Good evening. Tonight's message
is called Strong Comfort in Christ. Beloved of God, you who are the
people of God, I ask you, are you in need of comfort as the
world and all the things in it lost the appeal that it once
had before the Lord saved you? Are you in need of comfort as
you go through trials in this life and tribulations that come
your way, which so often occur in our lives? Do you find yourself
in constant need of comfort from our great God? Do you find yourself
getting worked up sometimes about the situations in the world or
a situation in your life and you need comfort from our great
God? Well, this is the state of every
believer. We find ourselves in a constant need of comfort from
our great God as we journey through this world. And I hope and pray
that this message will be a comfort to God's people and that we can
leave this place holding fast and looking to our great God
and King, who is the God of all comfort, the scripture declares.
And I'd like us to consider what a strong comfort we have in our
great God and King, in our Savior and our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Let us turn to Hebrews chapter
6 and we'll read from verses 13 to 20, where we'll see the
certainty of God's promise. to his people in and through
the Lord Jesus Christ. And we see this in our text where
we're called heirs of promise in verse 17. And our text for
tonight will be verses 17 to 19. But let's read the context
of these verses and we'll read from Hebrews 13 to 20. For when
God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no
greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely, surely, blessing,
I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee. And so
after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For
men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation
is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly
to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things in which
it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation,
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before
us. Which hope we have is an anchor
of the soul, both sure and steadfast, in which endureth into that within
the veil. Whether the forerunner is for
us entered even Jesus made an high priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek. Now take note of verses 17 and
19 and note the word consolation. Let's read verses 17 to 20. Wherein God willing more abundantly
to show unto the heirs a promise the immutability of his counsel
confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which
it was impossible for God to lie we might have a strong consolation
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before
us, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure
and steadfast, in which entereth into that within the veil. Whither
the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek." Note that our text brings forth
that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for
God to lie, we might have a strong consolation. That's God's people.
God's people might have a strong consolation who have fled for
refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. In Christ is the
hope that the scriptures set before needy sinners. What a
hope we who believe have. Our hope is in Christ and Him
alone. Now the word in our text consolation is defined in the
Greek as to besiege. The act of exhortation, encouragement,
comfort, a cheering and supporting influence, joy, gladness, rejoicing,
cheer, joy, enjoyment, comfort, consolation, encouragement. This
Greek word is translated consolation 14 times, exhortation 8 times,
and comfort six times in the New Testament. And all of Scripture
is an exhortation, an admonition, or encouragement for the purpose
of strengthening and establishing God's people, the believer in
Christ, while we go through this world. And we see that in Scripture,
let's turn to four places where this Greek word is used. We see
it translated comfort in Romans 15 verse 4. The Scripture declares,
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our
learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures
might have hope. Over in Philippians chapter 2
verse 1 we see the same Greek word translated consolation which
John Gill brings forth means exhortation when Paul is speaking
about Christian unity. Let's read Philippians chapter
2 verses 1 to 2. If there be therefore any consolation
in Christ, consolation there is the same Greek word, if any
comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels
and mercies, fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having
the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Paul, writing to
the Hebrews in chapter 12, let's turn there, uses the same word
in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 5, the same Greek word, but here
we'll see it translated exhortation. Paul is here exhorting the believers
in Christ to not grow weary when under the chastening rod of the
Lord. Never forget that the Lord chastens us in love, it's not
punishment. Our sins have already been bought
and paid for at Calvary's cross. When the Lord chastens us, He's
chastening us in love, and He only chastens those He loves.
And note here in verse 2 that Paul sets their eyes, those he's
writing to, upon Christ before bringing forth the fact that
those whom the Lord loves he chastens. Hebrews chapter 12
verses 1 to 6, Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight,
anything that would weigh us down, in our journey through
this world, and the sin which so doth easily beset us. Oh,
we're so susceptible to sin, aren't we? Even after we're saved,
we're but saved sinners, but praise be to God, we're washed
clean in the precious, precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then he tells us, let us run with patience the race that
is set before us. Don't run ahead of the Lord.
Pray that he go before you no matter where you go. Pray, Lord,
please go before me. Don't let me go anywhere where
you don't go before me. This is what Moses prayed. This
is what we who are the people of God should pray. And we should
run this race with patience, setting our eyes upon Christ.
And we see that brought forth in the next verse when Paul tells
him again, before he tells him about the correcting rod of God,
he sets their eyes upon Christ, looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at
the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that
endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not resisted unto
blood, striving against sin, and ye have forgotten the exhortation
which speaketh unto you, is unto children. My son despised not
thou the chastising of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked
of him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth. In closing this letter, Paul
uses the same Greek word again, but again it's translated exhortation
as it was there in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 5. In Hebrews 13, 22,
the scriptures declare, And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word
of exhortation, again the same Greek word, for I have written
a letter unto you in few words. So the Heirs of Promise, which
are spoken of in our text, have scriptural grounds for assurance
in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. We have a strong consolation
or a strong comfort in Christ, in Him alone. And those who are
favored of God in our text are called the Heirs of Promise.
And this at once excludes those who are relying upon their own
merits to make it to heaven. This at once excludes anyone
who's trying to work their way to heaven or gain merit and favor
with God by their works. Because we who are the people
of God, we're heirs of promise. I ask you this, do you confess
that you have nothing of your own to boast in for salvation?
Do you hope alone in the mercy of God in Christ Jesus? Well
this is what we who are the people of God do. This is what we who
are the heirs of promise proclaim, that our hope is built on nothing
less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. And our text brings forth heirs
of promise, our text proclaims. Again, this excludes those who
are heirs according to their own supposed free will, and those
who scoff at the mighty work of God's grace, and those who
believe that their own free will and choice has saved them from
this text. This excludes them, because the
saved, the redeemed, and the Lord are heirs of promise. This
is a work of God. They're heirs of promise according
to God's good will and purpose before the world began. They
were chosen in Christ. And again, God's people are heirs
of promise by God's will alone. by God's will. The scripture
says there's none that seek after God. So what's that mean? That
means in our natural state there's none that seeks after God. We
must be made willing in the day of God's power and he makes us
willing and that's all according to his will and heirs of promise. Not heirs according to the flesh
but heirs according to the promise of God. Heirs according to the
power of God. Now think upon what a strong
consolation we who believe what the scriptures proclaim that
salvation is of the Lord. Think of what strong comfort
and consolation we have. Oh, what a strong comfort we
have here. And let us ponder today and consider from our text
the eternal supports to build us up in the faith of God's elect,
which will bring great comfort to God's elect, the one spoken
of as heirs of promise in our text. And let us take note of
four things in our text, which should be strong comfort or strong
consolation for God's people. Let's read Hebrews chapter six,
verses 17 to 20 again. Wherein God, willing more abundantly
to show unto the heirs a promise, the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath. that by two immutable things,
in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong
consolation, strong comfort, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us. Which hope we have as an
anchor of the soul. Christ is an anchor to those
who come to Him. He's the anchor of our soul,
beloved. Both sure and steadfast, that's what Christ is. He's sure
and He's steadfast. He's unchanging. He's the same
yesterday, today and forever. He's the eternal Word of God
made flesh and came here to redeem his people from their sins. And
he shall not fail. And he did not fail. Praise be
to God. He redeemed his people from their sins. And so what
an anchor we have of the soul. He's sure and steadfast and which
entereth into that within the veil. Whether the forerunner
is for us entered, even Jesus made an high priest forever.
after the order of Melchizedek. So we who are the people of God,
we're a weak people, aren't we? We desperately need Christ. We've
been shown our need by God the Holy Spirit, and God shows his
poor, feeble, trembling people the immutability of his counsel,
not only in our text here, but also all through the scriptures.
He does not only give one promise, but he adds another and another,
and another, till to count all the promises were almost as difficult
as to count all the stars, or the number of the sands of the
sea. And all these blessings each
believer has in Christ, and they all come from our great God and
Father. He confirms every promise by
an oath, not just by one but immutable thing, but by two,
the promise and the oath, in both of which it is impossible
for Jehovah to lie. Look at verses 17 and 18. Wherein
God willing more abundantly show unto the heirs of promise the
immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that
by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us. Know that we who are the
people of God might never doubt again, but O the flesh, the flesh,
the flesh, let us when we doubt and when we get anxious, let
us look to Christ. Let us remember the strong comfort
that we have in Him, because I'll tell you. If you keep your
eyes on Christ, you'll have strong comfort, because he is strong
comfort for his people. Now, I know, I know, we get going
in the world, we get anxious. Just last night, I got all anxious
and worked up, but then I had to focus my, see, I gotta practice
what I preach, beloved. I'm a sinner saved by grace.
I got all anxious and all worked up, and I just had to say, Lord,
I'm sorry, forgive me for being like that. Forgive me, forgive
me, Lord, and just got my eyes on Christ, and you know what?
It all just melted away. All that anxiety just melted
away, beloved. And that's what happens when
we get our eyes on the Lord. Now, four things we're going
to see here in our text. The first thing is God's immutable
counsel. Look at verse 17 and 18. Wherein
God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise
the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that
by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us. That is His eternal decree
to accomplish the salvation of His people. And it's all to the
praise of the glory of His grace. God eternally decreed that His
people would be saved by grace in and through the Lord Jesus
Christ. And that we would be born again and granted faith
to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He eternally decreed
all that. And remember His decree or purpose
is eternal. It doesn't change, beloved. It's
His own character. He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. He's the unchanging God. He's
the one true and living God. He never changes, beloved. And
His salvation, which is in Christ, never changes. never changes
malachi says this for i am the lord i change not therefore you
sons of jacob are not consumed so he prays be to god that he
doesn't change Because then His love is ever set upon us. Oh
my. His mercy is ever set upon us.
His grace is ever given to us. Who are His people? Who are the
redeemed ones? The ones who the Lord Jesus Christ
purchased with His own precious blood on Calvary's cross. Oh,
those whom He saves, He keeps, beloved. All by His almighty
sovereign power and also by His promise. His mercy and His grace
are shown towards His people in Christ, and it's unchanging.
Oh, what peace that can give to the born-again, blood-washed
saint of God while we journey through this world. Now the Greek
word for immutability in verse 17 and the word immutable in
verse 18 is the same Greek word. And it's defined as this. Unchangeable. Immovable. Immutable. Sure. Fixed. Unalterable. Oh my! Isn't that
wonderful, beloved? What comfort is found here? What
comfort is found here for the born-again blood-washed saint
who goes through this world up and down like a ship tossed upon
the waves? Our great God is unchanging. He is the believer's salvation. The Word of God, the eternal
Word of God became a man to save his people from their sins. And
he accomplished that at Calvary's Cross. And he cried, It is finished. Praise be to God. It's finished.
And that salvation is unchanging, beloved, unalterable. It's fixed. Oh, praise God. So the believer's
salvation is secure and fixed in Christ, who is, again, God
incarnate in the flesh. He is our eternal refuge. He's
our unchanging refuge, beloved. And all this comes, all this
mercy and grace in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, comes
to His people, His chosen people, His elect, the scripture says,
in Christ. It comes from God the Father
to God's people in Christ. And it's unchanging. And we're
called here the heirs of promise, the heirs of God's promise. Now
a man may make a promise that he cannot keep. We've all made
promises that we didn't keep, every one of us. A man may make
a promise that he cannot keep, but through the ages the promise
was on Jehovah's heart before he spoke it with his lips. Men
sometimes make promises again that we can't keep due to circumstances
which do not permit us to keep the promise. But can God ever
be in a place where he cannot keep his promise? No, no, our
God keeps that which He has promised. He makes these promises from
His infinite wisdom, and His infinite power keeps them, because
He alone is God. The promises of God then will
surely stand. He will show mercy to the unworthy,
sinners of His chosen. Think upon this then, that the
Lord Jesus Christ was delivered for our sin according to the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, according to the unchanging,
immutable counsel of God. We're told this in Acts chapter
2 verse 22 to 24. You men of Israel, hear these
words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by
miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst
of you. As you yourselves also know,
him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. whom God hath raised up, having
loosed the pains of death, because it was not impossible, that he
should be holding of it. Beloved, our great God, our great
wise God, is working out everything in this world for His glory and
for our good. And our salvation, the salvation
of God's people, is all according to the eternal will of God. Oh
my! And you know, the scripture declares
in Ecclesiastes 3.14 this, I know that whatsoever God doeth, it
shall be forever. So if God saves his people through
Christ, who is the eternal word, it'll be forever. Look at that.
The preacher goes on to write, nothing can be put to it, nor
anything taken from it. And God doeth it, that man should
fear before him. Ecclesiastes chapter three, verse
14. Over in Psalm 33 verses 11 and 12, it says, The counsel
of the Lord standeth forever. See, it's unchanging, beloved.
The thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the
nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he had chosen
for his own inheritance. See, God chose to save us and
he saved us. and nothing will ever change
that, beloved. Isn't that wonderful? Oh, what comfort we can find
there. What comfort we can find there. The second point I'd like
us to consider in our text is God's confirmation by his oath.
Look at verses 17 and 18 of Hebrews chapter six. Wherein God willing,
more abundantly to show unto the heirs a promise the immutability
of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable
things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have
a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
the hope set before us. God has with an oath sworn by
himself that all the earths are promised shall be blessed forever,
saying, Surely I will bless thee. Now who among us dare doubt,
as we are blessed in Christ? And it's God who has blessed
us in Christ. God, willing to show the believers
the unchangeableness of His purpose and the promises of life in Christ,
bound Himself by an oath so that Christ is our surety, beloved,
our sacrifice, and our mediator of the covenant of promise to
secure our everlasting salvation. Turn, if you would, to Hebrews
chapter 9. The scriptures declare, in Hebrews 9, verses 11, 28 this,
But Christ, being come in high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
that is to say not of this building, neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. See Christ
obtained this for God's people. For if the blood of bulls and
goats, and the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctify
it to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without
spot, see when Christ offered himself up, our sins were imputed
to him, but he offered himself up without spot. He's the perfect
sinless spotless Lamb of God. Purge your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God. And for this cause he is the
mediator of the New Testament. by means of death for the redemption
of the transgressions that were under the first testament they
which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is there
must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a
testament is a force after men are dead otherwise it is of no
strength at all whether testator live it. Whereupon neither the
first testament was dedicated without blood, for when Moses
had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law,
he took the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet
wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book and all the people.
saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
enjoined unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled with blood
both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. And
almost all things are by the law purged with blood. Look at
this. And without the shedding of blood, there's no remission.
Oh, think of that. without the shedding of the precious
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, there's no remission for our
sins. See, the remission of our sins comes through the precious,
precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect, spotless
Lamb of God, the sinless one, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Word
of God incarnate, the eternal Word of God incarnate. And it
goes on, it was therefore necessary that the pattern of things in
the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly
things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ
is not entered into the holy place made with hands. which
are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us." So Christ appears in
the presence of God for his people. He's the one mediator between
God and man. A fellow man can't save you from
your sins and pray 18 of these certain prayers and then your
sins are all washed away. No, that man's a sinner just
like you, just like me. No, we only have one mediator
between God and man. That's the man Christ Jesus.
That's the perfect spotless Lamb of God, the one true mediator
between God and man. And look at this, he appears
in the presence of God for his people, for us it says. Nor yet
that he should offer himself often as the high priest entereth
into the holy place every year with the blood of others. For
then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world.
But now once, this is what our Lord did, but now once in the
end of the world hath he appeared to, look at this, look at this,
this is wonderful. Why did he appear? To put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself. Praise His mighty name. Praise
His mighty name to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
And that's what He did for me as a believer. And if you're
a believer in Christ, you're born again, that's what He did
for you. He put away our sins. Oh, it's wonderful. This is the
best news a sinner could ever hear. Best news a sinner could
ever hear. And it says, appointed unto man
once to die, but after this the judgment. So Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him
shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. See,
when we die, we won't be judged for our sins because the judgment
of our sins fell upon our King, the Lord Jesus Christ. The wrath
of God fell upon our King. in our place as the great substitute. Oh my! And through the Lord Jesus
Christ, the heirs of promise in our text in Hebrews chapter
6 verse 17, they receive the whole inheritance of grace now
in all glory hereafter. The third point I'd like us to
consider from our text is a fact of God's refuge of hope set before
us. Let's read verses 17 and 18 again
of Hebrews chapter 6. Wherein God, willing more abundantly
to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which
it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation
who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before
us. Oh, what strong consolation,
what strong comfort God's people can find here before us. The
Lord Jesus Christ is the refuge of His people. The Lord Jesus
Christ is the hope of His people, spoken of here in verse 18. The
Lord Jesus Christ Himself is our city of refuge, and this
refuge is set before us. Every time the Gospel is preached,
beloved, this refuge is set before men. The only one true refuge
is set before men. And the believer, when we hear
the Gospel preached and proclaimed, we are reminded, and with joy
in our hearts, of our great refuge, the Lord Jesus Christ. And He's
set before us in the preaching of the Gospel. Every time a preacher
proclaims the Gospel, the free grace of God in Christ. Every
time that salvation is preached and proclaimed in and through
the Lord Jesus Christ alone, the great hope is set before
us. And that great hope, that great hope is the Lord Jesus
Christ. Our hope and refuge of salvation
is revealed in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ who entered
into glory for us and who is now seated at the right hand
of God. His atonement His death on the
cross accomplished our salvation, and He is the sinner's only hope.
I'm telling you that. There's no hope in Buddha. There's
no hope in Islam. There's no hope in Catholicism.
There's no hope in religion where you got to work your way to heaven.
There's no hope in any of that. There's only hope in the Lord
Jesus Christ in Him alone, and He is the believer's eternal
everlasting hope. Peter wrote this about our blessed
risen Savior. He said, who has gone into heaven
is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers
being made subject unto Him. He has all power, all might,
and that is the hope of every true, born-again, blood-washed
believer. Hallelujah. Praise His mighty
name, the Lord Jesus Christ. The last point I'd like to consider
in our text is God's anchor for our soul. the believer's soul
is the Lord Jesus Christ and He is sure and He is steadfast. Let's read verses 17 to 20. Hebrews chapter 6 verses 17 to
20. Wherein God willing more abundantly
to show unto the heirs a promise the immutability of his counsel
confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which
it was impossible for God to lie we might have a strong consolation
a strong comfort who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the
hope set before us. Which hope we have. See the believer
has this hope, this great hope, as an anchor of the soul, both
sure and steadfast, in which entereth into that within the
veil. Whether the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus,
made an high priest after the order of Melchizedek. Now an
anchor is used to secure the ship, to keep it safe in a storm,
or to prevent it from drifting from the spot that they want
to be at. And note this too, the ship is held in place by
something outside of itself, an anchor. Even so, the Lord
Jesus Christ is the anchor of the souls of his people. It is
he who sustains us. It is he who keeps us on the
stormy sea of this troubled world as we go through life. Listen
to this in John chapter 10 verses 27 to 29, the Lord speaking here,
the eternal word of God speaking here incarnated in the flesh
and he says, my sheep hear my voice and I know them. That's
Gnoska again, that's that intimate knowledge. He has an intimate
knowledge of his people. How long has he had that intimate
knowledge for? From eternity, beloved. And he says, and they
follow me. Look at that. They're made willing in the day
of God's power. And I give unto them eternal life. See, Christ
is the one who gives eternal life. No man seeks God. He seeks
us. The shepherd seeks the lost sheep.
And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
Look at that. There we see the immutable, unchanging
promise of God, that he shall save his people from their sins,
that Christ come save his people from their sins and this salvation
it's not temporary salvation no it's an eternal salvation
we see here they shall never perish neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand you can't pluck yourself from God's
hand and no one else can pluck you out of God's hand because
it says there any man that includes us oh that means this salvation
in Christ is unchanging Absolutely, for the true believer. My Father
which gave them me is greater than all. There's no one who
compares to our great God. And no man is able to pluck them
out of my Father's hands. So where we see a double promise,
don't we? No one's able to pluck us out of the Son's hand and
no one's able to pluck us out of the Father's hand. Oh my.
So surely there's nothing both sure and steadfast in us, is
there? No. But our salvation and our assurance
of salvation rests wholly upon the weight of the anchor that
is anchored on the throne of God within the Holy of Holies.
in the heavens and our anchor is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus
Christ enthroned right now, ever living to intercede for us, to
appear before God for us. He is that anchor, the security
of our salvation. Let us close with what King Darius
wrote about the God of Daniel. After our great God had delivered
Daniel from the power of the lions. Let's turn to Daniel chapter
6 verses 25 to 27. The person saying these words
is a king. He knows what it means to have
absolute power. He knows what it means. And he's
just seen Daniel delivered from the lion's den. And remember
all those who conspired against Daniel were thrown in and consumed.
My oh my. And let us remember that the
God of Daniel is the God of every born-again blood-washed saint
of God. He is the one true and living God. Let's read this in
Daniel chapter 6 verses 25 to 27. Then King Darius wrote unto
all people, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth,
peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree that in every
dominion of my kingdom men tremble in fear before the God of Daniel,
for he is the living God and steadfast forever. Look at that.
He doesn't change. In his kingdom that which shall
not be destroyed, in his dominion shall be even unto the end of
the earth. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs
and wonders in heaven and in the earth, who hath delivered
Daniel from the power of the lions. That's our God, that's
the true and living God, the one true living God, steadfast
and sure, unchanging. Oh may God give us grace and
mercy and strength just to rest and repose in Him. Amen and Amen.