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 and
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 Ten 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 Ten Commandments. Look what
they said in Exodus chapter 24, verse 7. 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
hath 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 after they make these bold claims, all that God
has said we will do. And he says, OK, 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 have heard the voice of the words of this people which
they have spoken unto thee. They have well said all that
they have spoken. I mean, what response could they
give? Well, I'll keep ninety percent
of it, or I'll pick out this part to obey and the other part
I won't. No, they have well spoken. They said what they should have
said. Look what it says in verse twenty-nine. Oh, that there were
such an heart in them. They would fear me. And keep
all my commandments. Always. They spoke well that
God knew that this heart was not in them. Well, let's go back
to Exodus chapter 19. Verse 8 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. the 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 unto yourselves that ye 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. 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 have 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 altogether 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 writers of 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 not come to this physical mountain, Mount Sinai, where
God gave the law that might be touched and that burned with
fire, nor in the 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 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 When I thought of this description of Mount
Sinai, I thought of what Paul said to the Galatians in Galatians
chapter four. 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 word, 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 they couldn't
even handle hearing the law preached to them. They couldn't endure
it. What I thought about was Romans chapter eight, 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 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 are angels with us right now. 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, the 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 the city, don't
they? Angels live in the city, people. This is a place that
can be inhabited. Look in verse 23. He says you
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 depressing place like
Sinai, a place that scares you to death. It's a place where
there's life. It'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. 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. 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'd 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've 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 First One, which are written in heaven, and you 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 perfect. 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 First Board, 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. And 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'm coming 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 what I'm saying, I
believe it with all my heart, but the only way I can understand
this is union with Christ. Is 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 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 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. says, well,
I try to keep ten commands. Well, no, you don't. No, you
don't. You may say that, but I do. It kills me the way people
want to have the ten commandments, you know, on in the in the courtrooms,
in the school and so on. I love God's holy law. I don't
suppose there's 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
it. It condemns if you have any understanding
of it. And law represents, well, here's
an example of what Sinai represents. You remember there in Galatians
chapter 4 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. 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 8. He
tells us what that new covenant is. Verse 7. 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 him, he
saith, verse 8, Behold, the days come, saith the law, when I 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 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 of God. They'll be to me of 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 sins. 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. 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 were reading that passage in Exodus chapter 24?
He started 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. Get
him back. Pay him back. Justice. What's the blood of
Sprinkled 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. And 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 declare or to decline. How shall we escape if we neglect
so great a salvation? To come to Zion and say, I 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." Now back to Hebrews 12, "'See
that ye 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 had 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 rock, 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? With everything but God. And
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, 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 the 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, where.
Get this word yet once more, verse 27, verse 27, 28 together. And 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. 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. Now, see, 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 4, 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. Now, I'm thankful grace holds
me. The reason I hold grace is because
grace holds me. Thank God for that. Let's pray
together.