Now, if you'll take your Bibles
and turn back with me to Genesis chapter 25, I want to look at verses 20 through
23. I actually had a dual title for
the message. I bounced back and forth between
the two, and I finally settled on this, Struggling with the
Struggling. She had two sons in her womb. that she struggled with. And
she struggled with the fact that there was two sons in her womb
because it didn't fit her idea of what this purpose of God as
it was told to her. It just didn't fit. It didn't
fit at all. By way of introduction into the
study tonight, I want to make three observations as I read
through these and read various men and their accounts of what
took place and their views of such things and read several
sermons on these verses and verses above it and below it. Stories,
some told writing, some wrote about all these different things
that we go through study and prepare a message. But in the
process of studying these things, I saw that men over time, and
rightfully so, I saw what they said. And I made three observations
as I went through these things. And first of all, here's the
first observation I made, that by his own will, God himself
makes a distinction among men. Now that's just so. He made a
distinction in the beginning. Cain and Abel came to worship
God. He made a distinction. He had
respect unto Abel, but he had no respect unto Cain. God makes
a distinction. It's by God's will alone. Speaking
to this very text that we're reading here tonight in Genesis.
In Romans chapter 9, Paul came to this conclusion. Romans 9
verse 10, that when Rebekah had conceived by Isaac the promised
heir, that's what's going on right here. Isaac, her husband, and Rebekah, his wife, had these
two sons, Jacob and Esau. And God made a distinction. He
made a distinction. When she conceived by Isaac,
the promised heir, and before her unborn children, before they'd
done any good or evil, before they ever parted the womb, breathed
in their first breath of air, and to establish the purpose
of God according to election, to establish forever that salvation
is by the free grace of God and not by the works and will of
man, not by man's decision, not by man's so-called free will,
not by man's experiences, but of God. It was said unto her. These are the reasons why it
was said. God could have remained silent,
but He didn't. He said this to her before these
two children were born. Now keep in mind, here she is.
She's struggling with these two children in a womb because there's
two and not one. And God said to her, the elder
is going to serve the younger. Jacob have I loved, Esau have
I hated. And it said it before they had
ever done any good or any evil, that the purpose of God according
to election might stand not of him that worketh, but of God
who showeth mercy. All spiritual blessings are given
to us in Christ according as He hath chosen us in Him, before
the foundation of the world. And this choosing was according,
it says, to the good pleasure of God's will. That's what I'm
saying, by the will of God. I make these observations as
we went through. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. How did he find grace? By the
will of God. By the will of God. How come
Abel didn't bring the right sacrifice? The will of God. It's the will
of God who makes distinctions among men. We're accepted in
the blood, He said. We have redemption through His
blood according to the riches of His grace. We have wisdom
given and mysteries revealed according to the good pleasure
which He's purposed in Himself. You and I and all those who have
been called to be saints, who have heard His voice, received
His Son, have obtained an inheritance being predestinated That's the
language of Scripture. It's not the language of religion.
What did you tell me that sign down there said? Man makes the
choice and God makes the change. That's just not so. That's just
not so. God makes the change and the
choice. He said, you have not chosen me, I chose you. Is that
right? So that's just a lie, what that
is. Just a lie. It says the language of Scripture
said, we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated. That's how
we came to it. That's how we discovered it.
You know, in the parables in the New Testament, he speaks
of finding a treasure in a field. How did he come to find it? He
predestinated it. That's how he found it. God willed
him to find it. God led him. Who can explain
those things? Those mysteries of the heart
that moves a man to do this and moves a man to do that. He's never moved back before.
Why has he moved now? Who can explain those things?
I can't explain them. I just know what it says. It
says here that we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after
the counsel of his own will. So I make this distinction, and
I make it as clear as I know how to make it to men. All the
distinctions among men are made by the will of God. It's the
will of God. Yes, I preach. Yes, I pray. Yes, I stand here before you
and do everything to get on my knees and beg. But it's God who
will make the distinction, not me. By His own will. Listen to this
over in James chapter 4. I'm going to a little different
direction with it now. I'm going to apply these things
to just our everyday life. This distinction. Listen to what
this says. Go to now ye that say today and tomorrow we'll
go into such a city and continue there a year and we'll buy and
sell and get gain. Whereas you know not what shall
be on tomorrow for what is your life? It's just a vapor. It just appears for a moment
in time. just a moment in time, and then
vanishes away. We ought to say, if the Lord
will, because that's what's going to happen, the will of God. His will be done. We pray for
that daily, don't we? Creation and providence are not
under the rule of circumstance and chance, and neither is salvation. God is at the helm and orders
all things and worketh all things after the counsel of his own
will. And then secondly, I make this
observation that outwardly, natural men seem to be stronger and usurp
that power over God's elect. Have you noticed that? When we
read through these genealogies, I used to skip over them because
they just bored me. I didn't get anything out of
them. But after 30 some years, I'm beginning to get some things
out of the genealogies. And what I'm coming to see is
every time God's elect marries a woman, she's barren and can't
have no children. And here's the ungodly, and he
has sons. Look at Esau. He got married
and had how many children? Just sons. Cain. Cain went out
and established cities and nations. He was fertile. I mean, his wives
were fertile. They had children. It just seems like they were
always fertile in their offspring. They always outnumbered God's
elect in their population. You remember over in Deuteronomy,
I think it's chapter 7, where Moses is talking to them and
God's talking to them through Moses. And he said, well, I didn't
set my love on you because you were more in number. He said,
you were the least. You were the least. You were
just one. You were just Abraham. Oh, you
were. I'm not aware of any age when
God's chosen people were more than just a remnant compared
to the other nations. And the nations of this world
and kingdoms, for the most part, have always been ruled by ungodly
men. Giants in the land, walled cities,
great monarchs of the past were all ungodly men. They are, for
the most part, those of reputation, the philosophers, inventors,
men of renown, poets, go on and on and on, all ungodly men, every
one of them. And Cain's children and grandchildren
were the builders cities, the instructors of art. If you go
through there, it said he was the beginning of all the musicians
and the players of the harp. These were Cain's children. Cattle barons and such
as keep cattle. Musicians all came out of Cain's
loans. And then the sons of Ham, they
built Havilah. They built Nineveh. They built
Babylon. These were the biggest, greatest
cities this world's ever known. Huge cities, all built by the
sons of Ham. They established countries and
nations, amassed great armies. They were inventors, inventing
machines of war, designing fortresses. They were wiser in the ways of
the world, more successful, more plentiful, and greater in reputation. It's always and ever age. appeared
that worldly men have a great advantage over God's elect. They
have the advantage in religion. Look at it. It's on every corner.
They have the advantage in the schools. Look at the teachers.
They're all ungodly for the most part. I'm not saying there's
not a few here and there, but I'm saying for the most part,
they're not. For the most part, they're ungodly. And their ungodly
ways, we see them in the schools. actions, always. They're greater
in power, they're greater in number, they're greater in influence,
greater. They stand there like a force
that's insurmountable, this world and natural men. And always in
every age it appears that worldly men have a great advantage over
God's elect. But my third observation is this,
and this is a little-known fact. But it is one that will comfort
your heart if you can enter into it. The greatest in this world
is nothing more than a servant to the weakest in God's kingdom.
That is all he is. He is just a servant. God will take that great multitude,
that huge number, and He will use them to serve the children
of God. I can show it to you in Egypt.
Israel went down into Egypt, and God used that ungodly Pharaoh
and took care of them, took care of his people, caused his people
to survive the drought when nations were dying. There's corn in Egypt. I heard a message on that one
time. I'll give you another example.
Pharaoh, the second Pharaoh stood up, and he said, I've heard there's
going to be a deliverer come out of Egypt, so I'm going to
kill every male child. God took his elect, floated him
right down the river to Pharaoh's house, had Pharaoh himself become
a servant to God to deliver and raise him in his own house and
feed him by the hand of his own daughter. I can just show you,
there's just, you go on and on and on. Israel had no weapons
whatsoever, but they had them when they went in to conquer
the land of Canaan, where did they get them? God calls Pharaoh
to follow hard after them through the sea. And when he drowned
Pharaoh in the sea, everything they needed washed up on the
shore. They packed it up and took it with them to Canaan.
On and on and on and on it goes. That great multitude, that great
insurmountable force out there, the strongest, the highest one
up in it, is no more than a servant to the weakest. Can you see that
in the valley with Goliath and David? Oh my, how Goliath served
David. How those people remembered that
little ruddy boy with the sling who went out in that valley when
it come time to elect a king. They remembered, didn't they?
They remembered it. Turn with me to Romans chapter
13. Let me show you something here
very quickly before we get into our message. What I'm saying
is that I see in the Scriptures that God Himself has willed and
decreed a division and distinction among men, that those who have
no interest in spiritual things seem to be greater in number
and power and influence, greater in their intimidation of godly
men, and greater in reputation. And I'm saying that God has made
this distinction among men and overrules their advantage and
causes them to serve His kingdom, His King, and His elect. Advantage. Let me show you this one example
over here in Romans chapter 13. Look here in verse 1. Let every
soul be subject unto the higher powers. Now he's talking here
about civil authorities. Civil authority. He's talking
about governors and presidents and kings and monarchs and whatever. Whatever this present authority
that we're here. ever so be subject unto these
higher powers. For there is no power, there
is no government, but of God. The powers that be are ordained
of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth
the power resisteth the ordinance of God. God's appointed this
man. You resist him, you're resisting God. And they that resist shall
receive to themselves damnation. Now he's not talking here about
eternal damnation, although if you want to use it in the principle
of rebellion, it could be interpreted that way. But that's not what
he's talking about here. He's talking about civil governments,
and he said if you resist them, what's going to happen is you're
going to come before the judge, and you're going to be condemned.
Verse 3, For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou
shalt have praise of the same." Now watch this. For he, talking
about these governments, these powers, these presidents, these
kings, these monarchs, these policemen, whatever this parental
authority, whatever, however you want to apply it. He is a minister of God to thee
for good. He's just a minister. But if
thou do that which is evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the
sword in vain, for he is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." These governments and
armies and police forces, all types of civil and parental authority
are established to restrain ungodly men and cause the lives of God's
elect to be more peaceable and quiet here on this earth. Now
watch this in verse 5. Wherefore, you must needs be
subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
And for this cause, pay tribute, pay the taxes due, for they are
God's ministers, they are servants to you, attending continually
upon this very thing. Render, therefore, to all their
due, tribute to whom tribute, custom to whom custom, fear to
whom fear, honor to whom honor." What's Paul teaching here? teaching
that our great King and Redeemer so rules this world that He'll
take those who absolutely despise and hate the gospel and cause
them in their ignorance to be the guardian of God's chosen
people. And He does it every day. They attend to it every
day. They're not attending to it thinking
about it, but they're attending to it. And Rebecca knew that she was
married to the Son of Promise. Though this man, through this
man, God would fulfill His promise concerning His seed through whom
all the nations of the world would be blessed. And for 20
years this woman was barren. This woman was barren. And both
she and Isaac called upon the Lord for 20 years. Isaac was
40 years old when they were married. He was 60 years old when they
had this son. Twenty years. They entreated
the Lord for a son. Why did they continue to pray
for 20 years? Because they knew this son was
in the purpose and will of God who makes these distinctions
among men. They knew that. They weren't
going to make the same mistake Sarah did. Rebecca knew what
Sarah did. how she got together with Abraham
and said, well, maybe you just need to go in with my bondmaid.
They didn't go that route. They understood the fallacy of
that. They just waited, patiently waited for 20 years, 20 years. They were both convinced that
this unborn son was according to the will of God who makes
these distinctions and who overrules these things. Now, I believe
two things have to be present in a man or woman to motivate
them to pray. One is need. Need. And the other one is conviction. If I pray for sinners to be converted,
I have to be convicted that it's in God's will to save sinners. If I'm not convinced of that,
of His ability to do it, of His will to do it, of His purpose
to do it, then I can't pray for it. I can't pray for it. You
can't pray for your own salvation for the same reason. That's right. You have to have
need. That's why I stand up here and
tell you all the time, if you've never been lost, you've never
been saved. It takes a need to call on God. And to call on Him with conviction
takes a persuasion. Neither one of them I can do.
I just stand up there and pray. But I wait on the Holy Spirit
of God, and He can. He can. Now, if we're praying
to a God that cannot do all He pleases, we're praying to a false
God. And if we're praying without
a need, then we're praying a self-righteous ceremonial prayer. And our prayer
is nothing more than sin. We're praying for something we
don't believe. We're praying for something that we don't expect. We're just praying a useless
prayer. But these two prayed, and they prayed sincerely to
God, and they prayed according to the will of God. And they
continued to look and continued to pray for 20 years. And after
20 years of seeking and asking God, Rebecca finally conceives,
but God throws her a curve. She's got twins. She's got twins. Now I went back and looked. I
don't know of any twins before this. Are you aware of any? I'm
not aware of any twins before Jacob and Esau. But she has twins
within her. God throws this into the mix
and it troubles the mother of Israel. She doesn't get a son,
she gets two sons. She gets two sons. And for 20
years she prayed for a son. She understood like like as Isaac
was, that he might come in her old age. She was patient. She
was faithful. She didn't give up hope. She
didn't appeal to the flesh to produce him. She waited on the
hand of God to give him. And when God gave him, he gave
too. And I don't believe Isaac or
Rebecca either one expected twins, two in her womb. Only one can
be the heir. Only one can stand as the head
of that house and priest of that home who can stand in the lineage
of Christ. They both can't stand. Only one
is going to be able to stand. They both can't be anointed to
rule, and they both can't be ordained to stand in this lineage
of Christ. And here in Genesis 25-22, it
speaks here of the children as they struggled with inner And
she struggled. She struggled. And she said,
if it be so. What is she talking about, if
it be so? That I've conceived this one for whom we've looked.
That's what she's talking about. If I've conceived this one who
was to come by the will of God and according to the promise
of God, if these things be so, why am I thus? Why is there two
in me and not just one? If this life in me is of the
Lord, according to His will and according to my prayers, and
by His hand and power, why is there two natures in me and two
separate people? And the Lord said unto her, verse
23, two nations are in thy womb. Now watch this. And two manner
of people shall be separated from thy bow. And the one people
shall be stronger than the other people. They're going to be stronger. And the elder, the stronger,
is going to serve the younger, going to serve the younger. Within
the womb of Isaac's bride were two people, two sons to represent
two manner of people. One strong and powerful, a man's
man. The other quiet, weak, easily overpowered. One loved, the other hated. One blessed, the other cursed. One sought after God. One was
shut up to God. One was called of God. The other
was left to himself. living in the moment, living
for the day, seeking the advantages of this world. Two manner of
people in her womb. Now, I want to give you four
things tonight which this thing applies and has been fulfilled
all time. Four things. First of all, I
believe this can be applied to natural Israel and what the Bible
calls Edom. Edom simply means red earth is
what it means. That's where Esau went to live,
Edom. And in 2 Samuel, David, having
put down all of his enemies, having risen above those who
were stronger than him. Listen to what God says about
it in 2 Samuel 8 verse 14. And David, he had defeated I
forget how many thousands of men, it says in the verse or
two up above this, and got himself a name. from this which God intended
for him to have. But now watch this. He put garrisons
in Edom. A garrison is a fort. He established
his authority in Edom and over Edom. Throughout all Edom put
he garrisons. And all that of Edom became David's
servants. And the Lord preserved David
whithersoever he went. And David reigned over all Israel. And David executed judgment and
justice unto all his people. He ruled and reigned. Now, Israel,
when they first went into Canaan, you remember the account. There
were giants and walled cities and great armies. And they said,
we ain't going in. But finally, God took them in.
And by the hand of God and through Joshua, they overcame that thing.
And then they rose up a king, but he was the people's king,
and God took his kingdom from him, and he turned it over to
David. And now David sets up, and all Edom becomes his servants. They live to serve him, to serve
the king. And in the purpose of God and
according to his will, God put a distinction between Israel,
natural Israel, and the rest of the world. And I've already
given you several examples of that down in Egypt and so on.
All right, secondly, this prophecy is true of natural Israel and
spiritual Israel. The same prophecy. God declared
this in the wilderness of sin when all but two souls that came
out of Egypt perished in unbelief. Here they all are, all natural
Israel, coming out, all sons of Jacob, coming out of Egypt,
by a strong hand, led out into the wilderness. And there they
died in unbelief. Only two. Only two. God tells
us over in Hebrews chapter 3 why they couldn't enter in. They
could not enter in because of unbelief. They died in unbelief. Natural Israel and spiritual
Israel. Joshua, which is the Old Testament
name for Jesus, and Caleb, which means God's faithful. They entered
in, and all the rest who entered in were born in the wilderness.
God has a people He calls His church, His body, His bride,
their true spiritual Israel. And a direct line is drawn from
the New Testament believers to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I
just quoted you the other night from this, but over here in Galatians
chapter 3, listen to this. Galatians 3, 27. Paul said, as many as you have
been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. In Christ there
is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, neither male nor
female. You are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ, then are
you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. There
is a spiritual Israel and there is a natural Israel. A natural
Israel being founded, established for 2,000 years, greater in power
than these handful of disciples of true spiritual Israel, greater
in power than that remnant. Yet God raised that remnant up,
turned the world upside down, He said in the book of Acts,
with those 11 men, 12 men, turned the world upside down. And natural
Israel become the servant of spiritual Israel. And then thirdly, I see this
prophecy fulfilled in every true believer by the natures of an
old man and a new man. An old man seems to have a bondage
and a rule that's irresistible. He's stronger, isn't he? Seems
to be. Seems to be. Our Lord said the
strong man rules until he's sick. He keeps his castle and his goods
at peace. That strong man, such a fair
man, rules. He rules. That's the natural
man. God of this world rules in the hearts of natural men.
There were two pharaohs in Egypt. I want you to listen to them.
One pretended to love and care for the children of God. He provided
for them. In the name of friendship, But
he didn't really. He got game. He got game from
Joseph. Joseph was a wise man who saved
his eyes. Told him about this coming drought. Gave him the wisdom to plant
more corn and build these silos and save this thing according
to that drought. He pretended to love and care
for God's Israel. And he made a place for them
and gave them food and drink. Another ruled by an iron hand
demanding his quota. Give me my quota. You go get
your own straw, make the bricks. Called that bondage an iron furnace. And in making, he made miserable
all who didn't produce what he demanded. But either way, Pharaoh
never relinquished his throne to Israel. Not the one who pretended,
nor the one who didn't. Neither one. And there's two
things that fight against the true believer. One of them is
religion, who pretends to be your friend. He pretends to... But really, what's he after?
He's after his own gain. That's what the Lord said. They
make merchandise out of your souls. They benefit from those
numbers, and they benefit from those things, and they pretend
to be your friend, but they're not really your friend. And the
other is this world, and there's no pretense in it. He just wants
you so. He demands it, and he gets it.
He gets it. The one under pretense, he'd
allow Joseph to be second, but not to sit on his throne. He'd
wear his ring, but he couldn't sit on his throne. We've got two nations within
us, two separate individuals, both conceived, both having a
being, the old man born of Adam, the new man born of God. Listen to this. I wrote this
down. This is a quote by one of the
old authors. He said, God will take two Egypt-born souls into
the land of rest. two Egypt-born souls into the
land of rest. He'll take Joshua and Caleb.
You know, they both picture Christ. I've always had Joshua picturing
Christ and Caleb picturing the faithful people, the followers
of God, which it does. Let me tell you something. It
pictures the two things that Christ accomplished is what it
pictures. He was the faithful one. There's
only and ever been one faithful one in that Christ. He was the
general who led them, but he was the substitute who lived
and the representative who lived for us. We've got two nations within
us. And I don't care how we view
these things. As it is in all these other examples,
throughout the Scriptures, the elder will serve the younger.
The one who appears to be stronger will be the servant of the weaker. Now let me ask you something.
Does not the dominion and strength of sin serve the new man? Does
not that old man, does he not If this thing had no benefit,
it wouldn't be. It has a benefit. God works all
these things together for our good. That old man of sin in
you works a benefit in you. He works a benefit. The dominion
and strength of sin serve the new man to show the glory of
the grace of God. Now listen to this. This is a
very simple quote out of the book of Romans, where sin abounds
Ain't that what you see? Grace does much more now. That's
what he says. Paul said to the Corinthians,
he said, there must be false prophets among you. There must
be in order to reveal those who aren't. That's what he told them. Has to be. Has to be. But how weak and pitiful does
the new man appear How frail in His innocence. How frail in
His infancy. Can you see Him pictured in the
humanity of Christ? You see it's Christ in us. Paul
said, when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's
womb and revealed His Son in me. If you want to know what's
going on in you, all you have to do is look at the life of
Christ. It will interpret what's going on in you. See him in his
infancy. See him in his weakness, how
pitiful he is, lying in a manger. Needs the care of a mother. He
needs the breast of his mother. He needs fed. He needs protected. He needs warmth. He needs to
be covered up. He needs to be protected from
the storm. He has to eat the same way we do. He was tempted
in all things like as we are, yet without sin. But oh, see
him grow in power and authority and wisdom and stature. till
he meets the merchandisers of souls out of the temple. See
him in his temptations overcoming the evil one, ordering his life
for the will of God and service to the kingdom of God. See him
devoted to the gospel ministry and his whole life arranged around
the cross. Isn't that what happens in a
believer? God moves in, takes over his life, and he arranges
his life around the cross of Christ. Two lives that must be
manifest by the will of God. One honoring the other ungodly.
One loving the other despising. One seeking the other one disinterested. One wrestling with the Lord.
Ain't that what Jacob did? Wrestle with the Lord. The other
lost in his rebellion. It didn't start out that way,
but Jacob's going to have the birthright. Know the will of
God. And I'll tell you this, Rebekah,
whatever God told her, we're not told except what God told
her here, the elder is going to serve the younger. But Rebekah
with an understanding, she wouldn't have asked this question if she
didn't have an understanding of what this son was all about.
And having this understanding, and having this understanding
of this coming seed and all these things, and understanding what
God said, I've made a distinction among your son, This one's going
to be my servant, and this one's not. You know what it said about
Rebecca? She loved Jacob. She loved Jacob. She got on God's side with her
own children. She got on God's side. And that's
exactly what we're going to do. We're going to get on God's side
in this thing. I'm just telling you. And if you can befriend
a believer, in whom you know God's hand is on and working
with and that type of thing and prefer the company of this ungodly
man over here over him, you've got a problem. You've got a problem. This woman, she was taken down
here from among heathen idolaters and brought up here and given
this promise. And with this promise in her head, she saw exactly
what God was going to do. And she saw God's right and goodness. in leaving off this one. And
she rested that in His hand, and she loved Jacob. She loved
Jacob. It might not have started out that
way, but that's the way it wound up. And then last of all, these
two things are two nations, two manners of people manifesting. And I believe they have an application
to this, the true believer in this world. And this world with
all of its disasters and droughts and earthquakes and floods and
with all of its diseases and handicaps and plagues, with all
of its powers and principalities and rule, with all of its deceptive
religion and spirits and ministers of Satan, cannot overturn the
decree of the blessing. The elder is going to serve the
young. This world is yours. Ain't that
what Paul told them over there? He said, y'all over here fighting
over who baptized who. He said, don't you know this
world's yours? This world's yours, sir. It's
yours, sir. I tell you, we don't have, I
studied this message and I'm telling you the truth. We don't
have the slightest concept of what kind of inheritance God
has prepared for us and laid up for us. And it's all around
us. And it tells us on every page. Here it is. Here it is. Do you need some assurance? Here
it is. Let me show you this life and how I blessed him and why.
Let me show you this man over here. Before he was ever born,
how I said, the elder is going to serve the younger. As it's
written, Jacob have I loved. Did he love Jacob? He had every
reason in the world to hate Jacob. But he didn't. He loved him.
He loved him. And regardless of what Jacob
did, God loved him. God loved him. And he wrestled
with him, and he conquered him, and he changed his name. He said,
now your name is going to be Israel. You are not going to
be the heel-grasper anymore. You are not going to be the finagler
anymore. You cannot overturn the decree of
the blessing Jacob have I loved. Oh, my soul, take comfort in
this. God did not say this for His sake alone, but to establish,
He said, the purpose of God according to election. And so He said,
I'm telling you, I know there's a lot of them running and there's
a lot of them willing, but it's not of Him that runneth and it's
not of Him that willeth, it's of God that shows mercy. You
need an example? Here it is. Oh, may God be pleased Grant
this great mercy to you and I to see this and find comfort in
it.