pieces. God himself. God himself. He's there at the
sacrifice. Because those animals' sacrifices
were for God. They're for God. You see, when
Christ Jesus died on the cross of Calvary, his death was for
God. That's right. Something had to
be done to satisfy God's justice, God's law, that was offended
by man's sin. And our Lord Jesus came to make
things right, dealing with God. The Lord was there. You know who was at Mount Calvary
when Christ Jesus died? Oh, I know there were a lot of
onlookers. But I'll tell you whose presence was there most
definitely. God Almighty. Because He put
him to grief. He made his soul an offering
for sin. God did. God had to do something for himself. before he could do anything for
us. And now mercy like a river flows freely because justice
has been satisfied. Verse 18, and in the same day,
the Lord made a covenant with Abram. And he now changes He actually
changes the kind of language that he uses. Saying, under thy
seed have I given. Not I will give it, I shall give
it. But he said, I've given it to
you. You see, he's given us all things in Christ Jesus. It's
already ours. Because you see, when he gave
us his son, he gave us all things in his son. of the covenant. You may not
like it, but I love it. I love the covenant because everything
is dependent upon what God Himself does and is not dependent upon
me. That sure does help this poor
old sinner who is aware to a certain degree of how sinful and rotten
I am by nature. But when God looks at me, He
don't see that sinfulness. He don't see that rottenness.
He sees Christ. Isn't that a wonderful thought?
When God looks at you, He sees His Son. Just like when David
looked at Mephibosheth, lame on both feet, poor pitiful soul. David looked at him and said,
there's Jonathan. I love him for Jonathan's sake.
I'll take care of him for Jonathan's sake. That's what God says about
us. I'll take care of him for Christ's
sake, for Christ's sake. And I'll forgive him of all of
his sins for Christ's sake. Well, hope that'll help you.