Glorious day indeed. That day
when my sin was actually taken away. Praise the Lord for that. Would you turn with me to Exodus
chapter 19? Now we're getting ready. To look
at the law. God's holy law. And. I request your prayer. that the
Lord will give us some light and some understanding. I want
to preach the gospel from preaching the law, what the law is supposed
to do. Now, we're going to look at Sinai
tonight and Zion next week, Lord willing. I want to get into why
God gave the law in the first place. And then we're going to
look at the Ten Commandments, and I don't know how far we're
going to go with this, but I need help in dealing with this the
way it ought to be dealt with. So you pray for me that the Lord
will give me wisdom and that He give you hearing ears in dealing
with the law of God. Now, this is very interesting.
Look in Exodus 19, verse 7. This is where the law, the Mosaic
law is introduced. It's introduced upon this, verse
7. And Moses came and called for
the elders of the people and laid before their faces all these
words, which the Lord commanded him. And all the people answered
together and said all that the Lord has spoken. We will do. These words are repeated in Exodus
chapter 24. Now chapters 20, 21, 22, and
23 is the giving of the law, the 10 commandments and a whole
lot of other laws. The law is one. You can't have
one part without the other. I've heard people talk about,
well, there's the moral law, there's the ceremonial law, and
then there's the civil law. No, the law is one. You can't
separate it. The Bible never tries to separate
it into different. The law is one. Now, after God
gave them the law, this is including the 10 commandments. Look what
they said in Exodus 24, verse seven. And he took the book of the covenant
and read in the audience of the people. He read what we will
read in Exodus chapters 20 through 23. He read this to him and look
what they said. And they said, all that the Lord
has said, will we do and be obedient. As soon as they make this promise,
we have the introduction of the law. Kind of an interesting time
to introduce it after they make these bold claims. All that God
has said we will do. And he says, okay, we'll bring
in the law then. We'll see how you do. And Moses
talks about this in Deuteronomy chapter five. Would you turn
with me there? Deuteronomy chapter five. He recounts this. And what
they said, verse 27. Deuteronomy 5, verse 27, go down
near and hear all that the Lord, our God shall say and speak down
to us all that the Lord, our God shall speak unto thee, and
we will hear it and do it. And the Lord heard the voice
of your words when you spake unto me. And the Lord said unto
me, I've heard the voice of the words of this people, which they
have spoken unto thee. They have well said all that
they've spoken. I mean, what response could they
give? Well, I'll keep 90% of it or
I'll pick out this part to obey and the other part I want. No,
they have well spoken. They said what they should have
said. Look what he says in verse 29. Oh, that there were such
an heart in them. They would fear me and keep all
my commandments. Always. They spoke well, but
God knew that this heart was not in them. Well, let's go back
to Exodus chapter 19. Verse eight and all the people
answered together and said all that the Lord has spoken, we
will do. And Moses returned the words
of the people unto the Lord. And the Lord said unto Moses,
lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud that the people may hear
when I speak with thee and believe thee forever. And Moses told
the words of the people unto the Lord. Now the Lord is saying,
I'm going to make sure they know that your words are my words. And then he goes on to give this
description of Mount Sinai. place of the giving of the law.
Now we're going to look in the New Testament commentary of this
in just a moment, but I want to read the rest of this chapter.
And the Lord said unto Moses, go unto the people and sanctify
them today and tomorrow and let them wash their clothes and be
ready against the third day. For the third day, the Lord will
come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. And
thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, take
heed to yourselves that you go not up unto the mount, or touch
the border of it. Whosoever toucheth the mount
shall be surely put to death. There shall not a hand touch
it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through. Whether it be
beast or man, it shall not live. When the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the Mount." Now here's this place where God's
giving the law, Mount Sinai. And he says, if somebody as much
as touches it with their hand, they're to be stoned or a dart
thrust through them, verse 14. And Moses went down from the
mountain to the people and sanctified the people and they washed their
clothes. And he said unto the people, be ready against the
third day, come not at your wives. And it came to pass on the third
day in the morning that there were thunders and lightnings
and a thick cloud upon the Mount and the voice of the trumpet
exceeding loud so that all the people that were in the camp
trembled. They were scared to death. I understand them being
scared to death. Wouldn't you been afraid at this
time? And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to
meet with God. And they stood at the nether part of the Mount
and Mount Sinai was all together on a smoke because the Lord descended
upon it in fire and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke
of a furnace and the whole Mount quaked greatly. And when the
voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder,
Moses spake and God answered him by voice. And the Lord came
down upon Mount Sinai on the top of the Mount And the Lord
called Moses up to the top of the mount. And Moses went up
and the Lord said unto Moses, go down, charge the people, lest
they break through unto the Lord to gaze. And many of them perish.
And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify
themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them. And Moses said
unto the Lord, the people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. For thou
chargest us, saying, Set bounds about the mouth, and sanctify
it. And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou
shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee. But let not the priests
and the people break through to come unto the Lord, lest he
break forth upon them. That means he's going to kill
them if they try to come into his presence. So Moses went down into the people
and spake unto them. And God spake all these words,
and this is where he begins to give the Ten Commandments. Now, what I would like for us
to do is look at the New Testament commentary on this passage of
Scripture. Would you turn to Hebrews chapter 12? Now, can
you imagine what a scary sight that must have been? That must
have been terrifying. God coming down like that in darkness and
blackness and a tempest, a hurricane was going on, the earth was quaking.
Of course they were scared to death. I would have been scared
to death too. And you wouldn't. And you weren't to touch this
mountain. You'd be killed if you did. Now
look, look in Hebrews chapter 12, where the writer to the Hebrews
talks about this. Beginning in verse 18. For you are not come unto the
mount that might be touched. Now it could physically be touched,
but what happened if you touched it? you'd be killed, you'd be
put to death immediately. So you wouldn't want to touch
it. It could be touched, but what happened if you did? Now he said,
you've not come to this physical mountain, Mount Sinai, where
God gave the law that might be touched and that burned with
fire, nor into blackness and darkness and tempest. It was a mountain that could
not be inhabited. No one could live on it. Not
a beast, not a man. It could not be inhabited. You couldn't see. You couldn't
see who God is. All you could hear is a voice.
Blackness, darkness, a tempest, a hurricane going on. This was
unapproachable. God apart from Christ, God apart
from grace is utterly unapproachable. You can't see who God is, you
can't approach, you'll be killed if you do. What I thought of
when I thought of this description of Mount Sinai, I thought of
what Paul said to the Galatians in Galatians chapter 4, he says,
tell me you that desire to be under the law. Don't you hear
it? Don't you hear what it says? Verse 19, the sound of trumpet. and the
voice of words, which voice they that heard entreated, that the
word should not be spoken to them anymore, for they could
not endure that which was commanded." They couldn't keep the law. They
couldn't obey. They couldn't even handle hearing
the law preached to them. They couldn't endure it. What
I thought about was Romans chapter 8, where it says, the carnal
mind is enmity against God. It's not subject to the law of
God. Neither, indeed, can be. So then
they that are in the flesh cannot please God." They couldn't endure
that which was commanded. Now, I love what is commanded. I love the holy law of God. I
can't wait to get into it. It's a reflection of His beautiful,
glorious, holy character. And I'm not afraid of the law
of God because I have Christ. I stand perfect before that law.
And so I have no reason to fear it. But apart from Christ, it
scares me to death. the command, the awesomeness
of this holy law. They could not endure that which
was commanded. Verse 20. And if such as and
if so much as a beast touched the mountain, it should be stoned
or thrust through with a dart. And so terrible was the sight
that Moses said, the one God used to bring the law, I exceedingly
fear and quake. Now, that was Moses response
to the giving of the law. Now, I love this. He says, you've not come there.
You've not come to this place, Mount Sinai, but here's where
you come. Verse 22, but you are come unto
Mount Zion. And this is a place that can
be inhabited. You've come unto the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem, as opposed to that mountain that might be
touched and to an innumerable company of angels. I don't know
much about angels, but I know they're mighty beings. They're
God's servants. And I don't have any doubt there.
There are angels with us right there. wherever the gospel is
preached. They're there. Which things angels
desire to look into. Angels love the gospel. The elect
angels do. I think it's real interesting
that the angels that are not fallen are called elect angels. The reason they didn't fall is
God chose them not to fall. And they are in our midst. They're
servants of God waiting to do His will. Now, I don't know much
about angels. But I know they're God's servants,
and I esteem them highly in that sense. I don't worship them,
not at all. I mean, they're creatures, mutable
creatures. You know, Scripture says He even
charges His angels with folly, and they haven't even fallen.
And the reason He charges them with folly is because they could
fall if He didn't keep them. They're mutable, and they could
fall if He didn't keep them. So anything that can fall, He
can charge with folly. They're glorious beings and an
innumerable company of angels, cherubim, seraphim. There's a
lot in the Bible about them. But this is who is on Mount Zion.
Remember, this is a place that is inhabited. Unlike Sinai, that's
not inhabited. You couldn't touch it or you'd
be put to death. This is called the city of the living God. People
live in a city, don't they? Angels live in a city. This is
a place that could be inhabited. Look in verse 23. He says, you've
come to Mount Zion and he calls it the general assembly and church
of the firstborn, which are written in heaven. Now, this general
assembly, this word has to do with a festival. It has something
to do with a party. It has something to do with a
good time. It was used in reference to the Greek Olympics. They would
have a festival before the Olympics. It was a time when everybody
was enjoying themselves and they were eating and fellowshipping
and having fun. It's not a place, Sinai certainly
doesn't seem like a festival, does it? It's not someplace where
you think you'd have a good time, but this Sinai, it's the general
assembly. It's a festival. And that's what
knowing the Lord is. You know, when we were listening
to that song just now, and I was thinking of that glorious day
my sins are taken away, when my sins were taken away, that's
a festival to me. That's glorious. It's something I can just rejoice
in. That's more precious than anything
this world has to offer, to think that my sin is put away, to think
that I'm meeting with God's people. And I was thinking angels are
here. I knew I was going to say that. I think there's angels
here. What a glorious place to be. This is a festival. It's
not a it's not a depressing place like Sinai place. It scares you
to death. It's a it's a place where there's life that's inhabited.
He says to the General Assembly and the Church of the Firstborn,
which are written in heaven. This is talking about God's elect. Their name is enrolled in heaven
in the Lamb's Book of Life. Here's. We don't have a church
role here. We're never going to have one.
I just don't see the point in it as far as I don't see where
those are in the Bible. Do you have your name on a church
roll? No, we don't even have one. I've
had so many people say, what do you got to do to be a member
here? Well, believe what's preached. Believe what's preached. Be here. Support
the gospel. Remember, that's church membership.
It's not going through some kind of church roll thing. But I tell
you what, there is one church roll I want to have my name inscribed
in. And that's the Lamb's Book of Life. Now that's the role
that I must have my name on. I can't look in the Lamb's Book
of Life. I know whose name I'd be looking
for if I could. But I'd be looking for you after me. I'd check myself
out first. I'd get to you later on, but
I want to check myself out first. But let's read what the Bible
says about this. Turn to Revelation chapter 13. Verse 8, And all that dwell upon
the earth shall worship Him. That's talking about the beast,
the false prophet. All that dwell upon the earth
shall worship Him. whose names are not written in
the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. Now that's God's elect. And they
were viewed in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. They've never been separated
from Him. And that's why they won't worship the beast. Their
name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. They're God's elect.
They're in the Lord Jesus Christ. Look in Revelation chapter 20. Verse 12, John says, And I saw
the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were
opened, the books of all their works, what they'd done. And
another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the
dead, those who did not know Christ, dead in sins, never given
a new nature, never believed on Christ. The dead were judged
out of those things which were written in their books according
to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it,
and the death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them.
And they were judged every man according to their works. And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the
second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book
of life was cast into the lake of fire." Now this book of life,
that's the book I want to have my name in. And the General Assembly
and Church of the Firstborn, The Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ, all of God's elect, all those Christ died for, all who
believe, their names are written in the Book of Life. Now he says
in verse 23, you've come to the General Assembly and Church of
the Firstborn, which are written in heaven, and you've come to
God. the judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect." Now, this is a festive city,
and you've come to God the judge of all, and generally when we
think of coming to God as a judge, we don't think of a festival,
do we? I mean, it's a sobering, solemn thought. But this God,
who is the judge of all, has judged these who He describes
as the spirits of just men made Now, this God who's the judge
of all, He's judged every one of these people who are called
the General Assembly, the Church of the Firstborn, whose names
are written in heaven. They're the spirits of just men
made perfect. Now, this is where you've come,
to God the judge of all, and here's His judgment regarding
every believer. This is what He says about me. I'm a just
man, literally having been made perfect. This is not what I will
be. This is what I already am. Having been made perfect. I'm
just. I'm just. I'm justified. This
is true of every believer. I'm justified. I stand just before
this holy law of God that we're going to be looking at. It finds
me not guilty. I've never broken the law. I
don't have anything to be guilty about. I'm just before the holy
law of God. And I've been made perfect, complete
in Christ. I can't get any more holy. I
can't get any more saved. I can't get any more accepted.
I can't get any more beautiful than I am right now in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now the only way you can get
hold of that is by faith. Because you can't see it. You can't see
it, but you believe it, don't you? I really believe that what
Christ did has made me just and perfect. I have no sin before
God, and so I can come and to God the judge of all, in a festive
occasion, not just scared because of the blackness and the darkness
and the tempest, but come boldly into His presence and not fear
my judge, but rejoice in my judge. Now, the only way I can understand
this, and I do understand this, I believe it when I'm saying
it, I believe it with all my heart, but the only way I can
understand this is union with Christ. If Jesus Christ, just and perfect,
Now, is He? You understand that He is, don't
you? He's just. He's perfect. 1 John 4, 17 says,
as He is, so are we in this world. He became what I am on the cross. That's why God killed Him. He
was made sin and I am made what He is. Just and perfect. Now, doesn't that give you some
confidence? I come into the presence of God, the judge of all, and
I'm not afraid. I can come boldly through the
Lord Jesus Christ. I love that description of believers,
the spirits of just men made perfect. Verse 24, and you've
come, this is who's on Mount Zion. Well, there's angels, there's
believers, there's God, the judge of all. Here's who else is at
Mount Zion. And to Jesus, the mediator of
the new covenant. Now, what's the old covenant?
Well, it's the law. The law. God's holy law. Now, God's holy law says obey
me and be saved. Break me and be damned. It really
is that simple. God's holy law. Now, it means
more than just trying to keep the Ten Commandments. Somebody
says, well, I try to keep the Ten Commandments. Well, no, you
don't. No, you don't. You may say that, but it kills me the
way people want to have the Ten Commandments on in the courtrooms, in the school,
and so on. Now, I love God's holy law. I don't suppose there's,
I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with that as such, but
don't you see what the law says? It condemns if you have any understanding
of it. And law represent, well, here's
an example of what Sinai represents. You remember there in Galatians
chapter four when Paul said, Hagar is Mount Sinai. Hagar is Mount Sinai. Now Hagar
is the woman where God had promised Abraham and Sarah a child. And years passed and it didn't
happen. And Sarah said, now God made
his promise. I realize that Abraham, but we
need to do our part. Obviously we're not doing our
part and it's not working with me. So here's what we need to
do. You go into Hagar and you have a baby with her. We'll do
our part and everything will be okay. Paul tells us Hagar
is Mount Sinai. If you believe that salvation
is in any way dependent upon something you do in your part,
God doing his part, now you need to do your part, that is law. And all the law does is condemn. Now he says, you've not come
to that old covenant, keep it perfectly, live and disobey and
die, but you've come to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant.
And turn back to Hebrews eight, he tells us what that new covenant
is. Verse seven. For if the first covenant. The
giving of the law had been faultless. Then should no place have been
sought for the second. Is there any fault in the old
covenant in the covenant of works? Yes, there is. You know what
it is? It won't save. It won't save. God found fault
with it because of that. For finding fault with them,
he saith, verse eight, behold, the days come, saith the law,
when I'll 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'll make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord. I'll put my laws in their minds
and write them in their hearts. I'll be to them a God, they'll
be to me a people, and they shall not teach every man his neighbor
and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for also know
me from the least to the greatest, for I will be merciful. I'll be propitious to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now
that's the new covenant. God says in this covenant, I'll
be propitious toward your sin. I'll be appeased. But through
the blood of my son, I won't have a reason to be mad at you.
That's what propitiation means. I won't have a reason to be mad
at you. I am appeased. And because of that, your sins
and iniquities, I'll remember no more. I remember some of them. A lot of them. Most of them I
don't. But I remember a lot of them.
But you know, God doesn't remember any of them. And the reason God
doesn't remember any of them is because there's nothing there.
That's what the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ did. Now that's
the, you've come to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. He's the guarantee of this covenant. He's the surety of this covenant.
He's the reason this covenant works. It's his precious blood
that put away your sin. It's his righteousness that's
your righteousness. Now you've come to Jesus, the
mediator of the new covenant. And then back to our text in
Hebrews 12, It's a good place to come to,
isn't it? Mount Zion. I love Mount Zion. He says in
verse 24, You've come to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than
that of Abel. Now, do you remember when they said, Oh, that the
Lord has spoken, that will we do? Do you remember what Moses
did when we read that passage in Exodus chapter 24? He starts
sprinkling blood on them. Blood on them. Now, why did he
do that? There's only one reason for blood.
He knew they wouldn't do it. And he knew only the blood would
make them perfect in God's sight. The blood of sprinkling, the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that speaks better things than
that of Abel. Now you remember when God said
concerning Abel's blood, the blood of your brother Abel cries
to me from the ground. Well, what did it cry? Justice,
vengeance, punishment. Condemnation. That's what the
blood of Abel said. That's what it said to God. Getting
back. Paying back. Justice. What's the blood of
sprinkling say? It says justice too. It says
justice also. It's just as just as the other.
You see the blood of Christ. God's justice demands the salvation
of everybody Christ died for. It cries justice but it also
cries pardon. Peace. Forgiveness. acceptance. You see where this
blood speaks better things than that of Abel. Abel's saying put
him to death, condemn him. The blood of Christ says save
him and it's all justice. Now verse 25. Now you've come
to Mount Zion, not Mount Sinai, that scary place, but you've
come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God. See, verse
25, see that you refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escape
not who refused him that spake on the earth, much more shall
not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. Now to refuse means to beg off,
to decline. How shall we escape if we neglect
so great a salvation? To come to Zion and to decline.
I decline. Look back at Hebrews 10, verse
28. He that despised Moses' law died
without mercy. under two or three witnesses.
Of how much sore punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought
worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified an unholy or
a common thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace. Back to Hebrews 12. See that you refuse not him that
speaketh, for if they escape not who refuse him that spake
on earth, much more shall not we escape if we turn away from
him that speaketh from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth. And we read about that when he
came down on Mount Sinai and there was a hurricane and there
was an earthquake, but now he hath promised saying, yet once
more I'll shake not the earth only, but also heaven. There's
another shaking that's going to take place. And this word,
verse 27, this greater shaking in this
word yet once more signifying the removing of those things
that are shaken as the things that are made that those things
which cannot be shaken may remain. Now, everything that can be shaken
will be shaken in order that that which cannot be shaken will
remain. Now, things that can be shaken,
that implies instability if it can be shaken. It implies corruption. It implies rottenness. You know, if there's a crack
in a supporting wall, if it's shaking, what's going to happen?
It's going to fall in. We've all taken a rug outside and give
it a good shaking to get rid of the dirt out of it. You've shaken a stick before.
Maybe when it was rotten, maybe you wanted to get a good strong
stick. You take a rotten stick and shake it. What happens? It
falls apart. Instability, rottenness and corruption
is implied in that which can be shaken. But we also read of
those things that cannot be shaken. What cannot be shaken? Well, everything but God. Now,
you think of everything, everything that's made can be shaken. This
earth, there's earthquakes. You know, they say the plates
underneath are moving all over the place and there's all kinds
of stuff going on underneath. It's unstable. That's why we
have volcanoes. That's why we have earthquakes.
That's why we have these disasters. It's an unstable place. You think
of how unstable governments are. I mean, they seem strong, but
they're going to fall every one of them are. Think of how unstable
the economy is, and economy anywhere you go. Think of how unstable
people are. You see, anything that can change
is unstable. Up here, down here, up... Every
human being is so unstable. Just, if you can change, you're
unstable. Only that which is not made cannot
be shaken. Look at verse 27 again. This
word, yet once more signifying the removing of those things
that are shaken as of things that are made, that those things
which cannot be shaken may remain. You see, the only thing that
can't be shaken is that which is eternal. That's the only thing
that can't be shaken. That's the only thing that has
true stability, that which never had a beginning. Now, the first
thing that comes to my mind is my eternal union with the Lord
Jesus Christ. The reason I can't be shaken
is because I'm united to Him who is eternal. And every believer,
I obviously don't understand this, but every believer has
always had existence before God in the person of the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. I've always been united to Him.
What God does can't be shaken. What God does is forever. You
know, God's Word can't be shaken. It's an eternal Word. God, the
blood of Christ, what He accomplished, it can't be shaken. For His people,
what He does in His people, it can't be shaken. Whatever God
does, it's forever and it's stable. That's what's going to remain,
what God does. And you know what I'm relying
on right now? I'm relying on what God has done. I'm not relying
on what I've done. I'm relying on what the Lord
Jesus Christ has done. That is what is going to remain.
That's what can't be shaken. Everything else is unstable. So he says in verse 28, get this
word yet once more, verse 27. I want to read verse 27 and 28
together. And this word yet once more signifying
the removing of those things that are shaken as of things
that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom
which cannot be moved. Let us have grace whereby we
may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for
our God is a consuming fire. Now my marginal reference says,
let us hold fast to grace. Yeah. Seeing Sinai and Zion put side
by side together, seeing what Sinai says, that blackness and
darkness and tempest, a law I cannot keep, and seeing Zion, the spirits
of just men made perfect. Jesus, the mediator of the new
covenant. The grace of God that is manifested
in there. I tell you what, I'm holding
on to grace. I'm holding on tight by the grace
of God. I'm not going to let go. I'm
holding on to the hem of His garment, the grace of God. Let
us hold fast to grace. And that is the only way we can
serve God acceptably. By the grace of God, no other
way. By the grace of God, let us hold to grace that we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. And let me tell
you this, somebody that doesn't believe grace, sovereign grace,
free grace, saving grace, electing grace, redeeming grace, justifying
grace, God's grace, they don't serve
God with reverence or with godly fear. It's not real. Let us hold to grace whereby
we may serve God with reverence and godly fear for our God. Verse 29 is a consuming fire. Now, I wish I could say what
needs to be said about this, but this is. Referred to in Deuteronomy
chapter. Four. Verse 5. Well, I can't remember. I can't
read my writing here. It's in Deuteronomy 24, 5. The Lord,
thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God who will not
tolerate rivals. He won't tolerate competition.
He won't do it. He's a consuming fire. And anyone
who fights against him is going to be consumed. Our God is a
consuming fire, even a jealous God. Now that being the truth,
let's hold on to grace. Let us have grace. I'm thankful
grace holds me. The reason I hold grace is because
grace holds me. Thank God for that. Let's pray
together.