Deuteronomy chapter 27. Let's
read the first 13 verses. Deuteronomy chapter 27 and verse
1, And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people,
saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
And it shall be on the day when you shall pass over Jordan, unto
the land which the Lord your God giveth you, that ye shall
set up great stones, and plaster them with plaster. And thou shalt
write upon them all the words of this law, when they are passed
over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord
your God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey,
as the Lord God of your fathers hath promised thee. Therefore
it shall be, when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set
up these stones which I command you this day in Mount Ebal, and
thou shalt plaster them with plaster. And there shalt thou
build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones,
which thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. Thou shalt build the altar of
the Lord thy God of whole stones, and thou shalt offer burnt offerings
thereon unto the Lord thy God. And thou shalt offer peace offerings,
and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God. And
thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very
plainly. And Moses and the priests, the
Levites, spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken,
O Israel, this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt therefore obey the
voice of the Lord your God, and do his commandments and his statutes
which I command you this day. And Moses charged the people
the same day, saying, Thee shalt stand upon Mount Gerizim, to
bless the people when you come over Jordan, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And these shall stand upon Mount
Ebal to curse Reuben, Gad, Asser, Zebulun, Dan, and Nephthala."
So let's look first of all at these few verses here in the
27th chapter. These were instructions here,
verses 1 through 8, the children of Israel were to follow when
the Lord brought them over the Jordan River. When they got up
to the other side, they were to take these stones. And if you read the account of
this in Joshua chapter 4 and chapter 8, Joshua had prepared
these men. And I'm not for sure what that
means, but I wonder if he didn't have these men stout men. Because
when they crossed over the Jordan, you remember it was flooded,
and before the Lord let it loose, they went down into the Jordan
River and got these huge stones. And each man set a huge stone
on his shoulder and carried it out. And they put all these stones
together, and then they plastered these twelve stones together.
You can read that there in the fourth and eighth chapter. of
Joshua. And then he tells us here that
they took these stones, these other stones, and built an altar
of unhued stones. I don't know how many stones
that was, but there was no tool upon this. It was all rare unhued
stones. Now as I thought about this,
I thought of some things that interested me, and I'll tell
you what I saw in these. And first of all was this. When
they came up, and we find this here in these verses, when they
came up west of the Jordan River, there were these two mountains.
On the one side was Mount Ebal, and it was sort of a barren mountain
range, they tell us. Nothing hardly would grow there.
And on the other side was Mount Gereson. It was somewhat of a
fertile mountain, and they divided the children of Israel up into
twelve tribes. Six tribes were on one side to
bless and six other tribes were on the other side to curse. The
Mount Ebel side they cursed. The Mount Geresim side they blessed. And these plastered stones were
set there on the Mount Ebel's side. You may have noticed that.
When you write the law on these stones, you pile them up and
plaster them together and you put them on Mount Ebel's side. Now not evil was the side they
cursed. So I think that automatically
your mind goes to cursed is everyone that is under the law. That's
where your mind goes to, isn't it? By the law is the knowledge
of sin. There's no flesh that can be
justified by the law. So we can quickly see what the
Holy Spirit has begun to represent to us here, that those who are
under the law are cursed. That's why they didn't set it
between the mountains, or surely not on Mount Gerson, but on Mount
Ebel. That's the first thing I saw
when I looked at this. And secondly, this. Why did He
set these tribes as He did? Which tribe set where? I thought this was very interesting.
These six tribes were set to bless. And when you study who
these kids were, you realize that all six of these children
were children of these free women. They were children of the free
women, Leah and Rachel. all of these six here that were
on Mount Gershom. And then four of the others,
you remember Rachel and Leah had twelve children, but they
gave their servant women to Jacob and he had four children by them. These were set on the side to
curse. All except Jacob's oldest son,
Reuben, and Leah's youngest son, Now I thought this was interesting.
I can understand why they put the sons of the servant women
there to curse and put the sons of the free women to bless. That's
such a beautiful representative of the children of God because
what are we? We're not the children of the
bondwoman, but we're children of the free, aren't we? And we
can bless because we've been blessed. And we can understand
these four children being put on the cursed side because if
you're under bondage to sin, if you're children of the bondwoman,
then you can't bless, can you? You can't bless until you're
blessed. But these other two children, Reuben, that was Jacob's
firstborn by Leah. Well, I think I can understand
that. The firstborn in the Scriptures was the son of your strength.
He was called the son of Jacob's strength. But I'm telling you
what, you talk about a disappointing fellow. Reuben, finally Jacob
said to him on his deathbed, he said, Reuben, you're unstable
as water. Everything he tried to do, he
failed in it. Study Reuben's life sometime.
Remember when his brother was going to sell Joseph and Reuben
was going to slip back later and deliver him? He failed at
that. Remember when he was going to go down to Egypt and take
little Benjamin with him? And he said, if I don't return,
kill my two sons. He told his dad that, how silly
that was. But Reuben was his firstborn,
but he's just like the firstborn. He's like us. He's flesh. He's a failure. And that's why
he stayed over here in this group to curse. All flesh is cursed,
isn't it? But Zebulun was her youngest
son. And I think what that represents
to us, that was her little baby. That was her little darling.
It was hers, her last job. So they both had to go over there
on the side to curse. But the others, the free woman,
the free women, they were there to bless. Thirdly, I saw in this,
these stones that were plastered and the law written on them,
they hinted something, I think. They were all separated, one
from another. They were all natural and unhewn,
and yet they were plastered together. First of all, I saw this and
this. All the commandments stand or fall together, don't they?
They're all plastered together. They're one. And if you went
up there and you knocked one stone out of that group, out
of that pile that was plastered, what did you do? You defaced
the whole thing, didn't you? All of these commandments stand
and fall together. In other words, if we break one
commandment, we broke them all. James said they stand and fall
together. Listen to what he said. Whosoever shall keep the whole
law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that
said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, saith also, Thou shalt not kill.
Now if you commit adultery, Yet if you don't kill, you're guilty
of them all and you're convinced by the law as a sinner, a lawbreaker. They all stand together. They're
plastered together. And as individual stones, one
stone had one commandment on it. Can you see as you're on
one side, you see one stone, thou shalt not have any graven
images. And going around, honor your
father and your mother. Then you look up here at this
stone, thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal. That's
the way the commandment comes to us. It don't come to us as
the whole law when we break it. It usually comes just one commandment,
doesn't it? It comes with power and conviction. We've stole something. We've
dishonored our father and our mother. We've coveted something.
And what happens? That one commandment. comes to
us. I tell you what, I've had, I
remember especially when I was lost, I've had this law come
to me, just one at a time. Maybe one week one thing, where
I broke it, the next week something else, but just one at a time,
cursing me, condemning my conscience. That's what happens here. They
were all individual, but when you broke them, you broke them
all. And consider this, He tells us here that this law was plainly
written on these stones. He said that there in verse 8.
He emphasized that, didn't he? Look in verse 8. And thou shalt
write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. I don't know how they did it.
Probably chiseled it out. But very, very plainly. And this
tells us, this represents to us the law given to the Jews. The Jews had it written on tables
of stone, and from then on, they copied it down on hides and then
paper, but they had it written down very, very plainly. No doubt
about it, is there? There's no doubt about what God
requires of man, and that's the moral law to be fulfilled. But
there's something else here I thought about, too, and that's the fact
that these stones were natural. They were unhewn. They were written
on these natural stones. Nobody shaped them. They were
written naturally. And that reminds us of what Paul
said concerning these Gentiles and their knowledge of the law.
Listen to Romans chapter 2. I think it's down around verse
16 somewhere. Listen to what he said. When the Gentiles do
by nature, the things contained in the law. These having not
the law are a law unto themselves, which show the work of the law
written in their hearts. Their conscience also bearing
witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile, accusing or else excusing
one another." There is a law. We could almost call it a natural
law. It's in men's conscience unless
men have had their conscience so seared. It's almost there
naturally. And it's this law in the conscience.
You know, before the law was ever given to the Jews and written
down on stones, men had it in their conscience. That's why
Abel or Cain was convicted of murder. But it wasn't even written,
Thou shalt not kill. Written in his conscience. The
judgment that God told He's going to bring on Pharaoh was judgment
because of his idols? That commandment wasn't even
written that you should have no other God. It was written
in his conscience. Abimelech, when he took Sarah,
Abraham's wife, the Lord come to him and said, You're a dead
man because you've taken another man's wife. Adultery wasn't even
written yet, but it was written in the conscience, wasn't it? Every man, I don't care where
you find your man, is without excuse. He has no excuse because
the law is in his conscience in a very natural way. Without the written law, but
these stones are there. Now in verses 5 through 7, In the plain side, and I love
this, in plain side of this plastered mount of stones with the law
written upon it, we are told here in verses 5 through 7 they
were to erect another altar. And we are told there are no
tools used on it. And they were to make an altar
out of it. They were to offer sacrifice
of it. And then they were to eat near or around this altar
and they were to rejoice. Now all of us know what this
represents. This is such a beautiful, confident picture of our Lord
Jesus Christ. He is the stone of Israel. And the Bible calls Him the chief
cornerstone, elect cornerstone, chosen of God and precious, the
living stone, and the stone which was set at Malt of you builders.
But listen to what Daniel says about it. He's the stone cut
out of the mountains without hand. In other words, He didn't
come into this world by natural means. He came into this world
by the womb of the Virgin, conceived by the Holy Ghost. Mary said,
How can these things be? And the Lord sent the angels,
saying, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power
of the Highest shall overshadow you, and that holy thing, which
shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God." It wasn't
natural, was it? As you and I are born. He truly
is a stone upon whom no tool, no man-made tool or means has
ever come. And Jesus Christ and Him crucified,
He's our altar. Hebrews chapter 13 and verse
10 says we have an altar and that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
And He's the burnt offering, He's the sin offering, He's the
peace offering. He offered Himself without spot
to God and by His offering He perfected forever those who are
sanctified. And it's in His broken body that
you and I have our feast. And it's His redeeming blood
that you and I drink and it's in Him that you and I rejoice. as we eat his body and drink
his blood. And we rejoice, Wayne taught
us Sunday, because by him we have received this reconciliation. He is this altar. He is this
sacrifice. He is the meal upon it. He is
our access to the Father. He is our redeeming Lord. And
listen to this, as you and I look upon this pile of plastered stones
with the law written on it, And when our conscience feels the
conviction of sins, we must never be alarmed and we must never
despair. We must look away to that altar,
the Lord Jesus Christ. See what He is saying here? And
there build this altar. Why there? Because it is there
where the wall is plastered. It's there that we see often
our utter, utter failure in our undone-ness. So we must look
to this altar to sacrifice the Lord Jesus Christ. I've said
this so often. An old Luther used to say this,
when the devil comes to you and says you're a sinner, you're
worthy to perish, agree with him and say I am, I am a lawbreaker. But Jesus Christ is my surety. He has stood a surety for me.
That's why the Holy Spirit put Scriptures like this here. Here
we have the plastered law, and who among us hasn't broken? And
here we have the sacrifice. Here we have the altar. And it's
nearby. It's nearby. When you've sinned,
when you feel it, don't despair or be alarmed. Look to the sacrifice
upon the altar. Feast upon Him and even rejoice
in Him. Now let's look in verses 14 through verse 26. He names many of the curses and
threatenings here to those who break the law. Begin in verse
14. And the Levites shall speak and
say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, The first
one is verse 15. Cursed be the man that maketh
any graven or molten image in an abomination unto the Lord,
the work of the hands of the craftsman, putting it in a secret
place, and the people shall answer and say, Amen. Now here's the
second commandment. He deals first with the second
commandment. And it's against the idols. Don't make any idols. I'm thankful for this. I'm not
bragging about this, but I thank the Lord that when we come in
here and we look around, we don't have any idols. I discovered this the other day,
and I'm taking this off. Somebody said something about
that. I said, I never saw that before. I never saw that before. But you know, we don't have any
symbols of any likeness of anything in heaven Do we? We don't have
any pictures around the walls, we don't have any angels, anything
like that. And I'm thankful for that. But
you know, it even goes deeper than that, doesn't it? It talks
here about putting it in a secret place. You know, we can cleanse
ourselves from all the idols outwardly as well we should and
must. But boy, here's where we've got
to watch it, ain't it? Have an idol, not physically,
but mentally. Have a little idol stored away
in there sometimes that we don't even know about. So he says here,
cursed is that man that makes it or molds an idol, and when
he puts it, even in a secret place, to try to hide it from
others. The sin of idolatry, that's a cursed thing, isn't
it? And then here in verse 16, and I thought this was strange
that this followed right on the heels of the second commandment,
verse 16. Cursed be he that setteth alight
by his father or his mother, and all the people shall say,
Amen. This is the fifth commandment.
Honor your father and your mother. What an awful sin it must be
to set it not. your father and your mother,
that it would be so close to the second commandment not to
commit idolatry. And the scriptures even in the
New Testament says, honor your father and your mother that your
days may be long upon the earth. And you know that the Bible says
this is the first commandment with the promise attached to
it. And that's the promise that your days may be long. I tell you, if young people,
boy I tell young people all the time, You better be good. You
better love your mom and dad. Not just because it's a sin against
God not to. I'll tell you one thing. If the
Lord later saves you, boy, you'll pay for that on your conscience.
I look back now and remember my attitude sometimes towards
my dear mother as such a sweet lady. And I was a young teenager
and so rebellious. And boy, I still hurt to this
day. So love your parents, honor your father, and honor your mother. I told one young lady not too
long ago, I know her father and mother, and she was having trouble
with them. And I'd have trouble with them
too, they're just that kind of people. But I told her, I said,
it doesn't matter how they treat you, how they act, you're just
responsible for respecting them. for loving them. That's what
you're responsible for. Not their attitude, but your
own. Solomon said this, Whosoever
curses his father and his mother, his lamp shall be put out in
obscure darkness. And then we have the eighth commandment
that brings the curse here in verse 17. Cursed be he that removeth
the neighbor's landmark, and all the people shall say, Amen."
And that is stealing, just simply stealing this. We have read and
we have studied on this before that God forbids the removal
of the landmarks. Then verse 18, Cursed be he that
maketh the blind to wander out of the way, and all the people
shall say, Amen. This is what the Lord Jesus confronted
the lawyers with. This is exactly the sin they
were guilty of. Listen to how He said it to them,
Warned to you, you lawyers, For you take away the key of knowledge. You take away Christ. You take
away the Gospel. You take away God's Word that
brings light and gives light. And you replace that with your
silly tradition and your commandments of men. That's what He told them.
And He said, You enter not in yourselves, and them that are
entering you hinder. Well, I tell you, wouldn't you
hate to be a pope? Wouldn't you hate to be some of these motivational
speakers? I was talking to some of you the other day, and your
mother, these motivational speakers. I know a motivational speaker,
and you do too. He preaches to about 60,000 people
every week. Wouldn't you have to answer for
that guy? Darkening men's understanding, leading them astray, The Lord
Jesus said, if the blind lead the blind, what's going to happen?
They're both going to fall into the ditch. And that's what this
is speaking about here. Man, I tell you what, it scares
me to death sometimes to be a preacher because I'm just afraid somebody's
going to believe what I'm telling them. And I'd better tell the
truth, hadn't I? Nothing else matters. It doesn't
matter about people's silver or people's wanting to bless
you or curse you. We ought to tell people the truth,
no matter what. No matter what. Because I tell
you, I don't want to lead people astray. Do you? We used to have
some meanness going on down in our neighborhood. They had the
Walter Mountain, and Joe was raising up for them the Walter
Mountain. It was a nice, big, wide highway until you started
to turn down over the mountains. And they had these little, narrow,
hairpin curves. I mean, they bent back. And some
guy would stand up there and flag these truckers down and
tell them the road was blocked over the way and you had to take
a shortcut. And they'd send those semis down over that mountain.
And that was bad. I think of that sometimes. I
thought, how cruel. How'd they get out of there? But that's
nothing compared to this, is it? Sending a man away from Christ
that works, religion, or something like that. Blind in his mind. How awful. And the Lord said
they are cursed. They are cursed. Cursed. An awful
curse. And verse 19, look at this. Cursed be he that perverted the
judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the withered.
and all the people shall say, Amen." I think this is a solemn
thing to have anybody at our disadvantage. I think that's
what this is speaking about, especially being a judge and
having somebody that is poor come before you. They have no
reputation. They have no defense. They have
no influence in taking advantage of them. But I think it even
goes further than that. that we would take advantage
of because we have the advantage. It would be awful to do that,
wouldn't it? I'm even careful about the waitresses
and the waiters that wait on me because we have the advantage
of them. So many people, young people,
curse be he that takes advantage of me. And then verses 20 through
verse 23, it speaks of sexual perversion. And as I read these
things, they're sort of repulsive to us. They're just naturally
repulsive to us. But look here, Adam. In verse 20, Cursed be he that
lieth with his father's wife. Now, he's not that repulsive. Because he uncoveth his father's
nakedness, his skirts. And all the people shall say,
Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with
any manner, a beast in a sexual way, and all the people shall
say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with
his sister, the daughter of his father or daughter of his mother,
and all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth
with his father-in-law, and all the people shall say, Amen."
Now to any conscience, unless it's seared with a hot iron,
looks upon these things as being disgusted and repulsive. But
you know, this was the practice of the land where the children
of Israel were going. Look over here and let me show
you right quick in Leviticus 18. Right back to your left in
Leviticus chapter 18. And look in Brown verse 24. Look around at verse 24. Defile
not ye yourselves in any of these things, Leviticus 18, 24. For
in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before
you. This is what he is talking about,
some of this sexual perversion. And the land is defiled, therefore
I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself
vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes
and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations,
neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth
among you. For all these abominations have
the men of the land done, all of them, which were before you. And the land is defiled, that
the land spew not you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed
out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit
any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall
be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep my ordinance
that ye commit not any of these abominable customs." Look at
that, customs. You know what customs are. It's
something that they practice. It's something that was frequently
done, common. which were committed before you,
and that ye defile not yourselves therein. I am the Lord." Boy,
I tell you, flesh is bad. Flesh is fallen. But when the
devil gets into it, it's worse than ever, ain't it? And when
God gives it up to vile affections, it's worse than ever. You say,
Bruce, that's what's happened in their days. It wouldn't surprise
me if it'd come in our days. Would you have ever thought that
would have went downhill the last eight or ten years as we
have? Would you have ever thought of states changing the whole
definition of marriage? Would you have ever thought that
so many would have accepted man marrying a man and woman marrying
a woman? I never thought it would sink
this far. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if next year sometimes
they had it in the courts somebody wanted to marry his cow or his
dog or something. It wouldn't. That's flash, isn't
it? And this was common practice among them. And the Lord said,
They're cursed. And you know something? It's
as cursed today as it's ever been. Somebody said, That's the
Old Testament. That's the truth. That's the
truth. Look at it in Romans 1 and we
can all see that. Back over in our text, look in
verse 24 and verse 25. He tells us about two types of
murder. Look in verse 24. Cursed be he
that smiteth his neighbor secretly, and all the people shall say,
Amen. There's that secret murder. Secret
murder. Boy, that's a bad murder. Don't
even give a fellow a chance to defend himself. Lay wait for
him, ambush him. Every night I go to bed anymore,
I lock my doors. I make sure that my house is
sealed up so nobody can get in. And it's not just for their good,
it's for my good and my family's good. I don't want to hurt anybody.
And if somebody come in to molest my family, I'm probably going
to shoot him. And you probably would too. But
listen, wouldn't you hate to do that? Wouldn't you? If it was justified, man, wouldn't
you hate to think I'd send a man, probably a lost man, out into
eternity? That would be bad. But I tell
you something worse than that, that's poisoning somebody, or
ambushing somebody, killing somebody secretly, not even giving them
a chance to defend themselves. He says here, they that do it
are cursed and the people shall say, Amen. But here's another
kind in verse 25, here's another kind of murder. I think probably
to me right now in our day it's worse than all of them. Cursed
be ye. that taketh reward to slain an
innocent person, and all the people shall say, Amen." I don't
know what reward one of those parents had killed that little
baby, but we'll be to them. I don't know what reward these
doctors are getting except money to go inside a mother's womb
and hack a little unborn child to death, but we'll be to them.
Woe be to those nurses! Woe be to those mothers that
have them to do it! Woe be to the dads that won't
try to intervene! Woe be to a society that won't
lift up their voice against it! Woe be to them that taketh the
reward! And how much more innocent, humanly
speaking, can you get than an unborn child? Woe be! Woe be to them! Woe be to them! And I tell you, when judgment
comes, you know what the church is going to say? Amen! Amen. And our last verse, verse 26,
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law
to do them, and all the people shall say, Amen. Confirmeth the
words of this law, and it simply means this, Cursed be he that
does not agree with this law, and justify the judgment of God
upon the lawbreakers who refuse to say amen when the judgment
comes. You know what the church is going
to say on the Day of Judgment when God brings judgment upon
the great whore? You know what the church is going
to say? Amen! Hallelujah! There won't be any
tears shed on the Day of Judgment by the church for the wicked
We shed them now. Our heart breaks now. But do
you have any quorums with God, the way He handled Adam back
there in the garden? Do you have any quorums with Him, the way
He deals with the lost people, whether He saves them or damns
them? I tell you, I've got no feud with God about that. God
will do what's right. If it's with me, if it's with
you, with our children or whoever it is, God will do what's right. And I agree with you. And you
do too, don't you? You do too. Cursed secondly be
he that refuses to hear, he that refuses to do, and he that refuses
to continue in all things this law requires. Now let's close by looking at
Galatians chapter 3 and verse 10 because Paul quoted verse
26 in Galatians chapter 3 and verse 10. Look here what he says. Galatians
chapter 3 and verse 10. Look what he says. For as many as
are of the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written,
here it is, verse 26, Cursed is every one that continueth
not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do
them. If a man is under the covenant
of works, He's required to do everything that covenant tells
him to do. He cannot omit anything. He cannot
commit anything that it forbids. I tell you, brothers and sisters,
I lived under that covenant all through my teenage years. God
have mercy on any man that lives and dies under this covenant
of works. God won't excuse him. God won't relieve him. God won't
have mercy upon him. He'll be cursed for all eternity
by God Himself. I tell you, I don't want to live
under that covenant, do you? I don't want to die under that covenant.
Paul said everybody, I don't care who he is, Baptist, preacher,
or Pope, if he lives and dies under that covenant, he's cursed.
Cursed is everyone that confirmeth not and continueth not in all
things. Well, here's a way I want to
live and die. Look in verse 6. Even as Abraham believed God,
believed God concerning Christ and His work and His all-sufficiency,
and it was counted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore
that they which are of faith the same are the children of
Abraham. And the Scripture foreseeing
that God would justify the heathen through faith Preach before the
gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be
blessed. So then they which be of faith
are blessed with faithful Abraham." That is where I want to live
and die. I want to be standing under Mount Gerson. I want all
the blessings that is in the Lord Jesus Christ to be given
by me. I want to be saved by faith in
Christ, live upon Christ, and die in Christ. But I tell you, I don't want
a grace that won't do in my heart what this law requires. You've
seen so many people professing, making professions, and they
don't love the Lord. They don't delight in His law
after the end of man. They don't love His people. They
don't love His worship. I don't want a grace like that,
do you? I want a grace that will give me what the law requires. And what does the law require? All the law is fulfilled in this,
Thou shalt love. And boy, what does the Holy Spirit
do when He comes to the heart? He comes there and He regenerates
and He gives the new birth. He reveals the Lord Jesus Christ.
He puts all of His graces in the heart and He sheds abroad
the love of God in our heart. And then what happens? We love
God because He first loved us. We love the Lord Jesus. We love
His people. And I tell you, when you truly
love people, you'll not seek their harm, will you? Love worketh
no ill to his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfilling
of the Lord. That's the grace I want. That's
the Christ I want. Let's sing page 445. Maybe a
couple of verses of it. 445.