I'm going to read just a few
verses of Scripture from Genesis chapter 2, beginning with verse
8. And the Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed,
and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight and good for food. the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil. And the river went out of Eden
to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became
into four heads. The name of the first is Pison,
that is, it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where
there is gold, and the gold of that land is good. There is delium
and onyx stone, that is, there is spices, precious spices, and
the onyx stone, gems. And the name of the second river
is Gihon. The same is that compasseth the
whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river
is Hittikel. That is, it which goeth toward
the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrate.
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of
Eden to grace it and to keep it. Now, last week I talked to
you a little bit about the garden of Eden, the garden of Eden. And I tried to show you then
that this garden was a picture of God's everlasting covenant
of grace. And it's a picture of that in
that it demonstrates all things that are in that covenant, all
things of which that covenant states and for which it was made. In that garden was put man. In that garden is where the man
was given his bride. taken into consideration the
man's fall. There was a reason for his fall
and the actual fall itself. All those things compensated
for in this garden and in this covenant. In this covenant or
in this garden was made provision for the fall. Provision to come
to the man and reconcile the man and give that man faith and
give that man instruction and reconcile him in mind and heart
to the ways of God and give him the promise of a coming Redeemer
and then send him forth into the world. And before God sent
that man into a cursed world, he blessed him forever in his
garden. It is a beautiful picture of
the everlasting covenant of grace. Tonight I want to talk to you
about the river. the river that came into that
garden from Eden. This garden was east of Eden.
It was not in Eden. It was east of Eden. From the beginning of this book
to the end, God makes or sets apart this thing of the east. He puts with that direction with
that whatever he stands for. It's just a direction as far
as I know. That's the only thing I know
about it. But there's something particular about it that the
Lord attaches to these things because He uses it over and over
and over. You know, in the Psalms, that
beautiful scripture that talks about creation like a cathedral,
and God demonstrates His He demonstrates all that he's going to do in
this creation, and he said he comes forth like a bridegroom,
and he's talking about the sun. And that sun comes up in the
east and goes to the west. He makes note of that in that
psalm. This garden is east of Eden. East of Eden. That sun rises from east and
sets in the west. the blood inside the tabernacle. It was to be sprinkled eastward. In Ezekiel 11, verse 1, the prophet
speaks of standing at the east gate of the Lord's house, which
looketh eastward. The Lord's house, that temple
that Solomon built, faced the east. And he stood at that gate. And if you'll read the account
of that, he put special attachment to that gate. That wasn't a common
gate. That wasn't a common gate that
everybody was coming in and out of. There's something particular
about that gate. Something has to do with that
coming from the east. And when God drove man out of
his garden, it said he placed at the east of the garden cherubims
and a flaming sword to keep the way of the tree alive. That gate
faced. the eastern side, because that
was the direction from which the purpose and person of Christ
would come. The wise men, where did they
come from? They came from the east, didn't
they? Where was the star, John? In the east. You can go on and
on and on. I'm telling you, God has placed,
I don't know all the answers to it, but it fascinated me once
I started looking at it. How many things he attaches and
how much importance he puts to that eastern side, that eastern
side. And the angel of the covenant
represented in Revelation 7, ascending from the east, having
the seal of the living God, is Christ coming to seal his elect
from every nation, kindred, people, and tongue under heaven. The
garden was east of east, east of east. All right, now watch
this. Genesis chapter 2 verse 10, and
a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it
was parted and became into four heads. Now, the first of those
four heads means to disperse, paison. That means to disperse. That's what the name of it means.
The second river is Gihon. It means river of paradise, and
it was the river out of which Solomon was anointed. You can
read about it there in the Old Testament. He anointed Solomon
before he went up to take the throne. David ordered him to
go down to Gihon and be anointed because he was going to be king.
There were some challenges. There was some opposition to
Solomon being the king, and David commanded that this be done.
Take him down to the river, anoint him, he's going to be king. Solomon's
going to be king. And so he sent the prophet down
there to do so. Also, the source of that pool
that I talked to you about Sunday, that pool of Bethesda, guess
where it come from? Guyahong. Those conduits were
channeled out of that river, out of Guyahong, and came in
and fed that pool. So this river, this Gihon, means
river of paradise, river of mercy, river of grace, however you want
to say it. And then the Hitticale, that's
the third river. This is known in our day as the
Tigris, the Tigris River. And this is that river in Daniel
chapter 10 where Daniel saw the Lord. And the Lord gave Daniel
that vision, that vision of Christ. And the other men were scared.
They didn't see the vision, but they heard voices, and they heard
noises, and they went and healed themselves. And Daniel alone
saw the vision. He saw that revelation of Christ,
and he saw it before him, and he describes him just like John
did in Revelations. described him in his glory, and
Daniel said his comeliness melted into corruption. It just turned
to corruption in his presence. He just fell down on his face
like a dead man. So this river, although it doesn't
give a meaning in the Strong's Concordance, I believe because
of what takes place on this river that it has something to do with
the revelation of Christ. It has something to do with the
revelation of God. This is the river of revelation. And then the Euphrates, it means
to break forth. It means swift. It means a mighty
rushing river, quick, fast, powerful, going forth. And as it appears
in Revelation 9 and Revelation 16, it is associated in both
places with judgment. Here's what we have. We've got
Passon dispersing into all nations out of the garden. You've got
Gihon, the river of blessings, the river of mercy and grace
going out into all the world. You've got the Hittite, carrying
in its waters the revelation of Christ to all nations. And
you've got the Euphrates carrying to all nations the warning of
God's swift and terrible goodness. These four rivers. These four
rivers. Now all these rivers came from
one river. Ain't that what it says? There
was a river. A river that came out of Eden. And I've got a lot of scriptures
to read to you tonight. And to save time, I'm just going
to quote them. So if you're taking notes, jot
them down and you can read them when you get home. And then some
of them I'll have you turn to. But first of all, I want to begin
in Isaiah chapter 46. In verse 9, the Lord said, Remember,
He said, Remember the former things of old, for I am God,
and there is none else. And that's what we're doing tonight.
We're remembering the former things. We're remembering the
things from old. We're remembering those things
from the beginning. We're rehearsing those things
that happened in the beginning, recalling, remembering, looking
at, considering. And he said, I am God. He said,
remember those things. Don't forget these things. Remember
them. Call them to mind. Think about
them. For I am God and there's none like me. There's none like
me. He said, declaring the end from
the beginning. and from ancient times the things
that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I'll
do all my pleasure." Now, this river that flowed from Eden,
Eden means place of pleasure, pleasurable place, place of pleasures. Okay? And it's flowing from Eden
to the covenant, Eden to the garden, one river, one stream. Coming out into the garden. After
it leaves the garden, it goes in a lot of different directions.
It disperses. It reveals. It judges. All kinds of things happen after
it leaves the garden. But between Eden and the garden,
it's just one river. And Eden is the place of pleasures. What kind of pleasures? What
he's talking about here in Eden is God doing all his pleasure. That's what Eden's about. Eden
is about God. He said, ìI declare the end from
the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not
yet done, saying, ëMy counsel shall stand, and I will do all
my pleasure.íî My pleasure. Now, watch this. Psalm 135, verse
5, ìFor I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is
above all gods, whatsoever the Lord pleased.î You see that? That did he in heaven and in
earth, in the seas, and all deep places. What he pleased. In Psalm
115, verse 2, Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now
their God? Our God is in the heavens. He
hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Turn with me now to
Psalm chapter 16. This is a messianic psalm. It
concerns the Redeemer. It's the Redeemer speaking. It's
David speaking, but it's the Redeemer speaking through David.
And you'll recognize the language before I get through the psalm. But here in Psalm chapter 16,
verse 8, he said, I have set the Lord
always before me, because he is at my right hand. I shall
not be moved. Therefore, my heart is glad.
and my glory rejoiceth, my flesh also shall rest in hope, for
thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to seek corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of
life in thy presence's fullness of joy." Now listen, "...at thy
right hand pleasures forevermore." Pleasures. What is Eden? Eden is the place of pleasure. It's the pleasures of the Lord.
And they flowed from the Lord into this garden. Before man
was ever put in this garden, it says, God planted a garden
and then He put man in it. Before man ever came into this
garden, that purpose flowed. It flowed like a river out of
Eden into that garden. Everything in that garden grows
because of the pleasure of the Lord flows into it. That's why
it grows. It grows in Revelation chapter
4. And all these pleasures, this
is what I want you to see, are all trusted into the hands of
God's appointed mediator. They're all in his hands. And
so they flow. Just picture God, Almighty God,
doing what he pleases in the heavens. And it pleased God to
make us his people. It pleased God to do a lot of
things. But that pleasure, what pleased God, flowed from him
through Christ into that garden. And Christ as the mediator over
that covenant brings all these blessings to come to pass. Are
you beginning to get the picture? Listen to this in Revelation
chapter 4 and the very last verse, after all the elders had came
and bowed down and threw their crowns down at his feet and fell
on their faces to worship him. Listen to what it said. They
said, verse 11, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
honor and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy
pleasure they are and were created. All things. All things. And then in chapter 5, he demonstrates
this mediator taking the book. He represents him coming forth,
and they search for somebody worthy to take the book from
he who sat on the throne. This is he who is determined
to do all his pleasure, John, but it's in a book. And he holds
that book in his hand, and it's sealed. It has seven seals around
it representing the perfections of God. And the only way these
pleasures can flow into the world. The only way those pleasures
can leave God in His eternal counsel and come to you is if
those seals of perfection be kept. And nobody could do it. There wasn't anybody worthy.
Nobody could take the book. Nobody could loose the seals.
Nobody was even worthy to take it and hold it in his hand. And
they searched and they cried. John said he cried much because
nobody was found worthy. And then one of the elders said,
Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, he hath prevailed to
take the book. And he began to unloose the seals.
Unloose those seals. Flowing out of Eden. Out of Eden. To do those pleasures. To do
God's pleasure. To accomplish all God's pleasure.
It flows in that stream into that everlasting covenant of
grace. And then out of that covenant into all the world. And it flows
there through a mediator. He alone being able to manifest
the pleasure of the Lord without compromising his perfections
and without violating his holiness or misrepresenting his righteousness,
without lessening his judgments and his justice, he alone is
able to take the book. So out of Eden flowed a river. I love this. In Fanny Crosby's
hymn, He Hideth My Soul, have you all sung that hymn, He Hideth
My Soul? in the cleft of the rock. Have
you ever really listened to the Word? Listen to this. A wonderful
Savior is Jesus my Lord, a wonderful Savior to me. He hideth my soul
in the cleft of the rock where rivers of pleasure I see. That's what I'm talking about.
Rivers of pleasure flowing out of Eden, flowing into that covenant
and out of that covenant right up to your front door. right
out into all the world, taking his judgments and taking his
revelations and taking the good purpose of his grace. It's a
river of purpose and a river of redemption, a river of redemptive
purpose. That's what I want you to see
about this whole thing and what got hold of me when I began to
see it. I saw a little bit in the garden,
and these rivers were really stumping me. I've just always
passed over them, and most of the old riders have passed over
them. But looking at the garden as a picture of the covenant,
I began to see what the rivers were all about. And then I looked
at the rivers and they come back and they go into one river and
that river flows right back to God. And all these things, John,
that he's accomplishing are not bad things. They're not evil
things. It's the good pleasure of his
will. How many times does he say that
in the book of Ephesians? according to the good pleasure
of His will. Oh my, the good pleasure. This river has to do with good
things. This river has to do with mercy
and grace and redemption. Going through Romans chapter
8 and talking about the great revelation of faith, walking
by the Spirit of God, and in that revelation of the Spirit,
walking in that Spirit, You begin to take in something of the purpose
and counsels of God, and you begin to see there in Romans
chapter 8, as it develops, you begin to see that all creation
was submitted not willingly, but by reason of him who submitted
the same in hope. Ain't that what it says? All creation is caught up. caught up in this good pleasure
of God. All providence is caught up in
this good pleasure of God. And the prayers of the saints
who don't even know what to pray for. He said, He sends His Spirit
into you, and with groanings which cannot be uttered, He makes
intercessions for you. And you pray and don't even know
you're praying. You intercede and don't even know you're interceding.
You sit there and don't even understand these groanings sometimes,
and yet the Spirit of God within you, all of that is caught up
in this river of redemptive purpose flowing into you, flowing out
into the world, accomplishing the will of God. Oh, my. And so then when you come down
to verse 28 and you begin to talk about what your assurance
is, he said, here it is, all things. He said, we know that
all things, all things, everything works together for good to them
that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. And that purpose is a good purpose,
and it flows in that river. I see this river, the Word of
God, not the book, but the Son of God, the Word of God. For
in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. In 1 John 1, verse 1, he says
something very similar when he opens the epistle. He says, That
which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands
have handled, of the word of life, the word of life. Here in the river of all blessings,
the river of revelation, the river of disbursement, the river
of judgment, listen to this, Isaiah 53.10, it pleased the
Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to grief. When thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he
shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord," you see
that? The pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. In Psalm 36, verse 7, David said,
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children
of man put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They
shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house,
and thou shalt make them to drink." Now listen, "...in the river
of thy pleasures." That's what he says, "...in the river of
thy pleasures." Out of Eden comes the great river of God's pleasure,
the river of Christ crucified, the river of redemption, and
it flows into an everlasting covenant of grace. It flows into
one stream, one mediator between God and men, one high priest
whoever liveth to make intercession for us, one substitute, one substitute,
one representative, one surety flowing into the garden of God. Man was never purposed to be
the glory of this garden. He was put in this garden to
manifest his inability and his weakness. He can't do it. He
can't do it. How will you ever know that?
Because God took a man and put him in the garden and he couldn't
do it. He couldn't do it. And I'm going to tell you something.
If he can't do it in the garden, he can't do it here. He can't
do it here. If he couldn't do it in a perfect
environment, he can't do it here. If he couldn't do it there where
the river was won and flowed into that place and watered that
place in the presence of God and the mediator of God coming
down and walking with him in the cool of the day, if Adam
can't do it there, Adam can't do it here. He can't do it here. Why did he put Adam in this garden?
To demonstrate his inability to do it. To demonstrate his
inability to be this representative in head. He can't do it. Only
Christ can do it. Only Christ can do it. He was never purposed to be the
glory of this garden. Coming out of Eden was a river
that never ceased to flow into the garden. It never ceased. It doesn't have a beginning when
it started. It just said it flows. It flows
out of Eden into this garden. There is no account in the Bible
when this garden was planted. It just said he planted it. When
did he plant it? We don't know. When did this
river begin to flow into it? When he planted it. I love how the scriptures handle
these types of things. It just says, in the beginning.
In the beginning. I don't need to know any more
than that, do I? I just need to know that. Oh, it was a river
that never ceased to flow into the garden. It was a river that
caused this garden to grow and to flourish and to be sure. And
when we talk about the purpose of God, men tend to isolate that
purpose and that counsel of God. And they tend to pull it over
to one side and make it appear like something that it's not. One writer likened it to how
the old Romans and the heathens used to take Christians and dress
them up in animal skins and feed them to the lions. They wanted
to put them out there in a bad light, make them look like a
bunch of heathens and a bunch of superstitious idolaters. and
just cults and that type of thing. And so they dressed them that
way and treated them that way and put them out there. And that's
the way natural men take this everlasting covenant of grace.
That's the way they take the sovereignty of God. That's the
way they take God doing all His pleasure. Well, you serve a monster. You serve a monster. Well, whatever
he is, you better get ready to meet him because he is what he
says he is. Whatever. If he's a monster,
you better get ready to meet a monster. But that's not how
this book represents God. It represents him giving, giving,
giving. This river was to give. This
river was to disperse, to carry, to carry out. And it went through
that garden and went out into all the world. Listen to this
in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 5. He says, Having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will. Oh, I'm glad he did, ain't you?
I'm not upset about predestination, are you? All right. Listen to this, verse 9, having
made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. How come us to know
something about this mystery? How come us to be in here tonight
looking at things that this world has shaked their head? Couldn't
understand if they were sitting here tonight listening to me,
they couldn't understand what I'm telling you tonight. You
can only understand this through the revelation of Christ. But
in that revelation, that revelation of faith, it takes these things
in. He said, I have not seen nor
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things that
God hath prepared for them that love him, but he hath revealed
them unto us. For the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God. And we can go back and
look at these things. Not just to look at them and
say, boy, I know this and you don't. That's not why we look.
But we rejoice. I rejoice because in that river
I see grace. I rejoice because I see mercy,
I see love, I see all those good things of God flowing in that
river out into the world. And at the same time, I see the
judgment of God. Not a judgment that falls on
us, not a judgment that threatens us and causes us to fear, but
a judgment that has been satisfied. That judgment came out into the
world in the form of good news. And Paul, when he preached on
Mars Hill, he got down toward the end of his message. Do you
remember what he said? He said, God hath appointed a
day in which he'll judge this world in righteousness by that
man. But he didn't stop there, did
he? He said, whereof he hath given us assurance. in that he
had raised him from the dead. He satisfied that judgment. And
he gives us good assurance and good grace in that he raised
him from the dead. Oh, and in verse 11, in whom
we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will, that we should be to the praise of God's glory
who first trusted in Christ. I see this great river of grace
flow into the everlasting covenant of grace, and then from that
covenant it branches unto all things and goes out into all
the nations and affects all creation and all the inhabitants of the
world. It just goes out. It's like that vision in Revelations
where he said he saw that little stream, and it come out and it
began to grow, and it began to grow, and it began to grow. until
it was a river. It was a river flowing out into
all things. But though all things are watered
by it and affected by its streams, yet it is particular in its goal.
This river is a river that flows out of this covenant. It reaches
to a people called spiritual Israel and God's chosen people. You know, in 1 Samuel chapter
12, he makes this statement. He said, For the Lord will not
forsake his people for his great name's sake. He's not going to
forsake them. Because it hath pleased the Lord
to make you his people. That's why. That's why. That river left Eden with a purpose. That purpose was to accomplish
the purpose of God that can't be resisted. And it pleased Him,
John, to make Israel His people. And He's going to have them.
He's going to have them. And notice this,
it wasn't a burden. This adoption of God was not
a burden, but it flowed out of a great love. He said, wherewith
he loved. according to the good pleasure
of his will. In Colossians 1, verse 17, he
is before all things, by him all things consist. He is the
head of the body of the church who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell. And that is where it is going
to dwell. That is where it is going to dwell. It wasn't some
desperate decision brought about by reaction to some unforeseen
event. It pleased God to give him this
preeminence from the get-go. It pleased God to elect a people.
It pleased God to appoint for them a head and a representative.
And it pleased God to make these mysteries known. I read that
to you a while ago, Abbey Thief. How? How? Dreams, visions, how's he going
to do it? How's he going to do it? How are we going to know? How are we going to understand?
Listen to this. For after that, in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. You see those
pleasures? All these pleasures of God that
flow out of Eden. Eden has to do something with
divinity, those pleasures of God flowing into this garden,
into this covenant, out of that covenant, into the world, into
all things. In Philippians chapter 2 and
verse 12, how were these dead sinners?
How were they healed? How were they healed? How were they healed? How can dead sinners heal? Well,
listen to this, Philippians chapter 2, verse 12. 12. Wherefore, my
beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but
now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. 13. For it is God that worketh
in you both the will, now listen, and to do of his good pleasure. That's how you're going to bless.
That's exactly how you're going to bless. Oh, but what about
the attitude picture? What about how we express our
love to Him and our thanksgiving and appreciation? What about
my life as it's lived in this world? What about my behavior
and my manners and my speech and my dress and the way I wear
my hair? What about all these things?
What those things have to do with the pleasure of God? Well,
listen to this. 2 Thessalonians chapter 1. In verse 3, he said, We are bound
to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because
that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one
of you all toward each other abundantly. It has all been made
known, he said, I have heard, so that we ourselves glory in
you in the churches of God for your patience and your faith
and all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure.
which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God,
that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which
you suffer. Seeing it as a righteous thing
with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, and
to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, and flaming
fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. who shall be punished
with an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power. When he shall come to be glorified
in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, because
of our testimony, you believe." Because of our testimony, he
said, that I gave to you, you believe. Because he preached
and they believed. Wherefore also we pray always
for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling,"
now watch it, "...and fulfill all the good pleasure of his
goodness, and the work of faith with power." All has to do with
God's good pleasure, every last thing. David said he thought
on that. These were his last words. This
was a man who penned by his own hand, penned scripture. He said
of his own confession that the Spirit of God was on his tongue
when he spoke. He'd come down to his dying day
and he had all kinds of things. He had that volley out there
where he took that sling and slayed that giant. Little ruddy
shepherd boy with nothing but a sling and Goliath standing
out there seven or eight foot tall. Went down there and couldn't
even hold up the sword of King Saul. He couldn't even hold it
in his hands. And he went down there and he told that giant,
he said, you come against me with a sword and a shield. He
said, I come to you in the name of my God. And he whirled that
stone and dropped that giant. Looks to me like a man get down
on his dying bed, he could look back at something like that,
you know, and think, boy, God was with me. I know God's with
me. He had to be with me. That ain't
what he thought about. I tell you why, because he thought
about Bathsheba, and he thought about the bad times, and he thought
about the falls, and he thought about the sins were counted so
much more than the events in his life. And he got down on
his deathbed, and his last words was this, Although it be not
so with my house, yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and sure, and he said, This is all my salvation
and all my desire. That's it. I'm telling you, all
of these things flowing from Eden, flowing right out of the
throne of God, flowing right out into that garden, that garden
of the covenant, and then going out, going out, dispersing, dispersing
out into the world, revealing, carrying that revelation. Between
Eden and the world is a garden. Out of Eden into this garden
flows the Word of God, the great river of good pleasure and goodwill
toward men. That's what they said when he
was born. That's what the angels cried, wasn't it? Peace on earth,
good will toward men. This is the good pleasure of
God toward men in this day. Oh, and it flows through a covenant
of grace ordered in all things and sure. And passing through
this covenant, it brings the blessings and revelations and
judgments of God and disperses them throughout the world. Now,
turn with me to Psalm chapter 46. Psalm chapter 46. I just want to read a few of these
verses to you, and I'll close with this. In Psalm chapter 46,
he said, God is our refuge, verse 1, and strength, a very present
help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear,
though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea. Though the waters thereof roar
and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Listen, there is a river. The streams whereof shall make
glad the city of God, the holy place of his tabernacles of the
Most High. God is in the midst of her. She
shall not be moved. God shall help her, and that
right early. There is a river. There's a river. This thing is not about accepting
Jesus as your personal Savior. It's about understanding who
Jesus is. Jesus is the surety of that everlasting
covenant. He is the Word of God that was
with God in the beginning and flows like a river out of God's
divinity to humanity. And he flows through a covenant,
John, a covenant that I ain't got anything to do with. He pulled
me out of there when He pulled Adam out of there. He exposed
me when He exposed Adam. He took me out of the way. This
garden has nothing to do with me except the redemption that
was purposed in it. He's the one who makes this garden
sure. He's the reason why that garden
was preserved and those flaming swords were set over the way
to protect it. Oh, God give me an understanding
of who He is and the power and majesty and glory associated
with his name.