Be here tonight. Open your Bibles
up if you would to Jeremiah chapter 32. Jeremiah chapter 32. The name of the message tonight
is God's Faithfulness. God's Faithfulness. Jeremiah
chapter 32. We'll be reading verses 36 to
42. Jeremiah 32. verses 36 to 42. And again, the name of the message
is God's Faithfulness. And now therefore, thus saith
the Lord God of the Lord, the God of Israel concerning this
city, wherever you say, it shall be delivered into the hand of
the king of Babylon, Babylon by the sword, and by famine,
and by the pestilence. Behold, I will gather them out
of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and
in my fury, and in great wrath. And I will bring them again unto
this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. And they
shall be my people, and I will be their God. And I will give
them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever. For
the good of them and of their children after them, 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, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice
over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus
saith the Lord, like as I have brought all this great evil upon
this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I
have promised them. Now the faithfulness of God is
proclaimed both in the Old Testament and in the New. Turn if you would
to Deuteronomy chapter 7 and then also Psalm 89, for the Old Testament, the faithfulness
of God is proclaimed all through the Scriptures. We'll just look
at two portions here in the Old Testament, and then we'll look
at two places in the New Testament. And our great God is so faithful. He's always faithful to His people,
to His covenant people. Deuteronomy 7, verse 9, the Scriptures
declare this, know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is
God. He is God. The faithful God. You know how faithful our God
is. We'll see tonight. Our God is
so faithful to His people. "...which keepeth covenant and
mercy with them that love Him, and keepeth His commandments
to a thousand generations." Now turn, if you would, to Psalm
89. Psalm 89. And these are, again, just a
couple portions. There's many portions which speak of the faithfulness
of God, but due to time constraints, we're only allowed to look at
a couple here, because I'd like to get right into the text that
we read. Psalm 89, verses 7 to 9, God is greatly to be feared
in the assembly of the saints, and to be held in reverence of
all them that are about him. O Lord God of hosts, who is a
strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round
about thee. Thou rulest the raging of the
sea. When the waves thereof arise,
thou stillest them. Now let's go to the New Testament.
Turn, if you would, to 2 Timothy chapter 2 and Hebrews chapter
10. Again, this is just a couple
portions. There's many more. So his faithfulness we saw declared
there in the Old Testament. Now we'll go to the New Testament,
and we'll see his faithfulness declared here. 2 Timothy 2, verse
13, the scriptures declare this, if we believe not, yet he abideth
faithful. Yet he abideth faithful. He cannot
deny himself. God is a faithful God. He abideth
faithful. He's always faithful to his covenant
people. And let we who are the blood-washed
saints of God always remember that our God is faithful. He's
sure. And He's a resting place. And
He alone is the believer's resting place. No one who believes on
Him, who trusts Him, has ever trusted Him in vain. No one. And He has proven through the
years, and not just through the years, beloved, but He's proven
through the centuries, hasn't He? He's proven through the centuries,
through all of time to His people, to His covenant people, that
He is faithful even when we're not. Even when we're not. He's always faithful to His people. Turn, if you would, to Hebrews
chapter 10. God is faithful in all His relations with His covenant
people because faithfulness is part of His character. And this
is the basis of our confidence in Christ. The fact that our
God is a faithful God. A faithful God. Hebrews chapter
10. Look at verses 19 to 25. Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he has
consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say his flesh,
in heaven, and high priest over the house of God. Let us draw
near with a true heart and a full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed
with pure water. Now look at that, having a full
assurance of faith. What is the reason we have a
full assurance of faith? The faithfulness of God. Our
God is a faithful God. Look what it says. Let us hold
fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for He is faithful,
that promised. And let us consider one another
to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting
one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. Notice it says there, for He
is faithful, that promised. Now what we read over in Jeremiah,
Those are promises of God. So you tie that in with what's
just stated there in Hebrews. He is faithful who promised.
He's faithful. We'll see that tonight. Oh, I
pray to God the Holy Spirit would illuminate the scriptures and
teach we who believe. It doesn't matter if we're a
young believer or an old believer. We need this. We need to know
that our God is faithful. Faithful all the time to his
covenant people. Now our God has given us many
exceeding great and precious promises all through the scriptures,
all through the scriptures. And we are counting on Him to
fulfill them, aren't we? We're trusting Him that He will
fulfill what He says. And remember, who's saying this?
This is God, the self-existent one, Jehovah. So what He promises,
He has the ability to do. He has the power to do. We talked
about before how we as humans promise to do things and then
we don't always go through with them. Sometimes we forget or
sometimes we just don't do them. And sometimes we let others down
when we do that. God will never let his people
down. Never. If he promises to do something,
he'll do it. He'll do it. And we rest on that,
don't we? That's our hope. Because our
hope's in Christ. In Christ alone. Are we resting
on the assurance of what we read there in Hebrews 10.23? For He
is faithful, that is promised. Are we resting on that? Oh, I
hope that God will make us to rest upon that. The fact that
He's faithful. That what He's promised, He's
faithful. He's faithful. May God give us
the grace and strength to do so. Because again, he's always
faithful in all that he has promised all that he's promised to who
his covenant blood bought people. And it's all in and through the
Lord Jesus Christ. Nowhere else. Remember, all the
promises are in Christ. What? Yay. And amen. All in Christ. All in Christ. Now there are seasons, we go
through as Christians, when it's not easy for us to rest in the
promises of God. We have to admit that, don't
we? There's times when it's easier, and then there's times when it's
hard. When it's hard. Our faith is
tried, our trouble comes, but let us rest assured that even
when we are not faithful, even when we are fickle, because we
are, And that happens a lot to us.
Let us always remember that God is faithful to His people. Always. Always. It's wonderful. It'll bring you
great rest, great peace. Turn if you would to Isaiah 50.10.
Isaiah 50.10. And we'll note here in this verse
that the believer does not trust in himself or in any means, but
they trust in the Lord himself. The Lord himself. Isaiah chapter
50 verse 10. Who is among you that feareth
the Lord? That obeyeth the voice of a servant that walketh in
darkness and hath no light. Well, that's our natural state
right there, isn't it? Walking in darkness and hath
no light. Let him trust in the name of
the Lord and stay upon his God. We who are God's blood-bought,
born-again people, we do not trust in ourselves. We do not
trust in any means of anything that we can do, but we trust
in the Lord Jesus Christ himself. We trust in the perfections of
His nature. We trust in His mercy. We trust
in His grace. We trust in His goodness, which
is all wrapped up in the name of the Lord. In the name of the
Lord. And what is the name of the Lord
to God's people? It's a strong tower, isn't it?
It's a strong tower. And it's His name in whom we
have salvation. It's Christ and Christ alone. In the name of
the Lord. And he's the Lord, our righteousness. So as the scripture says, let
him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God. Rest. It's hard for us to do
that. It's hard for us. To trust Him
when in the dark. One commentator says this is
a glorious act of faith. This is believing in hope against
hope. Trusting and resting and relying
upon the Lord. Now the Lord's people do this.
But I ask you this. I ask you this. What and who
keeps us trusting? What and who keeps us trusted
in the Lord? Let us look at our text tonight
with this in mind. And I believe we'll find the
answer to that question. And I believe that we'll find
that answer to that question in the faithfulness of our great
God. In the faithfulness of our great God. Now, when reading
this chapter, if you keep in mind The fact of God's sustaining
grace is here pictured in verse 2. Let's go back to our chapter
in Jeremiah 32. Jeremiah 32. The picture being
presented here is the fact of God's sustaining grace. And we
will see tonight His faithfulness. But look at verse 2. Jeremiah
finds himself in a situation where he needs sustaining grace. Now, we're always in a position
where we need sustaining grace, don't we? But there are some
times that the fire is a little hotter than normal. And look at here in Jeremiah
32, 2. For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem, and
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison,
which was in the king of Judah's house. So all through this chapter,
God sustains Jeremiah. And we have here a picture of
how God, through His faithfulness to His covenant people, sustains
every single individual sheep of God. So we often look at these
pictures that we see in scriptures and we think, well, there's a
great man of God. God sustains every one of His
sheep like He sustained Jeremiah. He does. He sustains His people. The elect
of God. A good question for us to ponder
when we get anxious about situations which come up in our lives, and
often the situations that we get anxious about are unexpected. They just pop up. Vicki and I
have a saying we've said for a long time since we learned
about the grace of God in Christ, since God taught us who he was,
revealed to us who he is, an almighty sovereign God. We have
a statement that we say when things happen, well that didn't
catch God by surprise. Nothing catches our God by surprise. Lots of things catch us by surprise,
don't they? All the time. But there are certain
times when we get anxious about a situation that comes up. Again,
it's often unexpected. But look at verse 27 in this
chapter. And this question speaks to my
heart about the faithfulness of our great God. Let's read
verse 26 with it. So we'll read verses 26 and 27. Then came the word of the Lord
unto Jeremiah saying, Now remember, he's in prison. It's not a delightful
situation that he's going through. Behold, I am the Lord. And that
is Jehovah, the self-existent one. The God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? Wow. I am the Lord, the God of all
flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? When I read this, it just spoke
to my heart. And I ask you, what can weak
flesh, which is spoken of there, He's the God of all flesh, what
can weak flesh do against the Almighty? Jehovah, the self-existent One,
He that gives life to all creatures, the God of all man, the maker
and preserver of them, the One who provides for them, those
who are called flesh, in verse 27 here, those who are weak and
full of corruption, those who are unworthy of divine favor,
how will they resist His will? We know the answer, don't we? How will they hinder the execution
of His purposes? Notice this is prefaced with
a behold at the beginning of verse 27. This is to bring this
to our attention. This is for we who are as people
to take notice of, to encourage us, to encourage our faith, and
to remove doubts during difficulties which come our way. And they
often come our way, don't they? We think, Lord, how am I going
to get through this? I am the Lord, the God of all
flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? Oh, what peace that brings God's
people. If God is Jehovah, and He is,
then none can hinder Him. Because He is faithful to His
covenant people. So the text brings forth here,
Is there anything too hard for me? Is there anything too hard
for the God of the universe to execute if it's according to
His will? Nothing. Can any man, mere flesh, thwart
His will? Well, in religion they say they
can. That's a lie from the pit of
hell. None can stay His almighty hand. None. And think of that in light
of the judgment that was to fall upon us. The only way His hand was staid
of that judgment and wrath to fall upon us is it fell upon
our substitute. My. I ask you, if He is the being
of all beings, and He is, if He is the God and Governor of
this world, and He is the Governor of all men, the God of all men,
He's the Creator of all things, visible and invisible, then what
is it that He cannot do? And again, who can thwart His
will? the answer to the question in
verse 27 is there anything too hard for me there's nothing there's
nothing too hard for the Lord to do nothing And the settling of the question
is that even though Jerusalem should be destroyed and the inhabitants
carried away, yet God could return them again to their own land,
because He has all power and might to do so. And think of our salvation. Think of our salvation. It is
impossible for man to justify himself. It is impossible for
man to pay the price for one of our sins, just one. It's impossible. And God Himself becomes a man
when the fullness of time was come, all according to God's
faithfulness to His people. The Word becomes flesh, the Lord
Jesus Christ, and redeems His covenant people by Himself on
Calvary's cross, paying absolutely everything that God demanded
for the sins of His covenant people, for the sins of His elect. So that which is impossible with
man to justify ourselves, to save ourselves, is possible with
our great God. So we see that there is nothing
that's impossible with our great God. He can do whatever He pleases. Whatever He pleases. With that in mind, let's go back
to Jeremiah 32, verses 36 and 37. And let's look at these precious
promises. They're scattered all through
these verses. These precious promises. And again, keep verse
27 in mind. You know, as we read these promises,
And as we ponder these promises, and as we see the faithfulness
of God on full display, keep this in mind, is there anything
too hard for me, the Lord says. Look at verses 36 and 37. And
now therefore, thus saith the Lord God, the God of Israel,
concerning this city, wherever you say, it shall be delivered
into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence, Behold, I will gather them out
of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and
in my fury, and in great wrath, and I will bring them again unto
this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. So note God is angry and yet
gracious here. The rest of the chapter is full
of tenderness. And love, and it makes the believers,
as one commentator said, it makes the believers' eyes fill with
tears as we note how God speaks concerning those who have rebelled
against Him, knowing that this is our natural state before our
great God. Oh, how gracious God is to His
covenant people. How faithful He is to His covenant
people. And note, here bring them back
to Jerusalem in the text. Here, bring them back. Notice
how many times he says, I have driven them in mine anger. Look
at verse 37. I will gather them out of all
the countries, whether I have driven them in mine anger, I
will bring them again unto this place. I will cause them to dwell
safely. This is God speaking. And what
he says, he will do. And think upon this. Who brings
us back to God? Who brings us back to God? Who
brings us back to a right standing before God? Only the Lord Jesus
Christ. He makes us willing by the power
of the Holy Spirit of God. We're born again by the Holy
Spirit of God. And we flee to Christ. We flee
to Him. And we dwell. Where do we dwell?
He's caused us to dwell safely, hasn't He? He's caused us to
dwell safely. Where? In Christ. In Christ and
Christ alone. in our mighty, wonderful Redeemer. And think of this, you who are
the beloved of God. God's mercy is new every morning
to us. Every morning. It's new. His steadfast love for his people
never ceases. Even when we're unfaithful and
fickle, it never ceases. It never ceases. His mercies
to His people never come to an end because they're all in Christ.
And they're new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. Great
is His faithfulness because He's a great God. He's the one true
God. And we see that manifested in
the next few verses. Look at verse 38. Note how it's
not, well, they might be my people if they come to me. Note who it's based upon. And they shall, wonderful word,
be my people. And I will be their God. Now in verse 27, remember, is
there anything too hard for me? Do you see how this is the opposite
of what religion says? When they say, God's up there
wringing his hands. Oh, he wants you to come, but
he can't force you. Let me tell you, if you're not
made willing to come to Christ, you'll never come to him. You'll
never come to him. But if you're made willing, you
will run so fast to Christ because he's the only refuge of our soul,
beloved. And look at this, and they shall
be my people. Oh, what comfort we can draw
there. They shall be my people and I will be their God. I will
be their God. So here in verse 38 is a comprehensive
summary of the covenant of grace, which shall be made known to
God's people at the time of their conversion. and the blessings
of it applied to them and bestowed on them in Christ. Again, remember,
is there anything too hard for the Lord? And note the I will,
I will. It shall come to pass. It shall
come to pass. And note, he says, they shall
be my people and I will be their God. Now there, there, there
is a blessed promise right there for we who believe just to lay
our soul on, isn't it? Oh, what a promise. That's a
promise from God. shall be my people, and I will
be their God." Oh, what a promise! What a blessed promise we have
here before us. Note verse 39, "...and I will
give them one heart, in one way, that they may fear me forever
for the good of them and of their children after them." Again,
our great God and King says, I'll give them one heart. That's
a heart that hungers and thirsts after righteousness. hungers
and thirsts after righteousness, hungers and thirsts after the
things of God, hungers and thirsts after the preaching of His Gospel,
hungers and thirsts for the reading of His Word. And this new heart
loves the brethren, loves the brethren. Oh my, we who are born
again by the Holy Spirit of God, we've been given a new heart
to worship and adore our great covenant And these promises before
us, before we who are the beloved of God, these are sure to believers. These are sure promises. And
I'll tell you, you can rest your soul on, and they shall be my
people and I'll be their God. That's a sure promise. And that's
when the one who says, is there anything too hard for me? Oh
my, oh my beloved of God. What a great God we have. And
the promises of God will surely be performed. And we see these
promises fulfilled every time one of God's lost sheep is saved.
We see these promises fulfilled. They were fulfilled in our lives
when the Holy Spirit regenerated us and we're born again by the
Holy Spirit of God. It's wonderful. It's absolutely
wonderful. It's marvelous in our eyes, isn't
it? Know that it's also said by the one true God that He will
have one people of the same heart. And that's a heart that He gives
them. There's one covenant, the everlasting
covenant. And there's only one way to glory,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn, if you would, to Ephesians
chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4. The Lord Jesus Christ. It is only in Him that we have
unity. And the unity spoken of in Jeremiah, it says, and I will
give them one heart in one way after that they may fear me forever
for the good of them and of the children after them. So one heart
in one way. There's unity there, isn't there?
Where's our unity as believers? It's in Christ. It's in Christ
and Christ alone. That's where we have our unity. And think of this. Think of this.
There's unity there as opposed to the scattering. When they
were scattered, that pictures us dead in trespasses and sins.
They're scattered all over. Now the believers have unity.
We have unity. Look at this in Ephesians chapter
4. In Jeremiah there, pictures born
again believers of one heart, one faith. Ephesians chapter
four, verses three to six. Endeavoring to keep the unity
of the spirit and the bond of peace. There is one body. There is one body. All the elect
of all the ages comprise one body. One body. One spirit. There's one Holy Spirit. Even
as you are called in, one hope of your calling. Who's the hope
of our calling? It's the Lord Jesus Christ. It's
the Lord Jesus Christ. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all who
is above all and through all and in you all. The church is
one great body and Christ is the glorious head, beloved. And
every member is united to Him. United to Him and to each other.
Remember that. We're not just united to Christ,
we're united to each other, beloved. Just as our bodies and our various
limbs are united. They're united, aren't they?
We are united to Christ, who's our head. Just as our bodies
are united to our head. And so those who have been given
a new heart are all the elect of all the ages. Spiritually
it's real. They are all knit in one body. One body. All intimately linked
in one common interest. The Lord Jesus Christ. We're knit together in Him. Knit
together in love. And we're concerned for one another,
aren't we? We are. Now let's look at verse 40. verse
40 here very evidently brings forth the faithfulness of our
great God Jeremiah 32 40 look at this again and and and mark
well the I will this is just this is God saying this Jeremiah
32 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will
not turn away from them to do to do them good but I will put
my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me
It's God the Father who's made an everlasting covenant with
God the Word, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in eternity to save
all of His elect, all of His chosen people. And this was done,
of course, in the council halls of eternity, beloved, by the
Father who chose a people in Christ, a people of His own choosing. If you're a believer, you're
a person of God's choosing. That's amazing. That's amazing. And it's all because of nothing
in us. And it's all according to his
mercy and his grace, the fact that his love has been set upon
you from eternity. Makes our hearts sore, doesn't
it? Makes our hearts sore. And the word, the second person
to the Trinity, covenanted to redeem and save the Father's
chosen people by substitutionary life, living a substitutionary
life in the place of God's chosen people. And then by his substitutionary
atoning death upon the cross, he satisfied God's law and justice
for us. The sinless one died for sinners.
The just one died for the unjust. And that law and justice, that
law and justice had a rightful claim on us, didn't it? It had no claim on Him. Oh my, what a Savior, what a
Redeemer is Jesus Christ our Lord. And then He rose from the
grave to be seated at the right hand of the Father, and right
now He intercedes for His blood-bought bride. And the Holy Spirit covenanted
to regenerate those chosen fallen sinners all by His almighty power,
which is the power of God. The power of God. It is He who
gives us a new heart. This heart that hungers and thirsts
after Christ. It is He who makes chosen sinners
willing in the day of His power. He makes those willing who are
naturally unwilling. He grants them faith to flee
to Christ, who is the only hope for sinners. It is He who is the Great Comforter,
the Holy Spirit of God, who teaches God's chosen, blood-bought, born-again
people the things of the Lord Jesus Christ. And He alone guides
us into all truth. And who is the one who is truth
incarnate? The Lord Jesus Christ. And note here in our text, I'll
read it again. 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 that
they shall not depart from me. Notice here a threefold promise
right in this text. And the God who promises this
can do whatever he pleases. Because he has all power. and fulfill the promises that
He makes to His people. Notice here a threefold promise,
I will make an everlasting covenant with them. I will not turn away
from them. I will put my fear in their hearts.
My, this is on top of the other promises we already looked at.
Now something I'd like us to consider here. Notice the last
words in this verse, that they shall not depart from me. Have you ever wondered about
why you get up each morning and still believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ? Every morning we wake up, don't
we as believers, and we still believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
No matter what we're going through. no matter what we're going through.
Have you ever thought of that in light of how millions of others
get up and have no faith in God and no care for God? But you do. Do you ever wonder about how
each morning you wake up and you believe despite, again, whatever
you're going through, you do not quit? You don't give up? Like so many who were mere professors
and yet not possessors. I'm sure we've all seen people
like that through the years. And that's happened all through
the ages. Why do I wake up with the same fate that I had yesterday?
What is keeping it going? Surely it's not owing to anything
in us. Surely not. Surely not. No, the answer is found in this
wonderful promise right here before us, beloved. The reason
we believe, the reason we keep clinging to Christ is because
of the faithfulness of our great God. And note here in our text
in verse 40. But I will put my fear in their
hearts, that they shall not depart from Me. God Himself promises His people,
His covenant blood-bought people, that He will put the fear of
Himself in their hearts, in the hearts of His people, and this
is not a slavish fear, this is a reverent fear. This is a fear
and just being in awe of who God really is. So that they will not turn from
Him. We who are His covenant people
in Christ, His blood-bought people, are forever His people. And our
text here in verse 40 proclaims that God will not let you depart
from Him. Oh my goodness. What a promise. What comfort is found here for
the believer. We can have trouble and trials
which make us anxious and often it happens, doesn't it? And we battle with unbelief in
our lives, don't we? Yet we cling to our precious
Savior. And this precious promise right
here brings forth that God keeps us. He will not allow us to depart
from Him. What a God. He saves us, and
then He keeps us. Oh my. And we trust in His faithfulness,
don't we? Not in our fickleness. And sometimes
we cry out with the Father in Scripture who said, with tears,
Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. And
even then, He's faithful to us. Always. Remember, God doesn't
change. Therefore, beloved, His faithfulness
doesn't change. Never. Never. This is comforting for God's
people. And again, what comfort all believers, young and old,
can find here in this text, in the fact that those whom God
saves, He keeps. Matthew Poole brings this wonderful
truth forth from this verse. He says, It may well from hence
be concluded that both conversion unto God and perseverance in
the ways of God are the gifts of God. Are the gifts of God. We are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation. My. So when we are united to
Christ by faith, we're born again by the Holy Spirit of God. This
process promise becomes real for us, doesn't it? It becomes
real for us. And now we're in a battle, beloved,
but the battles of the Lord's here defend us here, defend us
here, protect us. He restrains us and constrains
us all by his In this precious truth, this precious promise
here becomes real for the believer in Christ. Becomes real for us. And here is the difference between
religion and grace. Religious people trust in their
works to keep them. When it is nothing but a refuge
of lies. as none of us can keep ourselves. But we who are the born-again,
blood-washed saints of God, we wholly cast ourselves upon Christ. We wholly cast ourselves upon
the God who is proclaiming these wonderful truths here before
us tonight. And He is the one who keeps us
from falling. He is the one who does that.
He is the one who keeps us believing. He keeps us believing. And it is He who will one day
present us faultless in the presence of God the Father. The Lord Jesus
Christ will do that. Will do that. And here do it
with exceeding joy. Let's look at the last two verses
and We'll close after just a few words of these. Jeremiah 32,
41, and 42. Yea, I will rejoice over them
to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with
my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus saith the Lord,
like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people,
so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised
them. He is here speaking of his covenant people, the ones
whom he gives one heart to. The ones whom he puts his fear
into their hearts and the ones who shall never depart from him
because he keeps them. They shall preserve to the end
because he keeps them. And they are those whom he has
loved for eternity. His chosen, blood-bought, born-again
people. And he rejoices, God rejoices
over them in Christ, in Christ. And just as the bridegroom rejoices
over the bride, he loves them. He loves His covenant people,
and He will show them good, as He delights in showing mercy,
doesn't He? And we've tasted that, haven't we? We've tasted
that the Lord is gracious. We've tasted that, we who are
His people. Oh, what mercy He's showing us, and He adorns us
with the righteousness of Christ. With the righteousness of Christ.
And then, God the Father looks upon His chosen blood-bought
people, and He sees us in Christ. My, what a God. Truly, truly, as the scriptures
say, God has provided good things for his elect all through the
Lord Jesus Christ. And he constantly, he constantly
supplies us with grace, doesn't he? Constantly, constantly. His mercies are new every morning.
And in one day, one day here bring us the glory to be with
him forever. And then we'll praise His mighty
name for eternity. Gracious Heavenly Father, we
thank Thee. Oh, we thank Thee for this wonderful scripture
which we've seen tonight. When You say, You make a covenant
with Your people, You shall save us and You shall keep us. We
will be Your people. Oh Lord, You're such a faithful
God. Those You save, You keep. And then one day, We have the
privilege, the honor of seeing Thee in glory. What a glorious
day that will be for we who are Your people. Lord, we pray that
if there's anyone who will listen to this message who does not
know You, oh Lord, that Thy Holy Spirit would move in their lives
and that You would save them. And we give You all the glory
and all the honor and all the praise in Jesus' name.