And let's begin reading here
in verse 4. We looked at the first two verses,
and let me begin reading there where we left off this morning,
rather in verse 3. For every high priest is ordained
to offer gifts and sacrifices. Wherefore it is of necessity
that this man, Christ Jesus the Lord, have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth, he should
not be a priest." Now, we don't need another priesthood on earth. They had a priesthood, didn't
they? Aaron was their priest. If he were on earth, he would
not be a priest. See him that there are priests
that offer gifts according to the law, who serve unto the example
and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle. For see, said he,
that you make all things according to the pattern shown to thee
in the mount. But now our high priest has obtained
a more excellent ministry By how much also is he the mediator
of a better covenant which was established upon better promises?
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no
place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with
them, he said, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with
the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day, when I took them by the hand to lead
them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in
my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this
is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their
mind, and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them
a God, and they shall be to me a people. And they shall not
teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord, for all shall know me from the least to the
greatest. For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness and their sins and iniquities. I will remember
no more. In that he saith a new covenant,
he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxes
old is ready to vanish away. The earthly priesthood, the Aaronic
priesthood, the Levitical priesthood, in all of its function, everything
that was entailed in that priesthood, it had one main function. It
had one main purpose. And that was, we're told in verse
5, to be an example. shadows and types of heavenly
things. That's all it was for. That was its main function. How
did Moses know about this? How did he know what these things
would represent? He made them. He built the tabernacle. He knew this because God revealed
it to him. The Lord showed it to him. See
what he says there in verse 5? For see, saith he, that ye make
all things according to the pattern shown to thee in the mount."
That's how Moses knew what to make. God showed him. And God
showed him because God was willing to show Israel and us how He
was going to redeem sinners. That's what we see in the tabernacle
and the priesthood. But here in verse 6, but now
hath Christ obtained a more excellent ministry. A better ministry than
those priests in the Old Testament under that dispensation. He doesn't
minister in a tabernacle made with hands. That's gone now. But we saw this morning, he ministers
in heaven in the presence of God. He's gone into the presence
of God for us. And he's a public minister. He doesn't intercede with the
blood of goats and calves. He doesn't offer wafers or oil
or manufactured perfume, but he pleads Himself. He makes intercessions to the
Father on the ground of who He is and what He's done. That's
His ministry. He has a more excellent ministry. If any man sin, we have one to
plead our cause. And what does he plead? If he's
a minister making intercessions, he's got to have something to
plead. He can't plead, Father, they're sorry. He can't plead,
Father, they'll never do it again. What does he plead? John tells
us what he pleads. If any man sin, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and listen to
this, He is the propitiation for our sin. What does He plead? He pleads Himself. He pleads
His blood. He pleads His merit. He pleads
His obedience. And that makes Him that effective
and effectual minister. He's never pleaded for a soul
before the Father. But what the Father heard Him.
That's what the Scripture tells us. God said, I'll give to you. the desires of your heart. I'll
never withhold the request of your lips." And that's what He
was talking about. Father, I know You hear me always.
I know it. And here He is now ministering
in heaven. He ministers salvation. He ministers
grace. He ministers grace here in faith
and help and guidance. He ministers for us a better
minister. He ministers for us with the
Father, and He ministers in us by His Spirit. In heaven, He's
there in His humanity, and He's in us in His Spirit. And you
know both places, in heaven and in us. He ministers, doesn't
He? He ministers. He's a public minister. Now that's
an amazing thing. He said, I didn't come to be
ministered unto, but I come to minister. And that's what He's
doing now. He has a more excellent ministry. He was so taken up
with this ministry. He tells you and I to do it too.
In love, serve one another. Ain't that what He's doing for
us? Ministry. He's a minister. And not only is he a minister,
but look here in the next portion of verse 6, he's obtained a more
excellent ministry, but how much also is he the mediator of a
better covenant. Now Moses was the mediator of
the law. The law was given by Moses. The
Lord wrote it down upon those tablets and He took it and gave
it to the people. He read it to the people. And Moses was
faithful as a servant. And he was a faithful mediator
of giving that law to the children of Israel. But Jesus Christ is
the mediator of a new covenant. And you know the Son of God is
a much better mediator than the servant of God. Moses was faithful. But I tell you, we've got one
now, that's the Son of God. I'd rather have the Son of God
than the servant, would you? He's the mediator of a better
covenant. And this covenant, which Christ
is the mediator of, is a better covenant. Why? Well, He tells us, look at the
last portion of verse 6, because it's established It's fixed,
it's confirmed upon better promises. This second covenant's got better
promises. Now the second covenant's got, it's not more sure promises. That first covenant had promises
too. And they were sure. But this
new covenant is better promises. And here's the difference in
these two covenants. The first covenant said this,
this do. And thou shalt live. Now that's
a sure promise. Let a man do and he'll live. There was a man, remember the
rich lawyer, the lawyer that came to the Lord Jesus and tempted
him and said, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And
the Lord said, have you read the commandments? What do you
think when you read the commandments? What do you say? Have you read
them? Yeah, I've read them. What did they say? Well, he said,
you should love the Lord your God with all your heart Your
mind, your soul, and your strength, and your neighbor as yourself.
And the Lord said, you've answered rightly, this do, and you'll
live. That's a sure promise there.
You do this, and you'll live by doing that. But that's not
what the New Covenant says. It's completely different than
the Old Covenant. It doesn't begin with you. It
begins with God. That's what makes it a better
covenant because it's built upon better promises. The old covenant
said, This do you shall live. Well, look here at verse 10.
This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days saith the Lord. I will. That's better promises
ain't it? I will put my laws in your mind.
I will be to them a God. They shall all know me. I will
be merciful to their unrighteousness. Their sins and iniquities will
I remember no more. I tell you, His will and His
doing secures our will and secures our doing. If God says, I will
and you shall, then that secures my shall and doing. Thy people
shall be willing, now that's a promise, in the day of thy
power. That's a better covenant because
it's built upon better promises. The promises are secured. In
verse 7, For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should
no place have been sought for the second. For if I had been
fault with them, the first covenant, the first covenant was faultless.
This covenant, this first covenant that we read about here is made
up of several different aspects. It's made up of three at least.
But let me give you two things that this first covenant is made
up of. And we have it through the book
of Hebrews. But here especially, beginning
in chapter 9, if you begin there in verse 1 and reading, this
first covenant is made up of ceremonial laws. It's made up
of the priesthood and the sanctuary and all the offerings. See in
verse 1, verily the first covenant also had ordinances of divine
service and a worldly sanctuary and a tabernacle and all the
instruments in the tabernacle. That was part of this first covenant.
But it had more than just the ceremonial law. Look here, wait
a minute. This is so important. Look here
in a couple of places. Look in Deuteronomy chapter 4.
Look over in Deuteronomy chapter 4. Look in verse 12. The first covenant. Look in Deuteronomy
chapter 4 and look in verse 12. This is speaking about Mount
Sinai. Remember when Moses went up? Look at this, Deuteronomy
4, verse 11. The Lord spake unto you out of
the midst of the fire, and ye heard the voice of words, but
saw no similitude, only ye heard a voice. And he declared unto
you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments,
And he wrote them upon two tables of stone. There it was. The first
covenant. It had these ceremonies, the
priesthood, feast days, and sacrifices. And it also had these stones
that had the Ten Commandments written on them. And the Lord
commanded, He required the children of Israel to keep these commandments,
these covenants. Now He said back over in our
text, that God found fault with these. Ain't that what he said? If the
first covenant had been faultless, finding fault with them, what
was wrong with this covenant? Well, we know what was wrong
with the Ceremony of Law, don't we? All it was was these carnal
ordinances imposed on this Jewish nation. It couldn't reach their conscience.
It couldn't satisfy God. It could do them no good. The
best good they could get out of those ceremonies and those
sacrifices is seeing Christ in them. They looked at Aaron and
they said, there's Christ. They looked at the blood of the
Lamb and said, there's Christ. They watched Aaron as he went
into the holy place and saw him through the eye of faith go into
the mercy seat and sprinkle. They said, there's Christ. But that blood could do them
no good. All those ceremonies could do them no good. If it
could, they'd have ceased to offer them. Because the worshippers
once purged would have had no more conscience of sin. But every
year they kept coming back, offering the same sacrifices that could
never take away sin. That's what was wrong with the
ceremonial law. What was wrong with the Ten Commandments?
That was part of the covenant too. Well, here it is. It commanded, it required, and
its requirements were just, its requirements were holy, but nobody
could live up to them. Finding fault within. Here's
what Paul said. What the law could not do in
that it was weak through the flesh. It wasn't so much what
was wrong with the Ten Commandments. It's what's wrong with us. That's
the problem, isn't it? Flesh. Fallen, corruptible, rebellious
flesh. It cannot do anything that the
law commands. It cannot. God finding fault
with them. So he says in verse 8, Finding
fault with them, the days come, saith the Lord, the day is coming,
and this is quoted all the way back over in Jeremiah chapter
31, the day is coming in which I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Now what
does this tell us? That it was in God's heart all
along, this covenant of grace was. He knew what he was going
to do. He purposed it. Go all the way
back to Genesis 3, verse 15. The seed of the woman bruising
the serpent's head. And go to Abraham when he said
to Abraham, in you shall all the families of the earth be
blessed. God had this in His heart and in His purpose all
along. There's coming a day, there's coming a day, when I'm
going to take away this old covenant and I'm going to establish a
new covenant. A new covenant. And who's he
going to establish it with? Well, he says here in the last
part of verse 8, with the house of Israel and with the house
of Judah. Now, who is that? And I'm amazed. I'm amazed at the fundamentalist
churches. The fundamentalist churches are
basically preaching that Christ has two bodies, that Christ has
two churches. He has a church of the Jews and
He has a church of the Gentiles. That absolutely amazed me. In
the light of all the New Testament Scriptures that we have, they
still make a distinction between the Jews and the Gentiles. We
are one in Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
bond or free, male or female, but you are one in Christ. And if you be Christ, then are
you Abraham's seed. He's not a Jew which is one outwardly. He's a Jew which is one inwardly.
Circumcisions of the heart and of the spirit, whose praise is
not of men, but of God. Christ has one body. Christ has
one church. And you know who that church
is? It's the Israel of God. That's who it is. And if the
Lord turns back to the Jewish nation and saves them, as we
hope He will, He's not going to save them anyway,
but what He saved the Gentiles. And when He saves them, they're
going to be one in Christ. One in Christ. Israel is every
believer. It's the body of Christ. I have
made a covenant with every believer. In Christ Jesus neither circumcision
availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many
as walk according to this rule, peace be on them and upon the
Israel of God." A new covenant. And if you're here this evening,
you're a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you're under a new covenant.
A covenant of grace. Now look in verse 9. This is
one of the most important things that he says. Two covenants. The first covenant and then this
second covenant. And he says in verse 9, now look
at this. Not according to the covenant
that I made with their father. I'm going to make a new covenant,
but it's not according to the covenant that I made with their
father. There's two covenants, brothers
and sisters, and you and I must learn to rightly divide them.
Both of them have their place, but you must never join them
together because their very natures are different and they'll never
change. The first covenant never changes.
The second covenant never changes. God established the first covenant.
He established the second covenant. I want you to look here at that
and second, you hold Hebrews chapter 8 and turn over here
in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 if you would. I heard a man arguing, I read
his argument a few days ago about the law And he said, when God saves a
sinner, that Christ saves him, and then
Moses guides him. I thought, man, oh my. Christ saves him, and Moses guides
him. And the argument that he put up was this. He said, The
law is a condemning principle to an unbeliever. But when you
come to faith in Christ, the nature of the law changes. And
I thought, huh, that's strange. I never heard that before. I
never heard that. How can the nature of the law
change as long as sin It's what it is. Do you ever sin? If a
man says he has no sin, truth's not in him, is it? Does the law condemn sin now?
Can the nature of that law ever change that it will not condemn
sin? I don't think that's possible
to you. He changes us. He puts a new creature within
us, but He don't ever change His law. And here Paul is talking
about it. Look in 2 Corinthians chapter
3, and look in verse 6. God hath made us able ministers
of the new covenant. New Testament, that's covenant.
Not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter killeth
It kills. Has the nature of the letter
ever changed? Paul didn't say it used to kill.
He said it kills. It kills. It will kill you. The
Spirit gives life. The law kills. Look in verse
7. If the ministration of death,
written and graven in stone. Now what was written in stone?
Ten Commandments with it. After the tenor of these Ten
Commandments, I've made a covenant with you. And here Paul says,
if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, it was glorious so that the children
of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for
the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away.
How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation be glorious, much more does the
ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that
which was made glorious hath no glory in this respect, by
reason of the glory that it selleth. For if that which is done away
was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious."
See the difference in these two covenants. One is administration
of death. It kills. Another's administration
of life. One's administration of condemnation.
One's administration of righteousness. But they're different, aren't
they? They're different. And I tell you, brothers and
sisters, the very instant you look at that covenant of works,
the very instant you look at that to be your rule of life,
to be your help, to guide you, You're stirring death in the
face. You're stirring your sins in the face. Stirring condemnation
in the face. I have never in all my life been
able to figure out how the law is a believer's rule of life.
I have tried it. I have tried it. And all I've
found is my sin and my guilt and wrath upon that until I looked
away from that. And that's the nature of it,
ain't it? That's the nature. Not according
to that covenant. There's a new covenant. Thank
God there's a new covenant. Built upon better promises. Looking back in Acts chapter
8 again. This is the covenant. Verse 10. This is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith
the Lord. This is the New Covenant. And
he mentions five covenant blessings. And notice the first thing that
this New Covenant does in verse 10. I will put my laws into their
mind and write them in their hearts. Notice the first thing
the New Covenant does. It's not about outward ceremony.
It's not about forms and practices of the flesh. I will put my laws
in their minds and in their hearts. It has to do with the heart.
The new covenant begins with the heart. Cleanse first that
which is within. That's what the Master said. Rinse your heart, not your garment. Circumcise your heart. Make a
new heart. That's where God begins, because
if He don't make a new heart, everything else means nothing.
That's where He begins. This is my new covenant. It's
not about ceremonies, physical separation. Self-righteous people, bless
their hearts. They'll go down to Walmart or
the religious bookstore and buy them a little plaque that says,
I stand behind the Ten Commandments. Take it out and drive it down
in their yard. God starts with the heart. He's
not interested in seeing the Ten Commandments posted in your
front yard. He's going to put His laws in
your heart. God looks upon the heart. If I regard iniquity in
my heart, he won't hear of it. You draw near to me with your
lips, but your heart is far from me. The heart has to be changed,
has to be a new heart. God has to write upon the heart.
I will put my laws in their minds, and in their hearts will I write
this. Whatever these laws are, that
God writes in the heart and puts in the mind. This must be the
rule of the believer's life because it's in his heart. As a man thinks
in his heart, so is he. That's the way you'll walk. That's
the way you'll act. What's in your heart determines
your attitude. So when God writes upon the heart
and He puts His laws in our mind, that must be what we think. That
must determine our attitude, where we go, what we say. Let me give you four or five
laws, and you can look in your concordance and look some of these up for
yourself and work through them yourself. But let me just give
you a few laws, this established rule. In Romans chapter 3, verses
26 and 27, listen to this. I declare at this time His righteous,
that He might be just, and the justifier are them which believe
in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It's
excluded by what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law
of faith. Faith is a law. I'll put my law
in their mind. I'll write it upon their hearts.
What? The law of faith. You live by
faith, don't you? You know you can't help but believe.
You know why you can't help but believe? That's a law in your
heart. He's put it there. The life I now live in my flesh,
I live by faith of the Son of God. I can't help it. I can't
help it. We were born looking to Christ.
Born again looking to Christ. We're looking to Him now. Look
it, believe it, trust it. That's in our heart. A law God
put there. Here's another law in Romans
chapter 8 in verse 2. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which want not the act of the flesh, but the act of
the Spirit. Now listen to this. But for the law of the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus. There's a law. The law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. He put this law in our hearts.
There shall be in you a fountain of living water. It's not that
bitter water that you'll drink and kill you, but it's the living
water. The spirit of life. It's not
that law that genders to bondage. But it's the Spirit that gives
liberty. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. One man says, it's amazing to
me, and I agree with this statement wholeheartedly. He said, it's
amazing to me that some plead that the Holy Spirit is not a
sufficient guide and teacher, but Moses is. Ain't that amazing? He shall guide you into all truth. I tell you what the Holy Spirit
does that the law can't do. He can't reveal Christ. The Spirit
can. The law can't set you free, but
the Spirit can. The law can't reveal the deep
things of God to you, but the Spirit can. What does the law
do? Show you your sin. And that's
good, because we need to know it, but that's all He can do.
But the Spirit, He can guide us into all truth. Here's another
law in Galatians chapter 6, verse 2. Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ. Moses has a law. Christ does
too. Do you know what His law is? This commandment I give to you,
that you love one another. Having loved his own, which were
in the world, he loved them until the end. That's a good rule,
ain't it? That's a good law to have upon
your heart. Having loved his own. You love one another, he
said, as I've loved you. Ain't that a good rule, brothers
and sisters? Ain't that a good law to have upon your heart?
How patient was he with his people? How long-suffering? How forgiving? How kind and how tenuous? That's
the law of Christ. If any man see his brother fall,
you which are spiritual, restore him. That's what Christ did with
Peter. That's what He did with us. And
this law of God is written upon our hearts. And you can't help
but live by it. In our most backslidden condition,
when you see a dear brother in trouble, you can't turn away
from him. You can't turn away. I don't care how hardened you've
got, if you need to forgive one of your brothers or your sisters
in Christ, you'll wind up doing it. That's the law of Christ. And God writes it upon your heart.
Oh, God's trying to do this and God's trying to do that. My poor
old neighbor, bless her heart. That's all I ever heard out of
her anymore. If people just listened, if God's people would just listen
to Him, He's trying to do this. These are covenant blessings.
And God writes these blessings upon our hearts. James has a good one in James
chapter 1 verse 25. Whosoever looketh unto the perfect
law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in
his deeds. The perfect law of liberty. Now, anybody can twist that and
get the Ten Commandments out of it. I'd like to see them do
it. Wouldn't you? Because I never know the law to give anybody
liberty. It genders to bondage. But there is a perfect law of
liberty. And you know what it is? It's
the Word of Truth. You shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free. It's the Gospel. It's the Word
of God rightly divided. That's truth. "...of His own will begot to
us with the Word of truth. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith
Christ has made you free." The perfect law of liberty. I tell you, there's nobody in
this world that enjoys God, and that serves one another, and
that gives of their time and their substance like people who
believe the gospel. They just don't go around bragging
about it. But when you have the liberty, when you hear the gospel
of the grace of Christ, and the more liberty that you have, the
more you're going to appreciate what He's done for you. Brother
Mahan once said, you cannot improve on Jesus Christ as a motivating
force. You can't. That's why Paul said,
stand fast in this liberty. But Paul, we've got to bring
in some law to threaten God's children and bring in some rewards
to tempt them with. Bring in all this. No. Find out
where this liberty is and stand fast. Enjoy God. Love Him. Serve Him. Crucify
the old man. You've got to do that. He don't
have any liberty. You start giving him liberty
and he'll abuse it. But this new man, the conscience,
the heart is free. It's free. The law of liberty
in Christ. A couple of more and I'll close.
The law of the wise. is a fountain of life. That's
a good law, isn't it? The law of the wise. The Jews
were ignorant of the law. Here's the law of the wise. Those
who are wise unto salvation, they have a law and it's a fountain
of life that they may depart from the snares of death. What's
the snares of death? It's that letter. It's that first
covenant. The covenant of words. Oh, but
those who know the gospel, they're wise unto salvation. What do
they do? They turn away from that law. They flee to that to
be saved by Christ. Romans 8, verse 2. The law of
sin and death. The Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. I find then a law that when I
would do good, Evil is present with me. You never knew anything
about that law until the Lord saved you. Did you? No. But now you do, don't you? I don't know how we go about
saying He's written this upon our hearts, but He's made us
aware of that. And you can't depart from this, can you? But it's fair. When I would do
good, Let me finish this and we'll close. The second blessing.
Look at this. The second blessing. I will be
to them a God. I will write my laws upon their
minds and in their hearts. I will be to them a God. There's a blessing. That's a
covenant blessing. What kind of God is God to you?
Is God your God? Has your God chosen you? Has
He redeemed you? Has He given you His life, the
life of His Son? Does He care about you? Does He watch over you? Does
He correct you? Does He teach you? Does He guide
you? Does He uphold you? Does He comfort
you? Is God your God? I will be a God to them. Happy is the people whose God
is the Lord. I am my beloved, and my beloved
is mine. You rejoice in that. You rejoice
in that. We know who our God used to be,
don't we? We have a new God. He's become
our God through this covenant. Thirdly, all shall know me from
the least to the greatest. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee. I will give them a heart to know
Me, and they shall be My people, and I'll be their God, and they
shall return to Me with their whole heart. They shall know
Me. A Christian came up to me yesterday. He's styled in blue. He said,
Papi, would you help me receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior?
I didn't know hardly what to say. He said, would you help
me receive you? I said, you know bud, that's
one aspect of salvation. That's one aspect of it. As you
have received Christ Jesus, we receive a full Savior into our
utter emptiness indeed, don't we? But that's not all of it
is it? What is it to be saved? It's
to know Him. To know Him. This is life eternal
that they might know Thee. Bruce Young Christians? Yeah,
that's what makes you a Christian. From the least to the greatest.
It's not that we go to the seminars or we're educated and taught
into knowing Him. I can't come up to you and say,
know the Lord. I can say that. But I tell you,
I can't reveal Him to you. But He makes His self real. And
when He does, it's an excellent knowledge. And you'll just give
up everything for it. To know Him. And fourthly, verse 12, here's
the fourth blessing, I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. Oh my, what a blessing that is.
I want to say there are many to go that you and I have seen,
we're told that if we name the name of Christ, depart from iniquity,
And we're always struggling to do that. Praying for grace to
lay aside the weights of sin. But you know there is a sin that
we can't depart from. We can't shake loose from it.
And that's this old sinful nature. We'll fight against this thing
until we die. The flesh lusteth. He wars against
the Spirit. What's God's attitude towards
this? I'll be merciful to Him. For Christ's sake, I'll be merciful
to Him. I think we talk about mercy that
comes to us and saves us. Obtaining mercy. We realize we
need it every day. Mercy. I heard Brother Todd say
not long ago that he used to believe that God just endeared
him. He was a child of God, but God just had to endear him. It
ain't that way. He loves His children. He enjoys
His children. And even though they're sinners
in themselves, He's merciful to that remnant of sin that remains
in them. And lastly is this, and their
sins and iniquities, well, I forgive. I purge them. I blot them out. I wash them away. I remember
them no more. No more. I don't care to face
God if He won't remember my sins. If He'll look at me and say,
I don't see any guilt. I don't see any iniquity. I've
sought for it. And if it was there, I'd see
it. But it's not there. It's gone. We can stand. That's why I'm afraid of death.
That's why I'm afraid of eternity. I just can't believe that He
would not remember my sins. I believe it. I believe it. As great as it is, I believe
that God will never hold a fang against me, for Christ's sake.